[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit-":3,"chapter-ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-30":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ten Thousand Laws of the Occult, I Am the Spirit Sovereign",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2356213,4609,"Chapter 30: Battle Royale","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-30",30,"\u003Cp>\"This thing can be considered the otherworldly version of the Michelin or Black Pearl guide, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Though, except for me, they all have heavy tastes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Only a stuffed, perverted wretch would patronize them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu muttered, his gaze sweeping over the top of the list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even excluding the large restaurant opened by the old demon Zhu Can, the so-called \"Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Restaurant\" ranked second, judging by the spirit food dishes they displayed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is estimated that if a real Buddha saw them, he would indeed be unable to resist jumping over the wall to hack them to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing his complaints, Li Yu went to flip to the last page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The content was both unexpected and expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advertisements!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire page was filled with dense advertisements, almost all from the various merchants within Wanfu City, such as the beauty shops under the [Rouge Society], or all kinds of soul-stirring clubs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were his previous life, Li Yu would only look at these while squatting on the toilet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But here, it was naturally very different; one must know that these advertisements also belonged to \"transcendent knowledge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, when Li Yu finished reading every single advertisement without missing a word, the charging progress of the fifth truth bubble once again surged forward significantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good stuff!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In the future, my residence will not be without the *Wanfu Daily*. Although there are no secret medicine formulas for me to peek at, the charging efficiency and cost-effectiveness far exceed the mysterious gatherings I painstakingly planned.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is also because there are no bookstores or similar shops in this Wanfu City, otherwise I wouldn't have to go through so much trouble.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu put down the newspaper casually, and then began to ponder his future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, a chance to clear his name was laid out before him; as long as he wasn't stupid enough to expose the fact that he had slaughtered the \"Cutter of Vegetables, Yi Ya,\" he wouldn't need to worry about the pursuit of the Spirit-Prohibiting Sect for a short time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, for what comes next, Li Yu only had two things to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cultivate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Support the family!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What gave him quite a headache was that both of these things required a lot of money.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former, his Alchemist cultivation, required him to do alchemy as his most daily task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the rare spirit materials and terrifying prices required for the few basic alchemy formulas attached to the Alchemist sequence secret medicine already made Li Yu's heart ache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what left him speechless was that there was a note above:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Apart from basic alchemy formulas, any Alchemist can rely on the two arts of alchemy fire and consumption to create their own unique formulas.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just remember, ordinary objects cannot become pills; only transcendent wonders can refine great, marvelous spirit pills.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Li Yu's view, the implied meaning of this note was very obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It requires money, and a lot of money at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So I chose a very expensive cultivation path, and a maid who also needs a lot of money to maintain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of this, Li Yu looked at his own mechanical maid on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he repaired part of Hong Dou's secret core, this girl doll had regained some intelligence in addition to her combat capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, she would perform some strange behaviors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, at this moment, she could clearly have forcibly caught that plague-ridden bronze chicken, yet she was attempting to chase it out in a human way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were the maid from before who had no intelligence and could only understand simple commands, Li Yu would of course only provide her with the lowest-grade spirit energy stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it was very different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thoughts that sounded like they would cost a lot of money popped up directly in Li Yu's mind: \"It's time to buy a few more sets of clothes for Hong Dou,\" \"The spirit energy stones cannot be too low-grade, otherwise she won't be able to display her exquisite chainsaw swordsmanship,\" \"I can try to continue repairing her later, spending more money is also very worth it,\" and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems I still can't sit and eat away my fortune; I must find a business that makes money quickly and in large amounts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Since the spirit food business is so popular, wouldn't I be even more explosive if I went down the path of [Medicinal Cuisine]?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Although there are many opponents, if I bring out the methods I learned in my previous life, such as hunger marketing and viral marketing, I should be able to stand out...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking to this point, Li Yu swept his gaze toward the *Wanfu Daily* again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as many planning ideas were about to emerge in his mind, suddenly, outside the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, it should be said that chaotic movements were coming from all over Wanfu City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The noise, which made people feel very uncomfortable, surged in from all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The refugees from the Three Kingdoms have started entering the city?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A guess arose in Li Yu's heart, and he immediately stood up and headed outside the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way, voices full of malice drilled into Li Yu's ears from across the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, everyone come here quickly, there are many empty houses on this street.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There are also many poor people, and it seems there are not many cultivators, suitable for us to settle down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looking at the traces, this is still an old street with a long history, not bad, not bad, I just like this sense of vicissitudes and the smoke and fire of life.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't scare people, they might all be neighbors in the future.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, they could also be food in my belly, it depends on the methods of the neighbors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I want that courtyard with the butcher shop.