With Ma Donggui's greeting, the sect's Foreign Affairs Hall was also quite considerate.
A large number of mortal craftsmen worked around the clock, and with the help of monks with both civil and engineering attributes, the construction work was quickly completed.
And this city that never sleeps is actually divided into two areas: the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is where the monks live and communicate, while the outer city is inhabited by mortals who exist to serve the monks.
At Jiang Li's request, in addition to the shops in the inner city, an inn covering a large area was also built for him near the edge of the outer city.
Once the sign of Sutra Valley is hung up, no one will dare to mess with it.
After all, those weak monsters could not be allowed to enter the inner city. If he wanted to obtain a steady supply of ghosts and spirits, he naturally had to give some convenience to such porters.
The preparations were soon completed, and as soon as the sign was hung, the two cornucopias would begin to operate.
Who would have thought that the inner city shop he had spent so much effort to build was just a bonus. The small business in the outer city that others looked down upon was his real goal.
Yan Hong is looking after the Xiuxian Market. Although everything is not in perfect order, Jiang Li doesn't have to worry too much.
On the day Jiang Li returned, everything was ready. With his command "hang the sign", the two stores in the inner city and the outer city opened at the same time.
The names of the two shops are the same, called "Man Jiang Hong".
The "Jiang" naturally refers to Jiang Li, the "Hong" refers to Yan Hong, and the "Man" means that it can fill their pockets.
Jiang Li had complained about Yan Hong's naming skills at the beginning, but the fat man, who was becoming increasingly rounder, had many reasons and his arguments were very convincing.
"We are open for business, not to lure customers into the store and slaughter them. A name with a good meaning is enough. Why is there such a murderous aura?"
Yan Hong is an expert in this area, and Jiang Li has no better ideas, so he doesn't ask any more questions.
Although the name has some meaning, in this city that never sleeps, other big and old stores have a history of at least a hundred years. Their reputation, popularity and credibility are all there. How can an ordinary new store compare with them?
The red flowers in the inner city did not become red on the first day.
Fortunately, unlike the deserted and bleak start in the inner city, the Manjianghong Inn in the outer city, which could accommodate thousands of people at the same time, was almost full after the sun set.
As Yan Hong had made arrangements in advance and promised, drinks and food would be completely free on the first day of opening, so naturally there was an endless stream of little demons coming to the store after hearing the news.
Then they began to promote their main business to all the little demons. In addition to souls, Jiang Li also purchased intelligence, materials, secret techniques and any other valuable things.
In the world of cultivating immortals, there are countless low-level monsters like these, and their coverage is very wide. You never know what good stuff they might find by accident.
However, with their cultivation level lacking even a breath of spiritual energy, and their knowledge of the immortal cultivation world being almost illiterate, good things in their hands would be like a pearl covered in dust, and would be of no use at all.
It would be better to sell it to Jiang Li. If he could really pick up a rare treasure from the garbage dump, he would make a profit.
Jiang Li would not cheat them. He was thinking of spending a fortune on horse bones. If they were really good things, he would buy them from them with real spirit stones at the normal price in the world of immortal cultivation. This was a treatment that these low-level demons could never enjoy anywhere else.
After staying there for a day, Jiang Li specially found a few little demons to act as agents and brought over some magical weapons and spiritual herbs that he had "accidentally" obtained but could not use.
The transaction was completed in front of thousands of monsters.
An ape demon walked away with twenty low-grade spirit stones that it had only seen in dreams.
A fox demon even exchanged the spirit stone for a Qi-nourishing pill for cultivation and a "powerful" lower-grade yellow-level magic weapon on the spot. He also applied to join the Manjianghong Inn and became a staff member.
This made countless little demons who wanted to take advantage of her no longer dare to have any thoughts. In the hearts of the thousands of little demons present, there was only endless longing and desire.
With their brains, they couldn't figure out what a routine or an advertisement was. These little demons only knew that Manjianghong Inn would be the place where their dreams began.
And as word of mouth spreads, naturally more and more monsters in this area will be attracted to the Manjianghong Inn and fight for the same dream all their lives.
In this way, the reputation of the Manjianghong Inn spread out immediately. As long as you don't do anything stupid in the later stage, the rewards will only continue to increase.
