Immortality begins with meditation puppets

Chapter 276 Breaking the Formation and Slaying the Lightning, the Furnace Boy Achieves Merit!

The Falcon King puppet suffered heavy losses.

Peng Wang Kui and Liu Yin were also struggling to hold on.

Only the flying dragon, its body overflowing with tribulation lightning, could continue to hold on, but under the torment of the evil spirits in the pavilion, including the black dragon and golden sword formations, it was unlikely to last much longer.

As for the exorcism and funeral procession, although they really wanted to send the two evil spirits of the pavilion into the coffins to be refined.

But the burial shovelman who could only wield his shovel at its feet, the earth spirit who was repeatedly forced back by the formation, and the black coffin grandmother whose coffin was open but had never had a chance to close the lid.

Clearly, none of them had a chance to exert their influence in the face of the evil spirits in this building.

The puppets were unable to provide any assistance.

The despicable old evil spirit of Yunshan used the evil spirit of the pavilion, which had been refined over many years by generations of Yunshan disciples, to bully Su Qing, a young man.

Such a lack of martial ethics left Su Qing with no choice but to invoke divine intervention on the spot.

Just as he was about to activate his trump card, the fourth-tier summoning talisman, to invite an ancient immortal to possess him and forcefully break the formation of the two evil spirits in the pavilion.

Suddenly, a loud shout was heard.

"Fellow Daoist Su, poke his crotch, this is the entrance to the pavilion, the weak point of the third-order battle technique, the Radiant Spirit-Severing Array!"

Then, picking the melon from behind his head, his head was the Cloud Mountain Refining Room of the Cloud Mountain Sect, the core of the Heavenly Light Golden Blade Formation.

Finally, the weakness of the Misty Black Dragon Formation lies in its two kidneys—the Dragon-Dwelling Array Plates. Break these plates, and the entire formation will disintegrate!

When Su Qing heard about the method to break the formation that Lai Yiren had obtained by sacrificing his lifespan, he was terrified.

Since a fellow practitioner has already spent a great deal of effort to figure out how to break the formation, how could he bear to let them waste their time?

He put the summoning talisman, which he had saved as a trump card, into his storage bag. With one trump card saved, he rode the Iron-Eating King Beast and followed Lai Yiren's instructions. Despite being bombarded by five thunderbolts, he stabbed its groin, ripped off its forehead, and stabbed its kidney.

This operation, though simple in theory, is actually not difficult in practice.

The Iron-Eating King Beast leaps over a hundred feet high. The height of the leap itself is not impressive, but the ability to move nimbly in mid-air, dodging the golden blade arm slashes of the Evil Pavilion Spirit, and wielding its giant club to block most of the damage, is truly remarkable.

The remaining damage, after being weakened by layers of Heavenly Silkworm Armor, Heavenly Silkworm Armor, Heavenly Silkworm Armor, Blood Slaughter Armor, Wind and Thunder Lu Wu, Purple Thorn Armor, and Heavenly King Armor, was reduced to very little that actually reached his true form.

Their own safety is not a problem, and attacking is even less of a concern.

Although the Falcon King Puppet died before achieving its goal and never demonstrated its ability to stack Blood Kill layers, it still possessed six hands and three spears, and its attack speed was not slow. It quickly thrust out eighteen spears, which was enough to break through the defense of the Pavilion Evil Spirit and destroy the three third-order formations on its body.

Lai Yiren made a great contribution!

With the third-order formation broken, this evil spirit in the pavilion was now an open treasure trove for Su Qing, no longer a threat.

Once inside, all you'll find are ordinary pavilions and towers, places for cultivation.

But the moment he entered, every flower, every blade of grass, every brick, and every tile transformed into mischievous little evil spirits.

Most of the lesser evil spirits only have first-tier combat power, with a few spirit house-shaped evil spirits barely possessing the prestige of second-tier power.

But for Su Qing now, it poses no threat whatsoever and does not affect his speed in the slightest.

The only thing that could slow him down was those tiny, uncorrupted spiritual objects.

Such as second-tier spirit houses, piles of unfinished magical artifacts, axes, hooks and forks, idle weapons with hair and thorns, unrefined spirit ore, and a huge amount of spiritual materials.

