Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 33: Evil spirits come to your door and kill people!

【Ironclad War Bear】

[Type: Giant Battle Golem]

[Rank: Tier 1, High Grade]

[Function: A combat puppet with outstanding defensive capabilities and formidable strength. It has a hole in its chest that can accommodate one or two cultivators for hiding. Its eyes can emit a crimson moon demonic light, with power equivalent to a mid-grade Yellow-level Dao technique. However, it lacks the ability to understand complex operations.]

[Required materials: Ironback Bear Bone (one), Black Iron Essence (3000-5000 jin), Red Moon Stone (two), and other materials as needed.]

[Puppeteer Rank Requirement: Tier 1, High Grade]

[Rune Requirements: Bionic Rune (Tier 2), Material Rune (Tier 2), Monster Rune (Tier 2), Combat Rune (Tier 1), Intelligence Rune (Tier 1)]

【Usage Costs: Daily: 30 Spirit Crystals (absorbing Moon Essence reduces consumption by 30%), Combat: 300-1000 Spirit Crystals (depending on combat costs)】

[Divine Sense Requirement: Cultivator at the mid-stage of Qi Refining or above.]

The Su family courtyard.

Su Qing looked at the enormous object she had bought at great expense, her expression one of extreme satisfaction.

Physical size is a measure of combat power.

This statement is biased, but it is not without merit.

The giant bear, standing three zhang tall, had black armor and red eyes. Its arms were like pillars, and when it lifted or stomped its legs, the ground beneath its feet trembled slightly.

It gives me a great sense of security!

"A set costs over 8,000 spirit crystals, which isn't exactly expensive, but it's expensive to use!"

With a daily consumption of thirty spirit crystals, he could support ten lizard warriors!
But no matter how much he consumes, since he bought it, there's no reason for it to be left idle.

He inserted fifty spirit crystals into the calf of the armored war bear, established a spiritual link with it, and watched it move around the courtyard with its hands and feet restrained under his control. He felt that his spiritual energy was not being consumed much, and he was relieved.

Cultivators control puppets with their divine sense. The strength of their divine sense determines how many puppets a cultivator can control and the strength of those puppets.

Generally speaking, a cultivator at the mid-stage of Qi Refining can at most control one armored war bear. Even a cultivator like Su Qing, who has just reached the threshold of the mid-stage of Qi Refining, is at risk of becoming weak and powerless when controlling an armored war bear.

However, although his spiritual roots were poor and his physical constitution was weak, his spiritual sense was exceptionally powerful.

With his current spiritual power, he can not only micromanipulate thousands of miniature puppets, but also control twelve lizard warriors. He still has enough spiritual power to control one armored war bear, and controlling two or three more would not be a problem.

This can be considered one of the few advantages of this body.

That's true. With poor spiritual roots and weak constitution, there can't be anyone in this world who is useless in every way!
"I'm only missing one demon beast rune to meet the requirements for refining this puppet's cultivation level and runes. Even if I'm just starting out, I still have a certain success rate. Should I take a gamble?"

Su Qing muttered to himself that he was reluctant to spend money to buy the blueprints for the Ironclad War Bear, because reconstructing the blueprints was not a difficult task for him.

After all, this armored war bear is only large in size and takes a lot of time to forge; the technical content is not high.

That's why he had this idea.

It was because there was an ironback bear skeleton lying in his storage bag, which he had bought from Tang Wanqing and had been sitting idle until now. If he could make use of it, he would naturally want to.

Knowing that he would be going to the hunting area in three days, he couldn't rely entirely on the Hundred Treasures Pavilion for his safety. Having an extra armored war bear for protection wouldn't hurt.

He then made up his mind to develop the Ironclad War Bear within the next three days.

As for what to do if you fail, just listen to the sound. Who hasn't failed at puppet making? Let's give it a shot!

He lay on the armored bear he had just bought, carefully examining it and pondering it repeatedly. Whenever he gained any insights, he would quickly jot them down on paper.

Once the blueprints were roughly accurate, they took out bottles and jars and began to prepare the talisman water. Since the armored war bear was large, it required more talisman water, making the workload even greater.

"No wonder it's so expensive. With the skeleton, the material cost alone is over two thousand. Add the puppeteer's labor and the risk of failure, and it sells for over eight thousand spirit crystals. It's a really good price!"

As a puppeteer, Su Qing could curse the talisman masters for being unscrupulous and the weapon refiners for being immoral when faced with soaring prices, but he would only think that the puppeteers had set their prices too low.

