"Where did this come from?"
Without time to think, Qian Duoduo swung the Golden Rooster Sword in his hand towards the black shadow.
Where the sword light landed, a plump Spiritual Monkey squeaked, flailing its limbs, as if it had been slightly injured by the sword light.
This Spiritual Monkey was a low-level combat beast, with thick, long fur, appearing to have lived for many years.
Where was it hiding just now? Qian Duoduo used his Spiritual Awareness to carefully examine where it came from.
This Spiritual Monkey emerged from a large tree hole in the tree.
He immediately understood.
yin peach wood has the effect of blocking Spiritual Awareness. Earlier, outside the Peach Forest, he couldn't detect the Spiritual Monkey because it was hiding in the tree hole.
Seeing Qian Duoduo pressing forward, the Spiritual Monkey squeaked even more excitedly.
Dozens of Spiritual Monkeys poked their heads out from the trees. A few Spiritual Monkeys held yin peaches in their hands, gnawing on them with relish.
Among the monkey pack, there were also several mid-level combat beasts.
These combined combat strengths were enough to make a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Cultivator turn and flee.
However, Qian Duoduo had gone through great lengths to find this place; what he wanted were Sha Souls, the more the better, the stronger the better.
The monkey pack shrieked for a while, and seeing that Qian Duoduo had no intention of retreating, they all leaped down from the yin peach trees and pounced on him.
Are they bullying me because I'm outnumbered? Qian Duoduo waved his hand, taking out ten Xuanshi Puppets from his Golden Toad.
The command he gave these ten Puppets was to protect him.
In this mountain forest, there were no Ba Ling Sect or Shengling Sect Disciples. He wasn't afraid of exposing his strength and trump cards.
As the Spiritual Monkeys pounced forward, they were immediately intercepted by the Puppets.
A Sword Cultivator Puppet thrust its sword tip, piercing a Spiritual Monkey straight through its heart.
Seeing a cloud of silver-white vapor appear in the air, Qian Duoduo quickly took out a golden bottle and collected it inside.
The Xuanshi Puppets were confident in dealing with the combat beast Spiritual Monkeys.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak," the Spiritual Monkeys shrieked loudly again when they realized they couldn't defeat the Puppets.
Their cries made Qian Duoduo overjoyed. He used his Spiritual Awareness to command the Puppets not to kill the Spiritual Monkeys immediately, but to use a few more Moves, making them cry even more fiercely.
The loud cries of the Spiritual Monkeys attracted dozens more Spiritual Monkeys.
Qian Duoduo quickly released another ten Xuanshi Puppets, not because he was afraid of losing, but because he was afraid these Spiritual Monkeys would flee by instinct if they realized they couldn't win.
Among the group of Puppets, he carefully observed the fighting of each Puppet, unable to help but praise the creator of these Puppets.
The Puppets automatically identified friend and foe. Dozens of Spiritual Monkeys and twenty Puppets were mixed together, and whether attacking or defending, not a single Puppet made a mistake.
However, Puppets without a Spirit lacked some agility. Their attacks and defenses strictly followed their pre-set Moves. Even if there was a perfect opportunity to win in one Move, the Puppet would not change its original Move.
A quarter of an hour later, all forty-odd Spiritual Monkeys were slain by the Puppets, transforming into about twenty drops of silver Spirit Liquid.
Qian Duoduo picked about a hundred ripe yin peaches from the yin peach trees and put them into his Golden Toad.
For the Spiritual Monkeys outside the Secret Realm, these yin peaches were not tasty. But for Spiritual Beasts living in cold, damp places, yin peaches were a delicacy.
Qian Duoduo also cut down two thick yin peach wood branches, preparing to give them to Wang Dahei as Materials for a Formation.
Looking at the Yin Peach Forest he had swept through, Qian Duoduo was about to leave and continue searching for a feng shui treasure land when a question suddenly popped into his mind.
—This Yin Peach Forest is large enough, so why did these Spiritual Monkeys fight to the death and not retreat? Could it be that they had gained sentience?
Qian Duoduo shook his head. He had paid full attention to the entire battle process, and the Spiritual Monkeys' fighting style was no different from the Sha Souls before them; they all fought according to instinct, and there was no cooperation between the Spiritual Monkeys.
What was going on?
Qian Duoduo walked deeper into the Yin Peach Forest. Further in, there was an open clearing. Beyond the clearing was a cliff.
