Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Looking back, failure permeated his previous lives; it seems he never lived a life worthy of being called human.

But Su Qing didn't think it mattered. Although the adult shop owner in his previous life had no achievements in cultivation, and in this life, those cultivators could easily crush him, perhaps his more than ten years of dealing with dolls gave him the inspiration to refine beauty puppets in this life, and thus he used these puppets to obtain his first pot of gold on his cultivation path.

As for his previous failed lives, he only viewed them as edited movie summaries that condensed the plot to the extreme, and considered them related to him. After all, these were indeed his previous reincarnations, his projections of the past, and imprints that had always existed between him and the world, which could not be changed.

But it was none of his business, because although his temperament was not as good as that of the ancient witch clan or the Great Sage Wukong, who said that he only cultivated this life and not the next, he also held the idea that the blessings of the next life were just a pie in the sky and that it was enough to live this life well. He did not place his hopes on the next life, nor did he care about his past life.

However, he wouldn't mind seeing what his next life would be like. What surprised him was that even the reincarnation Dao patterns couldn't reveal his future.

The future he saw was the same as the one he had previously glimpsed using the Time Dao Patterns, and the one that Master Tong had deduced using the Celestial Master's Calculations.

A hazy, chaotic expanse, a deep black hole like the end of the universe.

There are only two possibilities for such a future.

Firstly, his future has surpassed the rank of the Four Imperial Dao Patterns. The Time Dao Pattern cannot see his future timeline, and the Reincarnation Dao Pattern cannot determine his reincarnation.

Secondly, Su Qing's soul imprint will disappear in this life, which will be his last. This means that Su Qing will never have the chance to be reborn. Compared to other beings who will never be reborn, if others are given the power of a Dao Ancestor-level figure, who can use the power of the Four Imperial Dao Patterns and accumulate a vast amount of merit with supreme divine abilities, they can re-condense their soul imprints, weave new future lines for them, and open new reincarnation channels, just like what Hou Tu Niangniang did for the Wu Clan in the past. But he is different. The future lines of beings whose spiritual imprints can be reshaped, although they cannot be seen clearly in future reincarnations, are radiant with a seven-colored halo, unlike his deep darkness. According to Tong Laodao's guess, this indicates that if he perishes in this world, even an eighth-level Dao Ancestor will not be able to let him live another life.

Su Qing was more willing to accept the first possibility, but she was not particularly afraid of the second possibility.

He understood that in this life, he had already obtained a fortune that no living being could attain in countless reincarnations. Although none of the myriad sects in the heavens had explicitly stated it, their actions largely indicated that he was the key to ending this demonic calamity. If he were to be harmed, all the Dao patterns of the Four Emperors and Five Elders on his body would fall into the hands of the demons, and this demonic calamity would be out of control, and the destruction of all realms would be a foregone conclusion.

So even if it's just a chance in this lifetime, it's not a big problem, because if he fails in this lifetime, it doesn't matter if there's a next life.

Su Qing, who was branded with the Dao of Reincarnation and baptized by it, realized that this life was extremely important and he had to make the most of it and leave no regrets.

At present, the hurdle he must overcome is the Reincarnation Demon, who has already devoured the Netherworld Blood Sea and the Nine Netherworld Land within the Abyss Secret Realm, and whose strength has expanded to the peak of the sixth rank, and is about to have the power of a seventh-rank Dao Lord!
The True Lords looked at the eerie face in the sky, which devoured countless undead, eating mountains and swallowing seas as if it were nothing. It seemed that eating them was just as simple, brutal, and ruthless. It was inevitable that they would feel fear and trepidation.

This was also deliberately done by the Reincarnation Demon.

It was created by using the Five Elders Evil Marks to possess the Dao Marks as its source of evil. This evil mark brought the power of evil possession to its extreme. At that time, it possessed all living beings as easily as eating and drinking, and it was so seamless that even fathers and sons, masters and disciples could not distinguish between the real and the fake. At its peak, it even possessed a seventh-level Dao Lord.

Even so, it suffered many defeats at the hands of cultivators in ancient times. Some cultivators even crafted a demon-revealing mirror specifically to target it. Once the mirror was used, it would lose the opportunity to secretly possess another person and use that person's identity to cause trouble.

Those with great supernatural powers cultivate abilities such as the Fiery Eyes and the Eyes of Truth, which make it nowhere to hide.

Later on, anyone who came to cause it trouble would have a demon-repelling talisman on their body. Even if it could suppress the talisman, as long as the talisman changed, the other cultivators would know that its original owner had been possessed by them. They would not care about any camaraderie and would just fiercely attack the body or object they possessed with all their magic. Thus, in ancient times, it had the hope of being promoted to the position of Heavenly Demon General. In the repeated sieges by living beings, it was almost crushed even its demonic origin and almost lost its position as a high-ranking demon.

