Chapter 53: Getting Rich Overnight

Many well-informed cultivators know: the Plague God path under the Merciful Father, the Unclean One sequence is very comfortable, but the next sequence "Eroded Person" is the most painful.

Especially Lu Heng, this Eroded Person who had a mistake in his cultivation. The stench on his body often permeated several streets, and no workshop people in Taiping Workshop were willing to see him.

They also knew that he haunted the Mystic Market ten times, and only gained something once or twice.

Who would have thought?

This time, a small bowl of thick soup could alleviate his suffering?

That was why the next moment, Lu Heng threw a gold card and said:

"I'll take all your soup."

After speaking, he was about to reach out and pick up a whole pot and pour it into his mouth.

But soon, he was blocked by Li Yu.

"Senior, wait!"

Li Yu, facing Lu Heng's suddenly dangerous gaze, stood up with a brilliant smile.

While speaking, as if performing magic, he took out a smaller but more tightly covered soup pot from behind.

"Senior, you don't know. This medicinal spirit soup of mine has two versions."

"The ordinary one has the strongest effect on those who are not in the stream or Sequence 8 fellow Daoists. For existences like Senior at Sequence 7, only the first bowl has some effect. Drinking more is a waste."

"But this pot is very different. It is called 【Nourishing Life-Prolonging Hundred-Turn Immortal-Ascension Soup】, which took me 99 days to boil."

"Senior, would you like to try this soup?"

"Hiss!"

When Li Yu finished speaking, all eyes were focused on the small pot in his hand.

With the foreshadowing of the first bowl of soup, no one questioned his words.

Especially Lu Heng, his eyes were so eager that he wished he could reach out and snatch it directly.

Li Yu was also really afraid that this guy would reach out. Not to mention whether it was dirty or whether it would pollute his soup, the key was that touching it would be fatal.

Without waiting for an answer, Li Yu opened the pot.

He repeated the same trick, and the nectar was doubled.

Exactly the same as before, but a more gorgeous scene appeared in the Taiping Mystic Market again.

This time, the restlessness was even worse.

In the streets further away, a large number of people were attracted.

It is normal for spirit food to glow, but this level of rainbow light, mixed with medicinal fragrance that is comfortable to smell, even a fool knows that something good has appeared there.

On the stall, more and more people saw with their own eyes:

The "soup" flashing with rainbow light in the soup pot had actually condensed into a paste, with bright colors, and the aroma and medicinal Qi were entangled, which was simply tempting to the extreme, and no spirit pill or big medicine seemed to be comparable to it.

Li Yu's exaggerated introduction, the weird and long name, naturally had some bragging components.

The 49 and 81 were all fake; he made it in one night.

But in terms of taste and medicinal effect, he didn't describe it too exaggeratedly.

Actually, he himself was very surprised!

After all, his first medicinal cuisine work was 【Hundred-Flavor Meatballs】. Who would have thought that the quality of the second work could be such a leap.

……

"Senior, don't worry. Although this pot of soup took me more heart and blood, and the materials were much rarer."

"But the price is only doubled."

"400 taels a bowl, Senior, would you like to taste it?"

While speaking, Li Yu had already directed Hongdou to scoop a bowl and hand it over.

Lu Heng heard the price of 400 taels, but still didn't blink his eyes, instead eagerly took the bowl, and sucked it with his rotting lips, and the paste-like thick soup instantly entered his throat.

Immediately, his eyes widened, and gas that was even more fishy and smelly than before "puffed" out.

Although the sores and sores on his body had no change.

But the comfort on this "Eroded Person's" face, and the following actions, could not be faked.

In an instant, everyone understood: the stall owner didn't lie before, this soup was really extraordinary, and it could even alleviate the malice in the body of a Sequence 7 cultivator?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 54 =====

This scene!

While it left the majority of the crowd, who were Sequence 8, marveling, it also abruptly attracted several powerhouses.

"Fellow Daoist Lu, to find such good things and not send me a message—this friendship of ours has truly grown thin."

"Medicinal cuisine? Not bad, not bad at all. Give me a bowl as well."

"Even the festering sores on Beggar Lu's face can be cleared; this little fellow Daoist has quite the skill. I want a share too."

From these greetings, one could tell that those who arrived later were all at least Sequence 7, and their physical and mental states appeared quite similar to that "Festering Man Lu Heng."

In Li Yu's eyes, every one of them was not just a big customer, but also a vessel of transcendent knowledge.

While serving them, he diverted a bit of his focus to eavesdrop on their conversation, and thus learned of a few more pathways and sequences.

The charging progress of the sixth Truth Bubble continued to surge forward.

……

Li Yu really wanted to keep collecting money continuously, but unfortunately, he only had two pots of soup in total.

Even though he sold them at a very high price, the spiritual efficacy and taste were undeniable, attracting a queue of people that nearly blocked the Tail Street.

After only half an hour, he announced they were sold out.

Then, at the very last moment, the turn of events arrived abruptly. Li Yu, who had become rich overnight and earned a fortune, suddenly realized that the enthusiastic flattery that had been pouring in like a tide vanished without a trace in an instant.

