Chapter 1197: Mutation of the Position Fruit, Reverse Contract (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Combined)

"Promotion, who is being promoted?"

"You!"

"What about me?"

"About to be promoted!"

"Promotion, who is being promoted?"

"You."

"What about me?"

"You... Pa!"

Wu Wu Cangshou slapped its forehead with a claw, swallowed a mouthful of phlegm, and ended this meaningless circular conversation.

A stingy, penny-pinching toad, stupid and silly; it was said that frogs weren't smart.

Lying in the white sand, the Old Toad was motionless like a rough sandy stone, its whole body gray and defeated. Instead, the nervous-looking Big Fatty and Second Fatty were the first to understand. Their frog eyes shone brightly, they hugged the frog legs, happily rolled for two and a half weeks, collided their bellies in the air, and swung to the ground.

"Elder, you are not reaching your limit, you are about to be promoted to a Great Demon! A Multi-Treasure Great Demon!"

"Gua!"

Frog Mobile Corps Commander and other frogs retracted their steel forks and large anchors, widening their frog eyes.

"Elder is about to be promoted?"

"Not reaching the limit?"

Just as a demon beast, the Elder was already so strong. Now that it had become a Great Demon, it would be even more powerful than any previous transformation. Wouldn't it lead the frog clan to the sky, eating fragrant and spicy food with impending treasure fish every day?

The frog sounds were continuous, melodious until summer.

"Wa!"

One fish suppressed a hundred frogs, one cry suppressed a hundred sounds.

The black fatty charged left and right, once again rushing to the front, raising its double fins high.

All the frog heads leaned over, blocking the sunlight, only the Old Toad squatted on the ground, blinking its frog eyes, confused, muddled, and bewildered.

"Turtle General, what exactly is going on?" The shadow cast down, the Frog King squatted on the ground, hurriedly asking, "If it's a promotion, why would the Elder have a premonition that its lifespan is about to end? Can this also be mistaken?"

Wu Wu Cangshou paddled the water flow, swimming over leisurely.

"As the saying goes, 'The authorities are skilled, but blinded by the desire to win; the bystanders are clumsy, but clear in their empty and public view.' Multi-Treasure Toads of this kind, born in the Huai River, have no precedent of becoming demon beasts, let alone changing from a demon to a Great Demon. Back then, heaven sent down lightning, and Frog Elder was only able to survive because the Dragon Lord protected it."

"Now that it is about to be promoted to a Great Demon, the form and danger faced are even more exaggerated than back then. Naturally, heaven and earth do not tolerate it, and there is a disaster of destruction. I don't know how long Frog Elder can live, but perhaps today is indeed the end, overlapping with this disaster of destruction..."

The Frog King rubbed its webbed claws uneasily.

"Is the lifespan really exhausted?"

Wu Wu Cangshou raised its claws: "Frog Great King, don't panic. This old man also watched for a whole night before barely seeing some clues. In the deathly silence of Frog Elder, there is still a thread of good fortune. If it were purely lifespan exhaustion, no one or demon in the world could save it, so this thread of good fortune shouldn't appear."

"What is good fortune? When the lifespan is exhausted, obtaining ten thousand strings of wealth or marrying a fairy from heaven, how can that be called good fortune? That is having no fortune to enjoy, having the heart but no strength. Therefore, there must be a chance of survival, and life-extending treasures are useless. Naturally, it is not a heavenly material or earthly treasure, so it can only be that Frog Elder itself has creation, breaking the realm to extend its life."

"Elder!"

The Frog King held up the Old Toad, eyes wide staring at eyes wide.

Shook it.

"Pa!"

The snot bubble burst, smearing its face. The Old Toad suddenly realized, stood up from the Frog King's webbed claws, folded its belly, looked around: "Is this Elder really about to be promoted?"

"Hmph." Wu Wu Cangshou snorted through its nostrils. "Not muddled to the end."

"But this Elder is weak all over, can't catch my breath, and is sweating cold sweat on my back." The Old Toad leaned its back against the Frog King's frog toes, panting heavily, its belly rising and falling.

"Panic and anxiety, scared."

"This Elder's skin has no color and is wrinkled, and my eyes can't see." The Old Toad grabbed the loose skin on its belly, which hung down like a bag.

"Don't your frog clan shed skin when growing? Isn't it gray before shedding?"

"But, my heart, it hurts so much, how do you explain this..."

The Old Toad clutched its chest, wobbling, *ga-ba*, fell into the Frog King's palm, four feet facing the sky.

"Heart pain..." Wu Wu Cangshou rubbed its chin, looked around, and looked at the Elder's cave. "Did you think you were about to die and distributed all your family wealth as an inheritance?"

A long time passed.

"Roar! Yeah!"

