Wang Zhengrong looked at Chen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua mysteriously before speaking:

"I wonder if the two fellow Taoists have heard of puppets?"

"Puppet?" Chen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua were stunned at first, and then they remembered something.

According to ancient books, puppet technique is also a kind of cultivation technique. The monks who make puppets are called puppet masters. They can refine mahogany and iron wood into puppets of various shapes, then carve runes on them, and finally attach their souls to them.

In this way, a dead object would have a trace of spirituality, and could act according to the ideas of the monks who refined it, and would never betray!

However, puppet inheritance is extremely rare, and puppet technique integrates skills such as refining weapons, setting up arrays, talisman making, and soul-catching, so few people can become puppet masters.

For example, there has never been a puppet master in the Lingnan Immortal Cultivation World. The reason is that there is no inheritance of puppet technique left behind. Only the introduction of puppets is left in ancient books.

"Aren't the puppets the product of the Central Plains' Immortal Cultivation World? How can I have it in Lingnan?" Chen Huanchi frowned and said.

"There are no puppets in the land of Lingnan now, but do you remember the Lu family in Jiangmin County two hundred years ago?" Wang Zhengrong asked quite sternly, with a hint of fear in his tone.

Chen Huanchi seemed to remember something after hearing Wang Zhengrong's words, and his face suddenly changed drastically, and his face was full of gloom.

Chen Jinghua also remembered some of the secrets he saw in the sect scroll.

Two hundred years ago, the Lu family in Jiangmin County unexpectedly discovered a senior cave in the Nujiang River, and the most valuable thing they got was several residual pictures of making puppets.

At that time, the Lu family was a powerful man, with several foundation-building cultivators in the clan. The ancestor Lu Jing was even more ambitious. With these few broken pictures, he wanted to become the first puppet master on the land of Lingnan, and even created a puppet army!

But I have to say that Lu Jing is also a genius. With those incomplete drawings, he became the first puppet master in Lingnan after more than ten years of seclusion.

However, Lu Jing’s puppet technique he developed himself was just a wrong way and not an orthodox puppet inheritance.

The orthodox puppet master stripped out the souls of the dead monsters and attached them to the puppets in a special way. Although this method is cruel, the monsters and monks are originally hunting each other, so this puppet technique is also tolerated by the world.

However, the puppet technique created by Lu Jing was guided by the soul of the monk to inject life into the puppet. What's more, he actually used the uncrested corpse of the dead monk to refine it into a puppet and redefined it as another kind of puppet, a corpse puppet!

Under Lu Jing's instructions, the Lu family secretly started hunting monks and digging ancestral graves. They first hunted ordinary cultivators and stripped off their souls to replace the souls of monsters to achieve the purpose of completing the puppet technique.

Through Lu Jing's repeated attempts, countless casual cultivators died in Lu Jing's hands. Gradually, the Lu family secretly looked at the cemeteries of those families, which made the families under the jurisdiction of Qingyun County panic and pointed their fingers at their respective hostile families.

In the end, in order to create a puppet comparable to the foundation-building monks in the foundation-building stage, Lu Jing began to instruct the family monks to hunt down the past foundation-building monks.

This incident completely alarmed the law enforcement hall of Qingyun Sect and sent foundation-building disciples to start a thorough investigation.

After several foundation-building disciples were killed and injured, the Qingyun Sect found the Lu family, but the Lu family was no longer the same as before. There were as many as five puppets that were comparable to the peak of the late stage of foundation-building.

Faced with the powerful Lu family, the Qingyun Sect gathered a large number of family monks, which even alarmed the Jindan monks who had been in seclusion for many years.

At that time, the Shen family was also recruited by a foundation-building elder of the Wen generation and dozens of Qi training monks.

After the Jindan monk took action, the Lu family also showed their true fangs. Lu Jing actually refines his body as a corpse puppet, refines some fourth-level spiritual materials on himself, and turns himself into a killing monster that is neither human nor ghost.

But this monster has combat power comparable to that of the Golden Pill, and can compete with the Golden Pill of the Qingyun Sect.

That battle can be said to be a nightmare for these foundation-building families. Except for the foundation-building monk who escaped, the remaining Qi training period tribe members were all killed in battle, which directly shakes the foundation of the Shen family.

It was precisely because of that incident that the Shen family's talents had a fault, which laid the root of disaster for the Shen family's future decline.

