Immortality begins with meditation puppets

The Great God of the Three Altars of the Sea, the Three Altars of Heaven, Earth, and Water, is a great god with power as vast as the sea. In ancient times, he was the first to possess a heavenly army with immense power across the sea, land, and air. He was a majestic and powerful god who commanded an army of 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals. He was awe-inspiring, supremely grand, and the bravest of the three armies. During the ancient demonic calamity, he led the elite of the human race, the powerful heavenly soldiers and generals, and an army of demons. With the three armies fighting bravely, after the Buddhist sect and the dragon race in the Western Sea of ​​the Heavenly Origin Realm perished, he cleaned up the mess and absorbed all the evil spirits. His true form perished in the Western Sea and has not appeared in the world for many years.

There are varying degrees of destiny, and different levels of power among the great beings.

What was once a divine creation of one of the greatest in the ancient Heavenly Court is now coveted by cultivators in the modern world!
Even with Su Qing and Er Qiang blocking their way, the powerful figures from various sects who had landed here were somewhat unable to restrain themselves. After all, the remnant spirit of the Three Altars Sea God could only exert the power of the seventh rank at most. With the foundation of the major sects of various realms, it would not be a problem for them to forcibly dismantle and break through it.

However, since Su Qing and Gao Erqiang are blocking them, they still need to find a reason for the forced demolition. After all, now that there is a higher authority, they can use underhanded methods, but they need to find a pretext and do it under the guise of being legitimate.

"If you were to ask who else's good fortune this is, my Yuanshi Sect wouldn't compete with Su Tianjun and the High Heaven Gods. But who is this Great God of the Three Altars and Seas Gathering? Isn't that Nezha? Who is Nezha? He is a third-generation disciple of my Yuanshi Sect, our direct ancestor. Our Yuanshi Sect should be the first heir to this ancestor's mantle. It's one thing if we didn't know before, but now we should let our Yuanshi Sect disciples in, so that our third-generation ancestor has the opportunity to choose our disciples!"

Because of the previous incident involving the Reincarnation Demon, True Monarch Guangxian benefited from Su Qing by obtaining two sixth-tier puppets. He used these puppets to make great contributions in the final battle, gaining merit and consolidating his position in the sect. Therefore, after that, he would yield and tolerate Su Qing whenever possible. But today, he could no longer tolerate it.

He may not have seen the great fortune bestowed upon him by the Three Altars of the Sea God, but if he had, he would have fought for the Yuanshi Sect. Otherwise, his position as the chief disciple would have been his last.

But as soon as he said that, several elders of the Taiyi Sect stood up from the crowd and angrily rebuked him.

"The Yuanshi Sect is utterly shameless! How could Nezha be a disciple of your Yuanshi Sect? He is the closed-door disciple of my Taiyi Ancestor, the second-generation ancestor of my Taiyi Sect!"

"Although our two sects are superior and inferior, and my Taiyi Sect did indeed separate from your Yuanshi Sect, now that we've split up, we need to keep things separate. You can't turn our second-generation patriarch into your third-generation patriarch. What's wrong with that? Does your Yuanshi Sect always have to be one generation ahead of us in terms of seniority?"

“Only our Taiyi Sect has the right to recognize Nezha as our Patriarch. Your Yuanshi Sect should stand aside. However, Sect Master Su, I wonder which disciple from our sect has been chosen to receive the blessings of my second Patriarch?”

The question posed by the elder of the Taiyi Sect caught Su Qing off guard.

That's right. As the sect leader of Taiyi Sect, he held the portrait of the Taiyi Ancestor and the carving knife, but he only thought about providing off-site support for Qinghe. He never even considered that Taiyi Sect disciples were also qualified to compete for this opportunity, and he never thought of sending a Taiyi Sect disciple over.

However, this didn't stump him. He was just a disciple of the Taiyi Sect, and Qinghe could also be a disciple of the Taiyi Sect!

"It's arranged. I've arranged for Qinghe, the chief disciple of this generation, to enter," Su Qing replied calmly.

"Qinghe? Who is this? Which elder is she from? Why have I never heard of her before? That shouldn't be the case. To be favored by Sect Master Su, she must be a person of extraordinary talent. I have been in the sect for so long, there's no way I haven't heard of her!" an elder asked suspiciously.

Immediately, another elder of the Taiyi Sect slapped his thigh and said, "Who? That Qinghe is not human! She is a spirit, the first manager of Su's Puppet Shop. For many years after that, she has been in the business world and has never spent a day in the cultivation world. Moreover, her reputation is extremely bad. She followed Sect Master Su to many places, and wherever she went, she would incur countless bad debts, causing countless fellow cultivators to suffer. A hundred years ago, it was only through the intervention of Sect Master Su and the guarantee of Xiong Er Money House that all her bad debts were cleared. In total, it would take her more than three thousand eight hundred years to pay off all her bad debts..."

