Volume 3: The Great Merging Era Chapter 46 (2) Wind Rises

  The prelude to the great war in the dark world of Northeast China has been opened, but the real battle will begin after the dragon pulse moves. Lei Zhen and Li Cangyun are waiting, Di Yun and Heng Baotian are also waiting, and none of the eight hall masters dare to come out now.

  He was afraid that Lin Xingbai would come again to kill Wu Qi and Tang Tian, and also feared that Li Canyun would follow suit. The masters of both sides, although they were usually arrogant and domineering, but under the threat of two super killers - Lin Xingbai and Li Canyun, who dared to make trouble?

  So for a time, the atmosphere was extremely tense, but there was no outbreak of war.

  A storm is brewing, wind fills the tower.

  The entire Northeast region is filled with an atmosphere of murder and violence, major conflicts are rare, but minor ones occur constantly.

  It's really "the wind is full of the building when the mountain rain is coming". At sunset, Lin Xingbai was walking on the road. The other hall masters didn't dare to leave the Tianzun Building and the Emperor Building, but what did that have to do with Lin Xingbai? In the northeast, there was no one who could kill Lin Xingbai.

  Even if Lian Cangyun takes action personally, Lin Xingbai is no match for Lian Cangyun. With Lin Xingbai's speed as fast as the wind, Lian Cangyun can still catch up.

  It was boring to stay in the Tianzun Building all the time, so Lin Xingbai came out for a walk. As he walked, Lin Xingbai heard a very familiar piece of music - the Lullaby of Dreams. Whenever the Lullaby of Dreams started playing, it was usually because someone from the Cultivation Realm was about to do something big.

  Lin Xingbai learned to sleep like ordinary humans, and just as he fell asleep, two young men and women emerged from the darkness. The two young people laughed and said: "Not bad, not bad, this time we can collect hundreds of souls."

  "I told you so," said the woman. "You should have picked a mall or some other crowded place."

  What's the point of collecting souls? Lin Xingbai's heart was slightly suspicious, and he immediately opened his eyes to take a look. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the man clearly. The man had a pale face and didn't look very handsome. His complexion was weak and floating, obviously a drunkard. The woman looked ordinary too, but her face was heavily made up with thick layers of powder and rouge, looking like she was trying to scare people to death. She seemed to have a bit of a seductive air about her, but Lin Xingbai felt quite uncomfortable looking at her. He didn't like women who were completely covered in heavy makeup.

  What's the point of collecting souls? Lin Xingbai saw the pale-faced man take out a tool. At that moment, he understood the reason. The tool taken out by this man was actually recognized by Lin Xingbai, it was called - Soul Capturing Box, this thing can collect ordinary people's souls.

  Lin Xingbai recognized it because he had seen it in Lang Gongzi's hands before. Yes, it was Lang Gongzi, this was the Human Soul Puppet Door's tool, and he didn't know why it would appear here. Lin Xingbai casually looked around and found that there were no other cultivators nearby.

  Very well, Lin Xingbai stood up.

  Obviously. Lin Xingbai suddenly stood up. The couple was quite surprised: "Who are you?

  "Who am I." Lin Xingbai smiled: "I guess you'll know in a moment."

  The man in the pair was obviously arrogant: "Cut it out, you think you're so cool, but you might just be a softie. You think you're Lin Qingxue." Why did this young man use Lin Qingxue as an example? It turned out that both of them were from the Human Puppet Sect. A few months ago, during the battle at An Yuan City Government, Lin Xingbai used the alias Lin Qingxue to kill Wolf Young Master, and in another battle on Changbai Mountain, Lin Xingbai also used the alias Lin Qingxue to kill Red Furnace Snake Maiden.

  Lin Qingxu's three pseudonyms, Evil Blood Demon King, Wolf Young Master, and Red Refining Snake Girl, two of which were from the Human Soul Puppet Gate, directly beheaded all the top masters of the Human Soul Puppet Gate. Therefore, for the people of the Human Soul Puppet Gate, the name Lin Qingxu is a super devilish synonym, even more terrifying than the Death God Lin Xuebai.

  So these somewhat arrogant young people, when talking about formidable figures, always bring up Lin Qingxuan.

  Lin Xingbai saw this young man and thought it was laughable, but his face didn't show a hint of a smile.

