162: Chapter 161 [The Lotus Root of the Chaos Green Lotus]

Chapter 161 [lotus root of the chaos green lotus]

The voice of [Taotie] continued: "This section of the lotus root was dropped by the divine monster [Wuzhiqi] in the extraterritorial S-rank secret realm [Grand Marsh of Yunmeng]."

"I had it sent to the [Central Laboratory] for identification, and its existence is even older than ancient times."

Professor Zhou Gongdan said that the parent body of this lotus root should have been born in the chaotic era before heaven and earth were separated, seeming to be a plant named [chaos green lotus] recorded in ancient literature.

Its lotus root, lotus seeds, flowers, and leaves each possess divine wonders.

"And this lotus root has all nine apertures open, naturally possessing a human form, and is nourished by the aura of chaos—"

Sun Po's heart tightened: "[Wuzhiqi]? [Grand Marsh of Yunmeng]?"

Through [Demon Pill Nezha] and [Nezha], Sun Po learned that sometimes there is more than one of the so-called same deity.

Then could the [Wuzhiqi] that appeared in the [Yunmengze] secret realm be the one he saw in the hallucination when [Changyou] advanced?

In Huaxia mythological legends, [Yunmengze] is a giant lake whose master is [Lord of Yunzhong].

Why would the Lord of Huishui, [Wuzhiqi], appear there?

Sun Po silently noted this information in his heart, and as he listened, he suddenly felt a surge of intense heat coming from his material pouch.

Immediately afterward, a fiery red bead radiating terrifying heat rushed straight out—it was precisely the [demon pill].

Before Sun Po could even react, the fiery red [demon pill] turned into a crimson streak of light, charging directly toward the cyan-gray little lotus root figurine.

"[Black Rhino Armor]!!"

Sun Po instantly summoned the [Black Rhino Armor], capturing the [demon pill] in his hand.

The moment they made contact, Sun Po's expression changed.

The terrifying high temperature even scorched the palms of the [Black Rhino Armor] to a bright red, making Sun Po grit his teeth from the burn.

The [Samadhi True Fire] of this [demon pill] seemed even more terrifying, and the [Black Rhino Armor], always known for its high defense, could not even withstand it.

Suddenly, a burst of cyan divine light bloomed in Sun Po's hand, and the irritable and blazing [demon pill] was firmly wrapped by the cyan divine light. Sun Po recognized that this cyan divine light was precisely [Ren Water Divine Power].

Although the power of the [Samadhi True Fire] seemed stronger, the [Ren Water Divine Power] had not stood still either.

Back then, the [Ren Water Divine Power] had fought for a long time with Nezha transformed by this [demon pill], and both sides could be considered evenly matched.

However, this [Ren Water Divine Power] belonged to the water element among the Five Elements, which happened to somewhat restrain the [Samadhi True Fire] emitted by the [demon pill].

Moreover, Nezha transformed by the [demon pill] had already been nailed to death with a spear by spirit pearl Nezha, and now it was only acting on the instinct of the [demon pill].

Although fierce, it was not lasting; rushing left and right, it still could not crash through this cluster of cyan divine light no matter what.

At this moment, [Wuzhiqi]'s voice also sounded in Sun Po's heart: "Master, this [book of five rings] is probably a bit strange. When I listened to the sound of fate of this book, I was bounced out by an overbearing willpower. When I wanted to listen again, the sound of fate of this [book of five rings] had turned into a mess, so I only heard half of the tactical methods, while the sword technique part was completely unheard."

"I wanted to listen again, but I saw this [demon pill] suddenly burst into action—"

Sun Po could not help feeling regretful; it was the first time Sun Po had seen golden book materials.

It must have extremely strong effects, but it seemed that this "anti-piracy" implementation was also extremely good. It was the first time Sun Po had seen book materials that made [Wuzhiqi]'s "book listening" function suffer a setback.

But it was an investment-free business anyway—hitting two birds with one stone. If it succeeded, great; if it didn't, nothing was lost.

Coincidentally, the details of all four treasures had been completely introduced.

Since the sound of fate of the [book of five rings] could not be listened to, Sun Po naturally didn't need to delay any further.

However, at this moment he was truly somewhat conflicted.

Although the [allspark] of [Gourmet Hannibal] was also incomplete, it could already be said to be the main body of the [allspark].

Even if it was flawed, its divine wonders would definitely far surpass the [allspark fragment] previously given to Sun Po by President Chen Wang.

Originally, Sun Po had taken a fancy to this thing at first glance.

But when [Taoman] [Mancang] pulled out the cyan-gray lotus root in the shape of a little figure, Sun Po also saw the abnormality of the [demon pill].

In Huaxia mythology, after [Nezha] died, his body was made of lotus root to be reborn.

It was precisely because lotus roots have nine apertures, connecting top and bottom.

