[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-immortal-craftsman-s-creation":3,"chapter-immortal-craftsman-s-creation-immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-235":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},2227658,4127,"Chapter 235: Clearing the Demonic Path","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-235",235,"\u003Cp>The final level of the Demonic path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What filled Ning Zhuo's vision was a vibrant blood-red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the final level, the space was larger than Ning Zhuo had imagined—the venue was like a vast grassland!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, when this checkpoint was built, some kind of spatial array was laid out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the checkpoint, the blood qi was extremely dense, drifting between heaven and earth to form large patches of blood mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood mist flowed constantly, and a wind kept rushing through, making the blood mist sometimes dense and sometimes thin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo explored in the blood mist, and after walking for a distance, he found a glimmer of light faintly revealing itself in the blood mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked towards the light and arrived at the center of the room. Here, he saw a blood lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the lake light emitted from the surface of the blood lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo stepped forward, and just as he arrived at the edge of the blood lake, the light on the lake surface suddenly converged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the lake surface, Ning Zhuo's shadow was reflected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lake water fluctuated rapidly, like boiling water, bubbling *gudu gudu*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large amount of essence blood seemed to have life, surging upward, rushing out of the lake surface, and charging at Ning Zhuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo dodged in a hurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The essence blood fell onto a rock beside his feet and immediately wrapped around the rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, it formed large patches of blood tendons on the surface of the rock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood tendons were extremely powerful, constantly kneading the rock. With a series of *kacha kacha* sounds, the rock was kneaded into the image of Ning Zhuo's puppet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't say, it really looked quite like him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the wrapping and control of the blood tendons, the rock puppet charged at the puppet Ning Zhuo without a word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two engaged in a fierce battle by the blood lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo soon fell into a disadvantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was because the materials used for the rock puppet were far better than his wooden body, being materials at the Foundation Establishment level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, the rock puppet possessed martial arts that were also superior to Ning Zhuo's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo could only fight while retreating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was probing the opponent's background, the blood lake had movement again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The essence blood in the lake surged onto the shore, successively attaching to soil and trees.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a kneading of blood tendons, soil puppets and tree puppets were formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Ning Zhuo faced the predicament of one against three!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a round of exchanges, Ning Zhuo probed the result—each puppet exceeded him by a large margin in martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While this made Ning Zhuo envious, he also had to make up his mind to frantically drive his own blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood qi on his body was incomparably abundant, and the blood path circuit board carried in the puppet body was even the Foundation Establishment version dismantled from Yuan Dasheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo clapped his palms together, and blood qi poured out like a waterfall, directly submerging the three puppets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hour later...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the battlefield, it was covered with countless puppet remains, broken limbs, severed heads, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo could barely stand, extremely weak, but his heart was filled with luck and joy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Finally won!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A full hour of fighting was long and arduous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every puppet opponent of Ning Zhuo was at the same level as him, the peak of the ninth layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This time, I won unfairly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo knew that the reason he won was entirely because he relied on the violent pouring of blood qi to crush his opponents without any reason.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the best manifestation of using force to overcome technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason he could do this was thanks to Yuan Dasheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Dasheng created the Foundation Establishment-level blood path circuit board, and the scale of its instantly violent blood qi spray far exceeded that of the Qi Refining-level blood path circuit board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the second-to-last level, the blood path circuit board absorbed a lot of blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the final level, Ning Zhuo squandered blood qi wantonly, without any stinginess. In the middle and late stages, when blood qi consumption bottomed out, Ning Zhuo would empty the blood path circuit board and then use it to frantically absorb the opponent's blood qi, fighting to support the fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this way, Ning Zhuo was almost equivalent to possessing infinite blood qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't use any techniques, coming up with more than ten times the blood qi to smear on their faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As one puppet after another fell, more puppets would stand up in the blood lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The puppets charged one after another, causing Ning Zhuo to fall into a bitter battle for a time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But in the end, I am still the winner!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I have time to refine my martial arts in the future, I will come to try this level again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo opened the final door of the Demonic path and entered the final reward room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he stepped in, he obtained the Foundation Establishment method of the Demonic path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corresponding to the Buddhist side, the Foundation Establishment method here focused on the lower dantian essence sea, with the other two dantian as supplements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo did not delve into this Foundation Establishment method but immediately went to look at the many duty tokens hanging on the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After picking and choosing and browsing carefully several times, he chose the General-Appointing Platform Chief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Next, it's the Daoist path.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo now had a strong soul power, and after clearing the final level of the Demonic path, he still had energy left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used the Buddha Heart Demonic Seal to retreat from the level again and returned to the third transit hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pushed open the third Daoist door and cleared the level with all his might.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lava Immortal Palace, Main Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit's gaze pierced through the void, its expression complex, staring at every move of Ning Zhuo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had thought about hiding and delaying before, but finally discovered: it could not stop Ning Zhuo from taking the three Foundation Establishment methods with different focuses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, it told the secret of the Foundation Establishment method in advance to exchange for Ning Zhuo's trust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I should have done well in the previous exchanges!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially the last one.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although the whip hurt me a lot, it was enough to gain Ning Zhuo's trust and gratitude.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hehe, everything will get better.