Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Upon hearing that they had enough military achievements and sufficient resources, they were immediately convinced that they had achieved their goals.

Tiger Egg immediately panicked like a dog, realizing that its fourth-tier strength was not commensurate with its status, and wanted to become a fifth-tier divine puppet.

"Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and apply runes and materials to me. Xiong Er and the other brothers are still fighting the White-Headed Dragon Demon. Quickly advance me to the fifth rank so I can share the burden with my brothers!" Tiger Egg said anxiously.

"Puppet crafting isn't like playing with mud. Advancing from the fourth to the fifth rank is a massive undertaking. It requires a stable environment, professional equipment, and thorough preparation before it can begin. Right now, in this turbulent land, while we're fighting the demonic blood, starting work rashly would be irresponsible and would only harm you!"

Su Qing shook her head and refused, saying that some things couldn't be rushed.

"Is it because Master hasn't mastered the sixth-tier runes yet, and his skills haven't been fully developed, that's why my Tiger Egg's development has been delayed? I understand, Tiger Egg understands. Tiger Egg has followed Master since then, and there have been several times when Master's abilities couldn't keep up with my Tiger Egg's improvement speed. I, Tiger Egg, have never complained. But Master, please be honest next time. If it's not good, it's not good. Why are you trying to be stubborn with me, Tiger Egg!"

After saying that, Tiger Egg turned around and ran to the Pixiu to rest. It was clear that he hadn't learned how to behave properly. Just based on those words, only Su Qing was magnanimous enough to tolerate Tiger General's blatant mockery.

No way!

It's definitely a problem with my time management; I haven't farmed rune proficiency for a while now.

"But it's not my fault! Ever since we set sail from Wanghai City, there have been so many demons, monsters, and evil spirits. We can't fight them all or kill them all. We haven't had a single chance to develop in peace!"

Su Qing offered a defense for herself, then turned to look at the battle between Xiong Er, Bi Lian, the two-headed mirage dragon, and the white-headed dragon demon.

Who isn't its precious darling?

Tiger Egg is, and so is Bear Two.

Although Tiger Egg gained some benefits this time, it cannot cover up the fact that he was incompetent in this battle and was a defeated general.

In contrast, Xiong Er, with his strategic planning, turned the tide and even took the initiative to take on the troublesome white-haired dragon demon from Hu Dan.

At this moment, with Bald Bear Two as the hub and Boundless Buddha Light as the link, the two-headed mirage dragon and the broken-mouthed Jade Lotus are connected, forming the Vajra Subduing Demon Formation. The golden Buddha circle, drawing a circle on the ground, imprisons the white-headed dragon demon, which can ascend to the sky and descend to the sea, and hide in the clouds and water, within the Buddha circle covering a range of several miles. Golden ripples cascade down from the sea surface to a height of hundreds of feet in the sky. If the white-headed dragon demon tries to ascend to the sky, it will be hit all over by the Buddha Light. If it tries to descend to the sea, the Buddha Light will shrink into a small ring, trapping its tail and making it difficult to break free.

The formation's effectiveness was within Su Qing's expectations. After Xiong Er became the Arhat Buddha Bear, his mastery of Buddhist formations was incomparable to what it used to be. With him in charge of casting the spell, even though the strength of the Bi Lian and the Two-Headed Mirage Dragon was somewhat of a hindrance, trapping the White-Headed Dragon Demon, a mere fourth-tier peak demonic beast, was still no problem.

To Su Qing's surprise, outside this Vajra Subduing Demon Formation, Xiong Er was still the hub, connecting 108 wooden fish Buddhist cultivators. Each of them was a small wooden spirit radiating Buddhist light, holding a wooden fish, forming a circle around the Vajra Subduing Demon Formation, which was dozens of miles away.

Su Qing understood that this was because Xiong Er was considering the wooden spirit servants. Although they had the ability to suppress evil and ward off calamities, they had the weakness of being weak themselves. In the past, whether it was him or Xiong Er, they used these merit wooden fish by keeping them in storage bags. Because of this, now that they needed to cooperate with Xiong Er to set up the formation, they had to be released. However, they also had to consider their safety. With the White-Headed Dragon Demon bound by the Vajra Subduing Demon Circle, they also had to be kept at a certain distance for stability.

