"Fighting alone, I don't think I have a chance of winning. If the two of us join forces, maybe the situation will be different..."
Chixinzi is very calm. It can be seen that the subtext of his remarks is that even if the two of them join forces, the outcome of the Third Person is still unknown.
"Really?"
He Ping didn't believe it, he thought it was just Chixinzi making a fool of himself.
"But there is one thing I am curious about. Senior brother, you have never tried to cooperate with the Third Person in the past."
"If there is such a possibility, I would be willing to do it."
Chixinzi shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Could it be that he just thinks he's strong and doesn't bother to cooperate with his senior brother?"
He Ping asked indifferently.
"That's not true."
Chixinzi frowned and shook his head again.
"That 'person'... I can't describe, nor can I deduce what the other person is thinking... And the most important point is: the reason why I don't cooperate with him is because I had no intention of cooperating with him in the first place... Junior Brother He, I can cooperate with you because I know that there is a possibility of cooperation with you. There is always a chance for me and you to agree on our interests, and our thoughts are the same. However, if it is replaced by that 'The Third Person', hehe, things will be different."
He Ping felt a little strange, and doubts surged in his heart. He couldn't understand why Chixinzi said such words.
(The person who can't cooperate with him? From what he means, it's not that that person relies on his advanced cultivation and can't even listen to Chixinzi's words... but there is another reason?)
The call on both sides seemed to have been disconnected, and Chixinzi on the other side seemed to be deep in thought. However, the silence lasted only a moment, and Chixinzi spoke again.
"Junior brother, we are all human beings, so of course there is the possibility of cooperation, but what if the other party is not a human being? Then how do you cooperate with something that is not like a 'human'?"
He Ping was stunned for a while when he heard this, and his quiet heart was also disturbed by Chixinzi's words.
"Not a human?"
"Yes, that 'thing' can indeed be regarded as Immortal Puppet Sect's disciple. However, it is not a living person, but a puppet. It looks like a human being, but inside it is a Puppet Man made up of machines and gears."
Chixinzi conveyed an unusually fearful atmosphere as he spoke.
"I can't imagine where Wu Yousheng found such a thing. Junior brother, you also know that the puppets we Immortal Puppet Sect refine are just puppets after all, just like the juggling puppets in the hands of puppeteers in the market. If there are no wires to pull them, they are just dead objects..."
When he said this, he paused for a moment, coughed slightly, and said, "Of course, Immortal Puppet Sect's ability to refine puppets is far beyond ordinary people. Our puppets are powered by Law Technique and the soul. They are versatile and have various powerful methods. If Secret Method is used to act, it can also give the puppet a certain 'mind'."
"However, this kind of 'mind' is just a change given by magic. It is not like the human heart, which has seven emotions and six desires, and has profound thoughts and feelings. In addition, even if it is given spirituality through soul refining techniques, it is not the human mind, it is just a clever method."
"However, that thing, that puppet, is obviously just a puppet, but it is no different from a living person. It does not need anyone to control it, and it can act according to its own will... However, what it thinks, thinks, and does are very different from ordinary people, and cannot be measured by common sense. Therefore, I can't cooperate with it. After all, it is not a human at all."
He Ping heard this, his brows furrowed and his eyes became darker.
"In other words, that 'The Third Person' is not a living person, but a puppet... Senior brother, how do you want me to believe that there really is such a puppet in this world, and that the other person is the descendant of the Immortal Puppet Sect."
Chixinzi was silent for a moment and sighed, "Your doubts are reasonable. Even I find it unbelievable. However, when I served the old ghost Wu Yousheng in the past, I heard a story from him. This story is about the origin of our Immortal Puppet Sect. I wonder, junior brother, have you heard of it?"
"The origin of the Immortal Puppet Sect?"
He Ping's face is full of question marks.
"I met that Wu Yousheng more than thirty years ago. I was accepted as his disciple and served him closely. Counting the time, I am almost ten years older... That Wu Yousheng has an extremely irritable character. He often beats and scolds me. Only occasionally when he is in a good mood and loses his temper, will he patiently teach me some of the Immortal Puppet Sect's techniques."
Chixinzi narrowed his eyes, as if falling into memories.
"One time, he was in a good mood and chatted with me while drinking. Halfway through the conversation, he told me that the first ancestor of the Immortal Puppet Sect was not a human being, but a doll."
"You said that the first ancestor of our Immortal Puppet Sect is not a human being, but a doll?"
He Ping was shocked.
"At least, that's what Wu Yousheng said at the time."
Chixinzi paused, and his voice became a little more solemn.
"This first-generation ancestor is an extremely perfect doll. No one knows who made her. The only thing that is known is that she was perfect from the beginning of her birth. For this reason, the second-generation ancestor Immortal Puppet Sect fell in love with her and hoped to follow her and become a perfect doll like her.
For this reason, he frantically studied the techniques of the Immortal Puppet Sect, and in order to obtain the same body as the first ancestor, he began to capture living people, dismember them and study them, in order to refine himself into an immortal body as perfect as the first ancestor."
I also felt a little curious when I heard He Ping here.
"Then did he succeed?"
"No one knows..."
Chixinzi shook his head slightly.
"Besides, no one can prove that the story told by Wu Yousheng is true. However, Immortal Puppet Sect may really have a Secret Method that we don't know about, and maybe it can turn the puppet into True Person."
"Senior brother, I have been following Wu Yousheng for a while. Who is Wu Yousheng? What is his cultivation level?"
He Ping thought of this and asked quickly. He remembered that Chixinzi said that he had served Wu Yousheng for a long time and he should know the information about Wu Yousheng himself.
"I have served that old man for a long time, but I don't know much about him. Wu Yousheng is lonely, weird, and moody. As for this man's cultivation, it can only be described as enigmatic, and I can't even detect it..."
Chixinzi seemed unwilling to talk more about this, and was extremely afraid of Wu Yousheng in his words. Seeing that He Ping could not get more information from him, he turned to ask about the information about the Sanyuan Devil Palace's ruins. The two talked for a while and decided on cooperation matters.
"Then, in two months, junior brother will go to Niutou Ridge in Western Wasteland Province. When we get there, senior brother, I will meet up with junior brother Li. What do you think?"
"Well, it just so happens that I still have to deal with some chores here at Longhe County. I can make some preparations in two months. Just as you told me, senior brother, I will go to Niutou Ridge for the appointment in two months."
He Ping replied calmly. The two of them had officially reached a consensus and decided to explore the Water Mansion ruins of the Sanyuan Devil Palace together in two months.
After cutting off the contact with the clay doll, he thought for a moment and felt a little strange about the "Wu Yousheng" described by Chixinzi. At least the Wu Yousheng he met seemed to have some differences in personality.
"Chixinzi said that Wu Yousheng has a violent and changeable personality, withdrawn and weird. The Wu Yousheng I met is completely different from him. The one Chixinzi came into contact with The time lasted for ten years, and I had been in contact with Wu Yousheng through 'Dream Dharma Transmission' for about six years. Could the Chixinzi that the two of us came into contact with really be the same 'person'?"
A trace of doubt flashed in He Ping's eyes. The news Chixinzi brought to him did not eliminate the mystery of the Immortal Puppet Sect itself, but instead added more doubtful haze to this practice sect.