Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Humans are all afraid of death.

The pirates on the Yazi were no different.

In the past, I was not afraid of death because I relied on the trump card given to me by the captain, and the second or third tier of the Undying Netherworld Armor as a life-saving item. Although each reshaping would consume some of my own blood and energy, I still had more lives than others, so I appeared to be unafraid of death.

When Ji Houzi, who was wearing the third-tier Undying Nether Spring Armor and whose strength and cultivation far surpassed theirs, was bleeding profusely from the gun holes in his armor, it seemed that he was beyond dead.

The crew of the Yazi finally learned to be afraid. They gave Wang Zhi almost no chance to boost morale and reorganize the crew. The crew members, who had been scared away, jumped ship and fled. They were no longer as brave as before.

Su Qing frowned as she glanced at Ji Houzi, who was lying on the ground like a dog. Although she could not detect any signs of life in him, she felt that he was not quite dead.

Out of caution, he was about to raise his gun and fire a few more shots when...

But then Wang Zhi, who hadn't made a move until now, suddenly leaped forward as if he were about to kill his own son, his precious sword bursting forth with a dense, waterfall-like blade of light.

"Let me handle this! Kill me, and the name Yazi is yours!"

Wang Zhi drew hatred with his own body. Su Qing, who was already targeting Ya Zi Hao, no longer cared about Ji Houzi's life or death. She swung her nine tails on her back, and the tail swords danced nimbly, blocking Wang Zhi's blade.

What a formidable Wang Zhi! Even though Su Qing possessed a Heaven-level sword skill, was fully equipped with Battle Armor Technique and Blood Killing Technique, had the combat prowess bestowed by the Qiongqi and Taotie Dao Patterns, and had the cultivation of a peak third-tier body cultivator, the clash between them resulted in a prolonged and evenly matched battle, making it difficult to kill him.

The armor he wore was the fourth-tier Undying Nether Spring Armor, which could quickly restore him to full strength no matter how much Su Qing attacked him with his spear and sword.

The precious sword he wielded was a family heirloom of the Wang family, possessing the power of the fourth rank. It could summon the power of the Netherworld River. With a single slash, a thin layer of black water swirled around the blade. If one was not careful and this black water fell on their body, a tear would be worn into Su Qing's armor. If it weren't for the fact that his armor was layered so many times, it really wouldn't have been enough to withstand the cut from this precious sword.

Besides his armor and sword, Wang Zhi's combat skills were also extraordinary.

It should be noted that ever since Tiger Egg created the complete Nine Swords of Tianshan and brought this sword technique to the Heavenly level, its efforts are considered Su Qing's efforts, and its gains are considered Su Qing's gains. Therefore, when Su Qing uses the Nine Swords of Tianshan, a majestic sword aura accompanies him.

The sword's aura divides heaven and earth. From the Heavenly Pole Sea, wherever the sword light reaches, its opponent will be suppressed by the sword's aura. It is no less powerful than the Sin Prison Domain of the Bi'an, and its terrifying level is even greater.

Wang Zhi raised his hand and swung his sword, completely unaffected by the sword's momentum. With just himself and his sword, he parried Su Qing's Nine-Tailed Eight Swords' storm-like attacks one by one. In the slightest gap, he would even deliver a subtle slash, tearing a bit through Su Qing's armor.

The two men clashed with their spears and swords, hacking and slashing with their broadswords, fighting fiercely. To onlookers, it was a completely different scene.

In their eyes, behind Su Qing were the malevolent Qiongqi, the phantom of the Blood Witch, the wrathful Vajra, and the cycle of birth and death of lotuses. The sword light was seven-colored, covering half of the sky and wilderness.

Behind Wang Zhi, a river of blood churned, and wronged souls roamed the netherworld. Scaled beasts rose from the river of blood, and a black-faced, blood-soaked demon god roared in the smoke and clouds. The blade's light was black, not white, and it clashed with the sword's light across the heavens!
This is the ultimate duel between body cultivators below the fourth rank, a clash of Heaven-level combat techniques, a battle that even a fourth-rank True Person like Fuhu Zhenren would have to use his signature move to intervene in.

A tiger's roar shook the surrounding area.

Before Fuhu Zhenren even arrived, he forcefully drew upon the surrounding spiritual energy with both palms, transforming it into a black tiger with blood-red eyes. As the tiger roared and charged, it rushed to the point where the sword and saber lights clashed, then suddenly twisted its head to help Su Qing suppress Wang Zhi's sword light.

"Subdue the tiger! Die!"

Wang Zhi's eyes were bloodshot. The moment the Tiger-Taming Immortal appeared, he abandoned Su Qing and focused all his attacks on the Tiger-Taming Immortal.

The blade was imposing, wielding the ultimate technique passed down in the Wang family, the Heavenly-level combat skill, Yuan Tu Reincarnation Blade, to slay one of the greatest enemies who had wiped out the entire Wang family, the villainous Fu Hu.

