Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 34 Runes Bewitching
The armored war bear unleashed its power, coupled with the suppression of an exorcism talisman.

The headless evil spirit is dead beyond any doubt.

These kinds of evil spirits, which are tainted by wandering evil spirits, are usually not very powerful.

According to Su Qing's estimation, if Li Erhe hadn't been caught off guard, he wouldn't have fallen victim to this headless evil spirit.

Nevertheless, he did not want to come out of the hiding place for the time being.

The lizard warriors, along with over a hundred wood spirit servants, began cleaning up the corpse water.

The corpse water, tainted by evil spirits, was several meters above him, and the black iron shield of the hiding cave kept it from spitting out the smell, making him want to vomit.

The puppets have no senses, yet they experience no pain while doing these kinds of things.

To his surprise, after the corpse fluid was cleaned up, a faint, eerie pattern remained inside the bear paw print.

He had never seen the pattern before, but it inexplicably felt familiar.

The armored bear crouched down so that Su Qing could observe the patterns on the ground up close.

Before long, Su Qing made a decisive judgment.

"It's a rune, a rune I've never seen before!"

As he spoke, his eyes gradually turned red, and the patterns on the ground seemed to have an endless attraction, drawing his entire mind into them.

He seemed to hear strange noises, or perhaps they were just his own mutterings.

"Imitate it, obtain it, master it, and you will master everything!"

"Strange script? Divine script? Or even immortal script or Daoist script, whichever it is, obtaining one will allow one to soar to the heavens, ascend to the nine heavens, become an immortal and ancestor, and enjoy eternal life. How wonderful!"

"The ways of gods, demons, and eccentric spirits, the ultimate methods to reach the heavens, are right before your eyes. Just pick up the talisman brush and make a single stroke, and the difference between heaven and earth on the path to immortality will be like heaven and earth!"

The murmuring whispers grew increasingly eerie and seductive; if anyone had noticed, they would have known that the voice was not one that Su Qing could make.

Ethereal, void, as if the voices of millions of beings had converged into one place, playing a melody passed down from ancient times to the present, and then transforming it into modern language, leading people to the same path as them!

Su Qing's consciousness was hazy. After looking at the patterns a few more times, his mind was as if he had fallen into a dream, making it impossible for him to think clearly.

Instinctively guided by the patterns, all I could think about were the benefits of depicting those patterns.

The patterns are ancient runes, possessing all sorts of incredible abilities.

Legend has it that a third-tier weapon refiner once imprinted an ancient rune onto a magical artifact, giving it the power to suppress Nascent Soul cultivators. There are also rumors that a talisman maker possesses ancient runes, and a single talisman can transform the world itself, nurturing countless living beings.

Ancient runes, the dream texts of all cultivators in the Tianyuan Realm, the ladder to heaven. There are often storytellers in the streets, and whenever they talk about the protagonist's adventure, it usually begins with falling off a cliff, accidentally entering a fairy cave, and obtaining ancient runes.

Before Su Qing awakened her panel, she had many fantasies about ancient runes.

Now, although the patterns on the ground are incomplete, he has a panel. As long as he draws a stroke, his proficiency will increase. Even if it is incomplete, he can still achieve something.

This was an opportunity bestowed upon Su Qing by Heaven!

The guided thinking ignored the dangers of depicting this pattern and only focused on the benefits of mastering this rune.

Just as Su Qing was about to leave the hiding cave and begin drawing talismans.

Suddenly, he felt a pain in his chest, as the spider doctor repaired the damage inside his body.

hurt?
When was I injured?

Su Qing was startled.

After the initial shock came fury.

Intelligence reigns supreme.

The instinct for caution kicks in.

"You spend every day crafting first-tier puppets, working yourself to the bone, and only earn a few hundred or a thousand. You expect to rise to the top with a single talisman like others? Do you think you're the protagonist of a wish-fulfillment novel?!"

He slapped himself hard across the face.

