Postwar!

Miaoyin City, a small courtyard.

The three Lu Qingfeng siblings gathered in the room.

Lu Qingfeng wore a thoughtful expression, Lu Qingshan's excitement had yet to fade, while Lu Qingyu's face was filled with heartache!

"Big Brother, Number One's arm was broken!"

Lu Qingyu tilted up her little head, her small face scrunched into a ball.

Over the past six months, Lu Qingyu had lived quite comfortably in Miaoyin City. Once she started getting all kinds of nourishment, her body gradually developed as well. She was no longer dark and skinny like she had been in Blackwood Village. Flesh had grown on her face and body, and her skin had gradually recovered its fair complexion.

She was developing toward becoming a radiant young woman.

Come to think of it.

The Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingshan brothers were both good-looking. As their biological younger sister, how could Lu Qingyu look any worse?

Seeing her little face scrunched up, Lu Qingfeng rubbed the bangs over Lu Qingyu's forehead and said indulgently, "Once things calm down over the next two days, Big Brother will repair Number One for you."

Number One was the second puppet Lu Qingfeng had refined in the real world. Since Lu Qingyu had refined it, it had been named "Qingyu One."

Over the past six months, even though they had gathered materials through the Azure Jade Sect, the number of materials needed to refine a puppet was simply too great, making the collection process extremely slow.

As a result, Lu Qingfeng had only refined three puppets in total during those six months.

The other two had been refined and controlled by Lu Qingfeng and Lu Qingshan respectively.

The battle outside the city just now had been carried out by the three siblings. They had brought Qingfeng One, Qingshan One, and Qingyu One out from the depths of Qingzhang Mountain and laid an ambush around the city gates.

The Return to Truth Sect's follow-up plan against the three siblings had gone exactly as Lu Qingfeng expected.

First, they had taken the initiative to attack, cutting off the siblings' source of income. Then they had deliberately transferred Zhang Chong to Miaoyin City to provoke Lu Qingshan. After that, they had made Zhang Chong leave the city in the middle of the night!

This entire series of moves was nothing more than an attempt to lure out Lu Qingshan, Lu Qingfeng, or all three siblings.

Or perhaps they wanted to lure out the people behind them!

Since that was the case, Lu Qingfeng had granted their wish and directly brought out the Truth-Destroying Type One. After fifty or sixty years in the game, Lu Qingfeng had long since raised his proficiency in refining the Truth-Destroying Type One to the highest level.

Refining a Truth-Destroying Type One no longer even took five days. The material cost had also improved from requiring three sets of materials for one puppet to requiring only a little more than one set.

Then.

Lu Qingfeng began refining them in the real world.

He first leased a blacksmith shop. Over the course of a month, he used up all the materials he had gathered through the Azure Jade Sect over the past six months, refining them into three Truth-Destroying Type Ones. After that, he gradually refined several sets of Talisman Artifacts.

The three siblings each had one of these sets. They included the Black-Iron Heaven-Soaring Shield, Cloud-Treading Boots, Formless Needle, and Golden Fu Mother-and-Son Blades. All of them were second-rank Talisman Artifacts, and their materials were relatively common.

In addition, he had refined matching second-rank Sun-Breaking Bows for the three puppets.

The refinement methods for these Talisman Artifacts had been strengthened by Lu Qingfeng. Although they were only second-rank Talisman Artifacts, their power directly rivaled that of fourth-rank Talisman Artifacts.

Tonight.

The Sun-Breaking Bows had displayed their might, killing dozens of Return to Truth Sect disciples in succession!

The only Qingyu One equipped with the Formless Needle and Golden Fu Mother-and-Son Blades had directly slain a hall head of the Return to Truth Sect during close combat!

It was immensely satisfying!

"Did you get a clear look at who attacked?" After promising Qingyu that he would repair Qingyu One, Lu Qingfeng asked again.

"It was an ugly person!"

Lu Qingyu recalled the scene, disgust appearing on her face. "His entire face was covered in green hair. It was horribly disgusting. He emerged from underground, and Number One wasn't prepared, so he tore off its arm. Luckily, I reacted quickly and had Number One pick up its arm and escape!"

