Immortality begins with meditation puppets

mean!

Sneak attack!

robbery!

In the blink of an eye, a dark shadow flashed past in front of him.

After Erqiang realized what was happening, he saw Xiong Er, with a smug grin, following Su Qing to claim credit and reward for the spoils he had stolen from him!
Unexpected, yet reasonable.

The dragon head, body, and tail that Gao Erqiang painstakingly killed, even the dragon blood that fell into the sea, never ended up in his hands!
"How outrageous! Fellow Daoist Su, I came to your aid from thousands of miles away at your invitation, remembering our past friendship. My heart was sincere, yet you treat me like this!"
First, he conspired with Fellow Daoist Tong to conceal the matter of the Dragon-Attracting Powder, catching me off guard and leaving me trapped on the Dragon-Slaying Platform, fighting the evil dragon to the death without being able to escape.

That would have been fine, since I came here prepared to do my best for you, but now that I'm fighting the evil dragon with all my might, you're sending your puppet subordinates to forcibly steal my spoils of war.

Erqiang advises you to pull back from the brink now and quickly return this dragon head, dragon body, and dragon soul to me, Erqiang. Otherwise, our brotherhood ends today!

Even clay figures have a bit of fire in them. Although Erqiang's statues are mostly made of clay, he himself is not made of clay!
The business of Xingsha Shenguo was so tightly controlled by Su Qing that he, the ruler of the divine kingdom, faced many obstacles within the kingdom, making him appear aggrieved, incompetent, and pitiful.

Gao Erqiang tolerated this matter. After all, without Su Qing, the former Wanghai Immortal City and the current Xingsha Heavenly Kingdom would not be as prosperous as they are now. In fact, if Su Qing had not protected Wanghai while he was in seclusion, it would be uncertain whether Wanghai Immortal City would still exist, or whether Gao Erqiang would still have the foundation to become a god.

But some things can be tolerated, and some things cannot.

This is outrageous! It's so unfair!
He, Gao Erqiang, is now under the command of Xing Shen. You, Su Qing, are robbing him right in front of him, aren't you? And what you're stealing is Xing Shen's stuff.
Are you very poor?

Su Ji Puppet Shop and Lingying Langya Workshop continuously amass wealth for you. The Eight Dragon Ships and Treasure Ship Fleet scour the vast Western Sea for food, and even in the far west, millions of miles away, you have businesses!

You're not poor!
I'm so poor!
I'm counting on this dragon's body to pay off my debts and turn my life around!

How dare you try to take it from me!
Gao Erqiang was filled with resentment and anger, to the point that he, who was always so composed, lost his temper with Su Qing for the first time.

But Su Qing also had something to say!

"What do you mean by this, Fellow Daoist Gao? This battle against the Cloud Dragon was achieved through the combined efforts of you, me, and Fellow Daoist Tong. According to the rules, the spoils should be divided among the three of us. You don't mean to try and take it all for yourself, do you?"

Erqiang got angry, and Su Qing wanted to get angry too. Don't be fooled by Erqiang's current respectable appearance. He's a fifth-order god, but Su Qing doesn't care about him at all. If they really turned against each other, believe it or not, Su Qing would make his god kingdom change its surname to Su. When it came to fighting, although the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Blade was strong, his Xing Tian Blood Axe was not necessarily at a disadvantage!

"Swallow it all? What makes you think that? I was fighting fiercely with Yunlong just now and had no time to think about anything else. I don't know what Fellow Daoist Su did in this battle, and what right does he have to say that he wants to share this dragon with me?"

You must know that this fifth-tier true dragon is truly ferocious and exceptionally evil. Its body is as solid as diamond and indestructible, and its spirit is as unfathomable as the Western Sea. If it weren't for me, Gao Erqiang, using my divine artifact and divine power to subdue this demonic dragon with all my might, Fellow Daoist Su's fleet might have suffered calamity. Fellow Daoist Tong at least used a few talismans, but for that little bit of merit, he only deserves a small share of the dragon's blood..."