It just so happened that at that time, Houtu Niangniang was undergoing a self-collapse of her Dao Fruit, and the ancient underworld was collapsing, which made the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc unstable. This gave it the opportunity to reside in the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc. Because the Six Paths Reincarnation Disc was an innate treasure that was difficult for anyone other than an eighth-order Dao Ancestor to perceive, it was able to evade the various forces that came to this abyss secret realm to investigate and kill demons. It managed to keep its freedom from these cultivators who used all sorts of tricks and did not suffer the fate of being suppressed for countless years like other demons.

Having witnessed the methods of cultivators during the golden age of antiquity, the Reincarnation Demon still harbors lingering fear of their abilities even after countless years, and dares not underestimate them in the slightest.

The cultivators currently in this abyss secret realm, although their cultivation levels are not as high as those ancient cultivators who could destroy the heavens and the earth at any time and were willing to destroy worlds to slay demons.

But the Reincarnation Demon also sensed familiar auras emanating from them.

They are all descendants of the ancient cultivators or inheritors of their lineage.

Moreover, each of them may not pose much of a threat to it in terms of their own abilities, but they all carry treasures that make it wary.

Like the Fire Phoenix Princess, who had remained silent among the True Lords, none of the other True Lords knew what she had brought as her trump card. The Reincarnation Demon, however, sensed a deadly aura emanating from the Fire Phoenix Princess, who was neither human nor phoenix. In terms of potential and aptitude, both the human and phoenix races were willing to accept her, but in terms of character and morality, neither the human nor the phoenix race wanted to acknowledge her as a member of their race. That thing was none other than the inextinguishable fire source of the Undying Volcano, the dwelling place of the Phoenix Clan, one of the former overlords of heaven and earth.

If the Fire Phoenix Princess were to ignite this inextinguishable fire source, these beings would surely perish without a burial place, but she could also take the Reincarnation Demon with her, which is something the Reincarnation Demon is unwilling to accept.

In this way, it unleashes its demonic tricks, displays its power, spreads fear, and constantly challenges the limits of its opponent's mental endurance, in order to achieve victory without a fight.

Manipulating people's hearts is a specialty of evil.

As a seasoned old demon, the Reincarnation Demon has, over the years, switched to cultivating the Reincarnation Dao Pattern, focusing his main energy on devouring and digesting this pattern, but he has not forgotten his original demonic skills.

After a series of actions, it was certain that all the beings within the Abyss Secret Realm were intimidated by its immense power and terrifying behavior. However, what disappointed and puzzled it was that these cultivators, whose strongest were only at the fifth-tier Nascent Soul stage, and some were merely second or third-tier minor cultivators, were clearly terrified. Why were they able to remain calm and not let fear break down their defenses, thus preventing it from taking advantage of their vulnerability?
Under its observation, it discovered that deep within the souls of these cultivators, there was a similar anchor.

The so-called anchor is the deep-rooted belief formed by cultivators through their survival and reproduction in the world and their cultivation experience. These beliefs are mixed together and are what cultivators often talk about as their Dao heart. The so-called collapse of the Dao heart means the collapse of the belief, the meaning of past persistence is lost, life and death will no longer matter, and one will not care about the future of the Dao path.

From the perspective of evil spirits, when they try to manipulate and control living beings, one can see anchor points, thick or thin, connecting heaven and earth on them.

Depending on their immediate needs, they will launch a fierce attack on this anchor point. Once it is destroyed, the creatures will instantly become playthings in the palm of their evil hands.

For example, among these cultivators there was a demonic cultivator whose entire body and face resembled a demon even more than himself. His most basic principle was: I raise other people's children, and other people raise my children. If everyone raises children, then every child will have someone to raise them.

This anchor point is the cornerstone of this demonic cultivator's Dao heart. If it wants to target this cultivator, it can completely exploit this point, injecting him with the idea that being cuckolded is just being cuckolded, that what he insists on is nothing but self-deception, that raising someone else's child is mostly unfeeling, and that in the end, it is not as good as raising one's own child. This would destroy the cornerstone of his Dao heart. At best, he would suffer a cultivation deviation and lose all his cultivation; at worst, his personality would change drastically, giving such a demonic entity an opportunity to easily transform him into an evil spirit.

Others, such as the Fire Phoenix Princess who was neither human nor phoenix, whose soul was so filthy that even this evil spirit dared not look at her too much, had their anchor point as: ultimate pleasure and bliss, no matter in any way.

