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Chapter 123 Mr. Qi

Although there is no sun or moon in the spiritual realm, the light in the sky will still change over time.

At this moment, the light was golden, shining on the ground, trees, and houses, making the whole village look peaceful and warm. Bathing in the bright sunshine and drinking tea, for Su Daoshan, who had lived in the Sichuan Basin in his previous life and could only see the sun a few times a year, it was as if some hidden gene in his bones had been awakened, and he wanted to lie down like a panda, spread his belly, and stretch.

In fact, there is a lot of sunshine in Yishan City. But Su Daoshan doesn't like the kind of sunshine that is too direct. It makes people feel dry, hard, blazing and cold.

He liked this kind of sunlight which was soft and warm, like filtered tea.

Everyone discussed the topic of spirit beasts and souls for a while, and each recommended several spirit beasts with their own characteristics.

There are many kinds of spirit beasts, including birds, beasts, insects and plants. Their characteristics are also varied. However, since they are all spirit beasts below level 4, their characteristics are nothing more than fast speed, flexibility, and great strength. As for skills, they include flying, sprinting, strong armor, etc. Among them, only a few that make Su Daoshan feel special are venom, stealth, bloodsucking, etc.

But none of these can compare to the war spirit in Su Daoshan's mind.

As they were chatting, Niu Er suddenly thought of something and slapped his forehead, saying, "I am so stupid. What's the point of discussing this here? If we really want to talk about who knows the most about the surrounding spiritual beasts, it is naturally the spiritual monster. Let's go find Mr. Qi."

Ma San and others also suddenly realized and agreed.

"Who is Mr. Qi?" Su Daoshan asked.

"This Mr. Qi is the teacher of our Gurong tribe. He was also a spiritual monster enlightened by the will of the spiritual realm. It is said that he was taught by the master of Tiandao Mountain. Because he is a good friend of Wu Che, he was invited by Wu Che to teach the children in the tribe." Yu Liu on the side helped to explain.

"Yes. Even though it is just a teacher and has no fighting power, not only Wu Che and the other spirit monsters in the tribe are respectful to it, but also other big monsters nearby dare not be disrespectful in front of it." Niu Er said, "Before, the Huangzhulin tribe and Baohu's gang broke into the tribe and almost destroyed the school. Several big spirit monsters, including the giant python of Huangzhulin, jointly warned them."

Ma San nodded and said, "We were able to hold on half because of Mr. Qi. With him around, those guys wouldn't dare to act too recklessly."

After Su Daoshan heard this, he was amazed.

He had heard Ao Jiu explain the structure of the spiritual world before. He knew that the spirit monsters were intelligent creatures, and from a certain perspective, they were the natives of the spiritual world.

However, there are many intelligent spirit monsters, and their types are also diverse, and not every one of them has strong combat power. Many spirit monsters are just ordinary people in the real world, and they can't even defeat a first-level spirit beast.

Originally, the pattern of the spirit monsters should be the survival of the fittest, with the strong being respected. However, the existence of two factors has prompted the spirit monsters to form a strange system similar to human society.

The first factor is that these spirit monsters are enlightened by the will of the spirit realm. The will of the spirit realm was born in the spirit realm world. The spirit realm world is the bottom world of the real world, and its historical heritage all comes from human civilization. Therefore, after these spirit monsters are enlightened, they naturally yearn for human civilization. This is an instinct engraved in their bodies, and it is the worship of the lower civilization to the higher civilization.

Su Daoshan could fully understand this.

In the past, the tribesmen on Earth were like this after seeing modern civilization. If humans find aliens and see a higher level of civilization, they will naturally learn from them eagerly to improve their own civilization.

Among them, some individuals may be complacent, or feel that they are not adapted to civilized society, and prefer life in the mountains. But they are only a very small minority. The upward instinct of the entire civilization cannot be controlled. It is the collective subconscious of the group, and it cannot be changed by human will.

The second factor for spirit monsters to learn from humans is their reproduction requirements.

Nowadays, most of the spirit monsters were living in the mountains in a daze, but suddenly one day they awakened their wisdom and opened their eyes to see the world. Everyone knows that this is the gift of the will of the spirit realm, but no one can explain the selection criteria of the will of the spirit realm and why it fell on these spirit monsters who have almost nothing in common and awakened their spiritual wisdom.

