Arc 6The Lizard Knight Challenge

Su Qing prepared for the coming Beast Tide while expanding his puppet business and developing the Lizard Knights. After they defeated the Wang Family’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry, he sold more puppets, accepted new work from Liu Yun'er, and rejected Wang Xing’s offer to join the family as a son-in-law.

  • Liu Yun'er took Su Qing to observe her demonic cultivators, where he learned that eight Tier 2 Demon Kings planned to lead a Beast Tide, and then commissioned him to create a Demoness Substitute Puppet.
  • Su Qing reached Forward Camp as the four markets merged, sold beast materials and artifacts, and spent heavily on supplies while preparing his puppets for the Beast Tide.
  • Su Qing advanced to Tier-1 High-Grade Body Cultivation, developed the Lizard Knights, and challenged Hai Changqing’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry to demonstrate their strength.
  • Su Qing’s Riding Archer and Heavy Cavalry Lizards defeated Hai Changqing’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry, and Wang Xing withdrew the Wang Family Puppet Masters rather than continue the fight.
  • Su Qing auctioned his Lizard Knights, sold Hai Changqing two Riding Archer Puppets in exchange for a Spirit Refining Secret Method, and accepted additional puppet orders from his supporters.
  • Liu Yun'er traded two bottles of Blood Vitality Pills for a hundred Bee Scout Puppets, while Su Qing began refining Phantom Leopards and planned other advanced puppets.
  • Su Qing sold ten Lizard Knights to Ge Changyuan and the village chiefs, then refused Wang Xing’s offer to marry into the Wang Family and promised to limit his monthly sales.
Chapters 127–151 Vol. 2 Read

Ch. 127Demonic Cultivators' Meeting

Su Qing accompanied Liu Yun'er to a meeting of Demonic Cultivators, hiding under a Heart-Testing Cloth while studying its rune. Liu Yun'er warned her subordinates to avoid trouble and stir up a Beast Tide, while Su Qing remained hidden and unnoticed.

  • Liu Yun'er asked Su Qing to observe how she treated her subordinates and gave him a Heart-Testing Cloth to hide under.
  • Su Qing studied the cloth's Illusion Heart Rune and was carried by Liu Yun'er to a Low Mountain where Demonic Cultivators had gathered.
  • Su Qing examined the Foundation Establishment cultivators' Azure-Eyed Golden Lion Beast and Alligator Armor Puppet, which seemed to notice him despite the cloth.
  • Liu Yun'er rebuked Tang Li and Xu Weiyi for showing off their beast and puppet, then told the gathered cultivators that the Four Markets Merge was expected and Cloud Mountain Sect might send Golden Core Venerables.
  • Liu Yun'er ordered her subordinates to avoid causing trouble and instead stir up a Beast Tide, then left while Su Qing was still hiding.

Ch. 128Four Markets Merge, an Immortal City Rises; the Strong Devour the Weak

Su Qing overheard demonic cultivators explain the plans behind the Four Markets Merge and a coming Beast Tide, then returned to Black Tiger Mountain to draw Liu Yun'er’s visit. He left with a clearer understanding of the powers shaping the war, but remained under Liu Yun'er’s authority.

  • Su Qing hid beneath a red cloth on Low Mountain and listened as demonic cultivators complained about Liu Yun'er and discussed the Four Markets Merge.
  • The cultivators revealed that eight Tier 2 Demon Kings would lead a Beast Tide in half a month, using Blood Dissolving Pills planted with methods to control them.
  • Xu Weiyi explained that the Desiring Demon Immortal Kingdom’s war with the Cloud Mountain Immortal Kingdom was meant to claim influence and an opportunity while driving away demon beasts without provoking Tier 3 Great Demons.
  • Su Qing returned to Black Tiger Mountain and reflected on how the weak became pawns in the Cultivation world.
  • Liu Yun'er ordered Su Qing to draw everything he had seen on Low Mountain, and he produced detailed paintings that emphasized her presence and authority.

Ch. 129Thousand Illusory Bodies—This Daoist Master Has Understood!

