I can't be a demon.

Chapter 344: Raising Beasts [Dragon-Eyed Ghost Bug]

The stone egg trembled slightly, obviously because of the throbbing caused by the word "wine bug".

It was as if a living thing was about to be conceived.

Shen Lian did not pay too much attention to the stone egg. He stared at the sky with a subtle expression. The demonic energy mixed in the clouds was becoming increasingly dense.

As the last ray of sunset faded, a drizzle covered Yingchoujian.

The waves washed over the reefs, and the water level was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, the water in Yingchou Gorge had already reached above the ankles.

It can be seen that the rumor that day is the earth and night is the sea is not false.

In just half an hour, the entire Yingchou Gorge will be soaked in sea water, and the sea dwellers will feel like fish in water and better adapt to the humid environment.

Most shops choose to open for business at this time.

Calls rang out one after another, and thanks to the unique structure of the sea people's lungs, the sea water would not affect their communication with each other.

They were armed with harpoons and hunted fish that came from the shallow sea.

Inside the wine shop.

Captain Zhang conducted a brief search but did not find any useful clues, and he also safely disposed of the candle.

"Fortunately, it was extinguished in time, otherwise it would have attracted monsters from the sea."

"As the day of collecting wine from the Dragon Palace approaches, the ocean is indeed becoming strange and inexplicable. I wonder if this year's wine will satisfy them."

The talisman in Captain Zhang's hand emitted a burst of heat.

He hurriedly communicated and found out that Magistrate Gu Fu had already figured out the origin of the store, which was owned by an immortal master named Zhu Ganglie a hundred years ago.

Captain Zhang had heard something about this. He knew that the disciple of Master Zhu was new here and didn't know the rules of Yingchoujian, so he accidentally touched upon the taboos of the cave.

"Strange thing, I always feel like there's something fishy going on with this person."

"Master Zhu has been missing for a hundred years, how come a disciple suddenly came to visit, and he is so unfamiliar with Yingchoujian, something is really wrong."

Gu Fu also had concerns, so he used telepathy to let Captain Zhang get in touch with Shen Lian.

Captain Zhang is at the sixth level of Yuandan and was once a strong man in the Dragon Palace of the West Sea. He is knowledgeable and experienced, and he will definitely be able to see whether the immortal master's disciple is real or fake.

"Master, where did this master come from?"

"There are countless towns under the control of the Four Seas Dragon Palace, and the resources in Yingchoujian are the worst. The wine worms we get every time are rarely top-quality. Shouldn't the immortal disciples stay away from Yingchoujian when they hear about it?"

Captain Zhang suddenly remembered the old man’s crazy talk and couldn’t help shuddering.

The old man saw with his own eyes the traces of demons in the wine shop. The scene was simply hell on earth, which was simply beyond the capabilities of the immortal master's disciples.

Captain Zhang felt that the other party did not seem to be lying, and his uneasiness grew.

He signaled the detectives to guard the entrance and exit of the wine shop, and hurried towards Gu Fu, vaguely noticing a group of people chatting outside.

There was indeed a Taoist priest chatting next to Gu Fu.

He has an ordinary appearance, with obvious features of a sea dweller, and his cultivation level is currently unknown.

While Captain Zhang was hesitating, the talisman that could sense demons spontaneously ignited. Because he was carrying it with him, it began to burn the skin on his chest.

"Oh no, could it really be a demon?"

砰

The door slammed shut and the room fell into dead silence.

"It must be a demon. He deliberately lit the lamp to lure us here. He is very thoughtful. I'm afraid he doesn't intend to let the people in the city live."

Captain Zhang determined Shen Lian's identity and drew the scimitar from his waist.

The other constables let out shrill screams. Captain Zhang felt the waves of the water and tasted a hint of blood on his tongue.

"who?!!"

Captain Zhang turned his head and saw a figure appearing in the corner.

The figure was almost invisible, like an ice cube dropped into the water, but Captain Zhang, with his rich experience, was able to spot the clues at a glance.

"Taisui Immortal..."

