Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Spiritual practice is not easy. Dharma companions, wealth, and place are all things that are difficult to find and obtain. True companions can only be found through fate. Only wealth and place are the things that can be grasped most firmly.

Cultivators don't earn money easily, and every spirit stone must be spent wisely. High-end places like the Blissful Heavenly Palace are something that cultivators who are single-mindedly devoted to the Dao and have ambition would disdain and would absolutely not be willing to come to.

However, the high-ranking cultivators from various sects, including True Monarch Guangxian and True Monarch Danyuan, found the place bustling with activity. To be honest, even when they held a proper Dharma assembly, they couldn't gather this many people. It was truly unexpected that so many cultivators would spend money to waste their time in this frivolous entertainment venue.

"The world is going to the dogs, and people's hearts are no longer what they used to be. The threat of evil has not yet been eliminated, and the trend of extravagance and hedonism has spread to such an extent. We cannot ignore this matter. When I return, I will issue a letter to all cultivators in the myriad realms in the name of the Anti-Demon Alliance, condemning this unhealthy trend and determined to bring all cultivators back to the right track!"

Because he had the Fairy Qinse by his side, the True Lord Guangxian was not tempted by the various and charming maids of different races in the Blissful Heavenly Palace. He only felt that he had the instinct of a Yuanshi Sect cultivator to uphold the rules of the cultivation world and to correct these cultivators who had gone astray.

In short, once you're used to being a father, you can't shake the fatherly attitude. You treat everyone like a son, and if your son doesn't act as you expect, you have to step in to manage him.

Su Qing simply smiled and remained silent. Seeing Shi Lijing frowning and remaining silent as he looked at the intricate Dao patterns on the Heavenly Palace, she asked with a smile:

"Fellow Daoist Master, you noticed?"

"I can see it, but I'm not so sure I can say it!" Shi Lijing looked at Su Qing, then at Guangxian Zhenjun. These two were his living fathers, and he dared not offend either of them!

“You can say that!” Su Qing encouraged.

“Then I’ll really say it!” Shi Lijing confirmed again.

"Speak, Fellow Daoist Su brought us here, presumably just to show me this. This is the only thing worth mentioning and seeing in this entire Heavenly Palace!" True Monarch Guangxian said irritably.

Having received assurances from his two living fathers, Shi Lijing finally spoke.

"I observe that this entire Heavenly Palace is a living being, the body of a deity, seemingly a true god using his own divine body as a place for romance and pleasure."

Looking again at the Daoist runes on the top of the Heavenly Palace, the more I look at them, the more they resemble the Joyful Daoist runes. These runes were once mastered by our demonic cultivators in ancient times, giving rise to the Joyful and Happy lineage. After the conflict between the Daoist and demonic factions, these runes fell into the hands of the Snail Emperor, who then gave them to the Nine-Tailed Fox, who used them to launch the Investiture of the Gods war...

Over the years, our Demonic Path of Joy and Happiness has been trying to regain control of this Dao rune, but to this day, we have not heard of anyone achieving this goal. Unexpectedly, this Dao rune has transformed into a divine rune and is now controlled by a deity?

Master Lijing recounted everything he knew, and as soon as he finished speaking, True Lord Guangxian began to nitpick:

"This is outrageous! The Five Elders Divine Patterns of one place are enough to create and cultivate a fifth- or even sixth-order god. If used for good, they could definitely become the backbone of the fight against evil. How can we let them do such despicable things here!"

The great cultivators of all sects felt that it was reasonable for True Lord Guangxian to point out this fault.

In their view, there was nothing wrong with Su Qing engaging in business and advocating joyful cultivation, especially since he was only implementing it within the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom at the moment, and it would not have much impact on other forces. Therefore, everyone remained silent about it, treating it as a testing ground. If the results were good, they would follow suit; if the results were bad, they would all mock him together.

But no matter how much Su Qing messed around, no one expected him to go this far. The Five Elders Divine Rune is something that countless people would kill for, and he used it for this? Even the founding patriarch of the Joyful Union Sect back then wouldn't dare to treat the divine rune so lightly!
"Su Tianjun can afford to play this game, because he has so many Dao and Divine runes!"

"The Emperor's Golden Hoe, we cannot imagine the joy that Su Tianjun possesses with so many divine and Dao patterns, let alone what he will do with them!"

"To be honest, if you, Lord Su, have too many divine runes and Dao runes and can't use them all yourself, you can completely hand over this heavy responsibility to us. We can also use these runes and divine runes to do our part for the common people!"

The various sects cultivate sour and unsophisticated doctrines, like sour grapes. Su Qing has had too many grapes, and they take every opportunity to say something.

