NOVEL WEB Chapter 941: Money Rat
Northern lands, Julu Continent.
Of the four major continents, the Julu Continent in the north is the most chaotic, with demons and ghosts running rampant without restraint.
Moreover, in this place, there are many spatial fissures between the Mortal World and the Demon Realm, allowing the Demon Clan to occasionally enter and exit the Mortal World, thus making it even more chaotic.
However, because of this, even the reach of Immortals and Buddhas rarely extends here, so many demons and ghosts unwilling to suffer celestial pursuit often hide within the Julu Continent.
Even though there are countless demons and ghosts here, constantly fighting each other is commonplace, yet this most primitive state makes countless demons feel at ease.
In other continents, the life of hiding away to avoid the celestial hunt does not suit them.
However, one day, a bald figure with bare feet steps into the realm of the Julu Continent.
Looking at this figure, roly-poly in appearance, with a round and humorous face, but with an expression cold and stern, creating an absolute aura of intimidation.
Holding a string of chant beads, dressed in a bright red kasaya, one cannot feel an ounce of the Buddhist Sect's compassion on him.
After walking for just a moment, suddenly, a Tiger Demon jumped out, with a tiger's head and human body, clearly having reached the level of a Demon Marshal.
Drooling at the mouth, greedily eyeing the plump old Monk before him, he says, "What a big lump of meat, I haven't tasted human flesh for a long time, looks like I am in for a stroke of luck today!"
The plump old Monk glanced at the Tiger Demon in front of him, his eyes slightly squinting.
The Tiger Demon instantly fell to the ground, lifeless, clearly dead beyond dead.
Even at the moment of death, it never understood how it was killed.
The plump old Monk continued walking barefoot, quickly disappearing from sight.
After he left, other little demons soon appeared, eagerly scrambling for the Tiger Demon's corpse.
For many little demons, the flesh of a Demon Marshal is a great tonic.
Walking for a long time, after arriving at his intended destination, Maitreya Buddha flipped his hand, and suddenly, a scarlet Spirit Grass appeared.
Then, he planted it in a remote place, simultaneously pouring some blood-red liquid onto the soil.
After finishing these tasks, Maitreya Buddha's figure concealed itself, as if completely vanished.
One day, two days, three days...
The Spirit Grass grows daily on the ground, simultaneously emitting a foul stench.
During this time, many venomous insects and fierce beasts passing by here detoured upon smelling this foul stench.
Days passed one by one, and the Spirit Grass grew over time.
Then, a flower slowly blossomed, and after withering, left behind a small emerald green fruit.
The small fruit gradually grew, its color changing from emerald green to fiery red.
Thus, half a month passed by just like that.
It was only during the last two days that a peculiar mouse appeared.
Unlike other venomous insects and fierce beasts that avoided the stench, this peculiar mouse was drawn by it instead.
With pale yellow fur, this mouse appeared to be only palm-sized.
Moreover, on its pale yellow fur, there were natural patterns resembling a copper coin.
After seeing the Spirit Grass and the red fruit, the mouse scratched at the ground a few times, its form fully diving into the earth.
As the saying goes, timid as a mouse.
From its behavior, this yellow mouse was very interested in the Spirit Fruit, but did not dare to approach, circling around it.
Occasionally attempting to get closer, it would immediately pull back.
In this manner, it took a full three days before the yellow mouse dared to wander under the Spirit Grass.
Suddenly, one day, the red fruit seemed to be fully matured, becoming vivid and tempting.
At the same time, the originally foul stench was quickly overshadowed by a strange fragrance...
In the blink of an eye, the foul stench disappeared without a trace, replaced by a peculiar aroma.
As this strange fragrance spread, numerous demons and ghosts were attracted, covertly or openly approaching this fruit.
Sensing the growing commotion around, the yellow mouse clearly knew it couldn't wait any longer, and directly opened its mouth, biting towards the fiery red fruit.
However, just as the mouse was about to bite the fruit, its mouth stopped a finger's width from the fruit.
It wasn't because the mouse itself wanted to stop, but just as it was about to bite the fruit, it was caught by someone, lifted into the air.
Its short legs flailed in the air, but to no avail.
"It wasn't easy to find this Money Rat!" After capturing the dirt-yellow little rat, Maitreya Buddha showed a smile on his face, and said with a look of relief.
After receiving news of the Money Rat's presence nearby, he set a trap and waited for half a month before finally catching it. It surely took a considerable amount of effort.
Roar roar roar...
A series of roars echoed, and soon, countless demons and ghosts appeared one after another, evidently drawn by the strange aroma.