  The young man saw Lin Xingbai's pale face and thought to himself, "You think you can scare me with that pale face?" He immediately deployed his own mechanical puppet beast. His mechanical puppet technique was a mechanical dog, which seemed to contain the souls of many people inside.

  The young woman also brought out her own mechanical puppet beast, which was a mechanical snake. The internal organs of these two people's mechanical puppet beasts contained the souls of many people and had some power. However, they encountered an ancestral-level master of puppetry.

  Lin Xingbai's understanding of the Human Soul Puppet Technique far surpasses that of these two. Perhaps only if Chi Lian Snake Maiden were to be reborn could she compare with Lin Xingbai in terms of understanding of the Human Soul Puppet Technique. Unfortunately, Chi Lian Snake Maiden fell into the flames and was reduced to ashes, making it impossible for her to be reborn.

  Incidentally, Lin Xingbai's casual move destroyed two mechanical puppet beasts. In the case of the Puppet Gate's mechanical beasts being broken, their combat strength was really pitiful, and they were immediately captured by Lin Xingbai, unable to move at all.

  "Speak up, the Puppet Gate of Human Souls originally belonged to Sichuan. After being defeated in battle, you should have returned to Sichuan, so why are you still here?" Lin Xingbai asked at this time.

  This question turned out to be interesting, it was originally in the Northeastern League of Evil, the master of the East First Hall of the Five Great Halls, was actually a human soul puppet gate, called Fox Young Master. This person is a cunning and fox-like figure, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to become the master of the first hall.

  Last time's

  Human Soul Puppet Gate entered the Northeast border to avenge Changbai Puppet Gate, saying that it was introduced by the Northern Cultivation Alliance, but in fact, Fox Young Master also played a significant role.

  Di Yun naturally also knew that Hu Gongzi had done a lot in the middle, but since they needed to borrow people's souls to destroy Changbai Puppet Gate at the time, Zhang only closed one eye.

  The Human Soul Puppet Gate was beheaded by Lin Xingbai, the first and second top masters. However, Fox Gongzi saw this situation but did not surprise or get angry, instead he started to gather the remaining forces of the Human Soul Puppet Gate. In fact, except for the two top masters who were defeated, the Human Soul Puppet Gate had not suffered much damage.

  So now, the Puppet Gate of Human Souls is completely under Fox Young Master's command.

  This time, the young man and woman both listened to the orders of Master Fox and came out to borrow their souls to make mechanical puppet beasts. They went out to hunt and kill souls. The moment they sang "Lullaby of Dreams", they could knock down many ordinary people and frantically collect their souls.

  "We still hope that our seniors will forgive us." The young men and women finished speaking one by one, and then begged for mercy.

  Unfortunately, Lin Xingbai's palm fell, and this was the death of all the human soul puppet masters. Anyone who was a human soul puppet master, from the master Hong Lian Snake Girl to every single person who had refined a human soul puppet mechanism beast, could be killed, which was what Lin Xingbai thought.

  The art of manipulating human souls is originally an extremely evil technique.

  Hú Gōng Zǐ. Interesting, the Human Soul Puppet Gate actually left someone behind, called Hú Gōng Zǐ. Hearing this name, it seems to have some similarities with Láng Gōng Zǐ. Lin Xǐng Bái still doesn't know that Hú Gōng Zǐ is actually Láng Gōng Zǐ's younger brother, the third strongest in the Human Soul Puppet Gate.

  Of course, Fox Gentleman is even more cunning. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called Fox Gentleman.

  Before leaving, Lin Xingbai had the Dream Cradle Song undone. As he walked, Lin Xingbai discovered something quite interesting - that this time, Fox Young Master had released a large number of Soul Puppet Gates, and An Yuan City was collecting souls everywhere.

  It's not just Anyuan City, Fox Young Master's handwriting is quite large this time. In the vast land of Northeast China, more than a dozen cities suddenly had many people from the Soul Puppet Gate. As long as they had the ability to make soul puppet beasts, they were basically all released at once.

  What they are planning is huge.

  Lin Xingbai still didn't know what Fox Young Master was plotting, but he could already feel that something was off. He immediately went to another place where the "Resonant Dream Cradle" melody was being played. When Lin Xingbai arrived, he found two people from the Soul Puppet Gate lying in a pool of blood.

