Immortality begins with meditation puppets

"Fireball is a dog."

"How novel! It's not a dog, it could be a person!"

"But it's not just a dog, it's different from you!"

"Oh, so just like you, not only a dog, but a biting dog!"

"Hey, why are you swearing at me? Get to the point! I'm saying you can't treat Fireball like an ordinary dog, it has someone backing it!"

"So you're relying on your master's power? I'm not afraid. Everyone has a few people behind them. I'm taking away this batch of dog food from them today!"

"Alright, alright, alright, you're amazing, I give you a thumbs up! But when the fire egg comes to find its owner, I hope you can still be as tough as you are now!"

“I want his master to come. What’s so great about his master? Isn’t he just that Kaiyuan Su Qing? He’s just a bully in the Tianyuan Realm, using the title of ‘Heavenly Emperor’s Walker’ to intimidate others. But that title doesn’t work in our Feihong Realm. I won’t tolerate him, and I certainly won’t tolerate his lackeys!”

In the Southern Void, in a vast realm called the Flying Goose Realm, Li Jingze, the leader of the Purple Cloud Sect, and Liu Sanpao, the leader of the Hung Kuen Sect, two high-ranking and powerful figures in the Flying Goose Realm, were having a conversation.

Speaking of the Flying Phoenix Realm, it is a powerful force of great importance in the myriad realms. Its reputation may not be as great as the three major sects of the Dao lineage, nor as powerful as the Eastern King Sect.

However, there are also two ancient sects within the realm that have been passed down from ancient times. The realm is full of highly skilled cultivators, and all kinds of arts are thriving. Their influence extends to hundreds of surrounding realms, and their strength is among the top-tier forces in the myriad realms.

One of the two sects that hold power in this realm is the Zixia Sect, a major sect of the heavens with a sixth-order inheritance and a Heavenly Monarch in charge.

This sect originated from Kunlun Mountain in Tianyuan and is a legitimate branch of the Xuanmen sect. In ancient times, it chose to attach itself to the Yuanshi Sect and participated in hundreds of battles, large and small, with the Yuanshi Sect. It has always considered itself an ally of the Yuanshi Sect. After the ancient demonic calamity, this sect followed the Yuanshi Sect to the outer void and chose this Feihong Realm to start anew. It has continued to follow the path of the Yuanshi Sect for ten thousand years without wavering. With the help of the Yuanshi Sect, it has been doing quite well in recent years and has already shown the glory of its former glory.

This sect is bathed in the morning glow and nourished by colorful energy. It follows the most ancient cultivation method. All its disciples cultivate the Purple Cloud Divine Art and jointly comprehend the Great Dao of Purple Cloud. Theoretically, the upper limit of this technique can reach the Refining Void and Merging with the Dao, the seventh-order Dao Lord realm. However, in reality, from ancient times to the present, this sect has never produced a seventh-order Dao Lord. At its peak, which is now, the sect only has one Heavenly Monarch Sect Master and three sixth-order professionals.

The way this sect makes money in the present world is the Lingnong Way.

Food is the most important thing for people. Although cultivators can abstain from grains and not eat cereals, they still need spiritual grains and rice to aid their cultivation.

Furthermore, compared to professions such as array masters and puppeteers, spiritual farmers have a very low barrier to entry in cultivation. They are easy to get started and the cost of cultivation is not high. As long as a spiritual field is rented, one can start working. With careful tending, one can become rich and powerful, but it is enough to meet one's daily cultivation needs.

Therefore, in all the worlds, many cultivators choose to work part-time as spirit farmers, and spirit farmers have become the largest profession among the cultivation groups in all the worlds.

Barren soil cannot produce abundant flowers. Spiritual grains and plants of the first and second tiers can still be cultivated by spiritual farmers through methods such as soil improvement, fertilization, breeding, and pest control. However, once they reach the third tier, the requirements of spiritual grains and plants for soil spirituality and the surrounding environment become extremely demanding. Areas suitable for large-scale cultivation are not owned by ordinary independent cultivators or even small sects. They are mostly controlled by the major sects of the heavens, becoming their private reserves.

In fact, among all the heavens in the present world, the largest grain merchants are the Yuanshi Sect, the Dongwang Sect, and their Ziwei Sect, which are all major sects in the heavens.

They control the best and most abundant spiritual fields in the heavens. Apart from some high-grade spiritual grains and plants, which only they can produce and whose prices are set by them, they can also use their scale advantage to reduce costs and squeeze the living space of small and medium-sized spiritual farmers, thereby monopolizing the market and manipulating prices to a certain extent, and thus earning high profits.

