Chapter 263: The Smelly Fox Immortal

After Lingyun Daoren and Yilei Daoren left the City God Temple, they found an inn to stay in.

Quite unfortunately, this inn was opened by a golden toad and was named "Tongfu Inn."

Inns like this were all specifically designed with Feng Shui layouts and had been elaborately renovated; one could say their aesthetics were at least fifty years ahead of this era.

It was only natural that they would attract these two Daoist Priests.

"Waiter, give us a guest room, and bring some hot water; we need to bathe."

There were hot springs on Lishan, so these Daoist Priests bathed often; even female Immortals from the Form Realm occasionally liked to descend to the mortal world to bathe.

"No problem, two Daoists. We have three types of guest rooms: Heaven-grade, Earth-grade, and Human-grade. A Human-grade room is two hundred coins a day and has no hot water; an Earth-grade room is five hundred coins a day and provides hot water; a Heaven-grade room is one tael of silver a day, providing hot water and laundry service."

"So expensive?" The two Daoist Priests were startled, but after discussing it, they still chose an Earth-grade room.

There was only one bed in the room; although sleeping two people was not a problem, opening another room truly exceeded their economic budget.

The waiter brought the hot water, and after they bathed and washed away their exhaustion, one said, "Senior Brother, Master wants us to capture Junior Sister and bring her back to the mountain. We already delayed for a while previously, so we need to hurry."

"We have now offended the local cultivation forces, and even the City God won't tell us Junior Sister's whereabouts. What should we do?"

"Also, we are almost out of money. I didn't expect things here to be so expensive; staying one day costs five hundred coins. However, it is indeed comfortable to live in; I didn't expect it to be able to gather Vitality from all directions. Although it cannot compare to our mountain, it is much better than the wilderness. Sitting in meditation here even provides a certain boost."

"If we run out of money, we can just earn more. With our Dharma Power and Divine Ability, are we afraid of not being able to get money? However, I don't think Junior Sister is that important. What's important is the matter of that Evil God of Wealth. That toad god is covered in money poison; if it were to break out..."

"Our skills aren't enough to resolve it. Why don't we write a letter to Longhu Mountain? I remember Longhu Mountain is not far from here. We can have Longhu Mountain dispatch disciples to join us in subduing the evil god and Destroying Mountains and Breaking Temples."

"That is a good idea." The two immediately wrote a letter in the capacity of Lishan Sect disciples, then folded it up. They reached into their pockets and grabbed a small demon. This small demon was named Qingji, a water-marsh demon that specialized in delivering letters and would die after finishing the delivery.

They stuffed the letter into Qingji's hands. The small demon shivered, but still accepted the letter, rode a toy horse, entered the Dharma Realm, and galloped through it toward Longhu Mountain.

These two were not doing their proper work and planned to play here for a while, so they thought about finding some work catching ghosts and demons.

As a result, they didn't encounter a single notice offering a reward for catching demons or ghosts.

"We haven't had any strange occurrences here for over a year."

Two Miscellaneous School cultivators from the Dao Record Bureau were lazily drinking tea: "You two are from out of town, right? Originally, there were some demons here occupying territory, such as the fox demon at Qingfeng Pavilion, the ox demon at Jiujiegou, the pig demon at Lan Shi Huo... now they are all gone. We have already had a Lingbao Heavenly Master appear here who marked out a Dharma Realm and governs three hundred miles. We are all so idle we have nothing to do, just sitting here collecting the imperial court's salary and being bored to death."

"..."

The two walked around, but the result was all praise for Xu Jia's governance; there was not a single word of criticism.

They heard that the ox demon was at the market, so they went to take a look, only to find it selling ox essence. A one-zhang-tall large green ox was standing with its head held high, surrounded by small heifers.

The vendor selling the ox essence pulled over several calves that were clearly larger than ordinary ones and said: "Using our ox essence, the survival rate is high, the conception rate is high, and we even include follow-up postpartum care for the cows. Two taels of silver per portion, one hundred portions in total. It's fresh, preserved at low temperatures using a secret method, and can be stored for three days..."

The two Daoist Priests looked at the green ox demon's appearance... and their desire to subdue demons was extinguished. Consequently, they heard about "Qingfeng Pavilion." They heard that Qingfeng Pavilion now had a Fox Immortal temple, where the Fox Immortal had killed a chicken demon.

As a result, they made their way to Jijuezi Mountain, only to see a nest of little foxes planting vegetables there. Once the vegetables were grown, they transformed into old men and old women to sell them at the wild market. A catty of vegetables sold for one coin; even after selling everything, they only made a dozen or so coins, and they returned home happily.

They had originally intended to kill the little foxes for their fur if they saw them harming people, but seeing them work so hard to earn these few coins—while they themselves had to spend five hundred coins a night just to stay at an inn—they couldn't bring themselves to do it.

"Senior Sister, one must never have womanly benevolence. The mixing of humans and demons will inevitably lead to great chaos. This Earth Immortal True Person seems to have created an environment like a peach blossom spring, but in reality, it hides many hidden dangers. I fear that before long, many demons from the outside world will move here... to avoid being hunted down..."

Lingyun still couldn't bring herself to act, but Yilei was already ruthless. She took out a spirit talisman and triggered a lightning strike, aiming it at the little foxes who were happily heading home.

Only a "Bang!" was heard. The little foxes were startled; their bodies seemed to deflate, a skullcap fell off, and a fox crawled out from inside the clothes and ran away in a gust of wind.

"Who is it?" Seeing her lightning talisman blocked, Yilei was somewhat annoyed.

She saw a chicken-footed Ghost God reveal its form: "This seat is the Jijue Mountain God... Why do you two harm my mountain folk's descendants for no reason?"

"What kind of minor god is this?" Yilei looked him up and down, sensing no Orthodox Deity Dharma Power, and immediately judged him to be another evil god.

"Capture him and refine him into a Military Official!"

"Such great audacity!" Lü Jue sat atop the Reverse-Feather Chicken, holding two chicken-foot claws in his hands, and charged forward.

A gust of evil wind rose; it was the wind Qi inherent to the soul of the Reverse-Feather Chicken, and immediately, sand and stones flew.

Lingyun Daoren practiced the Wind Method. She pulled a phoenix-head hairpin from her hair and pointed it slightly, and a Qing Luan was born in the Dharma Realm. With an arrogant posture, it pecked toward Lü Jue.

Lü Jue was, after all, only a type of Underground Lord, and his Daoist Practice was not high; after two or three exchanges, he could no longer parry.

At this moment, a yellow wind rose, carrying a foul stench. It was Huang Pipo, who had three hundred years of Daoist Practice, arriving. She held a chicken-feather fan in her hand, her face gloomy: "Why are you two fighting here?"

Seeing this, Yilei Daoren was excited: "Senior Brother, this place really is hiding filth and corruption, with demons one after another?"

Hearing this, Huang Pipo was immediately enraged and let out a fart.

This fart was yellowish and sticky; it was something Huang Pipo had specifically researched. It was extremely filthy and could break the spiritual light of Magic Tools and pollute a Daoist's spiritual consciousness. After smelling it, one would become dizzy, and if one inhaled too much, one would fall into hallucinations, the physical body would become paralyzed, and one would suffer from incontinence.

"So stinky!"

Lingyun immediately covered her nose and mouth, while Yilei released a lightning talisman.

Who would have thought that when the lightning struck the yellow fart, it would immediately ignite it, causing it to explode.

In just an instant, the two had scorched faces and singed hair.

When they looked again, Huang Pipo had already fled.

(End of chapter)