Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 246 Curse Kill, Hidden Bombardment, Taking Your Life Three Thousand Times

Having been blasted away by Su Qing, Lin Fan's expression was not good at the moment.

His cold gaze swept over Tang Wanqing and the others, lingering for a moment on the two teams of spellcasters with a hint of surprise, before finally turning to Su Qing.

The hatred in his eyes was so intense for some reason.

It seemed as if he wouldn't be satisfied even if he devoured Su Qing alive.

Su Qing was puzzled, but Lin Fan himself was very clear about where this hatred came from.

It was because of his performance at the auction and in the puppet show that he incurred the displeasure of the clan elders, which allowed Lin Song to surpass him and now enjoy a higher reputation in the clan.

Lin Fan, who began cultivating Qi at the age of five and establishing his foundation at the age of forty-six, made great contributions to his family in Yunluo Immortal City and Baiyun Immortal City.

It was only because he had no talent in either puppetry or alchemy, and because he lost the puppet order from Yunshan Sect, which his family considered insignificant.

They then asked him to settle for second best and give up the possibility of competing for the position of family head.

He was unwilling to accept it!

Alright, the elders said that compared to Lin Song, he was not a puppeteer and would find it difficult to lead the family's puppeteer lineage in the future.

He intended to kill Su Qing and obtain the rune inheritance and numerous second-tier blueprints from him that his family had never collected!
"Fellow Daoist Su's talent in the art of puppetry is indeed extraordinary. I never expected that in addition to the pair of perfect hands, the tiger-armored puppet, and the red-faced mountain demon, he could even refine the Earth Bear King."

"Such talent makes me reluctant to kill you. I'll give you one more chance: sign a slave contract with my Lin family, and I might spare your life. Are you willing or not?"

Lin Fan coldly shouted. The setback suffered by the Shadow Puppet just now had no effect on him. He was still as arrogant and condescending as ever, wanting people to be his dogs.

Su Qing didn't even bother with him, turning to You Xianda and asking with her hands clasped:
"Fellow Daoist You, I believe I have never offended the You family. I wonder why you would want to be my enemy?"

You Xianda, surprisingly forthright, stared intently at the tiger-armored puppet on Su Qing's body and shouted:

“It’s not that I want to make things difficult for Fellow Daoist Su, but my You family’s Heavenly Sword Crossing the West Diagram reacted with your Tiger Armor Puppet. If you had been willing to sell this puppet to my You family back then, today’s events could have been completely avoided.”

Upon hearing this, Su Qing suddenly realized what was going on.

In his view, although only he could create the Tyrant Tiger, it was nowhere else in this world.

However, the tiger egg on his body was made from tiger bones without a demon core, and its grade was only mid-grade of the second rank.

Given the You family's wealth and their relationship with the Lin family, acquiring a mid-grade first or second tier armor puppet would not be difficult.

Why bother relentlessly attacking Su Qing over a mere tiger-armored puppet?
Now it seems that it was because of the You family's inherited talisman that a strange bond was formed with the tiger egg?
Although such things are bizarre, the cultivation world is full of wonders, and such things do happen occasionally.

Someone's magical artifact and another's weapon took a liking to each other; someone's spirit beast fell in love with a powerful demon.

The Wood Spirit Servant can form a high-level Buddhist practice with the Merit Wooden Fish.

Ironclad Bear Two can be lifted by the Vajra Pestle and transformed into a Buddhist high bear.

In comparison, it's not so surprising that the Heavenly Sword Crossing the West Map took a liking to the tiger egg.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, fellow Daoist, to clear up my doubts. In that case, please begin!"

As soon as Su Qing finished speaking, he saw the people behind Lin Fan swallow a God-Breaking Pill in unison. His eyes turned red as he thought to himself, "I wonder how much dirty money the Lin family has made that they can give these God-Breaking Pills to their underlings like candy!"

But what's the use of swallowing the God-Exploding Pill?

Can you release the puppet talisman?

Bang bang bang!
Three loud explosions left drops of blood on Lin Fan and You Xianda's faces.

Turning around, they saw that three of their clansmen had inexplicably exploded into a bloody mess behind them.

It was the effect of the twenty-four curse masters simultaneously using their curse-killing techniques.

Seeing that all twenty-four spellcasters were spitting blood, it's clear they paid a heavy price.

Just as Lin Fan roared, wanting everyone to use their methods to kill these curse spirit masters first.

Above their heads, from within the thick, accumulated clouds, countless azure, luminous stones began to fall.