On that first night, Jiang Li harvested more than two thousand souls, as well as a number of spiritual herbs and minerals.
Although it seems that the number and speed of harvesting souls are far less than in Yunxi City, the situation here is different.
Yunxi City was directly massacred, hundreds of thousands of souls were within reach, all they had to do was reach out and grab them. Although the speed was fast, it was only for a few days, and they would not be able to wait after the expiration date.
The Manjianghong Inn is a long-term business. As long as the reputation is spread out, it will give the group of little demons enough motivation. Then, the number of souls that Jiang Li can receive will be determined by the number of people who die in this area. This is a long-term and stable income.
As long as the spiritual energy and the negative energy in the burial coffin can keep up, millions of ghost soldiers will be there in the near future!
. . . .
Another day happened two weeks later.
Jiang Li had already returned to the sect. At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in the meditation room, motionless like a sculpture.
His consciousness was quietly staring at an ordinary corner in the Sutra Valley.
In the sect's internal affairs hall, in a swill bucket in the large kitchen area, a greasy fly was happily sucking the food in front of it.
What kind of bored person would pay attention to a fly's every move? But now, in the Sutra Valley, Jiang Li, a genius known as the pride of heaven and invincible iron fist, is doing something that his master would definitely beat him up if he saw him.
The fly sucked and spit out, and its pair of huge compound eyes kept staring and alert to any changes around it.
However, no one pays much attention to the smelly泔水桶.
Soon after eating and drinking, the greasy fly staggered out of the bucket, intending to find a female fly to talk about life.
But it was not careful for a moment and bumped into an almost completely transparent spider web.
The spider web was very sticky, and the poor greasy fly flapped its wings vigorously, but it was completely unable to escape. Soon, during its struggle, it attracted a huge and terrifying predator, a striped spider! In the end, its weak body was injected with venom and was wrapped in spider webs. In pain, it turned into a drop of insect soup.
The parallel consciousness detached from the body the moment the greasy fly died, and returned to Jiang Li's body with the memory of several days of insect life.
Jiang Li's body shook violently, and then his mind and body began to slowly change as he was comprehending.
In my first life, I was reincarnated as an ancient-winged mayfly. I was born in the morning and died in the evening. I was glorious in one day, but eventually I exhausted my essence and died on a lotus leaf.
In my second life, I was reincarnated as a double-needle black mosquito, which made Senior Sister Xiaosi unable to sleep and swollen for seven days. In the end, because of my excessive greed, I was killed by Senior Sister with a palm on the chest.
In the third life, I transformed into a colorful butterfly, dancing gracefully among the flowers, chasing each other with my own kind, and finally I accidentally fell into the pond and became food for the koi.
In the fourth life, my soul entered into that of a greasy fly. I stole food and escaped from the kitchen, fought a battle of wits and courage with the chef monk, and finally accidentally entered a spider's web, where I was hunted and poisoned to death.
Jiang Li sat cross-legged in the quiet room, and scenes of insect life insights of the second parallel consciousness flashed through his mind.
Gradually, the surface of his body turned white, wrinkled, thickened and hardened.
If you touch it with your hand, you will find that his skin has become dry and hard, as if it has become a shell that protects the flesh inside.
Gentle heat emanated from it, raising the temperature of the entire quiet room by several degrees. Inside the cocoon, something drastic seemed to be happening.
Two hours later, Jiang Li's callus suddenly began to twist, and was torn open by force from the inside.
Jiang Li, with a little bit of mucus still on his body, crawled out.
I have to say that his skin is incredibly tough. It took a lot of effort to tear it open successfully when he got out.
But is this what it means to “break out of the cocoon”?
Jiang Li was also a little surprised by this. He didn't expect that after being reincarnated as an insect four times in a row, he would actually have such an additional skill.
It's like a talent or instinct, it just happens naturally.
The specific function is that it can make some subtle adjustments to the body when it is emerging from the cocoon. In addition, human dreams such as regeneration of severed limbs, secondary development, and plastic surgery can also be achieved.
But for us, it seems that it is not very useful at all...
By the way, mayflies, mosquitoes, butterflies, and flies all have wings. Wouldn’t they also have a pair for themselves?
