Immortality begins with meditation puppets

The flowing silver of the god symbolizes purity and divinity; a two-headed dragon god that attacks with both water and fire.

The two puppets, who were extremely well-known throughout the myriad realms, were the first to fly out from the Lingxiao Palace puppet, followed by an overwhelming number of Pengtian Armored Puppets!

"Good heavens! High-end puppets like the Pengtian Armored Puppet can be deployed in droves, numbering in the tens of thousands!"

"No wonder the Primordial Sect wanted to curb the development of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. Relying on the resources of the myriad realms, their ability to produce puppets is truly terrifying. So many fifth-order Pengtian Armor Puppets. If it were any other sect or realm, it would take thousands or tens of thousands of years to refine them, even if they exhausted all their resources. Most importantly, other sects and forces are not capable of imitating them. They don't have that many puppeteers, nor do they have a mature and supporting upstream and downstream industry, and they can't be as monstrous as Su Qing, who can control the success rate of refining fifth-order puppets to over 80%!"

"Fortunately, fortunately our sect doesn't have the strength to provoke the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. Otherwise, just looking at this batch of Pengtian Armored Puppets, it would be something our sect couldn't handle!"

The Lingxiao Palace puppets dispatched an annihilation squad. In the eyes of the onlookers, although the Divine Silver Flow and the Two-Headed Dragon God, these two sixth-order puppets, were powerful, they had already seen them before and were like yesterday's news, not worth mentioning.

In comparison, the Pengtian Armor Puppet, as one of the high-end puppets that are currently selling well in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom across the myriad worlds, is even more familiar to all cultivators. What they are familiar with is the performance of the Pengtian Armor Puppet, but what they are unfamiliar with is that so many Pengtian Armor Puppets can be deployed at the same time!
Without a doubt, just by the formation of this annihilation squad, all cultivators in the realms knew that the Ziwei Sect was doomed to a terrible end.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

"Da da da da da!"

"Shhhhhh!"

The Lingxiao Palace puppets were clearly well-prepared. Relying on the powerful intelligence capabilities of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, primarily the deductive abilities of their ruler Su Qing and his elder brother, Celestial Master Tong Chang, they possessed a deeper understanding of the Ziwei Sect than the Hongquan Sect, which had been with the Ziwei Sect for many years. Before mobilizing the Lingxiao Palace puppets to the Feihong Realm, they had already made corresponding preparations, which is why they arrived slightly late.

To counter the demonic plants of the Ziwei Sect, the Pengtian Armored Puppets are equipped with exorcising guided missile puppets as standard equipment. Such puppets are in high demand throughout the myriad realms today. After all, although the demons have not launched large-scale attacks since the last demonic calamity, such beings cannot remain peaceful forever, nor can they all be completely peaceful. They still harass various realms sporadically. Thus, the myriad realms have always been in short supply of exorcising artifacts, exorcising formations, and exorcising puppets in order to prevent demonic invasions.

The third-tier or higher exorcism missile puppets that the Pengtian Armored Puppets can now activate are strategic resources in all the heavens and myriad realms. If you want to purchase one or two from the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, you can't just have spirit stones. You also need to have achievements in fighting against evil spirits so that the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom can see your efforts in fighting against evil spirits. Only then will they allocate you a certain number of exorcism missile puppets based on your achievements.

The problem of puppet scarcity is not a problem at all for the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, the puppet maker. The number of missile puppets that the Pengtian Armored Puppets can fire in a single salvo is probably the total number of exorcism missiles held by all forces in the myriad realms except the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom!
The Exorcising Missile Puppet was originally designed to target evil spirits. Now, it is used to target the demonic plants of the Ziwei Sect that are fed with the essence of evil spirits. It is even more targeted and effective against them. The damage it inflicts on them is many times greater than that of the wicked cultivators of the Hongquan Sect who slash with knives and stab with swords.

In just one volley, most of the demonic plants summoned by the Ziwei Sect were destroyed. Only some sixth-tier demonic plants with extremely strong survival abilities, whose main bodies were buried deep in the ground, or those like the Bloodsucking Thorn that could absorb blood and regenerate even from the smallest fragment, survived this attack.

"Those who can't kill us, don't be afraid. Our demonic plants are spread to every corner of the Flying Phoenix Realm. The Pengtian Armor Puppet can't kill them all, and I don't believe their Exorcising Missile Puppet is endless. When they run out of missiles, that will be the time for us to counterattack!"

Li Jingze was heartbroken. He couldn't understand whether the people of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom were out of their minds. Su Qing was known for being shrewd, so why couldn't he calculate the economics?
The value of the exorcism missiles he throws out, along with the magical plants he kills and destroys, is far less than the value of the exorcism missiles themselves. Why would he do such a losing business?
The key point is that it doesn't matter if he loses money in business, but it would be terrible for their Ziwei Sect.

