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

Chapter 160 The Seed of the Dao Soars, Fortune Lies in Peril (It's the last day of the month, so I'll post 6,000 words)

The East-West Chamber of Commerce earns money, while Su Ji desires both financial resources and the power of faith from his followers.

The chain restaurants in Wusheng's hometown earn their profits from incense offerings and prayers. Selling them to temples like the City God would be too unprofitable, so Su Ji directly converts them into computing power reserves.

This means that even if Su Ji does not need to pay Zhang Xiaolian's divine power within a year, he still needs to pay salaries to the Earth God Temple and Little Zhang Gong.

Not to mention, in order to cultivate the body of a divine beast, Su Ji needs to constantly purchase spiritual materials and medicines such as Yin-Yang spiritual essence, and in order to cultivate the Golden Toad clone, he needs to purchase various metals and metal-attribute spiritual materials...

For the time being, Su Ji cannot yet condense divine power using the faith of the God of Wealth's followers. To obtain sufficient divine power, he can only rely on taking advantage of the opening of the City God's Spirit Realm in various places during the Ghost Festival.

The auction on the evening of July 22nd had been scheduled long ago, but even if Su Ji could help someone else with the auction, the biggest profit would probably still come from the top-grade spiritual medicine, the fleshy Ganoderma.

Su Ji also sent his cultivators into the Bright Moon Spirit Realm. Qian Feng and the others collected resources according to the locations of the treasure lands that Su Ji had scouted beforehand, and they were able to obtain considerable gains.

Meanwhile, Su Ji also made a special trip to the City God Temple in the Baiyan Mountains to explore the Qingyue Spirit Realm, but it was delayed for several hours because of business.

Not long after, Su Ji went to the White Rock Mountains again. This time, although he was not accompanied by the mountain gods and spirits, no ghosts or gods dared to stop him.

Even when Su Ji encountered the gloomy-faced spirit general of the mountain god temple on the road, the other party tried to smile and nod, and then made a gesture of invitation.

It should be noted that when the Earth God was chasing the Black Tiger Demon, it was this Night Wanderer of the Mountain God Temple who came to his aid in the White Rock Mountains. After his plea for mercy from the Earth God was ignored, he began to threaten the Earth God.

Su Ji had a very deep memory of the spirit general who roamed the mountain god temple at night, and he made up his mind not to enter the Baiyan Mountain Range easily, in order to prevent the spirit general from taking advantage of the opportunity to capture him.

Later, during the City God Temple Fair in Jinfeng County, Su Ji suppressed the Firebird Yan Chong, which subsequently led to retaliation from a group of demons and ghosts in the Baiyan Mountains. At that time, Su Ji suspected that the Night Wandering Spirit General of the Mountain God Temple might be behind it.

Unfortunately, neither the Red Ape Demon, the Mountain Demon, nor the Firebird Flame Rush were a match for Su Ji under the Death Tornado.

Now that Su Ji has met the Night Wanderer of the Mountain God Temple again, the gap between their identities has long since disappeared. In fact, because Su Ji has mastered the light of the sun, the Night Wanderer of the Mountain God Temple can only greet him with a forced smile.

The two passed each other by, and Su Ji remained calm.

However, Su Ji did not hold a grudge against the night-roaming spirit general of the mountain god temple. Whether it was the Black Tiger Demon Ghost Case or the Monkey Spirit Ghost King Case, the land spirit had not suffered any losses, and he had even gained a lot of benefits.

First, there's the Dream Spirit Jade, which allows entry into dreams; then, the top-grade spiritual medicine Rehmannia Root and the spiritual material Blazing Crystal. The White Rock Mountain God Temple didn't let them down in the Chrysanthemum Mountain Demon incident, and now they've even established a cooperative relationship with the Mountain God Spirit Official…

"Sure enough, when one's status and position are high enough, even enemies can turn hostility into friendship, and there is no longer any malice around..."

When a person is insignificant, they can be used as a sacrifice, become the object of humiliation, and may unknowingly offend many people.

When a person becomes powerful, they may not have friends everywhere, but at least some problems that would otherwise be troublesome can be solved without them having to say a word, as someone will help them resolve them.

Of course, Su Ji was very principled. After refusing the mountain god's help in purchasing the spirit realm token, he entered the Qingyue Spirit Realm of the mountain god's temple alone.

Months ago, Su Ji learned the secrets of the Xuan Technique [Tong You Xuan Men] and used it to explore nearby Yin-attribute treasure lands. Qian Feng has benefited from it both in the past and now.

