Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 196 [Chicken Coop: lv3]

A month later, when the rooster's crow startled the corpse puppets on the west side of Misty Island.

Ji Yuan finally returned to his lair.

Before it even landed, the Frost Dragon in the spirit beast pouch seemed to sense something and couldn't contain itself any longer, so it started to dart around wildly.

Now that they were home, Ji Yuan naturally didn't keep it confined any longer.

Unexpectedly, the Frost Dragon had just emerged from the spirit beast pouch when it bumped into a giant toad that was leaping towards it.

Before the giant toad could react, the Frost Dragon opened its ferocious dragon head.

"ha--"

He exhaled a breath of icy air, instantly freezing the giant toad.

Giant toad: "???"

It blinked, seemingly not quite understanding.

To it, the Frost Dragon had only been gone for a short time, barely enough time for it to take a nap. How could this creature have such strength?

What was once merely a cooling breath to it now possesses such power.

Before the giant toad could retaliate, the Frost Dragon briefly took to the air and unleashed a powerful tail swipe.

A tail lashed out and struck the giant toad hard, sending its massive body, which was over ten meters long, flying through the air. It crashed through several trees before finally collapsing.

However, this also thawed the giant toad.

"Croak!!"

With a loud roar, the giant toad became enraged.

"hold head high--"

The Frost Dragon was not to be outdone and roared at it.

Ji Yuan, standing between the two, didn't even bother to look at them, and simply pointed at Yun Yuze.

If you want to fight, go outside and fight. If you dare to fight at home, I'll stew you both today!

Fortunately, although the two demonic beasts were angry with each other, they were still willing to listen to Ji Yuan's advice. One leaped and the other swung its tail in mid-air. In the blink of an eye, they had already gone to Yunyuze.

Soon, the lake water began to violently pound against the shore.

In many places, the lake water has even begun to freeze.

Ji Yuan knew without even watching the fight that the big toad would definitely win.

Although the Frost Dragon has the upper hand in terms of bloodline, it is still a first-stage second-tier demon beast. But what about the giant toad?

I've been immersed in the second-order late stage for many years.

So the result was obvious without even comparing them. Ji Yuan was just curious about how much difference there was between the strength of the Frost Dragon and the Giant Toad, since there was no reason to use the Frost Dragon on this trip.

They didn't even use the bee colony.

Ji Yuan didn't know the exact strength of the Frost Dragon, so having this giant toad as a touchstone was just right.

The two went off to fight. Ji Yuan looked at Tu Yue, who came forward to greet him. She seemed like a little wife to him. He had just returned from work and she was coming to welcome him.

More importantly, she would voluntarily hand over all the gains she had made during this period.

Ji Yuan took the storage bag from her, emptied it, and returned the empty bag to her. Finally, he didn't forget to pinch her cold little face.

Unfortunately, Tu Yue did not react at all.

Fortunately, she didn't react at all.

If there's a real reaction, that would be terrifying.

"Wait, go and call the second-year junior high student over here."

Ji Yuan remembered that the corpse puppet in the second year of junior high school was an old woman who was on the verge of death. Let alone being of any help, it was difficult to even get her to feed a chicken every day.

He wouldn't feel bad about destroying such a useless corpse puppet, which even Ji Yuan would disdain.

It's perfect for testing the ring of the Yin Ghost Sect.

Before long, Tu Yue brought over the corpse puppet whose hands were covered in mud and whose face was covered in age spots.

Ji Yuan first used several purification spells on her to clean her up before taking out the Yin Ghost Sect ring and making her wear it.

The corpse puppet has no consciousness and acts entirely according to Ji Yuan's commands.

So it didn't resist at all and did as instructed throughout the whole process.

As expected, things changed after she put the ring on her finger.

In Ji Yuan's perception, the corpse puppet that was originally at the ninth level of Qi Refining suddenly disappeared. He could still see the existence of the corpse puppet in front of him and could also detect it with his divine sense, but he just couldn't see its aura or sense its strength.

Moreover, the corpse puppet's body was covered by a layer of something that looked like a black veil, giving it a ghostly and majestic appearance.

It was emanating from inside the ring.

So this ring can block detection and prevent others from seeing one's cultivation level?!

This thing looks good at first glance and looks good upon closer inspection. The only downside is the effect it produces. It's eerie and ghostly, and anyone can tell at a glance that this guy is a demonic cultivator.

Ji Yuan waited a while longer, making sure the corpse puppet had no other reaction or change, before he made it return the ring.

"Get to work."