In addition to the gift of the spirit realm's will, the spirit monster discovered that among their offspring, there were some who were born with spiritual intelligence. At first, the probability of this was extremely small. But as the overall intelligence of the spirit monsters increased, the probability gradually increased.

And it is obvious that the higher the wisdom and the more knowledge the spirit monster has, the greater the probability of giving birth to offspring with natural intelligence.

Because of this, spirit monsters imitate humans in almost every way.

Since Su Daoshan entered the spiritual realm, he has seen orchard villages that are no different from humans in terms of the buildings, clothing, and behavior of the spirit monsters.

But he still didn't expect that the spiritual monsters would respect knowledge to such an extent. Even those great monsters who dominated a region didn't dare to be rude to a teacher. In essence, this was the birth of a collective rule, just like the birth of early human religion. For the spiritual monsters, Tiandao Mountain and the knowledge it represented were gods.

At that moment, Su Daoshan followed Niu Er and others to the east of the village. They walked through an alley, followed the dirt road in the field, turned through a small forest, climbed a hillside, and arrived in front of a small courtyard.

The courtyard was not big, with mud walls outside and only three bungalows inside. But it was made of black tiles and blue bricks, much better than other houses in the village. The whole courtyard was very clean and painted with white lime. Farmhouses and straw raincoats and hats were neatly placed under the eaves, which looked particularly elegant.

"Is Mr. Qi here?" Niu Er called respectfully while standing outside the wooden door of the courtyard.

After a while, the door of the main hall opened, and a thin old man in a gray-blue gown came out, holding a book in his hand. Seeing that it was Niu Er, he frowned and said impatiently:

"Niu Er, what's your business? Are you planning to take the Lingyun Fruits in the village again? I told you long ago that these Lingyuns are shared by everyone in the village. Apart from the great monsters who cultivate them, they will be offered to the academy in the future to seek the teachers to teach and answer their questions. How could you covet them? Even if a new great monster comes to guard Gurong Village in the future, you can ask it and see if it dares to take the Lingyuns!"

Niu Er was scolded and just looked embarrassed. Seeing the thin old man snorted coldly and was about to go back to the house, he quickly called out: "Mr. Qi, wait a minute, I am not here today to borrow spiritual essence. I really have something else to do."

Mr. Qi still had a gloomy face and asked, "What's the matter?"

"First, we have two new brothers who are our caretakers. Since Wu Che is not here, we need to ask Mr. Qi to include them in the roster." Niu Er bowed and said, "Second, my brother Kan also has some questions about the spirit beast souls, and I want to ask Mr. Qi for advice."

As he spoke, Niu Er smiled and let Su Daoshan and Ao Jiu come forward.

Mr. Qi's gaze swept across Ao Jiu, frowned, and said nothing. But when his gaze fell on Su Daoshan, his eyes suddenly froze and his expression became surprised and doubtful.

what happened?
Seeing Mr. Qi staring at Su Daoshan for a long time without saying anything, everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Su Daoshan was also a little uncomfortable with his stare, and frowned and said, "Why are you looking at me? I have flowers on my body?!"

If it were his past life, or if he were the young master of the Su family in reality, Su Daoshan would probably just bow and say, "Sorry for disturbing you by coming here." But since he understood the naked law of the jungle in this spiritual world, Su Daoshan thought very clearly - if he wanted to be free and do whatever he wanted in this world, he needed a character who was less affected by cause and effect and human feelings.

Take Niu Er and others for example. Although Su Daoshan has joined the Gurong tribe, everyone knows that this is just because they have a common enemy. If they really treat each other as brothers, it would be too self-indulgent. Not to mention newcomers like Su Daoshan, even the old brothers like Niu Er and Ma San don't know each other's true identity.

Then what is the point of talking about brotherhood?
Everyone came to the spiritual realm just to improve their own strength. They gathered together for the sake of profit. Everything that everyone showed in this world, including personality, words and deeds, generosity and generosity, was just a mask.

Therefore, except Ao Jiu, who left a mark directly on his soul, Su Daoshan would not trust anyone here.

In this case, a straightforward, arrogant and domineering personality is most suitable.

Firstly, this can be separated from his real identity to the greatest extent. After all, no one would have thought that such a domineering person is actually a nerd. Secondly, this character will naturally cause less trouble. Let alone Niu Er and others, Su Daoshan believed that from the moment they saw him, they had never thought of taking advantage of him.

Behind their backs, I'm afraid they are even more afraid that I will turn against them faster than they do!