*Shua! Shua! Shua! *

With a flash of inspiration, the Old Toad sprang up from the Frog King's palm, rotated two and a half times in the air, landed on one knee, stood on its tiptoes, performed a set of frog punches, puffed out its chest, looking like a shriveled pig bladder filled with air. Its sharp gaze pierced through the gray frog eyes, looking from one frog face to another, its spirit swallowing mountains and rivers.

Big Fatty and Second Fatty subconsciously put their double webs on their backs and lowered their heads.

"Take it easy, your body is in very bad shape, be careful of adding frost to snow." Wu Wu Cangshou poured a basin of cold water. "And don't be happy too early. There is good fortune, but it is so small. Whether you can grasp it is another matter. Otherwise, you wouldn't have thought your limit was approaching. The two are originally the same thing. If you don't handle it well, you might really die."

"Pa!"

The inflated pig bladder exploded.

The Old Toad fell to the ground, fell into the webbed palm again, stuck its butt out, and was listless.

A doctor cannot treat himself. Clearly, the current Elder couldn't find that thread of survival in the dark. The Frog King could only place its hope on the Fortune-Luck Mysterious Turtle, who was also an exotic species: "Then how can we grasp the thread of survival? Turtle General, rest assured, my frog clan will definitely have a generous reward."

"Frog Great King, put down Frog Elder first, I need to take a good look..."

"Please look."

Wu Wu Cangshou circled around the Old Toad, which had turned into a stone.

Claw marks were left in the white sand.

The situation had changed.

The Elder might live for another five hundred years.

Big Fatty gave Second Fatty a look, Second Fatty gave the fat catfish a look, the fat catfish gave Frog Great Treasure...

The big frogs surrounding the Old Toad gradually dispersed, lined up, and quietly left, holding treasure fish and treasure plants to find a large pit outside to bury them well.

"No! If we do this, the Elder will definitely find out!" Big Fatty woke up halfway through burying.

Second Fatty's eyes narrowed, and he fished out a treasure fish: "Can only hide it in my belly first! Ah~"

Lime fell down, scattered into the pond, floating a layer of dirty ash.

"What? Made a mistake? Frog Elder is not reaching its limit, but is about to be promoted?"

Liang Qu gripped the copybook in his hand, his right index finger stained with ash, looking at the square stone tablet that had already been engraved with an epitaph, and was silent for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Long Long Eying walked out of the room.

"An accident happened. Frog Elder still has a chance; it might be about to become a Great Demon." Liang Qu put on his coat and rubbed the lime off his index finger. "I have to go back again."

"Frog Elder promoted?" Long Long Eying covered her mouth.

As a Dragon Lady, she had been influenced since childhood and had dealt with the frog clan many times, knowing the Old Toad's power.

Two transformations from Hunting Tiger to Perfected Form, from Demon to Great Demon, were indescribable. The Multi-Treasure Toad that had become a demon was already so heaven-defying. If it became a Great Demon, wouldn't it be able to radiate across the entire Great Marsh?

A turn for the better.

Liang Qu jumped into the pond and rushed to the frog clan territory at high speed.

The shadow of the Heaven-Connecting Lotus swayed, sunlight floated, Wu Wu Cangshou circled the Old Toad, closed its eyes and paced, turtle claws carving unknown formations on the ground, muttering and throwing copper coins, seemingly chaotic, but actually landing clearly in every corner of the formation.

The Old Toad stared at the copper coins, secretly pinching one, wanting to swallow it into its mouth to hide it.

"Swallow it, swallow it. Divination is useless, can't find the chance of survival. If you die, who can you blame?" Wu Wu Cangshou didn't even open its eyes.

The Old Toad's face squeezed into a ball, as if the square-holed copper coin on its webbed claws had strong magnetism, struggling repeatedly, putting it back in its original place, burying its frog head under its frog arms, curling into a ball.

Liang Qu took the opportunity to ask: "Grandpa Shou, what exactly is going on?"

Wu Wu Cangshou explained again.

"Then where is the chance of survival?"

"I don't know either, just saw a thread of good fortune entwined. Regardless of whether it is a promotion, grasp it first. Setting up the formation just happens to strengthen my innate perception ability. Speaking of which..." Wu Wu Cangshou looked at the Old Toad, then at Liang Qu, "After you came, the good fortune seems to have grown stronger?"

The Frog King leaned its head over.

Liang Qu looked up and pointed at himself: "Me?"

"Don't know if it's an illusion. And, in the past year, after you and the White Ape entered the Dragon Palace, the treasure fish and treasure plants in the Great Marsh have become more numerous. Little Toad and I have gone out many times. Perhaps this promotion also has something to do with it?" Wu Wu Cangshou scratched its head. "Forget it, wait until this old man finishes setting up, and I will know what's going on."

"How many days?"

