Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 325 Wang Feng's Blood Talisman, the Four Elders of the Void

The infamous Phantom Troupe arrived with overwhelming force, only to retreat in defeat like stray dogs.

The fate of the Phantom Leader is unknown, while the Undying Iron Wall, Butterfly Sword, Shadow Warrior, and Formation Breaker have all fled.

The four Golden Core elders, now free to act, quickly calculated that their side would have a huge advantage in the battle within the inner courtyard. It would be a battle with almost no danger, and they could easily gain favor and increase their status.

Without the slightest hesitation, the four Golden Core elders, still catching their breath, stormed from the front courtyard to the inner courtyard.

The four Golden Core elders, who seemed to be the most valuable team in this battle, entered the inner courtyard with murderous intent and immediately joined the battle to help the princess fight her third uncle.

It wasn't that they were particularly loyal to the princess, nor that they were willing to get involved in the power struggle between these two second-generation princes.

In reality, the battle within the inner courtyard is now a decisive one, with the princess's side holding an absolute advantage!

After Su Qing and Yin Ganyu fought and left.

The corpse driver and the Breaking Bad master were both confident of success.

They were confident in their leader's abilities and expected that the suddenly appearing Tiger-Phoenix Guards would not be able to withstand the leader's attacks for long. They believed that as long as they held out for a while, the leader could deal with the three Fire Phoenix Elders.

Even if the leader arrives late, Feng Tianyang's strength is far beyond that of Princess Fire Phoenix. Once he kills Princess Fire Phoenix, the overall situation will be settled. They can then join forces with Butterfly Sword and the others to leave without any major issues.

Unexpectedly, the regimental commander disappeared without a trace, and Feng Tianyang's side also encountered a problem.

Feng Tianyang, who is half-human and half-phoenix, knows perfectly well that the key to this battle lies in quickly killing his eldest niece.

Only by killing him will the Fire Phoenix Elders consider him when there is no first choice, and the Fire Phoenix Clan members in the city will then be able to obey his orders again.

With unwavering resolve to kill, and flames engulfing the heavens and the earth, Feng Tianyang, half-human and half-phoenix, displayed his formidable combat prowess, having never suffered a defeat below the Nascent Soul stage while presiding over the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom.

The Phoenix Strike, with its concentrated power, traveled from a hundred feet away to within three inches of the Fire Phoenix Princess's throat in an instant. During this time, no matter how many magical artifacts the Fire Phoenix Princess unleashed or how many protective spiritual lights she summoned, they were all in vain. Before this spear, they were as useless as decorations, easily shattered by it.

This is the overwhelming combat power of a peak third-tier body cultivator who has condensed the power of a superior furnace lid, gathering the mighty power of heaven and earth into one body and wielding it with a single spear thrust.

This shot embodies five hundred years of his skill. Feng Shen, how will you block it? What will you use to block it?
Die! Become a harmless egg in the palace. After I, your third uncle, ascend the throne and advance to the Nascent Soul stage, I might give you a chance to hatch and live another life!

Uncle San's smile was both cruel and tender.

The spear in his hand, the surging blood, the explosive desire—all made him resemble a phoenix, a beast, and not quite human.

And that smile, like that spear, was frozen three inches from Princess Fire Phoenix's throat.

"Pfft!"

A sound rang out that made Feng Tianyang's face turn ashen.

It wasn't the sound he wanted, the sound of something being thrust into the princess's body.

It was the sound of a war spear plunging into the void of flames.

But before Princess Fire Phoenix, four ethereal phoenix figures appeared out of thin air.

The pure white, transparent flame is something that exists between reality and illusion, capable of dissolving any attack into nothingness, comparable to the ethereal garment that transcends reality.

The Four Elders of Emptiness!
Besides the Nascent Soul Ancestor, the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom possesses one of its greatest trump cards.

