Immortality begins with meditation puppets

After deciding to extract the Dao patterns from the Void and Reality Robe into the bodies of the Four Void and Reality Lions to create puppets with power similar to the Four Void and Reality Elders.

Su Qing began to work on creating the prototype of the four lion puppets, one real and one virtual.

The golden bodies of the four golden-haired lion brothers were all well preserved, so he didn't need to do anything extra.

But the Golden Lion was born with a hard life. His brain was damaged, and his divine beast bloodline was drained by his Green Lion brothers.

If all you want is for them to be like the Flying Golden Lion, a third-tier puppet with little potential, that would be enough.

But Su Qing also prepared illusory and real Dao patterns for them, and even got two fourth-order large cedar wood cores. How could he be satisfied with them only being used as third-order puppets?

If we don't have the blood of divine beasts, we'll just get some for them!

Su Qing didn't have the ability to obtain the essence blood of purebred Suanni, Qilin, and other divine beasts.

However, he had long ago ordered a drop of essence blood from the fourth-tier Azure Lion True King, who possessed the bloodline of the Suanni, at the cost of more than 20,000 spirit stones, through his good lion brother, the White-faced Azure Lion King, from the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom.

A drop of true blood shone like crystal, and the surging demonic energy within it made the Qiongqi Dao Patterns within his body extremely eager, but they couldn't bear to give it to him.

Carefully divide it evenly into four pieces and inject them into the four golden lion bodies.

But after the essence blood was injected into his body, the golden-haired lion brothers, who were originally lifelike but were actually dead, seemed to come back to life. Their bodies began to exude the chilling demonic aura they had before their birth. In a daze, Su Qing mistakenly thought that the brave lion brothers who fought fiercely on the Yunshan battlefield had come back to life and could help him die again!
The White-Faced Green Lion King did not lie to him. The owner of this drop of essence blood, the True King Green Lion of the demon race who was still alive, was indeed the biological father of these four golden-haired lion brothers who had never met him!
Not being his biological father, it's impossible that after this blood essence, divided into four parts, was transferred into the Golden Lion Brother's body, there would be no rejection reaction like this now!

"Twenty thousand spirit stones are expensive, but worth it. It was worth asking King Wind Eagle to make a special trip to the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom to re-establish contact with King Azure Lion. It's just that I had too many orders before and didn't have time to refine puppets for him. Otherwise, I could have used puppets to pay off the debt, and the cost would have been even lower!"

The Green Lion King is a good brother; as long as the spirit stones are in place, he will give you only genuine and high-quality goods.

Having obtained the essence blood of a fourth-tier True King and possessing some of the bloodline of the Suanni, the Golden Lion brothers can imprint fourth-tier divine beast runes and refine divine beast puppets based on the Suanni.

After this simplest step is completed.

He then fused four materials containing the attributes of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning—Gale Purple Essence, Cloud Rain Stone Embryo, Heavenly Thunder Essence, and Spirit Eel Skin—into powder.

Mixing third-tier obsidian, third-tier blood spirit crystal, third-tier spirit wood, and many other materials, four coating materials were created, including wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.

These four ingredients are to be applied separately to the golden lion brothers.

A golden lion with thick, flowing hair was coated with a storm coating and thus named the Wind Lion, a lion as swift as the wind.

He was a man with tearful eyes throughout his life, and must have been a sentimental and tragic lion brother in his previous life. He was coated with a layer of cloud and rain, and could barely be drawn with the Mother River rune, so that he could close his eyes and the sky would be clear, and raise his eyes and the rain would fall.

The lion brother, whose forehead bore a scar resembling lightning patterns, was coated with a Five Thunder Coating. On this coating, he would imprint Five Thunder Runes. This rune was a legacy he had previously stolen from drawing runes for Master Tong, and he was only at the third level of mastery. There might be setbacks when drawing the runes, but he hoped that this Lion Brother could persevere.

A lion brother, who was hairless and pretended to be a golden lion, obtained an electric shock coating. Thanks to the electric shock princess leopard being favored by the cultivators of the Sea of ​​Gazing, he has refined many such puppets in the past six months. He has also achieved a third-level mastery of electric shock runes and can now try to imprint fourth-level electric shock runes on this coating.

After the four layers of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning were applied, four types of fourth-order runes were drawn on top.

This allows the Golden Lion Brothers to perform the power of the Four Symbols of Heaven, giving them offensive capabilities comparable to a third-tier ultimate puppet.

The inspiration for this Four Symbols of Heaven came from the Golden Core Elders who were draped in cloth during the battle at the Princess's Mansion.

If it ended there, the four golden-haired lion brothers would also have the ability to contend with the four low-grade Golden Core cultivators.

But Su Qing was not satisfied with this.

Mix the powder of the large cedar wood with fourth-order spirit wood powder, fourth-order life-creating stone powder, and many other materials that can help the puppet develop spiritual intelligence, and then make it into a creation coating.

This coating was not created by Su Qing himself. He learned from that confused fellow Daoist in the Heavenly Talisman that there were fourth-order puppeteers who would use these materials containing vitality to give puppets further potential. They named this coating the Potential Coating.

