Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Crackle, pop, rumble!
The war gun pierced the deep sea like a cannonball, turning Diao Wuyi and his protective magic weapon into a pile of dust. The violent shockwave also blew up the surviving pirates who had rushed to the rescue after seeing their captain fall into the sea. Their heads were split in two like watermelons, and they perished in the sea along with their captain.

"The dog puppeteer is ruthless; even in his dying moments, he manages to take someone down with him!"

"The captain died a terrible death. Even if the Bi'an can be restored to its original state, there will be no old captain on board!"

"The old captain is dead, but our Bi'an has not lost yet. Once that puppeteer perishes under the Divine Might Cannon, I will take over the heavy responsibility of being the captain of the Bi'an, lead the brothers, regroup, and create new glories!"

"You bastard, how come you're the captain?"

On the surface of the Western Sea, the few surviving crew members of the Bi'an had no time to mourn the death of their old captain. They just stared at the Bi'an, waiting for the dog puppeteer to be bombarded to death, so that the Bi'an could collect his sinful soul and restore him to his original state, or even further!
Like fireworks at sea, the powerful strike of the Yazi Divine Might Cannon, accumulating energy, truly possesses the power to shatter mountains and split lands, causing even Nascent Soul cultivators to lose their color.

Amidst the raging cannon fire and dazzling fireworks, the Bi'an ship seemed to utter a mournful wail, accompanied by wisps of evil spirits and vengeful ghosts that burned to ashes along with the hull in the flames.

The prison area that had been influencing Shao Delong and others also lost its effect at this moment.

"Hehehe, now it's my turn!"

Having been stifled in the prison for so long, Li Kuishan was ready to make a big splash as soon as he was freed from his shackles, hoping to use his fists to fight back two more Snake Dragons for himself who had nothing left.

Before he could finish laughing, he saw that all the cultivators in this sea area, whether friend or foe, along with the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, were all racing wildly for their lives. By the time he realized what was happening, he saw the dragon riding the fierce waves and flying far away on the Wind Eagle King. Yao Guangquan didn't have time to save his old captain and quickly steered the Jiaolong to dive down, where it trembled and became a turtle in the deep sea.

The white shockwaves that seemed to scorch the heavens and boil the seas, and the deadly fireworks that resembled a raging torrent, made Li Kuishan feel as if he were not in the Western Sea, but in the Undying Volcano of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, which he had visited when he was a merchant in the past.

There's no escaping it, and no stopping it.

He could only lament in his heart that he had wasted his life and hadn't even been able to marry a wife before he died. He felt a little bitter and unwilling, and closed his eyes to wait to be swallowed up by the aftermath of the cannon fire.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a short while, even though the surrounding air was already scorching, and his protective aura and outer armor were burned and charred, he could faintly smell the aroma of being roasted by charcoal.

But he never encountered the deadly artillery fire that could annihilate him.

"Alive?"

Li Kuishan closed his eyes and waited for nightfall, but instead of nightfall, he found that it was already dawn.

But in the center of the artillery barrage, all was calm, as if the Yazi cannon had never landed there, and nothing had happened.

But the Bixie was nowhere to be seen. Only the Buddhist monk Xiong Er was left in the same spot, holding a vajra with a storage bag hanging from it. From the storage bag came the reassuring sound of a wooden fish being struck.

Along with the Bi'an, Su Qing, the ruthless man who was blasted head-on by artillery fire and withstood the divine power of the cannons with his bare body, also disappeared.

In a moment of distraction, Li Kuishan saw that Su Qing, whom everyone thought was beyond saving and had no chance of dying, was actually full of life and had landed on the Yazi.

Li Kuishan had no idea what had happened in that brief moment.

The onlookers, however, saw it clearly.

The moment the Yazi Divine Might Cannon struck Su Qing, time seemed to freeze around him for a split second.

In that instant, Su Qing broke free from the entanglement of Diao Wuyi's remaining magical artifacts, unleashed the Four Lions of Void, opened the Void Gate that made Fuhu Zhenren change color, and channeled most of the power of this divine cannon fire into the void chaos. He then stepped on the waves and landed in front of their Yazi Hao in an instant.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

Captain Huang Zhi of the Yazi had no time to consider how Su Qing acquired her seemingly time-freezing ability.

Having witnessed his unparalleled prowess on the Bi'an, he was certain that if he allowed him to break into the Yazi, a fierce battle that the Yazi would be unable to withstand would ensue.

Unfortunately, the situation of the Yazi is not as good as before.

The defensive formation had already been broken by Master Fuhu and his men in the previous naval battle with the Thousand Islands fleet. Although the ship's propulsion system was not as powerless as he had deliberately shown, the reserve energy could only allow the Yazi to break through once. He intended to use it to escape at a critical moment.

With insufficient formation and power, and the ruthless enemy already closing in, Huang Zhi's expression hardened. He could only order the gunners to turn all the spirit cannons on the Ya Zi ship towards Su Qing, attempting to use this hail of bullets to stop Su Qing's advance so that the Ya Zi ship could turn around and break out of this battlefield.

