Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 324 The Battle of Dao Patterns: A Battle of Life and Death, a Clash of Fates
The battle for Dao patterns is a fight to the death.

If Yin Ganyu had not intended to kill Su Qing before, and knew that the main target today was the Fire Phoenix Princess, he might have withdrawn and let Su Qing go if things didn't go well here, and then helped Feng Tianyang kill the Fire Phoenix Princess in the City Lord's Mansion.

At this moment, the situation is different. After Su Qing demonstrated the Transformation Technique, the Fire Phoenix Princess is no longer as important to him as the tiger-headed man opposite him.

He knew that the tiger-headed man opposite him was the same; since he dared to expose his Transformation Technique, he must also be prepared to fight him to the death.

"However, with your Foundation Establishment cultivation and enhanced Earth-level Dao techniques, how long can you sustain this? Your bone age is no more than a hundred years old. Even if you reach the Transformation stage, how many Dao techniques can you create?"
"With your abilities, you dare to try and seize the Dao patterns from a lowly Daoist? It's like a snake trying to swallow an elephant—you're simply courting death!"

Yin Ganyu suppressed his smile and stared at Su Qing with a sinister look. With his core fully formed at the third grade and powered by a spiritual treasure, he was not afraid of losing his magic power. He only needed to wait for Su Qing's protective radiance technique and the phantom of the fire phoenix to disappear before he could easily deal with him!
Su Qing knew that he had no advantage whatsoever in terms of accumulated Taoist skills and powerful magic power compared to this thief who had been stealing Taoist techniques for over eight hundred years.

But apart from these two advantages, it is entirely at a disadvantage when facing itself!

Using eight hands and four spears simultaneously to unleash the Tyrant Dragon's Roar Spear, while dealing with the Butterfly Sword Light, he freed one hand and threw a yellow maple leaf towards where Yin Ganyu was.

Maple leaves drifted slowly down from the sky. Yin Ganyu didn't know what they were, but he held his breath and unleashed a powerful wave to strike them, not wanting to give them a chance to unleash their power.

The spatial turbulence of the hole wave caused the maple leaf to spin continuously in the air, but to Yin Ganyu's surprise, the spatial turbulence that could annihilate everything had no effect on the maple leaf at all.

Instead, as the maple leaves swirled and tumbled, they gradually gathered the momentum of wind and clouds, and in a short while, a towering ancient yellow maple tree appeared before him, obscuring the sky and reaching into the clouds.

The ancient tree swayed its branches, and countless maple leaves cascaded down, forming towering, polar tornadoes as they fell.

Tornadoes covered an area of ​​hundreds of miles.

It is about transforming the virtual into the real, shifting space, but where can it be shifted to!

"Taoist arts? Magical artifacts? Or perhaps puppets!"

Yin Ganyu had never seen such an attack before, but he took immediate action to counter it.

The land rose up, and gold and stone gathered, forming a square, solid fortress around him, imbued with the spiritual power of gold and stone.

With this fortress of gold and stone protecting it, no matter how fierce the storm rages outside, it remains unmoved inside and will not resort to any means to launch another attack!
A red light rose from the storage bag, instantly descending to a high place and transforming into a fish-shaped flying shuttle, which mingled with the gradually fading butterfly sword light and attacked Su Qing.

To provide cover, it summoned two more third-tier puppets: one shaped like a sand giant and the other like an elephant-headed human. These puppets, along with a third-tier spirit beast, a golden crab, attacked Su Qing together.

Yin Ganyu was not born into a privileged family. He had killed countless people along the way, and everything he had was earned through his own hard work. He had killed enough and robbed enough, and his accumulated wealth was in no way inferior to that of the average second-generation rich kid.

He was just dealing with an ordinary opponent; he could easily defeat them with Taoist magic alone, so there was no need for him to use those methods.

With his attack coming down, Su Qing could only temporarily use the Storm Tree to block the two third-tier puppets with a storm of falling leaves.

Scattering wood turns it into soldiers, throwing soil causes puppets to fall.

More than thirty guardian tree spirits stood in front of them, rooted in the earth. Five armored locomotives hidden among the tree spirits, together with the Storm Ancient Tree and the guardian tree spirits, fought against the two third-tier puppets.

