[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortal-craftsman-s-creation":3,"chapter-immortal-craftsman-s-creation-immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-227":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Mysteries of Immortal puppet Master",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2227650,4127,"Chapter 227: It was all done by the City Lord","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-227",227,"\u003Cp>Zheng Shuanggou: \"If the Immortal Palace hadn't appeared, our three families would have explored it secretly, and we were also prepared to accept the Ning family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The City Lord’s Mansion actively destroyed this great situation, which makes no sense at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying’s gaze was deep: \"No, that’s not the case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before, when we explored the Immortal Palace, the City Lord’s Mansion was at a clear disadvantage. Meng Kui could not enter the Immortal Palace, and his right-hand men Chi Dun and Fei Si couldn't either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They did not have an advantage at the Jin Dan level.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was only in terms of Foundation Establishment level mechanism cultivators that they had a slight advantage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In fact, the one with the advantage before was your Zheng family!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Immortal Palace was blown up like this, its defense was greatly reduced, and the standards for recruiting outside cultivators were also lowered, dropping to the Qi Refining stage.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And at the Qi Refining level, the City Lord’s Mansion side has the existence of Immortal Talent!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Immortal Palace was blown up, and Meng Kui even went out personally, sitting in the depths of the volcanic clouds all day, sealing the top of the volcano. Since then, for a period of time, we have all been isolated and could no longer enter the Immortal Palace to explore.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jin Dan cultivators heard these words and were all silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Zhou Nongying said was the truth. Looking at it this way, for the City Lord’s Mansion, blowing up the Immortal Palace was completely beneficial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying continued: \"The Immortal Palace was blown up, and the appearance of the Dharma-transmitting bell and trial barriers might have been unexpected by the City Lord’s Mansion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the fact is: now on this route of soul-entering the Immortal Palace, Meng Chong and the City Lord’s Mansion’s cultivation-change team firmly occupy the top ten of the leaderboard!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps, this route of soul-entering the Immortal Palace was already in the City Lord’s Mansion’s plan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, the City Lord’s Mansion discovered the Lava Immortal Palace many years before us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the demonic arts True Scripture was obtained by them, it proves even more—they know many secrets we don't know!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Shuanggou couldn't help but clench his fists, indignantly saying: \"Old thief is insidious!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Shadow Demon Cultivator is actually a person from the City Lord’s Mansion! Back then, I even took the initiative to plead guilty to the City Lord’s Mansion because of poor guarding.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meng Kui didn't blame me much at the time, and I admired his magnanimity, but now thinking about it, it’s really ironic!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying sighed: \"Since Meng Kui took office, have our three families had an easy time?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He is one of the four generals of the Meng family, known as a wise general. When it comes to playing tricks and scheming, we are no match for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Danlian slapped his palm with his fist: \"That makes sense!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The City Lord’s Mansion wanted to blow up the Immortal Palace long ago and had been planning it for a long time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They had been preparing for future investigations long ago. At this time, Ning Zhuo happened to bring out the mechanism monkey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chen Cha reported this to Fei Si, perhaps Fei Si had a flash of inspiration and decided to use Ning Zhuo and the mechanism Fire-Exploding Monkey.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He instructed Chen Cha behind the scenes to sell the mechanism monkeys on a large scale in the market. In this way, when Lord Divine Catcher uses the trace-tracing method to investigate the real culprit, he has to face countless clues, delaying infinite time and energy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If Lord Zhu eventually discovered Ning Zhuo, then Ning Zhuo is also a person of the Ning family. In this way, he could also splash dirty water on the Ning family.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Jiufan heard this and couldn't help but snort: \"This is Fei Si’s style of doing things; he has always been so cunning and poisonous!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Danlian continued to analyze: \"Using fire essence to blow up the Immortal Palace also has benefits.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With the means of the City Lord’s Mansion, secretly purchasing fire essence on a large scale from the market and then erasing the purchase records is a piece of cake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In fact, they don't need to do this at all. Because they pick fire persimmons every year, and fire persimmons are another form of fire essence.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They only need to secretly do something in the storage loss of fire persimmons every year, and they can get a batch of fire persimmons. Process them slightly, and they are a large amount of fire essence. If they operate like this, we have no way to investigate!