In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 172 Netherworld Blood Pool? Eight Treasures Merit Pool! (6K words combined, requesting monthly votes and subscriptions!)

"Young man, why does your cafeteria need so much blood today?"

After the boxes of freshly harvested pig, duck, and cow blood were moved to the backyard of the canteen, the meat processing plant manager, who had accompanied the truck, asked a question out of curiosity.

"For making vermicelli soup."

With a smile, Su Yuan handed back the receipt, which he had signed.

Meat processing plant manager: "..."

The animal blood he brought was measured in tons. Are you all planning to drink blood like water?

But since he had already received the money, he didn't ask any more questions and drove the cargo airship away with the workers.

After everyone left, Su Yuan took out a high-grade storage bag worth tens of millions that he had borrowed from Xiao Kong and put the tons of beast blood into it.

This batch of animal blood wasn't actually for the students to eat; coming to the cafeteria to get it was just a cover.

Just a few minutes after receiving this batch of goods, another meat processing plant's airship landed in the yard.

Repeating this process, Su Yuan collected two hundred tons of beast blood in one go before dawn.

It's possible that Su Yuan bought up all the animal blood reserves at the entire Taihua City meat processing plant.

Furthermore, the animal blood that Su Yuan selects is of high quality in every batch, and even the wholesale price is as high as five yuan per kilogram.

These two hundred tons of beast blood cost Su Yuan a full two million.

That's quite a large investment.

This caused Su Yuan, who had the personality of a greedy creature and always only took in money and never gave it out, great distress.

But there's no other way; it's a necessary investment, all for the better development of the sect.

After packing up the two hundred tons of beast blood, Su Yuan looked around the backyard of the canteen and immediately spotted a rabbit with a cultivation level of eight Qi Refining stages.

This rabbit is very cute, with white fur and red eyes, and it's about half the height of a person.

It was currently locked in a cage, trembling from the strong smell of blood it had just smelled.

This ingredient is called "soft-boned rabbit," named for its soft bones, which allow the meat to be eaten along with the bones.

Whether you look at its endearing charm or its appearance, it is the most beautiful ingredient in the entire cafeteria.

Su Yuan grabbed the rabbit and cage together and flew back to the swimming pool on his Crimson Yuan Sword.

After sealing the swimming pool entrance, Su Yuan first put the rabbit aside, then stood by the cleaned swimming pool and poured box after box of animal blood into the pool.

Soon, the swimming pool was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

Upon seeing the pool full of blood, the Crimson Sword reacted as if it had witnessed the decadent King Zhou, leaping into the pool and swimming within it.

Feeling like a fish in water, completely at ease.

Zhu Qingqing controlled the Myriad Soul Banner to emerge from her schoolbag and curiously looked at the swimming pool, which was half full of beast blood.

Immediately afterwards, Su Yuan took out a bunch of spices to remove the fishy smell, as well as some rare and precious herbs to help catalyze the beast blood, and threw them in together.

The smell of blood gradually faded, replaced by a faint, sweet fragrance that filled the swimming pool.

Finally, Su Yuan added water to the pool, mixing the rich beast blood into a full pool.

"The Eight Treasures Merit Pool has been completed."

Su Yuan looked at the results before him and nodded in satisfaction.

Zhu Qingqing, who watched the whole thing: "..."

"Eight Treasures Merit Pool! What the hell is this Eight Treasures Merit Pool?"

Unable to contain her urge to complain, she asked, speechless:

"This looks like a Netherworld Blood Pool to you. If the Taihua Sect finds out, expelling you from the sect would be the least of your worries."

Su Yuan smiled slightly and said:
"Its true form looks a bit strange, but isn't this better?"

With a wave of his hand, he activated the righteous path disguise.

The next instant, the entire blood pool became clear and transparent, with faint spiritual mist rising from it.

It's like a natural spiritual pool brimming with spiritual energy.

"The disguise is quite good; cultivators below the Golden Core stage can hardly detect anything, but this isn't a matter of appearance..."

Zhu Qingqing said weakly.

Su Yuan shook his head:

"Look at you, always fixated on the boundary between the righteous path and the demonic path, how can you possibly make progress?"

"If you want to attain enlightenment, you should cast aside these mere sectarian differences!"

