Chapter 291: I, 【landlord God】!
The Tiger Demon stayed in the Cave Dwelling, carefully studying the White Deer for most of the day, confirming that the two Deer Head Swords parasitizing its neck were merely in a simple ‘parasitic semi-symbiotic’ relationship.
Although there were elements of mutual benefit and coexistence, the Deer Head Swords could assist the White Deer in suppressing outbreaks of ‘Sword Contamination’, and passively control ‘Flying Swords’ to attack and hunt.
But more so, it was being parasitized; the nutrition obtained through food intake and the ‘Sword Qi’ tempered from its own body would all be absorbed by the ‘Flying Swords’. It merely served as a Living Sword Box to nourish and refine the Deer Head Swords.
As for why the White Deer was like this? It had never resisted or attempted to escape this one-sided state of providing sustenance.
Firstly, the Deer Head Swords could suppress pollution mutations for it; secondly, as two ‘foreign living things’, the Deer Head Swords could secrete special hormones to influence the White Deer’s behavioral patterns, stimulating its innate instincts of pity and care for offspring, gradually PUA-ing it into a ‘male mama’.
Snake Snake: “Based on my earlier diagnosis, plus Boss’s many years of ‘amateur veterinarian’ experience, it can be determined that directly removing the Deer Head Swords will not affect the White Deer’s physical health. In fact, after removing these two burdens, it will become even stronger and usher in a period of strength outbreak.”
“But the problem is also there: without the Deer Head Swords to balance the pollution and absorb the ‘Sword Qi’ generated in its body, its Sword Dao Pollution will explode. It will need professional Cultivation Techniques for balancing and refinement control. Alternatively, choose a new system for it to switch to cultivation.”
The Tiger Demon was puzzled: “In this state, Sword Dao Pollution has already seeped into its soul; is it still not too late to switch cultivation?”
Any kind of Supernatural System is one where once you’re on board, there’s no regretting it. The difficulty of jumping off midway far exceeds part-time (Three Phases).
Snake Snake: “Normal switching is of course impossible, but it hasn’t condensed a Seed yet, so it can still be salvaged. Just pour in thicker pollution to cover it, fully fuse and stir with the ‘Sword Qi’ in its body, intermingling with each other to synthesize a brand new Power of Pollution. Then there’s a chance to embark on a new path! This isn’t jumping halfway to another new road. It’s opening a new fork in the road halfway for it.”
The Tiger Demon looked at the White Deer, whose behavioral pattern was silly, both fearing itself and trying hard to act friendly nearby. Suddenly, he felt this guy’s personality was a bit like an Erha.
“What path do you think it’s suited for? Or continue being a Sword Immortal?”
If continuing as a Sword Immortal, they could completely remove the Deer Head Swords and then go back to Happy Home to exchange for a new Cultivation Technique.
Snake Snake: “As far as I know, the advantages of Sword Cultivators are powerful destructive power far exceeding the same tier, and unpredictable Flying Sword killing speed; all of this is built on ‘Flying Swords’. The disadvantages are weak defense and mobility… If you cultivate it towards Animal Sword Cultivator, it’s just a fragile melee fighter.”
Tiger Demon: “Can’t the White Deer be refined into a Flying Sword? That way it has speed, lethality, defense—perfectly meeting mount needs.”
Snake: “That’s because you’re part-time Sword Cultivator and personally refined the deer into a ‘natal mount’.”
Flying Sword mounts are flashy, but he didn’t want to waste limited ‘part-time slots’, so he unwillingly said: “Can’t it refine itself into a sword with its physical body?”
Snake Snake also got a headache: “A bit dizzy; theoretically feasible, but you’d have to go to Space of Gods to select the corresponding Cultivation Technique.”
The Tiger Demon also felt that having the White Deer refine itself into a Flying Sword was a difficulty not matching its intelligence. Actually, they could also put Knight Armor on its body and cultivate it into a handsome and flashy Armored Mount with super high defense.
The Tiger Demon then said: “I’m gradually forming a complete plan that can cleverly balance the Shadow (Boss Template), Holy Light, and Anti-Law three systems, jointly forging my future Supernatural System.”
Snake Snake curiously asked for advice: “How to do it?”
