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

Chapter 80: Do things with high profile, live with low profile (4200 words!)

Having acquired the Firebird Yanchong as his flying mount, Su Ji couldn't help but feel a bit sentimental.

According to legends from the previous life, Wang Qiao ascended to heaven on a crane, and Chisongzi was not burned when he entered fire and could ride the clouds and rain to ascend and descend, thus becoming an immortal.

Although Su Ji can now fly on a firebird, he is merely a celestial soul, with only a trace of longing constantly surfacing within him...

The Great Sun Spirit Realm was not large to begin with, and before long, a wondrous place shaped like a lotus flower came into view in the distance.

Lotus Wonderland is the most valuable place in the Great Sun Spirit Realm, and most of the cultivators who come here gather here.

Some cultivators searched for treasures throughout the wondrous Lotus Land, while others traveled back and forth to comprehend its profound mysteries...

As a result, cultivators soon spotted the figure in the sky.

"Could it be the Firebird Flame Charge coming?"

"Look, there seems to be a person on the firebird's back!"

"Yan Chong is the pride of the Firebird Clan, how could he possibly let anyone ride him? You must be mistaken!"

As the firebird drew closer, the cultivators fell silent.

Indeed, the Firebird Yanchong was truly used as a mount!
As soon as they saw the figure on the firebird's back, a cry of surprise rang out.

"The wandering spirit soldier from the East and West Sang Earth God Temples! I saw him at the gathering of deities the night before last!"

This man was round-figured and was a daytime wandering spirit soldier at the City God Temple.

The gathering of deities the night before last was essentially a meeting presided over by the City God. Su Ji was among the deities who were praised, and he memorized the appearance of the golden toad.

Then, the spirit soldier who was touring the City God Temple recalled some rumors and couldn't help but wonder: "Fellow Daoist Jin is sitting on the back of the Firebird Ghost General. Could it be that the two sides have already reconciled?"

Although the local earth god temple and the mountain god temple have reconciled, it does not mean that the mountain demons and ghosts are truly convinced.

Some people pondered for a while, but still couldn't figure it out: "Everyone says that a gilded Taoist seed has come to the East and West Sang Earth Temples. Even if that's true, the Firebird Ghost General shouldn't lower himself to be so obsequious, right?"

The strongest in the White Rock Mountains is the Tiger King, followed by the Firebird Clan. If Firebird Yanchong were to be so humble, it would only make people look down on the Firebird Clan.

For a moment, the cultivators were all greatly puzzled.

Ultimately, this is the closed City God Temple Great Sun Spirit Realm. Without the strongest being, Thousand Transformations Zhenmo Linglong, no one is confident in subduing the Firebird Ghost General, let alone a mere Cave Profound cultivator like the Golden Toad.

However, as the firebird descended from the sky, everything came to light, and the group of cultivators were nearly stunned.

"What?! The inner core of Firebird Yanchong's Ghost General is actually in Fellow Daoist Jin's hands!"

"Could it be that young friend Jin is truly a seed of the Xuanmen Daoist path?"

"Even if Young Friend Jin is a Xuanmen Dao Seed protected by numerous treasures, can't the Firebird Ghost General escape if he can't defeat him?"

Not long ago, Firebird Yanchong obtained the low-grade Yang Fire Seed because he displayed speeds far exceeding those of Tongji.

Now, the cultivators couldn't figure it out, but some asked with suspicion, "Could it be that young friend Jin deliberately set a trap, giving the Firebird Ghost General no chance to struggle?"

In reality, one can shoot down birds with a bow and arrow, but the Firebird Yanchong is a cultivator who has mastered both the True and Profound arts, and can fly even when injured...

Under the puzzled gazes of the cultivators, Su Ji finally landed on the ground, riding the Firebird Ghost General's Heavenly Soul Spirit.

The flight was fast and smooth, relaxed and carefree, and Su Ji even had the idea of ​​taming a flying mount.

