Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Su Qing didn't know whether the people of Penglai were in a hurry or not; he only knew that he was in a great hurry.

Everyone else has entered the ruins and is heading straight for the heart of the enemy.

He hasn't even held a young lady's hand yet; he's still outside Langya Immortal Island, making clanging noises at the Heavenly God Ship.

He was truly anxious. His good brother Tong Chang had sent messages several times, and it seemed he really couldn't hold on any longer. He no longer called him Su Qing, but instead cursed him for being useless and incompetent. If he didn't go to the island soon, let alone the Star Sun Spirit Vein and the hundred or so divine patterns, he, Su Qing, would not be able to get even a single Essence Stone.

We might as well get rid of the old Taoist, but the beautiful witch is still trapped in the Celestial Master's Ruins with him. Although she is obedient and follows his instructions, after obtaining the Yin-Yang Twin Rings, she has been slacking off and mingling with the other professionals, and has not encountered any danger yet, if the old Taoist can't hold on, the witch will not have a good end either.

"Look, Su Qing, you're getting impatient again. You can't rush things. You want to take someone else's god and make it your own Transformer? You have to be patient and think it over carefully. How can you be so indecisive and have such wild thoughts!"

After erasing the incorrectly drawn runes, Su Qing held her breath and concentrated, then took out another bottle of talisman water and began to draw on the Heavenly God.

This divine title originally referred to a celestial weapon.

The main rune is a sixth-order immortal rune, a sixth-order intelligence rune, and a sixth-order battle tool rune. Combined with several other fourth-order runes, it possesses the power of a fifth-order rune.

The Penglai puppeteer is incompetent; he only activated the sixth-order immortal runes, turning the immortals and gods into celestial deities. Not only does he lack the prestige of the fifth-order runes, but his actions are also prone to causing trouble!
But if the Penglai puppeteer is incompetent, does Su Qing have the ability to activate the three main runes and take control of the Heavenly God?
That's bullshit.

Although Su Qing is quite capable, having achieved great skill in many runes through his own efforts, he was unfortunately born late and developed slowly. At most, he can only draw fifth-order runes, and he knows nothing about sixth-order runes, nor does he have the corresponding magical power to support him in drawing and activating sixth-order runes.

If he can't activate the sixth-tier rune, isn't his action pointless?
That's not necessarily true.

He wanted to use the Celestial Ship primarily to use its fifth-tier puppet body to carry his ship owners across the Milky Way chasm.

Just get it moving. Once it's moving, you can bring it under your control. When you become a fifth-tier puppeteer, you can find a way to make it shine and generate heat, and then use it to dominate the Western Sea. That would be even better.

There's no way they'll return it to Penglai. Since they left the Heavenly God here, whoever has the ability to pick it up can keep it. What's the point of returning it? Didn't they pick it up themselves back then?

Getting the Celestial Ship moving is actually quite difficult.

This puppet is as heavy as the Three Mountains and Five Peaks; unless one possesses the power to support the heavens and shake the earth, it would be impossible to even turn it over.

Su Qing originally intended to draw runes on the Celestial God himself, without activating its original runes, relying solely on the newly drawn runes to re-run the Celestial God's system. It might not run as smoothly as before, but as long as it could function, everything would be fine.

After trying it once, he found that he had oversimplified things. The existing runes on the Celestial Ship would be mutually exclusive with the newly drawn runes, giving the new runes no chance to take effect.

He racked his brains for a long time before coming up with a solution: to draw a fifth-order Illusion Heart Rune, so that the original runes on the Celestial God Ship would lose their ability to judge and accept the runes he, Su Qing, had drawn as friendly forces.

Before that, he needed to erase all the methods of the Penglai puppeteers on the Heavenly God Ship, so that when he summoned his Heavenly God Ship later, these Penglai cultivators would shamelessly compete with him for dominance.

All puppeteers in the world are birds of a feather. The puppets they make for themselves may look ordinary, but they are actually high-quality. The puppets they make for others may look magnificent, but they are actually crudely made.