Su Qing smiled and ignored what everyone was saying, only saying:
"You all know that this Joyful Divine Rune is now the Five Elders Divine Rune, but you don't know that when the Snail Emperor Sect handed this divine rune to me, it had already fallen to the Sixth Division Divine Rune. It was I who sought out a fifth-level body cultivator from my Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and asked him to consider the overall situation of my Tianyuan and to offer himself up, abandoning his human and immortal pursuits to take the path of the gods and inherit this Joyful Divine Rune."

You all should recognize this person; he is Huang Shanghuang, an elder of the Huang family of the Penglai Sect. Back then, he was an old man who had been living underground for a long time. Because his lifespan was nearing its end, he had been sealing his breath and barely surviving underground. After learning that I had the Xingtian Blood Axe, which could help people achieve enlightenment with a single stroke, he came to serve me in my Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

It can be said that he was not destined to die. He was spared the annihilation of the Huang family. As the only surviving member of the Huang family, he was able to sacrifice himself for the benefit of all living beings. He used his own body as a vessel to cultivate the divine rune, transforming it into the Blissful Heavenly Palace, absorbing the joy and desires of all living beings, and elevating the divine rune to the level of the Five Elders.

"As I predict, if cultivators from all realms and sects support the development of this Blissful Heavenly Palace and do not restrict their disciples from seeking the source of joy here, this divine rune has the potential to advance further and become a top-grade divine rune of the Five Elders!"

The words of Su Qing caused a great stir. As soon as Su Qing finished speaking, all the high-level cultivators were stunned on the spot!
"What is he saying? What is he saying?!"

"He cultivated these divine runes? He's nurturing them!"

"Can divine runes be nurtured? How do we nurture them? Let him teach us quickly!"

"We can rejoice, we can fall, and we too can desire divine runes!"

The revival of Tianyuan has sparked a wave of cultivation frenzy, allowing everyone to improve. However, no one expected that Dao patterns and divine patterns could also improve, especially in this way.

Su Qing truly opened their eyes today; even Guangxian Zhenjun stared wide-eyed, speechless for a moment.

He racked his brains but couldn't fathom that such a decadent place could actually have the wonderful effect of enhancing divine runes. From this perspective, it would be of great benefit to all realms and to the great cause of fighting against demons. There was no way he could be wrong. "The true essence of joyful cultivation is just this. If cultivators pursue the path of cultivation and are solely focused on purifying their minds and reducing desires, they may avoid external disturbances, but they will also be ignorant of worldly affairs and human relationships. If all cultivators follow fixed routes and conform to the rules, how can there be a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending?"

In my view, taking advantage of the revival of the Heavenly Origin and the surging tide of thought across the myriad realms, we cultivators should follow the trend, ushering in a new era of cultivation, liberating the inherent nature of cultivators, allowing them to follow their Dao heart, and seeking the path they love and are interested in for development. Only in this way can we achieve twice the result with half the effort, making good use of the cultivation legacies left to us by the ancient great beings, and making good use of the resources of heaven and earth, so that our cultivation world can once again become great!

Standing in this blissful heavenly palace, Su Qing spoke his mind, something he hadn't thought of or wanted to do only after becoming the ruler of Kaiyuan Kingdom.

In fact, he had this mindset from the beginning of his cultivation. In the art of puppetry, unlike other puppeteers who focused on combat, he only made puppets according to needs and demand, taking the customer market as the guide, rather than following the path of his predecessors and copying them blindly.

Of course, the various drawings provided by the system also gave him a small, insignificant help during this process.

Even without the system, the puppet research lab in Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom can still continuously develop practical and useful puppets. For example, the spirit chariot puppet that Liu Qingsong is currently driving is a product of the puppet research lab.

Aside from allocating funds, he did not participate in any step of the project's research and development. However, once the hearse puppet was launched, it immediately sold hundreds of thousands of units in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and was already preparing to enter the overseas market, becoming the flagship product of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom this year.

It brings a continuous flow of cash to the Immortal Kingdom and can support the puppet research and development lab's future research and development. In this way, with a complete production, research and sales chain and a virtuous cycle, Su Qing can confidently say that the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's leading position in the field of puppets will be able to continue!
The tedious pursuit of immortality is meaningless, and the cultivation world isn't all about fighting and killing.

Mortals need to live, and cultivators need to be happy. This is the driving force behind cultivation and the catalyst for the development of the cultivation world!
No matter how earnestly he tried to persuade them, he couldn't overturn the established mindset that the high-ranking cultivators of various sects had cultivated over millions of years in just a few words.

