In matters of secret messaging, Wen Jing Dao Person was considered an expert.

During these long years before, she had walked in the shadows, doing dirty work, exhausting work, wretched work, playing an emotionless assassin, yet never exposing her background…

This was professionalism.

To this day, Wen Jing Dao Person hadn’t figured out how she had been targeted by the South Sea’s Sea God.

This Human Dao…

The strongest Sage, the domineering Great Priest, the mysterious South Sea Sea God, truly were, the more one pondered, the more interesting.

Buzz~~

A seemingly ordinary mosquito, yet braving strong winds, flew through the mortal realm’s high skies, drifting to An Shui City, and descending downward.

If there were gifted mortals with the ability to perceive subtleties or cultivators above the Celestial Immortal realm who could catch a glimpse of this mosquito, they would discover this was rather frightening…

Human-faced mosquito-bodied little flower mosquito!

This little flower mosquito silently flew near the Sea God’s main temple, seeing the flourishing incense and endless stream of worshippers inside, couldn’t help curling her mouth corners.

‘Mortals are truly ignorant enough, how could they believe in just anyone.’

Jealous?

How could that be?

How could she, the noble Queen, be jealous of these bits of merit and incense?

Moreover, she was already restricted by the Heavenly Dao, unable to obtain any merit power, only able to use merit to wash away karmic obstacles.

The little flower mosquito rolled her eyes, continuing to fly into the temple.

To avoid adding karmic obstacles and exposing her whereabouts, this mosquito targeted an old temple priest, landing on his neck but not piercing in.

This old temple priest’s eyes flashed red, but he was only temporarily controlled, Wen Jing Dao Person not harming his soul…

Then, this temple priest took a bamboo slip from the divination stall, wrote a vertical line of small characters on it, then casually threw it;

This bamboo slip strangely disappeared, reappearing at the main deity statue’s feet.

Thus counted as delivering the message.

Wen Jing Dao Person detected that a strand of divine consciousness had already appeared on the main deity statue, clearly the true owner had arrived.

Hmm?

In the cave-dwelling at Spirit Mountain’s foot, Wen Jing Dao Person suddenly showed a slight smile;

Her tongue tip gently slid across her lips, her smile growing more charming.

Not stirring up some trouble—did they think she was so easy to order around?

In the Sea God Temple, that old temple priest’s face flushed red, raising his head to “haha” laugh twice loudly, beard shaking wildly, drawing gazes from all around.

This old temple priest suddenly stood up, his form nimbly jumping out from behind the table, pulling off his belt, opening his long robe, and walking forward quickly while laughing loudly…

These actions frightened several young ladies and old women into continuous screams, causing many female worshippers to cover their eyes, only daring to peek through their fingers.

Then, this old temple priest raised his belt high, saliva flying from his beard, dancing like a snake woman, continuously shouting:

“Sea God! Chose me! Chose me!”

“I’m going to serve Sea God for the night! Hahaha!”

“Sea God chose me for the night!”

Worshippers throughout the courtyard and the few Bear Village divine messengers on duty at the hall front all stared blankly…

“What’s wrong with Old Fu?”

“Last night, did he drink too much at the brothel or get poisoned? How did he suddenly… suddenly become so flirtatious?”

“Quick, go hold him down! What is he shouting about?

How could the Sea God spend the night with him?! If choosing it should be our village’s young women!”

At once, several divine messengers hurriedly rushed forward, using many hands to press that old temple priest to the ground. That mosquito had long since turned to ash, vanishing without a trace…

In the main deity statue, Li Chang Shou’s strand of divine consciousness watched this scene, unable to help have several black lines appear on his forehead.

This mosquito… could it be…

Not only tsundere, but rather flirtatious?

This point had quite high compatibility with his Great Priest.

However, Wen Jing Dao Person’s not using blood mosquitoes to harm mortals was somewhat beyond Li Chang Shou’s expectations.

And that bamboo slip…

Taking advantage of the chaos outside, a Bear Village divine messenger walked over, picked up the bamboo slip, and went to the back hall without leaving traces.

[Today initially planned, using dragons to disturb Sea God]

Simple ten characters, yet made Li Chang Shou’s imagination run wild.

The Western Religion’s next moves were also within his previously planned strategy map…

The other side had several superior schemes, yet chose this medium strategy.

Just a rather ordinary wedge-driving plan.

In the Western religious experts’ eyes, currently, the dragon race and Human Dao had connections through the South Sea Sea God Cult.

The time before last when Mosquito Dao Person schemed against dragon race experts, was ambushed by the dragon race in return, the Great Priest appeared after the battle;

Last time, the Western Religion had arranged a trap targeting East Sea Dragon Palace’s Second Prince Ao Yi but was disrupted by the Minor Priest…

This wedge-driving move should be the Western Religion testing what kind of relationship existed between the dragon race and Human Dao.