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Shuanggou had been pondering, and at this moment, he revealed a look of confusion: \"Wait. There is one point I can't figure out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since the Lava Immortal Palace was blown up by the City Lord’s Mansion, why did the Shadow Demon Cultivator appear in Fire Persimmon Immortal City again and be chased by Chi Dun? He could have retired after success, isn't this doing something unnecessary?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zheng Danlian fell into silence; he also couldn't figure this out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, Zhou Nongying laughed and said: \"I understand! This is exactly the exquisiteness of the City Lord’s Mansion’s plan!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Under Meng Kui’s rule, a Shadow Demon Cultivator appeared in Fire Persimmon Immortal City and blew up the Immortal Palace, which is unfavorable to Meng Kui and is a stain on his political achievements.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the same time, the Shadow Demon Cultivator is also the most obvious clue, which will definitely be investigated by the Divine Catcher Division in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the City Lord’s Mansion arranged for the Shadow Demon Cultivator to appear again after blowing up the Immortal Palace and confront Chi Dun in public.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chi Dun chased him into the Fire Persimmon Forest, on one hand highlighting the City Lord’s Mansion’s ability and highlighting the incompetence of Fellow Daoist Zheng Shuanggou; on the other hand, it also created the impression in the public’s mind that the Shadow Demon Cultivator was confronting the City Lord’s Mansion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We didn't know that this was actually just a play arranged by the City Lord’s Mansion!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Garbage text]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chi Dun wanted to chase into the Fire Persimmon Forest and fight the Shadow Demon Cultivator, but was stopped by Fei Si.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After that, Fei Si secretly let the Shadow Demon Cultivator go. He originally controlled the various magic arrays of the Fire Persimmon Forest, which was an extremely easy thing for him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for whether Chi Dun knew about it... I am familiar with his personality, and I tend to think he didn't know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If he knew about this secret, it would be very difficult to hide, and his expression and words would reveal flaws. So I boldly guess that this conspiracy should be led by Fei Si.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Jiufan also figured it out and continued: \"It is precisely because the Shadow Demon Cultivator was released by Fei Si in advance that we couldn't find this person in the Fire Persimmon Forest at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if we dug three feet into the ground, we didn't find a trace of him.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And throughout the whole process, Lord Zhu Xuanji had been using the Heavenly Beauty Golden Eyes to investigate. It makes no sense that such means couldn't find a Shadow Demon Cultivator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once this happened, the high-level officials of the entire Fire Persimmon Immortal City lost face, and no one knew how the Shadow Demon Cultivator disappeared or where he went.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But precisely because of this, the City Lord’s Mansion cleared its suspicion.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Analyzing to this point, Ning Jiufan frowned again, murmuring in his mouth: \"But why did the City Lord’s Mansion kill Yuan Dasheng in public?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying smiled slightly: \"Who would have thought that Yuan Dasheng’s death was done by the City Lord’s Mansion?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think they attacked Yuan Dasheng to create the illusion that the Shadow Demon Cultivator was still present at the time, and then they could spread the responsibility after the fact to all of us.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, at that time, it wasn't just the City Lord’s Mansion’s Jin Dan cultivators present, but also our three families, and even Lord Zhu Xuanji! We didn't discover the Shadow Demon Cultivator.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Besides this reason, attacking Yuan Dasheng was, of course, for the demonic arts True Scripture on it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Jiufan frowned: \"Why kill Yuan Dasheng in such a hurry in public? If I were Fei Si, I would be more secure and choose to take action secretly after the Fire Persimmon Festival.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying said: \"Perhaps they only discovered the demonic arts True Scripture at that time. To avoid long nights and many dreams, they took action immediately!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Or perhaps they discovered the True Scripture on Yuan Dasheng long ago and had already obtained it. Attacking Yuan Dasheng at the Fire Persimmon Festival was to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, clearing away all clues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, they didn't expect that this premeditated murder would have an accident.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And this accident was our Lord Zhu Xuanji.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of this, the gazes of Zhou Nongying and others all turned to Zhu Xuanji.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanji nodded slightly: \"At that time, I felt Yuan Dasheng’s loyalty and chose to appear, personally saving its life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I remember very clearly that when I asked Fei Si to open the array, he was not straightforward and did not want to obey my order.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I did save a glimmer of vitality for Yuan Dasheng. But in the end, this matter still let Fei Si succeed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He handed his token to Ning Zhuo, used Ning Zhuo’s selfishness, and let him come forward. The latter came to the Monkey Head Gang’s residence and persuaded Yuan Er to not save Yuan Dasheng. Yuan Dasheng eventually died from severe illness, and Ning Zhuo took his corpse away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at it now, this should be a small flaw left by Fei Si.