Chapter 107 Puppet Master [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

Then it was the young man and woman's turn.

They were both facing the crowd at the moment. The man had sharp eyebrows and hair, and was quite handsome. The woman also had flowing hair, ethereal eyes, and outstanding looks. They were a perfect match.

The young man said, "It's okay to tell the truth. Our story is actually very simple. She is a disciple of a secret sect. Their sect strictly prohibits private desires and does not allow disciples to fall in love with others. We fell in love at first sight and decided to spend our lives together. If we don't want to be punished by her sect, we have to flee as soon as possible."

Compared with the previous murder of an adulterer, the pure love story of this young couple's elopement seems a bit boring.

After he finished his story, the old man in black robe said, "You two are just kidding. I'll tell you the truth. I killed a family for someone else and was wanted by the government. That's why I ran away."

After everyone finished speaking, the young man looked at Liang Yue and asked, "How is it?"

Liang Yue stood up with a smile, "I have already made a judgment."

"Hmm?" The boatman looked at him. "Can you find the murderer after hearing this?"

Everyone present was somewhat unconvinced.

Because everyone knows that at least nine out of ten of the words spoken just now are false. How could someone who spent a lot of money to sneak here and escape commit such a small crime?
If we judge from these words, then except for the old man in black robe, none of them are purely bad guys.

"In fact, it doesn't matter what you said. The key is that you speak." Liang Yue said confidently, "It's not difficult to analyze who the murderer is."

He walked to the aisle, pointed at Guo Chongwen's hatch, and said, "This door is locked from the inside. There is only a narrow air window on it. Even a child can't get through. From this perspective, the two of us warriors can actually be excluded."

“Maybe not?” The middle-aged monk said, “You just kicked the hatch open. If the door is not locked, it will be the same if you pretend that you can’t push it open.”

"You may think so." Liang Yue looked at the boatman and said, "When the incident happened, the boat owner was right next to us, and his energy was locked on us. If the two of us made any moves, we would not be able to hide it from him."

Before activating the formation just now, the boatman was indeed afraid that they would cause trouble, so he locked all his aura on the two of them.

Hearing this, he nodded slowly and testified to Liang Yue: "The possibility of the two of them taking action is indeed small."

"We can keep our doubts for now, and we'll see what happens next." Liang Yue said, and took out the two black fragments wrapped in the cloth, and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

He showed it around, and everyone either shook their heads or remained silent.

Liang Yue said: "This thing should be rarely seen in recent years, because it is the puppet skin refined by Wushengmen. I think someone must have manipulated a smaller puppet to enter through the air vent and assassinate the person in the hatch."

"Ah?" As soon as these words were spoken, everyone present stood up and suddenly distanced themselves from each other.

If there is a highly skilled puppeteer on board, everyone around him may be manipulated and the ship may explode at any time.

Only the old man in black robe remained seated and asked, "Have you seen anyone from Wusheng Sect?"

"I was lucky enough to see him once." Liang Yue looked at him and said, "That was also the time when I learned something. Among the puppeteers of the Demon Sect, the strongest ones practice the art of transforming the soul into a myriad of forms, while the ordinary ones practice the art of controlling puppets with silk threads. The silk threads used to control puppets are extremely sharp, and everyone's hands are covered with scars."

As he said this, everyone's eyes were fixed on the old man in black robe again.

Although he had been sitting there from beginning to end, if he were a puppeteer, he would not need to move at all.

“Haha.” The old man narrowed his eyes slightly. “Wushengmen has been dormant for decades. I didn’t expect a young boy like you to know so many things. It’s also my fault for not being secretive enough and not hiding it deeply enough.”

"You didn't intend to hide in the first place." Liang Yue said bluntly: "You destroyed the formation on the ship, didn't you just want to kill everyone in the chaos?"

"Yes." The old man nodded, "That's what I originally planned."

"Then why did you change your mind and want to hide?" Liang Yue asked.

The old man said in a gloomy voice: "Because I found that there is a strong man on this ship who even I am afraid of."

……

Choking!
Cao Yi drew his sword, murderous intent enveloped the old man, and snorted coldly: "You have some vision."

"Brother, please stand back." Liang Yue quickly held his shoulder.

This guy is a little too confident.

Cao Yi's martial arts skills are similar to Ling Yuanbao's, both are at the peak of the fourth realm. Although he is definitely a master, it is definitely not enough to make the old devil in front of him inexplicably fearful.

