Immortality begins with meditation puppets

"Master, I, Qinghe, sell my art, not my body!" Qinghe pinched the hem of her skirt, acting coy and hesitant, but her eager eyes betrayed her; clearly, today was the day she had been looking forward to for a long time.

Unfortunately, all her expectations were in vain. Su Qing only wanted to make her cry, not bleed.

"Nonsense! Your indenture is still in my hands. You sold yourself long ago, so stop pretending! I'm here today to inform you that, given the rapid growth of Su Ji Puppet Shop, your abilities as manager can no longer keep up. You are now required to suspend your work without pay. In addition, due to your excessive debts at Xiong Er Money Exchange, Xiong Er Money Exchange has decided to suspend all loans to you and order you to repay all outstanding loans and interest within one month!"

How could such callous words come from the mouth of the employer?

Qinghe, whose face was flushed and heart was burning with excitement, thinking she was going to be the boss's wife today, felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar after hearing Su Qing's cold words. She burst into tears.

"Master, you can't be so heartless! I, Qinghe, have followed you from Yunshan City to where we are today. Even if I haven't done anything great, I have worked hard. You can't treat me like this and kill me!"

Yes, I, Qinghe, did privately issue VIP cards and discount cards to some customers. Although I received some benefits, didn't this also generate revenue for my Su Ji Puppet Shop?

"Fine, I can quit being the manager, but the loans from Xiong Er Money House absolutely cannot be cut off. I've invested all my savings and loans over the years into the Lianhu Lake project in the far west. Right now, our cash flow is extremely tight. If they withdraw the loans here, how will I survive!"

To make Qinghe cry, you have to hit her weak spot.

Su Qing knew her too well. If he tried to be friendly with her, she would probably laugh herself to death. Only by suspending her job and cutting off her loans could he make her shed such worthless tears.

It can't be said that it's worthless.

Lotus spirits are rare to begin with, and those like Qinghe, who enjoy a life of luxury and receive daily enhancements from white lotuses, are even rarer.

According to the panel's description of Qinghe, the current Qinghe is even less fortunate than Xiong Er and Hu Dan, and far surpasses ordinary spirits.

【Green Lotus】

【Type: Three-Life White Lotus (A variant of the lotus, a superior-grade spirit)】

【Talented Ability: Three-Life Lotus Seed: Qinghe has three lotus seeds, which have the effect of bringing the dead back to life (the opponent cannot be more than two ranks higher than Qinghe, and it cannot be replenished after one use, so Qinghe does not need to use this method on people who are not close to her (except for those who add money))】

[Common Ability: 1. Attachment. As a member of the weak elf race, Qinghe was born knowing the importance of attaching herself to the strong (Well done, Master!).]

[Ability Two: Borrowing. Money is money, and Qinghe desires so much in this dazzling world of humans, yet she never has enough. Therefore, she has mastered ten thousand ways to borrow and take out loans (I will pay it back, I swear!).]

[Ability 3: Curse. For some reason, Qinghe's creditors always seem to encounter various accidents, making it difficult for Qinghe to repay her debts on time. (Those with merit protection are immune to this effect!)]

[Ability Four: Cheating Skills. After witnessing a true master of cheating in a bet with Xiong Er, he reformed and rarely uses this skill anymore (Why, why couldn't I win a single game!).]

[Skill Five: Investment. Under the subtle influence of her master Su Qing and companion Xiong Er, Qinghe begins to try using borrowed funds for investment (the Lianhu Lake project in the far west, which Qinghe intends to package as a tourist hotspot to rip off tourists and make money).]

[Sixth Ability: Business Ability. Years of experience as a shopkeeper have honed Qinghe's business skills, including silver tongue, opportunism, and the ability to tell a lie. She is now a seasoned shopkeeper (I've only learned a tiny fraction of Dongdong's techniques, but even so, I'm already unbeatable!).]

[Seventh Ability: Looting Corpses. After several major battles, Qinghe has mastered the ability to collect the belongings of the dead on the battlefield (If you don't want them, they belong to the owner; if the owner doesn't want them, they're mine!)]

[Ability Eight: Combat. Accustomed to high-level matches, despite often playing passively, Qinghe's breadth of vision and high standards are unmatched among spirits of the same level, granting her a considerable set of combat abilities (the least significant of her many abilities).]

[Comment: Although her heart may be impure, her body is pure. Please believe her; she is still a good girl!]

One in ten thousand elves can awaken their innate talent, and those who possess eight other abilities in addition to their innate talent are even rarer in the world.

Thus, the white lotus tears it produces are of extremely high quality. It's just a pity that these white lotus tears are only valuable to Su Qing in refining inspiration dolls, and Su Qing dares not tell her the truth. Therefore, in her opinion, these tears are shed in vain.

