Immortality begins with meditation puppets

"Snapped!"

It was the armor plates of the Power God Puppet that were blasted off by the Five Thunder Daoist Technique of the Evil Daoist Lord.

"Oh!"

It was the mournful cry of the mighty puppet flying dozens of miles backwards and crashing to the ground.

"what!"

It was Qian Xuzi who was so scared that he wet his pants and shouted a distress signal!

It was obvious to everyone that the Power God Puppet was no match for the Evil Lord of Daoist Arts without the help of Qian Xuzi's magical artifacts and treasures; it could only be beaten badly by him.

This is not the fault of the Hercules Puppet.

First of all, it was not at its peak. One reason was that it had lost half of its energy and was seriously injured in the previous entanglement with Su Qing's puppet. The other reason was that Qian Xuzi was old and weak and could not support its full power output. Otherwise, as the proud puppet of the Dongwang Sect, it would not have been suppressed by this evil lord of magic.

Secondly, this Daoist evil lord, who transforms into an evil spirit, is very wicked. Not only does he possess the ability to be a puppet, but he can also use the fifth-order fire source embedded in his chest by Qian Xuzi to provide energy, allowing him to cast Daoist spells instantly without any worries. He also has all sorts of evil arts and demonic powers of a fifth-order evil spirit at his disposal. Dealing with him is no easier than dealing with a fifth-order evil spirit and a fifth-order puppet working together at the same time. It's not shameful to lose in a two-on-one fight!

Defeat was imminent. Qian Xuzi was terrified and dared not continue fighting. He placed his hopes on Su Qing, who was watching from the sidelines, in an attempt to divert the blame.

Didn't you not want the game to end?

Then you'll experience the power and evil of this sorcerer!
Driven to the brink and with no other options, Qian Xuzi signaled the Power God Puppet to flee at full speed toward Su Qing.

However, Su Qing was not unprepared for this.

Just now.

He himself was watching the show, while the puppets were all busy at work.

The Exorcism Legion, in the form of an army group, is ready for battle.

Millions of tiny yellow figures, arranged in their usual training formations, spread out like a yellow carpet on a fighting stage. Each person carried a short gun, some lying down, some kneeling, with the muzzles of their guns pointed at the direction of the Evil Lord of the Dao and the Puppet of the God of Strength, ready to fire at any moment.

Surrounding the tiny yellow man were mixed smaller yellow men, each about the length and thickness of a child's arm. They didn't hold exorcising pistols, but rather individual rocket launchers custom-made for them by Su Qing, capable of instantly firing lightning snakes. Occasionally, a few genetically mutated smaller yellow men, who were a size larger than their companions and possessed the imposing presence of Tier 3, even had rocket launchers installed on the ground, patting their little chests, excitedly preparing to fire a shot.

The larger and smaller yellow men behind them were no different in size from humans, each a burly man about eight feet tall. They were armored soldiers, driving armored vehicles transformed from Transformers puppets, and erecting cylindrical exorcising missile puppets, constantly calibrating the target's position, striving to kill with a single shot and send it to the sky.

Another rumbling sound came from the sky. The cultivators below looked up and saw that what was coming were helicopter puppets, no bigger than a human hand, powered by spirals. These puppets were also a weakened version of Transformers. Su Qing, with the mentality of making use of waste, refined some scraps of ore that could not be sold for a high price into puppets. He was so stingy that he did not even spare the creation runes (bionic, intelligent). He used the Minions as pilots to make up for the lack of air strike power for the exorcism army. Of course, don't expect these helicopter puppets to have any striking power. They were only equipped with a first-level spirit explosion fire cannon, which was operated by a Minion gunner.

The number of helicopter puppets was enormous, like a locust swarm passing through, which looked terrifying, but the damage was only so-so. Su Qing's real air force was still circling at a great height.

That was an aerial mothership battle group composed of fifth-tier Pengtian Armored Puppets.

With Tianpeng Zhenren serving as the model and offering his Tianpeng essence blood and Tianpeng feathers free of charge as materials for puppet making, Su Qing lived up to expectations and crafted two fifth-order Pengtian Armor Puppets.

One of them was brought back to the Myriad Demon Kingdom by the meritorious Tianpeng Zhenren, who had worked tirelessly for a century in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, even contributing materials and spirit stones. Along with him, dozens of fourth-tier Pengtian Armor Puppets and countless low-tier Pengtian Armor Puppets were also taken away. In any case, Tianpeng Zhenren's life essence was drained and his feathers were plucked for these goods. The good stuff that the Tianpeng clan had accumulated over the years was also completely consumed. But Su Qing had done right by him. The Pengtian Armor Puppets he gave him were enough to arm the entire Peng clan, allowing the Peng clan's status in the Myriad Demon Kingdom to rise sharply. They no longer had to be mindful of the Winged Tiger clan's feelings. However, they still had to be mindful of the Green Lion clan's feelings, because the White-Faced Green Lion King had been trading with Su Qing all these years. He sent batches of Golden-Haired Lion brothers to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. The Void Lion Puppets accumulated by the Green Lion clan were almost enough to form an army.

