Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 162 Second-Tier Puppet Master, Zhi Mu Ling

[Successfully crafted a shape-shifting armored puppet—Devastator. This puppet's proficiency increases by 10. Current proficiency: 10/100]

[Successfully modified the Decepticon with the Flame Cannon. Decepticon proficiency +5, Flame Cannon proficiency +5 (Current proficiency: 5/1000)]

[Successfully crafted a Tier 2 puppet. Puppeteer skill upgraded to Tier 2. Success rate for crafting all Tier 2 puppets permanently increased by 10%]

[Divine sense has improved; current divine sense strength: mid-Foundation Establishment stage]

Please choose any one of the following four runes and upgrade it to Tier 3, with a guaranteed success rate of 100%: Space Rune, Exorcism Rune, Monster Rune, and Sky-Soaring Rune.

[Exorcism rune selected. Information regarding this rune has been transferred. Proficiency increased to: 5000/5000 (Tier 3). Success rate 100%!]

Please choose one of the following three blueprints to unlock.

[Spider Doctor Advanced Blueprint - Spirit Spider Doctor (Tier 2, Low Grade)]

[Wood Spirit Servant Advancement Blueprint - Wise Wood Spirit (Second Tier, Mid-Grade)]

[Upgrade Blueprint for the Explosive War Bear - Thunder War Bear (Tier 2, Superior)]

[The Wood Spirit Servant advancement blueprint has been selected for unlocking; the Wisdom Wood Spirit has been unlocked.]

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Once the Overlord Black Armor Tiger was successfully forged...

The puppeteer's realm has advanced to the second tier.

The personal panel then started flooded with notifications, like a screen being filled with messages.

Among them, Su Qing needs to make a choice between four runes and three blueprints.

Choosing the four runes was the simplest thing for him.

He knew better than anyone the terror of evil spirits, having experienced the Gao family's butcher shop incident and the Leng Fengxiang incident.

Unfortunately, he knew nothing about these kinds of runes and had been unable to attempt to craft an exorcism puppet.

Those thirty-six merit wood spirits don't count; they mutated on their own and have nothing to do with him.

If we say that evil spirits don't happen often, then as long as we avoid them, we don't need to choose this rune. Instead, runes like Space or Skywalker are more cost-effective.

Before knowing that evil runes could be purified into Dao runes, Su Qing might have thought the same way and would have chosen space or flight runes without hesitation.

But now that this secret is known, and the Wood Spirit of Merit happens to have this ability as well.

Then he won't be able to escape evil spirits in the future!

Perhaps we'll encounter evil spirits, just like how rogue cultivators encounter demonic beasts nowadays. We might end up becoming exorcists fighting on the front lines against evil spirits!

Therefore, the exorcism rune that can be used to resist evil spirits and is combined with the harvesting Dao pattern has the highest cost performance!

Compared to runes, choosing the puppet blueprint was somewhat more difficult for him.

Unlike spider doctors, spider doctors possess the abilities of a first-tier superior spiritual healer.

It can treat many injuries that spider doctors are powerless to treat, such as mental damage and evil contamination.

It's like having a Guo Qiaolian with you at all times—the temptation is immense!
But he could have taken Guo Qiaolian with him if he needed to.

It's not very useful to him for now, but once he's strong enough, he can export it or open a Spirit Spider Clinic, which would definitely be very profitable!

Thunder War Bear, with its paws imbued with lightning damage, is a pure violence bear. If crafted, one of these bears could easily take on an entire team of powerful bears.

Unfortunately, he currently has two Decepticons, which are not lacking in violent output, have overlapping functions, and require relatively expensive materials to craft, so he has no choice but to give up for the time being.

After careful consideration, he chose Zhimu Ling.

The greatest advantage of this puppet is its extremely high level of intelligence.

She can act as the steward of the spirit house, or as the supervisor of the puppets, formulating work plans for the puppets and reporting on their progress daily.

In an emergency, he can also mobilize other puppets and, when he is too busy to attend to them, move away with them.

As the puppet army grew stronger, even though Su Qing had done her best to squeeze the puppets' value out of them.

However, with their own people busy with many affairs and international exchanges, they are never able to maximize the value of their puppets.

