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

Chapter 131 The Flawless Golden Toad, Crimson Flames Soaring to the Sky

The daytime spirit general of the City God Temple was already a highly accomplished cultivator when the local earth god, Zhang Gong, was still a nighttime spirit soldier.

The fact that such a veteran day-roaming spirit general went missing while searching for water veins has alarmed many cultivators.

Immediately, all sorts of speculations emerged.

"The spirit generals of the City God Temple are supposed to come and investigate the water veins at night and patrol the area around Jinfeng County during the day. But now they are completely absent. Could it be that they have gotten lost in the water veins?"

As dawn broke, some cultivators believed that the Day Wandering Spirit had gotten lost and was delayed in the water veins for a while.

"The City God Temple's day-traveling spirit general is a veteran cultivator, how could he forget the time and get lost? I think he has found a clue and is continuing his investigation right now!"

If you can find the lair of the mysterious forces, you can earn a great merit even if you do nothing.

"It's not just about investigating clues. With the strength of the Day-Wandering Spirit General, if he were to encounter the lair of a strange force, he could even destroy it single-handedly. Such a great achievement might be claimed by the City God Temple's Day-Wandering Spirit General alone!"

The longer one cultivates, the more one can accumulate hidden strengths, even if one's cultivation level doesn't improve much. As a result, many people believe that the City God Temple's daily wandering spirit has the ability to destroy a strange force on its own.

If successful, it would be a tremendous achievement, potentially bringing in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of divine power resources.

However, these were merely unfounded speculations by other cultivators, but the deities of the City God Temple knew the seriousness of the matter.

The Shackled Spirit General of the City God Temple said solemnly, "If the Day Wandering Spirit General had discovered the lair of the strange forces, he would have left quietly and then joined forces with us, the gods of the City God Temple, to lay a trap. The fact that he has not returned for so long suggests that he has likely encountered trouble!"

The gods of the City God Temple have a tacit understanding, and the day-roaming spirit generals have a broad perspective and will not act rashly as the cultivators speculated.

The White Impermanence spirit, who was supposed to return to the City God Temple for his duties, turned back halfway, revealing a solemn expression:
"The strange force has at least one Minotaur Demon King and three pseudo-Demon Kings. If they are all servants of some being, they must be a formidable enemy. The Day-Wandering Spirit General may have already revealed his identity..."

Generally speaking, although a cultivator's strength is linked to their cultivation level, the most important factor is their combat power. Whether they are Ghost Kings or high-level cultivators, they are divided into six categories: slightly weak, average, passable, powerful, top-tier, and invincible.

Furthermore, factors such as mutual generation and restraint, favorable timing, geographical advantage, and human relationships also play a role. A cultivator who is reasonably strong on land may become powerful in the water, their home turf.

As a result, even though the Day Wandering Spirit General is considered powerful among the Ghost King's high-level cultivators, he could still be trapped by a cultivator of comparable strength taking advantage of his home field, or even suppressed by an already powerful being using various means...

The powerful cultivator Bai Wuchang, a high-ranking spirit general, was quite strong, while the Ghost King Shackled Spirit General was only of average strength, so neither dared to act rashly.

The City God Temple quickly received reinforcements. In addition to the City God Temple's spirit officials and generals leading many spirit soldiers, the Earthly Yang Serpent Lord, who was about to become the guardian spirit lord, also arrived.

Immediately, the confidence of many cultivators soared.

The Earthly Yang Serpent Lord is practically invincible within the Great Sun Spirit Realm. Even without the home advantage, he can still be considered a top-tier fighter in the outside world.

However, the water veins are too complex, and even with a large number of troops arriving, it will still take time to find the whereabouts of the Great Sun Spirit General.

In this way, the entire day passed by, and the ritual of the Sun Watcher and the Guardian Spirit had to be postponed.

Su Ji had no objections. As long as he had the plans for the Great Sun Immortal Realm and the Bright Moon Immortal Realm, the position of the Sun Watcher Spirit General was practically guaranteed.

Mo Linglong wasn't in a hurry to go back, because the refining of the Seven Aperture Heart Stone was not just about making it into a heart; it also involved refining a complete set of mechanisms and formations to control the body.

