I can't be a demon.

Chapter 66 Promotion [Corpse-Seeking Taoist Priest]

As the sun rises, people leave the market one after another.

Bai Haibo hurried to pick up Bai Jinbao, and Sun Dawei also returned to the slaughterhouse in the suburbs.

Shen Lian seemed heartless. After eating and drinking, he stayed in the courtyard. On the surface, he was standing still, but in fact he was looking at the banyan tree.

The banyan tree has been successfully promoted.

But I don’t know if it was an illusion, the banyan tree had clearly swallowed a large number of monster corpses, but it still looked a little listless, and its branches and leaves were even slightly yellowing.

"eccentric."

Shen Lian didn't know that the banyan tree stretched for hundreds of miles to help him eradicate the weeds, and it actually consumed a lot of nutrients.

"Maybe it has something to do with the promotion of the corpse Taoist."

Shen Lian glanced at the profession panel and found that the second-level profession that was replaced was [Corpse-seeking Taoist Priest].

The magical powers are also different.

[Rebirth Concept: Actively absorb nutrients from the ground to create a great medicine. 】

"The nutrients in the ground, this information is very subtle. Could it be that in the future, the banyan tree can be self-sufficient in growing elixirs?"

Shen Lian chose to bind himself to the banyan tree because the latter had the possibility of turning into a demon. Now it seems that hope is indeed growing.

Make sense.

If the banyan tree turns into a monster, the title of best employee will not go to the starling.

"Ah~ Master Ba has returned, why doesn't Ah Lian submit to you?"

The starling landed on the branch of the banyan tree and shook its head triumphantly. Shen Lian understood that the beetle he had warned about had been successfully killed.

"Ba Ye is mighty!"

"With Master Ba here, our Shen family pawnshop is thriving."

Shen Lian noticed that the banyan tree did have a fruit that was shaped like a white skeleton. If nothing unexpected happened, it should have been bred from the corpse of the Jinwu Guard.

"Let me see. There are a total of 45 fish fruit buds. Give three to Big Brother. It will be the year-end bonus for the best employee."

"After eating the fish fruit, you can almost be promoted to a sharp-toothed warrior."

Once the Sharp-Tooth Warrior is promoted to the third level, the benefit to Shen Lian's martial arts training will be far beyond imagination, but the Fish Fruit cannot be wasted in a hurry.

【Shen Lian】

[Realm: Innate (Eye Root)]

[Martial arts: unknown stance (tide flame), indestructible bronze body (bronze body form), tide-beating fist (perfect), mixed origin stance (great success), large stele palm (great success)]

【Points: 41】

[Level 14.33 Occupation: Nine Qi Earth Hatred (%)]

[Second-level occupation: Sharp-toothed Warrior (77.65%)]

[Second-level occupation: Corpse-seeking Taoist priest (7.56%)]

.........

"I have already reached 41 points without realizing it. It's a pity that the ghost market may not open next month, otherwise I would have to learn more than a dozen martial arts."

Shen Lian pondered secretly, which attracted the contemptuous look of the starling.

He was concentrating on circulating the Yin-Yang Energy, and blood vessels were visible around his eye sockets. This was a sign that the energy was constantly tempering the meridians in his eyes.

"According to the current purity of Yin-Yang Energy, if two or three more martial arts are integrated into it, it will be able to transform like Henglian."

The third meridian has been mostly unblocked, but Shen Lian is still dissatisfied with the efficiency of his practice. After all, the innate five realms have just begun.

"Shen Lian, is it convenient for you to come in?"

Sun Dawei's voice came from outside the courtyard gate.

Shen Lian couldn't help but be stunned. Sun Dawei was panting heavily and was obviously rushing to and from the slaughterhouse, as if he was deliberately getting something.

"Please in, Senior Sun." Sun Dawei walked into the courtyard and felt his blood boiling when he saw Shen Lian.

