Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Spiritual practice is a very serious matter.

Refining pills, crafting puppets, setting up formations, and drawing talismans all must follow the basic principles of the cultivation world—it is difficult to transcend your current cultivation level to attempt things of a higher level.

The task of refining a fifth-tier puppet from a fourth-tier Nascent Soul is extremely difficult, but everyone can understand it.

After all, every era has its geniuses. As long as you have the corresponding blueprints, study the core runes diligently, and refine the material according to the blueprints, you can succeed once or twice, even if you fail dozens or hundreds of times. If all else fails, you can do what Qian Xuzi did: sacrifice your father and use some unorthodox methods.

However, the prerequisite is that the blueprints are given by someone else, an ancient and powerful being, or at least a modern and powerful being with a broad perspective, using their wisdom that surpasses the fifth rank to analyze and study the abilities of the fifth-rank puppets, in order to create new blueprints for the fifth-rank puppets.

Copying is always harder than innovating!
To create a new type of fifth-order puppet is difficult even for ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarchs. You would need to be a sixth-order Void Refiner or a seventh-order Dao Lord to not be so surprising. That would be quite remarkable. In the myriad worlds, after countless years of accumulation, there are only a few dozen types of fifth-order puppets. This shows how difficult it is to create a new type of fifth-order puppet!

This is also why, when Su Qing was only a fourth-tier puppeteer, the myriad realms knew of his past achievements and did not question his title as the leader of the puppet world, but rather nodded in acknowledgment.

Because this grandson created too many new types of puppets: Tiger Egg, Bear Two, Spirit Explosion series, Exorcism series, Treasure Ship series, and Transformers series.

With such creativity, if he doesn't become the puppet master of all the heavens, then which puppeteer in all the heavens would dare to shamelessly claim the title of puppet master?

Qian Xuzi was shameless. He wanted to take advantage of defeating Su Qing on this stage to leverage his extensive network of connections accumulated over many years as the head of the Puppet Merchant Guild. He wanted to start a war of words between the two opposing cultivation philosophies, the Ancient Cult and the Innovative Cult. In this war of words, he hoped to gradually establish the title of the Puppet Master of the Heavens on his head, as the number one person in the Ancient Cult.

Now that Su Qing has taken out the new fifth-order puppet, Starry Chaos, Qian Xuzi clearly understands that he is dreaming!
That little rascal actually went so far as to innovate on fifth-tier puppets!
No! He had already innovated to the fifth-order puppet. After all, Tiger Egg and Bear Two now both possess fifth-order abilities, which is quite impressive. They stole the show at the Heroes' Assembly and are known to everyone.

But he didn't bring those two puppets with him, so it doesn't count. He hid Xingxiu Chaos well, so well that Qianxuzi didn't know anything about it before the competition, let alone what abilities it had. He could only pray that his old father puppet would be powerful enough to help him deal with this unruly, chicken-like, and scoundrel Xingxiu Chaos!
Qian Xuzi was filled with fear, and Dao Fa Tianjun was also in a state of panic.

It discovered that no matter what kind of magic it used, the chaotic star opposite it could disintegrate its attacks, as if it had the ability to redirect attacks elsewhere. However, it did not yet know the upper limit of what it could withstand, and it needed to try again.

"Earth Dragon Assault!"

"Tai Xuan Heavy Water Triple Strike!"

"Netherworld Purgatory Flame!"

Even the Daoist Heavenly Lord, whose power lies in Daoist magic, was somewhat out of breath after unleashing three Heavenly-level Daoist techniques in one breath.

Looking at the chaotic stars opposite, they remained completely unharmed, which sent chills down one's spine and made one prepare to surrender.

If you can't win, surrender!
Dao Fa Tian Jun, burdened by the moral constraints of being uncultivated, raised his hands high in surrender to Su Qing, while simultaneously turning to look at his master, Qian Xu Zi, who was encased in the Power God Puppet, with an extremely fierce gaze.

Upon seeing this, Qian Xuzi's head seemed to explode; he knew he was in deep trouble!

Because his last bit of control over the Daoist Heavenly Lord was erased just now, in the instant he briefly released his body's permissions in order to unleash its maximum power!

Without control of the puppet, it inevitably transformed into a malevolent entity.

The old father, Puppet, has become the evil old father, and the first person he wants to kill is his eldest son!
"Help me! Help me! I'll surrender, okay?!"

It's not terrible for a puppet to go out of control; what's terrible is when it goes out of control and turns evil. Qian Xuzi almost didn't hesitate and was about to surrender and admit defeat immediately. At this moment, he didn't care about the interests of all the heavens or the spoils afterward. Right now, he just wanted someone to help him get rid of this Daoist Heavenly Lord. No, now he wanted to get rid of this Daoist Evil Lord!
Unfortunately, as soon as he opened his mouth, the evil sorcerer used magic to disrupt the space around him, turning his plea for surrender into a series of quacking sounds like a quacking duck, which no one on or off the stage could hear clearly.