"With his meticulous planning and consideration for the overall situation, Xiong Er truly has the demeanor of a great general!"

Of course, Tiger Egg was also very good; his previous fight was quite exciting!

Although Tiger Egg went to the cabin to recuperate from its injuries, Su Qing was afraid that Tiger Egg might overhear something and feel uncomfortable, so while praising Xiong Er, she thoughtfully took Tiger Egg with her.

As Xiong Er chanted each Buddhist verse, not only did the Buddhist rings within the Vajra Subduing Demon Circle descend more and more, tightening their grip, but the wooden spirit servants also struck their wooden fish in unison with the chanting. Immediately, a golden lightning bolt appeared within the Vajra Subduing Demon Circle, tearing the white-headed dragon demon's skin and flesh apart, and extinguishing its demonic energy. This was the 108 Arhats Subduing Demons Formation set up by Xiong Er using the merit-based wooden fish. This formation could summon the power of exorcising divine lightning, and each strike against such evil spirits and undead beings could be considered a critical hit.

Seeing that the white-headed dragon demon here was like a grasshopper in autumn, unable to hop around for long, Xiong Er easily led his team to deal with it.

Su Qingxin felt much relieved. Seeing that the three powerful generals released by the Demon Nine Holes—the Human Dragon Knight, the Red-haired Mountain Ape King, and the Deep Sea Giant Whale King—were also close to defeat, he felt even more at ease.

Purely through a contest of subordinate strength, he, who had only been in power for a hundred years, had already defeated an old demon who had lived for countless millennia!

That's fine.

Su Qing had never even considered the possibility of having everything done using puppets, and then conveniently eliminating Jiu Kong, who possessed fifth-tier strength.

That's not a battle they can handle right now!
That was the battle of their master, Su Qing!

"You wicked demon, who has committed countless evils and does not belong to this world, the one who challenges you now is the supreme Heavenly Emperor, the inheritor of Jiuli and Xing Tian, ​​the favored one of Buddha and all the gods and Buddhas in the world, the leader of the puppeteers of the present world, the arms supplier of Xing Sha Divine Kingdom, Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom, Fire Phoenix Immortal Kingdom, Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom and other immortal kingdoms, who has annihilated four high-ranking demons and killed countless evil spirits, whose merits are immeasurable and whose cultivation is boundless, the undefeated war god who has never been defeated since his debut, the creator of Linggan Doll, Tiger Egg, Xiong Er and other powerful puppets, Su Qing, the True Man Su!"

Amidst the villain's impassioned shouts, Su Qing, now blessed with the dual power of the villain's sunny and cheerful personality and the version's strength, donned his puppet armor, picked up the Xing Tian Blood Axe, put on the Martial Judge's Ghost God Mask, and strode confidently toward the Qiu Niu Treasure Ship.

Unlike his previous encounter with Huang Mie, he had not changed into the Great Witch True Spirit or transformed into the Thousand-Foot Great Witch True Body. As a result, the Nine Li Dao Patterns could not exert their full power, and his pure strength was much weaker than before. However, with the assistance of the Qilin Arm Puppet, an exoskeleton-type puppet, and the active cooperation of the Xing Tian Blood Axe, he could still control the Xing Tian Blood Axe to fight. It had some impact on his close combat, but not much. After all, he didn't have many close combat methods that could threaten a fifth-tier being. He mainly relied on the Xing Tian Blood Axe. As long as he could swing the axe and strike the nine-hole body, it all depended on the axe itself. The amount of power he used when swinging the axe was negligible, if not completely useless.

By actively weakening his melee abilities, he gained an improvement in his ranged combat skills. Having just received a great boost from the Heavenly Emperor's possession, his Grand Nascent Soul was now walking in the sky, leaving a trail of light wherever he went. Above his head, the radiance of the sun and stars fell like raindrops.

