Chapter 7 The Difficulty of Operating the Crow Shadow Puppet

It was a dark and windy night, and the gathering place fell silent.

It was now twelve o'clock in the middle of the night and the streets were empty.

Luo Ling carefully opened the window, jumped out lightly, and walked towards the place he had explored during the day.

……

"That kid is out." In a guest room, Ghost Douluo's voice sounded outside the window.

"Are you finally here? You seem quite cautious." Bibi Dong opened the window. "Then let's go and take a look."

"It looks like this kid doesn't have a warrant and is planning to sneak in." Ghost Douluo said calmly.

"Have you found any information about this kid?" Bibi Dong asked.

"I took the portrait to several nearby branches of the Spirit Hall, but no one had seen it."

"Could it be someone from some powerful force?" Bibi Dong frowned.

"It doesn't look like it." Ghost Douluo shook his head.

Bibi Dong didn't say anything more. The two of them had already arrived not far from the gathering place, and Ju Douluo had been waiting for a long time.

The three of them used their mental power to probe towards Luo Ling who was walking stealthily not far away.

Luo Ling was completely unaware of this.

A generation of Spirit Hall Pope, bringing two Titled Douluo elders to engage in peeping, was something that Ren Luoling could never have imagined no matter how hard he tried.

If Luo Ling knew about this, he would definitely scold him, saying that he had nothing better to do than to eat and have nothing to do!

At this moment, Luo Ling was cautiously approaching the barbed wire fence that blocked the Soul Hunting Forest.

The guard not far away yawned sleepily.

Luo Ling came to a hidden bush, sat down, and a strange red light flashed in his eyes.

He entered an out-of-body state again.

The ghostly spirit slowly floated towards the guard. When it arrived in front of the guard, red light appeared in the spirit's eyes.

In just a moment, the guard staggered and fell asleep.

……

"Is this the ability of hypnosis?" Ju Douluo, who was not far away, asked in surprise.

Bibi Dong's eyes also revealed a hint of strangeness, but the next scene made the three of them look shocked.

The spirit quickly returned to Luo Ling's body. Luo Ling quickly came to the wire mesh, and a light yellow soul ring rose under his feet.

The soul ring lit up, and invisible dark threads popped out. Luo Ling relied on the dark threads to climb straight onto the iron net, and easily climbed over the ten-meter-high iron net.

"This is..." Ju Douluo hesitated to speak. The dark thread could make it invisible to others but it could not hide it from their eyes. After all, Luo Ling was still just a soul master.

However, what surprised the three was not the dark thread, but the soul ring on Luo Ling and the dark aura it exuded.

"This is not the spiritual spirit!" Ghost Douluo suddenly spoke.

As the owner of a pure dark martial spirit, Ghost Douluo is extremely sensitive to the power of darkness. The power of the dark threads and the sudden dark aura are completely different from the spirit just now.

At this moment, the three of them realized something.

After exchanging glances, they said in unison: "Twin martial spirits?"

Bibi Dong's expression finally became serious. She looked at Ghost Douluo and said, "Ghost Elder, go check for information about this kid and make sure you find out his identity!"

Bibi Dong then looked at Ju Douluo again, "Elder Ju, go wake up Nana. It's time to let Nana train at night. Let's go into the Soul Hunting Forest together to meet this kid!"

……

Luo Ling had no idea what was happening outside.

After entering the Soul Hunting Forest, Luo Ling found a relatively safe place and stopped.

He took out the information he got from Yu Xiaogang. He had looted a lot of good stuff from Yu Xiaogang's office, including a lot of theoretical information, most of which had the mark of the Spirit Hall, and some others.

Among them are records about the soul beasts in this soul hunting forest.

Luo Ling originally planned to go to the Star Dou Great Forest or the Sunset Forest to hunt for spirit rings. After all, spiritual spirit beasts are hard to find, until he saw this soul beast record.

It contains detailed information about the soul beasts in the Soul Hunting Forest, including a spiritual soul beast.

Ghost bird!
This is a very rare soul beast that only appears at night. It is a dual-element soul beast of darkness and spirit.

The ghost bird has the ability to temporarily transform its physical body into a spirit body, and it is very fast and extremely difficult to catch.

This is Luo Ling’s purpose in coming here, and it is also the reason why Luo Ling goes out at night.

After reading the information about the Ghost Bird, Luo Ling put the book back into the package. Looking at the several books and a bag of gold soul coins in the package, he inexplicably felt a little regretful.

I was in a hurry when I left Yu Xiaogang's office. Although I searched it, I didn't find Tang San's Twenty-Four Bridges on Moonlight Night. Otherwise, why would I carry things on my own?

After sighing, a few seconds later, Luo Ling suddenly raised his head.

He summoned the Crow Shadow Puppet and threw the package to the other party.

I clearly have such a coolie but I haven’t thought about it for such a long time!

The Crow Shadow Puppet is controlled by the dark threads of its first soul skill, Dark Weaving, but it can still move if the first soul skill is not activated.

But it can only execute simple idiot instructions, just like a real puppet.

But just picking up the package doesn't require any complicated operations.

After throwing the package to the Crow Shadow Puppet, Luo Ling transformed into three crows and scattered them around.

Crows are perfect as spies. They don't consume much soul power, and it doesn't take much effort to issue simple patrol and follow orders.

After doing all this, Luo Ling officially stepped into the depths of the Soul Hunting Forest.

The Soul Hunting Forest is more dangerous at night than during the day, but for the sake of the ghost bird, Luo Ling has to become a night owl.

Soul beasts hiding in the dark are not easy to be detected. Fortunately, the crow has dark vision, and the soul of desire also gives Luo Ling the ability to see through the darkness.

This allowed Luo Ling to become more comfortable in the Soul Hunting Forest.

Controlling the Crow Shadow Puppet, Luo Ling saw many soul beasts.

The leopard cat, the lonely bamboo, the wind wolf and so on.

However, most of them are only ten-year-old soul beasts, so it is not difficult to deal with them.

As the battles continued, Luo Ling became more and more proficient in controlling the Crow Shadow Puppet, but he also discovered a problem.

The first soul skill of the Crow Shadow Puppet, Dark Weaving, can be emitted by itself or by the Crow Shadow Puppet.

The Crow Shadow Puppet is controlled using dark threads. If you control the Crow Shadow Puppet to fight, you must concentrate, and then your own body will be unable to move.

If you use the dark thread through the Crow Shadow Puppet to control others, you will need to focus more of your mind and will be unable to take care of your real body.

Indeed, if the main body and the Crow Shadow Puppet fight together, it would be equivalent to two against one, and the combat effectiveness would be greatly improved.

But this requires doing two things at once, and the consumption of soul power will also increase greatly.

I thought about how I would use my main body to fight and use the dark threads to control other people in the future, and then the Crow Shadow Puppet would also use the dark threads to control other people...

This is not just doing two things at once, this is not even knowing how much one is doing with one mind!
Looking at the soft-bone rabbit bound by the Crow Shadow Puppet in front of him, Luo Ling's mouth twitched slightly.

The power of the Crow Shadow Puppet is unquestionable, but the difficulty of operating it...

Luo Ling shook his head, his scalp tingling just thinking about it.

"Maybe I can consider joining the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect and learn the method of distraction control?" Luo Ling suddenly thought of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect in the original novel.

"With my talent, it won't be difficult to become famous by participating in the Soul Master Competition. Joining the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect is not impossible..." Muttering to himself, he took out a dagger and subconsciously stabbed it into the soft bone rabbit's head.

(End of this chapter)