Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 52: Heavenly Spirit Gold

According to Qinghe's needs, she wanted the sword embryo to function on its own when she was unable to activate it herself.

The first thing Su Qing thought of was a combination of flight runes, speed runes, intelligence runes, and combat runes.

Soar through the air on your sword, autonomously search for enemies, and teleport away in all directions for a thrilling battle!
This was the magic sword puppet he had envisioned for himself earlier.

Even before Heiwa appeared, he already knew that with his spiritual root aptitude, he could never dream of fighting with a sword like a normal warrior cultivator in this lifetime.

But he can't control the sword. The puppet can drive itself. Who says a magic sword has to be controlled by a cultivator? It's not like the magic sword can't bomb on its own.
But the reason he hasn't implemented it is...

One reason is that the sword blanks for magic swords are too expensive.

One reason is that he oversimplified things!

The Flying Rune is a superior rune, similar to the Bionic Rune.

The key point is that the inheritance of this rune did not spread to Baiyun Market!
Even a skilled cook can't cook without rice; without the corresponding skills and knowledge, he couldn't even achieve the required proficiency.

Among the puppets generated by the panel, none of them require the Flying Rune, so his path of increasing puppet proficiency in reverse order is also blocked.

Without the flight runes, it is naturally impossible to forge a magic sword puppet.

Currently, this Fire Spirit Sword Embryo is more than ten times heavier than an ordinary magic sword. To make it take off on its own, it requires a second-tier flight rune.

The reason why the magic sword is so powerful is its speed, which can come and go in an instant and dominate the world.

To make this sword blank, the size of a door panel, possess a sword speed that leaves the enemy unable to react, and to gain power enhanced by speed.

The requirements for Swift Runes are even higher than those for Sky Runes; second-tier runes are barely acceptable, and only third-tier runes meet the requirements.

Su Qing, who was completely unfamiliar with these two types of runes, had no choice but to abandon this approach.

Since the celestial overlord cannot do it, then we can only let it roam the ground.

Once you get your thoughts flowing smoothly, inspiration comes like a floodgate opening, impossible to stop.

"It's really strange to let a sword jump around and slash people on its own. We must give it legs first!"
"Let's go with the Azure Steel Legs. The materials Manager Liu had me work with to familiarize myself with them are still gathering dust in my storage bag. Making these legs for our own people for the first time is just me returning the favor!"

We've already installed legs, should we also install hands?

Su Qing stroked her chin, pondered for a moment, and decided to temporarily refrain from using her hands.

To acquire the puppet, he must first master the Dual-Hand Technique. This puppet is a second-tier puppet, and if he doesn't reach the peak of Qi Refining, his body will become weak after just one attempt.

If you want to accumulate enough proficiency to unlock it, Qinghe might die on Black Tiger Mountain. In that case, should this puppet offer incense to her with its own hands?

Even without hands, you can't let the steel legs carry the sword blank and charge around aimlessly; that would lack variety.

Su Qing thought of using the highly elastic and ductile Heavenly Spirit Gold to make a spring device, and use this spring to connect the Green Steel Leg and the Sword Embryo.

At that time, the Fire Spirit Sword Embryo will dance using springs, allowing it to attack enemies in all directions.

"Let's leave the main structure like this for now. As for runes, smart runes are a must, otherwise we won't be able to distinguish friend from foe and we'll just start hacking away indiscriminately, which would be a huge joke!"

He is now very familiar with second-order intelligent runes and has no problems with them.

"Battle runes are also needed. Second-tier battle runes can make one like a battle-hardened warrior, able to deal with all kinds of complex problems on the battlefield!"

Let's equip it with bionic runes too. Although it doesn't have hands, since it has legs, it can be considered a humanoid creature. Let it fight like a human!

Fire runes are also essential. The sword embryo is a rare fire-attribute material. Although I can't fully unleash its material properties like a weapon refiner, adding fire runes will at least stimulate the fire energy within it!

After thinking for a moment, Su Qing decided that since it was a rare opportunity to take on such a large order, she shouldn't worry about what runes the puppet needed. She should just equip it with whatever runes she knew how to use and that would be useful.

"Anyway, this sword is big enough, there's plenty of space to draw runes!"

Su Qing knew perfectly well that Qinghe and Matuan were the main forces in the battle of Black Tiger Mountain. Adding strength to them was adding strength to herself, at least for now.

Therefore, besides the huge reward he might receive after the puppet was completed, this was one of the reasons why he devoted himself to crafting this puppet for Qinghe.

Once the refining process was clear, Su Qing immediately began drawing up blueprints and preparing materials.

Besides needing to visit the Baibao Shop to get the Heavenly Spirit Silk, some materials for preparing the talisman water also need to be prepared.

Upon arriving at the Treasure Pavilion, he learned that these materials were for making puppets for himself.

With a wave of her hand, Qinghe took the precious Heavenly Spirit Gold from Tong Xin and stuffed it all into Su Qing's hands. This gold was meant to be a limited supply for Su Qing.

"Fellow Daoist Qing, you can't do this! Heavenly Spirit Gold is a second-grade spiritual material. The shopkeeper only allocated about a hundred catties to our small shop. If you give it all to Fellow Daoist Su, what will we use to sell to those weapon refiners when they come knocking on our door in the future!"

High-grade materials are a means for large shops to attract VIP customers, and they are usually supplied in limited quantities. It is perfectly normal for Tong Xin to be crying and begging for help at this moment.