"Although my Eight Treasures Merit Pool is refined with the blood of all living beings, its effect is quite positive, as it can promote the evolution and transformation of living beings in terms of flesh and blood!"

Zhu Qingqing looked at the innocent-looking rabbit and asked:

"So you're planning to throw this rabbit in there and let it transform?"

"good."

Su Yuan nodded slightly and said proudly:

"You've seen my corpse refining method before, but not long ago, I innovated it through my talent and hard work."

"The current ancient method of corpse refining can transform a target into a walking corpse and then allow it to evolve like a living thing."

"And what's needed for evolution is the blood that zombies love most—plenty of blood!"

"With a large amount of spirit beast blood as support, I can adjust the evolutionary direction of this rabbit and transform it from a spirit beast into human form..."

"And the evolved physical body of a spirit beast is the perfect choice for making the Crimson Bone Puppet."

After a pause, Su Yuan sighed:
"In the ancient times of cultivating immortality, if the demon race wanted to cultivate into human form, they either had to condense a demon core to overcome the tribulation of transformation, or they could only be transformed into human form by a powerful being above the Nascent Soul stage."

"I am just a minor cultivator in the Qi Refining stage, yet I can do something just like a Nascent Soul cultivator, transforming demons into humans."

"Isn't this commendable?"

When a powerful being in the Nascent Soul stage enlightens a demon, they enlighten both the physical body and the soul, but you only enlightened the physical body...

Can that be the same?

On the holographically projected banner, Zhu Qingqing's coin-shaped head rolled its eyes wildly.

But in the end, she suppressed her strong urge to complain and did not rush to express her opinion.

She wanted to see the final result of the Eight Treasures Merit Pool before making a decision.

Then, she witnessed Su Yuan turn that cute rabbit into a walking corpse.

However, it seems that in order to be compatible with cyber souls later, Su Yuan directly exorcised the rabbit's soul.

That's good, at least this rabbit can ascend to heaven sooner and won't have to suffer anymore.

Picking up the rabbit-shaped walking corpse created using an upgraded version of the ancient corpse-refining method, Su Yuan threw it directly into the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.

The rabbit's body sank to the bottom instantly. Relying on the righteous path disguise, one would not see the rabbit's walking corpse unless one jumped into the Eight Treasures Merit Pool in person.

This is why Su Yuan dared to rent the school's swimming pool to do such a thing.

With the righteous path as a cover, he is not afraid of being investigated.

Unless it is the only Golden Core cultivator in the school, Tai Bai Tianji, who personally arrives.

But let's not even talk about how Teacher Taibai hasn't been back for over a month. Even if he were to return and discover the Blood Pool, so what?

Do you understand the concept of "family members concealing each other's wrongdoings"?
Dare to expose this? You, Bai Tianji, as my teacher, will be utterly disgraced.

"All we need to do now is wait; it should be ready in nine hours."

Su Yuan summoned the Crimson Yuan Sword back from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.

It was exactly nine o'clock in the morning when Su Yuan went out to class as if nothing had happened.

Inside the classroom, Su Yuan plopped down next to Chen Nuoyi.

After confirming that she hadn't been hit by the Dragon King's beer can, he asked:
"Squad leader, what happened to Uncle Chen last night?"

"How could a Golden Core cultivator like him get drunk from drinking beer and be taken to the police station?"

With that kind of drinking capacity, you'd probably have to sit at a table with kids when you're at a banquet.

Chen Nuoyi said in a cool and aloof tone:

"He deliberately got arrested so that I could go home sooner."

"After returning, he handed over to me the accompanying spells and martial arts techniques related to the Chen family's bloodline abilities that my mother had left behind."

"The application of bloodline power and the use of dragon energy have been of great help to me."

Su Yuan nodded in realization.

So there was a reason for it; that makes it less surprising.

But after observing Chen Nuoyi's expression, he asked again:
"That's a good thing, right? Why do you still seem a little down?"

Mentioning this made the temperature around the girl drop several degrees, and she said through gritted teeth:

"He was driving under the influence of alcohol and crashed into an entire row of guardrails, making me pay a fine of 11,325 yuan!"

Su Yuan: "..."

That's definitely something to be angry about.

"So how did you finally handle it?"

"I grabbed the bottle from the 'Brave the World' liquor bottle and gave him a good beating!"