Unfortunately, the Firebird Ghost General is backed by the Firebird Clan and the White Rock Mountains, and Su Ji doesn't want to embarrass them like this.

"Fellow Daoist Jin, what's going on?" The plump City God Temple Day-Wandering Spirit Soldier was the most anxious, and since the two were colleagues, he didn't hide anything.

Immediately, many cultivators focused their attention on this place, their hearts filled with curiosity.

Some cultivators even went around searching to see if the Golden Toad had a great master as its protector.

"Fellow Daoist, you've come to the right person!"

Su Ji was about to seize the opportunity to harvest a wave of "wish power traffic" and bluntly said, "So that everyone can know that half a month ago, this Firebird Ghost General held a grudge against me because the Monkey Spirit Ghost King was captured."

"Now that this fiend has failed to ambush at the entrance of the Great Sun Spirit Realm, it has spared no effort to spend its precious cultivation time searching everywhere and has launched a sneak attack on me."

"Fortunately, I had mastered a few mystical arts and possessed magical treasures, so I quickly defeated him."

"I intended to leave it a way out, letting it leave its treasures and depart on its own, but it attacked me with a talisman containing a mid-grade perfect spell, almost costing me my life."

"Therefore, I suppressed its inner core and came here specifically to explain the cause and effect, so that everyone can see the true face of this fiend!"

Killing someone in the Great Sun Spirit Realm will inevitably be recorded by the spirit seal. If someone dies tragically there, the cultivator who lost the spirit seal will be investigated by the City God Temple.

The Firebird Ghost General may have initially only intended to vent its anger, but the talisman it activated in the end actually made Su Ji sense a trace of killing intent.

"Mystical arts! Several mystical arts!" The plump City God Temple Day-Tour Spirit Soldier looked excited.

For these rogue cultivators from the divine lineage, mystical arts were truly legendary. This colleague from the rural earth god temple had actually mastered several of them!
"A seed of the Xuanmen Daoist sect! As expected of a Xuanmen Daoist sect member who came to a rural earth god temple to gain prestige!"

If there are no vacancies in the position of spirit soldier, even the strongest connections may not be effective. The City God Temple is the most powerful place under the City God Spirit Lord, and even the day-roaming and night-roaming spirit generals will find it difficult to place their confidants there.

In the rural earth god temples, the earth god is the head, and can recruit spiritual soldiers at will as long as there is an empty position, making it easier for some immortal cultivation families and Xuanmen disciples to gild their resumes.

Of course, those with a Xuanmen Daoist lineage might not care about being gilded, but they can still take advantage of the position of a spiritual weapon when they go down the mountain for training...

"As expected of a Xuanmen Dao Seed, not only was he able to detect the Firebird Yanchong's two consecutive sneak attacks, but he was also able to suppress it without suffering any damage. Such demeanor is truly enviable!"

The cultivators who can come to the Great Sun Spirit Realm are all rich and noble, so they naturally know how valuable Su Ji's suppression of the Firebird Yan Chong was.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Su Ji reached out and seized the treasures from the Firebird Yan Chong. He then said with some helplessness, "I only wanted to cultivate properly and had no intention of making enemies, but you insisted on killing me..."

"I will not humiliate you either. These treasures are the price for your sneak attack on me!"

Having said that, Su Ji fulfilled his earlier promise and released the suppression of the Firebird Ghost General's inner core.

"Everyone, I must continue my arduous cultivation, so I will take my leave for now!"

Su Ji neither acknowledged nor denied the identity of the Xuanmen Dao Seed. After bowing to the group of cultivators, he gracefully left this strange place.

This action was tantamount to publicly executing Firebird Flame.

However, the cultivators present did not think that the golden toad was going too far; on the contrary, they felt that it was justified.

