Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 140 Xiong Er Sells Puppet
Street vendor area in Taipei.

Niu Shisan glanced at the somewhat bewildered rogue cultivator in front of him, then looked at the bear, the horse, the dog, and the ten lizards. At first glance, he really couldn't tell who was selling whom among these creatures.

No wonder this fellow Daoist was a little confused; he himself was a bit confused.

But he was someone who had seen his older brother get his head transplanted, so he was a man of experience.

If heads can be replaced, it doesn't seem so strange for puppets to sell themselves.
He swallowed hard and said to the seller:
"Fellow Daoist, are you looking to buy the Lizard Warrior?"

The buyer nodded blankly; he wanted to buy the Lizard Warrior.

Previously, this puppet cost over three thousand, which was beyond his reach. But today, seeing the price written on this stall, it was only 1,300 spirit crystals.

The price was just right, so much so that when he looked at these lizard warriors again, he thought they looked beautiful and smooth. Speaking of which, the witch puppets had been out of stock for a long time...

Anyway, we can use it however we want, he's going to buy the Lizard Warrior!

Niu Shisan was startled by the way he looked at the lizard warrior. He silently took a few steps back before asking:
"Then why don't you buy it?"

"How...how can I buy this? The seller is an armored war bear!"

The buyer pointed at Xiong Er, his fingers trembling slightly. Buying a puppet from a puppeteer? How could that be right?

"What do you care if it's a bear or a person, a puppet or something else? I'm just asking you, is it selling lizard warriors?" Niu Shisan asked, waving his hand.

The buyer was still hesitant: "It's the one that's selling, and it even whistles, but is this normal?"

Niu Shisan clapped his hands: "That's settled then! You want to buy, he wants to sell, the price is right, you pay with spirit crystals, and he gives you a lizard warrior, isn't that enough!"

The buyer thought about it and realized that made sense. There's nothing new under the sun. Maybe he was just ignorant. He had never seen anything like selling puppets, but perhaps it happened every day in other places.

However, when the armored war bear swung its paw and handed a lizard warrior to him, he still trembled slightly.

"Brother Xiong? Fellow Daoist? You can put the puppet down now!"

The buyer looked at the armored war bear that was clinging to the lizard warrior and spoke carefully, afraid that he might say something wrong and get slapped to death by the war bear.

"Mmm mmm mmm," Xiong Er pouted and whistled at it. The whistling was rapid and powerful, attracting the attention of many people.

"Wh-what do you mean?" The buyer looked to Niu Shisan for help.

"What are you putting down? You haven't given me the spirit crystals yet!" Niu Shisan scolded.

Upon hearing this, the buyer hurriedly took out a spirit crystal from his storage bag and placed it into Xiong Er's other outstretched paw. Only then did Xiong Er release the lizard warrior!
"Hmm, hmm, hmm!" Xiong Er's bear face lit up, and a smile could actually be seen in his bear face.

"What does this mean?" The buyer still couldn't understand.

"It said thank you for your patronage, and that it will come again next time!"

Niu Shisan didn't understand why he could understand Xiong Er's whistling. Perhaps it was because he often whistled to relieve his loneliness on countless nights when he missed his sister-in-law.

After the buyer left, they saw Xiong Er put the spirit crystal into the hiding hole in his chest, and then pick out two more from it.

Whistling, he started chatting with Xiong Er and learned that the two coins were his commission.

Niu Shisan couldn't hold back any longer, shook his head, and left the stall.

Su Qing doesn't give him any spirit crystals, so why should he do anything for her?
At this time, the novelty of selling puppets was still too new for the inexperienced rogue cultivators.

So much so that in no time, Xiong Er's already conspicuous stall, due to his size, was surrounded by people. Some newcomers were unclear about the situation, and some independent cultivators even offered explanations.

In less than half a day, news that Su Qing had sent an armored war bear to sell to the lizard warriors spread throughout the front-line camp.

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"Fellow Daoist Su, do you sell your war bear that can produce puppets?"

"Not for sale, no matter the price!"

"Then you'll have to pay it more. I saw it sell five or six lizard warriors this morning!"

"It's none of your business! Don't wander around here if you don't want to, or I'll shoot you with my puppet!"

Inside the courtyard, Su Qing, who was studying the blueprints for the Xuanjia Horse and the Dog Horse Heavy Cavalry, sent away a frivolous cultivator who was playing around outside.

Xiong Er did a good job; he knew it all along.

Fearing that having too many spirit crystals would attract thieves, Fire Egg would deliver the spirit crystals to its home every time it sold three lizard warriors.

Fire Egg returned twice that morning, and he also earned 7,100 spirit crystals.

Staying at home and exploiting puppets to earn spirit crystals is something that seems incredibly appealing to others.

But Su Qing was not satisfied. You see, the price of the Lizard Warrior is now so low that it can't even be sold at the normal price, let alone compared to the previous premium period.

Before the four cities merged, the profit from one lizard warrior was equivalent to that of three now!
Having enjoyed the thrill of exorbitant profits, Su Qing was no longer satisfied with the current profit margin of only 600%.

"That's about it. The crafting method for the Xuanjia Horse is similar to that of the Iron Horse, but it only requires the addition of four first-tier runes: damage reduction, heavy armor, strength, and speed."

As for the dog-and-horse cavalry, simply inscribing riding and combat runes on the kobolds will allow them to become one with their mounts and conquer the battlefield!

After carefully putting away the two puppet blueprints, Su Qing led a team of dual-wielding lizards straight to the Treasure Shop, intending to buy some materials to try and refine one first.

Not long after he stepped out, a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Fellow Daoist Su, is that you, Fellow Daoist Su? I am Ge Changyuan!"

Su Qing turned around and saw that it was indeed Ge Changyuan!
He sat astride an iron horse, with a lizard warrior beside him, who was even wearing a robe to keep warm. Judging from his demeanor, he must have been living quite well lately.

Since an old friend was visiting, it was no longer appropriate to go to the Baibao shop to buy materials. Instead, Ge Changyuan was welcomed into the courtyard.

"The old man came to the front camp to look for fellow Daoist more than ten days ago. He heard that fellow Daoist had died in Black Tiger Mountain. When he went back and told Ling'er, Ling'er cried for many days."

I never expected to see you here today, fellow Daoist, all perfectly fine. I wonder which gossipy old man is spreading these rumors; if he finds out, I'll slap his mouth to pieces!

Old Man Ge was a little agitated, and Su Qing told him to calm down.

After he calmed down, he asked about Ge Changyuan's recent situation.

After the merger of the four cities, a large number of independent cultivators poured into Baiyun Market. With so many cultivators, they couldn't just eat monster meat.

The spirit planters in this spirit field area have become a popular profession in the current version, sitting on the cusp of success and living a very comfortable life.

"In the past half month, the price of spiritual vegetables and fruits has skyrocketed. In the past, ten white jade cucumbers cost one spirit crystal, but now one cucumber can sell for three spirit crystals. The old man felt a little embarrassed when he sold them for the first time, but unexpectedly, those fellow Daoists were scrambling to buy them!"
What's even better is that the Yunshan Sect is treating us very well now. A few days ago, they even set up several formations in the village, such as the temperature control formation, the small cloud and rain formation, and the warm sun formation.

That's not all; they also gave us new rice seeds, saying they were cultivated by a third-tier spirit nurturer and ripen once a month. That's incredibly capable!

(End of this chapter)