The mission of slaying demons in the five underworlds here has been solved.
With Ma Donggui greeting him, the sect's foreign affairs hall also gave him a lot of face.
A large number of mortal craftsmen worked continuously, 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 the living and communication area for the monks, while the outer city is populated by mortals who exist to serve the monks.
At Jiang Li's request, in addition to the shops in the inner city, an inn with a large area was also built for him near the edge of the outer city.
If you put up a sign saying "Sutra Library Valley", no one would dare to mess with it.
After all, those weak monsters cannot be allowed to enter the inner city. If he wants to obtain a steady stream of souls, he will naturally provide some convenience to such porters.
The preparations were quickly completed, and as soon as the signs were hung up, the two cornucopias would begin to operate.
And who would have thought that the shops in the inner city that he spent a lot of effort to build are actually just an addition. The small businesses in the outer city that others look down upon are his real purpose.
Over at the Immortal Fairy Market, Yan Hong was watching. Although everything was not in order, Jiang Li didn't need to worry too much.
On the day Jiang Li returned, everything was ready. As soon as he said "listing", the two stores in the inner city and the outer city opened at the same time.
The names of the two stores are the same, called "Manjianghong".
Of course, Jiang refers to Jiang Li, red refers to Yan Hong, and Man refers to making their money pockets full.
Jiang Li complained about Yan Hong's naming skills at first, but the fat man who became more and more round had many reasons, and his words were clear and logical.
"We open the door to do business. We don't want to drag customers into the store and kill them. The name just has a good meaning. Why are you so murderous?"
Yan Hong was professional in this area, and Jiang Li didn't pay more attention, so he didn't ask any more questions.
Although the name has a meaning, in this city that never sleeps, other big and old stores must have a history of more than a hundred years, with reputation, popularity, and credibility all there, so how can it be a mediocre new store?
It can be compared to it.
The red flowers in the inner city did not turn 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 sitting at the same time, was almost full after the sun went down.
You Yanhong made a promise in advance, and the food and drinks on the first day of opening were completely free. Naturally, there was an endless stream of little monsters coming after hearing the news.
Then they promoted their main business to all the little demons. In addition to souls, Jiang Li also purchased information, materials, secrets and other valuable things.
In the world of cultivating immortals, there are countless low-level demons like this, and their coverage is extremely wide. There may be something good that they can find by accident.
But with their cultivation base that lacks even half of their spiritual energy, and their almost illiterate knowledge of the world of immortality, good things in their hands are like pearls covered in dust and will have no effect at all.
It would be better to sell it to Jiang Li. If you can really pick out a unique treasure from the garbage heap, you will make a profit.
Jiang Li didn't cheat them. He was willing to spend a lot of money to buy horse bones. If it was really a good thing, he would use real spiritual stones to buy it from them at a normal price in the world of immortality. This is a group of low-level little demons like them, which they would never buy elsewhere.
Treatments that cannot be enjoyed.
After staying there for a day, Jiang Li specially found a few little demons to take care of him, and came over with a few magical herbs that he had obtained "accidentally" but could not be used.
The deal was completed in front of thousands of monsters.
An ape demon walked away with twenty low-grade spiritual stones that it had only seen in dreams.
A fox demon even exchanged the spirit stone for a Qi-nourishing pill used for cultivation and an "infinitely powerful" yellow-level low-grade magic weapon on the spot. He also directly applied to join the Manjianghong Inn and became a clerk.
This made countless little demons who wanted to trick her no longer dare to mess with their thoughts. In the hearts of thousands of little demons present, there was only endless longing and desire.
With their brains, they can't figure out what a routine is or what an advertisement is. These little monsters only know that Manjianghong Inn will be the place where their dreams begin.
And as they spread word of mouth, more and more monsters in this area will naturally be attracted to Manjianghong Inn and strive for the same dream throughout their lives.
In this way, the reputation of the Manjianghong Inn was instantly achieved. As long as you don't commit suicide in the later stage, the rewards will continue to increase.
On this first night, Jiang Li harvested more than two thousand souls, as well as some spiritual grass and spiritual minerals.
