Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 57: Smash the War Bear!

The bad news is that the first dual-wielding lizard failed to be forged. Apart from the Xuan Tie essence, which can be recycled and reused, all the other materials of the entire puppet are scrapped.

The good news is that both swords are unharmed. They are indeed good items worth two thousand each, they are just a bit tough!
Su Qing knew she wasn't destined to be the protagonist, blessed by heaven and the gods, and that everything would go smoothly for her.

Having long been accustomed to failures in the process of creating new puppets, his emotions were not affected in any way, and he immediately began to create the second one.

A few moments.

As the puppet swung its twin swords in a highly uncoordinated manner, Su Qing realized that this second puppet was also useless.

Sure enough, as wisps of black smoke rose from the joints of the puppet, the second puppet collapsed.

We lost over a hundred spirit crystals!
The puppet proficiency and various rune proficiency were passively increased, which was some consolation.

The third puppet, before even reaching the activation stage, unexpectedly encountered a problem when drawing its most skillful bionic runes.

The fourth one failed because he didn't master the weapon runes and stumbled on this level of runes.

The fifth puppet's body and the battle sword were not well-matched; its three-fingered claws could not grip the sword firmly.

Until the sixth one, when the ten-foot-tall lizardman, wielding a battle sword in each claw, was taunting Xiong Da with great skill in the front yard, using three or four yellow-level combat techniques to toy with him.

After watching for a while, Su Qing had witnessed the capabilities of the artifact-type puppet.

They can use combat techniques and tools that ordinary puppets cannot use, increasing their strength several times over.

Moreover, because they are puppets, they are fearless of life and death, and even less afraid of exchanging injury for injury. When they use the same combat techniques, they are even more fierce than those of body cultivators.

"It has combat power that is second only to a first-tier top-grade puppet. The three dual-blade lizards may be able to match a body cultivator who is skilled in combat and has talisman-based combat tools."

Su Qing assessed the strength of the dual-bladed lizard and carefully stored it in his storage bag.

The dual-wielding lizard is quite powerful, but he doesn't plan to use it as a trump card and is unwilling to reveal it for the time being, purely out of fear of affecting the sales of lizard warriors.

Having witnessed the dual-wielding lizard's abilities and confirmed that the cost of over four thousand spirit crystals was not in vain.

He finally settled down and devoted himself to rigorous training.

After a day and a night had passed and all ten swords had been used up, he finally stopped forging the Twin-Sword Lizard.

"Five dual-blade lizards, even an ordinary peak Qi Refining cultivator might be able to withstand one or two of them."

However, its effectiveness against second-tier demonic beasts is less promising!

Because of the tireless cultivation of the eight black children, he was constantly receiving magical power in return.

The mana he consumes during the crafting process can be replenished quickly, so he can continue crafting puppets without needing to take any pills.

He was full of magical power, but his body was struggling to keep up.

After having the Wood Spirit servants serve some fine wine and food, and also improving Fire Egg's diet, they...

After a comfortable soak in the medicinal bath, I stood up from the tub. My once thin body was now strong and full, like a deflated balloon being inflated.

Looking back at the medicine bucket, the contents were becoming increasingly clear, indicating that he had already met the requirements for practicing the Immovable Heavenly King Technique's internal cultivation method.

"Absorbing the essence of Xuan Iron and nourishing the blood and qi in the Vajra Furnace, we can indeed begin after this busy period, but it is not advisable to entrust our safety to this combat skill."

Su Qing muttered to himself, "Although the Immovable Heavenly King Technique is remarkable, I am not a pure body cultivator, so I would never put all my energy into this technique."

After practicing the Heavenly King Fist once and digesting the medicinal effects, he had no interest in practicing it again. Wearing the Dust-Avoiding Robe, he refreshed himself and unfolded the blueprints for the Explosive Hammer War Bear.

[Smash the War Bear.]

[Type: Modified puppet.]

[Order: First-order limit.]

[Function: Modifies a Tier 1 Superior Puppet Ironclad War Bear, granting it the ability to wield weapons, leverage its strength, and fight with a hammer. It can automatically learn most hammer-based combat techniques (Yellow Rank only). A super-powerful melee puppet with formidable defense and devastating offensive capabilities.]

[Puppet Master Rank Requirement: Tier 1, High Grade.]

[Rune Requirements: Bionic Rune (Tier 2), Material Rune (Tier 2), Monster Rune (Tier 2), Combat Rune (Tier 2), Weapon Rune (Warhammer Type, Tier 2)]

[Required materials: Ironback Bear Bone (one), Black Iron Essence (3000-8000 jin), Red Moon Stone (two), Warhammer (size suitable for the bear paw, at least 1000 jin), and other materials as needed.]

[Consumption: Daily: 30 Spirit Crystals (absorbing Moon Essence reduces consumption by 30%), Combat: 300-3000 Spirit Crystals (depending on combat consumption).]

[Note: Therefore, the puppet is modified from the Ironclad War Bear, and the original proficiency of the Ironclad War Bear will be converted into the proficiency of this puppet.]

Current Armored War Bear Proficiency: 10/500, Hammer War Bear Proficiency: 5/500

The already violent armored war bear.

If he could use the Wind and Thunder Hammer and master hammer-type combat techniques, Su Qing couldn't even imagine how violent it would become!

This is one of the trump cards he has built for himself!

The cost of crafting this puppet, plus the Wind and Thunder Hammer, is more than 20,000 spirit crystals!

"A first-tier ultimate puppet might have the ability to rival those at the peak of Qi Refining or the peak of Body Cultivation?"

With anticipation for the Explosive War Bear, Su Qing spent three days refining all three sets of puppet materials in one go.

The main body of the Explosive War Bear is actually the original Armored War Bear with more armor added.

It's just that because it requires proficiency in using weapons and mastery of certain combat skills, the requirements for combat runes are higher, and an additional weapon rune has been added.

Su Qing was extremely careful during the refining process, but her lack of proficiency in weapon runes was a major flaw.

It's already incredibly lucky that two out of three materials turned out to be usable.

"Of the two, as long as one of them can grasp this warhammer, it will be enough!"

He doesn't ask for much, just one body is fine!
It took the combined strength of all the lizard warriors, and even the fire egg had to be nudged with a dog's head, to finally attach the warhammer to the bear's paw.

The spiritual energy erupting from the spirit crystal illuminated all the runes.

To Su Qing's delight, the first puppet was successfully crafted so easily.

The Explosive Hammer War Bear, wielding a thousand-pound Thunder Hammer, could unleash a thunderous roar with the slightest movement, its sound echoing for miles, terrifying and disturbing the people.

"Which bastard is playing with puppets at home? Can't they at least keep it down?!"

"Am I seeing things? Did I just see an armored war bear using a warhammer?"

"You look like a hammer to me. If even armored war bears can use warhammers, what chance do we body cultivators have?"

The exclamations of the rogue cultivators made Su Qing immediately stop the demonstration of the Explosive Hammer War Bear and put it into his storage bag.

He also put away another war bear that was not equipped with the Wind and Thunder Hammer, waiting to find a suitable war hammer before activating it.

Looking at the sun, which was already setting in the west and not yet nightfall, Su Qing, whose puppet-making had gone extremely smoothly and had given himself an extra trump card for survival, was in an extremely pleasant mood.

Just then, a loud shout came from outside the mourning house.

"Is Fellow Daoist Su at home? This humble Daoist Zhang Hai has come to pay his respects."

Zhang Hai?

A ruthless person who has been in seclusion for months?
He didn't starve to death?

(End of this chapter)