Longevity Chronicles-Chapter 49 - 47 Filth Blood Reincarnation, Outer Puppet

From this record, the evil cultivator who went by the name "Situ Fei" had a rather bumpy first half of his life.

It wasn't until he met his mentor and fully entered the Cultivation World that he started practicing—not just heresy and heterodoxy, but the evil demon path known for absorbing others' essence.

Tao Qian had originally thought that he was just an ordinary evil cultivator.

That suspicion remained until subsequent information emerged one by one.

[Note One: Situ Fei's practice of the "Five Lusts Enchanting Immortal Scripture" was an impressive Lifebound Scripture, combined with his exceptional talent, he should have experienced surging cultivation. Regrettably, he was the favorite of Pan Hongniang, who drained him nightly, leaving his cultivation stagnating in the Energy-Introducing Realm, and thus breeding resentment.]

[Note Two: Pan Hongniang had a good friend called "Jade-faced Lady Lan Qing'er," who had coveted her friend's business, the Peach Blossom Immortal Valley, for many years. Discovering Situ Fei's mental state, she deliberately lured and seduced him, ultimately succeeding. She instructed Situ Fei to covertly switch to her clan's secret technique, the "Jade Demon Chaos God Skill," and during their intimacy, use it to control Pan Hongniang's spirit, seize her foundation, and then turn her powerful physique into a puppet.]

[Note Three: To accomplish this, Lan Qing'er found an exotic treasure called "Corpse Mother Blood Pearl" and entrusted a strand of her spirit to the pearl. Once inside the opponent's body, it instantly allowed her to seize all the opponent's memories, habits, and even cultivation, with full control over their spirit and soul. However, there were prerequisites: the opponent's spirit must first be controlled, or the opponent must be dead. Meeting the former condition allows for a permanent change in the opponent's mental will, complete submission, without affecting their continued growth, and the ability to seize the body at any time. Meeting the latter condition equates to refining a puppet outside one's own body, which although can continue to grow, requires extra heart power to achieve anything. ]

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When this secret information emerged, Tao Qian was slightly startled.

Clearly, he hadn't expected that assassinating an evil cultivator would involve such dark and secretive dealings.

"Plastic sisters, plus plastic mentor and disciple, all little matters of fate," he muttered unconsciously.

At the same time, he reached out, planning to quickly search the corpse for any treasures and take care of the aftermath.

However, the moment his palm touched Situ Fei's body, a bolt of lightning flashed through his mind—a dangerous inspiration took hold.

To confirm that inspiration, Tao Qian's hand didn't halt in the slightest, he even employed both hands.

Soon, he had stripped Situ Fei inside and out.

Apart from the net that still entangled eight young women, all the treasures, books, and alien items owned by this debauchee lay before Tao Qian.

His first glance, however, skipped past the books and settled directly on a bloody, muddled bead.

The bead, seemingly carved from some kind of jade, was saturated with a crimson color in its core.

Its surface was covered with a layer of murky aura that made one dizzy and nauseous at a glance.

A longer look suppressed the vile desires welling up from the depths of one's spirit.

This bead, Tao Qian had extracted it forcibly from deep within Situ Fei's chest, from his heart.

At the time of touching it, he had already had an Extraordinary Perception.

[Record Name: Corpse Mother Blood Pearl.]

[Record Type: Exotic Treasure.]

[Record Description: Legend has it that royal noble ladies were buried with special spherical beads and jades in their mouths. By some accidents, princesses or Empress Dowagers gradually became zombies, and the beads soaked in filth blood for years, thus acquiring Abnormal Traits that could taint a person's spirit, soul, and mental will.]

[Note One: To make this treasure effective, one must first refine it with their own heart power, which also risks being tainted by the Filth Blood and gradually falling into the Demon Path.]

[Note Two: A puppet refined with this treasure, though extremely covert to the point that even high-level cultivators or demons can hardly detect it, shares sensory experiences with the original owner due to the shared spirit, which is one of the costs.]

