Cultivation: Starting from a Fighting Cock

Chapter 81 Gazing at the Immortal City
Just to be on the safe side, Ji Cheng stayed at Guo Laosi's house until the next day.

The 1,000-pound ox that was acquired yesterday has gone missing again. When Guo Laosi woke up, he was in a terrible state of mind and shouted that he was going to report it to the authorities and ask some demon hunters to come and capture all of you monsters.

After venting his anger, Guo Laosi carried Ji Cheng to the Green Bamboo Gang's cockfighting arena.

Ji Cheng won two cockfights in a row and found that his victory points on the panel had not increased.

Now he was certain that after breaking through to the first tier of demon beast, he could no longer rely on crushing these fighting cocks to gain victory points.

From now on, there are two paths you can take: one is to go to the arena, and the other is to transform into a human and join a sect.

The arena is nothing more than a larger cockfighting arena. Ji Cheng was already tired of this kind of death match, and going to the arena would inevitably expose his monster identity and all his trump cards.

This route is too dangerous; he prefers to join a sect and fight with fellow disciples, a practice commonly known as "fighting with people."

This aligns perfectly with his plan to cultivate a human form.

Having made up his mind, Ji Cheng decided to leave Guo Laosi's house.

At night.

He first found a gold ingot weighing ten taels in Guo Laosi's house, and Ji Cheng quickly made two copies of it.

Once you take human form, money is essential; it's better to have it in case of need.

Subsequently, he packed up and took away all the livestock, including pigs, dogs, cattle, and sheep, from Guo Laosi's house.

Guo Laosi is no good person. He exploits and squeezes his young apprentices severely, and his methods of slaughtering livestock are more bloody and cruel than those of other butchers.

Ji Cheng fought cocks under his tutelage, and he treated Ji Cheng entirely as a tool to win money. If no one else was willing to fight with him, he could have arranged a dozen or twenty fights for Ji Cheng every day.

In addition, the money that Ji Cheng's fighting cocks earned for Guo Laosi these past few days is more than enough to buy these livestock.

Ji Cheng simply considered it his due salary.

After leaving Guo Laosi's house, they arrived at the riverbank where demons often gathered. Ji Cheng lit a fire, and soon, the bull demon, the green flame rabbit, and the flower-faced fox arrived one after another.

Several friends were concerned about Ji Cheng's situation, as the Zhao family had recently experienced quite a few changes.

Ji Cheng arrived at Python Mountain with two demonic beasts and one spirit beast.

Zhou Mu and Su Xianzi's men were still guarding the spiritual fruit.

The demons gathered around the back mountain, and Ji Cheng roasted all the livestock he had brought from Guo Laosi's house.

Only Big Yellow was absent from the gathering.

The Azure Flame Rabbit squeaked.

It said that last night it wanted to go to the Zhao residence to find Da Huang, but when it was still a hundred feet away from the Zhao residence, it sensed abnormal fluctuations in the spiritual energy around the Zhao residence, so it dared not approach.

It was worried that something might happen to Dahuang. What if Zhao Kun discovered Dahuang's identity as a demon beast?
"Don't worry, if Dahuang is in danger at the Zhao residence, it will know to run away on its own."

Ji Cheng said, "Dahuang is loyal, but not stupid. You must not go looking for Dahuang and expose yourselves. We still do not know what the purpose of the person who possessed Zhao Kun is."

The demons all nodded in agreement. They always trusted Ji Cheng's words and wouldn't do anything foolish.

Even the lively and mischievous Azure Flame Rabbit looked docile at this moment.

When the gathering ended, Ji Cheng said, "After today's farewell, I will disappear for a while. You can gather on your own and don't need to look for me. I will return on the day of the Spirit Fruit competition."

"Moo~"

All the demons looked bewildered. The bull demon cried out, as if asking Brother Chicken, "Where are you going?"

Even the python demon's cold, vertical pupils trembled slightly. It worried that Ji Cheng might have encountered some powerful enemy and therefore gone out to hide.
The little rabbit and the masked fox also stared longingly at Ji Cheng.

Ji Cheng declined to answer, as he didn't want his friends to know about his human transformation.

It's not that I don't trust them, but rather, to be on the safe side, it's best not to let anyone other than myself know about such secrets.

