Starting From A Fisherman To Cultivate Immortality And Live Forever

Chapter 94: Making a Scene, Late Qi Refining Stage!

"Hello, dear audience. This is the scene of the rumored carp leaping over the Dragon Gate in the river channel."

"We can see that there are many tourists on the bank today, it seems that everyone is very curious about this matter."

"Is it the marvelous work of nature, or a deliberate magic performance, or is it truly a mysterious revival, a return of legends?"

"Next, we would like to invite..."

"Click!"

In an office of an expert group.

After pushing open the door of the office, the middle-aged man who was the team leader casually turned off the TV that had been bothering him.

Sitting down, the middle-aged team leader angrily slapped the table.

"This is ridiculous, it's too ridiculous!"

"This is just increasing our workload!"

The middle-aged team leader was very angry, then he looked at the constantly popping up new red dot notifications on his work tablet, and his mood became worse and worse.

The assistants beside him kept their heads down, not daring to provoke the anger of the middle-aged team leader.

In their hearts, they also understood.

Ever since mysterious phenomena appeared one after another in various places.

Someone immediately realized that something was wrong, so they drew the best experts from various expert groups to form the current expert group.

The main task was to investigate the principles behind the phenomena in various places, and then provide research reports on whether they would have an impact on society.

Originally, there were only a dozen or twenty places where phenomena occurred yesterday, and more than half of them were not in densely populated areas, but in remote mountains and rivers.

Their manpower was still sufficient to handle it.

But starting from today, as public opinion information fermented and spread.

More and more people reported that they had witnessed phenomena or miracles in their areas at famous scenic spots, well-known temples, and Taoist temples.

Some said they saw the venerable Buddha giving a brilliant lecture, some swore that they really saw immortals ascending from the cliffs.

There were even herdsmen crying and shouting in front of the camera, claiming that they really saw a dragon falling into the valley in a certain area.

Some people took out images or videos that were even more blurry and rough than those on the internet, claiming that they had just captured mysterious phenomena!

These reports sprouted up like mushrooms after the rain, and in the blink of an eye, they exceeded three digits and steadily approached four digits.

These... of course, couldn't have been done by Su Ping.

Instead, many scenic spots and people who borrowed historical origins, either actively or tacitly, let their subordinates follow suit.

On one hand, it was to gain popularity, to gain a little bit if possible.

On the other hand, some managers of temples and Taoist temples were also a bit worried, after all, everyone was a famous scenic spot with a long history.

Why is it that there are phenomena in your place, but we have nothing here?

Could it be... you are real, but we are fake?

This is absolutely impossible!

Although there were indeed some who emerged and even reincarnated after borrowing a name in the past few decades.

But admitting that was absolutely impossible.

So, phenomena and legends, they must have them, they must!

...

In the Pot in a Bottle.

Su Ping returned here holding a travel camera.

After looking at the photos filled in the travel camera, Su Ping rubbed his forehead and took a short rest.

After running around for almost a day and night, he finally even went to Nielbo, completing this upgrade task.

Fortunately, this task seemed to have a grand momentum, as if it had a trend of guiding mysterious revival.

In fact, it was just a moment, in the information age, so many events popping up in a short period of time would only attract more suspicion.

As long as things don't escalate and there are no significant impacts on the majority of people, the heat will decrease even faster and the mysterious events will continue to occur.

Moreover, before Su Ping returned, he had already noticed that some small forces who couldn't stand being idle had started to stir up trouble.

When these crude imitators are exposed, I'm afraid even the audience present at the scene will doubt whether they were mistaken at the time, or if their memories were influenced by some kind of mass illusion created by experts.

[Upgrade mission; Travel and check-in completed]

[Congratulations, the Travel Shop has appeared]

[From now on, Travel Merchants will randomly appear in the Travel Shop]

After Su Ping rested well, he chose to complete the upgrade mission.

Soon, a cloud of mist drifted in and dissipated.

At the edge of the main peak, a shop with white walls and blue tiles, occupying less than three square meters, appeared before Su Ping's eyes.

Su Ping hurried over.

He saw that this blue-tiled house, facing the direction of the Chao Yue Ting Feng Pavilion, had no walls or windows, and a wooden counter filled the entire room.

A small purple cat was lying on the counter, looking listless.

When the cat saw Su Ping approaching, it spoke in a human voice:

"Meow! Welcome to Cat Wu's little shop. If you want to see something, open the booklet and take a look yourself."

After the purple cat finished speaking, it continued to lie down and squinted its eyes slightly.

Su Ping resisted the urge to pat the other party's head and picked up the booklet made of silk.

He immediately discovered that this thing was like a tablet computer, displaying prop drawings and text explanations.