The two wood spirits used chisels to chip away at the layers of coating on the Heavenly God. The outer layer of these coatings was made of good fourth-grade materials, but the inner layer was made of inferior materials. It was unknown how many spirit stones the Penglai Puppet Master had embezzled on this project, which made Su Qing angrily curse their professional ethics. He thought to himself that the reputation of the Puppet Master was ruined by these scoundrels.

Gathering up the coating materials and storing them in his storage bag as spoils of war, Su Qing turned to the cultivators at Wanghai and instructed them to collect the materials.

"Don't be reluctant, everyone. I'm drawing runes and seeking coating materials not for my own sake, but for everyone's benefit. You don't want to come all this way, having overcome eighty-one tribulations, only to stop in front of this treasure island. Bring out all your good stuff, and once I lead you all to Langya Island, we'll earn it back in no time."

"Those cultivators from the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, don't just stand by and watch. Take what you need to get in your pockets! Your Master Fuhu is likely being ganged up on on Langya Island right now. Don't you want to get to the island sooner and lend him a hand? Ah, you don't think that way? If Master Fuhu heard this, he'd be heartbroken. But whether you want to or not, quickly show us your storage bags! Don't force this humble cultivator to resort to force!"

People are overjoyed when they receive money, but cry and beg for their parents when they take it out.

Whether they are cultivators from the Sea of ​​Hope or cultivators from the Thousand Islands, they are all unwilling to take out money from their pockets.

But Su Qing's life isn't easy either. In the previous battle against the Penglai army, just activating the intelligent anti-aircraft guns cost him tens of thousands of spirit stones. If he doesn't find an opportunity to make up for it, Su Qing won't survive.

The crowdfunding for puppet making was very respectful to Su Qing, with donations ranging from seventy or eighty to three or five hundred. Su Qing didn't complain about the smaller donations, nor did he appreciate the larger ones. He simply had his special forces puppets keep an eye on the few island cultivators who only contributed three or five spirit stones and had extremely poor understanding.

They're stingy with small things when faced with big problems; their awareness is so poor. They'll have a million ways to die later.

With many hands make light work. In no time, Su Qing had a considerable amount of precious materials and tens of thousands of spirit stones in his hands. Unlike the Penglai Puppet Master who lined his own pockets, he tinkered with the materials and spirit stones in his storage bag and filled the Heavenly God Ship with the best materials.

The fifth-tier Illusion Heart Coating is made primarily of the scales of the West Sea Heavenly Mother Serpent that fell into his hands years ago. Only Su Qing himself possesses such a fine item. Although there are many materials raised through crowdfunding, none are of comparable quality to these scales.

"Not only do I not embezzle funds, but I also pay for the materials myself. If all puppeteers in the world were like me, how could they be called puppeteers!"

While praising himself and drawing runes on the Heavenly God, Su Qing was unaware that he was being thoroughly cursed by the Penglai puppeteers he despised.

In Penglai, cultivation and all kinds of arts flourish, and there are many experts. As a result, it is much more difficult to cheat and shirk responsibility. Su Qing mocked them for cutting corners on the God of War project, but he did not know their suffering.

Those above have to be appeased, those below have to be supported, and everything has to be done in a proper manner, so that no obvious mistakes can be found in any aspect. This takes a lot of effort. How could a rogue cultivator like Su Qing know the hardships of those within the system?

After all that hardship, this rogue cultivator still managed to steal their Heavenly God's Account right in front of them!

"What is this rogue cultivator up to? Is he trying to take over our Heavenly God Ship?"

"It's not that easy to steal. Doesn't he know that we puppeteers draw professional anti-theft runes on our valuable puppets?"

"Well, since we never expected anyone to have designs on the Celestial Ship, we kept the funds for the anti-theft runes for ourselves and didn't use them for the Celestial Ship!"

"Ah, when were they distributed? I had no idea. Did you take the funds and pocket my share?"

"Never mind that for now. This audacious scoundrel has stolen from my Penglai! Quickly, have Master Liu Feng lead his men to capture this little thief!"

"Master Liu has entered Langya Immortal Island, seemingly into the Celestial Master's Ruins, and has lost contact with the outside world. We can't count on him. Let's just use the Super Star Orbital Cannon to destroy this rogue cultivator inhumane ways!"

