Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 260 While sitting at home, lanterns fall from the sky.

The third-tier Spirit Explosion rune is difficult to draw.

Because it can really explode if it doesn't make a sound.

With only a second-tier level of proficiency, the success rate of attempting to draw third-tier runes is extremely low.

Fortunately.

All the damage from the spirit explosion was absorbed by the dragon-snake wood spirit and the tiger egg he was wearing.

He himself was unharmed.

Unharmed, they persisted, and so, in this dark and gloomy central urban area, on the second floor of Su's small shop, the thunderous explosions never ceased.

It was as lively as Chinese New Year.

Today is indeed Chinese New Year.

Although cultivators are different from mortals, with long lifespans and little concern for festivals, New Year's Eve is still different and has special significance for them.

For Su Qing, the puppet master, successfully crafting a second-tier ultimate puppet was a perfect ending to the year.

But for the millions of mortal cultivators currently residing in Baiyun Immortal City.

Tonight may be the most unforgettable New Year's Eve for them.

Because throughout the city, in the cold night sky, large red lanterns rose one after another.

The large red lanterns emitted an eerie red glow.

The entire immortal city was bathed in a red glow—red city walls, red spirit houses, red people, and red blood!
"Killing!"

A piercing scream tore through the night sky.

All the immortal cultivators who were still wandering around and engaging in illicit affairs at night were attacked by the red lanterns.

The lanterns were mostly made of the heads of demonic beasts, with a few also depicting human heads.

They are omnipresent. Whenever they find a target, they dart to its head, and fine blood lines hang down, easily severing the protective aura of a magic cultivator and the qi and blood shield of a body cultivator.

As soon as the heads of those cultivators fell, they too transformed into red lanterns, searching for new targets.

In an instant, screams filled the entire White Cloud Immortal City, and lanterns lit up the sky.

Su Qing was practicing puppetry on the second floor.

You can feel the evil wind rising, and dozens of the exorcism talismans pasted on the top, bottom and sides of the shop are emitting spiritual light.

This made him frown.

The exorcism talisman worked, meaning that these red lanterns will not only target cultivators wandering outside, but will also attack those staying inside the spirit house!

People sit at home, and lanterns fall from the sky.

"These evil spirits are so impolite!"

Su Qing deliberately tore off the talisman pasted on the window and released her aura without restraint.

With his current physical strength and vigorous vitality, he was like a feast in the eyes of the red lantern.

In an instant, hundreds of red lanterns rushed into the house.

Seeing that the room was almost full, Su Qing peeked out and addressed the red lanterns outside who were eager to enter:
"Yes, we have everything! We'll invite you over after we've finished eating this first batch of lanterns!"

With a bang, the window was slammed shut.

Su Qing revealed a ferocious smile to the group of lantern monsters.

Inside the room, three mandrill spirits bounced around like a ball, leaving the lantern monsters dizzy and disoriented.

As soon as they were stunned, a yellow, clay-like golem enveloped them completely, regardless of whether the lantern monsters liked it or not.

That wasn't the end of it. The clay golem, wrapped around the lantern monster, bounced like a pinball into a black wooden coffin.

After the coffin-like opening and closing, the lantern monster, which had been lively just moments before, had turned into a pool of blood. Inside the coffin, only a blood-black evil rune remained. This evil rune was about to attack the black coffin puppet, attempting to corrupt it and turn it into a malevolent spirit.

Then a row of thirty-six eminent Buddhist monks began to strike the wooden fish.

The evil runes instantly disintegrated, the black light quickly receded, and only scattered Dao runes could be seen, which then condensed into a line and surged into Su Qing's mind.

This was exactly what Su Qing had anticipated.

The red lantern is inextricably linked to the Gao family's butcher shop; like the headless evil spirit of the past, this red lantern is simply an upgraded version of it.

The headless evil spirit is only of low-grade first-order combat strength. Cultivators can deal with it by preparing a few exorcism talismans. Even body cultivators like Niu Ya can disintegrate it by gathering their blood and qi and shouting.

