Chapter 51: Biomimetic Skin and Making Money

Demon Star Consciousness Sea, Wanfu Stars.

Because of Brother Brother Shang Yang's "embarrassment," a group of high-sequence powerhouses used fonts and even some emojis to mock the powerhouse who was clearly from the 【Sacred Nest】 for a long time.

Of course, there were also those who mocked after serious analysis.

Looking at his master who was implicated by him, Brother Brother Shang Yang wanted to defend himself, but soon realized that his merit points were not enough to support him in saying more.

Fortunately, not long after, the discussion topic of the powerhouses gradually drifted to Wen Feifeng.

Obviously, for some reason, this Ordained Daoist had some fame.

At the same time, Wen Feifeng was also in a group called "Gan Capital Big Group," telling his Mystic Realm experience, and emphatically mentioning the names Brother Brother Shang Yang and Calamity Star.

However, neither of them attracted attention. The group of high-sequence powerhouses in the big group had no reaction, only one or two fonts appeared:

"Evil spawn, not worth mentioning."

"Since you have obtained the Great Spirit Pill, return quickly to find your True Phoenix. Just hope you won't regret it in the future."

"Feifeng does not regret."

……

Southern District of Wanfu City, Meat Shop Residence.

Li Yu fell out of the mysterious vortex while cursing, falling into the cold and stiff embrace of his maid.

Facing the fox-girl face full of inquiry and doubt that Hongdou leaned over.

Li Yu twisted his body, subconsciously thinking of the warm and moist body of the Pistil Empress in the Mystic Realm, the dangerous but wonderful taste.

After comparing, he couldn't help but say:

"Hongdou, this touch is too hard. Does the Tiangong Sect not have biomimetic technology?"

Hongdou was still thinking about why her master had inexplicably disappeared for a few breaths.

Hearing this question, she answered directly:

"Does the Master want to initiate a bounty to purchase a 【Biomimetic Skin】 for Hongdou?"

"According to the awakened memory modules, there is a lot of related research in the sect, and there are biomimetic skins of various textures and styles to choose from..."

"Stop!"

"No need... temporarily no need."

Li Yu decisively opened his mouth to stop Hongdou.

Just kidding.

Once a bounty is initiated, the one who comes will definitely be Shi Dazhu. With this person's lewdness, he will mostly misunderstand Li Yu's character.

Oh, bought a cute Linglong puppet, and also bought so many sets of biomimetic skins, tsk tsk, young man, pay more attention to your body, etc.

After asking clearly how long he had disappeared, Li Yu directly sent Hongdou to chase the chickens.

Then, he began to review this Mystic Realm conquest:

"Lingering in the Mystic Realm for a day, reality only passed two breaths. It is indeed as Brother Brother Shang Yang and Wen Feifeng said, the time flow is different."

"My first Mystic Realm conquest, because those two beasts cheated, doesn't have much reference value. The difficulty of the next time should be lower."

"The aggregation rule of extraordinary spirituality is very good!"

"The owner of the Penglai Female Immortal's remains must have a very deep origin with the Spirit Venerable path. Maybe I will encounter it again in the future."

"When kicked out, the Demon Star notified that the next mission matching had started... but according to what the two said, there is no need to panic. The matching time is ten days or half a month, which is very normal."

"Finally, the harvest this time!"

"Besides getting a bunch of related rules for free, there are four pill recipes, two-thirds of 【Pistil Nectar】, and..."

Li Yu's gaze looked at his eye membrane again.

The fifth Truth Bubble that was no longer flickering, in the rainbow light, actually solidified a question mark rune.

This high-sequence secret medicine recipe!

Was his biggest harvest this trip.

Although it could only be analyzed later, in terms of value, it might have already exceeded tens of thousands of merit points.

"However, the consumption is not small."

"Compassionate Heart Pill, God-Foot Pill, Explosion Pill... all preparations beforehand, only the small gourd of Hundred-Flavor Meatballs and the last God-Foot Pill remain."

"Preparations that cost 20,000 taels of silver... although the harvest is far greater than the input, it still hurts. Speaking of which, I have to go to the 【Heavenly Secret Workshop Tax Office】 early tomorrow morning to pay taxes and settlement fees, which will cost another few hundred taels of silver. Heh, it's the same as the balance in my joint gold card."

"I, Li Yu, am penniless again."

"Make money!"

"Still have to find a way to get a lot of money. My Alchemist Apprentice sequence is clearly a krypton-gold path; it won't work without money."

"In addition, Wanfu City is not a place to stay for a long time, and to leave here safely, the redemption fee plus some safe path, etc., is as high as tens of thousands of taels. If you don't pay, you can only leave the city and break into the three forbidden areas: Wan-Gui Frozen Plain, Horror River Valley, and Ancient Black Forest, which is no different from seeking death."

