Volume 1: Wrath of the West Chapter 27: Turbulence in the Dark Night
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After holding the paper and blowing it dry, "You wouldn't deliberately make mistakes in some paragraphs, would you?"
Bai Jiang's heart trembled, but his face remained expressionless.
"I wouldn't dare to do that even if I had ten guts."
"Hehe , if you can't master the Eagle Eye Technique, I will tell your father about this. He will definitely take good care of you then."
"Fifth Master, I haven't practiced this skill for a long time. Maybe I made some mistakes. Can you let me check it again?"
Seeing that he had given in, Chen Laogou smiled smugly and lowered the paper over to him.
Bai Jiang picked up the pen and added a few sentences in three places before putting it down.
"alright?"
"Alright. I swear that if I make any mistakes again, I will be struck by lightning and die a miserable death."
Old Dog Chen nodded, then blew the papers dry and put them away solemnly.
There is a god above your head.
No practitioner dares to take an oath lightly.
"You can go back now. I have promised you this. In three days at the shortest and half a month at the longest, Xu Rui will surely die."
"I'll leave everything to Master Wu."
Bai Jiang bowed deeply.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of this matter."
Excited, Chen Laogou took on a lot of responsibilities.
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After leaving the small building, the cool night breeze could not extinguish the heat in Bai Jiang's heart. He looked at Xu Rui's room from afar.
"You are just a cheap bastard, and you are worthy enough to compete with me?!"
After walking a hundred meters, he turned around and looked in the direction of the small building with a fierce look in his eyes.
"Old man, wait until I get the demon blood and master the blood pattern technique, then I will settle the score with you."
As the figure faded away, the huge martial arts training ground returned to silence again.
After a while, a big black dog with yellow hair on its feet came out of the darkness. It looked at Bai Jiang's room, then at the small building with lights on and silence, and human-like thoughts appeared in the dog's eyes.
After hesitating for a while, the black dog retreated into the darkness again, quietly came to the outside of a room and lay down.
At the same time, Xu Rui, who was lying on the bed in the room, also opened his eyes.
"It's so late, what is Bai Jiang doing in Chen Laogou's room?"
He thought about the assessment period in a month and the grudge between him and Bai Jiang.
"Master has repeatedly reminded me that I must win the top three places in the competition. It must be of great importance. Bai Jiang is the son of Bai Wushuang, the leader of the Leopard Hall. He must know something about it."
"But he has only been fourth in all the previous competitions. If he wants to be in the top three, he can only use tricks to eliminate one of them if he can't beat him. As for me, Ma Changan and Tu Feng, Ma Changan has the Tiger Hall Master Ma Shirong behind him, whose family background is not worse than his, so he probably won't dare to make a move."
"Tu Feng is helpless and has a mysterious background. He was originally the best target for elimination, but the two of them have no grudges against each other."
"I am the only one who not only has a grudge against him, but also competes with him. Although Master Chen has high hopes for me, I am not his public disciple, so I am helpless. Getting rid of me is like killing two birds with one stone."
After analyzing the cause and effect, he didn't feel much pressure in his heart, just a little melancholy.
"I just want to practice martial arts peacefully and improve myself. Why do you all have to force me to kill people?"
He got out of bed and opened the door quietly.
The black dog outside the door quickly climbed up.
In order to avoid alarming Old Dog Chen, he only used a puppet talisman to control the black dog. Now it seems that he needs to speed up the progress.
"According to Master, most of Old Chen's strength lies in his dog. If that's the case, let's destroy it first."
He clasped his hands together and muttered something.
Two perspectives appeared in front of Xu Rui, one was himself, and the other was the black dog under his feet.
The latter was in front and the former was behind, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
It wasn't long before they came across a large yellow dog that was immersed in darkness and resting against the wall.
Sensing the movement, the yellow dog's ears stood up, his eyes became sharp, and his body stood up instantly.
I have to say that Chen Laogou is very good at training dogs.
All the dogs he bred were not only strong and ferocious like wolves, but also extremely vigilant. Unless they were warriors like Xu Rui, ordinary people were no match for them.
When the yellow dog saw that it was one of its own kind walking over, its vigilance obviously dropped a lot.
After his attention was distracted, Xu Rui successfully approached the range of thirty meters.
He didn't dare to go any further, or else the yellow dog would start barking and the entire training ground would be alarmed. Fortunately, this distance was enough.
Grabbing the puppet talisman prepared in advance, he chanted the mantra.
In a moment.
With a flash of light, a yellow talisman as long as a meter fell on the yellow dog like a sharp arrow.
Before its simple brain could figure out what was going on , an indescribable force surged into its body, its eyes narrowed, and it fell to the ground.
Xu Rui instantly felt a strong resistance force attacking his soul.
However, a dog's soul was far less powerful than a human's, and was quickly suppressed by him.
He shook his heavy head, formed seals with his hands, and the talisman stuck on the yellow dog's back spontaneously ignited without fire, turning into a mysterious and complex talisman, which disappeared into the yellow dog's body, without damaging its fur at all.
Talismans are not just stuck on the outside, they can also be integrated into the body.
The only difference is that the talismans pasted on the outside can be peeled off and continued to be used, but after they melt into the body, they will disappear after a period of time.
A lower-grade ninth-grade puppet talisman only takes a year.
But for it was enough. The competition would begin in another month, and no matter whether it was Bai Jiang or Chen Laogou, they would definitely take action before the final test.
After suppressing the yellow dog's resistance, move on to the next one.
The process went smoothly as well.
However, he did not want to take more. He used the puppet talisman to control a large spotted dog and then returned to his room.
Sit cross-legged on the bed.
The mind sinks into the sea of consciousness.
The white ball of light was like a huge star, suppressing the entire sea of consciousness.
At the edge, the scarlet puppet fundamental symbol had become much more solid than at the beginning, but it was still far from transforming into the yellow level representing the middle level of the ninth grade.
There are three small red dots around the fundamental symbol. They are the three dogs controlled by Xu Rui. An invisible aura connects them with the puppet fundamental symbol.
"Fortunately, Chen Laogou didn't bring many dogs, otherwise it would be troublesome."
If he wanted to control a target with the puppet talisman, first of all, as the host, he had to have a stronger spiritual power than the target. Otherwise, the target could easily break free.
In addition, the quantity cannot be too large, otherwise quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes, which will also be troublesome.
It may sound useless, but Lingbao Puppetry is an eighth-grade spell, and the complete version is as high as the fifth-grade upper level. It is not that simple.
In addition to living things, it can also control dead things.
The corpses of many powerful creatures have strong combat capabilities themselves and will not resist no matter how many there are.
There are also magical instruments.
Many magical weapons have special mantras, and if you don’t know them, you won’t be able to unleash their power, but puppetry can bypass this limitation.
The most powerful aspect of Lingbao Puppetry is not what is mentioned above, but that it can be used to train the "natal puppet".
It's a pity that Xu Rui lacked the basic method of practicing Qi, his essence, energy and spirit could not be united, and the gap between his nature and destiny was too great, so he was unable to practice at all.