Captain Zhang's pupils shrank slightly as he realized that the figure was not Shen Lian, but a monster in the water.

A water monster attracted by the candlelight.

The Dragon Palace of the Four Seas calls the human figure "Taisui Xian". It is said that Taisui Xian is extremely greedy. Once he is attracted by the candlelight, he will not stop until he eats himself to death.

At least 10,000 people must die in Yingchoujian to feed Taisuixian!!!
However, Tai Sui Xian is just an insignificant monster in the Dragon Palace Sea, and the deep sea is full of indescribable monsters.

hiss……

The figure crawled on all fours, naked, but with a head that was three or four times the size of the original, and the only facial feature was a bloody mouth.

The four fangs were intertwined, and the moment he opened his mouth, Captain Zhang was unable to move.

Captain Zhang heard the sound of "life-demanding" echoing in his ears. It was the friction of fangs. His internal strength seemed to have encountered a natural enemy and could not move.

Tai Sui Xian bit off half a pound of flesh from Captain Zhang's thigh in one bite.

The severe pain stimulated his nerves, and Captain Zhang barely dodged it, but he still had no power to fight back, and his body was covered with scars of varying sizes.

Tai Sui Xian’s abdomen continued to swell.

It cannot digest flesh and blood, and it seems to hunt sea people just to satisfy its appetite.

"Uh……"

Captain Zhang felt increasingly powerless, and vaguely heard Gu Fu outside the house asking for help from the immortal master's disciples. Then his consciousness fell into a trance.

With his eyes half-closed, he noticed the Immortal Master's disciple coming into the house.

Suddenly, more than a dozen Tai Sui immortals came swarming over.

“Even the warriors of the Four Seas Dragon Palace, facing a large number of Tai Sui Immortals at the same time, cannot easily suppress the impact on their bodies and souls.”

thump.

Captain Zhang had no idea what was happening, he could only feel the ripples on the water.

The immortal master's disciples stood where they were, and the Tai Sui immortal who was surrounding them aggressively stood there in a daze, his flesh and bones breaking into pieces and turning into rot bit by bit.

Shen Lian put the corpse into the alchemy furnace and used his wisdom eye ability.

【Taisuixian】

[Originally an ordinary mortal, he lived in the stomach of the Dragon King of the North Sea for a long time and was a parasite that depended on the real dragon. 】

"Mortals? Parasites? The North Sea Dragon Palace is stranger than you might imagine."

Shen Lian suspected that the ecology of the Four Seas Dragon Palace had completely collapsed. God knew what kind of horrible monster the North Sea Dragon King had turned into.

While he was thinking, Gu Fu and others hurried into the wine shop.

The guarding constables were all seriously injured, but at least they managed to survive.

Gu Fu helped Captain Zhang up, who murmured to himself, "It's Tai Sui Xian."

"Where's Tai Sui?" Gu Fu turned pale with fear, but Captain Zhang added, "He has been killed by the immortal master's disciples."

"How did you kill him? It's only been a short time."

"If I'm not mistaken, it was just one finger, and the Tai Sui Immortals died suddenly."

The two men had expressions of surprise and doubt. Shen Lian's existence was beyond comprehension. It could not be explained by the words "disciple of an immortal", and he was definitely not an ordinary person.

"Gu County Magistrate, I am... Zhong Wen, and I would like to ask you more about the wine bug."

"what?"

"The alcohol bug is not a good thing, especially the middle and lower grade ones, which can easily backfire on you."

"It doesn't matter, just go with the lower grade."

Gu Fu said cautiously, "Wait a moment, I'll ask someone to get it, but we can't get enough winemaking formula in such a short time."

"fine."

Gu Fu led the detectives out of the wine shop and did not dare to stay for too long.

Shen Lian's body was strong enough to breathe underwater, so he could still concentrate on practicing. However, it seemed as if there were eyes watching him from the dark sea.

Silent all night.

As soon as the light of day broke through the clouds in the early morning, the water level of Yingchoujian began to drop sharply. Mynah bird didn't like sea water, so it didn't return to the wine shop until the tide receded.