As long as she experiences the ultimate pleasure she has never experienced before, and loses interest in other pleasures, her Dao heart will collapse.

However, according to the observation of the many pleasurable experiences she had gone through, the Reincarnation Demon discovered with despair that, from its demonic perspective, the many pleasurable experiences she had gone through were all novel and daring to the extreme. Some of them were things that it dared not even think of or do. With such a wide range of experiences, it would be difficult for it to find anything that could give it the ultimate pleasure.

In other words, this woman's Dao heart is extremely firm and unbreakable, making her very difficult to target.

The anchor point for these cultivators present to resist its fear invasion is: never despair before Su Qing runs away!

This is just a vague concept. Based on what they know or have personally witnessed about Su Qing's past experiences, if he did not immediately betray his teammates and turn to run away, then he must have had a way to defeat the enemy and was always the victor. Therefore, as long as he stayed by their side before he desperately fled and betrayed them, he probably had a way to solve their current predicament. They did not need to despair yet. If they were to despair, they should wait until Su Qing betrayed his teammates.

This anchor point originates from Su Qing, and breaking it is quite simple: just force Su Qing to run away.

The problem is that the Reincarnation Demon doesn't have the ability to force Su Qing to run away!

Because this later cultivator was truly remarkable.

In the eyes of the Reincarnation Demon, his entire body, from his physical form to his primordial spirit, and his sea of ​​consciousness, shimmered and shone like a precious tree adorned with bright pearls.

The Dao patterns alone number in the dozens of the Five Elders' Dao patterns, and the Four Emperors' Dao patterns are also quite numerous. Although they have only fully mastered the Azure Dragon Dao pattern and the Taixu Sun and Moon Dao pattern, it is still enough to make people marvel.

Just by looking at the Dao patterns on his body, even a fool would know that this boy was extraordinary. It also realized that the Demon Lord had sent it a message earlier, saying that he had given it a great gift. This great gift was not the other five reincarnation treasures containing reincarnation Dao patterns that it had thought before, but Su Qing with these Dao patterns on his body.

Blow him up!
Even if it didn't obtain all the reincarnation Dao patterns, it could still reach the peak of the demonic realm. The Heavenly Demon General was just a small goal; the Eternal Heavenly Demon Lord above the Heavenly Demon General was the direction it should pursue.

But that would only be possible if he could completely master the Dao patterns of reincarnation, devour this abyss secret realm, use the remaining creations of the ancient underworld as resources, and advance to the seventh-order Palm Four Control Divine Power before he could possibly kill Su Qing, who was surrounded by Dao patterns.

Before this, it was not entirely confident in its ability to control Su Qing, because it had observed Su Qing's battles before and knew that in addition to Dao patterns, Su Qing had other special methods. Moreover, what it showed to Su Qing was only one or two tenths of his true abilities. The truly powerful methods were hidden, which was also a common tactic of the ancient cultivators. It had suffered a loss in ancient times and would not suffer a loss in the present world again!
There was no way to eliminate Su Qing for the time being, and because he seemed determined to fight back and had no intention of running away or betraying his teammates, no matter how much he showed his strength or released fear, it was difficult to sway him.

Thus, since they did not run away, although the cultivators were afraid, they did not despair, thus losing the possibility of easily controlling them.

But if we confront them head-on now, we fear that they will push us to the brink and use their trump cards one by one, leading to our mutual destruction.

Thus, the Reincarnation Demon appears to be devouring the Abyss Secret Realm with unbridled abandon.

In truth, it also felt somewhat helpless and regretful.

Its original plan to devour this abyss was merely a feint used to spread fear and shake the cultivators' resolve.

Once it obtains all the Reincarnation Dao Patterns, it can elevate its own rank to Heavenly Demon General. Then, by utilizing the Reincarnation Dao Patterns and the Abyss Secret Realm formed by the remnants of creation from this ancient underworld, it can effortlessly create a new underworld.

Thus, although it cannot instantly recover its seventh-tier strength like it did by devouring the Abyss Secret Realm, it can utilize the Underworld's ability to absorb the souls of the dead to continue developing rapidly. It is only a matter of time before it recovers to the seventh tier, and advancing to the eighth tier will be a natural progression. Even reaching the eighth tier is within its reach.

Forced by circumstances, and in order to deal with Su Qing, whom it was not absolutely certain of being able to handle, it had no choice but to devour this abyss secret realm first, hoping to recover its seventh-order strength before Su Qing could make a move against it.

The reason for its urgency was that the threat it sensed from Su Qing was growing increasingly stronger! (End of Chapter)