Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 71 Tribulation Cultivator!

That damn talisman seller!

As Su Qing packed up her stall, she cursed the old Taoist priest for being too heartless.

Su Qing, after painstakingly crafting the puppet for several days, even spent the whole day selling it at a stall.

Before the spirit crystals had even warmed up, they were all given to the old Taoist priest.

All I got was a Cleansing Talisman, a Fire Escape Talisman, and a dozen or so exorcism talismans as a bonus.

Two thin talismans were exchanged for more than 10,000 spirit crystals!

"I just hope these two talismans will come in handy. No, I hope they won't. It would be best if we didn't run into that witch!"

After a whole day of setting up his stall, he hadn't made a single penny and stormed off to go home in a huff.

The forward camp, being a relatively new construction site, didn't have a wide cobblestone path like the one in Baiyunfang.

In his haste, he accidentally bumped into a rogue cultivator.

But before he could even offer his apology, he was already bowing.

But suddenly his expression hardened.

The rogue cultivator, who was walking quickly towards the thin figure, shouted:

"Please return my belongings, fellow Daoist!"

The voice was extremely loud and filled with anger, causing the surrounding rogue cultivators to scatter in a chaotic mess, watching the spectacle.

Upon hearing this, the gaunt rogue cultivator quickened his pace.

As a thief cultivator, Xiao Ziqiang has not been having a good time lately.

Originally, in the market town, independent cultivators lived a life of moderation and did not dare to exchange all their spirit crystals for immediate combat power.

He occasionally made some gains, and reaped considerable rewards.

But now, in this forward camp, especially after the possibility of demonic cultivators infiltrating.

The independent cultivators were almost all armed to the teeth, carrying little spirit crystals and extremely vigilant.

If you succeed, that's good; at most, you'll have to take some risks when reselling stolen goods.

If they fail, they risk death and destruction. These rogue cultivators at the front-line camps are now much more ruthless than before.

He had been watching this puppeteer for a long time today, and saw that his cultivation level was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining, yet he still earned a lot of spirit crystals by selling a bunch of puppets.

Now that he has succeeded in taking advantage of such a weak but wealthy person, how could he possibly give up his windfall just because of a single word from him?

His body moved like a mudfish, swiftly shifting through the crowd; this was the Mudfish Step, a combat skill that every thief cultivator had to learn.

This technique has helped countless comrades escape. Those who couldn't escape did so because their skills were lacking, not because this combat technique was bad.

For example, Xiao Ziqiang has mastered this combat skill to perfection. The moment the puppeteer shouted, he disappeared into the crowd and changed hands several times with the stolen goods. Even now, when the victim catches him, he can forget about getting the stolen goods out of his hands.

Su Qing was furious!

He was already in a very bad mood today.

Unexpectedly, I encountered a thief cultivator on this journey!
This is really unreasonable!

Being bullied by a witch is one thing, but being bullied by a thief cultivator is another?

He snorted coldly and secretly activated his divine sense.

Then a storage bag suddenly appeared from hundreds of meters away. Along its path, seven or eight thieves who had taken possession of the storage bag were all pierced through the chest and fell to the ground in shock.

When it came to the last one, Xiao Ziqiang, seeing the gruesome death of his companion, could only cry out:
"Fellow Daoist, please have mercy! I am only here to make a living for you. If you kill me, Fellow Daoist Feng..."

Before Xiao Ziqiang could finish speaking, the storage bag, which he considered nothing more than a windfall, pierced through his chest like a deadly weapon. In his vision, the storage bag seemed to have hundreds of sharp points protruding from it.

Hey! The rogue cultivators at the forward camp are really outrageous! Some of them are even refining storage bags into magical artifacts. Aren't you surprised?

"Being a thief is a dead end! Fellow Daoists, if you want to earn spirit crystals, you should earn your living honestly and with your skills, just like me!"

Su Qing glanced at Xiao Ziqiang, who was lying on the ground, snorted coldly, then smiled and cupped his hands to the shocked rogue cultivators around him. He also took the opportunity to promote his lizard warriors before turning and leaving.

After he left, the enforcement team arrived late and coldly cleaned up the corpses on the ground. Only then did the rogue cultivators gather together to discuss the matter.

"That puppeteer must be Su Qing, right? He's clearly at the peak of Qi Refining, but he loves to disguise himself as a filthy guy at the fifth level of Qi Refining!"

"This Xiao Ziqiang is a seasoned thief, it's a pity he hasn't been at the front-line camp long enough to know who Su Qing is, he's made a mistake!"

"Those petty thieves deserve to die!"

"Exactly, what kind of trash dares to steal a puppeteer's storage bag? Which puppeteer doesn't have ten or eight puppets in their storage bag? If they really opened the storage bag and the puppets jumped out, wouldn't they just throw them away?"

"The Fellow Daoist Feng he mentioned must be Feng Tianyang, right? He was originally the most notorious leader of a gang of thieves in Baiyunfang City, but now, taking advantage of the Yunshan Sect's shortage of people, he has also obtained a plaque for an outer disciple, and his body has been completely cleaned up!"

"That old scoundrel Feng Tianyang has recently recruited a lot of scoundrels, but his influence is still not as great as the Bear King Team and the Rat King Team, who fought their way out of the monster horde. It's time for them to establish their authority. If Su Qing gets involved with them, things won't end well!"

"Um, are you sure Feng Tianyang would go head-to-head with Su Qing, a peak Qi Refining cultivator who rescued the Bear King Team from a first-tier demon king, just for a few rogue cultivators?"

"That's hard to say. Those who have undergone tribulation are all lunatics. Who knows what they might do!"

The independent cultivators discussed among themselves. Those with storage bags tightened their pouches, while those without touched their money pouches.

The forward camp is now a mixed bag, with countless demonic cultivators, thieves, and evil cultivators. They don't have Su Qing's ability to instantly kill seven or eight thieves with a single storage bag, so they have to be careful.

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In the southwest corner of the forward camp, in the middle of a row of shrines.

A cultivator with effeminate features, light eyebrows, and small eyes had just finished listening to his subordinate's report.

"So, Xiao Ziqiang and his bunch of good-for-nothings were killed by a storage bag without even seeing the puppet?"

Feng Tianyang's eyelids twitched. He could accept that Xiao Ziqiang and several other newly recruited subordinates had died tragically.

If you're a thief, it's your skill if you succeed, but if you fail and get killed, you deserve it.

But I can't accept that they died so easily!

Especially that idiot Xiao Ziqiang, he had to call out his own name before he died!
Feng Tianyang painstakingly built his own tribulation cultivator team over many years, as if walking on thin ice.

Taking advantage of the Yunshan Sect's shortage of manpower, I have come to this frontline camp to accomplish something great.

It is the perfect time to recruit soldiers, establish authority, and gain momentum.

His dignity was trampled underfoot.

This unexpected turn of events naturally infuriated him.

"Although Su Qing is not someone to be trifled with, I, Feng Tianyang, am not someone to be trifled with either. Brothers, don't worry, I'll go to Su Qing right now and get to the bottom of this. I won't make him pay for his crimes in blood, but he'll still have to pay for the funeral expenses of Xiao Ziqiang and his brothers!"

In front of his underlings, Feng Tianyang displayed the aura of a leader, and the ruthless temperament he had cultivated over many years of banditry immediately invigorated his men.

The boss is still pretty awesome.

A first-tier peak body cultivator, possessing profound-level combat skills.

This time, we'll definitely teach Su Qing a lesson he won't forget!
(End of this chapter)