Immortality begins with meditation puppets

You can't rely on fair-weather friends!
Only an old father will hold you in his arms as he did when you were a child.

The fate of Qian Xuzi, who was not young anymore, was sealed the moment he was abandoned by all the cultivators in the heavens.

The old father, Xie, held her waist with both hands, and amidst her mournful howls, she gradually merged into Xie's body.

Throughout the myriad realms and among countless cultivators in Tianyuan, both present and absent, various real-time live-streaming tools such as image-recording talismans and viewing stones witnessed the scene where the puppet merchant guild leader, elected by the myriad realms, was completely devoured by his puppet.

The scene was brutal and horrifying, but what terrified all cultivators in all realms even more was...

If all the puppet merchant guild leaders chosen by the heavens are like this, then are all the various staff members working within these guilds also just incompetent and useless? Besides the puppet merchant guild, what about the other guilds, such as the pill guild, the formation guild, and the magic weapon guild? Are they all like this?
"Damn it, I knew they were incompetent, all they did was inspect and collect taxes!"

"Su Qing was right before, what is the Chamber of Commerce President!"

"In the past, communication between the various worlds was inconvenient, requiring management and planning by various chambers of commerce to mediate conflicts. Now, with the Tianyuan Grand Stage, if you have goods, just come. With the Tianyuan Realm as the central hub of the various worlds, everyone can directly source and sell goods without having to be mindful of the chambers of commerce. If all else fails, you can find an agent in Tianyuan, just like the Chixian Realm, and let them help sell the goods. I've asked around, and we are only responsible for supplying the goods; sales are entirely their responsibility. Whether they can sell the goods or not doesn't affect our ability to collect payments."

"The Zhutian Chamber of Commerce is indeed ruthless. Every time we ship goods through their channels, we not only have to bribe a bunch of bloodsuckers, but they also take 30% of our profits. In this respect, it's really not as good as Su Ji Group finding a distributor!"

"Those of you who want to do this business should register with Su Ji Group as soon as possible. They will review your qualifications and you will also need to open a fund account with Xiong Er Qianzhuang to facilitate future payment settlements!"

Disguised as cultivators from all heavens, with their necks held high, like the proud white swan Li Hailang, Niu Shisan and other veteran employees of Su Ji Group faithfully fulfilled the sacred mission entrusted to them by the group.

While his own boss on stage was utterly humiliated and made a fool of himself, causing cultivators from all realms to question the All-Heavens Chamber of Commerce, he kept instigating and provoking various forces to bypass the All-Heavens Chamber of Commerce and reach a trade agreement with Su's Group.

Success is happening both on and off stage; the situation is both encouraging and challenging.

The good thing is that Qian Xuzi died a worthy death, and the explosion of his storage bags allowed Su Qing to pick up a huge bargain. It's just a pity that most of the old man's wealth was in the sect of this realm, so it won't benefit him.

What's truly infuriating is that after that evil sorcerer annihilated his patricide and rebellious son, he didn't know what was good for him. Instead of dissipating on his own, he lifted his feet off the ground, his body transforming into evil light, attempting to escape this human cultivator's territory in full view of everyone and go outside to live a carefree and happy life.

The Heroes' Gathering is meant to reconcile internal conflicts among human cultivators and prepare for establishing a united front against demons. For a human cultivator to create a man-made evil spirit in front of everyone on such an occasion would be incredibly embarrassing, causing the tournament committee to lose face. If this evil spirit were to escape, the Heroes' Gathering should probably be canceled altogether, as no one can afford to lose face like that!

As a member of the competition committee and the organizer of the event, Su Qing has the responsibility and obligation to kill this evil spirit on the spot, restore the face that Qian Xuzi had lost, and maintain the authority of the competition.

Without any hesitation, exorcising evil spirits was his specialty.

An entire exorcism army, countless Minions, opened fire simultaneously, while the machine gunners on the helicopter puppet excitedly sprayed blue light rain from their Spirit Burst Fire Cannons.

The firepower of an army group is not to be underestimated, even by a fifth-order Great Evil. Especially since this Daoist Evil Lord had already experienced the baptism of artillery fire, he dared not linger in this firepower net and only wanted to run for his life.

As for turning around and teaching those little yellow men, who were at most third-tier and could be easily defeated by a fifth-tier evil spirit, it had no intention of doing so.

Because the star Chaos is the guardian deity of the Minions, with it blocking their way, any attack will be neutralized and cannot harm the Minions.

Only by escaping can we find a way out!

Under the barrage of gunfire, the Great Evil was only concerned with escaping for his life. The little yellow people were jumping up and down in a panic, but their short legs were simply no match for the terrifying speed of the fifth-tier Great Evil. The helicopter puppet's propellers spun out sparks, and the armored vehicles sped out like lightning, but they could only watch helplessly as it got further and further away.

This is precisely the time for the True Lords of the various sects below the stage to play their role.

But they remained calm and did not rush to make a move.

