Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 45 Initial Refinement of the Meditation Doll
"Big brother can move both legs now?"

"Idiot, it's not two legs, it's all the legs that can move!"

"Big brother, are you all done?"

"What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

"Wow, this puppeteer is really skilled! No wonder Doctor Guo speaks so highly of him!"

"If I ever break my leg in the future, you all have to help me find him to refine it!"

Inside the tent, everyone was shocked to see Niu Ya walking on the ground immediately after the leg was fitted.

After learning from Niu Ya that the severed leg could indeed participate in blood circulation, even Ma Tuan, who had maintained a cold expression, twitched.

It should be noted that only those who have completed the Foundation Establishment stage or the second-stage Body Cultivation stage can rebuild their magical power and blood circulation using their sea of ​​consciousness and blood furnace after their limbs are damaged, thus preventing their cultivation from being ruined.

These first-level body cultivators and Qi refining cultivators, once their limbs are missing, have almost no chance of cultivation unless a Foundation Establishment cultivator uses a limb regeneration technique.

Now, however, they see another possibility.

That was the spirit lotus root leg that Su Qing had refined!
Ma Tuan could even imagine a future where Su Qing would monopolize all the leg-breaking business at the front-line camps.

His skill is truly exceptional. It's fortunate that he didn't break his leg; otherwise, he would have had to ask Su Qing to do it for him.

Amidst the profuse thanks of the rogue cultivators and Niu Ya's repeated promises to treat him as a brother, Su Qing, carrying a large bag of spirit crystals, walked out of the tent with a satisfied heart.

He knew that from this point on, his lotus root leg business could finally take off!

as predicted.

When Niu Ya, who had lost his leg, was back to his old self after only three days, he went hunting monsters and brought the monsters to Su Qing's spirit house with great fanfare as a reward.

The independent cultivators in the frontier market also learned about Su Qing's leg-training skills.

After that, Su Qing spent her nights crafting lizard warriors and witch puppets, and during the day she and Guo Qiaolian formed a life-saving duo, working day and night until they were dizzy and overwhelmed.

During this time, he also inquired about Tang Wanqing and learned that she was hunting monsters on the low mountain defense line further ahead and had made quite a name for herself.

"Even if there are more monsters there and spirit crystals are easier to earn, it's not like she's going to stay away from the front-line camp to rest. This woman is probably obsessed with earning spirit crystals; she's not steady at all!"

Although he was somewhat worried about Tang Wanqing's current situation, he had no intention of going out to look for her.

On this day, a caravan from the market brought all the materials that he had entrusted to Baibaoge.

He has recently earned a lot of spirit crystals and feels that he has the capital to refine the meditation doll. He is finally going to start refining the doll.

On this trip, he took out all the more than 20,000 spirit crystals he had obtained from the previous order in Gejia Village, and exchanged them for more than 20 sets of materials for refining meditation dolls.

After spending all the spirit crystals, he still has more than 30,000 spirit crystals in his storage bag.

We have to thank those rogue cultivators who dared to break their own legs, fall in love with witches, and like lizards.

Without them, Su Qing wouldn't be where he is today. For this, Su Qing is extremely grateful and hopes they will continue their efforts and maintain their current level of success.

On this day, no one in the camp lost a leg, and the market for witch puppets and lizard warriors gradually became saturated.

Having no shortage of spirit crystals for the time being, Su Qing decided to stay in the spirit house and begin refining the meditation doll.

Let Xiong Da and Xiong Er lead sixteen lizard warriors to guard outside.

The reason for sixteen lizard puppets is that he brought fewer wood spirit servants with him on this trip, leaving him with more spiritual energy, so he simply crafted four more lizard warriors for himself.

These days, he has placed his sights within a three-mile radius, and if anything goes wrong, he can escape before anyone else.

With this team of puppets guarding the area, and the fire egg with its keen sense of smell keeping them constantly on guard, they are on high alert.

Su Qing believed that there would be no problem with her seclusion in the spirit house.

He took out all the materials needed to refine the meditation doll from his storage bag.

Black gold—5.8 taels.

Songren Water - 7.8 jin.

Lightning-struck wood—one piece.

Wanling Soil - 76.9 jin.

First-tier skill – Rejuvenation Skill.

Second-tier Immortal Talisman Water - Small Bottle.

Second-order biomimetic water - small bottle.

Second-tier smart rune—the small bottle.

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Of all the materials, only the Rejuvenation Technique is a technique that I have been practicing, so it doesn't require any extra spirit crystals to purchase.

None of the others are worthless.

The entire set of materials cost over six hundred spirit crystals!
Even though his current resources are different from before, he still feels a bit shaky and nervous when practicing with these materials.

But not practicing is even worse!
Any cultivator would be willing to give everything if given the chance to advance further.

Su Qing was no exception.

A cultivator's breakthrough in cultivation realm signifies an extension of lifespan, an increase in magical power, an expansion of spiritual consciousness, and a corresponding rise in status, power, and other aspects.

In the past, when his spiritual roots were inferior and his cultivation was as slow as a tortoise's pace, he would still take drugs to cultivate, because he had always held a hope for attaining immortality.

Although, based on his previous cultivation speed, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he would only reach the peak of Qi Refining in this lifetime.

