However, few spiritual treasures would choose this path of devouring and upgrading.
Because once a spiritual treasure engages in a fight involving devouring, it's a fight to the death. That's not all; the most feared thing is encountering a spiritual treasure with merit. The devourer will be punished by the laws of heaven and earth. Once a spiritual treasure obtains the energy of merit, it will be kept secret, never sharing it with anyone except itself.
The Chaos Pearl didn't know that Xiaoyu had great merits, so it fell into the trap.
General Zhou dedicated his life to his country and his people, a man of great merit. After being secretly poisoned by Zhou Nianxin, Zhou Yuanyuan and Xiaoyu worked together to save him. During the treatment, Xiaoyu's innate spiritual energy played a significant role, transferring a trace of General Zhou's merit to Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu is protected by the energy of merit. The Chaos Pearl wanted to devour Xiaoyu, but was restricted by the rules of heaven and earth. Only when Zhou Yuanyuan succeeded in the trial was the Chaos Pearl forcibly contracted to Zhou Yuanyuan.
The above situation was Xiaoyu's conjecture. The Chaos Pearl's ill will towards Xiaoyu had been clear to her the moment Zhou Yuanyuan was dragged into the trial world.
The Chaos Pearl has been in this world for tens of thousands of years. It is luckier than Xiaoyu because it fell into the Cumulus Mountain, the base camp of the bear demon clan. Cumulus Mountain is protected by a barrier, so the energy loss from the Chaos Pearl is not as fast as that of Xiaoyu in the mortal world.
However, the Chaos Pearl was no better than Xiaoyu. It discovered that the spiritual energy of Jiyun Mountain was different from that of Lingxiao Realm and could not be refined by it at all.
Without energy replenishment, he had stayed in the Chaos Pearl of the Bear Demon Clan for tens of thousands of years without seeing any cultivators, and his wish to find a golden thigh was also dashed.
Zhou Yuanyuan was the first cultivator Chaos Pearl had seen in this space and time. When Chaos Pearl was in the Lingxiao Realm, cultivators were numerous, not to mention cultivators in the Nascent Soul and Spiritualization stages, even Golden Immortals were common.
When Zhou Yuanyuan picked up the Chaos Pearl, she realized she was only at the Jindan level, and she felt a bit disdainful. She felt it was too humiliating to let the Chaos Pearl recognize a Jindan cultivator as its master.
Just as Chaos Pearl was about to ignore Zhou Yuanyuan, Xiaoyu in Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness sensed Chaos Pearl's presence. Startled, Xiaoyu asked Zhou Yuanyuan to show it the Chaos Pearl.
If Zhou Yuanyuan hadn't hesitated and placed the Chaos Pearl directly into her sea of consciousness, there would have been no subsequent trip to the Trial World. After Xiaoyu obtained the Chaos Pearl, she would have used a secret method to trap it. In Zhou Yuanyuan's sea of consciousness, Xiaoyu, who was entrusted with the task of repairing it by Zhou Yuanyuan, was the absolute master.
The moment Xiaoyu felt the Chaos Pearl, it also sensed Xiaoyu's presence on Zhou Yuanyuan. Chaos Pearl was overjoyed. In the Lingxiao Realm, Xiaoyu's name was well-known to everyone. Chaos Pearl had fought Xiaoyu several times himself and had a deep understanding of her strength.
If it could absorb Xiaoyu's energy, it would definitely be able to level up a few levels. This was the first thought that the Chaos Pearl had after sensing Xiaoyu.
After discovering that Zhou Yuanyuan was Xiaoyu's master, the Chaos Pearl felt that a good turn of events was about to happen. Zhou Yuanyuan was only a Jindan cultivator, and countless cultivators had died in the Chaos Pearl's trial world. The Chaos Pearl thought that if it could just throw Zhou Yuanyuan into the trial world, and then fail the trial, it would devour her and Xiaoyu together.
Out of greed, the Chaos Pearl dragged Zhou Yuanyuan into the trial world. Zhou Yuanyuan was Hu Sanniang's mistress, so Hu Sanniang was also dragged in by the Chaos Pearl.
Speaking of which, the Chaos Pearl itself couldn't understand why it had suffered such a crushing defeat this time. Many cultivators had previously entered the Trial World with far greater power than Zhou Yuanyuan, yet without exception, they had all perished. Even more puzzling to the Chaos Pearl was the fact that its pet, Hu Sanniang, had also passed the Trial. Otherwise, Zhou Yuanyuan and her servant would have been its prey.
Chaos Pearl racked its brains but couldn't understand what was going on. The soul trial questions were automatically generated by the laws of heaven and earth, and there couldn't be any falsehood. Only after Zhou Yuanyuan and Hu Sanniang left the trial world together would the laws of heaven and earth reveal the trial questions and the reasons for passing them to their respective minds.
Perhaps this was a cruel and strange master-servant pair. The Chaos Pearl shuddered as it recalled Zhou Yuanyuan's brutality when she tried to destroy it.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't know that she had become a cruel and strange girl in Chaos Pearl's mind. She just wanted to find Hu Sanniang as soon as possible and then go home.
In Xiushui Village, the thatched houses of Li Wangcai's family at the end of the village have disappeared. In their place, a three-courtyard building with carved beams and painted rafters has been built. Four golden characters "Fugui Gambling House" are hung at the door.
At noon, as soon as the door of Fugui Casino opened, a group of men rushed in to gamble.
In the front hall of the casino, the sound of shouting and yelling rang out. Gambling is addictive. In less than three years, the villagers of Xiushui Village had lost most of their money, most of which had gone into the Fugui Casino.
The Fugui Casino was a little different from other gambling houses. In other gambling houses, men would pawn their wives when they lost all their money. Fugui Casino didn't accept women as collateral, only men. This was because the owner of this gambling house was Qiu Suniang, a legendary young woman.
Su Niang said that women should not make things difficult for other women, and men should pay for their own sins.
No one in Xiushui Village now dares to view Su Niang as a weak little woman. Su Niang's fighting power is so strong that even if all the men in the village came together, they wouldn't necessarily be a match for her. Su Niang is incredibly shrewd, and even if all the men in Xiushui Village were put together, they wouldn't be enough for her to scheme against.
Su Niang's Fugui Gambling House was opened specially for the villagers of Xiushui Village. Three years ago, Su Niang wanted to leave Xiushui Village, but was chased back by the village head and a group of burly men. Su Niang then declared that she would not leave and that she would spend five years making the villagers of Xiushui Village beg her to leave.
At first, no one took Suniang's words seriously. A woman, no matter how powerful, still had to rely on men to survive. They just had to let Li Wangcai, the man from Suniang's family, take good care of Qiu Suniang, and they didn't have to worry about anything.
After returning to the village, Su Niang changed her timid appearance. She went to the back and hunted two tigers and sold them in the town. She used the money to build a big house and opened the Fugui Gambling House.
At first, the villagers just wanted to watch Su Niang's fun and didn't care what she did. As the Fugui gambling house became more and more lively, the people of Xiushui Village felt the crisis.
With a gambling house so close to home, the men of Xiushui Village would be surprised not to try their luck. Gambling is addictive; those who win want to win more, while those who lose want to make up for their losses. Within a year, most of the villagers in Xiushui Village owed money to Su Niang.
Killing someone means paying with your life, and debts mean paying with money. Villagers who couldn't pay back their debts had no choice but to mortgage their properties to Suniang. In less than two years, Suniang had become a major landlord in Xiushui Village.
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