There were also recycling price instructions.

But it was a bit of a rip-off.

Ordinary items were only worth one fishing coin, rare items were worth ten coins, and even rare items were only worth a hundred coins.

Unless it was really desperate or in an emergency situation.

Su Ping didn't even want to give the other party his trash.

Who knows, maybe one day the various garbage bins he drew could be combined into a set of props, and then they would have unexpected uses?

"Hmm?"

"This must be the newbie welfare for opening the Travel Shop!"

Su Ping browsed through the booklet and quickly found a product that made his heart beat faster:

[Universal Upgrade Scroll, consumable, quality: rare, can immediately upgrade any upgradable Pot in the Cave of Heaven]

[Exchange required: 100 fishing coins]

"It only costs 100 fishing coins, it's definitely a newbie welfare that can't be obtained again."

Su Ping already had plenty of experience in fishing and card drawing, and he understood the routine of this fishing game. It was all about giving you some benefits to get you hooked before killing you.

"Newbie welfare, the sooner I get it, the sooner I can enjoy it. And the only things I can use it to upgrade are the rare-level Memory Staff and the cherished-level Apprentice Fox-Faced Priestess."

"As for which one to upgrade, I'll have to consider it if I want to play the game. For now, the priority is naturally the rarer and harder-to-obtain one."

Su Ping directly exchanged for the Universal Upgrade Scroll, and then took out the Memory Staff and chose to use it.

Suddenly, a dark blue gem appeared on one of the five barely visible holes on the Memory Staff.

[Ancient and mysterious Memory Staff, +1 star, can continue to be upgraded]

With the prompt message, Su Ping felt the changes that occurred after the Memory Staff was upgraded.

That was, when the player played as a humanoid memory illusion, they changed from being unattackable to being attackable.

However, they still didn't inherit the original memory's attributes and special abilities.

They could only rely on Su Ping's own abilities.

But the memory aura didn't change as a result, it still retained the characteristics of the memory object.

This allowed Su Ping to do more things while wearing a disguise in the future, without worrying about instinctively revealing his true identity when ambushed!

In addition, with the upgrade, the duration of using skills increased from 4 hours to 6 hours, and the cooldown time decreased from 12 hours to 8 hours.

Su Ping was quite satisfied with the improvement in his abilities, as it could provide practical help to himself, which was the most important thing for him at the moment.

Then, Su Ping used the Memory Staff ability to transform himself into the White Crane Boy.

This time, Su Ping, in the form of the White Crane Boy, began refining his body and practicing boxing in the Huzhongdongtian.

He quickly became proficient in the differences in height and weight between the White Crane Boy and his original form, and successfully executed the Beidou Greedy Wolf Fist.

In the later stage of body tempering, Su Ping felt a bit inflated.

He called the authentic White Crane Boy and ordered it to spar with him.

To Su Ping, he was already in the later stage of body tempering, and the White Crane Boy also seemed to possess the strength of the later stage of body tempering.

Practicing against each other... should greatly increase his practical combat experience!

One minute later.

Su Ping turned into a blur and broke through the blue-tiled courtyard wall of the Zhaoyue Tingfengge, crashing into it and breaking a wooden bridge and destroying two artificial mountains.

Coughing and gasping for breath, he climbed out of the rubble and looked at the White Crane Boy flying in mid-air.

"Both in the later stage of body tempering, and I even have the blessing of the Holy Body. How am I still being suppressed by a puppet in a fight?"

"But compared to before, when I didn't even dare to think about fighting the opponent, I have made a lot of progress."

"And, it only hurts a little, not even a scratch, so it's not a big deal."

Su Ping climbed out in a somewhat embarrassed manner and dispelled the illusions on his body.

Then the White Crane Boy slowly approached Su Ping, waiting for new orders.

"Continue!"

Su Ping took a deep breath, had a thought, and gave an order through space, asking the apprentice Fox-faced Witch who was eating melon seeds and reading a novel to give him a blessing.

He ordered another sparring session with the White Crane Boy!

With the blessing, Su Ping followed the movements of the White Crane Boy.

He no longer let the battle be decided in a short period of time.

As a result, the Zhaoyue Tingfengge suffered from the ravages of their battle, and the pavilions and towers were in ruins.

Fortunately, the main building had the ability to recover and could slowly restore itself to its original state.

If not for this, Su Ping would not have chosen to fight here to adapt to the complex environment in advance.

After a whole day of intense fighting.

It was late at night when Su Ping finally felt satisfied. He let go of the White Crane Boy and began to feast on the whole fish banquet of the Dragon Seed Exotic Fish.

He ate fish meat and spiritual rice, drank spiritual wine, and before meditating, he stuffed a Peiyuan Pill into his mouth.