Su Ji left Jinfeng County to avoid suspicion, but he didn't need to avoid Baiyan Mountain Range. After entering the Qingyue Spirit Realm of the Mountain God Temple, he began a large-scale sweep.

With the help of the mechanical spirit beast, Su Ji unearthed a treasure containing no less than ten thousand strands of divine power in just three hours. He then stopped treasure hunting and went to a strange place in the Azure Moon Spirit Realm to cultivate.

Currently, Su Ji's Yin-Yang Mystic Arts are all at the mid-grade level, and he has also collected some high-grade Mystic Fragments. He has explored all of Mingyue Spiritual Realm in Jinfeng County except for the underground palace. This time, he is going to cultivate properly in the Qingyue Spiritual Realm of the Mountain God Temple.

It wasn't until the token began to tremble that Su Jifang awoke from his cultivation of the profound mysteries of Yin through [Resonance]. This time, his gains were quite good; he had collected two high-level mystical fragments of [Tongyou Xuanmen] and one high-level mystical fragment of [Yinguang Yingdun].

Yan Tianchou exclaimed excitedly, "There are a total of twenty-four advanced and mysterious fragments of the [Tongyou Xuanmen], and we have now collected twenty-one of them. It is highly likely that it will become the first high-grade Xuan technique!"
"There are a total of twenty-one advanced and profound fragments of the [Shadow Escape] technique, and we have now collected sixteen of them. It may even become the first high-grade profound technique!"

Although Su Ji has not yet advanced to the high-level cultivation of the Cave Profound Realm, it does not affect his ability to comprehend the mysteries of heaven and earth and cultivate profound arts. Whether it is the [Penetrating the Netherworld Profound Gate] or the [Shadow Escape of Yin Light], once Su Ji has mastered a high-grade profound art, he will possess a touch of invincible brilliance.

"Once the [Tongyou Xuanmen] is cultivated to the superior level, it can open a portal at any time and place, which is expected to reach a depth of more than ten feet or a mile or two underground. Ordinary immortals would probably find it difficult to catch up."

"Once the [Shadow Escape] technique is cultivated to the superior level, it should be able to reach a distance of seven or eight zhang in an instant, making it virtually invincible in terms of dodging..."

Of course, in the Azure Moon Spirit Realm of the Mountain God Temple, a mid-grade mystic technique is sufficient.

In order not to offend the gods of the mountain god temple, Su Ji deliberately placed some of the treasures inside the Five Aperture Heart Stone, thus secretly deceiving the mountain god temple's detection technique.

However, even with Su Ji's low profile, he still managed to rank first on the Human Ranking and second on the Treasure Ranking with a treasure worth 1,100 strands of divine power.

Su Ji had no intention of wasting time in the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm of the Mountain God Temple, so he turned around and left the temple, unaware that his name had been targeted.

Firebird Yan Chong exclaimed in surprise, "Last night we thought that Jin Feng County Supervisor Ri Ling was about to leave, but we never expected that he would still come!"

Just as Yan Chong had predicted, although he was defeated by Su Ji, he raised his head because Su Ji was getting stronger, and even that battle became a topic for Yan Chong to brag about.

"He has only been in the Azure Moon Spirit Realm for such a short time, yet the value of the treasures he has collected surpasses mine. Which sect's Dao seed does this person belong to?"

The speaker was none other than Long Teng, the leader of the young cultivators from the Longshan Sect, who was ranked second on the Human Ranking and first on the Treasure Ranking.

After many days of seclusion, Long Teng finally reached the level of a Grand Master. This time, he was not only going to participate in the opening of the Zhongyuan Festival spiritual realm at the Mountain God Temple, but also to visit the ancient ruins at the foot of Jushan Mountain.

The accompanying Xuanmen cultivator laughed heartily: "Junior nephew, this boy is probably just lucky to have obtained so many treasures. If he hadn't come during the day, he wouldn't even have had the chance to compare with you!"

Su Jiruo only came to search for treasure at night. Even if she was lucky, how could she compare to Long Teng, who entered the Azure Moon Spirit Realm and the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm at the same time?

As expected, in the afternoon, Long Teng, who emerged from the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm, refreshed the Human Ranking, becoming the number one on both the Human Ranking and the Treasure Ranking.

Many cultivators in the White Rock Mountains were shocked and began to discuss it. Before long, there were several versions of Long Teng's identity.

Some say that Long Teng always carries a bird with him, which seems to be a magical bird capable of finding treasures.

Some say that Long Teng is holding a compass, suggesting he has the ability to find treasures by relying on the terrain.