Although it seems that the number and speed of harvesting souls are far less than those in Yunxi City, the situation here is different.
Yunxi City was directly massacred, and hundreds of thousands of souls were close at hand. All they had to do was reach out and get it. Although it was fast, it only lasted a few days, and there was no waiting until the expiration date.
And Manjianghong Inn is a long-term business. As long as the reputation is established, it gives the group of little monsters enough motivation. Then how many people die in this area, how many souls will Jiang Li receive? This is a long-term and stable battle.
income.
As long as the spiritual energy and yin energy in the burial coffin can keep up, millions of ghost soldiers will be just around the corner!
....
It's another day two weeks later.
Jiang Li had already returned to the sect. At this time, he was sitting cross-legged in the meditation room, as motionless as a sculpture.
And his consciousness was quietly staring at an ordinary corner in the Sutra Valley.
In a swill bucket in the large kitchen area of the sect's internal affairs hall, a grease-headed fly was happily sucking the food in front of it.
How boring a person must be to pay attention to every move of a fly. But now, in the Sutra Valley, the genius Jiang Li, known as the pride of heaven and the invincible iron fist, is doing just this, Master
If you see something, you will definitely fight.
The fly was sucking and spitting, its pair of huge compound eyes always watching and alerting to all changes around it.
But no one pays much attention to the smelly swill bucket.
After eating and drinking quickly, the greasy-headed fly staggered out of the bucket and planned to find a female fly to chat about life.
But it accidentally bumped into an almost completely transparent spider web.
The spider web is extremely sticky, and the poor oil-headed fly flapped its wings vigorously, but was completely unable to escape. The struggle soon attracted a huge and terrifying predator, a striped spider!
Finally, the weak body was injected with venom, wrapped in spider webs, and turned into a drop of insect soup in pain.
The parallel consciousness broke away the moment the oil-headed fly died, and returned to Jiang Li's body with several days of insect memories.
Jiang Li's body shook violently, and then his mind and body slowly underwent some changes as he realized.
In the first life, I was reincarnated as an ancient-winged mayfly. I lived in glory and glory, and finally exhausted my essence and died on a lotus leaf.
In the second life, I was reincarnated as a double-needle black mosquito, which kept Senior Sister Xiaosi awake at night and swollen for seven days. Finally, due to excessive greed, I was palmed to death by Senior Sister on the chest.
In the third life, I transformed into a colorful butterfly, dancing gracefully among the flowers, chasing each other in a show, and finally accidentally fell into the pond and became the ration of the koi carp.
In the fourth life, my soul transformed into a grease-headed fly. I stole food and escaped in the kitchen. I battled wits with the chefs and monks. Finally, I strayed into a spider's web and was killed by predators and poison.
Jiang Li sat cross-legged in the quiet room, and scenes 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 hands, you will find that his skin has become dry and hard, as if it has become a shell, protecting the flesh inside.
Gentle heat radiated from it, and the temperature of the entire quiet room nearby rose by several degrees. Within the cocoon, something drastic seemed to be changing.
Two hours later, Jiang Li's cocoon suddenly began to twist, and force was exerted from the inside, tearing a large hole.
Jiang Li, who still had a little bit of mucus on his body, got out of it.
I have to say that his skin was extremely tough, and it took a lot of effort to successfully tear it open when it came out.
However, is this "breaking the cocoon"?
Jiang Li was also a little surprised by this. He didn't expect that after reincarnating as an insect four times in a row, he would actually have such an additional skill.
It seems to be a talent or instinct, it just comes naturally.
The specific function is that when it is turned into a cocoon, you can make minor adjustments to your body. In addition, human dreams such as regeneration of broken limbs, secondary growth, plastic surgery, and so on can also be achieved.
It's just that for us, it doesn't seem to be of much use at all...
Jiang Li looked in the mirror and saw that he was one size larger, that he had grown a little taller, and that his face was more handsome. He nodded with satisfaction.
By the way, mayflies, mosquitoes, butterflies, and flies all have wings, so why don’t they give you a pair too?