After one night.

Su Ping suddenly opened his eyes, feeling that a golden light had broken through a mysterious film in front of him, allowing his vision to enter a new realm.

With a casual glance outside the window, he could see the fine patterns on the distant wall.

His intuition grew once again, and in a closed-eyed state, the surrounding objects already had different colors and rough shapes.

It felt somewhat like the radar detection mode in a game.

"Qi Refining, Seventh Layer!"

"I actually broke through to the Qi Refining later stage after cultivating for just one night!"

Su Ping didn't expect that after fighting with the White Crane Boy and enjoying himself, he would break through to the Qi Refining later stage like this!

He thought he would encounter a bottleneck.

After all, among the outer disciples, those who could reach the Qi Refining later stage were extremely rare.

Among his peers, the fellow disciple who had been cultivating for twenty years had become an official disciple!

And because of this, he received praise from the sect and became an example for the outer disciples to work hard!

In the outer sect of the sect, reaching the Qi Refining later stage meant officially entering the lower level of the sect and being considered part of the family.

Outer sect disciples, mine vein guards, and ordinary cave mansion managers in the market were mostly disciples in the Qi Refining later stage.

Some who were highly valued, like the inner disciple carrying three swords, could even control the immortal boat and become inspectors.

And this is also one of the reasons why the later stage of Qi Refining is highly valued and has such a big gap in treatment compared to the previous realms.

In the later stage of Qi Refining, the five senses are greatly enhanced, and the divine soul can be considered powerful.

They can control immortal boats, immortal armor, and other vehicles used by cultivators. In their eyes, even if they are still workers, they are skilled workers.

"Double late stage of Qi Refining Body Tempering!"

"I finally reached this realm."

"Just... as the Inspector of Jinque City, I need to keep a lower profile."

"Those with lower cultivation than me can only see that I am strong, but they don't know how strong exactly."

"If I encounter someone whose realm is not below mine, I won't be able to hide my cultivation."

"This is not conducive to my plan of low-key development."

Su Ping sighed, but he didn't have a better solution.

He could only make sure that whenever there is something, he would let Baihe Tongzi, his substitute, go first.

As for his true identity, he would try to avoid contact with the cultivator circle as much as possible.

Fortunately, it's been a busy season recently.

As long as there are no earth-shattering events in Jinque City, no one will come looking for him, a semi-retired nobody.

Especially in large organizations like the Hall of Merits and Punishments and the Punishing Evil Alliance, during this period, he would be nothing more than a fourth-level Qi Refining shrimp if there were any updates.

If there were no updates... he would still be a waste at the third level of Qi Refining after twenty years of cultivation!

Being able to be a good Inspector is already making the most of his abilities.

"In order to avoid attracting attention from above as much as possible, I must ensure that there are no major mysterious events happening in Jinque City."

"For this, I still need to be prepared."

Su Ping returned to the Linyue Villa and immediately summoned the spirit rats Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui to communicate with them while closing his eyes.

Soon, Su Ping discovered that after the later stage of Qi Refining, with the increase in divine soul, his speed of reviewing memory fragments had increased significantly, and many details that he used to overlook emerged.

In just a few minutes, Su Ping finished this communication and found some strange places that he hadn't noticed before.

The heavy rain had weakened a bit, but it was still pouring.

In a secluded courtyard in a small town with few remaining residents.

In a solitary courtyard in the town.

A man and a woman, both evil cultivators, lay dead in the courtyard, and blood flowed from their large wounds, forming a pool on the ground.

Squeak!

A gray-haired spirit rat quietly ran out from the woman's sleeve, braving the rain, attempting to escape.

However, it was intercepted by a white figure and directly bitten, trembling in the corner of the courtyard.

Su Ping waited for a while, confirmed that there was nothing abnormal, and then maintained the illusion of Baihe Tongzi and wearing a mask, stepped into the courtyard.

These two evil cultivators were discovered by Su Ping based on the details and were hidden among the mortals.

They had some luck and obtained a spirit rat, and with the help of this spirit rat, they managed to avoid patrol teams several times.

Even when people from the City Lord's Mansion and even outer disciples passed by, they didn't notice their traces.

Unfortunately, they had walked the night road too many times and eventually encountered a ghost.

After committing crimes multiple times and leaving traces, Su Ping found them and sent them on their way overnight.

Su Ping looked at the spirit rat controlled by Xiao Bai.

He wasn't very interested in it.

This kind of extraordinary spirit beast, no matter how a cultivator contracts and controls it, it would never be as obedient and mentally connected as Xiao Bai and Xiao Hui were to him now.

They would always encounter obstacles, at most using them as warning and detection tools instead of relying on them.

(End of this chapter)