Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Even though Qinghe, who was not as good as a monkey, had received the immortal inheritance of the Three Altars Sea God, she was still not up to the task and could not become Su Qing's right-hand man.

After asking her about it, Su Qing didn't blame her.

However, the Three Altars Sea God was one of the strongest beings below the eighth rank in ancient times, but his quality was slightly inferior to that of the Great Sage Wukong and Erlang Shen. In ancient times, some people mocked him as an equipment dog, saying that 30% of his skills came from himself and 70% came from his luxurious equipment.

It's not a big deal that my immortal cultivation is inferior to that of Wukong and Erlang Shen. Even if I'm not as good as them, when the Three Altars Sea Gathering God was an immortal, he was a direct descendant of the Yuanshi Sect for three generations. When he was a god, he was also one of the most powerful gods in the heavens. Qinghe has received three-tenths of his good fortune, so it is not difficult for her to ascend to the position of the seventh-level Dao Lord.

It's true that Qinghe has inherited the immortal techniques and her strength is in a period of explosive growth, but this is not a complete initiation or transmission of power. It cannot be obtained in a moment. It requires time to settle and for her to slowly transform and digest it.

"Boss, who exactly is pressuring you? How did they manage to push you to the point where you have to rely on me?"

Qinghe's thought-provoking question left Su Qing stunned for a long time.

After a long while, he shook his head with a wry smile. Indeed, the situation was not that critical yet, and it was not time to desperately seek any help and rely on Qinghe, who was unreliable in this life!
By this time, he had turned his attention back to himself. Since he had built the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom, he might have to venture out on his own this time.

It's just cultivation, isn't it? It's not like Su Qing hasn't cultivated before.

"It seems we still have to make things harder for the meditation dolls!"

Expanding the ranks is essential. To advance in cultivation, we need more meditation children. If one isn't enough, we'll have ten. If ten aren't enough, we'll have a hundred. If a hundred aren't enough, we'll form a regiment, an army. He wants to create a cultivation legion, dedicated to his cultivation!

"Cultivation alone is not enough; one must also gain insights. The trouble with the position of the seventh-level Dao Lord lies in this: cultivating one's nature and destiny, cultivating one's personal understanding of the Dao, and also cultivating the myriad laws of heaven and earth. Without experiencing the trials of the mortal world and the hardships of worldly life, it is difficult to gain an understanding of heaven and earth, the path of the Dao, the past and the future, and the vast world. It is difficult to touch the Great Dao and then master it!"

Su Qing muttered to himself. Taoyuan Tianjun and the others thought that he had been busy with this and that all these years, but had not paid attention to his own cultivation. They kindly reminded him to pay more attention to his own cultivation.

Little did he know that he had never slackened in his cultivation. Over the years, at his request, Hongshang had been searching for high-level materials in all the heavens and myriad realms to refine meditation dolls. These materials have now been transformed into meditation dolls, continuously adding bricks and tiles to his cultivation 24 hours a day.

Without being immodest, in terms of cultivation progress, Su Qing far surpasses any other Void Refinement Heavenly Lord of the same level in all the heavens.

It can be said that if he breaks through to the seventh-order Dao Lord, he only needs to accumulate magic power, which will not take him ten thousand years. If he invests resources to refine more meditation dolls, he may be able to touch the seventh-order Dao Lord within three to five thousand years.

Unfortunately, the position of a seventh-order Dao Lord cannot be achieved simply by accumulating magical power.

In addition to basic magical abilities, this test requires an understanding of the Great Dao and a complete mastery of either an acquired or innate Great Dao to succeed.

Of the three thousand Great Daos, Su Qing has acquired quite a few, including several Five Elders Dao Patterns and Four Imperial Dao Patterns. He doesn't dare to hope to fully master the Four Imperial Dao Patterns and become a Dao Ancestor-level being for the time being, but mastering a Five Elders Dao Pattern, especially the Nine Li Qiongqi Dao Pattern that he has been working on for many years, is not a big problem. It just takes a certain amount of time, which is counted in tens of thousands of years.

"Therefore, simply increasing the quantity of meditation dolls will not solve the problem; we also need to work on the quality of the meditation dolls!"

As he muttered to himself, a puppet blueprint appeared in his hand.

【Enlightenment Doll】

[Introduction: One of the doll series puppets, continuously modified and upgraded by puppeteer Su Qing, now all the puppet blueprints from level one to six have been collected. It is Su Qing's personal cultivation puppet, with many features such as tirelessness, high energy efficiency, and automatic intelligence. It has made great contributions to Su Qing's personal cultivation and is the unsung hero behind his achievements today.]

After Su Qing crafted the seventh-tier puppet Lingxiao Palace Puppet, he advanced to the seventh-tier puppeteer and unlocked new blueprints, one of which was the upgraded version of this meditation doll—the Enlightenment Doll.