"As for whether paying those silvers can really leave...?"

Li Yu didn't expect that he had already become a cultivator in the other world who could impact the "long-lived species."

In the end, he was still full of making money.

Can only say!

Choosing the wrong birth point is so miserable.

……

Early the next morning, Li Yu kicked the plague-ridden bronze chicken away again, and then took Hongdou out of the courtyard gate to the Heavenly Secret Workshop Tax Office.

Although he had slaughtered a group of immortal medicine corpses in the Mystic Realm, ruthlessly rejected an Empress of the Warring States period, and almost ruined the affairs of the two great geniuses Wen Feifeng and Brother Brother Shang Yang.

In reality, he still had to pay taxes and settle down obediently.

Of course, because the harvest was good, his own path was very clear and bright, and he had a cute maid by his side, Li Yu was in a good mood.

Until a few hours later!

When Li Yu, whose family property was truly emptied, returned with Hongdou, under the mask he specially wore to cover up, his face was already gloomy.

The thought in his heart to leave Wanfu City became even more firm.

"Wanfu City is simply a place without blessings."

"It is very suitable for the survival of ruthless people like 'Brother Brother Shang Yang' who believe in the survival of the fittest, but it is not suitable for me. I must go."

The reason why Li Yu had this thought.

Was what he saw and heard after paying the settlement fee at the Tax Office this morning and spending his last bit of money to take a newly opened monster bus route with Hongdou.

Not long, just the entire Heavenly Secret Workshop.

This could be considered Li Yu's first aimless stroll to observe his environment, and he saw some special fireworks.

For example, different foods brought by workshop people from all over the world, different living habits, language habits, distinctive appearances, etc.

Some things that normal people worry about, such as clothing, food, housing, transportation, children's schooling, marriage, and funeral, the workshop people also have.

But these are not the point.

What really made Li Yu want to leave urgently was the extremely cruel and tyrannical exploitation method in the workshop, which was almost undisguised.

"The hegemon of Heavenly Secret Workshop is the 【Three Saints Gang】."

"The three saints, Tiger Power, Sheep Power, and Deer Power, seem to be at the Sequence 6 level. The path is unknown, and the sequence name is also unknown. It is only known that it seems to be an incomplete path, and the road ahead has been cut off."

"The three saints said that they had worked hard for many years to beat down Heavenly Secret Workshop and have the qualification for legal exploitation. They arranged various industries under their command, deliberately letting the workshop people consume heavily, step into traps, owe huge debts, until they have no way out, and are forced to mortgage their bodies, souls, feelings, etc. to consume."

"Truly eating clean, not a drop left."

"The three saints do this not only for enjoyment but also for research and exploration of the next sequence."

"Since the hegemon of Heavenly Secret Workshop is like this, can the other seven workshops and three districts be exempted?"

When the thought reached here, Li Yu shook his head.

In his mind, a scene he saw in the morning couldn't help but emerge:

A group of "Sansheng Gang members" wearing gorgeous Daoist robes but with deformed bodies and wearing beast masks, holding black ropes, bound one by one new and old workshop people who looked like lunatics from various streets and alleys, like leading pigs and dogs, to a newly built mechanical factory emitting rolling scarlet thick smoke.

The factory had no name yet, only saying that the three saints had spent a lot of cost to invite the southern district hegemon Sacred Nest to help build it.

The purpose was to refine batches of immortal pills for the three saints.

"Those three beasts!"

"Probably because they couldn't find clues to the next sequence, and because they couldn't resist the vicious backlash brought by the current sequence, they decided to use the pill-taking flow to forcibly break through the sequence to prolong their lives?"

"Doing this is no different from drinking poison to quench thirst."

=9+Shu_ba

"If I'm not mistaken, the three saints should have also mortgaged their own foundation to let the Sacred Nest help build the mechanical factory."

"Perhaps it won't be long before the hegemon position of Heavenly Secret Workshop will be contested again?"

"...... Thinking too far, these have nothing to do with me for the time being. Make money quickly, refine a pile of spirit pills to protect myself, and then find an opportunity to leave Wanfu City completely, which is the right thing to do."

When the last thought fell.

Li Yu's gaze also began to patrol between the kitchen and the pill refining room.

He had already thought of a way to quickly get the first big sum of money.

That's right, it's medicinal cuisine.

As an official Sequence 8 cultivator 【Alchemist Apprentice】, Li Yu still had some ways to make big money, such as refining pills.

But whether it was basic pill recipes, self-created pill recipes, or the four pill recipes he spent 400 merit points to exchange for, to refine and sell them, first of all, he needed a sum of start-up capital.