Maitreya Buddha ignored these small fry, grabbed the yellow rat with one hand, uprooted the spirit grass he had planted with the other, and instantly vanished into the sky.
The next day, he looked at the little rat before him, wearing a hoop on its head, looking utterly miserable.
Maitreya Buddha calmly waited, not appearing anxious at all.
After a long wait, it was clear that the little rat had surrendered, with its front paws continuously bowing towards Maitreya Buddha in a submissive manner.
"Very well, I know that although your strength is weak, your treasure-hunting ability is unrivaled in the Three Realms. If you can find the whereabouts of the Calamity Book for me, I can set you free!" Maitreya Buddha spoke as he saw the Money Rat finally yield.
Showing an understanding demeanor, the Money Rat nodded and then dove into the ground, disappearing without a trace.
...
In the Illusionary Demon Cave, Jiang Liu's cultivation continued.
After severing the Evil Corpse, these days, Jiang Liu naturally carried the Evil Corpse in the Illusionary Demon Cave for cultivation.
In this half-month period, with Jiang Liu leading the leveling up, the growth speed of the Good Corpse was naturally rapid, averaging over 100 million experience points per day, allowing the Evil Corpse to gain more than 2 billion experience points in just over half a month.
Hint: Level up by 1, current level 60.
On this day, after a day of monster-slaying and leveling up, the Evil Corpse felt a warm current flowing through his body, sensing that his level had risen to level 60.
"Taoist Friend, I've reached level 60! Thank you so much for these two weeks!" The Evil Corpse, feeling his level up, spoke to Jiang Liu.
"Between us, there's no need for thanks," Jiang Liu replied politely to the Evil Corpse's words.
After aiding the Evil Corpse for half a month, allowing him to ascend to level 60, Jiang Liu indeed felt pleased.
The enhancement in the Evil Corpse's strength, to a certain extent, also counted as an increase in his strength, didn't it?
Moreover, reaching level 60 in half a month? This speed of growth made Jiang Liu feel quite emotional.
Just like the Good Corpse back in the day, this Evil Corpse's early leveling speed was also quite fast.
Only he was pitiful, having no one to level up with, needing to earn experience points bit by bit on his own.
Of course, after reaching level 60, the next step would be entering the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
The Heavenly Immortal Realm was manageable, a few more months should suffice.
However, upon reaching the Taiyi Realm, leveling up would become increasingly difficult.
It's worth mentioning that Jiang Liu had long planned for this, so on the day the Evil Corpse was severed out, when the level surpassed 20, he transitioned him into a Demon Master according to his plan.
Though the Demon Master's attack power wasn't particularly strong, various control-type skills and curses were incredibly peculiar.
If anything, this Demon Master's profession and his own Compassionate Bodhisattva profession had some similar aspects, both could be considered very powerful support professions.
Except, the Compassionate Bodhisattva primarily provided various beneficial states and recovery effects to allies, while the Demon Master? Applied various detrimental states and control effects to enemy families.
"In the coming days, you can double down on cultivation and awakening!" After going through half a month of time, nearly reaching the threshold of the Heavenly Immortal Level, Jiang Liu spoke to him.
At this point, leveling would begin to slow down, so Jiang Liu thought it would be beneficial to have the Evil Corpse occasionally try awakening.
If they could indeed enhance control-type skills like the Weakness Talisman and Sheep Transformation Technique to an extent where they could affect Quasi-Saints.
Then, when facing a Quasi-Saint next time, they could indeed make a difference, right?
"Alright, I understand!" The Evil Corpse nodded, naturally understanding Jiang Liu's intention.
Today, exactly forty-nine Master Golden Cicadas had been dealt with, and it was time for a break. Jiang Liu sat cross-legged, practiced his life profession once, and then calmed his mind, beginning the cultivation of the Green Lotus Taoist Scripture.
As for the Evil Corpse, he entered the awakening interface and began to awaken skills.
The first skill chosen for awakening by the Evil Corpse was the Sheep Transformation Technique.
Sitting cross-legged, entering the awakening interface, the Evil Corpse had a clear goal of understanding the laws power within the Sheep Transformation Technique and fully comprehending it.
Ultimately, coming up with a way to prevent others' laws power from interfering with the execution of the Sheep Transformation Technique...
Logically speaking, with his cultivation level, he shouldn't have been able to come into contact with the existence of the Heavenly Dao Laws.
However, since skills like the Sheep Transformation Technique were laws skills by nature, plus the functionality of awakening was now playing a role.
This provided the Evil Corpse with a possibility...