Chapter 202: High-end Exchange List, Unlocked!
A shot of [Great Resurrection Holy Light Beam!] was unleashed right onto the Little Goat, pulling Young Master Yuan’s limited ‘healing ability’ to max level, forcibly dragging Xiao Mie back from the brink of death.
“Phew…”
Letting out a light breath, Young Master Yuan wiped away nonexistent sweat. This wave of operations consumed 1/20 of the Holy Light reserves in the [Soul Crystal].
This represented the damage and consumption brought to the Little Goat during the [Dao Seed] Foundation Establishment; it also proved the potential it contained, worth cultivating.
After the Holy Light Treatment ended, the Little Goat still had eyes rolled back, drool flowing from nose and mouth, and a mess everywhere. It was now in a comatose state, its body twitching uncontrollably… utterly wretched.
Young Master Yuan didn’t rush to wake it, instead using the [Soul Crystal] again for a simple ‘Evil Detection’.
Confirming that the originally near-‘neutral’ little goat, after planting the ‘Dao Seed’, still maintained a neutral alignment. The [Mad Tomato attribute] in its body was greatly suppressed and outpaced by the [Innate Dao Seed] occupying its head.
Without the [Mao Mao King]’s forced intervention (Anti-Law children’s wear parasitic seizure of the Dao), this Little Goat’s future would take the [Rogue Immortal System] path.
Even more wondrously, the foundation [Spiritual Seed] for entering the Dao and cultivating immortality that Young Master Yuan granted it was the most ancient kind (Plant Race intracranial seed).
This ‘Pumpkin Dao Seed’ couldn’t grant it [Alien Plant Race] bloodline, but it could alienate into Spiritual Root meridians, and grant the dual talents of [Spiritual Energy Affinity] and [Starlight Reception].
This [Dao Seed], especially paired with the barely detectable [Mad Tomato element] in its body!
That’s right, the source of the rampant ‘Mad Tomato pollution’ in the [Little Xihong Realm] was another group of alien plant people, the [Qie Tou Tribe]. The Qie Tou Tribe’s residual pollution, after cross-timespace linkage with the Pumpkin Head’s Dao Seed, would inevitably trigger the [Starlight talent].
[Dao Seed] has advantages, but naturally also major drawbacks.
If ‘Xiao Mie’ could really make a name for itself on the [Immortal Cultivation (Rogue Immortal)] track, it would inevitably be targeted by the higher-ranking [Pumpkin Dao Seed Immortal Venerable].
But all this is still too distant; it doesn’t even count as entry yet, no need to dwell on it excessively.
Examining this twitching Little Goat, Young Master Yuan’s thoughts raced for a moment, then his expression froze: “Uh… suddenly remembered something embarrassing.”
Number 3, squatting on the ground checking the little pet, confirmed it had passed the danger period. But currently, its brain and head were being deeply transformed (parasitized) by dense ‘half-plant half-biological’ Dao Seed threads, hence the coma.
It would need some time to adapt before formally completing the [Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown. First Dao Seed. First Stage] transformation, gaining ‘Spiritual Root’ and cultivation physique, able to perceive and accept the ubiquitous [Spiritual Energy (Kunlun Spiritual Energy)] in the air.
Confirming Xiao Mie was very safe, Number 3 finally relaxed and asked curiously: “Young Master Yuan, what did you remember? Related to Xiao Mie?”
Young Master Yuan narrowed his eyes and said to her: “Yes, I just granted it the most important foundation for stepping onto the [Rogue Immortal Path], the [Dao Seed], which is the Spiritual Root physique. However! I don’t know the [Rogue Immortal cultivation method], much less how to make a goat with no intelligence at all simulate a transcendent being in profound Immortal Path cultivation. Don’t you think that’s a huge problem?”
Xiao Mie’s legendary demonic immortal path seemed to stall at the very first step before it even began. Everyone could happily declare it hopeless!
The Little Goat’s future would merely be instinctively breathing some ‘Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy’, or bathing in starlight at night to receive ‘Star power’, accelerating physical recovery and tempering the physical body.
Relying on the least efficient, most primitive means to get stronger, gradually becoming a ‘powerful Star pollution monster’?
Hearing this, Number 3 showed no regret at all; instead, she was both happy and satisfied, excitedly clapping her hands: “This is just great!”
“Huh?”
Young Master Yuan, who originally wanted to tease her, was stunned: “You’re not disappointed or sad?”
“How could I be? This is the best blessing.”
In Number 3’s eyes, the [Supernatural System] was originally a path of transcendence explored bit by bit by ‘intelligent life’, deeply tied to intelligence, spirituality, aptitude, talent…
It had little relation to stupid animals to begin with. On the contrary, ordinary animals could gradually grow stronger after being tainted by pollution, but that wasn’t transcendence—it was just becoming various ‘high-quality cultivation materials’.
For Xiao Mie to have such fortune was absolutely a huge opportunity; no need to hope for more.
Seeing Number 3 had zero negative reaction, Young Master Yuan instantly felt bored and directly tossed the Little Goat to the back of his mind.
