With a creak, the stone house at the end of the bluestone path opened, and a young boy walked out.,He strode to the west side of the courtyard, crouched down, and pinched a leaf of a spirit-glow herb near the stone wall with two fingers. He carefully flipped it over on its back.,This straw puppet was bought by Lu Xuan from a secondhand stall in the market. According to the stall owner, the puppet came from the Thousand Mechanisms School of cultivators and had a simple behavioral pattern, often used to guard spirit fields of lower rank.。