Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 224 The Heavenly Demoness in Red Robes

The witch, as before, appeared without a trace and disappeared without a trace.

He was left alone, heartbroken as he faced the three piles of materials from the Heavenly Demoness.

With his current skills, he can't say he'll be 100% successful in refining the Heavenly Demoness, but he should be able to make two out of three.

Therefore, he can at least get one more Heavenly Demoness puppet.

This is also what saddened him.

If a puppet like the Heavenly Demoness were put up for auction in the Immortal City, the starting price would probably be at least a hundred spirit stones, and the final price might even be higher than that of the Flood Dragon Bone.

Unfortunately, because Liu Yun'er needed a witch's substitute to cause trouble, she couldn't let outsiders know that she had such a puppet that could perfectly imitate others, lest her opponents become wary.

Therefore, he could not reveal the existence of the Heavenly Demoness puppet before the witch's grand plan succeeded.

"If you don't want it leaked, are you just keeping it for yourself? That would be far too extravagant!"

Su Qing shook her head and sighed inwardly that such a priceless puppet could not be released to create value, but could only be locked up in her boudoir and played with by herself. She felt guilty!
After spending several days refining the Heavenly Demoness, the result was better than he had imagined. The first two sets were successfully refined, and he still had a set of materials left!
Looking at the two celestial demonesses before him, each smile and frown exuding charm, their every sway and undulation creating a breathtaking spectacle.

Su Qing put one of them into her storage bag, intending to deliver it to the True Witch three months later.

Then look at the witch puppet he specially created for himself.

Because he could not perfectly replicate Liu Yun'er's demeanor, appearance, personality, and temperament.

Therefore, he naturally set the personality of this witch according to his own needs.

As for her figure and appearance, no adjustments were made. She is a one-to-one replica of the real witch, which is already perfect. Adding or subtracting even a little bit would be superfluous and unnecessary.

This puppet, dressed in a red robe specially chosen for her, with a simple jade hairpin casually pinned to her head, exudes an elegant and dignified air. However, due to the natural allure of her figure and appearance, it is hard not to let one's imagination run wild.

Like a mixture of ice and fire, it is a seductive technique that is many times more sophisticated than the first-generation witch puppet that was equipped with ice and fire modules.

Su Qing tested all the functions of this puppet, and his overall experience was better than that of several other puppets, such as the Beauty Leopard, the Beauty Snake, and the Passionate Puppet.

The night was dark and my vision was blurry, except for the soft murmurs and songs that filled the night.

On the second floor of the small shop, everything was as usual, and there was nothing much to go into detail.

Early the next morning.

"Master, it seems there are customers coming in downstairs. Should Hongshang go down and help you sell the goods?"

The Heavenly Demoness, named Hongshang, helped Su Qing put on her magic robes and quickly got into character.

"The rest will be handled by designated personnel. You must not show your face for the time being. Just stay on this second floor and do what you like!"

Su Qing waved her hand and said.

Red Robe is considered his most outstanding creation in puppet making recently.

The blueprint for the Heavenly Demoness provided on the panel is only a second-tier superior grade.

But because the true witch had opened her heart to him before, and because he had been watching closely at the time.

So much so that he grasped the essence of the true witch's Daoist spirit and infused it into the refining of the Heavenly Witch.

Both of the Heavenly Demoness puppets possessed the highest quality of the second tier.

Apart from lacking self-awareness, they are almost indistinguishable from the true witches at the Foundation Establishment stage.

The Heavenly Demoness can even simulate all the Taoist arts cultivated by the True Demoness, although it is only similar in form, and the actual effect is only about 30 to 50% of the power used by the True Demoness when she was in the Foundation Establishment stage.

The Foundation Establishment Witch is already extremely dangerous. If you have 30-50% of her strength, from a combat perspective alone, Hongshang would have the combat power to rival a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator!
Even so, Su Qing couldn't bear to let him do the same job as Hu Dan Liu Yin.

