There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

After experiencing this incident, Wang Ping has understood what role being the second seat in the Taoist Palace really means.

This position seems to be extremely glorious. It enjoys worship from people and monks all over the world, and looks down on all living beings from a high position. In fact, it is just a more senior housekeeper, managing this world.

"This matter reveals something strange!"

Ao Hong said as he stared at the calico cat hiding behind a spiritual tree.

Wang Ping chuckled. "Anyone can see that this is strange, but the question is how strange it is. Can we know the truth? Can we investigate it?"

"You're right, but that doesn't stop us from having a casual chat, right?"

"Do you have a clue?"

"No, but it must be related to the one from the True Yang Sect!"

"You suspect that this incident is..."

Wang Ping's words came to an abrupt end.

Ao Hong looked at Wang Ping and said the rest with a smile: "As for Master Lieyang, there is nothing to hide. He is the only one who can do this, and he is the only one who will do this."

The icy ice in his hand split into five parts, each of which shaped an image. "Among the five True Lords of the five Xuanmen sects, only the great monk of the Vajra Temple is in good condition. The other four have their own problems. Among the two Tianmen sects, the Yuqing Sect looks extremely powerful, but it is already at the end of its strength. The one we should pay attention to is the Taiyin Sect."

He raised his head and made eye contact with Wang Ping. "It has been nearly six thousand years since the rise of humanity. Countless things have happened in these years. This seemingly peaceful world is nothing but an illusion. You have been practicing for less than six hundred years, right? The biggest turmoil you have seen was probably the turmoil when Lord Xiaoshan was promoted. But I want to tell you that such turmoil was just an appetizer."

Wang Ping remained silent, because he had only seen what Ao Hong said in the Taoist Palace's records and archives, and had never experienced it personally.

Ao Hong turned his head and looked up at the sky, and continued: "All we can do is focus on the present. Remember, focus on the present. If you want to plan for the future, remember to be secretive."

"What's in front of you?"

Yulian speaks human words.

Ao Hong chuckled, "That's what I've always said about going with the flow. The Yuqing Sect's affairs were all about going with the flow, and driving the old senior to the front line was also about going with the flow."

Yu Lian said again: "Are you saying that someone wants the world to be in chaos? Aren't you all afraid of spiritual chaos?"

"Great chaos in the world does not necessarily lead to spiritual chaos. On the contrary, extreme order can also lead to spiritual chaos. For example, the extravagant lifestyle and endless sacrifices of the Xia Dynasty caused spiritual chaos that was no less severe than the spiritual chaos caused by great chaos in the world. That is why the dynasty was destroyed."

Ao Hong said seriously, "Don't think that what Lord Xiaoshan did seems to be destroying a civilization, but he is also going with the flow. Also, the reason why the 'Ji Min Hui', with whom you have close ties, can exist is because the balance they advocate can better maintain spirituality, although they are sometimes very extreme."

He withdrew his gaze from the sky, looked at Wang Ping and said, "I'm telling you this because I want to tell you that we only need to do the things at hand now. We need to wait for the right time for other plans. You need to be patient. With your current cultivation level, combined with some longevity secrets and elixirs, you can live another two thousand years without any problem. Why rush?"

Wang Ping responded: "Do I look anxious?"

"Is not it?"

Ao Hong asked back.

Wang Ping turned and looked elsewhere, ending the topic with Ao Hong.

After a long silence, Ao Hong clasped his fists and said, "I have to go. Remember what I just said. We have plenty of time. With Master Huishan's condition, maybe he will die before you survive a few thousand years."

After leaving these words, he merged into the water spirit between heaven and earth and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yu Lian couldn't sense Ao Hong's breath. She waited for more than ten breaths, and then saw the calico cat walk out from behind the spirit tree. Then she said, "What does he mean by saying this? Does he think we are weak?"

Wang Ping shook his head silently, walked to the old locust tree and sat down, and asked, "Am I acting anxious?"

"I don't feel anything. You are no different than before."

"So I was acting impatient before?"

"I don't feel it!"

Wang Ping was silent again, while Yu Lian prepared to boil water for tea.

When the flames of the furnace were burning, Wang Ping exhaled and said, "Don't tell anyone about the plot to seize the True Lord in the future. Don't tell anyone about it at any time or in any place."

"it is good!"

Yu Lian agreed readily, then turned to the calico cat and said, "Did you hear me? Never talk about plotting to capture the True Lord again!" After she finished speaking, she seemed to remember something, and cast a spell to activate the puppet made by the Star God Core in the yard, asking it to come over and make tea.

Wang Ping looked at Yu Lian and chuckled. Then, he summoned the 'Dongtian Mirror' and transferred most of the puppets deployed in Dongzhou and Xizhou to Hushan Kingdom.

By the time he finished all this, the puppet had already made the tea.