The cliff was sheer, and even Spiritual Monkeys couldn't climb it.
Suddenly, he saw a large piece of yin peach wood embedded in the mountain wall.
That yin peach wood seemed to have originally grown in the mountain wall, but later the tree died and its branches broke, leaving only the tree body still stuck in the mountain rock.
Qian Duoduo circled this piece of yin peach wood three times, finding it strange.
He took out his Golden Rooster Sword and fiercely struck between the yin peach wood and the mountain rock.
A thick sword light shot onto the mountain rock, sending rocks flying.
Hmm? Why was the sound "thump"?
Behind the yin peach wood was empty!
Qian Duoduo struck several more times, and a hole appeared in the mountain wall.
Several wisps of black Qi emerged from the hole, indicating there was still something inside.
"Boom!"
Without Qian Duoduo needing to enlarge the hole further, the yin peach wood suddenly flew up, charging straight at his face.
Without him needing to act, the Giant Axe Puppet in front of Qian Duoduo chopped out an axe, sending the yin peach wood flying.
Behind the yin peach wood, a black sphere over a zhang tall was revealed.
The black sphere silently rolled towards the Yin Peach Forest.
What kind of Sha Soul is this, that it still tries to escape?
Qian Duoduo chuckled to himself. The long whip in the Long Whip Puppet's hand wrapped around it.
The black sphere's body was too large, constantly bumping into the yin peach tree branches as it fled.
It hadn't run far before Qian Duoduo blocked it.
It turned out to be a Sky Bear, a low-level Jin Beast.
The reason that group of Spiritual Monkeys had fought desperately with Qian Duoduo was because they were forced by it.
The Sky Bear made the Spiritual Monkeys die, thinking that this would preserve its own life, but it unexpectedly aroused Qian Duoduo's suspicion.
However, this Sky Bear was a bit too bearish.
Qian Duoduo told the Puppets not to kill it, but to beat the Sky Bear half to death and drag it back to the clearing.
The place where the Sky Bear was hiding revealed a large hole.
Upon entering with his Spiritual Awareness, Qian Duoduo found that the hole was not deep, but the Spiritual Qi inside was very abundant.
After confirming there was no danger, he walked into the hole. Under the glow, a spring eye came into view.
That spring eye came from the mountain wall, formed by the condensation of Spiritual Qi from the mountain rock.
No wonder the Sky Bear was hiding here.
Here, it had yin peaches to eat, spiritual spring water to drink, and a group of subordinates to command.
"Ah, isn't this the treasure land I've been searching so hard for?"
Qian Duoduo stood in the clearing and took out his other eighty Puppets.
When working, it's always true that many hands make light work.
Qian Duoduo secretly rejoiced, grateful that he had spent three months diligently completing the assessment, refining a hundred Puppets.
Otherwise, he alone might not be able to build the altar in a month.
The Puppets collected the Materials for building the altar according to his command, while Qian Duoduo went to set up a Formation in front of the Yin Peach Forest.
Before coming to the Secret Realm, Wang Dahei, Lei Jiashu, and others had given him hundreds of Formations.
These Formations were enough for him to hide the Yin Peach Forest and the altar, avoiding attracting Ba Ling Sect and Shengling Sect Disciples during the soul-summoning.
And for the Sha Souls, this was a maze that they could enter but not leave!
One day later, the altar was built.
The altar was divided into three layers.
The bottom layer was built from mountain rock and earth, a circular platform ten zhang in diameter and one zhang high.
The second layer was a square platform built from wood, two zhang long and wide, and one chi high.
The top layer was an altar built from spiritual copper ore, spiritual tin ore, and jade.
Qian Duoduo hid a hundred Puppets in the tree holes of the yin peach trees.
Even he himself, using his Spiritual Awareness, could not detect their existence.
As long as Sha Souls or people from enemy sects entered, they would automatically launch an attack.
It was time to erect the Soul-Summoning Banner!
For the pole of the Soul-Summoning Banner, Qian Duoduo directly used a branch from a yin peach tree.
He had already prepared the cloth for the Soul-Summoning Banner. The two ends of the Soul-Summoning Banner were already painted with nine colors: azure, scarlet, yellow, white, black, green, purple, red, and dark blue.
Qian Duoduo inserted the five Spirit Beast Banners onto the circular platform, and a faint breeze suddenly appeared out of nowhere,
The Spirit Beast Banners actually began to sway, startling him.
"The altar is so powerful, it's already starting to work?"