Ji Yuan waved his hand casually, looked at the ring in his hand, thought for a moment, and finally put it on the index finger of his left hand.

As soon as Ji Yuan put the ring on his hand, he felt a chilling aura emanating from it.

He instinctively shivered, and then the yin energy enveloped his entire body.

At first, he wasn't quite used to it, but after getting used to it, he found that it was as cool as turning on the air conditioner in the middle of summer.

Secondly, there's the imposing presence.

Ji Yuan used to be very easygoing and could get along with anyone, but now?

After getting his hands on the Yin Ghost Sect Ring, Ji Yuan noticed that his aura had become more outward, as if he had gained a... domineering aura?

This wasn't a joke; it was a genuine display of domineering power.

"This ring is quite something. Not only can it block detection, it can also put pressure on people."

Ji Yuan had no doubt that if he appeared in front of a Qi Refining cultivator now, he would definitely terrify the other party.

The item is good, but it's a pity it can only be used when transforming into a demonic cultivator.

Ji Yuan took off the ring, and the aura surrounding him disappeared immediately, returning him to his ordinary appearance.

"I wonder how strong this isolation and detection effect will be. Once activated, Foundation Establishment cultivators will most likely not be able to detect it, but what about Golden Core cultivators?"

Ji Yuan wanted to find an opportunity to have Hua Yaoyue take a look, so he said that he had accidentally obtained a ring that could block detection.

Ji Yuan did not want to expose the matter of the Yin Gui Sect.

Of course, you can also ask Hua Yaoyue if she has any soul-related cultivation techniques. If not... hey, Master, you should also want to learn soul-related cultivation techniques, right?

If you'd like, just call me Master and I'll teach you.

After indulging in daydreams for a while, Ji Yuan put away the ring and then took out two pieces of rotten firefly wood.

The two pieces together weighed only four jin, which was enough, but Ji Yuan hadn't forgotten the jin that the Mourning Hermit owed him... If he died at the hands of the Blood Demon, it would be like a lamp going out when a person dies.

When a person dies, the debt is wiped out.

But if I don't die at the hands of the Blood Demon, then I'm sorry, once I become stronger, I'll definitely have to get an explanation from you!

Having learned from previous experiences, Ji Yuan naturally knew how big a chicken coop should be.

With a flying sword, he cut the rotten firefly locust wood into planks of the same size in no time. After a little piecing them together, a brand new chicken coop appeared in front of him.

Ji Yuan looked at the line of small characters floating above the "chicken coop" and let out a long sigh of relief without any attempt to hide it.

Chicken Coop: lv2 (upgradeable)

"Cool!"

Ji Yuan clenched his fists and couldn't help but whisper a word.

He went to great lengths to upgrade this thing, even risking his life in the Ghost Seeking Pool. Only he knows the hardships he endured.

Fortunately, the harvest is always pleasing.

Not only was the chicken coop upgraded, but they also obtained an extremely valuable divine soul cultivation technique.

Ji Yuan then took out 50 mid-grade spirit stones and threw them into the chicken coop.

One thought... and you're leveled up!

The text above the "[Chicken Coop]" icon has been updated.

Immediately afterwards, the small chicken coop was filled with dazzling, shimmering light.

This time, Ji Yuan didn't rush to turn off the building effects.

He just watched helplessly as the last rays of light converged and transformed into a... spirit egg.

Red, yellow, and blue tricolor spirit eggs.

Ji Yuan didn't know why it was these three colors; he only knew that the spirit egg was warm when he held it in his hand.

It's like... a baby just born, with a faint, delicate fragrance.

Holding the spirit egg in his hand, Ji Yuan was momentarily dazed.

Because he remembered when he first transmigrated, when he was just a Qi Refining cultivator in a lakeside cottage in Zengtou City.

It was through these spirit eggs that he gradually improved his cultivation level.

It can be said that if it weren't for the spirit eggs produced by the [chicken coop] at that time...

My path to immortality could never have been so smooth.

"I never thought that even though I was in the Qi Refining stage, I would still have to rely on spirit eggs to survive now that I've reached the Foundation Establishment stage."

Ji Yuan smiled, but couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

The path of spiritual practice is difficult.

As before, Ji Yuan casually cracked the spirit egg and poured the spirit liquid inside directly into his mouth.

He didn't even waste the eggshell; he squeezed it tightly, crushed it into powder, and swallowed it whole.

The spiritual liquid entered the stomach and was immediately refined.

Ji Yuan could clearly feel a pure spiritual energy entering his dantian.