This doll represents a significant upgrade from the original, boasting a higher level of biomimicry. It not only mimics the basic internal and external structure of its owner, Su Qing, but can also be infused with corresponding memories to simulate her thought processes, behaviors, and actions. Furthermore, its intelligence has achieved a major breakthrough, possessing the ability to learn by analogy and even comprehend the Dao in a vacuum.

[Type: Enlightenment-type cultivation puppet]

[Rank: Lower 7]

【Function 1: Perfect biomimicry.】

[Function Two: Enlightenment in the Void.]

[Function 3: Synchronous transmission, meaning that all the achievements of the Enlightenment Doll can be transmitted to its master, Su Qing, without any energy loss or time delay, as if the doll itself were constantly in a state of secluded enlightenment.]

[Function 4: Multi-path and multi-threaded. One Enlightenment Doll can focus on cultivating one Great Dao, while multiple Enlightenment Dolls can cultivate multiple Great Daos, which is especially suitable for special cultivators like their master, Su Qing, who has mastered many Dao patterns.]

The Enlightenment Doll is another perfect item in the premium doll series. It upgrades the original meditation doll, making it suitable for the cultivation rhythm of the seventh level and above, greatly shortening the time it takes for it to advance to the seventh level Dao Lord, and even to reach the eighth level Dao Ancestor.

Why didn't he try to forge such a suitable puppet as he was after the blueprints were in his hands?

Is it him, Su Qingshan?
Considering that the cost of this Enlightenment Doll is too high, and not wanting to consume the resources of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom and cause hardship to the people of the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom.

That's naturally not the case. He had always known that in the cultivation world, individual power could determine everything. Only if he, as the ruler of Kaiyuan Kingdom, was strong enough could he protect the fruits of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's development. Even if the people of Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom suffered temporarily, it was a necessary sacrifice, and he personally felt no guilt. After all, he, Su Qing, had never been a saint who only cared about others. The reason for not refining the Enlightenment Doll was simple: insufficient conditions and materials. Even a skilled cook cannot make a meal without rice.

Requirements for crafting an Enlightenment Doll:
1. Su Qing herself

Second: Seventh-tier puppeteer skill.

Three: Complete materials (choose one from Enlightenment Flower and Bodhi Fruit, one innate Dao Body or any innate body, and the essence of an innate spiritual object.)

He met the first two of the three requirements, but he couldn't meet the third one.

Both the Enlightenment Flower and the Bodhi Fruit have the power to help people attain enlightenment and awaken to the Dao. They can help the Refining Void Heavenly Lord break through to the seventh-level Dao Lord realm, and even play a significant role in the cultivation of the seventh-level Dao Lord realm.

These kinds of treasures were highly prized possessions in ancient times, and were not easily leaked out by the major sects and powerful figures. Once they appeared in the world, they could instantly cause a bloodbath in the cultivation world, turning people's heads into dog heads and eventually leaving them without heads.

The present world is not like the ancient times. The Enlightenment Tea Tree disappeared along with the ancient calamity, and the Bodhi Fruit Tree was destroyed when Mount Ling collapsed. No new Enlightenment Flowers and Bodhi Fruits can be generated. If you want to obtain these two items, you can only get them from ancient sects like the Yuanshi Sect and the Lingbao Sect. With their power in ancient times, they should still have some stock. But even if they have them, there is no possibility that they will give them to Su Qing. Even a sect like the Lingbao Sect, which is on good terms with him, would never hand over something that even its own disciples don't have enough of.

As for the innate physical body, its rarity is actually greater than that of the Enlightenment Flower and the Bodhi Fruit.

Because the number of innate deities is limited, and these beings are either born at the seventh-order Dao Lord realm or can easily reach the seventh-order Dao Lord realm after a period of cultivation, they are truly the darlings of heaven, and each one is a famous figure in the myriad realms.

Although some of these innate saints perished in the great calamities, those that could be used had already been used by others, and very few remained intact and were obtained by Su Qing.

Take, for example, the remains of the Eastern King and Western Mother preserved by the Eastern King Sect. This is a perfectly natural body, but would Su Qing dare to ask the Eastern King Sect to make a sacrifice and give him the remains of their ancestor to refine into a puppet?

But as rare as it may be, he has nothing else at hand, but he does have this innate body, and not just one.

The first innate body he obtained was given to him by the Azure Dragon King of the Dragon Clan.

This old Dragon King was driven mad by the current state of the dragon race. All the good, capable, and high-quality dragons were wiped out during the ancient demonic calamity. Those who are still alive now are weak dragon species such as cloud dragons and water dragons. If the revival of the dragon race depends on them, then the Azure Dragon King might as well just kill himself.

The hope that emerged from despair was Su Qing, who manifested the illusory image of the Ancestral Dragon when he broke through to the Refining Void Heavenly Monarch Realm. How could the Azure Dragon King not know that Su Qing was more human than a dragon, with little dragon blood in his body? At most, he was a human-dragon hybrid, far from being a pure-blooded dragon. In ancient times, to maintain the purity of their bloodline, the dragons would have sent dragons to kill such hybrids. But times had changed. With the dragons in such a state, did they still care about the purity of their bloodlines? As long as Su Qing had a little dragon blood on him, he would be recognized as a pure-blooded dragon, qualified to inherit the dragon's legacy, and contribute to the revival of the dragon race.