  Beside the blood pool, a white-clad girl gently wiped away the snow. Yes, it was snow that she was wiping away, not blood.

  The icy crystal-like Snow Sleeve Sword, how could there be any blood on it? Even if it had killed people before, not a single drop of blood would remain on the sword. This was the unique characteristic of the Snow Sleeve Sword. Lin Xingbai shrugged his shoulders and said to Chu Yuzhen and Qu Feiyan under the moonlight: "How could it be you two?"

  Chu Yuqing and Qu Feiyan suddenly discovered Lin Xingbai, and the two of them shouted loudly: "Teacher Lin."

  Qu Fei Yan immediately said: "How can it not be us? The Great War of the Northeastern Dark World has already affected the entire Northeast. Now, if you go to any of the ten cities in the Northeast, nine of them will have the Lullaby of Dreams playing everywhere. Hearing the Lullaby of Dreams represents what, doesn't need to be said."

  "We're doing it to maintain the world's justice, oh ho ho." Qu Feiyan tried to learn the queen's way of laughing, but unfortunately, she couldn't quite get it right. However, even so, she still looked lovely and charming.

  "I'm practicing swordplay." Chu Yuqing replied simply and coldly.

  Lin Xingbai shrugged: "That's it, OK, you're following me now." No way, Qu Feiyan and Chu Yuzheng's strength was quite good for these small fries and small heads, but for the hall master level, they were a bit tender.

  In this dark world's great war, even the master-level people who encountered formidable foes have become cannon fodder. Let alone two girls of this level, they can only be brought along by their side. In their own side, it is estimated that there are no longer any threats to harm them in the Northeast.

  "Yes, victory." Qu Feiyan made a victorious gesture with her hand.

  The girl Chu Yuqing still had an icy expression like snow.

  Let's get back to the topic. Since we've decided to bring them along, let's continue with the investigation. This time, the three of us flashed to another location where the Lullaby of Dreams was playing, and it turned out that this place was also related to the Puppet Gate of Human Souls.

  And this time it's a team of six people. If the leader is a small head, it will be easier to get things done. Generally, small heads know more about what's going on.

  Lin Xingbai stood there without making a move, this small leader, might as well let Chu Yuqing and Qu Feiyan practice their skills. Seeing Lin Xingbai not making a move, Qu Feiyan smiled slyly, and the fox fire shone brightly at once, while Chu Yuqing also drew out her sword.

  On one side was the faint fox fire, on the other was the icy snow-like sleeve sword.

  That little demon king was only 300 years of cultivation, how could it withstand the attack of two girls? It was captured immediately. As for those small minions, they wanted to escape, but Qu Fei Yan Huo Hua drew a stroke, and within a radius of five meters, a fox fire circle appeared, making it impossible for them to rush out.

  "Tell me, what kind of trick does Fox Young Master want to play?" Lin Xingbai asked.

  That little head started not saying, wanting to pretend to be a tough guy, but unfortunately Lin Xingbai would never let others pretend to be tough guys. It's simple, Lin Xingbai stood in front of the small head's mechanical puppet beast, his hand slightly moved: "Say or not say, you decide for yourself."

  I don't like to make things difficult for others.

  "But if you don't say it, it's very simple,"

  I will destroy this mechanical puppet beast. What the consequences will be, I'm sure you also know." The Human Soul Puppet Technique is a forbidden technique. If the mechanical puppet beast is destroyed, countless souls will backlash against the person who refined the mechanical beast.

  When Lin Xingbai said this, the little head's face turned pale and he finally told everything.

  At that time, the Fox Master sent out all the Human Soul Puppets and planned to use the Human Soul Puppet's super forbidden technique to refine a few large-scale mechanical puppet beasts. Normally, refining large-scale mechanical puppet beasts is very difficult, which the Fox Master cannot do.

  However, by using the Super Forbidden Technique of the Human Soul Puppet Gate, continuously collecting souls and adding endless resentment, Fox Young Master can barely do it. And Fox Young Master himself is for the Great War of the Dark World. So this time, even Heng Tian will assist.

  The combat power of a mechanical puppet giant can be compared to that of a hall master, which is quite impressive.