Once it reached the dantian, the spiritual energy spread out and spread evenly over the spiritual liquid within the dantian.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual liquid in his dantian seemed to boil. Ji Yuan looked inward and could see some spiritual energy being evaporated.

A moment later.

The total amount of spiritual energy in Ji Yuan's dantian remained unchanged, but the space it occupied in the dantian decreased slightly.

A tiny, minuscule amount.

Though few, they do exist.

If this continues over the years, it will surely be an extremely remarkable achievement... At that time, with the same dantian, others can only store ten parts of spiritual energy, but I can store twelve parts.

Those extra two points will be the key to victory!

After consuming the spirit egg, Ji Yuan put away the decaying firefly and shady locust wood in front of him.

In short, once all the chicken coops are upgraded, the effects can be applied to other chicken coops; it's not necessary for them to be made of rotten firefly wood.

Therefore, these good materials should naturally be kept and kept, to be used for cultivating secret techniques or to pay off debts in the future, which is excellent.

Once everything was in place, Ji Yuan brought up the control panel.

Chicken Coop: Level 4 (Cannot be upgraded)

[Effect 1: Improves the quality and increases the yield of spirit soil produced in the chicken coop (1 tael per day); there is a small chance that spirit birds placed in the chicken coop will undergo a mutation (the highest rank of spirit birds cannot exceed rank four).]

[Effect 2 (Four-Colored Spirit Egg): The chicken coop produces one four-colored spirit egg each month, which can purify spiritual energy and improve the quality of the Golden Core.]

[Upgrade Requirements: Cultivation level reaches Golden Core Realm; 1500 mid-grade spirit stones; Chicken coop crafted from Soul-Eating Willow. (Not yet achieved)]

When you check the Jiyuan panel, the first thing you'll see is Lingxiao 2.

Upon ascending the three-colored spirit egg, a four-colored spirit egg was discovered.

Moreover, if the three-colored spirit egg can increase the spiritual energy reserves of the Foundation Establishment stage, then the four-colored spirit egg can increase the spiritual energy reserves of the Golden Core stage... and improve the quality of the Golden Core. Could it be that the Golden Core is divided into grades?

Ji Yuan had never heard of this saying before.

It seems that I might have a chance to ask Hua Yaoyue for information.

However, based on this, one can guess the effects of this level 5 [Chicken Coop], one of which is most likely the five-colored spirit egg.

We already have three-color and four-color options, surely we should have five-color options?

The effect is to improve the quality of the nascent soul.

How are the quality of Nascent Souls classified?

Ji Yuan was also somewhat curious.

As for Spirit Effect 1, it's a standard upgrade, but it's a little different because the Spirit Bird also has an additional mutation effect, but unlike [Fish Pond], it doesn't explicitly indicate the direction of the mutation.

Otherwise, Ji Yuan could still fantasize that a true dragon would emerge from the fishpond.

A phoenix emerges from the chicken coop.

The good thing is that the level 4 [Chicken Coop] can also stack with the current level 3 [Chicken Coop] effect, creating a king of birds that can be driven. In this respect, even if the mutated spirit birds cannot recognize their master, they should still be under my control.

The upgrade requirements are a bit difficult, and there's a strict condition: you need to reach the Golden Core stage in cultivation. The spirit stones, however, are not too bad.

The final Soul-Eating Ghost Willow, judging from its name, is something related to the demonic path. I guess it will be as hard to find as the Rotten Firefly Shadow Locust. I can only keep an eye out for it in the future.

The chicken coop has been upgraded.

Ji Yuan has thus accomplished a major task.

All you need to do now is focus on farming and improving your skills naturally.

With the matter concluded, just as Ji Yuan was preparing to return to the Enlightenment Chamber to study his newly acquired divine skill, he suddenly heard a sob coming from the direction of Yun Yuze.

Immediately afterwards, an ice-blue dragon broke out of the water, leaped up from the surface, flicked its tail a few times, and then darted back to Misty Island.

Ji Yuan was somewhat surprised when he saw that many of the scales on the Frost Dragon's body had fallen off. Was this giant toad so reckless in its attacks?

They were fighting each other, and they were actually so ruthless.

But he soon realized that the big toad was not to blame.

Because this guy was covered in bruises and red marks all over his body, and there was even a bloody wound on his head.

A giant toad in the late stage of the second tier was actually beaten like this by an ice dragon in the early stage of the second tier?

Ji Yuan hadn't considered that the giant toad would show mercy. Beasts don't have such delicate minds. If the Frost Dragon was ruthless, the giant toad must have been ruthless as well.