He turned his eyes to the young man and woman over there, and it seemed to be one of the two.

Of the man and woman, the woman stared at the old man in black robe, and it seemed that she was planning to take action, while the man leaned back, looking completely indifferent, as if it had nothing to do with him.

The middle-aged monk approached Liang Yue and said, "Donor Yang Xiong, let's work together to take him down first!"

"Okay!" Liang Yue nodded in response.

Immediately, the middle-aged monk raised his right hand high in a seal, as if he was going to perform some magical power.

Liang Yue raised his hand instantly, and three bewitching steel nails shot at the old man first. The old man in black robe flicked his sleeves, and a black iron puppet appeared in front of him and confiscated the three steel nails.

But at the same time, the beautiful woman and child protected by the monk behind them suddenly drew their swords and rushed towards Liang Yue!

Sneak attack!

They are actually in the same group with the old man in black robe.

But what they didn't expect was that Cao Yi had already quietly retreated a few steps, swung his black knife, and directly cut off the monk's right arm. Then he swung the knife and knocked the beautiful woman and child who came over to the ground.

His sword was as fast as a shadow, and his movements were deliberate and unintentional.

Chi chi chi——

Needless to say, he was so ruthless that the family of three was instantly reduced to pieces.

"You..." Both the boatman and the young man were shocked.

"These are all his puppets." Liang Yue stared at the old man in black robe and said, "Just now I asked you to tell stories one by one just to see his actions. Under the art of controlling puppets with silk threads, the puppets lack their own thoughts. Once they encounter a problem, he must control them with the silk threads."

These were what Wang Rulin told him when he was dealing with the Wusheng Sect elder and the puppet.

Wang Rulin not only deals with the righteous, but he is also really good at dealing with those in the evil ways and those who rob each other of their own accord.

If the puppeteer does not control it, the puppet can only answer some simple questions. He noticed just now that when the monk was making up the story, the old man's hands were always in his sleeves.

If you look more closely, you will see that whenever the three members of this family make some complex movements, his hands are like this.

The monk and his family approached him just now, definitely wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to launch a sneak attack.

So he signaled Cao Yi in advance, asking him to make a counterattack from behind.

"You've seen it all very carefully." The old man in black robe finally couldn't sit still any longer. He said angrily, "I originally wanted to sit with you guys peacefully until the end, but you brought this upon yourself!"

He looked at the other boatmen and the young man and woman and said, "I have no hatred or grudge against you. Today I just want to kill these two guys. Don't interfere!"

Liang Yue also shouted: "If you stand by and watch, you might be defeated one by one by him later!" The man was still hesitating, but the young woman said nothing and offered a jade ruyi with colorful rays of light!
"As expected!" the old man in black robe said hatefully, "You are from Wentian Tower!"

Just now, the woman in the dark raised the jade ruyi from her sleeve, not only for lighting, but more for self-protection to prevent anyone from making any unusual movements in the dark.

She did indeed shock the old man.

The old man in black robe had encountered the mystic of the Heaven-Wen Tower before, and had suffered a lot, so he knew how terrible these people were. That was why he did not take any follow-up actions and gave up the idea of ​​killing everyone.

But this woman didn't seem to intend to let him go.

The old man in black robe lifted up his robe with both hands, and suddenly a strange squeaking sound came from below, which was creepy.

Then several black shadows rushed out at an incredibly fast speed, like a black wind, accompanied by creepy strange laughter, and suddenly attacked everyone!

Liang Yue and Cao Yi both retreated, waving their swords to resist. In an instant, there was a clanging sound and sparks flew.

At this speed, Liang Yue can only fend off two or three, and Cao Yi can fend off three or five. If there are more, they will all be in danger.

Thanks to the young woman Yu Ruyi, she waved and shouted, "Determined!"

call--

Those puppets seemed to be cast under a spell of immobilization for a moment. Although it was not enough to stop all the puppets from moving, their speed was slowed down a hundred times, and their shapes were revealed.

It turned out that these black shadows were all black monkeys about one foot tall, holding sharp swords in their hands, the size of which just matched the wounds on Guo Chongwen's body.

It seems that this is the thing that got into the air vent and killed people!

Under the extremely fast assassination, Guo Chongwen only had time to release his magical power before he was stabbed in the chest.

With the help of the woman, Liang Yue and Cao Yi also showed their power. One wielded a black knife, and the other raised an anonymous sword, and began to chop the black monkey in the air.

bang bang bang-

But in the blink of an eye, three or five black monkeys were chopped into pieces.