The sea dwellers lived their lives day after day, collecting the fish left on the shore, and could not tell at all that Yingchoujian was the little white dragon's cave.

Shen Lian waited for a long time, and Captain Zhang came to visit, limping over with three jars of wine in his arms, and also brought some fresh fish.

The door was blown open by a strong wind.

Captain Zhang walked into the room awkwardly and looked at Shen Lian who was sitting cross-legged inside.

An inexplicable feeling of Taoist spirit.

"Master Zhong, there are not many wine bugs preserved in the government now. There are only three in total, two low-grade dragon paste wines and one low-grade daughter wine."

Captain Zhang was a little embarrassed. "Master, you don't know that we in Yingchoujian are not valued by the Four Seas Dragon Palace. We have very few resources for brewing wine. We may not even find a top-quality wine worm in ten years."

"Let me take a look first."

Shen Lian opened the wine jars one by one, and what came into view were three strange [maggots].

The maggots are somewhat similar to real dragons, with scales covering their bodies and tentacles on their heads that look like dragon horns, and they exude a strong aroma of wine.

The daughter wine has purple spots all over, while the dragon paste wine is pure white.

The starling stopped at the window, and when he saw the drunkard, a hint of anger flashed in his eyes.

Shen Lian could guess without any identification that the wine bug must be related to Little White Dragon, and Little White Dragon's current situation was likely to have been dismembered by the Four Seas Dragon Palace.

【Daughter Brew】

[Born from the dying Little White Dragon, it is a fragment of its soul. After it is formed, it looks like a baby girl. Taking it can extend one's lifespan by 27 years.]

【Dragon Paste Brew】

[Born from the dying Little White Dragon, it is a fragment of its soul. After it is formed, it looks like a centipede. Taking it can purify the blood.]

Shen Lian flipped through two wine recipes and found that the method of brewing wine was not complicated.

When brewing, three drops of blood are needed every day to nourish the wine. If this is continued for ten years, the wine worms will be able to live and specific dragon beasts will be born.

What the Four Seas Dragon Palace needs is dragon beasts.

The dragon beast brewed by the top-quality wine worm is undoubtedly a real dragon.

According to the wine recipe, there are fairy-quality wine worms in the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas. Disciples of the Dragon Palace can even take the fairy-quality wine worms to transform themselves into immortals.

If nothing unexpected happens, the real dragons in the Four Seas Dragon Palace have become extinct, and they rely entirely on the corpse of the little white dragon to reproduce.

Top-quality wine worms become offspring, while mid- and low-quality wine worms become various resources.

The Four Seas Dragon Palace is like a group of maggots among the corpse of the little white dragon. No wonder it cannot be compared with the Little Leiyin Temple and the Eight Tribes of the Ghost Market.

Shen Lian recalled the Dragon Palace disciples he had met before.

The appearances of the alchemists in the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas are more deformed than each other. Come to think of it, since they rely on the corpse of the little white dragon to breed their own species, deformities are foreseeable as time goes by.

The stone egg's throbbing intensified, clearly wanting to come into contact with the wine bug.

"Captain Zhang, I won't let the alcohol bug get out of control."

Captain Zhang knew that Shen Lian wanted to send the guests away, but he couldn't help but say, "Once the wine is brewed bad, it will breed demons if you are not careful. Master, you must be careful."

"Thank you, Captain Zhang."

Captain Zhang closed the gate hesitantly and walked away into the alley.

Shen Lian held the wine worm in his hand, and the soul between his eyebrows left his body.

"Little White Dragon's body is definitely not in Yingchoujian. Second Senior Brother married into the North Sea Dragon Palace, but he didn't save Little White Dragon. I think he is in danger too."

"But no matter what, the new and old grudges of the Four Seas Dragon Palace will be avenged together."

Shen Lian's mind moved, and a stone egg appeared in his palm.

He had tried it with Tai Sui Xian, but it did not trigger the beast-raising magical power. It seemed that specific conditions had to be met, and the wine bug just happened to meet them.

