Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 306 Qiongqi Skin, Five Elders' Pattern
Among the demon race, he is a lazy, easygoing demon who is good at slacking off.

Upon hearing Shao Delong's request, the Eagle King felt immense sympathy for him.

"Fellow Daoist, who do you serve as your master? Why are you treated so harshly? Is this not enough? Do you have to risk your life?"

The Wind Eagle King instinctively felt that Shao Delong had no choice but to do this because he had encountered a harsh master who did not value his life. After all, if he had no master, even a madman would not know the meaning of death!

"I, Shao Delong, stand tall and upright, my soul is in my own hands, who can be my master!"

I was favored by Fellow Daoist Su, who gave me twenty Bone Demon Exploding Stones. Now I've only thrown a quarter of them. If I don't throw the rest, what will Fellow Daoist Su think of me? Won't he laugh at me for being incompetent in obtaining dragons, saying I have the courage to do so!
In my life, immortality is a distant dream, and my life is destined to be short. If I can live a life of great renown, then I will let him live a life of great renown!

Delong is afraid of death, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen the profession of armored warrior.

Fear of death but not dread of it, always the first to fight, seeking only to live comfortably and enjoyably.

Delong, who rarely speaks his mind directly to others, unusually became sentimental with a demon king, leaving the Wind Eagle King speechless.

The Wind Eagle King knew that the man on his back was only saying all this to get him to be his mount and risk his life to drop bombs.

It cannot empathize, because it has a long life, does not seek great achievements, and wishes to stay at home and enjoy wealth for a thousand years.

But it still nodded in agreement to give the person a ride.

For nothing else.

Just because this human cultivator said he wouldn't die, he would make a Wind Eagle Armor for him!
The fact that this person has lived to this day, despite his extraordinary achievements, proves the excellence of his armor-making skills.

Emotional appeals are useless; armor can bewitch demons.

The Wind Eagle King carried Shao Delong, transforming him into the Wind Eagle Knight, who shone brightly on the battlefield.

One by one, the bone-demon explosive stone golems were accurately hurled into the mouth of the Loushan evil monster. Thanks to the wind eagle's extreme speed, throwing the stones was no longer as laborious as before.

To maximize the effect of the Bone Demon Explosion Stones, Shao Delong no longer pursued the goal of directly killing evil with a few Bone Demon Explosion Stones.

Instead, they cooperate with the Demon King and Witch, using only one or two Bone Demon Bombs to create opportunities for the Demon King and Witch to kill the evil monsters themselves.

His decision did indeed change the situation on the battlefield. The evil monsters of Loushan, who had been suppressing the cultivators and demons and driving them to despair, collapsed one after another on the battlefield.

For a time, on this battlefield where third-tier demon kings and Golden Core cultivators vied for supremacy, Shao Delong, with his Qi Refining body, played a greater role than anyone else.

Such performance also attracted the attention of evil spirits. Even though the Wind Eagle King was incredibly fast and had agile reflexes, dodging the evil spirits' attacks time and time again, there were always times when he could not avoid them.

A black dragon roared in, and the Wind Eagle King spread his wings to dodge it, but unexpectedly, another giant hand of muddy water came straight at him, slamming him and Shao Delong into the ground.

By this time, Shao Delong had no more Bone Demon Bombs in his storage bag. He had just gotten carried away with throwing them, greedy for merit and wanting to continue the fight. After he finished throwing the Bone Demon Bombs, he wanted to experience the feeling of being a Wind Eagle Knight more, so he kept throwing ordinary Bomb Golems.

Now that it has been slammed into the ground by the evil monster, it has completely lost the ability to continue throwing bombs.

"Fellow Daoist Delong has been slammed more than ten feet underground. Quickly, have the burrowing rat pull him out!"

"I don't think it's necessary. It's beyond saving!"

"What do you know? I've pulled Brother Long out of the ground three or four times already. As long as Brother Long's armor is still on him, there's a chance he can be saved!"

"What should we do with this Wind Eagle King? It's only damaged flesh, so there should be hope!"