All undead demons struck by the radiance of this sun are like thin ice meeting a raging fire; they melt upon contact and dissolve upon touch, utterly powerless to resist.

When it landed within a dozen miles of the Qiuniu Treasure Ship, the previously motionless ship suddenly began to tremble violently. The violent shaking caused countless spirals to form on the surface and beneath the sea. These spirals then spewed out black demonic energy like jets, instantly enveloping the Qiuniu Treasure Ship in a black mist. Even the golden light of the Breaking Illusion Golden Eyes was swallowed by this mist. The mist continued to spread, and all the puppets, treasure ships, and even the dozen or so Deepwater Tyrants that it had secretly placed near the Qiuniu Treasure Ship were decomposed into basic materials, becoming the resources for the Qiuniu Treasure Ship and causing its size to continuously expand.

"I thought you'd run out of ideas, but I never expected you to surprise me like this, playing Naruto Uzumaki here!"

As expected of the ancient demon leader who fought against the true dragon, even after his troops were wiped out, he could still produce a large one, generating this inexplicable demonic energy. This caused Su Qing's well-prepared momentum to falter, and he silently retreated dozens of miles to observe the situation.

Judging from the known effects of this magical mist...

It not only possesses the ability to devour the flesh and blood of living beings, but also the ability to decompose inanimate objects like puppets, scattering and recombining everything into resources usable by itself. Su Qing had never heard of such a method before; it must be the Dao pattern ability wielded by this demonic nine-hole creature. Moreover, it was with this method that it disintegrated and dispersed the Golden Dragon King who possessed the Dao patterns of the Four Imperial True Dragons, dividing its Dao patterns into nine, transforming them into the Dao patterns of the Nine Directions and Five Elders.

Su Qing also knew that there was a price to pay for using this method; otherwise, she could have used it earlier and there would have been no need to risk everything she had to resort to this tactic.

It's one thing to understand, another to not understand.

There's nothing we can do about it.

He had just used Xing Tian's Blood Axe to unleash a beam of axe light into this demonic mist, only to see that the crimson-black axe light, upon entering the mist, transformed into countless points of light, its power dissipating and disappearing. Instead, it fell onto the Qiu Niu Treasure Ship, becoming countless small axe patterns adorning its hull.

This is truly bizarre!

Even the might of the killing weapon Xing Tian Blood Axe can be broken down by it. If you rashly go in, wouldn't that be pure suicide?

When Su Qing was at a loss.

The Treasure Ship of the Prisoner Bull over there is still using the demonic mist to continuously strengthen itself.

Since the Su-Ji fleet clashed with the demons, the two sides have fought several rounds of battles. Countless undead demons and puppets have perished in this sea area. Originally, Su Qing thought that these things were things he needed to clean up after the battle. The puppet remains could be salvaged and repaired to make cheap puppets for sale. The resentment of the undead could also be exorcised by the merit wooden fish and transformed into Dao patterns or merits for his own use.

Right now, all of these things are being used by the evil Nine Holes.

The demonic mist, like the tentacles of a demon, relentlessly surged towards his location—more precisely, towards the nine dragon ships of Taotie, Pixiu, and others. Wherever it passed, the remains of puppets and the resentment of the dead filled the sea and the seabed. Even the omnipresent barrier mist of this desolate land could not escape its devouring power. The Qiuniu treasure ship, which was originally invisible within the demonic mist, gradually began to take shape as its size continued to expand, seemingly evolving from a treasure ship into a true azure dragon.

Based on reality, Su Qing understood that with his current abilities, he was no match for the incomprehensible demonic mist. He knew that the best course of action was to lead his team to retreat in another direction, rather than fight the demons to the death here.

But he was reluctant to give it up. He had used up all his savings for today's battle, and although the results were not bad, the biggest gain was still with the Nine Holes. The opportunity to combine the nine sons and advance to the True Dragon Puppet was right in front of him. If he missed this chance, and the Nine Holes were to escape from their cage and go outside to recover their strength and reorganize their army, he would have to face demons who were likely already at the sixth or even seventh rank, along with an army of demons of unknown size.

