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

Chapter 70 Open and Honest, [Heaven and Earth in Harmony]

The gains from the mystical technique [Resonance with Heaven and Earth] were also delightful. If Su Ji didn't still have the duty to tour the two villages, he probably wouldn't want to leave Qili Lake.

Of course, Su Ji still needs to cultivate his Golden Toad body, and he can't leave that non-poisonous spirit for too long. It would be better to eat it quickly to put people at ease.

Fortunately, the heart of the catfish leader serves as a barrier between the inside and outside, so leaving it overnight won't be a problem.

On the way back, the local earth god couldn't help but sigh, "Back when I was serving as the Night Wanderer Spirit General of Jinfeng County, I had heard of the name of the Old Man of Thousand Machines in Thousand Changes Town... Sure enough, he left without a trace after accomplishing his task, leaving no merit or fame behind!"

Seven days ago, Su Ji created a golden toad clone using the gilded bronze bull's head, which silently hid by the river to guard it.

When the Monkey King sent the snake demon and the pig demon to attack, Su Ji already had a way to deal with it, so he did not need to mobilize the Golden Toad clone.

As a result, the Golden Toad's clone remained unknown to outsiders, and although the Earth God was qualified to know, he had no opportunity to do so.

At that time, Su Ji and the Earth God were cultivating in the deep abyss at the bottom of the lake. No one expected that the Golden Toad clone belonged to Su Ji.

However, the Earth God is not only a like-minded person of Su Ji, but also Su Ji's protector in the deep abyss at the bottom of the lake. It is time to reveal the matter of the Golden Toad's clone.

"Lord of the Land, to tell you the truth, it wasn't the mechanical sorcerer of Thousand Transformations Town who killed those catfish, but my golden toad clone, which I forged from the gilded bronze bull's head!"

The golden toad's clones will definitely be of great use in the future. Rather than letting the local earth god notice something amiss in the future, it's better to clarify the truth now.

"A gilded bronze bull's head...a golden toad clone?"

The Golden Toad had previously mentioned the gilded bronze bull's head. Given that the Golden Toad possesses the supernatural power of "Golden Toad Transformation," it is quite reasonable for it to create such a Golden Toad clone.

However, the local earth god was right beside Su Ji at the time, and neither saw Su Ji's soul leave nor felt anything unusual.

Immediately, the Earth God had two guesses in his mind.

First, Qian Feng was attached to the golden toad's clone.

Spiritual artifacts can be imbued with physical objects, and so can ghosts; mechanical sorcerers can use ghosts to create puppets.

Qian Feng possesses a water-spirit body, making him more likely to fit with physical objects, thus becoming a suspect of the local earth god.

Secondly, the golden toad used a wisp of its true spirit to create a life spirit clone.

In the eyes of the local deity, the golden toad is the reincarnation of a cultivator who has awakened his innate wisdom. In his previous life, he was either a ghost immortal or a true immortal. As long as he has a thought, he can use a wisp of his true spirit to refine a life spirit clone.

The local deity pondered for a moment before ruling out the first guess.

Qian Feng is skilled in swordsmanship, pursuing elegant yet sharp sword moves. However, the scars on the catfish were devoid of any beauty, and their style didn't quite match Qian Feng's...

So, the local earth god nodded thoughtfully and said, "The Golden Toad clone is too important. It's best if it can be hidden in the shadows. This time, let the mechanical sorcerers of Thousand Transformations Town do the work. It won't damage their reputation anyway..."

It's enough for the local deity to have a guess; asking for more details would be rather impolite.

"Phew—" Su Ji couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Not long ago, Su Ji attributed the origin of the Blazing Crystal to the Earth God. Even though the Earth God said it was alright, he still felt a little guilty.

Now, Su Ji has no desire to deceive the local deity in order to conceal the existence of the Heavenly Mandate; this outcome could be the best.

As night drew to a close, the Earth God led the Well God's spirit soldiers to Nanshan to familiarize themselves with the situation, while Su Ji returned to his physical body.