Most of these second and third-tier spirit cannons were easily blocked by Su Qing's spear and sword, and the cannon fire that landed on him could not break through his nine hundred and ninety-nine layers of battle armor.

Seeing it getting closer and closer, Huang Zhi turned his eyebrows and looked at Ji Houzi: "How many shells does the Yazi Divine Might Cannon still have!"

"There were originally seventeen Tier 3 shells and three Tier 4 shells. Now there are five Tier 3 shells and one Tier 4 shell left!"

Ji Houzi, who had crawled out of a pile of corpses and killed countless people, remained calm and shouted at Huang Zhi when he saw Su Qing, who was covered in blood and approaching with murderous intent.

Upon hearing this, Huang Zhi felt a pang of pain in his heart, for each royal ship possessed a unique ability that surpassed the others.

The special ability of the Yazi is the Yazi Divine Might Cannon on board.

This cannon uses cultivators' golden cores, demon beasts' demon cores, and spirit monsters' essence cores as its shells, and each shell is so expensive it's heartbreaking.

With his accumulated wealth over the years, plus the two Tier 4 cannonballs that the Ya Zi ship itself carried, he could have made the Ya Zi ship the number one treasure ship in the Western Sea, surpassing the Taotie ship. Huang Zhi even had the ambition to kill Ning Chengke after Wan Xiari's death and become the new pirate emperor of Shipwreck Bay.

Unfortunately, he was unlucky. In the battle against the Thousand Islands fleet, his Yazi was the first to fire on the fleet, which aroused the hatred of the fleet. As a result, he suffered the greatest losses. In order to drive away the Fuhu Zhenren who was protected by the Styx River, he also had Ji Houzi fire a fourth-level cannonball.

Just now, in order to cooperate with the Bi'an ship to eliminate Su Qing, another fourth-tier shell was fired.

Currently, there are few Tier 3 shells left, and only one Tier 4 shell. Huang Zhi was immediately caught in a dilemma.

Should we fire this last Tier 4 shell or not?

Not firing? Judging from Su Qing's current performance, the other spirit cannons pose no threat to him at all.

Shoot? What if he dodges it using the same technique he used before?
After much deliberation, Huang Zhi decided to save this fourth-tier cannonball for a later breakout. Otherwise, without this fourth-tier cannonball as a deterrent, even if he killed Su Qing, how could he then lead the team to break through the blockade of the Wanghai Fleet and the Qiandao Fleet?
"Bombard all the Tier 3 cannonballs, but don't bombard Su Qing, he won't die anyway. Bombard those ships that dare to approach my Ya Zi."

"All crew members of my Ya Zi fleet, come aboard the Ya Zi and await orders. We will wait here for Su Qing to enter. He may be able to wipe out the trash of the Bi'an, but he might not be a match for us brothers!"

Huang Zhi's face was fierce as he drew a tiger-headed broadsword from his waist, his voice filled with malice.

He was different from Gongsun Ye. Gongsun Ye was limited by his own aptitude, and the peak of the Golden Core stage was already his limit. He had little hope of further improvement, so he turned all the wealth he acquired into external cultivation materials, hoping to rely on these cultivation materials and the power of the Bi'an name to live a life of ease and enjoy wealth and honor for hundreds or thousands of years.

Huang Zhi began practicing Qi cultivation at the age of seven and reached Foundation Establishment at the age of thirty-two. Since he started working at sea, he had deeply felt that physical cultivators were more capable of fighting than magical cultivators in the Western Sea. So he abandoned magical cultivation and embraced physical cultivation, starting as a lowly crew member and carving out his own path to become the captain of the Ya Zi ship.

With his peak third-tier body cultivation, he was only one step away from breaking through to the fourth tier. He had many fierce generals and soldiers under his command, connections in Penglai, and relationships in the Central Plains Martial Kingdom. There was no way he would die easily in this sea area!

The Yazi was a formidable ship with powerful cannons and was most vulnerable to being breached from within. However, under Huang Zhi's leadership, it fought countless battles, large and small, in the Western Sea and no one ever managed to breach the Yazi from the inside.

This is because the crew members on board are all brave and daring, and they are the best in both long-range and close-range combat among pirates.

"He's up here! He really dares to come up here!"

Following Huang Zhi's instructions, Ji Houzi unleashed the remaining third-tier cannonballs of the Yazi Divine Might Cannon, ensuring that no cultivators within a hundred miles of the Yazi ship would dare to approach. After seeing Su Qing land on the ship, Ji Houzi spat out a mouthful of blood, took out a suit of armor from his storage bag, and led his men to surround her.

In Su Qing's eyes, the crew of the Ya Zi fleet were far superior to the crew of the Bi An in terms of strength, aura, and ruthlessness like hungry wolves.