Facing this spirit demon in front of him, although he was asking for help, Su Daoshan himself already had a direction for his own battle spirit, and he didn't care whether he asked for help or not. In this case, of course, it was more important to maintain his own personality in front of Niu Er and others.

When Niu Er heard Su Daoshan speak, he was startled. He immediately bowed to Mr. Qi and explained, "Please forgive me, sir. I am a straightforward person..."

However, before Niu Er finished speaking, he saw Mr. Qi had already changed his face to a smile, walked forward quickly, and respectfully bowed to Su Daoshan: "Sir, your presence is truly an honor to my humble home. Please come in!"

Niu Er held half of his words in his mouth, and then dropped them to the ground with his mouth wide open: "...rate..."

Others were also stunned. They couldn't believe what they saw.

"Yeah." Su Daoshan was surprised, but he didn't say anything polite and walked in.

Everyone came to their senses and were about to follow, but they were stopped by Mr. Qi with a wave of his sleeves. He shouted impatiently, "Go away, go back to where you came from."

As he said this, the old man turned around and smiled at Su Daoshan. He walked in and said, "Sir, please come in. I don't know your name, sir."

"If we can't reach an agreement, we'll chop him down!" Su Daoshan said proudly. He waved his hand at Niu Er and the others, "You guys go. I'll talk to him."

When Mr. Qi heard Su Daoshan's name, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "What a good name, what a good name. He is bold and upright, and straightforward! Mr. Tan, please come in. Little Stone, where is he? Hurry up and make some tea!"

Su Daoshan entered the room and sat down in the upper seat. He turned his head and looked around, but he was secretly speculating in his heart. He didn't know why this old man was so uncharacteristic when he saw him, being rude at first and respectful later.

Seeing that Mr. Qi sat down, he simply pointed at his nose and asked, "Do you know me?"

"This is the first time I meet you, sir." Mr. Qi said with a smile.

"Then why do you treat me differently from them?" Su Daoshan asked.

Mr. Qi smiled mysteriously, without explaining, and just bowed and said: "Mr. Tan is naturally different. Niu Er and others are just a bunch of idiots. How can they be compared with you?"

Su Daoshan looked at Mr. Qi with an uncertain expression, half-closed his eyes and said: "That's what you can see... What is it, the Tao seed grade?"

"Sir, your wisdom is indeed extraordinary, and you guessed it right at once." Mr. Qi said with a smile, "But I am just a mere spirit demon. Although I have been blessed by the heavens and my spiritual wisdom has been awakened, I don't have such a great ability. It's just that I have served my master for a long time and can sense it. Your knowledge is as vast as the ocean and unfathomable. It is exactly the same as my master's. How dare I not respect you?"

So that's how it is. Su Daoshan was no longer surprised by the anomalies caused by the knowledge he brought from his previous life in this world.

It was like this before when I merged the Dao Seed, and it was like this later when I tested my spiritual roots. It was also like this when the twelve bells rang out of Tiandao Mountain after I entered the spiritual realm. It seemed that I had studied for twenty years, and although I didn't pass the civil service exam, it was not in vain.

Su Daoshan suddenly felt somewhat relieved.

In the past, I saw my peers around me, all of whom were unemployed after graduation, and many of them worked as deliverymen after getting a master's degree or even a doctorate. At a glance, they were all what the old people used to call "money-losing goods". Compared with them, I can at least make back some of my capital.

"I wonder where this little stone has gone?" Mr. Qi saw that his servant boy did not come, so he stood up, opened the back door of the main hall, and called a few more times. He heard the child's voice answering from afar, and then he came back and sat down again.

"I wonder if Mr. Tan, since you are here, can I be of any service to you?" Mr. Qi asked respectfully.

"I need your help with something." Su Daoshan nodded.

“But what did Niu Er say about inclusion in the roster and the spirit beast souls?” Mr. Qi had heard Niu Er talk about this before, and he smiled and nodded, “This is easy, I will…”

"No." Su Daoshan waved his hand to interrupt him, "I came to borrow some spiritual essence from you."

"..."

The room suddenly became quiet, and the two of them stared at each other.

Su Daoshan looked calm.

Mr. Qi was obviously shocked by Su Daoshan's turn, and his smile froze on his face. As a spirit demon, he has lived to such an old age and has spent his whole life studying human culture, so he can be considered knowledgeable.

But at this moment, it suddenly felt that it was still ignorant.

(End of this chapter)