"The super-orbital cannon near Langya Immortal Island has already been used twice by True Person Liu Feng, and it is still charging up. Even if it is summoned, it will be useless against this dog of a rogue cultivator!"

"What can we do then? Are we just going to stand by and watch this dog puppeteer take over the Heavenly God Ship that we, the puppeteers of Penglai, have painstakingly created with countless materials!"

"That's right, this rogue cultivator is a robber, a thief, not even human, but his theft of the Heavenly God's Ship might not necessarily be a bad thing for us?"

"Although the battle with the Celestial God was short-lived, the few times it managed to move, it was powerful and resilient. This should be enough to make those important figures recognize the value of the Celestial God. Even if this one is stolen, don't we still have four Celestial Gods in our warehouse? We can just take out one and modify it into the Celestial God."

"Another round of wealth and prosperity?"

"That's right, that's right!"

The puppeteers of the Penglai Puppet Hall, residing on Penglai Island and separated from Langya Immortal Island by vast distances, knew what Su Qing intended to do, but they were powerless to stop him.

At first, seeing Su Qing treat the Celestial God, which they cherished like a wife, so rudely, seeing him let the little and big wood spirits come and go inside the Celestial God, and seeing him forcibly chisel open the coated clothes that they had made for the Celestial God, they all felt like their husbands had been violated and they had been insulted.

But after Su Qing used the Illusionary Heart Rune to confuse the various runes on the Celestial God, making the Celestial God cooperate with him to touch it without reservation, the Penglai puppeteers felt a strange sense of pleasure.

It wasn't that they had a unique quirk; rather, while Su Qing was stealing their puppets, they were also stealing Su Qing's skills.

"In the past, we only wanted to activate the original rune system of the immortals and gods, but we never thought that we could also re-flash the system or create a backup system for them!"

"The strength of immortals and gods lies in the God-Sealing Stone within their bodies, whose energy is virtually limitless. As long as this stone exists, even without using their original rune system, they can still unleash considerable power by replacing it with another system!"

"Judging from this rogue cultivator's methods, he doesn't have the ability to draw sixth-order runes, so it's difficult for him to re-upgrade the system. He can only create a backup system that is slightly inferior to the Celestial God?"

"With intelligent runes as the ruler and bionic runes as the subjects, along with various other runes such as immortal runes, weapon runes, material runes, and spatial runes, just how many runes does this bastard know?!"

"Putting aside his character for the moment, this rogue cultivator is indeed a talent in the puppeteer's path. Should we ask the higher-ups to approve his official position and bring him to Penglai as a special talent?"

"Absolutely not! This rogue cultivator can do the work of several people. If we really bring him in, he'll wipe us out!"

"Wow! Good heavens, this rogue cultivator can actually draw fifth-order intelligent runes! Everyone, watch closely and learn from him!"

"Is this something you can learn just by looking at it once and studying it for a while? If it were that simple, the puppeteers of Penglai would have continued their lineage for generations, and we wouldn't have only managed to develop intelligent runes to the fourth level!"

Colleagues are enemies; though you may wish for your colleagues to die, you are also the one who can best appreciate the brilliance of their skills.

At this moment, in the eyes of all the puppeteers of Penglai Puppet Hall, Su Qing was putting on a solo puppeteer show that made people go from disdain to amazement, and from amazement to silence!

The puppeteers of Penglai have a long and unbroken lineage, with abundant resources for puppet making. Their conditions for cultivating puppetry and researching rune techniques are far better than those of a rogue cultivator like Su Qing.

Even so, in the Penglai Puppet Hall today, apart from the hall master who is in seclusion all year round, the other puppeteers may be at the same fourth level as Su Qing, but at most they are familiar with three or four fifth-level runes. There is not a single one who can master the fifth level of the most difficult types of runes to comprehend, such as intelligent runes, weapon runes, and spatial runes, just like Su Qing.

"Could he really be a genius?"

"He might actually succeed!"

"Come on, God of War! This bastard has gone to such lengths, how can you not go with him!"

"Farewell, our Celestial, from now on you'll be happy with this bastard!"

