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

Chapter 122 Meridian Transformation, Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit

Although it was still dark, it was already March 7th.

On the way back to the Earth God Temple, Su Ji told the Earth God the secret method of cultivating the Dantian using the "Dongxuan Tongzhen" technique.

"For the vast majority of Dongxuan cultivators who practice the Minor Yin-Yang Method, the secret method of cultivating the Dantian in the [Dongxuan Tongzhen] is nothing short of a method to defy fate!" The more the Earth God learned, the more shocked he became.

Cultivation requires talent and aptitude. The emergence of the secret method of cultivating the living dantian has given many people who lack the aptitude for cultivation the opportunity to cultivate a true spirit.

The most basic level of the living dantian requires a treasure that consumes three thousand strands of divine power. Although an ordinary Dongxuan mage might have to go bankrupt to collect it, he would never feel it was not worth it.

Then, the Earth God couldn't help but remind her, "Zhang Xiaolian cultivated the profound mysteries of her past life using the [Dong Shen Tong Xuan] technique, which should be a yin-type profound skill. How can she cultivate a living dantian using the [Dong Xuan Tong Zhen] secret method?"

The active dantian is driven by the "root method" of the "Minor Yin-Yang Method" to circulate the energy throughout the body, and Zhang Xiaolian indeed cannot cultivate using this method.

Su Ji, however, had already planned ahead: "Ghost cultivators use this secret method to cultivate their living dantian in order to compensate for the lack of a physical body..."

“Zhang Xiaolian has a physical body. She only needs to refine the Yin Mica and Yang Mica into her dantian. After that, she only needs to use the Yin and Yang spiritual essences to build a foundation for her cultivation. Even if it is not perfect, it will be enough to surpass countless cultivators.”

This was Su Ji's original perfect foundation-building plan. It could be used by the Golden Toad's body, and it could also be used by Zhang Xiaolian. If Mo Linglong's physical body was successfully resurrected, it could also be tried.

Naturally, the consumption of perfect foundation building is much greater than that of activating the dantian. Just one portion of earth yin spiritual essence and one portion of earth yang spiritual essence are worth seven thousand two hundred strands of divine power...

For cultivators who have just embarked on the path of cultivation, these treasures are simply an astronomical figure.

"Three thousand plus seven thousand two hundred, the consumption of a perfect Foundation Establishment reaches tens of thousands of strands of divine power!" The Earth God was so shocked that he was almost numb.

Although the Earth God used most of his assets for cultivation, he was still wealthier than some ordinary high-level cultivators.

First, there's the divine stipend, which now brings in nearly two thousand strands of divine power each year... In addition to the rewards from the pantheon, I've received approximately thirty thousand strands of divine power since becoming a deity.

Secondly, before the Earth God was promoted to a high-level cultivator, he was still able to enter the City God's Spirit Realm to search for treasures, and all the treasures together contained more than 20,000 strands of divine power.

Finally, there was the spoils from punishing evil and eliminating wickedness. The gods not only didn't want worldly things, but also various treasures. Over the years, the spoils were worth more than ten thousand strands of divine power.

However, the Earth God was quite talented in the Dao of Cave Mystery, and his cultivation speed was fast, but he also consumed a lot of resources. If it weren't for the fruitful results of the ghost case, he really wouldn't have been willing to use three thousand strands of divine power to invite the Thunder God...

The most awkward thing is that after the Earth God advanced to the Cave Profound Realm, his Heavenly Soul and Spirit could no longer enter the Spirit Realm to search for treasures.

Although the local earth god of Yemo Village is a Ghost King, he can still use his Heavenly Soul Spirit, which is at the level of a Cave Profound Mage, to search for treasures.
This local deity has very poor aptitude for cultivation. His cultivation level in the Cave Truth Path is only that of a Ghost Soldier. Even if he were to swallow his pride and enter the Spirit Realm, he would hardly gain anything.

As a result, the local deity can only live off his salary now. If Su Ji hadn't gifted him the Yin-Yang Mica, he might have had to sell everything he owned to cultivate his living dantian.

