Chapter 356: Chapter 320: Puppet Master

All the puppets in the village trembled at this moment, the sound of mechanisms colliding overlapping, the corpse beneath Sang Que’s feet didn’t spray a drop of blood, just scattered wood chips.

This is not the true body of the Puppet Master, or rather, he possesses some special ability to transfer.

The Xun Trigram has already failed, Sang Que stood on the rooftop, but none of the puppets around her looked up, the suicide rope rule she replicated couldn’t take effect.

The Ghost Realm had already unfolded when she fired her gun, the original courtyard turned into the interior of the opera house, only the old locust tree remained unchanged, the power of the Ghost Realm couldn’t affect the tree in the slightest.

Sang Que didn’t feel like her Ghost Realm had been forcibly breached yet, most likely the Puppet Master was still within her Ghost Realm.

Sang Que reloaded while commanding the Red Ghost to attack the surrounding puppets.

The Skinning Master wearing a Daomadan skin and those five mischievous kids also ran out of the rooms, only Old Tian stood at the door of a middle room on the first floor, stretching his neck to peer out.

The red thread in the Ghost Realm wove through the puppets, binding them in various shapes and hanging them up, the Red Ghost’s claws were incredibly sharp, casually crushing the heads of puppets.

The Skinning Master in Daomadan skin specialized in skinning humans, surrounded by puppets unable to trigger his killing rule, he had to return to the stage on the first floor, standing still.

Sang Que released the Deceitful Bride as well, letting it search for the Puppet Master possibly hidden among the puppets.

The red thread could only restrict puppet movements, once a puppet’s head was crushed by the Red Ghost, its body would scatter and reassemble, forming oddly shaped new puppets, unendingly.

While Sang Que thought about what to do from a high place, the Puppet Master within a puppet was utterly shocked by everything before him.

Daomadan, Deceitful Bride, Red-clothed Female Zombie, these were all things from their Ghost Opera Troupe!

On New Year’s Eve in Wangshan City, the Puppet Master had seen from a distance Sang Que killing the Daomadan, now it seemed their Wan Xiangtou also died at her hands, and she even took the Deceitful Bride.

And she could actually control this Red-clothed Female Zombie too!

Didn’t she also control the Yin Child?

The Puppet Master was nearly scared out of his wits, completely lacking the will to contend with Sang Que, only thinking of running away.

Hehe~ Play with me~

Suddenly five kids appeared beside him, holding hands and circling him, the Puppet Master’s heart chilled, the sound of the wind breaking whistled toward him, before he could react, a black sharp arrow bound with a firecracker pierced his forehead fiercely.

Boom!

A puppet within the group exploded, sparks flying, the surrounding puppets were blown away by the force of the explosion.

Sang Que held a longbow on the rooftop, staring down, quickly drawing a new arrow and setting it on the bowstring, ready to fire.

After the five kids were scared off by the last arrow, it took a long time for them to reappear, disappearing in place and reappearing around a nearby puppet.

This time, before the kids could laugh, Sang Que’s arrow left the string.

Simultaneously, the Deceitful Bride also silently appeared behind that puppet, the Veil lifted, covering it as the arrow pierced the puppet’s heart.

In an instant, all the surrounding puppets stopped moving.

Sang Que instantly teleported over, before the power in the Ten Victory Stone’s arrowhead was completely worn away by the puppet’s body, she drew out a coffin nail from the Southern Ocean, piercing it into the top of the puppet’s head.

The Veil wasn’t pierced by the nail, passing through directly.

The Puppet Master must have already reached the fourth-layer Ghost Level strength, unable to be killed directly.

The first two times Sang Que destroyed the puppets he possessed, he immediately transferred, so Sang Que changed her strategy to sealing, the Deceitful Bride’s Veil just happened to have this ability.

The five mischievous kids also helped a lot, their own strength wasn’t strong, but they could actually discover where the Puppet Master was possessing, impressive.

To be cautious, Sang Que used Qian Trigram Eye Opening to examine the puppet in front of her.

Upon seeing, Sang Que’s eyes widened in shock, the puppet before her was just an ordinary puppet.

Before her eye-opening time ended, Sang Que turned and quickly scanned the surrounding puppets that had stopped moving.

At the very back of those puppets, Sang Que saw a deformed silhouette with a large head and small body.

However, before she could see clearly, her eyes stung intensely, Sang Que could only send the Red Ghost and Deceitful Bride to kill him, while gathering the red thread within the Ghost Realm to strangle the Puppet Master.

Earlier, the Puppet Master must have intentionally stopped all the puppets, making her believe the seal was successful, waiting to escape when she dispelled the Ghost Realm.

Upon realizing his tactic had been uncovered by Sang Que, the Puppet Master immediately controlled all the puppets around to converge in one place, including the scattered components on the ground.

Those puppets were made of wood and flesh assembled, and now all crashed together, with the flesh quickly sprouting granulation, merging with each other, instantly forming an indescribable gigantic entity.

A ’limb’ made up of heads, arms, and legs raised high, slammed hard on the ground.

Boom!

The ground shook and split, a large pit smashed open forcefully, numerous broken limbs and scattered parts, along with several surrounding puppets, fell into the pit one after another.

The Deceitful Bride and Red Ghost couldn’t stop it either, by the time Sang Que arrived, the gigantic entity was slowly dispersing, the flesh parts melting into water, leaving only the rotten wood.

The Puppet Master still ran away, using some yin object or ghost to escape underground, Sang Que could feel some aura that didn’t belong to a puppet.

This guy totally didn’t want to fight her, next time she must catch him into the opera house, adding another piece to her Ghost Opera Troupe collection.

As the battle ended, Sang Que withdrew the Ghost Realm, daylight brightened, Black Mountain Village overgrown with wild grass, only the old locust tree remained.

A column of black wolf smoke slowly rose from the direction of the village entrance, surely that Puppet Master signaling the Qianshou Army that something happened here.

After retrieving the Deceitful Bride, Sang Que was about to leave when she found a Night Traveler’s silver token on one of the puppets, probably belonging to Qin Ze’s deceased companion.

Sang Que kept the token, stepping into the Hidden Realm with her embroidered shoes, Qin Ze was still with the zombies transporting grain, about a few dozen bags left, just in time.

“What’s the situation outside?” Qin Ze spat out the dry grass in his mouth, stepping forward to ask.

“The Puppet Master ran away, this is for you.”

Sang Que handed the token to Qin Ze, upon seeing it, Qin Ze’s eyes reddened slightly, fingers continuously tightening.

“We have to go, the Qianshou Army’s reinforcements should arrive soon.”

Sang Que picked up the painting, letting all the zombies along with the sacks of grain enter the painting, exiting again with the embroidered shoes, bringing the Red Ghost into the painting as well, returning to the Hidden Realm, taking off the embroidered shoes, and returning through the well with Qin Ze from where they came.

Just as they left, a huge darkness suddenly covered Black Mountain Village within the Hidden Realm, a howling gale lifting the roofs, within moments leveling Black Mountain Village within the Hidden Realm.

Finding nothing, the darkness receded like a tide.

Amidst the ruins, the withered old locust tree still stood in place.

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