Later, when it fully revived, he could observe if the bits of [Mad Tomato] residue in its body could spark something unexpected with the [Star Realm Pumpkin Dao Seed]?
Could Xiao Mie’s external [Mad Tomato vest (uniform)] assist its top [Dao Seed] in immortal cultivation, blooming the first [Three Flowers]?
As for the Little Goat lacking intelligence, brain, and spiritual aptitude, fundamentally unable to step onto the cultivation path—Young Master Yuan just casually thought about it and came up with two coping plans.
Plan A: Personally intervene, equip it with [External Brain Pod CPU + Shadow Memory Stick], just like arranging the ‘Shadow Goblin’ to cultivate True Qi martial arts, input an ‘artificial intelligence’ with built-in basic immortal cultivation technique. Then hijack the [Dao Seed Spiritual Root] in the Little Goat’s body, forcing it into 24-hour passive cultivation.
Xiao Mie was just a tool goat he was using [Shadow (Great Desolation Immortal Scripture)] to explore and record [Dao Seed, Rogue Immortal, cultivation system] anyway!
Bearing the [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture], Young Master Yuan naturally felt thick interest in Du Ling’s myriad things; no need to absolutely master these [Supernatural Pollutions], but figuring out their mysteries and the insider workings of the supernatural systems—this was both the [Immortal Scripture]’s instinct and his personal hobby and desire.
Especially the [Shadow] path, which had no [Pollution Root] backing it. It could only take the grassroots route of constantly devouring ‘small pollutions’ to grow stronger, becoming a ‘prestigious Origin’ itself.
As for Plan B: Directly @ Meng Xiyue for off-field rescue, provide [Skull Server] service, externally connect a [Skull] for the Little Goat to assist in immortal cultivation. Ecological niche similar to [External Brain Pod + Shadow Memory Stick] functions.
Meng Xiyue would surely be happy to have a new ‘private research project’; as loving teammates and family, of course they’d happily torment the Little Goat together to strengthen friendship.
If they could blaze a new [Demonic Immortal] path, it would surely shock Taixi, then fame spread to the West Coast, sensation in the New Continent, ultimately renowned worldwide, entering the [Star Realm] and [Bubble Layer]!
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Shaking these unnecessary thoughts from his head, Young Master Yuan finally remembered the real purpose of logging into [Happy Home]: consult the Captain about the [Holy Seal] confusion.
“Number 3, where’s the Captain?”
“Replying to Young Master Yuan, the Steward is still executing a mission in the [Bubble World]; you can wait patiently.”
In the Mechanical Maid’s explanation, the Captain was currently overtime in the [Bubble World], opening up territory for himself, expanding the [Animal Husbandry Village]’s sphere of influence, consolidating the camp’s position in the Underground World, and attempting dialogue with [Cicada City] to establish friendly cooperation.
Learning the Captain might not return in time, Young Master Yuan felt no regret. Because the Captain bro was crazily working for his own industry (Animal Husbandry Village); he could only send the sincerest blessings—keep working overtime!
Without the Captain, Number 3 wasn’t an all-knowing answer machine, so Young Master Yuan simply went to the Crystal Pillar, reached out to touch it, and opened the [Exchange List]. Ignoring the [Happy Home. Special Deals Zone], he familiarly found the [Holy Church Exchange Zone].
Immediately, he discovered that this time the [Holy Church Zone] displayed content had new changes, with a large amount of brand new content.
Last time he came, although [Seal Casting] had succeeded, the [Soul Crystal] this [kind]’s signature characteristic had not fully solidified and stabilized.
It’s just like the protagonists in the immortal hero zone, who have just survived the heavenly tribulation. Although they have formed their core inside, officially joining the [Golden Core Old Ancestor Family Bucket] series. But their thunder tribulation injuries have not healed, their Golden Core initial stage realm is unstable, and their soul is severely damaged… they need to recuperate.
At this time, Yuan Zhu’s realm is thoroughly consolidated, [Soul Crystal (Golden Core)] no longer has the risk of falling, and it is firmly established at the [Dao Seed] level.
Therefore, in the [Space of Gods]’s perception, he crossed the threshold of [Dao Seed], and the things he can exchange for are correspondingly unlocked with more content.
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First, what satisfied him the most was a large number of Holy Light knowledge books ‘sold and turned in’ by squads from different spaces.
Second, it was the scarce resources involved in high-end cultivation under the Holy Light System.
In addition, he also saw more [Holy Seals] from different factions, incomplete inheritances, and even exclusive supplies from the [Eight Holy Kings camp].
Yuan Zhu’s first glance fell on the rare item marked as [Great Luminous Glazed Buddha Maggot]. This thing is priced at 130,000 points, requires advance reservation, and there is no stock on hand.
In comparison, his own already rare [Sanctuary. Holy Seal] is only a mere 7,000 points, which is already sky-high! What is the origin of this [Glazed Buddha Maggot]? A [Buddha Cocoon] under the [Holy Light] System?
With confusion and doubt, he continued browsing, and then in the [Great Moth]’s exclusive zone, he found something that seemed familiar: [Angel Egg]. Its quality and description are both above the [Dao Seed] level, but below [Gate].