No one knows whether these four little phoenixes are demons or spirits, but everyone knows that these four little phoenixes came from beyond the heavens from the day the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom was founded. They are only under the command of the Fire Phoenix King and are revered by the Fire Phoenix Clan as the Four Elders of Emptiness. They have followed the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom to this day.

Even after tens of thousands of years, the Four Elders of the Void are still just young phoenixes, never having grown up, nor possessing the ability of a Nascent Soul.

However, over the past tens of thousands of years, whenever the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom experienced a talent shortage and a period of vulnerability without the protection of Nascent Soul cultivators, it was always the Four Elders of the Void who helped the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom resist the covetousness of Nascent Soul cultivators from outside.

Although they lack offensive capabilities, when combined with the fourth-order Phoenix Dance Soaring Sky Formation of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, they can transform the entire Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom into a realm between reality and illusion, and neutralize Nascent Soul attacks.

If it can withstand the attacks of a Nascent Soul cultivator, how could Feng Tianyang possibly break through it?
What darkened Feng Tianyang's expression even more was that the appearance of these four elders represented the Fire Phoenix Ancestor's unreserved and full support for the Fire Phoenix Princess.

She was always the one who was chosen!

But I was never one of them!

Despite his tireless efforts in fighting for the immortal kingdom, he could only serve as a vanguard for the king. The inherited Nascent Soul artifacts were not meant for him, and the throne of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom never belonged to him!

The Fire Phoenix Ancestor is the Heaven of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom. Since the Mandate of Heaven is not in his hands, even if he cultivates diligently for many years and plans in every way, it will all be in vain.

Feng Tianyang was unwilling to accept this, and his third uncle was very angry.

The impotent and enraged Third Uncle stabbed Princess Fire Phoenix repeatedly in a fit of rage, determined to tear a hole in the sky and a hole in the princess.

However, all of this was ultimately in vain.

Princess Fire Phoenix watched as her third uncle thrust his spear into the Void Flames of the Four Void Elders, watching him go from high spirits to ashen-faced, from despair to tyrannical madness. Her face remained expressionless as she coldly stared at her third uncle, as if he were a complete stranger.

Everything today was within her and the Ancestor's calculations. Su Qingfei was not the Phoenix Guard she had prepared; the Four Elders of Void were the real ones, there to help her resist the existence of the Phantom Leader.

"However, it seems unnecessary now. This Fellow Daoist Su actually has the ability to kill the Phantom Guild Leader. Three years ago, he did not have such ability..."

Princess Fire Phoenix looked towards the outside of the city, where a tiger-like figure was rushing towards the city.

By this time, the regimental commander had died, the third uncle had gone mad, and the regimental members had fled.

The corpse driver and the Breaking Bad guy who ended up in the inner courtyard were in trouble.

The strange corpse of the master-disciple could not withstand Elder Fire Phoenix's raging flames.

Breaking Bad's poison techniques were difficult to use effectively because Princess Fire Phoenix was prepared.

As the battle dragged on, these two Phantom Troupe members, who were already lacking in combat ability, perished one after another under the raging flames of the three Fire Phoenix Elders.

When the four Golden Core elders arrived, they saw Feng Tianyang, who had been tormented to the point of madness and dementia by the Four Elders of Emptiness.

Without the slightest hesitation, the four Golden Core elders and the three Fire Phoenix elders joined forces to fight against this treacherous minister who dared to kill the crown prince and usurp the throne.

Feng Tianyang was completely helpless against the Four Elders of the Void, but it was not an easy task for others to deal with him either.

With a loud roar, his phoenix armor shattered into pieces, revealing his bare upper body adorned with fiery phoenix feathers and runes.

However, it was the runic martial arts he obtained through a deal with the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, which he had acquired from the Pingxi Prince's Mansion in the Central Plains Martial Kingdom.

With his extraordinary talent, he fused the phoenix blood in his body with the third-grade talisman martial art—the Heavenly King Martial Talisman—to condense the King Phoenix Blood Talisman Furnace Lid. Although it was only a third-grade talisman, it was still a superior furnace lid.