To put it bluntly, these people are ancient relics who have lived for tens of millions of years. The system he is now promoting is unacceptable not only to the maintainer of the old order, True Lord Guangxian, but also to these great cultivators from all realms.

Therefore, if he doesn't show them some benefits, and these benefits can directly benefit them, he can forget about gaining their support. Without their support, he doesn't know how much resistance he will encounter if he wants to promote this system to all the heavens and myriad worlds!

As expected, although the Blissful Heavenly Palace greatly shocked these powerful cultivators, they did not express their support. They only wanted Su Qing to tell them the method of cultivating divine runes and Dao patterns.

"Su Tianjun, you know me. I've always considered you my godfather. If there are any benefits, you'd better think of me, your godson!"

"Third brother, your second brother hasn't asked you for anything all these years, but you must tell me this method. Your second brother really doesn't have many capable fighters under his command. If we cultivate more high-level divine runes and produce more capable fighters, they can be of service to you in the future!"

"Su Tianjun, we all agreed beforehand that we should be open and progressive. To impose a technological blockade will only earn us the contempt of everyone!"

Shi Lijing, Liu Gandang, and other high-ranking cultivators felt that the Blissful Heavenly Palace was just an old way of making money, with nothing to learn from it. They were not very interested in Su Qing's happy cultivation method. Even if they were, they dared not show it because of the pressure from the Primordial Sect. They only wanted to cultivate divine patterns and Dao patterns, which was the important thing to make the sect prosper!

Su Qing told them that the method for cultivating Dao patterns and divine patterns was the Joyful Cultivation Method. Seeing that they did not believe him, he then had everyone get back into the car and head to the second tourist destination.

"The hearse has started its procession again, and the next destination for all tourists is the Wu ethnic minority tourism area."

The Witch Clan—a term that sounds powerful and mysterious. Since the great calamity of antiquity, no trace of the Witch Clan has been found on the earth. At most, there are only Witch People with Witch Clan blood. As for everything about the purebred Witch Clan, we can only search for it in the Daoist scriptures and find fragments of their memories in the long river of time.

But now, in my Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, one after another, members of the Witch Clan are born, taking this race, which is on the verge of extinction—no, it is actually already extinct—from its coffin.

Now, under the leadership of the newly born Witch Clan, our Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom has perfectly replicated every detail of the Witch Clan's production and daily life in the past, allowing everyone to fully appreciate the authentic ancient Witch culture!

Liu Qingsong enthusiastically explained the novelties of the Wuzu-themed tourist area, but the group of high-level cultivators in the car were still immersed in the shock of the Joyful Divine Pattern just now, and did not quite catch his enthusiasm, so their reactions were all very indifferent.

The fact that the Witch Clan has reappeared in the world is quite sensational.

But this happened decades ago, and the sensation it caused back then has already been over.

All the cultivators in the carriage knew that the rebirth of the Wu Clan was thanks to the cave heavens opened by Su Qing and Xing Tian specifically for the Wu Clan. Using these two cave heavens, they searched for the bloodline of the ancient Wu Clan from all the heavens and myriad realms, the chaotic void, and even the river of time, allowing the ancient Wu Clan's physical bodies to reunite and live another life within the cave heavens.

After this method was successfully implemented, all the major sects, demon races, dragon races and other sects and forces were extremely excited.

They also wanted to follow suit, to open up new worlds, and to resurrect their predecessors, sages, and ancient demons.

After the initial excitement, when it came to implementation, the difficulty of putting this method into practice was discovered.

The basic premise is that there must be a hidden world, but at present, there are very few forces with hidden worlds, which cuts off the hope of most forces to revive their predecessors and sages.

Furthermore, there is someone like Su Qing, who is recognized by the modern witches as the sole leader. Only in this way can he, as the leader of his race, summon the essence and blood of his ancestors scattered throughout the past, future, and all parts of the world.

This step is not a problem for the demon race, which is a mixed group of races and no one submits to anyone else. For the demon emperor's power, it is not a problem for the great sects of the heavens, which have sect leaders and supreme elders, and for the dragon race, which has the living dragon king, the Azure Dragon King.

The most difficult step is the third one, which involves a group of witches who are willing to donate their essence and blood, even at the cost of damage to their cultivation and shortened lifespan. They are willing to give the little bit of witch blood they contain to the resurrected witches so that they can replenish their bloodline and be reborn!

Such sacrifices are beyond the reach of the modern cultivators of the great sects of the heavens; true dragons are dwindling, and the dragon race, which already has very little dragon blood and veins, is powerless to stop them. Therefore, to this day, the only powerful beings resurrected since ancient times are the hundreds of witch clan members within the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom! (End of Chapter)