Immortality begins with meditation puppets

The Heavenly Symbol Hall is an organization that is both mysterious and not mysterious, with most of its members unaware of its true nature.

Its members are spread throughout the heavens and realms, regardless of strength. Those with high strength include seventh-order Dao Lords from the three major Dao lineages such as the Yuanshi Sect and the Lingbao Sect, while those with low strength, such as Su Qing who was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, can also become formal members of this hall.

No one is restricted by identity; demons and monsters are welcome to enter. Even someone like Gao Erqiang, who was born evil, can become a good comrade in the Heavenly Talisman Hall after he reforms and embarks on the path of suppressing demons and eliminating evil.

The reason why this temple attracts high-level cultivators from all realms to join is that there are few tasks involved. As long as you fight against demons and evil spirits, you can earn merit points to exchange for good items.

Secondly, its benefits are high. Exorcising evil spirits and demons is the main theme of the cultivation world. When cultivators encounter evil spirits and demons, they should fight and kill them. Joining this temple will also give them an extra benefit. Isn't that like getting something for free? In particular, the benefits distributed by this temple and the various good items it has are all ancient treasures, not the common goods given to beggars.

Su Qing believed that over the years, major Daoist sects such as the Yuanshi Sect and the Lingbao Sect must have investigated the Tianfu Palace, because he had done something similar after becoming the ruler of Kaiyuan Kingdom.

As everyone knows, the creator of the Heavenly Talisman Palace was the spirit of the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda, one of the five innate treasures of the ancient Supreme Sect, a sacred object of morality, and the only one of its kind in the world from ancient times to the present.

All the precious items inside were preserved by this tower for all living beings during the ancient demonic calamity.

Knowing this, all the forces in the various realms allowed their disciples to join this organization, and none of them were interested in unveiling the mystery of the Heavenly Talisman Hall. Even if someone did speak out, everyone would deny it outright, for fear that the Supreme Sect would use this as an opportunity to declare its sovereignty over the organization and take over the Heavenly Talisman Hall, although the Supreme Sect has not shown such an inclination so far.

For Su Qing, knowing the background of the Heavenly Talisman Palace not only helps to rule out the possibility that the palace is a conspiracy by evil forces to infiltrate the heavens, but also allows him to make better use of the palace's resources.

Knowing that this hall was created by the tower spirit, and merely mechanically carrying out the last wishes of the Supreme Sect's founder, using its resources to aid the anti-demon cause and benefit all living beings.

He developed the good habit of always claiming credit for killing evil and frequently reporting on any matters.

Whether he killed the evil spirit or not, the common people may not know, and Heaven and Earth may not be clear, but the Heavenly Talisman Palace must know and promptly redeem the merit points to him.

Merit points can only be redeemed after achieving great deeds? Not necessarily. The spirit of the innate treasure tower is not so rigid and inflexible.

In order to fight against the demon, this creature needs to receive some merit rewards in advance. Could it also extract some merit in advance?

No one had ever done this before, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, because Su Qing did it and succeeded.

Previously, when Tong Chang was acting as a power bank outside the Lingxiao Palace, using his resources to help the Four Celestial Masters resist the Demon Buddha, Su Qing suddenly had a brilliant idea: to have Tong Chang try to explain the situation to the Tianfu Palace and borrow a batch of resources on credit to fight against the evil spirits. The Tianfu Palace approved and disbursed the loan instantly, giving Tong Chang a quota of tens of millions of merit points, which helped him get through the embarrassing moment when his own resources were exhausted before the arrival of the resources from the Western Sea cultivation world.

After this success, Su Qingli used the same method when fighting the Reincarnation Demon in the Divine Realm. He truthfully reported to the Heavenly Talisman Palace the harm the Reincarnation Demon caused to all the heavens and myriad realms, the significance of eliminating this demon for all the heavens and myriad realms, and his plan and methods for eliminating this demon. This allowed him to obtain 30% of the merit he would receive after eliminating this demon from the Heavenly Talisman Palace before he even had a chance to do so.

Using the 30% merit points he had received in advance, he exchanged them for all sorts of good materials for puppet making. Otherwise, even though the Divine Realm had abundant spirit stone mines, it was still just one realm and couldn't possibly possess all the raw materials for the entire puppet-making industry chain. He obtained a small portion of these materials, which were not available in the Divine Realm, from his fellow celestial teammates who had fallen into the Divine Realm at the time, and the majority of the rest were exchanged from the Heavenly Talisman Hall. It was because of this that he had the puppet army during the final battle against the Reincarnation Demon, which laid the foundation for his ultimate victory.

Of course, the spirit of the Xuanhuang Pagoda can adapt to circumstances and respond accordingly, providing timely assistance to living beings based on the actual needs of resisting demons. Living beings should not think that there are loopholes to exploit.