With the slightest thought, the furnace fire steams, the blood talisman covers the body, possessing the power to intimidate the masses, the effect of burning blood to generate strength, and the power to condense and unify forces!

The moment he activated his talisman, the three hundred soldiers he had personally trained, who had previously served as miscellaneous soldiers in the inner courtyard, suddenly transformed. Their auras coalesced into one, and the combined movement of the three hundred men exuded an aura that made even the four Golden Core elders feel slightly uneasy.

They were indeed uneasy, because these three hundred soldiers, empowered by talismans, were charging straight at them!

How dare you charge at them?

Are they pushovers?

The four Golden Core elders were unusually enraged and fought fiercely against the three hundred soldiers.

"Let them be easy targets. Fighting these soldiers is safer than fighting that Phoenix City Lord with his exposed armor and runes, who's probably trying to take a few down with him before he dies. With my skills, I could have led my Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom onto the path of runic martial arts, igniting a body cultivation craze in the Western Sea cultivation world. Using the power of runic martial arts, combined with the bloodline advantages of the Fire Phoenix Clan, conquering the Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom in the east and the Penglai Immortal Kingdom in the west wouldn't have been a pipe dream."

But fate was cruel. The Ancestor only saw the Phoenix Essence Blood within you, failing to notice my martial arts, capable of changing the fate of the Immortal Kingdom! How hateful, how hateful!

Seeing that the three hundred second-tier soldiers, who could have been easily wiped out by the Golden Core elders, were now united in body and mind, and in spirit and momentum, the three hundred men worked together with one heart and one mind, just like the third-tier body cultivators, and fought back and forth with the four Golden Core elders.

Although they are too few in number to contend with the four Golden Core elders for a long time, what if the number of three hundred people becomes three thousand, and the number of three thousand people becomes thirty thousand? In this vast Western Sea cultivation world, which immortal kingdom can rival them?
I missed it!

The immortal realm missed me!

The Immortal Kingdom also missed its only chance in tens of thousands of years to become the overlord of the Western Sea!

Feng Tianyang's face was desolate and tinged with regret.

Princess Fire Phoenix, however, had a mocking look in her eyes.

"The art of runic martial arts is no secret to the cultivation world of the Western Sea. For tens of thousands of years, no Western Sea Immortal Kingdom has ever followed the example of the Central Plains Martial Kingdom in promoting the art of runic martial arts. Moreover, all the Immortal Kingdoms of the Western Sea have a tacit understanding to either kill or suppress cultivators who practice runic martial arts within their territory."

Why did Uncle San think this was?

Because the former Tianyuan Dynasty not only possessed fourth-order Dao rune weapons, but also had this Dao rune in its rune martial arts, which we could not compare to no matter how much we cultivated. Moreover, within the territory of the Tianyuan Dynasty, there was a fourth-order Monarch Martial Dao rune. When the Monarch Martial appeared, the rune martial arts bowed down. This was the monarch of all rune martial arts in the world. Whoever obtained this Dao rune could command all rune martial artists!
Third Uncle wants my Fire Phoenix Clan to rise to prominence through rune martial arts. Little did he know that if things were as you wished, my Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom might prosper for a time, but in a thousand or ten thousand years, it would be controlled by the Central Plains Martial Kingdom and become a vassal state of another country!

"King Pingxi, what you seek to pacify is the cultivation world of the Western Sea!"

"The Dao Pattern of the Martial King? These Dao Patterns still circulate among the martial kingdoms of the Central Plains? How come I know nothing about them? That's right, because I am not qualified to inherit the throne, these secrets are only told to you by the Ancestor, while I can only remain in the dark!"
"Was I wrong? No, it was the Ancestor who made me wrong! If it had explained things clearly to me, how could I have fallen into the trap set by the Prince of Pingxi's mansion! The one who's wrong is the Ancestor, the one who's wrong is you, and the other Fire Phoenix Elders!"

