Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Golden Dao patterns outlined various designs such as dragons, tigers, roc birds, Vajra Buddhas, etc., and then suddenly changed, transforming into a meaning that could only be understood intuitively and was known only to Su Qing.

"The Dao-patterned Fearless Vajra is ranked among the Five Elders. He is fearless and unparalleled. With strong courage comes a strong body!"
The Vajra resides in the heart, not in the Buddha; practicing the fearless Dharma makes one a Vajra in this world!

After a long and arduous search, Su Qing finally achieved his innate Dao pattern. Now that he had achieved it, Su Qing was naturally overjoyed, but he had some doubts in his heart.

These innate Dao patterns are supposedly formed based on an individual's nature and the methods they cultivate.

He practices the Vajra Dharma of Buddhism, and the patterns on his face contain the Vajra Dharma, which is perfectly normal.

But what does this fearlessness mean?
My nature, Su Qing, is to be fearless and recklessly bold.

isn't it?
I'm so sneaky!

Su Qing shook his head, feeling that something must have gone wrong. He, Su Qing, always planned carefully before acting. Although he often took risks, he was always prepared to escape. He was not like Niu Ya and other reckless fools!
If he couldn't figure it out, he simply stopped thinking about it. In any case, this fearless Dao pattern was just what he needed.

Qiongqi? A ferocious beast.

Jiuli? What a bunch of brutes.

These two subordinate Dao patterns are precisely the kind of Dao patterns that lack nothing but courage.

With the fearless Dao runes that become bolder, more aggressive, and stronger defensively, the Qiongqi and Jiuli Dao runes will surely be able to unleash the full power of these two Dao runes!

"Once my natal Dao pattern is formed, I have also completed the Golden Elixir Chapter of the Buddha's Boundless Power. I can form three seals: the Fearless Lion Seal, the Vajra Subduing Demon Seal, and the Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon Seal, as well as corresponding methods such as the Fearless Vajra Fist and the Vajra Unrivaled Body. With this power alone, my strength is among the top in the third-level body cultivation."

Not to mention the sheer power of using this Dao rune as the primary element to command and control the rest!

Unlike other body-cultivation furnaces driven by a single core Dao pattern, the Quanxing furnace lid can theoretically imprint thousands of Dao patterns, driven by multiple cores and threads, to achieve the effects of thousands of Dao patterns.

According to Su Qing's estimation, after the Fearless Dao Pattern governs the Qiongqi and Jiuli Dao Patterns, purely in terms of the furnace lid's effect, he is not much different from a fourth-order body cultivator like Fuhu Zhenren, who has cultivated his essence furnace into a molten furnace and is only one step away from cultivating his inner world and reaching the pinnacle of godhood.

"My natal Dao pattern is the Five Elders Dao pattern. Each time I imprint the same level of Dao pattern, I can increase the power of my natal Dao pattern by 30%. The Dao patterns I currently master also include the Mountain and Sea Subduing, Embryo Transformation and Shape Change, and Flower Blooming in an Instant, which belong to the Five Elders level."

Should we also brand it onto the stove lid?
Let's forget about it. These Dao patterns all lean towards the path of cultivation, which doesn't match the attributes of the Fearless, Qiongqi, and Jiuli Manghan. It's unnecessary to add unnecessary details.

But this Lotus Seal of the Fourth Imperial level is closely related to Buddhist tradition and might resonate with the Vajra of Fearlessness. Should we brand it onto the furnace lid?

Su Qing hesitated for a moment. He had never branded the Lotus Seal onto himself since he obtained it, for fear that the loss of blood and energy after the failed puppet refining would affect his progress in condensing his natal Dao pattern.

Now that his natal Dao pattern has been formed, he can refine it into his body.

As long as he couldn't brand it onto the lid of the Quanxing Furnace, he pondered for a long time and finally decided to give up.

The Fearless Vajra Dao Pattern is currently only the Five Elders Dao Pattern, and it may not be able to control the Four Imperial Dao Patterns. Although the Lotus Birth Seal he obtained is only one or two percent, it is still not something that the Fearless Vajra can suppress!