Su Qing, however, felt that the term "Creation Coating" was more appropriate, so she simply referred to the coating as the Creation Coating.

Divide the Creation Coating into four equal parts and apply them to the bodies of the four lion brothers: Wind Lion, Thunder Lion, and so on.

At this point, the main body of the puppet has been completed, and the crucial step of puppet making is about to begin.

Extract the illusory and real Dao patterns and infuse them into the puppet's body!
He took out the treasure of Yuanlai Tower, the Illusory Robe symbolizing the Phantom Leader, from his storage bag.

"It's not that the path is arrogant and unruly, but rather that the senior lacks vision."

As a weapon refiner, to tamper with such a treasure is despicable. Don't blame me for ruining your efforts, senior, by extracting the Dao patterns for my own use!

After apologizing to his predecessors and sages, Su Qing used the "Mountain and Sea Seal" technique, which he had cultivated over the years to create puppets and had already reached more than half of the third rank, to forcibly extract the illusory and real Dao patterns from the "Illusory and Real Formless Robe".

Without the illusory and real formless garment to carry the Dao patterns, the light points of these Dao patterns, just as they were extracted, were about to transform into shooting stars and lightning bolts, scattering in all directions to seek out those destined to find them.

Su Qing wouldn't give them that chance. She swallowed a third-tier Spirit Explosion Pill, and her spiritual power surged wildly, unleashing the full power of the Mountain-Sea Capture. The Mountain-Sea Capture, fully loaded, transformed into a giant, ethereal hand, trapping the Dao patterns within a small space, rendering them immobile.

It took a tremendous amount of effort to split the extracted Dao pattern into four parts and then transfer them into the bodies of the four Lion Brothers.

"The Four Imperial Dao Patterns are indeed extraordinary. It's just that no one controls the Dao Patterns within this Void and Reality-less Robe. Otherwise, even if I raised the Mountain and Sea Seizing to the fourth level, I still wouldn't be able to control these Dao Patterns at will!"
This might also be the reason why the Four Void Elders of the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom have been able to live for so long. The Nascent Soul Ancestors born in the Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom in recent years probably wouldn't be able to utilize the illusory and real Dao patterns within the Four Void Elders' bodies!

Su Qing, covered in sweat, leaned against the workbench, panting heavily.

Grafting Dao patterns is hard work, and it's already quite an achievement that he managed to do it. It's normal for him to be a little tired, and it's definitely not because he played too hard for the past three days and became physically weak.

Because the illusory and real Dao patterns only stayed in the Golden Lion's body for a short time, and could not be restrained for long before they were activated, he dared not rest too much, even though he was exhausted.

Holding the prepared illusory-real talisman water in his hand, he began to draw fourth-order illusory-real runes with great enthusiasm.

He learned this rune from observing the Illusory and Realistic Robe half a year ago. Although he did not specifically refine Illusory and Realistic puppets to improve his proficiency with this rune in the past six months.

However, they also inscribed first, second, and third-tier illusory and real runes on the puppets they sold. This was a complimentary service for customers, and they didn't charge them extra spirit stones—truly a bonus product with more for the same price. They just hoped that some customers wouldn't be startled when their princess leopards, branded with illusory and real runes, suddenly vanished from their tangible form while they slept.

In half a year, although he had crafted countless puppets and rapidly increased the number of runes, it was already quite remarkable to advance from the first to the third tier. However, it was impossible to advance to the fourth tier in one fell swoop.

With his proficiency in third-tier runes, drawing fourth-tier runes was a piece of cake for him. He just needed to endure a few more failures, and eventually, he would get lucky and succeed.

It's just that the golden lion brothers suffer; they are born into hardship, and they suffer even in death.

Brother Wind Lion, Brother Rain Lion, and Brother Thunder Lion, these three lion brothers, originally had flowing golden manes, but after his repeated failures, they have bald patches and are no longer as handsome as before. As for Brother Electric Lion, he was completely bald to begin with, so he doesn't have this problem.

He spent five days drawing four fourth-order illusory and real runes, including those that failed along the way, which consumed four bottles of talisman water.

But the result was also pleasing. Dao Wen had no intelligence, and the golden lion brothers who had the fourth-order illusory rune imprint on their bodies were immediately regarded as their destined people and were willing to be used by the golden lion brothers.

"Fourth-order illusory-real runes are insufficient to fully display the power of this one-third of the illusory-real Dao patterns. If conditions permit in the future, we should equip the Lion Brothers with fifth-order illusory-real runes!"

Su Qing looked at the golden-haired lion brothers lying on the ground, breathing in and out, their breathing becoming solid and their breath becoming ethereal, and was fairly satisfied with the current progress of their work.

The most difficult step of grafting runes and drawing virtual and real runes has been completed.

What he needs to do now is to draw divine beasts, magical artifacts, and many other fourth-order runes for the Golden Lion Brothers.

Among them, the divine beast runes are the most crucial.

Imitating the form of the mythical beast Suanni, it depicts fourth-tier mythical beast runes.

Once this rune was drawn, the golden lion brothers' appearance didn't change much, but their temperament was completely renewed.

