The puppet entered the village and received a warm welcome.

The reception venue is the ancestral hall, where tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks have already been set up.

The mellow rice wine brewed by the farmer and the fresh delicacies from the mountains and rivers were all held in wooden trays by the village women and brought to Lu Zhong.

In the middle of the banquet, Xu Changfu picked up a sea bowl, stood up and said loudly: "Come on, let's toast Master Lu Xian first!"

"Respect Immortal Master Lu!"

The villagers looked at the puppet with envy.

In the country of Shidong, immortal cultivators are often seen in the world, so any elderly mortal has witnessed the sight of an immortal master once or twice, and even knows that if he is destined to be an immortal, he can embark on the journey to find an immortal.

Ask for the road to immortality and live a happy and free fairy life from now on.

Instead of being an ignorant mortal like now.

Now that Immortal Master Lu has appeared, many villagers feel that their destiny has arrived, and they are all thinking in their hearts about how they can obtain this once-in-a-lifetime destiny for themselves or their children.

Observing everyone's expressions in his eyes, Lu Zhong couldn't help but recall the process of his predecessor entering the world of cultivation.

Come to think of it, the process is really similar.

In front of the delicious food, Lu Zhong, as a puppet, couldn't eat or drink without any taste. Looking at the villagers feasting, he couldn't help but wonder whether to improve the spirit puppet, at least so that it could convey the sense of taste.

But soon he started laughing in his heart. He was just a layman in the way of puppeteering. Where did he get the ability to improve?

The wine has passed three rounds, and the food has passed the five flavors.

At this time, Xu Changfu bowed out of the queue and clapped his hands.

Immediately, a line of girls of varying quality walked in from the door holding red cloth trays.

After uncovering the red cloth, in addition to some medicinal herbs, there are actually many valuable things, such as spiritual stone ore that has kept up with the age of the elixir.

Lu Zhong made an estimate and found that there were about ten spiritual stones in total.

If it were an ordinary casual cultivator, he might be in full bloom at this moment.

He smiled secretly in his heart, but knowingly asked: "Village Chief Xu, what do you mean?"

"Master Lu, please grant me immortality!" Xu Changfu said while kneeling on the ground.

Behind him, a group of villagers also came out and knelt on the ground.

…

At the same time, a secret place outside the village.

Two men wearing black robes and bulging bodies appeared.

The two people looked in the direction of the Shuihuan Village Ancestral Hall, looking at the villagers who went up one by one to test their spiritual roots. One of them suddenly sneered and said with disdain in his words: "The disciples of Heling Sect are nothing more than that, they only have a few belongings.

, you can buy it off.”

The voice of the person speaking had a strange accent, as if it were made up of two mouths, making it difficult to distinguish between male and female.

After hearing this, the man next to him showed contempt in his eyes, and suggested in an old voice: "Since the person here is a waste, how about killing him directly to avoid disturbing the Holy Cult's plan?"

"Inappropriate!" The man with a male-female voice said disapprovingly.

Then, the man shook his head and explained, "The wine sack and rice bag has the value of the wine sack and rice bag. Why don't we keep it like this for the time being, lest the Heling Sect see something happened to the disciple and send the foundation-building cultivator from the sect to check. If it is really affected by this,

If you fail the Holy Religion’s plan, you and I will be entirely responsible for our death!”

"Guardian Zuo, this subordinate didn't think carefully enough!" The man next to him quickly said with his hands in hand.

It's just that he is different from ordinary people. He has not only one pair of arms stretched out from under his black robe, but three pairs of arms.

"Okay, according to my previous arrangement, there should be no change in the hidden people in the village. Just live a normal life as before, so as not to cause trouble." The man in black robe, known as the Zuo Guardian, ordered his subordinates.

"For the Holy Religion!" The man in black robe lowered his voice and shouted a fanatical slogan.

"Well, for the Holy Religion!"

However, the two of them did not know that this scene was seen by a pair of eyes next to them.

For the sake of caution, Lu Zhong decided to do some exploration around Shuihuan Village. He walked around in silence, but he never expected to meet these two people. After hearing the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but secretly laugh.

The two sides actually thought of it together!

…

Here at the Spirit-Sending Puppet, I just checked the spiritual root qualifications for the villagers.