After the war, the group of evil puppets were ordered to be burned by Qingyun Sect, and even the method of corpse puppets invented by Lu Jing was destroyed, and the Lu family even slaughtered them all.

And those precious puppet drawings were included in the Qingyun Sect Sutra Collection and cannot be used unless the head of the sect is allowed!

...

Shen Huanchi came back from his grief and asked in confusion:

"Aren't those puppets destroyed by Qingyun Sect? I remember the end of the Lu family slaughtering all the families, right?"

Shen Jinghua, who was standing beside him, also spoke:

"As far as I know, no senior brother in Qingyun Sect has learned the authentic puppet technique over the years!"

Wang Zhengrong glanced at the two of them, and finally said with a proud look on his face:

"The Jindan monk who took action that time was my ancestor, and the puppets ordered to be destroyed were also my ancestors. Most of the puppets in the foundation-building stage were damaged on the battlefield, and the rest of the puppets in the Qi training stage were indeed destroyed, but the puppet ancestor in the Qi training stage secretly asked our Wang family to keep a few!"

After hearing Wang Zhengrong's words, Shen Huanchi and the others were surprised. They hid these things under the nose of Qingyunmen, and only the Jindan family dared to do them.

"For the sake of the fact that fellow Taoist took out this spirit stone ore vein, I told the fellow Taoist this family secret, so..." Wang Zhengrong said with a smile, the implication of words was beyond words.

"I understand this!" Shen Huanchi and Shen Jinghua looked at each other, and at the same time they were even more respectful of the Wang family's background. The Wang family even hid the puppets in the Qi training stage. Only the Wang family knew whether there were any of the Foundation Establishment stage.

"As long as these puppets injected them with spirit stones, they will dig day and night, and then equipped them with second-level magic weapons, which is much more efficient than the monks! And your Shen family only needs to send one or two monks to watch." Wang Zhengrong obviously had imagined the scene where the puppets were digging out spirit stones in this cave.

"This is very good, and this will reduce the risk of exposure of spirit stone ore veins!" Shen Huanchi nodded with satisfaction.

"By the way, although this place is in the lake, there are also foundation-building monks from Qingyunmen stationed in Nanhu, which have some hidden dangers. I can apply to the Duwu Hall to work as a job, so as to protect this spiritual vein!" Shen Jinghua thought for a moment and spoke.

"I think it's feasible. I will ask the fifth uncle in the sect to help you operate!" Wang Zhengrong nodded.

"Then I thank Fellow Daoist Wang in advance!" Chen Huanchi bowed and thanked.

"Fellow Daoist Chen is polite, it's all a family business!"

"What fellow Taoist said is that since the mining matter has been discussed, let's decide on the distribution issue!" Chen Huanchi glanced at Wang Zhengrong and said, "The next one is the most sensitive issue. If the next share cannot be reached, the previous one will be useless.

Wang Zhengrong remembered what Wang Qiyan said before leaving, so he just smiled and asked:

"I don't know how friends are going to allocate?"

"Fellow Daoist accounts for 60%, how about we account for 40%?"

Chen Huanchi proposed the idea. Originally, Chen Huanchi only planned to split it up for 50% but this time, although the Shen family provided spiritual veins, the Wang family used some family background and means, so Chen Huanchi made a move in the end.

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate, right?" Wang Zhengrong shook his head.

"What do you think about that fellow Taoist?" Chen Huanchi's words were already a little dissatisfied. He was already sincere enough. Wang Zhengrong was too ignorant of the times and really thought he was begging him!

But when Wang Zhengrong saw that Chen Huanchi had also noticed something strange. He knew it was a misunderstanding, he immediately smiled and said:

"Fellow Taoist misunderstood. I mean everyone can divide this ore vein evenly!"

Chen Huanchi and the others originally thought that Wang Zhengrong was not satisfied with the distribution just now, but they didn't expect that they would feel too much!

"Fellow Daoist thinks that he can think of working with my Wang family, so how can he make the fellow Daoist family suffer a loss?" Wang Zhengrong looked as if he was taken for granted.

Seeing that Chen Huanchi was about to refuse, Wang Zhengrong quickly spoke:

"It's settled. I'll bring the puppet in a few days!"

"This...then I'll thank fellow Taoist!" Chen Huanchi hesitated for a moment and said a little embarrassedly.
Chapter completed!