Because the primary function of this puppet is not in combat.

A cyborg witch, dressed in red with third-order intelligent runes, capable of mimicking the mind of a witch.

In addition, I set her personality as shrewd, capable, and clever, like a housekeeper or secretary.

As his puppet army grows larger and his affairs become more numerous, his situation becomes increasingly complicated.

Its main function is to assist me in handling some daily tasks, and to help me analyze the situation, clarify my thoughts, and formulate plans.

He could also create a Wisdom Wood Spirit from this type of puppet, but this puppet would be used to exploit other puppets and make them work more efficiently.

However, he lacked the ability to help Hongshang analyze his current situation, formulate a growth plan, and improve his escape strategy.

Therefore, he used the remaining ten percent of his divine sense, which he had gained from the newly transformed Yuan Sword Control Technique, to activate Hong Chang, instead of choosing to refine the Wisdom Wood Spirit.

It's not that Zhi Muling isn't good enough; it's just that he needs Hongshang more right now.

It's not as simple and superficial as just because Hongshang can sleep with him!
As for the matters on the first floor, Qinghe, who worked for free, and Xiong Er, a cheap puppeteer, handled them all.

Unless a wealthy customer who buys a Lizard Rider specifically requests to be entertained by him, he's not worth wasting his time on the poor customers who buy Lizard Warriors.

Today he plans to create dozens of weakened substitute dolls, or simply "little green dolls".

Due to limited materials, Little Peng King cannot compare to Big Peng King; its second-tier Golden Peng Feather is not as powerful as the third-tier Golden Peng Feather.

As a result, the little green frog is only of mid-grade quality at level one, and its effects are not as good as the big green frog.

It can only move a maximum of one mile at a time, unlike the Big Green Baby who can move to any location at will.

Once the little green doll is actively activated or dies in his place, it will only passively switch places with him, and it cannot be placed in the storage bag to take effect.

This means that if he wants to use the little green doll to escape, he must put the little green doll away in advance, unlike the big green doll which he can carry with him and use at any time.

He was very dissatisfied with this result before.

But ever since Lin Shuangmu mastered the Transformation Yuan Sword Technique.

His mind immediately clicked.

What kind of man thinks about running away all day long?

The best defense is a good offense!

The Puppet Shop may have a small name, but it occupies a large area, at least the entire second floor, not much different from his spirit house with its front and back yards.

He can freely create puppets on it.

The two wood spirits worked tirelessly, day and night, in the refining room.

The main structures of the puppets they currently create are mostly lizard knights, whirlwind cannons, and fire cannons—the kinds of puppets he plans to mass-produce.

Some of these puppets were sold to outsiders, while others were used by himself. He equipped them with two full-handed abilities and used all four hands to draw runes, which didn't take much effort.

The initial investment is a bit large, and the daily Spirit Crystal cost is a bit painful.

But Su Qing was aware of the principle that one only regrets not having enough puppets when one needs them.

I'll temporarily set aside 500,000 spirit crystals, refine a batch first, and store it in my storage bag for later use.

Hundreds of little wood spirits emerged and handed the little Peng King's feathers to them.

The corpse of the Little Peng King yielded about three hundred feathers, meaning he could refine more than three hundred Little Green Babies.

This was the prey he had worked so hard to kill, so he had no reason to pity it and had already plucked all its fur off!

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Carve the wood into shape, sprinkle water and mix with soil, melt bamboo and brush off the skin, and insert gold feathers inside.

The little wood spirits do these things with ease; they are all skilled workers.

He then prepared the talisman water and began to draw it one by one.

Unlike the previous few little green dolls that were refined.

This time, the little green doll he crafted not only had the three essential types of runes: bionics, intelligence, and space.

He also added several runes to it, including those for flying, combat, and spirit explosion.

To this end, he spared no expense in taking out many rare materials such as Heavenly Spirit Gold, Exploding Stone, and Sky Stone from his storage bag and having Little Wood Spirit mix them into Little Green Baby according to the proportions he had set.

