Chapter 131: Special Means

"Ding~ Dang~ Dang~"

Inside the stone house, a piece of red-hot ore on the anvil was being continuously forged by Lin Feng swinging a hammer.

A large amount of slag and other impurities turned into debris and sparks flying out under the repeated hammering.

"Boom~"

The forged coarse iron block was thrown back into the coal stove by Lin Feng to calcine. The golden *gui* fire emitted a terrifying high-temperature flame, and the coarse iron block quickly turned red and hot, eventually flashing with a bright yellow light.

"Ding~ Ding~"

Immediately, Lin Feng held iron tongs in one hand and swung a hammer in the other, continuously forging and knocking the iron block. The iron block, which was originally a lump, began to gradually become longer and rounder under the hammering.

Eventually, an iron rod about 1.5 meters long and two fingers thick, weighing about ten kilograms, gradually took shape. However, Lin Feng swung it a few times and almost threw it away directly.

"Low-grade?!"

The rough surface without polishing was nothing, but the fact that the inside of the iron rod was filled with tiny cracks was fatal!

Clearly, this was caused by uneven heating during the stretching and lengthening process; only in this way would cracks form after cooling.

"Simply useless!"

Lin Feng shook his head and did not proceed with the next steps, because a low-grade weapon blank could at most fuse with a *Da Gui* (Big Ghost), which was of no use to Lin Feng.

"Boom~"

The *gui* fire rose again, enveloping the entire weapon blank, and then began to heat it again. Lin Feng wanted to put it back into the furnace and re-forge it.

"If it's a standard weapon, the best method should be casting. Only casting can be fast and good. However, the inheritance of the *Gui* Blacksmith bluntly states that casting is the wrong way and cannot produce *guiyi* weapons at all."

Watching the iron rod gradually being softened by the *gui* fire, Lin Feng suddenly remembered some things. According to his experience in his previous life, iron rods and steel rods were all cast.

Unfortunately, this method was labeled as an evil path in the inheritance Lin Feng received; the *guiyi* weapons cast were no different from waste.

Lin Feng always felt that something was wrong; perhaps the predecessors had missed something.

"Ding~ Ding~"

Soon, the iron rod was burned into a lump again, and Lin Feng continued to work. This time, he was much more serious. Having learned the lesson from last time, he simply forged and shaped it while heating it.

Just as Lin Feng was busy forging *guiyi* weapons, the various incense towers of the *Xiangmiao* were all in a tense atmosphere.

Yesterday, more than twenty incense towers were destroyed, and they couldn't even find the corpses of the *Xiangmiao* disciples inside. This was definitely not good news for other *Xiangmiao* disciples.

In fact, after nightfall, many *Xiangmiao* disciples were unwilling to stay in the incense towers, leaving only the unluckiest disciple to stay behind.

Liu Prefecture, which was the prefecture where the most incidents occurred last night, had just rebuilt the incense tower that was destroyed last night.

"Ancestor bless!"

"Ancestor bless!"

"..."

In this incense tower, a *Xiangmiao* disciple who looked only fifteen or sixteen years old was kneeling before the statue, praying continuously.

Before him, the statue of the old man holding a scroll remained the same, but in the incense burner on the offering table, a specially made incense was inserted.

This incense was the thickness of a thumb, and the smoke rising when it burned was almost invisible; if you didn't look carefully, you would think it had gone out.

"Crack."

At this moment, the *Xiangmiao* disciple who was praying heard a slight footstep behind him.

This scared him so much that he shivered all over, and tears were almost coming out!

"An-Ancestor, Ancestor bless me!"

Subsequently, he immediately kowtowed to the old man statue on the offering table, while muttering continuously in his mouth.

"Phew~"

At this moment, the temperature of the entire incense tower dropped instantly, and a feeling that made one's hair stand on end suddenly arose from the bottom of his heart.

This *Xiangmiao* disciple felt as if countless caterpillars were crawling on his back, or as if a poisonous snake was peeping at him.

"These rats have finally shown their true colors!"

"Catch them!"

