Immortal Path Doll, Human Emperor Doll

Bow to the gods, rub your hands, and may Heaven and Earth open their eyes.

Beg the immortals, stomp your feet; bathing and burning incense must not be omitted.

After completing this set of rituals that Su Qing had once utterly disdained but now obediently followed, he inexplicably felt as though he had gained a thread of ethereal luck. Though reason told him it was merely psychological comfort, it nevertheless calmed his mind somewhat.

He had only experienced such unease during the early days of his puppet-making career, when he had just started out and was shy about lack of money, unable to afford too many failures. Later on, even when refining Fifth-tier Puppets and Tier 6 Puppets for the first time, he had never felt this way again.

He had originally thought it was because he had weathered so many storms that his state of mind had become light and breezy, tempered into one that viewed gains, losses, success, and failure with indifference.

Now, however, it seemed that the success or failure of those past puppets had simply not affected him much and could not injure his bones or sinews, allowing him to remain calm. Only today, when refining an Enlightenment Dao Doll so crucial to him—one whose success or failure even he could not predict—did he understand that it was not that a higher realm meant a better mindset, nor that the wealthy were naturally broad-minded and detached. It was merely that most matters had never touched their core interests. If someone truly jabbed them in the lungs, they would panic all the same!

Because this Enlightenment Dao Doll was too important, he trusted no one throughout the entire refining process. All the Tier 4 and Tier 5 Puppet Masters from Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom's Jingshen District who had