Clearly, they had already discovered Su Qing's actions of using villains to control the referees and employing various means to prevent the match from being stopped.

Since Su Qing didn't want them to get involved earlier, they have no reason to rush into it now.

During the conference, the four borders of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom are guarded by Nascent Soul True Monarchs to prevent external evil spirits and demons from interfering with the conference. Even if the Evil Daoist Monarch escapes from the Western City, he will definitely not be able to escape the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

As for how much damage it caused to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's industries and destroyed the buildings they had painstakingly built during this period, that's not something these Heavenly True Lords need to worry about!
Su Qing is the one who needs to worry, but he says everything is under control!
Just as the Daoist Evil Lord, who had just escaped the arena and fled a thousand miles away, rolled his eyes and prepared to land on the ground, find an unlucky person to possess, so that the person could lie in wait in the far west city, and after the tournament ended and all the cultivators from all realms dispersed, he would try to escape again.

A precise Sky Tyrant landed in front of it like a ghost, and in the instant of the explosion, Dao Tian Xie Jun didn't even realize where the puppet came from.

After the outer city mine where it was located was blasted to a crisp by the Sky Tyrant, hissing and emitting black smoke and white vapor.

The evil Taoist Lord, who crawled out of the ruins, then discovered that a roc that seemed to hang from the sky had been quietly hidden in the blue sky and white clouds above his head, or rather, that the roc had always been hovering above his head!
This is the first time that the Pengtian Armored Puppet and the Sky Fleet have appeared in battle. Compared to its solo appearance at the opening ceremony, the presence of the fleet allows it to truly showcase its splendor to the world.

Inside the Peng's body, carrier-based aircraft rapidly took off. Among them were hummingbird jammers specially equipped with second-tier inspiration dolls, emitting a magnetic field of divine sense to disrupt the perception of the Daoist Evil Lord. Cloud Sky Hidden Bombs, which were cheap and plentiful, continuously launched explosive stone puppets. Furthermore, there were fourth-tier Peng Sky Armor Puppets, carrying four giant divine soldiers that had been idle during the previous truce. Utilizing the Peng's extreme speed, they crashed behind the Daoist Evil Lord, constantly delaying his escape speed so that the friendly forces behind him could catch up.

In Dao Tianxiejun's perception, the sky was now filled with Su Qing's puppets. If they were not dealt with, with the fifth-tier Pengtian Armored Puppet following him, he would have no chance of escaping alive.

Having no other choice, and unwilling to waste any more time, it could only pause briefly, instantly unleashing a fifth-order Dao technique to strike these flying puppets until it exhausted the energy of the fire source in its chest before finally stopping.

But who could have imagined that dozens of devastating spells, meant to destroy the heavens and the earth, would be completely neutralized by the four escort ships surrounding the Pengtian Armored Puppet using their orbital fire network? This was yet another puppet army fighting in a tortoise shell!
Having failed to achieve his goal, Dao Tian Xie Jun was now in despair.

But even more despair was yet to come.

Before anyone knew it, the puppets that had been surrounding him in the sky and on the ground dispersed and were put into Su Qing's storage bag, as if he were about to kindly let him go!
Dao Tian Xiejun, who had thought he was going to die, was overjoyed at the prospect of fighting Su Qingyu to the death and taking a dozen more puppets with him. Before he could even utter the words "The green hills remain unchanged and the green waters flow forever," he was filled with elation.

Then he saw a terrifying thing that stretched to the heavens and the earth, filled with thunder and rain clouds, like a giant thunder python rapidly approaching him at a speed no less than when it was fleeing at full speed!

As a fifth-order True Monarch, even though his divine sense was disrupted by the interference machines and he didn't notice the Heavenly Thunder Python in time, his eyes were not blind. He could see that around the Heavenly Thunder Python, there was a silver giant tiger and a two-headed dragon puppet, which were circling and flying around, seemingly adjusting the Heavenly Thunder Python's route to avoid the precious buildings in the city and approaching the abandoned mine where he was.

No one expected that two fourth-tier puppets, given some time, could pull off such a feat.

At this moment, seeing the deadly storm that stretched across the sky and earth, barbarically advancing with the momentum of destroying everything, not only was Dao Tian Xie Jun dumbfounded, but all the cultivators watching the battle and the excitement were also stunned!

"This is fourth-tier. You Tianyuan people call puppets like this fourth-tier!"

"The dragon and tiger combine yin and yang, and yin and yang give rise to the four symbols. When this move is first formed, it is only a fourth-order divine technique. However, after the dragon and tiger rotate in opposite directions for a long time, using the divine power of the gentle breeze and the rain as a catalyst, the power of the four symbols of wind, rain, thunder and lightning is formed inside the storm and rain. By this time, the storm can already connect heaven and earth. If no one stops it, it will continue to accumulate energy. When it reaches its limit, it will not only be a fifth-order divine technique, but it may even be a sixth-order divine technique!"

"Is that how it works? Does that mean I can do it too?"

