164: Chapter 163 Harvest, Decomposition, Nourished by Blood

Not to mention the famous Tightening Curse, even someone as powerful as Sun Wukong, the most renowned demon throughout the ages, would have to hug his head and roll on the ground in pain once the tightening hoop was put on and the chant began.

The wearers of the remaining two hoops were also old acquaintances, with the golden hoop being worn by the Saintly Infant King, Red Boy.

He was the son of the Great Sage Equalling Heaven, Bull Demon King, and Princess Iron Fan, and was later subdued by Guanyin Bodhisattva to become her subordinate, the Good-Fortune Boy.

As for the wearer of this tightening hoop, it was an entity familiar to most Huaxia people—the Black Bear Spirit who loved to steal cassocks, and also the first powerful great demon Sun Wukong obtained during the process of protecting Tang Monk on his journey to the West to retrieve Buddhist scriptures.

Although this Black Bear Spirit did not have a prominent reputation in the original work, his strength was not weak, being an existence capable of fighting a great battle with Sun Wukong.

Although Sun Wukong held back significantly on the journey to retrieve scriptures, it wasn't something that any minor spirit or monster could provoke; being able to fight Sun Wukong—who wielded the Ruyi Jingu Bang—for a long time without being defeated meant the Black Bear Spirit's value went without saying.

Later on, he was even placed under the tightening hoop by Guanyin Bodhisattva and taken in as the Guardian Deity of Luojia Mountain, managing to secure an official position among the immortals.

But what puzzled Sun Po was that this tightening hoop was clearly something that should be produced by the secret realm of Yanhuang Ancient Country, so how did it end up in the hands of a northerner?

He tentatively asked, "How do you plan to sell this thing?"

Seeing that Sun Po was interested, the bear-like burly man looked overjoyed, held out five fingers, and said, "Five million!!"

His Yanhuang speech was far from standard, but it was still understandable to the people around him, provoking sneers from the surrounding Card Makers and stall owners.

"This northern fellow has lost his mind. He's been hanging around here for days, and today he finally bumped into someone willing to pay attention to him, yet he asks for five million right off the bat."

"If you ask me, shouting five million isn't wrong; anyway, the kid opposite will definitely bargain. I guess he'll slash off fifty thousand."

"Four million nine hundred and fifty thousand? Then this northerner still makes a killing."

"I mean slashing it down to fifty thousand to close the deal."

However, as soon as the words fell, Sun Po calmly said, "Alright."

Buying a golden material containing a divine position for the price of five million was definitely not expensive. If there were such a good thing, the already annihilated Li Jiancheng would express that he wanted as many as there were.

Although this golden material was deeply problematic and the divine position was not so easy to acquire, Sun Po did not intend to use it immediately. He planned to wait until Huo Wuji returned the yangzhi jade pure bottle given to him by Zhuang Zhou before making further plans.

In broad daylight, the two did not continue the transaction there, but instead came to a secluded place.

Sun Po happened to have something he wanted to ask him as well. Moreover, this place was far away from Renjian Mound, making it possible to summon cards.

Seeing Sun Po act so lavishly, a few people even followed after Sun Po and the giant bear-like man left the material market.

But as a flash of golden light illuminated and Sun Po summoned Wuzhiqi, these people slowly retreated one by one.

No matter how lacking in perception someone was, the flashing of a golden card and the powerful aura of an ancient deity were still very obvious.

Upon seeing Wuzhiqi, the giant bear-like brawny man instantly became serious and vigilant, and he similarly summoned his own card.

His card was only of purple quality, featuring a massive brown bear five to six meters tall. The bear's body was covered in iron-like armor, and a quaintly shaped rune imprint was engraved on the forehead of the armor.

"[Rune War Bear]?"

This was the first time Sun Po had ever seen the renowned public card sequence of the Northern Ice Bear Kingdom, whose status was equivalent to Huaxia's Heavenly Soldier.

However, Sun Po was not unfamiliar with this card sequence.

Among the low-level card sequences Li Tiance had previously sent to Sun Po was the primary form of the Rune War Bear, the Violent Bear, so Sun Po also understood the card sequence and subsequent advancement of the Violent Bear.

Although Sun Po ultimately didn't choose to make a Violent Bear because he felt there were no suitable MODs, his homework had after all been thoroughly done.

The Northern Ice Bear Kingdom's Giant Bear — Violent Bear — Rune War Bear, Yanhuang Ancient Country's Warrior — Heavenly Soldier — Heavenly General,

The Bald Eagle Federation's Harpy — Winged Person — Angel,

The Lion Tribe Alliance's Companion Spirit — Wild Spirit — Spirit of Nature,

And the Sakura Island Company Divine Kingdom's Samurai — Ronin — Gouki; these were the basic military card sequences of the five major nations. Among them, the Giant Bear of the Northern Ice Bear Kingdom could be called the king of the primary stage, and its terrifying physical stats were the reason for its kingship.

