[{"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-75":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},2356258,4609,"Chapter 75: Side Quest: Collect the Root Vessels","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-75",75,"\u003Cp>At the foot of Mount Zhangyi, in a certain gloomy little village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, strange \"squelching\" sounds were coming from within, and with every sound, a shrill wail followed, then a flash of golden light, and blood and gore splattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the village, Li Yu was sending those twisted, corrupted villagers onto that lotus throne, one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once they sat upon it, the villagers would gain a moment of clarity, only to explode amidst a surge of golden light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was extremely eerie was that even such a fleeting \"flesh Buddha\" would still emit a trace of Buddhist aura, causing the villagers to gather around to inhale it; even though they clearly saw Li Yu’s scene of slaughter, they all had flushed faces, chanting \"Amitabha\" while greedily sniffing the so-called Buddhist aura in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It left Li Yu feeling somewhat helpless, but his hands did not slow down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Golden Light Village was completely wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last old village head exploded, with a \"pop,\" some things fell out from his bosom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu stepped forward to pick them up; they were a crudely scribbled cultivation booklet and a rough map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The messy handwriting revealed the writer's insane mental state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the content within piqued Li Yu’s interest:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So this strange object called the [Golden Light Lotus Throne] didn't flow out from that Old Buddha Temple, but was stolen by this old village head after he broke in.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After the catastrophe, life in the village was difficult, and people were starving to death every day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For the sake of the villagers, the old village head heard the Old Buddha Temple on the summit had been destroyed and went to steal the treasure; after experiencing great danger, he successfully stole this strange object.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He then researched how to use it, solving the village’s survival problem once and for all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sigh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After reading it, Li Yu could not help but let out a sigh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old village head’s initial intentions were good, but unfortunately, from the moment he stole the lotus throne, the tragedy of the entire village was sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as Li Yu finished reading and wanted to study the lotus throne carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his mind, the voice of the Demon Star Order suddenly sounded again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congratulations to the Order Master with the codename 'Calamity Star', you have triggered a side quest: [Explore the Mystery of the Old Buddha Temple's Destruction].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After completely uncovering the secret, you can obtain 1,000 merit points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A side quest so soon? The reward isn't low either.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems my luck is good this time; although the drop point and the scenario are a bit disgusting, they hide good things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If others don't have my luck, I can take advantage of the head start.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu muttered, then began studying the strange object while looking at the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all the fruits of the old village head’s labor, and Li Yu took them over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Golden Light Lotus Throne is an evil treasure; any living being placed on it will be reduced to a [flesh Buddha], squeezed for its Buddhist aura until it is released, after which it rots.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At the same time, this object has a high temptation for some living monster creatures related to the Buddha path along the route to the Old Buddha Temple on Mount Zhangyi.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The old village head was afraid the treasure would be snatched away, so he didn't dare use it recklessly, only snatching some outsiders to maintain the village's livelihood.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good stuff!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as Li Yu finished reading the instructions, his eyes lit up as they fell upon the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On it, the terrain of Mount Zhangyi was scribbled, along with some special areas, and it even thoughtfully depicted some terrifying evil creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The three magnificent palaces on the summit of Mount Zhangyi... Old Buddha Temple, True Lord Temple, Sage Academy... the River of Ultimate Goodness flowing around the entire mountain... dozens of forbidden areas filled with evil creatures...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tsk tsk, this strange domain seems smaller than the Corpse City strange domain, but in reality, it is much larger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If I were exploring alone, I fear three days and three nights wouldn't be enough; no wonder both sides had Rank 7 powerhouses appear this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, the rules are different this time, so no one is shouting recklessly like Shang Yang or Wen Feifeng before; I suspect everyone is silently developing, afraid of being deceived, and the Reincarnators are the same.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There shouldn't be many with luck as good as mine; taking advantage of the map's head start, I should continue to explore the side quest, preferably to harvest merit points quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, Li Yu had a plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without wasting a single second, he carried the lotus throne, took the booklet, and followed the map out of Golden Light Village toward the next strange area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a leeward mountain hollow, a lively and eerie scene was unfolding.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large number of beasts that seemed to have gained sentience were kneeling and bustling around a three-legged incense burner about half a person tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, rats, rabbits, snakes, and foxes all seemed to have gained human nature, and even their \"desires\" were entirely human. Surrounding the incense burner, some were gluttonous, some lustful, some greedy for wealth, and others had somehow obtained official hats and robes to wear, and there was clearly a hierarchy among them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Yu walked up slowly, carrying the lotus throne and clicking his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group of beasts, instead of running, all had eyes glowing with green and red light, surrounded him, and spoke in human tongues:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Another outsider has come, excellent, excellent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just in time, the human incense in this burner is about to run out; finally, a new supply has arrived.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This time we must be sparing; don't throw them all in at once just because the scent is rich. Do it in batches—one leg, one arm, throw them in slowly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kid, look at me, am I the most like a human?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last sentence came from a weasel standing on its hind legs, winking at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stench of its body almost drove Li Yu away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because it's lit with [human incense], they have all been tainted by human seven emotions and six desires?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Did that so-called Ultimate Good Old Buddha really once follow and believe in the Buddha?