Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 316 Shen Wuya, Langya Island

The cultivation world is full of treacherous people, and Yuanlai Tower is utterly depraved.

Back in his quiet room, Su Qing carefully considered the implications of Rao Tingshan's words and couldn't help but despise the actions of the Thousand Island Immortal Kingdom.

This immortal kingdom is engaged in extremely profitable business and has not encountered any trouble, so it continues to live a carefree life. If trouble were to occur, it would not be so frightening, as it is geographically distant from the Central Plains Martial Kingdom and has the Penglai Immortal Kingdom as a shield.

It is true that it is like picking up nails in a sea of ​​fire and knives, but it is not barefoot. Instead, it is made of shoes by the Immortal Kingdom of Desire Demon, the Immortal Kingdom of Fire Phoenix, and many other immortal kingdoms that block the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, and it is dressed in the clothes of the Penglai Immortal Kingdom, so that it can pick up nails without any risk!

Su Qing only understood how despicable the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom was after hearing Rao Tingshan's explanation; the other immortal kingdoms weren't much better.

The reason why the Joyful Old Demon was able to cause such a ruckus in the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, and even kidnap and abduct the Fire Phoenix Princess, who was the most promising candidate to advance to the Nascent Soul stage in this generation of the immortal kingdom, was due to the protection of the Huang family of Penglai and the cover-up by the Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom, all in order to make it difficult for the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom to produce a second Nascent Soul cultivator.

The reason why the Earth Demon Heaven of the Earth Demon Kingdom never dares to leave this evil kingdom to cause trouble is because he was once plotted against by the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, which caused him to incur the enmity of the True King Fire Phoenix of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom. Once he leaves this evil kingdom, he will be burned by the True King Fire Phoenix's flames.

Why has the national undertaking of excavating and restoring the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves to bring ancient Buddha relics and treasures back to light been progressing so slowly in the Ksitigarbha Buddha Kingdom? It is because there are many tomb raiding teams secretly supported by various immortal kingdoms within the kingdom, who are illegally excavating, mining, and destroying tombs. They also tacitly blame these actions on the Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom, to the point that the demon cultivators are universally reviled within the Ksitigarbha Buddha Kingdom.

The Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom and the Penglai Immortal Kingdom, one in the sky and the other in the sea, are naturally bound to have conflicts of interest and occasional disputes. However, why have they developed into such a deep-seated hatred, to the point of life or death? This is undoubtedly due to the fact that many other immortal kingdoms in the Western Sea have been stirring up trouble and fanning the flames.

The various immortal kingdoms form alliances and betray each other, which is the main theme of the cultivation world in the Western Sea. Everyone is despicable, so no one is despicable. Compared to the open and fierce battles among the martial kingdoms in the Central Plains, the insidious and treacherous mutual betrayal and harm in the cultivation world of the Western Sea is just as exciting.

"So, the reason why the Jade Wall Cave has not sent any Nascent Soul cultivators here for so long is perhaps because the Penglai Immortal Kingdom intends to use this cave to bring about the destruction of both the Desire Demon Cloud Mountain Immortal Kingdom and the Jade Wall Cave."

But why send Huang Song to his death? Was he out of favor with the Huang family? Or was someone within the Penglai Immortal Kingdom giving the Huang family false information, deliberately trying to harm them?
"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it anymore. Huang Song's death is already firmly pinned on Gao Erqiang; it has nothing to do with me and won't affect my affairs in the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom!"

Su Qing shook his head, freeing his thoughts from the sordid infighting among the various immortal kingdoms, and began to ponder the many matters concerning his trip to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.

He couldn't stay in the Demon Kingdom for long, and he actually had other places to go. The Fire Phoenix Princess really wanted him to develop in this Immortal Kingdom. With her protection, the puppet business alone would be enough for him to make a living.

However, spirit crystals and spirit stones are not everything in cultivation; there are some things that cannot be bought with spirit crystals and spirit stones.

