Immortality begins with meditation puppets

As an exorcist pioneer who has worked diligently on the battlefield of exorcising evil for many years.

Su Qing, who has always been an honest person, never felt that the little thing she did was of any merit.

At first, he only felt that evil spirits wanted to kill him, such as the old evil spirit of Yunshan, and Erqiang, who was not yet the eldest brother at the time. Those who want to kill people must first take their lives. He was just trying to protect himself and had no other choice.

Later, he obtained the merit wooden fish, which had the benefit of exploding Dao patterns from the bodies of evil spirits. He became even more proactive in dealing with evil spirits. Wherever there were evil spirits, there he was, the exorcist vanguard Su Qingtian.

Since obtaining the Lotus Birth Seal Dao Pattern, or rather, after the resurgence of the Great Calamity and the revival of spiritual energy, I have learned that slaying evil and subduing demons will also bring me merit and good fortune. This is a talisman and life-saving item that all the gods and ancient great beings in the heavens have been pursuing. It has endless wonderful uses, and it will never be a loss to accumulate more of it.

Unexpectedly, now that he has become a core member of the Heavenly Talisman Palace, this evil spirit can even drop merit points.

So, by this calculation, a single evil spirit can yield three different kinds of valuable items: Dao patterns, merit points, and merit merit points. This is hardly an evil spirit that everyone fears; it's practically a guide on Su Qingzheng's path to enlightenment, a pure and adorable little thing!

Thinking of the pile of achievements he had yet to realize, Su Qing felt a surge of excitement. Unable to wait any longer, he took the merit points he had scavenged from his good brother Tong Chang and stepped into the Heavenly Talisman Palace once again.

"Member Su Qing enters the Heavenly Talisman Palace..."

"Permissions confirmed. Current permission level: Level 2. You can access the Level 2 redemption list."

"Please select the corresponding exchange item from the following list. The exchange limit for this time is 10 million merit points. The current remaining merit points are 196.7829."

The welcome message echoed in my ears again, but the mere mention of less than two million merit points sounded particularly jarring.

"Redeem daily exorcism quest, begin quest settlement!"

Following the instructions on the Heavenly Talisman Token, Su Qing began to carefully reconcile the accounts with each task from the Heavenly Talisman Palace, determined not to let them take advantage of her in the slightest.

It would be extremely difficult to reconcile accounts, since most of the evil spirits he killed were converted into Dao patterns and devoured, leaving no heads as spoils of war.

Fortunately, the Heavenly Talisman Palace is extremely humane. It understands the difficulties that living beings face in dealing with evil spirits, and it also knows that most evil spirits do not have physical bodies or heads. When checking accounts, all that is needed is to produce a recording talisman or other evidence that can prove the battle record.

And Su Qing happens to be someone who loves recording videos!
When he confronted most evil spirits, either puppets took photos and videos for him, or onlookers acted as videographers, recording his many great achievements in vanquishing evil.

For example, when he killed Ye Di, the leader of Er Qiang's subordinates, in Wanghai Immortal City, he took a picture to show off Su Ji Puppet Shop. The picture is still being played on a loop on the big screen in Su Ji Wanghai Shop. He also took a picture to commemorate killing Er Qiang and to make Er Qiang pay off his battle losses.

While dealing with the evil army on Langya Immortal Island, the war correspondent Qinghe kept recording with a recording talisman. Originally, she intended to use it to settle accounts with Tong Chang. After all, brothers are brothers, this battle was ultimately fought for you, Tong Laodao, so we can't let our brothers suffer. The battle that needs to be settled still needs to be settled. However, since Su Qing obtained the most Daoist runes and benefited the most at the Celestial Master Temple, even someone as shameless as him couldn't mention this to Tong Chang. For the sake of his sister-in-law and wife, he let him have it.

It now seems that video recording and accounting are especially important in any field.

Each image talisman is forged from the blood and tears of evil spirits, and is the result of Su Qing's hard work and sweat. Now that the Heavenly Talisman Palace has issued daily evil-slaying tasks, it must pay up!

"Member Su Qing initiated task settlement, verification in progress..."

"Slay the evil spirits and evil spirits in the pavilion. The evil spirits are of the third rank and the threat level is D. There are no evil runes or Dao patterns remaining. The battle results will be settled normally, but the reward value will be reduced to 10%. 30,000 merit points have been issued. Please check..."

"The evil spirit, Old Evil of Yunshan, has been slain. Evil spirit rank: 4th level, threat level: C, no evil runes or Dao patterns remaining. Battle results are settled normally, reward value reduced to 10%, 200,000 merit points have been issued, please check..."

"Slay the evil spirit, the Western Sea Heavenly Mother. Evil spirit rank: fourth level, threat level: C. No evil runes or Dao patterns remain. Battle results are settled normally. Reward value reduced to 10%. 300,000 merit points have been issued. Please check..."

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"Slay the evil spirit Bodhisattva Baoxiang. Evil spirit level: fourth rank, threat level: C. No evil runes or Dao patterns remain. Battle results are settled normally. Reward value reduced to 10%. 400,000 merit points have been issued. Please check..."

