Chapter 148: Cocoon Break (1/2)

The five Yin land demon subjugation missions were completed.

Due to Ma Donggui's influence, the Foreign Affairs Hall showed them sufficient respect.

A large number of mortal craftsmen worked together. With the help of cultivators with both earth and wood attributes, the construction work was quickly completed.

Moreover, the Nightless City was actually divided into two areas of the inner and outer city. The inner city was the area where cultivators lived and interacted, while the outer city had mortals who existed to serve cultivators.

Under Jiang Li's request, besides the shops in the inner city, a large inn was also built for him near the edge of the outer city.

After hanging up the signboard of the Scripture Storage Valley, no one dared to provoke them.

After all, it was impossible for those weak demons to be allowed to enter the inner city. If they wanted to continuously obtain the souls of the dead, he naturally had to make it more convenient for the movers.

Soon, the preparations were completed. As long as the signboard was hung, these two money trees would start working their effect.

However, who would have thought that the inner city store he spent so much effort to create was actually not the focus? The outer city small business that others looked down on was his true goal.

Yan Hong was watching over the cultivation market. Although everything was not considered orderly, Jiang Li did not have to worry about it.

On the day Jiang Li returned, everything was already prepared. With an announcement from him, the two shops in the inner and outer cities opened for business at the same time.

The two shops had the same name. They were called 'Prosperous Jiang Hong'.

Jiang naturally referred to Jiang Li, and Hong referred to Yan Hong. The word ”Prosperous” implied that the shops could fill their pockets with money.

In the beginning, Jiang Li had even complained about Yan Hong's terrible naming, but the fatty had many good reasons to do so. He explained in a logical manner.

”We're running a business, not to drag our customers into the store and slaughter them. It's fine to have a harmonious sounding name. Why the need to make it imposing?”

Yan Hong was a professional in this aspect, so Jiang Li did not pay any better attention and did not probe further.

Although this name had a nice meaning, in this Nightless City, other large and old stores had at least a hundred years of history. Their reputation, popularity, and reputation were all there. How could an ordinary new store compare to them?

The inner city's Prosperous Jiang Hong did not become famous on the first day.

Fortunately, unlike the cold and cheerless opening of the inner city, the outer city's Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn, which could accommodate thousands of people at the same time, was almost full after sun set.

With Yan Hong's promise, the food and drinks on the first day of business were completely free. Naturally, there was an endless stream of little demons who came after hearing the news.

Then, they promoted their main business to all the weak demons. Apart from souls, Jiang Li also bought information, materials, secret techniques, and other valuable things.

In the cultivation world, there were countless low-level demons. They covered a wide range of areas actively. Perhaps there was something good that they would accidentally find.

However, with their cultivation level and almost illiterate knowledge of the cultivation world, good things would be useless in their hands.

It was better to sell it to Jiang Li. If he could really pick up a peerless treasure from the trash, then he would make a killing.

Jiang Li did not cheat them. He had the intention of buying these items properly. If it was really a good item, he would use real spirit stones to purchase it from them at the normal price in the cultivation world. This was a treatment that low-level demons like them would absolutely not be able to enjoy elsewhere.

After staying there for a day, Jiang Li even specially hired a few small demons to put up a show. They brought over a few magic artifacts and spirit herbs that they had obtained by 'accident' but could not use.

The deal was completed in front of thousands of demons.

An ape demon took 20 low-grade spirit stones that could only be found in its dreams and left.

A fox demon even exchanged spirit stones for Qi Nourishing Pills used for cultivation on the spot and a low-grade Yellow-rank artifact with 'boundless might'. Moreover, it directly applied to join the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn to become a shop attendant.

This made countless lesser demons who wanted to play tricks on it no longer dare to act recklessly. In the hearts of the thousands of lesser demons present, there was only endless hope and desire.

With their brains, they could not understand what false advertisements were. This group of demons only knew that the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn would be the place where their dreams began.

Moreover, as word of mouth spread, there would naturally be more and more monsters in this region that would be attracted to the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn and work hard for the same dream.

As such, the reputation of the Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn was immediately spread. As long as they did not do something stupid in the later stages, their gains would only keep increasing.