The Azure Dragon King was also willing to go all out. In order to let Su Qing feel the warmth of the dragon race, he not only told him the location of many dragon treasures and let him go and dig out the dragon treasures hidden by various true dragons in Tianyuan and the myriad worlds, but also handed him the corpse of an ancestral dragon.

The ancient dragon race consisted of ten ancestral dragons, all of whom were innate deities. Among them, the three ancestral dragons—the progenitor of all dragons, the dragon among dragons, the Zhulong, and the king of dragons, the Heavenly Dragon King—were the most famous in the myriad realms and stirred up several storms in ancient times.

Besides these three ancestral dragons, the other seven ancestral dragons either accepted the Heavenly Court's incorporation and became the Dragon Gods of the Four Seas, guarding the four seas for the Heavenly Emperor; or were subdued by the Human Emperor and became important ministers assisting the Human Emperor in pacifying the four seas; or went to the Underworld to serve and contribute to cleansing wronged souls and balancing Yin and Yang.

In conclusion, the ancestral dragons were extremely active in ancient times. Apart from causing trouble and breeding, they also did a lot of worthwhile things.

After the ancient demonic calamity, the dragon race as a whole suffered heavy losses, and the ancestral dragons were almost wiped out. To this day, even the dragon souls have only been discovered in one dragon, the Azure Dragon King. Whether the dragon souls of the other ancestral dragons still exist is unknown, let alone their dragon bodies.

The body that the Azure Dragon King kept was not that of the Ancestral Dragon who perished in the ancient demonic calamity, but rather the body of the Heavenly Dragon King who rebelled and tried to overthrow the Heavenly Court.

This Heavenly Dragon King was an outstanding dragon among the dragons. His talent and endowment were second only to the progenitor dragon who was expected to advance to the eighth-order dragon saint and the Zhulong who controlled the good and evil of day and night. He was also highly regarded by the dragons and seen as the hope for the dragons to rise again and become great again.

But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The Heavenly Dragon King, who had been given a lot of resources by the Dragon Clan, wanted to live up to their expectations. When his strength reached a certain level, he wanted to lead the Dragon Clan to fight for supremacy. At that time, when the Heavenly Court's power was at its peak, he resolutely led the Dragon Clan, who had just recovered and were still guilty, to launch an attack on the Heavenly Court.

This attack was not carried out because the dragon was acting rashly and gambling with the fate of the entire dragon race. At that time, the few remaining ancestral dragons of the dragon race understood that after the last great calamity of the dragon and phoenix, no matter how proud and arrogant their dragon race was, they had to accept the fate of withdrawing from the stage of hegemony. Their strength and fortune were not enough to support them to gamble again.

Thus, even though the Heavenly Dragon King was wholeheartedly devoted to the dragon race and wanted to lead them on another charge, in order to prevent him from dragging the dragon race into an abyss of no return once again, the other ancestral dragons, having failed to persuade him, had no choice but to grit their teeth and kill him before he could act.

The Azure Dragon King was one of them, and the remains of the Heavenly Dragon King were also preserved here. With the current dragon race having nothing left to lose, it chose to place another bet on Su Qing, handing over the body of the Heavenly Dragon King to Su Qing.

Besides this innate body, the second innate body that Su Qing obtained was the remains of an ancestral witch.

The Dragon Clan has ten Ancestral Dragons, and the Witch Clan has twelve Ancestral Witches. In terms of strength and ability, apart from the Primordial Dragon, which can hold its own against the twelve Ancestral Witches, the physical endowments and combat abilities of the other Ancestral Dragons are far inferior to those of the Ancestral Witches.

The corpses of the Ancestral Witches are even rarer than the bodies of the Ancestral Dragons. During the ancient calamity of the Witches and Demons, the Ancestral Witches perished. When they were resurrected by the Sages and Dao Ancestors, they were killed again by the demons. Having died twice, the difficulty of preserving the complete corpses of the Ancestral Witches is unimaginable.

The only one that survived was the ancestral witch Houtu, who survived both great calamities of the witch clan.

This Ancestral Witch, having attained the Dao Fruit of Reincarnation in her Ancestral Witch body and become the Lord of the Underworld, shed her Ancestral Witch form. At the very end of the Great Calamity of Antiquity, although she, like other Saints and Dao Ancestors, self-destructed her Dao Fruit to pause the calamity, what did the self-destructed Dao Fruit of the Lord of Reincarnation have to do with her Ancestral Witch body? Therefore, after Su Qing defeated the Reincarnation Demon and cleaned up the Underworld, he also found this Ancestral Witch body within the Underworld. (End of Chapter)