Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 63 The rumbling wind
After discovering that swarms of hummingbirds were better suited for scouting than worm minions.

Su Qing then pondered how to make use of them.

Hummingbirds are limited by their own spiritual senses, so they can only fly no more than two hundred feet high and travel no more than three miles far.

Once it exceeds this range and the spiritual connection is severed, the hummingbird will fall to the ground uncontrollably and will no longer be able to act independently.

"In this way, with just nine hummingbirds, in groups of three, patrolling the air from above, I can see the situation of almost half of the forward camp. They are much more agile than the Wood Spirit servants!"

Having made up her mind, Su Qing left nine hummingbirds outside, retrieved the remaining eighteen hummingbirds, carefully crushed some exploding stones, and added them to the hummingbird spider web pouches.

Exploding stone is a type of spirit stone. Compared to normal spirit stones, the spiritual energy stored within it is extremely unstable, and it will explode once it encounters external pressure.

Some rogue cultivators, when faced with a desperate situation, often use exploding stones as a means of taking down their opponents together.

Because this stone is expensive, costing more than three thousand spirit crystals, and has an extremely wide blast radius, it often accidentally injures the user. Furthermore, it is a material controlled by the Yunshan Sect, so even the Baibao Pavilion can only supply it in limited quantities.

Therefore, very few independent cultivators are actually willing to spend a huge amount of spirit crystals to buy this stone.

Based on Su Qing's reputation at Baibaoge, Tong Xin made the decision and sold him two.

He crushed it into small pieces and put it into the hummingbird puppets, which not only gave the hummingbird puppets the ability to throw bombs, but also allowed them to burrow into the enemy's body and detonate in an emergency.

"Unless it's a life-or-death crisis, the hummingbird puppet should not self-destruct. The scorpion venom needle alone is enough to break through the defenses of an ordinary body cultivator!"

Su Qing secretly reminded himself that a hummingbird puppet was not cheap, mainly because the spiritual needles inside were expensive. If they were to launch a suicidal attack, he could not afford it.

Twenty-seven hummingbirds, though it doesn't quite qualify as a colony.

However, unlike cultivators who need to expend magical power to activate spiritual artifacts.

As long as he has enough spirit crystals and his spiritual sense has not reached its limit, he can activate twenty, two hundred, or two thousand hummingbird puppets without consuming any magical power!
Thinking about the scene of hummingbirds bombarding the area in the future, Su Qing was filled with excitement.

Looking at the half-set of mother-and-child boomerangs, he had a preliminary idea in mind, but for now it was more important to forge the entire set of spirit needles into a hummingbird. The idea of ​​an aerospace carrier could wait until later.

"With the improvement of proficiency, within ten days, this set of scorpion venom needles will be transformed into hummingbird puppets. At that time, with the combined power of all the puppets, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator might have difficulty defeating them, but dealing with the Black Tiger Mountain trip should be no problem."

Double-bladed lizard.

Explosive War Bear.

A flock of hummingbirds!

The three types of modified puppets are almost all completed.

Their own strength has more than doubled.

Only then did Su Qing finally feel relieved.

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"Two thousand spirit crystals for a lizard warrior! Fellow Daoist, the price of these puppets is skyrocketing!"

"As prices rise with the market, the price of my puppets will naturally increase as well. Unlike you, fellow Daoist, I can't go out to hunt monsters and earn money. I can only make a living by using puppets. It's not easy for me to survive in this frontier camp."

"Fine, you've got it tough? I bet Fellow Daoist Su, you're living a much more comfortable life than anyone else!"

A tall, thin, and somewhat effeminate rogue cultivator bought a lizard warrior from Su Qing and left without looking back. Su Qing didn't seem to care about his attitude.

No one is happy to be ripped off.

When he went to Helian Xian yesterday to retrieve the defensive artifact, he secretly cursed Helian Xian for his unpleasant words when he raised prices based on the wind.

Despite the scolding, he still obediently took the spirit crystals and went to ask someone for help in refining magical artifacts.

The reason why everyone is so anxious to exchange spirit crystals for immediate combat power is that the situation at the forward camp has become increasingly dire over the past ten days.

Originally, only a few dozen monsters broke through the low mountain defense line and wandered here.

Recently, more and more monsters have been roaming in. Not only that, but many rogue cultivators who escaped from the Low Mountain Defense Line have also brought everyone the latest news about the Low Mountain Defense Line.

"A small-scale beast tide, twelve first-tier ultimate demon kings, leading thousands of demon beasts, launched a fierce attack on the low mountain defense line more than a month ago."

"The Thunderfire Formation has been broken! The low mountain guarded by Wolf King Hunter Pang Zhizhong and Eagle King Hunter Yang Jiren has also been breached by the demonic beasts. Yang Jiren has died in battle, and Pang Zhizhong's fate is unknown. Their respective teams have either been killed or fled, making it difficult to stop the demonic beasts!"

"Niu Ya led his troops and fled towards the forward camp. They haven't returned yet, and it's likely they're in grave danger!"

"The monsters are relentlessly pursuing us. I heard that Tang Wanqing's Bear King team also suffered heavy losses. When I escaped, they were still more than ten miles away from the front camp, but they were entangled by a group of monsters. I'm afraid they're gone now."

Just as Su Qing was clearing out all the lizard warriors he had and preparing to buy some good stuff at the treasure shop, he was attracted by a rogue cultivator who had just escaped from the low mountain defense line by the roadside.

He wasn't surprised to hear that the low mountain defense line had finally collapsed and that the four major independent cultivator teams had either scattered or fled.

If they hadn't known that the area was on the verge of collapse, the Yunshan Sect wouldn't have spared no expense in setting up various defensive measures at the forward camp during this period.

Now, this forward camp is not only protected by numerous array formations, but also has many more magical artifacts for dealing with large monsters.

Heaven-Shattering Cannon, Dragon-Piercing Crossbow, Heaven-Sealing Net...

Besides these magical artifacts, during the ten days or so that he was slowly refining the hummingbird puppet, a steady stream of rogue cultivators were driven here from the market by the Yunshan Sect. Accompanying them were dozens of inner disciples of the Yunshan Sect, all of whom had cultivation levels of Qi Refining Level 7 or above.

Their only mission was to prevent the monsters from attacking the forward camp after breaking through the low mountain defense line!
Su Qing and the others from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion were no exception.

Perhaps it was the token of the outer disciple of Yunshan Sect that made the difference. As a puppeteer, Su Qing's task was simple: he only needed to hand over a lizard warrior every ten days.

Although Liang Haishun and other professionals had slightly heavier tasks than him, they all made a fortune in spirit crystals due to the surge in the number of independent cultivators in the forward camp, the arrival of the beast tide, and the rise in prices. They were quite happy with their situation.

Only the warriors from the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, such as Qinghe Matuan, were somewhat anxious.

The purpose of this trip was to hunt the Black Mountain Tiger. Now that this has been delayed, even if we manage to hunt the Black Mountain Tiger, we probably won't make it to the auction in time.

Fortunately, Manager Liu brought news that the auction would be postponed for several months due to the small beast tide, and would be held at a later date after the small beast tide ended.

That makes sense. Most of these independent cultivators are currently in the forward camps. If an auction is held at this time, who will be the spenders?

The atmosphere at the forward camp was tense, but Su Qing, knowing she was well-prepared, wasn't overly nervous.

Upon hearing the news of Tang Wanqing's peril, a thought stirred within him.

(End of this chapter)