"The skin and flesh are all broken, how can it be saved? We can use the soil that Brother Long dug up to bury it on the spot!"

"I think I can be saved!" the Wind Eagle King shouted before he lost consciousness!

Damn it, it did do a good job too!

Sure enough, it's safest to just lie flat and drift along. What's the point of making a contribution if you're not even dead yet and people are already trying to bury you!
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Thanks to Brother Long's valiant performance, the battlefield against the evil monsters has been temporarily stabilized, and Su Qing breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Thanks to the Wind Eagle King's valiant performance, the evil battlefield was filled with victories, and the Lion King was in high spirits.

Su Qing and the Lion King exchanged a glance and remained silent for a long time.

Su Qing felt somewhat embarrassed to face the Lion Brother since he wasn't wearing a tiger skin at that moment.

Brother Lion didn't know how to address Su Qing since Su Qing wasn't wearing a tiger skin.

But those who do great things don't concern themselves with trifles; one man and one lion, speaking at the same time.

"Brother Lion, please help me defeat that sect leader, White Eyebrows!"

"Brother Tiger, we still need you to kill that sect leader, White Eyebrows!"

Outward appearances don't affect friendship; if needed, in the Lion King's eyes, Su Qing can also be a tiger demon in human skin.

Both the man and the lion understood that although these evil spirits of Loushan were difficult to deal with, they had not yet surpassed the third-order Golden Core level. If the demons and cultivators worked together, they could still be dealt with.

But the sect leader, Bai Mei, who was about to devour gods and spirits and clear away obstacles with the giant axe-wielding spirit god, was emitting a terrifying aura that only a Nascent Soul Great Evil could possess.

In terms of quality and status, this old evil spirit is not even a fourth-order evil spirit, but a Nascent Soul Great Evil.

But if the quality is not enough, quantity will make up for it. The old evil sect has accumulated over generations and swallowed the city of Baiyun. The evil energy and spiritual power that the old evil sect can mobilize with every move is extraordinary. It is no exaggeration to say that he is invincible below the Nascent Soul stage!

“Brother Lion is a descendant of the True King, why doesn’t he represent the True King in negotiating with this old evil man? This is still demon territory, this old evil man shouldn’t dare to go too far against the demons!”

"We've tried negotiating, but this old devil won't listen. Judging from his demeanor, he seems determined to annihilate all living beings here and is confident he can escape even when pursued by a True King!"

"Even the name of the True King can't scare it. This is intolerable! Brother Lion, please use the methods of the True King to deal with it on his behalf. Brother Lion, why aren't you saying anything? You must have some methods, right? The True King sent you here, so there's no way you wouldn't be given some methods!"

"It is true that I have methods, but I cannot use them. Brother Su Dao, why don't you give it a try!"

"A fourth-tier demon king's skin? Is that something I can wear?"

"Try?"

No wonder the lion and the man have such a deep bond; they are a match made in heaven.

The Lion King is a top-tier second-generation demon with many trump cards and abundant resources, but given his precious status, he is not willing to take unnecessary risks.

Su Qing was a poor, independent cultivator who earned all his trump cards and resources on his own, but he was very courageous and capable of fighting.

Su Qing gritted her teeth and used the trump card that the Lion King dared not use.

It wasn't that he didn't know, but the reason this demonic lion king wouldn't wear the skin himself but had someone else wear it must be because there was a problem with it.

But if he didn't respond to the Green Lion King at this moment, and the Lion King gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, put on his animal skin, and broke through the encirclement, then the Old Evil of Yunshan might not necessarily pursue him relentlessly.

While Su Qing may seem to have a choice, he actually has no choice, because this old evil spirit of Yunshan might spare any demon beast or human cultivator here, but he would never spare Su Qing.

If you don't wear the skin now, you'll have none to wear later.

He received the demon skin from the Lion King; it was the fur of a beast that resembled a tiger, had bull horns on its head, and black wings on its back.

The mere fur exuded an aura that terrified all the demon kings around it, and even caused the Nine Li Dao patterns within Su Qing's body to erupt violently.