The Tiger Demon confidently said: “First, arrange Holy Light to act, using Sanctuary to screen top prey, then imprison and seal, refine and weaken. The weak ones are directly refined into ’embers’ to feedback Holy Seal and Soul Crystals. The strong ones often can’t be easily refined, but can be repeatedly purified, weakened, and sealed in Flasks.”
“Second ring: send the purified higher Pollution Crystals (Demon Seal Wave) to the Tiger Demon, forcibly refine and absorb with Ghost Companion supernatural ability—absorb as much as possible. The final unabsorbable Pollution Crystals will inevitably be extremely pure, serving as Seeds or even higher in other Pollution Systems, and preliminarily stamped with the Shadow label.”
“Thus, to the third ring: through Anti-Law, cheaply sell these ‘assets’ to the Shadow Master, and in an ‘angel investment’ manner, grant them to different users. Deeply bind them with Anti-Law, turning these Holy Light unkillable, Shadow inedible Pollution Crystals into Anti-Law Master’s super hitmen cultivated as Supernatural Cores.”
The Tiger Demon realized that the correct way to use Anti-Law might not necessarily be to build a unique ‘Supernatural System’ of its own and expand it; it could also cultivate numerous ‘specialized, unique, irreplicable’ exclusive hitmen, and use Anti-Law to tightly bind and control them, driving them through debt.
The two routes: the former is like sect elites, condensing Anti-Law into a brand and expanding; the latter is more like Akatsuki Organization, cultivating elites under other Supernatural Systems and binding them with Anti-Law.
Hmm… isn’t this exactly the orthodox Law System playstyle! Use Law to bind and restrain all Supernatural Systems, incorporating them for one’s own use.
Anti-Law is just a low-spec version, not qualified to bind and restrain other ‘pollutions’ and claim them. However! Anti-Law can completely distribute its own Property (other Pollution Crystals) to cultivate users.
Holy Light’s kidnapping, destruction, weakening; Shadow’s refinement, absorption, stamping. Cleverly compensating for Anti-Law’s lack of capital dilemma.
Snake Snake commented: “Very feasible! The higher Pollution Sources that can’t be refined can be transferred to Anti-Law to cultivate independent ‘super users’. Huh? This is probably Mao Mao King’s original intention. It’s just that she doesn’t force team members to sign Anti-Law; the Uniforms are also free trial gifts. This Mao Mao King is really too laid-back, too lacking in ambition!”
Tiger Demon agreed: “If I were the Boss of Happy Home, I’d definitely force team members to wear Anti-Law Uniforms and work for me. Only Zhou Chu’s Law could escape, countering the Compulsory Uniform Contract. Tsk, Mao Mao is a total laid-back Benevolent God! Whoever dares say ‘be vigilant of Mao Mao King traps’ again, I’m not done with her!”
Upon careful count, in the entire Happy Home, only Mai Lili and Mao Mao King have signed Anti-Law. The rest of the team members are all freeloading on the Uniforms. (Yuan Zhu has additionally purchased 3 sets.)
“So, how to handle the White Deer?”
The Tiger Demon calculated: “First remove the Deer Head Swords, then fiercely infuse it with Shadow Spiritual Energy for assimilation. As for the future path…?”
After serious thought: “Best to combine with Mountain Lord’s Domain for setup. If I’m not here long-term to guard, it will replace me as the ‘town guardian beast’, Mountain Lord Temple priest, Mountain God deputy, second-in-command… What profession do you think suits it?”
Snake Snake put herself in Yuan Zhu’s thought pattern, muttering: “Based on your Earth period memories, ‘White Deer’ are often associated with Auspicious Omens, longevity, Spirit Medicines. How about… make it a Medicinal Field administrator! Cultivate the Domain into a Spirit Medicine planting Blessed Land, with the White Deer as security guard, granting it the identity of Kunlun Immortal Beast, Rogue Immortal Spirit Beast.”
The Tiger Demon approved: “Fits my three views cognition; Deer Power Immortal, huh? This seniority is quite high, almost brotherhood oath level with me. Still short one goat, uh…”
He suddenly thought of the Little Goat in Happy Home; that thing’s status was even lower. His Tiger Demon Spiritual Root choice was a bit awkward.
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While both sides discussed the Auspicious Omen White Deer’s future growth path, those Shadow Magic Worms drilling into bodies and digging holes also successively completed their tasks.
