Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 298 - 126: Heading South to Settle New Lands, Cutting Through the Chaos with a Fast Blade
The vibrations of the large house grew increasingly intense, and Xiao Ping’an’s mouth opened wider and wider.
In the next instant...
Boom!!!!
The house before his eyes exploded.
Xiao Ping’an was swept away by the blast and thrown backward.
Behind him, the maid Xiaojie hurriedly embraced him, then turned around and dropped to the ground.
The large house turned into ruins, and amid the rolling, undissipated smoke and dust, the puppet Tang Chou extended his six arms expressionlessly, with two of them holding large shields. He blocked the wildly flying and colliding metals in the fierce airflow, protecting the young girl and the child in the middle...
Outside the house, the "Innate Shadow Blood warrior" under Xiaojie’s protection pouted her lips, her lips trembling, then burst into tears.
...
...
"Stretch out your hand."
"Stretch it out!"
"Godfather, go easy."
"Don’t smile cheekily. If you don’t understand the pain, there’s no lesson!"
Li Yuan looked serious as he gazed at the two main culprits who blew up the house and sent Xiao Ping’an flying.
He first grabbed Xiaozhao’s hand, raised the ruler, and lightly hit it twice, saying, "What to do if you hurt yourself?"
Then he looked at Tang Nian.
The white clothes turned gray, and the filthy Tang Nian also extended his hand.
Li Yuan lifted the ruler high, intending to strike hard, but at the point of impact, he also only lightly hit it twice, saying, "Your sister doesn’t understand, but you should. You are a master in puppetry. How did you manage to blow up the house?
This time, fortunately, it didn’t hurt your younger brother. But if it did, what would you do?"
Tang Nian lowered his head and softly said, "I’m sorry, godfather."
Li Yuan said, "Explain what happened?"
Tang Nian honestly recounted the situation.
...
In the past few months, she and Xiaozhao had gradually started playing together in the Black Market Ghost Realm.
She played with puppets.
Xiaozhao played with crows.
They chatted and talked about how each of their things worked.
Puppets below the sixth grade are composed of metal, the demon beast’s heart, and the public vein carved by the puppet master’s special flame blade.
This "public vein" is precise, but not complex. It’s available on the market ready-made, and Tang Nian can also make it himself.
A sixth-grade puppet replaces metal with the Soul Iron Crystal.
The vein to be engraved becomes extremely complex, with numerous matters to pay attention to. This skill is rare even among the sixth grade but is very sought after...
In short, puppetry is an application of "Yin-Yang composition."
Soul Iron Crystal belongs to Yin, while the heart belongs to Yang.
Soul Iron Crystal is mined near some Domains of Ghosts, containing a chaotic, elusive "soul," at least that’s how the Tang Family puppet master’s ancient books describe it. Regardless of its truth, it helps with understanding.
After being nurtured by the blood of a sixth-grade heart, the Yin-Yang combined to produce flesh and some "intelligence," unlike the puppets below the sixth grade, which foolishly follow set paths without turning back, even off a cliff.
However, puppets below the sixth grade suffer from the absence of a soul.
When Tang Nian mentioned this, Xiaozhao said her crow might have a soul, and her mother recently taught her how to use the crow for possession.
...
At this point, Li Yuan interrupted them.
He was aware that Lady Yan taught Xiaozhao skills.
But...
"What is crow possession?" he asked.
Xiaozhao, in her childlike voice, said, "It means the crow can take over the body of another person or small animal, but only for a while...
Mother said that if it lasts too long, either the possessed person gets hurt, or the crow gets hurt."
Li Yuan was somewhat speechless.
Isn’t this simply "ghost possession?"
People with enough Yang Qi can expel ghosts;
Those with insufficient Yang Qi, if possessed for long, will become seriously ill.
"Don’t use it recklessly on people in the future," he said, patting his daughter’s head.
Xiaozhao adorably said, "Daddy, I won’t hurt anyone."
Li Yuan smiled warmly to encourage her.
He thought of adding, "If it’s a bad person, then it’s okay," but reconsidered and kept silent.
He thought that his daughter’s power shouldn’t be revealed before others, or it would lead to great trouble. It would be better to suppress it from the root for now, and wait until she understood right and wrong and had stronger power to talk about it further.
"Niannian, continue.
Then, you planned to combine crow possession with puppetry to create a new toy, right?"
Tang Nian frankly said, "Yes, godfather."
Li Yuan said, "Then you failed."
Xiaozhao said, "Daddy, we didn’t fail, the puppets just went crazy."
"Crazy?" Li Yuan became curious.
Xiaozhao said, "They..."
She attempted to express herself but couldn’t find the words to describe it.
Tang Nian said, "Godfather, if we try it again, you’ll see."
Li Yuan nodded.
Then, the three of them went into the courtyard.
Tang Nian grabbed a puppet rabbit, while Xiaozhao flicked a crow from her hair. The crow collided with the puppet rabbit, wholly disappeared into it.
Then, the puppet rabbit suddenly acted as if it was having convulsions, starting to twist its head and legs...
After a short while, amid the screeching of twisting steel, the puppet rabbit’s head twisted off, and its legs broke,
while its tail seemed to be torn by two forces, rotating like a propeller, sometimes clockwise, sometimes counterclockwise, then exploded.
Blood spurted from the neck, the broken legs, and the tail.
The rabbit struggled forward a few steps before completely collapsing.
The crow flew out from the top of the rabbit’s head and returned to Xiaozhao’s hair.
Tang Nian helplessly looked at Li Yuan, saying, "Godfather, that’s how it is."
Li Yuan said, "Open up the puppet and check the heart."
Tang Nian said, "It’s already been opened. The heart is ruined..."
