Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 62 Hummingbird Swarm
[Swarm of hummingbirds]

[Type: Tier 1 High-Grade Artifact Puppet]

[Rank: Tier 1, High Grade]

[Function: Modify small magical artifacts or artifact embryos, transforming them from being powered by the cultivator's mana to being powered by spirit crystals and spirit stones, enabling them to travel through the air and autonomously seek out enemies.]

While retaining the original power of a magical artifact, it can both unleash thunderbolts to bombard opponents and self-destruct upon impact.

[Required materials: Tier 1 medium-grade or higher small magic artifact (a complete set is best), Hidden Bee Wings, Spirit Wood, Spider Web.]

[Rank Requirement: Tier 1 High-Grade Puppeteer.]

[Rune Requirements: Intelligent Rune (Tier 2), Immortal Rune (Tier 2), Combat Rune (Tier 2), Magic Weapon Rune (Small Magic Weapon Application, Tier 2), Bionic Rune (Tier 2).]

[Daily Consumption: 5 Spirit Crystals per group of 100, 50-300 Spirit Crystals per battle (depending on the number of Blast Stones carried by the Hummingbird)]

The swarm of hummingbirds is a puppet that Su Qing is more looking forward to than the Explosive War Bear!
"If we have enough of this stuff, even Foundation Establishment cultivators might be able to get their hands on it, right?"

As he secretly dreamed, he took out a set of prepared spiritual needle artifacts from his storage bag.

Each needle is as thin as a hair, its body silvery-white and transparent, except for its black tip. They are coated with a potent poison effective against both cultivators and demonic beasts; a set contains three hundred and sixty needles.

This magical artifact is called the Scorpion Venom Needle. It was forged from the tail stinger of the first-tier high-grade demon beast, the Scorpion King. It was crafted by a weapon refiner and is imprinted with many runes such as flight, speed, and stealth.

Su Qing tried to use the Needle Control Technique to mobilize her magic power to activate the magical artifact, but she could only mobilize twelve spiritual needles at a time. After a short while, her magic power was greatly depleted, and she could not maintain it for long.

"A high-grade magic weapon is powerful, but even someone like me, at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, struggles to wield it, let alone sustain it in a prolonged battle!"

He silently shook his head, which was also why he rarely bought any magical artifacts.

Besides the high price, another reason is that children can't wield a large sledgehammer properly.

Spread the prepared talisman water on the table and begin to carefully prepare it.

At that moment, a soft, seductive sound suddenly reached my ears, along with intermittent, heavy breathing.

He knew immediately that it came from the beautiful snake woman he had just sent away.

This is because the phonographs he branded inside the beautiful snake had taken effect.

Because he mastered the first-order Listening Talisman when refining the Wood Spirit Servant, and could imprint this talisman on extremely small and minute places, it was impossible to detect without having a very high level of expertise in the Listening Talisman and examining it closely with divine sense.

That's why he dared to do that to the beautiful snake, so that he could easily learn some of the Cloud Mountain Sect's arrangements from her.

About a quarter of an hour later, the seductive music stopped, and Su Qing was about to settle down and continue preparing the talisman water when, unexpectedly, the unbearable sounds started coming from the other side again.

"This is just too much trouble!"

Su Qing angrily cut off the transmission of the talisman text, calmed down for a while, and began to concentrate on her own work.

The talisman water is not difficult to prepare; the only troublesome ones are the second-tier immortal talisman water and the second-tier magic artifact talisman water.

However, he bought these two kinds of talisman water as ready-made products from the Baibao Shop, so he didn't need to bother to prepare them.

In a short while, all five bottles of talisman water were ready.

He then took out explosive stones, spirit beads, and spirit wood from his storage bag.

Have the Wood Spirit servants carve the spirit wood into a miniature hummingbird, with a hollow center and a buckle on its belly.

Then he released his divine sense, magnified various materials with his divine sense, and wove the spider silk, which was finer than a hair, into a net of spiritual beads.

He then gently kneaded the exploding stone into small pieces, stuffed them into the spirit bead net, and hung it under the miniature hummingbird's belly. Once everything was ready, he inserted the spirit needles one by one into the miniature hummingbird's body.

By this time, the hummingbird's main structure was complete, and all that remained was to imprint the runes.

Because the puppet is small, it can only be made by drawing runes with a spider silk pen, just like when making spider doctors and wood spirit servants in the past, and by using divine sense to magnify the field of vision.

Working on the smallest details is extremely taxing on one's spiritual sense and energy. In addition, the runes being drawn are all second-tier runes, making it even more difficult. It is definitely a tough job.

Bang!
One of the strokes in the immortal rune was not executed neatly, and half an hour of hard work was wasted. The hummingbird's main body was ruined, but fortunately, the spiritual needle inside was not seriously damaged.

During the subsequent process of drawing runes, mistakes would occasionally occur, mostly in the runes for immortals and magical artifacts.

Compared to other runes, he was still somewhat unfamiliar with these two types of runes. However, the environment he was in was quite harsh, and in order to provide himself with more protection, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and refine them.

Two days and nights later.

All 360 hummingbird puppets have been completed.

After Su Qing smashed more than ten spirit crystals and scattered them on the table, the hummingbird puppets began to peck at the fragments of spirit crystals somewhat stiffly.

As the spirit crystal fragments entered its stomach, the runes on the hummingbird puppet lit up one after another, and visibly, the hummingbirds became more lifelike and agile, even emitting chirping sounds.

However, many more hummingbirds exploded, sending their internal spiritual needles flying everywhere. Su Qing, who was prepared, took out a Xuanjing Shield to block the spiritual needles that might accidentally injure him.

Once all the hummingbirds have been activated.

He then put down his shield and began to count the number of successfully refined shields.

"A total of twenty-seven hummingbirds were created. Is the success rate less than 10%? No, if you include the failures during the rune drawing process, it's far less than 10%!"

Have the Wood Spirit servants collect the spirit needles that have splashed all over the spirit house.

Su Qing was not satisfied with the success rate of creating this puppet.

The materials required for the main structure of the hummingbird are approximately fifty spirit crystals.

However, hummingbirds are only effective when they are in large flocks. If the success rate is low due to a large number of birds, the cost will be too high.

"Let's test the power of these twenty-seven hummingbirds first!"

With a thought, Su Qing summoned twenty-seven hummingbirds, which immediately spread their wings, thin as cicada wings, and disappeared into the air.

It was broad daylight, the best time of day, and even from a distance of three to five meters, Su Qing could hardly see the hummingbird's flight path. If the distance were greater, or if it appeared at night, ordinary cultivators would definitely not be able to detect it.

They urged the hummingbirds to fly out of the house and circle around the area of ​​the Hundred Treasures Pavilion team, and sure enough, no one noticed them.

Of course, this was also because Su Qing made these hummingbirds fly high enough, about a hundred feet in the air. The small group of hummingbirds darted around at great speed, and in no time, they had explored the entire forward camp.

"So it seems that swarms of hummingbirds are more suitable for reconnaissance missions than troll servants?"

Looking at the clear view transmitted by the swarm of hummingbirds, Su Qing murmured to herself.

Since the Yunshan Sect sent people to the forward camp and organized the independent cultivators to start large-scale construction within the camp.

He then recalled most of the Wood Spirit servants to prevent them from being discovered by the rogue cultivators.

The tasks that the Wood Spirit servants cannot complete can now be completely replaced by a swarm of Hummingbirds!

(End of this chapter)