Su Ji slowly shook his head and said, "Zhang Xiaolian is a human, so perhaps she only needs one portion of Yin-Yang spiritual essence. But my Golden Toad body has too poor a foundation, so one portion of Yin-Yang spiritual essence may not be enough."

Su Ji's secret method of activating the dantian was successfully tested on Mo Linglong.

Now, Su Ji is very confident in achieving perfect foundation building, and the only experimental subject he can test is himself.

When they arrived at the Zhang family's courtyard, it was still dark. After thanking the local earth spirit soldier who was about to take over, Su Ji went into the house with the earth spirit.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian had just woken up, still half asleep, when her Heavenly Soul Sensing immediately reacted: "Lord Golden Toad... greets the Earth God!"

Zhang Xiaolian used her spiritual sense to transmit her voice, not afraid of waking her sleeping mother, Zhang Shi.

Su Ji and the local earth god waited in the main room for a while, and then Zhang Xiaolian got dressed and got up.

Ghost cultivators can only rely on their spiritual senses to see their surroundings; they cannot see what lies behind objects.
A cultivator at the Cave Profound Realm can sense their surroundings, but they will be disturbed when they are in crowded places. In addition, their homes are protected by deities, so they may be detected by the deities as soon as they gather their consciousness to sense their surroundings...

Su Ji and the Earth God are both deities in the Earth God Temple, but they still deliberately stay in the main room, and it is impossible for them to pry into other people's privacy.

When Zhang Xiaolian tiptoed into the main room, Su Ji had already returned to his physical body. Clusters of rare treasures flew out from the Five Aperture Heart Stone and floated in the air.

"Perfect foundation building..."

As Su Ji explained, Zhang Xiaolian looked surprised. After Su Ji introduced the name and effects of the treasure, she was even more shocked and speechless.

Su Ji simply smiled and said, "Let me put it into practice first, and then it will be your turn!"

From the moment Su Ji began fabricating history for Zhang Xiaolian, he secretly promised to repay her. Previously, it was to solidify Zhang Xiaolian's Dao heart, and now it was to pave the way for her cultivation.

As for the value of the resources consumed, that's even less of a concern.

Not to mention the pile of magical copper coins in Zhang Xiaolian's real dream, even the two materialized golden toads are miraculous enough. Su Ji is also planning to create four more Heavenly Light Crystals based on his previous experience in creating Heavenly Light Crystals!

Immediately, Su Ji began his cultivation, the first step being to activate his dantian.

The physical body is quite different from the soul. Fortunately, Su Ji had a contingency plan provided by Yan Tianchou and made improvements little by little.

Ultimately, Su Ji possessed a nested lower dantian system.

The lower dantian, located three inches below the navel, is the place where essence is stored.

The body of the golden toad is naturally different, but it can still be determined based on the location of its internal organs.

Su Ji constructed two layers of living dantian outside the lower dantian: one layer to protect the lower dantian and the other layer to isolate the yin and yang spiritual essence.

The inner layer, driven by the circulation of the "Minor Yin-Yang Method," allows Su Ji to operate automatically even without thought.

The outer layer was handed over to Yantianchou.

Currently, Yan Tianchou has two clones. In order to cultivate his physical body in the future, he plans to consume three thousand units of computing power to create another one, which will be used specifically for cultivation.

Recently, Su Ji not only became the top on both lists, but is also planning a ghost market auction. His popularity for wish power remains high, with about two thousand wish power coming in every day. Even after using up another three thousand, he still has more than seven hundred units of computing power left.

Furthermore, if Su Ji's Golden Toad body encounters danger in the future, Yan Tianchou's third avatar can directly take over the physical body to deal with it.

With the construction of the living dantian complete, the next step is to use the Yin-Yang spiritual essence as the major Yin-Yang to drive the minor Yin-Yang within the body.

Yan Tianchou reminded him, "While the lower dantian is not leaking, it is connected to the body's meridians. To achieve perfect foundation building, it may be necessary to modify all the meridians in the body..."

Su Ji understood.

It takes several hours to digest a meal, let alone achieve perfect foundation building.