The bronze body image is still vivid in my mind. It is hard to imagine how many horizontal training techniques were superimposed on each other to create such an astonishing martial art. It is simply... incredible!

"Shen Lian, I worked as a strongman in the Jinwu Guard for more than ten years. I have a lot of experience and have come into contact with the martial arts secrets in the court."

Sun Dawei was in his forties or fifties. When he took out the package from his arms, he couldn't help but tremble in his right hand and his breathing became rapid.

"Here are three superior horizontal trainings and one superior stance training. I will teach them to you today."

"Thank you, Senior Sun!"

Shen Lian was overjoyed. He just felt that he was lacking in martial arts, and in the blink of an eye, the secret manual was delivered to his door.

Sun Dawei felt relieved. He watched Shen Lian take the package. He didn't know what to say for a moment, and his face turned red as he managed to utter "thank you".

In his early years, he had thought about trying to practice the five innate realms, but he was injured and his enthusiasm was completely exhausted after going back and forth.

Before witnessing the bronze body image, Sun Dawei even felt that he had lost his martial arts path.

"Shen Lian, I have read the classics of the Tang Dynasty. A thousand years ago, the Jinwu Guards were mainly based on martial arts, and later on, internal skills began to rise."

Sun Dawei was like an old man, murmuring about the prosperity of martial arts in the past.

Shen Lian's brows furrowed more and more tightly.

As the official force against demons, Jinwu Guards cannot promote martial arts even if they don't have internal strength, right? You know, fullness of qi and blood will only attract powerful demons with profound Taoism.

Or was there some change in the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago?
Shen Lian couldn't help but ask, "Senior Sun, have you seen any records about [Golden Cicada] in the Jinwu Guard?"

"Jin Chanzi?"

"Or Xuanzang."

"Not really."

Sun Dawei murmured, "But there is one thing mentioned in some unofficial history."

"what?"

"Hmm...according to unofficial history records, it seems that mortals are becoming...more and more delicious? I don't understand why they use the word delicious to describe it."

Sun Dawei shook his head and explained helplessly: "I am just a powerful warrior, and the books I can see are relatively sparse and ordinary."

"fine."

Shen Lian's pupils shrank slightly as he realized something that was extremely terrifying upon closer thought.

In Journey to the West, although demons also eat humans, it is never mentioned that demons practice spiritual cultivation by eating humans.

In this ruined world of Journey to the West, the benefits of demons eating people are far beyond imagination.

An ordinary warrior can provide three to four years of cultivation for the demons, which results in the demons' desire for blood and food prompting them to attack towns.

"What happened a thousand years ago that caused the world of Journey to the West to collapse, made mortals become delicious, caused Taoism and Buddhism to disappear, and prevented Tang Monk and his three disciples from setting foot on the journey to the West?"

Shen Lian's mind was full of doubts.

After Jin Chanzi disappeared, why does it feel like everyone is Tang Monk's flesh?

"Shen Lian, be careful next time. The Jinwu Guards are making quite a stir in Gao Laozhuang, and there is a high probability that it will affect our Yanliang Town."

"Senior Sun, have you ever been to Gao Village?"

"No, I only know that Gao Laozhuang is a cave. The Jinwu Guards usually call the area where multi-headed monsters reside as a cave."

Sun Dawei took a deep breath and said, "When I followed the Jinwu Guards, the cave I went to was called... [Eagle Sorrow Stream], but I was just clearing out some ordinary monsters on the periphery."

"I heard that there is an extraordinary demonic dragon at the bottom of Yingchou Gorge, but I don't know if it's true or not."

Shen Lian fell into a trance.

Yingchoujian is the pool where Guanyin Bodhisattva asked the white dragon horse to wait for Tang Monk. If the white dragon horse still stayed there, wouldn't it mean that Tang Monk did not follow the script when he first left the Tang Dynasty?

The two chatted for a long time, but Sun Dawei knew very little. The specific current situation of Yingchoujian might only be known by the Jinwu Guards.

(End of this chapter)