"Even without evil spirits at work, the Yunshan Sect, having accumulated such a large fortune, has still been exploiting rogue cultivators for years. They are greedy, heartless, and no good at all!"

Su Qing severely criticized the actions of the Fanyun Mountain Sect and stuffed all the spiritual items they had greedily obtained into his storage bag so that he could later refine puppets such as the beautiful snake to benefit the masses.

They fought their way through, looting as they went, until they reached the heart of the evil spirits in the pavilion—a magnificent hall with a plaque that read "Hall of Transmission of Dharma"—before finally stopping.

The one who emerged from the palace was none other than Master Lei Guang, who had been hiding within the evil spirits of the pavilion and had been using the Five Thunder Daoist Technique to bombard people and puppets.

This person has black hair and a white beard, and wears a yellow Celestial Master's robe. After transforming into an evil spirit, he is more advanced than other delusional evil spirits. Like the sect leader, White Eyebrows, he can receive the Old Evil's will and has the ability to communicate with people.

"Fellow Daoist Su, when you entered the sect, you possessed a high-grade or mid-grade Star Sun Spiritual Root and a complete nature root bone, which aroused my appetite. I devoured your spiritual root, ate your root bone, and even your soul was completely devoured by me. Fellow Daoist should have died long ago, how come you still have such good fortune today?"

Is it the power of the Dao patterns on your body? Or is it that the Nascent Soul of a Nascent Soul cultivator has taken over your body?

Lei Shan Shangren, or more accurately Yun Shan Lao Xie, scanned Su Qin with a cold gaze, as if trying to find something amiss in him.

Su Qing had no time to talk to this old evil man. He already knew that the original owner had encountered great terror in the back mountain of Yunshan Sect.

Given his cultivation level at the time, which was only at the Qi Refining stage, it wouldn't be surprising if he hadn't been targeted by this old evil spirit, but any minor evil spirit in the Yunshan Palace could have easily dealt with him.

But Su Qing never imagined that the original owner's spiritual roots and physical constitution were so outstanding.

The so-called Star and Sun Spiritual Root, also known as the Different Spiritual Root, can absorb the five elements of spiritual power to cultivate like ordinary cultivators. It can also attract the power of the great sun and stars to enhance its cultivation. Cultivating Star and Sun-related Daoist techniques is like having divine assistance, progressing by leaps and bounds in a day.

As for the Quanxing root bone, he knew nothing about it, but he figured that if it could make this old evil man so interested, it must be an excellent root bone that was comparable to the Star Sun Spirit Root!
"Then you really deserve to die!"

Su Qing's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a murderous intent.

After he transmigrated, he thought the original owner was a crippled cultivator with only a passable divine sense and a useless spiritual root and physique. But he never expected that the original owner was actually a genius cultivator who excelled in all three areas!

Unfortunately, before it could take flight, its wings were snapped by the old evil spirit of Yunshan.

"You are neither the product of a Nascent Soul cultivator possessing another's body, nor the result of the Daoist spirit's power!"
Then what's this newborn soul of yours? It's because I didn't completely devour it back then!

"It's good that you weren't completely devoured. You gained the fortune of Dao patterns and are now presented to me again. Once I corrupt the Dao patterns on your body and reinfuse your Star Sun Spiritual Root and Complete Nature Bone into you, perhaps without the aid of the Immortal God Ice, I can create a Nascent Soul evil spirit!"

Master Lei Guang seemed to see through his true intentions and clapped his hands and laughed.

"Laugh your mother!"

The evil spirit's undisguised malice enraged Su Qing.

He thrust out six hands and three spears in quick succession, engaging the evil spirit of the magic cultivator in close combat. His goal was to use a ferocious offensive to prevent the spirit from having the opportunity to unleash its Earth-level magic techniques!
However, he underestimated Yunshan Laoxie, or perhaps he underestimated Leiguang Shangren, who was currently residing in Yunshan Laoxie's body.

But his body moved like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he easily dodged his three shots, which roared like dragons and howled like tigers.

"Lightning Release? A normal Lightning Release technique shouldn't be this fast!"

