Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 11 The cultivators in the living area really know how to have fun.

There was a loud snap.

Tang Wanqing casually used the Yellow-grade superior Dao technique—Giant Spirit Hand—to slam the Ironback Bear in front of Su Qing and the other person.

Even though the iron-backed bear was already dead, it still terrified Ge Ling, turning her face deathly pale. Seeing this, Tang Wanqing smiled apologetically at her before turning to Su Qing and saying:
"I asked the villagers to contact the butcher. He told me to call him when he arrives. Also, he asked them to keep an eye on my prey and not let anyone get close."

After saying that, without waiting for Su Qing's consent, he exhausted himself and crawled into the spirit house.

Successfully hunting monsters brings glory and extremely lucrative rewards.

However, she was not a professional demon hunter after all. Although her cultivation was good and her Taoist skills were not bad, the hunting process over the past two days had caused her a lot of suffering.

At this moment, he couldn't care about anything else; he just wanted to get to the spirit house as soon as possible to adjust himself.

Su Qing and Ge Ling hadn't been waiting outside for long when a commotion arose. Looking up, they saw a group of people rushing excitedly toward them.

The man leading the group had a red headband, a face full of menacing features, and several short knives of different shapes tucked into his waistband; he was clearly a professional spirit butcher.

Upon seeing Su Qing standing next to the Ironback Bear, the usually stern-faced butcher among the villagers immediately put on a smiling face.

"Fellow Daoist, you are truly skilled. This beast is not easy to deal with. A few days ago, Wangjia Village hired two demon hunters from the residential area, but they couldn't capture it. I never expected that it would be defeated by you. According to the rules, one out of a hundred is killed. Shall I make my move now?"

Hu San cupped his hands in greeting, his face beaming with smiles, and was extremely polite to Su Qing.

He was only a mid-grade first-level spirit butcher. Normally, he wouldn't have the chance to take action against a high-grade first-level demon beast like the Ironback Bear. But he was the only butcher in the spirit field district, so he got a good deal today.

“Fellow Daoist, you overestimate me. I have no ability to kill the Ironback Bear. The one who killed this bear is someone else. Please wait a moment, Fellow Daoist Tang, and we can discuss it together.”

Su Qing knew that Hu San had misunderstood, so she quickly explained.

“Fellow Daoist Su is a puppeteer, and the one who killed the Ironback Bear was a female cultivator who came with him.”

"Is that Ge Ling? Didn't she say her legs were bitten by the Ironback Bear? How come she's acting like nothing happened?"

“Just now I saw Ge Changyuan leading the bull around asking for prices, saying he was raising money for Fellow Daoist Su. It must be that Fellow Daoist Su made a prosthetic puppet for his daughter.”

"What kind of prosthetic puppet is so expensive that it forced Ge Changyuan to sell the 'Wild Bull' to pay off his debts?"

"They say it's exactly the same as my original legs, and I can even cultivate with them!"

The villagers who came with Hu San told Su Qing all about her background.

Hu San realized that he had mistaken his customer for someone else in his excitement, but his smile remained unchanged.

"I am blind and did not realize that you are such a precious person as a puppeteer. I hope you will not take offense."

Su Qing waved her hand, "We're all craftsmen, there's no question of who's more valuable than whom."

Su Qing was being polite, but Hu San knew the difference between the two.

The practice of various arts is said to have no distinction of nobility or lowliness, but this is merely an excuse for mediocre people to comfort themselves.

In fact, cultivators who have mastered the four arts of arrays, artifacts, alchemy, and talismans are more prestigious than those who practice other skills. After all, only array masters and alchemists are recruited by major powers, but there is no record of major powers recruiting butchers.

Although puppeteers are not as respected as array masters and alchemists in the eyes of the world, their status is similar to that of talisman masters, which is far beyond what a spirit butcher like him can compare to.

There are few puppeteers in Lingtian District, and Hu San has never had the opportunity to befriend one. This is a good opportunity.

Thinking of this, Hu San couldn't help but be even more polite to Su Qing.