The crazed Wang Zhi unleashed his sword with unstoppable force, like a storm raging. He poured all his pent-up anger from a thousand years ago, and the hatred for the destruction of his family that had tormented him since childhood, onto Fu Hu Zhenren. While attacking like a mad dog, Fu Hu Zhenren was also far more durable than Fu Hu Zhenren had imagined, thanks to his fourth-tier Nether Spring Undying Armor. Fu Hu Zhenren, who had originally planned to join forces with Su Qing to quickly kill this remnant of the Wang family, was now somewhat at a loss for what to do.

Let him fight. After all, he is a fourth-level Nascent Soul cultivator. It wouldn't be difficult for him to deal with Wang Zhi by paying a small price. But what good would that do him? He's just a support character. This battle shouldn't have been fought by him!
If they didn't fight, that little beast Su Qing, seeing that after he took over the battle, seemed to have made an appointment with Wang Zhi, quickly left the battlefield and landed on the Ya Zi ship, intending to take the king's ship for his own use. If he left now, and then Su Qing left too, Wang Zhi would definitely escape without a trace, returning to the sea like a dragon. It would be impossible to find his whereabouts again.

"Thank you for your help, Master Fuhu. I'll go deal with the rest of the royal ships now that you've taken down this fiend!"

On the Yazi, Su Qing tossed the rotting Ji Houzi to Shao Delong, who was dropping bombs from the sky, instructing him to send this second-generation sea tyrant, who was indeed Wang Zhi's biological son and not quite dead, back to the Bixi on Dragon Island for recuperation. Meanwhile, Su Qing himself, having received Wang Zhi's voluntary relinquishment of control over the Yazi, used his divine sense to try and take control of the royal ship.
"Submit to me, and offer up all that you have..."

"Shut up! Stay here quietly, or the 108 heroes will come and deal with you!"

Su Qing interrupted Ya Zi Xie Wen's speech and temporarily detained him on the spot. After Xiong Er used the merit wooden fish to pray for the Bian Hao's soul, she would have time to deal with him.

He glanced up at the sky and saw that Master Fuhu and Wang Zhi were locked in a fierce battle, which immediately put his mind at ease.

Wang Zhi was determined to die today. When he was facing him with swords, he said that he could transfer the Yazi name to him, with only one small request: that Su Qing take good care of his biological son Ji Houzi, whom he had raised for hundreds of years and who he could see every day but could not recognize.

This request wasn't too unreasonable. After Su Qing learned that there was still a Tier 4 cannonball on the Yazi ship, and that if he didn't agree, Wang Zhi would use it to bombard his Dragon Island Bixi, he immediately agreed.

Wang Zhi was truly righteous. After Su Qing agreed, he was even more willing to cooperate with him, luring Fu Hu Zhenren to this battlefield. He would use his life to hinder Fu Hu Zhenren, so that Su Qing could subdue the other royal ships without any worries, and no longer have to worry about Fu Hu Zhenren stealing the fruits of his labor.

Master Fuhu is truly lacking in manners. As a fourth-level True Person, he is a person of some importance, yet he keeps calling Su Qing a "little beast" and spewing vulgarities at him, as if Su Qing has wronged him so much.

Verbal attacks are useless; Su Qing, along with the Four Lions of Emptiness, moved on to their next prey.

The one he's targeting is the Jiao Tu.

This king ship originally saw that the leader of the Wanghai fleet had fallen into the Bi'an Sin Prison territory and was locked onto by the Yazi Divine Might Cannon, so it was going to speed up and join in the fun.

Upon seeing that Su Qing was ruthless beyond belief, having dealt with the Bi'an Hao without suffering any harm himself, and then slaughtering the Ya Zi Hao until the corpses littered the ground, he turned tail and fled, wanting to get as far away from this god of death as possible.

Because it runs fast, Su Qing is even more determined not to let it escape.

Its form shifted, transforming into a shrimp the size of a fingernail, and it landed in the deep sea, blending into the ship's hull unnoticed by the pirates. The strongest feature of this royal ship was its deadly black chain that could reach thousands of feet underwater, along with the impenetrable defenses of the Conch.

Because Su Qing's transformation into a fetus was so realistic, even the formation set up inside the ship to distinguish truth from falsehood was fooled by her, allowing her to easily enter the ship and break through the defenses. This gave the thief an opportunity, so don't blame Su Qing for drawing her sword and cutting down the grass.

The poor owner of the Conch was merely a Golden Core cultivator, having only condensed a mid-grade third-level Golden Core. His own strength, along with that of his crew, was among the weakest of the seven royal ships. How could they possibly withstand the ruthless Su Qing? In just a moment, the Conch began to blare its horns, a mournful farewell to the fallen crew members.

After Su Qing fought his way through the conch shell and emerged from the sea, he saw Xiong Er standing on the Yazi ship, calmly nodding to him. The evil Bi'an pattern had been transformed into a Dao pattern by the 108 heroes.

Once out of the sea, with the Western Sea no longer obstructing him, the pattern of light immediately appeared in his mind. He didn't have time to examine the wonderful uses of the Bixie Dao pattern.

Su Qing marked the location of the Conch Ship for Xiong Er and instructed him to take the 108 outlaws and, after dealing with the Ya Zi Ship, not forget to deal with the Conch Ship as well.