“Normal lightning escape doesn’t have this speed, but the ground beneath your feet is paved with lightning-attracting stones. Here, lightning is truly lightning, omnipresent, and you can escape and dodge at will!”

Yunshan Laoxie laughed again, seemingly having lost patience to talk to Su Qing any further.

Manipulating the Thunder God, and using the Thunder-Attracting Stone, he continuously unleashed Thunder Escape, ensuring that Su Qing's spear had no chance to land on him.

He also used hand gestures to summon a ball of lightning with five colors intertwined, nurturing the power of purple thunder and yang fire, and with a fire-breathing tail.

This is the Five Thunder Yang Fire. As long as the spell continues and the spiritual power remains, it will relentlessly seek out enemies. Once hit, one will suffer endless Five Thunderbolts and be burned by Yang Fire that uses the enemy's life force as fuel!

Although these Earth-level Dao techniques lack the instantaneous speed of the Yin-Yang Absolute Breath Slash of the Old Demon of Joy, they are even more troublesome than the Yin-Yang Absolute Breath Slash.

Master Lei Guang possesses this Daoist art; no wonder he was once able to rival the sect leader Bai Mei's faction within the Yunshan Sect.

Fortunately, Su Qing was not without a solution; he had also tried to cultivate a level-one Dao technique!
The third-tier Transformation Hand technique allows one to transform into a Yuan-level Dao technique without physical contact, simply by moving through the air!
Aside from the longer cooldown period, it's far more powerful than its second-tier counterpart.

The Daoist technique he transformed into was the protective spiritual light of the rosy clouds that the hermit of Mount Xia had mastered!
With sufficient spiritual energy, one can emit a protective glow around the body, blocking attacks from similarly level Dao techniques.

He swallowed a bottle of Spirit-Nourishing Pills and struggled to condense a protective glow around his body.

The Thunder Light Master, who was being commanded by the Old Evil of Yunshan, was slightly surprised. He really didn't expect where the Thunder Light Master had obtained this protective aura from!

Even if he stole it, you still need to cultivate it. How could you have cultivated the Taoist arts that the Master of Xiashan had cultivated for over three hundred years to such a level in just a few years?
It was exactly the same as the technique performed by Master Xiashan himself!

"You seem to have many secrets? But with your weak magical power, how long can you hold out? Once this glow dissipates, I'll see just how many secrets you still have!"

Yunshan Laoxie became increasingly interested in the illogical aspects of Su Qing's behavior, only regretting that the evil spirit transformed by Lei Guang Shangren was too weak to kill Su Qing quickly.

But he wasn't in such a hurry, because he could see that Su Qing, with his Foundation Establishment cultivation, was using a low-level Dao technique. Even with pills and spiritual needles stuck in his body, and seemingly aided by a puppet, he was still no match for a true Golden Core cultivator. Once the glow faded, it would be the moment of his death. He wasn't in a hurry, but Su Qing was.

It wasn't that he was afraid of losing his life here. After all, when Su Qing ventured into the martial world, his first priority was always to save his life, and his second priority was to run away. But even if there was only a one percent chance of dying, he would not personally go into battle.

For example, if he really wanted to get away right now, he could abandon a substitute doll and leave this Thunder Light Master completely bewildered.

What worried him was that there was still an evil spirit in a pavilion outside and no one was dealing with the Cloud Master.

It's also his fault for being greedy. He was delayed a bit when he came up to collect the wealth of Yunshan Sect. If he delays any longer, many of the puppets outside, as well as fellow Daoists and their families, may suffer countless casualties.

Having no time to entangle with this Thunder Light Master, he first spat out hundreds of large red spider lilies from his mouth.

The strange flowers, resembling the underworld, surprised and delighted the old evil spirit of Yunshan upon their appearance.

"You don't just have one Dao pattern on your body; this is the aura of a second Dao pattern!"

At this moment, Yunshan Laoxie even began to regret his actions. In his current view, Su Qing's value was no less than that of Gao Erqiang, and he should have devoted more energy to this person!

As it fumed, hundreds of spider lilies exploded simultaneously, unleashing a netherworld power that instantly filled the entire area. The damage caused was negligible to Master Lei Guang.

