Who let him join the Sword Sect?!

"Serve the food!" Shi Yao shouted.

"Wait till the main patron comes and beats you!" Liu Wu muttered under his breath and went to the kitchen to fetch a plate of yesterday's leftover pig offal and half a dish of pickled vegetables, throwing them onto Shi Yao's table.

As the fine wine went down, a voice appeared in Shi Yao's mind.

"Heh heh heh, you're doing well, keeping a low profile and enduring silently leads to great success. Just a clueless store clerk, killing in the street would be foolish, giving him a lesson is enough."

Shi Yao coldly snorted in his heart, accepting the voice's praise but still remaining wary of it.

Though he wasn't someone reincarnated, he did have an old grandpa in his head.

A while back, during the celestial phenomenon at Rising Dragon City, Shi Yao was coincidentally drinking with his cronies there.

As soon as the phenomenon subsided, he took advantage of the chaos to steal an old mule tethered by the roadside and headed towards Wolong Marsh.

However, before reaching his destination, the old mule was intimidated into immobility by the pressure exerted by the Giant Turtle Zhu Luo.

At that time, he was crossing a bridge, and when the mule kneeled, Shi Yao was thrown into the river.

When he woke up, he found himself swept into a mountain stream, with a cave before him, and scattered within the cave lay bones and mummified corpses.

The bones were strewn about, with only one arm relatively intact, still covered with dried skin and flesh.

The mummy held something gold and shiny, seemingly a treasure like gold.

Shi Yao wasn't short of money but he loved petty gains. Seeing a treasure to be had, he immediately endured the soreness of his body and crawled over, reaching out to pry open the mummy's hand to claim the treasure as his own.

As a hustler not even considered a member of the Jianghu, Shi Yao clearly didn't understand the principle of not picking things up randomly in the wild.

In such a damp place, mummies shouldn't be there without danger.

As soon as Shi Yao's hand touched the mummy's arm, the hand moved, quickly grabbing Shi Yao's wrist with a backhand clutch.

The golden object in the mummy's hand instantly revealed its true form.

A golden infant, with a wide mouth and three eyes, dropped to the ground with a splat. Before Shi Yao could cry out in surprise, the little ghost creature leapt up and jumped onto Shi Yao's face, drilling into his eyes.

The mummy's arm also turned into a pool of thick liquid and merged into Shi Yao's right arm.

After that, the possessing old monster got stuck.

Shi Yao lacked talent, and this old monster had just awakened, his mind a bit muddled. Once inside, he regretted coming.

Trying to retreat and consume blood and flesh to regain some vitality, he found he'd acted too hastily and had already fused with Shi Yao.

It was too late to leave.

With no choice, he feigned kindness, pretending to be the old grandpa, saying the earlier incident was a misunderstanding.

He planned to build a foundation for this foolish fatty, then possess him once all the fat and foul flesh depleted.

Unfortunately, this old grandpa's been dead too long and no longer understood the current Four Continents situation, assuming mortals were still simpletons.

Little did he know, cases like his had been analyzed and proven repeatedly in Zhang Ze's "Taoist Path to Heaven" and in various storybooks and reviews published thereafter.

Shi Yao the little fatty could read.

He immediately considered himself the protagonist in the storybooks.

He planned to follow the dark cultivation method described in those books, waiting for the right moment to devour the old monster in a counterstrike.

Thus, the two continued their fake association until today.

"Kid, don't drink too much; too much drink ruins things. Quickly go to the courtyard and check if that well still exists."

"Once I obtain the things and restore some of my cultivation, I'll accept you as my godson and teach you the true Immortal Ascension Technique," the old grandpa in Shi Yao's mind urged.

Shi Yao came today precisely for the well in Nine Dragon Restaurant's courtyard.

According to the old man claiming to be the Greedy Wolf Taoist in his mind, there was a sealed dark door beneath the well.

Behind the dark door lay a secret passage, at the end of which was a Teleportation Array, enabling access to the secret chamber where Greedy Wolf Taoist's treasures were hidden years ago.

Shi Yao also deemed the matter urgent, so he put down his wine cup and got up to head to the courtyard.

But as soon as he stood up, Liu Wu stopped him, "What are you going to the courtyard for? Today's wine is on me. Hurry up and leave, or I'll call for others if you don't!"

"Ignorant!"

Words aside, Shi Yao now saw himself as a protagonist figure, standing where he could be stopped by a mere servant.

Having been frustrated daily before and now having an old grandpa, he still faced daily frustration,

then wasn't the old grandpa pointless!

When I ascend to immortality, I'll kill you all!

In the push and shove, Shi Yao exerted his right arm, intending to use the wolf Taoist's catch technique taught to detach Liu Wu's arm.

However, a burst of force leaked out.

Due to the excessive movement, the half jug of Osmanthus Wine he drank was knocked to the ground.

Splat.

The jug shattered into pieces.

The shop immediately fell into silence.

But Li Jue didn't signal, and the Beast Taming Sect disciples disguised as customers downstairs didn't know whether to act.

But the next moment, Elder Han's voice echoed in the ears of the Beast Taming Sect disciples in the shop.

"Seize him."

Though it hadn't gone as planned, since the elder spoke, following orders was paramount.

The shop erupted into commotion.

"Elephant, block the doors!"

Two Beast Taming Sect disciples dressed as peddlers raised their hands to release their spirit pets from their Beast Taming Rings.

Two white giant elephants blocked the inn's front and back doors from positioning themselves.

"Brothers, form an array to protect the clerk and the boss!"

Four little turtles emerged unexpectedly, growing larger and then standing upright, whereupon the leading turtle used a pole to hook store clerk Liu Wu over.