The runic martial arts he was so proud of were, in Princess Fire Phoenix's words, a gift given to him by someone else specifically to scheme against him.

This made Feng Tianyang both ashamed and angry. He used the phoenix blood in his body as fuel, and the furnace fire burned the phoenix blood, giving birth to a phoenix king in the furnace lid.

As soon as the King Feng, whose body was covered in seven-colored fiery feathers, appeared, it transformed into a king-shaped rune that landed on his forehead.

With the blessing of the King Phoenix Rune, his aura suddenly changed, causing the three Fire Phoenix Elders, who were willing to risk their lives for the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, to freeze in shock and retreat slightly to avoid the brunt of his attack.

The four Golden Core elders, sensing the danger, led their three hundred soldiers, fighting as they retreated, gradually moving away from this perilous place.

"At the peak of the third tier, yet already possessing the power of the fourth tier, this is the martial arts of runes, this is my King Phoenix Blood Rune!"

Feng Tianyang had always treasured his own phoenix blood. Even after condensing the King Phoenix Blood Talisman Furnace Lid, he never dared to be as extravagant as he was today, burning his phoenix blood to create the King Talisman. Therefore, he had never experienced such a feeling of being empowered as he was now.

Possessing unparalleled strength, there may be a chance of escaping death today!
Having rekindled his hope of survival, Feng Tianyang abandoned his obsession with stabbing the Fire Phoenix Princess and instead set his sights on the Fire Phoenix Elder blocking his path, as well as the giant soldiers, pea fire hunters, and many other members of the Fire Phoenix Clan who arrived later.

If he can sweep away all these scoundrels blocking his way, he might be able to break free from his cage, escape to the Central Plains Martial Kingdom, and become a general in the Pingxi Prince's Mansion!

If our ancestors didn't appreciate their own talents, there are plenty of people in this world who do!

The exceptionally talented Feng Tianyang also displayed his remarkable abilities.

His body was engulfed in flames, his blood and qi surging like a pillar. With every move he made, he absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for his own use. At this moment, in this Phoenix City, he was the only king, possessing the power to rule over everything.

Aside from being unable to defeat the Fire Phoenix Princess protected by the Four Elders of Emptiness, he was almost omnipotent!

Every move he made carried the power of a level-one Taoist technique; every step he took could cause the heavens and earth to change color.

They fought their way from the inner courtyard to the outer courtyard, and from the outer courtyard to the horizon, venturing into an uninhabited land, where no one could withstand their spear thrust.

Just as Feng Tianyang was about to fight his way out.

In the outer courtyard, inside the neglected spirit cage.

Rao Tingshan, Li Kuishan, and the others were dumbfounded.

"The Phantom Troupe has really gone too far this time. They tried to murder Princess Fire Phoenix and interfere in the struggle for the throne. Such a heinous crime! If we are implicated by them, we will be severely injured even if we don't die. Even if the tower sends more strongmen, they can only collect our corpses at most!"

Rao Tingshan paced anxiously inside the cage.

They thought the Phantom Troupe was their savior, but they turned out to be their nemesis.

You can cause trouble, but you need to get it over with and do it cleanly!
They failed to kill the people they wanted, and instead ended up with some of them dying and others escaping. What's worse, they even got themselves locked up in cages and couldn't get out. What kind of mess is this?!

Even if it's just to unlock the Butterfly Sword for the Shadow Warriors when they're running away, and let them escape with it, that would be good!

"The Phantom Troupe is a misnomer. I thought they were heroes, but they turned out to be nothing more than cowards!"

Li Kuishan watched helplessly as his long-admired heroes fled like stray dogs, and he was furious.

Turning his head, he saw a dark, bear-like face staring straight at him.