Su Qing obtained the Profound Grade High-Rank Daoist art Thousand Illusory Bodies by examining Liu Yun'er, then presented her with a portrait that captured her spirit for the Demoness Substitute. Liu Yun'er questioned whether the portrait could fool anyone, while Su Qing asked to keep studying it after they parted.

  • Su Qing traded drawings for Liu Yun'er's Tier 2 Heart-Testing Cloth and persuaded her to let him observe her medicinal bath again.
  • After examining Liu Yun'er, Su Qing extracted the Daoist art Thousand Illusory Bodies.
  • Su Qing painted Liu Yun'er in a white gauze dress and explained how the portrait's spirit could make others accept the Demoness Substitute as real.
  • Liu Yun'er praised the portrait but questioned whether it could deceive others, and Su Qing argued that viewers would fill in its inconsistencies themselves.
  • When Liu Yun'er tried to put the blueprint away, Su Qing asked to keep studying it so he could recreate its spirit when refining the Puppet.

Ch. 130Give You an Opportunity to Harm Me!

Su Qing swore to refine a Demoness Substitute for Liu Yun'er within two years, then left Black Tiger Mountain for Forward Camp. He arrived battered and discovered that Forward Camp had changed as several Markets merged, bringing new rivals for his puppet business.

  • Liu Yun'er demanded that Su Qing swear three oaths about refining the Demoness Substitute, keeping her commission secret, and working diligently, and Su Qing made her swear not to harm him except through the Mysterious Maiden Jade Scolding Technique after delivery.
  • Su Qing and Liu Yun'er parted after agreeing to meet every three months, and he took her Guidance Talisman.
  • On the journey to Forward Camp, Su Qing used his puppets and Sky Roc Ship to defeat monsters and rob cultivators, then forcibly imprinted Intimidating Mountains and Seas to make himself look gravely injured.
  • Su Qing entered Forward Camp on Fire Egg with several puppets and saw that the four Markets had begun merging, filling the camp with cultivators and new competition.
  • Su Qing recognized cultivators from Qingtian Market, Beast Puppet Market, and Rune Painting Market, and worried that the puppet masters would threaten his business.

Ch. 131Current Situation, Changes

Su Qing returned to the Forward Camp and reunited with Pang Feifan and the other cultivators, who welcomed him and discussed how new Professionals were changing the market. He learned that the camp's leadership was shifting and planned to use the Blood Lotus Fruit to advance his cultivation before imprinting another Dao Pattern.

  • Su Qing found Pang Feifan selling spirit leopards, revealed he had survived the Demoness, and accepted Pang's offer to gather their friends for a welcoming feast.
  • Pang Feifan told Su Qing that Professionals from the other Market Towns had expanded the market, while Beast Puppet Market's Puppet Masters threatened Su Qing's puppet business.
  • Liang Hai Shun, He Lian Xian, Ma Tuan, and the other cultivators welcomed Su Qing at Hundred Treasures Tower, and he learned Qing He had returned to White Cloud Market Town to seek a Tier-2 breakthrough.
  • Ren Yuan asked about the Blood Lotus Fruit, and Su Qing kept quiet while planning to use it to advance his body cultivation and qi refining before imprinting another Dao Pattern.
  • Su Qing learned that new Foundation Establishment Grand Cultivators and a Golden Core Venerable might influence the Forward Camp, but Yuan Tianye remained in his position for now.

Ch. 132Huge Sum

Su Qing returned to the Forward Camp, delivered his overdue puppet orders to Yuan Tianye, and collected payment for his Lizard Warriors. He learned that the Cloud Mountain Sect still wanted Dual-Blade Lizards, and asked Yuan Tianye what price it would pay for them.

  • Su Qing secured a central Forward Camp plot near He Lian Xian and Liang Hai Shun, then made a Beauty Snake modeled on a Sea Woman from the Penglai Immortal Kingdom.
  • Su Qing brought fifteen Dual-Blade Lizards and around a hundred and twenty Lizard Warriors to Cloud Mountain Pavilion and told Yuan Tianye an embellished account of his journey.
  • Yuan Tianye praised the Dual-Blade Lizards and accepted all the Lizard Warriors for three hundred and sixty thousand Spirit Crystals, but said the sect would not order more of them.
  • Yuan Tianye explained that the sect wanted more Dual-Blade Lizards because they had contributed to defeating two Tier 2 Demon Kings at Black Tiger Mountain.
  • Su Qing asked Yuan Tianye how much the sect would pay for the Dual-Blade Lizards.