Regardless of whether Tianpeng Zhenren gained or lost, let's just look at the Pengtian Armor Puppet that Su Qing left for himself.

As we all know, export versions are all downgraded versions; the ones kept for our own use are the real gems.

Compared to the one taken by Tianpeng Zhenren, his Pengtian Armor Puppet not only had over a hundred new fourth-tier spirit explosion flame cannons and several Sky Tyrant Puppets capable of high-altitude delivery and precise strikes, but also carried twenty-four fourth-tier Pengtian Puppets and dozens of fourth-tier flying dragon puppets on its internal platform. In addition, the fourth-tier star-orbit shield ships patrolling around it were also extraordinary, all equipped with star-orbit magic cannons that he had stolen from Penglai. These cannons could fire millions of shots per second, forming a dense firepower network that would obliterate any incoming magic attacks ten thousand feet in front of the ship, serving as escort ships for the Pengtian Armor Puppet to protect the mothership from being directly attacked.

Without being immodest, his newly built aerospace fleet has the ability to destroy a Nascent Soul sect. Any Nascent Soul True Monarch would have a headache if they encountered it. However, due to the needs of the battle, the Pengtian mothership used concealment runes to cover up the aura of the entire fleet so that cultivators from all realms on the ground would not be able to detect it.

Even though the aerospace fleet has not been exposed, the exorcism army he has just displayed has already opened the eyes of all cultivators in the heavens.

"God, please open your eyes! Why do you favor that beast Su Qing so much? I am also a young talent who upholds the five virtues and four beauties and punishes evil and promotes good. I also want God to give me a special favor!"

"That damn mine owner is really making money! This puppet army has more women than I've ever slept with!"

"These exorcising dolls aren't worth much, but with so many of them, even the cheapest dolls become valuable. However, shouldn't we be more surprised by Su Qing's divine sense?"

"No, this can't be true. A fourth-tier Nascent Soul cultivator controlling a group of fifth-tier puppets and several fourth-tier puppets with his divine sense is already beyond reason. Where would he get the divine sense spare to control an entire army of puppets!" "Damn! What's there to compare? Putting aside his ability to create puppets, just his terrifying divine sense alone is unmatched by any puppeteer below the sixth tier in all the realms!"

The limitations on a puppeteer's combat power are twofold: wealth and resources, and personal spiritual consciousness.

Sufficient resources are essential to accumulating enough puppets. This has been a major constraint for Su Qing in the past, since everyone knows he is fast-handed and famous for his puppet-making skills. It's just a pity that the limited resources of spirit stones restrict his strength; otherwise, he would have created many army groups long ago.

Only after he ascended to the throne of the Kaiyuan Kingdom, possessing the best mineral resources in the Tianyuan Realm, or even the myriad realms, and with the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's booming trade that constantly earned foreign exchange, could he finally go all out and unleash the full potential of his puppet-making skills.

Only those with strong personal spiritual sense can control more puppets. Normally, a puppeteer needs 30% to 50% less spiritual sense to control the puppets they have created compared to others. If the puppet is one that they have developed and created themselves, the spiritual sense required can be reduced to 10% to 20%. But even with less spiritual sense, spiritual sense is still required. For example, Qian Xuzi, as a Nascent Soul Peak True Person, has cultivated spiritual sense secret techniques for many years. After controlling the borrowed Power God Puppet, he can only control a few more fourth-order puppets.

Did he not have any other puppets in his storage bag? Of course he did. He's become so wealthy over the years, how could he have fewer puppets? In terms of wealth, Su Qing was at most a nouveau riche from the countryside compared to him. But why couldn't he use the same mass troop tactic as Su Qing to overwhelm his father's puppet? Wasn't it because his divine sense was limited? He had many puppets, but no way to use them!
In contrast, Su Qing, while controlling fourth- and fifth-tier puppets such as Starry Chaos, Divine Silver, and Two-Headed Dragon God, was still able to support the consumption of this army of puppets. Just how terrifying was the strength of his divine sense? It can only be said that even a Nascent Soul True Monarch could not compare to it.

This fact terrified all those in the heavens and all those who cultivated.

They used to only focus on Su Qing's creativity, and also on his mastery of the Creation Runes, which made him more likely than ordinary puppeteers to create puppets with independent consciousness and self-growth capabilities.

As for how strong his combat power is using puppets, all the major sects in the heavens are unimpressed. Puppetry is not a trivial matter; all sects attach great importance to it and have passed it down through generations. Which sect does not have high-level puppeteers in charge? Fifth-level puppeteers like Su Qing are not to be underestimated, but there are definitely a dozen or twenty of them. No matter how powerful you are, my dozen or so puppeteers can still wipe you out. But now it seems that it is not necessarily so. Judging from the strength of this guy's spiritual sense, the number of puppets he can control is enough to go toe-to-toe with more than ten puppeteers of the same level!
No amount of words can compare to the deterrence of force.