Forcibly suppressing the abnormal movement of the Nine Li Dao patterns, Su Qing, his eyes bloodshot, focused his gaze on the strands of Dao patterns appearing inside the demon skin.

The Azure Lion King, assuming he was unaware of the nature of this demonic beast, explained:
"This demon skin was obtained by one of our clan's True Kings in the past when he killed a True King of the Winged Tiger Clan, devoured his flesh, drank his blood, and skinned him. This Winged Tiger True King's bloodline reverted to its ancestral form, awakening the Qiongqi bloodline. He was a True King with the bloodlines of the three ancestral ancestors of the Winged Tiger Clan: Lu Wu, Bai Di, and Qiongqi. After advancing to True King, his combat power was comparable to that of a Human Heavenly Nascent Soul cultivator. He was a pillar of our Demon Kingdom, suppressing all races. However, he offended the wrong demon and was surrounded and killed by our clan's ancestral True King and several other True Kings."

However, its demonic skin contains the essence and will of the Qiongqi. Those with weak bodies or fragile souls who wear it will either be corrupted by the skin and transformed into savage wild beasts, or be recognized by the skin and become substitutes for the Qiongqi. In short, even if Brother Tiger can wear this skin, he cannot wear it for long, lest he suffer misfortune!

If the Qiongqi tiger skin were to bring misfortune, the consequences would be even more terrifying than the old evil spirit of Yunshan displaying his power. As a result, even though the Green Lion King wanted Su Qing to wear the skin for him to fight, he was completely open about the origin of the skin and the consequences of wearing it, without pretending to hide anything.

Although Su Qing listened to the Lion King's instructions, her gaze remained fixed on the demon skin.

Looking at his blood-red eyes and focused expression, the Green Lion King even had the urge to put the demon skin back into his storage bag, because Su Qing's current behavior seemed to indicate that he had been bewitched by the demon skin even before he put it on.

That makes sense. Even a third-tier great demon like the Azure Lion King, with the bloodline of a true king, wouldn't dare to wear this Qiongqi tiger skin, for fear of having his essence and blood drained and his soul defiled. Su Qing is just a human, not even a demon beast. If he wears this skin, he'll probably be devoured by this demon skin.
The demon skin is bewitching him; the demon skin wants to eat him.
While the Green Lion King was shaken, Su Qing went mad, using her fingers as a brush to frantically draw on her palm.

No one knew what he was doing, but it was clear that the veins he was drawing on his palm resembled the blood-red markings on the skin of the Qiongqi tiger!
Is he sketching the Qiongqi pattern on the Qiongqi tiger skin?

What is the purpose of this?
The demon race reverted to their ancestral form, and their skin did indeed display Dao patterns. However, this Qiongqi tiger skin had been in the hands of the Green Lion Clan for more than ten thousand years. During these ten thousand years, the True Kings of the Green Lion Clan had also studied the Dao patterns on this demon skin.

But all their efforts yielded nothing!
This is because only demons with the same bloodline can master some of the demon race's Dao patterns when they awaken their ancestral instincts. Even other races, such as the Azure Lion and the Winged Tiger, cannot touch the demon race's Dao patterns unless they have the same ancestral bloodline.
This is the key to how their demon race, entrenched in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, resisting the Central Plains to the east and fighting against Penglai to the west, was still able to thrive and multiply in this land of abundant resources despite the threats from human cultivators on both sides.

The Primordial True King, with his Primordial Dao Patterns, can fight against the Human Race's Heavenly Nascent Soul cultivators!

Such abilities are beyond the reach of human cultivators. If they could, wouldn't they have acquired them long ago?

The Green Lion King wanted Su Qing to stop doing this useless work. Whether he wore the skin or not was a matter of life and death. The heavenly generals were almost wiped out. If he didn't wear the skin, he would have to hide and run away!
Su Qing ignored the Lion King's urging. He knew that time was tight and the task was heavy, so he quickly imprinted the Qiongqi Dao pattern on his palm.

