A burst of violent noise erupted from the belly of the puppet mechanism beast, followed by thick smoke. The puppet mechanism beast then stopped moving altogether.
"You’ve calmed down now, haven’t you!"
In a flash, Li Wutian stood up from the ground, grabbed the head of the puppet mechanism beast, lifted it, and stuffed it into his "Hundred Treasures Pouch."
"Li Daoyou! Are you alright?"
At this moment, several footsteps sounded outside Li Yunjing’s room. Four or five people rushed in through the broken door.
Each held a flying sword, their expressions extremely anxious.
As these disciples of the "Myriad Swords Sect" entered and saw the mess in Li Yunjing’s room but only found Li Yunjing himself without any enemies, they were momentarily stunned, unsure of what to do.
They glanced at Li Yunjing a few times, seeing that he was uninjured, and collectively heaved a sigh of relief!
Each of them thought to themselves, "A blessing within misfortune!"
If someone from the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" had died here, they would be finished!
Under the surprised gazes of the others, Li Yunjing waved his hand to indicate that he was unhurt and said, "Just now, someone let a puppet mechanism beast in to attack me!"
"Hmm? Where’s the puppet mechanism beast?"
A tough-looking disciple of the "Myriad Swords Sect," face full of evil qi, asked while holding his flying sword.
"I defeated it by breaking its central control zone."
Li Yunjing didn’t elaborate but asked instead, "What’s happening outside?"
"We don’t know why, but there’s suddenly chaos and fighting outside!"
This disciple said coldly, "Now it seems, the fighting was to divert our attention to make a sneak attack on you!"
Li Yunjing let out a cold laugh; this fellow had guessed wrong!
Cong Rujin was genuinely being chased!
And the assassin seemed to have opportunistically found this chance and released the puppet mechanism beast to attack him!
This was not premeditated; it was an accident!
But Li Yunjing couldn’t say that and instead nodded in agreement and asked, "This fellow cultivator, what about the people outside?"
"We initially planned to capture them all, but suddenly felt that there seemed to be fighting here, so we had to abandon the blockade and come to protect you."
This "Myriad Swords Sect" disciple continued, "We’re really sorry, our mistake caused you this fright."
"No matter! Please, don’t worry! I will explain this to your ’Myriad Swords Sect’ higher-ups, you won’t be implicated!"
Li Yunjing nodded and then solemnly said this.
"Thank you, Li Daoyou!"
The faces of the others looked somewhat better. Although they knew punishment was inevitable, Li Yunjing’s words made them feel a bit more at ease.
They didn’t want such an incident to happen either!
Meanwhile, three miles from Li Yunjing’s residence, in a house, a man with a gloomy face had a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.
The house was small, full of corpses, with men, women, old, and young.
Blood flowed from the bodies, filling the house with a heavy smell of blood.
"Damn it! How did this rich young master manage to defeat my puppet? Did he hide his cultivation?"
The man sat cross-legged, took a rest, and seemed to have recovered from the backlash of the puppet mechanism beast.
He then took out a storage bag from his chest and pulled out several elixirs to nourish the soul.
These elixirs were bright green with a rich medicinal aroma. Without hesitation, the man raised his hand and swallowed three elixirs in succession.
Only then did he start meditating with his eyes closed.
Controlling the puppet mechanism beast not only required spending spirit stones but also integrating a thread of the owner’s divine sense into the beast to control and attack it.
If the puppet mechanism beast failed, the controller would suffer some damage as well.
This wasn’t a fatal issue.
It was only because the man’s divine sense wasn’t strong enough that, if Li Yunjing controlled it with his strong divine sense, even a thread wouldn’t result in soul damage.
This man was also involved in the trade fair.
Initially, he had come for Cong Rujin.
But the chaos outside made him harbor a malicious intent, abandoning the contest for Cong Rujin and instead targeting Li Yunjing!
As long as he killed Li Yunjing, he would get at least a hundred thousand spirit stones!
This huge temptation made him take the risk to launch the attack.
But he didn’t expect that not only would he fail, but he’d also lose a priceless puppet beast and damage his soul, a total loss!
He couldn’t fathom how a Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer cultivator, ambushed by his puppet mechanism beast, could still turn the tables!
This was simply inconceivable!
The news of Li Yunjing’s assassination attempt quickly spread throughout the entire "Myriad Swords Sect," and even the "Shenxiao Dao Sect" people returned to their quarters from various places where they were checking accounts.
Instantly, the whole courtyard was filled with seven Foundation Establishment Realm experts and dozens of Qi Cultivation Realm cultivators from both sects, all seething with anger and killing intent.
"Outrageous! This is sheer rebellion! How dare someone attempt to assassinate a honored guest of our ’Shenxiao Dao Sect’ in our ’Myriad Swords Sect’! This is utterly lawless!"
These were the first words of Celestial Sword Master, the sect leader of the "Myriad Swords Sect," who was utterly furious, his beard standing on end. Even Li Yunjing, the victim, felt a chill down his spine upon seeing him.