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could it be that it did advanced studies in Ten Thousand Blessings City?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As these thoughts crossed Li Yu’s mind, his gaze also fell into the incense burner. Inside, there were no sticks of incense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were layers of black-red, eerie incense ash burning with \"embers,\" and on the top layer, there were still some suspicious human flesh and blood, like half a face or a palm, slowly sinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the process, wisps of an incredibly thick fragrance rose up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Li Yu, after accidentally smelling it, felt the many desires within his own body being seduced.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Li Yu suddenly revealed a brilliant smile, then spoke to the demon beasts that had already completely surrounded him and were waiting to skin and bone him once he finished answering their questions:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All of you, come closer!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Let me take a good look and see which one of you is most like a human.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course it's me, I have already learned to eat with bowls and chopsticks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have grown human hair!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I have learned to kneel and kowtow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Omitted]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can screw several female foxes in one night.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst the noisy commotion, the demon beasts didn't notice at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Yu lowered his head slightly, the surging killing intent in his eyes and the clicking of his upper and lower teeth signaled that, in the next moment, streams of strange flames wrapped in smoke erupted from his mouth and nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demon beasts had surrounded him tightly, which naturally made it easier for him to strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These demon beasts were stronger than the villagers of Golden Light Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to Li Yu, they were nothing more than firewood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the blink of an eye, the mountain hollow had become a sea of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wailing and screaming soon ceased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Yu stepped over the ashes of corpses covering the ground and walked toward the incense burner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then crossed out a mark on the map: \"Living Human Hollow, inside is an Old Buddha incense burner, a strange object that flew out and fell from the temple on the summit one day; once lit, it can incite the desires of living beings.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking the incense burner, Li Yu looked at the next scribbled mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Buddha Wish Grotto, inside is an offering table, which should also have flown out of the Old Buddha Temple that day and was dragged into the grotto by the mountain spirits and wild monsters nearby.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as you place offerings like melons, fruits, or flesh and blood on it, you can have your wish granted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, another kind of scam, I suppose.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now I can be certain that the so-called Ultimate Good Old Buddha didn't study any proper Buddhist scriptures; perhaps it really did cultivate in Ten Thousand Blessings City.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Li Yu speculated, he moved his gaze a long way forward on the map to an eerie area already quite close to the summit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Monk Burial Ridge!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Inside are all rotten, insane monks; judging by their clothes, they were all outer-court disciples driven out of the Old Buddha Temple that day. They can chant scriptures and eat people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Especially the six insane monks inside, who keep shouting about being the Old Buddha's personal disciples and the six thieves residing in them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Yu saw these from the booklet and the map.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His eyes lit up immediately!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The words \"merit points\" were ready to burst forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the experience from the last strange domain: besides the main quest, there would be many side quests; as long as one encountered things like \"elite monsters,\" one could obtain merit points after killing them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now was the time to verify if this experience was correct.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And just as he was thinking this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, from the mountain foot area far behind him, some restlessness broke out, quickly turning into the sounds of slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hmm? Both sides have finally run into each other.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's no wonder; although this [Mount Zhangyi Strange Domain] is very large, I have explored less than a tiny fraction of it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But the number of Demon Star Order Masters and Reincarnators is not small; being scattered and dropped into the dozen or so villages at the foot of the mountain, it's normal to run into each other quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I must speed up too, and ensure I am not erased first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Mount Zhangyi, in a gloomy and terrifying mass grave halfway up the mountainside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the crevices between the jagged rocks, there were over a hundred tattered-robed Monks sitting cross-legged. Some were chanting scriptures that caused splitting headaches, some were tapping on wooden fish made of human skulls, and others were scavenging for flesh, bones, rotten stones, and decayed wood, attempting to piece together and rebuild a crude temple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, six figures were the most eye-catching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their bodies were all extremely bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first Monk was bare-chested; from the head down to the navel, the rotting skin was covered in pitch-black holes, from which strands of blood vessels emerged, each ending in a wildly rolling eyeball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second Monk had a large head, but even larger were its ears, which were like two massive, rotting flaps of flesh, drooping down and nearly wrapping around the Monk's entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining four Monks exhibited horrifying mutations in their noses, tongues, and torsos respectively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most normal-looking one was the sixth Monk; it appeared to be an ascetic, its entire body wrapped in iron spikes and dripping with blood, and even its skull had been deformed by a rusted iron band tightened around its head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the aura overflowing from it was the most ferocious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And when Li Yu caught sight of them, the voice of the Demon Star Order resounded in his mind once again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Congratulations to the Order Master with the codename 'Calamity Star' for successfully triggering the side quest: [Collect Root Vessels].\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Six Thief Demon Monks discovered; these are demons with Root Vessels already planted.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"For every one slain, you will receive two hundred merit points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Something came up, I will make up for it with three chapters tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2111,"2026-06-21T04:11:00.205Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","a6366db474145f5d4d5287772aeef6b48c6a0e5114b0e90537e93353d3c15588","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-76","ten-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--chapter-74",427,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Ften-thousand-laws-of-the-occult-i-am-the-spirit--cover.jpg"]