Becoming an immortal and ancestor begins with the golden toad spitting out money.

Chapter 35 Divine Power Acquired, Wishes Fulfilled

Su Ji used mystical arts to help Lei Bu Ling Jun kill the walking corpses, which was actually also helping the Earth God reduce his losses.

In the spirit of gratitude, the Earth God, to express his feelings, planned to bestow upon Su Ji four hundred and ten strands of divine power.

Although Su Ji was tempted, he had acted out of disapproval, not for reward, so he shook his head and said, "Four hundred and ten strands of divine power are far too much..."

Su Ji knew the story of Confucius and Zigong. Zigong refused to accept payment in order to demonstrate his virtue, but in fact, he set a bad example for the world...

Therefore, Su Ji simply felt that the reward was too high, rather than ungrateful.

The Earth God, however, said indifferently, "If it's not a case of 'too much is as bad as too little,' what harm would it do you to give all 820 strands of divine power to the Golden Toad?"
Both the "Sun and Moon Vacuum Method" and the profound system that Su Ji revealed tonight are of great help to the Earth God.

However, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the cultivators of the Dongxuan realm are even more detached from worldly affairs, discussing profound mysteries and Tao. The local earth god did not want to entangle the relationship and interests between the two, and thus he had a scale in his heart.

Moreover, while 410 strands of divine power are not much to the Earth God, they are of great use to Su Ji at this moment.

Based on Su Ji's current monthly salary of thirty strands of divine power, it would take fourteen months of hard work to obtain four hundred and twenty strands of divine power.

Seeing Su Ji deep in thought, the Earth God smiled and said, "Golden Toad, as a reincarnated cultivator, you may not care about these divine powers. However, if you have these divine powers, at least you will feel more confident when you go to the City God Temple Fair next month."

Through their interactions over the past few days, the Earth God noticed Su Ji's curiosity about the path of the Soul Spirit. Awakening the Soul Spirit is an inescapable hurdle for bloodline cultivators. Whether Su Ji wants to buy spiritual medicine or bloodline cultivation techniques, he needs to have "money" in his hands.

Yan Tianchou quickly reminded him, "Four hundred and ten strands of divine power can be converted into one thousand two hundred and thirty units of computing power... If used to deduce the [Golden Toad Transformation], the time can be shortened again to two and a half months!"

Originally, it would have taken more than five months to perfect the [Golden Toad Transformation], but now, with the guarantee from the Earth God, Yantianchou finally saw the possibility of speeding up the process.

...Even a hero can be brought down by a penny; this is indeed a wise saying!
After a moment of reflection, Su Ji bowed deeply and said with utmost sincerity, "Thank you very much, Earth God!"

Su Ji does need money now, both in a broad and narrow sense.

However, while it is easy to convert computational power into the ability to deduce the "Golden Toad Transformation," computational power cannot be converted into divine power.

No one can predict the future, so Su Ji decided to put away his divine power for now and decide how to use it later depending on the situation.

"The zombie incident is finally over, it's time to start the God of Wealth Plan!"

Not to mention that watching the battle tonight would be an opportunity to broaden one's horizons, the people would not feel at ease until the walking corpses were eliminated, and his God of Wealth plan was not very effective, which is why it was delayed for one or two more nights.

After receiving his reward of divine power, Su Ji bid farewell to the local earth god and returned to the Zhang family courtyard.

The lively event of eliminating the walking corpses tonight naturally attracted many onlookers, but not the Zhang family mother and daughter.

Every night, Zhang would go to sleep and then patrol the two villages as a night-roaming spirit soldier. Even if Zhang Xiaolian had the courage to go and join in the fun, she couldn't possibly leave her sleeping mother behind.

As people rushed back from the cemetery, news of what had happened that night began to spread throughout the village, becoming even more lively than during festivals like the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Lantern Festival.

However, the villagers are quite far away, and each person can only say a few words, but none of them are complete. Perhaps they will have to wait until tomorrow morning to form a complete story through casual conversation at the village entrance.

Zhang Xiaolian drifted off to sleep with a hint of anticipation, but little did she expect that the ancient golden toad would arrive soon after.

However, before the ancient golden toad could speak, Zhang Xiaolian noticed something was amiss.