In this way, the little green creature became a little green sword-wielder with sharp horns on its head and bladed arms. Its vibrant green color made it even uglier than the big-headed mandrill.

It does not matter!

He dared not look too much, and kept reminding himself that sometimes appearance is not necessarily combat power. The Lin family's Ghost Kings were all ugly, but weren't they stronger the uglier they were?
Draw the prepared talisman water onto the paper one by one.

He only draws second-order concepts in biomimicry, intelligence, and space.

There's no need to design three levels for bionics and intelligence. The main functions of the big and small green dolls determine that they are consumables that are used and then discarded, so there's no need to make them too elaborate.

Spatial runes are something he doesn't have the ability to do yet. His proficiency in spatial runes is still far from the third tier. He could force himself to draw them, but the failure rate would be high. Little Green Baby is too delicate; failure would ruin everything, so he couldn't bear to try.

He only used the first-tier flight rune next, for the same reason as above.

The combat rune he had was only at the second tier. This was because he had recently crafted a lot of combat puppets, and this rune was simpler than the spatial rune, so his proficiency with it was almost at the third tier.

He hadn't expected to get the Spirit Explosion rune.

It was a sunny day, not much different from any other. He took some time out of his busy schedule to refine lizard warriors to restock his small shop.

Suddenly, a line of black text on a white background appeared on the panel.

[Due to your relentless pursuit of increasing the power of puppet self-destruction, you have created a brand new rune—the Spirit Explosion Rune.]

[Spirit Explosion Rune - Causes spiritual materials to rapidly disintegrate in a very short time, releasing enormous energy far exceeding the material's original value.]

As the creator of runes, you have one opportunity to be invited by Heaven and Earth to observe the Dao Heaven Rune Wall. The Dao Heaven Rune Wall is currently not open, so this qualification has been reserved.

[Unlocked the Rune Creator achievement. This rune's tier will permanently increase by one. Current rune proficiency is 1/3000 (Tier 2)]

Unlock the following three puppet blueprints.

【Thunder Serpent - Bionic Spirit Explosion Puppet (Tier 2, Low Grade)】

[Spirit Explosion Ring - Support-type Spirit Explosion Puppet (Tier 2, High Grade)]

【Deepwater Tyrant - Destruction-type Spirit Explosion Puppet (Tier 3 Limit)】

Perhaps it was the moment when the first lizard warrior recklessly self-destructed in Zhang Hai's hands.

This destined Su Qing to forge a path of spirit explosion runes and spirit explosion puppets that no one had ever walked before.

Su Qing was naturally overjoyed by this.

What he lacks now is firepower. The Spirit Blast Rune and Spirit Blast Puppet will undoubtedly greatly enhance the firepower output of his puppet arsenal.

It's a pity that after activating the five-star general Xiong and the Heavenly Demoness Hongshang, the game ended.

His remaining spiritual energy is almost depleted, and he hasn't even dealt with Little Peng King's remains and demon core yet.

To refine the Spirit Explosion Ring and the Sky Collapse Serpent, it's estimated that he'll have to wait until his next Transformation Dao Technique increases his divine sense, or until he breaks through the ninth level of Qi Refining and reaches the peak of Qi Refining, after which his divine sense will increase by 50%.

For now, it's best to focus on refining the little green doll.

Sword control is, after all, the life's work of Senior Brother Lin. Since I came from his cultivation, I should respect his achievements.

He can't afford a normal magic sword right now, so he'll have to make do with the little green doll for now.

Draw the Spirit Explosion rune.

The first green sword doll was born.

After waiting for a while, no prompt sounded from the panel. It seemed that the panel had not thought of the use of this green sword doll and could not classify it as a new type of puppet.

Su Qingwei was somewhat disappointed, feeling that the panel was not smart enough.

It doesn't matter if no one understands it, as long as it works.