"Won't be too long, three to five days, should be able to get it done before the New Year. If it drags on, it might really die first."

Liang Qu thought for a moment: "Grandpa Shou, how do exotic species of the Great Marsh like you cultivate? Is eating treasure fish and treasure plants useful?"

"Useless. If it were useful, wouldn't we be the number one experts in the world? How to cultivate specifically depends on fate. I don't quite understand either. Heavenly and earthly spiritual energy is definitely useful, like the Cloud Immortal Island, where I can feel a trace of improvement."

"As for the rest, constantly seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster? Constantly collecting treasures makes me feel physically and mentally happy. Back then, when I met Su Guishan, I felt my whole body stretch. I was just a spirit monster for the first two hundred years, but after knowing him, I quickly went from a spirit monster to a great spirit monster, and now I have become a demon, all in just a few decades."

"Constantly seeking good fortune and avoiding disaster..."

Watching for a while, Liang Qu was not very at ease, found a stone himself, sat down, and waited.

When the Multi-Treasure Toad was a demon, it could calculate the Dragon, and it wasn't until a few years ago that the Dragon became blurry.

What would it be like to be promoted to a Great Demon?

If from Great Spirit Monster to Demon was from maturity to complete form, then from Demon to Great Demon was simply jumping from complete form to ultimate form. Wouldn't the Position Fruit and Whale Emperor also be able to seek good fortune and avoid disaster?

Bubbles floated up faintly.

The water in the Great Marsh in winter was cold, but the Frog King spread the fur of the Red Fire Bird beside it, which instead had a bit of warmth.

The Mysterious Turtle drew the formation, Liang Qu had nothing to do, so he sat cross-legged in meditation, on one hand cultivating "Sitting in the Temple," and on the other, splitting off part of his consciousness to manipulate Little Star's body, approaching the River God Sect.

Heaven Fire Sect.

Fei Taiyu and Wu Lingxu played chess, the blood stream winding through the rockery.

Wu Lingxu suddenly asked: "How long has Elder Fish been in the Shuyu Pavilion?"

"One year and one month."

"How long in seclusion?"

"Eleven months."

"To stay in seclusion for eleven months without stepping out—that is quite a feat of patience and perseverance. Since it is not within the realm of fate, can it even cultivate?"

Fei Taiyu shook his head: "We don't know what realm it was in its previous life for now. Even if it comes out of seclusion, we can't distinguish it. It's just that without a Position Fruit, even if it cultivates to the thirteenth level, it is useless."

"That's true. Then it is still hoped that its realm is higher, otherwise it can neither be a River God nor fill the gap in the Dragon King Cave." Wu Lingxu placed a chess piece. "Find an excuse during the New Year, say that as a new Elder, it should come to the Heaven Fire Sect to celebrate the holiday, and can receive an extra year's salary of blood treasures. See if it comes out of seclusion and what the situation is."

"Good idea."

Inside the Blood River.

Sound of breaking water.

"Damn it, finally swam here!"

Two slender wrist-feet swayed, Little Star climbed onto the riverbank, looked at the towering River God Sect, turned over to the ground, and panted heavily.

Heaven and earth are boundless, inside and outside jointly radiating tides.

Inside the Dragon Court Immortal Island, flowing light constantly converged, intending to construct a human-shaped phantom, but it never succeeded, and couldn't even construct a preliminary outline.

One person, one step; twelve people, thirteen steps.

"Sitting in the Temple" was not as easy as imagined, but the growth of the root sea was gratifying.

Thirty-seven and a half!

Compared to the thirty-five on the May itinerary, in eight months, it had grown another two and a half times!

Among them, there were a few months of singing freely, not focusing on cultivation, otherwise, it might have broken three.

Clearly, the perfectly fused Water Ape Great Sage Ze Ling still had a not-small "potential difference" and "water level difference" with Liang Qu's own first-level Martial Saint body. By borrowing the River Lord Emperor channel, the high water level constantly flowed into the low water level, achieving a cultivation speed nearly ten times that of an ordinary demon dragon.

However, the threshold for "Thousand Sea Boundless Method" and self-nurturing Position Fruit was still indefinitely distant.

At this rate, it would take at least two hundred and fifty years to fill one thousand, and during this period, one could not exceed the third level of Martial Saint...

"Need to raise the River Lord's favor, it should be able to be faster. A wisp of red qi, four mysterious yellow cards..."

Liang Qu calculated the number of long-qi in his hand.

Inside the Ze Ding, the long-quiet Ba Fruit, the red-gold small gourd, suddenly rippled, stirring up essence ripples and stirring the red qi.

Mutation of the Position Fruit!

Just one ripple, the red-gold small gourd had no more movement, as if it were an illusion.

Shaking for no reason, what's going on?

Before he could figure out the situation, the other spiritual link suddenly jumped.