How despicable and stingy is the Heavenly Talisman Palace!

They even withheld the task rewards from the workers!
Your mission isn't about exorcising evil spirits, but rather about obtaining evil runes and Daoist patterns, right?
I want to eat fart!
Because the evil spirits that died at Su Qing's hands had all their evil runes and Dao patterns looted, the Heavenly Talisman Palace did not receive any benefit from his exorcism missions. The merit points he gave were extremely stingy, totaling only a little over 13.2 million points. This was only because he killed a lot of evil spirits on Langya Immortal Island and built it up by sheer numbers.

In terms of battle results, he was indeed very efficient, which allowed him to rise in the rankings on the All Realms Demon Extermination List from 93rd to 86th. He also gained another opportunity to enter the Heavenly Talisman Palace, but his access level remained at level two and had not been upgraded to level one. It was unknown how many merits he would need to accumulate to be able to spend money on the level one shopping list.

Just as he was thinking that his current total of over 15 million merit points were only enough for one more use and not enough, he heard the urgent reminder from the Heavenly Talisman Palace. The voice, which was originally emotionless, seemed to carry some excitement due to its rapid tone.

"Member Su Qing has been detected to possess Dao patterns such as Jiuli, Qiongqi, Flower Blooming in an Instant, Embryo Transformation, Lotus Seal, Fire Phoenix Separating Fire, Wind Boiling the Sea, and Transformation Hand. You may choose any of these Dao patterns to exchange for merit points or directly exchange them for various treasures in the Treasure Hall. Dao patterns below the Five Elders can be exchanged for spiritual materials on the Level 3 list, Dao patterns of the Five Elders can be exchanged for spiritual materials on the Level 2 list, and the Four Imperial Dao pattern Lotus Seal can be exchanged for spiritual materials on the Level 1 list!"

"It has been detected that member Su Qing has converted the evil spirits Ya Zi, Jiao Tu, and the Seven Elders. The Seven Elders Treasure Ship can be used as the settlement item for the mission, and you can get 22 million merit points."

They were definitely after the Dao patterns on my body!

Can it be exchanged?
Absolutely not!

Su Qing had already noticed from the exchange list that although it claimed to include all the good things in the myriad worlds, it did not sell any Dao patterns.

Scarcity increases value. Even a wealthy organization like the Heavenly Talisman Palace values ​​Dao patterns so highly. Even a fool like Su Qing would know that the Dao patterns on his body are priceless treasures, invaluable even with spirit stones and merit points. How could he let the Heavenly Talisman Palace profit from this? Seeing him shake his head in refusal, the Heavenly Talisman Palace then suggested:

"Member Su Qing has been detected to possess a Demon-Suppressing Buddhist Treasure—the Merit Wooden Fish. Each Merit Wooden Fish is worth three million merit points. Would you like to redeem it?"

No, no, even though this merit wooden fish was bought with a few spirit crystals years ago and its value has increased a thousandfold, it is his livelihood and the fundamental basis for him to become an exorcist vanguard. How could he possibly change it?

"It has been detected that member Su Qing possesses the Demon-Slaying and Defending Treasure—Arhat Bear Two. Although it is a fourth-tier puppet, it can be exchanged for a fifth-tier puppet at a discounted price. Please choose any of the following fifth-tier puppets: Divine Firmament Guardian, Nine Heavens Maiden, Titan Star-Slaying Ape..."

He thinks he can trade a mere fifth-tier puppet for Luohan Xiong Er? He might agree to the deal, but Xiong Er would never agree!
Su Qing finally understood. Perhaps they saw that he was desperately short of merit points, and the Heavenly Talisman Palace was trying to squeeze some money out of him.

Although Su Qing has a lot of money to gain, it's all from others that he's worked hard to get; he's never had any of his money taken from him!
"Stop talking, let's serve the food!"

After coldly rejecting the Heavenly Talisman Palace's continued sales pitch, Su Qing, with over 15 million merit points in hand, began her second round of purchases.

First, I packed the corpse of the Silver Horned Beast, which I couldn't get last time because I didn't have enough money, into my bag, spending over three million merit points.

At this point, we have enough materials to prepare for crafting a fifth-tier puppet.

There's never enough!
However, we're currently short on funds, so we'll just make do for now. If we can afford the materials to craft one or two fifth-tier puppets, that would be quite an achievement. We're still short on a lot of precious materials. But things like the sixth-tier incense burner talisman water can be scavenged from the temple of our good older brother Erqiang. Most of it can be obtained from the Tianyuan Realm, so there's no need to rush to exchange it here at the Tianfu Palace.

That concludes the discussion on puppet-related expenses.

Su Qing chose to invest the remaining merit points in herself.

Because he is quick-witted and eager to learn, has many interests and a wide range of knowledge, there are many areas where he can invest.

Do we need rune inheritance?
There's a panel where you can grind proficiency. You only need to buy the cheapest Tier 1 Rune Inheritance to grind up to Tier 5, Tier 6, and grind endlessly. Isn't that worth it?
buy!
He swept up all the rune inheritances that he had not yet mastered!
Most Tier 1 rune inheritances can be purchased for only two or three thousand merit points. Even mid-tier Tier 4 runes such as Aerial Combat, Heavy Load, and Aquatic can only cost a maximum of ten thousand merit points.

