Chapter 285: Sword Immortal Lü’s Opportunity: 【lü Chún Yáng】?
No sooner had he spoken than the mouse in his hand, which had a half-exposed mechanical face, suddenly flashed urgent crimson lights from its mechanical prosthetic eye, then spoke in human tongue with a respectful tone: “Brother Zhuzi, you’re back?! So fast, it’s only been 3 days!”
According to Du Ling Star time, Lu Rang and Mai Lili had only left Happy Home for 3 days. In these 3 days, Sword Immortal Lu’s strength had skyrocketed, making his work busier.
On one hand, he was working hard to adapt to his surging strength while exhaustedly dealing with various overtures and invitations from within the New Federation-Sword Immortal Alliance-Running General Association.
Even within a small Running General Association, there were seven or eight different Sword Cultivator sects: from Sword Control Faction to Non-Sword Flow, then from Life Sword and Phenomenon Sword to Object Sword, all sorts of combinations dazzling the eyes.
Not to mention the differences in cultivation philosophies, traditional Self-Mutilation Faction, improved Fake Object Faction, and the self-indulgent demonic path flows and side sects… Each one was vying for this promising newcomer, generously offering sect secret techniques for him to cultivate and guiding him into the Dao.
More difficult for him to adapt than these eye-blinding sect secret techniques was the sudden rise in social status after his strength surged.
In just three short days, he seemed to have experienced more than the sum of his entire previous life. His brain was stuffed full, leaving no capacity for thought. Suddenly receiving Yuan Zhu’s communication pulled his wandering spirit back to the real world, giving him a sense of reality.
Lu Rang asked with concern at this moment: “Brother Yuan, why are you back so soon? By my estimate, it should take at least a week. Did something unexpected happen?”
Candle: “No. I didn’t carry out complex missions there, nor did I go to the Surface. I got bored and came back. Contacting you so late, I have something to discuss.”
After slightly relaxing, Lu Rang asked again: “Urgent?”
“Mm…” Yuan Zhu pondered for a moment and realized he was indeed short on goblins.
What he lacked wasn’t the kind on hand, these half-finished products deeply polluted by Shadow (Shadow Eggplant); but ‘pure natural wild blank slate goblins’ that had suffered no pollution erosion.
Not only was Nie Yin considering selecting a healthy-bodied, intact-limbed young adult goblin, steadily cultivating it step by step into a high-quality Shadow Warrior, then feeding it to Uniform in optimal condition to complete transformation.
Yuan Zhu here was also urgently short of a batch of ‘blank slate goblins’ to test his Holy Saucer Breathing Technique hypothesis.
Yes! Over the past period, he had worked overtime sleeplessly burning pumpkins and stockpiling embers, all to bring a new turning point to the Holy Light System. To make the already hatched Holy Cough and Holy Breathing blend more perfectly?
Now, he had successfully nurtured a brand new Flask Power that complemented 1 Seal. Everything was ready, just missing goblins. He needed clean, healthy blank slate goblins to bear the Holy Light Pollution transformation.
As for the Shadow Eggplant Essence stored in the Haunted House, it could at most withstand faint illumination from Fallen Seal Holy Light. If switched to Yuan Clan Great Holy Light, there was only one outcome: death by light exposure!
Hadn’t they seen how Holy Breathing was nurtured? It was accumulated by incinerating (recharging) one Ghost Companion Shadow Magic Worm after another. Even powerful Magic Worm seniors couldn’t withstand incineration; what virtue or ability did my mere Eggplant Goblin have to scam against Holy Light Pollution?
Therefore, Yuan Zhu urgently needed a batch of ‘blank slate creatures’ for human experiments.
As for the brother and sister duo already highly adapted to Holy Cough Qi Refining Technique? Sorry, they were precious reserve cadres, Anti-Law group leader, and important future right-hand arms of Yuan Clan Group. Their status was too noble to waste.
Yuan Zhu wasting goblins wasn’t precisely so that this brother and sister could, after leaving the underground miasma environment, replace Holy Cough Qi Refining Technique with Holy Knight Breathing Method and continue cultivating?
As for switching to goblins, he wouldn’t feel heartbroken. Yuan Zhu planned to use the Holy Flask as an artificial Dantian, directly crudely cutting a hole in their abdomens and implanting it.
Transform goblins into Saucer Flask Human Pillar Forces, continuously outputting mild Holy Cough Particles circulating the body. Then supplemented with the Holy Knight Breathing Method adjusted by Miao Miao, to see if something new could be cultivated?
Just thinking of his Holy Knight Breathing Method stacked with Great Seduction Cup’s Power indeed having the potential to replicate Steel Breathing Method made him inexplicably excited and impulsive. He couldn’t wait to try it!