Since it is only to determine the presence or absence of spiritual roots, there is no need to use spirit-measuring talisman or spirit-measuring plate. You only need to use the "Blood Sacrifice Mixing Spirit Method" in a flexible way, and observe the reaction speed of blood essence and spirit stone to initially judge the qualifications.

The result was no surprise: not a single villager in the village had spiritual roots.

Xu Changfu seemed to be well aware of this result. He kept saying words of regret and his expression was very regretful, making it look like he was really acting.

After accepting the benefits and exchanging pleasantries, Lu Zhong asked for a rest.

If ordinary people said this in broad daylight, they would definitely be thought to be sick.

But when it comes to Master Lu, it gives people another understanding.

"Haha, he is really anxious!" Xu Changfu smiled on the outside, but he was scornful in his heart.

Just now, he saw Lu Zhong's eyes constantly wandering around the girls in the village, so he revealed in his words that he wanted a few girls to go over and sleep with him, and Master Lu Xian immediately agreed.

Now it seems that it is obvious that he can't wait to do the thing of announcing the silver in daylight.

…

Lu Zhong's body was following two men in black robes.

Regardless of whether you decide to intervene later, it is extremely necessary to know the location of the Amputee Cult stronghold, so that you can advance, attack, retreat, and defend, instead of being like a headless fly without knowing anything.

Suddenly, his face looked strange.

But on the side of the spirit puppet, the fake show is really going on.

"Tsk, tsk, since they are puppets, then they are following Mr. Jiao..."

Shaking his head and smiling, Lu Zhong temporarily cut off his perception so as not to interfere with his main body's actions.

After crossing a stream and a gorge for a while, and walking for a long time in the dense forest filled with mountain mist, the two men in black robes soon came to an unremarkable mountain wall. Then they did not know what they did, and their bodies sank directly into it and disappeared.

Without a trace.

Lu Zhong kept changing his position to avoid the detection of the surrounding limb-repairing sect's secret sentries, and fixed his gaze on the mountain wall.

"It seems that the stronghold of the Limb Sect is right here!"

After achieving his goal, Lu Zhong had no intention of conflict with the limb-repairing cult and decided to retreat.

Don't bother me, just hello to me and everyone, no need to get into trouble.

If the master really sends a helping hand and decides to investigate the matter in detail, he has the merit of controlling the limb-sect stronghold, so he doesn't have to worry about any punishment.

If not, that's even better.

In this way, he can spend these three years peacefully.

Just as he lifted his feet, he saw another group of monks arriving.

Interestingly, there was someone he knew in the team. It was the same team of monks he had seen in Wei'er City before. The woman in black who was at the seventh level of Qi Refining was also in the team at the moment.

Perhaps because they felt they had reached a safe place, someone in the team started talking.

The gentle mountain breeze carried the sound to Lu Zhong's side, which was downwind.

The sound was intermittent and I could only hear a rough outline.

"..."

Unfortunately, the sound was really blurry, and Lu Zhong had never practiced the art of hearing. He only knew that it was a matter of family revenge, but he had no idea who he was seeking revenge from.

Keeping this in mind, Lu Zhong slowly retreated.

Returning to the temporarily opened cave outside Shuihuan Village, he laid out the spirit gathering array he brought with him, and then placed pieces of spirit stones into the grooves. The concentration of spiritual energy in the cave was greatly increased, and it was no less than that of the Heling Sect.

Inside the mountain gate.

Practicing in a place like this will not slow down your progress much.

Perhaps due to his arrival, Shuihuan Village suddenly became calm.

…

Time passes day by day, and in the blink of an eye, half a year has passed.

The mountain flowers have faded and bloomed again, it is spring in March.

In the cave, Lu Zhong was sitting cross-legged, muttering something in his mouth, his hands constantly changing the seals, and the spiritual energy in his body rising and falling, and he was practicing the "Yuan Gathering Method" given by his master Shui Ni.

This method can increase the success rate of foundation building, so he is very interested in this method.

After a few breaths, he dispersed his spiritual power and smiled bitterly.

"This Yuan Gathering Method is really difficult, isn't it?"

According to this method, it is necessary to condense the vitality seeds in the one hundred and eight orifices of the body. He thought that this was just a grinding effort, but who would have expected that after spending more than half a year, he could not condense even one.
To be continued...