Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Outside the Evil Sword Realm, Su Qing glanced at Huo Dan, who had come down from the Lingxiao Palace puppet with a listless face, and nodded to the four Hongquan Sect cultivators who were supporting Huo Dan's four legs and walked like lackeys. Then, Li Hailang, who was beside him, led the latest Spider Doctor Puppet to greet him.

"Excuse me, senior, please make way so we can examine the fire egg first."

Li Hailang was extremely polite to Liu Sanpao and the others.

Firstly, he was also a veteran of the underworld. Although the Langtian Gang hadn't made a name for itself, he and his brothers, Seventeen and 260, had successfully cleaned up their act and become successful people under Su Qing's guidance. There was no need or opportunity for him to return to his old ways and relive his glorious past.

But as long as the underworld figures and their souls remain alive, their hearts will always burn with passion. Therefore, even though they can no longer engage in underworld activities and have brought shame upon Su Qing, they still care deeply about the underworld figures and their affairs throughout the myriad realms.

What Li Hailang admired most was the Hongquan Sect. This sect had mastered the ways of the underworld, reaching a high level and becoming a major sect among the heavens. It was a model for underworld cultivators and a banner for countless underworld cultivators throughout the heavens.

A gangster icon, worthy of respect!

Secondly, Li Hailang and Huodan have a very deep bond. The old men, dogs, and puppets who followed Su Qing back then have now experienced very different fates.

Tiger Egg holds the title of Tiger Might Heavenly Lord in the Lingbao Sect. Even disregarding his relationship with Su Qing, he still holds a prominent position in the myriad realms.

Xiong Er lived a comfortable life, pampered like a treasure by all the Buddhist cultivators in the heavens. He also controlled Xiong Er Bank and was worshipped as a god of wealth by the cultivators in the heavens. He was the pinnacle of bears and the model of puppets.

Even Qinghe, who used to be worse off than Li Hailang, has become a superior person in the future since she received the blessing of the Great God of the Three Altars Sea Gathering and had her past debts cleared by Su Qing. Not only has the previously dishonest Qinghe had a chance to start over, but with the blessing of the Great God of the Three Altars Sea Gathering, she will surely become a superior person in the future.

Li Hailang wasn't jealous that they were doing well, but he couldn't hang out with them anymore. Only Huodan stayed with him in Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom. When there was nothing to do, Huodan would keep him company, and when there was trouble, he would let Huodan bite people. The bond between the man and the dog grew stronger and deeper with the passage of time.

Of course, friendship alone is not enough. He also has interests in Huodan. Li Hailang has invested in Huodan's Beast Food Shop business. Not only did he invest, but he also acted as a joint guarantor, obtaining a large amount of start-up capital from Xiong Er's Money Shop. If Huodan dies and Huodan's Beast Food Shop is gone, he will be more heartbroken than if his own father had died.

He also knew that Fire Egg had survived this time. Apart from the Lingxiao Palace puppet making a dazzling appearance at the last moment, it was able to hold on until the very end thanks to the help of the senior black cultivators from Hongquan Sect!
This isn't just Huo Dan's savior, it's also Li Hailang's savior. How can he not show him some respect?
"This is Li Hailang, the leader of the Langtian Gang, invincible with his double sticks, and known for his unwavering loyalty. Leader Li?"

Liu Sanpao, a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister, had already gone all out to follow the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and Su Qing. He was very familiar with Su Qing's social circle and also knew Li Hailang well. He knew that Li Hailang had also been a gangster in the past. Although he hadn't made a name for himself, he had made two brothers in life and death and was also an incarnation of the Four Imperial Dao Patterns. In fact, if the three members of the Langtian Gang continued to work in the underworld, they could make a name for themselves in the heavens.

"Senior, have you heard of my legend?"

Upon hearing that Liu Sanpao not only knew him but also knew about the Langtian Gang, Li Hailang was immediately thrilled. This feeling of being recognized by his idol made him even happier than when Xiong Er gave him a five-star credit limit!
"Awooo (Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and heal me! Do you really think I'm still a good dog? The beast food from the Ziwei Sect is too poisonous! If you don't heal me quickly, even if I don't die, I'll turn into a stupid dog!)"

These two were like peas in a pod, their eyes meeting. Fire Egg, who was still listless, couldn't stand it any longer and urged Li Hailang to quickly release the Spider Doctor to treat its poison and wounds.

"Don't worry, Master is preparing to lead a team to fight against the Evil Sword Realm this time. To reduce casualties, he has brought the most advanced spiritual healing puppets he has developed in recent years. As long as you, you stupid dog, still have a breath left, you will definitely not die. It's just that your intelligence is a problem that spiritual healing puppets cannot cure. At most, they can only make up for what you have lost, but they can't bring back what you didn't have in the first place!"