Normally, the ancient golden toad only helped her cultivate by using the physical golden toad. But now, as soon as the ancient golden toad appeared, some changes occurred in her dream.

Outside the window, in the bright moonlight, strands of moonlight suddenly fell, but instead of entering her body, they drifted away towards the ancient golden toad.

Immediately, Zhang Xiaolian exclaimed in shock, "Yesterday I sensed that the ancient golden toad seemed to be in a state of enlightenment, and today it can absorb the power of heaven and earth as naturally as I can. It truly lives up to its name as the ancient golden toad!"

After Zhang Xiaolian condensed a profound system through the remnants of her previous life and experienced the mysteries of magic, she even became a little arrogant.

Unexpectedly, the ancient golden toad, a mere divine being, could achieve such accomplishments, instantly shattering Zhang Xiaolian's arrogance.

Zhang Xiaolian even felt more and more that even if the Golden Toad didn't follow the path of the God of Wealth, it might still be able to return to the Toad Palace through its achievements in the Path of Profound Mystery.

Su Ji had no idea what Zhang Xiaolian was thinking, otherwise he would definitely feel ashamed.

If it weren't for Zhang Xiaolian's profound system inspiring him, he still wouldn't be able to find the Path of Profound Mystery beneath his feet, let alone the naturally acquired Mysterious Technique [Deflection Mirror].

Unbeknownst to them, both fell silent. Zhang Xiaolian was adjusting her mindset, while Su Ji was trying to understand the changes in the real dream.

When he was in the outside world, he was constantly improving his cultivation through the "self-contained system and self-generated profound energy". If he had to say what he felt, he couldn't explain it for the time being.

Here, the power he absorbed from his Xuan Qi came from the real dream. He not only felt the changes in his physical form as a golden toad, but also sensed the instinctive resistance of the real dream.

The instinctive resistance to the real dream was not unexpected for Su Ji, after all, he was just an outsider.

The changes in his physical form as a golden toad gave him a bold idea: even if the real dream resisted him, the golden toad in the Toad Palace, which shared the same origin as him, surely wouldn't resist him!
If we could use the connection between the physical toad and the toad in the palace to absorb the "magical power" of the toad in the palace, wouldn't that create a passage directly to the toad palace?

Once his consciousness could descend into the body of the Golden Toad in the Toad Palace, it would truly be possible to comprehend the profound mysteries possessed by the ancient Golden Toad. Therefore, Su Ji immediately issued an order to Yan Tianchou: "Immediately add the keywords related to the ancient Golden Toad's cultivation of its spirit to the story of [fabricating history]..."

It wasn't that Su Ji was being unseemly, insisting on obtaining the mysteries of the Soul Spirit from Zhang Xiaolian; rather, it was because after these days of understanding, he had gained a clearer understanding of himself.

The world is filled with legends of great and small demons such as bull demons, horse demons, tiger demons, fox demons, and cat demons, but little demons are rarely mentioned, all because the cultivation of the physical body and spirit is too unfriendly to little demons.

Therefore, Su Ji placed his hopes on [fabricating history]. The ancient golden toad in the story must at least have a powerful physical body, and the bloodline power controlled by the Earth Soul Spirit must be equally formidable...

Even if one cannot obtain the bloodline memories of the ancient golden toad through this, one can still experience the existence of the Soul Spirit in a real dream, thereby reducing the difficulty of cultivating the Soul Spirit in reality.

This move may not have any immediate effect, but if we don't make it now, it will definitely delay our future cultivation.

Therefore, Su Ji decided to use the story of eliminating the walking corpses tonight as a starting point to talk about the past events of the Moon Palace.

At this moment, Yan Tianchou suddenly suggested, "According to the deduction, Xuan Qi can also come naturally in dreams. We just need to ask Zhang Xiaolian to grant permission to absorb Xuan Qi through the real dream window."

Clearly, a real dream has a window connecting it to reality; otherwise, the moonlight and the sandalwood incense could never have disappeared from that window.

This also reminded Su Jiling of the sandalwood incense, so she said to Zhang Xiaolian, "Zhang E, although you have used up the sandalwood incense that wafted in from outside the window last night, it still exists in your dream in another form. You can reproduce it if you think about it carefully."

