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Chapter 124 Bells
"What? Is that too much to ask?" Su Daoshan felt unhappy as he looked at Mr. Qi with a stiff smile.

The big demon landlord and the keeper were in a cooperative relationship. The keeper could get 50% of the spiritual essence of both parties, and the lowest was only 10%.

Because of this, most of the Lingyun Fruits eventually fell into the hands of the spiritual monsters.

The spirit monsters are different from spirit beasts. The spirit beasts' need for spirit essence is a life instinct. They have low intelligence and will devour the spirit essence fruit without hesitation once they get it.

Although spirit monsters have the same need for spiritual essence, they are usually only allocated to big monsters that need to improve their combat power. Spirit monsters with no combat power will not waste their spiritual essence.

Therefore, most of the spiritual energy was stored.

Su Daoshan didn’t know how long the Ancient Banyan Tribe had existed, but they were able to sit down and divide the spoils every month, so he thought that they must have a lot of Lingyun Fruits in their hands.

So, after hearing the previous conversation between Niu Er and Mr. Qi, and discovering that Mr. Qi was so enthusiastic towards him, Su Daoshan thought that if he didn't make some excessive requests, wouldn't it be a bit of a letdown for Mr. Qi's kindness?
Maybe you will succeed, but you might as well give it a try. What if you succeed?
But Su Daoshan didn't expect that his frank attitude and simple request would make the old man in front of him feel like he had been touched.

What, you look down on me, right?
You just said that my aura is the same as your mentor's. Is this how you treat your mentor?!

"Ah... this..." After hearing Su Daoshan's words, Mr. Qi seemed to be resurrected as a wooden sculpture. He stuttered and smiled bitterly. He didn't know what to say for a moment. He just felt that the person in front of him was too unconventional.

"Mr. Qi, Ling Yun is just like money. If you don't use it, it's just waste." Su Daoshan persuaded him earnestly, "Only by using it can its value be reflected. Think about it, if no one uses Ling Yun and saves all the Ling Yun fruits, how can the spiritual realm develop? When can everyone climb Tiandao Mountain and live a good life? Don't you think so?"

"To put it mildly, you are being selfish. To put it more seriously, you are hindering the overall development of the spiritual realm!"

Mr. Qi was speechless and didn't know how to refute for a moment.

"Now that your great demon is gone and you don't know how to use it, the Lingyun Fruit is just sitting there. I'm helping you out and showing its value. Isn't that good?" Su Daoshan said with a sullen face, "Besides, I'm borrowing it, not not returning it. How about this... I'll take a loss and return 10% of the loan. How about I only charge you % for your hard work?"

"This..." If it were anyone else, Mr. Qi would have already said "Get lost". But facing Mr. Tan, he was extremely conflicted.

Obviously, Mr. Tan was full of knowledge that made it yearn for him, even look up to him. However, as a spirit demon who had seen the master of the academy and even had the honor of feeling the aura of a sage or even a saint from afar, the impression this aura gave it in the past was the mystery and heaviness of a scholar, the subtlety and profoundness that was beyond comprehension. It was vast, modest, and gentle...

How can you take advantage so directly?

This man's words and actions are not like those of a learned and elegant man, but rather like those of a mercenary.

Mr. Qi wanted to refuse, but every time he sensed the knowledge coming from Su Daoshan, he couldn't bring himself to say no.

At this moment, suddenly, a scream was heard from behind the house. Su Daoshan and Mr. Qi were both startled, and listened carefully. The voice was surprisingly the boy "Little Stone" that Mr. Qi had greeted before.

"Please forgive me, Mr. Tan!" Mr. Qi stood up suddenly and ran quickly to the back of the house.

Su Daoshan was also a little curious, so he stood up and followed him out the back door.

Behind the house was a flat land on a small hillside, which had been dug into a vegetable garden. Mr. Qi walked quickly across the stone-paved path in the field, out of the backyard wooden gate, and ran to the grove on the right side of the hillside behind where the screams came from.

The two ran in the forest one after the other. Soon, Su Daoshan saw a little boy about seven or eight years old, with a square head and a square face, running towards him with a panicked look on his face.

"Little Stone," Mr. Qi rushed over and hugged the little boy, and asked anxiously, "What happened?"

"Sir, there is a spirit beast that wants to eat me," the little boy pointed behind the hillside in horror, crying in a trembling voice, "It's a red-scaled demon crocodile!"

"A fourth-level spiritual beast!" Mr. Qi's face changed.

Su Daoshan was also shocked, and instantly activated the Dao Seed Armor, arming himself tightly.

Orchards, which are rich in spiritual fruits, are inherently attractive to spiritual beasts. Su Daoshan had heard from Ao Jiu before that there were rumors that spiritual monster children often ran out of the village because of mischief and were taken away by spiritual beasts.

However, as powerful beings of the emperor level in the outer regions, level 4 spirit beasts usually only exist in the deep mountains and rarely appear in areas where spirit veins extend. It is unheard of for one to run directly to a village.

