The princess wore a furious look, mimicking the woman making a scene by the roadside, "Spat" a mouthful, spitting onto Su Yao's face, then turned and ran away.

Su Yao painfully closed her eyes.

At some point, she realized the door behind her had mysteriously opened.

Behind the door, Song Yan, who was supposed to be on the collapsed bed, had actually gotten up, looking at her with keen interest.

When their gazes met, Song Yan raised his hand, waved, and smiled, "Demoness, good morning."

Su Yao left in anger.

Yuzhuang, the young lady, silently watched all this from behind. When she met the distant glance of Princess Yongjia of the Wei Kingdom and sensed the hatred in their eyes, she sighed softly, showing a contemplative look, then asked, "Did you foresee this, Dao brother?"

Song Yan said, "You're calling me Dao brother again?"

Yuzhuang, the young lady, said, "Dao brother's fierce reputation is well-known, and his methods ruthless, already no longer the person Yuzhuang once knew."

Song Yan said, "I am that person, as for the fierce reputation... it's just someone pretending to be me causing trouble everywhere."

Yuzhuang, the young lady, slightly bowed her head and asked, "Then why doesn't Dao brother try to change all this?"

She took a deep breath, hastily said, "Dao brother is already the Puppet Sect Leader, with unimaginable means, why? Could it be that Dao brother wishes to see this?"

"It's just what you perceive as unimaginable," Song Yan said, "You can call me Dao brother again, I'm quite happy."

Yuzhuang, the young lady, lowered her head, softly said, "I can no longer remember the impressions of childhood, only some smiles of the emperor father and empress mother, but the Puppet Sect destroyed all of this.

The Sword Sect is my new home, where I regained my courage and found a reason to live again, and the Puppet Sect destroyed all of this again."

Song Yan said, "You have reason to hate me, for I am the Puppet Sect Leader."

Yuzhuang, the young lady, said, "But if you are still the person I knew, I... cannot hate you. The days spent with Dao brother were the happiest days for Yuzhuang.

Moreover, Dao brother's actions, Yuzhuang probably sees through them.

Dao brother just pretends to be fierce, wanting to give me and Seventh Miss a belief to live."

Song Yan said, "Being alive is always a good thing."

Yuzhuang, the young lady, said, "But not everyone thinks so, some things... are more important than being alive."

Song Yan didn't say more, everyone has their own thoughts.

He himself cannot become someone who sacrifices life for ideals, but it doesn't prevent him from respecting such people.

...

During the day, some disciples who hadn't returned yesterday came to pay respects.

But the two young disciples he had previously accepted, "Yueyang Luo" and "Shen Nongjia", didn't come.

When Song Yan asked, he found out that after the "alliance between Puppet Sect and Evil Land Ghost Cultivators", not long after, these two were sent to the Evil Land, and since then, Puppet Sect had completely erased the "Shadow Puppet Lineage", needing Shadow Puppets only to seek them from the Evil Land.

Song Yan found it somewhat strange.

In his impression, Gu Huangzi wasn't such a generous person.

So, he further inquired with the sect elders, and the elder said that at the time Gu Huangzi considered the Shadow Puppet Dao meaningless, and it was better to hand it over entirely to Ghost Cultivators to handle, so he sent his two young disciples away.

...

In the afternoon...

The pale autumn light swayed faintly with the desolate cold wind.

Traces of Evil Qi from a distant place mixed in the air, making the entire Puppet Sect's color present a peculiar pale red.

The blood of the strong still soaked the paper pulp, the faint smell of blood evoking memories of Song Yan's past.

He arranged to meet with Blood Cliff, because only Blood Cliff knew where Gu Huangzi hid the Demon Sect's inheritance.

Blood Cliff, named as Master of Blood Corpse Peak, was actually a slave completely controlled by Gu Huangzi, making it easy for the latter to share these secrets, which benefited Song Yan now.

However, when Song Yan returned, Blood Cliff was not there.

She was out solving a "Fox Demon Nest" and wouldn't be back until the next day at the soonest.

So, Song Yan merely wandered around today, did nothing, nor explored the Evil Land.

Back in his room, he took paper and pen, hastily wrote down some of his Sword Dao insights, and then wrote out the "Sword Heaven Gate" he realized from "Sleeve Universe", then handed it directly to Yuzhuang, the young lady.

After finishing all this, it was already dark.