"Fellow Daoist Jin is indeed trustworthy! If someone were to ambush me, even if I couldn't take their life, I would at least obliterate their soul and spirit!" "Fellow Daoist Jin arrived gracefully and departed gracefully, without wasting a single moment outside of cultivation. You are truly a role model for us all!"

"Although Fellow Daoist Jin has not yet acknowledged his identity as a Xuanmen Dao Seed, he is bound to become famous throughout Jinfeng County. Perhaps one day in the future, when we meet him, we will have to respectfully address him as a senior!"

At first, some cultivators called him "Young Friend Jin," then "Fellow Daoist Jin," and now they are even imagining him as the future Senior Golden Toad, highlighting the rules of identity recognition in the cultivation world.

Amidst the sighs of the cultivators, Firebird Ghost General Yan Chong slowly awoke, his expression changing several times in an instant.

Firebird Yanchong sensed that the Golden Toad was not nearby and couldn't help but show a look of resentment.

However, the cultivators showed no sympathy whatsoever upon seeing this, and some even offered words of advice.

"Yan Chong, Fellow Daoist Jin has already done more than enough. If you continue to be stubborn and repay kindness with enmity, even the Firebird Clan behind you will have no reason to protect you anymore!"

If the Golden Toad had no background, the Firebird Clan might have used their power to intimidate him, or even sought an opportunity to avenge Firebird Yanchong.

However, the Golden Toad is a genuine "Taoist seed of the Xuanmen". If the Firebird Clan does not want to offend the "Xuanmen", they can only act according to the rules.

Even the round-faced spirit soldier of the City God Temple couldn't help but sigh, "Those who can be called Xuanmen must have had at least one immortal in their ancestors. Fellow Daoist Jin, with multiple Xuan techniques at the junior cultivator stage, must come from one of the top Xuanmen sects in Yuzhou!"

Su Ji, unaware of the thoughts and intentions of the cultivators from the Lotus Wonderland, began to tally up his gains on the way.

The Firebird Ghost General possesses four treasures: in addition to the used talisman, there is a mid-grade spirit armor, a low-grade Yang Fire Seed, and a unique crown.

This crown is simply made by wrapping a branch around itself, but the main material is rare sandalwood. Wearing it makes one feel refreshed and invigorated. If one slowly burns it, it can also enhance one's comprehension.

However, although the sandalwood crown was valuable, it was of little use to Su Ji.

After all, this is not Zhang Xiaolian's real dream, and the Spirit Sandalwood Crown can only be burned once.

Most importantly, Su Ji can comprehend the mysteries through [Resonance with Heaven and Earth], and the treasure land containing fragments of these mysteries is even more important to him.

Moreover, after a morning of practice, Su Ji also understood a principle.

The fragments of mystical arts he came into contact with determined his first mystical art. To advance his first mystical art to the middle grade, he would need even rarer fragments of mystical arts.

At least within this Yanghe Riverbed, he only sensed five rare fragments of mystical arts. Collecting all eighteen rare fragments of mystical arts would likely not be a matter of a day or two.

Fortunately, Su Ji was very open-minded. Even if he couldn't get the mysterious fragments he wanted from the City God's Great Sun Spirit Realm, there were still other City God's Spirit Realms in other counties to explore. It would just take a little more time.

Su Ji's main goal today is to thoroughly understand the remaining three rare fragments of mystical arts.

So, after Su Ji returned to the source of the Di Yang Riverbed, he began his arduous cultivation once again.

It wasn't until evening that Su Ji finally left the Great Sun Spirit Realm, seemingly having gained some insight.

"Fellow Daoist Jin, you've finally come out!"

The news that the Golden Toad had suppressed the Firebird Yan Chong without injury had already spread throughout the City God Temple. The daytime spirit soldiers guarding the City God Temple had naturally heard about this and looked quite proud of it.

Su Jigang nodded in acknowledgment, and the day-roaming spirit soldier guarding the gate immediately showed a change in expression: "Eh—Earth Yang Spirit Liquid, I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Jin to have such a gain!"

