Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 274 One person's combat strength is strong, and the rogue cultivator has many unique skills.
Su Qing's team does not support idle people or puppets.

Seeing his teammates perform well, the newly crowned Pig King and former Dog King Pang Feifan was naturally unwilling to be outdone.

First, release the energetic and vigorous Shao Delong.

Then, he summoned the Gangjing Pig King to lead a group of first-tier Gangboars, and the White Python Demon King to lead a swarm of snakes. On the ground, there was a group of burrowing rats led by the Burrowing Rat King, and in the sky, there was a group of stone-beaked eagles led by the Stone-Beaked Eagle King.

Led by Shao Delong, the spirit beast team charged forward with great momentum. Although they dared not confront Golden Core cultivators, they could easily handle three or five Foundation Establishment evil spirits.

Apart from these second-tier professionals.

Lin Jiayun, the leopard-print violinist, plays music to boost morale and enhance her abilities.

The skilled physician Guo Qiaolian refined her spirit into silk threads, and shot out a barrage of spiritual needles, all of which were inserted into the friendly forces to stimulate their physical potential.

Even Ge Ling led the people of Ge Family Village, along with her 17th brother, who had been trained by Xiong Er to be skilled in various trades, to collect the remains of puppets on the battlefield, so that these remains would not be corrupted by the evil mist and become unusable.

This was something Xiong Er was most skilled at, but today Xiong Er was radiating Buddhist light, his hands were clasped together, a Buddhist vajra was wrapped around his arm, his eyes were filled with compassion, and his face had a merciful look. He clearly had an important task on his shoulders, and he dared not ask him to do such a trivial job as a battlefield cleaner.

Despite everyone's efforts, the opposing evil spirits still had five or six Golden Core evil spirits and dozens of Foundation Establishment cultivators left unattended.

No one was alarmed by this.

Because they saw that Su Qing's exorcism and funeral procession had started to move!
Leave the professional tasks to the professional puppeteers.

A cultivator who cannot use magical artifacts or spiritual objects has a combat strength of at most 50% to 60% that of a normal cultivator.

Four mountain demon spirits, along with their spirit-burying laborers, directly confronted a Golden Core evil spirit.

Shovels, countless shovels, shovel away thunder and lightning, drive away evil spirits and demons.

Although the puppets wielded their thunder shovels diligently and were specialized exorcism puppets, they were still only first or second-tier puppets, and there was a rank difference between them and Golden Core evil cultivators.

After a flurry of activity, although they managed to expel many evil shadows from the Golden Core Evil Spirit, the Golden Core Evil Spirit's Taoist arts also caused heavy losses to the Burial Spirit Team.

There's no time to mourn the casualties of the funeral procession; next up is the Earth Deity Spirit.

The yellow clay figures, one on the left and one on the right, with their tiny, jelly-like fists, frantically pounded on the Golden Core Evil Spirit's body. Although the damage inflicted on the Golden Core Evil Spirit by attacking from both sides was limited, it was still struggling to figure out how to deal with these two seemingly indestructible clay puppets.

Taking advantage of his inattention, the two Minions suddenly transformed into two sheets of clay, binding him tightly. A blazing spiritual light could be seen shining from beneath the clay sheets, indicating that the Golden Core evil spirit was about to unleash a Daoist technique to break free of the seal.

The Black Coffin Granny appeared just in time. Tu De Fo Ling released the evil spirit. Before he could react, he saw the coffin lid quickly close and heard the sound of four Vajra nails being hammered.

After being ravaged by the burial team and the earth-evil spirits, the golden-core evil spirit, whose evil energy had already been depleted by half, initially still had a sliver of hope of lifting the coffin lid.

But after Liang Haishun and the others noticed the situation and pasted three or five more talismans on the coffin lid, it became completely still.

The exorcism and funeral procession was victorious, and Su Qing nodded slightly.

The situation at hand is still small-scale; he is not yet ready to release the Refining Evil Furnace Child, the Merit Wooden Fish, and the Buddhist High Bear.

