HLnovel Chapter 292 The Most Terrifying Puppet
Chapter 292 The Most Terrifying Puppet
Give Xue Lan a space, and she can create a top-tier weapon-refining cave for you.
Wu Yijun watched as Xue Lan first took out a large forging hammer from her sleeve, followed by two errand-running puppets and several large boxes of forging materials...
Finally, Wu Yijun watched as Xue Lan pulled a furnace burning with molten iron from her sleeve.
Xue Tong, standing next to Wu Yijun, asked, "Why aren't you surprised?"
The woman turned her head slightly to look at her, and said in a light tone, "I always felt that I should be surprised, but when I think that she is Xue Lan, everything makes sense."
The woman thought for a moment, then added, "I wouldn't be surprised if she pulled the demon god out of it."
Wu Yijun was no longer surprised, but the girl beside her was drenched in sweat.
Because at some point in the past, Xue Lan did indeed have a fragment of a demon god's remnant soul inside her sleeve.
Wu Yijun didn't know what was wrong with Xue Tong. The girl had a strange smile on her face, and her eyes looked at her with a hint of... guilt.
Xue Tong: "Dead body, don't expose yourself!"
Xue Lan had set up the weapon-refining cave over there. With a light snap of her fingers, the molten iron that had been slowly flowing in the furnace began to boil, and the entire weapon-refining cave instantly became warm.
It gave Wu Yijun the illusion that he had returned to Xie Cui City.
Xue Lan clapped her hands and said, "Speaking of which, since I'm going to forge weapons, why didn't Senior Chi Lian let Lin Su come?"
"Senior Qingyin said that you are quite risky when it comes to refining weapons, and that you are likely to attract heavenly lightning to blow up your cave at such a critical moment."
"If you blow yourself up, at least keeping Lin Su alive can guarantee the inheritance of the Ten Thousand Crafts Workshop."
Xue Lan sneered, turned her head and fiddled with her own things, muttering darkly to herself as she worked.
"I will die on the battlefield to make her regret it. I will make her realize that I am her most obedient and adorable grand-disciple after she discovers that I will never come back!"
Xue Tong spoke up at the right moment: "Are you out of your mind? Did you secretly read my novel?"
The girl stepped forward and grabbed Xue Lan's sleeve: "Go and tell your grandmaster that I have bought a coffin for you."
Xue Lan grabbed the leg of the black iron table and screamed, "This is murder! Let me go, I want to work!"
Wu Yijun couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward to separate the two.
"Work!"
Xue Lan then took out the Chonglou Illusionary Treasure Map from her sleeve. When she unfolded it, the blueprints that Xue Lan had rushed to finish in the early hours of the morning appeared on it.
“I went to see those children again early this morning. Their degree of alienation is different, and the strength of the demonic seed in their bodies is also different. The most serious ones are that little pigeon and Little Saint.”
Xue Tong was somewhat surprised: "Xiao Sheng? He's clearly the most rational and normal of all the children!"
That boy, who seemed like a little adult, was taking care of so many children all by himself, always smiling gently and sweetly calling them "sister."
She found it hard to accept.
“He was the closest thing to a success but a failure.” Xue Lan sighed. “The demonic seed fused with him very well, making him indistinguishable from an ordinary person except for his appearance…”
"But he's also the easiest to be controlled by demons, right?" Wu Yijun hit the nail on the head.
Xue Lan nodded.
Wu Yijun asked directly, "So, are you going to save him?"
The cave fell silent, with only the sound of water droplets falling from the stalactites.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock!" made Xue Tong inexplicably irritable.
But she didn't dare to speak. Judging from Xue Lan's expression, this matter was definitely going to be difficult.
After a long while, Xue Lan's fingertips slowly traced across the Chonglou Illusionary Treasure Map, her voice slightly hoarse: "He must know this too."
Gong Yuan chose Xiao Sheng as the child to bring out his information, which means he must have known about Xiao Sheng's situation.
The woman turned around, picked up the small box containing the magic core from the table, and gently touched it with her fingertip. The two talismans binding the box turned to ashes and disappeared.
The box slowly opened, and a dark purple magic core flew out, resembling a precious gem.
Two clusters of strange fire flew from Xue Lan's fingertips, supporting the demonic core in mid-air. The woman turned her head, her gray-white eyes fixed on Wu Yijun.
"Junior sister, do you know what the most terrifying puppet in the world is?"
Wu Yijun didn't know why she suddenly brought this up, but he still spoke honestly: "In the lower realm, the Azure Puppet Mother of the War Puppet Mansion is the most powerful. As for the upper realm, I don't know much about it."
With a slight flick of her wrist, Xue Lan sent the two clusters of strange flames carrying the demonic core into the molten iron of the smelting furnace.
In an instant, flames taller than a person rose from the molten iron, rushing upwards close to Xue Lan's face.
The woman shielded her eyes: "The Azure Silk Puppet Mother is the masterpiece of the Puppet Sect of the War Puppet Mansion, and naturally deserves to be called the number one in the lower realm."
"As far as I know, there are indeed human families in the Upper Realm who are skilled in puppetry and adept at creating a type of puppet called the Heavenly Mark Demon. However, neither of these can be considered terrifying."
Inside the smelting furnace, bluish-red flames burned fiercely, illuminating Xue Lan's face.
The fine downy hair on the woman's face was clearly visible, and her lifeless eyes reflected a warm firelight: "The most terrifying puppet in this world is the one who has been implanted with a demonic seed and is living a life worse than death."
These words carried an inexplicable chill, sending a shiver down the spines of Wu Yijun and Xue Tong, who were in the scorching cave.
Xue Lan's emotions remained unchanged as she continued, "The puppet doesn't know it's a puppet, but over time, there's always a possibility that the threads will become visible as it spins and jumps."
"If you see the thread, you might be able to break free and escape."
"What's terrifying about the Demon Seed is that... the person being controlled will never see the threads, nor will they believe they are being controlled."
Before coming to find Xue Lan, Wu Yijun had heard Elder Chi Lian talk about the Demon Seed. Its existence was essentially an infinite amplification of the desires and evil in people's hearts.
When wrongdoing becomes the norm, no one will feel that they are wrong.
Unlike ordinary puppets that are precisely controlled, this invisible influence is more like an invisible scimitar.
Like a herdsman living on the grassland scraping away bones and eating flesh, they gradually plucked away and devoured all the warmth and humanity belonging to the human race, leaving behind only an empty shell filled with overwhelming demonic thoughts.
"Those successful demons are, in my eyes, demonic seeds secretly planted by the demon race in the Yuanming Realm." Xue Lan looked at the raging fire in the smelting furnace, her voice sending a chill through the surroundings:
"If left unchecked, it will destroy the entire Yuanming Realm sooner or later."
It was as if the Song Dynasty had spent over a decade harvesting and mutilating the living, eroding the underworld, and destroying the entire Great Li Dynasty.
It's extremely annoying.