"What are these things? Did Fellow Daoist Su summon them? I said they looked like bears, not that I asked you to conjure up some kind of bear puppets!"

Li Kuishan looked at Xiong Er holding the pestle, and was inexplicably terrified by the bear's glare.

Just like the creditors he encountered on Abbot Island in the past!
damn it!
It's just a war bear puppet, how come it has the same temperament as those loan shark villains!

"Fellow Daoist Su, do you intend to use the power of this War Bear to tear this spirit cage apart? Fellow Daoist, don't waste your energy. This spirit cage is a third-tier spirit cage, made entirely of third-tier Absolute Spirit Stone and third-tier Annihilation Soil. No matter whether it is the spiritual power of a magic cultivator or the strength of a body cultivator, it will be ineffective against this cage."

In the past, when we used this spirit cage to imprison third-tier demonic beasts, there were more than a few Golden Core cultivators among them, and very few were able to escape. It is truly a masterpiece of our Yuanlai Pavilion. Fellow Daoist, your mere puppet has no chance of tearing this spirit cage apart.”

Rao Tingshan spoke eloquently to Fellow Daoist Su, who was still cowering in the corner as if he were terrified, his words filled with immense pride in the spirit cage produced and crafted by their Yuanlai Tower.

It's just too good!

Good, if they lock up their own people, they won't be able to do anything about it!

In Rao Tingshan's view, whether they can survive this time depends on whether they kneel properly after Princess Huofeng finishes her business, whether their begging tone is obedient, and how much money they offer!
If that doesn't work, offering the entire cargo of the Digging Dragon to Princess Fire Phoenix wouldn't be a bad idea. Money is ultimately just an external thing; what isn't one's own money can't compare to one's own life.

Even if losing the goods means facing punishment from the headquarters and being hunted down to death, it's still better than dying right here in the Fire Phoenix Kingdom!

As Yu Raotingshan weighed the pros and cons and made his decision to sell his goods to survive, a crisp "snap" sound reached his ears. Upon closer inspection, he realized what was happening.

Then they saw the war bear puppet whistle at them slyly, and on its huge, millstone-sized paw, it was holding a long, thin iron wire.

It unlocked the Ling Cage!
Does anyone have a teddy bear that can pick locks?

It has this skill, but what is it used for?
Furthermore, wasn't this Spirit Cage Lock something that the weapon refiners in the building spent a hundred years painstakingly developing, and it was said that no thief cultivator in the world could open it? How could it have been opened by One-Battle Bear?
Rao Tingshan had so many questions that when the cunning war bear hoisted Su Qing, who was huddled in the corner, onto its shoulder, he didn't have time to think much about this extremely strange action.

With the help of locksmith Xiong Er, the group managed to sneak out of Fenglai City under cover of darkness while the city was in chaos.

Meanwhile, several miles outside the city, Su Qing had been hiding in the cloud palace formed by the two-headed mirage dragon, watching the spectacle of the princess fighting her third uncle and the jackals battling the tiger.

It is certain that both Princess Fire Phoenix and the Fire Phoenix Ancestor behind her intend to spare Feng Tianyang's life. Despite the current commotion, those Fire Phoenix clansmen who bravely sacrificed themselves are only dying in vain. In the end, Feng Tianyang will surely escape alive!
Su Qing had no idea what the Fire Phoenix Princess and the Fire Phoenix Ancestor were plotting.

However, after Hua Yuan came to Hua Yuan's hands, he no longer had any intention of getting involved in the affairs of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom.

Princess Fire Phoenix has an incredibly thick skin, and people with incredibly thick skin often have low morals.

If you put yourself in her home field and the two sides are not evenly matched, who dares to say that this Fire Phoenix Princess will treat that talisman painter from the past the same way, making Su Qing spend his days making puppets for her and making her have a harem of three thousand!
Having a harem of three thousand is fine, but trying to get Su Qing for free is absolutely out of the question.

(End of this chapter)