This red lantern was clearly much more powerful. Su Qing roughly estimated that it already possessed the power of thirty talismans, roughly equivalent to a first-tier extreme evil spirit.

Qi Refining cultivators and first-level body cultivators would find it difficult to contend with these evil spirits without the aid of exorcism talismans, exorcism puppets, exorcism artifacts, and other exorcism items.

While ordinary cultivators would avoid such red lanterns like the plague, he did not.

In the past few months, he has already developed the prototype of an exorcism and funeral procession.

The mandrill burial spirit, from one to three, has even greater shovel power and a stronger back attack.

The Earth Virtue Buddha Spirit is a combat puppet for exorcising evil spirits, made primarily from a second-tier golden lotus heart, mixed with a hundred catties of Buddha soil and Heavenly Spirit Gold, and refined from lotus root human limbs.

Don't be fooled by its soft, muddy appearance. It can trap opponents within the mud, preventing them from escaping, and can also form hands and feet from the mud, transforming into a mud man who can wield profound-level combat skills with ruthless punches and kicks.

At least Tiger Egg did not gain any advantage in the fight against it, and was beaten black and blue. From then on, it accepted its position at the bottom of the hierarchy of contempt among Su Qing's group of second-tier puppets.

Because the Golden Lotus Heart is so rare, the Buddha Land also has to collect incense ash from the homes of Buddhist believers in mortal kingdoms and from famous temples and ancient monasteries. Not only does this take a long time, but it takes tens of thousands of kilograms of incense ash to purify one kilogram of second-grade Buddha Land.

He had Li Hailang search every shop in Baiyun Immortal City, and they barely managed to gather a hundred catties, so they could only refine this one Earth Virtue Buddha Spirit before giving up.

In comparison, the Black Coffin Granny was much more difficult to refine.

The main body of the coffin should be made of second-grade ebony, and a small amount of diamond powder should be mixed into the coffin board.

The coffin nails are even more excessive; they must be made of diamond-hard bone!

Only through the three stages of physical cultivation in Buddhism can one attain Vajra (a form of spiritual strength).

Using its bone powder as a material, the cost of refining this Black Coffin Granny is far greater than that of other puppets.

Fortunately, although there weren't many living Buddhist Vajra practitioners in the Western Sea, quite a few had died.

Between the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom and the Thousand Island Immortal Kingdom lies the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave, which contains the remains of many eminent Buddhist cultivators.

However, the place is cold and gloomy, with howling evil winds, and evil Buddhas often appear to harm people, so most cultivators avoid this place.

But there is never a shortage of people in the cultivation world who are not afraid of death.

There are tomb raiders who specialize in digging up the bones of the deceased and taking their treasures.

High-ranking Buddhist monks were not wealthy in life, and their burial items were few and far between, but their remains themselves were priceless.

With these tomb raiders who desecrate Gao Xiu's corpse around, it wouldn't be difficult for him to buy Vajra Bone and Vajra Powder.

The only difficulty is its price.

According to Tong Xin, the fact that a single skeleton could be moved out of the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves must have cost countless tomb raiders.

A pound of bone meal is both the product of Vajra Buddha's cultivation and a collection of the bones and blood of tomb raiding heroes.

If the price is too low, the Vajra Buddha monks will not agree, and the tomb raiders will also find it extremely difficult to agree.

Su Qing also felt that these tomb raiders, whose mortality rate exceeded 80% and whose average lifespan was only thirty years, were not easy to find.

Therefore, he reluctantly paid the exorbitant price of twenty spirit stones to buy three catties of Vajra powder and four Vajra nails.

If he had more resources, he could have created the Black Coffin Granny as a bionic exorcism puppet.

In this way, the Black Coffin Granny will mimic a high-ranking Buddhist monk, transforming into the Vajra Granny, using her power to subdue people, first stunning the evil spirits with a hammer, then locking them in a coffin and refining them.

(End of this chapter)