The night is in the city every year.

In an antique wing room in the He family's mansion, the candles were dim and the ground was covered with broken limbs.

If a stranger crashes into this room, he will definitely be frightened by the scene in front of him.

But if you look closely, you will find that these limbs are all the torso of the withered puppets.

He Ping was sitting on the chair. He was using the carving knife in his hand to make a puppet puppet, and there were also a few made puppets on the table next to him.

Under the dim candlelight, there are pale and colorless human faces. These lifelike dolls were made by He Ping himself, and there are numerous and filled the entire room.

They all maintain strange and creepy smiles in the light and dark candlelight, like living people, staring at He Ping sitting on a wooden chair together.

He Ping didn't speak. He used his dexterous fingers to control the carving knife, cutting wood like mud, and eased.

The puppets placed on the table were withered, and from time to time, some wood chips fell from the dolls.

I don’t know how long it took, only half of the candle on the candlestick was left, and He Ping did not stop. He was still dealing with the doll in his hand.

...I have to say that his craftsmanship is very exquisite, and the material he chose is high-quality camphor wood. After several months of preparation and withering with wonderful hands, the puppet's first embryo has taken shape.

The puppet is obviously a man with a bright face and vivid facial features. If you look closely, you will find that the doll looks exactly the same as He Ping's own face.

Then, He Ping took out the pen and drew his eyebrows and eyes. The doll's face became more and more moving, almost withering out of his own face.

The candlestick in front of the window was still motionless, and the flames of bean flames swayed in the wind. He Ping was blown by the wind and couldn't help but cough twice.

He stopped, instead cut a hole in his fingertip with a knife, drew inexplicable symbols on the puppet with blood, and began to recite unknown spells in his mouth.

In an instant, the strange blood stains on his body disappeared, and at the same time, the facial features and expressions of the puppet man also became a little more vitality.

He Ping's face turned a little pale, and he stopped.

"It's done."

After breathing out a long breath of turbid air, he pinched a seal, and a strange scene happened. The puppet on the table moved.

Hi, giggle...

It moves stiff joints and slowly moves smoothly, like a real person.

The withered doll picked up the paper-cut and linen clothes prepared beside her, put on a high hat, and a piece of linen clothes, as if she was wearing mourning clothes during a funeral.

"This 'Nine Deaths Substitute for the Unstoppable Witch Ode' has been made. This secret Ode cannot help me extend my life, but it can stop the sword and weapons and avoid the nine kinds of sudden deaths, which is also beneficial..."

He reached out to pick up the "Nine Death Replacement Witch Puppet", looked at it carefully, and suddenly, his face turned pale. He put down the doll, pressed his chest and coughed.

"Ahem cough cough..."

He Ping coughed a few more times. He covered the corner of his mouth with a brocade plaque. When the cough stopped, he opened the brocade and looked at it and found a trace of red blood on it.

"My health is getting worse and worse. If I continue like this, I guess I can't hold on for long... Could it be that I can't really use that method?"

As if he had thought of something, he reached out to take out a thin booklet from his arms. The paper of the booklet turned yellow and looked a little dirty. After opening it, he found that there was no big word on the booklet, and it was completely blank.

He Ping took a deep look at the booklet. This was the method of entering the Tao handed down from the Puppet Immortal Sect, called "Invisible Secret Collection", which records various secret methods of controlling puppets and refining puppets.

Originally, there were dense handwritings and some weird runes and pictures on "Invisible Secrets", but after he learned the recording techniques and deeply imprinted the content into his mind, the text and pictures on it disappeared strangely.

"The things from the Immortal Puppet Sect are indeed strange..."

While he muttered, He Ping put away the "Invisible Secret Collection" which lost its text and pictures.

As the eldest grandson of the He family, he has shown wisdom far beyond ordinary people since he was a child. He has a secret, that is, he has the memory of his predecessor, or he is a time traveler.

He Ping's body suffered a serious illness at the age of seven or eight, and had a high fever. After the high fever, he lost his memory.

After seeing the doctor, the doctor said it was "soul-leaving disease", but this disease was not a problem. He Ping, the only son of the He family, had no mental damage except for his childhood memory. The He family did not speak out about this.

In fact, after the serious illness at that time, another soul from the earth traveled over and descended on this body.

