Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 190 Yao Fei visits, swindler caught

From the vision transmitted back by the Bee Detective Puppet, Su Qing could see that the Golden Roc King had stirred up a demonic wind, carrying a group of demon beasts and demon kings away from the Immortal City's territory.

Then they saw that the Primordial Ancestor was being tormented by the seemingly invincible Gao Erqiang, and after cursing a few extremely vulgar words, he threw out a Soul Refining Banner and took away all the demonic cultivators who were causing trouble in the Immortal City.

Thus, the two third-tier beings retreated with their respective deployments.

After cheers erupted throughout the entire immortal city, chaos returned.

The rogue cultivators argued fiercely over the demon beast corpses and corresponding battle merits, their faces flushed red. Before they knew it, they were fighting each other, slashing their magical weapons and equipment at their comrades who had been so close just moments before.

Under Su Qing's attention, the most intense debate is between the two clearly distinct groups: those who cultivate the physical body and those who cultivate the Dharma.

The Falun Gong practitioners, being numerous and powerful, felt that they had just delivered an explosive performance and made a significant contribution.

The physical cultivators, though few in number, were full of arrogance and cursed that without them blocking the demonic beasts, the magic cultivators would have no output whatsoever.

The two sides fought fiercely until several Foundation Establishment disciples from the Yunshan Sect intervened, which finally brought peace.

However, after exchanging insults for so long, it's unlikely that they will ever be able to cooperate like they did today again.

The independent cultivators dared to fight each other for spoils, fearing that others would steal their spoils, and also fearing that they would not be able to steal others' spoils.

But they didn't dare to steal the spoils from the Gao family's butcher shop.

Outside the city walls lay thousands upon thousands of human and animal corpses, their crimson blood flowing freely, trickling down the tangled, dark brown bloodstains into the Gao family's butcher shop.

Only after the demon had eaten its fill did it leave behind mostly shriveled monsters for the rogue cultivators to divide and plunder.

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The great battle has just ended.

Before Yunshan Sect could fulfill its promises regarding military achievements, rewards were distributed according to merit.

A third-tier grand formation named Dianli Luoyun quietly enveloped Baiyun Immortal City.

Under the influence of this grand formation, this immortal city is now only open to entry, not exit.

The Yunshan Sect explained that they were worried that independent cultivators would be misled by demonic cultivators and go astray.

But everyone knows that this is Yunshan Sect's way of completely binding the city's rogue cultivators together, making them fight desperately for them.

The rogue cultivators were naturally indignant about this, but powerless to resist, they could only grit their teeth and coexist peacefully with the evil Gao Erqiang.

However, Yunshan Sect did not go too far.

While making the rogue cultivators gamble with their lives, the promised battle merits were also fulfilled one by one.

As far as Su Qing knew, both the Rat King Team and the Bear King Team had qualified to bid for the Foundation Establishment Pill, so their hard work had not been in vain.

To his surprise, someone witnessed the battle between Su Qing and Xu Huaiyi in the Jiexiu area.

As a result, Su Qing was rewarded for his merits after the war, and was able to exchange his merits in fighting against a Foundation Establishment Demon Cultivator for a God-Exploding Pill.

This pill is a second-tier spiritual pill, which can increase one's spiritual sense by 30% in a short period of time. For Su Qing, this means that he can control two more second-tier puppets at critical moments, which is of great use.

This was a pleasant surprise.

However, the decree subsequently issued by Baiyun Immortal City enraged him and the other professionals!

Perhaps because of this battle, few professionals contributed to the Immortal City, so the Cloud Mountain Sect deliberately targeted professionals.

After this battle, all cultivators must open shops within the market to buy and sell goods. Those who are not shop owners are prohibited from buying and selling. Violators will be punished severely, their bones crushed and their ashes scattered. A single shop will cost at least 10,000 spirit crystals in rent per month, not to mention the monthly city maintenance tax of 20,000 spirit crystals.

This truly enraged the professional players who had originally planned to fleece the rogue cultivators and Yunshan Sect in Baiyun Immortal City.