Ch. 133Cutthroat Competition Among Peers

Su Qing secured a large order for Dual-Blade Lizards from Yuan Tianye and used a Sea Nymph Beauty Snake puppet to distract him before heading to the markets to plan his spending and assess rival puppet makers. He ended at the transformed Hundred Treasures Small Shop, having found that his competitors offered a wide range of puppets at cutthroat prices.

  • Yuan Tianye agreed to order sixty Dual-Blade Lizards from Su Qing, paying for each puppet upon delivery and treating the war blades as a deposit.
  • Su Qing showed Yuan Tianye a Sea Nymph Beauty Snake modeled after He Qiongyu, and Yuan Tianye became captivated as Su Qing left.
  • Su Qing went to the East Market and considered buying puppet materials, a better cultivation technique, talisman materials, and supplies for new combat puppets.
  • Su Qing surveyed the West Market and found that its established puppet makers sold many specialized beast puppets, including an Armored War Bear for only four thousand six hundred Spirit Crystals.
  • Su Qing arrived at the transformed Hundred Treasures Small Shop.

Ch. 134Clearing Out the Loot

Su Qing visited the newly established Hundred Treasures Pavilion at the Forward Camp to sell loot and buy supplies, while catching up with Tong Xin’s promotion and Shopkeeper Liu’s new position. He brought out three Storage Bags full of goods, leaving Tong Xin to begin assessing the haul.

  • Su Qing entered Hundred Treasures Pavilion and met Tong Xin, who explained that Shopkeeper Liu now oversaw second-floor affairs after the Four Markets merged.
  • Tong Xin said he had become a Tier 1 Shopkeeper and managed the first floor alongside shopkeepers transferred from the other markets.
  • Su Qing told Tong Xin he wanted to both sell goods and buy supplies, then followed him to the pavilion’s rear courtyard to avoid the crowd.
  • Su Qing tossed out three Storage Bags and clarified that he intended to sell their contents, not the bags themselves.

Ch. 135Trade, Spirit Stones

Su Qing sold goods recovered from Black Tiger Mountain at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion, pressing Tong Xin for better prices on both the Robber Cultivators’ belongings and a huge haul of demonic beast materials. Tong Xin agreed to buy the materials for 450,000 Spirit Crystals, but Su Qing demanded payment in Spirit Stones and promised he would still spend his remaining Spirit Crystals at the shop.

  • Su Qing negotiated the Robber Cultivators’ belongings up to 26,000 Spirit Crystals while keeping their Storage Bags for himself.
  • Su Qing encouraged Tong Xin to handle the sale of a Storage Bag full of demonic beast materials instead of handing the deal to Shopkeeper Liu.
  • Tong Xin appraised the haul, including three Tier 1 Extreme Demon King corpses, and offered 420,000 Spirit Crystals for the lot.
  • Su Qing threatened to take the materials to Fate Comes Pavilion, and Tong Xin raised his offer to 450,000 Spirit Crystals.
  • Su Qing asked Tong Xin to settle the payment in Spirit Stones and said he would still spend his Spirit Crystals at the Hundred Treasures Pavilion.

Ch. 136Mysterious Armor Horses, Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry!

Su Qing sold Tong Xin several magic artifacts, then spent more than three hundred thousand Spirit Crystals on puppet materials and combat gear. He also bought two Puppet Blueprints and a set of Firefly Needles and Mother-Child Boomerangs, leaving him with only forty or fifty thousand Spirit Crystals.

  • Su Qing accepted eighteen lower grade Spirit Stones and eighteen thousand Spirit Crystals from Tong Xin, then smoothed over his awkward praise by promising to spend heavily at the shop.
  • Su Qing sold his remaining magic artifacts to Tong Xin for eighty thousand Spirit Crystals and denied having any tiger bones or a Tier 2 Demonic Core to sell.
  • Su Qing bought materials for puppets, including thirty-six War Blades, six War Hammers, and supplies for more than thirty Meditating Dolls, spending over three hundred thousand Spirit Crystals.
  • Su Qing bought blueprints for the Tier-1 Mid-Grade Mysterious Armor Horse and Tier-1 High-Grade Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry puppets.
  • Su Qing bought high-grade Firefly Needles for nine thousand Spirit Crystals and a complete set of Mother-Child Boomerangs for over thirty thousand, leaving only forty or fifty thousand Spirit Crystals.