Muttering to himself, he lamented that his peers had squeezed the profit margins of mass-market puppets like the Ironclad War Bear too thin. He worked for two nights and a day to finish the preliminary preparations.

And this night.

The moon was bright and the stars were few. The moonlight shone into the courtyard, coating the iron-backed bear bones on the ground with a thin layer of silver armor.

Although Su Qing has been avoiding working outdoors at night recently.

However, the Ironback Bear skeleton was simply too large to fit in the puppet-making room.

In addition, due to the need to meet the deadline, they had to work through the night in the courtyard. "With the Wood Spirit servants watching outside and the Lizard Warriors and Armored War Bears inside, there shouldn't be any problems!"

Su Qing listened intently for a few moments, and even the nearby spirit dogs were unusually quiet tonight, suggesting that it would be a peaceful night.

Once Su Qing calmed down, she began to draw runes on the Ironback Bear bone.

The first thing he drew was his specialty, the intelligent runes.

Unfortunately, the Ironback Bear's demon bones cannot support intelligent runes of level one or higher, and it cannot discard its demon bones and replace them with other materials. Therefore, it can only be coated with level one intelligent runes, making it a silly bear.

He could easily master the first-tier intelligent rune; there was no possibility of failure.

The same applies to the first-tier combat runes and the second-tier bionic runes; they pose almost no difficulty for him.

Next are the second-tier material runes. These runes allow the Ironback Bear bone to fuse with other materials, such as the Red Moonstone in front of him and the hiding hole in his chest. Without the support of material runes, these materials would not be able to be installed.

He had already upgraded this rune to level two, so it was a simple task.

He only became cautious when it came to the last demon beast rune.

Because they frequented Yunshan Market and were neighbors with Hundred Beasts Mountain, they inevitably had to deal with monsters regardless of their profession.

In the past six months, he has crafted many puppets that require monster materials and monster runes, such as the Jumping Rabbit, the Little Flying Eagle, and the Bumping Bull.

Therefore, he is not completely ignorant about this rune, and now he has reached the first level of proficiency.

With only a first-tier proficiency level, drawing second-tier demon beast runes carries a significant risk of failure, which is the only difficulty in crafting this puppet.

Fortunately, perhaps it was because the night was too quiet, or perhaps the wind was just right, in any case, he successfully completed drawing the second-tier demon beast runes after spending more than an hour.

At this point, all he needs to do is follow the steps to apply the Xuan Tie Jing (a type of refined iron), install the Red Moon Stone, and open a hole according to his own needs, and the puppet will be finished.

"No surprises at all, I knew I could do it!"

Looking at the armored war bear that was already mostly complete, Su Qing was extremely satisfied with his work.

And just then.

Suddenly, a series of banging sounds came from the courtyard gate!
Damn it, who's knocking on the door so late?

Why didn't the Wood Spirit servants notice?
Just as he was wondering what was going on, a sudden gust of cold wind swept through the courtyard.

It startled him.

He remembered the knocking sound from the evil spirit that had come to his door last time.

Not daring to be careless, he instantly crawled into the chest of the armored war bear he had bought.

Then, he manipulated a lizard warrior to open the courtyard gate.

Swish!
The outside was shrouded in a white haze, and there was no sign of anyone.

Just before the lizard warriors were about to close the door.

A headless figure suddenly materialized.

Swish!
The headless corpse swung its arm, like a knife or axe, across the lizard warrior's neck.

A cold light suddenly appeared.

Before the lizard warrior's head could even fall to the ground, the headless corpse grabbed the head and put it on its own head.

Then, annoyed, he said:
"This isn't my head either, Fellow Daoist Su. Could I borrow your head for a moment? I want to see if it's mine."

"Borrow my ass!"

Su Qing shouted, and the armored war bear raised its right arm, revealing two exorcism talismans that had been affixed to its palm at some point.

Bang!
Clap it with one palm.

As the bear's paw struck, the headless evil spirit's form slowly became ethereal, as if this would help it avoid harm.

But at that moment, the talisman on the bear's paw glowed with a yellow light.

The yellow light intimidated the headless evil spirit, leaving it nowhere to hide and forcing it to endure the bear's paw slapping down.

Then the bear paw was raised again.

Besides a huge bear paw print, there was also a pool of foul-smelling black blood on the ground!
(End of this chapter)