This made Qian Xuzi's hands and feet go cold. He could only recall the jar-shaped puppet and the red-fire horned sheep that he had just released, and then release three or four fourth-order puppets from his storage bag, trying to stop this evil lord of magic for a while and give him a chance to turn around and escape!

damn it!
I don't know which bastard designed this top ten arena, and set up a spatial array. The arena looks like it's only a hundred feet in diameter, but it's actually more than a thousand miles wide and long. Even if he had the God of Strength puppet carry him to escape for his life, it would still take more than ten breaths to get out of this octagonal cage!
boom! boom! boom!
The Daoist Evil Lord's Daoist techniques were useless against the Starry Chaos, but they were incredibly effective against the puppets released by Qian Xuzi. With three to five instant-cast Daoist techniques, he easily destroyed these puppets, allowing Su Qing to leisurely follow behind and scavenge for scraps. It didn't matter that they were destroyed; what he wanted to study were the runes on the puppets. But if he was given an opening, he could ensure that the sects and merchants who crafted these types of puppets would never again earn the high profits from monopolizing such puppets!

what!
In this serious battleground, it's undignified for you to be picking up trash here.
Are you kidding me?!
The puppets on the other side have gone out of control and started fighting with him. He's just picking up trash. How could he be as shameful as Qian Xuzi?

The person is the president of the All-Heavens Puppet Merchant Guild, and this is the quality of all-heavens puppeteers? Tsk tsk, even a puppeteer who has just entered the profession in Tianyuan understands that the first core element of making puppets is to ensure that the puppets do not go out of control!

The cultivators below the stage were indeed quite embarrassed at this moment.

They nominated Qian Xuzi to fire the first shot, thinking that as the president of the Puppet Merchant Guild, he was renowned and, with the support of their various sects' unique puppets, he would surely achieve a great victory and extinguish Su Qing's arrogance. However, they did not expect that he would make such a big mistake in front of all the heavens and myriad worlds!

To even think of victory in this battle is wishful thinking. The faces of all the Heavenly Puppet Masters have been utterly humiliated by Su Qing. But right now, the Eastern King Sect and several other sects aren't concerned with that. Instead, they're thinking: "No way! If we can't beat Qian Xuzi, why don't we surrender? With him doing this, he's going to ruin all of our sect's ancient god puppets. If he dies, so be it, but our Eastern King Sect has a limited number of fifth-tier puppets. If one is destroyed, who will compensate us for it?!"

"His spiritual sense is limited, and he can't control too many fifth-tier puppets. The ones my sect gave him were only fourth-tier jar puppets. It's not a big loss that they were lost, but Su Qing picked up the scrapped materials like they were treasures. Why do I feel so uneasy? My heart is pounding wildly, as if some disaster is about to happen!"

"We can't let this match continue. Announce it! Announce Su Qing as the winner! Let's end this farce quickly!"

"It's time to end this. I think there's something wrong with that Daoist Heavenly Lord; it seems to be more than just a matter of him being out of control!"

"Of course that's not right! Didn't you see that this puppet has become evil? Quickly summon the True Lords of all sects! Without them, who knows how much trouble this evil spirit will cause and how much shame it will bring to our heavens!"

The matter was botched!

Let's put aside the matter of finding someone to take the blame for now.

At this moment, the first reaction of all the cultivators in the heavens was to quickly help Qian Xuzi surrender, end the match as fast as possible, and then eliminate the evil Daoist Heavenly Lord with lightning speed.

All the cultivators in Tianyuan are watching. They, the cultivators of all heavens, flocked to Tianyuan under the pretext of assisting Tianyuan in eliminating demons and protecting the righteous path. The Heroes' Assembly was also held under this pretext. If it is discovered that they, the cultivators of all heavens, have created an evil spirit out of nothing, then it will be a huge joke. At the very least, in the Anti-Demon Alliance after the assembly, if the cultivators of Tianyuan seize on this point and attack them fiercely, the cultivators of all heavens will really have no say and will have their status and interests in the alliance swallowed up by them.

On the arena, the divine referee from Penglai Immortal Kingdom, having received a hint from the cultivators below, hurriedly prepared to announce the result of the match. If you were to ask him, as a deity of Penglai, why he had sided with the other heavens, you would hear the hint from the cultivators below. It wasn't that Penglai had no bottom line and sided with the other heavens; rather, it was that he himself was the one who most wanted to end this match!
Just now, Su Qing and Qian Xuzi had a fierce puppet battle. Although the commotion was huge and the strength was great, it left Su Qing in awe. However, Su Qing's divine power gradually diminished as he watched, and he realized that he was no match for either of them. But so what? He was not afraid at all. As the referee of the competition, he was the king on the stage. The puppets of both sides had to fight around him and dared not hurt him in the slightest.

