Becoming an immortal and ancestor begins with the golden toad spitting out money.

Chapter 106 Diyang Reservoir, Generous Rewards

"It wasn't that simple after all—"

Just as Su Ji had guessed, the Bright Moon Secret Realm was so vast that encountering the Earth Spirits was no easy feat.

Last night, Qian Feng searched around according to the map, but only managed to eliminate some suspicious places. He encountered many cultivators, but none of them took the initiative to approach him.

Yan Tianchou explained, "The Bright Moon Spirit Realm is more suitable for ghost cultivators. Even though the tokens are more expensive, there are still thirty or forty cultivators who have entered it to cultivate. Finding the Earth Yin Spirit within it may require more time..."

Fortunately, Su Ji is in high spirits today, and the upcoming trip to the Great Sun Spirit Realm will be relatively easy. Tonight, he may be able to enter the Bright Moon Spirit Realm and split up with Qian Feng.

Before long, the Mo family's villa came into view in the distance.

Mo Linglong sensed something and waited at the door early.

After yesterday's series of events, Mo Linglong has come to regard Su Ji as a trustworthy fellow Daoist, and has even developed some admiration for him.

Mo Linglong, now a graceful twenty-year-old woman, nodded and smiled, "Last night, news came from Thousand Changes Town that all the Flesh Spirit Mushrooms have been given to Fellow Daoist Jin. If you can successfully cultivate the Flesh Spirit Mushrooms, then we can discuss cooperation..."

The top-grade spiritual herb, the Flesh Spirit Mushroom, originally grew inside the Five Aperture Heart Stone. Now that the Five Aperture Heart Stone has fallen into Su Ji's hands, it has given him the conditions to cultivate the Flesh Spirit Mushroom.

However, if the fleshy Ganoderma is placed inside the Five Aperture Heart Stone, the volume of the Five Aperture Heart Stone can only be reduced to three inches at its smallest.

Moreover, a mass of earth-yang mica could not completely conceal the Five Aperture Heart Stone, and since the Flesh Spirit Mushroom was already known to many cultivators, Su Ji brought it out openly.

Putting aside the others, it can at least be used as a gimmick to increase the popularity of the wish-granting campaign.

Seeing the opportunity, Yan Tianchou analyzed, "Our current computing power reserve has reached 1,800. Based on the current level of willpower, it is estimated that when we leave the Great Sun Spirit Realm this afternoon, our computing power reserve will reach 2,200..."

The popularity of the wish-granting event is not static; it often dips during the day and surges in the evening. There should be another surge in popularity when the ghost market auction begins on the evening of the eighth day of the third lunar month.

Yan Tianchou was in charge of the deduction and analysis, while Su Ji was in charge of the action. Their gains in computing power were quite impressive.

However, apart from the improvement in his cultivation level, Su Ji's biggest gain was in terms of assets.

Currently, Su Ji has not yet sold the flesh spirit mushroom. He has kept the Fire-Resistant Spirit Robe, Mechanical Spirit Beast, Earth Yang Mica, and other items for his own use. The Five Aperture Heart Stone even has the function of storing and cultivating flesh spirit mushrooms...

Even so, Su Ji's assets reached more than 3,300 strands of divine power, which even the local earth god envied.

Not to mention, today is not only the day we witness the Earth Serpent King regain his freedom, but also the day when Su Ji and Mo Linglong will have the opportunity to enter the cave together to search for treasure after the death tornado has subsided...

"The Heavenly Will Spirit Lord has completed most of the task; the rest is up to us!"

Tianyi Lingjun deduced the path to open up the underground passage. There was already a passage between the old pit and the new pit, and Su Ji and Mo Linglong only needed to clear the blocked part.

"Boom——"

With a deadly tornado right in front of them, Su Ji and the silver-haired, golden-eyed Mo Linglong jumped down without hesitation.

Mo Linglong's battle form is not afraid of the death tornado with its power dispersed, while Su Ji is protected by the Yang-type Xuan Technique [Earth Yang Surge]. The reason why he was not afraid of being surrounded by so many demons and ghosts was because he had the confidence to enter the death tornado.

"[Earth's Yang Gush]!"

The positive energy emanated from the soles of Su Ji's feet, canceling out the earth's yang energy surging out from below, creating a safe zone several feet long.