Qinghe's resume was unremarkable and riddled with misdeeds. She was the kind of person who would not even get an interview if she submitted her resume to the Taiyi Sect. After learning that Qinghe was not originally a disciple of the Taiyi Sect, how could these elders of the Taiyi Sect not know that the so-called position of chief disciple was also decided by Su Qing on a whim?

"This won't do, Sect Leader Su. It's not that you can't choose disciples, but at least choose someone!"

"Why choose a person? When the Grandmaster Taiyi took Nezha in, he couldn't have been a person!"

"Yes, education should be provided to all, and spirits and monsters can indeed become disciples of my Taiyi Sect, but you should at least choose a good one!"

"Qinghe is not a bad person. She has followed me for many years and has been influenced by me. She is pure, innocent, and kind. I even plan to have her represent the Taiyi Sect to take over the management of this cave!"

To take over a secluded paradise?
Upon hearing this, the elders of the Taiyi Sect immediately understood what Su Qing meant.

Everyone knows that Su Qing still has the authority to create two more cave heavens, and various forces under his command are vying for these two cave heavens.

Despite its small size, the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom is a powerful force. No, it's small but complete. To the outside world, it is a unified entity that completely obeys Su Qing's will. It is considered a top power in the Tianyuan Realm and among all the myriad worlds. However, within the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, the competition between various forces has never stopped.

These factions have temple districts.

This temple area is led by the gods Yingjue and Liang Haishun. Their strength is average, but they are fortunate to have a powerful patron who provides them with a steady stream of funds. With abundant funds and the natural influence of the gods, they can occupy a certain position in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

Among them, Liang Haishun's longevity peaches, the divine armor blessed by the power of the god of death, the water for fertility from the midwife god, and the water for paternity testing, etc., are packaged by the professional team of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and sold far and wide at home and abroad. While spreading these beliefs in gods, they also earn a lot of foreign exchange.

There is also a central district.

This area is home to the Su Ji Group, which includes Xiong Er Money House, which influences the fiscal and monetary policies of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and has many functions such as controlling inflation, stabilizing employment, and supporting the development of high-tech industries. It also includes Su Ji Puppet, the flagship product of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's foreign trade, and its various upstream and downstream industrial chains. This group alone has the power of an entire immortal kingdom and is directly controlled by Su Qing. It is a force that no one in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom dares to offend.

Furthermore, there is the National Lord's Palace, which controls the armed forces and intelligence capabilities both domestically and internationally. All resources can be mobilized by it, and any word uttered from within can cause a great uproar in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and even in all the myriad realms.

The council hall, as Su Qing explained, is where each faction selects a representative to convene every ten years to discuss the various policies of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. Theoretically, this representative holds the greatest power in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. Of course, this is only in theory; as the ruler, Su Qing possesses veto power, the power to pass resolutions, and many other special powers reserved for the founding ruler. Behind the central area is the commercial district.

As a celestial kingdom that started with trade, Kaiyuan Celestial Kingdom has always supported the economic development of its own kingdom. After hundreds of years of development, apart from behemoths like Su Ji Group, which used its hard power to enter the myriad realms and expand its business territory to every corner of the myriad realms, becoming famous multinational and cross-border puppet groups.

There are other high-quality enterprises in the business district that are the envy of other immortal kingdoms.

There is a puppet group dedicated to developing unique puppets and differentiating itself from competitors.

The puppets manufactured by this group all share a common feature: one puppet can serve the purpose of three. They are easy to use and inexpensive, and various puppet components are interchangeable and can be disassembled. The cost of use and modification is extremely low, which is very different from the easy-to-use but expensive puppets of the Su Group. They have filled a part of the market gap and have been developing well.

There is also the Langya Alchemy Industry, which rose rapidly during the development of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and has now entered a period of rapid development again after the arrival of the Divine Realm.

It controls one-fifth of the high-quality mines in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and has signed a supply contract with Langya Immortal Island that will last for a thousand years. It also has a series of puppets specially supplied by the Su Ji Group, including mining puppets, mining machine puppets, transportation puppets, and construction puppets. It has countless resources and strong technical accumulation. It has now been dispatched to the Xing Sha Divine Kingdom, Qiandao Immortal Kingdom and other immortal kingdoms that have been destroyed by evil demons to help rebuild these immortal kingdoms.

Then there's Jia Tianxia. This group originally had a strong growth momentum, but since the opening of the Tianyuan Realm, it has repeatedly failed in its attempts to open up markets outside the realm due to the impact of the Yuanshi Sect, the number one weapon-refining sect in the heavens, and the Dongwang Sect, which is dedicated to developing the armor industry.

