151: Chapter 151 Shocking! The beggar on the roadside is actually the legendary immortal golden body.

Donghai City has been very "hot" lately.

This heat is not a rise in temperature, but a nearly fanatical social phenomenon.

Ever since Old Ancestor of the Blood River, Su Yang, was captured by Gu Changan to serve as the "nuclear battery" in the basement, Donghai City had only been quiet for less than a month before a more bizarre "Awakening fever" swept through the streets and alleys.

In the city center, at People's Square.

The scorching sun was high in the sky, and the asphalt road surface was baked until it felt a bit soft.

The area, which should have been the territory for middle-aged women to do square dancing, was now packed tightly.

Thousands of people formed a winding long dragon, with the queue extending all the way to the neighboring commercial pedestrian street.

The composition of the queuing crowd was extremely complex.

There were wealthy people wearing high-end custom suits and carrying Hermès bags, filial sons pushing wheelchairs with paralyzed elderly people, and even many students who had just finished school, clutching crumpled pocket money with eyes full of fanatical longing.

They were all waiting for one person.

In the center of the square, a high platform had been erected.

The platform was covered with a red carpet, and in the very center sat a grand armchair.

A young man dressed in pure white Hanfu with a goatee sat upright in the chair.

He kept his eyes slightly closed, rolling two walnuts in his hand, looking like a transcendent master with the bearing of an immortal.

This person was Master Ye.

A month ago, he was still an unemployed drifter applying screen protectors under the overpass.

That was until he bound with the [Divine-Grade Appraisal and Bluffing System].

"Next." Master Ye said indifferently without even lifting his eyelids.

The etiquette Young Miss wearing a cheongsam next to him immediately called out the number: "Number 488! Please come forward to be appraised by Great Master Ye!"

A pot-bellied coal boss squeezed up, dripping with sweat, and knelt onto the prayer mat with a thud, pushing a suitcase full of cash forward.

"Great Master! Please, take a look for me. Do I have the Aptitude to Cultivate? I feel like my waist and knees are always weak lately; is it because Spiritual Qi has entered my body?"

Master Ye opened one eye and feigned a scan around the fat man's head.

On his retina, the System panel popped up:

[Target: Wang Fugui (Ordinary Mortal)]

[Status: Kidney deficiency, fatty liver, high blood pressure]

[Bluffing Suggestion: Exaggerate, tell him he is an "Innate Taotie Devouring Physique" and needs massive nourishment.]

Master Ye's mouth curled up imperceptibly.

This money was too easy to earn.

He cleared his throat, suddenly widened his eyes, and put on a shocked expression: "Oh my! This is incredible! This is incredible!"

The fat man was startled: "Gr-Great Master, what's wrong? Is there no hope for me?"

"What do you mean no hope! You have an 'Innate Taotie Divine Physique'!" Master Ye slapped his thigh, his voice raised by an octave.

"The reason your waist and knees are weak is because your body is craving energy! This isn't a sickness; it's a precursor to the Awakening of a Divine Physique!"

The fat man was confused: "Taotie? Isn't that a monster that eats people?"

"Superficial!" Master Ye scolded.

"The Taotie swallows the heavens and devours the earth; it is an ancient Divine Beast! Once your Physique is activated, eating will be Cultivating, and sleeping will be increasing your power! As long as you can eat, you can be invincible!"

The fat man was so excited that his fat trembled all over: "Really? Then do I need to take medicine?"

"What medicine! That is poison for Mortals!" Master Ye took out a small porcelain bottle from his bosom.

"This is the 'Awakening Divine Liquid' that I personally refined. One sip, and your Divine Physique will begin to open. The price is three million."

"Buy! I'll buy it!" The fat man didn't say another word; he opened the suitcase and started counting money.

The crowd of onlookers let out a sigh of envy.

"Another Divine Physique! Great Master Ye has already identified over a dozen Divine Physiques today!"

"I heard that Wang Ergou next door was identified with the 'Great Strength Vajra Physique' and went home and punched his wife... no, punched the cow at his house to death!"

"It's too divine! I also want an appraisal! I also want to Cultivate!"

The commotion in the crowd grew louder and louder.

Master Ye watched the points in the System backend rising crazily and the mountains of cash in reality, and the feeling of satisfaction in his heart was about to burst.

What Cultivating? What Divine Physique? It was all nonsense.

That so-called "Awakening Divine Liquid" was just something he mixed up using Red Bull, glucose, and a bit of low-quality stimulant that made people's heart rates accelerate.

As long as they drank it and got flushed and their heart rate increased, these fools would think it was "Qi and blood surging" and believe they had truly undergone Awakening.

Just then.

A beggar, covered in dirt and emitting a sour smell, was passing by the edge of the crowd, trembling while leaning on a broken wooden stick.

He was holding a broken bowl, preparing to rummage through a trash can for something to eat.

Master Ye's gaze swept over the beggar.

The System suddenly popped up a prompt:

[Triggered random task: Create a sensational miracle.]

[Reward: Visual Deception Special Effects Card (One-time use).]

Master Ye rolled his eyes, and a plan came to mind.

He suddenly sprang up from the grand armchair and rushed down the high platform with exaggerated movements, losing a shoe in the process.

"Stop! That old gentleman! Please stay!"

Master Ye used his Dantian Qi for this shout, making the ears of the thousands of people present buzz.