Yan Tianchou's voice also rang out at the right time: "Fish hearts are small, accounting for only 0.2% of their body weight. The catfish leader weighs about 200 jin, and its heart weighs about half a jin. This is already the result of the non-poisonous spirit enhancement..."

"After scanning, there were no parasites or foreign objects in the catfish leader's heart, so it can be swallowed directly."

Since Su Ji's Golden Toad form entered the bloodline cultivation, his body has grown larger, and the ability of the Devouring Thief Soul Spirit to purify his liver blood has greatly increased his endurance.

So Su Ji, in the form of a golden toad, opened his mouth wide and slowly swallowed the heart of the catfish leader.

Before long, the golden toad became a sphere, and its powerful digestive ability began to take effect. As strands of qi and blood merged into its flesh and blood, strands of invisible and intangible primordial qi circulated outwards.

Yan Tianchou began his analysis: "After digesting the heart of a Bloodline Demon General, one's Qi and Blood cultivation can be raised to the mid-stage of Demon Soldier, and one's Soul Spirit foundation will be improved to a certain extent..."

Combat strength is related to power, but it cannot be divided by power alone. Therefore, Qian Feng could be called a Great Ghost General even when he was a vengeful ghost with insufficient cultivation.

Cultivation level can be quantified, but it is related to the individual. Perhaps the blood and qi in the body of a bull demon in the early stage of demon soldier level can be comparable to the total blood and qi of a rat demon in the later stage of demon soldier level.

As a result, an individual's cultivation level can only be classified according to their own standards, emphasizing a sense of fluctuation in qi and blood.

Previously, Su Ji and Yan Tianchou had no idea how powerful the other demonic beasts were, and could only describe them by their strength.

Now that Su Ji has the White Turtle's Manual, he finally has some understanding of the cultivation levels of various demonic beasts, and can at least judge what level his own cultivation has reached.

"Mid-stage demon soldier... This is a good thing about little demons; their small size means they require less blood and energy."

"The disadvantage is that with less blood and qi, the difficulty of cultivating a soul spirit increases significantly. Fortunately, I have the wonderful 'factor' resonance from Zhang Xiaolian's real dream..."

Even with a shortcut, Su Ji clearly understood that bloodline cultivation was a long and arduous journey, after all, the Soul Spirit was only one aspect of bloodline cultivation. ...

Early in the morning, after waking up, Zhang went straight to the altar, only to find that the golden toad was nowhere to be found.

Looking out the door, smoke was already rising from the kitchen.

"Mom, I've already cooked porridge, we can eat it in a bit!" Zhang Xiaolian's voice came from the courtyard, full of energy.

These days, Zhang has been waking up at dawn without fail, so the task of making breakfast has fallen to Zhang Xiaolian.

Then, Zhang Xiaolian pointed to the cabinet with a smile. Although she didn't say anything, she said everything.

Sure enough, when Zhang opened the cabinet, she found the golden toad inside.

However, the toad, which was already a size larger, was now swollen as if it had been inflated, and it didn't even turn into metal; it just squatted there alive.

"What happened in my dream was indeed true..."

After serving as a night-roaming spirit soldier for more than ten days, the drawbacks of Zhang's service gradually became apparent, namely, that her memories of the night-roaming sessions were incomplete.

Fortunately, there is a way to solve this problem: cultivate a Heavenly Soul and Spirit using the Dongxuan Technique.

The Heavenly Soul and Spirit can enable people to "communicate with Heaven and Man". Initially, it will greatly enhance memory, but it will gradually decline like descending a mountain when the amount of memory exceeds the brain's capacity.

Similarly, Zhang Xiaolian will also encounter this problem, and it may even be exacerbated by the influence of real dreams.

As a result, the Earth God always avoided interfering with Zhang Xiaolian, and Su Ji only told stories in the real dream, rather than taking Zhang Xiaolian to play in the Yin-Yang realm.

Fortunately, there is a solution: cultivate one's soul and spirit using cultivation techniques.

However, Su Ji is a fake cultivator, and the White Turtle Trade Fair at Qili Lake is mostly frequented by demons and ghosts. To obtain cultivation techniques, one must wait for the City God Temple Fair to open.