What alarmed him even more was the strange armor worn by the crew.

The uniform dark yellow armor covered the cultivators from head to toe, making them look like lumps of iron, emitting wisps of steam, as if these armors had just been taken out of a furnace, scorching the air.

When he made his move again, clad in tiger-egg armor and imbued with Blood Killing Technique, he still possessed a devastating advantage over these heavily armored pirates.

With a sweep of his sword and a thrust of his spear, he made a kill each time, as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

What's terrifying is that even though he pierced through the armor and the men together, and even though he tore the pirates' bodies apart with his sword light, in an instant, these cultivators and their armor were restored to their original state, as if they were immortal!
"The Undying Netherworld Armor! I didn't expect there were still remnants of the Wang family alive. This Huang Zhi is actually from the Huang family. He shouldn't be called Huang Zhi, he should be called Wang Zhi. No wonder his hatred for my Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom over the years is even greater than that of other pirate kings. He has launched attack after attack on my Thousand Islands Merchant Caravan and affiliated immortal islands!"

The Tiger-Taming Immortal, observing from afar, had eyes as sharp as torches, taking in the entire situation of Ya Zi Hao.

The moment the crew members of his fleet put on the dark yellow armor, he suddenly stood up, utterly astonished.

The Wang family of Thousand Islands, the Ying family of Penglai, the Lin Turtle clan of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom, the Iron Wall Kingdom of the Central Plains Martial Kingdom, and the Heavenly Gate City of the Northern Border are all outstanding members of the Tianyuan Realm's lineage of armored warriors passed down for generations.

More than a thousand years ago, overnight, various forces tacitly launched a devastating attack on these forces.

Among them, the entire Ying family of Penglai perished in the battle, with only Ying Jue Shen escaping with his life. He then went into hiding and established the world's greatest enterprise in Wanghai City.

The Scaled Turtle clan was wiped out by the siege of the Winged Tiger, Azure Lion, and Sky Roc royal families.

The Iron Wall Kingdom was swallowed up by several surrounding kingdoms. Although Tianguan City managed to retain its city gates despite being attacked by several powerful demons, it was severely damaged and suffered a loss of talent.

Master Fuhu didn't know why the various factions were targeting these armored forces, but having recently advanced to the fourth level of body cultivation, he was also ordered to participate in the operation to annihilate the Thousand Island Royal Family.

The Wang family is also a branch of the Styx lineage. Their members have all been baptized by the Nine Nether Blood Sea and can use the power of the Styx to forge armor that can be reborn upon contact with water and rebuilt after destruction. If the armor is refined into a personal artifact, its characteristics can be added to oneself, allowing both the person and the armor to have the ability to be resurrected after death.

With their ability to forge such armor, the Wang family was once a top power in the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom and one of the seven giants who controlled the Yuanlai Tower.

But just one night later, the Wang family was wiped out by their own people in the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom.

Master Fuhu originally thought that apart from the batch of Undying Nether Spring Armor preserved in their Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, there would be no trace of this armor in the Tianyuan Realm. However, he did not expect that today he would not only see the Undying Nether Spring Armor reappear in the world, but also see the remnants of the Wang family appear!

"I must make a trip to the Yazi Ship and kill these remnants of the Wang family here!"

Master Fuhu gave an order to those behind him, and with a few flashes, he was about to land on Yazi Hao when he used the Shrinking Earth Technique to maximize his escape speed.

The reason he was so anxious was not only because he was afraid that Wang Zhi would run away, but also because he was afraid that Wang Zhi would fall into Su Qing's hands!
Master Fuhu moved very quickly.

But Su Qing of the Yazi clan killed even faster than him.

Su Qing didn't know the true nature of the Undying Nether Spring Armor, but he had seen it before and had also crafted Blood Spirit puppets. He guessed that the Undying Nether Spring Armor must have been imprinted with high-level Blood Spirit runes to have such seemingly immortal abilities.

But living beings, even the gods and Buddhas of yesteryear, cannot escape turning into a pile of white bones, which will be looted and stolen by tomb raiders of later generations. These pirate crew members, who are only second or third rank, can become immortal by wearing armor.
Everything has its limits!

After he killed several times, the speed at which the armor was rebuilt visibly slowed down. Some second-level body cultivators' blood and qi were obviously not as good as before. Even third-level body cultivators like Ji Houzi, after being killed by him several times, although they were still fierce and reckless, gave him the opportunity to take their lives!

With six spears in front of him, Liuhe formed hand seals, abandoning the spears. A Buddhist lion's roar followed the spears, and the Buddhist lion seal froze the monkey who rushed in front of him. The Undying Nether Spring Armor, which could separate and merge freely like flowing water, was also frozen for a moment under the suppression of this ancient Buddhist seal, until the six spears of Liuhe pinned the monkey to the ground from his head, torso and limbs.

After waiting for a long time without seeing the monkey get up from the ground, the originally fearless crew members of the Yazi became afraid! (End of this chapter)