Some say that Long Teng is a Xuanmen Daoist seed of the Longshan Sect, who has mastered a Xuan technique that can sense treasures, which is why he has obtained so many treasures.

Su Ji was unaware of all this, because by the time he had eaten and drunk his fill and leisurely arrived at the White Rock Mountains, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and most cultivators had already entered the Spirit Realm.

This time, Su Ji continued his treasure hunt for three hours and only found a treasure with nearly ten thousand strands of divine power. However, he had nothing to be disappointed about and turned to comprehend the mysteries of Yin and Yang.

Su Ji explored all the wondrous places of the Azure Moon Spirit Realm, but only managed to comprehend one high-level profound fragment of the [Tongyou Xuanmen] and one high-level profound fragment of the [Yinguang Yingdun].

Therefore, Su Ji could only focus his attention on the depths of the strange land, but there was not enough time today, so he would have to come back tomorrow night.

This time, Su Ji continued to rise high and fell, ignoring the rankings on both lists.

Firebird Yanchong was getting anxious. Its reputation was tied to Su Ji. If Su Ji was overshadowed by Long Teng of the Dragon Mountain Sect, its boasting would lose its appeal.

As Yan Chong had hoped, Su Ji indeed entered the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm today and arrived at one of its wondrous places.

However, Su Ji went to Jinfeng County yesterday to invite Xiao Zhanggong to serve as the head manager of the Wusheng Hometown Chain Restaurant. He also made a special trip to the City God to inform him, which is why he did not come to the Chiri Spirit Realm of the Mountain God Temple to comprehend its mysteries.

Su Ji didn't go far today either; he simply absorbed the Yin-Yang fusion energy of Dawn and then returned.

"The Guardian Spirit General—"

Yan Chong ran over excitedly, seemingly having rediscovered the feeling of being the demon overseer back then.

"Since the Sun Guardian Spirit is visiting the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm for the first time, shall I give him an introduction?"

Due to the different Yin and Yang attributes, the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm will indeed be different, with at least several dangerous places that are visible to the naked eye.

Su Ji was happy to find a local guide, as it would save some time: "Fellow Daoist Yan Chong, then you can lead the way!"

And so, under the watchful eyes of all the cultivators, Yan Chong flew ahead like a proud bird, leading the Sun-Watching Spirit General Golden Toad to wander around the wondrous land of the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm.

Along the way, Yan Chong didn't forget to point and tell Su Ji about the origins of many cultivators.

"This person is a human genius from the White Rock Mountains; at only fifteen years old, he has already reached the Cave Profound Mage realm..."

"This is a member of the Tiger King's clan, and he has already reached the cultivation level of a Grandmaster of the Cave Profound Realm..."

"That is Long Teng from the Longshan Sect. I've heard that he's very likely the next generation's Xuanmen Dao Seed of the Longshan Sect!"

Upon hearing the words "Mysterious Dao Seed," Su Ji couldn't help but feel curious. Both Mo Linglong and Zhang Xiaolian possessed the Mysterious Immortal Dao Fruit, but he had never seen a Mysterious Dao Seed of a lower level. The other party seemed to sense Su Ji's gaze and looked up at him. The moment their eyes met, a mysterious phenomenon occurred.

Suddenly, a bluish-brown vine rose from Long Teng's body, soaring straight into the sky like a green dragon without needing to rely on anything else.

Suddenly, ripples appeared on Su Ji's body, distorting not only space but also blurring the surrounding scenery.

"【Yi Wood】A Dao Fruit of the first type, indeed a Dao Seed of the Mysterious Sect!"

"A mirage? Wasn't it said that the Sun-Watching Spirit could collect sunlight? Could it be the Dao of Space!"

Both sides sensed something and had their own thoughts. After nodding to each other, they both looked away.

Since Su Ji met Mo Linglong, he has gained a deeper understanding of the various Dao Fruits in the cultivation world, and has learned about at least the twenty-five Dao Fruits belonging to the Five Elements.

The category of wood includes five types: Jia wood, spiritual wood, living wood, rotten wood, and Yi wood. Among them, Yi wood is the yin type of wood.

Based on this, it seems that Long Teng came here not for cultivation, but to find treasures.

However, even though Su Ji was focused on cultivation, he also used the Heavenly Calculation Scroll to explore his surroundings and quickly collected a number of treasures.

Su Ji left the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm ahead of time so that he could go home and have a good meal.

Not long after, Long Teng also left the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm, only to find that although the Sun-Monitoring Spirit General Golden Toad was only second on the Human Ranking, its growth rate was more than 20% higher than his.

Immediately, Long Teng felt a sense of crisis.

