Martial Arts Crossover: Infiltrating a Girls' Chat Group at the Start

Lin Zhu cupped his hands in thanks, saying, "Thank you for your praise, two esteemed deities."

Yu Lei and Shen Tu's cultivation levels are definitely above Golden Immortal, so it's quite reasonable for Lin Zhu to call them High Gods.

He looked at the villagers lying unconscious on the ground and asked them, "What about them?"

"Alas!" The two sighed. "We'll trouble you, fellow Daoist, to escort them on their way, so they won't suffer any more."

"Yes, yes!" The Kitchen God appeared, signaling Lin Zhu to hurry up and get to work. If Lin Zhu didn't, these dirty jobs would fall to Him.

After all, the villagers have not been completely transformed yet.

Lin Zhu did not take immediate action, but decided to try to see if she could salvage the situation.

Since it's malevolent energy entering the body, how do we extract it out?

As for how to absorb it, there's the Northern Darkness Divine Art!

Lin Zhu has thoroughly studied the martial arts techniques in the group. He has also practiced the Northern Darkness Divine Art, which can absorb energy from a distance and is even stronger than the Energy Absorption Technique.

You can inhale, but not breathe.

"I'll try first and see if I can save him." With that, he reached out his hand to a strong, adult man, unleashing his spiritual power and generating a suction force.

The strong man's chest bulged slightly at the Tanzhong acupoint, and the evil energy within his body was indeed drawn out by Lin Zhu and quickly entered Lin Zhu's body.

'What kind of technique is this?' The three gods said they had never seen anything like it before.

The burly man's murderous aura surged into Lin Zhu's body and quickly dissipated, leaving only a few traces.

These few remnants were extremely stubborn, and no matter how much the bamboo tried to absorb them, it could not be extracted.

If the force is increased further, it will kill you.

A sudden inspiration struck Lin Zhu, and before the burly man's acupoint could completely close, he inserted a luck coin into it.

The last trace of malevolent energy within his body was transformed into rich spiritual power by the influence of the lucky silver coins, circulating within the strong man's body.

Because of that trace of malevolent energy, the fortune and silver coins transformed into a purer and more powerful force, hidden within the strong man's body.

The Kitchen God's mouth watered at the sight. His annual salary was meager, and his current savings amounted to only a little over a hundred coins. This man before him was indeed a disciple of a great sect and a tycoon!

Lin Zhu also realized something was wrong; too much money had been spent. One copper coin for incense would have been enough.

However, he didn't have many incense coins or copper coins; he only had luck coins, which weren't enough to break the spell!

As the saying goes, saving lives is like putting out a fire, and he wasn't that calculating.

Anyway, there were only a dozen or so villagers, and he treated them one by one. When he ran out of incense and copper coins, he used a luck coin instead.

The Kitchen God also realized that Lin Zhu was now a wealthy man without incense or coins.

Yu Lei and Shen Tu were not focused on this; they were more concerned about Lin Zhu's methods, which allowed him to absorb the evil energy from others.

How could a mere celestial being possibly accomplish this?

Although Lin Zhu's combat strength is not bad.

After rescuing the villagers, Lin Zhu felt that he had accumulated more merit. Combined with the four fallen gods he had dealt with earlier, he now had exactly twenty merit coins.

Since he successfully converted his merit into merit money, the amount of merit in his body has become visible.

A human life for a donation of money – what a profitable deal!

It means that the innate evil energy originates within the body and needs to be refined.

The original source of innate evil energy is even more difficult to refine than ordinary innate evil energy.

Shen Tu and Yu Lei reminded him, "Fellow Daoist, quickly regulate your breathing, lest you be burdened by the source of the evil energy."

Lin Zhu cupped his hands and said, "It's alright!"

He circulated the boundless spiritual power within his body, and the innate evil energy was forced into his physical body. He only felt a stinging pain for a moment before refining the evil energy. The speed was not too fast.

"The refining is complete."

After saying that, a golden light of merit flashed across his body.

The Kitchen God was startled. He was also a God of Fortune and Virtue, and every hundred years he would receive a merit coin for protecting the safety of the people in the area.

The golden light emanating from him, a result of his merits accumulated over tens of thousands of years during his lifetime, paled in comparison to the fleeting golden light Lin Zhu had just emitted, like a firefly compared to the bright moon.

Chapter 697 Shifting the Blame East

Not only the Kitchen God, but even the two gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei were astonished by the golden light of merit emanating from Lin Zhu.

"Fellow Daoist, the golden light of merit emanating from your body!"

They were genuinely curious and inadvertently voiced their doubts, after all, they were also deities from ancient times, not only guardians of the human world but also gatekeepers of the underworld.

Over countless eons, the accumulated merit is only a few hundred million.

Because neither of them had high talent, they used a lot of merit when breaking through the bottleneck, so this is all that was left.

Judging from the brightness of the golden light of merit emanating from Lin Zhu's body, it must be at least tens of millions.

This is incredible.

It should be noted that when Lin Zhu fought the four great demons, the aura he displayed was at most that of a peak True Immortal, but his true strength was only at the Heavenly Immortal realm.

The Pangu Realm today is not like the ancient times, where there are so many merits for cultivators to accumulate.

The only option is to hunt ferocious beasts and demons.

