I can't be a demon.

Chapter 345: Born at the Fourth Level
After the centipede finished eating the dragon marrow fruit, it turned around and ate its own old shell.

At present, the ability to raise animals has only been used to the tip of the iceberg. If one wants the stone egg to have the ability of Monkey King's seventy-two transformations, it will probably take thousands of years of raising it.

Shen Lian’s advantage is that he can go to various caves.

When the stone eggs have traveled more than ten thousand miles, it should be no problem to release them in various caves.

Click.

The centipede twisted its body in dissatisfaction, and the red patterns all over its body glowed slightly. It had been practicing Taoism for seven hundred years without knowing it.

"If the first person to take office is Bi Ma Wen, it will probably be difficult for him to be promoted to the second level. After all, where will the elixir fruit be used to feed the basic organisms?"

"Fortunately, times are different now."

Shen Lian pulled out the bone blade from his waist, and endless shadows spread out from the blade.

The bone blade isolated the sea water outside, creating a suitable environment for the centipede. At the same time, the space inside the house expanded ten times under the effect of magical powers.

"The more prosperous the Tang Dynasty is, the more demons and monsters it will breed. Naturally, the banyan tree will be able to obtain a large number of corpses of inferior demons."

"In terms of resources, those demon caves may not be able to compare with me."

Shen Lian couldn't finish eating all the low-level elixirs he had, so he began to provide them to the Jinwu Guards for their practice. After all, mutual benefit is a virtuous cycle.

The centipede couldn't wait any longer and opened its mouth and shook its head.

Perhaps the fundamental creature was indeed Shen Lian's guardian ghost. The stone egg vaguely sensed its own weakness and became more eager to devour food.

"Photography."

Shen Lian threw out the ghost gourd, and the treasure was hanging above his head.

A hurricane suddenly filled the house, and then densely packed fruits poured out, all of which were dragon marrow fruits of varying qualities.

The dragon marrow fruits piled up into a mountain were only one-tenth or two-tenths of Shen Lian's reserves.

At the time, there was a lot of commotion at Bibotan, and countless dragon monster corpses were found in the Yanshan area. The Jinwu Guards later dealt with some of the corpses, but most of them were eaten by the birds and beasts in the mountains.

As a result, the demons in the Yanshan area can easily breed dragon marrow fruit.

【Dragon Marrow Fruit】

[Grown from the banyan tree, taking it can give you some of the characteristics of a real dragon. Mash the pulp and apply it to a magical tool to help it transform into a dragon.]

Shen Lian originally wanted to brew the dragon marrow fruit into medicinal wine and drink it in his spare time, but the ghost gourd was constantly refining high-level elixirs.

He opened his mouth and spit, and the strong wind caused the ground to collapse, and then the ghost gourd fell down again.

The medicinal wine that promoted evil spirits fell into a deep pit, and a pond appeared in the lobby.

"Go."

Shen Lian gently stroked the centipede, and the latter crawled into the elixir in the blink of an eye. A rustling sound was heard, and prompts continued to appear 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%]

[Bimawen reaches 20.7%, martial arts points +1]

.........

The room was dark and the scene looked extremely scary.

Not only did the stone egg look like a centipede on the surface, but its habits were also very similar. It didn't take long for the silk threads to cover the entire lobby.

Before long, Bima Wen was already full of experience.

[Bimawen reaches 100.9%, martial arts points +1]

[Whether to be promoted to the Beast Tamer Career]

During this period, the centipede shed its skin countless times, and its body length gradually reached over two meters. At first glance, it looked like a dragon that looked like a centipede.

Especially the head, the tentacles on top of the head have hardened into dragon horns, and the mouthparts are hideous and terrifying.

What surprised Shen Lian was that even though the centipede's true dragon bloodline was extremely pure, it still retained the characteristics of an insect.

He suspected that the demonic form of the stone egg was uncertain and would definitely evolve into all kinds of strange forms.

Shen Lian stared at the career panel for a long time, then cancelled Bima Wen's promotion to the second level.