"It's a bursting stone!"

You Xianda roared.

These stones, brimming with chaotic spiritual energy, appeared to You Xianda like the Grim Reaper, a harbinger of death. He knew that letting them fall would surely bring misfortune upon everyone.

Without time to think, he threw out the Heavenly Sword Crossing the West Diagram, from which he summoned mountain peaks and stone walls to protect everyone in the sky.

Bang bang bang!
The explosions continued, and spiritual energy surged.

It is that third-order talisman, which has been nurtured by generations of cultivators of the You family on the mountain and stone walls.

Under the bombardment of these exploding stones inscribed with spirit explosion runes, the earth crumbled and rocks scattered, and the mountains could collapse at any moment.

"Release the Bloodbat Puppets to entangle the puppet that's throwing the explosive stones!"

"Magic artifacts! Bring out all the defensive magic artifacts you have! Do you really want to experience being bombarded by these exploding stones?!"

"Where did that scoundrel Su Qing get so many explosive stones?!"

"This exploding stone is no joke either. Even through the mountain cliffs, most of its power is blocked, yet it still makes my soul tremble and makes it difficult to release my puppet!"

"Even a wrecked ship has three thousand nails; that's probably his trump card. Let's keep things calm and make him suffer!"

The cultivators from the Lin and You families cursed each other angrily.

They summoned their puppet artifacts to assist the Heavenly Sword Crossing the Western Lands, forming layers of defensive nets in the air to intercept the exploding stones, and in their frantic efforts, temporarily blocked the bombardment of the exploding stones.

Meanwhile, in the sky, hundreds or even thousands of the Lin family's first-tier high-grade puppets, the Blood Bat Puppets, rushed into the clouds in a massive swarm, intending to blast Yun Pengyin, who had launched the exploding stones, down.

Among them, the second-tier Blood Bat King with two horns and exposed fangs is the most eye-catching and is also the greatest reliance that the Lin family cultivators believe can deal with the Cloud Roc Hidden Bomb in the sky.

Since the Cloud Roc Hidden Bomb only dared to sneakily release explosive stones from the clouds, it must not have much power. With the Blood Bat King and the Blood Bat Swarm, it could be easily dealt with.

Because the clouds were extremely thick and filled with demonic energy, even You Xianda, who was in the late stage of Foundation Establishment, could not clearly perceive the situation inside the clouds. He could only vaguely sense that there seemed to be more than just the Cloud Roc Puppet among the clouds.

Before he could even warn the puppeteers of the Lin family who were controlling the swarm of blood bats to be careful, he was caught off guard.

Seeing that the situation had stabilized, Lin Fan could no longer suppress his killing intent. He led many puppeteers from the Lin family, summoned Shadow Puppet, Eight-Armed Ghost King and other second-tier puppets, and led hundreds of Blood Demon Puppets, and rushed towards Su Qing and the others.

Although the You family had never served as servants of the Lin family, they were inferior in power and had long been vassals of the Lin family.

At this point, it was not appropriate for them to just stand by and watch, so they led their people to throw out scrolls of talismans.

The figures in the painting or the humanoid cultivators step out to perform Taoist arts, or form mountains, rivers, and land, appearing both illusory and real.

Then, lifelike monsters fly out of the painting, and spirits with bodies as hard as iron and steel bravely fight on all sides.

These are all talismans treasured by the You family for many years. Although they can be used multiple times like puppets, each time they are used, various materials must be consumed to redraw the painting in order to preserve its spiritual essence.

Even though the You family was large and powerful, You Xianda still felt a little heartache at this moment.

What pained him even more was the Heavenly Sword Crossing the West Map, because even with the help of many cultivators, the number of exploding stones falling from the sky had decreased.

But Yun Peng couldn't be completely wiped out by the bombardment, so the bombardment continued without stopping!
The mountains and stone walls summoned by the Heavenly Sword Crossing the West Diagram were being blasted thinner and thinner.

You Xianda involuntarily probed the air with his divine sense, wanting to see the battle situation in the sky first.

Upon seeing this, he immediately gasped in shock.

From within the sky-covering clouds, one after another, blood bat puppets fell helplessly to the ground.

These aerial combat puppets, which the Lin family cultivators had touted to the heavens, were unable to stay in the clouds for even a moment!
When they saw the second-tier Blood Bat King being carried away from the clouds by Su Qing's silver tiger puppet.

You Xianda felt a sudden panic and sensed that something was wrong!

(End of this chapter)