Wang Ping picked it up and just took a sip when Liu Shuang's spirit dog crawled through the dog hole specially made in the garden and came running over from the pile of spirit herbs. The calico cat seemed to hate the spirit dog and dodged over to greet the spirit dog's big face with her paws.

"Are you really going to do what the dragon said?" Yu Lian asked at this time.

"At least we should do that on the surface. We should cultivate and be one with the light, otherwise we will be assimilated by the light!" Wang Ping said with a smile: "We have cultivated for nearly 600 years and have not seen this beautiful land. Now we have time, why not appreciate it."

Yu Lian's eyes sparkled when she heard this, and many places she wanted to go emerged in her mind.

Wang Ping then said, "After the next meeting of the Second Chamber, we will go to your parents' place in Hushan Country first."

"Why wait until the next Second Seat meeting?"

"I expect that this trip to Hushan Country will take some time."

"Is it impossible to use the communication token in Hushan Country?"

"That's not the case. It's just that I have to be more secretive when I go to Hushan Country this time. I'm afraid that the Yuqing Sect will think too much about the communication device connected to Hushan Country, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."

"Oh!"

They chatted intermittently, and after drinking a pot of tea, Yu Lian flew up into the sky and went to play in the river near Qianmu Mountain. The calico cat and the spirit dog followed closely behind.

There is no time to practice.

Half a year passed quickly.

The proposal to send Cangyue to the front line has been delivered to all the second seats. As Wang Ping expected, all of them expressed support except for Vajra Temple.

In the past six months, in addition to his daily homework, Wang Ping has been experimenting with the Star God Puppet, and has now collected enough data.

It was a scorching day, and the south was at its hottest time of the summer. Fortunately, there was a sea breeze to relieve the heat, otherwise people would not dare to go out.

On an uninhabited island south of Shang'an Port.

Wang Ping was debugging the two new Star God puppets he had made. These were puppets he had made using thousand-year-old spiritual wood and the fine gold unique to the Vajra Temple. After being refined with the 'Tian Tong Fu', their defensive strength was already comparable to that of the third realm.

"Not okay yet?"

Yu Lian poked her big head out from the shore and asked. Wang Ping checked the puppet up and down and said, "Okay, let's try to see if its joints are flexible first."

As he spoke, he used the 'Enlightenment Technique' to open up the puppet's basic intelligence, and then gave it the memory of the 'Thousand Wood Sword Technique'.

As Wang Ping formed a fixed spell with his right hand, the puppet picked up the 'Iron Bamboo Sword' that had been prepared beside him and started playing with it.

After performing a set of "Thousand Wood Sword Techniques", there was no obstruction in the puppet's joints. Wang Ping nodded with satisfaction, and then used his soul to explore the rune circuits in its body. The spiritual energy supply at the heart position was also quite good, and the second core at the head position could successfully be compatible with the core at the heart position.

The next step is to test whether the heart core can absorb spiritual energy for cultivation!

In this step, Wang Ping directly attached part of his consciousness to the puppet through the 'Tian Tong Fu', and then absorbed the spiritual energy between heaven and earth as he usually did when practicing Qigong, except that the Dantian was replaced by the core at the heart position.

A big cycle was completed in a blink of an eye without encountering any problems.

Continuing with the second big circulation, there was still no problem. When the five big circulations were completed, the rune circuits simulating the meridians inside the puppet began to operate the big circulation autonomously, storing the absorbed spiritual energy in the core at the heart position.

"Is this it?"

Yu Lian exposed half of her body above the sea.

Wang Ping nodded in satisfaction and said, "With the help of part of my spiritual consciousness, if it can't be so fast, there will be a real problem!"

"what's it for?"

"For now, it's the same as the Golden Armor Puppet, but now it can absorb spiritual energy. If the data is sufficient, I can get rid of the corpse soldiers and use spiritual wood materials to make puppets. There is even a way to cultivate a spiritual body with the core of the heart!"

Yu Lian tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "But it is still not an independent life form."

"It's natural. I can't go against the rules!"

"I was wondering, if the puppet absorbs the extraterritorial energy on the moon, will its cultivation level increase dramatically?"

Yu Lian suddenly mentioned this matter.

Wang Ping was stunned for a moment, then fell into a state of thinking. After a long while, he said, "It's really worth a try. Ao Hong's dojo should have collected a lot of things from outside the domain."

Puppets are different from normal creatures. If they absorb extraterritorial energy and mutate, Wang Ping can destroy them easily. Moreover, with Wang Ping's "Tongtianfu" suppressing their consciousness, it is basically impossible for them to go crazy.

"You still have to be careful. What if those crazy consciousnesses can contaminate you through the puppets?" Yu Lian reminded.

"Don't you have someone to help watch over it?"

"Hehe, now you know how powerful I am."

Wang Ping nodded, acknowledging Yu Lian and took out a blank talisman. He activated a "military talisman" and injected it into the Star God Puppet. The next moment, the Star God Puppet was surrounded by abundant wood spirits. The core in its body absorbed the wood spirits crazily, and its strength instantly reached the third level.