Therefore, once the Frost Dragon breaks through to the mid-stage of the second tier, it should be able to fight the Giant Toad to a draw.

The Ice Dragon is currently estimated to be only at the mid-stage of the second tier.

That's already pretty good.

"Here, eat more since you're injured."

After giving the Frost Dragon ten drops of Ice Soul Dew, Ji Yuan gave the Big Toad ten Spirit Pigs.

The two creatures, who had just been injured, became happy again.

The giant toad was eating the spirit pig, its eyes darting around. Ji Yuan waved his hand and said directly to it, "Don't try to freeload. If you fight again, neither of you will get anything to eat."

The giant toad could only lower its head in disappointment.

The Frost Dragon scrambled away quickly using all four limbs and finally disappeared into the fishpond.

Ji Yuan warned it again, urging it never to steal the spirit fish inside.

The spirit fish in the fishpond are all trainees for the Frost Dragon.

After dealing with the two of them, Ji Yuan went to the dense forest in the west. He first released the bee swarm he had taken out last time, letting them return to the [beehive].

Ji Yuan used his divine sense to count the number of Soul-Devouring Bees and found that several thousand more had appeared while he was out.

If this reproduction rate continues, the number of Soul-Devouring Bees will likely become quite considerable.

After rewarding them with 100 mid-grade spirit stones, Ji Yuan went to the [Mass Burial Mound]. He first dug a pit and buried the Thousand Soul Banner and the Yin Ghost Banner inside, allowing them to receive nourishment from the Yin energy.

He then took out the corpse of the Yin Child, dug a pit nearby, and buried it.

Ji Yuan then examined the existing corpse puppets.

The number of discovered corpse puppets has increased from the first day to the sixth day, but there are still not a single Foundation Establishment stage corpse puppet. They are all Qi Refining stage corpse puppets, which are not of great use and can only be used for menial tasks.

After inspecting the buildings on the misty island, Ji Yuan returned to his cave.

Now that these miscellaneous matters have been resolved, it's time to properly inventory the storage bags.

Ji Yuan dislikes killing people, but he enjoys taking inventory of other people's storage bags.

This is a difficult problem in itself.

"Here, this is my senior brother Ma's, and this is Yin Tongzi's."

Ji Yuan looked around and finally decided to check Yin Tongzi's storage bag first. He decided to save the good stuff for later.

The demonic cultivators in Shangdong live by the law, so they have few spirit stones. Any spirit stones they have are used to improve their strength.

So even though this Yin Child is a demonic cultivator in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.

However, he still didn't have many spirit stones, only 176 mid-grade spirit stones.

Not even enough to feed the Soul-Devouring Bees twice, trash.

The only valuable items left were magical artifacts, and Ji Yuan was quite interested in his bell.

That thing was quite effective at intimidating people; Ji Yuan was caught off guard and fell for it.

The bell is a mid-grade spiritual artifact, and it looks like it was made from an infant's skull and bound by bronze chains.

Just by holding it in his hand, Ji Yuan could feel the extremely strong resentment emanating from the bell.

Refining, still refining.

"The Seven Fiends Baby Crying Bell can emit a sharp baby cry when it is shaken, which can disturb cultivators below the late Foundation Establishment stage for three breaths."

After Ji Yuan clearly understood, he realized that it was indeed a good thing.

In this light, my demonic cultivation skills have improved even further, and at crucial moments, my righteous identity can also be used, right?

All you need to do is silence them afterwards.

Ji Yuan then took out his flying artifact from Yin Tongzi's storage bag. It was a skull, and thick smoke billowed wherever he flew.

Ji Yuan was deeply impressed by this.

Unexpectedly, this was still a mid-grade spiritual weapon, but the good thing was that it had an extremely fast short-distance acceleration effect.

In normal flight, it is actually weaker than a typical mid-grade spiritual weapon.

Ji Yuan planned to check out Senior Brother Ma's flying artifact later; if it was better, then this would be a valuable commodity.

All that's left is a low-grade spiritual artifact-level protective robe.

In the final battle, it was broken by Ji Yuan's sword embryo and was slightly damaged, so it was still worth selling.

In terms of spiritual artifacts alone, demonic cultivators are indeed wealthier than righteous cultivators. An ordinary mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator cannot afford to maintain three spiritual artifacts, let alone two of them being mid-grade spiritual artifacts.

There were no special talismans, only some ordinary talismans.

The same goes for pills; they didn't even have the valuable Foundation Establishment Pill, which made Ji Yuan curse them as poor several times in anger.

Finally, there are the secret techniques.

After searching for a while, Ji Yuan actually found something good.

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