If someone tries to fabricate a pretext to obtain merit loans from the Heavenly Talisman Hall, once the Xuanhuang Pagoda Spirit discovers that the materials exchanged for these merits have flowed elsewhere, not only will the loan be immediately withdrawn, but the Xuanhuang Pagoda Spirit will also use its ability to collect and release merits and fortune to punish the person by confiscating their merits and fortune, making them a person of no virtue, and from then on, they will have no place to stand in the world.

Having never used a business loan as a down payment or a consumer loan to offset a mortgage in her previous life, Su Qing would never do anything to deceive the spirit of the Xuanhuang Tower.

Even now, all the precious materials he obtained from the Heavenly Talisman Palace were for the purpose of creating puppets.

But was this puppet made for him personally? It was made to fight against evil spirits, for all living beings in the world!
[Because the Demon Buddha has usurped the Heavenly Emperor's Dharma body and rebelled against the Heavenly Gang in an attempt to establish a Demonic Heavenly Court, in order to stop his attempt from succeeding, the Heavenly Emperor, along with Su Qing, a core member of the Heavenly Talisman Hall and the leader of the Heavenly Puppets, suggested implementing the Lingxiao Palace Plan and the Earthly Divine Kingdom Plan, and requested to apply in advance for the corresponding materials to construct the seventh-tier puppets of these two sides...]

[Due to the rampant evil spirits that have wreaked havoc on all sides, causing immense suffering and death, and the inability of mortal kingdoms to resist, the reality of heavy casualties necessitates the proposal of Su Qing, a candidate for Human Emperor, a four-star core member of the Heavenly Talisman Hall, and the ruler of the Kaiyuan Kingdom, to implement the Armored Warrior Puppet Project and the Mutation and Modification Puppet Project. He wishes to apply in advance for the necessary resources to construct two sets of seventh-tier puppets...]

Demons deserve to die. All living beings have had a hard time. As both the Heavenly Emperor and a candidate for the Human Emperor, Su Qing is naturally obligated to shoulder the responsibility of fighting demons and saving all living beings from suffering.

The proposed creation of a seventh-tier puppet is indeed expensive and requires a lot of resources, but it is a feasible plan. As long as the Xuanhuang Pagoda Spirit agrees, he can bring the project to fruition, which is much more reliable than those swindlers and unscrupulous businessmen who use empty projects to cheat people out of money and loans.

However, the spirit of the Xuanhuang Tower did not quite trust his sincere and pure heart. Because the loan amount was extremely large, it reviewed it repeatedly and even invited some people with professional experience in this type of business from all over the world to provide relevant advice. For example, Xiong Er, the founder of Xiong Er Money House and an investment master, Tiger Might True Lord, gave it the professional advice to invest boldly, to do it with confidence, and that investing is investing in people. People like Su Qing are not wrong.

Thus, after a professional review, the resources he had advanced arrived ahead of schedule, giving him the ability to forge four seventh-tier puppets at once. Two of these seventh-tier puppets were based on puppet blueprints produced from his personal panel; he only needed to upgrade the core runes to the eighth tier to begin forging them.

One of these two puppets is a mythological warship-type puppet—the Lingxiao Palace.

This puppet is essentially the same as the Golden Roc Mothership and Sky Mothership he created in the past; they are all aerial combat platforms.

The difference lies in the fact that this puppet's configuration list is more luxurious, and its hull is much larger. How large? Without any intention of targeting it, it's about the same size as the Penglai Immortal Island, which has been relentlessly preparing for the construction of an artificial heavenly court.

To make such a large ship able to fly in the air and withstand attacks from beings like seventh-tier Dao Lords and Heavenly Demon Generals, the materials used are far superior to those used to build a Golden Roc mothership that can be made from a few Golden Roc feathers and a Golden Roc corpse.

Its main material is the first Jianmu tree at the beginning of the world, provided by the spirit of the Xuanhuang Pagoda. Only such precious wood, which has stood on the ground and supported the sky for a long time, can support this huge ship that is as big as a fairy country.

Its auxiliary materials are also composed of many fifth and sixth-grade precious materials that have been refined and polished by the mature puppet-making industry of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. Without boasting, in the current myriad worlds, apart from the Yuanshi Sect, which has been passed down from ancient times and is skilled in weapon crafting, there is only the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

This is only the hull frame; its core is its power source. To enable it to have the energy to contend with a seventh-order great power, this power source could be a seventh-order ancient star core, or a primordial treasure, or a seventh-order great power's Dao fruit.

Su Qing clearly didn't have any of these things. Whether the Xuanhuang Pagoda Spirit truly didn't have them or was pretending, it told him it didn't. He tried asking it, wanting it to become a highly enlightened pagoda spirit and dedicate itself to the Lingxiao Palace to contribute to the rise of living beings and the revival of all realms. This suggestion was cruelly rejected by the Xuanhuang Pagoda Spirit.