Jiang Li suddenly remembered this and turned around to look at his back in the mirror. It was smooth there and there were no wings or anything like that.
It seems that this is just the process of breaking out of the cocoon, not the process of metamorphosis, so it won't cause any strange organs to grow tragically.
In addition, Jiang Li looked at his spiritual attributes which had skyrocketed again on his attribute panel. Now that he did not rely on the second parallel consciousness, he could control his own power very well.
Then it is finally time to subdue the second clone.
Jiang Li threw out the burial coffin with a shake of his hand, and then walked into the coffin whose lid opened automatically.
He looked up at the top of the coffin space, where a strange ancient tree that looked like a statue of a god was perched on the ceiling of the coffin with its roots facing the sky and its top facing the ground.
That was exactly the root of the fallen ancient tree that he had rescued from the scaly monster tribe.
Hundreds of densely packed talisman papers were pasted on the branch of the spiritual root, and it was tied up with rune chains, which prevented it from causing trouble in the coffin space.
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The target of Jiang Li’s second clone is this ancient tree, which must have an astonishingly great origin.
Since the identification technique cannot analyze it, Jiang Li’s skills and cultivation are not capable of directly refining it and recognizing its master.
Then just let this spiritual root split off and become a part of yourself.
With the power of the Great Freedom Guanyin Heart Sutra, Jiang Li didn't believe that after turning it into a clone, nothing useful would come out.
Moreover, when this spiritual root branch truly becomes Jiang Li's own power, then the spiritual root seeds harvested before can also be used? Especially the golden elixir of Elder Duan Shuang, it is a real treasure, and Jiang Li's saliva is drooling with excitement just thinking about it.
Stepping on the air, Jiang Li walked step by step to the front of the spiritual root branch.
Then he silently recited the Guanyin Heart Sutra in his mind and silently injected the second parallel consciousness into the spiritual root branch.
Jiang Li's curiosity about this ancient tree had reached its peak. He immediately communicated with the parallel consciousness and checked the situation over there.
Immediately, Jiang Li's eyes turned white, his body went limp, and he fell directly from a height of more than 20 meters.
Fortunately, his body was as strong as steel, and he didn't feel any pain after falling from such a height.
Jiang Li naturally knew the condition of his body, but a shocking and horrifying picture was coming to him through his parallel consciousness, which made him dizzy and he couldn't even stand steadily for a while.
He also knew that he was too confident.
The previous successful reincarnations of parallel consciousness gave him great confidence and courage, and he almost forgot the danger of the confrontation in the spiritual world.
His first five reincarnations were a dead person who had been dead for several months, and four were tiny insects that couldn't even tell the directions. How could they have the slightest resistance in front of Jiang Li? That's why his reincarnations were always so smooth.
But his target now is a spiritual root branch that is still alive, has existed for hundreds or thousands of years, and may have extremely powerful origins.
Jiang Li's second consciousness was now in an extremely broad and vast spiritual world.
In front of him was a five-meter-tall ancient statue tree that was still floating upside down in the air. Its dense branches and leaves and fluttering roots formed a sharp contrast with the second parallel consciousness that had not yet grown and was only the size of a palm.
But that’s not all. There are also hundreds of human-shaped fruits densely hung on the ancient tree.
As the branches swayed, the fruits fell one by one, and then turned into dozens of scaly monsters that looked like long-haired girls on the ground.
Apparently, this ancient tree, like the locust tree, has the magical ability to capture ghosts and turn them into slaves.
This situation has already left the parallel consciousness helpless, but this is still not all! Behind the ancient tree of the statue, in the distance of the spiritual world, there is an ancient tree so huge that it reaches the sky and the earth, with its roots on top and leaves on the bottom.
In the middle of the tree roots and leaves, there is also a statue of a god sitting cross-legged, but the difference is that there are three statues of gods sitting with their backs to each other on the trunk of this ancient tree, and each has a different image.
The parallel consciousness can only peek from one direction and can see the front face of one of the statues and the side faces of the two statues.
One was ethereal, one was solemn, and one was terrifying. They were respectively immortal, Buddha, and devil! Jiang Li's original body also saw such a scene through parallel consciousness, and his mind was shocked, so much so that he fell from the air.