"An ugly person. Green hair."

Lu Qingfeng thought over the various experts of the Return to Truth Sect he had inquired about recently, but he had no impression of such a person.

According to Qingyu's description, this person's strength was even greater than Zhao Zhou's. He was probably a hidden expert of the Return to Truth Sect, sent out this time to ensure there were no mishaps.

Yet they had never expected that the siblings would still kill so many disciples, and even Zhao Zhou would die outside the city.

"For the next few days, don't go out. The Return to Truth Sect suffered such a huge loss, so they'll definitely take further action. Keep the puppets hidden in Qingzhang Mountain, and don't move them unless necessary. We don't have any Spirit Stones and can only rely on the puppets to slowly accumulate the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth. A full-power battle consumes an enormous amount, so you must be especially mindful of that!"

The Truth-Destroying Type One possessed formidable battle power, but its consumption was equally great.

In impoverished Guangyuan Prefecture, there was no news of Spirit Stones at all. For the puppets to move, they could only rely on the Spirit-Gathering Talisman Formation within the Spirit Nexus Formation to gather spiritual energy, then compress and store it.

Fully replenishing the spiritual energy took roughly five days.

And even with its spiritual energy fully replenished, it could only sustain two hours of battle. This was also one of the important reasons Lu Qingfeng had immediately ordered Qingshan and Qingyu to command the puppets to flee when he discovered that an even stronger expert of the Return to Truth Sect had appeared.

At this critical juncture, Lu Qingfeng had no choice but to remind the two of them.

Especially Lu Qingyu.

Qingyu loved to play, and the Truth-Destroying Type One was so novel that she could not help but control it as it wandered around Qingzhang Mountain.

"Got it."

Lu Qingyu nodded, showing that she understood the seriousness of the matter.

After making all the arrangements.

He had Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu stay in his room for the night, then summoned a Skylark Bird to stand guard in the courtyard. Lu Qingfeng lay down and logged into the "Primordial World."

Outside Miaoyin City!

"They're gone!"

Zuo Xiao looked around in all directions. Seeing no movement, he let out a sigh of relief.

Against an archery expert like this, they were nothing more than living targets in the pitch-black forest. If the enemy did not withdraw on their own, Zuo Xiao truly would not have known what to do.

Beside him, Luo Junxia's expression was gloomy. He sniffed the thick scent of blood and said darkly, "Such powerful archery and lightness skills. These people are definitely no good. We must investigate their background!"

"They can't escape their connection to the three siblings in Miaoyin City. Their first target was Zhang Chong." Zuo Xiao remained on guard around them. He then had the disciples spread out, gather the corpses on the ground, and count their numbers.

He instead looked at Luo Junxia and asked tentatively, "Brother Luo, the one who just came to our aid was—"

"I don't know either. It should have been the work of my master." Luo Junxia respectfully looked west.

"The Sect Master!"

Zuo Xiao immediately fell silent and asked no more questions.

Suddenly, Zuo Xiao said in surprise, "The enemy has already withdrawn. Why hasn't Brother Zhao returned?"

Before he had finished speaking, a terrified voice suddenly rang out from the depths of the forest—

"Hall Head Zhao is dead!"

Early the next morning.

The sky over Miaoyin City brightened as usual, but someone noticed that there seemed to be an additional subtle atmosphere in the air.

When the sun neared noon, a piece of news struck the entire Miaoyin City like a thunderbolt from a clear sky!

"The Return to Truth Sect's 'Deathless Saber,' Zhao Zhou, is dead?!"

"How is that possible! Zhao Zhou isn't only the head of the Punishment Hall of the Return to Truth Sect, he's also a renowned True Qi Realm expert. How could he—"

"The news is accurate! It happened in Qingzhang Mountain outside Miaoyin City. I heard that Zuo Xiao, head of the Life-Slaying Hall of the Return to Truth Sect, and Elder Luo Junxia rushed to Miaoyin City early this morning."

"This matter is huge!"

The battle outside Miaoyin City last night could not possibly be concealed. Dozens of disciples had died and a hall head had perished. The Return to Truth Sect urgently needed to give an explanation, recover its face, and rebuild its authority!