"Swish, swish~"

However, at this moment, familiar voices suddenly came from behind. The *Xiangmiao* disciple turned to look behind him and found that several incense makers were fighting with three men in black.

"Crack~ Clatter~"

Various *guiyi* powers spread wildly, and the entire incense tower began to totter, as if it were going to follow in the footsteps of the tower from yesterday.

However, at this moment, blurry black shadows suddenly appeared around. The moment these shadows appeared, the incense makers who were fighting with the men in black retreated one after another.

The next moment, these shadows directly grabbed the men in black, and then terrifying *guiyi* power erupted directly.

"Nine Ancestors are mighty!"

Seeing this scene, the incense makers were overjoyed. The person who came was the Nine Ancestors guarding Liu Prefecture!

However, the next moment, the scene they imagined where the men in black were directly suppressed did not appear. Those men in black first stiffened in place, and then their clothes instantly tore, exposing the miserable corpses inside.

"This is a *Gui*?"

"No, no, no, impossible!? Just now these men in black didn't look like *Gui* at all!"

"How is this possible!?"

"..."

Noticing these corpses, the incense makers present, and even the avatar of the Nine Ancestors, were somewhat incredulous.

At the same time, other prefectures also had such situations. The *Xiangmiao* used special means, originally wanting to directly wipe out those who were playing dirty.

Unexpectedly, they accidentally lured the opponent over. What made them feel even more incomprehensible was that after they spent effort to defeat or suppress these men in black, they discovered that the opponent was actually a *Gui*!

The moment the assassin paper dolls were defeated and the paper dolls shattered, Lin Feng, who was forging *gui* weapons, immediately felt it.

"What's going on? I clearly didn't let them act!"

Losing contact with the assassin paper dolls, he immediately realized something was wrong, so he immediately began to contact the remaining assassin paper dolls.

Some assassin paper dolls had already left the deep mountains and forests where Lin Feng had hidden them without his knowledge, as if something was luring them to move.

Others did not move and were still in their original positions. These assassin paper dolls that did not move were exactly the five he had just made last night.

Lin Feng immediately controlled all the assassin paper dolls that were still moving. With Lin Feng's forced intervention, these assassin paper dolls finally stopped, but the *Gui* inside the paper dolls were still a bit restless.

It seemed that something had induced the instinct of the *Gui*, making them move towards a certain place unconsciously.

As for those assassin paper dolls that had entered the *Xiangmiao*'s encirclement, they had lost contact, clearly destroyed by the opponent.

"It's the *Xiangmiao* acting. So that's it, no wonder they didn't react during the day!"

"Because they don't need to look for the enemy at all, but can directly lure the enemy over, just like luring soul incense!"

The paper dolls moving towards the trap set by the *Xiangmiao* was clearly not something that could be done by ordinary means. If it weren't for the fact that the paper dolls were destroyed and triggered Lin Feng's sense, he wouldn't have even noticed.

After all, the number of paper dolls in his hands was too large, and it was impossible to pay attention to the movements of every paper doll at all times.

The *Xiangmiao* suddenly doing this was something Lin Feng did not expect, but he could roughly guess what was going on.

"But I really didn't expect them to have such means. If used on a *Gui* controller, wouldn't it be possible to make the *guiyi* inside the *Gui* controller revive or break free from control from a long distance?"

"Sure enough, such a power that has been passed down for hundreds of years is not so easy to deal with. Fortunately, I used paper dolls; if it were an ordinary *Gui* controller, they would probably die suddenly!"

Lin Feng sneered. If the *Xiangmiao*'s means were used against others, the effect would definitely be outstanding, but used on him, it was nothing more than losing some paper dolls.

Paper dolls could be made as many as needed, and Lin Feng didn't feel distressed at all.

"However, those damaged paper dolls must not fall into their hands, otherwise it would be easy for the opponent to find clues..."

Outside the incense tower, just as the *Xiangmiao* people were shocked that the true identity of these men in black was actually *Gui*, they didn't notice the paper doll fragments falling on the ground slowly disappearing.

The paper dolls fused with the power of the *Tanshi Gui*, and wanting to erase these traces was too easy. ===== CHAPTER 132 =====