Anyway, the experiment subjects were goblins; if they died, it was just eliminating pests. On the contrary, bottling up this hypothesis when conditions were available but unable to test and verify it was more frustrating and stifling!
So he nodded and replied: “Yes, very urgent!”
Lu Rang on the other end patted his chest and guaranteed: “Whatever it is, just say!”
These past two days, he had encountered too many good people around him, and his social status had risen with the tide. He felt he could still help Yuan Zhu with something.
Yuan Zhu’s answer left him slightly disappointed: “I’m short on goblins again here!”
Lu Rang’s highly raised mindset suddenly slackened a bit: “Hey, that? Leave it to me. To be honest with you, Brother Yuan, recently several more batches of people have proactively contacted me, wanting to commission me to clean up those dying disabled goblins. Plus, a certain Boutique Meat Factory came knocking, inquiring about cooperation intentions? Too bad my ambitions aren’t there, or it really would be a path to riches!”
At this point, Lu Rang’s tone became excited again. He, a jobless speeding car punk from Running (a backward industrial city), had undergone a transformation in just three short months. Sitting at home, people came knocking, begging for cooperation.
Suddenly living the life of a successful person from a YY novel made him feel extremely dreamlike. He felt it was even more fantastical than the Buddha Tomato Night and Insect City adventure he had personally experienced.
After all, no matter how outrageous Bubble World was, he had already participated and adapted to accepting it. But this dreamlike rise in social status was still a first; thinking back now, he still felt a bit lightheaded.
Floating, his mindset was really floating! This feeling was too good; he couldn’t wait to share it with his big brother. He vaguely remembered his Brother Yuan was also doing some small business? Something about unpromising frog farming?
He was truly puzzled; in Rain City, frog species were severely rampant, regarded as pests. Due to Frog God Faith, it wasn’t openly stated. But privately cleaning and destroying them couldn’t keep up, yet they proactively farmed them?
Yuan Zhu on the other end said: “Proactively coming to you, isn’t it because you became a Cultivator, gained Supernatural Powers, your identity and status elevated, so naturally they have needs from you. Originally, you were just an unremarkable jobless youth. But now, your own strength and social connections are enough to guarantee the selling business of ‘inferior dying goblins’.”
“By the way, that ‘Boutique Meat Factory’ you mentioned, just the name doesn’t sound very boutique. Inferior goblins aren’t hard to find; which factory can’t source cheap ‘inferior goblin’ goods? Them seeking cooperation with you is just eyeing your Sword Cultivator identity to provide protection for this meat shop’s business, selling goblin meat under a dog head sign. Once trouble arises, you’ve gotten benefits and participated, so naturally you’d have to step in to settle it.”
Lu Rang realized belatedly: “Oh! Is that how it is? Good thing I’m not interested in selling goblin meat under a dog head sign. I just met them once and rejected cooperation. But they really have a knack for flattery. I still think fondly of that boss; he seemed like a good person.”
Yuan Zhu snorted disdainfully. Flattery? You probably haven’t experienced the mental massage of Rainbow Energy Healer. Little Spicy Stick is the best!
Yuan Zhu reminded at this point: “This batch of goblins has different requirements. I want intact-limbed, healthy-bodied, age between youth and prime adult, the stronger the physique the better, male goblins! Can you manage it?”
“Ha? Such a big change, then do you still take the old, weak, sick, and disabled?”
Lu Rang, originally full of confidence, was stunned upon hearing this. Yuan Zhu’s requirements were even stricter than those Pharmaceutical Company or private Laboratory acquisitions of ’boutique goblins’.
This kind of good stock, Cleaning Company and hunting teams sold to big enterprises and companies.
Lu Rang hurriedly explained: “The ‘hunting groups’ recently contacting me are all for clearing out garbage…”
He never expected Brother Zhuzi’s direction to change so quickly. Before, he was bulk-buying old, weak, sick, disabled edge materials, and even that had been targeted by those with ulterior motives, secretly poisoning and infecting to pit and kill this batch of disabled goblins.
Now with his strength slightly improved, favored by Security Bureau, just establishing some credibility in the industry, deepening friendships (gifts) with several Security Bureau seniors.
Planning to deeply cultivate the ‘garbage (goblin) recycling’ field, establish a foothold in Running, build the reputation, scale up and strengthen. But his upstream enterprise (Candle) suddenly wanted to pivot?!
Then what about me? Go back and team up with the Meat Factory to sell black-hearted goblin meat?!
Yuan Zhu: “Take them, all of them! I won’t refuse disabled goblins, but this time it’s really urgent, need a batch of high-quality ‘goblins’, can you do it?”