"Then how did you escape?" Mr. Qi asked nervously. Logically speaking, after being attacked by a level 4 spirit beast, there should be nothing left of Little Stone.

"It was Xiao Hei who saved me." Xiao Shitou grabbed Mr. Qi in fear, looked at Su Daoshan behind him, and cried, "Sir, please save Xiao Hei. He is so small that he will definitely not be able to beat the Red Scale Demon Crocodile."

"Who is Xiao Hei?" Mr. Qi was a little confused when he heard this.

"Xiao Hei is..." Little Stone was still young after all, and couldn't explain clearly for a moment. He just cried and stammered, "I am a friend I just met... A few days ago, I met it behind the mountain... It... It couldn't tell where it came from..."

"Okay, I get it..." Mr. Qi comforted Xiao Shitou and turned to look at Su Daoshan with some embarrassment.

"One thousand spiritual essences!" Su Daoshan opened his mouth without hesitation, without any psychological burden.

"Deal!" Mr. Qi was obviously surprised when he heard the price, and agreed almost immediately before Su Daoshan finished speaking, as if he was afraid that he would go back on his word.

Su Daoshan was speechless and instantly regretted having bid too low.

"Damn, I was still too careless."

It was mainly because I had just entered the spiritual realm and made friends with poor people like Ao Jiu, so my vision was too low.

Just like in the original world, a bunch of poor people dare not even dream of a number, in the eyes of others is just a small goal. And the savings of an orchard over the years is obviously not what you imagine.

However, at this time, Su Daoshan was too embarrassed to change his words. He immediately jumped up and flew in the direction pointed by the small stone.

After crossing a small slope and passing through the bushes, Su Daoshan soon saw the red-scaled demon crocodile in Xiao Shitou's mouth.

It was a five-meter-tall spirit beast covered with flame-red scales. It walked upright, with a strong body. Its head really looked like a crocodile, except that it had a single horn between its eyes. And it had bone spurs like saw blades from its back to the end of its tail. It looked extremely ferocious.

According to normal combat power standards, the combat power of a strong fourth-level spirit beast exceeds that of a war spirit with a combat power of 11 meters. Even a weaker one has a combat power that exceeds that of a war spirit with a combat power of 10 meters. Therefore, most warriors in the outer domain avoid fourth-level spirit beasts. If they accidentally encounter one, the common tactic is to let the war spirit lead it away, and then turn around and run as fast as possible.

Su Daoshan had heard Niu Er and the others say that level 4 spirit beasts were hard to find, but he didn't expect that one would appear in the village in the blink of an eye. This made him extremely curious, and he inexplicably had a strong premonition in his heart.

Could it be that his war spirit is about to find a place to stay?

Moreover, this was not just a premonition. Su Daoshan could clearly feel that his Dao seeds were stirring. It seemed that something was strongly attracting him.

However, when Su Daoshan saw this majestic and ferocious red-scaled demon crocodile for the first time, his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

This red-scaled demon crocodile was being swung up and smashed to the ground!
Bang! Bang! Bang...Loud noises were heard in the forest.

Su Daoshan only saw the huge body of the demon crocodile drawing an arc in the air and crashing straight into a mountain forest slope. For a moment, the soil flew everywhere and the trees were broken.

Before he could come to his senses, he saw the demon crocodile being swung up again, swung 180 degrees in the air, and slammed heavily into the pond on the other side. Black mud and water splashed into the sky, and a deep pit suddenly appeared on the ground.

Then came the third, fourth, and fifth blows… In just the blink of an eye, the demon crocodile smashed back and forth seven or eight times like an out-of-control windmill, causing the entire forest to shake like an earthquake.

What shocked Su Daoshan even more was...

His sight fell on a small figure holding the red-scaled demon crocodile's tail.

It was a little boy with charcoal-black skin, who looked no more than three or four years old, much younger than Little Stone. He had a big head, bare fleshy hands and feet, and a fiery red bellyband. He was not even as big as one of the claws of the demon crocodile.

However, this child was swung the magic crocodile and smashed it randomly, while giggling. The huge magic crocodile was as light as a feather in his hand, and he was just having fun, dancing with joy.

Bang! Another one.

The body of the Red Scale Demon Crocodile had long been smashed into a torn sack. With this last blow, its body, which had been struggling before, suddenly twisted violently and then completely quieted down.

He was actually smashed to death!

Seeing that the red-scaled demon crocodile had stopped moving, the black kid was stunned for a moment, put down his tail, and climbed onto the huge demon crocodile using his hands and feet. He poked it with his hand, jumped up and stepped on it, and seeing no movement, he jumped down again, lifted the demon crocodile's hand, and pried its legs, seeing that they were all drooping limply, then he walked back to the tail with a dull look.

The black kid thought about it, picked up his tail, took a deep breath, and opened his mouth.

