233: Chapter 90: Ping’an Eliminates Demons, Aiming to Consolidate the Primordial Spirit!_2 233: Chapter 90: Ping’an Eliminates Demons, Aiming to Consolidate the Primordial Spirit!_2 Wei Yuan Sect’s puppet secret technique!
Li Ping’an’s sword fingers flickered continuously, as the puppets simultaneously formed hand seals, their forms silently burrowing into the ground.
Shortly after, eight puppets appeared in eight directions within this dense forest, arranged according to the Qiankun Bagua positions, each taking out several paper talismans from their cloth bags, setting up a small Wind-Warding Talisman Formation, and placed fist-sized green pill furnaces within the formation.
The eight pill furnaces ignited on their own, emitting wisps of thick green smoke;
The Wind-Warding Talisman Formation produced gusts of wind, dispersing the smoke throughout the forest.
Li Ping’an waited behind a large rock for the time it took to drink a cup of tea, when clanging and clinking sounds began to arise from the woods.
——In the forest, as if dumplings were being dropped, hundreds of small demons with human forms and beastly faces fell from the treetops one after another.
Li Ping’an didn’t dare to be careless, bringing his sword fingers together, a sword box flew out from his sleeve.
The box contained no flying sword, but twelve Soul Extinguishing Needles shot into the forest, followed by a constant barrage of muffled groans.
This was inspiration Li Ping’an had from Gu Qingcheng’s Sword Control Technique.
Compared to flying swords, Soul Extinguishing Needles consumed less mana and were more efficient in exterminating demon souls.
Li Ping’an waved his left hand, and in front of him appeared two life-sized puppets dressed in Daoist robes, ‘middle-aged male cultivators.’
These two male cultivators moved somewhat stiffly, both drawing swords and flying into the forest.
Although one could see at a glance that these were crafted puppets, this was the limit of Li Ping’an’s current puppetry craft.
Moments later, a loud roar erupted from the woods.
The strongest leopard spirit was indeed feigning unconsciousness, violently attacking a ‘male cultivator’!
But as it made its move, the male cultivator suddenly turned around, his chest flashing with layers of immortal light, and several longswords of immortal treasures burst forth simultaneously, piercing through the leopard spirit’s form!
What the puppet ‘male cultivator’ had to do was to pick up the immortal treasures and stuff them back into its sleeves.
Li Ping’an waited for another moment.
No demons came to their aid, which left him somewhat regretful.
He activated another set of hand seals, and the palms of the two puppet ‘male cultivators’ split open, revealing dark hollow tubes within, glowing with orange talisman patterns, emitting a blast of true fire used for alchemy.
Soon the forest floor was scattered with hundreds of piles of ashes.
The air was filled with the scent of roasted meat.
More than a dozen small puppets carrying cloth bags returned, jumping back into the storage ring;
The two large puppets resembling middle-aged male cultivators waited for the true fire in the forest to extinguish before returning, to prevent wildfires.
After completing these tasks, Li Ping’an took out a flying sword magic artifact and erased the words [Wanyun Sect·Castcloud Hall], engraving instead [East Continent Qi Cultivator·Gift].
He placed a simplified mountain protection formation diagram excerpted from Elder Yansheng’s “Tome of Formation Treasures”, and the sufficient treasured materials for crafting the formation base, into a storage pouch, and threw the flying sword towards a mountain stronghold in front of him, before transforming into a bat and soaring into the sky, returning to his master’s side.
His master liked a sense of ceremony, and of course, Li Ping’an had to satisfy this small desire of his master.
Thus, he bowed with hands clasped, saying:
“Reporting to master, your disciple has returned from exorcising demons, all the monsters in this place have been annihilated!”
Qing Su remained silent for a moment, then finally said:
“Remember to leave a survivor next time, we’ll follow the vine to find their king.”
Li Ping’an’s face showed embarrassment.
This was his first demon extermination, and he too had been negligent.
Eagerly, Li Ping’an said, “Master, I noticed that about one hundred and fifty miles away in the mountain forest, there’s an aura similar to that leopard spirit.
I’ve just used the Precious Mirror of Senior Xu Sheng to check, and the demons there have all consumed humans.”
Qing Su nodded and took Li Ping’an on a cloud to rush to that forest.
On the way, she hesitated several times as if wanting to speak but stopped herself, finally saying:
“Apprentice, if you want to break through in magical combat, you must experience real danger.
“Among the nest of demons below, there is a small Demon King in the True Immortal Realm, and several Demon Generals in the Yuan Immortal Realm.
“Later on, I will directly suppress the Demon King and Demon Generals here, and you must not use your bewildering pills, poison pills, but with your prowess in magical combat, try to eliminate as many remaining demons as possible.”
Li Ping’an gently inhaled and grasped the Zongyun Spear.
Qing Su’s eyes shimmered with light.
However, just as she thought her disciple was about to enter a bloody battle, Li Ping’an slung the Zongyun Spear on his back, held up the spiritual Subdue Mountain Stamp with his left hand, and grasped a top-quality immortal treasure dagger with his right hand.
Li Ping’an’s expression was exceedingly grave, first applying the Hidden Dust Technique, then the technique for invisibility, and with a bang, his form turned into an invisible beetle and headed towards the hidden lair of the group of demons below.
‘I seem to have forgotten, he still has spiritual treasures.’
Qing Su pursed her lips with a light sigh.
Perhaps influenced by Li Ping’an, or maybe to provide a better trial environment for him, she moved silently into the demon race’s lair, finding a drunken local Demon King.
The Demon King was fast asleep, hugging several ‘beauties’, which were nothing but vixens in human form, beautiful yet venomous.
Qing Su shook her head slightly, as the Xingyin Sword unsheathed silently, and several demons were promptly exterminated.
She took away the many private treasures within the lair, sealed the two hidden exits of the lair with immortal power, and waited at the entrance.
Before long, sporadic strange noises began to emanate from the lair.
A moment later, a roar echoed inside the lair, a large stamp gleamed with treasure light, and the ground trembled slightly.
‘This way of exterminating demons isn’t too bad either.’
Qing Su narrowed her eyes, smiling as she crossed her arms behind her back, enjoying the forest scenery.
An hour later, Li Ping’an emerged from the cave entrance, breathing heavily with his body covered in demon blood, yet composed, with scarcely any mana left in his body.
He casually tore off his outer robe, revealing his inner armor and lining, smiling at his master: