Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Everyone knows that the three brothers trapped in the Land of Despair are in a great hurry.

But no matter how urgent it is, we must wait for Su Qing to be promoted first.

The place of death, as described by Master Tong, is terrifying to even think about.

Su Qing, who was originally very confident, felt that she should not be too confident. She decided to go and defeat the Sea Witch first, so that she could complete the Nine Li Dao Patterns and secure her position.

After all, when the three of them, including the 17th brother, fell into the Land of Despair, Su Qing came to their rescue. But if Su Qing himself were to capsize or fall there, no one would come to his aid!

"Yes! Yes! Yes! Asu is right. Since that sea witch is very important to Asu, let's deal with that old hag first. But is that sea witch easy to deal with? If we can't deal with her in a short time, I'm afraid Fellow Daoist Helian's old bones won't be able to hold on!"

Liang Haishun always followed Su Qing's decisions first and then questioned them, his main approach being to be obedient, sensible, and not disliked.

Knowing Lao Liang's feelings, Su Qing repeatedly comforted him:

"Don't worry, although that sea witch has some reputation in this Western Sea, I am naturally the best counter to her. I will definitely capture her within three days! It won't delay the rescue of the three lost brothers!"

Su Qing said with extreme confidence. In his opinion, he knew everything that sea witch knew, and with the help of Xiong Er from the Buddhist sect, dealing with it would be incredibly easy.

"Fellow Daoist Su, you must not be careless. As far as I know, that sea witch is not alone. She occupies a giant corpse island, which is filled with countless giant corpses that are ignorant and unaware of life or death. Three pirate king ships once joined forces to attack it, but they were all defeated. She is not someone to be trifled with!"

Seeing that Su Qing spoke with disdain for the sea witch, Tong Chang couldn't help but remind her.

"At most three to five months, we will definitely capture this scoundrel!"

Su Qing hadn't expected that this old hag would have such despicable subordinates. After a moment of contemplation, she made a conservative estimate.

"Master, you said that the Sea Witch used to be in a relationship with that withered tree immortal. Because of this relationship, she was not involved with the evil spirits of the Western Sea such as the Demon Buddha. Now that the withered tree immortal is dead, the Sea Witch is about to be besieged by the Penglai Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom. In order to protect herself, will she collude with the Demon Buddha?"

Qinglian's reminder was not without reason. Su Qing frowned and realized that there was quite a bit of trouble ahead.

"At most, we can take down this scoundrel in three to five years!"

"So, whether it's three to five days or three to five years, Asu, are you determined to take down this sea witch first?"

Old Liang looked at the Death Cloth in his hand. The cloth was an old piece of cloth, and Helian Xian was also an old man. Seeing the object reminded him of the man, and he really didn't know if his old bones could hold out until Su Qing killed the Sea Witch.

"Three to five years shouldn't be a problem. Brother 17 and Brother 260 are formed from Dao patterns that seek advantage and avoid harm. Even if they encounter danger, they are unlikely to perish easily. I think they can hold on for three to five years without any problem!"

Tong Chang clearly had great confidence in his 17th and 260th brothers, or rather, in the Four Imperial Dao Patterns. Upon hearing his words, Lao Liang was also delighted.

"So, Fellow Daoist Helian can hold out for a few more days?"

"Who is he? Could he also be a manifestation of the Four Imperial Dao Patterns?"

"No, Brother Helian is a very pure person!"

"He's just an individual, so he can only hope for the best."

Helian Xian, being just an individual, is clearly not as resilient as his 17th and 260th brothers. If he makes a mistake, he may not be able to wait three to five years for Su Qing.

But apart from Lao Liang himself being anxious about his life, the others on the boat didn't really care whether he was alive or dead.

After all, given Helian Xian's lifespan, even if he hadn't made a mistake this time, he would have been nearing his death soon.

After explaining his determination to eliminate the sea witch to the others, Su Qing went to the workshop inside the Bixi (a mythical tortoise) on Dragon Island, which was specifically for him to refine puppets.

He suddenly turned around, not only because he was wary of the dangers of the Land of Despair, but also because of his strong desire for the Nine Li Dao Patterns. It seemed that if he didn't deal with the sea witch now, he would completely lose the Nine Li Dao Patterns contained in her body and never be able to obtain them again.

"The Sea Witch is an earthbound evil spirit. Before breaking through to the fifth rank, she cannot leave her own evil spirit domain. She is like a fixed target. I can shoot at her whenever I want. This is why I was not in a hurry to destroy her in the past."

Does this sudden feeling indicate that the sea witch might break through to the fifth rank? Or does it have other means to escape the shackles of the evil spirit domain?

Su Qing was unaware of the specific changes that had occurred at the Sea Witch's place.

However, just in case, he decided to first convert the spoils in his storage bag into puppets to enhance his own combat power.

This time, his physical body advanced simultaneously on Langya Immortal Island, and the strength of his divine sense increased by more than ten times compared to before. For other cultivators, this was merely an improvement in personal combat power.

For him, it meant he could expand his puppet army more than tenfold!
With so many vacancies, they must be filled quickly.