Its head suddenly swelled up, becoming more than five times larger than its body, and its mouth protruded forward, eventually turning into a crocodile's mouth exactly the same as the demon crocodile's. It opened suddenly and bit the demon crocodile's tail hard, directly biting off one-third of it.

Crunch, crunch!
The black kid retracted his mouth, puffed up his cheeks, and chewed vigorously. The scales and bone spurs of the demon crocodile, which were harder than steel, were like sugar cane in his mouth.

Perhaps the black kid felt that the raw demon crocodile was not tasty, so after chewing it for a few bites, he spat it out with a few "Puh" sounds.

Then, the black child's body changed again. It first grew like a bamboo joint, and then quickly thickened. Finally, it turned into a black root-like object. The next second, the black root was wrapped around the devil crocodile. It first contracted rapidly, causing the devil crocodile's bones to crack. Then, a ball of fire suddenly ignited from the root, wrapping the devil crocodile.

Beep, pop, pop... I don't know how terrible the temperature of the flame is. Instantly, the aroma of meat fat and the sound of burning and exploding fat can be heard.

A body shaped like a tree root, wrapped in flames inside... Su Daoshan suddenly recalled Ao Jiu's previous description, and his heart moved.

Just at this moment, Mr. Qi's exclamation came from the side.

"Five cars!"

Su Daoshan turned his head and saw that Mr. Qi had come to his side without him noticing. Xiao Shitou was not there, and it was obvious that he had called him back first.

"Is it the Wuche?" Su Daoshan asked.

“Yes… and no…” Mr. Qi stared blankly at the flames rising into the sky, nodded, and then shook his head, “The previous Five Chariots had perished together with the Flame Demon. Now it has become a new life.”

At this time, a burst of hurried footsteps came. The two turned their heads and saw that Niu Er and others had rushed over after hearing the huge noise. There were also many villagers from the Gurong tribe.

"Five cars!" Almost everyone exclaimed in unison.

Soon, everyone fell into silence like Mr. Qi. Obviously, everyone understood that the black spirit in front of them was no longer the ancient banyan tree that protected this place.

The fire burned fiercely, causing the surrounding mountains and forests and people's faces to flicker.

After a while, the flames suddenly went out, as if the demon crocodile had been roasted. Immediately, a hole appeared at one end of the black tree root. This seemed to be its mouth. Through the hole, one could see the flames flowing in its body.

The mouth of the black tree root opened wider and wider, like a giant python, and actually swallowed the entire red-scaled demon crocodile.

What was strange was that after the demon crocodile's huge body entered its body, it did not leave its shape on the body like a snake swallowing a sheep. Instead, it disappeared quickly as if it had entered a black hole.

As the demon crocodile disappeared, everyone could clearly feel that the aura of the black tree root had become much stronger. Even the flames that came out of its skin seemed to be more intense than before.

"Oh my God, this is devouring!" Mr. Qi groaned in disbelief.

Others also exclaimed in surprise.

Su Daoshan turned his head to look at Ao Jiu and asked, "What is Devouring?"

Ao Jiu was obviously shocked as well. He swallowed hard and explained, "Devouring is the rarest ability among spirit monsters. By devouring, spirit monsters can not only directly absorb the spirit essence of their prey to strengthen themselves, but also obtain certain abilities of their prey."

He turned his head and looked at Su Daoshan: "It is said that spirit monsters with this ability will grow into top-level monsters. In the third spirit realm, many monsters grow by devouring. But these monsters who can enter the third spirit realm basically kill everyone in the area where they are. I don't know how many spirit monsters and spirit beasts they devoured."

And during this time of speaking, the black tree root turned into a black child.

From a distance, it looked over here.

"Huh?" Everyone noticed that the black kid suddenly stood there, as if he had seen something, and his eyes were full of desire as he looked over here. Combined with the blood stains on his mouth that had not yet been wiped off, he looked extremely ferocious.

"Hurry, let's go!" Niu Er said anxiously.

Everyone quickly retreated, and some of the spirit demon villagers could not help but turn around and run. Everyone knew that this black child was no longer Wu Che. Without his previous memories, if he only relied on instinct, then all of these people present would be his prey!

Almost instantly, a large area around Su Daoshan was empty. Even Mr. Qi and Ao Jiu had retreated to the back.

Just when Ao Jiu was about to pull Su Daoshan away, he saw Su Daoshan take a step forward as if he was sleepwalking. His eyes met the eyes of the black child.

Dang! Su Daoshan seemed to hear a loud bell ringing from the sky. Immediately, two golden lights shot out from Tiandao Mountain.

One beam fell on Su Daoshan's Dao Seed, and the other beam fell on the black kid. The next second, the Dao Seed and the black kid melted in the golden light. The two beams of light were like magnets, attracting each other, approaching, and gradually merging into one.

boom!
It was as if a bolt of thunder had exploded, and countless amounts of information instantly flooded into Su Daoshan's mind.

(End of this chapter)