He discovered that even though the centipede's experience was full, it was still growing, and its experience progress had reached 137.99% in a short period of time.

The size of the centipede was still expanding, but due to the limitation of a first-level profession, its cultivation level was stuck at less than a thousand years and it could not make any progress.

Shen Lian was pleased to see this.

He also hoped to use the centipede to sneak into the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas.

Whenever the best quality wine is brewed, the sea dwellers can usually follow the dragon to the Dragon Palace and become strong men who serve the real dragon.

If he could raise a dragon insect that had lived for ten thousand years in just half a year, the Four Seas Dragon Palace would definitely be wary and it would be an eyesore.

Shen Lian even considered that once Bima Wen had enough experience, he could be promoted to the fourth level in one go.

"Eighth Master."

"Huh? Why are you calling me Master Ba?"

The starling stopped on the beam to preen its feathers, and its face became alert when it heard Shen Lian's call.

Shen Lian smiled flatteringly, and a finger of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva appeared on his palm. Seeing this, the mynah bird instinctively swooped down and wanted to swallow the finger.

"Don't worry, Master Ba, you still have some time to reach the seventh level."

Shen Lian put away his fingers and secretly communicated with the teleportation tree.

The roots of the teleporting tree must form a tree hole in the corner of the wall.

"Master Ba, please eat more ghosts, so that you can advance to the seventh level sooner. By then, your cultivation will reach at least 40,000 years."

"Quack, quack, quack."

The starling raised its head and screamed, immediately preparing to crawl into the tree hole.

"Master Ba, if you have time, go to Pansi Cave. Whether it's the Spider Spirit or the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord, there must be old shells left in the cave."

Shen Lian guessed that insect-related demon professions should be very suitable for Bima Wen, not because the stone eggs turned into dragon-eyed ghost insects, but because insects are known for their changes.

The mynah bird glanced at Shen Lian and disappeared into the tree hole.

"Eighth Master is awesome."

Shen Lian took back the ghost gourd and took the remaining two wine worms into the treasure.

He noticed that the wine worm and the ghost gourd complemented each other, so he tried to see if they could be refined together, which might give the ghost gourd a chance to take it a step further.

Compared to the Dragon Fish Robe which is already a mid-level treasure, if the Ghost Gourd wants to be promoted to a mid-level treasure, it will probably have to be nurtured for a hundred years before there is a chance.

Shen Lian had no choice but to find another way and imprint the spiritual charm of the treasure on the wine bug.

There were originally insects in the ghost gourd, but they were poisonous insects refined by the ghost girl.

As a result, once the wine worm entered the ghost gourd, it underwent a transformation after a simple refining process, and then turned the tables and killed all the poisonous insects.

Shen Lian observed carefully during his practice and found that the wine worm had become a part of the treasure.

The smell of alcohol rises.

Just two wine worms can increase the medicinal power by half. The wine worms did not transform into real dragons, but they provided the effect of pure medicinal wine.

The patterns on the surface of the ghost gourd have changed slightly, but it is still a long way from being promoted.

Shen Lian was very satisfied. He naturally hoped that the Ghost Gourd would always be used as an auxiliary. The importance of this treasure was actually far greater than that of the Dragon Fish Robe.

In the following days, nothing unusual happened in Yingchoujian.

Shen Lian never left the wine shop.

With his level of cultivation as an immortal, half a year is nothing more than a short nap.

Gu Fu blocked off the hundred-meter area where Shen Lian was, and the nearby sea dwellers moved out of their houses for fear of disturbing the powerful immortal master.

As the visitors from the Dragon Palace approached, the aroma of wine filling Yingchoujian became stronger.

Hundreds of jars of wine and liquor in the city have been moved to the government office, mainly to prevent accidents, and are guarded day and night by Captain Zhang.

.........

In early spring, Yingchoujian welcomes a rainy season that lasts for more than ten days.

Rumble.

Thunder was deafening, and the water in Yingchoujian was half a meter deep even during the day. The sea dwellers had long been accustomed to fishing by boat, and would erect a statue of the Dragon King on the bow of the boat, and burn a stick of incense every morning and evening.

