: An Easy Victory, Plucking Ning Zhuo's Head Effortlessly

July 31, 2024 Author: Gu Zhenren

: An Easy Victory, Plucking Ning Zhuo's Head Effortlessly

Several days later.

Ning Zhuo's soul entered the Immortal Palace.

He quickly assembled his body and walked down from the small mountain piled with mechanical components.

"The Thread of Human Life..." His steps were slow as he carefully sensed.

As the embryonic form of his supernatural power grew stronger, his perception of the Thread of Human Life above his head deepened.

"Transmitting along the Thread of Human Life incurs losses each time. Now, when I channel the power of my Buddha's Heart Demon Seal, the loss on the thread will definitely be much less than before!"

"Ning Zhuo is here."

"Look at his head, it really is big."

"Hmph, making all of us wait for him, he sure puts on quite the air."

The puppets gathered around the first gate, watching Ning Zhuo approach and whispering among themselves.

Everyone else was already in position; Ning Zhuo was the last to arrive.

Ning Zhuo also looked at them.

Five from the Zhou family, two from the Zheng family, and from the Ning family, just himself.

"The three major families are starting to exert their strength... more and more people will enter the Immortal Palace with their souls in the future." Ning Zhuo sighed inwardly.

Once their numbers reached a certain scale, the mechanical traps he had set would become increasingly ineffective, ultimately unable to withstand being overwhelmed by sheer numbers.

Compared to the three major families, Ning Zhuo was isolated and weak, at a great disadvantage.

Under the gaze of the many puppets, Ning Zhuo walked to the door, touched it, and selected the upper hanging ring.

"Next, we need to combine and break through the traps at the door," Ning Zhuo said.

The Zheng family cultivator nodded, but the Zhou family members refused: "The five of us are enough; there's no need to combine together."

"We'll break through first; you can just follow us in."

"Haha, who asked our Zhou family to have the most people?"

Although Ning Zhuo was the nominal leader, the Zhou family cultivators feigned compliance while secretly disobeying his orders.

Just as Ning Xiaoren had predicted, the Zhou family cultivators were attempting to diminish Ning Zhuo's influence.

They deliberately put on a show of sharing the burden for the group and rushing to break through the barrier, making it difficult for Ning Zhuo to openly object.

However, Ning Zhuo was prepared for this.

With a thought, a teleportation ring appeared out of thin air.

The ring shimmered and spat out the Golden-Blooded War Ape - Da Sheng!

"What is that?" The Zheng family cultivator was the first to shout.

"Who are you!?" The Zhou family cultivators were all terrified, some even trembling.

"Enemy! Quickly disperse and surround him!" Ning Zhuo shouted, extremely brave.

"Wait, wait!" Seeing that Ning Zhuo was about to order an attack, the Zhou family cultivators hurriedly stopped him.

"This is strange, don't attack!"

"Calm down, calm down, everyone, please remain calm!"

The Zhou family cultivators had suffered heavy losses before and were well aware of Yuan Dasheng's combat power. They were simply not on the same level; if a fight broke out, they would be finished.

The puppets from the three families faced the enemy as if facing a great threat, all staring intently at Yuan Dasheng.

Yuan Dasheng had a red body and golden bones, covered with countless black stripes, giving it a fierce aura.

The injuries it had sustained during its previous breakthrough had been temporarily repaired by Ning Zhuo. Although its related abilities were much weaker, at least it looked no different from before.

In short, the puppets from the three families spread out, vaguely surrounding Yuan Dasheng, but no one made a move.

Yuan Dasheng scanned the crowd, ignored them, and walked straight toward the first door.

The next moment, it pushed the door open and entered.

Spears on the walls thrust at it simultaneously, but Yuan Dasheng easily blocked them.

A heavy hammer fell from above, but Yuan Dasheng lightly grabbed it and flung it to the side.

Then, Yuan Dasheng lifted the heavy hammer and reset the mechanical trap.

It continued forward, leaping constantly between walls and obstacles, as if happily wandering through mountain forests.

Everyone watching through the crack in the door fell silent at the sight.

"What's going on with this mechanical ape?" Ning Zhuo looked at the Zhou family cultivators. "You seem to know something."

The Zhou family cultivators flatly denied it.

Someone said, "Didn't you see? This ape mechanism is clearly different from us. We gain mobility by assembling components."

"But this mechanical ape was teleported in directly."

Another Zhou family cultivator added, "Look at us, we all have wooden bodies, but look at it—it's clearly several grades above us."

"If we really围攻 it, we would definitely lose more than we win."

The Zheng family cultivator stared at Yuan Dasheng in the second room, deeply puzzled: "But why did this mechanical ape appear?"

"Perhaps..." Ning Zhuo pondered, "perhaps it was specially arranged by the three sects' masters to teach us."

"Look at this mechanical ape. It clearly has the strength to break through the second room, but it keeps jumping around among the various traps, as if playing, or as if teaching us how to break through?"

Hearing Ning Zhuo's words, everyone felt enlightened.

The Zheng family cultivator slapped his thigh: "It does seem that way!"

The Zhou family cultivators remained silent.

After being wiped out once by the Golden-Blooded War Ape - Da Sheng, they had returned to their clan and actively researched and speculated.

Their initial guess was: Yuan Dasheng was a Fire Fusion Demon Ape from within the Fire Persimmon. Having heard the Dharma Bell, it cultivated successfully, entered the Immortal Palace with its soul, assembled an ape puppet, and was now competing for the inheritance rights of the Molten Rock Immortal Palace.

But this guess had obvious flaws: the mechanical components in the first room were all made of uniform wood. The materials used for the Golden-Blooded War Ape - Da Sheng were clearly different.