However, the lightning-attracting stone, corrupted by the power of the underworld, made it difficult for him to continue using the lightning escape technique that had allowed him to move freely just moments before.

Su Qing just wanted to provoke this old man out.

Almost the instant the spider lily burst forth, fire spewed from its mouth, and a phantom of a third-tier fire phoenix burrowed under the buttocks of the evil furnace child that it had released at some unknown time.

The child from the Refining Furnace, whose bottom had been scalded, hopped and skipped towards Master Lei Guang.

"A third-tier exorcism puppet?" Old Evil Yunshan was startled.

Although the appearance of the Refining Evil Furnace Child was somewhat comical and his movements did not seem quite normal.

But the exorcising spiritual light emanating from its body was enough to make the people of Yunshan instinctively want to back down.

Unable to quickly unleash a lightning escape, a wisp of wind rose beneath his feet, carrying him lightly as he was about to evade the attack of the alchemy demon child.

Just then, the Refining Evil Furnace Child chuckled, making the furnace lid fly up. As soon as the lid landed in the air, it spun around and landed on the head of the Thunder Light Master. A sealing spiritual light fell from it, freezing the Thunder Light Master's figure for a moment.

At this moment, Old Evil Yunshan already sensed something was wrong, so he reached out and made a hand seal, using a technique to break the restriction.

Five thunderbolts struck his body, the lightning cleansing and sealing away his spiritual light.

Countless lightning bolts condensed and struck the furnace lid from bottom to top.

The senior elder of Yunshan Sect possessed Taoist skills far surpassing those of ordinary people. After being transformed into an evil spirit by the Old Evil of Yunshan, he became even more troublesome.

Seeing that the old evil was still struggling and unwilling to die, Su Qing swallowed another bottle of Spirit Gathering Pills, stretched out his arm and reached out, and clenched his fist.

In an instant, Yunshan Laoxie felt as if Leiguang Shangren's body was being crushed by mountains and seas. Normally, he could break free in a day or two, but at this moment, he had to resist the seal of the furnace lid.

Although he was in pain, the more he felt, the more excited he became. His eyes were fixed on Su Qing, and his face was twisted and crazed in a way that was nauseating.

"There are two more Dao patterns, so you have four Dao patterns on your body!"
God bless my evil witch, God bless my evil witch!

"Heaven is blind to have blessed you, you old scoundrel!"

Su Qing snorted coldly. Behind the Thunder Light Master, two mountain demon spirits suddenly appeared, and between them was Xiong Er, a Buddhist monk holding a vajra!

Having been given a burial by the mountain demon and gained some insight into the essence of Yin people, Xiong Er's bear eyes widened, and with a whistle, the Vajra pestle struck Lei Guang Shangren's head with great force.

Bang!
The Buddha's light trembled, and Master Leiguang himself only swayed, his head buzzing slightly.

However, a malevolent shadow of a bull or horse was shaken out from its body, and like a woman who had taken off her clothes, it hurriedly tried to burrow back into the body of the lightning-bearing figure.

But once you get in, you have to get out again!

Xiong Er, accompanied by his newly recruited mountain demon underlings, swung his shovel quickly, but with weak force, failing to excite Lei Guang Shangren. It was Xiong Er's turn to deliver. Although his vajra pestle moved slowly, each strike was filled with power, making Lei Guang Shangren feel an overwhelming sense of pleasure.

Once the evil spirit was shaken out of Lei Guang Shangren's body, Lei Guang Shangren would temporarily lose control like a puppet, his spiritual power would be intermittent, and all the Taoist arts he had previously used would dissipate.

Without the protective lightning and various Taoist techniques to resist the sealing of the furnace lid, the alchemy furnace boy chuckled, put his hands on the ground, and then pushed off with both feet. The phantom of the fire phoenix on his buttocks shot up, making him feel incredibly good.

Bang!
Luwachong devoured some of the evil spirits of Leiguang Shangren and Yunshan Laoxie, and the furnace lid slammed shut.

Within the furnace lies a sea of ​​fiery flames, so intense that no living being dares to touch it, and even evil spirits find it difficult to gain a foothold.