But isn't Dao Fa Xie Jun out of control? If he's out of control, he'll even beat up his master. It's perfectly reasonable for him to beat up the referee, since it's life-threatening. It's not that he's afraid as a god; it's just that he's only doing this referee job for three to five thousand spirit stones. It's not worth risking his life against an out-of-control puppet.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized that his throat felt like someone else's, and the words that came out were so infuriating and despairing!

"Both sides still have puppets standing on the stage and are still capable of fighting. The match shall proceed as normal. Before both sides' puppets are destroyed, no one is allowed to interfere with the match or disrupt its fairness!"

Ah, that's not what I said!
No, that's not what I meant!
The divine judge was desperate. He knew he was being controlled, but what could he do? He knew nothing about who did it, how it was done, or whether he could be stopped. He only knew that he had just experienced a jolt and lost control of his body.

Although he had regained control, he would immediately shudder whenever he had the thought of announcing the start of the match. This constant shuddering made him feel like he was doing something that children shouldn't see on the stage, so he simply stopped resisting. He knew that someone didn't want the match to end and wanted to see Qian Xuzi continue to embarrass himself!

Go ahead and stir things up, stir things up as much as you want, stir up the arena into chaos, stir up evil spirits to cause bloodshed, stir up this gathering of heroes into a joke, and you'll be satisfied!

The divine referee silently walked to a corner of the arena, found a safe spot, and then sat down with a mix of trepidation and excitement to watch the events unfold on the stage!
It's truly a time of great upheaval!
After dealing with a few minor puppets, the Evil Lord of Daoist Arts rushed to the Power God Puppet and unleashed a barrage of Daoist arts upon it.

The Power God Puppet and the Qian Xuzi inside it would not sit idly by and wait for their death. Seeing that they could not escape, they went close and used the advantages of close combat puppets to punch and kick, which made a series of crisp bangs on the Daoist Evil Lord's protective spiritual shield.

Then there was Qian Xuzi, who was completely indifferent to the outcome of the competition. He took out all sorts of magical artifacts and treasures that were forbidden in the competition, including spirit beasts and insects, a jade bowl the size of a pot lid with its rim tilted to spill a huge torrent of black water, a palm-sized bib that emitted a mesmerizing fragrance and transformed into a seven-colored illusion, locusts as big as calves, swarms of them, and a giant ape with a red back and white chest that roared to the sky.

As the head of the Puppet Merchant Guild, Qian Xuzi dared not say that he had made any great contribution to the development of the Puppet Dao of the Heavens, but the benefits he gained from this position were more than other fifth-tier puppeteers could earn in several lifetimes.

With many treasures and ample means, he disregarded public opinion in order to survive and unleashed them all. Ideally, they would help the divine puppet defeat his evil father, but if not, at least this foul would stop the match and allow the True Lords of the Heavens below to get involved and escape his suffering!

"Hey! The Puppet Merchant Guild Master is indeed worthy of his reputation. These Jade Bowl Puppet, Bellyband Puppet, Locust Puppet, and Giant Ape Puppet are all new types of puppets created by the senior. Today, you are demonstrating their power on your own puppets. Are you giving this junior a lesson to broaden his horizons? I am greatly shocked and deeply impressed. I will definitely observe carefully and live up to the senior's painstaking efforts!"

Su Qing spoke up immediately, blatantly lying and insisting on classifying the magical artifacts, spirit beasts, and insects that Qian Xuzi had brought out as puppets.

Do you want to intentionally foul and stop the game?
nonexistent!

He got the bad guys to control the referees, and now all the referees are his people, all so that the game can continue!

The current situation is both encouraging and threatening. Qian Xuzi, representing all the heavens, has been making a fool of himself. The puppets and magical artifacts on his body will all become his spoils of war. What he wants most is the Power God Puppet on his body and that Evil Daoist Lord!
Of course, he wasn't in a hurry to take action. He needed to let the Evil Lord of Daoist Arts settle his scores first, and deal with his eldest son so that all his treasures would become ownerless. Only then would it be the right time for Su Qing to ruthlessly exorcise the evil.

Since he, the person involved in the match, had no objections, and the referee on the field was on his side, even though Qian Xuzi on the stage and all the cultivators in the heavens below were extremely anxious, this match, which should have ended long ago, continued in a bizarre manner.

The cultivators watched helplessly as the Evil Lord of Daoist Arts broke through all of Qian Xuzi's techniques one by one. Su Qing remained unmoved, saying he would observe carefully, and quietly watched from the side. Meanwhile, more and more little yellow figures emerged from his storage bag, busily working away. The meeting of the Divine Flowing Silver and the Two-Headed Dragon God, and the Thunderstorm Dragon's ultimate move, were still silently accumulating energy! (End of Chapter)