It’s just that the Dragon King is a little weird, with a head that is three or four times the size of an ordinary person.

Gu Fu had a premonition that the immortal from the Dragon Palace was about to arrive, so he held a banquet at the government residence two days ago and waited for the immortal at the door day and night.

As a county magistrate, he was not affiliated with the Tang Dynasty, but was actually under the jurisdiction of the Dragon Palace of the Four Seas.

With just one word from the immortal in the Dragon Palace, Yingchoujian is turned upside down, and the heads of tens of thousands of sea dwellers are tied to Gu Fu's waist.

Captain Zhang counted the wine jars and showed a hint of excitement on his face.

The amount of wine worms obtained each time from Yingchoujian was indeed very small, but fortunately there were not many failures in brewing wine this time, and a total of seventy-three jars of medium and low-quality wine were produced.

"Maybe next year I can get a few top-quality wine bugs."

"If we can get 10% of the top-grade wine, our resources in Yingchoujian will increase by 70% to 80%."

Gu Fu interrupted Captain Zhang's thoughts and said, "The immortal is coming!"

Captain Zhang looked carefully and saw a huge creature emerging from the rough sea. Wherever it passed, the rainy season stopped and the thunder disappeared.

The sea people fell to their knees, shouting the word "true dragon".

Even though the dragon's shadow had a large head and a narrow body, like a deformed creature, the sea people did not care. After all, this was what they knew a real dragon to be like.

While Gu Fu and the others were in a trance, the immortal from the Dragon Palace had already fallen into the hands of the government.

The visitor was wearing a Taoist robe covered with scales, his huge head was full of blue veins, his limbs were extremely thin, and steam was spewing out of his mouth and nose.

Gu Fu turned pale with fright at just one glance.

"He is so outstanding, he must be the son-in-law of a dragon who holds a high position!!!"

Captain Zhang even realized that the cultivation level of the immortal in Dragon Palace had reached the eighth level of perfection. No wonder he could easily affect the celestial phenomena in Yingchoujian.

However, they were a little confused. Why did they feel that the Dragon Palace Immortal... was far inferior to Shen Lian?

"I am honored to meet you, Master! We have prepared a banquet for you, please take a seat!"

Ao Peng didn't even look at the banquet. He flicked his long sleeves, removed all the seals on the wine jars, and immediately the extremely rich aroma of wine filled the air.

Various dragon beasts are soaked in the wine.

For example, the medium-quality Bamboo Leaf Green Snake is a long green snake with dragon horns exposed on its forehead.

Or it could be the inferior golden-eyed wine, the dragon beast is a toad with dragon skin.

The auras of all the dragon beasts were similar. If Shen Lian was nearby, he would definitely realize that the auras all came from the little white dragon's corpse.

"Yes, there are more Ten-Day Altars than five years ago."

Ao Peng mentioned it in a nonchalant manner, without any praise at all.

Captain Zhang wanted to say something but stopped himself. Gu Fu grabbed his wrist, fearing that he might offend the immortals in the Dragon Palace with his careless words.

"County Magistrate, are all the wines from Yingchoujian in the government office?"

"Master, the quantity has been checked and is in the government office."

Ao Peng ignored the two of them. White smoke spread out of his mouth and nose. His soul used the white smoke to leave his body and search for any remaining alcohol bugs.

"kindness?"

His expression changed slightly, and he narrowed his eyes and stared at Gu Fu and the other man.

"There is another jar in the South City District. The wine bugs inside have turned into dragons. How dare you deceive the Dragon Palace? Do you want to die?"

Gu Fu and the other man were huddled on the ground, their clothes soaked with sweat.

"South City, that's right!"

"Some time ago, a disciple of the Dragon Palace Immortal Master came to Yingchoujian. I gave him three middle-low-quality wine worms to make wine."

"Master's disciple?"

"It was Immortal Master Zhu Ganglie who temporarily lived in Yingchoujian a hundred years ago."

"Never heard of it." Ao Peng's expression eased a little. He put all the wine and drinks in his pocket, and took Gu Fu and the other man with him to the South City area.