Jiang Li suddenly remembered this, turned around and looked in the mirror and looked behind him. It was smooth there and there were no wings or anything like that.
It seems that this is just breaking out of the cocoon, not emerging, and it will not sadly grow any strange organs.
In addition, Jiang Li looked at the mental attributes that had skyrocketed again on his attribute panel. Now he could control his own power well without relying on the second parallel consciousness.
Then it's finally time to conquer the second clone.
Jiang Li shook his hands and threw out the burial coffin, then walked into the coffin with the automatic sliding lid.
He looked up at the top of the coffin space, where a strange old tree that looked like a god was resting on the ceiling of the coffin with its roots pointing toward the sky and its top toward the ground.
That was the spiritual root branch of the lost ancient tree that he rescued from the scale demon tribe.
Hundreds of densely packed talisman papers were affixed to the branch of the spiritual root, and they were tied up with rune chains, so that this thing could not cause trouble in the coffin space.
And the target of Jiang Li's second clone is this ancient tree, which must be astonishingly large.
Since identification techniques cannot analyze it, Jiang Li's skills and cultivation are also unable to directly refine it and identify its owner.
Then just let this spiritual root branch become a part of yourself.
Jiang Li didn't believe in the power of the "Avalokiteśvara Heart Sutra". After turning it into a clone, he wouldn't be able to get anything useful out of it.
Moreover, when this spiritual root branch truly becomes Jiang Li's own power, wouldn't it be possible to use the few spiritual root seeds harvested before?
Especially Elder Duan Shuang's golden elixir is a real treasure. Just thinking about it makes Jiang Li drool with excitement.
Jiang Li stepped on the air and walked step by step to the front of the spiritual root branch.
Immediately, he silently circulated the Guanyin Heart Sutra in his heart, and quietly penetrated the second parallel consciousness into this branch of the spiritual root.
Jiang Li's curiosity about this ancient tree had reached its peak. He immediately communicated directly with the parallel consciousness and checked the situation over there.
Immediately, Jiang Li's eyes turned white, his figure collapsed, and he fell from a height of more than twenty meters.
Fortunately, his body was as strong as steel, so he didn't feel any pain even if he fell from such a height.
Jiang Li naturally knew the condition of his body, but a shocking and horrifying picture was coming to him through the parallel consciousness, which made him dizzy for a while and he could not even stand firmly.
He also knew that he was too rich.
The previous successful reincarnations of parallel consciousness gave him great confidence and courage, and he almost forgot about the dangers of confrontation in the spiritual world.
Among his first five reincarnation objects, one was a dead person who had been dead for several months, and the four were tiny insects that couldn't even distinguish between east, west, and north. How could they have any resistance in front of Jiang Li? That's why they were reincarnated.
It's been so smooth.
But his current goal is a spiritual root branch that is still alive, has existed for hundreds and thousands of years, and may have extremely good heels.
Jiang Li's second consciousness was currently in an extremely broad and huge spiritual world.
In front of him was an ancient tree with a statue of a god that was more than five meters high and still floating upside down in the air. Its thick branches and leaves were dancing wildly, forming a distinct contrast with the second parallel consciousness that had not yet grown and was only the size of a palm.
comparison.
But that's not all, there are hundreds of densely packed human-shaped fruits hanging on the ancient tree.
As the branches swayed, the fruits fell down one by one, and then they 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 left the parallel consciousness helpless, but this is still not the whole story!
Behind the ancient tree with the statue, in the distance of the spiritual world, an ancient tree so huge that it reaches the sky and the earth also stands there with its roots at the top and leaves at the bottom.
In the middle of the tree roots and leaves, there are also statues of gods sitting cross-legged, but the difference is that there are three statues of gods sitting on the trunk of this ancient tree with their backs facing each other, and their images are different.
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 is ethereal, one is solemn, and the other is terrifying. They are immortals, Buddhas, and demons respectively!
Jiang Li's body saw such a scene through parallel consciousness, and was so shocked that he fell from the air.
At this moment, there seemed to be a domineering and majestic dragon's roar coming from Jiang Li's body.