If Su Ji can find treasures of this caliber again, he might be able to surpass Long Teng, a Xuanmen Dao seed of the Longshan Sect, on both lists for seven consecutive days.

The high-ranking Xuanmen cultivator standing guard nearby also noticed this. This time, instead of laughing out loud, he pondered and said, "I've heard that the demon of the Firebird Clan is very close to the magistrate of Jinfeng County, Ri Ling. Perhaps they've made a secret deal..."

Treasures don't belong to whoever gets them. Some cultivators, in order to get on the list, will put all the treasures collected by an entire team into one person's possession.

Long Teng shook his head and said, "That firebird named Yan Chong also made a ranking... It seems that this spirit general today is indeed quite capable!"

Therefore, Long Teng immediately held his breath and rushed into the Mountain God Temple's Azure Moon Spirit Realm after dinner, determined to firmly defend his title as number one on both lists.

Su Ji was completely unaware of this. That night, he spent three hours searching for treasure before going to cultivate.

This time, Su Ji casually took some treasures to deal with the inspection. Although he was still second on the Human Ranking, he was getting closer and closer to Long Teng, who was first on the Human Ranking.

Six days passed in this way, and the total number of treasures that Su Ji casually took out actually surpassed Long Teng's, making him the number one on the Human Ranking.

As for the top spot on the treasure list, it was also occupied by a member of the Tiger King's clan with a blazing crystal of standard size or larger, leaving Long Teng as the second-ranked member on both lists.

With only one day and one night left before the end of the Spirit Realm, Long Teng, who had always been second to none, finally started to get anxious.

As soon as the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm opened, Long Teng flew towards his target, and then took a risk and arrived at a dangerous place in the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm.

This dangerous place is a crimson cave that spews out yang fire. Low-grade and even mid-grade spiritual materials often emerge from it. Every day at noon, cultivators guard the cave, ready to snatch up any treasures they find.

It was morning, and there were no cultivators at the cave entrance. After fiddling with the compass for a while, Long Teng jumped down after thirty-six breaths and entered the Crimson Yanghuo Mountain Cave.

Long Teng didn't land directly at the bottom of the crimson cave. Instead, he used his compass to advance by stepping forward. Even so, he was still struck twice by the crimson yang fire.

"Phew—" Although Long Teng's shoulder and calf were injured, he managed to reach the second level of the crimson cave.

However, Long Teng suddenly froze on the spot. It wasn't that the place was empty and there were no treasures, but a line of footprints not far away shocked him.

Because the red cave occasionally spewed out yang fire, only a recessed section of the path had footprints left behind. After careful examination, Long Teng determined that these were left recently, at most within two days.

"If someone came here to search for treasure, why isn't that person listed on the Human Ranking or the Treasure Ranking? Could it be that they failed after being pushed out of the cave?"

Filled with great doubt, Long Teng continued down to the third level. The empty environment only made him more puzzled. While resisting the raging Yang Fire, he sensed ahead and finally discovered something was wrong.

The seemingly empty ground, though damaged by the impact of the Yang Fire, still bears some marks.

Long Teng wasn't sure whether it was the work of the mountain god temple six days ago or the recent cave-dwelling cultivator; he only knew that this adventure was going to end in failure.

As expected, even though Long Teng split up to search for treasures, he was still some distance from the Golden Toad, the top-ranked guardian spirit general of the Mountain God Temple.

Long Teng could only sigh helplessly. After seeing Su Ji, he wanted to ask him about it, but then he changed his mind.

In the end, Long Teng left the Mountain God Temple with the second place on both lists, and together with two sect protectors, he led his three junior brothers and sisters toward Chrysanthemum Mountain.

Meanwhile, Su Ji quietly made a fortune. He needed to spend the first few days comprehending the mysteries, but the next two days he indulged in treasure hunting. He not only raided the crimson cave in the Crimson Sun Spirit Realm, but also took a pool of Yin Spirit Liquid and Moon Crystal from the strange land beneath the Azure Moon Spirit Realm.

In total, Su Ji ranked first on the list of human beings with 12,000 strands of divine power, but in reality, he gained a treasure worth 110,000 strands of divine power.

In the spiritual realm of Jinfeng County, Qian Feng, Zhu Nu, Zhu Nanshan and others lived up to expectations and obtained treasures containing more than 50,000 strands of divine power. Even if Su Ji could only take 70%, that was still close to 40,000 strands of divine power.

At the auction, excluding the top-grade spiritual herb, the flesh-shaped Ganoderma lucidum, Su Ji still managed to acquire over 20,000 strands of divine power through proxy bidding...

