Cultivation: Starting from a Fighting Cock

Chapter 79 Breakthrough, First-Order Demonic Beast!
Big Yellow lay listlessly on the ground, wagging its tail back and forth.

It's numb.

Zhao Kun doesn't sleep every night, so how can it go out and have fun?
I haven't eaten meat for four days in a row, and my mouth is practically tasteless.

Ji Cheng had also made up his mind. Considering all the reasons, he no longer needed to stay in the Zhao residence.

Firstly, since Master Zhao is paralyzed, no one takes him out for cockfighting anymore.

Secondly, Zhao Kun has been possessed and is now cultivating day and night. He and Da Huang are under Zhao Kun's nose and have no freedom at all.

Although he possessed the ability to conceal his aura as a celestial rooster, preventing Zhao Kun from discovering his identity as a demon beast.

Confined to the backyard of the Zhao residence every day, unable to move freely at night, such a life of hiding was meaningless to Ji Cheng.

In addition, now that he has the title of "marrying a chicken and following the chicken," Ji Cheng can transform into a human, and he has thought about changing his identity.

Having made up my mind, there's no need to pick a specific day.

Let's do it tonight.

Ji Cheng glanced at Zhao Kun's room, then at Da Huang, and silently murmured, "Ghana~"
It then flapped its wings and flew out of the Zhao residence.

Wang Wang Wang!
Big Yellow was frantic, pacing around in circles. "Brother Chicken, where are you going?"

But she dared not make a sound, and just kept circling under the old persimmon tree, staring at the direction where Ji Cheng disappeared.

Upon arriving in the wilderness, Ji Cheng encountered the Azure Flame Rabbit and the Bull Demon.

"Squeak?"

The little rabbit stepped forward, gesturing with its two little hands, asking, "Where's Big Yellow? Why haven't you two come out these past few days?"

The bull demon mooed, clearly concerned about Chicken Brother's situation.

Ji Cheng immediately told the ox and the rabbit about the situation at the Zhao residence, and asked them to tell the python demon and the masked fox that they might not be able to reunite for a while.

Afterwards, he took a stroll around Wuzhen and chose to visit Guo Laosi's house.

Guo Laosi was a butcher, and his family often had freshly slaughtered pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock. Ji Cheng and Da Huang often came to his house to buy goods, so they were quite familiar with his family.

Guo Laosi had two wives, so he always slept very soundly at night, snoring loudly.

Ji Cheng remembered that when he transmigrated into a fighting cock, his first opponent was the black-footed chicken raised by Guo Laosi.

Originally, Guo Laosi could barely manage to stay even in cockfighting, but ever since he met Ji Cheng, he has never won against Zhao Erye.

I'm so defeated.

So much so that later on, Guo Laosi would avoid Zhao Erye whenever he saw him.

Cockfighting? I've given it up!

Recently, Master Zhao was paralyzed by that blind Taoist priest and could no longer participate in cockfighting. As a result, Master Guo has returned to the scene and started to become active in the two major cockfighting arenas.

Ji Cheng soon saw the black-footed chicken that Guo Laosi had just bought at Guo Laosi's house.

He immediately breathed out a cumin-flavored flame, roasted it, and ate it in a few bites.

Then, he used a basic transformation spell to transform into the black-legged chicken and silently stayed in the cage.

Before dawn, Guo Laosi got up at night.

He called over two young apprentices to help him slaughter two pigs and carry them to the morning market.

He mainly sells to pork vendors, but if he can't sell all his pork, he sets up a stall at the morning market to sell it himself.

After selling the pork, he took his apprentices to farms to help them buy cattle and sheep.

I was so busy all day that I didn't even have time for cockfighting.

"Oh dear, Guo Laosi is working so hard, I need to help lighten his burden!"

Ji Cheng was always kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see the working people suffer so much.

That evening, he roasted the cow that Guo Laosi had bought during the day, and summoned several demonic beasts to meet with the python demon at the back of Python Mountain. Only Da Huang was absent from this gathering.

Ji Cheng guessed that Da Huang was still under Zhao Kun's watchful eye and couldn't get away.

At the Zhao residence.

In the morning, when the servants discovered that the fighting rooster named Ever-Victorious General was missing, they immediately panicked.

The servant searched the front and back yards, and even went outside the Zhao residence to search carefully in the vicinity, but still could not find the fighting rooster.

This news quickly caused a huge uproar in the Zhao family, and the Zhao family members all set out to search for him.

Master Zhao was so excited that he almost stood up, and he started cursing loudly in the room, telling them that they had to find the ever-victorious general no matter what, or he wouldn't want to live anymore.

However, the entire Zhao family mobilized and searched all day, but still could not find the ever-victorious general.

A wave of emptiness washed over Zhao Yan, and she burst into tears.

Some servants speculated that the fighting rooster might have been carried away by a raccoon in the mountains.
This kind of thing is quite common in Wuzhen. Didn't the big red rooster at the Zhao family's house get killed and carried away by a raccoon dog before?

"Bullshit! How could a mountain raccoon beat my ever-victorious general? Do you know how powerful my precious fighting rooster is? If a raccoon comes, it can peck it to death in two strokes!"

Master Zhao lay on the chair, so angry that he glared and beard bristled, and gave the servant a good scolding.

Master Zhao and his eldest son, Zhao Qian, looked at each other, at a loss for what to do.

Zhao Kun, however, did not care about what happened in the Zhao family. He used physical discomfort as an excuse to stay in his room and cultivate all day long.

Only Big Yellow understood that once Chicken Brother left, he probably wouldn't be coming back.

It was quite sad and let out a few low, mournful cries.

After the demons dispersed behind Python Mountain, Ji Cheng returned to Wuzhen and to Guo Laosi's house.

The next day, Guo Laosi woke up and was about to slaughter the ox when he discovered that it was gone.

They found two apprentices to search together, but they couldn't find a single hair.

He was so angry that he cursed at his doorstep for a full half hour. Finally, persuaded by his first wife, he prepared lavish offerings and went to the mountain god temple to worship.

However, he still harbored resentment. If the mountain god ate it, then the mountain god's appetite was far too great.
After returning from worshiping at the mountain god temple, he was indignant. He picked up a fighting rooster, ready to go to the cockfighting arena and wreak havoc.

This was exactly what Ji Cheng wanted to do. The black-footed chicken that Guo Laosi was holding at that moment was Ji Cheng in disguise.

Upon arriving at the Green Bamboo Gang's cockfighting arena, Guo Laosi quickly arranged a betting match with someone.

Having changed his identity, Ji Cheng no longer needed to act; he immediately defeated his opponent in two moves.

Ji Cheng's fierce display dispelled Guo Laosi's pent-up frustration, and he immediately arranged a betting match.

Ji Cheng once again defeated him in a single move.

Anyway, he figured he wouldn't need this black-footed chicken identity for long, so being too fierce wouldn't hurt.

On this day, Ji Cheng gained a total of four winning points.

The following day, he gained two more points.

Guo Laosi won a lot of money from cockfighting and was overjoyed. He then used the money to buy a cow.

Upon seeing this, Ji Cheng felt that this would not do.

So he helped Guo Laosi lighten his burden that very night by roasting and eating the cow.

This time, instead of going to the gathering of demons, he ate alone, devouring a whole 1,000-pound yellow ox.

As he gradually refined the beef, suddenly, the secret was revealed.

Suddenly, Ji Cheng's aura surged.

He finally broke through and became a first-tier demon beast.

(End of this chapter)