Song Yan and Yuzhuang climbed into the bed, but Su Yao dared not defy his rules, reluctantly removed her pants and belt, then climbed onto the bed, eyes filled with hatred to serve him.

After the matter was done, Song Yan said, "Seventh Miss, now you too are a demoness, why insist on opposing me, the demon? Why not focus your mind on cultivation?"

Su Yao turned away in anger, showing him her back and buttocks, no longer looking at him.

Yuzhuang softly said, "Dao brother, Seventh Miss should have understood something, just that she's thin-skinned, unwilling to admit it."

Su Yao said, "No way!"

Though she said no, she already knew "People are always helpless, and there are many things that cannot be explained."

Song Yan embraced her from behind.

Su Yao struggled a bit but let himself do as he pleased.

She was already a demoness, being toyed with by a demon seemed like nothing.

Thinking of the hateful eyes of Princess Qiushui, she felt a thorn in her heart.

...

The next day...

Blood Cliff didn't return.

This old woman showed up in front of Song Yan until the third day, placing a large bag of "Fox Demon Skin" before him, respectfully saying, "Sect Leader, the little foxes were more than expected, ordinary disciples couldn't handle them, so this old woman took some extra time.

These are the Fox Demon Skins you wanted, I've prepared them all.

As for the sect inheritance and cultivation techniques, please come with me."

Song Yan nodded, and the two of them flew off together.

...

Soon after...

In an underground secret room at Paperman Peak.

The secret room was empty,

but Blood Cliff stood at a desolate corner, her form shifted, rippling away, and vanished from sight.

Song Yan followed and found that inside was a small secret realm.

This secret realm was almost the size of a mountain top, and the cave mansion for storage was filled with traps.

Blood Cliff explained while leading Song Yan to bypass the traps, and then they reached a study at the end of the cave mansion.

On the shelves of this study were most of the important inheritances of the Puppet Sect.

Blood Corpse System Techniques, Paperman System Techniques, Shadow Puppet System Techniques, Mechanism System Techniques, and Exotic Poison System Techniques, all had backups.

Song Yan scanned through and suddenly asked, "Has our Puppet Sect ever had a Purple Mansion Realm expert?"

Blood Cliff shook her head, "This old woman doesn't know."

Song Yan curiously said, "You don't know?"

Blood Cliff said, "The sect atmosphere, you know, many things the subordinates are unaware of, matters separated by generations become unsolvable mysteries."

Song Yan browsed the bookshelf, quickly flipping through a "Sect Chronicles".

Flipping quickly, he found the start time of the Sect Chronicles was only two hundred years ago, then the sect leader's ancestor was Gu Huangzi's master, recorded as late stage of the Crimson Palace, anything prior was gone.

And when it came to Gu Huangzi's master, that too was late stage of the Crimson Palace.

Gu Huangzi, because he hadn't confirmed the Third Central Palace Essence Blood, was temporarily delaying, but breaking through to the late stage was only a matter of time.

Song Yan squinted slightly, continuing his search on the bookshelf for information regarding "breaking through to the Purple Mansion Realm".

Soon, he found a booklet.

The booklet was very old, and the paper used inside was the same as the "Celestial Sword Visualization Map" drawn by Nanwu Sword Sect, also known as "Sea of Suffering".

The records were quite chaotic but indeed discussed the "Purple Mansion Realm."

Soon, his attention was drawn to a certain section.

This type of paper, lasting millennia without decay, yet had a section torn from the middle.

The torn edge appeared serrated.

Song Yan could completely imagine someone hurriedly trying to rip this page apart, but stopped just in time due to some accident, so a portion remained.

The uppermost part of the remnant described a sentence: Inferior Profound Root, Lower Grade Profound Root, unable to break through to the Purple Mansion Realm.

Following that was a record of a Secret Technique called "Washing Profound Divine Technique", roughly about using extremely precious Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, to go to the core of corresponding Profound Land, operate the Secret Technique, thereby enhancing the Profound Root. The success rate was influenced by the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

Among them, Earth Profound Root was the most convenient, just needing to go to the Profound Vein's core.

Five Elements Profound required going to the core of the corresponding Five Elements Profound Vein.

Ghost Profound Root needed to go to the Evil Land Core.

Song Yan gazed at the words "Evil Land Core", looked at the torn page, and simultaneously recalled the "Evil Qi Riot that caused Wang Susu's disappearance", couldn't help but squint his eyes a bit.

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