They all rushed to the market, scrambling for good storefronts.

Despite the heavy rent and tax burden, professionals flock to the industry, which makes the independent cultivators furious, wondering how much ill-gotten money these professionals have been making.

Su Qing followed suit and rented a row of shops near Baibaoge with several fellow Daoists.

The first one from the left is Guo Qiaolian's Qiaolian Medical Clinic. Her business has been booming recently. I heard that her father has also come over to help her run the clinic.

The second shop is Pang Feifan's Beast Taming Cottage. Since it only sells two kinds of spirit beasts, namely the Treasure Dog and the Young Leopard, it lacks appeal and business is a bit slow.

As a result, Pang Feifan has recently been going out of the city with the Rat King's team to kill demons, trying to use the beast ring to capture some more demons and hybridize some new spirit beasts.

The third shop was Shao Delong's armor shop. His armor-making skills were so impressive that after he personally sent himself into the mouth of a first-tier ultimate demon king and came out unharmed, he attracted many body cultivators, and his business flourished.

I heard that he already has the ability to independently refine the Heavenly Silkworm Armor, so Su Qing also ordered a set from him, but she doesn't know when it will be delivered.

The fourth shop is Helian Xian's weapon-refining shop. With the reputation of a second-tier weapon refiner, he never has to worry about business. Now he only accepts orders for refining first-tier high-grade weapons and above. If he doesn't earn 10,000 to 20,000 spirit crystals per order, the old Taoist simply doesn't bother with him.

The fifth shop was Liang Haishun's array shop. Since the arrival of the third-tier array master from Yunshan Sect, he hadn't been able to get any orders from Yunshan Sect.

But by setting up formations for the spirit houses of rogue cultivators, or occasionally planting flags for warrior cultivators, they lived a decent life.

Of course, his main source of income was the sponsorship from the Lord of the Yuanlai Pavilion. The spirit crystals he earned were just pocket money for him to buy the new beautiful snake from Su Qing.

The sixth shop was Su Qing's own puppet shop. For the time being, he only put lizard series puppets such as lizard warriors and lizard knights on the shelves. Due to the agreement with Baibaoge, he couldn't sell the Explosive Hammer War Bear next to them.

Even so, since the battle between Baiyun Immortal City and the monsters has now entered the mode of wilderness warfare, the lizard riders, who can shine in this terrain, are selling quite well.

Business was so booming that Xiong Er and Huo Dan were too busy to handle it all, so he hired Qing He to come and help out at the shop.

When this woman has no missions at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, she is a free person. When she comes to help out at his shop, she can not only deter troublemakers, but her ability to navigate social situations is also far superior to that of a bear and a dog.

What puzzled Su Qing was that, even though his shop had been open for more than half a month, the Wang family seemed to have suffered heavy losses last time and were still licking their wounds, so they had not come to cause him any trouble.

He tallied up his spoils and found that he had only obtained a little over thirty puppet blueprints, over a hundred bottles of pills, seven storage bags of various puppet materials, thirty-six spirit stones, and over two hundred thousand spirit crystals from the Wang family.

These things were like mountains of gold and silver to Su Qing.

For a family like the Wang family, which has a long tradition of cultivating immortality, this shouldn't be a big deal, right?

Su Qing felt that he hadn't taken much advantage of the Wang family. As long as the family didn't provoke him, he and the Wang family would be even, and neither of them would owe the other anything.

Despite being bogged down by various trivial matters, life has been relatively peaceful overall.

That day, Su Qing was at home researching the Soul-Burial Shovel, preparing to refine this puppet to report to the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

A voice came from outside the courtyard, gentle and polite.

"Is Fellow Daoist Su at home? Consort Yao has come to disturb us. Please come out and meet her."

You actually dared to come!
I've been waiting for you for over half a month!

Su Qing composed herself, positioned the tiger lizards and the Explosive Bear Team in the front yard, and then slowly opened the gate.

(End of this chapter)