Immortality begins with meditation puppets

There's no such thing as giving up halfway through puppet making.

Especially when it comes to crafting high-level puppets, any puppeteer must proceed with extreme caution and trepidation, never daring to slack off in the slightest.

When you decide to forge a high-level puppet, you will invest a lot of high-level materials. If these materials cannot be realized in time, they will become sunk costs, increasing your financial burden.

Of course, if you can't refine it right away, it's better to put it aside than to force it and end up failing and losing everything.

Whether you're a novice or a veteran, even a sixth-tier puppeteer can't guarantee that you'll be able to create a fifth-tier puppet without any mistakes.

Especially when you're new to this type of puppet.

Su Qing also lacked confidence.

After all, this was his first time refining the Dharma Eye Puppet, and he couldn't improve his proficiency or success rate, so he naturally couldn't guarantee 100% success.

However, he wasn't as anxious and fearful as he was when he was refining the giant Kun from the North Sea, afraid that the refining would fail.

The reason for this is that he didn't put much effort into the Dharma Eye Puppet, and he didn't have any expectations for it before.

This puppet was just spawned, unlike the Giant Kun of the North Sea, which had been around for a long time and was also something he had been looking forward to for a long time.

Furthermore, the main material, the Spirit Eye Magic Monster, was not something he could use. As for the auxiliary materials, most of them could be bought with spirit stones. What did things that could be bought with spirit stones mean to him now?
Without expectations or anxiety, he remained fully focused during the refining process, calmly allowing the tool puppet and the large and small wood spirits to create the puppet's prototype. He naturally and relaxedly prepared various talisman waters, and he was unwilling to change the puppet blueprints at all!

Change it? How should it be changed?
According to the panel description, the original Dharma Eye Puppet was the best match for his True Eye of Illusion. The panel was custom-made for him. What if he doesn't know any better and makes random changes, and it becomes unsuitable?

If someone is willing to give it to you, just accept it without hesitation and don't waste their kindness!
Without modifying the blueprints, Fu Shui was configured according to the requirements.

Sixth-order perception talisman water and sixth-order reconnaissance talisman water are essential items.

After all, it is a perception-type reconnaissance puppet, and if these two types of runes do not reach the sixth rank, this puppet would not live up to its name.

Unlike other puppets, this puppet has not only two main runes, but also an indispensable magic rune, which must be of the sixth rank.

I understand everything I understand.

Since this puppet needs to work in conjunction with his True Eye of Truth, how can the magic be performed without it? If someone else were to refine this puppet, the magic runes might be optional, but Su Qing would definitely use them.

Space runes, material runes, and creation runes must also be drawn.

After all, the Spirit Eye Monster's large eyeball can be several meters tall, and if it cannot change size, it is not very convenient for him to use.

The Creation Rune is applicable to any puppet. It's one thing if others are completely ignorant about this rune, but since he has this skill, it would be a waste not to use it.

These few runes are enough; there are no strict requirements on their rank, allowing Su Qing to use his own style. However, he didn't dare to use too many high-rank runes, fearing that the materials wouldn't be able to handle them. Therefore, he planned to use fifth-rank runes.

Aside from these few runes, the rest of the runes depend on his own needs.

If he wanted the puppet to merge into various parts of his body, he drew blood spirit runes on it.

If he wanted this puppet to be able to act independently, spy on others, and effectively conceal itself from others, just like the Spirit Eye Monster, he equipped it with concealment runes.

Listed in this way, he needs to draw a total of twelve or thirteen runes, all of which are high-level runes of the fifth or sixth rank.

At his speed, even under rush conditions, including all procedures such as refining the puppet prototype, preparing the rune water, and drawing the runes, he could complete the refining of this puppet in as little as half a month.

But after thinking about it, he realized there was nothing he needed to rush.

Exploring the Abyss Secret Realm was indeed necessary before the Secret Realm Management Office began to exert its power. However, he knew that the Secret Realm Management Office would wield considerable power in the future, so he used his reputation as a leading force to place many people within it. In addition, Tong Chang, a member of the management office's preparatory group, would report to him whenever the Secret Realm Management Office made any moves. Since Tong Chang had not yet given him any news, it meant that there was still some time before the Secret Realm Management Office was truly in preparation.

Prior to this, it was unable to exercise its various rights, fulfill its responsibilities such as registering the secret realm and exploring and developing it.

According to Su Qing's estimate, the management office of this secret realm would need to balance the interests of all parties and accept the buck-passing and wrangling from all sides. If it really wanted to be fully operational, given the work efficiency of those Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation cultivators, it would take at least thirty to fifty years, and at most a hundred years.

After all, for those Nascent Soul True Monarchs in charge, a hundred years is just a blink of an eye, nothing at all.