To accumulate tens of millions of merits, one would have to hunt down tens of millions of Heavenly Immortals, hundreds of thousands of True Immortals, or thousands of Profound Immortals and ferocious beasts.

Even a celestial being from the Nine Heavens would have to hunt down dozens of them.

Demons and ferocious beasts are not something cultivators can kill at will; accumulating merit is truly not easy and requires a vast amount of time.

Take the Kitchen God for example. His nearly one thousand merits are partly the merits of the world accumulated from the good deeds he did in his lifetime, and partly the reward that the world gave him for protecting this small piece of land for tens of thousands of years.

For an ordinary person to become a God of Fortune and Virtue, they only need to accumulate 10,000 acts of good deeds, which will be transformed into 100 acts of merit for heaven and earth after death, thus obtaining the position of God of Fortune and Virtue.

Besides aiding daily cultivation, merit can also be used as a consumable to break through bottlenecks and even directly increase cultivation level.

For example, the bottleneck between Earth Immortal and Celestial Immortal can be broken through with merit; 100,000 merits are enough.

Once used, the merit disappears.

It's essentially exchanging good deeds for spiritual cultivation.

With Lin Zhu's existing merits, he could directly break through from Celestial Immortal to Profound Immortal, and there would still be some left over.

The breakthrough from a Mystic Immortal to a Nine Heavens Mystic Immortal only costs one hundred million.

However, the foundation of cultivation achieved through merit is shallow, and without great fortune, future bottlenecks will only become more and more stubborn.

Unless you use merit to break through the realm again.

Shen Tu and Yu Lei used merit to improve their cultivation, which is why they reached this level. However, their combat strength is somewhat lacking compared to others of the same level.

Lin Zhu simply smiled and remained silent in response to their questions.

The two gods realized they had been presumptuous and bowed apologetically, saying, "Fellow Daoist, please don't be offended. We were just a little too curious, just too curious."

"I understand." Lin Zhu nodded, then looked at the Kitchen God, "Kitchen God, could you please break a few incense coins?"

Lin Zhu took out one hundred luck coins and handed them to the Kitchen God.

The Kitchen God was a little embarrassed and chuckled, "Immortal, this humble god doesn't have that many incense sticks and coins, this is all I have."

He handed over ninety-three copper coins for incense offerings, though he was somewhat strapped for cash.

Lin Zhu was stunned for a moment; this was far too little.

But he still traded one of his lucky coins for it.

"Gentlemen, the situation is urgent, so I must take my leave now."

Before leaving, he thought about it and decided to use his luck money to save people, which would be a way for him to give back some good fortune.

Anyway, this deal is a win-win situation.

After Lin Zhu left, the villagers who had been well protected looked at the villagers who had not yet woken up and felt a pang of envy.

They watched as Lin Zhu shone a beam of silver light into the unconscious villagers.

But it was mostly envy; few people were jealous.

Next, Lin Zhu swept across all directions at an extremely fast speed. Since he had not entered the Chongli Mountains, the demons and ferocious beasts he encountered were either celestial beings or earth immortals.

In this environment, even killing a demonic beast at the level of an Earth Immortal would bring merit, though it is rare.

It takes about one hundred Earth Immortals, demons, and ferocious beasts to condense one merit coin.

This was all thanks to the golden mark on his hand. As Lin Zhu killed more and more demons and ferocious beasts, the golden mark became brighter and brighter.

However, not every cultivator within the Wuping City area possesses the strength of Lin Zhu.

Lin Zhu was able to wipe out almost all the ferocious beasts and demons within a radius of ten thousand miles, but other cultivators could not.

A golden light streaked across the sky, enveloping a Buddhist cultivator wielding a vajra. Upon seeing Lin Zhu, he was overjoyed. "Fellow Daoist, please help me hold him off for a moment."

This is an attempt to shift the blame eastward.

Lin Zhu looked behind him and saw that the one chasing the Buddhist cultivator was a black and gold golden eagle, which was not only fast but also had sharp attacks.

It swooped down, its claws glowing with black and gold, and grabbed at the Buddhist and Taoist cultivator. At the same time, two sharp golden beams shot out from its eyes.

"The Immovable Buddha Body!"

The Buddhist and Taoist practitioners stopped in mid-air, put their hands together, placed the Vajra pestle in their arms, and their bodies radiated golden Buddhist light, blocking the sharp golden light.

Then came the golden eagle's claws, the tips of which pierced through the golden light.

With his arms ripped off by the golden eagle, the Buddhist monk coughed up blood and fell to the ground.

That golden eagle was no ordinary creature; it possessed strength at least above the ninth level of the Celestial Immortal realm. The Buddhist cultivator, who was probably at the third level of the Celestial Immortal realm, was protected by Buddhist teachings and wielded the Vajra Pestle, but was still no match for the golden eagle.

Lin Zhu's displayed strength was only at the first level of the Celestial Immortal realm, which was definitely no match for the Golden Eagle in the eyes of Buddhist cultivators.

Lin Zhu knew that this Buddhist practitioner had ill intentions, so she could have saved him before, but she didn't intend to.

This golden eagle is a ferocious beast, not a demon. It cannot speak, but compared to demons, it has a more acute intuition and senses that Lin Zhu is not easy to deal with.

Instinct made it the right choice; it swooped down and swallowed the Buddhist monk whole.