For example, the Vajra lineage, which has not been passed down even in the Ksitigarbha Buddha Kingdom, can only be found in the Thousand Islands region of the vast Western Sea, where a great upheaval in ancient times brought a flood that submerged the ancient Buddha Kingdom.

This Vajra inheritance is crucial to his physical cultivation path and is the most important matter for him on his journey to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.

Outside the Jade Wall Cave, having regained his Complete Nature Bone, he used his boundless Complete Nature Bone to fuse the Nine Li Dao Patterns and the Qiongqi Dao Patterns, condensing the Complete Nature Furnace Lid, ranking second-grade, and achieving the third-level body cultivation realm.

However, after several years of cultivation, he went from being deficient in both qi and blood and completely ignorant of the path of physical cultivation to reaching the third level of physical cultivation.

Such a level of cultivation advancement is unheard of in the entire Western Sea cultivation world, including the Central Plains Martial Kingdom.

However, such rapid progress has not been without its price.

The Nine Li and Qiongqi were not originally one entity, and were even more incompatible with each other. However, Quanxing Gengu forcibly fused them together, forming a furnace lid.

For the past three years, a battle between gods has been raging within him: the Crimson Giant Witch tries to suppress the Ferocious Qiongqi, while the Ferocious Qiongqi tries to catch the Crimson Giant Witch and beat him up.

Neither of the two Dao patterns would yield to the other, and both wanted to dominate the refinement furnace.

As a result, the effects derived from the two types of Dao patterns also conflict with each other.

Want to binge eat for health?
Don't even think about using the essence of flesh and blood obtained through overeating to nourish your body!

When two Dao patterns that can improve energy absorption efficiency are combined, instead of having a synergistic effect, they counteract each other, resulting in a sharp decrease in energy absorption efficiency.

Originally, I wanted to use the ability of Gluttony to devour blood and flesh to save some demon cores.

As a result, the demon core was not saved, and there was an additional expense for second-tier demon blood and demon flesh.

Want to be defiant and unyielding?
Arrogance can grant immunity to the pressure of a Nascent Soul cultivator, while defiance leads to the deliberate provocation of such cultivators; every ounce of blood energy and power is a form of challenge, and even a cat or a dog would be provoked.

Concealing one's cultivation level? Impossible!
Rao Tingshan felt his protective aura being stung by Su Qing's blood energy. He assumed Su Qing was young and impetuous, showing off his strength, and because of Bai Yunxian, he hadn't been angered. In reality, Su Qing had unspeakable suffering, which was due to the conflict between two tigers within him that he couldn't control.

Bloodbath Armor, aiming for both offense and defense?
If you condense the Battle Armor, you can forget about stacking Blood Kill. You can only choose one; it's either you or it!

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The combination of the two Dao patterns should have been able to unify and amplify their effects, unleashing unparalleled power and displaying the majesty of the third tier.

However, due to their internal strife, although Su Qingning's furnace lid was only a second-grade furnace lid, the combat power she could actually unleash was not much different from that of a body cultivator with a lower third-grade furnace lid.

Over the past three years, he had tried to find a solution. After much deduction and thought, he finally found a way by paying a large sum of tuition fees with merit points in the Heavenly Talisman Hall.

The complete furnace lid can accommodate all kinds of Dao patterns forming a furnace lid.

However, if one wishes to govern these Dao patterns for one's own use, there must be a distinction between primary and secondary ones. One must condense one's own exclusive Dao pattern, take this Dao pattern as the ruler, and lead the ministers, so that they can gather strength in one place and pool their wisdom and efforts.

To subdue the Dao patterns of the Five Elders, such as Jiuli and Qiongqi, the Dao patterns he condensed would at least have the merit of the Five Elders.

Therefore, the only physical cultivation lineage of the ancient Buddhist Vajra school that meets the requirements and is suitable for his practice is the Vajra lineage.

Seeking the inherited techniques of the ancient Vajra lineage was one of the reasons he went to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.

Besides, the sea witch who occupies the Western Sea area, and the Nine Li Dao Patterns she possesses, are also something he is determined to obtain.