This situation does not have a significant impact on realms such as Tianyuan Realm and Luohou Realm. Although these realms cannot compete with Yuanshi Sect and Ziwei Sect in the spiritual agriculture industry, they also focus on the development of spiritual agriculture within their own realms. Their own resources are also suitable for planting spiritual grains and plants, and they have always kept their spiritual food lifeline in their own hands. They do not need to care about the price of spiritual plants and grains outside.

However, in some realms unsuitable for cultivating spiritual plants and grains, such as the Dark Realm, the Five Poisons Realm, the White Bone Realm, and various special realms with incomplete Five Elements, unclear Yin and Yang, and reversed Sun and Moon, they cannot grow spiritual plants and grains in their own realm and can only purchase them from outside the realm. In such cases, isn't their very lifeline being held by the great sects of the heavens, such as the Primordial Sect and the Purple Star Sect? They can be made to live or die at will, without giving them any right to choose, and can only passively become vassal forces of these great sects of the heavens.

The Ziwei Sect also relied on its spiritual agriculture industry to control dozens of surrounding realms, thus becoming a dominant force in the southern void and a minor giant in the myriad realms.

In recent years, their position has been challenged by the rise of grain merchants from the Tianyuan Realm, who have made a strong entry into the Zhutian Lingnong market, affecting the monopoly of the Ziwei Sect.

After the Tianyuan Realm was revived, the spiritual energy of this world was abundant. You could squeeze oil out of the soil. You could plant any spiritual plant and it would grow into a lush spiritual field and medicinal garden in a few years without much care.

Such favorable conditions transformed Tianyuan Realm from a source of spiritual food imports into a source of spiritual food exports. Immortal kingdoms within this realm, such as Xianqin Martial Kingdom, Xuanyuan Immortal Kingdom, Langya Immortal Kingdom, Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, and Wanyao Kingdom, have been continuously supplying spiritual food and medicines to the myriad realms over the years, causing new variables to emerge in the previously stable spiritual food and medicine market that was dominated by a few major sects.

The Ziwei Sect didn't know what sects like the Yuanshi Sect and the Dongwang Sect were thinking. Li Jingze, the sect leader of the Ziwei Sect, only knew that due to the addition of these Tianyuan people, the Ziwei Sect's income from spiritual food in recent years had been gradually decreasing. In fact, two or three realms that had been contracted by them for spiritual food had even cut off their long-standing spiritual food trade.

Taking away someone's livelihood is like killing their parents. Li Jingze hated these unruly Tianyuan grain merchants with a passion. Unfortunately, the eldest brother, Yuanshi Sect, for various reasons, did not intend to take drastic measures against these Tianyuan grain merchants. The eldest brother did not care about this loss because he had other more profitable businesses such as magic artifacts and talismans. Their Ziwei Sect could not do that. Their entire sect depended on the spiritual grain industry for survival. The success or failure of the spiritual grain business directly determined their sect's income and the welfare of their disciples.

He endured, endured, endured until now, finally waiting for the opportunity to arise when the relationship between the elder brother, Yuanshi Sect, and Tianyuan Realm began to crack. The conflict between Yuanshi Sect and Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom made Li Jingze realize that there was an opportunity. Although the elder brother, Yuanshi Sect, had not yet spoken, a mature younger brother should learn to read between the lines and act faster than his elder brother. He should be the first to avenge his elder brother.

He struck Fireball, the very creature he had wanted to hit but hadn't dared to, with a single blow.

Fire Egg, a canine divine beast, was originally a roadside dog. However, after Su Qing attained enlightenment, it also rose to prominence, awakening the bloodline of the divine beast Roaring Sun and gradually gaining the prestige of the fifth rank.

If you say it's incredibly lucky, all it needs to do is obediently perform its dog duties and guard the house for its owner.

But it couldn't stand being idle, and from scratch, it actually started a business selling animal food!
Speaking of the forces in the Tianyuan Realm that are now entering the market of spiritual agriculture in the heavens, the Immortal Qin Martial Kingdom, which sells low-end spiritual grains, is considered one of the Yuanshi Sect's little brothers because of its good relationship with the Yuanshi Sect. The Ziwei Sect has chosen not to bother with it.

The old, stale grains sold in the Xuanyuan Immortal Kingdom were all old varieties passed down from the ancient Tianyuan era. Their quality was far inferior to the superior varieties bred by generations of people in the present world, and they lacked competitiveness, but he didn't care.

The witchcraft-related herbs produced by the Su family group of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom mainly occupied the medicinal herb market dominated by the Dongwang Sect, and had little impact on the main business of his Ziwei Sect, so he didn't care too much about it.

However, the Ziwei Sect does not allow others to dabble in the beast food business. You must know that in the myriad realms, there are many people and many non-human things. The beasts have huge appetites, and can eat several tons in one meal. The demand for beast food is enormous. For example, some beast-taming sects order millions or tens of millions of tons of beast food at a time. Such strong demand can generate huge profits and has always been one of the important sources of wealth for the Ziwei Sect.