Li Chang Shou pondered briefly, this ‘divine messenger’ paper person using earth escape technique, returning to the underground ‘paper person base.’

Meet moves with counter-moves, follow the momentum;

Could take advantage of this opportunity to make his relationship with the dragon race closer, convenient for future actions.

“When is Ao Yi coming to visit the sect?”

Li Chang Shou thought for a moment, also worried that problems would arise here before Ao Yi came.

To be safe, Li Chang Shou actively used divine consciousness to bridge contact with Ao Yi.

This time, the wait for Ao Yi to come was somewhat long…

In broad daylight…

Tsk, the youth was truly good.

A moment later, Ao Yi hurriedly came, still somewhat flushed, rather embarrassed.

He hurriedly asked: “Elder Brother Sect Leader, what’s wrong?”

Li Chang Shou smiled and said: “Did I disturb you?”

“Not at all, not at all,” Ao Yi smiled somewhat embarrassedly, but seeing Li Chang Shou’s serious expression, also quickly collected his smile.

Li Chang Shou said: “I just received news that the West has schemes targeting us again.”

“Oh?” Ao Yi immediately raised his eyebrows, “What poisonous plot do they have?”

Li Chang Shou hummed twice, saying: “Probably, they want to secretly incite and control some dragon race experts to cause trouble at the Sea God Cult, thereby driving a wedge between the dragon race and Human Dao.”

Ao Yi immediately grew angry, cursing: “This is too shameless!

If they openly fought our dragon race, if our dragon race lost, serving them would be one thing!

Such filthy, underhanded scheming, our dragon race will fight them to the end!”

Li Chang Shou sighed and said: “They want to use minimal cost to make the dragon race serve them, Brother Yi need not be angry about this.

If the dragon race serves them, the Western power will greatly increase, having the momentum to contend with our Dao sects.

Just for this point, within my capabilities, I will fully assist the dragon race.”

“Sect Leader!”

Ao Yi’s eyes flashed with emotion, deeply bowing to Li Chang Shou, “Sect Leader doesn’t fail Yi, Yi will never fail Sect Leader in this life!”

“Brother Yi’s words are too heavy,” Li Chang Shou virtually supported him with both hands, then discussed with Ao Yi how to respond.

Called discussion, but just Li Chang Shou continuously guided, hinted, and let Ao Yi say the follow-up arrangement plans himself, thereby making Ao Yi feel these were strategies he came up with.

Thus, when Ao Yi explained to the Dragon King later, there would be a better effect.

The two discussed for a while, settling on subsequent action plans.

Li Chang Shou cut off the divine consciousness communication, Ao Yi breaking free from the dream, giving an apologetic smile to his sleeping bride-to-be at his side, putting on his brocade robe, and quickly walking toward the hall outside.

They decided to turn the enemy’s tactics against them;

When the Western Religion moved to scheme this matter, pretending the dragon race and South Sea Sea God Cult had fallen out, letting the Western Religion lower some vigilance.

The key was, that the dragon race could follow the trail, investigating how many experts within the dragon race had already secretly colluded with the West.

This point was extremely important for the dragon race.

…

Li Chang Shou closed cultivation for three months in the underground chamber, finally completely suppressing his cultivation realm.

During this period, he tried severing his foundation once more, this time only dropping a few small realms, but his foundation became more perfect.

He wasn’t trying to forge a super-perfect foundation—all things had limits, needing a reasonable degree.

This was a simple math problem…

Given that continuously self-severing realm could increase foundation strength, thereby increasing the success rate of passing the Golden Immortal tribulation;

Increasing foundation strength would also cause the Golden Immortal tribulation intensity to increase, thereby affecting the success rate of passing the Golden Immortal tribulation.

The two interacting, tribulation success rates would show a curve first rising, then stabilizing, then declining.

What Li Chang Shou needed to do was grasp this curve’s highest point.

This was the philosophical thought of [Excess is as bad as deficiency], reasonably answered in mathematical terms.

“All methods interconnect, not beyond this.”

Li Chang Shou laughed softly, his true body returning to the pill room, refining several years’ worth of pills for little ancestral uncle, digging out previously brewed fine wine from behind the pill room.

Counting the days, Jiu Jiu’s ancestral uncle should be coming to feel ’embarrassed’ about lacking wine soon.

Because Xiong Ling Li had just come to Little Qiong Peak recently, Li Chang Shou also couldn’t just throw her aside and ignore her;

After finishing refining sugar bean pills, Li Chang Shou put his hands behind his back, flying to the chess and card room beside the spirit beast pen…

Before getting close, Li Chang Shou already heard pleasant musical sounds.

