Fire Monster

Chapter 2 The first pot of gold that must be dug
"Look at what I'm doing, I won't lend it to you!"

Yang Mao glared at Zhao Guanshan. He knew exactly what this weakling was planning.

Even if we are brothers, you can’t lend me money!
"Yang Mao, you got it wrong. I didn't ask for money, but next time you accept a bounty from the Taoist temple, take me with you."

Zhao Guanshan said sincerely, his eyes full of sincerity.

"No, you are weaker than a chicken. You will only hold me back. And if you go, you will definitely die there."

Yang Mao continued to glare at him, and finally, he couldn't help but say, "You really want to die!"

"Why not, Yang Mao? It's a good thing for both of us to end it this way. You see, I almost died of coughing last night. Waiting for death is the most painful thing."

Zhao Guanshan patiently pointed to the black blood stains on his body. His health was really failing.

Of course, he was calculating quickly in his mind.

Calculations are clearer, more comprehensive, and more detailed than ever before.

The mental power bonus brought by the perfect fusion of two souls is really amazing.

As a rule, only those sixteen years of age and above are allowed to accept the Taoist temple's bounty, which requires going to the underground demon village to clean out those low-level demons that have been captured but then released free, and are kept for training. In theory, this is a bloody test and is very safe, but there have been many accidental deaths over the years.

He had never dared to go in the past, but he had been collecting all kinds of useful information, making various preparations, and envisioning many contingency plans.

Who isn’t a passionate young man who refuses to admit defeat?

So on the one hand, he really had run out of ammunition and food and had to go, and on the other hand, he had actually made many preparations in advance, so he decided to take the risk.

However, since the Taoist temple offered a reward, almost no one was willing to take him.

Therefore, I could only deceive Yang Mao.

"Humph!"

Yang Mao snorted coldly, rolled his huge eyes, and said nothing.

But Zhao Guanshan knew Yang Mao's weakness very well, and immediately continued to say sincerely:
"I know you like Liu Erya. She has a big butt and is easy to bear. She will be eighteen soon. If you can't get engaged during this period, the Taoist Palace will force you to get married after she turns nineteen. Yang Mao, you don't want to see Erya being pressed on the bed by another man and screaming your name, right?"

"enough!"

Yang Mao growled, and his whole body looked like a mad bull, which was extremely terrifying. On his chest, there was a faint red glow of the imperial seal, which made Zhao Guanshan very envious. It really gave him a sense of security to be able to engrave the natal seal on his body before graduating from the course.

"The three most basic things for a self-engagement are a first-level Imperial Seal Hut, which I have, and a first-level Imperial Seal Instrument as a dowry, which I also have. I also need a portion of the 88th-grade Marrow Cleansing Spiritual Liquid that is necessary for childbirth. You can figure out how to do this yourself. So, as long as you take me there, as long as I die, all of these will be yours."

Zhao Guanshan said this solemnly, as if he was fulfilling some sacred mission.

"it is good!"

Yang Mao was finally persuaded. Brothers are nothing. Wife is the most important.

"There are still three days until the next bounty, so you should prepare yourself."

After saying that, Yang Mao looked at Zhao Guanshan with complicated eyes, turned around and left. Although he felt a little sad in his heart, how could it compare to Liu Erya's big butt.

It's easy to choose.

"Hey, wait, Yang Mao, lend me three energy storage spirit stones! My hut is running out of energy. If I am attacked by the wandering evil spirits, it will definitely cause some damage to the hut. You see, this is our future nephew's room after all, right? You don't want your nephew to be harassed by the wandering evil spirits, right?"

Zhao Guanshan said hurriedly, and told the reasons in one breath, even explaining the chain of interests clearly.

Yang Mao widened his eyes and stared at Zhao Guanshan fiercely, but after weighing the pros and cons for a moment, he reluctantly threw over three black energy storage spirit stones.

Because as Zhao Guanshan said, if this consumptive ghost was attacked by the evil spirit during these critical days, he might become a free evil spirit and destroy the Imperial Seal Hut. If it needs to be repaired, it will not be as simple as three energy storage spirit stones.

"Don't try to play tricks. We are registered with the Governor's Office and are protected by law."

After saying that, Yang Mao walked away quickly. He still had to go find Liu Erya and give her a surprise.

Ah, this turbulent youth that has nowhere to go.

Zhao Guanshan smiled and carefully put away the three energy storage spirit stones, but he had no intention of charging the Imperial Seal Hut.

Because he has other uses.

Although this thing is also called a spirit stone, it is not the spirit stone before the coming of divine punishment. It is an energy storage device similar to the battery on Earth.

This is also a very significant reform of the Taoist Palace.

It changed the previous model where cultivators needed to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth directly from spirit stones, and instead adopted centralized spiritual supply and distributed heating, oh no, energy supply.

Anyway, it is similar to the centralized heating and centralized power supply mode on Earth.

The Linjiang Prefecture Taoist Palace controls the highest-level spirit-offering tower, and through the construction of spirit-offering arrays, it extends it to thousands of households.