While demonic plants are powerful, they are also very difficult to cultivate. In addition to the difficulty in finding and obtaining the source of the evil, the process of cultivating them also requires the consumption of various rare and precious materials.

The Ziwei Sect had accumulated a lot of dirty money over the years by selling tainted grains, and most of it had been spent on these demonic plants. But now, that damned Su Qing and that damned Lingxiao Palace Puppet, with just one deployment of the Pengtian Armor Puppet Team, had wiped out most of their years of accumulated wealth.

Judging from the current situation, even if the powerful cultivators of the Yuanshi Sect came to their aid, the Ziwei Sect's losses would not be made up. After all, they couldn't expect the Yuanshi Sect to come and help them, let alone make up for their losses!

What makes Li Jingze most desperate now is that the possibility of the Yuanshi Sect coming to their aid is now extremely slim!

Given the capabilities of the Yuan Shi Sect, it was absolutely impossible for them not to sense a seventh-tier puppet like the Lingxiao Palace Puppet during the time it took to travel from the Tianyuan Realm to their Feihong Realm. They would also be absolutely certain that the Lingxiao Palace Puppet was not targeting anyone.

They neither prevented the Lingxiao Palace puppets from entering the Feihong Realm, nor did they come to their aid when the Lingxiao Palace puppets attacked their Ziwei Sect. After the Pengtian Armored Puppets bombarded their Ziwei Sect, the possibility of the Yuanshi Sect taking action again became almost nonexistent.

The Yuanshi Sect has abandoned their Ziwei Sect!
Or rather, the Yuanshi Sect never supported their Ziwei Sect from the very beginning; their targets were the Fire Egg and the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom!
They misunderstood each other's intentions and expressed the wrong feelings. They failed to grasp the older brother's thoughts and were too eager to climb the ranks, which led to the current situation!
Li Jingze deeply regretted his past actions. If he hadn't still harbored a sliver of hope, he would have surrendered with his entire clan at this very moment.

They couldn't beat them, they really couldn't beat them. The Lingxiao Palace puppet only used a small part of its power, without even using its seventh-order power, but it had already crippled eighty or ninety percent of their Ziwei Sect's combat strength. What else was hidden on that colossal ship that blotted out the sky? Li Jingze didn't dare to think about it, and even if he did, he wouldn't dare to be its enemy!

Just as he had expected, when the first batch of fighter squadrons finished firing their missiles and returned to the Lingxiao Palace for rest and recuperation under the protection of the Divine Silver and the Two-Headed Dragon God.

On the Lingxiao Palace puppet, the sounds of puppets taking flight echoed once more, thrilling the onlookers and terrifying the Ziwei Sect disciples. If the Ziwei Sect had initially thought the annihilation squadron's bombardment was devastating enough, they now realized what a truly devastating attack looked like.

Optimus Prime, Megatron, Unicron... a series of Transformers puppets landed in Mangshan and at the location of the Ziwei Sect's main sect.

Then, these Transformer puppets, equipped with the Primordial Starfire Source and each puppet possessing a large-scale destructive puppet—the Deep Sea Tyrant, the Earth-Drilling Tyrant, the Time-Space Tyrant, and other spirit-exploding puppets—launched a thorough and decisive plan to eliminate the demonic plants!

Boom boom boom!
The Deep Sea Explosive King leaves the demonic plants hiding in the deep sea with nowhere to hide, the Earth-Drilling Explosive King chases after the roots of the demonic plants and bombs them, and the Time-Space Tyrant can even capture the cunning demonic plants that have hidden in the past and future and blow them up.

After a round of bombardment, these Transformers were still not satisfied, so they transformed into mechanical giants, wielding giant swords and spears, and began hacking and slashing wildly at the location of the Ziwei Sect.

The disciples of the Ziwei Sect could only tremble in fear before these enormous creatures. Having always relied on demonic plants to wreak havoc, their willpower and fighting strength when faced with dire straits were completely incomparable to those of the Hongquan Sect, which was composed of black cultivators.

However, the Ziwei Sect is better than the Hongquan Sect in one aspect: when the situation is unfavorable, they kneel down even faster than the Hongquan Sect!
As a seasoned veteran in the cultivation world, Li Jingze was not lacking in gambling instincts. He knew that sometimes, an opportunity, a person, a sect, or a realm might only come once. If you don't seize it, you'll never have another chance. Therefore, when he learned that the Yuanshi Sect had a conflict with the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, he immediately thought that this was an opportunity to make a strong show of support for the Yuanshi Sect so that the Yuanshi Sect might incorporate their Ziwei Sect into the Yuanshi Sect's subordinate sects and fully accept their Ziwei Sect.

Without hesitation, he made a huge bet, risking the Ziwei Sect's accumulated wealth of millions of years to target Huodan, provoke Su Qing, and become the first force to charge against the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom for the Yuanshi Sect.