Seeing Su Qing get angry, Gao Erqiang realized that most of his family's business was still in Su Qing's hands. Most of the entire divine kingdom belonged to Su Qing. With his lifeline in someone else's hands, he couldn't speak with much force. He couldn't just resort to violence and turn against Su Qing. He thought he should try to reason with Su Qing.

Unfortunately, Su Qing was better prepared than him in terms of reasoning!

"Honors? Fellow Daoist Gao, do you really think you handled Yunlong all by yourself?" Su Qing, still standing on the Pixiu treasure ship, transmitted a message to Gao Erqiang through divine sense from hundreds of miles away.

"Isn't that right?" Erqiang was puzzled. Heaven help him, he really did cut down Yunlong one by one. If Su Qing was going to renege on his debt, he, Gao Erqiang, could summon the dragon's soul and ask it who killed it!
"Hmph! Fellow Daoist, you are so naive. You actually think that you alone can handle a fifth-order cloud dragon in this dangerous place?" Su Qing first snorted coldly, and then explained his achievements to the bewildered Gao Erqiang, who thought he was just a scoundrel.

"I have made three contributions in this battle."

Firstly, the Dragon-Attracting Powder and other items were prepared by me, Su Qing. If you wish to fish for a dragon from this desolate place, this is the perfect bait. You don't even have bait; do you expect to catch fish with empty hooks?

"Wasn't this Dragon-Attracting Powder what you and Old Taoist Tong were planning to use to trick me? Fine, I'll count it as a favor!" Gao Erqiang was about to retort, but then he thought about it and realized that what Su Qing said made sense. After all, the level of wronged souls and dead spirits that the Dragon-Slaying Platform could summon depended entirely on the Celestial Master's realm. Old Taoist Tong was only at the fourth level. Without the Dragon-Attracting Powder, he really couldn't summon a fifth-level cloud dragon. If the dragon didn't come, how could he start slaying it?

"Secondly, our eight dragon boats are lined up in a row, and many treasure ships are also equipped with cannons and guns, surrounding this cloud dragon from all sides, giving it no chance to escape to another place or retreat back to the Land of No Return!"

“That makes sense. Although the Dragon-Attracting Powder can draw the dragon’s hatred, if the dragon is seriously injured, lust may not be able to overcome its survival instinct. If it is determined to escape, I really won’t be able to take it down!” Hearing this, Gao Erqiang realized that he had been narrow-minded. He only focused on the real battle and the merits of the front line, but neglected Su Qing’s supporting role. After realizing that Su Qing was not simply bullying him, his tone softened.

Seeing his reaction, Su Qing's tone softened. Erqiang was a good older brother who could protect Su Qing's industrial group in Xingtian Divine Kingdom and was also a powerful henchman who could be summoned to help Su Qing defeat his enemies. He didn't want to fall out with such a high-quality partner too soon.

Even after his foundation in the far west was stabilized, he was prepared to voluntarily relocate his businesses from the Kingdom of Punishment and withdraw his influence from that kingdom, just in case the two powerful figures couldn't hold back and their relationship soured. He was willing to give up such great benefits, so it would be ridiculous if a conflict arose now just because of an unequal distribution of spoils.

With a thought, Su Qing gestured for Gao Erqiang to look into the distance.

Gao Erqiang looked around and was horrified.

Thousands of miles ahead, a dark cloud had gathered, containing countless demons and undead.

One by one, dark-skinned, pale-faced, dead-eyed demons commanded the vengeful spirits and dead souls, surging madly towards them. The clever Erqiang, seeing this, quickly understood what had happened after a moment's thought.

The Celestial Master's decree, summoning dragons and rescuing souls, and enforcing the law, was originally intended to attract all the wronged souls and dead spirits in this area who were no more than the Celestial Master's level.