Aside from certain special Companion Spirits in the Lion Tribe Alliance, no other country's primary public card sequence could contend with the Giant Bear.

This advantage remained strong even at the higher stage of the Violent Bear. During the Violent Bear stage, the card had already reached purple quality.

At this time, the Violent Bear would awaken an extremely important trait: Elemental Power, and master some related skills of that element.

The Elemental Power of most Violent Bears was one of three: ice, lightning, or earth. At this stage, the Violent Bear in the second stage was second only to the Heavenly Soldier equipped with Divine Body and Divine Power.

Upon reaching the third stage of orange quality, the Violent Bear advanced into the Rune War Bear, and the situation became a bit more complicated.

The strength of the Rune War Bear mainly depended on the runes, but Sun Po was not very familiar with the specific runes.

The strongest point of the Rune War Bear lay in the fact that its suit of armor could accommodate more and more runes as the war bear grew stronger. The more runes it accommodated, the stronger the Rune War Bear became, and runes were a power system exclusively belonging to the Northern Ice Bear Kingdom.

Overall, this was a card sequence with immense potential completely comparable to the Warrior.

However, potential did not equal strength. Apart from the single rune on its forehead, the armor of the Rune War Bear summoned by the brawny man before him only bore battle scars.

It was obvious that this was merely a Rune War Bear that had just entered the orange stage.

However, this was not what Sun Po cared about. He was more curious about why the tightening hoop was in the hands of this northerner, or rather, how he had obtained the tightening hoop.

However, this northerner's Yanhuang language was truly terrible, and after rambling for a long time, he finally made the whole story clear.

He said his name was Lekov. Ski, and he was a member of the material hunter team Silent Giant Bear. Silent Giant Bear was a small material hunter team with only a dozen or so members.

In a secret realm in Murmansk in the north, they discovered a golden monster with a huge head, who was still shouting things like "Cassock! Cassock!"

After a bitter battle, the few of them finally killed that golden big-headed monster.

After dropping this golden material, they checked the relevant information and found that this thing couldn't fetch a good price in the north at all. Its origin seemed related to the legends of the Yanhuang Ancient Country, but they were just ordinary material hunters without any status, making it very difficult for them to enter the Yanhuang Ancient Country.

In the end, they smuggled themselves over by taking the Li family's cargo ship that frequently traveled between various countries.

After that, it wasn't very clear—something about going ashore, the team leader being arrested, and having to give gifts to others.

In short, this kid was saying that he was in distress now, urgently needed five million, and wanted the money wired.

Sun Po thought to himself, it is easy to deal with the king of hell, but hard to deal with the petty demons.

It seemed that in the Yanhuang Ancient Country, the further down one went, the harder it was for anyone to escape the rule of giving gifts.

But that wasn't the main point; the main point was that this tightening hoop did not drop from the Black Bear Spirit as Sun Po had imagined, but instead dropped from a golden big-headed monster, which was shouting "Cassock, cassock."

Sun Po had never heard of such a figure or monster in Huaxia mythology, but it seemed somewhat similar to a monster from a game in his past life.

"Jinchi? But this isn't a character in Huaxia mythology either! Big-Headed Jinchi is merely a monster in Black Myth: Wukong; could it actually appear in a secret realm as well? What on earth is the origin of the monsters in the secret realms? And what are the rules for their appearance?

Moreover, this was obviously a monster that should appear in a Yanhuang secret realm, so why did it appear in a secret realm of the Northern Ice Bear Kingdom?

And where did the original wearer of the tightening hoop, the Black Bear Spirit, go?"

With more and more contact with Card Makers from other countries, Sun Po increasingly found that this world was shrouded in heavy fog.

"It seems that if I have the opportunity in the future, I should also go explore the secret realms of other nations."

Sun Po thought to himself, but he didn't slack off on the task at hand.

Payment made, materials acquired, transaction completed.

Lekov. Ski expressed profuse gratitude, shouting things like "Harasho, harasho," and ran off with the money.

Sun Po found this giant bear-like brawny man quite amusing, with a special sense of comedy about him.

The transaction completed, Sun Po did not linger any longer and quickly returned to his residence in Prince Qins Mansion, closed the door, and began his pleasant time of decomposition.

The next period passed very quickly; for a full two days, the sound of the system kept ringing in Sun Po's ears:

"[Are you sure you want to decompose?]"

Sun Po was like a mindless confirmation machine, confirming for a full forty-eight hours.