They rushed off to another royal ship in a flurry of activity.

It was the Suanni, shrouded in thick poisonous smoke and fog.

Seeing that the Suanni had created a poisonous circle that could destroy bones and souls, Su Qing frowned and dared not rush into the poisonous circle.

The armor technique has excellent physical resistance and some magical resistance, but the poison of the Suanni ignores resistance. Whether you are a Foundation Establishment cultivator or a Nascent Soul cultivator, this poison will cause you to suffer damage based on a percentage of your own life force. It truly shows that all beings are equal, and every poison is poison!
Su Qing had no intention of testing the poison on herself, and there was no need for it either.

Although this poison does not discriminate between living and dead things, even if a puppet enters it, it will be penetrated by the poison and dissolved into nothingness. However, he happens to have a group of special forces puppets who disregard life and death.

With a pat on his storage bag, one by one, the special forces puppets, each swearing to die for their cause, clutched the spirit explosive puppets Su Qing had given them. They used their bodies to protect the explosive packs, even as their own structures were corroded by the poisonous smoke and molten iron flowed out. They were fearless and meticulous in carrying out Su Qing's orders, placing the third-tier spirit explosive puppets that he had originally prepared for the high-level cultivators of Penglai under the hull of the Suanni without the crew's knowledge.

Rumble!
A sudden clap of thunder struck from the ground, and the boat capsized.

Captain Gao Huoqiang of the Suanni was completely bewildered.

Although he didn't know what had blown up the Suanni, he knew that the most important thing right now was to keep the Suanni within the poison circle.

The poison circle is the protective shield of the Suanni. With this poison circle, no matter whether the Wanghai fleet beats up their pirate brothers or the pirate brothers are killed by the Wanghai fleet, the Suanni fleet can still move freely. The pirate brothers of other royal ships can die, but the brothers of the Suanni cannot die.

Gao Huoqiang tried to direct the panicked crew to rebuild the toxic fog firewall.

Unexpectedly, the instant the ship overturned and the poisonous fog dissipated, Su Qing appeared on top of the ship like a ghost.

There was no point in exchanging a single unnecessary word; there was no need to talk to these pirates who were robbing cultivators.

Su Qing, who was known for his ruthless killing and whose strength far exceeded the expectations of the crew of the Suanni, subdued the ship with minimal effort.

It wasn't that he killed them quickly.

It was the ship's owner, Gao Huoqiang, who knelt down quickly.

He had soft tissue under his knees and was the least ambitious but also the most intelligent among all the pirate kings. When he saw Su Qing storm onto the ship, he knew that he only had two choices: either die with both man and ship or abandon the ship to save his man.

The Suanni was so important that he was willing to sacrifice his own body and soul to become a slave to this treasure ship and take the position of its captain.

But all of this is insignificant compared to dying immediately.

Gao Huoqiang's knees left a trail on the deck as he knelt, his smooth movements accompanied by his fawning pleas for mercy, all of which reached Su Qing's eyes and ears.

"Heavens above, you've finally opened your eyes! I, Gao Huoqiang, have endured humiliation and hardship for many years, enduring hardship and humiliation within this pirate den, hoping that one day I can uproot this pirate den and eliminate this scourge."

"After so many years, we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel! Today, with the arrival of Master Su, countless islands and countless lives in the Western Sea are as if they have seen the blue sky. This persistent problem of piracy that has plagued the Western Sea for so many years will finally be eradicated!"

As he spoke, Gao Huoqiang tore off his robe, revealing eight bloody characters on his plump back: "I am irreconcilably opposed to pirates," a shocking sight.

Having gone this far, it would be impolite not to spare his life.

He instructed the pirate crew to take the spirit rope and direct them to pair up and tie themselves up, making them wait for Xiong Er to come and redeem the evil markings. Their fate would be decided after the battle based on their performance.

Of the six royal ships, the only one that Su Qing hadn't managed to board was the Pixiu, a ship that spewed gold and silver and whose fighting style was even more extravagant and wasteful than Su Qing himself, the puppet maniac.

To Su Qing's surprise, he didn't need to lift a finger to take down this royal ship. Master Liao De, along with Ying Jueshen, Lü Wentian, the seven elders of the Demon Sect led by Shi Zhifang, and a group of demon kings led by the White-Faced Green Lion King, worked together to capture this royal ship while he was dealing with the other royal ships.

The combined strength of these people is comparable to that of a Nascent Soul sect, so it's normal for them to be able to take down a Royal Ship fleet.

However, the royal ships all possessed special powers, and the pirates, fighting like cornered beasts, were extremely ferocious; these people also paid a price.

For example, Shi Zhifang and several elders of the Demonic Sect were stroking their soul banners with regret, clearly having suffered a loss from the Pixiu's Treasure-Dropping Coin, which had damaged their natal soul banners.

Seeing Su Qing looking over, Shi Zhifang, who was initially heartbroken, suddenly became bold and heroic.

"Don't misunderstand, I didn't build this royal ship for you, but for Yun'er who is already on Langya Immortal Island and is waiting for us to help her."

"Hurry up and finish, we need to rush to Yun'er's aid!" (End of Chapter)