He couldn't take out a copper coin now, and he didn't want to expose his Alchemist Apprentice identity.

After thinking about it!

Medicinal cuisine is more perfect.

It just so happened that he had spent 20,000 taels earlier and still had a lot of leftover ingredients and medicinal materials.

It looked like some worthless things. If he packed them up and sold them, no one would want them for 100 taels.

But in the eyes of Li Yu, who mastered the "Art of Medicinal Cuisine," it was very different.

After all, he had tasted his own craftsmanship. Previously in the Mystic Realm, if he didn't have a gourd of 【Hundred-Flavor Meatballs】, he would have been sucked dry by the Pistil Flower Demon's countless mouths.

The spiritual effect was so good, Li Yu didn't worry about not being able to sell it at all.

Even the location and customer group for sale, he had already considered.

"Hongdou!"

"Light the stove and burn the fire!"

"Okay, Master."

……

In the eight major workshops of the southern district at midnight, except for a few markets specializing in flesh business, the other markets gradually became quiet.

But in a place in Taiping Workshop, it was bustling, and even steam airships and tower ships could be seen hovering above.

The entrance was a neon-flashing mechanical archway, with the four big characters 【Taiping Big Market】 on it.

As the premier extraordinary market in Wanfu City!

Except for some service personnel and "goods," everyone else, whether it was a stall owner, shop owner, or customer, was a cultivator with extraordinary power.

Such a place is naturally worth an inch of gold.

If you are a customer strolling around, it's fine. Most places can go, and you won't be driven away.

If you are a stall owner, after paying the entrance fee, you have to look at the sequence tier, and then look at the financial resources... If everything is very ordinary, such as just an ordinary Sequence 8, and you are unwilling to reveal what path it is, then you can only be sent to some remote corners to set up a stall.

At this time!

A street at the end of the market, the corner area with the worst location.

Several stall owners who looked bitter were shouting and complaining to each other.

Soon they saw the management personnel of Taiping Big Market leading a master and servant with a look of disgust, too lazy to step in completely, pointing to an empty space sloppily, and then said:

"Hey kid, that's your stall."

"This is the first time I've been tricked by you, letting you use some extraordinary meatballs to offset the entrance fee. Next time you play any tricks, I'll put you on the blacklist."

"Fellow Daoist, don't worry. After I sell these medicinal cuisines, I will naturally make up for the fee."

"Heh! Your stuff, the spiritual effect is indeed there, and it can be called medicinal cuisine, but whose medicinal cuisine is all chicken-poop and dog-poop flavored?"

"Whether it can be sold or not is another matter. If you are chased and beaten by someone tonight, I won't help you."

The guide, wearing a dirty Daoist robe, covered his nose and expressed disgust at Li Yu's food righteously.

After spitting, he turned and left.

Li Yu didn't care, took Hongdou forward, and greeted several wary stall owners with a bow.

Unhurriedly, together with Hongdou, he set up a simple stall with tables and chairs.

On the stall, it seemed that only one thing was sold, hidden in a huge soup pot.

With those previous conversations, several stall owners guessed what this master and servant were here to sell.

Medicinal cuisine!

Originally thought there would be a dazzling array of food, but didn't expect there was only one pot.

Several people looked at each other from a distance, each showing mockery.

"Where did this stunned kid come from? Coming to Taiping Big Market to sell medicinal cuisine, and didn't even know how to spend a lot of money to buy a good stall. Coming to this corner, it would be a ghost if there were customers to buy."

"Didn't you hear what the guide said? The medicinal cuisine he sells has effects, but it's extremely difficult to eat. It's not worth it to rent a good stall."

"Hmph, putting on airs and wearing a mask; anyone who didn't know better would think you were one of those seductive nuns from the Fallen Buddhist Sect or a top courtesan from the Lust Sect."

"Tsk tsk, look at the mechanical maid beside him, it's actually a Linglong puppet."

"Scrapped, right? You can buy one for a few hundred taels. If you are interested, you can buy many sexy clothes and biomimetic skins to dress her up... although the taste is not as refreshing as going to the Xiaohun club, it is cheap."

……

Li Yu couldn't hear these mental conversations, but he also sensed them.

He didn't care at all. After placing the soup pot, he slowly reached out to open it, and at the moment of opening, he quietly dripped a drop of mysterious liquid into the pot.

In an instant!

Inside the originally pitch-black soup pot, a shocking rainbow light suddenly erupted, and strands of aroma that could be clearly seen by the naked eye permeated amidst the hissing sound, soon filling the entire tail street and beginning to spread to other areas of Taiping Big Market.

PS: 4,000 words per chapter, three chapters tomorrow.

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