With the help of the little wood spirit, he worked with all four hands together and quickly and successfully crafted twenty green sword dolls before stopping.

Just as he was preparing to rest for a moment and begin crafting other puppets.

She walked over gracefully in a red dress, standing ramrod straight, holding a stack of white papers in her hand. Her red lips parted slightly as she began to report her work to Su Qing.

Judging from his demeanor, Su Qing always felt that something was missing.

Glasses? Black stockings?
Forget it, they're just puppets doing serious work, so let's not overthink it.

"According to Hongshang's statistics, the master currently possesses the following puppets, corresponding materials, physical cultivation level, and future work focus."

Su Qing took the booklet from Hong Shang and opened it to the first page.

[Owner: Su Qing]

[Current state: Vigorous Qi and blood, clear mind and spirit.]

Lifespan: 25/456 (Second-tier body cultivation extends lifespan by three hundred years)

[Cultivation Realm: Qi Refining Level 8]

[Cultivated Daoist Arts: Yellow-level Daoist Arts—Guiding Technique, Golden Blade Technique. Profound-level Daoist Arts—Thousand Illusions, Sword Control Technique.]

[Body Cultivation Realm: Second Tier, Middle Grade]

[Combat skills cultivated: Yellow-level combat skill - Niu Family Thirteen Basic Fist Techniques, Profound-level combat skills - Immovable Heavenly King Skill, Overlord Dragon Roar Spear]

[Divine Sense Realm: Late Foundation Establishment (approximately)]

[Divine Sense Secret Techniques: Profound-level Secret Technique - Needle Control Technique (first two levels), Divine Art and Divine Combination Method (Profound-level Limit)]

[Puppet Master Realm: Second Tier, High Grade]

[Runes cultivated: Bionic (Tier 3), Intelligence (Tier 3), Exorcism (Tier 3)...]

Currently activated puppets: Treant Servants (1362 in total, including 132 Greater Treants) — Support Role

Spider Doctors (5,693) — Medical Profession

Meditation dolls (28 in total) — a profession of spiritual practice.

Substitute dolls (four) — a job that requires sacrifice.

Armored War Bear (Bear Two, who has developed self-awareness, is a puppet spirit.) — a working class.

One Skyrocket-class destroyer – Second-line combat role

Destroyer Puppets (36 units) — Frontline Combat Role

Explosive Killing Puppets (452 ​​units) — Frontline combat casualties

Bee Reconnaissance Puppet (368 units) — Frontline reconnaissance and combat role

Phantom Leopard (two units) – one for second-line combat work, and the other for life support work.

Explosive Hammer War Bear (eight in total) — Frontline combat role.

Mandrill Burial (one body) - Second-line combat role, first-line exorcism role.

Earth Bear King (one unit) - Frontline combat role.

Decepticons (two units) - Frontline combat role.

Dual-armed (one-armed) - Frontline combat worker, frontline support worker.

[Celestial Demoness (one) - Third-line combat role, second-line staff role, first-line life support role]

[Unactivated Puppet Ranks: 56 Lizard Knights, 236 Lizard Warriors, 12 Gale Cannons, 8 Flame Cannons, 5 Phantom Leopards, and 36 Flying Sword Puppets.]

Current total number of spirit stones: 594 (including the 500 spirit stones given by Liu Yun'er)

[Currently available Tier 1 materials: 126 Spirit Woods, 43,000 catties of Mystic Iron Essence, 96 sections of White Jade Lotus Root, 486 Tier 1 Spirit Dog Bones, over 3,000 catties of Tier 1 Beast Spirit Powder...]

[Currently possessed Tier 2 materials: Cloud Roc Demon King's body, Little Golden Roc King's body and demon core, over 14,000 catties of Heavenly Spirit Gold, two ten-thousand-year-old lightning-struck woods, four Heavenly Thunder Stones, one bottle of Jade Marrow Liquid, one set of Xuanli pelts...]

(End of this chapter)