The ferocious lion, which had been baring its teeth even in death, transformed into a majestic lion-like creature, treading on smoke and clouds.

The Suanni possesses the bloodline of a true dragon and is also a superior divine beast. Its innate abilities include the Lion Gate Vajra Mantra and the Suanni Buddha Heavenly Crossing, among many other supernatural powers.

Because he was short of money, he could only buy a drop of the essence blood of the True King of the Azure Lion from the White-faced Azure Lion King. Although this True King of the Azure Lion had returned to the ancestral Suanni, he was still no match for the real Suanni. With only a drop of essence blood and it divided into four, it was difficult to give the Golden Lion brothers much good fortune.

"Have each of you only grasped the shallow supernatural power of the Suanni summoning smoke and mist? How useful can this supernatural power be? Hey! It's because their True King father is too stingy. One day, I will definitely lead the lion brothers to attack the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons and make that Azure Lion True King shed more blood!"

Although it was somewhat regrettable, in Su Qing's original plan, the main function of these four Void Lions was to improve the Dao patterns of the real and the illusory. Imitating the divine beast Suanni was only to preserve their potential for further advancement. They were not worth relying on at the moment and were not of great importance.

Following the divine beast runes are the fourth-tier magic weapon runes. The golden-haired lion brothers were melee mad lions in life, fond of close combat, which is why they all died tragically.

Now that he has been given a second life in Su Qing's hands, he must learn from his mistakes and transform the melee-focused Berserker into a ranged magic-based Lion!
Just then, the Blood Emperor sent him a set of third-tier combination magic artifacts called the Wind and Thunder Four Rings when he opened his business.

It was precisely because of this set of magical artifacts that Su Qing thought of coating the lion brothers with four types of coatings: wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.

The four rings, as large as discs, are worn around the necks of the four lions as collars. After drawing fourth-order magic weapon runes, the lion brothers can use these four rings for their own purposes. Combined with the plating on their bodies, they can each unleash the four elements of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. When combined, they can also unleash the power of the Four Elements Thunder Strike, which is comparable to the ultimate earth-level magic technique.

This was the only offensive tactic he had prepared for the Four Lions of Nothingness.

After that, the runes he drew for the Lion Brothers were all fourth-tier Blood Spirit and fourth-tier damage reduction runes, which were life-saving runes.

The key is to save Su Qing's life, not only the lives of the Lion Brothers themselves.

After several more busy days, all the runes were drawn. He only needed to place the four mid-grade spirit stones into the energy supply slots under the lion brothers' bellies to successfully activate the Void Lions.

Wisps of blue smoke rose from the second floor, seemingly both real and unreal. Four golden-haired lions were half-hidden in the smoke, and between the four lions was a door that appeared to be real yet unreal. When one looked into the doorway, all one could see was emptiness, as if the lions had the ability to turn one's gaze into nothingness.

"If that's the case, this ability might not be limited to just defense. If I were to force my opponent through this gate, wouldn't they also face certain death?"

Su Qing muttered to himself, not knowing the properties of the Gate of Illusion and Reality, so he couldn't yet know if his idea could be put into practice. He simply pulled up the panel and searched for a series of prompts created by the Four Lions of Illusion.

[A new type of puppet has been independently crafted—the Illusory Four Lions (an illusory mythical beast-type puppet). The success rate of crafting this type of puppet is permanently increased by 20%, and three blueprints for the same type of puppet are unlocked.]

【One: Virtual Realm Doll - Tier 3 High-Grade (Virtual/Realistic Bionic Puppet)】

【Part Two: Divine Celestial Soldier - Fourth-Tier High-Grade (Illusory/Realistic Dao Soldier-Type Puppet)】

【Three: Transcendent Void Whale - Fifth-Tier High-Grade (Illusory/Realistic Chaotic Puppet)】

"Finally, another doll-themed puppet series!"

Just as Su Qing had predicted, there were not many people in the cultivation world who could meet all the conditions for refining illusory puppets like him, and he was indeed the first to create illusory puppets.

The three unlocked puppet blueprints included two fourth-tier puppets that could not be crafted at the moment. I only glanced at them briefly, just to broaden my knowledge, and then put them in my storage bag to gather dust.

I only lingered on the description of the virtual and real doll puppet for a long time.

All the dolls are high-quality products.

Virtual dolls are no exception.

This doll is modeled after Su Qing, allowing Su Qing's consciousness to possess it and use it to explore other realms.

It's like having an extra avatar from another world. The only drawback is that it can't be used within this world, which seems to violate the unique rule of all things in the Tianyuan Realm. The so-called external avatar doesn't work within the Tianyuan Realm.

"But this realm cannot be used. The outer heavens and the outer realms are difficult for non-Nascent Soul cultivators to explore. So where can I search for them? Perhaps I can only use them to explore the many small realms left behind by those fallen Nascent Soul cultivators within the Tianyuan Realm."

For example, if the Nascent Soul realm unearthed within the Ksitigarbha Buddha Kingdom is also a small realm, that would be even more wonderful! (End of Chapter)