It wasn't a complete waste!
Because of her tearful and persistent efforts, the boss indeed rescinded his order, made her remember this lesson, and only gave her a warning. She retained her position, and Xiong Er Qianzhuang's credit was not completely wiped out.

Sure enough, men are all soft-hearted, and the boss is no exception!
Qinghe blinked her red eyes as she watched Su Qing walk into the cabin. She thought to herself that she would have to find an opportunity to have a good cry with her boss in the future. At least after the Lian Sheng Lake project was launched, she would ask her boss to invite his few easy-to-scam and rich brothers and friends to Lian Sheng Lake for a visit!
Su Qing, inside the puppet-making room, was clearly unaware that Qing He was thinking about his sworn friends. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. It didn't matter who tricked these brothers and friends; if Su Qing could trick them, then Qing He could trick them too!

He focused solely on crafting this inspiration doll, which consumed a great deal of his precious materials and energy!
With all the necessary materials ready, they immediately began crafting the puppet according to the blueprints.

Therefore, the inspiration doll is mainly for playing with the brain, hence its head is much larger than that of the meditation doll or the substitute doll.

The five elements' features were shaped using five different gemstones from the five directions, and five runes were imprinted on them according to the attributes of each gemstone: fifth-order Nirvana, fifth-order Mother River, fifth-order Living Gold, fifth-order Earth Virtue, and fifth-order Spring Wood.

Once the five runes were drawn, the five gems, which were originally unrelated, began to emit rays of light and intertwine together, clearly distinct yet merging into one, exhibiting a state of sometimes gathering and sometimes dispersing, and sometimes waxing and waning.

Originally, Su Qing's poor skills had resulted in a large, indistinct head with features squeezed together. However, under the influence of the Five Elements Light, the head underwent its own transformation. Once the light dissipated, the head resembled Su Qing in seven or eight parts. Clearly, true handsomeness cannot be achieved through plastic surgery.

"Is this the way of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint? It's a pity that this Dao pattern has never appeared in the Tianyuan Realm, otherwise, I wouldn't have gone to so much trouble, needing five different runes to display even a fraction of its power!"

Su Qing shook his head with some regret. The Mother River, Spring Wood and other runes he mastered were derived from the Azure Emperor's Dao Runes, which were lower-level runes of the Five Elements Runes and the Life and Death Runes.

He hadn't even figured out how to combine the five elemental runes—Spring Wood, Living Gold, etc.—into one to condense the Azure Emperor Dao Pattern, let alone gain any further insight into the mysteries of the Five Elements Dao Pattern. However, even without the Five Elements Dao Pattern, he wasn't without good stuff, and his slight regret vanished in an instant!

He took out a piece of ten-thousand-year-old spiritual wood. This wood was used by the White-Faced Green Lion King to settle a debt, so it wouldn't fit as perfectly as the one he had specially made.

It works, but it's a bit too thin and too short.

In no time, he shaved the short piece of wood into the shape of a headless puppet, embedded a spirit stone in its chest, and then inserted it into the large head that he had just prepared.

With its thin legs and hands, thin bamboo pole, and an unusually large head, it looks somewhat comical and ridiculous.

It's not a problem if it's laughable, as long as it's strong enough. After all, the conditions are limited right now, so we can only make do with it for the time being. After all, this doll relies on its brain to make a living, and it doesn't need to participate in the battle. So what if its body is uncoordinated?

Calming his mind, Su Qing began to prepare the fifth-order Creation Talisman Water.

There isn't a single bottle of this rune available in the Tianyuan Realm, and they don't have the ability to concoct it. Even Su Qing, who had his personal panel frantically grinding rune proficiency and breaking through both intelligent and bionic runes to the fifth rank, still couldn't find the opportunity to fuse these two runes into the Creation Dao Pattern. It was only thanks to the generosity of the four demons, who, before their deaths, dropped the Taiji Creation Blade and obtained a wisp of innate Yin-Yang Qi that he was able to fuse the bionic and intelligent runes into the current Creation Rune. At the moment he mastered this rune, he also simultaneously comprehended the method of concocting Creation Rune Water.

It's difficult for those who don't know how, but easy for those who do. The most stringent condition for concocting the Creation Talisman Water is that it must be taken from a part of a Creation-type creature.

Su Qing originally believed that as a human being, a pure human being, he should be the most fortunate among all beings of creation. Therefore, he plucked a hair from his own head and mixed a bottle of fifth-order bionic talisman water with a bottle of fifth-order intelligent talisman water, hoping to create a bottle of creation talisman water of excellent quality.

The result was heartbreaking; even a single hair of his couldn't satisfy it.

Only by having his arms, legs, head, and torso—real parts—can this Creation Talisman Water be produced.

Our bodies and hair are given to us by our parents. It's one thing to pluck a hair, but who would be willing to cut off their own arm or leg?