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a pause, Zhu Xuanji continued: \"When Yuan Dasheng died, Yuan Er and Ning Zhuo were both present. If the True Scripture was leaked at that time, Yuan Er should have known.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ning Zhuo took Yuan Dasheng’s corpse and immediately rushed to Chen Cha’s mechanism workshop. When we arrived, they had already processed the essence blood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking about it now, we were just one step late. If we had been a little faster, perhaps we could have discovered the clues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanji sighed, feeling very regretful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had been a little faster at that time, he wouldn't have been kept in the dark for so long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jin Dan cultivators of the three families were speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of the Shadow Demon Cultivator incident, they lost a lot of face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at it now, they didn't expect the truth to be like this! It was actually the City Lord’s Mansion’s handiwork, the City Lord’s Mansion was a thief crying \"stop thief.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Fire Persimmon Festival incident also made the City Lord’s Mansion lose face, they gained more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On one hand, they cleared their suspicion. On the other hand, they also eliminated Yuan Dasheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, the City Lord’s Mansion obtained the demonic arts True Scripture?\" Zheng Danlian said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is a Jin Dan level demonic art. I don't know what the content is, but it was created by the Three Sects’ Superior Person, so it must be an extremely excellent technique.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Talking about the demonic arts True Scripture, the Jin Dan cultivators couldn't help but reveal a look of longing and curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When exactly was the True Scripture taken away?\" They continued to discuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It might have been stolen secretly beforehand. Yuan Dasheng was a Fire-Melting Demon Ape after all, how dare it make a fuss about the demonic arts being stolen in a human immortal city?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I tend to think it was at the Fire Persimmon Festival. After all, Yuan Dasheng’s mistake looks very suspicious now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fei Si of the City Lord’s Mansion has always controlled the array of the Fire Persimmon Forest and has the ability to disguise it, making us all think it was Yuan Dasheng’s mistake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The explosion triggered by the mistake also once obscured our vision.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanji suddenly said: \"Do you know? Not long after, Yuan Er also died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And after that, the entire Monkey Head Gang was forcefully subdued by Ning Zhuo and now has become his subordinates, helping him manage the black market.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, similar thoughts appeared in the minds of the Jin Dan ancestors—killing to silence! Destroying the corpse and erasing the traces!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The City Lord’s Mansion wants to extinguish all clues.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then why is Ning Zhuo fine?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, if I were Fei Si, I would have planned so much, even if I just used Ning Zhuo, even if Ning Zhuo didn't know, but he participated in so much, to be safe, I would still kill Ning Zhuo.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Xuanji smiled slightly: \"You seem to have forgotten that not long after the Fire Persimmon Festival, the talented cultivators of your three families were all assassinated at the same time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Meng Chong was assassinated, but he perfectly solved the assassin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your three families suffered heavy losses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ning Zhuo also suffered an assassination, his entire residence was blown up, and he luckily saved his life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At that time, I participated in the investigation, and a strange feeling always lingered in my heart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thinking back now, I finally understand where that strange feeling came from.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The assassinations suffered by other talented cultivators were either assassinations or poisoning, all of which were controllable.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only Ning Zhuo encountered an explosion, and the method of attack was completely different from the others.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If the City Lord’s Mansion took action against other talented cultivators just to delay their exploration progress, then for Ning Zhuo, this murderous intent was quite obvious; clearly, it was to put Ning Zhuo to death.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking of this, Zhu Xuanji scanned the room and said: \"I have explained everything I should explain to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now you should be very clear why I went to find Ning Zhuo with such fanfare.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hall was silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Beating the grass to scare the snake.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Luring the snake out of the hole!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhou Nongying and Zheng Danlian said one sentence each at the same time. \u003C\u002Fp>",2386,"2026-06-17T23:33:12.660Z","2026-06-18T03:10:38.119Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","e172c37fe504b87da8b93229e91a60adec6300697d4f22a02b83aeeac1d931fe","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-228","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-226",783,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortal-craftsmanship-cover.jpg"]