At this moment, a domineering and majestic dragon roar seemed to sound from Jiang Li's body.
Two drops of dragon blood burned Jiang Li's heart, instantly pulling him out of his shock.
Jiang Li was breathing heavily, and a drop of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead.
The things in his coffin were spiritual root branches, so the huge sacred tree that was facing his spiritual world from afar should be the real spiritual root.
That might, just a glance from afar through the parallel consciousness made him lose his mind. If he encountered the main body head-on, wouldn't it be the end of him? Jiang Li looked at the spiritual root branch that was still resting on the ceiling, as if it was not affected at all, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
It was powerful, but Jiang Li would have to fight in this spiritual war! The second parallel consciousness, which was the size of a palm, rushed left and right in the spiritual world, and from time to time it suddenly jumped up and tore the soul of a scale monster.
He also deliberately rushed towards the direction of the spiritual root's body, trying to obtain more information by sacrificing himself.
But the distance in the spiritual world did not seem to be determined by the rules of space. No matter how he advanced, he could not get even a little closer to the other party.
It seems that this spiritual root branch is only slightly connected to the spiritual root itself, and they cannot influence each other too much.
If so, then we have a chance of winning! Tang Yan, the clone who was far away at the Five Elements Peak of Shu Mountain exchanging sword-controlling techniques with his fellow disciples, immediately found a reason to leave, and after returning to his residence, he collapsed to the ground.
The first parallel consciousness has passed through Jiang Li as a transit point and followed the second parallel consciousness to invade the sea of consciousness of the spiritual root branch.
Buzz! The sword cultivator's clone attacked with the sword heart. The arc-shaped sword light tore through the souls of more than a dozen scale monsters, and then fiercely chopped on the trunk of the statue where the spiritual root branched off, leaving a deep and narrow cut on it.
The Sword Heart Slash can only be used once a day, but in the spiritual world, almost nothing can stop this slash.
Then the roots of the ancient tree rolled over, and the sword cultivator's clone and the second parallel consciousness began to flee around the world together.
He couldn't even be handsome for these three seconds. He became listless after shooting one shot.
Jiang Li was helpless, but his consciousness still didn't dare to go out and help.
Jiang Li activated the Ghost Wood Technique with his mind, and the locust tree in the sea of consciousness was also sent over along the consciousness channel.
With a thud.
A lush locust tree fell from the sky, and the next moment, more than 30 ghosts that were captured by the roots of the locust tree were released directly. At Jiang Li's command, they roared and rushed towards the opposite spiritual root branches.
The mature locust tree looked even taller and denser than the spiritual root branches on the opposite side. But it was obvious that the locust tree was much inferior to the other one in terms of quality.
More than 30 ghosts were fighting with the other side's scale demon soul, and it was difficult to separate them. In other words, they were surrounded and beaten as soon as they met.
The roots of the spiritual root were even stronger, and they rolled towards the locust tree. Not only was the locust tree's counterattack useless, but it also entangled the tree's trunk in an instant.
Jiang Li's original body looked anxious and speechless, and could only helplessly order a retreat.
The sword cultivator's clone and the second parallel consciousness used all their strength to barely cut off those roots, and retreated under the pull of Jiang Li's original body.
Jiang Li took back the locust tree and sent it back to the sword cultivator's clone. He was a little disappointed with the result as he failed to achieve his goal in one go.
But given the gap between the two sides, if they want to get a result in one go, the only outcome will be that Jiang Li's entire army will be wiped out.
In other words, the "great freedom" feature of the "Heart Sutra of Avalokitesvara" is indeed powerful. Jiang Li did not win this spiritual war, but the spiritual root division could not retain his parallel consciousness.
However, although Jiang Li was a little disappointed, he was not discouraged.
Because the main body of this spiritual root is in his hands and is controlled by him, it is isolated and helpless on the spiritual level like a rootless duckweed.
He doesn't need to rush for a moment. He can just put his sword cultivator clone in there every day and give the spiritual root branch a sword heart slash. I believe it won't take long before he can completely occupy this branch! Give me some money, comrades () (End of this chapter)