During this period, the Abyss Secret Realm will never be bound by the rules of the Secret Realm Management Office. The profits they gain from exploration and development will belong entirely to them. In fact, if they can completely occupy the secret realm before the Secret Realm Management Office sets up its plans, they can completely control the secret realm and become its master.

I can now focus on refining my puppets in seclusion, preparing for a breakthrough, without having to rush things.

Haste makes waste; slow and steady wins the race.

Once the pace slows down, every detail of crafting the puppet can be properly controlled. While it may not be perfect, it should at least be a faithful reproduction of the puppet's appearance on the blueprint.

And so, another three months passed.

This method finally succeeded in making the puppet.

The investment paid off, and the effort was not in vain.

The sacrifice of the Spirit Eye Monster, the hard work of the tool puppet and the large and small wood spirits, and Su Qing's rune skills together forged the birth of this fifth-order perception-type detection puppet.

[The Eye of Dharma Puppet is complete. Puppet Master Proficiency +10688. Current Proficiency: 360000/360000 (Tier 5. After mastering any Tier 7 rune and independently crafting a Tier 6 puppet, the Puppet Master's rank can be raised to Tier 6.]

[You can independently craft a fifth-tier perception-type puppet and choose one of the following puppet blueprints.]

【One: Six-Eared Monkey - A Tier 6 Combat-type Monster Puppet.】

[Two: Ksitigarbha's Listening - A sixth-tier perception-type mount-type puppet.]

【Three: Pure White Lotus - Rank 6 Exorcism-type Detection Puppet.】

"You make me choose again after I've finished making one? Is this never going to end? I can't make any more now!"

It's not that I don't want to practice, but that I can't afford it or I can't practice it properly.

Three sixth-tier puppets look incredibly appealing. However, he is currently only a fourth-tier Nascent Soul cultivator. With buffs and layers of enhancements, being able to refine fifth-tier puppets is already quite remarkable.

If one were to harbor any designs on a sixth-tier puppet, it would likely be enough to draw a seventh-tier rune that would drain its primordial spirit and deplete its vital energy.

But even if he doesn't practice, he will still improve. There will be times when he needs to practice in the future, so he should prepare some puppet blueprints in order to avoid being short of puppets to practice when the time comes.

He chose the Pure White Lotus.

Because there are simply not enough exorcism puppets in this era, combat and perception puppets are less important in comparison.

The main reason is that among these three puppets, the materials for the Pure World White Lotus are easier to obtain.

Both the Six-Eared Macaque and the Earthly Beast Di Ting require body parts that are unique in the world, although the location and quantity of the parts are not limited, even a single monkey hair or a piece of elephant skin is acceptable.

However, such a unique divine beast species is destined to be extremely rare, even a single hair or piece of skin is precious. Finding one is incredibly difficult and cannot be solved with money; it all depends on one's own fate.

Now that Su Qing has money in her pocket, she naturally doesn't believe much in fate and only chooses things that can be solved with money and are certain.

For example, this Pure World White Lotus can be made by taking a pot of lotus spirit tears of the fourth rank or above, mixing it with the first snow from Kunlun Mountain, and then preparing the basic form of the main material. After nurturing it with top-grade spirit stones for ten thousand years, it can be transformed into a ten-thousand-year lotus tear. Runes can be drawn on this material and a puppet can be made to complete the process.

He raised a lotus spirit, and she was very affectionate. As long as the spirit stones were available, she could cry so loudly that the earth shook and she would cry day and night without stopping.

The first snow on Kunlun Mountain, and he has connections with the Yuanshi Sect. Even if they are unwilling to help, the Lingbao Sect and the Taishang Sect also have shares in Kunlun Mountain, and he knows people there. It won't be difficult to make connections and give them gifts.

As for top-grade spirit stones, there are 10,000 every 10,000 years, which adds up to 100 million ordinary spirit stones. It sounds frightening, but it's not a one-time investment. One stone a year, which is only 10,000 spirit stones. With the annual profit of Su Ji Group, it can't be considered a burden. Every year, the amount donated to the Martial Arts Academy is hundreds or thousands of times that amount.

To avoid causing trouble for his future self, he simply put the Pure World White Lotus, the easiest thing to do, into his storage bag.

Instead, they focused their attention on the newly made Dharma Eye Puppet.

At this time, the magic eye puppet was about the size of a calf, much smaller than the previous spirit eye magic monster, but even just one eyeball looked somewhat frightening.

With a thought, Su Qing instantly transformed into the size of a human eye.

It was taken into the hand and instantly embedded in the palm. With eyes open and closed, it moved with the thought. Because of the close connection of the divine consciousness, no one felt anything unusual, as if this divine eye had been born on their own palm.