  This is under Lian Canyun's command. The first move to dominate the world. Due to Lin Xingbai's killing, two hall masters were lost, so Heng Ba Tian wanted to get a few more hall master-level characters, and as a result, it became the current situation. Unfortunately, this time they encountered Lin Xingbai.

  However, this time the Fox Young Master understood that his own affairs were being exposed. So he distributed people to more than a dozen cities. The idea was that even if the other side sent out high-ranking officials to sabotage, they would have to go to more than a dozen cities. The question is whether the Northern Cultivator Alliance dare to disperse and act like this now.

  Lian Xiang thought of learning from Lin Xingbai's solo kills on Hall Masters one by one, but it had been a long time.

  Hú Gōngzǐ had calculated everything, but he hadn't calculated it quite well enough. Lín Xìngbái was actually Lín Qīngjiǎo, and Lín Qīngjiǎo's skills in the art of puppetry far surpassed those of Hú Gōngzǐ. Even when it came to controlling human souls, Lín Qīngjiǎo's abilities were far beyond what Hú Gōngzǐ could match.

  Lin Xingbai summoned the Longbai Puppet Gate's people to gather here, and coincidentally, there were five elders of the Longbai Puppet Gate present, Zhu Fuzi, Zhu Qingzi, Zhu Tiezi and others, standing behind Lin Xingbai.

  At this time, Lin Xingbai was using Lin Qingge's identity.

  Lin Xingbai began to quickly make a small mechanism, this small mechanism was very small, but in the process of making it, Lin Xingbai deliberately slowed down his speed, allowing Zhu Fuzi and others to see clearly. And Zhu Fuzi and others, the more they looked at it clearly, the more they found that the method of making this small mechanism was profound and immeasurable.

  Zhu Fu Zi had never seen Lin Xing Bai's skills within the White Puppet Gate before, and this time he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of admiration. In his heart, he secretly thought that Lin Tai Shifu was indeed extraordinary, and his attainments in the field of puppetry were incredibly profound.

  The small mechanism - Soul-Breaking Mechanism Bird is finally complete.

  This broken soul mechanism bird is indeed small, but the project is quite complicated. After Lin Xingbai finished the first one, he had Zhu Fuzi and other elders work on some miscellaneous mechanism parts on the side. In this way, it still took three or four hours to produce ten broken soul mechanism birds.

  After completion, the five elders who participated in the production, one by one, secretly said that this time's production was truly a great learning experience and they benefited greatly from it.

  "Alright, the ten Soul-destroying Mechanical Birds are complete." Lin Xingbai smiled and released one of the Soul-destroying Mechanical Birds. This bird would scatter a lot of powder, which was actually made from the Soul-fixing Seeds of Chun Shen Ju Meng.

  The bird flies to which city, in which city disperses, in that city, the human soul puppet technique will lose effect.

  This broken soul puppet, although extremely small, is extremely complex in its craftsmanship. It requires an incredibly deep understanding of the art of mechanical puppets and human soul puppets. Furthermore, it also requires the use of Spring God's Soul-anchoring seeds; otherwise, it would be useless.

  It's really indispensable and extremely difficult.

  The Fox Prince was almost stunned by the result of tonight's action, and the result was so strange that he didn't succeed at all. This is too fake, and he doesn't even know how his plan was destroyed. The Horizontal Hegemon asked inexplicably: "What's going on?"

  "The other party has a master of the puppet technique that is more than five times better than mine, otherwise it would be impossible to defeat me without even knowing how I lost." Fox Gongzi let out a long sigh: "Forget it, forget it, I admit defeat. There's actually someone who can defeat me like this, and I have no choice but to accept it."

  The Fox Prince was truly shocked, having played with the Soul Puppet Technique for so many years, he actually encountered an opponent who surpassed him by five times in the Art of Mechanism Puppetry. Even the Red Lotus Snake Princess from back then couldn't have achieved this.

  Heng Tian looked out at the deep night outside and knew that his opponent was not easy to mess with. This first round was considered a loss.

  However, the great war in the dark world of Northeast China can continue, but it is not just this time.

  The great war is still going on, this is just the first large-scale conflict.

  Heng Tian was pondering, planning his next move. Before the Dragon Vein moved, he would accumulate as many advantages as possible, this was the key to ultimate victory.