We can't beat them!
Let's go! I'm not willing to give up!
Just as Su Qing was frowning, clicking her tongue, and hesitating...

Xiong Er, leading the Demon God Legion and the Exorcist Legion, carrying the enormous head of the White-Headed Dragon Demon, landed beside him, bowed down, and said with a more solemn and earnest expression than before, his bald head shining brighter:
"The enemy is becoming increasingly arrogant and powerful. If you want to fight, do so as soon as possible; if you want to retreat, do so even faster. Do not hesitate any longer and miss the opportunity!"

"You also think you can't beat Xiong Er?" Su Qing asked.

"Forgive my bluntness, but my master is not even qualified to fight him. He is a peak fifth-tier demon, while my master is merely a fourth-tier demon. His fifth-tier strength is achieved through the Ghost God Mask, not through his own cultivation. He was able to kill those three demons before thanks to the power of the Xing Tian Blood Axe, but now the Xing Tian Blood Axe is ineffective against this demon. This demon's abilities far surpass those of the other three demons. With my master's abilities..."

Xiong Er shook his bald head and said something honest but unpleasant, suggesting that Su Qing should leave as soon as possible.

"If we leave now, we'll be handing over these dragon boats to this evil demon!"

Although Su Qing often prioritizes money over life, she fundamentally understands that external things are ultimately less important than one's own life.

This evil spirit regards the Nine Dragon Ships as something it must possess. Now that it has slipped away, if it takes these treasure ships with it, it will surely be hunted down to death by this evil spirit. If it wants to leave, it must leave these treasure ships behind. If this evil spirit obtains these Nine Dragon Ships, it may achieve the Four Imperial True Dragon Dao Patterns, and in the future, it will become even more powerful and difficult to control, and it is unknown how many living beings it will bring harm to.

This is all because my current strength is insufficient, so I cannot seize the best opportunity to eliminate this evil spirit. Instead, I have to painfully give it up, allowing the evil spirit to advance further.

Wrong!

But he still had to leave. Su Qing turned his head silently, leaving the exorcism corps to cover the rear. He put all the treasure ships except the Nine Dragon Ship into his storage bag, and with Xiong Er, Hu Dan and other puppets, he was about to ride the clouds and disappear into the distance.

There was a loud noise in the sky.

The two brothers who subdue dragons and tigers.

The Tong-Chang brothers are a formidable duo!
It soared majestically to the heavens, resembling a sacred, azure-blue dragon.

The ship's hull has been reshaped, making the Dragon Island Bixi even larger and more imposing.

These things, whose whereabouts were previously unknown.

At that moment, as if divine soldiers had descended from the heavens, they appeared before Su Qing.

This startled him, and his body, which had been about to flee, suddenly twisted around. He roared defiantly at the front:

“Xiong Er, Hu Dan, do not try to persuade me any further. I, Su Qing, was born between heaven and earth and have been blessed by heaven to have this good fortune today. Now that more than a hundred years have passed, heaven and earth have never treated me badly. How can I fail to live up to heaven and earth’s kindness? This evil demon has descended into the world and everyone has the right to kill it. Since I, Su Qing, am here, there is no reason for me to retreat.”

Although this battle is certain death, people are not afraid of death, so why should we risk it? But if I die, you can help me convey my three last wishes.

I passed on this to my true brother, Gao Erqiang, and entrusted him with the management of my puppet factory, shops, and related industries in the Xingtian Divine Kingdom. This is the last thing I did for my brother, and I only wish that he could use this opportunity to build many temples and make them prosperous.

The second bequest is to the righteous and noble Master Tong. Master Tong is both my teacher and friend. When I was in a lowly position, he helped me a lot. I have no way to repay him. After my death, all my shares in the far west can be handed over to Master Tong for management!

The third transmission was made to the immortal kingdoms of Thousand Islands and Desire Demon, spreading the puppet blueprints I created widely so that they could use them to create puppets such as Passion and Exorcism. This was my final contribution to this world!
This is my final instruction. You should all flee. I, Su Qing, am more than capable of dealing with this demon. Why waste so many lives? (End of Chapter)