Thus, left with no other choice, he himself displayed a noble character and a high level of awareness that even the spirit of the Xuanhuang Tower could not match. He wanted to take out the Four Imperial Dao Patterns, the symbol of the Heavenly Emperor, and the Taixu Sun and Moon Dao Patterns that he possessed, as the power source for this Lingxiao Palace.

The Four Imperial Dao Patterns are manifestations of the Great Dao, and the Taixu Sun and Moon Dao Patterns inherently possess the ability to govern all the stars and draw upon the power of the stars. As the power source for this Lingxiao Palace, it is no longer a question of whether it is sufficient, but rather whether its power is excessive and worthwhile.

With the power source issue resolved, the main structure of this Lingxiao Palace was completed, but this only completed part of the work of crafting the puppet.

Just as when the Heavenly Emperor was in power, the reason why the Lingxiao Palace was the core of power in all the heavens and myriad realms was not because of the Heavenly Emperor's power alone. After all, if he was already the Heavenly Emperor, wouldn't it be pointless for him to do everything himself? The powerful authority that the Lingxiao Palace established in all the heavens and myriad realms relied on the heavenly soldiers and generals, as well as many great gods, who could manifest in all the heavens and myriad realms at any time to exercise the will of heaven and earth.

Now, if this Lingxiao Palace puppet is to have the same deterrent power as the Lingxiao Palace of the past, and for this puppet to show its sharpness and have the ability to roam the heavens as if the emperor himself were present, it still depends on whether the carrier-based aircraft configured on it are fierce enough, whether the firepower system is powerful enough, whether the defensive formation is strong enough, and whether the fleet has enough crew members!
He plans to divide the carrier-based aircraft into three squadrons. One squadron will consist of thousands of fifth-order Pengtian Armored Puppets, led by Divine Silver and Two-Headed Dragon God, two sixth-order puppets who possess divinity.

This fighter squadron possesses superior mobility and exceptional air combat capabilities, allowing it to be deployed at any time to intervene in various realms, expanding the strike range of the Lingxiao Palace and increasing its deterrent power and influence as a seventh-tier puppet.

Secondly, a bomber formation composed of the Colossus series of puppets developed and continuously improved by the divine realm.

The Colossus series, currently a best-selling puppet in the foreign trade of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's Jing Shen District, features unique mechanical runes found nowhere else in the myriad realms. It boasts advantages such as colossal size, modularity, low modification difficulty, and the option to equip the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's Exploding Stone Puppet and Tyrant Puppet to enhance its power.

Furthermore, the bomber squadron, composed of Optimus Prime, Megatron, Unicron, and other transforming giant-like puppets personally crafted by Su Qing, is extremely excellent in both sweeping firepower coverage against the enemy and close-quarters melee combat.

The key is that they are big enough. In the eyes of most mortals, big means strong, big means mighty, big means godlike. When these giant warriors land around them to protect them, their huge size can bring them a strong sense of security and also spread the influence of the Lingxiao Palace.

Thirdly, there is the Divine Spirit Team. As the name suggests, this team is composed entirely of orthodox deities and has nothing to do with puppets. According to Su Qing's original intention, although he was trying to emulate the ancient Lingxiao Palace by refining this Lingxiao Palace, he wanted it to have the same combat power and influence as the ancient Lingxiao Palace.

However, there's no need to actually deploy gods on it like the Lingxiao Palace. Since the Lingxiao Palace itself is a puppet, it's fine if the carrier-based aircraft are also puppets. After all, it's easy to repair and rebuild a puppet if it's broken. Gods, on the other hand, need salaries, benefits, and compensation for injuries and losses. That would be more expensive than repairing or rebuilding a puppet. The cost and efficiency are not as good as using puppets. If puppets can be used, he naturally won't consider gods.

Unfortunately, as the ruler of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, he also had to consider the internal social stability and employment of the immortals.

The Temple District, the Immortal Kingdom District he prepared to compete with the artificial Heavenly Court of Penglai Immortal Kingdom, has seen an increasing number of locally cultivated and foreign deities in recent years, making the placement of these deities a major problem.

Deities like Liang Haishun and Yingjueshen, who have obvious employment advantages, can still find a job in Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and use it to spread their faith and consolidate their divine authority.

However, due to the extremely high prevalence of puppets in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, many positions were occupied by puppets, and most gods could not compete for them and were unemployed.

These deities gradually became destabilizing factors within the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. In recent years, the frequency of their disturbances has increased, forcing him to send some of the more excessive deities to the Penglai Immortal Kingdom for reformation.

Now, the construction of this Lingxiao Palace has created a certain number of jobs to accommodate these idle deities, which is a solution. (End of Chapter)