Two drops of dragon's blood heated up Jiang Li's heart, instantly pulling him out of his shock.
Jiang Li gasped for air, a drop of cold sweat slowly falling from his forehead.
The thing in his coffin is a branch of the spiritual root. The huge sacred tree that is far away from its spiritual world should be the real spiritual root.
That power, just looking at it from a distance through the parallel consciousness, made him lose heart. If he encountered the main body head-on, would he have to finish it on the spot?
Jiang Li looked at the spiritual root branch that was still on the ceiling, seemingly unaffected, and couldn't help but swallowed.
Strong is strong, but Jiang Li probably still has to fight the spiritual war here!
The second parallel consciousness, the size of a palm, clashed left and right in the spiritual world, suddenly bursting out from time to time and tearing apart the soul of a scale demon.
He also deliberately rushed towards the direction of the spiritual essence, trying to obtain more information at the expense of himself.
But the distance in the spiritual world does not seem to be determined by space. No matter how he moves forward, he cannot get even half closer to the opponent.
It seems that this spiritual root branch only has some connection with the spiritual root body, and cannot influence each other too much.
If this is the case, then there is a chance of winning!
The clone Tang Yan, who was far away in the Five Elements Peak of Shushan Mountain, was exchanging sword-control techniques with fellow disciples. He immediately found a reason to leave, and after returning to his residence, he fell to the ground.
The first parallel consciousness has passed through Jiang Li as a transit, followed by the second parallel consciousness, and invaded the sea of consciousness of the spiritual root branch.
Buzz!
The sword cultivator's clone struck with a sword heart slash. The arc-shaped sword light tore through the souls of more than a dozen scale monsters, and then struck hard on the trunk of the idol tree where the spiritual root branch was located, leaving a deep and long mark on it.
Cut marks.
The Sword Heart Slash can only be used once a day, but in the spiritual world, this slash is almost unstoppable.
Then the roots of the ancient tree rolled up, and the sword cultivator's clone and the second parallel consciousness began to flee around the world together.
He was not handsome for three seconds, and he was sluggish after the first round.
Jiang Li was helpless, but his body consciousness still did not dare to step down to help with the punch.
His mind activated Guimu Jue, and Jiang Li sent the locust tree in the sea of consciousness along the consciousness channel.
A thud.
The lush locust tree fell from the sky, and the next moment more than thirty ghosts that had been captured by the roots of the locust tree were released directly. Under Jiang Li's order, they roared and rushed towards the spiritual root branch opposite.
The mature locust tree looks even taller and denser than the Linggen branch opposite. But obviously in terms of quality, the locust tree is significantly worse than the other one.
More than thirty ghosts were fighting together with the opponent's scale demon soul, and they were inseparable. In other words, they were surrounded and being beaten by a group of people after they met each other.
The roots of the spiritual root branch were even more powerful, and they rolled towards the locust tree. The locust tree's counterattack was useless, and it became entangled in the trunk of the tree.
Jiang Li looked anxious and speechless, and had no choice but to order a retreat.
The sword cultivator's clone and the second parallel consciousness used all their strength to cut off the roots with great difficulty, and then retreated back under the pull of Jiang Li's body.
Jiang Li took back the locust tree and sent back the sword cultivator's clone. He was a little disappointed with the result and could not complete his victory in one battle.
But given the gap between the two sides, if the results were to be achieved at once, the only outcome would be for Jiang Li's entire army to be annihilated.
That is to say, the "Great Freedom" feature of the "Great Freedom Guanshiyin Heart Sutra" is really powerful. Jiang Li did not win this spiritual war, but the spiritual root branches could not retain their own parallel consciousness.
However, although Jiang Li was a little disappointed, he was not discouraged.
Because the body of this spiritual root branch is in his hands and controlled by him, it is like a rootless duckweed when it is isolated and helpless at the spiritual level.
He doesn't need to rush for this moment. He stuffs the sword cultivation clone into it every day and gives the spiritual root branch a Sword Heart Slash. I believe it won't take long to completely occupy this branch!