In this music were ancient zither, jade flute, erhu, the melody flowing, performance quite coordinated; besides these was a small drum that always couldn’t hit the beat.

Just that these instruments played extremely simple tunes, making Li Chang Shou also unable to help to hum inside…

‘Two tigers, two tigers, running fast…’

Li Chang Shou looked carefully, and couldn’t help laughing speechlessly.

In Little Qiong Peak’s royal chess and card room’s main hall, Ling E sat behind the ancient zither, wearing a plain scallion-white dress, black hair flowing like a waterfall…

Two paper people made by Ling E using the paper-cutting-becomes-person divine ability stood quietly at the side.

These two paper people had weak magical powers but rather stable auras, currently one playing erhu, one playing jade flute, not missing any notes or rhythm.

This was quite good, training the method of using multiple focuses;

From simple to complex music played by true body and paper people, multi-tasking would become more skilled.

Xiong Ling Li ‘shrank’ sitting at the side, holding that ‘miniature’ drum in her hands, fingers occasionally lightly tapping, but always unable to hit the beat…

Seeing them seriously practicing, Li Chang Shou couldn’t bear to disturb them, so rode his cloud turning around, inspecting the spirit beast pen once, again full of praise.

Found a treasure!

If Xiong Ling Li went to his previous life’s world, she would definitely be—a small expert at getting rich, the vanguard of high-yield pig farming!

Look at this spirit beast pen, only been a few months since placing the first batch of delicious cubs.

Already raised to such round fatness!

Well, as their cousin and senior brother, he couldn’t fall behind them!

Li Chang Shou flew to a dense forest behind Little Qiong Peak, finding a space with a green grass-like carpet, taking out a cyan-light-flashing bean from his sleeve, flicking it with his finger, this bean fell into the space’s center.

Divine ability, Sowing Beans Becomes Soldiers!

Li Chang Shou calmed his spirit, his hands beginning to rapidly form seals, strands of magical power condensing into streams of charm seals, drilling into that specially processed bean.

Shortly after, this bean popped with a bang, a seven-foot-tall armored warrior drilling out of thin air, holding a long sword in hand, majestic and extraordinary.

Unfortunately, this warrior’s eyes were wooden, without spiritual light, looking somewhat not too intelligent…

This was the original version of Sowing Beans Becomes Soldiers.

Li Chang Shou calculated that if using Ling E’s current cultivation to calculate, using all her magical power on this divine ability, she could sow a hundred ‘soldiers’ with strength equivalent to Transformation God realm level three in a short time.

And these soldiers could continuously operate for about two hours.

“If it’s like this…”

Li Chang Shou arranged several layers of formations here and then began detailed experiments.

Continuously raising cultivation realm, manifesting different strength levels of Sowing Beans Becomes Soldiers, verifying its practical value…

Soon, Li Chang Shou touched the original divine ability’s ‘ceiling.’

This divine ability could at most create a batch of ‘soldiers’ with strength equivalent to Returning Way realm level six, existing for twelve hours.

Moreover, these soldiers couldn’t use any spells or divine abilities, also couldn’t be controlled by the caster, and could only be given an enemy target or simple orders, then they would hold their weapons and charge forward with battle cries.

This divine ability, used in mortal warfare, would naturally be unstoppable.

But for Li Chang Shou, it was quite useless, not much use.

Just for Little Qiong Peak’s spirit trees, it was a good thing…

Then, Li Chang Shou asked himself several questions.

Should he use this divine ability?

Was it necessary to modify this divine ability?

After expending effort, what kind of return could be obtained?

Soon, Li Chang Shou had answers.

Modify!

This divine ability was bestowed by the Great Priest—if he could play out some new tricks, the Great Priest getting happy and giving him a yearly renewed version of the ‘Heaven Earth Mystery Yellow Spiritual Tower Power’ buff, that would be a huge profit!

To modify, the first accurate positioning of the ‘soldiers’ in Sowing Beans Becomes Soldiers.

Li Chang Shou gradually opened his thinking, increasingly feeling this divine ability matched very well with his current tactical system!

A new version of paper person could now store immortal power, equivalent to an early-stage Celestial Immortal realm cultivator.

And such a paper person using full power could simultaneously sow several hundred beans…

Paper people themselves could be stored;

Li Chang Shou’s immortal power, when used up could quickly recover by absorbing spiritual qi, as long as spirit trees were sufficient, he could endlessly make paper people.

In other words, just with the current original version of Sowing Beans Becomes Soldiers, give Li Chang Shou a few months, he could create an army of ‘Returning Way’ that could last twelve hours!

If he could successfully modify this divine ability, increase its power, make the bean soldiers stronger, last longer, use less immortal power…

I, Long Geng Dao Person, hide a million heavenly soldiers in my sleeve!