The Buddhist monks respectfully took out the merit-making wooden fish from their storage bags, formed a circle, and sat cross-legged at the center.

Amidst the sounds of wooden fish drums, golden lotuses floated around her body and then slowly disappeared into her body.

During this process, Su Qing did not see the many Buddhist phenomena, such as Bodhi Buddha, that she had seen when she first obtained this Dao pattern.

All I saw was a hazy, indistinct, egg-shaped object floating and sinking in the sea of ​​consciousness. Then I saw several lotus-shaped halos rising from that chaos. As soon as these lotuses bloomed, the originally dark and hazy sea of ​​consciousness was illuminated with a myriad of flowers and the vast world.

The other lotus flowers were of different colors, including blue, white, purple, and black, and Su Qing could not see them clearly, nor could she understand the wonder of each lotus.

Yet, one can clearly see the golden lotus inside and out.

Within, the light and shadow shifted, from the beginning of the universe to its transformations, with numerous strange phenomena that seemed real yet unreal. Furthermore, fragments of the lives of many beings appeared at the same time, as if each stage of their lives was at the same point in time!

Under Su Qing's control, the strange images in her mind were like a video progress bar from her past life, which could be paused, played, sped up, or slowed down at any time.

The Lotus Seal is not a Buddhist seal, but a Daoist pattern that controls time!

Using the faith of all beings and the merits of heaven and earth as fuel, we light the bonfire of time, making up for regrets in the past and guiding the present in the future!

A golden lotus, bearing the seal of the Lotus Birth Dao, what does it imprint is time?

What mysteries are hidden within those blue lotuses, black lotuses, and purple lotuses?

Creation? Life and death? Reincarnation?

In an instant, Su Qing suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of many Dao patterns that no one in the world had ever heard of, yet he was certain that these Dao patterns must exist.

Just like the Four Imperial Dao Patterns, which are actually called Lotus Birth Seals but should more accurately be called Time Dao Patterns, no one in the current cultivation world knows about them, nor does anyone think they should exist. The cycle of life and death, the ever-changing world, the past cannot be chased, and the future cannot be seen. This is the basic law of the universe. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator cannot go back to the past and help his 17-year-old self win over the girl he loves.

If time could be controlled by living beings, allowing them to alter the past and disrupt the future, wouldn't the world descend into chaos?

Therefore, Heaven and Earth would not allow such Dao patterns to exist, so they certainly would not exist!
But now, he clearly felt that he had the ability to manipulate time on a small scale.

Three feet above the head, there is a merit energy that ordinary people cannot perceive. The energy is as fine as a wisp of silk, so fine that it cannot be detected. There are as many as seventeen wisps of it.

This is the merit that Su Qing, from Baiyun to Wanghai, has provided to him, whether intentionally or unintentionally, to all the living beings who have benefited from him and received his help.

Do good deeds and don't worry about the future, because heaven and earth have their own scales, keeping track of your actions every day!
"I am indeed a good person. A wisp of merit has changed the fate of more than 10,000 people. Seventeen wisps would amount to 170,000. But the gratitude of these 10,000 people is too worthless. Using one wisp only allows me to use this Dao pattern once."

And you can only control the flow of time for three breaths each time. What can you do in that little time?

Is it enough for me to unleash all my Taoist arts, have all my puppets go into full power, and use all my trump cards?

"It seems like it really could work?"

The Four Imperial Dao Patterns are indeed extraordinary; their ability to control time is something others wouldn't even dare to dream of!

"Most of these Dao patterns are still on that Demon Buddha's body. What a waste! We must take him down when we get the chance!"

Secretly marking the demonic Buddha in her mind, Su Qing gagged and vomited out the Buddha relic in her stomach, which had lost its Buddhist aura.

He summoned Tiger Egg, who was still diligently forging a sword, and handed it the Buddha's relic, whose appearance and smell were not very appealing.

