FS-novel #334 - I can't think of any benefit I can get from it!
#334 - I can't think of any benefit I can get from it!
"Haha! That's right!" Wang Shanlu laughed, "Your sect didn't waste that Bodhisattva-realm relic."
"Indeed." Chengji also smiled, "Your esteemed sect's Qiankun Cauldron is also with him."
Xu Chengxian: "...Hehe."
I didn't say a word.
As long as you don't ask for it back, don't expect me to offer to return it!
My mother said, 'A thick face gets you enough to eat, a thin face gets you nothing.'
"It's nothing." Wang Shanlu waved his hand magnanimously, "The Qiankun Cauldron is still there, only the incense spirit liquid inside is gone. That thing, you were going to take it to the White Dragon King of the Two Realms River, right?"
"Senior Brother Shanlu is joking, it was promised to the White Dragon King by both our sects," Chengji said.
"Who doesn't know that the White Dragon King is closer to your side?" Wang Shanlu laughed, "So, all things considered, both of you have suffered a great loss."
Their Yushan Sect's Qiankun Cauldron, at most, has a few snake teeth marks on it, but isn't it still properly placed on a high table by people?
Moreover, the White Snake Temple is clearly also a branch of the Daoist school.
Compared to Bodhi Temple, this is all just family squabbles.
Bodhi Temple and the Two Realms River, however, had one lower院 smashed and one spirit liquid stolen, and they also lost a Bodhisattva-realm relic.
"Haha!"
Thinking about it, it's quite satisfying!
"..." Xu Chengxian thought to himself, 'Damn it, are you guys starting an internal conflict in front of me?'
Then, should I... perhaps, offer some advice?
"Hehe, Senior Brother Shanlu, why doesn't this poor monk take a trip for you and retrieve the Qiankun Cauldron?" Chengji said with a smile in his eyes, "You can also return my temple's relic, how about it?"
"..." Holy crap!
Xu Chengxian's eyes widened.
Good heavens!
He hadn't uttered a single word!
How did the fire still burn onto him, this innocent snake?
"Two senior brothers, how about we talk about what you want me to do?"
He had to speak up now.
The two guys opposite him didn't seem to have such a good relationship either. If they continued to argue and the conversation broke down, and they made him spit out the benefits he had swallowed...
That wouldn't be good.
"The things we want you to do? Right, right, right!" Wang Shanlu nodded, "That's the real business."
Chengji also stopped talking with a smile.
Both of them looked at Xu Chengxian.
"Junior Brother Xu, how about we make a deal?" Wang Shanlu said seriously.
"Senior Brother Wang, please tell me first," Xu Chengxian said.
"We want you to go to the South Sea Dragon Palace and retrieve something," Chengji said.
Retrieve?
And go to the South Sea Dragon Palace to retrieve it?
Xu Chengxian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Isn't that just stealing?
"We can't get in."
"...Tsk." Xu Chengxian opened his mouth.
You can't get in, so I can get in?
Good heavens, do you think so highly of him!
"Your cultivation is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, much weaker than us, of course you can't get in either," Wang Shanlu said very impolitely, "That place doesn't have a defensive formation, but it has a phantom array."
"Within the phantom array, there is a seven-colored illusion dream lotus seed refined by a Buddha as the array eye," Chengji said, "If you accidentally enter it, you will hear thousands of monks and Buddhas chanting Buddhist scriptures."
"Then, amidst the chanting of Sanskrit, you will develop a heart of devotion to my Buddha."
"...Understood." Xu Chengxian nodded.
This was easy to understand.
When he had just swallowed the relic, he had experienced a moment of it.
Although it was only a moment, he truly felt the danger within.
In a single thought, one would give up everything and wholeheartedly serve the Buddha.
What kind of divine power is this?
It's simply a contract that cannot be refused, and it's the kind that sells oneself!
"So, senior brothers mean, let my Little Flower go?" Xu Chengxian said.
"That's right."
"That is precisely the intention."
"Then what benefits do I get?" Xu Chengxian asked bluntly, "Since it's a deal, I should get some benefits, right?"
"Heh! You little brat!" Wang Shanlu was stunned, then laughed, "Did that Bodhisattva-realm relic of his family and the incense spirit liquid in my family's Qiankun Cauldron get eaten by a dog?"
Chengji also looked over.
"It wasn't eaten by a dog, it was eaten by a snake," Xu Chengxian said generously, not afraid of them at all, "That was what I managed to get into my mouth with my own ability, it can't be considered a benefit given by the senior brothers."
"Moreover," he asked with a smile, "These two things, the two senior brothers didn't originally want either."
Otherwise, how could they have fallen into his hands?
If his intuition was correct, the two people in front of him were not good disciples who were wholeheartedly for the sect.
They were digging at the sect's foundation.
"What you say is not wrong," Wang Shanlu said.
The relic and the incense spirit liquid of the people have the same wonderful effect by different routes.
The treasures are real treasures, but refining them, if one is not careful, one will have to pay a great price.
Of course, doing many things requires paying a price.
But the soul is involuntary, and one's own will is being influenced. They cannot accept such a price.
For them, the most terrifying thing is not death, but being deprived of their minds and becoming puppets.
"The incense spirit liquid of the people is fine, the price is only not being able to be enemies with the people," Xu Chengxian asked doubtfully, "Could it be that you are not of the human race?"
"Of course we are human cultivators," Wang Shanlu said.
"We also don't want to be enemies with the people," Chengji said, "But this must be determined by our own will."
"...Proud geniuses." Xu Chengxian secretly curled his lips.
In short, it means that even if it conforms to one's own will, if someone forcibly promotes it, one must resist?
Tsk, rebellious period!
"Then..."
"Then what?" Wang Shanlu said impatiently, "The treasures in the South Sea Dragon Palace's treasure trove, besides the gourd we want, you can let this snake pet steal... take out a few, it won't be a loss."
"But that's also what I'm going to retrieve with my own ability," Xu Chengxian said, indicating that he wasn't stupid, and didn't want to be fooled.
"...Fine! Since you want benefits, and you call us senior brothers, it's not appropriate not to give you anything."
Wang Shanlu thought for a while and said, "How about this, Chengji and I can ensure that you won't be troubled by Bodhi Temple and Yushan Sect before you go to the South Sea."
"You can stop them?" Xu Chengxian deliberately probed.
"I, one of the Ten Geniuses of the Yushan Sect," Wang Shanlu smiled, "This monk Chengji is ninth in line among the direct disciples of the abbot of Bodhi Temple."
"Then..." Xu Chengxian still felt uneasy.
"Don't worry, if I say I can stop them, I can stop them," Wang Shanlu snorted, "Don't forget, the two of us are allied."
Chengji smiled slightly, acquiescing.
"Oh, oh!" Xu Chengxian understood.
This is mutual leverage, one plus one is greater than two!
But can this be considered a benefit?
Why, so unwilling!
【Ding-dong!】
【Please pay attention, host!】
At this time, the system prompt suddenly sounded again.
【The relic refined this time is a special existence containing mana.】
【Please pay attention to improving your physical realm to avoid instability of the soul and falling into confusion.】
Xu Chengxian couldn't help but quickly glance at the panel upon hearing this.
Physical Realm +10727, Soul Realm +19000.
Refining the Bodhisattva-realm relic has increased the soul realm too much.
The latter has increased by more than eight thousand points compared to the former...
"This is indeed a bit dangerous." He paused for a moment, then his eyes lit up.
"...Wait a minute!"
He thought of what kind of benefits to ask for!