These three are the ballast stones for exorcising evil spirits; they are only needed when evil spirits that cause everyone to despair appear.

These Golden Core evil spirits, who cannot even use Earth-level Dao techniques, were a disgrace to Golden Core cultivators in life and a disgrace to evil spirits in death. They are not even worth our time.

As the flying dragon swooped down from the sky, summoning clouds and mist, most of the tribulation lightning power on its body flowed into the six hands and three spears behind Su Qing.

With the addition of the exorcising talisman and the blessing of the exorcising tribulation lightning, the Overlord Spear is now comparable to a second-tier ultimate exorcising weapon.

The one who wielded them was Su Qing, a peak second-tier body cultivator whose Blood Killing Technique could be stacked up to eighteen layers, and who wore a third-tier Wind and Thunder Luwu Armor Puppet!
The moment the three spears were fired simultaneously, wind and thunder roared, and purple lightning burst forth from between the spears. The purple lightning instantly transformed into dragon-shaped energy, which rushed towards the three Golden Core evil spirits one after another!

"Asu has arrived!"

"He's going to take on three!"

"I'll plant his flag!"

"I'll play music for him!"

"I'll give him acupuncture!"

"I'll give him a blessing!"

The moment Su Qing entered the battle, Liang Haishun and the others reacted quickly.

With a swish, the Five Elements Array Flags were planted behind him.

The drug-addicted leopard-print violinist played music for him alone.

Hundreds of spiritual roots took root in his body.

Consort Yao then made another cut on her wrist, summoning the spirits of the ancient witch clan to bless the bloodline of the Great Witch of Jiuli!
With the support of his teammates, Su Qing is stronger, more robust, and more energetic.

The moment the three shots were fired, nine tails emerged from behind. These were the Wind and Thunder Nine Tails of Feng Lei Lu Wu. The nine giant tails swept through the wind and clouds, constantly harassing the three Golden Core evil spirits and preventing them from having a chance to calmly unleash their Dao techniques.

Su Qing was like a high-end version of Shao Delong, with the Heavenly King Armor inside, the Purple Thorn Armor in the middle, the Blood Killing Armor on the outside, the Heavenly Silkworm Armor on top, and then the Heavenly Silkworm Armor again, and then the Heavenly Silkworm Armor again.

With six layers of armor for protection, one truly fears no one.

The spear struck the evil spirit, and three spears were fired simultaneously at an extremely fast speed, instantly stacking up to eighteen spears. The eighteenth spear easily took down one of them.

One after another comes the next.

The Golden Core evil spirits, which had been left unattended, were all killed.

Looking at the elderly with shortened lifespans, Helian Xian and Liang Haishun really worked hard, helping them send off one of them.

Nine-Tailed Beast bound a Golden Core evil spirit and sent it into the black coffin, while Three-Shot helped the Iron-Eating King Beast deal with two Golden Core evil spirits.

After the Golden Core evil spirits were completely annihilated, the flying dragon took off on its own, and the rider switched to riding the Iron-Eating King Beast, straddling its neck. With six hands and three spears above and the king beast wielding a staff below, the dragon swept through the land like a tumbleweed, killing its way from south to north and then from north to south, completely flattening the entire group of Foundation Establishment warriors.

Looking at the battlefield ahead, the Lizard Knights had already slain all the low-level evil spirits, and no more evil monsters appeared on the vast battlefield.

"Those who are injured, go to Fellow Daoist Guo to collect medicinal pills to heal your wounds. The Lizard Knights, quickly clean up the battlefield and collect the puppet remains. The rest of you, rest for a while, and then continue on your way!"

Su Qing shouted loudly, casually popped a second-tier beast core into his mouth, and opened the black coffin. There was no surprise or delight. Without the merit-based wooden fish and Buddhist light to deliver the spirit, the golden core evil spirit that had suffocated in the coffin only left two evil runes. It seemed that it had already been taken back by the old evil spirit of Yunshan.

He didn't feel sorry about this; there was still a long day ahead, and there was no need to use all his means at once.