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On the sea, outside Langya Immortal Island.

Su Qing never expected that while he was drawing runes here, a group of dogs were spying on his rune-drawing skills. They simply followed the original plan and marked their own marks inside and outside the Heavenly God.

A new and independent rune system was created without conflicting with the existing rune system of the immortals and gods.

Right now, we've reached the most exciting step.

Activate the former God of War, now the Transformer!

With an excited heart and trembling hands, whether this good wife from Penglai could work hard for Su Qing and go home with him depended on this final step.

And right now.

Suddenly, Li Kuishan, with thick eyebrows and large eyes, shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Oh no! Oh no! Evil spirits are attacking from the left! They're countless and shrouded in a gray mist!"

No sooner had one shout been made than another came from the crowd, before they could even panic.

"This is bad, this is really bad! Monsters are attacking from the right, a huge, swarming group!"

The two shouts, one after the other, sent the cultivators into a panic.

Master Liaode and other highly skilled individuals immediately extended their divine senses to observe the situation around them.

To the left, a thick, malevolent mist swirled, the sea churning and the sky surging. Within it, three powerful auras, enough to terrify even a Nascent Soul cultivator like Master Liaode, were present, indicating at least three fourth-tier Great Evils, along with countless wandering demons of the Western Sea. To the right, demonic energy surged like waves, its imposing presence awe-inspiring. Leading the charge was a demon with an ape-like body and black skin, wielding an iron club; he appeared to be a fourth-tier demon king from the lineage of the Great Sage Who Overturned the Seas. Behind him followed three other fourth-tier demon kings, commanding a retinue of water monkeys, golden crabs, and man-eating sharks, all charging menacingly towards them!

"Damn it! These evil sea monsters must be after the Celestial Master's ruins. But we're caught between Langya Immortal Island and them. If they want to enter Langya Immortal Island, they'll have to fight us first!"

"Let them come to the island if they want. We'll just make way for them. It's the people of Penglai who want to seal off the island. What does that have to do with us, the people of Wanghai!"

"What Penglai people, Wanghai people? At this point, in the eyes of evil sea monsters, aren't we all just people? When you kill evil sea monsters, do you care what their names are or where they live!"

"What can we do? We haven't even landed on the island yet, and we haven't gained any benefits. There's no reason for us to help those who have landed on the island and defend against these evil sea monsters!"

"How would I know what to do? Go ask Master Su!"

Ahead lay the impassable Milky Way, teeming with poisonous insects, while behind them, evil sea monsters joined forces to attack. Caught in the middle, the cultivators were at a loss for what to do.

But if you ask what to do, Su Qing really knows.

"Transformers activated!"

"start up!"

"Transform into an armored warship!"

With a deafening roar, and under the incredulous gazes of countless cultivators, the iron lump that was originally from Penglai slowly lay down on the ground, transforming into a giant treasure ship.

On that treasure ship, Master Su was as elegant as a pine tree in the wind, tall and graceful. If it weren't for his hurried words urging all the cultivators to hurry up and get on the ship and run away, anyone who saw Master Su would give him a thumbs up for his current demeanor.

In the midst of their escape, even someone as adept at flattery as Yao Guangquan couldn't spare a few words to Su Zhenren. He was instead carried like a chick by the old captain Li Kuishan to the armored warship for emergency shelter.

The warship didn't look big from the outside, but its interior was spacious, which must have been due to Master Su using spatial techniques. As soon as Yao Guangquan entered the warship, his heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was immediately calmed down. Just as he was about to find Master Su and flatter him, he realized that...

But what they saw outside was that the Thousand Islands fleet, which had intentionally separated from the Wanghai army and anchored in the outer sea, was too far from the ironclad warships to enter the treasure ship in time for refuge. It had been attacked by the vanguard of evil spirits and sea monsters. The treasure ship was dragged underwater, the heads of the people were smashed into dog heads, and then corrupted by evil spirits and turned into evil spirit puppets.