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the last sentence that was clearly aimed at him, Li Yu slowly opened the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he saw an extremely uncomfortable scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Starting from the old street in front of him, people had appeared on every street and alleyway, more than the eye could see, heading straight for the main street of Tianji Workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost everyone was sallow and emaciated, wearing tattered clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stood or squatted, sizing up everything in the city with eyeballs glowing with green and yellow light; there was greed, hatred, and restlessness in their eyes, just no friendliness. The atmosphere was extremely eerie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Li Yu did not open \"Analyze All Things,\" he was, after all, a proper Sequence 8 cultivator, and he still had a vague sense of \"his own kind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Precisely because of this, his expression was quite solemn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his sensing, among the large number of refugees in front of him, a considerable number possessed transcendent strange powers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some had even lost their human form entirely, walking around in strange, monstrous shapes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, ten neighbors on the old street were slaughtered by Yi Ya, so there were many empty houses; the rest of the survivors were now keeping their doors tightly shut, trembling in fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu coming out at this moment was naturally quite conspicuous, and he was instantly surrounded by disgusting gazes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when he swept a circle and deliberately displayed the aura of a cultivator, most of the gazes chose to avoid him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The panic in Li Yu's heart also subsided quite a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had confirmed one thing at this moment:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The so-called 'refugees of the Three Kingdoms' are all, I fear, vicious thugs and evil cultivators like Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang who were expelled from the Three Kingdoms for some reason or simply because they committed crimes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Almost all are very ferocious, but most are not cultivators, some are unranked, and a very small number are Sequence 8.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>=9+Shu_Ba\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't need to worry about anything else; I will just protect my own courtyard, and after the subsequent great registration of the Fortune Registry, I can completely clear my name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Li Yu set his mind and was about to return to the courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without any warning, the bell tower and drum tower in the city rang out one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, one could see steam airships and patrol ships beginning to roam above, broadcasting the same warning notice with high-volume microphones:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The refugees of the Three Kingdoms are expected to fully enter the city in one hour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once the hour of the Rat passes, there will be no taboos in the city, and all things can be done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please all city residents prepare to protect your own relatives and property.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please all refugees prepare to strive to obtain a Fortune Registry entry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst these warnings that could be called completely inhumane, the entire Wanfu City fell into panic and restlessness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu did not look at the terrifying gazes revealed by the horrible refugees outside anymore and directly closed the courtyard gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, his expression also became gloomy, revealing some killing intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good, good, good, the spawn point I chose is exciting enough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Once the hour of the Rat passes, it's a city-wide battle royale.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hong Dou!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Immediately issue a bounty, requesting a medium-grade spirit energy stone, as well as killing weapons you can use, and additionally request ten portions of fire essence and below fire-attribute minerals... all delivered to the door, and accept the use of some wonders for deduction when money is insufficient.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Li Yu finished speaking, his face was full of heartache.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he was a cultivator, facing a cruel game like \"Battle Royale,\" he naturally had to be cautious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Alchemists were not good at fighting, and he could not guarantee what would happen after the hour of the Rat passed, such as some unranked cultivators or other Sequence 8s mixing in among the refugees surrounding him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once an accident occurred, it would likely mean death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having struggled to survive until now and finally seeing the dawn of hope, how could he be willing to fall short of success?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This bounty was precisely to fully arm the master and servant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Predictably, the windfall and savings he had just obtained would be at least half cleared out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This premonition soon became reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accompanied by the familiar sound of steam, a voice he had heard before came from outside the door:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, Shi Dazhu!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All the goods you wanted have been delivered, please come out to inspect and accept.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The medium-grade spirit energy stone will cost you 1,000 taels of silver, the electric blade gun and shield will cost you 2,000 taels of silver, and the ten portions of fire essence and mineral materials will cost you 3,000 taels of silver... Since you are a big customer, I'll give you a 20% discount. If you are short on cash, Shi Mou also accepts wonders for deduction, and I will estimate the most appropriate price for you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, you had better be quick; I'm afraid these lunatics will come over to rob, which would waste a lot of time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Deal!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sending the salesman away, the look of heartache on Li Yu's face deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The several thousand taels of silver he had saved from cooking spirit food the night before last had been spent without exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only consolation was that the few strange items he had obtained from looting Yi Ya's corpse were not all lost; after mortgaging that piece of green jade bone, the money and goods were settled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu left the mid-grade spirit energy stone and a set of slaughter weapons directly with Hongdou.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for himself, he took a pile of fire essence and minerals and headed once again to the storage room that had been converted into an alchemy room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's right!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going to refine elixirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alchemist sequence was indeed not adept at fighting, but that did not mean it lacked other methods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among the few basic elixir recipes included as a bonus, there happened to be one that could be refined to deal with the current predicament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Yu walked, he recalled:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Using fire essence as the core, supplemented by a dozen or so fire-attribute minerals, one can refine a spirit elixir called the [Explosive Flame Elixir].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This elixir contains the spirituality of fire essence; if an Alchemist consumes it using the 'Ingestion' technique, they can briefly possess a fire-attribute spirit body, allowing them to walk through volcanoes and magma without hindrance.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alternatively, it can be thrown out; upon the slightest collision, it will burst, and once the malevolent Qi of the fire essence inside touches human flesh, it can burn it to charcoal in the blink of an eye.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, one must be careful!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Refining the Explosive Flame Elixir is very prone to furnace explosions, so one must be cautious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2131,"2026-06-21T04:11:00.205Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","09603e1eec298d80c5c47f787300375a02dbe17080f8acd62499ec8e32e8c38f","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-31","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-29",427,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ften-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--cover.jpg"]