Li Hailang chuckled and scolded Huodan, but before Huodan could retaliate, he gave the order to the spirit heal puppets: "Numb them up first, so they don't spew nonsense in pain and embarrass me in front of all the high cultivators!"

After saying that, a puppet anesthesiologist, who looked like a wood spirit, held a syringe and put it on the fire egg.

Then, a series of healing puppets, including the Rejuvenating Puppet, the Surgical Knife Puppet, the Spider Doctor Puppet, the Soul Healing Puppet, and the Nurse Puppet, worked together skillfully to perform professional medical procedures on the Fire Egg's body and soul.

"This is the Spirit Healer Puppet? Its technique is quite good. The bleeding point is accurately judged, and with one cut, there is almost no bleeding. The surgical field of vision is excellent. It skillfully uses various Taoist arts and mystical techniques as well as spiritual materials and treasures to perfectly repair physical damage. Its delicate operations inside capillaries are also more appropriate than most spiritual physicians!"

"Physical injuries are one thing; most spiritual healers may have different methods for treating physical injuries, but solving the problem is not difficult. What is amazing is that these puppets can even treat damage to the soul. The ability of these soul-weaving puppets to repair damage to the soul is no less than that of the scalpel puppets to repair physical damage!"

"While the treatment of physical and spiritual damage is truly astonishing, what I admire most is the immense effort that Su Qing's puppet medical team has put into postoperative management and recovery. The Dream Therapy Puppet, the Passionate Nurse Puppet, and the Postpartum Care Puppet are far more helpful in the recovery process than simply reducing blood loss or spiritual damage during surgery. This is what we spiritual healers should truly learn. In the cultivation of all arts, there can be unscrupulous puppeteers, unscrupulous talisman makers, and unscrupulous alchemists, but there must never be unscrupulous healers. We spiritual healers must uphold medical ethics. Undoubtedly, these spiritual medical puppets, though not spiritual healers themselves, have surpassed most spiritual healers across the myriad realms in terms of medical ethics!"

The speakers were the spiritual physicians, led by the seventh-level spiritual physician, Daoist Mingyue.

As spiritual healers, they could not remain indifferent to a spiritual healing operation unfolding before their eyes.

Especially since the surgery was performed by the spiritual healing puppets created by Su Qing. You must know that in the last few hundred years, due to the rise of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and the unparalleled skill of the puppets created by Su Qing, one industry after another in the heavens has been impacted by it.

The puppetry industry will naturally be the first to be affected. Colleagues are enemies, and Su Qing, a fellow puppeteer, is no longer just an enemy to the puppeteers of the heavens; he is an enemy who cuts off their livelihood and kills their parents.

Originally, everyone relied on their ancestral skills to make mature puppets that had been made for generations, earning the hard-earned money that had been made for generations. Their lives, while not exactly carefree, were at least quite prosperous.

Until Su Qing emerged out of nowhere, his puppet designs were constantly being updated, completely outclassing those old puppets that were no longer up to date and did not meet the actual needs of cultivators in the modern world. Puppet making became large-scale and industrialized, and the daily output of a puppet factory was equivalent to the output of a puppeteer's puppets that had been handcrafted for hundreds or thousands of years. In terms of both output and cost, he crushed the puppeteers of the heavens, leaving them with almost no room to survive.

The reason why the puppeteers of the heavens are still united and fighting against Su Qing is that Su Qing, at least, is a human being. He voluntarily withdrew from some niche puppet markets with insufficient profits, leaving the puppeteers of the heavens a way to survive.

Furthermore, the various puppet research institutes that it has established in Tianyuan and across the myriad worlds have also recruited many puppeteers from all over the world to work there. This has transformed some puppeteers from self-employed individuals who were constantly on edge into employees with guaranteed income and welfare, thus giving puppeteers from all over the world another option.

The puppet research institute established by Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom only recruits puppeteers who have extremely high attainments in various puppets or runes. The requirements are high and there are few positions. To get a job there, one must not only pass the professional assessment of puppet skills, but also have to pass the tests on family background, lineage, and character. Underworld sects like Hongquan Sect cannot even pass the character review!
The only way to truly absorb the large number of unemployed puppeteers in the heavens caused by the impact of the puppet industry in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom is through the new job opportunities that arise from the booming development of the puppet industry in the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

Puppet Repairman!