Compared to the puppet materials he bought before, which cost several million, this was much cheaper. Su Qing carefully selected and spent a small amount of merit points, obtaining more than 300 rune inheritances. He obviously didn't have the energy to farm high-level runes one by one. He would just farm runes whenever he had more options when crafting puppets, and he could farm runes that he could use.

He paid particular attention to the selection of third-grade runes.

When runes are inherited from the first to the third grade, their prices immediately soar. Even a first-grade third-grade rune starts at 100,000 merit points. Those with wide applicability, great power and effect, or high scarcity can fetch as much as 300,000 to 500,000 merit points. As for first-grade and second-grade runes, they are not on the second-level exchange list at all. This is probably because the authority is insufficient. They may only be available on the first-level exchange list.

After much deliberation, Su Qing finally decided to use four types of third-grade runes.

These are the third-grade rune Nirvana Rune and the third-grade rune Earth Virtue Rune. These two types of runes, along with the fifth-grade Spring Wood Rune, Living Gold Rune, and Mother River Rune that he has mastered, are collectively known as the five major life-type runes. There is a chance that they can be combined into the second-grade life rune. If one has enough luck, it is even possible to attract the Five Elders Dao Pattern and the Azure Emperor Dao Pattern.

The third-grade rune, the Clone Rune, can be combined with the Illusion Rune he has already mastered, giving the puppet the ability to create shadow clones.

The third-grade rune, the sword-nurturing rune, allows the puppet to give birth to its own natal flying sword. It was prepared by him for Tiger Egg. The flying sword he nurtured himself might not be as good as the ones bought outside, but at least it didn't cost any spirit stones. As a pure combat-oriented puppet, Tiger Egg didn't have Xiong Er's ability to start his own business. All the investment in him relied on Su Qing's support, and Su Qing still wanted to save as much as possible.

The third-grade invisibility rune—those who know about this rune understand its effects, so there's no need to elaborate. If you haven't encountered it, fine; but if you have, there's no reason not to miss it. Su Qing plans to take some time to upgrade this rune to the fifth or sixth grade. It will be extremely useful whether you're doing bad things or assassinating those who are doing bad things.

The third-grade Guardian Rune is completely different from the runes Su Qing knew before. It is a group-effect rune that can be used to create guard puppets. Two guard puppets can offset 10% of the damage received, four puppets can offset 20%, and the more puppets there are, the more damage is offset. The maximum is that it can offset 90% of the damage. This type of rune was created by cultivators from outside the world. When used on group puppets, it is the first choice for creating tank teams. Su Qing plans to use it on the next generation of Explosive Hammer War Bear, which can be regarded as making some technical preparations in advance.

Unlike buying mid-to-lower rank rune inheritances below the third rank, these five high-rank third rank runes cost him a total of over 2.6 million merit points. Among them, the Nirvana Rune and the Earth Virtue Rune were the most expensive, while the Guardian Rune, which he was most interested in, was the cheapest. It seems that this rune inheritance is widely spread throughout the myriad realms and is not a particularly rare inheritance.

Although he was interested in a few more Rank 3 runes on the list, he understood the principle of not biting off more than he could chew, and since he also had other treasures to spend money on, he made the difficult decision to shift his attention elsewhere.

The next item he needed to choose was a secret technique of divine sense.

The importance of divine sense to a puppeteer is beyond doubt; he had already demonstrated it once on Langya Immortal Island when he amassed troops to fight against sea monsters and evil spirits.

As he advanced to the fourth-tier Nascent Soul stage, the requirements for the quality of the puppets became higher, and correspondingly, the requirements for divine sense also increased.

The dual-method of divine intervention is outdated and urgently requires new secret methods of divine sense.

Last time, he chose one, which was the true divine sense method of the Taiyi Sect - the Divine Will Freedom Technique. As the true successor of Taiyi who wields the Taiyi Creation Blade and the Taiyi Fundamental Diagram, it was perfectly legitimate for him to cultivate this true divine sense method of the sect!
Moreover, this divine sense secret method is said to have the characteristic of generating ten thousand thoughts from a single thought, and the divine will flowing freely. That is, it not only strengthens the divine sense, but also focuses on improving the efficiency of the use of the divine sense, and allows the cultivator to have the ability to control thousands of thoughts at will.

This secret method held immense appeal for him.

But after much deliberation, Su Qing still couldn't bear to spend those few million merit points.

Since it is a true secret technique of the Taiyi Sect, it wouldn't be unreasonable for him, as a genuine Taiyi successor, to take advantage of it for free from any Taiyi disciple he happens to encounter.

Even if you can't get it for free, Shen Wuyai in Hai Changqing's ancestral tomb is waiting for you to take it from the sea hole, so why waste money!
"With the remaining merit points, it's more practical to buy myself a new suit of armor. No armor is as comfortable as a thousand suits of armor, and survival is more important than being strong in the elements!" (End of Chapter)