Although Hu Sanwei was somewhat disappointed after learning that Su Qing was not accepting orders for combat puppets for the time being after some conversation.

But when Su Qing took out a witch puppet for him to examine, Hu San became very interested again.

"I wonder how much this puppet costs?"

Hu San rubbed his hands together, showing great interest in the witch puppet.

Su Qing hadn't expected to make another deal in Gejia Village, and immediately became more enthusiastic about it.

"Fellow Daoist Hu San may not be good at recognizing people, but he is a connoisseur of goods. To be honest, this witch puppet is quite difficult to make and is a hot commodity in the market."

"I hit it off immediately with you today, fellow Daoist, and we had a very pleasant conversation. How about this: four hundred, no, three hundred spirit crystals, and you can take this basic witch puppet back and enjoy it at your leisure."

"If the basic model is like this, I wonder what the luxury model is like?" Hu San's face twitched with excitement.

That's so exciting! The cultivators in the living area really know how to have fun. How did they come up with the idea that puppets could do *that*?

Upon hearing that Hu San was interested in the deluxe witch puppet, Su Qing was immediately shocked. She hadn't expected that this person was such a big customer.

After he finished explaining the functions of the deluxe witch puppet...

Hu San readily placed the order, and in the blink of an eye, 600 spirit crystals arrived in his account.

To Su Qing's surprise, besides Hu San, two other villagers present also paid for two witch puppets.

Looking at the other villagers, quite a few were also interested, but perhaps they were short of money at the moment, or perhaps their wives were around, so they did not place an order directly.

This made Su Qing's mind wander, and he realized that he had only thought about rushing into the high-end market, but had neglected the vast number of low-level cultivators scattered throughout the Spirit Field District.

"Fellow Daoists, this type of puppet is called the Passionate Puppet. Besides the Witch Puppet, there are other affordable and beautiful models as well."

If anyone is interested, they can place an order with me in advance, and I will have it delivered after I finish refining it.

Just as he was enthusiastically promoting his product, Tang Wanqing, who had changed into a blue Taoist robe and casually tied her black hair behind her head, looking more dashing than before, walked out gracefully.

Upon seeing the person in question, the villagers expressed their deepest gratitude to her. The village chief of Gejia Village, an elderly man at the sixth level of Qi Refining, even presented Tang Wanqing with a small bag of spirit crystals as a reward for her eliminating the scourge for the villagers.

Tang Wanqing silently accepted the spirit crystals. After agreeing on a price with Hu San, Hu San drew out various short knives from his waist and began to get busy.

"Fellow Daoist, are you short of spirit crystals? You have so little free time, yet you're busy doing business."

Tang Wanqing had been recuperating in the spirit house and could hear everything that was happening outside. At this moment, while watching Hu San dismantle the demon beast, she joked with Su Qing.

"It's just a small amount of money. After deducting the cost of materials, I won't earn many spirit crystals. But you, fellow Daoist, have earned tens of thousands of spirit crystals just from this Ironback Bear. That's a spirit stone!"

Su Qing said, half-jokingly, that it was a lie to say that she didn't earn much, but that she was genuinely envious of Tang Wanqing's earnings.

Upon hearing this, Tang Wanqing smiled wryly and shook her head, saying:

"You only see the thief eating meat but not the thief getting beaten. The Ironback Bear, bones and all, is worth about ten thousand spirit crystals."

"But in order to hunt it down, I used dozens of talismans, and my magic weapon was slightly damaged. In addition, I took some pills. Just these things cost me more than six thousand spirit crystals."

"In the end, I only earned a few thousand spirit crystals on this trip. Fortunately, I killed it, so I still gained something. If I had failed, not only would I have wasted my money, but I would have lost my life as well."

"So, do you still envy me?"

If being a demon hunter were really that easy, Tang Wanqing would have switched to that career long ago. In comparison, Tang Wanqing envied the life of someone like Su Qing, who could peacefully run a puppet business.

(End of this chapter)