Although he impersonated a tiger, he wasn't a real tiger.

If he couldn't imprint the Dao patterns on this fourth-order Primordial True King skin so that the Qiongqi tiger skin would think it was his own tiger, he wouldn't dare risk being devoured by this demonic skin and put on the skin.

[Failed to refine the puppet immortal. Current proficiency: 7618/32764532...]

[Exhausted magical power, depleted vital energy, weakened consciousness, and listless soul...]

[The Qiongqi Dao Pattern is now imprinted on my body. Dao Pattern Imprinting Successful. Dao Pattern Proficiency +30. Current Proficiency: 30/500 (Tier 1)]

[Slight improvement in spiritual root, slight improvement in physical constitution, increased total qi and blood, and increased blood and qi pressure...]

[Taoist Pattern: Qiongqi]

[Quality: Five Elders Dao Pattern]

[Introduction: In ancient times, there was a strange beast called Qiongqi, which resembled a tiger but had ox horns and blood wings. It could enter the heavens and was ranked alongside the gods and immortals.]

Qiongqi was born of heaven and earth, and is favored by heaven and earth. It has the Daoist patterns of the Five Elders attached to it, and has the power to swallow heaven and earth and the ability to restrain the souls of the netherworld.

After Qiongqi's death, this Dao pattern was passed down through his bloodline to his descendants. Any descendant of Qiongqi who awakens Qiongqi's bloodline can obtain a portion of the Dao pattern's true essence and mobilize its power.

[Current tattoo holder: Benevolent Qiongqi, Evil Qiongqi, Heavenly Sea Winged Tiger, Ox-Tiger Mighty Demon... Su Qing.]

Current proficiency: 30/500 (Tier 2)

[Dao Pattern Completeness: 0 (Unabsorbed Dao Pattern Essence)]

[Currently available ability 1: Gluttony. Qiongqi can devour the flesh and blood of all races for its own use. When this ability is used, the upper limit of flesh and blood energy absorption is increased, and the efficiency of flesh and blood energy absorption is also increased.]

[Ability Two: Belligerent; Qiongqi is belligerent, becoming more excited and courageous the more it fights.]

[Ability Three: Arrogance. Qiongqi is proud of itself. Using this ability, it can withstand the pressure of qi and spiritual energy not exceeding its own major realm. (Can be upgraded)]

[Ability Four: Astrology. Qiongqi was once a star lord. With the power of this Dao pattern, he can draw upon the power of the stars to empower himself, and he can also use the changes in the stars to divine the secrets of heaven (the truth is hard to discern, and the existence of something is difficult to predict).]

[Ability 5: Battle Armor. To defend against powerful enemies, Qiongqi condenses a battle armor around its body using Daoist runes. Each time its defenses are breached by an enemy, a new layer of battle armor is condensed, increasing its defensive power by 10%. Currently, it can condense nine layers of battle armor (which can be upgraded and can generate a higher-level damage reduction rune—the Battle Armor Rune).)]

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The information on the panel was quickly scanned.

The effects of the Qiongqi Dao Pattern seem to correspond one-to-one with those of the Jiuli Dao Pattern.

Explosive eating for nourishment has a similar effect and can complement each other. After all, using demon cores for nourishment is too extravagant. Perhaps replacing them with beast meat in the future would also work?
Both were belligerent and skilled in battle; one grew stronger with each fight, the other became more formidable. They fought without ceasing, and in terms of protracted warfare, they were unmatched by those who relied on military strategy.

Unyielding and defiant, both stemming from a rebellious spirit and a fearlessness of anyone, seem to have overlapping effects, making them somewhat wasteful.

Astrological incantations seem more reliable than traditional incantations for calculating celestial secrets, but whether it's reliable or not remains to be seen. After all, the past experiences of celestial master divination and incantations have made him instinctively feel that such methods of calculating celestial secrets are not very reliable.

The Armored Blood Killer Technique is a combination of defensive and offensive capabilities. It's unclear whether Qiongqi developed this Armored Technique because of Jiuli, or Jiuli developed this Blood Killer Technique because of Qiongqi. However, it benefited Su Qing, who obtained both, making him extremely happy with his combination of offense and defense.