"What are you standing there for? Eat!"

Su Qing made sure Hu Dan had something to eat, so he shouldn't complain about the taste!
"Little Tiger won't eat food offered with contempt!"

Tiger Egg shook its head in strong resistance. This was no longer charity; it was its master's vomit!
"Didn't you want to become a fourth-tier puppet? If you can't get a fourth-tier demon core right now, you can use this Buddha bone relic to make do for the time being!"

Su Qing waved his hand, telling him to stop arguing and hurry up and swallow the Buddha's relic so he could start drawing the runes; time was of the essence!
"Master, you should have said so earlier! Your indecisiveness shows none of the carefree spirit of us sword cultivators. If you had said so earlier, Little Tiger would have swallowed it sooner!"

If it concerns advancing to the fourth rank, even vomit and tiger eggs are edible!

Tiger Egg received the Buddha's relic and was about to swallow it when he suddenly became worried and said:
"Little Tiger, I've heard that those Buddhist monks are all sanctimonious on the surface but ruthless on the inside. Will swallowing this Buddha relic cause any problems?"

Why are you making such a fuss when I'm just offering you a relic?
Su Qing glared at Hu Dan and said irritably:

"Eat up, eat up! Even if it was poisonous, I've already digested it!"

"That's good. Master's body is stronger than Little Tiger's. It's best for Master to eat poison. Since there's no problem, Little Tiger will swallow it!"

With its owner testing the poison for it, Tiger Egg had no more worries and swallowed the Buddha's relic. It turned its head and collapsed to the ground.

It wasn't that the relic still contained residual poison that caused him to collapse, but rather that Su Qing had only absorbed the Buddhist aura and hadn't absorbed the fourth-order Vajra power contained within the relic. The essence left behind by a fourth-order Vajra in his lifetime exploded within the third-order tiger egg's body, so it was perfectly normal for it to collapse and faint. Su Qing had anticipated this.

It's better if he's unconscious, as it will make it easier for him to draw runes.

After advancing to the Golden Core stage and becoming a fourth-tier puppeteer, drawing fifth-tier runes was no longer a difficult task for him.

Because of the rapid progress, the proficiency in various runes has not yet been developed. Forcing the drawing will inevitably result in the loss of a lot of Tier 5 rune water, which will also cause some hardship for Tiger Egg.

Tiger Egg wasn't afraid of suffering, but even the cheapest damage reduction talisman water, a fifth-tier talisman water, cost over three hundred spirit stones per bottle. Fifth-tier bionic and fifth-tier intelligent talisman waters could only be prepared by cultivators from Penglai, and they were never sold to outsiders. He had to search for materials from various places and prepare them himself.

"So what if it's expensive? If you don't spend the money on your own puppet, are you going to spend it on other women?"

With a heavy heart, he opened a bottle of fifth-tier divine beast talisman water, used the Mountain and Sea Absorption technique to wash away the original fourth-tier divine beast runes on the tiger egg, picked up the fourth-tier phoenix brush offered by his good lion brother, channeled his spiritual power, and began to imprint divine beast runes.

With that stroke, the world changed color... Well, there was no reaction at all.

Once a rune reaches the fifth rank, its spiritual power and essence are all concentrated inside, and it is not easily leaked out. Therefore, to outsiders, his drawing of the fifth-rank rune at this moment is just like a child drawing a picture, ordinary and without any wonder.

Tick, tick.

Large beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. His body, which had just condensed his natal Dao patterns and was three times harder than usual, was trembling so much that he could hardly hold the pen. Within his sea of ​​consciousness, which was nourishing the Purple Star Qi and the phantom of the Fire Phoenix, the Golden Core was also shaking and the spiritual liquid was depleted.

He had already experienced this hardship when refining the Dragon Island Bixi. Back then, before he had condensed his natal Dao patterns and was only at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, it was much more strenuous than it is now, but he could still endure it. Let alone now that his physical body has improved. (End of Chapter)