[Note Three: If the refined puppet dies, the original body suffers backlash, becoming weak for at least forty-nine days, which is the second cost.]

[Note Four: Exemption from Filth Blood contamination cost, partial sensory sharing cost, and partial weakness cost.]

"Hiss,"

Tao Qian's inspiration had now been completely verified as feasible.

But at the same time, Tao Qian found himself hesitating.

In the depths of his mind, thoughts churned like a tempest.

His idea was simple: Situ Fei had colluded with the Jade-faced Woman, intending to refine his own master into a puppet and usurp her foundation, Peach Blossom Immortal Valley.

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On the other hand, Tao Qian wanted to use this inspiration and the "Corpse Mother Blood Pearl" to refine the Situ Fei who had come to his doorstep, into an outer puppet.

Frankly, this was an art of devilry and heresy.

However, Tao Qian had no such misgivings. After all, hadn't he survived beheading at the vegetable market by relying on a demonic technique?

The rotten stench he felt when reciting the fragmented formula didn't seem righteous at all.

Moreover, Tao Qian's unusual spirit could exempt him from many of the penalties.

With that, why not refine a puppet?

Once the idea took hold, the mental storm ceased abruptly.

Tao Qian almost immediately began to take action, first taking down the net binding the eight young women, then wrapping Situ Fei's corpse in it.

After waking the women one by one, while they were still dazed, Tao Qian grabbed the corpse and in the blink of an eye, slipped back to his bookstore.

Bang!

He carelessly threw the corpse and various books and Magical Treasures on the floor; these could wait for later.

Time was of the essence, and if he could refine a puppet, there would be plenty of time to look through them later.

Tao Qian first cradled the "Corpse Mother Blood Pearl" in his palm, ready to entrust his spirit to it and begin the refining process.

But then he seemed to remember something and reached into the Joyful Scent Pouch, rifling around for a moment. When his hand emerged, he held a pill as large as a date.

All prepared, Tao Qian immediately began the refining process.

Projecting one's spirit onto an object was tricky, but not overly so.

He had only to see whether the object would resist.

If it would not, it could be accomplished in the blink of an eye.

The trouble was, this "Corpse Mother Blood Pearl" happened to have a stubborn disposition. As soon as Tao Qian's Divine Thought attached itself to it, the wretched pearl immediately began to thrash about, fiercely resisting Tao Qian and almost flying away.

Tao Qian let out a cold laugh at the corner of his mouth, increasing his output while whispering, "Floating Corpse, aid me!"

As this mnemonic left his lips, the previously motionless Corpse Blood Elixir suddenly leapt up, wrapped in a red light, and violently struck the Corpse Mother Blood Pearl.

Upon collision, the Corpse Blood Elixir's glow dimmed instantly, falling to the ground and shattering into powder.

But at the same time, this impact also scattered the resisting force of the Filth Blood Pearl.

In the mere fifteen seconds it took, to the delighted eyes of Tao Qian, the refining was complete.

"Go!"

Following Tao Qian's command, the pearl, which had become vibrantly blood-red and dazzling without anyone noticing, transformed into a streak of light and fused into the now still heart within Situ Fei's chest.

Afterward, Tao Qian began to wait.

It wasn't long before a horrifying change occurred abruptly.

Situ Fei, who was thoroughly dead, suddenly began to convulse, visibly covered with a dense, spiderweb-like pattern of fresh red lines.

The next second, his headless body inexplicably sat up, grabbed his severed head from beside him, and fumbled to place it atop his neck.

Once positioned correctly, he took a medicine bottle from Tao Qian's spoils and poured out some pitch-black powder, applying a pile to both the severed and wounded areas.

A miraculous scene unfolded: even the wound from the severed head seemed to blend and vanish without a trace.

The newly revived "Situ Fei" slowly opened his eyes and smiled, saying:

"Daoist Tao, I fear I've made myself look foolish. This is Black Jade Skin Regeneration Powder, which I filched from Jade-faced Lady Lan Qing'er."