Replacing it was malice, whether thick or thin.

Dozens of cultivators, ranging from Sequence 8 to Sequence 7, each holding their bowls, collectively changed their expressions; all smiles disappeared, and they all stared straight at Li Yu.

Some looked at his money, some eyed his pots, and others stared fixedly at him personally.

This scene!

And this transformation from joy to horror was enough to scare some timid people to death.

Seeing this, Li Yu's heart couldn't help but skip a beat, and a helpless thought immediately surfaced:

"Almost forgot."

"There are probably few normal people among those willing to pay this price for a bowl of soup; most are perverts who have suffered greatly."

"Both physically and mentally."

As if to confirm Li Yu's thought.

Festering Man Lu Heng!

He saw that rotten mouth of his split open, and while spraying foul air, he hypocritically faked a smile at Li Yu:

"Fellow Daoist, are you interested in coming to Lu's home to be a private chef? Rest assured, the remuneration will definitely satisfy you. Lu has over a hundred thousand taels in savings and a pile of strange objects, all of which can be gifted to you."

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"I ask for nothing else; just make a few more pots of this soup for me."

At first listen, Lu Heng's sincerity seemed quite sufficient.

But as long as one wasn't a brainless fool, one could hear that once you followed him, you would likely never be able to leave.

Following Lu Heng, another Sequence 7 powerhouse extended an invitation.

This time, it was a middle-aged nun, heavily made up yet wearing Buddhist robes, and so emaciated to the extreme that she was almost like a "paper cutout." It was a mystery how she had survived.

Yet, including Li Yu, no one present dared to underestimate her.

A cultivator from the West District.

Immaculate Buddha Mother pathway!

Sequence 7 【Sun-Eating Matron】.

A normal Sun-Eating Matron certainly wouldn't be like this, but as for her?

Rumor had it that she picked the wrong person while attempting the "Sun-Eating Ritual" and was instead absorbed by the other party. Although she eventually succeeded in advancing to Sequence 7, she had become a complete slave to the other party on both a physical and mental level.

Consequently, whenever she gained freedom and was allowed to go out, her behavior would become abnormally strange and tyrannical.

"Little fellow!"

"Come with this poor nun to the West District. I... my master will definitely like your craft very much."

"At the Buddha-Jumping-Wall Grand Restaurant, you can even go to the fourth floor; you are qualified to become one of my master's chefs."

……

When this scene and commotion appeared, although Li Yu wished he could let Hongdou release her chainsaw sword and hack them all down one by one.

He was also glad that "slaughter" was not allowed within the Peaceful Mystic Market, so he only needed to consider: how to leave here safely without any future trouble.

Fortunately, he had heard of a special service in the Peaceful Mystic Market when he arrived.

"I originally thought that after selling these two pots of soup and getting a large sum of money, I would take the opportunity to stroll around this 【Peaceful Mystic Market】, buy all the spiritual materials and elixir ingredients I need, and incidentally replenish Hongdou's clothing, skin, and weapons."

"Now it seems I'll have to issue a bounty later."

"Next time I come to this mystic market, I must at least refine an elixir that allows me to transform and change my Qi, otherwise, danger is hard to avoid."

As these thoughts crossed his mind, Li Yu's gaze also wandered between Lu Heng, the skinny nun, and the other Sequence 7 perverts.

The next moment, without hesitation, he called over a Mystic Market administrator not far away who had been watching them with a smile, wearing dirty Daoist robes but possessing a Sequence 7 cultivation base.

This person had been waiting for a while, clearly having anticipated this.

"Little brother, are you looking to purchase the 【Random Teleportation】 function of our Peaceful Grand Market?"

"No discount today; it will be five thousand taels."

"I'll buy it!"

Even after hearing that Li Yu had purchased the expensive random departure service, only half of the crowd dispersed.

They still stared straight at Li Yu, watching him being taken into the fleet of airships high above the market, until he completely vanished from sight.

On a gorgeous, retro airship, above a special mechanical device in the center, after a series of "disinfection" and "Qi-erasure" procedures, Li Yu couldn't help but show a bitter smile as he watched the large amount of special marks being removed from his and Hongdou's bodies.

If he had chosen to leave on his own!

Without a doubt, he would have encountered a frenzy of looting.

Lu Heng, the Sun-Eating Matron, the skinny nun, and the group of diners—they didn't spare their praise while drinking the soup, but in reality, they didn't treat him as a human at all.

He was both amazed by the viciousness and perversion of these people, and also felt they were quite stupid.

"Since you wanted to rob me, why reveal your malice?"

"Mark me quietly, disperse, and wait for me to leave the mystic market before looting—wouldn't that have been better?"

"They all look like normal people, but in reality, that group is more like a pile of evil things wrapped in human skin—mystic objects. Drinking my soup was useless; it provided a moment of pleasure, and then they immediately reverted."

Just as this exclamation came from Li Yu.

Beneath him and his servant, light suddenly surged.

"Heavenly Craft Workshop!"

"Random teleportation, activated."

(End of chapter)