Everyone's gaze followed the direction he ran.

Master Ye rushed to the beggar, and with a thud, knelt down directly in front of thousands of people!

The beggar was scared silly, and the broken bowl in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter: "Big... Big brother, I'm just picking up a bottle; there's no need to bow so formally, right?"

Master Ye was trembling all over, his hands gripping the beggar's mud-covered trouser legs tightly, tears coming instantly.

"Oh heavens! The heavens have eyes! The heavens have eyes!"

"I, Master Ye, have cultivated bitterly for thirty years and seen countless people. I thought there were no more True Gods in this world... I didn't expect, I didn't expect to see you here today!"

The beggar shrank his neck: "Are... are you sick?"

Master Ye turned around abruptly and roared at the stunned crowd: "Do you know who he is? Do you know what he is doing?"

The crowd was dead silent.

Master Ye pointed at the beggar's hard, pitch-black skin and said with a trembling voice: "You think this is filth? This is mud?"

"Wrong! Dead wrong!"

"This is the 'Divine Shell' formed when the 'Eternal Indestructible Golden Body' sealed itself!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole scene was in an uproar.

"Golden Body? A beggar?"

"Did Great Master misjudge? That's just a beggar."

Master Ye sneered: "Ordinary Mortals with Mortal eyes! Since you don't believe it, today, even at the cost of ten years of my Lifespan, I will unlock a trace of the Seal for this Senior to let you open your eyes!"

Saying this, he silently chanted in his heart: "System, use the Visual Deception Special Effects Card! Target: Beggar!"

[Special Effects Card activated.]

[Effect: Holy Light shines, Golden Body manifests.]

Master Ye shouted: "Open!"

He pointed a finger at the center of the beggar's eyebrows.

The next second.

The pitch-black filth on that beggar's body actually began to crack.

Beams of blinding golden light shot out from the cracks!

Buzz—!

The air seemed to be vibrating.

In the shocked eyes of everyone, the beggar seemed to have turned into an Arhat made of pure gold, his whole body emitting a Holy Light that made it impossible to look directly at him.

Even his broken wooden stick, under the reflection of the golden light, looked like a demon-subduing pestle.

"I... what happened to me?" The beggar looked at his glowing hands, completely bewildered.

"Kneel! Everyone kneel!" Master Ye screamed hoarsely. "This is the Eternal Indestructible Golden Body! Even a wisp of its aura can allow you to extend your Lifespan! Why haven't you paid respects to the Divine Venerable yet!"

Clatter, clatter.

Thousands of people, whether they were billionaires or middle-aged women watching the fun, were completely stunned by this miraculous scene.

A sea of heads knelt down in unison.

"Bless us, Divine Venerable! Bless us, Divine Venerable!"

"I also want to Awaken! I will pay any amount of money!"

"Great Master Ye is the True God! He can even enlighten a beggar!"

The atmosphere at the scene reached its peak at this moment.

At the same time.

The National Bureau of Abnormal Affairs, command hall.

Gu Changan sat in front of the big screen with his legs crossed, holding a thermos cup, watching the footage transmitted back by the drone.

On the screen, the beggar was emitting golden light with "fifty-cent special effects," accepting the worship of the masses.

"Director Gu, this is too outrageous."

Chen Xiaobei sat in front of the computer, his ten fingers typing rapidly on the Keyboard, his face speechless: "According to thermal imaging analysis, the temperature on the beggar's body has not changed at all. Those golden lights... are more like some kind of holographic projection or collective visual hypnosis."

"And..." Chen Xiaobei pulled up a medical report, "We checked this beggar's medical records. The 'hard shell' on his body is severe skin keratosis caused by not bathing for a long time, plus edema caused by malnutrition."

"The so-called 'Eternal Indestructible Golden Body' is, frankly speaking, just thick dirt reflecting light."

Gu Changan blew on the floating tea leaves in his cup and sneered: "Dirt reflecting light? This Master Ye is quite a talent to be able to blow a skin disease into a Divine Physique."

"Have you checked the flow of funds?"

"Checked." Chen Xiaobei hit the Enter key, "In the past half month, there has been a large amount of abnormal movement of personal deposits in Donghai City. They have all been transferred into an account called 'Tianji Pavilion Culture Communication Co., Ltd.'"

"The amount involved..." Chen Xiaobei looked at the long string of zeros and swallowed, "It has already exceeded two billion."

"Two billion." Gu Changan put down his teacup, his eyes gradually turning cold.

"That old Devil Head Su Yang kills and sets fires to Cultivate the demonic path, but this Master Ye is clever; he is blatantly committing fraud under the banner of Awakening."

"What about the victims? Any physical abnormalities?"

Chen Xiaobei shook his head: "Currently, apart from extreme excitement, insomnia, and family breakdown caused by excessive superstition, there is no immediate danger to life. But we haven't obtained the ingredients for the 'Divine Liquid' he sells yet."

"Then go get it."

Gu Changan stood up and adjusted his collar.

"Director Gu, are you going to send the Special Task Force?"

"No." A playful smile tugged at the corner of Gu Changan's mouth. "Since it's 'Divine Physique Awakening,' how could I miss such a good thing?"

"Get me a set of casual clothes and withdraw a fifty million cash check."

"I'll go queue up too, and let this Master Ye take a good look at me to see exactly what kind of 'God' is hidden in my body."