The next morning, Su Ji and Mo Linglong went to the Water Mansion together, but there was still no progress on the matter of the disappearance of the daytime spirit general at the City God Temple.

This aroused suspicion among many cultivators.

"The Day-Wandering Spirit has been missing for more than a day and a night, I'm afraid..."

It's no wonder the cultivators thought this way; the disappearance of the Day-Wandering Spirit General was simply too bizarre. "Could the Day-Wandering Spirit General have been swept away by the water veins and fallen into an unknown place?"

Although the water veins pose no danger to the high-level Ghost King, the possibility of abnormal situations cannot be ruled out.

Some cultivators looked surprised and said, "I heard that in ancient times, a world-class secret realm appeared in the abyss at the bottom of the lake. Could it be that the Day Wandering Spirit General stumbled upon a great opportunity and fell into a world-class secret realm?"

These words immediately caused a sensation.

It should be noted that every time the Five Elements Immortal Realm, a top-level secret realm in the Great Treasure Prefecture, opens, it attracts countless Ghost Kings and high-level cultivators, and even Qi Refiners who have achieved great success in their cultivation venture into it.

If a sub-heavenly realm truly emerges from the depths of the lake, it will be a shocking event for the entire Jade Continent.

Even the gods of the City God Temple were startled. They had already explored seventy or eighty percent of the water veins to the east, and had even begun to venture more than ten miles away, but they still had no trace of the Day Wandering Spirit General.

So how could a powerful Day Wandering Spirit General suddenly disappear? It seems that only a high-level secret realm can explain it clearly.

Immediately, many cultivators who were not originally interested in the water veins showed excitement, and three or four ghost kings and high-ranking cultivators immediately prepared to participate in the search for the water veins.

Su Ji felt good about this, at least the number of people participating in the search had increased.

Moreover, neither the search for the strange forces nor the matter of the Earth-level secret realm were things he could participate in, so he simply returned to the Earth God Temple with the Earth God.

This time, without Mo Linglong's escort, Su Ji had some time to expend 360 strands of divine power to fuse the two materialized golden toads into one, thus obtaining a mid-grade flawless spiritual artifact, the Golden Toad.

In the past, Su Ji might have been very happy, but now that he has the protection of the superior mechanical puppet "Swordsman", he hopes to obtain the superior-grade spiritual artifact Golden Toad!
Yan Tianchou analyzed, "At the speed at which Zhang Xiaolian materializes the Golden Toad, it will take at least forty more days to materialize a mid-grade flawless spiritual artifact Golden Toad."

"As for the high-grade spiritual artifact Golden Toad, it may be possible for Mo Linglong to manifest it after she advances to a high-level cultivation level. But before that, it might be possible to obtain a high-grade spiritual artifact Golden Toad through fusion..."

Su Ji also knew that he had not cultivated for long enough time and needed more time to develop further.

Just like the path of cultivation, even though all the meridians have been transformed, it will still take more than a month to complete the foundation building.

The cultivation of Yin-Yang Circulation by a Dongxuan Master requires half a year. For now, the focus should be on the mysteries of Yin and Yang, and cultivating a mid-grade mystical technique as quickly as possible.

After nightfall, Su Ji continued his cultivation as usual and prepared to find the City God to obtain a token that would allow him to enter the Bright Moon Spirit Realm, under the pretext of the Bright Moon Wonderland Project.

Unexpectedly, before Su Ji could even set off, exclamations of surprise came from outside.

"Oh no! The east is all red! Could it be that something is on fire?"

"This place is directly to the northeast of Jinfeng County. Could it be that the blind old Taoist priest's prediction has come true?"

"..."

Su Ji's celestial soul has no vision but only senses, and can only learn about the situation from his colleagues at the local temple.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian also heard the exclamation, picked up Su Ji's golden toad body and ran outside.

"The entire eastern sky is ablaze with red!" Zhang Xiaolian exclaimed in surprise.

Su Ji naturally saw these things as well, and his heart skipped a beat: "The crimson flames are soaring into the sky, something must have happened at the black gold mine in Caijia Village!"

(End of this chapter)