During their brief rest period...

Sect Master Bai Mei, who was chasing Gao Erqiang, sensed the commotion in Yunshan Palace and suddenly his brows twitched.

"There are signs of Dao patterns appearing in the city? And at least the Dao patterns of the Five Elders?"

Sect Master Bai Mei gazed intently towards the east, hesitated for a moment, but ultimately couldn't bear to give up the Five Elders Evil Pattern Blood Pagoda, which was so perfectly suited to him, in order to pursue the unknown pattern that would require the blood essence of millions of people to corrupt into an evil pattern.

But it would be a waste not to eat the meat since it was in the pot. With a thought, he saw two pavilions inside the Cloud Mountain Palace wriggling as if they were alive.

Having been refined over a thousand years by the elders and disciples of the Yunshan Sect, these two pavilions are covered with second and third-order formations. Moreover, they were refined by the Yunshan Sect as part of the Yunshan Hall, a spiritual treasure. When taken out alone, they possess power comparable to a third-order magic weapon.

Then, the Devouring Spirit Evil Mark transforms into an evil spirit. The Light Pavilion Evil Spirit itself possesses combat power comparable to a third-level cultivator who cultivates both Dharma and Body.

To prevent the big fish from escaping, Sect Master Bai Mei even considered summoning the evil spirit Lei Guang Shangren and the former sect master of Yunshan Sect, now the Golden Core evil spirit Yun Zhong Shangren.

Both of them possessed peak Golden Core combat power and mastered Earth-level Dao techniques. With these two trapped within the evil spirits of the pavilion, even seven or eight Golden Core demon cultivators would be no match for them.

In fact, this evil spirit in the pavilion was one of the means that the sect leader, Bai Mei, also known as Yunshan Laoxie, planned to use to deal with the demon kings and demonic cultivators when he later plotted to seize the Nascent Soul Cave.

Using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, he felt confident of victory and turned to play hide-and-seek with Gao Erqiang with renewed peace of mind. At this moment, the blood-red patterns that had once covered the entire city had been mostly dispersed by him, leaving only a small area in the former Baiyunfang residential area for him to move around in.

Once the blood patterns have completely disappeared, it will return to the lantern's main body. That instant will be the best opportunity to capture and devour it!
This game should end!
"Fellow Daoist Gao, your true form is about to be found by this old Daoist. Stop struggling. Before those demonic cultivators break into the city, during this time when no one will disturb us, give it to me quickly so that I can devour you and merge you into one."

"Go to hell! Go swallow your mother! You filthy, rotten thing, you'll only ever hide in a stinking corner, waiting to rot and stink. You want to swallow me? In your next life!"

Gao Erqiang was originally a polite person, but after being caught by this old pervert, he was so provoked by the perverted words and actions that he no longer cared about the dignity of a wicked cultivator and began to hurl insults at him.

The words he spoke were the same ones he used to use to make the red lanterns devour the rogue cultivators. At the time, he didn't feel anything when he heard them. He just thought these rogue cultivators were so boring. They knew they were going to die, so what was the use of cursing? If cursing could exorcise evil, what was the point of their cultivation?
But when he used it to criticize others, he felt particularly satisfied.

"Perhaps this is what human cultivators often refer to as 'clear-mindedness'? As a heretical cultivator, I still have much to learn from human cultivators!"

As a heretical cultivator who wanted to learn human cultivation and was unwilling to be devoured, Gao Erqiang cursed for a while before his blood patterns nimbly roamed around.

Sect Leader Bai Mei was not annoyed by the scolding, but simply followed him, destroying the blood patterns along the way.

On the other side...

Su Qing, leading the Explosive Kill Team, the Life-Shortening Team, the Exorcism Team, and other cultivator puppets, has already set off again.

Along the way, they frequently encountered rogue cultivators driven mad by evil spirits, self-destructing magical artifacts, puppets, and even their own bodies. These rogue cultivators, who had been trying to escape, displayed remarkable courage when cornered.

