161: Multitasking, controlling the puppet

"That shouldn't be right! If we go by what the book says, True Person Xiao shouldn't be able to perform Possession on me."

Possession cannot increase one's lifespan, so it would be completely meaningless for True Person Xiao to perform Possession on him.

Furthermore, no matter how good someone else's Physical Body is, it is difficult to match the Divine Soul of the one performing the Possession. In other words, unless the Physical Body is destroyed, a high-level Cultivator will basically never consider performing Possession on others.

Besides, even if True Person Xiao thought Liu Xuan could achieve a Breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment within a few decades, that still wouldn't meet the conditions for Possession!

"Could it be that I guessed wrong?"

"Did True Person Xiao send the Lu Family Old Ancestor over merely to secretly protect himself and Xiao Ran?"

"No! This matter concerns my life; I absolutely cannot harbor any wishful thinking."

"This book, 'The Legend of True Person Taiyin Exterminating Demons,' is at best just a fictional story; it cannot be taken as truth."

If I want to understand the details of the secret technique of Possession, it would be best to find it and read it for myself.

However, the secret technique of Possession is a high-level secret technique that only a Golden Core True Person can use. Liu Xuan secretly searched the entire Merchant Alliance and even took a stroll around Yongning City, but only found some books with simple descriptions.

This matter cannot be investigated through the Sect, and it is even harder to order people from the Merchant Alliance to search for it. It's troublesome!

...

A few days later.

The lakeside branch of the Merchant Alliance.

Xu Bin walked into the hall with a frown. This time, he had brought Spirit Stones to trade for the ice blue soul-stabbing talisman. He had assumed he would be going to Lake Heart Island to trade with Lu Ping, but he was notified that he didn't need to go to Lake Heart Island; this time, the trade would take place at the lakeside Merchant Alliance.

The person who notified him was actually Lu Ping's niece, Lu Huan, which gave him a bad premonition.

"Could that woman, Lu Ping, be planning to kick me out first and keep all the benefits for herself?"

Lu Ping was decisive and ruthless, but she always kept her word and was somewhat trustworthy; otherwise, he wouldn't have reported the information to her in the first place.

But when it comes to human nature, no one can say for sure. As long as the profit is big enough, something like credibility is worth nothing.

"Senior Sister, I, Xu Bin, am not someone you can bully! If you don't even give me the soup to drink, don't blame me if I smash the pot!"

Just as he was pondering, a male Cultivator wearing a cyan Dharma robe with an unremarkable appearance walked into the room.

Xu Bin used a secret eye technique to investigate this person, but discovered he could see nothing at all, as if he were truly just a Mortal.

"Fellow Daoist..."

He had just wanted to speak, but before he could finish his words, he was pressed down by a terrifying Aura, unable to move.

Xu Bin was terrified. "A Foundation Establishment Old Ancestor!!"

"No! Even more terrifying than a Foundation Establishment Old Ancestor!"

He wanted to beg for mercy and ask how he had offended the other party, but his entire body's magic power was suppressed, and a Sword Intent locked onto his Divine Soul, preventing him from even forming the thought of resisting.

The cyan-robed Cultivator slowly walked up to him, raised a finger, and tapped it on his forehead. A translucent spider Gu insect merged into it.

The spider Gu insect immediately began to feed on his Divine Soul. Its eight thin legs pierced deeply, rooting themselves into his Divine Soul, and it spat out invisible threads that wrapped and bound his entire Divine Soul.

"Ugh~"

Xu Bin's entire body was suppressed and unable to move. His mouth opened, but he couldn't even let out a scream.

A moment later, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed, and his gaze became numb, like that of a dead person.

A quarter of an hour later, some luster returned to his eyes, but he still looked a bit dull.

Liu Xuan, who was disguised as the cyan-robed Cultivator, perceived Xu Bin's state through the connection between the Puppet Gu mother gu and the sub-gu.

Having been parasitized by the Puppet Gu, although his Divine Soul had not completely disappeared, his self-awareness was gone. In other words, he had now become an idiot!

"Sorry, buddy. Who told you not to be a beautiful woman!"