With another tap on the storage bag, two dragons emerged, exhaling clouds and mist. The moment they appeared, their overwhelming dragon might made the golden crab, wielding a demonic spear and exuding an imposing aura, forget who its master was. The crab stood there bewildered and lost, unsure of who to stab with its demonic spear.

"A mirage dragon puppet? This must be your last trump card!"

The moment the two-headed mirage dragon appeared, Yin Ganyu also gasped. To create a third-tier puppet from the corpses of two mirage dragons was such a lavish gesture that he had only ever seen it in the hands of a few top second-generation immortals and island scions in the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom and the Penglai Immortal Kingdom.

These puppets, whose mere dragon might can subdue the Golden Crab, are undoubtedly third-tier ultimate puppets.

And summoning such a puppet must be this boy's greatest reliance!

Seeing that he had played all his cards, Yin Ganyu did not hesitate any longer. He summoned the Thousand-Handed Sea King Dharma Image again. The thousand hands simultaneously plunged into the Dharma Image's chest, clenching out a wildly beating heart. He smiled fiercely and said:

"A superior-grade Earth-level Daoist technique—the Heart-to-Heart Knot. Please enlighten me, fellow Daoist!"

He clutched the heart of his own Dharma image, yet the pain was inflicted upon Su Qing.

At this moment, Su Qing was curled up like a shrimp, as if her heart was being squeezed.

With just a pinch, he severely damaged his vital energy and blood, rendering him powerless to fight again.

The four spears slipped limply from his hands, as the butterfly sword light and the flying fish shuttle attacked him.

Roar!
With a roar, the two-headed mirage dragon spewed water, scattering most of the butterfly sword light.

However, while the dragon's spitting water could disperse the butterfly sword light, it could not repel the swimming fish and flying shuttle hidden within the butterfly sword light.

This flying shuttle has the ability to traverse space and break through the defenses of a third-tier body cultivator. It is Yin Ganyu's own natal magic weapon, which he has refined for many years. It can be used at will and has great power.

To ensure a complete end to the battle, Yin Ganyu's Dharma form activated again, uttering a demonic hum from the mouth of the Sea King's Dharma form.

However, he used another Earth-level Dao technique to imprison the two-headed mirage dragon, which was trying to protect its master, and its master Su Qing in place, making it difficult for them to escape.

"To be able to force a minor Taoist to use most of his Taoist arts and summon all his magical artifacts and puppets, in the past few hundred years, only a handful of cultivators of the same level, such as the Lord of Liusha Island and the Lord of Langya Island, have been able to do it."

Fellow Daoist, you are not even a hundred years old, yet you have achieved such a level; that is truly remarkable!

Yin Ganyu, now confident of victory, couldn't help but praise Su Qing.

Praising your opponent is also praising yourself for annihilating them!
"Only half of the Daoist techniques? Let's see how many more trump cards you have up your sleeve!"

A loud shout rang in his ears, making Yin Ganyu's scalp tingle.

Then, the tiger-headed man rubbed his hands together to create a black and white, yin and yang intertwined spiritual light, which repelled the swimming fish.

A fierce and malevolent Qiongqi appeared behind the tiger-headed man, forcefully breaking through the sealing spells that had been applied to himself and the two-headed mirage dragon.

The tiger-headed man, whose vitality was just as strong as before, was even more ferocious. He attacked him simultaneously with the two-headed mirage dragon that was gripping a giant bone-like club with its claws!

Before they could get close, two Yin-Yang Absolute Slashes were unleashed from the tiger-headed man's hand, heading straight for him.

Yin Ganyu was greatly alarmed, wondering what kind of miraculous medicine this tiger-headed man had taken to survive the blow from the Heart-to-Heart Knot and still be so vigorous and powerful.

But when the Taoist magic attacked and the dragon and tiger came to kill, he had no time to think and instantly teleported away to dodge.

Unexpectedly, just as it began to fade into nothingness...

The Yin-Yang Absolute Slash, which was aimed at the top, turned its spearhead around and flew upwards towards its own Dharma form.