After traveling through time, He Ping spent a little time adapting to his new life. He found that his soul had penetrated into a world similar to ancient China.

He roughly knew that this was a country called the "Dayou Dynasty". The area where his family lived was called Sui'an City. The He family was also the largest rice merchant in Sui'an City. His family was of great wealth. As the only son of the He family, He Ping lived a life of luxury since childhood.

To be honest, this kind of life is very pleasant and he is very satisfied with it himself.

However, his life changed for some reason.

...

It was a winter, and He Ping, accompanied by his servants at home, left the city to do business.

On the way back to the city that day, a servant under him found a frozen old man in a nearby mountain temple.

"This should be a puppet show. It snowed heavily last night and ended up freezing here."

The servant checked and found that when the old man died, he was still holding a puppet puppet in his arms, so he answered this.

"It looks a bit pitiful. I have some money here. Please help the old man build a grave with the nearby mountain villagers!"

He Ping was also kind-hearted and gave a random command.

The servants acted as they ordered, and found the temple Zhuhe Mountain people, and gave them money to help the dead old man build a grave and bury it in a nearby cemetery.

For He Ping, this is nothing more than a trivial matter.

Who knew that when he returned home, he fell to the bed and slept for a while, and a white-bearded old man appeared in his dream.

The old man first bowed to him and said that his family was called "Wuyousheng". He also thanked He Ping for restraining his corpse and erecting a monument for him.

Wuyousheng told his life that when he was young, he liked to watch silk plays and was interested in the skills of panling puppets. Whenever there were artists in the market to play puppets and puppets, he would pester the other party to learn their skills and gradually learn a unique skill.

When he grew older, he wandered around regardless of his family's opposition, and took this as his career, and used things to express himself as a person's pleasure. However, he wandered for life, lost his home and had no place to live, and eventually fell to the end of being frozen in the mountain temple.

"I'm not willing to die, but I'm sorry that I've learned a puppet skill. If I don't give up, I'm willing to pass on this skill to the young master..."

Next, Wuyousheng informed He Ping of the whereabouts of a secret puppet technique he treasured from the Immortal Puppet Sect and a secret book called "Invisible Secret Collection".

"The booklet is hidden under the big locust tree outside the mountain temple. There are three stones stacked. You can find it by digging three feet down."

After saying this, Wuyousheng bowed again and turned into a cloud of fog.

He Ping woke up the next day and was extremely clear about this dream in his mind. According to what Wuyousheng left, he found a booklet under the big locust tree outside the mountain temple, which is the book "Invisible Secret Collection".

After he opened and checked, he found that it was indeed a booklet recording various production puppets.

He Ping was not interested in puppets or something. The He family was a wealthy family in Sui'an City. They all said that they were small. He could spend all his life on eating, drinking and having fun. It would take hundreds of years to sit and eat in the empty mountain.

With such a wealth, he would not be able to learn any puppet show.

But he couldn't help but be curious. He looked at the booklet for a while, and then he couldn't help but start learning the puppet secret skills according to the records in the booklet, and ended up learning something.

He Ping studied for a while and realized that in addition to the puppet making techniques recorded in "Invisible Secret Collection", which mainly consists of paper, leather, wood and pottery, there are also water puppets, flesh puppets, medicine-haired puppets, stick-headed puppets, cloth bag puppets, hanging silk puppets, horizontal branch puppets and other puppet control techniques, which far exceed the skills of market drama artists.

In addition to the common puppet techniques, the "Invisible Secret" also involves secret techniques such as disgust, qi ban, suppression of things, resolving disasters, substitution, and false form. In other words, this is not a "art" at all, but a "law".

When He Ping got this book, he thought he had a great opportunity. During those years, he spent all his energy studying the "Invisible Secret Collection". Whenever he encountered a wall and encountered difficult problems, he would meet Wuyousheng again in his dream.

The old man with crane hair said everything he knew about him, and taught him all the tips he knew in the "Invisible Secret Collection".

This was called "the teaching of the Dharma in the Taoist Sect". Wuyousheng had been dead for several years, but he still passed the Dharma intermittently for several years in his dream.

As a result, during those years, He Ping was obsessed with the mysterious magic recorded in the volume of "Invisible Secrets". He studied it day and night, but he did not know that he was plotted to plant the misfortune.
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