This scene was truly breathtaking and made one's stomach churn. Originally, we were going to ask Master Su to take pity on these Sea-Gazing cultivators from the Thousand Islands allies, but suddenly we lost all interest in helping them. We all clamored for Master Su to set sail quickly, saying that these Thousand Islands cultivators were destined for good fortune, and we should respect their fate and not interfere.

Since everyone agrees, although Su Qing really wanted to save these cultivators from the Thousand Islands, he was helpless because his level was limited and his ability was insufficient. In his haste, he could only let the Hundred Transformations Vajra unleash its fourth-level power. If they lingered here for too long and were entangled by those evil sea monsters, they would not be able to leave!

"It's all fate!"

Looking at the countless dead and wounded cultivators from the Thousand Islands behind him, Su Qing led the ship owners of the Wanghai Clan, piloting their armored warships straight into the Milky Way.

This ironclad warship is made entirely of materials from fifth-tier immortal gods. Even if there are countless snakes and insects with sharp teeth in this Milky Way chasm, they cannot break through the ironclad warship's defenses.

As for the Milky Way, which was as vast as a mountain, it could not contain the powerful engine of the ironclad warship. It roared all the way to the middle of the Milky Way. When Su Qing arrived there, he even had the idea of ​​applying some divine water to himself, going down to retrieve the jade hairpin token, and breaking the two great formations.

But then he thought that these two formations, being here, could cause trouble for the evil sea monsters behind him, so he immediately gave up.

Once on the other side, Su Qing, who had transformed his armored warship into the form of a giant Kong, stood atop the giant Kong and looked down at the trembling Penglai array masters below.

Since these array masters still needed to maintain the array to block the evil sea monsters, Su Qing did not make things too difficult for them. He simply robbed the middle-aged beauty with her head full of pearls and jade of everything, and then let Liang Haishun come down and snatched many array treasures that were hard to come by for array masters.

You have insulted me!

The fourth-tier array master, a middle-aged beauty, was wearing a bright red undergarment that Su Qing had kindly left her to cover her shame. She glared at Su Qing with resentment in her eyes.

“What makes you say that, fellow Daoist? Everyone saw it. It is true that I took all your treasures, but I was honest and did not offend you in the slightest!”

Su Qing was a man of integrity; he would rob money, not women. Besides, this middle-aged beauty, though voluptuous and alluring, was far inferior to beauties like Ling Ying and the witch. In front of so many people, he wasn't that hungry.

"You haven't insulted me, but you have insulted me!"

The middle-aged beauty, Murong Qing, had lost her husband in middle age and was long deprived of love. She was also proud and looked down on ordinary cultivators. However, when she saw Su Qing being ruthless and the man taking all her clothes off, she became infatuated and insisted on going with him.

The moment his domineering aura was revealed, a fourth-tier array master was willing to die for him. Su Qing had dreamed of such a thing, but never imagined that he would encounter it in reality.

Su Qing pondered for a moment, and when he saw that all the cultivators around him, including Huo Dan and Qing He, whether human or dog, were experiencing more intense emotional fluctuations than usual.

He immediately understood that it was Lady Lanxiang who had unleashed her full power, activating the Seven Emotions Domain within Langya Immortal Island, which had affected this place. Murong Qing had been setting up his formation here for too long, and unknowingly he had been affected by this domain, causing his long-suppressed desires to ignite like kindling, making them impossible to suppress.

As a fourth-tier array master, Su Qing, who had long felt that Lao Liang was not working hard enough, wanted to take advantage of the situation and quickly get Murong Qing to sign a master-servant spiritual contract with him, so that he could continue to preside over the Immortal-Mortal Separation Array. After this matter was over, it would not be too late for him to serve him.
"Stealing puppets and then stealing people, isn't Master Su being a bit too shameless?"

Seeing how obedient Murong Qing was to Su Qing, Li Kuishan felt that the world had changed too fast, and that he, a kind and honest man, could no longer understand it.

"Stop talking nonsense! What theft? That God of Heaven was Su Zhenren's way of making use of waste and turning trash into treasure. This Murong Qing has abandoned darkness and embraced the light, and has met a wise ruler. Su Zhenren is blessed with great fortune, so it is not surprising that he has such good fortune!"

