Immortality begins with meditation puppets

"Oh? So, these reed leaves were released by those villains who entered the sea cave before?"

Su Qing's heart skipped a beat. He knew that the reed leaf was torn from the reed stalk of Feng Bo'e's magic weapon. He also knew that he had invested thousands or tens of thousands of spirit stones in the tomb raiding team organized by Feng Bo'e, and before he had received any return, this investment was about to go down the drain.

The shrimp-headed man didn't notice that Su Qing's tone had turned cold. Seeing that this villain Su was asking him a question, he immediately shook his shrimp head excitedly and said:

"Of course it was released by those evil people. My Xia clan has lived there for countless years, and we have never seen anything coming out of the sea cave!"

Xiao Xia guessed that the evil people in the cave had met with misfortune and released these tokens to make people search for them.

The little shrimp wouldn't give them that chance. It simply guarded the cave entrance, accepting whatever they sent up, determined to trap and kill these wicked people in that sea cave…

The more the shrimp-headed man spoke, the more he felt something was amiss. When he looked up and saw Su Qing's icy gaze, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Half an hour later.

Su Qing and Qing He sat facing each other, eating the spicy shrimp chips prepared by the wood spirit servants while counting the sea beast corpses.

"A total of thirteen third-tier sea beast corpses were obtained, all of which were incomplete. Fortunately, their demon cores were not damaged, so their value was not greatly diminished."

There are a total of 426 second-tier sea beasts, with giant trolley crabs being the most numerous. This monster has always been highly sought after by the world, and they are willing to pay any price for it. It's just a pity that it was bombarded by artillery fire, and each one can only be sold for 30 or 40 spirit stones at most.

There are over 3,600 first-tier sea beasts, mostly shrimp soldiers and crab generals. They can be sent to Ling Shan Island along with the caravan in the city. This island has a great need for all kinds of ingredients, and they might be able to devour these things. With the owner's face, they can give a reasonable price, and they can sell them for five or six thousand spirit stones.

Thousands of tons of rotten fish and shrimp that hadn't even reached the proper level...

Qinghe covered her nose and glanced at the pile of rotten fish and shrimp that looked like a mountain of meat. With the current wealth and status of the master, he actually thought that a pound of rotten fish and shrimp worth only a dozen or twenty spirit crystals was worth something.
Seeing Qinghe's disgusted expression, Su Qing didn't care and stood smugly in front of the small mountain of rotten fish and shrimp.

Are low-quality, rotten fish and shrimp worthless?

Yes, a pound of spirit stone can only sell for a dozen or twenty spirit crystals, which can only be used by Qi Refining Apprentices and Body Cultivation Apprentices to nourish their spirit and replenish their Qi. For him, who earns and spends spirit stones these days, it is indeed nothing.

But if it's thousands or even tens of thousands of tons of rotten fish and shrimp, that's a huge business worth tens of thousands of spirit stones!

"Based on this calculation, the profit obtained from the sea beasts is approximately 30,000 spirit stones."

Even if we can't make up for the cost of oil and the loss of the puppets, we won't be able to earn back the money.

Even if I disregarded the dignity of a Golden Core cultivator and didn't even spare rotten fish and shrimp, I still lost nearly 40,000 spirit stones?

Taking Qinghe's account book, Su Qing glanced at it briefly, then slapped her thigh in distress.

The so-called "oil money" refers to the combat cost of activating a group of puppets. Among them, the four fourth-tier puppets, Dragon Island Bixi and Void Four Lions, have the largest displacement, requiring a hundred or so spirit stones just to start. When dealing with the Demon Buddha, they stepped on the floor oil several times, which cost more than ten thousand spirit stones.

Fortunately, the two fourth-tier puppets were unharmed; otherwise, he would be cursing and crying right now.

However, these two puppets were of a higher rank. One had high defense and health, making it both durable and powerful, while the other was unpredictable and maneuverable. It was normal that they didn't suffer any damage. The other puppets were not so lucky.

The Western Sea Goddess is not someone to be trifled with; her true form possesses formidable power, requiring the combined efforts of the Lion Clan and the Vajra Alliance to barely manage to cope.

Its greatest skill lies in commanding and summoning sea beasts. The sea beast corpses lying dead on Dragon Island are only a small part of the previous battle. Most of them scattered after Tianhai Ximu died, and Xiong Er and Bilian didn't have time to take the puppets to chase after them.

It was precisely because of the West Sea Heavenly Mother's ability to summon and command sea beasts and evil spirits that Su Qing wanted to eliminate her as soon as possible, transforming her evil runes into Dao runes, hoping to take the opportunity to master this ability and make the West Sea his fishing ground in the future.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Mother invited the Demon Buddha to possess her, and the Western Sea also swallowed the evil runes without any regard for propriety, so Su Qing, despite his efforts, failed to reap the benefits he most desired.

The puppets, however, suffered heavy losses!
The two types of puppets that suffered the most losses were the Exorcism Missile Puppet and the Spirit Explosion Missile Puppet.

These two types of puppets are powerful and have strong firepower, making them very enjoyable to use. However, when it comes to the costs and benefits afterwards, they are also the most heartbreaking.

Including the Tier 3 dagger missile puppet, a total of more than 30,000 spirit stones were launched. This is based on the cost of materials. If calculated based on Su Qing's selling price, it would be even more exorbitant.

In addition, the Giant Whale, Jiaolong, and Shelong all suffered damage, mostly from battles with sea monsters. The Shelong suffered the most severe losses.

This puppet's fighting style is straightforward and direct; in every major battle, it is the first to enter and the quickest to die, which was within his expectations. This battle was even fiercer than before, and losing only three puppets was already considered good.