It looks very powerful, but it is actually a bit useless for Wang Ping's current cultivation level, because without the energy provided by Wang Ping's "Tian Tong Fu", the "Military Talisman" will become a disposable consumable.

"what!"

Wang Ping felt that the Star God Core in the puppet's body was madly absorbing the wood spirit's energy while also refining itself. That's right, the magic array inside it absorbed the wood spirit's energy and then refined itself.

“It’s amazing!”

Yu Lian also noticed the state of the core in the puppet's body, "So this is how the Star God practices?"

She flipped out of the water, her body shrank quickly, and then she landed on Wang Ping's shoulder. "It's a perfect closed-loop magic array device. Tell me, after those star gods merged with it, are they using the cultivators' spirituality and life consciousness to practice, or are the cultivators using it to achieve the goal of immortality?"

Wang Ping probed into his soul to observe the core of the Star God. "Good question, but this question is destined to have no fixed answer, because facing this question, a hundred people may give a hundred answers."

While they were talking, the magic runes in the puppet's body that simulated the human meridians suddenly collapsed. There was a light "bang" sound, and the puppet's body shattered into pieces.

Wang Ping stretched out his left hand and raised it lightly, and the Star God Core in the dregs flew up and landed in his hand.

"Things really aren't that simple!"

"With your current cultivation level, you may think that the third realm cultivators are like ants, but in fact, every third realm cultivator is a child of destiny. The 'Soldier Talisman' is a puppet attached to you. It relies on your strength. It is reasonable for you to reach the third realm in an instant, but it is not that simple for you to make the Star God Core evolve to the third realm in the blink of an eye."

"That's right!"

Wang Ping put away the Star God Core and released another puppet from the storage bag. This was also a Star God puppet, and the core was purchased by him through the Star God Alliance.

This time, Wang Ping did not use the "military talisman" to enlighten it, but instead used his soul consciousness to attach to its body to practice.

Three days passed like this.

The Star God Puppet reached the strength of Qi training. Another ten days passed. Through the secret method of marrow cleansing in the core of the puppet's body, Wang Ping strengthened the strength of the formation runes in the puppet's body.

The next step is to build the foundation, but before that Wang Ping wants to try to plant the spiritual vein first, right at the core of the heart, using the "Wood Spirit Technique" that Wang Ping is most familiar with.

With Wang Ping's current level of cultivation, he himself represents the Wood Spirit. Using this technique to help others cultivate the Wood Spirit's veins is just a simple matter, and there is no need to worry about being assimilated.

In this way, in just two days, the spiritual energy in the puppet's qi sea was successfully replaced with wood spiritual energy.

"If you let it build its foundation now, its body will definitely collapse!"

Yu Lian reminded Wang Ping while he was thinking.

Wang Ping reacted and realized that the puppet had not yet cultivated its soul, and the formation runes in its body were very fragile. If he rashly built the foundation, it might not even be able to withstand the first big cycle.

"The only thing left is to let him practice slowly?"

"You can let him try to absorb energy from outside the domain to practice. The Star God Core in his body is very magical and can transform energy, any energy."

Wang Ping nodded, then waved his hand and disappeared with the puppet and Yu Lian. As he disappeared, the island space shook, because with his departure, the transfer array set up nearby was also closed.

In a small courtyard by the sea in the north of Shang'an Port City, Wang Ping appeared with Yu Lian and the puppet, took out a Taoist palace identity token to activate it, filled in his identity information casually, and took out a bamboo slip and printed a row of small characters on it with spiritual energy.

After doing all this, Wang Ping used the "enlightenment technique" to provide the puppet with more memory awareness, then handed the identity token and bamboo slips to the puppet, and took out a set of clothes for Qianmu Temple's outer disciples from the storage bag, and finally pinched out a fixed spell with his right hand.

When the spell was formed, the dull Star God Puppet first put on the clothes of Qianmu Temple's outer disciple, then turned around and walked towards the gate of the courtyard. When it walked out of the gate, its dull eyes suddenly became bright, he looked left and right, and walked towards the port.

He was going to visit Ao Hong.

Wang Ping believed that Ao Hong would not refuse this cooperation.

After doing all this, Wang Ping calculated the time and found that the routine second-chair meeting would begin in three days.

So, he returned to the dojo on the top of Qianmu Mountain. Not long after he sat down, Liu Shuang came to ask for a meeting. He was the disciple sent by Lord Liuyun who had been waiting for three days.

This disciple came to deliver a letter.

It was a secret letter written in a codeword only known to the Second Seat, which talked about the Second Seat's last meeting to plan for the quota of the Third Realm. The plan of Lord Liuyun had been implemented. He reminded Wang Ping that there would be some unrest in Haizhou Road at that time, and reminded Wang Ping to remember to appease the various forces. (End of this chapter)