Regarding the physical body, Su Ji knew he couldn't rush things and planned to proceed gradually. As strands of Yin and Yang spiritual energy flowed into the space between the two layers of his living dantian, the Yin and Yang spiritual energy began to transform under the influence of Su Ji's "Minor Yin-Yang Method," forming unique, wispy strands.

The Yin-Yang spiritual essence is inherently gentle, and it travels along the meridians towards the lower dantian, endowing the places it passes through with a unique vitality.

Yan Tianchou said excitedly, "The transformation of Yin and Yang has endowed the flesh and blood with life force as if it were within the innate womb. The lower dantian has begun to grow slowly, and the nearby meridians have become both tough and clear..."

Su Ji felt relieved and focused all his attention on his lower dantian.

Not long after, Su Ji suddenly felt a strange sensation surging within his body, like the beating of a heart, or like the rhythm of life.

Yan Tianchou immediately reported the reason: "The Yin-Yang spiritual essence has reached the location of the Sparrow Yin Soul along the meridians. With the continuous infusion of spiritual energy, the Sparrow Yin Soul has begun to awaken!"

All living beings possess seven souls, which are the most important crystallization of earth soul cultivation in the martial arts power god lineage. Possessing one soul spirit gives one the potential to become a bloodline martial general, while possessing two soul spirits gives one the potential to become a bloodline martial king...

Not long after Su Jigang entered the mid-stage of the Bloodline Demon Soldier realm, he unexpectedly had another opportunity to awaken his Soul Spirit.

This is due to the Yin-Yang spiritual essence, the wondrous resonance factors brought from Zhang Xiaolian's real dream through the fabricated history, and even Su Ji's recent daily consumption of spiritual food.

Su Ji became more cautious: "Yan Tianchou, let your clone observe the condition of my lower dantian, while your main body helps me awaken my soul spirit!"

While awakening one's spirit is extremely rare, it is not without the possibility of failure.

Last time, Su Ji first devoured the non-poisonous spirit of the catfish demon, then awakened his bloodline memories, and then continuously consumed a lot of mid-grade spiritual medicines before finally succeeding in obtaining his own non-poisonous spirit.

Since the Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit is not in the bloodline memory and has not devoured other demonic beast Sparrow Yin Soul Spirits to "replenish its own form," Su Ji still sees some risks in this regard.

Yan Tianchou assured him, "The Yin-Yang Spirit Essence itself is a powerful medicine, far more potent than the Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit Medicine that consumes other demonic beasts. All that's needed now is to provide sufficient vital energy!"

The vital energy of life exists within flesh and blood, as well as within tangible spiritual medicines.

"Awakening the Soul Spirit!" Zhang Xiaolian was startled, then her expression immediately showed understanding.

The ancient golden toad was originally a deity under the command of the Soul Spirit Emperor. Even though it lost all its cultivation due to the passage of time, it can now return to its peak from a small golden toad form.

Nowadays, it is quite unexpected for a Soul Spirit to awaken during the perfect Foundation Establishment stage, but if it happened to the ancient Golden Toad, then there would be no problem.

"I'll go prepare the spiritual herbs right away!" There was no time to cook the spiritual food, so Zhang Xiaolian could only slice and grind the spiritual herbs on the spot.

Last time, the golden toad ate a mid-grade spiritual medicine, a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, and a chicken blood vine.

Now, the family not only has low-grade spiritual medicines bought from the ghost market, but also high-grade spiritual medicines such as Rehmannia glutinosa root, which was a compensation from the mountain god temple.

Zhang Xiaolian was in charge of slicing the herbs, while the local earth god personally used his profound cultivation to move the stone pestle and grind them... Su Ji only needed to slightly open his mouth to receive the medicinal herbs.

To prevent the awakening of the Sparrow Yin Soul from failing, Su Ji channeled strands of Yin-Yang spiritual energy into the Sparrow Yin Soul, first modifying the meridians near it.

As is reasonable, the Sparrow Yin Spirit prefers the Earth Yang Spirit Essence, which accounts for about 60% of the Yin and Yang Spirit Essence.