Only its flagship products, the Yingzhao series and the Life and Death series developed by Shao Delong, the current leader of Jia Tianxia, ​​have sold relatively well. In particular, the Life and Death series of armor, with its slogan of "Take life and death lightly, and fight if you're not convinced," has catered to the tastes of countless cultivators across the heavens and is slowly gaining popularity in the myriad worlds. However, its cross-border and cross-industry business is still struggling and its future is not very bright.

And then there's the business group that must be mentioned: the family business—Debao Nephew's Spiritual Food Shop—jointly run by Wei Debao's nephews and nieces.

Originally founded by Wei Debao's niece who practiced spiritual food techniques, the business became extremely popular due to the freshness of the ingredients, the large quantities, and the low prices. As a result, branches were continuously opened, and other nieces and nephews joined the business.

After receiving investment from Su Ji Group, it embarked on a fast track of development. With the help of Su Ji Group's connections in various immortal kingdoms of Tianyuan Realm and in all the myriad worlds, and with the protection of Su Ji Group, it opened its first interdimensional chain store in Kunlun Realm a few years ago. In this way, it began to take steps to operate across industries, and its development momentum was even stronger than that of Jia Tianxia.

Besides these companies, there are also Spider Medical Group, Bliss Entertainment, Delong Security and many other industries. The entire commercial district has become the largest force in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

Beyond the commercial area lies the cultivation area, dominated by the Taiyi Sect, the Snail Emperor Sect, and the Martial Arts Hall.

There's no need to elaborate on the Taiyi Sect and the Snail Emperor Sect. As major sects across the myriad realms, they already had numerous industries and no problem cultivating their disciples. After shifting their development focus to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, the Taiyi Sect has also done quite well in developing related industries such as raising spirits, alchemy and weapon crafting, and Daoist training. However, because they are not top-tier in any of their areas of expertise, they are versatile but not proficient in any one area, thus making it difficult for them to achieve exorbitant profits.

Because the Snail Emperor Sect had the ability to improve people's aptitude, they were always the ones receiving money from others, and they never had to worry about spirit stones.

The Martial Arts Academy is a money pit, supported by the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's finances, with a continuous influx of funds. Although it has no economic output, its talent output ratio is extremely high. After these talents achieve success in their cultivation, they will be sent to various industries in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom to contribute to the country's development.

Beyond the cultivation area lies the witch community. This community was originally the weakest, with average strength and economy. However, since receiving assistance from the Jiuli and Xingtian grotto-heavens, the witches have made rapid progress in strength, and more and more witches have reverted to their ancestral forms. There are now two fifth-tier great witches. Given time, it is not an unrealistic expectation to repeat the witch clan's heyday. Moreover, the economy is also showing signs of improvement, with the development of witch-themed tourism and the creation of an ancient, primitive landscape scenic area...

Jing Shen District, though recently established, had already completed its divine weapon industry during the Jing Shen Realm era. Upon settling in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, it was able to export divine weapons and ammunition, the most lucrative industry. This alone could make them incredibly wealthy. Add to that the scarce resources like divine holy stones, and the district's development momentum speaks for itself. Just look at the influx of people from the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom heading north and the skyrocketing property prices in the district.

With the six major regions advancing in unison, the national strength of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom has been increasing day by day, gradually becoming on par with the major sects of the heavens, and proclaiming the slogan of surpassing Lingbao Sect in ten thousand years and overtaking Yuanshi Sect in one hundred thousand years.

The competition between different districts and forces has never stopped.

We must strive for favorable policies, resources, and opportunities.

Now, the main point of contention is the two undeveloped grotto-heavens in Su Qing's possession.

This is also why Su Qing has been slow to open up the cave.

Everyone wants it, everyone wants milk, and as the patriarch, he's in a difficult position about who gets it and who doesn't.

Among them, the witch forces in the witch district were the first to be excluded. The two cave heavens of Jiuli and Xingtian were already enough for them. If they were to go further, people would start to doubt Su Qing's character.

The Azure Dragon Cave Heaven is sufficient to provide the entire human race with a complete set of grotto heavens. There are also different levels among the grotto heavens. The Azure Dragon Cave Heaven, which was created based on the Four Imperial Dao Patterns, is clearly the highest quality level among the grotto heavens.

Liang Haishun from the temple district wanted to secure a grotto for the Kaiyuan deities. His reasoning was quite grand: the deities needed to maintain a distance from mortals. Deities who were always hovering in front of mortals couldn't inspire any awe in them. He wanted to use this grotto as the deities' residence, where the deities would live in the grotto and mortals would live in the mortal world.

Su Qing rejected this reason without even considering it; in his eyes, gods weren't that arrogant. (End of Chapter)