He walked hurriedly, greed revealed in his eyes uncontrollably.

The aroma of the wine is so mellow, even more exaggerated than the top-grade wine after the worm turned into a dragon. Could it be that the so-called disciple of the immortal master accidentally brewed the blood of a real dragon?
Gu Fu and the other man looked at each other, but since Shen Lian had saved their lives, they couldn't say anything.

Little did they know that Shen Lian intended to let Ao Peng notice it, otherwise with the power of the bone blade, it would be impossible for a mere eighth level cultivator to detect any clues.

"Master Immortal's disciple, haha, it's quite shabby."

When Ao Peng saw the dilapidated wine shop, he used his magic power to blow open the door.

There was nothing special in the room. A young Taoist priest was seen drinking alone. A centipede that was transformed into a dragon and was about four or five meters in size was lying in front of the table.

Ao Peng's pupils shrank slightly, and he could no longer suppress his greed.

"Isn't this the only way a fairy wine worm can turn into a dragon? I'm so lucky. It seems that my chance to transform from a mortal to a fairy and ascend to a human fairy is in Yingchoujian."

"Hahaha."

Ao Peng laughed loudly and observed the centipede closely.

More than nine hundred years of cultivation is not worth mentioning. What’s more important is the pure dragon blood that was displayed. It is hard to imagine that a low-level wineworm would have such an experience.

Ao Peng did not notice the shocked looks on Gu Fu's and the others' faces.

In the eyes of the immortals in Dragon Palace, everything was normal in the wine shop.

The walls were mottled, the ground was damp and cold, and there was a musty smell.

The immortal disciple's cultivation is shallow, with only a thin layer of blood and energy in his body. He probably hasn't even mastered the internal skills, and what he got is the inheritance of a strongman.

He came all the way to Yingchoujian, most likely wanting to join the Dragon Palace.

Ao Peng raised the corner of his mouth. He thought that he could easily defeat a mere strongman.

Gu and Fu have completely different perspectives.

The walls and the floor were covered with worm threads. The house was like a demon's lair. Shadows in the corners were constantly wriggling, and bloody cracks appeared on the surface.

Especially the shadow under Ao Peng's feet, the bloody mouth was already ready to move.

The crow perched on Shen Lian's shoulder was also unusual. As he stared at it for a long time, there seemed to be endless underworld energy in its beak.

Immortal disciple?

It's clearly a demon!!

Shen Lian sipped the wine and glanced at the bone blade helplessly.

Gu Ren's weird laugh with evil humor deliberately did not block the perception of Gu Fu and the others, because he liked the sharp contrast between them and Ao Peng.

"Stop it, erase their memories."

Shen Lian transmitted his thoughts to Bone Blade, and then a shadow entered the minds of the two.

He stood up and said, "Master, I heard that if one brews a top-grade wine worm, one can get a place in the Dragon Palace. Is this true or not?"

"of course."

Ao Peng came back to his senses, his chest heaving violently.

"You can follow me back to the North Sea Dragon Palace. I will recommend you to a highly accomplished True Dragon as a disciple, and you will rise to prominence in the future."

He carefully took out the magic wine jar and sealed the centipede inside.

Shen Lian smiled but said nothing.

【Bimawen（15065.76%)】

Career advancement will dilute experience tenfold, but Bimawen's experience is enough to advance to the third level.

The centipede looks harmless, with an age of less than a thousand years. But in fact, with just a thought, its age can instantly increase to over four thousand years.

And Bimawen's professional experience is still accumulating.

Ao Peng thought he had sealed the centipede, but the latter had a fruit core in its mouth, and the storage space was sending a large amount of dragon marrow fruit into its stomach.

Shen Lian glanced at the ghost gourd. Myna had just found a piece of insect armor of the Hundred-Eyed Demon Lord not long ago, which was more than enough to use as stone eggs to advance to the fourth level.

He was looking forward to it.

The immortals in the Dragon Palace saw the lowly dragon beast transform into a ten-thousand-year-old demon.

(End of this chapter)