Given that cultivators of the sixth and seventh ranks are not allowed to travel in the Tianyuan Realm, Su Qing and the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom he rules have a combat strength that exceeds their expectations. This is not as Qian Xuzi had previously claimed, that they, the beings of the heavens, can come and go as they please in the Tianyuan Realm!
All the cultivators were speechless, and Qianxuzi was also speechless.

His plan to shift the blame eastward was thwarted the moment the exorcism army launched an indiscriminate attack on the Power God Puppet and the Evil Lord of Taoism from both above and below.

Short guns and long cannons flew haphazardly on the ground, along with missiles and rockets.

Helicopters in the sky, emitting blue flames and red light, unleashed their firepower.

The mighty puppet, which had been trying to flee in panic and disregard everything, found that it was taking more damage than it had done in its battle against the evil sorcerer after charging under the fire for a while. It immediately had the idea of ​​retreating.

While it was badly injured, the Daoist Evil Lord behind it fared even worse. The Exorcism Army was professionally dedicated to exorcising evil spirits; other damage was secondary, with exorcism damage being the most prominent. As an evil spirit, even with the Powerful God Puppet shielding it from much of the fire, the Daoist Evil Lord was still heavily targeted. The fire source on its chest flickered, a sign that its protective spiritual shield was about to collapse. However, its hatred stemmed from Qian Xuzi, and after transforming into an evil being, killing this person was its primary obsession. Therefore, even with the heavy damage from the fire, it relentlessly pursued the Powerful God Puppet!
Under these circumstances, if Qian Xuzi were to risk his life and take a gamble by leading the Daoist Evil Lord in circles within the range of the Exorcism Army's firepower, he might still have a sliver of hope.

But is he willing to take the gamble?
He was gambling with his own life to see whether the puppet of the God of Strength would collapse first under the combined attack of the Exorcism Army and the Evil Lord of Taoism, or whether his father, the Evil Lord, would disintegrate and dissipate before him under the artillery fire of the Exorcism Army.
Qian Xuzi made his decision quickly. He was the president of the Puppet Merchant Guild, with beautiful concubines and a house full of children and grandchildren. It was the perfect time for him to enjoy a life of leisure. How could he gamble his life with someone so casually!

As he commanded the powerful puppet to turn and flee, escaping the artillery fire of the exorcism army, he suddenly made a ruthless decision and used his puppet master authority to put all his puppets on the arena into standby mode.

Thus, all the puppets came to a standstill!
This tournament probably has no chance of continuing!
The moment its true form emerged from the wooden-stake-like puppet of the God of Strength, it ran towards the edge of the arena, heading in the direction of the divine referee.

"I've surrendered! I've used up all my puppets! Quickly announce the end of the match and let the True Lord from the audience come up and save the day!!!"

"Don't come any closer! What are you throwing at! Didn't you release this Daoist Heavenly Lord? As long as it keeps running, the competition can't stop!"

The divine referee, his face pale, stared at Qian Xuzi and Dao Fa Tianjun, who was relentlessly pursuing him, his face contorted and elongated, gradually losing its human form and turning into an evil spirit. He felt as if he had been cursed for eight lifetimes to be assigned to be the referee in this match!
The referee seemed to have lost his mind; he knew perfectly well that Dao Fa Tian Jun had become the evil old father, yet he still refused to declare the match over.

This drove Qian Xuzi to utter despair, and he shouted to the assembled cultivators watching the spectacle below:
"Fellow Daoists, I have rendered meritorious service to you all, I have shared the spoils with you all, and I have not taken a single benefit from you over the years. Today, this old Daoist is in dire straits. I beg you all to consider our past relationship and save this old Daoist!"

He dared to say it, but no one else dared to listen.

Even the True Lords who were originally prepared to risk breaking the rules of the conference and being held accountable by the conference committee to save the old Taoist's life now turned their heads away and dared not lend a helping hand!

"With this level of intelligence, how did Qian Xuzi manage to become the head of the Puppet Merchant Guild? Taking bribes, extorting money, and splitting the spoils are things that any head of the All Heavens Hundred Arts Merchant Guild would do. But doing it quietly is fine, but saying it out loud will only make people hate you. If you say it like that, who would dare to lend you a hand? If they did, wouldn't that confirm that they're colluding with you?"

"Anyway, I won't save him. Of course, it's not because I'm afraid of being implicated or misunderstood as having some dirty deal with him. In fact, I don't know him at all. After his second daughter married me, she lost contact with him. I know nothing about his shady dealings. I won't save him simply because I don't want to break the rules of the event!"

"That's right! The competition isn't over yet. What kind of behavior would it be if we interfered? This Qian Xuzi is too ruthless. He's probably deliberately letting us interfere so he can blame his own defeat on our interference!"

We must not fall for his evil tricks!

"Of course! On the arena, life and death are decided by fate. Even if he dies on the arena, it has nothing to do with us!"

"It's good that he's dead, it's better that he's dead!"

"Then the position of Puppet Merchant Guild Master will be vacant. Fellow Daoist Liu of the Eastern King Sect, would you be interested? Our Qixia Sect is willing to support Fellow Daoist Liu in taking the position..."

"Let's discuss it again, let's discuss it again!" (End of Chapter)