No matter how much the puppeteers of the heavens complained that the puppets of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom harmed their interests, they all agreed on one point: Su Qing, by his own strength, had elevated the puppetry industry of the heavens to the highest level in history. From the cultivation arts passed down by word of mouth among cultivators, which included arrays, weapons, pills, and talismans, to the current cultivation arts, which included arrays, weapons, pills, and puppets, Su Qing had single-handedly raised the puppetry industry, which was originally ranked eighth among the cultivation arts, to its current position of fourth and aiming for third.

The reason he sits at fourth and aims for third is because the Daoist sects of array formation, weapon crafting, and alchemy are under his control. Otherwise, given the enormous changes and explosive development he has made to the puppetry industry, it wouldn't be impossible for the puppetry industry to rank among the top three of all arts because of him.

In the past, puppets were high-end luxury items for cultivators, expensive and scarce, so naturally few people used them. However, since the puppet factories of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom began to mass-produce puppets, especially after the Divine Realm merged into Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom with its abundant mineral resources, giving Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom a plentiful supply of puppet-making materials, the puppet factories have been operating at full capacity to produce puppets, which immediately drove down the price of puppets in all the heavens and myriad realms.

With a large supply of puppets and low prices, there are more cultivators in the myriad realms who can afford to use them. Such a large supply of puppets naturally gives rise to the second-hand puppet market and the puppet repair market.

Nowadays, many puppeteers in the myriad realms make a living by repairing Su family puppets. To be honest, they earn quite a bit. They don't have to bear the risk of failing to refine their own puppets. Although each order doesn't earn much, they get a constant stream of orders every day. As long as they work eighteen or nineteen hours a day, their lives are steadily improving.

After the puppetry industry, came the weapon crafting industry and the talisman industry. Because the combat and magical artifact puppets that Su Qing crafted could seamlessly replace various magical artifacts, and when the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom relied on its industrial advantages to lower the cost of puppets to the same level as the cost of magical artifacts, these combat and magical artifact puppets, which could fight autonomously with minimal consumption of spiritual consciousness and were even equipped with corresponding cultivation techniques and spells, instantly crushed similar magical artifacts and became the first choice for cultivators.

The impact on the talisman industry is mainly due to the issue of cost-effectiveness. A single talisman is not more expensive than a puppet, but since talismans are disposable items, the cost can be higher than that of puppets if used frequently. When puppet prices were high, many cultivators chose talismans. However, when puppet prices came down, talisman-making technology did not make significant progress, and the cost of talisman-making and talisman prices remained high, so it was no longer able to compete with puppets.

Such situations occur in the spiritual plant industry, the security industry, the animal taming industry, and even the exorcism industry that Buddhist monks do as a side job.

It was precisely because the puppet of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom affected the interests of all walks of life that when the Yuanshi Sect prepared to make the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom tone down its power and tell Su Qing, a young man, not to be too arrogant, countless forces in the myriad realms immediately followed suit. Besides feeling more secure by siding with the Yuanshi Sect, they also felt that the rise of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom had impacted the interests of these established forces.

Spiritual healers also fall into this category.

Puppets, being devoid of emotion, unaffected by personal likes and dislikes, and unbound by morality and conscience, are perfect for healing people.

After Su Qing's Spiritual Healer series puppets, marked by the Spider Doctor Puppet, became bestsellers across the myriad realms, a number of spiritual medical clinics across the myriad realms went out of business and closed down.

Even in the far west city of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, Guo Qiaolian, one of Su Qing's lovers, had to transform her Guo Family Medical Clinic. She obtained a batch of high-quality spiritual medical puppets from Su Qing and established the first puppet medical clinic in Kaiyuan and all the heavens.

Those spiritual healers who had witnessed the manipulation of the spiritual healer puppets all shared the same opinion as they did now: although they wished the puppets were no longer useful, they were indeed very capable and had the strength to replace them.

"If Su Tianjun continues like this, I think that in the future, only the puppetry path will remain among the various arts and crafts practitioners. With his puppetry skills, he can replace us, the masters of all arts and crafts!"

Master Mingyue sighed with inexplicable emotion. As an ancient relic who had lived from ancient times to the present, he had never seen anything like the puppets of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom that had overturned the entire system of arts and crafts in the myriad worlds. He felt both worried and hopeful about it, and for a moment he could say whether it was good or bad.

"Senior is too kind. The skills puppets possess are all borrowed from others. Only when a master craftsman develops the corresponding runes and creates new techniques can the puppets imitate and keep up. This is also why puppets can never replace masters craftsmen. My wish is to use puppets to liberate masters craftsmen from low-end industries that cannot bring progress in cultivation, and from tedious and repetitive work that cannot bring personal improvement, so that they have ample time to innovate, promote the progress of cultivation, and bring about changes in the world!" (End of this chapter)