Mortal Transformation into Immortal

"Here, these three are for you. I'll take the two bigger ones."

Yu Ling handed her the three smaller spirit fish.

"Senior Brother Yu, I only need two small ones. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to catch any at all," Chu Tao quickly shook her head and said, not taking the bait.

"You're the one who found this out. I just got a bargain. We agreed to split it equally, so we'll split it equally."

"Senior Brother Yu, I really only need two."

Despite repeated attempts to persuade her, Chu Tao only agreed to take two.

After separating the fish, the two put it in their clothes and started walking back.

"Senior Brother Yu, why are you raising a centipede?" Chu Tao asked, puzzled, on the way.

Some of the handyman disciples also kept small pet animals, but they were mostly wild cats, birds, and the like.

"Is it really that scary?"

Yu Ling didn't find the weight terrifying.

"Um."

Chu Tao nodded repeatedly.

"You even dared to cut open a green python before, you weren't afraid of such a big snake, how come you're afraid of a centipede?"

"It's different. That green python is already dead, and I've been catching snakes in the mountains with my father since I was a child. I've caught countless snakes by hand," Chu Tao said.

"No wonder."

"Try not to come to such far places in the future. We are not formal disciples, we are not wearing dharma robes, and we do not have any dharma tools. If we are bitten or caught by wild animals, we will basically die," Yu Ling reminded.

Although you have magic, you must be careful, because a mistake could cost you your life.

"Okay, Senior Brother Yu, are your parents immortals?"

"no..."

The two chatted casually.

Once they reached the vicinity of the area where the servant disciples lived, they went about their own business.

Yu Ling climbed up a tree.

"Can't wait any longer, can you?"

He placed a spirit fish in the branch of the tree.

The weight was swirling in his hands in a panic, but he dared not go down without permission.

"Eat."

Yu Ling held it in her hand and placed it next to the spirit fish.

They immediately began to devour the food.

Yu Ling just watched it eat.

As the fish meat entered his stomach, Jinliang's body became covered in blood vessels again, his entire body frantically absorbing the spiritual substances in the fish meat.

This spirit fish is of much higher quality than those ordinary spirit medicines.

As expected of a spirit insect, it digests food very quickly. Not long after it ate, small particles began to fall out, leaving Yu Ling dumbfounded.

In less than half an hour, it devoured the entire spirit fish, eating away its scales and bones.

"You still want it?"

Seeing that it seemed to want more, Yu Ling took out another one and placed it beside it.

Jinliang continued to eat voraciously.

It swallowed the spirit fish bit by bit.

"I need the last one; I'll give it to you after we find the treasure."

Seeing that it still wanted it, Yu Ling refused to give it to it. He decided to sell this last one and see if he could exchange it for a small talisman for self-defense. After all, he often travels in the mountains, so having some on hand would give him peace of mind.

Even if you don't need it later, you can sell it and exchange it for Ziyang coins to buy other treasures.

When her demands for weight were ignored, she quietly lay on his hand.

Its entire aura was completely concealed, making it look like an ordinary centipede.

"Let's go lie on Jingzhe Peak again tomorrow."

Seeing that the sky was already turning dusky, Yu Ling sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes to cultivate.

......

the next day.

On Jingzhe Peak.

"Senior sister, these are the medicinal herbs I've found over the past two weeks. Could you tell me how much I still need to complete this month's task?"

Yu Ling stood outside the hut and handed the medicine basket inside.

Since there will be more handymen coming at the end of the month, there is currently only one formal disciple inside.

"Where's the waist tag?"

The disciple asked.

"Here."

Yu Ling handed him his servant's badge.

The disciple threw his waist token into the mouth of the bronze toad on the table, made a hand seal at the mouth of the medicine basket, and poured all the spiritual herbs inside into the toad's mouth.

The toad opened its mouth wide, swallowed the food, and then vomited some things out with a splash.

It was Yu Ling's waist tag and a few weeds that had been deliberately placed there.

The disciple said, "Well done, you've completed sixty percent."

"There are just too many weeds."

Yu Ling quickly replied, "This is my first time gathering herbs this month, so I can't distinguish them very well."

"It's alright, this is normal. Many disciples who are gathering herbs for the first time bring back more wild herbs than medicinal herbs."

"Take it."

The disciple returned the waist token and medicine basket to him.

"Senior sister, how much Ziyang coins is this half basket of spiritual herbs I brought worth?" he asked curiously.

"Around thirty," the disciple said.

"So many!"

Even Yu Ling herself was surprised.

The female disciple said, "For you herb-gathering laborers at the first level of Qi Refining, the sect's requirement is to gather enough herbs to make half a low-grade spirit stone each month. For those at the second level of Qi Refining, it's one low-grade spirit stone."

"So that's how it is."

Yu Ling accepted the waist token, bowed, and left.

Most of the herbs it collected in the past two weeks were consumed by Jinliang, though it also found quite a few medicinal herbs on its own.

"Half a low-grade spirit stone a month, the task is really heavy."

Yu Ling muttered to himself.

This puts a lot of pressure on other herb-gathering laborers at the first level of Qi cultivation; if they slack off even slightly, they might not be able to complete the task.

"I wonder how much treasure this spirit fish can fetch."

Yu Ling carried the spirit fish and headed towards the market.

......

One hour later.

Yu Ling arrived at the market.

"Let's check this place out."

He has already asked two companies, and both offered a price of around fifty coins.

He arrived at a shop that specialized in buying and selling all kinds of spiritual items.

"Greetings, Elder."

Yu Ling first bowed to the old man inside.

"Are you here to buy spiritual items?" the old man asked, frowning. Usually, his menial disciples rarely came to him.

"Elder, I caught a little spirit fish in the mountains. How much is it worth?" He placed the spirit fish on the counter.

"White loach, this kind of spirit fish is extremely fast in the water and can also expand and contract its body. You actually managed to catch it." The old man was surprised.

"We were lucky; we managed to freeze it with magic," Yu Ling replied.

"Very well preserved, fifty-five Ziyang coins, how about that?"

"OK."

Yu Ling nodded, and had one or two more Ziyang coins than the previous two.

"Elder Cheng, do you have any jade-skinned centipedes?"

Just then, a young girl in green walked in from outside and asked a question.

"Jade-skinned centipede!"

Upon hearing this name, Yu Ling was taken aback; it was indeed a jade-skinned centipede.

Upon seeing the disciple enter, Yu Ling quickly bowed respectfully: "Senior Sister."

"Um."

The female disciple nodded slightly, then looked at the old man behind the counter.

"It's you." The old man clearly recognized her.

"Elder Cheng, my master needs a jade centipede to use as an ingredient in alchemy. Do you have one?" the girl asked.

"Yes, I'll go get it for you."

The old man said with a smile.

"Thank you for your help."

The girl waited nearby.

Yu Ling looked at the shop with curiosity. There were many transparent bottles on the cabinets inside, and each bottle contained a different kind of spirit.

The old man quickly brought over a bottle.

There was a white centipede curled up inside.

"This is the Jade-skinned Centipede?" Yu Ling's eyes looked somewhat strange.

This centipede is larger than the weight, but the weight doesn't look like this nowadays.

Moreover, the centipede's shell was incredibly smooth, but now some protrusions, like bone spurs, had grown on it.

However, upon closer inspection, the weight, having lost its spiritual essence, does resemble the centipede inside the bottle.