With such a wise wood spirit around, the puppets' work efficiency should be greatly improved!
I don't have time to research the exorcism puppet and the Wisdom Wood Spirit for the time being.

After transforming the tiger egg into its most energy-efficient demon tiger form and having it lie down in the backyard, he prepared to begin crafting the second Tyrant Tiger—the Tyrant Silver-Winged Tiger!

Compared to crafting the tiger egg, the greatest difficulty in crafting this puppet lies in installing the second-tier magic artifact—the White Tiger Silver Wings.

This second-tier magical artifact possesses the ability to carry people into the sky, to allow people to escape, and to unleash silver light to destroy enemies.

Among them, the speed of flying is approximately equal to the escape speed of a low-level Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The distance of the escape varies from one hundred zhang to three hundred zhang, depending on the cultivator's magical power.

The Silver Flash, besides dazzling the enemy's eyes and stunning their senses, can also unleash hundreds or thousands of silver light bullets at once, with power roughly equivalent to ten to twenty Gale Blades.
With his current spiritual strength, he could refine this magical artifact, but his magical power was not enough to sustain it for long.

After flying into the sky, his magical power was exhausted, but he wasn't afraid. With the tiger egg to catch him, nothing serious happened.

However, if one's magic power is exhausted during the escape, the folded space may cut them into pieces, making it impossible to piece them back together.

Therefore, he could only install this artifact on Decepticons and use Decepticons' energy to power it.

He can do this through two methods.

One option is to imprint it with a Tier 3 artifact rune, giving it the ability to manipulate artifacts, just like the Explosive Hammer War Bear.

He started learning magic weapon runes relatively late, and while crafting puppets like the Twin-Blade Lizard and the Explosive Hammer War Bear, he primarily improved his proficiency in weapon runes, while his proficiency in this rune remained stagnant.

However, attempting to force a level 3 magic weapon rune with only level 1 proficiency is highly likely to result in failure, so it is not considered.

The second method is to first use the artifact-puppet crafting technique to refine this artifact into a puppet, just like installing the Flame Cannon on the tiger egg. Since they are both puppets, they can establish bonds and combine them.

He also chose this method.

There is nothing to hesitate about.

He only knows two types of Tier 3 runes.

Naturally, the first step was to draw third-order bionic runes and third-order intelligent runes on it.

In addition, spatial runes are also essential because they need to transform into armor along with the Decepticons.

Helian Xian had already drawn the material runes, so he didn't insist.

The second-tier combat runes need to be drawn, giving these wings the ability to fight independently. Who would have thought of that?
That's despicable!

Since we're planning to let it fight independently from the Decepticons, we naturally need to equip it with combat runes.

That's even more despicable!

In other words, this magical artifact itself is a part of the second-tier Tiger King, and the materials are of extremely high quality.

In addition, Helian Xian had a very close relationship with him, and the main reason was the cost of crafting those two mounted archer lizards.

He was extremely meticulous in his work, including both the materials and the labor, allowing him to carry on with his despicable acts to the fullest extent, and he added numerous runes in one go.

Finally, when no other runes can be thought of that can be used.

He suddenly remembered the exorcism talisman he had just acquired, which had a 100% success rate.

Although I don't know what the purpose of putting exorcism talismans on this white tiger with silver wings is.

But isn't this a 100% success rate?
Why not take advantage of it!
Unfortunately, even the most skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice; he possessed great skills but lacked any third-tier exorcism talisman water.

They had no choice but to transform the tiger egg into tiger armor and have the beautiful leopard hide in the shadows, leaving the spirit house without bringing any puppets with them.

He had more than a dozen storage bags hanging from his waist, which would appear and disappear as he walked.

It is now the hour of Mao (5-7 AM), the time when Xiong Er and Huo Dan were killed last time!

Along the way, whenever someone wanted to buy a Lizard Rider, he would loudly proclaim that with the recent outbreak of war, all kinds of puppets were in high demand.

He had already sold most of the puppets he used for protection. Today he was going to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion to buy puppet materials. He told them to wait a few days and that he would go to the market to sell the goods himself.

So and so.

He stumbled into a treacherous area rife with bad deeds!

(End of this chapter)