What pained him most was that one of the aircraft carriers, the Golden Roc, crashed!
It's also the fault of those people from the Penglai Sect for doing nothing. Su Qing was leading his puppets to fight evil spirits at sea when he accidentally caused the Golden Roc Mothership to fly a hundred feet higher, exceeding the ten thousand feet warning level. As a result, the Golden Roc Mothership was attacked by countless spiritual light rays, leaving not a single hair behind!
These feathers are not easy to get. The Golden Roc Demon Kings of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom are all staying peacefully in their hometowns now, so there is no chance for him to pluck Golden Roc feathers again!

Hey! This debt will be settled with Penglai for now; we'll get our revenge sooner or later.

It's too early to talk about replacing Penglai and dominating the Western Sea and the heavens. But dominating the seas is something that Bixi from Dragon Island can still dream of right now, given his abilities.

The losses and gains in this battle are actually hard to define.

After all, how many spirit stones are the mermaids on that Mermaid Island worth?
How many spirit stones is Mermaid Island itself worth?
And how much is that Four Imperial Lotus Seal worth?

They made a killing!

Despite the constant barrage of gunfire, Su Qing turned his attention to the tomb-raiding team led by the tomb-raiding hero Feng Bo'e after taking stock of the losses and gains.

This tomb raiding team was funded by him. Feng Bo'e used the spirit stones he gave him to find old friends and like-minded people. The team was formed more than 30 years ago and consisted of skilled tomb raiders who had been to hundreds of graves in the Ksitigarbha Buddha Kingdom.

Su Qing raised them all these years mainly to have them help her search for Hai Changqing's ancestral graves.

This is the specialty of tomb raiders, but unfortunately the West Sea is vast and boundless. The vague location given to him by Hai Changqing already encompasses more than a million miles of sea, requiring the tomb raiders to search slowly.

It's unclear why the ancestors of the Hai family were so mischievous. According to the methods used by tomb raiders to search for and destroy tombs, the Hai family ancestral graves were not in a fixed location. They seemed to have legs and would move and change positions from time to time.

You chase, I chase; you run, I run. The ancestors of the Hai family didn't want to be dug up, but the tomb raiders insisted on digging it up. The two sides were like sulking, chasing each other in the dark and sunless deep sea for more than 30 years.

Because the depths of the Western Sea isolate cultivators' divine senses, making it impossible to contact them freely, according to the agreement between Su Qing and Feng Bo'e, they must surface every year to deliver messages to him and collect corresponding supplies from him.

In previous years, although Su Qing was not very satisfied with the tomb raiders' failure to find the ancestors of the Hai family, the communication between the two sides was still relatively smooth. However, in the last ten years or so, he has not received a single message from Feng Bo'e.

Su Qing assumed that they had been drifting in the deep sea for a long time and had finally encountered an evil sea monster and capsized. Although he was annoyed that his previous investment had gone down the drain, they were just a group of mercenaries and he didn't have much of a relationship with them. He didn't think about going to the deep sea to rescue them.

Unexpectedly, these tomb raiders were trapped in a hole in the sea, not far from the sea.

It's estimated that Feng Bo'e sent the items out with the hope that the cultivator from Wanghai would discover them and send him a message.

He never expected that there was a shrimp-headed man guarding the hole, a man with a grudge against him for destroying his family. If Su Qing hadn't come here today to fight the Heavenly Mother of the West Sea, Feng Bo'e would still be suffering in that hole in the sea!
"We still need to save them, but Feng Bo'e and that group of tomb raiders are professionals with considerable skills. They are also trapped in that sea cave. On my side, we just finished a big battle, and we are short of ammunition and our puppets are tired, but there is no need to rush!"

Fortunately, Feng Bo'e had been trapped in the sea cave for over ten years and wouldn't die anytime soon. To be on the safe side, Su Qing decided to send a few puppets to scout ahead first, while he himself rode the Dragon Island Bixi back to Wanghai with the great achievement of killing the West Sea Heavenly Mother and a ship full of spoils.

It's not that they don't care about the turmoil.

This boatload of rotten fish and shrimp is truly stinking and no one wants it if we don't deal with it quickly!

After carrying Mermaid Island on its back, the Dragon Island Bixi was even larger than when it arrived.

Because of its enormous size, it appears to travel very slowly at sea, but its actual speed is no slower than any treasure ship below the fourth tier.

In just two or three days, Wanghaicheng, resembling the mythical beast Xiezhi, appeared before him, lying prone on the land.

Given the current size of the Dragon Island Bixi, the original harbor in Wanghai could no longer accommodate it.

Stopping it more than a thousand miles from the sea, Su Qing hung the green lotus on his body, leaped up, and rode the wind, speeding up to a height of a hundred feet.

As he flew away, sea beasts of indistinguishable size and power leaped out of the sea and attacked him. He had no time to deal with them, but he had Qinghe catch a few of them as her long-awaited combat allowance for this trip.

As for Su Qing's combat allowance for this trip, it's not something that can be satisfied by these few small sea beasts!
He killed a fourth-rank evil spirit for Wang Hai.

With so many shops and countless cultivators around the sea, how could they not offer a token of their appreciation?

To make them express themselves better.

Before Su Qing even arrived at Wanghai, he had already entrusted the puppet to send back the image talisman used to kill the Heavenly Mother of the Western Sea.

Now we'll see if these people will take the plunge!

"Look carefully later. I don't need to see who comes to greet me, but I need to remember who doesn't come!"

"These ignorant kids have no reason to stay in Wanghai anymore!"

As Wanghai City drew ever closer, Su Qing gave Qinghe and Xiong Er some instructions. (End of Chapter)