At this moment, with the Cave Dwelling as core, spreading and drilling into the surrounding mountain bodies, digging out more than twenty channels of varying lengths. Additionally, it used the ‘auxiliary array setup’ software built into Great Desolation Immortal Scripture to calculate the Heavenly Dipper nodes outside the Cave Dwelling.
Since the Cave Dwelling was excavated near the mountain peak’s outer layer, not deep into the mountain belly, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Positions were not on the same plane, requiring complex calculations combining mountain terrain.
The Tiger Demon was completely clueless about this, relying entirely on the Immortal Scripture’s foolproof calculations, then directing digging via Snake Snake; bustling back and forth for nearly 40 minutes, with the Magic Worms busy in and out.
Drilling holes and digging caves inside the mountain body, climbing up and down on the mountain outside the Cave Dwelling. Finally, manipulating shadows into tentacles to drag one Insect Pillar Town Stone after another, disappearing. Placing these Worm Pillars one by one into position.
After completing this step, the Tiger Demon coiled down again inside the Nine Palaces Formation, driving the Magic Array to nest with the setup Heavenly Dipper Formation.
Suddenly, on the Cave Dwelling’s surface, rock walls, and stone ceiling interior, massive vein-like Root Tendrils ‘patterns’ came alive again, creaking as they wound and grew inside the mountain rocks, radially expanding, connecting with the vein Root Tendrils extending from the newly installed 36 Insect Pillars, further expanding the Magic Array’s range, and driving Shadow Spiritual Energy to flow in the vein Root Tendrils, maintaining the Magic Array’s Energy Cycle.
Gradually, the Tiger Demon felt a sensation of ‘Primordial Spirit out-of-body, spirit sublimation’.
At this moment, the 44 Insect Pillar Town Stones were like its external flesh limbs, extending vast ‘nerve endings’, parasitizing inside the current mountain peak. If the expansion range is estimated as a ‘sphere’, the diameter already exceeds 100m.
Even, the Tiger Demon could perceive that a corner of the Cold Pond near the mountain body was also covered in its Magic Array’s radiation range.
At this moment, it truly had the feeling of a Mountain God. The ‘Spiritual Energy (Shadow Pollution, Death Qi), vegetation, Fungi’ within its absolute Domain range were all influenced by its mood and will.
Unfortunately, merely nesting one layer of 36 Heavenly Dipper Formation couldn’t bring the entire mountain peak under its absolute control. According to the Magic Array’s maximum fuzzy perception of this Yin Mountain, the Tiger Demon had obtained nearly 1/9 absolute control of ‘Yin Mountain’.
If the Absolute Control is further diluted to ‘direct influence range’, then it had already controlled the entire Yin Mountain.
If the Direct Influence is further diluted to ‘indirect influence range, Perception range’, then from inside the Cave Dwelling, it could cover and monitor most of the Cold Pond and nearby mountain bodies.
Just as the Tiger Demon was immersed in the different authority levels’ control feel (playstyle) of the Shadow Magic Array, a position regarding Yin Mountain was spontaneously condensing in the netherworld, deeply binding and entwining with its soul.
The entire process had nothing to do with the Tiger Demon; it was completely automatic from this land and forcibly injected into its soul.
When this position of ‘Yin Mountain’ finished condensing, the Tiger Demon finally reacted; the condensed ‘abstract concept’ was this Yin Mountain’s Deed, or land ownership.
After this Deed spontaneously condensed and marked, the Tiger Demon or Yuan Zhu at this moment became the Landlord God recognized by Du Ling Star. In Earth hometown terms, the Earth God.
“Landlord God?! This…”
The Tiger Demon opened his eyes, looking at his empty claws, his gaze gradually blanking as he started spacing out.
This Landlord God identity had nothing to do with any Supernatural System. It only related to whether Du Ling Star’s land ownership was privatized.
Any Supernatural System, as long as it can erode and occupy a piece of ‘Du Ling’ reality’s land and claim it, marking it. The planet will spontaneously condense a Deed, marking you as the landowner, the original Landlord God.
Additionally, this Deed can be traded. Essentially the ‘property rights’ concept of Earth.
Only Earth’s land property rights are fake, a ‘concept’ fabricated by human society. The Deed itself has no power, only value when complying with social order.
But Du Ling Star’s ‘Deed property rights’ are genuine; once generated, no second one appears. Deed holders can be Landlord Gods or ‘ordinary people’, all able to influence privatized land to varying degrees.
It can even be traded, or bound to bloodline, passed down generations…