It's a pity that the puppet factory was left in Wanghai Immortal City. Without the help of a group of hardworking, unpaid tool puppets, the efficiency of puppet making was greatly affected.

"When I have time in the future, I still want to build a puppet factory on this Dragon Island Bixi. It will be a mobile factory, portable, so that the tool puppets can work day and night, so as not to delay things!"

Shaking his head regretfully, he took out all the large and small wood spirits from his storage bag and began to deal with the tedious and trivial tasks before refining the puppet.

The job was simple: clean up the corpses of the golden crabs, water monkeys, and evil shark demons that filled the storage bags, bleed those that needed bleeding, and sew up the corpses that needed sewing.

He had collected enough of these sea monster corpses to refine them into a new type of puppet—the Demon God Soldier.

【Demon God Soldier - A monster-type combat puppet】

[Rank: Third Rank]

[Refining Requirements: Level 3 Puppeteer or above, proficient in Level 4 Beast Runes, Level 4 Combat Runes, and corresponding Level 3 Runes.]

[Required materials: A complete or relatively complete Tier 3 demon beast corpse (with a demon core is best), a quantity of Tier 3 Earth Stones, and a quantity of Tier 3 Blood Spirit Crystals.]

[Ability 1: A fate worse than death. The Demon God Soldier can perfectly utilize all the abilities of its original self, and possesses even stronger regenerative abilities. Furthermore, it is heartless and fearless of death.]

[Ability Two: Forming an army. Ten demonic soldiers can form a squad, and a hundred can form an army. This can create a powerful force to counter the pressure of higher-level beings. A hundred demonic soldiers can form an army that disregards the pressure of a fourth-level being, posing a threat to that being.]

Although it only has two abilities.

However, it is the most suitable puppet for large-scale mass production.

Su Qing currently possesses over 250 third-tier sea monster corpses. Earth obsidian and blood spirit crystals aren't particularly expensive materials; these are inexpensive and highly suitable for creating puppets, so he'll refine as many as he can. The initial processing can be handled by the large and small wood spirits; he only needs to draw the runes at the end. With his current fourth-tier puppeteer level, drawing these runes is truly effortless.

His main focus was still on the blueprint in his hand.

[Qilin Arm Puppet—A biomimetic, modified puppet.]

[Rank: Tier 4 (Top Quality)]

[Refining Requirements: Rank 4 Puppeteer or above, proficient in Rank 5 Bionic Runes, Rank 5 Strength Runes, Rank 5 Intelligence Runes, Rank 5 Weapon Runes, and corresponding matching runes can be freely combined (Minimum Rank 4 required).]

【Required Materials: Materials capable of bearing the ultimate power of the fourth tier (can be a part of the body of a fifth-tier great demon, divine beast, or body cultivator; or fifth-tier treasures such as old mountain roots, Jianmu branches, or Xuanpo Stones); a drop of the life essence blood of a fifth-tier being or a being with innate extraordinary power surpassing that of its peers; corresponding matching materials can be freely combined (minimum requirement is fourth tier)】

[Ability 1: Qilin Arm Armor, which can perfectly fit one's arm and transform into a Qilin arm armor, amplifying one's arm strength to the level of a fifth-tier body cultivator.]

[Ability Two: Qilin Dance with Twin Blades. Two Qilin arms can grow from the user's shoulders, equipped with fourth-tier battle blades. Without the user's control, the user can also use Heaven-level combat skills to assist in combat.]

It only has two abilities.

However, this is different from the role of the demon god soldiers, who can only be used as cannon fodder.

This puppet will greatly enhance Su Qing's personal combat power.

After he advanced to the fourth level of body cultivation, the furnace fire within his body was like a lava volcano, with surging heat flowing throughout his body. His physique was so strong and his power so great that the tiger egg had become negligible to him.

Tiger Egg thought that Su Qing had a change of heart and released it, changing its classification from an armored puppet to a sword cultivator puppet. In reality, Su Qing thought Tiger Egg was not good enough for him and needed better equipment.

The Qilin Arm Puppet clearly met his requirements.

He achieved his fourth-tier body cultivation with the Fearless Dao Pattern, possessing the blood of a Great Witch and the power of Vajra. His strength already far surpasses that of his peers. If he could obtain the assistance of this puppet and maximize his power advantage, he dared not say that he could contend with immortals and gods, but his little fists would certainly hurt a lot when they punched someone's chest.

Moreover, this Qilin Arm Puppet is the result of the advancement of the Dual Hands to the Six Harmonies Hands, and the further advancement of the Six Harmonies Hands. It is precisely because his own abilities have improved that the corresponding puppets have reached the time for replacement. The Six Harmonies Hands are good, but they can no longer keep up with his strength and are indeed going to be eliminated.

"If I can forge this puppet before the battle with the sea witch, my strength will increase significantly. However, although I meet the requirements for the runes needed to forge this puppet, the materials are not easy to obtain!"