More precisely, this [Angel Egg] is the [Supernatural Pollution Trait] extracted from the body after the death of a high-ranking Holy Light Cultivator in the [Great Moth] lineage. It can be said that this is a [Holy Light Dao Seed] that has been continuously nurtured and reinforced.
It’s just that after the death of an advanced saint, a large number of treasures can be stripped from the body, such as multiple [Soul Crystals], which can also be regarded as [Dao Seed]. As well as the [Angel Egg] that can similarly be used as [Dao Seed] for inheritance.
The positioning of [Glazed Buddha Maggot] is similar to [Angel Egg]. As long as you join the corresponding faction, without needing to moonlight like [Three-Phase Power], you can perfectly integrate the even more bizarre [Dao Seed] into your own [Holy Light System], thereby dramatically increasing aptitude, strength, and the potential and quality of the Supernatural System… just like a ‘rare class’ second advancement in a game.
Regarding the description of [Angel Egg], there is a short and obscure phrase about [Feathering and Metamorphosis]. But the direction of metamorphosis is not [Feathered Immortal], but [Scale Angel (Heaven Moth Person)] within the Holy Church mythology system.
In the exchange list’s description, this [Angel Egg] is very much like a [Insect Egg Dao Seed]. However, the quality is too high, and the Holy Light Concentration is off the charts, showing no traces of [Insect Qi Refiner] or [Kunlun Immortal].
But Yuan Zhu can be certain that the [Insect Pollution] of [Insect City] must have some deep connection with [Great Moth]. This also causes his [Holy Light] to have extremely poor compatibility with the ‘Lepidoptera Dao Seed’ in [Insect City], and slightly better with ‘Diptera Dao Seed’…
This means that the ‘Lepidoptera’ in [Insect System Pollution] has a major feud with [Angel King. Great Moth]! In contrast, the ‘Coleoptera’ in [Insect System Pollution] has extreme affinity with Holy Light. Is this trying to be a dog, jump ship and betray, and convert to Holy Light?
“There’s something fishy going on!”
Ignoring the [Angel Egg] which also costs tens of thousands, Yuan Zhu quickly checked the directory of the [Exchange Zone]. Then he saw the most expensive pollutant currently available in [Tai Huang Dao], an item named [Yellow Heaven Furnace].
Yuan Zhu strongly suspects it’s another ‘Holy Light second-turn item’ similar to [Glazed Buddha Maggot, Angel Egg]?
As he continued browsing the [Tai Huang Dao exclusive zone], the specific content didn’t even pretend. The [Tai Huang exclusive zone] sells various cultivation materials from [Yellow Heaven remnants], basic cultivation methods, and even [Five-Colored Divine Clay (Flesh Clay)] used to shape ‘White Angels’.
What is this doing? Planning to ‘burn bone china, forge bone structure’ inside the [Holy Church] next?
After speed-reading through it, Yuan Zhu discovered that the ‘Eight Holy Kings exchange zone’ in the [Space of Gods] is not complete; the Angel King representing [Paradise Mountain] is missing, with no exclusive zone.
In addition, [Great Law Heaven] doesn’t sell its characteristic pollution sources much either.
After unlocking the [Dao Seed level] exchange catalog, Yuan Zhu found that [Tongue of Fire (Angel King)] is a product of a [Burning King] submitting to Holy Light.
And the boss of the cleaning company [Fire Fang] where he works part-time in Running is walking the [Burning King System].
However, the proper [Burning Kings] have no connection with the [Holy Church]. [Tongue of Fire] is no longer a [Burning King] now, but an extremely noble ‘Angel King’.
In the Burning King’s exclusive zone, some space squads are selling externally a [Fire Seed Source] codenamed [Holy Flame].
After viewing a large pile of ‘high-end cultivation supplies’ that he fundamentally doesn’t know how to use, Yuan Zhu preliminarily confirmed that the [Holy Light exclusive zone] in the [Space of Gods] is not opened by the [Holy Church] here.
Rather, it is ‘spoils of war’ harvested by various space squads from native cultivators, enemy squad members, or even their own teammates during missions. Or like Yuan Zhu, an insider, selling their own resources in the [Exchange Zone].
Therefore, the ‘mid-to-high-end Holy Light exchanges’ in the paradise are similarly incomplete, with good items having exceptionally high quality and high prices, but emphasizing incompleteness, without complete high-end inheritances.
After gaining a wave of knowledge, Yuan Zhu entered this information into the [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture] as information reserves, then refocused his gaze on the mid-to-low-level exchange zone.
After circling around and selecting quite a few ‘knowledge, information’, he then splurged a thousand gold, simultaneously buying the [Thunder Punishment] and [Sanctuary] Holy Seals.
Whether to recast the seal repeatedly, he is still hesitating. Fortunately, among the newly opened information, there is some relevant content. He can decide after understanding it clearly.
After doing all this, he chose to wave goodbye to No. 3. Under the other’s reluctant gaze, he returned to Taixi’s hotel.