The effects of the Nine Li Dao Pattern are well-known and need no further explanation. His current level of cultivation is largely due to this Dao Pattern.

However, the completeness of the Dao patterns on the bodies of Yao Fei and other Jiuli people was truly pitiful.

The lower the integrity, the less he will gain when refining himself into a puppet. In addition, the Dao pattern has now landed on his furnace lid, becoming one of the key factors limiting his physical cultivation ability and realm.

Under such circumstances, the sea witch who had plagued the Jiuli people for thousands of years naturally had a way to die.

However, this sea witch has committed evil deeds for many years, and no one has been able to subdue her yet, nor has she been taken in by the Heavenly Talisman Palace, so her abilities are certainly not bad.

On the list of evil spirits in the Heavenly Talisman Palace, it ranked twenty-ninth. In comparison, the Jade Wall Old Evil, who had just been taken in, was a Nascent Soul Great Evil, but he only ranked seventy-eighth. The Great Evil Earth Demon Heaven, who was known to everyone in the Western Sea cultivation world, was only a few places higher than it, ranking twenty-first.

Let's let it go for now and deal with it when we have time later!

The sea witch is an earthbound evil spirit, so there's no need to worry about her escaping. Leaving that aside, the third thing Su Qing needs to do in the Thousand Islands Country is also extremely important.

That means going deep into the Western Sea to dig up the ancestral graves of the Hai Changqing family.

According to Hai Changqing, his ancestors were once wealthy, producing powerful cultivators who had achieved the Transformation of the Divine Realm and returned to the Void Realm, or at the very least, cultivators who had created their own realms and were the masters of those small realms.

Unfortunately, after the great calamity of antiquity, all the ancestors of that world were submerged by the Western Sea, leaving only their branch to pass down the legend of their ancestors from generation to generation.

According to our ancestors, the Divine Art of Two Methods is only the Qi Refining and Foundation Building chapter of the Heavenly Level Technique, Shen Wuya. Above it are the Chapters of Attaining Dao and Merging with Dao.

Hai Changqing spoke with great conviction and even proactively revealed the location of his ancestral graves.

Although Su Qing was skeptical, if given the chance, he would definitely gather many tomb raiding heroes to explore his family's ancestral tomb.

After all, for him, the strength of his spiritual consciousness was more important than his physical body.

With a strong enough spiritual sense, one can control more puppets. More than ten third-tier limit puppets, when used together, are always more powerful than him painstakingly cultivating his physical body.

"The location of the Hai family's ancestral tombs is to pass through many islands in the Western Sea, in a sea area called the Chaos Sea. It is extremely dangerous and is marked as a level three extreme danger on the sea map. It cannot be explored by anyone other than a Nascent Soul cultivator!"

The ancestral graves of the Hai family on both sides cannot be disturbed; let's set that aside for now and focus on other important matters!

The path to immortality in Taoism involves cultivating essence, energy, and spirit. One nourishes the physical body with essence, gathers energy in the sea of ​​consciousness, and nourishes the soul with spirit. Choosing one as the main focus can lead to advancement and open the door to the Great Tao and immortality.

Sects like Yunshan Sect primarily cultivate their sea of ​​consciousness, resulting in cultivators with profound magical power and exceptionally long combat endurance. The Desire Demon Sect, on the other hand, focuses on cultivating the soul, manipulating the Soul Banner and Netherworld Demons with their divine sense. While possessing immense explosive power in battle, their endurance is somewhat limited. Even a second-generation sect master like Fang, who had condensed a high-grade Golden Core, could only unleash his divine power for a short while before his soul weakened and his divine sense became feeble.

To make up for this shortcoming, the Shi family father and son both embarked on the path of spirit rune masters, hoping to use the power of spirit runes to compensate for their lack of endurance.

However, Shi Lijing's beloved wife was taken away by someone else, and Shi Zhifang could not win her over. Clearly, his stamina was still lacking. Therefore, true strength lies in one's own abilities, and relying on external means to cheat is ultimately unworkable.