Moreover, the lotus fibers are tough, extremely ductile, and able to cleanse one's own filth, which was why it was chosen.

As for this "lotus root", there were also numerous versions. Some said that Nezha's lotus root body was just made from ordinary lotus root, while others said that the lotus root for [Nezha]'s rebirth was born from the golden lotus in the bitter sea of Buddhism, thus [Nezha] was subject to Buddhist constraints.

But no matter which saying it was, this lotus root seemed indisputable.

Furthermore, looking at the instinctive reaction of this [demon pill], it indeed seemed to love this lotus root very much.

One was a treasure suspected to be an [allspark] that was exceptionally mysterious and could not even be completely parsed by the [mod loading system].

The other was a humanoid lotus root originating from the [chaos green lotus] of the same period as the demon god inherited by [Overlord Xiang Yu], which had an extremely strong attraction to the [demon pill].

Sun Po thought about it over and over, and finally decided, subsequently saying in his heart to Li Tiance:

"Brother Tiance, I choose the [lotus root of the chaos green lotus]."

This time, Sun Po did not choose to gamble on the unknown broken [allspark].

All along, Sun Po had been a rather gamby person. Ever since the [Spirit Monkey] loaded [Changyou], it had been like this. Basically, every time, Sun Po made choices following the principle that the bigger the winds and waves, the more expensive the fish.

The reason Sun Po did not gamble this time was not because Sun Po had changed, grown afraid, or sought stability, but because Sun Po suddenly figured something out.

As the top two countries in the world, the [Yanhuang Ancient Country] and the [Bald Eagle Federation] had always had many frictions.

The [Bald Eagle Federation], acting as the big boss, suppressed the highly potential [Yanhuang Ancient Country] more than once and in more than one aspect.

The open and covert struggles between the two sides had never stopped. Even ordinary people who were not Card Makers knew about this general direction.

It could be said that after monsters lost the strength to completely annihilate humanity, the conflicts between countries took top priority.

Hence, there was this small plate of [tianhe exclusive shadow beef] being fought over by representatives of various countries.

Sun Po suddenly realized that in the future he would have a lot of time in a state of natural hostility with this elegant, blond-haired, and blue-eyed middle-aged man.

Since that was the case, now that he knew the broken [allspark] was in this person's hands, in the future when he grew strong, he could just march to the Bald Eagle Empire, kill his way to this person's face, and snatch the broken [allspark] away. Even if he was a Titled Card Maker, Sun Po was confident that he would not be weaker than him in the future.

Moreover, this person liked eating people, which ran counter to human ethics. Sun Po naturally harbored ill feelings toward this person, and this was also the most fundamental reason.

After learning about this person's information, Sun Po had already silently raised a sense of disgust in his heart, and furthermore, his name lived up to his hobbies.

He clearly knew in his heart that if he had the opportunity, he would definitely kill this fellow who liked cannibalism...

When the auction ended, Sun Po thought of the astonished and somewhat angry expression of [Miyamoto Chouzou] when Li Tiance announced the successful bidder, and he found it rather funny.

People of the [Sakura Island Company Divine Kingdom] were narrow-minded and could not bear losses; if they couldn't take advantage, they would get furious.

These were words once spoken by a Titled Card Maker of the [Yanhuang Ancient Country], which had spread far and wide. Now it seemed they truly did not deceive him.

As for the camel-headed man with a white cloth on his head, he looked very nonchalant.

He only said it was a pity that he had no affinity to taste the delicacy, and then left nonchalantly.

But the reaction of [Gourmet Hannibal] made people rather uncomfortable. He seemed to have long since seen that Sun Po was the owner of this plate of [tianhe exclusive shadow beef]. When leaving, he actually directly held up the broken [allspark] and smiled at Sun Po:

"Your meat smells very good, and so are the deities on your body. My thing is right here; wait for you to come and take it."

This sentence did not have any gloomy feeling; instead, it sounded somewhat warm, just like neighbors greeting each other with "Have you eaten?". It was ordinary, peaceful, and calm.

But the meaning contained within it and that gradually transparent smiling face made Sun Po faintly feel nauseous.

But no matter what, this auction had finally ended.

In the end, this plate of [tianhe exclusive shadow beef] was transacted at an astronomical price of 2.8 billion plus one treasure.

Sun Po and Li Tiance could be said to have made a killing this time.

After discussion, Sun Po harvested the treasure, but because the value of the treasure was extremely large and difficult to discount, even if all 2.8 billion in cash were discounted to [Wangfeng Tower], it still wasn't enough.

However, the treasure could not be split into two halves. Later, Li Tiance stepped forward and issued a 100 million cooperation bonus to Sun Po, allowing Sun Po to get some cash harvest this time.

Previously, of course, there was no such thing as a cooperation bonus, but since Li Tiance said there was, then from now on [Wangfeng Tower] had it.

