Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 173 Taking Everything and Making Nothing
Wang Junli, harboring ill intentions but confident in his abilities, temporarily suppressed his anger.

After taking out the prepared rune inheritance and completing the three-for-one trade with Su Qing,

Only then did his true intentions become clear. In his gaze towards Su Qing, in addition to his original arrogance, there was also a hint of mockery and teasing.

Seeing Su Qing's smug expression, as if she had gotten a huge bargain, she put the three rune inheritance books into her storage bag.

He couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Jie Jie Jie!

His laughter was wild and unrestrained, prompting Su Qing to ask:

"Even if the deal is done and you are happy, why are you laughing in such a peculiar way? I am really curious why you are laughing like this."

"It's kind of creepy," Su Qing thought to herself.

"What am I laughing at? I'm laughing at you rogue cultivators who don't understand the treacherous nature of human hearts and the perilousness of the world."

I laugh at you, Su Qing, for being talented but lacking in strategy. You think you can be on par with my Wang family just because you've acquired a few green-skinned lizards?
Today I'll tell you, my Wang family has stood strong for a thousand years, and besides playing with dogs, we also play with people! No, in my eyes now, you're no different from a canine puppet!

Once Wang Junli stopped pretending, he revealed the arrogance of a second-generation immortal, looking down on rogue cultivators as ants.

When Su Qing heard him say that he was going to treat her like a dog, she immediately activated the tiger egg's blood and qi perception to sense the surroundings outside the courtyard.

He thought the Wang family was going to attack him today, and that hundreds of puppets were already lying in ambush outside the courtyard.

But what one can perceive is nothing.

There was no ambush, so why was Wang Junli so confident? He seemed so ordinary...

Can we rely on this ordinary dog-headed general?
It wasn't that Su Qing underestimated his opponent, but this dog-headed general might not even be a match for his Explosive War Bear Hammer!
While he was wondering, Wang Junli himself explained the reason.

"Look at how panicked and helpless you are, rogue cultivator, don't you understand even now?"
Doing business with my Wang family, how could you possibly gain any advantage?

If the Yunshan Sect finds out about the intelligent runes you obtained, how will you handle the situation?

"If you don't want to suffer the agony of being skinned alive, having your tendons pulled out, and having your soul obliterated, you'll have to serve the Wang family faithfully from now on!"

As if he had Su Qing firmly under his control, Wang Junli waited to see Su Qing's fear, shock, and dejection as soon as he finished speaking.

"That was close! I thought the Wang family was going to double-cross me, but it turns out they just wanted to report me!"

To Wang Junli's surprise, Su Qing was not flustered at all; on the contrary, she seemed more relaxed.

"Eliminating the enemy? That's so unethical, it would ruin the reputation of my Wang family!"
"But fellow Daoist, haven't you realized the consequences of leaking the Yunshan inheritance? When you were expelled from the sect, didn't that Yunshan elder inform you?"

Wang Junli suspected that Su Qing might have forgotten the rules of the Yunshan Sect. If he forgot, it was alright; he could remind him!
"I dare not forget the earnest teachings of Master Yunshan. However, I have only been in the sect for a short time and can only inherit the bionic rune. Later, I was expelled from the sect because of my poor aptitude."

"I wonder why you think these intelligent runes were passed down to me by the Yunshan Sect?"

Su Qing asked, puzzled, not understanding why Wang Junli thought so highly of the Yunshan Sect.

He had only seen a small part of the first-tier stage of the biomimetic rune inheritance back then.

This was only because of his extraordinary spiritual awareness when he joined the sect. Otherwise, even that small part of the bionic rune inheritance would require accumulating enough sect contributions to obtain.

These intelligent runes were not something he was qualified to see at that time.

"Not from Yunshan Sect, how could it not be from Yunshan Sect!"

"I'm not from the Yunshan Sect. I'd have to be insane to offer you three high-level runes in exchange!"

Wang Junli was furious. Seeing Wang Junli's outburst of rage...

Now it was Su Qing's turn to look down at him with disdain in her eyes.

"Look at how panicked and helpless you are, young master. Don't you understand even now?"
Doing business with me, Su Qing, is something you're not going to get away with!
"Hurry up and take off your storage bag! Do you expect me to do it myself?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, an array rose up in the front yard, and six Explosive Hammer War Bears instantly surrounded Wang Junli, hidden in the yellow earth.

"What are you doing? Fellow Daoist, do you intend to extort me? Do you want to make an enemy of the Wang family? Do you dare to kill me?"

Wang Junli had not yet adapted to the shift in his role from manipulating others to being manipulated.

When Su Qing used his lines to surround him with puppets, the dog-headed general beside him, though his throat was whimpering and he still looked fierce, could not give him any sense of security.

The only way to scare Su Qing away was through the Wang family's subsequent retaliation.

"I thought I treated you with sincerity today, but I didn't expect you to harbor evil intentions and want to plot against me."

That's fine, but you were just about to treat me like a dog, so even though I'm just a lowly rogue cultivator, I can still get angry.

"If you don't give me a satisfactory explanation today, returning to the Wang family won't be so easy!"

As an upright and honest person, Su Qing genuinely wanted to make a proper deal today, and becoming friends with the Wang family wouldn't be out of the question.

But the Wang family is not a virtuous family, and Wang Junli is excessively self-confident.

No wonder he used this as an excuse to extort money from him.

Seeing that this young master Wang was still muttering about how the prestige of the Wang family could not be insulted, Su Qing knew he would never dare to utter such foolish words.

With a thought, Su Qing unleashed a powerful hammer, smashing the dog-headed general, who had been freshly made the day before and was treasured by Wang Junli, into iron slag and dog scraps.

Wang Junli almost wet his pants.

He hurriedly untied the storage bag at his waist and handed it to Su Qing.

That wasn't enough. Under Su Qing's intense gaze, all the fine items on his body, including his superior-grade magic robe, python belt, and tranquility bracelet, were taken by Su Qing.

When he walked out of Su Qing's courtyard naked.

He didn't forget to turn around and shout loudly.

"Su thief, don't think you've won today. Don't even think about trading with my Wang family for those second-tier inheritances of the three runes!"

I'll never trade with you again, you bastard!

Wang Junli felt that he had already punished Su Qing enough by cutting off any possibility of further transactions with the Wang family.

The humiliation he had just suffered suddenly felt much better. He unleashed a spell of yellow sand, enveloping himself from head to toe, and fled back home as if escaping.

When he returned home, his third uncle, knowing he had been wronged, even forgot to fasten his belt and rushed out to comfort him.

This deeply moved Wang Junli. After his father joined the Yunshan Sect, his concern for family affairs and his wife and children was far less than that of his third uncle.

In his heart, his third uncle was like his father.

"Third Uncle, you're standing up for me! That Su Qing is really going too far, not only not giving us a chance to take advantage of him."

They even stole all the valuables from my storage bag, humiliating me and disgracing the Wang family!

(End of this chapter)