Su Qing spared no effort to save any warriors who hadn't yet self-destructed, assigning them some explosive killing puppets to bolster the team's combat strength.

As the group traveled, they gathered together scattered cultivators, and even managed to recruit several rare talents.

For example, there's the second-tier leatherworker who's always hanging around the stall area, nicknamed "Old Six."

Inside its storage bag were hundreds of animal hides. As long as spiritual power was injected into them and they were worn, they could transform into demonic beasts, comparable to the effect of a second-tier Illusion Heart Rune. Even if you were wearing a male animal hide and mating with a female animal hide, as long as you could withstand the mental and physical strain, the female beast would not notice.

Once such a talent was discovered, Su Qing gave him a strategic position second only to Brother 260 and Buddhist High Bear, placing him on the inner side of the team with multiple layers of protection.

The sixth fellow Daoist's leatherworking and animal-making techniques have extremely high strategic value. Although the other fellow Daoists are slightly inferior, they are all capable of persisting in Baiyun City until now. Bringing them into the team would not be considered a burden.

"Everyone has it, just as Fellow Daoist Su said. Once you join the team, you're family. If family members want to drink the Daoist Spirit Wine, then everyone has some. However, Fellow Daoist Liang, what do you need this Ox-Horse-Tiger Whip Wine for? Today's battlefield is not a battlefield where this spirit wine can be effective!"

"Brother Niu, Brother Li, Thirteenth Brother, Brother Wei, and I, Zhang Tianming, a second-tier lower-grade body cultivator with the Water Cloud Dragon in my nurtured essence furnace, am here to join the body cultivator team on the orders of Brother Su!"

"Fellow Daoist Liang, Fellow Daoist Helian, we've known each other for a long time. Without further ado, after I reach the Foundation Establishment stage, I only have three hundred years left to live. I'll be joining the team that shortens lifespan. You must allow me to use that Life-Shortening Cloth sparingly!"

"Where is the bombing team? Ah, is it just Fellow Daoist Shao alone? Fellow Daoist Shao misunderstands. I don't mean to look down on you, but I look down on myself for not being able to share the baptism of fire with you. However, I am a spiritual power user, skilled in moving things. Most of the buildings in this White Cloud Immortal City were built by me and my brothers. I suppose bombing shouldn't be any harder than moving bricks?"

The addition of independent cultivators has slightly increased the team's strength.

After making the arrangements, Su Qing stroked her chin and began to think about other things.

Because Yao Fei had limited health, the Iron-Eating King Beast and the Blood Killer Armor disappeared after the battle.

But he wasn't done enjoying himself yet. The Blood Slaughter Armor perfectly complemented the Nine Li Dao Pattern's combat prowess and indomitable effects, allowing him to ignore most Xuan-level Dao techniques on the battlefield and become stronger with each battle.

The Iron-Eating King Beast wielded its club with unparalleled skill, baring its teeth and displaying ferocity and savagery. Riding it was even more comfortable than riding a flying dragon.

It would be a real pity if this could no longer be used. Helpless, he could only pull Yao Fei along and, under Guo Qiaolian's knowing gaze, slip into her makeshift medical room.

He fiercely sprayed several doses of Blood Lotus on Yao Fei, causing her face to flush, her breathing to become rapid, and her blood and qi to surge again. She wished she could cut Su Qing's wrists and bleed him out on the spot.

"Fellow Daoist Su, Consort Yao can't hold back any longer! She wants to give it to you right now!"

"Hold on, the more you hold back, the more intense the experience will be for both of us when it explodes!"

Tell Yao Fei to hold back for now, and with her face flushed, sneak out of Guo Qiaolian's mourning room.

It wasn't that he did it intentionally, but the addictive and hallucinogenic effects of the Blood Lotus were too strong. If he were to use it openly, how could he possibly supply all these fellow cultivators?

"Me too!" Qinghe stared at Yao Fei, whose hair was disheveled and clothes were in disarray, and whispered.