Su Ji was delighted by this, and Yan Tianchou was also very excited, saying, "The dangerous places in the Spirit Realm are like death grounds for others, but for us they are only a little dangerous."

"First, there was the death tornado in the Great Sun Spirit Realm of Jinfeng County, and then the red cave in the Mountain God Temple of the White Rock Mountains... If I have the chance in the future, I will definitely participate in all the nearby spirit realms!"

Before each opening of the Spirit Realm, the pantheon sends out gods to plunder it first, which means that the subsequent gains will only become less and less.

All dangerous places are difficult for even exploring cultivators to enter, and even the gods are helpless, which gives Su Ji an opportunity.

Even though Mo Linglong managed to wipe out a wave of enemies in the Great Sun Spirit Realm's Death Tornado, Su Ji still made a fortune from the subsequent Earth Yang Reservoir. The same was true for the Crimson Cave, and the same could be said for other dangerous places in the Spirit Realm.

Even if you can only harvest once, it's still a tremendous opportunity.

"The treasures used in the formation that sealed the Earthly Yang Serpent Lord were worth hundreds of thousands of strands of divine power, so these treasures are nothing compared to that..." After reflecting on himself, Su Ji calmed down.

Subsequently, Su Ji and Yan Tianchou began to improve their cultivation plan. With a treasure worth nearly 200,000 strands of divine power, their development plan could be accelerated!
It should be understood that cultivation can not only refine the yin and yang energies between heaven and earth, but also improve one's cultivation level through elixirs, spiritual materials and other treasures. However, Su Ji wanted to focus his resources on the path of cultivation, so he did not implement it.

Now that Su Ji had such a large amount of resources, he directly used the mid-grade Earth Yang Stone and the mid-grade Earth Yin Stone for cultivation.

The Yin and Yang energies within these two spiritual materials are not only of extremely high quality, but also contain very little residual soul power from the world, making them much faster to refine than the Yin and Yang energies of heaven and earth.

Su Ji even risked taking out top-grade Yang Earth Stone and top-grade Yin Earth Stone, and with the help of Yan Tian Chou, began to comprehend the mysteries of Yin and Yang in harmony.

However, just a few days later, a shocking piece of news suddenly came from the ancient ruins at the foot of Jushan Mountain.

Since the spirits of Jiuxiang County and Baiyan Mountain borrowed the Blazing Crystal Treasure from Su Ji, the exploration of the ancient ruins has accelerated considerably.

Just as the spirit of Jiuxiang County had predicted, the evil spirit itself is of the yin attribute and has a strong fear of the aura of the sun and the sky.

Even though several near-immortal evil spirits tried to gather all the evil spirits to besiege them, the sunlight opened a gap in their path, and even killed one of the top-tier evil spirits.

As the evil spirits scattered, the gods began to explore the interior of the ancient ruins, discovering not only traces left by the Insect Queen and the Eyeless Demon Lord, but also a dilapidated Earth-level secret realm.

Only then did the world realize the truth.

In ancient times, there was a mysterious sect here called the Golden Cave Sect. Unfortunately, it became the first victim of the Undying Demon Lord. Apart from the disappearance of the Earth-level secret realm, all the other cultivators of the sect were devoured by the Undying Demon Lord.

Unexpectedly, the Golden Cave Sect's Earth-level secret realm, which even the Undying Demon Lord couldn't find, was shattered under the suppression of the White Rock Mountains. It's likely that even the Golden Cave Sect disciples who hid inside were killed in that instant.

Today, the spiritual energy within the Golden Cave Sect's earth-level secret realm may not be as abundant as it once was, but it certainly contains treasures left over from ancient times, far more precious than so-called large-scale water vein spiritual realms.

For a time, not only the cultivators of Jiuxiang County and Baiyan Mountain Range, but even the cultivators of Jinfeng County, including the Taibai Dragon Clan, were excited.

Even the City God system and the state shrine of Yuzhou issued orders to send troops to guard the area around Jushan again to prevent the emergence of ancient demons in the Jinku Sect's earth-level secret realm. They were even to follow the gods of Jiuxiang County to explore the dilapidated earth-level secret realm.

Zhang Gong, the local earth god who joined the "immortal cultivation class" at the earth god temple, didn't escape, nor did Zhao Gong, who provoked powerful figures from the divine lineage in the south of the city...

Su Ji's position as the Sun Guardian General was merely a nominal one, and no one could actually mobilize him. However, this did not prevent some people from wanting to explore the dilapidated Earth-level secret realm with Su Ji.

(End of this chapter)