Originally, their Ziwei Sect had made precise price divisions for beast food of different grades.

The animal food that the Beast Taming Group is looking to purchase must be high-quality, premium-grade food with excellent quality control, no additives and no pollution, so that they can eat and poop with peace of mind, allowing their Beast Taming babies to grow up healthily.

Because these major beast-taming sects have an advertising effect, if their beast babies don't grow well after eating their beast food, a little publicity from them could ruin their beast food business. Therefore, the Ziwei Sect has always maintained a good cooperative relationship with them, and can even customize nutritious meals for their beast babies.

If you want good quality, you have to be willing to pay the price. Premium grains of the same grade are dozens or even hundreds of times more expensive than other grades. You get what you pay for, so don't complain about the price.

However, if some small and medium-sized beast-taming sects are looking to buy beast food, the food they provide is animal food that has been treated with growth-promoting drugs. Of course, they are told that it is high-quality and premium food, and the price they are paid is also comparable to that of high-quality and premium food.

This is definitely not a scam, at most it's a scam against the beasts. These poisoned beast feeds won't kill people at all. At most, if you eat too much, the poison might enter your body and kill the beasts. That's all the minor flaws. What more could these small and medium-sized sects with no connections or skills expect? Of course, if they really did kill a beast, the Ziwei Sect wouldn't admit it was the beast feed's fault. It would definitely be that these small and medium-sized sects' beast-taming skills were inadequate. Otherwise, why are the beast-taming masters of those major sects fine when they eat their beast feed? So, they should practice more and look for the reasons within themselves.

Their best-selling item is still filthy, rotten food.

They themselves have positioned their product as filthy and rotten, so this product is clearly devoid of any conscience. Let me put it this way, even someone with a conscience couldn't make this.

This kind of animal feed is mostly produced in polluted areas that have been contaminated by evil spirits, demons, or miasma. It can be said that the feed is mixed with poison. When the production volume is large, they will also sell a portion as poison. And you know what? It sells quite well, with an extremely low customer complaint rate.

Of course, the customer complaint rate for selling beast food is also very low, because most monsters that eat this beast food either don't live long or mutate. In short, they don't even have the ability to complain to them.

This type of beast food is mainly targeted at the most numerous wild beasts in the myriad realms, those without powerful backers or backgrounds.

These beasts with fur and horns are lucky to have anything to eat; being poisoned is better than starving to death.

The Ziwei Sect engages in this business not only to make dirty money, but also with a specific motive targeting the demon race.

Although humans and demons are now one family and good comrades in the fight against demons, whether in ancient times or in the present world, the Yuanshi Sect and most of its affiliated sects have not been fond of the demon race, these creatures with fur and horns, born from eggs and moisture. They do not want the event of the Demon Emperor ascending the throne of the Heavenly Emperor to be repeated one day, so they have been secretly weakening the power of the demon race.

This "filthy and rotten" brand of beast food is one such method. For example, the Yuanshi Sect has never refined it, nor does it encourage other forces to refine and develop magical artifacts suitable for use by demons and monsters. This is actually a way to limit the growth of the demon race's power.

Originally, their three types of beast food were selling very well. They had both profit and a good reputation. Few people in the myriad realms could compete with them. Even if a powerful demon came to cause trouble, the Primordial Sect would help them. They couldn't have lived a more comfortable life.

Until one day, a brand of beast food called Fire Egg appeared in the myriad realms. It advertised itself as plentiful, filling, cheap, safe, harmless, and healthy. It seized the market with low prices and won a reputation for quality. In just a few hundred years, it conquered the myriad realms and seized the market. Whenever it landed in a realm, the products of the Ziwei Realm were defeated one after another. How could this not make the Ziwei Sect grit its teeth in hatred!

As the sect leader, Li Jingze was deeply concerned. He knew that if things continued like this, unless their Ziwei Sect also transformed into a conscientious business, they would not be able to continue their unethical business under the impact of Huodan brand beast food, and they might permanently lose this highly profitable beast food industry.

Now that the Yuanshi Sect has finally turned against the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, as a dog of the Yuanshi Sect, he can take the opportunity to strike back at the dog that is seeking revenge against Su Qing.

Today, upon hearing that the Fire Egg Beast Food Shop was transporting a hundred ships of beast food through the void near their Flying Goose Realm, he immediately dispatched men to intercept the shipment. Not only were the goods intercepted, but the Fire Eggs themselves were also detained within the Purple Star Sect, citing concerns for the safety of their realm. This time, either the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom would submit to his Purple Star Sect and withdraw from the beast food industry, or he would destroy or cripple the Fire Egg Beast Food Shop, letting the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom witness the methods of their great sects! (End of Chapter)