The girl raised her hand and made a gesture of swinging a wine bottle, her tone revealing a faint sense of relief.

Su Yuan: "..."

That was definitely satisfying.

But in any case, because of the Dragon King's intervention last time, the rift between the father and daughter should have been greatly reduced.

A loving father and a filial daughter—that's wonderful.

Don't worry about it yourself.

Su Yuan immediately went to the podium and began today's make-up lesson.

During the break between classes, Principal Zhang Youde specially sent someone to deliver an implanted ordinary spiritual root.

The day of study passed by in a flash.

"Class monitor, ask Yin Qiyue if she has time and invite her over to do a live stream together."

Su Yuan said to Chen Nuoyi, who was tidying up the live streaming equipment.

"it is good."

Chen Nuoyi didn't ask any more questions and directly sent a message to Yin Qiyue.

With the surge in popularity of Su Yuan's account and Yin Qiyue's increasingly heavy academic workload, the latter is no longer needed for regular live-streaming sales.

Su Yuan's decision to call Yin Qiyue over again was clearly intended to leverage the popularity of the two accounts to create some new content.

"I still have some things to take care of right now. You and Yin can start the broadcast first, and I'll be there shortly."

Su Yuan gave one more instruction and left the classroom alone.

Only Chen Nuoyi remained, looking somewhat puzzled and curious.

Inside the swimming pool, the Eight Treasures Pond still retains its ethereal and spiritual appearance.

After standing by the pool for a while, Su Yuan noticed that the rabbit-like zombies at the bottom had not yet floated up.

He wasn't in a hurry. He sat by the pool and took out the box that contained ordinary spiritual roots.

Upon opening it, a spiritual root with roots as dense as ginseng appeared before Su Yuan's eyes.

Unlike celestial spiritual roots, ordinary spiritual roots are more shriveled in appearance and show very obvious signs of artificiality.

However, Su Yuan wouldn't actually use this thing as his spiritual root, so he didn't care about these details.

This spiritual root has only two functions.

Firstly, it serves as a pretext to reveal that one possesses the Senluo Spiritual Root.

Secondly, it was used as an upgrade tool for the Senluo Spirit Root. With a thought, the Senluo Spirit Root, which had been restless for a while, immediately extended an invisible tentacle with sharp spikes and pierced into the ordinary spirit root with lightning speed.

The next second, Su Yuan felt a light and ethereal power being drawn from the body of the ordinary spiritual root by invisible tentacles and flowing into the main body of the Senluo spiritual root.

His Senluo Spiritual Root, which was already on the verge of upgrading, was nourished and began its final transformation before becoming a Heavenly Spiritual Root.

After half an hour.

As the ordinary spiritual root was drained of its last bit of essence, the Senluo spiritual root suddenly shone brightly.

Countless tentacles surged uncontrollably from its body, wreaking havoc within Su Yuan's dantian.

As his spiritual root upgraded, Su Yuan felt his dantian being reinforced once again, and the total amount and intensity of his spiritual power began to increase rapidly.

He dared not delay and immediately began to circulate his breathing technique, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

The Senluo Spiritual Root, which had reached the Heavenly Spiritual Root level, also displayed extremely terrifying power at this moment.

Both the range and speed of spiritual energy absorption far exceed those before the upgrade.

Even though it had only just completed its transformation, its effects already surpassed those of the artificial celestial spirit root that Su Yuan had used before.

The spiritual energy within a radius of several hundred meters was absorbed into Su Yuan's body at an alarming speed.

Having already reached the edge of a breakthrough in his cultivation, he directly stepped into the ninth level of Qi Refining at this moment.

But after reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining, a problem arose in front of Su Yuan.

There isn't enough spiritual energy around to absorb.

Feeling the nearly depleted spiritual energy around him, Su Yuan sighed helplessly.

Although it's possible to go to the advanced class classroom and use the spirit-gathering array to get free spiritual energy, can the cultivation efficiency of ordinary spiritual roots and heavenly spiritual roots be the same?

He didn't want others to know the specific function of the Senluo Spirit Root.

It seems I need to make use of the Great Desire Immortal Puppet as soon as possible.

He finished his cultivation and opened his eyes to look at the Eight Treasures Merit Pool in front of him.

Just then, ripples appeared in the pool, accompanied by a bubbling sound, and a graceful figure floated up from the bottom of the pool.

