Chapter 760: Golden Snake Spirit: So I Was Just Fertilizer?! (7/7, Requesting Subscriptions)

Su Xiao: "Let's not talk about that—just a few Emperor Elixirs, not worth mentioning."

Kome: "??? Su Xiao, you're too humble!"

Su Xiao: "Hehe, if you've got the guts, make the whole world work for you."

Kome: "That's obviously impossible. I can only catch minor demons and resentful spirits in Miko's world and Kikyo's world to earn points and just drift through life."

Yukinoshita Yukino: "Aren't you coming to play in the cosmos? Catching resentful spirits earns so few points!"

Kome: "Not for now—I don't know Void Arts. If I go to the cosmos, I'll fall behind in school."

Miyamura Miku: "Kome is such a good child—even at this realm, she still goes to school every day."

Su Xiao: "Hehe, that's what you call a Japanese Gao Zhongsheng, right? Even at the end of the world, you still go to school! By the way, I saw the Gourd Spirit Root get bought in the Shangcheng—Tai Xuan Brother, have you grown a gourd yet? Or did you refine it into a Seven-Heart Elixir?"

Hu Yifei: "??? Su Xiao, you're so cruel—you actually want to refine a Seven-Heart Elixir!"

Kome: "Exactly! That's childhood!"

Su Xiao: "I'm just asking! I'm just curious—can the Gourd Spirit Root really be refined into a Seven-Heart Elixir?"

Bao Zheng: "Of course, we should ask our Golden Snake Spirit. @Golden Snake Spirit, she'd know best."

Golden Snake Spirit: "Probably."

Su Xiao: "Probably?! Don't you even know 380?"

Golden Snake Spirit: "The recipe for the Seven-Heart Elixir came from the Mountain God, and the Mountain God harbored ill intent—he lured me into refining the Seven-Heart Elixir just to seize the Gourd Spirit Root's cultivation potential."

Golden Snake Spirit: "So I'm not even sure if the Seven-Heart Elixir can truly be refined."

Kome: "Don't you know how to refine elixirs?"

Golden Snake Spirit: "What kind of expectations do you have for wild demons?! We wild demons are lucky just to cultivate. Refining elixirs, forging artifacts—those things are completely beyond us."

Hu Yifei: "So the Mountain God is a villain?"

Golden Snake Spirit: "The Mountain God couldn't transform his form, so he wanted to possess the Gourd Spirit Root. But honestly, it's quite pitiful. Even if someone else were in his place, they'd probably do the same. Calling him a villain is misleading—it's just the struggle for the Dao."

Su Xiao: "That's true—if I were in his place, I'd do the same. @Zhang Taixuan, Tai Xuan Brother, is there any chance the Seven-Heart Elixir can be successfully refined?"

Zhang Taixuan: "The Seven-Heart Elixir was always just a recipe! Why do you think the Southern Immortal's furnace was at Wulong Pond, and why was there a Gourd Spirit Root nearby? None of this is coincidence!"

Su Xiao: "So… did the Southern Immortal once refine a Seven-Heart Elixir?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Based on my observations of the Southern Immortal's furnace, it definitely refined a Seven-Heart Elixir. The gourd seed was probably left behind by the previous generation of Gourd Spirit Root."

Golden Snake Spirit: "I never expected the Southern Immortal did something like this!"

Hu Yifei: "It's normal. In myths, the Southern Immortal has a good reputation. But in many novels, his reputation is terrible—like in Journey to the West, the White Deer Spirit was his mount, and he needed a thousand children's hearts to refine elixirs. That's no good recipe!"

Su Xiao: "I remember now. The White Deer Spirit's recipe must have come from the Southern Immortal. By that logic, it's no surprise the Southern Immortal in the Gourd Kids world refined the Seven-Heart Elixir."

Jin Chan: "This is perfectly normal. To you, the Seven-Heart Elixir refines the Gourd Kids—it's childhood. To the Southern Immortal, he was simply refining a spirit root he found."

Su Xiao: "That makes sense, but I still can't accept it."

Kome: "Didn't you ask this first? Why are you suddenly rejecting it?"

Su Xiao: "I'm just curious! I want to know if the Seven-Heart Elixir can be refined, what it does—I'm not actually going to refine it!"

Zhang Taixuan: "You're right to say it's extraordinary. Just one pill grants immortality and bestows countless divine abilities—it's a divine elixir that directly leads to the Celestial Immortal realm."

Ye Hei: "One pill makes you a Celestial Immortal?"

Sun Wukong: "That's even better than all the Jin Dan I've eaten!"

Su Xiao: "So strong? Then the Seven-Heart Elixir is even more terrifying than Emperor Elixirs—it doesn't just raise your realm, it grants divine abilities too!"

Zhang Taixuan: "Correct. But it consumes spirit roots excessively. Even if a spirit root can produce seeds and reproduce generation after generation, the time needed to cultivate it is extremely long—far too inefficient for ordinary people."

Su Xiao: "How long does cultivation take?"

Zhang Taixuan: "Over a hundred thousand years!"

Kome: "That's way too long!"

Golden Snake Spirit: "That doesn't make sense, Dao Jun—I remember when I was sealed, the Southern Immortal had just become an Immortal, and that was only ten thousand years ago. Didn't the Gourd Spirit Root mature in ten thousand years?"

Su Xiao: "Did Tai Xuan Brother make a mistake?"

Zhang Taixuan: "I didn't make a mistake. A hundred thousand years is for natural reproduction. Snake Spirit, you don't think you and the other demons were sealed under the mountain just for the sake of subduing evil, do you?"

Hu Yifei: "So… Snake Spirit, Scorpion Spirit—they were fertilizer for the Gourd Spirit Root?"

Zhang Taixuan: "What else? Demons like you—easy to kill, no connections—why bother sealing you? To let you harm people? Of course not. You were there to nurture the spirit root."

Ye Hei: "Hah! Snake Spirit, you're so tragic—you were just fertilizer for the Gourd Spirit Root all along!"

Tian Can: "So tragic."

Teruhashi Kokomi: "Being used as fertilizer without even knowing it—that's the real tragedy."

Golden Snake Spirit: "... No wonder so many demons were sealed under the mountain. They had no connections, could be killed easily—why go through all this trouble? I never understood it before, but now, with Dao Jun's reminder, I realize how naive I was. I never imagined the Southern Immortal's true plan. No wonder a spirit root that should take a hundred thousand years to mature only took ten thousand!"

Golden Snake Spirit: "But at least I sold the spirit root in the end and turned it into points. All the magic power I absorbed back then—now it's returned to me in another way."

Ye Hei: "Since this was the Southern Immortal's scheme, you must be careful. If he comes himself—or sends someone—to reclaim the spirit root, you could be in danger."

Kome: "Didn't the Southern Immortal not appear in the original story?"

Su Xiao: "The original was a children's cartoon—conspiracies couldn't be shown openly. Now, Snake Spirit lives in the real world—anything can happen."

Golden Snake Spirit: "I'll be careful. 【Image】 I bought one Emperor Elixir—I'll boost my strength a bit more first. As long as the Southern Immortal doesn't descend personally, I'm not afraid!"