Su Ji even experimented with the [Deflection Mystic Realm], but unfortunately, the earth's yang energy contained a large amount of earth energy. Although it could create a vacuum area, it required constantly changing the thickness of the mystic technique, and it was also easy to become covered in dust.

Soon, Su Ji and Mo Linglong passed through the straight tunnel and arrived at a dead end. Here, the pressure of the earth's yang energy was immense, but there was nowhere for it to dissipate, causing the soil and rocks in the passage to become extremely compacted. Fortunately, this soil and rocks were nothing to Mo Linglong. Once Su Ji had withstood the external pressure, Mo Linglong began digging.

With such a large opening, it's impossible to dig it all out. Just one outlet is enough for the earth's yang energy to clear away the blockage.

After about fifteen minutes, Mo Linglong's excited voice came from inside the cave: "Fellow Daoist Jin, we've made it through!"

Su Ji breathed a sigh of relief: "Alright! Fellow Daoist Mo, quickly find a place to hide!"

A moment later, Mo Linglong's spiritual voice whispered, "We can begin!"

“Okay—” Su Ji responded readily.

Immediately, Su Ji not only released the pressure, but also changed the direction of the [Earthly Yang Surge], causing the impact of the Earthly Yang power to more than double!

"Xiao——"

As the sharp, explosive sound of the rapidly flowing earth's yang energy rang out, the soil and rocks around the excavated tunnel were quickly carried away by the wind...

In just a few breaths, the blocked passage widened several times over, and after a dozen breaths, it was completely unobstructed.

If that were all, it would be impossible to completely deplete the earth's yang energy within a single day. However, as the earth's yang spiritual vein beneath the old pit gradually emitted bursts of spiritual light, the earth's yang spiritual vein, which had been dormant for over two hundred years, awakened.

At this time, not only was the new pit releasing the earth's yang energy, but the earth's yang spiritual vein also began to actively absorb the earth's yang energy. Even ordinary soil and rocks gradually became part of the earth's yang spiritual vein.

As a result, the Earth Yang Spiritual Vein quickly developed more than a dozen spiritual vein channels, rapidly drawing in the Earth Yang Water from beneath the new pit.

Earth Yang Water is the liquid state of condensed Earth Yang Qi. It usually just gushes out from Earth Yang Springs, at most forming a small stream.

The Earth Yang Serpent Lord devoured countless amounts of Earth Yang Qi from the Spirit Realm, storing them all in a massive underground cave beneath the new pit.

Unbeknownst to them, the death tornado began to slowly shrink, and the vast space beneath the new pit was revealed to Su Ji and Mo Linglong.

The cave was nearly a hundred feet deep, and the bottom layer of earth yang water seemed to have been swallowed up by more than a dozen giant beasts, disappearing into the earth at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Su Ji was shocked: "The Earth Yang Serpent Lord is the spirit of the Earth Yang Spiritual Vein, and the Earth Yang Spiritual Vein is the body of the Earth Yang Serpent Lord. I can't even imagine how strong the Earth Yang Serpent Lord is, having so much Earth Yang Water as the source of his magic power!"

Yan Tianchou said, "Even the strongest Earth Yang Serpent Lord and Earth Yang Spiritual Vein are only a part of the Great Sun Spiritual Realm. The Heavenly Will Spirit Lord is the most powerful here. If the Heavenly Will Spirit Lord uses the Great Sun Spiritual Realm as a weapon, even Earth Immortals will have to give way!"

For a moment, Su Ji thought of the previous generation of Earth Spirits who had severely injured the old man.

The Night Wanderer once said that the previous generation of Earthly Yin Spirits suffered severe damage before the current Heavenly Emperor's calendar, and may have participated in the war caused by the various emperors vying for the throne of the Heavenly Emperor.

It is evident that the Yellow Emperor, who now serves as the Heavenly Emperor, is not without rivals. Behind the seemingly peaceful and harmonious pantheon, there may be various unseen struggles taking place.

Just as Su Ji was filled with dread, Yan Tianchou brought good news.

"After the waters of the earth receded, the treasures nurtured within surfaced!"

The scattered treasures in the passage amounted to no more than a few thousand strands of divine power. The treasures in the Diyang Reservoir were the reward that Su Ji and Mo Linglong were most looking forward to.

As the Earth Yang Spirit Water slowly receded, the ground was covered with countless Earth Yang Stone Galls. Among the scattered Earth Yang Stones, there were even many familiar luminous crystals.

(End of this chapter)