In our long-standing and historically rich land of China, many professions have their own rules and taboos. This is especially true for ancient and mysterious crafts.
For instance, when engag...
"This is a treasure bestowed upon the Steel Plate Immortal by the Master!" Zhao Youliang immediately realized.
After listening to Zhao Youliang's words, the simple-minded caveman nodded in agreement.
"Of course I know!"
"This treasure is called the 'Mountain-Driving Whip,' which means it can drive mountains and seas away; it's incredibly powerful."
"Of course, this is a replica made by the gentleman, and it is not as impressive as the original from ancient times."
After hearing the primitive man's explanation, Zhao Youliang and the others realized that the treasures the master had casually bestowed upon them were so powerful.
Chang Jie looked puzzled: "Uncle Xiao Jian, I didn't expect you to be so knowledgeable, you even know this."
The caveman was a little embarrassed by what Chang Jie said, and scratched his big head stupidly.
"Xiao Jie, you don't know, I didn't have much education to begin with, I was just a big vagrant."
"Then when Mo Zhe Ma Mingyang was teaching the 'First Warrior (Young General),' he always took me along."
“I didn’t want to learn, so he beat me hard. He beat me until I was scared, so I had no choice but to learn all kinds of cultural knowledge.”
"And then I got to know more people."
At this point, the primitive man paused for a moment: "According to the old Mohist, there should be two mountain-driving whips, one male and one female."
“There’s one right now, and it’s a female whip.”
"If we use this whip to reshape the grasshopper's body, wouldn't he turn into an old woman? Or into the eunuch the young general mentioned?"
"Oh my god, this is terrible!"
Upon hearing that he would become a eunuch, the grasshopper spirit was on the verge of tears.
He instinctively backed away while speaking with a mournful face.
"Forget it, forget it. Rather than becoming a eunuch, I'd rather just vanish into thin air."
"Um... Quantum, could you help call those two ghost messengers back? I think I'll go with them instead."
Zhao Youliang: "......"
Li Mao was good at persuasion, and seeing this, he sincerely said, "Old Master Steel Plate, please don't!"
"It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death, right?"
"Even if we're resurrected with a whip and become eunuchs, we'll just take lots of supplements every day!"
"Put on the deer blood and deer penis, what if it grows back!"
The grasshopper spirit naturally wouldn't believe Li Mao's twisted logic. If it weren't for its own bad luck, it would have definitely beaten this idiot up.
Just then, Chang Jie suddenly thought of something and immediately shrank his little body back into the eggshell.
After searching for a while, they actually found an identical whip.
It was just a bit thicker and longer than the grasshopper spirit's.
"This is?!"
After finding the whip, Chang Jie's face turned bright red with excitement.
"Quantum, this is the mighty whip of the Mountain-Driving Whip!"
"If Uncle Xiaojian hadn't mentioned it earlier, I would have completely forgotten about it!"
"When I was little, I had delicate skin and was always bitten by mosquitoes, so my husband gave me this treasure to repel them!"
"It's wonderful that the old immortal grasshopper can finally be of use!"
"Shoot away mosquitoes? Such a powerful gadget is only for shooing away mosquitoes?!" Zhao Youliang and the others immediately broke down upon hearing this.
I deeply felt the difference between a poor family like mine and a wealthy family.
Actually, this is all a misunderstanding: although Mr. Chang dotes on Chang Jie, he wouldn't be so bored.
It was as if fate had foreseen today's events, so it gave the Mountain-Driving Whip to Chang Jie in advance.
Every drink and every bite was meant to be given to the grasshopper spirit through his hands.
Or perhaps the master had foreseen everything that was happening today, and was using this opportunity to help the grasshopper spirit break free from its limitations so that it could have greater potential in the future.
After all, insects have limited aptitude; at best, they can only become a wandering immortal, and even ghost immortals find it difficult to cultivate to that level.
However, this is all predicated on the grasshopper spirit sacrificing itself to protect Chang Jie and Zhao Youliang; otherwise, none of this would have happened.
Planting good seeds yields good fruit; that's exactly how it is!
......
Seeing Chang Jie hand over the treasure to her without hesitation, the grasshopper spirit was deeply moved and her eyes welled up with tears.
"Thank you! Thank you, Young Master Chang Jie!"
"Thanks!!!"
Upon hearing this, Chang Jie conjured a pair of transparent hands and gently embraced the grasshopper spirit's aged face.
"Old immortal, you don't need to be so polite with me. I can give you all the treasures I have."
"You risked your life to save me; it was the least you could do."
As Chang Jie spoke, he used his magically formed little fleshy hands to help the grasshopper spirit wipe away its "ghost tears".
"Good old immortal, don't cry, old immortal."
Feeling Chang Jie's sincerity and kindness, the grasshopper spirit cried even harder.
Because of his humble origins, he had always been surrounded by people who were deceitful and treacherous, and rarely had anyone treated him with such genuine sincerity.
While they were moved, the rough and unrefined primitives didn't understand any of this.
"Hahaha, alright, with these two whips, I'm sure I can give Grasshopper a good body."
"However, I'm a rough man, and my skills aren't very good, so the finished product might not look very nice."
"You don't mind if it's a grasshopper, do you?"
Upon hearing this, the grasshopper spirit quickly shook its head repeatedly: "Senior, please rest assured, how could we cultivators care about external things?"
"What's the use of being good-looking? You can't eat it, and you can't use it as a qualification for cultivation."
"Just do it without worry, I won't be picky!"
"Alright!" Upon receiving the grasshopper spirit's reply, the primitive man immediately got to work.
He then vigorously rubbed the two whips in his palms, as if he were twisting hemp rope.
The way they rubbed it was so intense, it sparked like fireworks.
He rubbed them until they were smoking and both whips had melted, then he threw them to the ground like trash.
"Mommy, Mommy, coax me, and the little green onion will become a big green onion."
"Roar, come out, new body!"
To everyone's astonishment, a "human ball" appeared before them.
That was a real ball—a fleshy ball with eyes, a nose, and a mouth, but no ears.
A giant fleshy ball, half a meter in diameter...
The grasshopper spirit could hardly believe its eyes at this sight.
"S-Senior, is that all?"
"This is my new body?"
The caveman nodded sheepishly: "Yeah, that's it!"
"How's it going? Looking strong? Much more muscular than before, isn't it?!"
"With a physique like that, it would be difficult for anyone to take you down!"
"Because you're standing just like you're lying down, your center of gravity is so stable!"
Grasshopper Spirit: "......"
Although I had thought that my new body would look terrible according to primitive people's aesthetic standards, I never expected it to be so unexpectedly ugly.
So the grasshopper spirit looked at Zhao Youliang with a mournful face: "Quantum, you should ask those two ghost messengers to come back. I, the old immortal, am not going to live anymore."
"What's the difference between this body and a eunuch's... the difference is that it's neither male nor female, it has nothing!"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Youliang's face darkened even more.
It turns out the grasshopper spirit didn't dislike the new body because it was ugly and crippled.
They just dislike the lack of gender...
Therefore, Zhao Youliang could only comfort the grasshopper spirit while speaking to the primitive man.
"Senior, did you hear what the old immortal just said?"
"Look..."