In the end, he vaguely saw that the gauge representing spiritual value reached a full 480,000 points.

A full 480,000 spiritual value points!!

Aside from the 550,000 spiritual value points before constructing emperor yus ding, this was the time Sun Po had gained the most spiritual value.

However, those 550,000 spiritual value points were barely warmed in his hands before they were directly used to make a heavyweight item like emperor yus ding.

emperor yus ding directly upgraded Tianhe Budu from orange to golden quality, which could be called a transformative rebirth.

As for this 480,000 spiritual value, Sun Po believed its effect wouldn't be much worse; after all, 1.5 million was enough to complete Wuzhiqi's Six-Eared Macaque bloodline.

Sun Po took out several key treasures currently in his hands from his material pouch and lined them up before him.

The lotus root of the chaos green lotus obtained from the recent auction now already looked somewhat humanoid, and even the outlines of the facial features could be made out.

But it seemed to stop at that; its growth appeared to have stagnated.

Sun Po couldn't help but wonder if he had been scammed by Taoman?

A dignified titled Card Maker would actually use a fake treasure to scam a junior?

At this moment, the voice of Overlord Xiang Yu suddenly sounded in Sun Po's heart:

"My Lord, after using the Demon God Descent of Realm and Tyrant this time, I gained some memories in my mind, which seem to be memories of Realm and Tyrant related to the chaotic period, among which is this lotus root of the chaos green lotus."

Hearing this, Sun Po secretly thought: "Could frequently using the Descent of Overlord and Realm also awaken memories of the Demon Gods during the chaotic period?"

He asked, "What do you think of this item?"

Overlord Xiang Yu said, "Judging from the memories, there is nothing wrong with this little-human-shaped lotus root of the chaos green lotus. During the chaotic period, the three thousand Demon Gods coexisted in a great chaos. Most Demon Gods had violent temperaments, fighting endlessly and slaughtering unceasingly; for instance, Pangu, Leize, and the Tyrant inherited by me, etc., all belong to this category.

But besides them, there were also Demon Gods who disliked fighting; for example, Nuwa, Fuxi, and Realm all had dispositions that disliked fighting.

The chaos green lotus was also a Demon God that disliked fighting. Its seeds were scattered throughout the chaos, and its lotus root possessed the ability of transformation and birth. After the Demon Gods fought to destruction in the chaos, they would be reborn from the lotus root.

But in the end, the chaos was split open by Pangu, most of the Demon Gods perished, and the chaos green lotus also disappeared.

This complete section of the lotus root of the chaos green lotus in my lord's hand is indeed exceedingly rare.

It's just that the demon pill in my lord's hand is also an extremely rare spiritual treasure of heaven and earth. If the mother root of this lotus root of the chaos green lotus were still present, it would naturally have enough power to transform and give birth to the demon pill. But at this time, heaven and earth have long been distinct, and chaotic Qi is hard to find. This lotus root of the chaos green lotus probably no longer has the power to give birth to the demon pill."

Sun Po could not help feeling regretful. The demon pill was a part of Nezha; if it could be successfully transformed and born, it would be a great help.

However, Overlord Xiang Yu changed the subject and said, "However, this is also a good thing."

Sun Po asked, "How so?"

Overlord Xiang Yu continued, "Although chaotic Qi is hard to find, all things in heaven and earth ultimately return to chaos. I observe that my lord's bloodline possesses the five elements, which inherently split from chaos. If this lotus root is watered day and night with my lord's blood, it is bound to gradually recover its power. Although it cannot compare to direct nurturing by chaotic Qi, if watered by my lord's five-element blood, the demon pill will be inextricably linked to my lord's bloodline the moment it is born, equivalent to a card made by my lord. Thus, there is no need to worry about the danger of backlash."

But Wuzhiqi spoke up at this moment: "The big dummy drank some ink today too, but have you ever thought about it? It's true that my lord possesses the five elements, but my lord's five elements are not balanced. The water element power in his bloodline far surpasses the other four elements, while the demon pill innately possesses the Samadhi True Fire and has an affinity for the fire element. If you water it with blood heavily weighted in the water element, I'm afraid this demon pill will directly turn into a piece of dead lotus root."

Overlord Xiang Yu was silent for a moment and said, "My lord, this foul-mouthed monkey didn't talk nonsense after all. It was this subordinate who failed to consider thoroughly."

Sun Po was still digesting this massive amount of information. The heavy input of information from the two just now was a bit overwhelming for him.

Much of the information within was completely unknown to Sun Po, which was rather funny.

It was fine if his knowledge couldn't compare to the book-loving Wuzhiqi before, but now he couldn't even compare to a fighting man like Overlord Xiang Yu—