With another thought, this Dharma Eye instantly soared into the clouds, disappearing millions of feet above the city in the far west, overlooking the entire city and discerning every rustle of wind and movement.

It was left there for only a short while.

He overheard that inside the Ying residence, the father-in-law and son-in-law were secretly plotting to divert company funds and family savings to deal with the extortion by the Eastern King Sect. The two were holding hands and working together, determined to make a big splash in the Abyss Secret Realm and earn back the spirit stones, so that they could plug the hole before Delong's wife found out.

Su Qing also overheard that guests had visited Yao Guangquan's home, and Rao Tingshan had tried to entice him in various ways, enticing him to bypass the supervision of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and take advantage of its advantage in mining at sea. He suggested that the mined minerals be directly loaded onto ships by his logistics company and transported away, thus avoiding the high taxes of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and transporting the minerals to the black market to earn higher profits. To Su Qing's relief, Yao Guangquan firmly rejected Rao Tingshan's proposal. However, out of consideration for their past working relationship at Yuanlai Tower, he did not report Rao Tingshan's act of undermining the Immortal Kingdom.

Over the years, Su Qing had long suspected that Rao Tingshan's logistics company was doing some illegal things. Now that she heard about his misdeeds again, she was not surprised. She was just waiting to play the long game and catch the big fish behind the scenes before pulling in the big fish. She even considered having Yao Guangquan cooperate with Rao Tingshan.

In just one city in the far west, countless clandestine and secretive affairs exist, but the eavesdropping puppets that Su Qing had previously planted are also ubiquitous, leaving the space for this Eye of Dharma puppet to operate very limited.

Su Qing immediately had the idea to call it back and let it hide between her forehead.

Then his eyes shone with golden light, unleashing his piercing golden pupils that pierced the heavens.

At the same time, without him having to think or command, the third eye on his forehead, the Dharma Eye Puppet, instantly appeared and raised its eyes to emit a black and white intertwined pupil light.

Black and white pupil light intertwined with golden pupil light, and the direction they were looking was the place where the polar death clouds were dense, the location of the Eye of Return to Nothingness.

A colossal vortex spanning the heavens and the earth, within which eerie shadows dart and souls wail, but no matter how they struggle, they cannot escape being sucked into the void.

This is what is happening in the world right now.

A wheel engraved with many intricate Taoist patterns has balls on its outer side. Where the ball rolls and lands determines where a soul will be reincarnated—whether it will be human or animal, immortal or Buddha, rich or poor, lowly or noble.

This is the past state of the Eye of Return to Nothingness, which is a ball bearing component of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disc.

As for the future, Su Qing only caught a glimpse of a few scattered images.

Clearly, this bead has a profound impact on the future, beyond what the future-reversing supernatural power evolved from the combination of the True Eye of Delusion and the Puppet of the Dharma Eye can perceive.

"According to the Daoist scriptures, there are countless timelines in the past and the future. The future has countless possibilities, and the past also has countless possibilities. This Eye of Return to the Void is extraordinary in both the past and the future. Why is it easier to peer into the past than into the future?"

Su Qing was somewhat puzzled, and after thinking for a long time, she came up with a possibility.

This means that there are no longer any ancient Daoist lineage founders, Snail Emperors, Heavenly Emperors, or other beings in the present world who can truly reverse the past and future.

Therefore, for sentient beings in the present world, the past is constant, while the future changes along a timeline and still has countless possibilities. However, it is too difficult for the Dharma Eye Puppet and the True Eye of Deception to deduce these countless possibilities, which is why he only glimpsed a few future scenes.

Although Su Qing felt that the Eye of Guixu was of great significance to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, the Western Sea cultivation world, and even the Tianyuan Realm and all the myriad worlds.

However, having only glimpsed two or three of the countless possibilities, and even those were fragmented images with little reference value, he quickly put the matter aside.

After this attempt to peer into the past and future of the Eye of the Void, he has fully demonstrated all the functions of the Dharma Eye Puppet that he wanted to demonstrate.

From the perspective of cost-effectiveness and return, he was extremely satisfied with this puppet.

After one period of seclusion, he gained two more fifth-tier puppets under his command: the Giant Kun of the North Sea and the Dharma Eye Puppet. He was already satisfied and had no intention of refining any other puppets.

At this point, he can focus all his energy on his own cultivation.

The Nascent Soul cultivator is advancing to the Divine Transformation stage, but the time and opportunity are not yet ripe.

However, advancing from the fourth to the fifth rank is a time when one has accumulated enough strength and it is the perfect opportunity!

"Xingtian's Blood Axe, cleave the heavens for me!" (End of Chapter)