The Land of Despair has been an ancient battlefield since ancient times. Over the years, these undead, driven by evil spirits, have continuously created carnage, to the point that the number of wronged souls and undead here may even exceed the number of living beings in the two powerful divine kingdoms.

This place of absolute death is protected by an ancient powerful being who has set up a barrier, allowing only the living to enter and exit. Wronged souls and the dead can only enter but not leave. Even though the barrier has recently loosened, it can only leave a small gap, making it difficult for large numbers of wronged souls and the dead to escape at will. This is why Master Tong has room to maneuver and set up the Dragon-Slaying Platform for summoning souls and determining guilt.

The current situation clearly indicates that there was a problem with the barrier, which is why so many wronged souls and dead spirits have gathered here!
Erqiang felt a chill run down his spine, his eyes flashing like lightning as he pierced through the layers of mist spreading from the Land of Despair. Following the direction from which the large number of wronged souls and undead had come, he indeed discovered a barrier rift that was constantly expanding.

This barrier of the Realm of Absolute Breath is a malevolent formation called the Heavenly Connection to the Earth, which isolates the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and cuts off the possibility of cultivation and growth for the wronged souls and dead spirits within. Legend has it that it was created by an ancient powerful being who used the malevolent energy generated from the battles between true dragons and demons as a foundation, trapping the true dragons and demons together in this place until they died.

Legend has it that when the formation was set up years ago, several true dragons were still fighting against the demons. These dragons, who fought to the death, never expected to end up like this. After they died and withered in this formation because they could not obtain spiritual energy, their hatred for living beings was almost no different from that of the demons, making this place even more ferocious.

It was precisely because this place was extremely dangerous that Su Qing and Tong Laodao only dared to mess around on the outside. They wouldn't dare to go in for real.

Now it seems that whether we get in or not is irrelevant!

Because this formation, which has been in operation since ancient times, is now in disrepair and can no longer function, or because a great calamity has begun and the evil spirits within are restless and have rushed into the formation, breaking it, or perhaps some ignorant fool has barged in and caused a mess, unintentionally creating a large hole in the formation.

In short, whatever the reason.

Gao Erqiang understood.

Things are getting serious!
The prison doors have been breached, and the criminals are about to be released!
Nine high-ranking demons, the remnant souls of ancient dragons whose good and evil are indistinguishable, and countless undead and wronged souls will surge out of the Land of Extinction and then roll into all parts of the Western Sea like mercury spilling onto the ground, killing and annihilating the Divine Kingdom, the Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom, the Penglai Immortal Kingdom, the Thousand Islands Immortal Kingdom, including the far western land that Su Qing is still developing. No one will be spared and will suffer this great calamity!
"The demonic tide is rising!"

With devastation looming before their eyes, Gao Erqiang sighed deeply, no longer in the mood to compete with Su Qing for credit.

He could see Tiger Egg leading the Demon God Legion, together with Xiong Er's Arhat Buddha Bear Legion, blocking the large number of vengeful spirits and evil demons that were escaping from the outer perimeter of this Land of No Breath.

Tiger Egg and the Demon God Legion mainly deal with mid-level and lower-level demons. These demons are mostly third or fourth-level in strength, and unlike evil spirits, ordinary exorcism puppets have difficulty restraining them. Before Su Qing upgrades the exorcism puppets, the Demon God Legion can only rely on the combined demonic energy to fight them head-on.

The Arhat Buddha Bear Clan is one of the few puppets that can suppress these evil spirits. However, they are of low rank and only number in the hundreds or thousands. At most, they can suppress a hundred or so lower-ranking evil spirits. Su Qing simply let them lead 30,000 exorcising ghost children and 5,000 mountain goblins to give those wronged souls and dead spirits a good beating!
Besides Hu Dan and Xiong Er, who had served under Su Qing from the beginning and whom Gao Erqiang had seen many times, this time, Gao Erqiang also saw another puppet that amazed him.

