Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 197 Thirty Years of River Flow East.

The Baiyun City Wall is over eighteen zhang high and thick enough for horses and carriages to run through.

The vast area surrounding the entire White Cloud Immortal City has become a habitat for many rogue cultivators who have risked their lives there, resulting in an ecosystem quite different from that inside the Immortal City.

For example, in the past, the two professions of Scavenger and Spirit Butcher were only ranked at the bottom in the major markets.

Now, on this city wall, it is a high-class profession comparable to array weapons and alchemy talismans.

The scavengers are skilled in earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows them to move freely across the battlefield, quickly and efficiently helping the warriors collect their spoils.)

According to incomplete statistics, since the start of the battle in Baiyun Immortal City, the average daily harvest of warriors who hired cleaners to help clear the spoils of war is about 20% higher than that of warriors who were reluctant to hire cleaners.

As for why the Spirit Butcher can also become a strong class in this version, the reason is quite simple.

Every moment, every demon beast killed by the warrior cultivators must be butchered by a master butcher, and all the useful parts must be processed with professional techniques so that they can be sold for a good price within the Yunshan Sect.

Hu San bled without expression, peeled away flesh without expression, and cursed the two Spirit Slaughter apprentices he had just recruited that day without expression.

Then, with a blank expression, he left behind a huge wolf leg as payment for the slaughter.

He listened expressionlessly as the warrior opposite him bowed and thanked him, praising his exquisite skills.

After working expressionlessly as a slaughtering machine for more than half a month, his heart was cold, and his blood had grown cold.

Only when he counts spirit crystals at night can his heart be rekindled, allowing him to be fully recharged and throw himself into the slaughtering business the next day.

Hu San didn't know where the limit of his cultivation was.

But he knew that the most glorious moment of his life was probably right now, right here, on this blood-red city wall that was filled with the stench of demonic beasts and the smell of warriors!
Today, Hu San met a guest he hadn't seen in a long time.

This man made him show a rare expression, and he smiled and spoke to him.

It was Su Qing, the Daoist who had sold him the witch puppet.

I heard that since he left Gejia Village, his business has grown bigger and bigger.

Now, he has a great reputation throughout the entire White Cloud Immortal City, and has gathered a group of ruthless professionals to do puppet business through forced buying and selling.

He's definitely a ruthless person.

Although it's unclear why this ruthless puppeteer, who makes a fortune just by selling puppets, would want to join the fun at the city wall.

But Hu San, who was eager to buy another witch puppet from him, didn't waste any more words and simply slaughtered the tusked boar that Hu San had brought with him.

Judging from what he said to the three pale-faced, lifeless servants behind him, it seemed that he was going to go out of the city to hunt down a second-tier demon king.

They were truly skilled and daring, and with so many puppets, they were unafraid of death.

Hu San had no interest in dampening his enthusiasm.

These ruthless people are all incredibly stubborn. A few days ago, a Foundation Establishment cultivator named Lin Shuangmu from the Yunshan Sect...

Ignoring all advice, he went to the Demon King's cave to challenge the Demon King. Instead of killing the demon, he had an arm swallowed by the Demon King.

When he returned, he insisted that the array master who had advised him earlier shouldn't have spoken up, as it had ruined his luck and caused him to suffer misfortune.

It's indescribable; he can't distinguish between good and bad words at all. He deserves to be called the One-Armed Hero.

But this is different from Lin Shuangmu, who has no connection with him.

Hu San still really hoped that Su Qing could come back alive.

After all, he had promised me that if I returned, he would create a puppet for me called the Serpent Beauty.

Price: 30,000 spirit crystals!

That witch puppet cost only three hundred spirit crystals, yet it was so exciting.

This beautiful snake dares to sell for 30,000; I wonder how wonderful and lustrous it must be.

As a demon slayer who has no path to cultivation but is in the prime of his life and has no hurry to have children.

Hu San has earned so many spirit crystals through hard work every day; he should spend them wisely.