A-Wei, lurking in the Southern Frontier!

"After the New Year, the Saintess is preparing to conclude a blood contract? To refine you into a life-bound Gu?" Liang Qu pondered. "Can it not be dragged out anymore?"

A-Wei turned around and looked at Li Xianghan, who was sleeping soundly.

It couldn't be dragged out anymore. The feeding cost was too high, and it had been slow to get feedback. If it dragged on, the Saintess would lose patience.

Requesting to return to the team!

"No, the opportunity is rare. Returning to the team will expose you. Just let her try to see if she can contract you."

A-Wei was shocked and hurriedly expressed loyalty.

"Don't panic."

Consciousness jumped, Liang Qu crossed tens of thousands of miles directly and descended onto A-Wei.

【Spirit Descent】!

【Spirit Descent: Manifest spirit body, descend upon the governed beast, observe four directions, listen to eight sides】.

A-Wei lost the initiative to control its body and was slightly panicked, but after hearing the explanation and understanding what was going on, it was immediately happy and encouraged, its sense of security greatly increased.

Everything was silent.

Small raindrops outside the window hit the windowsill, making a *pi-pa* sound.

The Martial Saint descended into the small room; the Saintess of the Green Pattern Valley knew nothing.

Liang Qu coiled his body, opened and closed his mouthparts. This was his second time seeing the Saintess Li Xianghan, holding a silkworm silk quilt, her white thighs exposed, drool hanging from the corner of her mouth.

"*Gu-lu-lu~*"

Looked up.

Three fat mice were pushing a glass jar on top of the cabinet. Two of them were on the left and right, one pushing and one pressing to unscrew the lid, stealing the maltose inside. The leader saw A-Wei, immediately raised its claws to make a "shh" sound, kicked the buttocks of the two yellow mice next to it, and threw a solid piece of maltose to Liang Qu.

Liang Qu held the candy, looked at it, opened his mouth, bit it, and swallowed.

Quite sweet.

Seeing "A-Wei" accept the hush money and become an accomplice, the fat mouse breathed a sigh of relief, its two claws tossing crumbs, left and right, filling its cheeks on both sides, and continued to steal.

*Xi-suo, xi-suo*, small sounds continued.

Li Xianghan rubbed her eyes.

The three mice stopped their actions and stood straight.

Li Xianghan turned over and continued to sleep.

*Xi-xi-suo-suo*, the sound rang again.

"Interesting, Long Yao and Long Li should like to raise two..."

Liang Qu moved his brand-new body, found the feeling, spread his wings, flew onto the bookshelf, and found a "Complete Collection of Life-Bound Gu Refining."

Learn first, understand the principles and functions of life-bound Gu.

"No need to run. Wait until the day of the blood contract, I will descend onto you and try to see if I can reverse-contract her."

A-Wei: "?"

Not to mention whether Li Xianghan could bypass the Ze Ding's governance and contract Liang Qu, this Martial Saint.

Who said that a person must contract a worm?

"*Ka-cha, ka-cha. *"

The mice filled their cheek pouches, were thirsty from eating, grabbed the lid, covered it, and pushed the glass bottle back straight.

"Hu, mission accomplished!"

Hearing the words, Liang Qu opened his eyes.

Wu Wu Cangshou wiped its sweat and observed its masterpiece.

The divination formation was extremely complex, with copper coins, treasure fish, coral... and various exotic treasures in different corners and positions.

The big frogs of the frog clan gathered together, Liang Qu and the Frog King were on both sides, watching Wu Wu Cangshou close its eyes, dancing like a god, waving water algae with its claws, muttering and circling the Old Toad.

Liang Qu was very suspicious of whether this thing really had any effect.

Back then, the Old Toad used a Mysterious Turtle, took six copper coins, and stuck feathers on its head, which was completely random calculation.

Rather than saying it had the use of divination, it was better to say it was purely to increase the sense of ritual, strengthen one's own belief, similar to hypnosis, indirectly improving the instinct to seek good fortune and avoid disaster.

A full half-hour.

"*Da, wa-ya-ya! *"

Wu Wu Cangshou jumped up suddenly, its turtle back landed, its four claws paddled water in the same direction, rotating at high speed, setting off a hurricane.

*Xiu! Xiu! Xiu! *

Flying sand and moving stones, yellow dust covered the sun.

Frog Mobile Corps Commander raised its webs to cover its eyes: "What a strong water flow! Gua!"

It turned for a full quarter of an hour, the water tornado twisted and distorted, a large pit appeared, and finally, Wu Wu Cangshou stopped slowly, wobbling, wobbling, its head pointing at Liang Qu.

Wu Wu Cangshou opened its eyes suddenly, staring straight at Liang Qu.

"Can't be wrong, it's you, Prince Huai!" ===== CHAPTER 1198 =====