Whether it was a fifth-order great demon, a divine beast, or the body of a body cultivator, or precious materials such as old mountain roots and Jianmu branches, Su Qing had never come into contact with them before, nor had he ever had the chance to possess them.

Materials cannot be conjured out of thin air, and since he had ideas about this puppet, he naturally considered the issue of materials.

He planned to dismantle the divine weapon he had stolen from Penglai—no, his ever-changing Vajra.

Transformer

Originally named the Penglai Heavenly God, its initial form was a divine weapon crafted by ancient puppeteers.

The ancient puppeteers were truly remarkable; they even took their business to the Heavenly Court, supplying it with divine weapons and earning themselves a fortune in top-grade spirit stones.

And if the materials supplied to the Heavenly Court are of poor quality, then what?

Based on Su Qing's observations when he re-equipped the Immortal Divine Weapon with the system, it can be seen that this Immortal Divine Weapon contains many rare fifth-tier treasures.

The Xuanpo Stone needed to refine the Qilin Arm Puppet is inside; the thin black film on the surface of the Immortal Divine Weapon is entirely coated with this Xuanpo Stone.

Although it is as thin as a cicada's wing, the size of the divine weapon is so large that if it is gathered together, it will be more than enough to make a Qilin arm for Su Qing.

What troubled Su Qing was...

This divine weapon is already a fifth-order puppet that has been refined.

With his current abilities, if he were to study it diligently, he might be able to replicate its former glory and enable it to perfectly unleash the unparalleled power of a fifth-tier puppet.

"But this will take time. Although the techniques and methods of ancient puppeteers and modern puppeteers in making puppets are similar, they are two different systems. Even with my abilities, it may take hundreds or thousands of years to fully comprehend them. The key is that I may not even be able to succeed. After all, there are quite a few fourth-order puppeteers in Penglai, and none of them have yet been able to fully comprehend this puppet."

Rather than doing that, it would be better to dismantle it. The materials on this puppet might allow me to craft several more puppets, and then I could start crafting new fifth-tier puppets. Some key materials could also be obtained from this puppet.

"A whale's fall brings life to countless creatures, or as the saying goes, 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' Dismantle what needs to be dismantled; true strength lies in being strong now. I'm sure I can forge a fifth-tier puppet in the future; why cling to this old relic!"

Su Qing made up her mind mainly because these divine weapons were easy to obtain and wouldn't be too painful to dismantle.

To be honest, it truly lives up to its reputation as a fifth-tier puppet.

It means that it has already installed a backup system, which can be transformed into a versatile form at will, allowing it to be manipulated at will.

But just dismantling and separating the Xuanpo Stone coating on its body surface took him a lot of effort.

Mysterious Soul Stone, a stone from which a soul is born, is a precious material most likely to develop self-awareness and transform into a spirit within the stone.

If a fifth-order Xuanpo Stone can absorb the essence of the sun and moon for tens of thousands of years, it can transform into a Xuanpo Stone King, possessing power comparable to a fifth-order immortal god. In ancient times, there were many stories of Xuanpo Stone monsters occupying mountains as kings or being transformed into local mountain gods.

The Xuanpo Stone on the Immortal God's body obviously didn't have the fortune to develop sentience. Although it lacked its own sentience, the material itself was quite spiritual. As if it knew that Su Qing wanted to peel it off from the Immortal God's body, wherever his hand landed, the black membrane would flow away from him like water, playing hide-and-seek with him and not giving him a chance to touch it.

Time is of the essence and the task is heavy. We need to defeat the sea witch quickly, rescue the three brothers as soon as possible, and rely on Su Qing to help the tomb raiders near Wanghai.

With immense responsibilities on his shoulders, Su Qing had no time to waste on this layer of black membrane. His magical power surged in his sea of ​​consciousness, and the Great Sun Star Infant Dharma Image condensed behind him. The golden light of the sun transformed into a golden wheel, and the Ziwei Great Star led the stars to form countless star orbits within the golden wheel.

The sun wheel and star wheel spun together, and a powerful force that could subdue mountains and seize seas suddenly appeared in his hands, drawing the black membrane towards it.

However, this was the first time he had used the power of Dao patterns to capture mountains and seas with his Nascent Soul cultivation.

Although this Dao rune is only at the fourth level of proficiency, it is exceptionally useful. Once used, the black membrane is easily peeled off the immortal weapon.

Because of his proper handling, apart from losing the black membrane and losing some of its power, the puppet's rank remained at the fifth level. Of course, even with his ever-changing backup system, it could only exert the power of the fourth level.

"I won't go into the details of how this 'Sheshan Hai' can trap and capture people during battles, but its effectiveness in processing puppet materials alone is enough to make me unable to resist. In this light, it seems that the Mountain Deer True Man, who possesses nearly half of this Dao pattern, has also found a way to die."
"Su Qing, Su Qing, how come you've become so bloodthirsty now that you've gained so much power? If you want this Dao pattern, you don't necessarily have to kill that Mountain Deer Immortal. Talk to him properly; if he's reasonable, he'll give it to you. If he's unreasonable, then it's not too late to kill him!" (End of Chapter)