Ch. 137Wooden Fish Hard to Come By, Tiger Bones Hard to Refine

After leaving Hundred Treasures Pavilion, Su Qing prepared for the coming Beast Tide by refining more puppets and planning to improve his cultivation and equipment. He expected to reach the Late Qi Refining Stage soon and began arranging work on the Silver-Winged White Tiger’s wings.

  • Tong Xin told Su Qing that Hundred Treasures Pavilion had no Merit Wooden Fish left after selling him all twelve.
  • Su Qing studied the Merit Wooden Fish and Wood Spirit Servants but found no clues, then focused on preparing his Spirit House and puppets for the Beast Tide.
  • Su Qing used the Great Wood Spirits and Wood Spirits to help refine nine Meditating Dolls, bringing his total to twenty-one Black Boys and increasing his cultivation speed.
  • Su Qing planned to use the Blood Lotus Fruit to reach the Late Qi Refining Stage and attempt Tier 3 Biomimetic and Intelligence Runes.
  • Su Qing sent a Lizard Warrior carrying the Silver-Winged White Tiger’s wings to He Lian Xian for refining, then began work on a batch of Lizard Warriors.

Ch. 138Overlord Tiger!

Su Qing expanded his puppet forces by completing eight Explosive Hammer War Bears, creating hundreds of Explosive Kill Puppets, and refining more Hummingbird Puppets. Maxing out Hummingbird Puppet proficiency unlocked the Overlord Tiger blueprint, leaving him with a demanding new project requiring rare materials and Tier 3 runes.

  • Su Qing completed the eight-member Explosive Bear Squad and equipped each puppet with half a Spirit Stone, but learned he could not use the Jinxing Exploding Bear without a Formation Master.
  • Su Qing and the Wood Spirits crafted 382 stealthy Explosive Kill Puppets from Firefly Needles and installed them aboard the Sky Roc Ship.
  • Su Qing refined more than 140 Bee Scout Machines, bringing their total to five hundred, after noticing his puppet success rate had improved.
  • Su Qing maxed out Hummingbird Puppet refining proficiency and unlocked the Tier 2 Overlord Tiger blueprint, which required costly materials and advanced runes.

Ch. 139Lizard Knight

Su Qing finished rebuilding his Puppet force and planned new ways to earn money and compete in the Puppet market. He sent Bear Two to sell Lizard Warriors while beginning to develop a Combination Type Puppet called the Lizard Knight.

  • Su Qing recognized the Overlord Tiger as an ideal armor-type Puppet and planned to refine one after his cultivation breakthrough.
  • Su Qing refined the remaining Bee Scout Machines, bringing his total to more than seven hundred, and decided to work on the Phantom Leopard at his own pace.
  • Su Qing persuaded Bear Two to sell Lizard Warriors for commission and sent it to the North City Stall Area with an escort.
  • Su Qing decided that Lizard Warriors alone could not meet his needs and planned a new Puppet to challenge the low-end market.
  • Su Qing set out to develop the Lizard Knight by studying the Mysterious Armor Horse and Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry blueprints.

Ch. 140Bear Two Sells Puppets

Su Qing’s Armored War Bear sold Lizard Warriors at the Forward Camp while Su Qing studied new Puppet Blueprints and welcomed Ge Changyuan. Ge Changyuan described how the merged markets had made Spirit Planters prosperous and improved their village’s farming conditions.

  • Niu Thirteen reassured a confused buyer that Bear Two was selling Lizard Warriors, and Bear Two collected payment before handing one over.
  • Bear Two earned a commission from the sales, while Fire Egg carried the Spirit Crystals back to Su Qing after every three Lizard Warriors sold.
  • Su Qing turned away a Rogue Cultivator who asked to buy Bear Two, then finished studying the Mysterious Armor Horse and Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry Blueprints.
  • Su Qing welcomed Ge Changyuan into his courtyard after Ge Changyuan found him alive despite rumors that he had died at Black Tiger Mountain.
  • Ge Changyuan told Su Qing that spirit vegetable and Spirit Fruit prices had risen, Cloud Mountain Sect had installed farming arrays, and the Spirit Planters had received new rice seed.