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will definitely gain freedom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit was cheering itself on, Ning Zhuo had already started a new level clearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit introduced to him, the intention of the Daoist path was to cultivate the spellcasting talent of trial disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo obtained the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk in the previous reward level. At this time, the Spirit Turning Disk became the main weapon in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk, he constantly cast Five Elements spells, sometimes attacking and sometimes defending.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every once in a while, a Five Elements spell would attack him in this checkpoint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes it was a blade of the Metal element, sometimes it was a tide of the Water element, and sometimes it was the hot flame of the Fire element.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Ning Zhuo needed to do was to use spells to resist spells.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To save more spiritual power, he would adopt the law of mutual restraint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used Water element spells to restrain Fire element flames, and Wood element spells to restrain Earth element flying sand and moving stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doing this was undoubtedly the most saving of spiritual power and spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk could allow the spiritual power in his body to generate Five Elements-related magic power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using this magic power to cast Five Elements spells was undoubtedly more efficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not all; the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk also had other uses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was essentially an array disk. After Ning Zhuo used it, it would derive an invisible array outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the coverage of this array, the spiritual energy in the air would be affected by the array, and Ning Zhuo only needed a single thought to change the attribute of the spiritual energy within the array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk was a combat sharp weapon capable of changing or setting up the battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When my attainment in the Five Elements Mutual Generation and Restraint Technique improves in the future, the quality of the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk I can obtain will be higher.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way to claim the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk was similar to the blood path circuit board, mainly referring to a certain spell or technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reward level after the second Daoist door was the Five Elements Spirit Turning Disk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reward level after the third Demonic door was the blood path circuit board.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The items in these two reward levels could be claimed repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, the reward level after the first Buddhist door was also like this. It was just that Ning Zhuo used Yuan Dasheng's corpse to refine the Gold Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, which possessed immortal potential.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first Buddhist door originally rewarded spiritual machines, but the gap from ten percent spirituality was too large, destined to eventually exhaust its spirituality. Ning Zhuo obtained the Gold Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, but had used it until now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under normal circumstances, the trial disciples' spiritual machines would be consumed after being used for a period of time. The trial disciples would then re-explore the Buddhist path to claim the next machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Ning Zhuo arduously cleared the second-to-last level of the Daoist path, he found it difficult to continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spiritual energy on his body was less than thirty percent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The difficulty of the second-to-last level is still very great for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I spent too much time, spirit, and spiritual energy in it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo did not have much confidence in the final level of the Daoist path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had just cleared the Demonic path, and his own state was not complete.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in order to see it, Ning Zhuo still pushed open the final door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He indeed failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his soul returned to his physical body, Ning Zhuo returned to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was in the floating clouds, his closed eyes not opening for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled his conversation with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit and thought about his current situation comprehensively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The exchange with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit gave him a great harvest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo verified the Foundation Establishment method and reached a deeper cooperation with the Dragon-Turtle Fire Spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most importantly, he figured out what the main mechanism of the Palace Examination was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To participate in the Palace Examination as soon as possible, I actually don't need to accumulate my meritorious contributions to the standard required for a first-grade position.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, my merit is negative, and accumulating it to the standard of a first-grade position is still too long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mainly because he had blown up the Immortal Palace before, his merit was too negative, and this pit was a bit big, not easy to fill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo calculated in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Actually, he only needed the qualification to participate in the Palace Examination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant he didn't need to compete for the first place in meritorious contributions; he only needed to be within the last thirty-two, and that would be enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lava Immortal Palace, Medical Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Xiaohui's heart moved, and she discovered a new maintenance task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's that mechanical ape.\" Ning Xiaohui's eyes immediately lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Zhuo cleared the Demonic path continuously and then cleared to the final level of the Daoist path, so Yuan Dasheng was also injured as a result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, Ning Zhuo immediately issued the Gold Blood Battle Ape as a task to Ning Xiaohui.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Xiaohui immediately claimed this maintenance task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The teleportation light circle spat out, placing the Gold Blood Battle Ape on the manual table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an inspection, Ning Xiaohui happily discovered: this time, the Gold Blood Battle Ape's injuries were much lighter than the last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Gold Blood Battle Ape's previous injuries were accumulated by Ning Zhuo for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the process of using the Gold Blood Battle Ape · Dasheng, Ning Zhuo was just patching it up and didn't understand the mechanical structure of the Gold Blood Battle Ape, so it could only be considered barely patching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the Gold Blood Battle Ape's injuries, Ning Xiaohui couldn't help but curl her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her view, the Gold Blood Battle Ape suffered less damage, which meant it occupied the upper hand in the battle, and the injuries it brought to its opponent must be much more serious than its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You should show your power more often!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ning Xiaohui loved the Gold Blood Battle Ape more and more as she looked at it, feeling it was very domineering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, the Gold Blood Battle Ape brought her quite a few nightmares and countless embarrassing experiences, but now Ning Xiaohui had figured it out, and her feelings were completely different from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After repairing you, I will go and inquire to see who has suffered.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Properly making things difficult for these trial disciples and letting them suffer a bit will help their growth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Ning Xiaohui said this, she couldn't help but giggle. \u003C\u002Fp>",2256,"2026-06-17T23:33:12.660Z","2026-06-18T03:10:38.119Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","9f65367843fe63560dbedcd79cc766d2378abad22400580966065d2772676a85","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-236","immortal-craftsmanship-chapter-234",783,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fimmortal-craftsmanship-cover.jpg"]