“Wow!” The old man in black robe was extremely angry. He immediately activated his magic spell and clenched his five fingers.

boom--

One of the black monkeys suddenly exploded with such intensity that the entire cabin shook.

Everyone dodged quickly and managed to avoid the situation. The boatman shouted, "Are you crazy? Even if you blow up the formation in the cabin, you won't be able to survive!"

"They wanted to kill me anyway." The old man in black robe stared at the young woman and grinned. "I heard that every priest who enters the Heavenly Questioning Tower will choose a magical instrument to practice with his life, and use it as his name from then on. This girl should be called the Priest Ruyi, right?"

The woman stared at him coldly and remained silent.

But Liang Yue had once seen a Jade Mirror Priest and knew that what the old man said was right.

The old man in black robe continued, "I still have eight black monkeys in my hands. You have just seen the power of their self-explosion. They can definitely blow up the formation on this ship. The black monkeys also destroyed the formation pattern before. If you are willing to stop, then we can continue to live in peace and wait to leave. Anyway, the one who died in there was a dog official, and he has no relationship with you. If you want to continue, you will only die together."

"Okay!" The young man on the other side was very concerned about his life, so he quickly agreed and said, "Ruyi, stop it."

"That makes sense. If the cabin is breached, everyone will be in trouble." Liang Yue took a few steps forward and came between the two men. He raised his hands to face them, like a peacemaker. "Then each of you should withdraw your magical powers and not attack again."

The black-robed old man's aura was more focused on the woman.

In fact, he did not take Yang Xiong and Shi Xiu, two crude warriors, seriously.

The young woman saw Liang Yue's eyes, then looked at the old man in black robe, and nodded slightly: "Okay."

"You take back the jade ruyi, and I will take back the black monkey." said the old man in black robe.

Seeing that the situation was gradually easing, the young woman and the old man in black robe kept a close eye on each other and slowly withdrew their magical powers.

At this moment, Liang Yue suddenly jumped up!
With an inexplicable movement, he suddenly slid to a distance of several feet in front of the old man in black robe.

The old man in black robe was not afraid of him at all. Anyway, a warrior in the third realm did not have the means to release his internal energy, so he was about to wave his hand to knock him away.

Liang Yue suddenly raised his hand and released a puff of white smoke that instantly enveloped the old man.

The old man in black robe immediately held his breath and closed his mouth and nose, but the white smoke strangely penetrated into his seven orifices, giving him a brief hallucination.

It's only a brief moment, but it can decide life or death.

Tianhuan cartilage powder!
A drug that can have some effect on strong people in the fifth realm.

Then he heard a shout from the front: "Cut off his arms!"

The physique of a Qi Refiner at the fifth level is already very strong. If Liang Yue fights this person alone, even if he succeeds in a sneak attack with the Tianhuan Soft Bone Powder, one strike may not be able to break the opponent's defense.

But he is not fighting alone now.

When Liang Yue rushed over head-on, Cao Yi also rushed over from the side. His black knife cut through the wind and chopped off the old man's outstretched hands!
The pair of hands covered with cracks and scars fell onto the deck with a plop.

“Ah——” The old man had just opened his eyes when he lost both of his hands. He shouted with hatred: “You are so despicable!”

His cultivation had already reached the fifth level. Although he could use his supernatural powers to regenerate the lost limbs, that would take a lot of time and could not be done in a short time.

Now without his hands, he could no longer control the puppet.

The jade ruyi shone brightly again, and a ball of colorful rays of light enveloped him! He seemed to have lost control of his whole body, and suddenly he could no longer move at all.

“Ugh…” He howled miserably, staring at the two young men in front of him with bloodshot eyes, “Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu… I won’t let you two go even if I become a ghost!”

Under the control of the colorful rays of light, the old man in black robe soon fainted.

Liang Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

This was the first time I tasted the sweetness of playing tricks on someone.

It cannot be called Yinren, it should be called military strategy.

The art of war is sometimes very useful. If you follow a master but don't acquire any skills, all your learning is in vain.

Moreover, these evil cultivators usually like to scheme against others, and when they themselves are being schemed against, their lines are actually almost the same. It can only be said that it is karma.

Suddenly, the surroundings shook violently again!
With a rumbling sound, the closed hull seemed to be tied up by something, and then slowly rose!

　Good morning.

　
(End of this chapter)