The same applies to the tiger-headed man and the two-headed mirage dragon!
"How dare you, little thief!"

Yin Ganyu was terrified upon seeing this. His true form was protected by a robe of illusion and reality, so he was not afraid of attacks from those below the Nascent Soul stage.

The Dharma Form is different. If it is destroyed, it will be difficult to use the Dharma Form in this battle, and it may also damage the foundation of the Golden Core. It will take at least three to five hundred years to recover.

He doesn't have much time left to live, and he's saving the rest of his lifespan to seek the opportunity to form his Nascent Soul. How could he dare to suffer such an injury that would delay his path to enlightenment!

However, if one were to retract the Dharma form, it would be a physical entity, making it impossible to use the intangible formless garment to save one's life and escape, thus risking the destruction of one's Dao!

It's a simple choice between two options: either sit idly by and watch your Dharma form be broken and your path blocked, or risk your life to reclaim your Dharma form.

In an instant, he made his decision, activating several talismans, including a minor Five Elements Escape Talisman, a Divine General Protection Talisman, and a Spirit-Severing and Breath-Cutting Talisman.

Having fled a hundred miles away and been protected by talismans, he used the Taoist technique of the Golden Stone Fortress, executing all his methods in one go. By the time he finished all these preparations, the tiger-headed man in the sky had just snatched the Dharma Heart from the Thousand-Handed Sea King, and the two-headed mirage dragon had just twisted the Thousand-Handed Sea King into a twisted shape!
Thankfully, although it was a bit of a disaster, at least it wasn't broken!

Yin Ganyu suppressed his anger, mobilized the golden core in his sea of ​​consciousness, and restrained the spiritual power of his Dharma form.

And he had just made a move.

Su Qing suddenly realized something.

So what if I'm aware of it!

With the Spirit-Severing Talisman concealing my aura, you may not be able to find me in the next breath or two!

Even if you find it, how could you possibly break through my golden fortress, protected by divine generals, when we are hundreds of miles apart!

Yin Ganyu had no worries whatsoever, and focused solely on concealing his Dharma form.

He had underestimated the tiger-headed man, who seemed to be hiding something like a fourth-tier Qi and Blood Pill to replenish Qi and restore blood, which caused his attack to be broken. But as long as he withdrew his Dharma Form, he would have eliminated the only flaw. With the illusion of reality and the formless garment, even if his Taoist techniques were slow to be used, he could slowly wear the man down!

Just hold on for two breaths and the tide will turn again!
Yin Ganyu knew this, and how could Su Qing, who was devising a plan to gain the upper hand, not know it? Bang bang bang!
Countless red spider lilies spread across the land for hundreds of miles.

As the power of the netherworld rippled outwards, Yin Ganyu, who was beyond the reach of divine sense and could not be perceived by divine sense, suddenly appeared in his perception.

Nine tails rose behind him, and nine swords were drawn simultaneously. In the sky, a rainbow pierced the sun, purple qi came from the east, thunder and lightning danced, and Buddha's light shone everywhere...

The speed of the sword light is so fast that it can travel a hundred miles in an instant.

When all nine swords are unleashed together, they can rival the lifespan of heaven and earth, possessing power comparable to a fourth-tier swordsman.

Everything happened too fast, and too quickly.

So when the divine general's talisman light and the golden stone fortress collapsed and dissolved in the sword light, Yin Ganyu wanted to abandon the Dharma form and turn the physical form into an illusory form to avoid it, but it was too late.

The physical body disintegrated, the soul dissipated, and even the storage bag on his body was annihilated by the omnipresent and indestructible sword light.

All that remained was a scarred, azure golden core, a fourth-tier spiritual treasure, and a piece of shattered Dao Heaven wall.

Since no high-ranking Buddhist cultivators were needed to intervene, the shattered Daotian Wall never transformed into evil patterns. The moment Su Qing grasped the shattered wall, it split into countless points of light, which surged into his sea of ​​consciousness.