However, when he discovered that the Yuanshi Sect did not want the conflict with the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom to escalate to this extent, nor did he want to see their Ziwei Sect compete with the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom in this way, he realized that the Yuanshi Sect did not want to see the conflict escalate to this extent.

He realized he had lost the bet, and he had to accept it. As long as he was alive, he could always make a comeback. Fortune changes, and next year it might be his turn. As long as he wasn't invincible, he shouldn't push himself to the brink.

"We surrendered! We, the Ziwei Sect, surrendered! Lord Su, King Su, Emperor Su, we, the Ziwei Sect, submit! Submitting isn't enough! We apologize! We apologize to the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, to Lord Su, to Huodan! We pay compensation! We compensate the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom for its losses, to Huodan for its losses, to the Hongquan Sect for its losses! We accept the punishment! We are willing to relinquish the beast food industry and cease trading beast food from now on! We are willing to open the Feihong Realm market, allowing the cultivation creations of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and various forces in the Tianyuan Realm to be freely sold in our Feihong Realm! We are willing to cease hostility towards the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and its affiliated forces from this day forward..."

Li Jingze was afraid that if he was too slow to call out, some ruthless guys who were not to be trifled with and who could really wipe them out would appear on the Lingxiao Palace puppet. So, without the people from Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom coming to negotiate with him, he took the initiative to put forward the conditions that he could not agree to, but that Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom definitely wanted.

"This is the biggest difference between my Hongquan Sect and the Ziwei Sect: the wisdom of survival that allows all the great sects in the heavens to preserve themselves and continue their lineage!"

Seeing Li Jingze, who had been so arrogant and unruly with him, now weeping and begging for mercy like a stray dog, Liu Sanpao felt a sense of satisfaction, but couldn't help but admire his ability to bend and stretch. To be honest, he couldn't do that. The Ziwei Sect had just inflicted so many casualties on his Hongquan Sect. Even if it meant the complete annihilation of the Hongquan Sect, he couldn't bring himself to kneel down and beg for mercy. How could he face the elders, disciples, and brothers who had been killed by the Ziwei Sect?

Liu Sanpao actually understood that Li Jingze's approach was correct.

Throughout history, the myriad realms have never lacked conflict: battles between ferocious beasts, dragons and phoenixes, Daoists and demons, witches and monsters, humans and gods...

Various forces rose and fell, and the rulers of the land changed hands several times. But the only force that truly lost the struggle and was completely wiped out was the Witch Clan, who had just arrived with nothing.

The other forces that lost the struggle all knew that at the last moment, compromising and surrendering might not necessarily mean losing half the battle, but it was better than resisting to the end and being wiped out.

Only forces like the Ziwei Sect, which are resilient when things are going well, cowardly when things are going badly, and willing to surrender in dire straits, can survive for a long time in the myriad realms, unlike the Hongquan Sect, which is prone to risking everything at the drop of a hat.

The cultivators from all realms who were watching the battle shared the same thought and believed that Li Jingze's choice was correct.

"Sigh, no wonder these great sects of the heavens are so boring. They surrendered too quickly. I wanted to see more of the Lingxiao Palace Puppet's capabilities. It's only sent out two waves of troops, and the Ziwei Sect can't hold on anymore? Stand up straight and keep fighting the Lingxiao Palace Puppet!"

"Still going to be stubborn? If they keep going, the Ziwei Sect will be finished! In my opinion, Li Jingze was too slow to surrender. If it were me, I should have surrendered the moment the puppet in the Lingxiao Palace appeared. It's obvious that this seventh-tier puppet is beyond their ability to deal with. Why invite trouble upon themselves? Now all the magical plants they've painstakingly cultivated over the years have turned to ashes, and their sect's strength has been greatly reduced. In the future, they might not even be considered a second-rate power!"

"He was slow to act because he still harbored unrealistic fantasies, thinking that the Yuanshi Sect would send someone to help. He's incredibly stupid. The rules of free trade were jointly established by the Yuanshi Sect and other forces such as the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom at the Anti-Demon Council. Even if the Yuanshi Sect wanted to violate them, they would have to find a respectable reason. How could they do what your Ziwei Sect did and use a dog as a scapegoat? If word got out, where would the face of the three sects of the Dao lineage be?"

"Hmph, free trade? Free trade can only be achieved with giant ships and cannons. The moment Su Qing's Lingxiao Puppet appears, I bet all those forces in the myriad realms who hastily imposed ridiculously high tariffs on the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom will have to cancel them overnight. Otherwise, the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom will just like today, directly sending the Lingxiao Puppet into their realm. They'll be just like the Ziwei Sect—they won't get what they're owed, and they'll have to give them what they shouldn't have!" (End of Chapter)