Ch. 141Everyone Wanted to Get Ahead

Ge Changyuan commissioned Su Qing to make Puppets for twelve villages to defend their fields from thieves, and Su Qing agreed to fill the order. Su Qing bought materials for Mysterious Armor Horses and Talisman Water, then delivered Lizard Warriors to Fate Comes Pavilion, while Wang Rong planned how to secure more business from him.

  • Ge Changyuan told Su Qing that thieves were stealing spirit melons and vegetables from the villages, and requested two Dual-Blade Lizards and ten Mysterious Armor Horses.
  • Su Qing offered to craft the Mysterious Armor Horses and other suitable Puppets for eighty thousand Spirit Crystals, with Ge Changyuan agreeing to collect them in three days.
  • Su Qing bought materials for a hundred Mysterious Armor Horses and several dozen bottles of Talisman Water at Hundred Treasures Pavilion.
  • Su Qing delivered thirty Lizard Warriors to Wang Rong at Fate Comes Pavilion in exchange for materials for one hundred and fifty more.
  • Wang Rong resented Su Qing's business with Hundred Treasures Pavilion but decided to find other benefits to offer him so he would craft more Puppets for her shop.

Ch. 142A Taste of the Blood Lotus Fruit, Dual Advancement of Body and Cultivation

Su Qing designed new mounted Lizard Puppets, refined Mysterious Armor Horses, and prepared a set of cavalry for Ge Changyuan. After working through the night, he took out the Blood Lotus Fruit, ready to advance both his body cultivation and Qi cultivation.

  • Su Qing drew blueprints for Riding Archer Lizards, Heavy Cavalry Lizards, and Riding Saber Lizards, and set aside eight archers and two saber riders for Ge Changyuan.
  • Su Qing refined over twenty Mysterious Armor Horses from materials for fifty sets and successfully inscribed them with Intelligence Runes.
  • Su Qing bought unranked weapons and modified Lizard Warriors into mounted Puppets, setting ten aside for Ge Changyuan and planning to sell the rest himself.
  • Su Qing returned to the Spirit House exhausted after working through the night, bathed, and assessed his progress to Tier 1 Mid-Grade Body Cultivator and the brink of Late Qi Refining.
  • Su Qing took out the Blood Lotus Fruit, intending to use it to advance to Tier-1 High-Grade Body Cultivator and Late Qi Refining Stage.

Ch. 143Both Break Through

Su Qing consumed a Blood Lotus Fruit and Profound Iron Essence, advancing to a Tier-1 High-Grade Body Cultivator while improving his cultivation and bone structure. He then headed to North City with his puppets as Rogue Cultivators discussed his exploits and speculated about his new Lizard Knights.

  • Su Qing ate the Blood Lotus Fruit and gave its seed to Fire Egg, then both absorbed its energy.
  • Su Qing swallowed hundreds of Profound Iron Essence pellets, kindling sparks in his Adamantine Furnace and reaching Tier-1 High-Grade Body Cultivation.
  • Su Qing found that his bone structure had improved but remained lower-grade mid-grade, while his sea of consciousness had grown to roughly the size of a small pool.
  • Su Qing decided to wait until after the approaching Beast Tide before undergoing Refining Self into Puppet again, then packed his ten new puppets.
  • Su Qing traveled toward North City with Bear Two, Fire Egg, and twelve Lizard Knights, drawing attention from Rogue Cultivators.
  • Rogue Cultivators praised Su Qing's past victories and debated whether his Lizard Knights could match his Dog-Horse Knights, while lamenting that his Demoness Puppets were no longer for sale.

Ch. 144Stop It, A'Su

Su Qing promoted his new Lizard Knights at his stall and, after comparing them to the Wang Family’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry, decided to challenge the market leader. Hai Changqing then produced thirty-four Dog-Horse Knights and proposed a battle against Su Qing’s ten Lizard Knights.