She didn't think anything of it. She knew that what he gave Yao Fei was blood lotus, but she had eaten blood lotus several times in the small shop and had become somewhat addicted to it. So when she found an opportunity, she wanted Su Qing to give her a taste of it!
"Be reserved, fine, I'll give you one!" Su Qing shook his head helplessly. He could take eighteen shots a day. He had just given Yao Fei three shots and Qing He one shot, leaving him with fourteen shots left. That should be enough for him.

Guo Qiaolian was incredulous and wished she could drive all these despicable people off the White Elephant, lest they taint the eyes of her own spirit house.

Su Qing pulled Qinghe into the spirit house, and when she brought her out again, her face was flushed with the same color as Yao Fei's.

"Fellow Daoist Guo, what kind of look is that? You want to come too?"

Seeing Guo Qiaolian staring with her big, watery eyes, about to cry, Su Qing assumed she wanted it too. Considering that she was the only spirit healer in the group and had worked hard today, Su Qing felt pity for her. He pulled the dazed and confused Guo Qiaolian into the spirit house and cast a Blood Lotus spell on her.

After she came out, Tang Wanqing stood outside again.

Not wanting to show favoritism, I gave her another shot.

As the core of the team, he is the one everyone relies on.

The cultivators' attention was mostly on him.

Despite his belief that he was discreet, distributing the items quickly, and even knowing to pull people into the spirit house to block the cultivators' view, he still managed to do so.

But it was precisely because he did this that he gave the cultivators room for imagination.

"He's gone in and out four times. The first time lasted the longest, about fifty breaths, and each subsequent time was only about ten breaths!"

"In such a short time, I didn't even have time to take my pants off!"

"Fellow Daoist Su was under too much pressure and underperformed. That's understandable!"

"He's under a lot of pressure, supporting such a team, and this is the only way he can relieve that pressure. But even if things go wrong, it shouldn't happen this quickly!"

"Poor Fellow Daoist Su! Fellow Daoist Li, do you still have any of that Ox-Horse-Tiger Whip Wine left? Send it to Fellow Daoist Su later!"

"Fellow Daoist Su, the Ox-Horse-Tiger Whip Wine won't save you. We'll have to use something stronger. I have a gourd of Ox-Horse-Dragon-Tiger Ten-Whip Tonic Wine here. I originally prepared it for myself in case I ran out of cultivation and needed it to have children. Since Fellow Daoist Su needs it more than I do, I'll give it to you. Alas, how can someone so young have such a hidden ailment!"

"Send it secretly, Fellow Daoist Su is someone who cares about his reputation!"

"Yes, yes."

The cultivators understood each other without saying a word. When Su Qing arrived, they noticed a strange increase in sympathy in the way they looked at her.

He couldn't help but wonder to himself, what did he have that made him need their sympathy?

Six hands and three guns, riding a dragon and a bear, how majestic!

The group moved forward in silence. Apart from Yao Fei, who seemed restless and unsatisfied, all the cultivators were calm.

The main reason is that after defeating the previous wave of evil spirits, the team has not encountered any decent resistance from evil spirits.

The procession continued until it reached a point where it was only a few dozen miles from the eastern city wall.

They then encountered a grand gift specially prepared for them by Sect Master Bai Mei.

The two towering giants, each over a hundred feet tall, shone with a dazzling light, like magical treasures, and were also radiating the spiritual light of array formations.

It was the two evil spirits from the pavilions that Sect Master Bai Mei had summoned to hunt down the Dao patterns!
Following closely behind were many Foundation Establishment disciples from Yunshan. These Foundation Establishment disciples had not yet been transformed into evil spirits, meaning they could still use magical artifacts, puppets, and other spiritual objects, making their combat power far superior to that of Foundation Establishment evil spirits.

Among them, Su Qing saw Lin Shuangmu, Hai Yunlou, and Yuan Tianye.

All three of them wore expressions of grief, their gazes fixed on the evil spirit in the pavilion on the right, where the Thunder Light Master, whom they regarded as their father, resided.

(End of this chapter)