[Manager Duan] originally still had some complaints, because in the end, however much [Wangfeng Tower] earned would be recorded on his [Manager Duan]'s credit ledger.

This 100 million was actually forcibly deducted from his [Manager Duan]'s credit ledger, but there was no help for it; when the young master spoke, he did not dare to disobey.

Coupled with the multi-million share of ordinary shadow beef, Sun Po smoothly completed the small goal of a net worth exceeding 100 million during his third year of high school.

But he knew that in the Card Maker industry, spending money flowed like water. Several millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions all had to be transformed into strength to be useful money.

Once a Card Maker began blindly hoarding wealth without spending money to strengthen their own strength, they were not far from death.

Sun Po deeply knew this point, and he intended to spend money to rummage through the material market fiercely for a wave of materials.

His [mod loading system] system experience was already past halfway. It seemed that if he wanted more [secret realm core]s to play a role in the [field card], he had to let the system upgrade.

And if he wanted to upgrade, he had to constantly load new mods or create new mods.

Loading new mods required high-quality materials with high compatibility, while creating new mods required spiritual value transformed from materials. Both points were inseparable from materials, but Sun Po currently didn't have many materials or spiritual values accumulated by the system.

His spirituality had been depleted for some time. This time, Sun Po left half of the materials in the [Jinshan Temple] secret realm for [Liu Jianren], and the remaining half had long been completely decomposed into spirituality by Sun Po. But because the quality was not too high, in the end he only decomposed and obtained more than 800 points of spirituality. Perhaps it was still considered a huge sum in the past, but to Sun Po now, it was somewhat inadequate.

As for the place to accumulate materials, Sun Po thought over and over, and the most suitable one was still the material market.

Sun Po had always felt that the material market was his blessed land. His first pot of gold, [Changyou], came from the material market, and the later [field card] core, [broken Tianhe Water Mansion], also came from the material market.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the material market changed Sun Po's fate.

Moreover, most of the materials in the material market were of not-so-high quality, and the prices of these materials were not high.

Especially under the circumstance that card-making materials could only be sold for money in the hands of most people, Sun Po's 100 million cash was enough to sweep through the [Jinyang City] material market fiercely for half a month.

But Sun Po did not have half a month. At this time, there were still five days until [Liu Jianren] woke up, and six days until the start of the [Gaokao].

Within these six days, Sun Po needed to try his best to improve himself.

But speaking of which, it might be a bit infuriating. The opportunities and treasures Sun Po obtained were really a bit too many, one after another, crop after crop. Sun Po didn't even have time to digest the previous harvest before a new harvest was already delivered to his door.

Now, the two [secret realm core]s in his hands were still idle, and the dragon-patterned red crystal representing strong luck given by [Liu Bang] was also lying quietly in the material pouch. Today, he had harvested the top-grade material for constructing the physical body of [Demon Pill Nezha], the [lotus root of the chaos green lotus].

These things were treasures that ordinary people found hard to see even one of, yet they lay in bundles in Sun Po's material shoulder bag, making the golden chest almost not enough to use.

But even so, it was already getting harder and harder for Sun Po to unleash his full strength during battles. Last time, if not for the [Jinshan Temple] involving dimensions and the struggle between red and white, Sun Po could have even easily destroyed that secret realm without even using his full strength.

You must know that ever since [Wuzhiqi] ascended to divinity, his [Natural Disaster Form] had never been triggered.

This destruction of the secret realm completely made the officials certain that for this civilian [Card Maker] who hadn't even finished participating in the [Gaokao], the secret realms within the domain were no longer enough for Sun Po to stretch his limbs; he urgently needed a bigger battlefield and a bigger stage.

And the heavens seemed to have heard this plea, as a bigger stage appeared.

The next day, after washing up, Sun Po prepared to go out and head to the [Jinyang City] material market, only to run right into [Li Tiance].

Judging by the direction, it seemed he was precisely coming to look for Sun Po.

Seeing him in a hurry, Sun Po asked: "Brother Tiance, what is the matter that makes you in such a rush?"

[Li Tiance] pulled Sun Po and walked into the house. After entering, he poured himself a cup of tea, took a few big gulps, and then said:

"Brother Sun, just now I was training in archery when I suddenly received a message from my father. He said that this year's national competition probably has major changes."

Sun Po was not familiar with the national competition to begin with, and all related impressions basically came from [Li Tiance]. He just listened quietly.

[Li Tiance] seemed to have trained very hard in archery recently. He poured another cup of tea, gulped down a big mouthful, and said:

"Brother Sun, this national competition—that is, the state-level competition—is probably going to be upgraded."

Sun Po's curiosity was finally stirred up.

[Li Tiance] sat down and said: "The state-level competition will probably have to be called the world competition."