That first night, Jiang Li obtained more than two thousand souls, spirit herbs and spirit mine ores.

Although it seemed that the quantity and speed of the soul harvest was far inferior to that of Cloud Stream City, the situation here was different.

The people of Cloud Stream City were directly massacred. Hundreds of thousands of souls were right in front of him. He just had to reach out and take them. Although the speed was fast, it would only last for a few days.

The Prosperous Jiang Hong Inn was a long-term business. As long as its reputation was spread, it would give the small demons enough motivation. Then, no matter how many people died in this region, Jiang Li would be able to obtain as many souls as he wanted. This was a long-term stable income.

As long as the spiritual qi and Yin qi in the Yin Burial Coffin could keep up, there would be a million ghost soldiers in his ever-expanding army!

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Another two weeks later.

Jiang Li had long returned to the sect. At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in the cultivation room, motionless like a statue.

His consciousness quietly stared at an ordinary corner of the Scripture Storage Valley.

In the sect's Internal Affairs Hall, in a bucket of swill in the large kitchen area, a fly was happily eating the food in front of it.

How bored must one be to pay attention to the actions of a fly? Yet now, in the Scripture Storage Valley, the genius Jiang Li who was said to be the favored son of the heavens and was invincible with his iron fists was doing such a thing. His master would definitely beat him up upon seeing it.

The fly sucked and spat, its huge compound eyes staring warily at everything around it.

However, no one paid much attention to the smelly bucket.

Soon, after eating and drinking its fill, the fly wobbled out of the barrel, intending to find a female fly to chat about life.

Without realizing it, it crashed into an almost transparent web.

The spiderweb was extremely sticky. The poor fly tried to flap its wings, but could not escape. Soon, the struggle attracted the attention of a huge and terrifying predator, a spotted spider!

In the end, the weak body was injected with poison and wrapped in spiderwebs, turning into a drop of insect soup.

The Parallel Mind separated from the fly the moment it died, returning to Jiang Li's body with the memories of the past few days.

Jiang Li's body suddenly shook, and then his mind and body slowly underwent some changes while he was comprehending these gains.

”In my first life, I was reincarnated as an ancient winged mayfly. I lived and died in glory, but in the end, I exhausted my essence and died on the lotus leaf.”

”In my second life, I reincarnated into a twin-needle black mosquito, causing Senior Sister Little Four to be unable to sleep for seven consecutive days. In the end, because of my greed, she killed me with one palm strike.”

”In my third life, I turned into a multicolored butterfly and danced among flowers, chasing after my kind. In the end, I accidentally fell into the pond and became food for the fish.”

”In my fourth life, I became a fly and ran away while eating in the kitchen. I competed in wits and courage with a cultivator who was a chef, and in the end, I accidentally trespassed into a spider's web and was brutally hunted and killed.”

Jiang Li sat cross-legged in the quiet room as the second Parallel Mind's experiences flashed through his mind.

Gradually, the white hair on his body thickened.

If one touched it with their hands, they would discover that his skin had become dry and hard, as if it had become a shell, protecting the flesh inside.

A gentle heat radiated from it, causing the temperature in the nearby chamber to rise several degrees. Within the cocoon, there seemed to be a violent change.

Four hours later, Jiang Li's cocoon suddenly started to squirm, and a large hole was torn open from the inside.

Jiang Li, who still had some mucus on his body, crawled out from inside.

It had to be said that his skin was ridiculously tough. When he came out, it took a lot of effort to successfully tear it open.

However, was this the so-called ”Cocoon Break”?

Jiang Li was slightly surprised by this. He did not expect that after reincarnating four times in a row, he would actually gain such a technique.

It felt like an innate talent or simple instinct. He could use it naturally.

The specific function was to make slight adjustments to his body during the cocoon transformation. Other than that, he could also achieve dream-like effects such as regrowing limbs, second-stage puberty, and beautification.

But to him, the last one did not seem to be of much use…

Jiang Li looked at himself in the mirror and saw that he had grown a size bigger. He had become taller and his face had become more handsome. He nodded in satisfaction.

Right, the mayfly, mosquito, butterfly, and fly all had wings. Could it be that he had grown a pair as well?