Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 137 Wooden fish are hard to find, tiger bones are hard to refine

As Tong Xin was about to see him off, he casually asked:
"We encountered demons on Black Tiger Mountain last time, as Fellow Daoist Tong Xin should know."

The evil spirits are extremely terrifying, so I wanted to buy some more exorcism items. Unfortunately, I don't have enough spirit crystals right now. I wonder if the shop has any low-level trinkets like the Merit Wooden Fish?

Tong Xin said that it was not surprising; although evil spirits were terrifying, the chances of encountering them were not many.

Many monks buy exorcism talismans or other items, just for psychological comfort and to give themselves more confidence when walking at night.

"The Merit Wooden Fish? This item was acquired by our shop at an auction more than a hundred years ago."

For a century, no one knew their purpose; there were only twelve in total. After selling them all to you last time, there are none left!

Tong Xin truthfully stated that the merit wooden fish was a treasure he kept hidden away when he first came to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

When Su Qing bought it last time, the Hundred Treasures Pavilion considered it as getting spirit crystals for free.

If he had it now, he would gladly offer it to him. Given the orders Su Qing had made today, he wouldn't mind giving him the wooden fish!
Unfortunately, it's gone forever!
Su Qing was deeply disappointed upon hearing this, but she didn't show it on her face. After exchanging a few more polite words with him, she left the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

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Inside the spirit house.

Su Qing summoned thirty-six wood spirit servants and the merit wooden fish that were almost welded to them.

After studying it carefully for a long time, I still couldn't figure it out, and there was no hint at all in the personal panel.

He had studied the wooden fish several times on Black Tiger Mountain, but without any success.

Having tried again without success, he could only put it into his storage bag, not wanting to waste any more time on it.

What it is doesn't matter; the left and right wood spirit servants have developed some kind of strange reaction with them, and now they have the ability to transform evil runes into Dao runes. As long as it works, that's fine.

Activate the array built into the spirit house.

Then deploy the Skyrocket and the Bee Reconnaissance Aircraft.

As the witch said, he now understands that if he were to undergo a major overhaul in the mid-to-late stages of Foundation Establishment, he would be able to detect the Sky Roc Ship and the Bee Reconnaissance Aircraft.

But how many people like that are there in the entire forward camp?

With this combined puppet guarding him, at least ordinary villains wouldn't be able to bother him.

According to the demonic cultivators' plan, a beast tide will be launched in half a month, mobilizing the demonic beasts and spreading them to the front-line camps.

It's estimated to take about 20 to 30 days. I've already wasted a few days, and there's not much time left.

In order to make a fortune in the upcoming beast tide, he should focus on refining puppets during this period.

More than twenty wood spirit servants who looked relatively clever were selected from the spirit house.

Draw spatial and material runes on them, and wait until they can grow to the size of a person.

He then took out several puppet materials from his storage bag and had the large and small wood spirits do some basic work such as carving wood, painting, and weaving nets.

For example, some more complex operations that require the puppeteer's unique crafting techniques can be left for him to perform.

As for drawing runes, only he himself could do that, and he couldn't let the little wood spirits do it for him.

With the help of the two wood spirits, he successfully crafted nine meditation dolls in a day and a night, a success rate of about 30%, which was not bad.

As his spiritual root aptitude improved, the original meditation doll was no longer suitable for him and should have been retired. However, he was short of money and could still use it, so Su Qing was reluctant to part with it.

The newly crafted meditation dolls were made with more materials than the previous ones. After achieving spiritual communion, the magical power they provided to him at every moment was about 70-80% higher than the first batch.

Thus, he now has twenty-one black dolls working for him, and his cultivation speed is more than three times faster than before.

It's a bit of a shame that I didn't see any high-level cultivation techniques suitable for him in the Treasure Pavilion today.

Compared to Taoist arts, cultivation methods are the foundation of Taoist practice.

All major sects and factions strictly prohibit the outflow of cultivation techniques. There are not many cultivation techniques that can be circulated outside, and their quality is generally poor. It is not easy to find one that suits you.

Su Qing wasn't in a hurry. He planned to wait until the grand auction was held and see if he could acquire a Xuan-level cultivation technique there.

Not only Xuan-level cultivation techniques, but also second-tier magic artifacts and second-tier spirit houses... he wants to acquire all these good things!
As his cultivation level improved and his horizons broadened, his wealth increased significantly, but the things he wanted also became increasingly expensive, leaving him never truly satisfied.

But no matter what, it's always right to make money.

"At the current cultivation efficiency, he may be able to break through the seventh level of Qi Refining and enter the late stage of Qi Refining within half a month. Is this the joy of a cultivation genius?"
No, this is still too slow. I might not be able to catch up with the beast tide. Once my energy and blood have recovered, I will devour the blood lotus fruit!
This fruit primarily improves physical constitution and blood circulation; while its effect on enhancing magical power is not significant, it does have some effect!

Silently calculating, he felt at ease knowing that with the combined efforts of Blood Lotus Fruit and Blackie, he might be able to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining within ten days.

For ordinary puppeteers, the difference between the mid-stage and late-stage Qi Refining is not that great. After all, with the strength of a normal puppeteer's spiritual sense, even if they want to imprint a third-tier rune, they would only dare to try when they reach the peak of Qi Refining.

However, his original spiritual sense was already superior to others, and after refining himself into a puppet, his spiritual potential was also enhanced.

"At the late stage of Qi Refining, one might be able to attempt to draw third-tier bionic runes and third-tier intelligent runes!"

Since breaking through to the second tier with these two runes, he hasn't paid much attention to increasing his proficiency with them because his cultivation level couldn't keep up for a short time.

However, he needed to use these two types of runes to train various puppets, such as lizard warriors.

Before they even realized it, their proficiency with both of these runes had already reached level three before they even went to Black Tiger Mountain.

This is also why he was confident in taking on the witch's job.

Without a high degree of certainty, how could he dare to seek food from a tiger?

"The two tiger bones can only be refined after reaching the late stage of Qi Refining, but the wings of the Silver-Winged White Tiger can be given to Helian Xian to refine first!"

Thinking of this, he summoned a lizard warrior and sent it with silver wings to find Helian Xian.

Yesterday, during the banquet, when everyone was in high spirits, he discussed the refining fee with the old Taoist priest. Once the lizard warrior arrived, the old Taoist priest naturally knew what to do.

After he sorted out the things he needed to do according to their importance and urgency, he did so.

They then followed behind the Big Wood Spirit and Little Wood Spirit, perfecting the refining work that the Big Wood Spirit and Little Wood Spirit could not do.

The lizard warrior and the dual-wielding lizard are now second nature to him.

He plans to first refine a hundred lizard warriors, some to sell, some to modify, and some for his own use.

The lizard warriors are kept inactive until there are evil spirits or a large number of opponents, at which point they are combined into a bomb squad to work with the bombing squad sent by the Sky Roc ship to maximize firepower.

(End of this chapter)