  • Rogue Cultivators balked at the Lizard Knights’ price of fourteen thousand Spirit Crystals, until Hai Changqing asked Su Qing how they worked.
  • Su Qing praised the Lizard Knights and, angered by Hai Changqing’s comparison to Dog-Horse Puppets, claimed that one could match three and ten could hold off a hundred riders.
  • Liang Hai Shun and He Lian Xian warned Su Qing that insulting the Wang Family’s signature Puppets could provoke the powerful Puppet clan.
  • Su Qing reconsidered and decided that challenging the Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry was the best way to make the Lizard Knights known, despite the risk of conflict with the Wang Family.
  • Hai Changqing revealed thirty-four Dog-Horse Knights and challenged Su Qing to have ten Lizard Knights fight them, promising to buy some if they proved their strength.
  • Liang Hai Shun and He Lian Xian mistook Hai Changqing’s challenge for a costly performance Su Qing had arranged to undermine the Wang Family.

Ch. 145A Fine Show

Su Qing’s Lizard Knights battled Hai Changqing’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry outside the Forward Camp, drawing a crowd and the Wang Family’s attention. The Lizard Knights decisively won, leaving the Wang Family Puppet Masters to face the public defeat of their famed cavalry.

  • Su Qing and Hai Changqing brought their puppets to open ground outside the Forward Camp, followed by nearly a thousand Rogue Cultivators and the Wang Family’s Puppet Masters.
  • Su Qing noticed the Wang Family’s Flying Dog Puppets and wondered whether they would sell their Aerial Control Rune inheritance.
  • Wang Xing suspected Hai Changqing was helping Su Qing and prepared to enter the field himself if Hai deliberately lost.
  • The Riding Archer Lizards used the Long Sky Falling Goose Arrow to shatter the Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry’s barriers and shoot down many riders before they could engage.
  • Hai Changqing’s cavalry failed to catch the faster Riding Archer Lizards, while the Heavy Cavalry Lizards defeated the remaining Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry with spear attacks.
  • The Riding Saber Lizards never needed to fight as the Mysterious Armor Horses bit and kicked the fallen cavalry mounts.

Ch. 146Born Honest

Hai Changqing’s Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry lost badly to Su Qing’s Lizard Knights, making the new Puppets popular among Rogue Cultivators. Su Qing turned the crowd’s demand into an auction, but first honored his promise to let Hai Changqing choose two.

  • Wang Xing called off another fight with Su Qing and led the Wang Family Puppet Masters back, deciding they needed different Puppets to counter the Lizard Knights.
  • Hai Changqing returned to Forward Camp with his damaged Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry, admitted Su Qing’s Lizard Knights were superior, and praised their price.
  • Liang Hai Shun, He Lian Xian, Pang Feifan, Shao De Long, Niu Thirteen, and the others blended into the crowd and encouraged Rogue Cultivators to buy Su Qing’s Puppets.
  • After the Lizard Knights drew a crowd at his stall, Su Qing announced that the ten available would go to the highest bidders, starting at ten thousand Spirit Crystals.
  • Su Qing told the bidders that Hai Changqing would choose two Lizard Knights first, honoring the promise he had made after their battle.

Ch. 147Spirit Refining Secret Techniques

Su Qing sold the Lizard Knights and negotiated with Hai Changqing to trade six Heavy Cavalry Lizards for Hai Changqing’s Spirit Refining Secret Method. After earning over 170,000 Spirit Crystals, Su Qing invited his supporters to a feast, but they all declined.

  • Hai Changqing bought two Riding Archer Puppets and told Su Qing that his unusual Spiritual Sense let him control many puppets.
  • Su Qing asked Hai Changqing to sell his Profound Grade Ultimate-Rank Spirit Refining Secret Method, and they agreed to trade it for six Heavy Cavalry Lizards within ten days.
  • The remaining Lizard Knights sold at auction, bringing Su Qing’s ten puppets more than 170,000 Spirit Crystals in total.
  • Su Qing thanked the friends who had supported him against the Wang Family by inviting them to dine at the Hundred Treasures Tower.
  • Su Qing was stunned when his friends repeatedly turned down the feast.