"I'm leaving now, see you later!"

Ji Cheng glanced at the demons, then flapped his wings and soared into the sky.

The demons noticed that he flew away in a direction that was not Wuzhen.

This means that Brother Chicken has left Wuzhen.

The demons all felt a pang of sadness, a faint sense of melancholy lingering in their hearts.

……

After leaving Python Mountain, Ji Cheng used a basic transformation technique to transform himself into a peregrine falcon. This was the smallest bird he could transform into.

This reduces one's presence and prevents them from attracting too much attention during the day.

Under the night sky, Ji Cheng flew over mountains, forests, streams, and valleys, surveying more than a dozen villages and towns near Wuzhen.

He even flew to the outskirts of Zishui City, observing the city from afar. In the end, he flew around Zishui City once, but did not dare to fly over it rashly.

For the next few days, he observed the layout of the land as a peregrine falcon.

He flew far into the distance, traveling thousands of miles, until he saw a city dozens of times larger than Zishui City.

He didn't know the name of the city, but he saw cultivators flying into the sky on their swords every now and then, turning into streaks of light and flying away.

These scenes greatly shocked Ji Cheng; it was truly a celestial city.

He had just landed on a tree branch a hundred or two miles away from the Immortal City when dozens of powerful divine senses swept over him. Fortunately, Ji Cheng possessed the "Heavenly Rooster Must Not Reveal" ability, so these divine senses did not detect anything unusual about him.

After these divine senses disappeared, Ji Cheng didn't look back and flew towards Zishui City at full speed.

This area is not yet within his reach to explore.

After that, Ji Cheng became much more obedient, limiting his flight area to the seven towns and thirteen villages near Wuzhen.

He landed on a branch and silently observed the people in these villages and towns, looking for a suitable identity to assume for himself.

Two more days have passed.

Ji Cheng discovered two teams of demon hunters, including martial artists and cultivators, who cooperated with each other and each performed their duties.

A tiger demon was attacking people in Tujia Village, killing more than a dozen people. A team of demon hunters headed to Tujia Village to capture the demon.

He overheard that this group of demon hunters was going to Wuzhen to hunt demons afterward.

Actually, this matter is also Ji Cheng's fault.

Ji Cheng ate several cows belonging to Guo Laosi in succession, and before leaving, he packed up all the livestock and took them with him, which completely angered Guo Laosi. Guo Laosi went to Zishui City and complained to the city lord's mansion. The city lord's mansion then posted a notice offering a reward for a demon hunter to capture the demon in Wuzhen.

"I need to find a way to get in touch with this team of demon hunters!"

Ji Cheng locked onto his target and returned to Wuzhen with the group of demon hunters; this reason was just right.

But how can we get in touch with this group of demon hunters?

He circled over Tujia Village several times and spotted a boy who looked about sixteen or seventeen years old.

At this moment, the boy was kneeling at the entrance of Tujia Village, dressed in mourning clothes, with a wooden sign next to him that read "Selling himself to bury his father".

"It's you!"

Ji Cheng selected his target, chose a spot, and, taking advantage of the absence of others, transformed into human form.

He was wearing a set of Zhao Kun's clothes, which he had stolen on their wedding night, and they fit him quite well.

Ji Cheng walked over from a distance. Just as he reached the boy, before he could ask anything, the boy started wailing.

"Waaaaah, sir, you died such a terrible death!"

"I lost both my parents when I was young, and now my only relative, you, have also left me. Waaah, why does the rope always break at its thinnest point? Why does misfortune always find those who are unfortunate?"

"I'm penniless, I can't even afford to bury you, my dear!"

The boy was crying so hard that snot and tears streamed down his face, and anyone who passed by couldn't help but feel pity for him.

Ji Cheng was secretly delighted. His parents had both passed away, and his only relative, his grandfather, had also died. This identity was perfect!

He immediately walked over and asked, "Wait a minute, what's your name?"

"Ah? Young master, my name is Er Gou, I'm from Tu Family Village, sob sob sob, my grandfather... my grandfather was killed by that tiger demon three days ago..."

"Hmm, do you have any other information? Tell me in detail."

"Huh? I... I lost both my parents when I was young, and my grandfather raised me single-handedly..."

How did your parents die?

"what?"

(End of this chapter)