Three days passed quickly, and the "traffic" surrounding the battle at the bottom of the lake began to subside, but it brought considerable benefits to Su Ji.

Even though many demons and ghosts regarded the Blazing Crystal Ray as a life-saving means bestowed by the Earth God, they still couldn't get around this day-roaming spirit soldier.

To date, the Qilihu incident has brought him a total of 843 computing power units.

Therefore, Yan Tianchou began to deduce: "It is expected that we will gain another two or three hundred computing power, and the stored computing power will soon reach more than 1,300 copies."

"Every household in the village is preparing for silkworm rearing. In the next ten days to half a month, there will be a large-scale flow of money, from which it is estimated that five hundred to seven hundred units of computing power will be obtained..."

"Adding in the scattered computing resources, if one is willing, the [Golden Toad Transformation] technique can be deduced to the middle-grade perfection in half a month."

Originally, Su Ji only had a little over two hundred units of computing power.

Fortunately, even though the three hundred taels of silver sent from Baiyan Mountain were not widely circulated, they still provided more than one hundred units of computing power, which enabled these computing power reserves.

Su Ji, however, had a different idea. The computational power required for each step of the [Golden Toad Transformation] would increase exponentially, and a great deal of computational power would be needed to deduce it to the level of a superior divine power.

Instead of doing that, it would be better to use computing power where it's most needed. For example, now that his stomach is really bloated, it would be great if he could deduce a method to speed up digestion and improve blood circulation.

"Methods to accelerate digestion and blood circulation?"

Yan Tianchou didn't hesitate at all, and added, "While speeding up digestion, we can't waste the food we've swallowed. The Devouring Thief Soul Spirit can purify the liver blood, and we still need to obtain more Primordial Qi from it..."

This simulation was based on Su Ji's golden toad form, so it took a little longer.

After more than twenty breaths, Yan Tianchou reached a preliminary conclusion: "Based on the trajectory of the Toad Demon King's Devouring Thief Spirit in the bloodline memory, and combined with the principles of the Minor Yin-Yang Method, a method called the Yin-Yang Rotation Devouring Thief Method can be deduced, with the left liver lobe as Yang and the right liver lobe as Yin..."

"This method can improve digestion to a certain extent and better absorb primordial energy... It is estimated to consume 240 units of computing power."

Whether it is the human body or other living organisms, they are all symmetrical, which can be called left and right, or yin and yang.

The inspiration for Yantianchou comes from the Small Yin-Yang Method's Small Heavenly Circuit, which is the "Dongxuan Tongshi" that cultivates the primordial Qi using the Dongxuan Method. It can also be described as the "Heaven and Earth Companionship" of the Heavenly Soul and the Earthly Soul.

Su Ji felt increasingly puzzled. Although the Tianchou calculation had yielded results, it was becoming increasingly reliant on external information, and the computing power required was much higher than he had expected.

Even the way Yan Tianchou initially deduced the "Golden Toad Transformation" out of thin air seems to have become a thing of the past.

Yan Tianchou remained silent for a while before giving the answer he had kept hidden for a long time.

"Before the upgrade and replacement, I tried my best to deduce it, even using the omnipresent laws of heaven and earth as a database. After luckily glimpsing a trace of the mysteries of heaven and earth, I deduced the [Golden Toad Transformation].

"However, since then, I have become increasingly aware of the terror of heaven and earth. After I upgraded and changed generations, I gradually gave up the practice of trying to peek into the secrets of heaven."

"Whether it's Zhang Xiaolian's real dream or the truth that divine power can grant wishes to heaven and earth... it all gradually made me certain of one thing, which is that heaven and earth have their own consciousness!"
"If one succeeds in peeking into the secrets of heaven once or twice, it can be called luck. But if one steals repeatedly without restraint, one day the will of heaven and earth will discover it."

"At that time, not only will my identity as a transmigrator be discovered, but your identity as a transmigrator will also be discovered. If we are eliminated as 'viruses,' all our efforts will be in vain..."

　I still feel that 4,000 words a day is too little, so I'll try to write two chapters a day, totaling 6,000 words!
　　
　
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