[Absorbed the Dao Pattern of the Transformation Yuan Hand, Dao Pattern Completeness +47.26%, Current Completeness: 57.86%]

[The Daoist runes contain information about the Daoist arts transformed from the previous rune owner. Please choose three from the following Daoist arts to inherit: Five Yang Thunderfire, Heart-to-Heart Knot, Fire Phoenix, Divine Helmet and Soul Armor, Golden Stone Fortress...]

[Five Suns Thunderfire, Divine Helmet and Soul Armor, and Golden Stone Fortress have been selected.]

[Having completed half of the Dao rune, becoming the first master of this Dao rune, the proficiency of all derived runes of this Dao rune has been raised to the third rank. Furthermore, future cultivation of this type of rune will be divinely aided, progressing extremely quickly, and one will be immune to most of the effects of derived runes of this Dao rune.]

[Derived Runes: Skillful Hands, Keen Eyes, Discernment, Simulation... (Therefore, the Dao patterns are all Ten Capital Dao patterns, and the maximum quality of all derived runes is Grade Four, and the maximum rank is Tier Four.)]

[The first rune master can receive location information from other rune masters: Qu Ang (Tianyuan West Sea, Yuanlai Tower), Purple Light Rat (Tianyuan Hundred Beasts Mountain, Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom).]

[The First Pattern Master has concealed his own information; the other Pattern Masters, not being within a million miles of the same world, cannot sense his location.]

[Due to the increased completeness of the Dao patterns, proficiency has also increased. Current proficiency: 189/500 (Tier 3)]

Cooldown period: 24 years

[Upper Limit of Transformation Yuan Dao Technique: Earth Level (Limit)]

[Note: Increasing the proficiency of this Dao rune can further shorten the interval between transformations and increase the upper limit of the Dao techniques that can be transformed. The proficiency limit is fourth rank. Upon reaching the fourth rank, one can transform one Earth-level Dao technique every three years and one Heaven-level Dao technique every thousand years.]

"From the Daoist thief, he obtained three Earth-level Daoist techniques, which shortened the transformation time by six years and brought the upper limit to the Earth-level limit. He also mastered many derivative rune inheritances as a result!"
But the biggest advantage is that after becoming the first rune master, you can hunt down the remaining two rune masters and have the opportunity to master the rune to perfection, gaining access to the Transformation Heaven-level Dao Technique!

After digesting the Dao patterns he had learned, Su Qing's face lit up with joy.

This fellow Daoist Yin diligently collected Dao patterns and transformed Yuan Dao techniques over the years. When he was an enemy, he was indeed annoying, but after his death, even his golden core became quite endearing.

He stored his good friend's golden core in his storage bag for use in refining the Demoness or the Evil Furnace Child.

Then, he took the flying fish shuttle that his good friend had left behind, and used the two-headed mirage dragon to suppress the golden crab. With the help of the Dao pattern's ability to capture mountains and seas, he destroyed the divine sense imprint in the golden crab's demon core and replaced it with his own divine sense imprint, thus gaining the service of a third-tier spirit beast.

Fellow Daoist Yin is too generous. He gave him so much, but it wasn't enough. He also gave him this fourth-tier spiritual treasure, the Illusory Robe symbolizing the leader of the Phantom Troupe.

[If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. This precious robe was crafted by the Daoist Master Qiansou to save the thousands of immortals of the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom from the suffering of being exploited and enslaved by Penglai. Therefore, those who use this treasure are not judged by their cultivation level or background, but only by their willingness to serve the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.]

Those who wear this garment must receive the Thousand Islands Order three times every hundred years and complete the corresponding tasks.

Those who wear this robe must register their names in the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom and swear an oath to be loyal to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom and to be enemies of Penglai for the rest of their lives (this oath will be broken when one reaches the fourth stage of Nascent Soul).
Those who wear this garment must endure the torment of being questioned by the Lord of the Realm of Illusion and Reality once every hundred years.

The one who wears this garment...

Su Qing didn't continue reading. After only reading the first few lines, she lost all interest in becoming this damn Phantom Regiment leader.

While a fourth-tier spiritual treasure is valuable, it's not enough to make him sell himself to the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom for it.

Whoever wants to wear it can wear it.

The Yuanlai Tower had long been advertised to the immortal kingdoms of the Western Sea, but this treasure had fallen into the hands of others, and no one had the intention of possessing it or becoming the leader of the Phantom Troupe.