Lei Guang Shangren's physical body fell into the sea of ​​fire and was instantly burned to ashes, leaving only a piece of purple finger bone. Yunshan Laoxie's evil spirit, however, still wanted to struggle.

Without the physical body of Master Leishan, part of the evil spirit of Old Evil Yunshan transformed into a bizarre and ugly form with ox horns, a human face, and a horse's body.

The horse stomped away from the fire, and the bull's horns emitted an eerie purple light, as if it wanted to use brute force to push a large hole in the furnace.

The ox-horse monster possessed boundless strength, its horns flashing with lightning. Every time it crashed into the furnace, the furnace boy couldn't help but cry out, but this was not the most difficult thing to deal with.

The most difficult thing to deal with is that the Old Evil of Yunshan has mastered the Soul Devouring Dao Pattern. As long as this evil monster is not destroyed, it will be devouring the energy in the furnace at all times.

If it cannot be refined in a short time, and it is not used to break through the furnace body, all the energy inside the furnace body will be converted into its own use!
Su Qing remained calm in the face of this. With a thought, he saw miniature dolls with yellow heads and black bodies suddenly emerge from the Demon Refining Furnace.

Their upper bodies resembled dolls, while their lower bodies were wisps of soul fire. They held long spears and short clubs at an angle in their hands, standing in neat and solemn rows, surrounding the bull and horse monsters.

These strange dolls are all formed from the vengeful spirits and ghostly shadows within the furnace, which reacted with the exorcism runes, soul-devouring runes, sealing runes, and biomimetic runes.

The eerie doll survived in the furnace, and the object it held was a nemesis of evil spirits.

These dolls, with serious expressions, meticulously carried out their master's orders. Long spears and short clubs were all aimed at the evil spirit, and they fired exorcism bullets. Each exorcism bullet that landed on the bull-horse monster created a black hole in its body.

The intense pain enraged the monster, which turned its horns towards the monsters and savagely charged into their midst.

Although many of the ghost dolls were killed, they could reassemble in an instant as long as the furnace fire remained lit.

From among the group of small ghost dolls, a giant ghost doll, about ten feet tall and with eight arms, emerged. Behind him was a group of medium-sized ghost dolls, about three feet tall, smaller than the giant ghost doll and larger than the small ghost dolls.

The Great Ghost Child was formed by the fusion of Lin Feng's Golden Core soul and runes, while the Middle Ghost Child was formed by the fusion of his Foundation Establishment soul and runes.

It was stronger than the little ghost child, and the weapon it held was thicker and harder.

With a strange roar, the Big Monster Doll saw the Middle Monster Dolls carrying sealing laser cannons on their shoulders, shooting sealing lasers as thick as bowls at the bull and horse monsters.

The laser cannon fired fast and in large quantities, making the cattle, horses, and monsters scream and howl.

Seeing that they were temporarily sealed off, they could not easily escape.

The little monsters showed him no mercy, raising their spears, aiming sideways, and firing exorcism bullets at him without restraint.

The exorcism bullets fired one after another; each one wouldn't kill, but the eerie shadows they cast upon impact caused the bull and horse monsters unbearable pain.

The giant monster decided to give it a quick death, raising its eight arms to hug the pointed-headed, slender object and pointing it at it.

It was actually a giant exorcism missile that Su Qing had specially prepared for Golden Core level evil spirits.

The middle-aged ghost child grabbed a smaller ghost child and stuffed it into the bottom of the rocket. The rocket ignited, and various runes such as exorcism, sealing, and soul-destroying reacted, causing the reactor to explode. The exorcism-guided missile shot straight into the arms of the bull-horse monster with a whoosh!
There was a bang.

The evil turned to ashes, and the furnace fire went out.

The eerie dolls have vanished.

Silence returned to the furnace.

Only the sound of wooden fish resonated, clearing away countless traces of the Daoist path.

Recently, I've been writing 5000-word chapters, so I'm writing two chapters a day, still totaling 10,000 words. Except for the year and month, when the word count might be changed to 6000 to 8000 words depending on the situation, the book should be 10,000 words before and after the new year. I won't make any further explanations. Thank you for your support.

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