As dawn broke, Su Ji's Sparrow Yin Spirit gradually took shape... Judging from Su Ji's spiritual perception, it resembled both a bird and a fish.

"Phew—" Su Ji immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately, Su Ji thought of the Wu family's walking corpses, who had long since died.

When the Wu family's walking corpses caused chaos, they displayed the abilities of the Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit and the Devouring Thief Soul Spirit, but in the end, they were all shattered by the lightning of the Thunder Lord's clone.

Even now, Su Ji doesn't feel any regret... He can still bring himself to eat the soul of a demon beast, but the soul of a walking corpse should just be shattered!
At this moment, Yan Tianchou began to report the situation: "The Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit has been fully formed, not only laying the foundation for a Bloodline Demon King, but also greatly enhancing its reproductive ability, which greatly improves the feasibility of the Bloodline Godhood Plan..."

To become a god through bloodline means to produce a sufficient number of offspring.

Like the most extravagant ghost in Wusheng's hometown, because he has so many descendants, he can't possibly enjoy all the incense offerings. If it weren't for the limitations of Yin and Yang lifespan, he could stay in Wusheng's hometown forever.

Similarly, if Su Ji were to have a bunch of offspring in his current form as a golden toad, the probability of those offspring awakening non-poisonous spirits and non-sparrow yin spirits would greatly increase...

"If you want to give birth, go ahead and have it—" Regardless of whether Yan Tianchou was joking or genuinely suggesting it, Su Ji had no such plans for the time being.

Not to mention the ongoing God of Wealth Project, the Great Sun Wonderland and Bright Moon Wonderland projects alone would be enough to feed him.

Yan Tianchou then composed himself and got to the point:

"Currently, the lower dantian has reached saturation, and less than 30% of the meridians throughout the body have been transformed, mainly concentrated in the lower dantian and the vicinity of the Sparrow Yin Soul Spirit..."

"From beginning to end, a total of 618 strands of Earth Yang spiritual essence and 382 strands of Earth Yin spiritual essence were consumed, perfectly conforming to the golden ratio."

"Based on this, the Yin-Yang spiritual energy consumed by Zhang Xiaolian should also be similar, except that the Yin spiritual energy is in the golden ratio compared to the Yang spiritual energy..."

One portion of spiritual essence is three hundred and sixty portions. Su Ji has a total of one thousand and eighty strands of earth yin spiritual essence and three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one strands of earth yang spiritual essence. Even if Zhang Xiaolian awakens the Sparrow Yin Soul, the spiritual essence should be enough.

Not to mention, Su Ji planned to rest for a bit before heading to the City God Temple again to exchange for enough Earth Yin Spiritual Essence.

Then came Zhang Xiaolian's cultivation.

With Su Ji's success as a precedent, Zhang Xiaolian had nothing to worry about.

Moreover, the Yin and Yang spiritual essences do not clash at all, and do not even need to be controlled by the "Minor Yin-Yang Method." They can naturally integrate into the body according to certain rules.

Su Ji had prepared for the fact that Zhang Xiaolian's lack of a living dantian would waste some of her yin-yang spiritual essence, but unexpectedly, Zhang Xiaolian made a suggestion.

"If I successfully construct a living dantian in my real dream, and then integrate it into my lower dantian like a spiritual artifact, wouldn't I be able to circulate my qi without the 'Minor Yin-Yang Method'?"

This inspiration comes from the old man Qianji in Qianbian Town, who plans to transform his daughter Mo Linglong into a state that is half flesh and blood and half spirit artifact in order to revive her.

Now, Zhang Xiaolian is actually planning to use it on herself.

Su Jin was able to create large-scale spiritual artifacts using his own "Sun and Moon Heavenly Light Vacuum Method" because its profound nature could be transformed into spiritual patterns that could be imprinted on the artifacts. He only needed to infuse it with magic power to activate the corresponding spiritual techniques using the spiritual patterns.

If the living dantian were to be crafted into a spiritual artifact based on the characteristics of Zhang Xiaolian's real dream, it would indeed be feasible.

However, while Yan Tianchou may have had this idea, Su Ji felt that the method was too risky.

(End of this chapter)