Tiger Egg is willing to give it up!

There was nothing Tiger Egg could do. He wanted to improve, but seeing Bear Two fishing and hunting all the way, making great achievements, Tiger Egg could only stubbornly practice swordsmanship on the boat, achieving nothing and establishing nothing. If he wasted his time like this, how could he give Liu Yin a home in the future!

Eager to make a name for himself, Tiger Egg, after Su Qing summoned him and Xiong Er and asked if they were the brave warriors who could endure the pain of losing an arm or a leg, immediately had tears in his eyes, clasped his hands, and volunteered:
"Confucius said to achieve benevolence, Mencius said to uphold righteousness. I, Tiger Egg, possess both benevolence and righteousness, and am unparalleled in loyalty and filial piety. I am willing to dedicate myself to my master!"

Tiger Egg was good at seizing opportunities. His words made Su Qing a little embarrassed. Moved, Su Qing chopped off Tiger Egg's nine tails and then used some fifth-grade precious materials to reforge nine tails for him.

Alas, guess what? This newly made Nine-Tailed Fox is dozens of times better than the original one Tiger Egg had before. This made Xiong Er, who was just about to negotiate the price with his master but was too slow to speak, extremely annoyed. It is true that bears are smarter than tigers, but smart bears think too much and are prone to hesitation when they have an opportunity. Hesitation will lead to defeat and prevent them from taking advantage of their master!

Leaving aside the tiger egg that brought him what he sowed and the bear Er reflecting on his actions, Su Qing took the tiger egg and the nine tails, then turned around and returned to the cabin.

As fourth-order creation-type puppets refined by Su Qing, the bionic and intelligent runes on Tiger Egg and Bear Two were fused into fifth-order creation runes when Su Qing merged the bionic and intelligent runes into creation runes.

Now, the aura of creation contained in the nine tails of the creation-type puppet tiger egg can be used to nurture creation talisman water and refine new creation-type puppets.

"But if we must use the components of creatures of creation as the necessary materials for refining Creation Talisman Water, then how was the first bottle of Creation Talisman Water made?"

The chicken-or-egg question is unsolvable in any world. After thinking for a while, Su Qing could only conclude that what he possessed was a creation rune, not a creation Dao pattern. Runes need talisman water to function, but Dao patterns do not necessarily require it. Perhaps those who possess creation Dao patterns already have the ability to create things from the void, so they don't need to go through all this trouble.

That kind of existence that can create things without preparing various materials or consuming spirit stones is something he can only look up to but never reach now. But he is certain that if he ever has this ability, he will create countless puppets in the void and plunder all the spirit stones and treasures of all living beings in this Tianyuan Realm, no, to put it another way, he will plunder all the spirit stones and treasures of all living beings in all the myriad realms!

Daydreaming is useless. Right now, Su Qing needs to take things one step at a time and be down-to-earth in refining puppets.

After being soaked in talisman water and advancing to the fourth-tier Nascent Soul stage, he was strong and powerful. He no longer needed the Six Harmonies Hand's help to draw fifth-tier runes. However, this puppet was not yet ready to retire. Su Qing judged that when he needed to draw sixth-tier runes to refine fifth-tier puppets later, he would still need this puppet to shine.

Although the fifth-order Creation Rune is mysterious and difficult to understand, he had previously upgraded both the Intelligent Rune and the Biomimetic Rune to the sixth order. After the fusion, he quickly reached the fifth order level on this rune as well.

In a single stroke, the fifth-order Creation Rune was completed in a day or two. It can be seen that after the rune was drawn, the originally comical and wooden-looking big-headed little boy began to become lively and natural. His big eyes rolled, and he had his own thoughts. He opened his mouth to call Su Qing "Mom".

Su Qing didn't give it a chance to call for its mother.

Upon seeing that the Creation Rune was functioning normally, he immediately reached out and placed the doll into a talismanic water made from the essence blood of the Dead Wood Immortal, the essence blood of the Pirate King, the tears of the White Lotus, and the blood of a virgin. It needed to soak in this talismanic water for an hour, until it sensed the complexity of human nature and the wickedness of the world, before taking the doll out.

This step is crucial. If we compare it to a person, this doll is like a college student who has just entered society. It is innocent, naive, polite, brainless, simple, and foolish. It needs to be re-educated by society in order to become a seasoned veteran. The same is true for this doll. Otherwise, if it is created, it will not be able to manipulate people's hearts but will be manipulated by others, and then it will be digested.

An hour later.

After Su Qing fished the black-hearted, rotten, and evil Inspiration Doll out of the talisman water.

On the panel, a series of notification sounds rang out at the right time.

[You have imprinted a fifth-tier creation rune onto the Inspiration Doll. Without a doubt, you have endowed this doll with greater creation. This puppet has mutated...] (End of Chapter)