Soon, Su Ji's name reappeared on both the Human Ranking and the Treasure Ranking.

"Sixth on the Treasure List: A ball of low-grade Earth Yang Spirit Liquid, worth at least 140 strands of divine power, obtained by the Golden Toad of the East and West Sang Earth Temples."

"Eighth on the list of people: the golden toad at the East and West Sang Earth Temples..."

Seeing that the cultivators were discussing among themselves but did not reveal their identities, Su Ji flew out of the city to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Just as Su Ji arrived near the city gate, he spotted the blind old Taoist priest who had been the most controversial figure at the ghost market the night before.

At this moment, the blind old Taoist priest was surrounded by a group of people, but the main character was a middle-aged man dressed in silk clothes, who was the slightly drunk middle-aged man who had been the first to have his fortune told the night before.

Su Ji arrived late and could only hear half of the middle-aged man's words.

Fortunately, the door gods and spirit soldiers of Jinfeng County were also joining in the fun, and Su Ji only needed to ask a few questions to find out the reason.

The middle-aged man was an antique dealer. After listening to the blind old Taoist priest's advice, he worked even harder to acquire antiques and decisively bought a valuable item.

After returning to the county town, many of his peers said that the antique was very valuable, and it was even put up for consignment at the largest antique shop in Jinfeng County.

The middle-aged merchant came to the blind old Taoist priest, firstly to fulfill his vow and pay an extra tael of silver for the divination fee, and secondly to promote how wonderful the treasure he had acquired from the countryside was.

Su Ji couldn't help but smile: "The value of the antique itself is important, but the story it tells is also important. This person is using this opportunity to promote the antique, which can be considered a clever plan."

The merchants took the opportunity to promote the treasure's reputation, and the blind old Taoist priest's divination abilities were further recognized, so it was a win-win situation.

However, one of the guardian spirits scoffed, "We saw those so-called antiques this afternoon. They were faintly surrounded by a sinister aura; they must have been burial objects dug up from a tomb..."

Su Ji immediately understood; what treasures could there be in the countryside, let alone items tainted with malevolent energy...

Just then, the blind old Taoist priest's expression froze, and he anxiously asked, "Layman, did you acquire that treasure from the northeast?"

The middle-aged merchant's expression changed, and he exclaimed in surprise, "Old sir, you are indeed a diviner! You even predicted the location of the treasure!"

In an instant, not only the blind old Taoist priest, but even Su Ji realized the seriousness of the matter.

The night before last, the blind old Taoist priest made a bet with someone that if his prediction was wrong, the other party could smash the signboard. The place of great disaster he mentioned was the northeast!

Yan Tianchou immediately began to analyze: "The merchant acquired an antique shrouded in malevolent energy from the northeast. It might have been obtained by tomb raiders who destroyed a tomb, or it might have been a relic buried underground that has come to light again..."

"If a tomb harbors ghosts and walking corpses, one could previously retreat from the world to cultivate oneself, but now one might be angered."

"As for underground ruins, they could be villages submerged by rivers, towns destroyed by earthquakes, or even ancient altars used to worship demons..."

Yan Tianchou had very little information and could only exhaust all possibilities, which made Su Ji feel a chill.

"My Lord, your cultivation has become even more profound these past few days!"

The speaker was none other than the crow spirit who had returned from wandering outside the city. Now that it possessed the token of the spiritual realm, no deity would dare to stop it.

Su Ji greeted him with a smile, but remembered the words "Shang Shen" (meaning "God"). After returning to the Earth God Temple, he made a special trip to find the Earth God.

"...Lord Earth God, I think the two things are closely related, and perhaps the City God Temple should pay attention to them."

Although Su Ji was doing things in a high-profile manner today, he did not want to be a high-profile person, so he planned to have the local earth god mention it to the City God Temple.

Unexpectedly, the butterfly gently fluttered its wings at that moment.

(End of this chapter)