Although I was bewitched by the demonic script and felt as if I were in a dream, the cultivation world is so dangerous that I can't even dream of such a beautiful dream!
After berating himself, he looked at the patterns again and was immediately filled with anger.

"You audacious demonic script, how dare you corrupt my Dao heart!" The armored war bear squatted on the ground, its paws beating the patterns on the script like drums.

After a sudden, earth-shaking tremor, he hammered a small pit several meters in diameter, about ten feet deep, into the southwest corner of the courtyard before finally stopping.

He commanded the lizard warriors to scatter three exorcism talismans into the pit, and only after the yellow light appeared did he breathe a sigh of relief!
What happened just now was extremely dangerous for him.

That headless evil spirit is actually not difficult to deal with.

What's difficult to deal with are the runes it left behind.

It was indeed an ancient rune, but it was not a divine rune that could confer divine power, nor a celestial rune with ever-changing supernatural abilities, nor a Taoist rune that contained the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, nor even a demonic or mysterious rune.

It's evil literature!

It is the foundation for the existence of evil spirits, and also the poison that can turn living beings into evil spirits!

One stroke can lead to hundreds or thousands of strokes.

From then on, he gradually became insane, unaware that he had become an evil spirit.

"What kind of evil spirit is that at the Gao family's butcher shop? The first time it came, I was able to drive it away with just over twenty exorcism talismans. Now, it's a headless evil spirit affected by it, and it even has evil runes on its body!"
If it continues to grow, and one day it erupts, will those Foundation Establishment cultivators in the market be able to withstand it?

No!

Whether they can hold on or not, I can't hold on any longer.

Tomorrow I'll go with Baibaoge to Lingtian District and stay there for a while to lay low for a bit!

However, the Lingtian area is now a melting pot of all sorts of creatures, and with the added threat of demonic beasts, it is hardly safe.

"As expected, I still don't have enough puppets!"

All fear stems from one's own lack of strength.

With his current wealth, he could indeed create more puppets for himself.

However, his divine sense limited the size of his puppets.

According to his calculations, given the current number of puppets, he can only control one more armored war bear at most. He cannot use up all of his remaining spiritual energy, otherwise, operating at full capacity would drive him crazy!

"If I had more time to refine the meditation doll, once my cultivation level reaches the fifth level of Qi Refining, my divine sense would be able to control even more puppets."

Su Qing sighed softly.

With the control panel available, all he lacks is time.

This is also the key to his ability to resist the temptation of ancient runes.

Ancient runes may be good, but they are not necessarily better than the runes that are popular now.

Over countless millennia, through the refinement and improvement by generations of practitioners, new ideas have emerged.

The modern rune system is more complete, and the path to advancement is clearer.

Even when cultivated to the highest level, it may not be much worse than ancient runes.

Without a doubt, with a heavy heart, he scraped off the usable Xuan Iron Essence from the lizard warrior who had just died in the line of duty, and then took out a new complete set of equipment from his storage bag.

Su Qing clapped her hands and returned to her room to prepare for today's medicinal bath.

I was misled by that evil text just now, and my internal organs seemed to have been damaged. Although Dr. Spider worked hard to make up for the damage, he still lost some of his vital energy.

Soaking in the medicinal tub, the medicinal power seeps into the skin, penetrates the bones, and then reaches every part of the body and internal organs.

By the time he stood up, he had probably only absorbed about one-fifth of the potency of the medicine.

"According to the description of the Immovable Heavenly King Technique, when I can absorb all the medicinal power, I will meet the conditions for swallowing gold and plundering essence, and refining the essence furnace. At that time, I will be able to step into the threshold of the first-level body cultivator."

Su Qing was not in a hurry about his body-refining progress.

It would be good enough if it could improve one's health; as a puppeteer, I never intended to use my power to commit violence.

At least, he wouldn't be able to personally go to the front lines of battle until all the puppets were defeated.

(End of this chapter)