It’s a pity that Zhao Guanshan’s first-level seal hut does not meet the standards for connecting to the spirit-supplying formation, and of course he doesn’t have the financial resources to do so.

This area is full of slums.

However, in some important public places, such as Taoist temples and crossroads, there are convenient spiritual arrays built, which can be purchased with coins or with the Taoist Palace's bounty contribution points. Yes, energy is energy, and money is money. In this respect, the Taoist Palace in this world is still well planned.

Based on Zhao Guanshan's limited knowledge on Earth, he could hardly find any loopholes to make a fortune.

At this moment, the doors of the first-level imperial seal huts opened one after another, and the people who came out were of all kinds, but there were basically no elderly people, because they would not live to that time.

Everyone is familiar with each other, but they seldom talk to each other. They pass each other twice a day without even a punctuation mark.

When passing by a first-level imperial seal hut, a woman's heart-wrenching cry came from inside. The imperial seal on the door had become dim and blurred, and even the imperial seal hut had collapsed. A foul smell was still lingering.

This was caused by the wandering evil spirit.

But the victim was nowhere to be seen, so he must have already been given hospice care by the patrolling Qigong practitioners.

Well, literally.

The people traveling together hurried past and no one took a second look, including Zhao Guanshan, because this kind of thing was already commonplace.

If it weren't for his old imperial oil lamp that was still of some use last night, no one would even cry out to him at this moment.

After walking forward for several hundred meters, they came out of the slum alley full of first-class imperial seal huts. Outside was a wide, horizontal street with two opposing tracks on it.

At the intersection of the street and the alley, there stands a golden rooster statue more than five meters high.

After the advent of divine punishment, there is no longer a cycle of day and night, morning and evening, so we rely entirely on this kind of time-telling instrument to determine time.

Of course, if you have money, you can buy yourself a small time-telling device so that you can check the time anytime and anywhere and plan your time more accurately.

As for Zhao Guanshan and his people living in this slum alley, they can only rely on this public time-telling instrument. The rooster crows once every two hours during the day, before going to bed at night, and before getting up in the morning.

But don’t think that this is just a watch clock on Earth. It’s not that simple.

It is amazing that in such a complex, strange and ever-changing environment, it can remain unaffected by evil spirits, accurately tell time, and ensure that it can be transmitted to the ears of all living people.

Next to this time-telling instrument, there is a six-sided stone tablet. This is the spirit-offering tower set up by the Taoist palace, where everyone can use energy-storing spirit stones to charge.

There are two payment methods for charging. One is the Tiandao coins issued by the Dao Palace, which are divided into large coins and small coins.

One big coin is worth one hundred small coins.

To fill a spirit stone with spiritual energy, generally speaking, the price fluctuates up to ten small coins. Well, you can refer to the price of oil on Earth.

Another way is to increase the contribution points of the Taoist Palace, but the prerequisite is that you must become an apprentice of a Qigong practitioner or a martial artist, and your name and identity must be recorded in the Taoist Palace's jade book before you can do so.

The contribution points of Dao Palace can be exchanged for coins of different sizes.

But usually few people do this.

After all, the contribution points to the Dao Palace can be exchanged for more advanced resources at the Dao Palace.

At this time, Zhao Guanshan followed the crowd and walked north along the main street, but he walked very slowly and was constantly overtaken. By the time he reached the public transportation stop about 300 meters away, he was already sweating profusely and looked extremely bad.

The good news is that you don’t have to squeeze into the car anymore.

That's right, in order to save resources, the Taoist Palace strictly prohibits flying with swords and traveling by any means such as magical talismans, so they developed a public transportation system. After nearly two thousand years of development, this thing is no different from the trams on Earth.

It’s just that one supplies electrical energy and the other supplies spiritual energy.

One was walking on the rails, and the other was also walking on the rails, but they were engraved with the Five Spirits Mutual Generation Formation.

In order to save spiritual energy, the immortal masters of the Taoist Palace are really racking their brains to reduce friction and even studied wind resistance.

As for the effect, it seems very good. Not only can it serve everyone, but it also greatly reduces energy consumption, greatly promoting social productivity.

"Woo!"

A Wuling train about 150 meters long came slowly, as slow as an old woman, because this Wuling train also used inertia recovery setting.

As for the name, yes, the horizontal ones are rows and the vertical ones are columns.

Zhao Guanshan took out his Taoist student badge, swiped the card and got on the bus for free.

Studying in the Taoist temple is free, and eating and drinking are also free, but there are limits.

One meal a day is a piece of bread.

As for drinking water, just drink a water hyacinth every day.

The Five Spirits Train started silently, and the spiritual energy turned into a faint light that emerged at the bottom of the carriage, reflecting a series of complicated magic arrays. Zhao Guanshan huddled in the corner, closed his eyes, and while recovering his pitiful physical strength, he replayed the relevant plan in his mind again.

He really planned to follow Yang Mao to complete the bounty mission in three days.

So he had to take a gamble tonight and get his first pot of gold.

Fortunately, he had already prepared everything that needed to be prepared.

(End of this chapter)