"Of course, you already know this, for you are me, and I am you."

After uttering these somewhat awkward words, both Tao Qian and Situ Fei smiled.

It was done!

Tao Qian felt as if his luck had returned.

Everything went extraordinarily smooth, a puppet refined just like that.

The puppet itself and the refinable materials were all presented by Situ Fei himself, deserving of the title of great benefactor.

Within seconds of Situ Fei being refined into a puppet by Tao Qian, all his memories began to be absorbed by Tao Qian.

After a quick perusal, Tao Qian's pupils shrank slightly, and a look of shock crossed his face.

Seeing the encounter between the Devil God Army General Tang Xianzong and the "Beautiful Corpse Bodhisattva" last night, with a group of demons appearing in Seeking Immortal County, Tao Qian already had an inkling of something inauspicious.

Now, extracting relevant memories from Situ Fei's mind, Tao Qian immediately knew more.

"The Beautiful Corpse Bodhisattva and a group of Great Demons had summoned a bunch of Evil Cultivators and low-level demons, including Situ Fei's master Nongyu Immortal, before coming to Seeking Immortal County. Their number and strength far surpassed the likes of the Three-headed Monarch and the Selling Chestnut Woman."

"Before inciting a confrontation, they had already occupied the Iron Buddha Temple, planning to use that mountain and temple as a base to stand against the court, Forbidden Immortal Hall, and even other Major Sects?"

"At least outwardly, for the Beautiful Corpse Bodhisattva and the demons, slaughtering the entire Seeking Immortal County would not be difficult."

"The so-called Provincial City Army posed a significant threat to demons and Demon Magicians like Situ Fei at the Energy-Introduction Realm, but facing the Beautiful Corpse Bodhisattva, the army numbers would need to surge into the tens of thousands, and they would also need to practice Demon Suppression Arrays given by the Great Sects year-round."

"The task for Situ Fei and the others was not to slaughter the city, as they did not have that kind of strength. These lower-rank Demon Magicians were instructed to cause chaos within the city, and as soon as the army entered, they would retreat immediately, heading back to the Iron Buddha Temple to make other plans."

"Nongyu Immortal had told Situ Fei before returning to the Iron Buddha Temple with the Bodhisattva that upon her return, there would be a grand feast waiting, and the Beautiful Corpse Bodhisattva would announce a huge secret?"

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Inside the bookstore, Tao Qian and Situ Fei sat opposite each other, the atmosphere eerie.

In reality, Tao Qian was busy digging through Situ Fei's memories, engrossed in the secrets of the Cultivation World to the extent that he hadn't even checked the spoils of war.

But there was no need, for all the spoils had belonged to Situ Fei.

And this debaucher was now Tao Qian's outer puppet.

Just as Tao Qian was happily excavating, suddenly within Seeking Immortal County, a particularly shrill scream echoed throughout.

What followed was a demonic message audible only to Situ Fei:

"Fellow Daoists, the Demon Suppressing Soldiers have arrived."

"They are forming Arrays; quickly join me on my devil body. I'll wait only for ten breaths; any later, and no one will be able to leave."

This messaging rang out in his mind.

Tao Qian's expression changed slightly, and without delay, he immediately controlled Situ Fei to stand up, grabbed the pile of spoils, as well as the net-like magical treasure.

Gliding quietly through the shadows, he slipped out of the bookstore.

Just as he emerged, he saw a giant black centipede, whose outer form rivaled an airship, approaching from afar in the night sky.

Already, several Evil Cultivators and demons were mounted on its back, each controlling magical treasures to fend off ten or so severely injured young cultivators.

Seeing this scene, Situ Fei stamped his foot hard, and once again, pink Peach Blossom Miasma and a large number of pink moths arose, supporting his body as he ascended into the air.

While descending onto the centipede's back, he shouted lowly, "Situ Fei is here, comrades, make room for me."