"The second-tier demon king is ferocious and tyrannical. The chances of this fellow Daoist returning alive are extremely slim!" Hu San told his apprentices to continue their work, while he furtively peeked out from the city wall pass to look into the distance.

Since the last great battle, the monsters still frequently gather in groups to attack White Cloud Immortal City.

Most of the time, it was the second-tier demon kings who led the charge, only to be riddled with bullets and crossbow bolts from the city walls and then retreat in frustration.

Because of the assistance from the Yunshan Sect in slaying demons on the city wall—including their formations, magical artifacts, and puppets—70% of the spoils must first be given to the Yunshan Sect before the remainder belongs to the individual.

As a result, many powerful rogue cultivators took the initiative to leave the city to hunt down monsters.

Although most of them only dared to fight more than ten miles away from the city wall, they were still a group of fierce warriors that Hu San admired.

Looking around, Hu San saw nothing special about the battlefields nearby, where monsters had been pierced or pierced by monsters. They were just like any other day, bloody but not very interesting or exciting.

Looking further into the distance, one can see the Rat King Team, the Bear King Team, the Wang Family, the You Family, and other prominent forces in White Cloud Immortal City, cooperating with each other and locked in fierce battle with the demonic beasts.

Hu San wanted to look further into the distance, but he could only see thirty or forty low mountains, each over a hundred feet tall, shrouded in a demonic aura and heavy with fog.

There were only eighteen or nineteen of these low hills a few days ago, but somehow more than twenty have appeared out of nowhere.

Hu San heard from some demon hunters who used to live near the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range that these low mountains were originally a territory that even some first-tier demon beasts would look down upon.

Now it is the refuge of second-tier demon kings. The daily supply of materials transported from the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range to feed them requires flocks of wild geese to fly back and forth.

I wonder what these monsters are trying to achieve by causing all this trouble.

Hu San found it hard to understand the behavior of the monsters, just as he couldn't understand why Su Qing, as a puppeteer, would risk his life on the front lines.

After watching for a while, Hu San, still unable to understand, returned to the slaughterhouse with a sense of boredom.

However, he discovered that in the short time he had been away...

The two apprentices, however, secured a big deal.

It was so big that he couldn't even accept it.

"This... Fellow Daoist Wang, please forgive my incompetence. I am truly unable to kill this second-tier demon king. If I were to do so, I fear I would damage its fur and bones."

If I'm not careful and damage its inner demon core, even if I sell myself, I can't afford to compensate for it.

"I would like to ask this fellow Daoist to seek out the second-tier butcher from the Yunshan Sect. This job is simply beyond my capabilities!"

The customers who came to the door came in a group of seven or eight people, but there were more than a hundred puppets standing in front of and behind them, each of them exuding a fierce aura and looking like they would not be easy to deal with.

Even though Hu San has now killed many demons and has acquired the skills of a first-tier high-grade spirit butcher, and could try to kill a second-tier demon king, he still wouldn't dare to take on this job.

Because these people in front of us are from the Wang family!

In Baiyun City today, everyone knows that the Wang family suffered heavy losses when their ancestral home was destroyed by demonic cultivators on the day of the Baiyun Battle.

For the past two weeks, they've been acting like madmen, mobilizing the entire clan to earn spirit crystals.

Not to mention, there are more than ten puppet shops in Baiyun Immortal City.

Outside Baiyun Immortal City, the clan leader himself took to the field, leading many of the clan's puppeteers to kill demons and earn money.

It's flourishing both domestically and internationally.

They're making a killing with spirit crystals.

But his temper is never very good.

They frequently bully and oppress independent cultivators.

These kinds of guests are the most troublesome for Hu San, because if anything goes wrong, this family will definitely make a fuss and be difficult to deal with.

“The spirit butcher of Yunshan Sect charges 10% of the harvest for each slaughter. If we were willing to let him slaughter us, would we need to come looking for you?”

"What? Those lizard-playing and alligator-playing people are bullying my Wang family? Even you, Hu San, a pig butcher, dare to look down on our Wang family?!"

(End of this chapter)