This statement is not wrong. Just like hydroelectric power generation, energy is simply transformed from one form to another.

However, in reality, even if energy can be converted into each other, there will still be a lot of losses.

In this real dream, there seemed to be no loss, or perhaps only some of Zhang Xiaolian's imagination was lost.

As Zhang Xiaolian carefully recalled, time seemed to flow backward. The sandalwood incense that had been completely consumed last night reappeared before her eyes in the form of sandalwood fragrance.

Su Ji even felt that as long as Zhang Xiaolian dared to think, these sandalwood fragrances could even be restored to their tangible, intangible state before they were burned.

Yan Tianchou further deduced a hypothesis: "Zhang Xiaolian's ability to have her wishes fulfilled in real dreams is extremely similar to the effect of making a wish to heaven and earth using divine power. Perhaps Zhang Xiaolian was not only a Xuanxian in her previous life, but also someone who had achieved considerable success in the divine path!"

Su Ji was immediately startled.

Logically speaking, even if Zhang Xiaolian was a Xuanxian with extraordinary cultivation in her previous life, the mysteries she mastered would still be limited.

Perhaps Zhang Xiaolian could use the "Dong Shen Tong Xuan Fa" to visualize the mysteries left over from her previous life, and perhaps she could also draw parallels to create concrete images of the golden toad and the toad palace toad... but it would be difficult for her to achieve the goal of having her wishes fulfilled.

Thinking of this, Su Ji breathed a sigh of relief: "We weren't sure before that coaxing Zhang Xiaolian to help me cultivate would harm her or even deplete her potential."

"If it only consumes the divine power left over from her previous life, then it will be much easier. Once I become the God of Wealth and gather divine power, I will surely be able to repay all of this divine power!"

Su Ji's motivation to become the God of Wealth increased again. After recounting a story about the ancient golden toad using fabricated history, he brought up the matter of the recipe.

"I want to become the God of Wealth, but I can't just rely on bestowing money; I also need to explore ways to generate wealth."

“In ancient times, I also tasted all the delicacies of the world. Now I have selected some of them and compiled them into a simple cookbook. I would like you to help me copy it down…”

Zhang Xiaolian was still immersed in the glorious history of the ancient golden toad when she heard that the ancient golden toad asked her to help copy the recipe. She felt that she had also participated in the rise of the ancient golden toad and couldn't help but feel a sense of honor.

Soon, Zhang Xiaolian began to listen to the ancient golden toad's story, and even asked curiously what some of the materials looked like.

As a result, Zhang Xiaolian soon conjured up illusory images of the ingredients needed for the recipes.

There are vegetables such as green beans, potatoes, and peppers; meats such as chicken, duck, goose, pork, beef, and mutton; aquatic products such as carp, black carp, silver carp, and lobster; and seafood such as oysters, squid, seaweed, and ribbonfish.

Zhang Xiaolian even replicated the finished product image of the dish according to the recipe description.

For a moment, not only Zhang Xiaolian, who lived in Dongsang Village, but even Su Ji drooled.

Simply put, the food that Zhang Xiaolian conjured up was too tempting.

Upon closer reflection, even if we disregard the fact that Su Ji used to live by the river and could eat whatever he could find, even now that he can stand on his own, he still has to swallow all sorts of insects, small fish, and shrimp raw every night.

At the same time, Yan Tianchou finally came to a conclusion: "Zhang Xiaolian has never seen some of the ingredients in the recipe before, and some of them may not even exist in this world, yet Zhang Xiaolian can still conjure them up."

"Based on this, the probability that she was a highly accomplished deity in her past life... increases to over 90%."

"If that's the case, we should try to prevent Zhang Xiaolian from manifesting too many things, lest she consume too much divine power and lose the ability to make her wishes come true."

Even if Yan Tianchou hadn't warned him, Su Ji wouldn't have made excessive demands on Zhang Xiaolian, even though Zhang Xiaolian's divine power was inexhaustible.

This is not Su Ji being pretentious, but rather that becoming a god is easy, but becoming an immortal is difficult, and external forces are ultimately just external forces.

Only by comprehending the profound mysteries can one attain true power.

(End of this chapter)