Su Yuan's eyes lit up as he glanced at the rabbit-shaped zombie that he had transformed.

The food was even better than I expected!
Let’s get to work!
Quickly refine this valuable material into a Crimson Bone Puppet, implant the soul of your cyber brother into it, and then you can make money for yourself!

According to Su Yuan's estimation, such a pool of blood... the power contained in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool could transform two beast corpses.

Add to that the various material costs, and the cost of a single Crimson-faced, White-boned puppet can reach as high as 1.5 million!

We must make them work hard to recoup our costs as soon as possible, and then continue to invest in and produce new Crimson Bone Puppets.

Only in this way can the Yuan Sect grow bigger and stronger!

……

School canteen.

Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue have been live streaming for an hour as usual.

At this moment, the former received a message from Su Yuan, and then smiled and said:
"Family members may be wondering why Su Yuan didn't appear in this live broadcast."

"Actually, he went to prepare a surprise for his family, but we don't even know what the surprise is."

"He's coming soon with a surprise, so let's wait and see."

Just then, the cafeteria door was pushed open.

Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue turned their heads to look, and then froze on the spot.

No matter how many viewers flooded the chat with comments, he remained completely still.

The anticipation is off the charts.

A few seconds later, Su Yuan walked in front of the camera.

He first greeted the viewers in the live stream with a smile, and then said:

"The two hosts must have already told their families that I would have a surprise for them, right?"

"Before revealing this surprise, the host needs to announce something first—the newly established sect 'Yuanshi Media,' with the host as its leader, is officially founded today!"

"In order to make Yuanshi Media bigger and stronger, the host has decided to recruit more talents to bring more works to everyone on the Miaoyin platform."

"And the surprise brought by the host today is actually the first artist since the establishment of Yuanshi Media."

After hearing Su Yuan's words, the live stream chat fell silent for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a slightly sarcastic comment appeared on the screen.

"They've only been livestreaming for a few days, and they're already thinking about starting their own sect and making money?"

"Heh, they say they treat us like family, but behind our backs they just see us as easy prey."

"I've seen this kind of trick many times before."

"We acknowledge your professional competence, Su Yuan, but others may not be so. Be careful not to ruin your reputation."

For a moment, the viewers in the live stream seemed to become completely sober.

What new artist?

What is Yuanshi Media?
They're all just sickles used to harvest leeks!

Boycott! Resolutely boycott!
Su Yuan wasn't surprised by the large number of negative comments.

He simply smiled slightly, maintained his own pace, and pointed off the screen:
"Let's give a warm welcome to our new artist, Xiao Wu!"

The next second, a graceful figure appeared in front of the camera.

The sarcastic and mocking comments that were initially circulating disappeared instantly.

The entire live stream room was cleared up.

Because at this moment, all the audience's attention, just like Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue had just done, was focused on the figure in front of them.

My hands are too busy typing to keep up!

Then, in the live stream room, there stood a tall, slender, yet delicate-looking young woman.

The girl was dressed in a somewhat conservative bunny girl outfit, revealing large expanses of her snow-white skin.

A pair of lotus-root arms were crossed in front of her, her slender, crystal-clear fingers clasped together, fidgeting restlessly.

A pair of straight, shapely, and flawless black-stockinged legs firmly held the audience's attention.

Her long, sky-blue twin ponytails and the high bunny ears, one sticking up and the other half-folded, were so alluring.

But none of these are the most important things. What truly silenced the well-informed audience was the girl's appearance.

It was a face that combined the ultimate in innocence with the ultimate in allure.

Those deep red, pure and flawless eyes, like those of a fawn, and those exquisitely beautiful features that are so perfect that one glance is enough to make you fall in love with them, are all breathtaking.

It was as if... a beauty filter at level 100 had been applied, as if shimmering starlight surrounded the girl.

But everyone could see that this bunny-eared girl didn't use any beauty filters, because Su Yuan, Chen Nuoyi, and Yin Qiyue's appearances didn't change at all!

Compared to this bunny-eared girl, Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue both looked like country bumpkins who didn't know how to dress up.

Compared to the rabbit-eared girl, Su Yuan looked like a lewd goblin.

Su Yuan was very satisfied with the effect of the audience collectively falling silent.