Ch. 148The Demoness Comes Calling Again

After selling his new puppets and celebrating with his friends, Su Qing returned home to find Liu Yun'er waiting with news of his rapid cultivation and a reminder of their deal. He asked why she had risked visiting the Forward Camp, leaving her purpose undisclosed.

  • Su Qing accepted puppet orders from his fellow cultivators, who promised to support him against the Wang Family and urged him to reveal more of his strength.
  • Su Qing celebrated the success of his new puppets with his friends and agreed to visit Sun Yan and the other sisters.
  • Su Qing returned home drunk and found Liu Yun'er waiting for him.
  • Liu Yun'er praised Su Qing's progress to Late Qi Refining and reminded him to craft the Demoness Puppet within two years.
  • Su Qing told Liu Yun'er that his dolls gathered and dispersed spiritual energy, then asked what business had brought her to the Forward Camp.

Ch. 149Phantom Leopard

Liu Yun'er asked Su Qing to make a hundred Bee Scout Puppets for her mission in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range, then spent time with him before departing. Afterward, Su Qing planned how to turn four beast skeletons into puppets and began preparing to refine a Phantom Leopard.

  • Liu Yun'er told Su Qing that Tier 2 Demon Kings were gathering in the Hundred Beasts Mountain Range and requested a hundred Bee Scout Puppets, offering two bottles of Blood Vitality Pills in exchange.
  • Su Qing gave Liu Yun'er the puppets, and she asked him to spend more time touching her before leaving in a plume of black smoke.
  • Su Qing replenished his energy and decided to finish existing Lizard Knight orders while releasing new ones gradually.
  • Su Qing chose to refine the Black Mountain Tiger skeleton into an Overlord Tiger, the Silver-Winged White Tiger into a Biomimetic Intelligent Puppet, and the Shadow Leopard skeletons into Phantom Leopards.
  • Unable to buy the Overlord Tiger materials until the next morning, Su Qing opened the Phantom Leopard requirements and prepared to refine one.

Ch. 150The Violent Woman and the Beauty Leopard

Su Qing refined two Phantom Leopards: the first became a powerful but uncharming fighter, while the second proved exceptionally adept at stealth and charm. Meanwhile, the Wang Family debated how to retaliate against Su Qing after their puppet sales collapsed, but could not find a safe way to harm him.

  • Su Qing found that his first Phantom Leopard was too bulky for effective Shadow Evasion and speed, but discovered that its transformed leopard woman could overpower powerful puppets.
  • Su Qing refined a second Phantom Leopard with a Tier 3 Biomimetic Rune, giving it superior Shadow Evasion, speed, and charm in leopard woman form.
  • Su Qing tested the second Phantom Leopard’s abilities in the Spirit House, then planned to visit the Hundred Treasures Pavilion and make time to chat with Sun Yan and the others.
  • The Wang Family’s puppet masters complained that Rogue Cultivators were returning their Dog-Horse Heavy Cavalry and considered ways to retaliate against Su Qing.
  • The Wang Family rejected hiring the Lang Tian Gang or using Cloud Mountain Sect connections, then discussed a price war and again proposed making Su Qing one of their own.

Ch. 151A Minor Daoist Devoted to Cultivation

Su Qing sold Lizard Knights to the village chiefs and learned that the Wang Family had come to recruit him as a son-in-law. He declined their offer and assured them he planned to sell only a limited number of Puppets each month.

  • Su Qing spent Spirit Crystals on materials while remaining alert for retaliation from the Wang Family.
  • Ge Changyuan and the village chiefs visited to buy Lizard Knights, while Wang Xing and Wang Junli arrived with several Female Cultivators.
  • Su Qing sold the village chiefs ten Lizard Knights for eight thousand Spirit Crystals each, surprising Wang Xing with his low production costs.
  • After thanking Su Qing and leaving spirit melons and vegetables, Ge Changyuan and the village chiefs departed.
  • Wang Xing offered to bring Su Qing into the Wang Family as a son-in-law, pointing out the Female Cultivators for him to choose from.
  • Su Qing declined to marry into the Wang Family and promised to sell only ten or twenty Lizard Knights per month.
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