Whether it's nurturing the sea of ​​consciousness or nurturing the soul, these are all methods of cultivation, while nurturing the physical body is purely a method of physical cultivation and demon cultivation.

The demon cultivators of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, including countless sea beasts and even true dragons in the Western Sea, use extremely simple and brutal methods to nourish their physical bodies: eat and drink well, even sleep soundly, tap into the potential of their bloodline, and wait for ancestral mutations to occur.

In contrast, it is much more difficult for humans to cultivate and nourish their physical bodies. In addition to nourishing their bodies with various secret methods, medicines, precious materials and spiritual objects, they also need to temper and hone their bodies with various techniques and combat skills to constantly tap into their physical potential. They have no ability to revert to their ancestral form, but those who can cultivate to the peak are all the ancestors of their lineage.

Of these three paths, most people choose to practice one, a few choose two, and very few practice all three.

Su Qing was one of these very few.

He was skilled in puppetry, and during the process of refining puppets, his spiritual sense gradually increased. In addition, he cultivated the dual techniques of magic and spirit, and with the help of the Transformation Hand, he made rapid progress in the realm of spiritual sense.

During these three years, he refined himself into a puppet day and night. Whether it was the power of the Star and Sun Spiritual Root or the effect of the Complete Nature Furnace, his spiritual consciousness has improved again. Now, in terms of pure strength, he is comparable to a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

As for the physical body, although the cultivation level of a third-tier body cultivator has the danger of forcing growth and lacks a clear hierarchy, it is not a problem to cultivate a physical body that can contend with great demons and rival dragons.

Meanwhile, progress on the Sea of ​​Magical Knowledge is rather disheartening.

To be fair, he has been quite diligent and conscientious in this field.

Over the past three years, through the witch's connections and the Demon Sect's channels, they have gathered a great deal of materials for crafting meditation dolls.

All thirty-six second-stage meditation dolls activated their cultivation simultaneously, making their cultivation efficiency twenty-six times that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Moreover, the cultivation method he practices is the ancient and supreme method of the Fu Dao Sect, the Fu Sheng Wan Xiang Gong.

In just three years, his magical power advanced from the early stage of Foundation Establishment to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

If you're talking about slowness, no one can say he's slow.

But he doesn't compare himself to others, because no one can compare to him; he only compares himself to his own spiritual consciousness and physical body.

Compared to the divine sense of the late Golden Core stage and the physical body of a third-tier low-grade cultivator, the mana of this mid-Foundation Establishment stage cultivator is simply pathetic.

He also has ways to accelerate his cultivation.

Star and Sun Spiritual Root, a high-to-mid-grade spiritual root. Cultivators with this spiritual root can draw upon the power of stars and the sun to assist in their cultivation, making their cultivation speed incomparable to that of ordinary people.

Su Qing had personally cultivated before, and his superior-grade spiritual root was indeed remarkable. Even without the spiritual power provided by a third-order spiritual vein, the spiritual energy he gained from meditating on the second floor of that small shop for a day and a night was more than what more than ten meditation dolls had gained.

Having undergone a complete transformation and acquired a high-to-medium grade spiritual root, the meditation doll should also keep pace with the times and enjoy the benefits of a high-to-medium grade spiritual root together.

If all twenty-six meditation dolls could cultivate at a speed more than ten times faster than normal, a clever mind could easily calculate that one day of cultivation could be equivalent to half a year's worth of work for an ordinary person.

Who wouldn't be envious of such a rapid pace of cultivation?
But when it came to actual implementation, they encountered difficulties.

First, to transform a meditation doll into a Starry Sun style meditation doll, you need a third-tier main material called Essence Stone. This material contains a trace of Starry Sun Essence. One pound of Starry Sun Essence can be extracted from one hundred pounds of Essence Stone, and a Starry Sun style meditation doll requires more than five pounds of Starry Sun Essence to be crafted.

To put it simply, to obtain twenty-six Star Sun Meditation Dolls, it would take thirteen thousand catties of Radiant Stones!
Cultivation requires spirit stones to pave the way. Isn't the spirit stone that Su Qing earned by selling puppets for cultivation?