“No problem, leave it to me. Now, in the North Street Sewer exit area, I also have some small fame. As long as you’re still taking sick and disabled goblins, getting me a few good ones isn’t hard. Wait for my news!”
Yuan Zhu thought and lowered expectations a bit: “Ten! At least 10 healthy-bodied wild goblins. As for disabled trash, I’ll take all comers here!”
Lu Rang was shocked by his arrogant tone and weakly asked: “Brother Zhuzi, you can really handle that many?”
Yuan Zhu thought of the Yinshan Cold Pond in Misty Mountains, such a large mountain with nothing but plants inside, no half animal. He needed massive laborers (goblins) to mine and quarry, build his Temple. Therefore, he really could swallow batch after batch of goods.
Once Frog Factory was operational, it could continuously sell ‘Experimental Grade Frogs’, cycling funds. Use profits to acquire goblins…
Seemingly acquiring goblins was a bottomless pit. But after Eggplant Parasite transformation, they became free laborers that could work sleeplessly until durability zeroed (worked to death), no salary needed, yet continuously creating labor value.
Bottomless pit? I’d make a killing!
Compared to 007 powerless Eggplant Goblins, the newly born Shadow Goblin Warriors were output powerhouses, ultimate cattle and horses. Just needed massive feed to maintain fitness effects (muscle strength), which pained him a bit.
Still Eggplant Goblins rock, naturally raised!
“Can handle them, take all comers. Premium goblins supply ASAP, I need them tomorrow! Very urgent!”
Lu Rang said excitedly: “Rest assured, I’ll get it done!” He also decided to ramp up acquisition of garbage disabled goblins to earn fees for his own ‘cultivation and sword refining’.
Yuan Zhu suddenly thought of that White Deer and mentioned: “Right, hurry and prepare the goblins. I’ve also prepared a gift for you here.”
“What? Can you tell me?”
Yuan Zhu: “Sword Cultivator Secret Technique, a secret method for cultivating Innate Flying Sword. I feel the quality is quite high; you can study it. Even, you already meet the entry conditions, worth a try.”
As a Sword Cultivator, Lu Rang had been successively tempted by various Sword Cultivator sects these past few days, seeing complete systems with seemingly perfect future prospects ‘Flying Sword systems’, which moved him greatly.
Good thing he had Space of Gods behind him, not lacking top-tier sword arts. But the problem was his salary income (points) was limited; high-end sword arts even denied him browsing names due to low realm.
His limited points were all spent buying Insect Pills and Blood Eggplants to replenish his deficits. Tough…
“Innate Flying Sword Secret Technique, what Flying Sword? Sword Shape, or non-sword type?”
Having acquired the Pipe Wrench, Lu Rang desperately wanted to refine a truly presentable, very stylish traditional sword-shaped Flying Sword.
Yuan Zhu recalled: “Should not be Non-Sword. Its finished form has ‘Flying Sword appearance (white bone blade)’, but also peculiarities (sword hilt is deer head White Bone Descending Head Sword?). Confirmed as a type of Life Sword (living creature, biological, possessing life). Named Deer Head Sword, truly very wondrous (bizarre) and profound. Though you can’t find premium spiritual deer, our Happy Home has a ‘Rogue Immortal Foundation Establishment’ goat!”
Speaking of Little Goat, now taken by Zhou Chu to Eclosion World, who knew what pollution it had undergone, surely evolved even more bizarrely?
Come to think of it, this Little Goat had quite the wondrous experiences. From Buddha Tomato and Filthy Bone hybrid pollution body; to legitimate inheritor sheep of tattered Filthy Blood Uniform; to Tomato Race Sword Cultivator’s Dao Seed spiritual root… Now surely ate a pile of ‘miasma tree roots’.
If it hadn’t died, gone mad, or twisted by pollution, its own quality was more than enough for sword refining. Even Yuan Zhu’s initial Spiritual Seed planting in it was to further raise pollution concentration for use as Holy Light Battery.
In the future in a new Bubble World facing powerful enemies, our side sends Little Goat to meet them, Yuan Zhu ignites its internal pollution with Holy Light, becoming ‘Goat Head Sacred Laser Cannon’. Isn’t this way cooler than the obsolete Goat Head Hammer?
Fake ‘Goat Head Hammer’, how could it compare to the real Goat Head Holy Light Cannon for satisfaction?
“Goats can also be refined into Flying Swords?!” Lu Rang was a bit dumbfounded, but it seemed there was no issue? But what he wanted was a proper ‘sword-shaped Flying Sword’, not a flying ‘goat’!
