Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 142 Desiring to Taste the Blood Lotus Fruit, Advancing in Both Body and Dharma.

I've looked at the puppet blueprints.

The orders were all received in advance.

The materials have now been gathered.

Then what else is there to say? Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work!

After returning to the spirit house, Su Qing instructed the large and small wood spirits to begin the work of melting and casting the black iron essence and carving the spirit wood.

He immediately began drawing up the blueprints.

In his original plan, lizard warriors rode armored horses, forming lizard heavy cavalry, and attacked the low-end market.

The dual-wielding lizard, riding a black-armored horse, wields two swords and attacks, aiming to penetrate the high-end market.

But after careful consideration, I realized that the lizard warriors still needed some modifications.

After all, we can't let them ride on horseback and use their claws to kill people.

Even if you just randomly hand them flower sticks, the lizard warriors, who are already unable to control their weapons while riding, are lucky if they don't whip the sticks onto the Xuanjia horse!

He plans to transform the lizard warriors into artifact-type puppets, giving them all the ability to use weapons.

Of course, they can't all use entry-level battle swords like the dual-sword lizards, because that would be too expensive, something that low-level rogue cultivators and villages in the spirit field area can't afford.

Because I already had an idea in mind, and because I drew witches a lot, my drawing skills improved.

In the blink of an eye, several puppet blueprints were completed.

There are lizards that can draw their bows and shoot arrows, and those with thin, scaled armor can ride and shoot arrows.

A heavy cavalry lizard with ribs and long spears, and thick scales.

There is a lizard that wields two swords and has unusually long arms.

There are three types of puppet lizards. Depending on the quality of their equipped weapons, they can be modified to give them combat power ranging from low-grade to the highest level of the first tier.

For example, according to Su Qing's idea, he could equip the riding lizard with a first-grade high-quality magic weapon, the Wind and Thunder Bow.

It uses Heavenly Spirit Gold and Giant Bear Bone Powder to amplify its power, greatly increasing its arm strength and making its combat power comparable to that of a first-tier ultimate puppet.

That would make the cost too high, and he didn't want to expose such a puppet to the public for the time being.

Once I've saved up some more spirit crystals, I could consider building myself a high-spec cavalry regiment.

He prepared eight mounted archer lizards and two slashing lizards for Ge Changyuan, all equipped with unranked war bows and swords.

Considering his needs, it should be sufficient.

While the blueprints were being prepared, the two Wood Spirits had already completed the main structures of more than thirty Xuanjia horses.

This horse is about eight feet tall and is carved entirely from spiritual wood. The interior is hollow and filled with a large amount of black iron essence.

It is mixed with a small amount of celestial spirit crystals, leopard bone powder and other materials, and a thin layer of powder paste is brushed on the outside of the horse, and an energy supply trough is dug under the horse's belly.

One spirit crystal is consumed for every thousand miles traveled, and one can travel more than five thousand miles in a day and night.

When fighting with heavy loads, one spirit crystal is consumed every hour, which is not considered expensive.

Under normal circumstances, in a battle that can last for an hour without a clear winner, cultivators should be more concerned with how to save their lives than how to conserve spirit crystals.

The process of refining this horse was not difficult for Su Qing.

The requirements for the four types of runes—damage reduction, heavy armor, strength, and speed—are all only one tier.

By refining two or three failed attempts, one can always be made into a successful one, which also improves the proficiency of these four types of runes.

In addition to these four essential types of runes, he attempted to draw first-tier intelligent runes on them.

To his surprise, this horse was actually capable of carrying intelligent runes. This made him look down on the puppeteers of the Beast Puppet Market; they couldn't even equip such a fine horse with a brain!

"That's good too. This is a spirit-powered horse of mine, so it will give me a reason to raise the price when I sell it in the future."

Even a regular Xuanjia Horse can sell for two or three thousand spirit crystals, so selling mine for over three thousand spirit crystals shouldn't be unreasonable!

After happily completing all fifty sets of materials for the Xuanjia Horse, only about twenty were successfully activated, resulting in a total success rate of no more than 40%, similar to that of some puppeteers who specialize in crafting these puppets.

However, his proficiency can be continuously improved during the refining process. When the success rate is 100% in the future, the profit of a Xuanjia horse will be about 6,000%.
"It's not bad, but it's a pity that this puppet isn't a blueprint produced by the panel. Even if you max out its proficiency, no new blueprints will appear."

He temporarily set the Xuanjia horse aside and went out again to the market area to buy some unranked battle swords, bows, and spears.

There's no need to buy these unranked combat weapons from the Treasure Pavilion. The market stalls have a large quantity and are cheap, and the stall owners are friendly. Since we're all stall owners, it's only right that we help each other out.

As it was getting late, he was going to bring Xiong Er back, but the good-for-nothing insisted on selling the last line about the lizard warrior.

The whistle blew loudly, and its enthusiasm for making money was unstoppable. Su Qing didn't want to dampen its enthusiasm, since it was also earning spirit crystals for itself, so she let it be.

Return to the yard.

The modification of the lizard warrior was something he was very familiar with.

Furthermore, because it is equipped with unranked combat gear, the requirements for materials and runes are lower compared to the Dual-Blade Lizard.

The only troublesome thing is drawing the riding runes.

He had never encountered this rune before, and even at the first level, he couldn't guarantee a success rate.

Fortunately, the lizard warriors themselves already had a 100% success rate. The error in the runes alone did not significantly reduce the overall success rate. Out of every two lizard warriors, one could be successfully modified.

This includes materials for lizard warriors and the consumption of unranked combat equipment.

Let's do a rough calculation.

Each mounted archer lizard costs approximately nine hundred spirit crystals.

One mounted lizard costs approximately 1,400 spirit crystals.

One heavy chariot lizard costs approximately 1,800 spirit crystals.

These basic models, including the puppets and horses, have an overall combat strength of about a high-grade Tier 1.

The lizards with horses, mounted archery and mounted combat, each lizard cost about 1,500 to 1,600 yuan. Selling them to Ge Changyuan for 8,000 yuan each, it's fair to say we didn't make any money; it was purely to take care of a friend.

He estimated that he could sell it to someone else for 12,000 to 13,000 spirit crystals.

Ten were set aside for Ge Changyuan to pick up. The other ten were for my own use, as he didn't think much of them. I planned to sell them at a stall after I finished this busy period.

He worried that if he handed these new types of puppets over to Xiong Er, he wouldn't be able to sell them for a good price.

It was dawn, and after working with the puppets all day and night, he felt utterly exhausted.

Back inside the spirit house, the wood spirit servants had already prepared a medicinal bath.

Since his physical constitution improved, he now uses five times more medicinal herbs in a single medicinal bath than before, and his body can absorb all of the increased medicinal power.

After bathing and changing, he looked at his body, which had become strong again.

Silently, she took out the blood lotus fruit.

Now, his blood and qi surge within him, accompanied by the sounds of thunder and metal clanging. His internal furnace is complete, and he has already reached the mid-level of the first rank of body cultivation.

With Heiwa's efforts, Fali is also close to the sixth level of Qi Refining and is about to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Therefore, now is the perfect time to swallow this fruit!
With this achievement, one should step into the realm of first-grade superior body cultivation and late-stage Qi refining in one fell swoop!

(End of this chapter)