But the emergence of meditation dolls may change all that!
He'd been working tirelessly day and night for the spirit crystals, but ultimately, it was all for this meditation doll. "There's no point in overthinking. Let's just get started. I've prepared over forty sets of materials; surely I can grind out one or two!"

After this period of preparation.

Besides the spirit crystals needed to purchase materials.

He already had the necessary runes for crafting the meditation doll, as well as the required first-tier high-grade puppeteer level.

Even if it's the first time refining, the success rate shouldn't be too low.

If only one or two out of more than forty sets were ever made, that could only have happened if they were cursed by evil spirits!

Take out the lightning-struck wood and carefully carve a small figure, over eight inches tall with a hollow interior, onto the charred wood grain.

Then pour the Wanling Soil into a small basin. This soil is extremely heavy. Although it weighs more than 70 kilograms, it is actually just a handful of brownish-yellow fine soil particles.

Mix it with Songren water, stir it several times, and only after the water and soil have blended together should it be slowly injected into the little man's body.

Then, take out the black gold and paint the doll's exterior black. This will be the doll's skin. You can change it to white or yellow, but black is the cheapest of all the materials. There's no other way. Aesthetics are not as important as spirit crystals!

After this process, the main structure of the little figure is complete. To make it function, it still needs to be imprinted with runes.

He drew second-tier bionic runes from the bionic water mixed with his own blood essence.

The energy channels of the Rejuvenation Technique were inscribed with immortal runes and imprinted on the top of the little man's head, in the sea of ​​consciousness.

The subsequent intelligent runes are just like crafting ordinary puppets, with no special requirements.

After maxing out all three types of Tier 2 runes.

His magical power had unknowingly reached its limit, and he only recovered after taking a Qi-restoring pill.

Break the five spirit crystals into the size of sand grains and pour them into the pre-drilled hole on the top of the little figure's head.

Immediately, the activation process began with great anticipation.

The fragments of spirit crystal emitted tiny wisps of light, illuminating the runes and veins on the little figure's body.

Under the influence of the runes, the little figure suddenly became lively and vivid. Looking at its appearance, it was exactly the same as Su Qing himself, except that it was a black child, it was a miniature version of Su Qing.

Su Qing knew that this was because the bionic runes, imbued with her own blood essence, had taken effect.

Even at this stage, the puppet is not yet considered successfully created.

The key question is whether this puppet can cultivate, and whether it can simultaneously provide feedback on its cultivation gains.

He immediately sat cross-legged and began practicing the Rejuvenation Exercise.

At this moment, the little man also sat cross-legged and followed him in practicing the Rejuvenation Technique.

The magic power circulated within his body, and his divine consciousness resonated with heaven and earth, drawing the surrounding spiritual energy towards both the person and the puppet.

Under the perception of divine sense, it can be discovered that this absorbed spiritual energy has a fixed frequency.

The speed of this frequency determines a cultivator's cultivation efficiency.

This depends on the spiritual energy of the place, the cultivation techniques practiced by the cultivators, and the cultivators' spiritual roots and aptitude.

Below the forward camp is a first-order spiritual vein extending from the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, more than enough to satisfy the cultivation needs of Qi Refining cultivators and first-order demonic beasts.

The Rejuvenation Technique is a low-grade Yellow-level cultivation method with almost no advantages. The only thing to say is that this technique is worth practicing.

Spiritual roots, in this world, are not related to the five elements. A person who is incomplete in the five elements may not even be able to be an ordinary person, let alone cultivate. Therefore, spiritual roots are complete in all five elements. The key to judging the strength of spiritual roots lies in the size of the sea of ​​consciousness opened after the qi is drawn into the body.

For example, the true disciples of the Yunshan Sect, once their sea of ​​consciousness is opened, is as big as a bucket. Under the same realm, their efficiency in absorbing spiritual energy and the amount of mana they can store are incomparable to ordinary rogue cultivators.

In Su Qing's memory, when the original owner first opened her sea of ​​consciousness, it was the size of a bean.
Let's skip that for now.

Currently, Su Qing is using two powers simultaneously: while controlling her physical body's cultivation with her divine sense, she also needs to constantly micro-manage the cultivation frequency of the meditation doll.

Only by aligning the cultivation frequency of the main body and the puppet can the meditation doll perfectly simulate his current cultivation progress and spiritual root aptitude. Once the initial synchronization is established, it will not be so troublesome in the future.

This process, called spiritual communion, is the final and most difficult step in creating a meditation doll.

Not only does it require the cultivator's divine sense to be able to split in two, supporting the cultivation of both the main body and the puppet, but it also requires precise control to gradually bring the cultivation frequencies of the main body and the puppet closer together.

Fortunately, his spiritual root was too poor.

As a result, during each cultivation session, his exceptionally powerful divine sense was mostly in a standby state.

At this moment, using one god to do two things was effortless. In fact, Su Qing felt that he could communicate with seven or eight puppets at the same time without any problem.

However, micro-management is a bit difficult, as the spiritual energy fluctuations caused by a cultivator's practice are never static.

Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes long, sometimes short—that's the norm.

Sweat poured down Su Qing's forehead like rain. After trying for more than an hour, he still couldn't get the meditation doll's frequency to match his own.

Until a plume of black smoke rose from the head of the meditating doll.

Looking at the meditation doll, which was even darker than before after it started smoking.

Su Qing's face was almost as dark as it was.

A beginner meditating doll.

failure!

(End of this chapter)