Subsequently, they guessed whether this was an arrangement within the Molten Rock Immortal Palace.

When the challengers reached a certain standard, say in numbers? The Molten Rock Immortal Palace would activate such mechanical apes to obstruct them.

They also considered whether it was still a demonic cultivator competitor. In the later stages of the Molten Rock Immortal Palace, challengers were allowed to change their puppet bodies.

Besides these, there were various other guesses.

The Golden-Blooded War Ape - Da Sheng's appearance was quite similar to when it was alive, but it was difficult for others to make the connection. Because in the eyes of many people, monkeys basically all look the same. Even when looking at people of different races, they are basically in a state of face blindness.

After today's event, everyone saw with their own eyes that Yuan Dasheng was teleported in, not that its soul entered the Immortal Palace.

This made one part of the Zhou family's original guesses stand out.

Main Hall.

The Long Yuan Fire Spirit kept moving its jaw left and right, grinding its teeth.

It snorted through its nostrils, anxious and angry, occasionally clenching its fists and smashing them on the armrest of the throne.

It knew the truth best.

Watching helplessly as Ning Zhuo used Yuan Dasheng openly, fooling everyone, and even some informed Zhou family cultivators covering for him!

Stupid.

A bunch of fools.

Not a single smart one among them!

The more the Long Yuan Fire Spirit watched, the angrier it became, but it couldn't say anything.

It was so angry that the entire Molten Rock Immortal Palace began to tremble.

Fire Persimmon Mountain Peak.

Within the heavy curtain of clouds and smoke, City Lord Meng Kui immediately opened his eyes. Seeing that the Molten Rock Immortal Palace was about to riot again, he sighed helplessly, his expression gradually turning serious, ready at any moment to activate the great formation to suppress the riot.

Ning Zhuo observed Yuan Dasheng through the crack in the door.

After Yuan Dasheng gained sufficient spirituality, its reactions became sharper than before. Faced with complex obstacles and traps, the solutions it chose also became more varied, no longer as monotonous as before.

It was as if it had truly come to life!

However, in Ning Zhuo's perception, his control over Yuan Dasheng still felt like there was a thick layer of gray cloth, very impeding.

"This mechanical ape has been staying in the second room, neither advancing nor retreating, seemingly playing with these mechanical traps."

"Let's continue, ignore it for now!" Ning Zhuo said.

The Zhou family cultivators hesitated: "The traps at the door have been reset; we need to combine to withstand them."

"What if we enter the second room and the ape attacks us?"

Ning Zhuo shrugged: "We can't just try nothing this time, right? Staying here until our soul power is exhausted is worse than taking a risk."

These words strongly resonated with the two Zheng family cultivators.

The Zhou family cultivators looked at each other and finally nodded: "The five of us will form a combination; you follow after."

"If the mechanical ape attacks us, please hold it off first, so we can try to split into individuals as much as possible."

Combining into a giant mechanical puppet would greatly reduce combat power.

Ning Zhuo agreed to the Zhou family cultivators' method.

The Zhou family's large puppet squeezed through the doorway, endured the wall spears, deflected the heavy hammer, and even triggered the net on the ground, clearing the traps at the entrance.

Seeing that Yuan Dasheng did not attack, the Zhou family cultivators breathed a sigh of relief: "Come in."

So, Ning Zhuo and the other three pushed the door open and entered very easily.

At that moment, Yuan Dasheng let out a low roar, suddenly turned around, and charged at the crowd.

The Zhou family cultivators were horrified. Some wanted to fight back, some wanted to turn and run, and some decided to hold their ground. This caused the Zhou family's combined puppet to spin in place.

Yuan Dasheng descended like a meteor, directly shattering them.

"So it really is going to attack!" Ning Zhuo shouted low, bravely pouncing forward.

Yuan Dasheng reached out and lightly plucked off Ning Zhuo's puppet head, throwing it directly into the nearest mechanical trap.

Everyone saw this scene clearly.

Bang, bang, bang...

Yuan Dasheng's fists were incredibly heavy,点名ing each puppet one by one, completely crushing them.

The cultivators could only return their souls to their physical bodies.

Yuan Dasheng then jumped into the trap, retrieved Ning Zhuo's head, and reattached it to the puppet body.

"Let's go." Ning Zhuo stamped his feet, shook his hands, and began to move with Yuan Dasheng.

Zheng Family.

"Why did it end so quickly?" someone asked.

The Zheng family cultivator looked serious and said eagerly, "Although we lost this time, we gained a lot! We discovered the mechanical guards of the Molten Rock Immortal Palace."

Zhou Family.

New intelligence led to new conclusions.

"So it seems, the mechanical monkey should be an obstacle specially arranged by the Molten Rock Immortal Palace when the number of people traveling together is too large, to maintain the difficulty of the challenge."

"Hmm, very likely!"

Ning Family.

"Why hasn't Ning Zhuo returned yet?" Ning Xiaoren wondered.

"So that's how it is." He understood after reading the intelligence conveyed by the other two families.

"Ning Zhuo is unlucky. His puppet head was plucked off and thrown into a trap. He can only return after his soul power is exhausted." Ning Xiaoren sighed.

At the same time.

Outside Fire Persimmon Mountain.

Two black-clothed demonic cultivators stood at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the Fire Persimmon Immortal City on the mountainside.

"The call for help came from here."

"Heh, I never thought a genius like Han Ming would fail here."

"She usually looks down on us. Let's see if she's still arrogant after we rescue her this time."

"If it weren't for orders from above, I really wouldn't want to save her! Forget it, let's enter the city and find Han Ming as soon as possible."

(End of )