You can also send this treasure to any immortal city or immortal kingdom-level Yuanlai Tower in the West Sea. After confirming that it is correct, you will not only gain the friendship of Yuanlai Tower, but also receive many gifts.

"This treasure has been controlled by Yuanlai Tower for many years, so this promise should stand. Therefore, we will break it and sell it on the black market. I imagine countless people will be interested in this treasure!"

These were treasures he had obtained for free. Even if he couldn't use them for the time being, he could still exchange them for many good things. His slight disappointment vanished in an instant. He commanded the Storm Tree to gather storms and completely obliterate the traces of the battle in this place. He stuffed a blood lotus into his mouth. After his condition was fully restored, he leaped and fled towards Phoenix City.

Meanwhile, outside Phoenix City, Su Qing and the leader of the Phantom Guild were locked in a fierce battle.

The battle within Fenglai City has also been ongoing.

They can withstand attacks and fight back.

But no matter how powerful they were, they couldn't withstand the attack from a city full of cultivators and numerous magical artifact puppets.

After fighting off one colossus, he was then attacked by another colossus, along with a team of Pea Fire Hunters and many Fire Phoenix Clan members, leaving him battered and bruised, no longer as powerful as before.

The Undying Iron Wall is not truly immortal. Although it has the ability to harness the power of the earth for its own use and transfer damage across land and sea, the power of the earth is not inexhaustible, and its furnace cannot continuously draw upon the earth's power.

Having fought for so long, he has single-handedly held off the entire city, achieving remarkable results. Even if he were to withdraw now, no one could blame him for anything!
Without orders from the regimental commander, he dared not flee and could only try his best to hold on.

Until the moment he could no longer sense the commander's presence.

The commander is gone?

How did he just disappear?
Wearing the Cloak of Illusion and Emptiness, and wielding numerous Taoist arts of Transformation, how could he possibly die?

He's not dead yet, not even in front of me!

Damn it!

The tour leader and all the members are in perfect harmony and can sense each other's state.

The moment the commander died, Qu Ang had the urge to flee.

Because he couldn't tell whether the person who killed the leader was there for the Illusory Formless Robe or for the Dao Pattern Transformation Hand!

He, Qu Ang, is also a master of the Transformation Yuan Handprint!

A servant of the Martial Kingdom, by chance, gained the favor of the Dao Pattern Fragment Wall, secretly transformed his essence within the Martial Kingdom, and silently cultivated until he finally reached the third level of cultivation.

After hearing the name of Yin Ganyu, the Transformation Master, he did not hesitate to travel from the Central Plains Martial Kingdom to the Western Sea to join the Phantom Troupe, hoping to find an opportunity to kill the troupe leader and seize the Dao patterns on his body!
Unexpectedly, before the opportunity arrived, a deadly calamity struck first.

I never harbored a single侥幸 (侥幸 means taking a chance or hoping for luck).

He knew that the person who could fight Yin Ganyu was someone he could not defeat at any moment.

Qu Ang then transformed into a streak of earthen light, burrowed underground, and sold his fellow Daoists in Fenglai City before disappearing in an instant.

Meanwhile, inside the city lord's mansion, Butterfly Sword and Shadow Warrior, who were still entangled with four Golden Core elders who were wearing robes and fighting to the death, realized that something was wrong and also transformed into sword light and overlapping shadows to escape.

The formation-breaker, sensing the leader's aura dissipate, escaped even faster than Qu Ang.

As a technically skilled member of the team, he wouldn't have survived this long if he didn't know how to escape.

"You thief, don't run away!"

"What kind of hero runs away when they can't win?"

"Now you know how powerful I, the Venerable Fengguang, am! If I could borrow another five hundred years from heaven, you would surely be dead today!"

"I will spare you for now, but you should know that if I were young and used my skills, you would not be as badly injured as you were when you fled!"

The four Golden Core cultivators, panting heavily, watched the fleeing group without any intention of pursuing them. The lifespan they had lost today was more than enough to repay the offerings from the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom. To make them fight to the death would be going too far!

(End of this chapter)