This puppet had a large head and a thin body, with a hollow chest. A black heart pounded wildly inside it like a rabbit, the thumping sound echoing throughout the battlefield. Surprisingly, this heartbeat seemed to bewitch the demons. Many lower-ranking demons were affected by the heartbeat and abandoned their mid-ranking positions, instead standing beside the puppet as its henchmen in the fight against the demons. Truly, the world is full of wonders. It's always the demons who bewitch and manipulate others, but who would have thought that today we would witness a demon being bewitched by someone else, and damn it, by a puppet!

"The Demon Buddha of Yingzhou is unfathomable. He manipulates evil spirits throughout the Western Sea from the shadows, causing havoc everywhere. The Great Sage of the Three Saints Mountain is recruiting soldiers and gathering a million demon soldiers. He has the idea of ​​sweeping across the Western Sea, going ashore and advancing eastward to take the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons. On land, there is also the old immortal Earth Demon Heaven and the old thief army of the Pingxi Martial Kingdom."

The Western Sea was already a chaotic place, rife with conflicting forces and fires, and now it's further plagued by these demonic and undead scourges! If it weren't for Fellow Daoist Su, a pillar of the Western Sea, supporting the situation and putting out fires everywhere, how could I, Gao Erqiang, be enjoying the peace and prosperity of the Xing Tian Divine Kingdom? Just now, I was narrow-minded, unaware of your sacrifices, only concerned with petty gains! I hope Fellow Daoist Su won't take offense!

As a deity, especially the God of Punishment who is in charge of executions, Gao Erqiang cannot easily bow down to anyone, as it would damage the prestige of a deity.

But Su Qing is not an outsider, he is our own brother. It's not shameful to bow down to him. We can't let a little misunderstanding affect our brotherhood, can we?
Gao Erqiang finally understood.

Let alone if it weren't for Su Qing and his puppets helping him hold off these demonic undead, Gao Erqiang would have been devoured by a real dragon and torn to shreds by these demons, let alone beheaded. After all, these demons love to devour gods. The ancient heavenly court gods were all wiped out by them!
Given the current situation in the West Sea, anyone can be missing, but Su Qing is truly indispensable. He has a large number of proud and fierce soldiers and puppets under his command, and even the potential to mass-produce puppets and soldiers. In addition, he has developed new types of puppets with the potential to target demons and monsters. If he were to abandon his post, none of Penglai Immortal Island, Thousand Island Immortal Kingdom, or Gao Erqiang's Xingsha Divine Kingdom would have an easy time!

Having realized Su Qing's importance, Gao Erqiang no longer cared about the spoils from the Yunlong corpse; he would consider it protection money offered by a beggar to a wealthy lord.

Sigh, what a world!
Originally, it was thought that Gao Erqiang was Su Qing's guardian angel. Unexpectedly, after all the twists and turns, Gao Erqiang still needed Su Qing's help to hold on, at least until Gao Erqiang stabilized his divine kingdom and mastered the inheritance within the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Sword.

Seeing that Erqiang had recognized the situation and corrected his attitude, Su Qing was in a great mood.

That's right!

Su Qing came to this place of despair, do you really think he did it for his own selfish reasons?

Isn't he also thinking of the people of the Western Sea, and isn't he also thinking of all living beings under heaven?
Although the wooden fish doll frantically converted the Dao pattern light points and seized merit and fortune in this battle, this was just an insignificant extra benefit he gained from serving the common people.

In short, with the barrier of this desolate place collapsing and the demonic undead about to scatter and wreak havoc, Su Qing's ability to lead the puppets to the front has already made a great contribution to the West Sea.

After all, what makes demons most feared is their intangible and intangible ability to bewitch others. Killing one more demon here means one less will escape to other parts of the Western Sea.

And without a doubt, if any of these demons were to go to those places where creatures, perhaps not even at the Golden Core stage, gathered, the difficulty and losses would be more than a hundred times greater than they are now!
His conscience is clear as day, and he has no regrets about taking that crippled dragon body! (End of Chapter)