Since this was the first time he had imprinted this Dao pattern, and he had not yet collected even a trace of the true essence of the Dao pattern, this Dao pattern was only at the second level, and its ability to improve him was extremely limited.

How to develop this pattern in the future is another matter.

At this moment, the most important thing for him is to gain the approval of Qiongqi Tiger Skin by branding this mark on his body, so that it won't devour him!

"With the Jiuli Dao patterns branded on my back, Yao Fei and other Jiuli descendants all believed that I possessed the essence of Jiuli blood. When Yao Fei asked the ancestors for protection, the spirits of the Jiuli ancestors did indeed protect me, and the armor and beasts they gave me were much more powerful than those of the Cursed Spirit Clan."

This Qiongqi Dao pattern, like the Jiuli Dao pattern, will surely have the discerning eye to recognize heroes and understand the bigger picture, thus lending me its assistance!

Su Qing muttered to himself, although he was somewhat confident, he was still a little uneasy when he actually picked up the Qiongqi tiger skin, and turned his gaze to the lion brother.

"Don't worry, Brother Tiger, Brother Lion is watching closely. If you show any signs of being corrupted by Qiongqi, Brother Lion will definitely help you shed your skin!"

The blue-faced lion patted his chest and assured him.

Seeing that Brother Tiger, who was cultivating the Dao, had such a blatant ability to lie, Su Qing found it hard to trust him. He even took out the Dragon Armor Demon Lizard from his storage bag and asked it to keep an eye on him. If Su Qing showed any signs of losing his mind, Su Qing was to immediately remove the demon skin from him.

The puppets I made myself are more reassuring than the one my brother made.

Having taken a layer of protection, Su Qing took a deep breath, stuffed another blood lotus and a Blood Explosion Pill into his mouth, glanced back at the axe-wielding general who was being ravaged to the point of near extinction by the sect leader, Bai Mei, and resolutely put on the Qiongqi tiger skin.

True King Demon Skin, Ancestral Bloodline.

The moment he donned the demon skin, it felt as if a thousand needles were piercing his heart all over his body. The demon skin tightly bound his body, and demonic energy and blood flowed into every part of his body.

The extreme pain caused Su Qing to roar out loud. The roar of the humanoid Lu Wu echoed throughout the battlefield, drawing the attention of all the demons and cultivators.

When they saw Su Qing wearing the skin of the Qiongqi demon, with waves of blood-red energy emanating from his body, causing blood-red clouds to rise in the sky and the earth to tremble, they were all speechless for a moment, and then filled with astonishment and doubt.

"What's going on? What's happening?!"

"Is Su Qing human or tiger? I've already accepted that he's a human who cultivated into a tiger king and deceived us simple-minded demons. How come he's now wearing the skin of a Qiongqi tiger? Could it be that, as the Green Lion King said, he's a tiger in human skin, and in reality, he's still a winged tiger? Otherwise, how could he dare to wear the skin of the true king of the winged tiger clan!"

"True King Demon Hide? Fellow Daoist Six, look at the quality of the leather goods collected by the Azure Lion King. You're a leather craftsman, how come you haven't collected any fourth-tier True King hides?!"

"This real king's skin is easy to wear but hard to take off. That Green Lion King is really despicable. He doesn't dare to wear the skin himself and makes our Su Qing take the blame!"

"Is it really necessary? The situation has deteriorated to the point where Su Qing has to risk his life. Aren't we doing quite well here? That axe-wielding general seems like he can still hold on?"

"The situation is indeed dire. Old Evil's methods are astonishing. Even the Divine General is no match for him, and we are even less able to contend with him. But if Su Qing's mind is corrupted by this Qiongqi tiger skin and he transforms into the savage beast Qiongqi, then we will only have the fate of sitting and waiting to die!"

"Su Qing is capable, right? He's a cautious person, he shouldn't make any mistakes!"

(End of this chapter)