"Could it be that you also possess divine authority related to wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and have the power of dragons, tigers, yin, and yang?"

"Where am I supposed to get a priesthood?!"

"Then say something!"

The cultivators in the heavens each had their own thoughts. Some were interested in this deadly storm and planned to imitate it in other ways after returning. Some had designs on the Divine Silver Stream and the Two-Headed Dragon God and wanted to ask Su Qing if he would sell the puppet, or at least the blueprints. Others were interested in Su Qing himself and wanted to use his unique ability to draw creation runes to reach some kind of cooperation with their own sects.

The only one that no one had considered was the evil sorcerer.

We're doomed, what's there to think about!
It's not that I look down on the Evil Lord of Daoist Laws, it's just that Su Qing's preparations were too thorough, and the puppets he used to target him were even a bit excessive.

Let's leave aside the exorcism army and the deadly storm for now.

The 360 ​​merit wooden fish that had somehow appeared around the Evil Lord of Daoist Law opened the eyes of all cultivators in all realms.

Three hundred and sixty wooden fish, controlled by three hundred and sixty great wooden spirits clad in cassocks, thumped and thumped, forming a Buddhist light array that trapped the evil Taoist lord within it, preventing him from escaping.

Immediately, a deadly storm swept by, and in an instant, everything settled down.

In the stillness of the night, Su Qing gracefully landed in the center of the battlefield and kindly collected the body of her elderly father, Xie.

As expected of a Nascent Soul cultivator's remains, even after being struck head-on by a deadly storm that had been building up for over half an hour, he only lost an arm or a leg, not his entire body. With such physical strength, it's no wonder his eldest son was reluctant to let him rest in peace. This is actually a good thing for him. With his mastery of Creation Runes, he would never do something as foolish as turning a puppet into an evil spirit!
"You treacherous villains! How dare you bully my Mingxia Dao Sect! Not only did you kill my sect leader, but you even destroyed the remains of my ancestor! I beg you, True Lords, for the sake of all fellow Daoists, to do justice for my Mingxia Dao Sect!"

Seeing that Su Qing didn't ask any questions and reached out to collect the corpse, someone objected. The one who spoke up was Liu Shang Zhenren, the deputy sect master of Mingxia Dao Sect. Oh no, with Qian Xuzi's death on the arena, the title of deputy should be removed. He should now be the sect master of Mingxia Dao Sect!
But while his words carried anger, he couldn't suppress his joy. How could a prince be a prince for decades and a deputy sect leader for thousands of years? He had suffered under Qian Xuzi's oppression for thousands of years, never getting any benefits and always taking the blame. Today, good fortune had fallen from the sky, thanks to Su Qing. He was able to officially become the deputy sect leader. He was too grateful to Su Qing to hold any resentment towards him.

From the sect's perspective, Qian Xuzi died because of Su Qing, and his father was also the sect's founder. Su Qing's disrespect for his remains is tantamount to throwing their Mingxia Dao Sect's face on the ground in front of all the heavens and myriad worlds. Of course, after today's battle, the Mingxia Dao Sect, which has made a complete fool of itself, doesn't have much face left to speak of, but it can't just remain silent!

With so many True Lords watching, let's uphold justice and fairness, and at least let him bring back the remains of the Patriarch. As for whether he will be laid to rest after returning, or whether he will be made into a new puppet or magic weapon for the Patriarch so that the Patriarch can shine for the sect again, that will all be the merits that he, as the new sect leader, will make for the sect!

But he was obviously overthinking it.

Previously, because Dao Fa Tian Jun had turned to evil, several Nascent Soul True Lords did come to deal with the matter. It is not impossible for them to unite, represent the Daoist sects of all heavens, and speak out for Mingxia Dao Sect.

But is it necessary?

For the sake of the Mingxia Dao Sect, which has lost its position as the head of the Puppet Merchant Guild and will only decline in the future, it is better to offend Su Qing, who has just shown off his strong muscles and hard fists.

Who would do something so stupid!
The key is!
They couldn't guarantee that Su Qing would listen to them just because they spoke up.

What if he won't listen? Should we confront him directly?
Can we win? This is their home turf. They have tons of puppets and incredibly powerful subordinates. If it really comes down to a fight, it's hard to say who will teach whom a lesson!

"How can a grown man like Master Liu still not know how to speak properly? What do you mean that Master Su bullied your Mingxia Dao Sect? It was clearly Master Su who solved a major problem for your Mingxia Dao Sect. If it weren't for Master Su, this fifth-order evil would have fallen into your Mingxia Dao Sect, and your entire sect would be following in Fellow Daoist Qian's footsteps now!"

"Such a great favor, shouldn't you thank Master Su?"

"Yes! Quickly say thank you. Master Su is kind-hearted and is even planning to take this corpse back for a ritual to help it pass on to the afterlife!"

"Master Su has plenty of wooden fish; he'll surely choose a good place for your ancestor to be reincarnated. You can go back in peace; with Master Su taking care of your ancestor, you can rest assured." (End of Chapter)