In fact, Su Qing only wanted a little over ten kilograms, but since Qinghe was going to give them all to him, how could he refuse? He could only open his storage bag and accept them with a smile.

"Just deduct it from my wages. I can handle this kind of thing!"

After Su Xiao left, Qinghe saw Tong Xin looking worried and like a timid wife, and frowned. Tong Xin glanced at her, her face even more bitter, "Where are you going to get your wages deducted? That Fire Spirit Sword Embryo already deducted all your wages from the past two years. The wages for this mission, just from the pills you take every day, aren't enough to cover the deductions. Over a hundred catties of Heavenly Spirit Gold is worth almost twenty thousand spirit crystals. Where are you going to find wages to deduct from?"

"Then let's put it in the book first, and we'll have enough to deduct after we finish this trip!"

After saying this, Qinghe lazily reclined on the chair, leisurely reading the Taoist manual, while Tong Xin silently shed tears.

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The forward camp is about eighty li ahead.

At the junction of a group of low hills, groups of cultivators each occupied a section of the hill, setting up formations against the mountains and setting up iron chains and fences to guard against attacks by demonic beasts.

The wind howls here, and people feel uneasy.

At the slightest disturbance, the cultivators on each of the low hills reacted instinctively, drawing their magical weapons and swords and nervously looking around.

Compared to the forward camp where Su Qing was located.

This is the true front line of the battlefield where we face the monsters head-on.

Every day and night, every hour, there is a possibility of being attacked by monsters.

Blood stained the low hills, the earth, and the eyes of these rogue cultivators.

They are like wild beasts now, frenzied, hot-blooded, and ready to die at any moment.

This was also a choice made by the independent cultivators fighting on the front lines themselves.

Originally, they went to actively search for monsters, but chasing monsters not only consumed time and energy, but the battles that broke out in the wild were sudden and swift, and they might die on the spot if they were not careful.

After they discovered that the monsters loved to claim mountains as their own, they each chose a low mountain and waited for the monsters to come to them.

It is worth mentioning that during this process, the disciples stationed at Yunshan Sect actually took the initiative to send someone to set up a second-tier low-grade array for them, called the Thunderfire Array. If a demon beast enters it, it can be struck by thunder and fire.

This further fueled the enthusiasm of the independent cultivators to occupy the low hills, and the low hills that formed a continuous area within the second-order thunder and fire array were referred to by the cultivators as the low hill defense line.

Within the low mountain defense line, most of the units consist of a small team of several independent cultivators who know each other well, and then dozens of small groups unite to defend a low mountain.

Only four teams are capable of holding a mountain by themselves.

The Bear King team, led by Tang Wanqing, is one of them.

As the setting sun cast its last rays, Tang Wanqing packed the corpses of the demonic beasts she had slain that day into her storage bag.

Then they hand them over to the market's special group of people who come to collect demonic beasts, and exchange them for pills, magical artifacts, and other items at high prices.

He took the pills and distributed them to several sisters who were injured that day, and handed a mid-grade first-level magic weapon to a tall female cultivator who had made significant contributions in the battle that day.

After finishing all this, Tang Wanqing walked into her spirit house, extremely exhausted.

Compared to the bathtubs that used to be filled with flower petals, these bathtubs now contain only cold mountain spring water.

As soon as Tang Wanqing soaked in the tub, the demon blood on her body turned the entire tub crimson.

Despite the repulsive smell of blood, Tang Wanqing's face revealed a weariness she dared not easily show in public.

Compared to other teams with clear division of labor and many talented members, the Bear King team is almost entirely supported by her alone.

Apart from Sun Yan, whose combat strength was decent, the other female cultivators, even when united, could at most deal with a low-grade first-order demon beast.

This is not their fault; they were never in the business of such dangerous and risky ventures.

The reason why Tang Wanqing insisted on leading everyone to fight here was because...

It was because she knew that the days of peacefully running a prostitution business in Baiyunfang were long gone.

The Demon Kingdom's army has besieged Yunluo City, and the city even needs the surrounding markets to continuously supply them with monster meat and other materials.

It is easy to imagine how dire the situation is in Yunluo City. If Yunluo City falls, the remaining troops will have no choice but to retreat to Baiyun Market and other surrounding markets.

At that time, Baiyunfang will have to face the attack of the Desire Demon Immortal Kingdom.

At this time, when monsters descended from the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, Tang Wanqing couldn't believe it was a coincidence.

In chaotic times, people are as worthless as grass, and the female cultivators under her command will have an even harder time.

If we don't take advantage of this time when the monsters come down from the mountain to earn more spirit crystals and improve our skills, we don't know how miserable our lives will be later.

"If we can gather another 30,000 spirit crystals, we can try to buy Foundation Establishment Pills at the auction. Killing another eleven or twelve first-tier demonic beasts will be enough!"
The witch puppets placed in the market have been earning spirit crystals in a steady stream recently. I heard from Fellow Daoist Niu that Fellow Daoist Su has also arrived at the front-line camp.

It's a pity I can't get away right now, otherwise, I could easily buy a few more witch puppets from Fellow Daoist Su. As for the lizard warrior, I simply can't afford it."

Tang Wanqing murmured to herself, and before she knew it, her head was nestled around the edge of the bathtub, and she had fallen asleep.

(End of this chapter)