Since this precious stone is so important to his cultivation, he is completely willing to spend the more than 30,000 spirit stones he has accumulated.

But even though he was willing to spend the money, he couldn't buy it.

There are no fine light stone mines in the Demon Kingdom. Even if some are occasionally brought in, they only amount to a hundred or so kilograms at most, which is far from enough to meet his needs.

Moreover, a pound of it is priced at twelve spirit stones, which is outrageously outrageous.

Over the past three years, Su Qing has also found out the truth.

In the cultivation world of the Western Sea, the several known Jingguang Stone mines are controlled by the Huang family of Penglai Immortal Kingdom and several island lords of Qiandao Immortal Kingdom.

Not only did they collude to drive up the price of this material, but they also strictly controlled the output of this ore. It would be almost impossible for him to purchase the massive amount of refined stones he needed through normal channels using spirit stones.

If normal channels are blocked, then the only options left are to steal or rob.

Making this choice was not difficult for Su Qing. She had already set a goal and planned to go to the West Sea to find the widowed island owner who had recently lost her husband and was all alone.

Fine light stone ore is an essential ingredient for crafting Star Sun Dolls.

In addition, he also needs to find a fourth-order spiritual vein nurtured by the Great Sun Golden Essence. Only by using the star and sun spiritual power that escapes from this spiritual vein can he support more than twenty star and sun dolls, and even more star and sun dolls, to cultivate for a long time as his cultivation deepens.

As luck would have it, there happens to be a fourth-order spiritual vein on Langya Island, which is occupied by the widow island lord!
However, crafting the Star Sun Doll and equipping it with a fourth-order spiritual vein for cultivation is not enough.

We want the children to be able to work with peace of mind and cultivate themselves for a long time.

We also need to create a undisturbed base for them.

Su Qing asked himself honestly, since he obtained the doll, apart from the three years he spent in the Demon Kingdom which were relatively peaceful, before that, in Baiyun Immortal City, he was always running around, either preparing to run away or on his way to run away.

As a result, the meditation doll rarely had the opportunity to work steadily, which is why his magical cultivation progressed slowly.

This shows how important it is to have a stable base.

The meditation doll needs it, and he himself needs it too.

In a stable environment, they refine and sell puppets, then use the puppets they refine to build an impregnable fortress around their territory, creating a self-contained immortal kingdom that no one dares to disturb. They then refine even more puppets, making even more people afraid to provoke them.

This kind of virtuous cycle is the path to advancement for an aspiring puppeteer.

As luck would have it, the island where the widowed island lord resided, Langya Island, was located in the central part of the Western Sea. It was a supply point for many merchant caravans traveling from east to west, and guarded the only trade route without any third or fourth-tier evil spirits.

Occupying this island will ensure a steady market for our puppets in the future, and it will also make purchasing materials from outside extremely convenient.

Taking all the above into consideration, his most important task on his trip to the Western Sea is to find the Vajra Dharma of Buddhism, but his most urgent task is to win over the widow island lord on Langya Island.

"That witch is only worried that I'll become a live-in son-in-law of the He family, but that little brat He Xinyan is nowhere near as sweet and tempting as this widowed island lord who will inherit Fangxian Island!"

He took out the image talisman of the widowed island lord from his storage bag, memorized her appearance and voice, and then carefully reviewed the information about Langya Island.

Su Qing then took out several puppets from her storage bag.

The fact that the widow island lord was able to maintain her hold on Langya Island for hundreds of years after her Nascent Soul husband passed away, without ever changing hands to others, speaks volumes about her abilities and methods.

To wrest control of Langya Immortal Island from her, one needs a certain backing. Su Qing didn't even dare to set foot on that island, let alone anything else.

As a puppeteer.

He was a third-tier puppeteer who had amassed a great deal of benefits from Baiyun Immortal City and Yubi Cave.

After three years of development, his reliance was naturally on the numerous puppets he had created during those three years!
(End of this chapter)