This is why he boldly announced the establishment of "Yuanshi Media" even though he knew that the audience disliked the anchors making money.

It was because of Xiaowu's absolute confidence in her first work!
As for why the bunny-eared girl's model is so beautiful?

The flesh and blood transformation of the Eight Treasures Merit Pool and the bunny girl outfit only account for 40% of the charm personality bonus.

The other 70% of the credit comes from—the disguise of righteousness!
That's right, the righteous path disguised as reality is the MVP!

As a creation that integrates the techniques of ancient corpse refining, blood beast cultivation, and the Crimson Bone Puppet, Xiao Wu is undoubtedly a demonic creation among demonic creations.

The righteous disguise can naturally work on her.

Once Su Yuan fully activated the Righteous Path Disguise effect, Xiao Wu's appearance improved by more than ten times compared to when the Righteous Path Disguise was not activated!
This is practically super beauty in real life.

They're not afraid of dying in the light at all!
"Hello everyone, I'm Xiao Wu, a new artist from Yuanshi Media."

As Xiao Wu's heavenly voice rang out, the audience finally awoke from their reverie.

The next second, the live stream chat was flooded with comments!

"Yuanshi Media! My Superman!"

"I'm a leek! I'm just a leek! Cut me down!"

"I'd buy even if it was vomit, no matter how bad it is!"

"Su Yuan! I advise you not to be ungrateful and to quickly transfer the account to Xiao Wu!"

"Xiao Wu's mom, do you sell used stockings?"

"Xiao Wu, if you're being threatened, just blink. Why do you want to work for Su Yuan, this goblin?"

Therefore, good modeling can really solve almost all problems.

Those who were just being rational and objective are now lining up to be fleeced.
After a full minute of barrage comments, and once the audience had calmed down, Su Yuan cleared his throat and said:

"Everyone, let Xiaowu do the live-streaming sales today."

"Please also follow Xiaowu's exclusive account 'AA Soft Bunny Girl'."

After saying that, Su Yuan pushed Chen Nuoyi and Yin Qiyue, who were still in a daze, aside.

The live broadcast room has completely become the domain of Xiaowu from Yuanshi Media.

Off-camera, Yin Qiyue, who had finally snapped out of her daze at Xiao Wu's stunning beauty, grabbed Su Yuan's sleeve and whispered:
"Su Yuan, where exactly did you find this artist?"

"A girl with such stunning beauty must have been noticed by Tianyin High School from birth."

"Once you get into Tianyin High School, you will definitely become the Holy Maiden of Tianyin. Why didn't I hear a word about it before?"

Su Yuan smiled without saying a word.

Yin Qiyue couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

That's the kind of frustration where your skills are completely and utterly crushed!
Dian Xiaobang was extremely happy!
Who can understand how she, a top student ranked in the top three at Tianyin High School, was completely outmatched in the art of live streaming!
What did her three years of hard study amount to?
What does it matter how much popularity she's painstakingly built up through singing and performing every day?
"Say something! Why does this girl named Xiao Wu listen to you so much?"

"You witnessed her committing murder?"

Just when Yin Qiyue was about to cry from anxiety, Chen Nuoyi finally stepped in and pulled her aside.

"Auntie, I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush."

"If I'm not mistaken, that girl named Xiao Wu is probably not alive."

Yin Qiyue was taken aback.

"It's the Crimson-faced White-boned Puppet, right?"

Chen Nuoyi turned to look at Su Yuan.

Although she was already used to Su Yuan's various outrageous actions, the girl still felt a great sense of absurdity at this moment.

How long has Su Yuancai been out of the Crimson Face and White Bone Secret Realm?

So they've put the core secret technique of this ancient demonic sect into use so quickly?
And how exactly did you develop it?!

If I remember correctly, the main material of the Crimson Face and White Bone Puppet was a human!
"Su Yuan, Xiao Wu's body... you couldn't have gotten it by killing someone, could you?"

Chen Nuoyi asked cautiously.

Su Yuan's smile froze instantly.

He immediately made a meme of a husky pointing at someone:

"Squad leader, you've gone too far! Do I look like the kind of person who would indiscriminately kill innocent people?"

Chen Nuoyi: "..."

Hey! What do you mean by not saying anything?!

Now it was Su Yuan's turn to panic!

(End of this chapter)