Lu Ping had also been implanted with the Puppet Gu sub-gu, but Liu Xuan did not manipulate the sub-gu to feed on her Divine Soul; he only used it as a means of control.

The reason was simple: because Spiritual Roots involve the foundation of the Divine Soul, a person whose Divine Soul has been severely damaged cannot give birth to children with Spiritual Roots.

Controlling Xu Bin through the Puppet Gu using Divine Sense gave Liu Xuan a particularly novel experience.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Fang Li!"

Xu Bin cupped his hands and saluted Liu Xuan; one couldn't tell at all that he was being controlled.

"A bit interesting!"

Liu Xuan could even vaguely perceive some of Xu Bin's own senses and could roughly probe part of his memories through the sub-gu.

Decades of memories were too complex and mostly blurry. Liu Xuan had no interest in looking closely; he just scanned through them roughly, skipping the blurry details, and only looking at major events that were deeply ingrained in his memory.

Xu Bin also came from an ordinary Qi Refining Family, with sixth-grade Spiritual Root talent. Relying on his boldness and carefulness, he struggled and climbed his way up in the Nether Fire Sect, finally achieving a Breakthrough to the Late Stage of Qi Refining at the age of forty-five and successfully becoming a Disciple of the Three Poisons Ancestor.

"Is this that Three Poisons Ancestor? I didn't expect her to be so beautiful!"

In Xu Bin's memories, the vast majority of people were blurry, but only this Three Poisons Ancestor was incomparably clear.

On a small mountain that was entirely purple, a beautiful woman in a bright red palace dress was drinking wine alone. Purple and bright red—most people couldn't pull that off, but on this beautiful woman, it was incomparably harmonious.

"What a peerless beauty!"

Liu Xuan had seen countless beauties. In terms of beauty alone, the only one who could barely compare to her was Senior Sister Xiao Ran.

Equally radiant, the Three Poisons Ancestor had an extreme, mature charm, with stronger allure and impact.

Her beauty was accompanied by deadly poison. According to Xu Bin's memories, this small purple mountain was Three Poisons Peak. It looked quite beautiful, but in reality, the whole mountain was full of deadly poison. Ordinary people would die upon going up, and Disciples in the Qi Refinement Stage couldn't stay for long before having to come down.

The images were interrupted at the scene where Xu Bin had just been tapped on the forehead by Liu Xuan.

Liu Xuan felt dizzy, as if he had finished watching a first-person movie that was playing in crazy fast-forward.

"It is said that the Soul Search technique can clearly view other people's memories. If used in conjunction with the Puppet Gu, I reckon it could be watched like a one-hundred-percent realistic movie!"

"Forget it! How could I do such a boring thing? What's so good about other people's memories? It's a waste of time..."

"Let's hurry up and get to business!"

Liu Xuan took out a stack of ice blue soul-stabbing talismans and handed them to Xu Bin, then used his Divine Sense to control Xu Bin to walk in front, while he himself followed behind like a lackey.

Liu Xuan was not yet skilled at multi-tasking. By splitting his Divine Sense to control Xu Bin, his own main body appeared rather silly.

Outside the Merchant Alliance, a convoy of carriages was loaded with goods, with over a dozen Cultivators and dozens of fully armed Martial Artists guarding the sides.

Every time Xu Bin sold goods to the Merchant Alliance, he would also buy some goods to take back on the return trip.

"Let's set off!"

He walked to the largest and most luxurious carriage in the convoy, and Liu Xuan followed him inside.

The group of Nether Fire Sect Disciples looked curiously at Liu Xuan, who was dressed in a cyan robe. They didn't know who he was or why he could share a carriage with Xu Bin.

However, Xu Bin had always disliked his subordinates asking too many questions. Since he didn't say anything, everyone just pretended not to see.

The convoy slowly started moving, heading south toward the territory of the Nether Fire Sect.

Inside the carriage.

The luster in Xu Bin's eyes immediately vanished upon entering the carriage. Conversely, the luster in Liu Xuan's eyes became lively.

A Puppet is always a Puppet. Once he lost the control of Liu Xuan's Divine Sense, Xu Bin could only execute some simple things according to orders.