Yao Guangquan deliberately spoke loudly so that all the cultivators present could hear him. It didn't matter whether others heard him or not; it was enough that Master Su heard him.

"Our luck is indeed too good. Could it be that we've fallen into someone else's trap?"

Yao Guangquan's shout alerted Su Qing, who was preparing to lead his team into Langya Immortal Island. Since entering the West Sea from Wanghai Immortal City, he had destroyed Shipwreck Bay, killed the pirate king, and now he had taken over the Heavenly God Ship of Penglai. There was even a fourth-level array master who voluntarily became his servant.

These good deeds cannot be said to be without the contributions of Su Qing's extraordinary wisdom and unparalleled bravery, but if you count the pirate kings he killed, which one of them wasn't a dragon among men?

"It's going too smoothly. Could it be that Master Tong is using his Taoist magic to bless me?"

"You're a true brother! I'm here to save you!"

Unable to figure it out for the moment, Su Qing could only temporarily attribute it to Old Master Tong, since it was good luck rather than bad luck, and not a bad thing at the moment.

"All soldiers, heed my command! March on to Langya Island and seize the Celestial Master's ruins!"

The giant Kong led the way, with Master Liao De and the Seven Warlords of the Sea protecting him on either side. They also casually released new puppets, which were lizard knights who could not show their power at sea but could enter and exit seven times on the road.

Thanks to Pang Feifan's continuous supply of materials for the magic lizards, Su Qing's puppet factory was able to produce lizard knights continuously.

Now Su Qing has amassed twelve lizard cavalry regiments, each commanded by a third-tier lizard general, with over a thousand second-tier lizard knights in each regiment. The twelve cavalry regiments together number over ten thousand. At this moment, they gallop across Langya Immortal Island, instantly stirring up billowing dust that swept towards the Penglai warriors left behind by Liu Feng.

These cultivators from Penglai were truly unlucky.

Liu Feng led Lord Taishan to the Celestial Master's Ruins, leaving them outside to fight to the death with the Drywood Immortal and the Upside-Down People.

Are these upside-down men even human?

not human!
One by one, these hanged men, long dead, are like zombies. Killing them brings no benefit, but not killing them will only bring you death. Will you be freed from their clutches? No way! If you're killed, you'll be hung upside down on a dead tree until you bleed to death. Then, when you're taken down, you'll become a zombie hanged man again, facing your former companions in a life-or-death struggle!
Even though the Penglai warriors were all well-equipped and highly skilled in Taoist arts, and were among the top soldiers in the various immortal kingdoms of the Western Sea, they lost their courage and timidity in the face of the ever-growing number of hanging men. They could only hope that someone would come to save them and help them escape this sea of ​​suffering.

There really are outsiders here!
But they didn't come to save them!

A group of ferocious lizard puppets, riding tall horses, wielding cold-faced double swords and long spears, shot arrows from their horses. They arrived without announcing their names or exchanging a single word with the Penglai cultivators. Upon seeing them, they slashed with their swords and shot with their bows, showing no regard for reason. They attacked the hanging people from both sides, forcing the Penglai warriors into a corner.

"Soldiers, follow me and charge forward! Let's fight our way out!"

Seeing the darkness ahead and the countless iron horses, ice rivers, and puppets behind, Cong Guangcheng knew that his army was in dire straits. He forced himself to remain calm, raised his sword and shouted to embolden the Penglai cultivators, who then launched a final breakout towards the withered tree ahead.

With no other options but to charge forward in the battle of Penglai, Cong Guangcheng turned his ghost-chariot spaceship around and flew to the front of the Wanghai cultivator army.

"Grandpas, please have mercy! I'm willing to surrender! I'm willing to surrender!"

Cong Guangcheng, who was very conscientious, felt that as the captain of the Penglai spaceship, he should be of some value to the people of Wanghai, and perhaps he could be treated with respect by the Wanghai cultivators. It was not impossible for him to have a second spring in his career in Wanghai in the future.

Who knew that the cultivator who looked up at the sea would be so ungrateful, kneeling down so quickly, only to be met with a slash from the expressionless Demon Lizard General.