Shen Lian swept the fruit core and saw a large number of medicinal herbs piled up inside.

A small portion of them are leftover medicinal materials from alchemy, mainly gifts from people who were killed or robbed. Since they have no value in producing elixirs, people simply use fruit cores to store the useless medicinal materials.

Shen Lian communicated with the teleportation tree, and the newly grown roots extended out.

"Yes."

The jade rabbit popped its head out of the tree hole, and Shen Lian decisively grabbed its long ears.

"Jade Rabbit, help me find herbs with similar medicinal properties and piece together three wine recipes. I won't leave the refining to you."

"Ok."

When Jade Rabbit heard that she didn't need to make elixirs, her expression became listless.

She picked and chose, and soon gathered enough wine before going back into the tree hole. Since there was nothing to do, it was more fun to play with the ghost girl.

Shen Lian set his sights on the low-grade wine worm [Dragon Paste Brew].

In his opinion, the division between middle and lower grades is not very clear, and the four seas dragon palaces are probably distinguished based on the effects of the wine worms.

As soon as the stone eggs touched the wine worm brewed with dragon paste, they immediately became one.

Immediately, scaly patterns appeared on the surface of the stone eggs, and a faint vitality emanated.

Shen Lian took a deep breath and took the stone eggs and medicinal materials into the ghost gourd. He used his strength to activate the treasure and brewing seemed to be a natural process.

Medicinal herbs boost the vitality of the stone eggs and help them hatch.

[Hatching Dragon Eye Ghost Bug, Bimawen experience +3.57%]

As the ghost gourd fell, a centipede the size of a palm fell in front of him.

It looked exactly like a centipede, but it had the eyes of a real dragon embedded in its brows, and its entire body was covered with fine scales, a poisonous dark red in color.

Shen Lian threw out all kinds of food, but the centipede was not interested at all.

The dragon marrow fruit, which was filled with pure dragon blood, became excited and used its sharp mouthparts to gnaw at the fruit flesh frantically, devouring it all in a moment.

The corner of Shen Lian's eye twitched as prompts kept appearing on the career panel.

[Dragon Eye Demon Bug appears and grows, Bimawen experience +2.78%]

[Dragon Eye Demon Bug appears and grows, Bimawen experience +2.65%]

[Dragon Eye Demon Bug appears and grows, Bimawen experience +1.98%]

.........

puff.

There was a crack on the centipede's back. Not long after it was born, it had shed its old body, and its new body was half a meter long.

From the characteristics of its tail, it can be seen that the centipede is constantly transforming into a real dragon.

[Bimawen] The way to gain experience is simple and crude. As long as the object is growing, experience can be accumulated in any way.

When the centipede transforms into a real dragon, it means that the beast training is complete and the experience will drop sharply.

At that time, the stone egg must acquire a new demon form so that the career progress can be continuously promoted through the magical power of raising beasts.

The new demon form only needs to be integrated into the demon larvae that are similar to the wine worm.

"Oh my goodness, a low-quality version of the Seventy-Two Transformations?"

"As the stone egg possesses more demonic forms, its intelligence will be significantly improved, and it can switch between countless demonic forms."

If you specialize in fundamental creatures such as starlings, you can break through the upper limit as your career advances.

Each demon form of Stone Egg has a bloodline limit, but after millions of changes, it can definitely become the number one fighter under Shen Lian.

Shen Lian closed his eyes and communicated with the stone egg, but the information it conveyed was very vague.

However, he learned that after the beast was raised with stone eggs, a related golden body technique could be created in conjunction with the lotus platform.

Shen Lian looked at the centipede, which was crawling flexibly around his body.

At present, the centipede is equivalent to a demon that has been practicing Taoism for 500 years. There is only a little demonic energy in its body, and it is so fragile that it can be dispersed by the external force.

But if there is enough food, centipedes can grow much faster than you can imagine.

"As expected, it involves the profession of the senior brother, it is so terrifying."

(End of this chapter)