As heads rolled, the unmanned Ghost Cart was taken in by Su Qing, who had some interest in the divine beast spaceship. Looking at the battlefield ahead, he saw that although the Penglai warriors, who had been incited by Cong Guangcheng, had suffered heavy losses in the withered forest, with less than one in ten surviving, more than a hundred of them had fought their way out, covered in blood. This was something they had earned for themselves, something the already dead Cong Guangcheng could not envy.

Penglai Zhanxiu withdrew from this battlefield, and the Hanged Man's opponent became the Sea-Gazing Man.

The people of Wanghai are still human, and all humans are afraid of death. To be honest, they are not as brave as Zhan Xiu from Penglai.

"Why are you all hesitating? The Celestial Master's ruins are just ahead. If you want to gain something, why should you care about your lives?"

Su Qing said coldly that he brought the cultivators to the island not to be their babysitters, but to make use of them when it was their turn to contribute.

“What Master Su says is true. Although I, Yao Guangquan, am only at the Foundation Establishment stage, I know the principle that wealth and honor are found in danger. These are just corpses that have been dead for a long time. How can they frighten me, Guangquan!”

"With Master Su's puppet charging ahead, what do we have to fear!"

"The array masters set up the array, the puppeteers release their puppets, the warriors hold the line from all sides, and the magic cultivators land in the middle, forming a formation to break through this withered forest!"

The ship owners of the Wanghai Treasure Ship originally lacked courage and had few life-or-death battles, but since following Su Qing to sea, they have fought many battles, including against the pirates of Shipwreck Bay, the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, and the Penglai Immortal Kingdom. Although their cultivation levels may not have improved, their courage has increased considerably. When the Lizard Knights charged into the Deadwood Forest, cutting down corpses and trees, they also mustered their courage and rushed into the forest.

Because of Master Liao De, none of the Seven Warlords of the Sea participated in the battle. The two who performed the best in this battle were Duan Tian'ai and Shao Delong.

Duan Tian'ai relied on her Duan family's puppets. Facing the Hanged Man and other undead zombies, the puppets, whose fates were also unknown, were the best way to subdue them. Although her divine sense was limited and she could not command tens of thousands of puppets like Su Qing, she still managed to kill more than a hundred puppets. Her eyebrows danced and her chest trembled. She felt that Su Qing had underestimated her by not including her in the Seven Martial Warriors below the Nascent Soul stage. Duan Tian'ai was great in every way, and her abilities were great too!

Looking at Shao Delong again, he was as brave as ever. He was wearing armor, and his Wind Eagle King was also wearing armor. He was laughing wildly in the air and frantically launching explosive stone golems. Apart from the occasional friendly fire, he killed more enemies than Duan Tianai.

Although the individual combat strength of the Hanging Men in this entire withered forest was not bad, their numbers were ultimately limited. Under the onslaught of Su Qing's Twelve Lizard Knights, they were already struggling to hold on. With the addition of the Sea-Gazing Cultivators, whose numbers far exceeded their own, the entire withered forest was swept clean in no time, whether it was the undead corpses or the withered branches.

But at this moment, Su Qing, who had been relaxed, suddenly became serious.

Master Liaode and the others also sensed something was wrong, their gazes falling on the blood-stained soil beneath the withered trees.

"Back off! Everyone back off!"

Master Liaode roared and threw out his Sumeru alms bowl, which landed on the blood-black soil, buying time for the cultivators from Wanghai to retreat.

Boom boom boom!
Like an earth dragon turning over, the entire withered forest collapsed and rocks split open. In just a few moments, it pushed open Master Liaode's Sumeru alms bowl, from which emerged a giant skeleton about a thousand feet tall, covered in white bones and maggots, and emitting a foul stench.

This giant had black horns on its forehead and wings on its back. It looked more like a demon than a human. As soon as it emerged from the ground, it let out a roar, and a wave of energy surged up, blowing up a section of land and pressing down on Su Qing and the others like a thick blanket.

"Asura race? Fourth-order evil spirits? No, they're Asura monstrous beings concocted by the withered tree and the sea witch!"

A knowledgeable person exclaimed in surprise, revealing the origins of this unearthed giant. (End of Chapter)