The Great Ruler: Starting with the Contract Goddess Luo Li

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Chapter 22 concludes the Spirit Road storyline. If you don't want to read about the Spirit Road, you can skip to Chapter 23.

Also, the main character will not accept Wu Yingying as a concubine, he will not accept her, he will not accept her.

"Oh dear, where have I ended up? Am I still in China?"

In the vast primeval forest, Lin Suzhou suddenly opened his eyes and found that he had come from the rented house to the wilderness.

Looking at the towering trees and lush vegetation around him, Lin Suzhou felt as if he were either in Southeast Asia or the Amazon.

Thinking of this, Lin Suzhou nervously lifted his clothes to look at himself, and found that there were no scars. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ding! Detection indicates the host has traversed the Spiritual Path Secret Realm of the Great Ruler world. System binding in progress..."

"Ding, system binding successful. The Contract Goddess System is now at your service."

A mechanical female voice suddenly resounded in Lin Suzhou's mind.

"The Great Ruler? Could it be that I've transmigrated?"

Upon hearing this voice, Lin Suzhou was overjoyed.

He was rewatching The Great Ruler while he was sleeping last night. It seems like this is fate!

"System, what functions do you have? Is it for checking in/out or posting tasks?"

Lin Suzhou muttered to himself as he found a secluded pile of rocks to hide in.

This is an extremely dangerous spiritual path, fraught with the cruelty of human nature. A moment's carelessness could turn you into food for a spirit beast or points for someone else.

He doesn't have a strong physique now, and he hasn't even cultivated spiritual power. To describe him as a weakling would be an exaggeration.

"This system is called the Contract Goddess System. As long as the host contracts with a goddess who meets the conditions, the host can obtain corresponding system rewards by increasing the intimacy level."

Upon hearing this answer, Lin Suzhou asked a few more questions in detail before he fully understood the system's functions.

The three most crucial criteria for selecting goddesses are: first, they must have a powerful background and high status; second, they must be exceptionally talented and powerful; and third, they must be virgins.

To become a goddess, one must meet all three of the above conditions.

Now that he is on the Spirit Road, he knows that the only goddesses who meet the criteria are Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan.

The only challenge now is how to gain the strength to travel around.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, a beam of black light descended from the sky and hovered in front of him.

This is a jet-black metal token with a blood-red character "灵" (spirit) in the center.

Lin Suzhou looked at it curiously for a moment, then raised his hand and held it in his hand.

A message suddenly shot into my mind from within the token.

Crimson Token!

This is the identity certificate for every student entering the Spiritual Path. It allows them to enter the five protected areas within the Spiritual Path for cultivation, or to undergo the final Spiritual Path initiation test.

The more blood-red tokens a person has, the higher their final registration score will be, and the better the quality of their spiritual power infusion will be.

The most crucial point is that the spirit beast essence obtained after slaying a spirit beast can be converted into spiritual power to enhance physical strength.

The physical body is divided into nine levels of spiritual bodies, with level one being the lowest.

As for Lin Suzhou, he's not even a Level 1 Spirit Body yet.

So now he has a new problem: how to hunt spirit beasts?

Using a puddle under a rock, he discovered that his face had returned to how it looked when he was twelve years old.

He was still quite young, but it was also the period when he had the most energy.

She even brought her clothes with her, but the gray casual wear seemed out of place in this world.

If others saw it, they would take a second look.

That's alright, at least the color is similar to the stone, which makes it easier to hide.

But hiding forever isn't a solution; after all, we still need to find our goddess.

"Ah—finally, I can see the river!"

But at that moment, a girl's voice reached his ears.

Lin Suzhou got up and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a young girl taking a bath under an ancient tree in the distance whose canopy covered an area of ​​nearly a hundred miles!

Unfortunately, it was too far away, so I only got a general view.

After critically observing for a while, just as Lin Suzhou was about to look away and lie still again, he suddenly noticed something in the bushes beside the stream.

A boy's face peeked out, staring at the girl just like him.

As he watched, the boy seemed to sense that someone was watching him, and he shifted his gaze toward Lin Suzhou.

And so—the two of them stared at each other for a while.

"You pervert, I'm going to gouge your eyes out!"

Suddenly, a girl's sweet shout broke the silence between the two.

Lin Suzhou thought he had been discovered and was about to jump out to explain when he saw the girl running towards the man.

Lin Suzhou took a closer look and realized that the guy was unlucky; the dark blue clothes she had taken off were under the bushes where the man was hiding.

"You think you can run away after seeing my body? You're kidding me!"

After the girl reached the shore, she lifted her delicate little feet, and her blue clothes rose into the air. In the blink of an eye, she was dressed. She then conjured a fiery red Guan Gong sword out of thin air and slashed it in the direction the man was fleeing.

"grumble."

Instead of killing the person, they killed a rabbit.

The rabbit's agonizing screams after it died reached Lin Suzhou's ears.

After the girl chased after the man and disappeared into the distance, Lin Suzhou pondered for a moment, then left the pile of stones and walked to the rabbit.

Although it is called a rabbit, it is half a meter tall and its teeth are a full inch long.

The blood-red eyes looked somewhat frightening to Lin Suzhou, a modern man far removed from the kitchen.

But in order to increase its strength, it forced itself to cheer up and picked up a rather sharp stone to smash open the rabbit's head.

Brain matter and blood were pumped out, splashing all over Lin Suzhou's face.

Ignoring his appearance, Lin Suzhou began searching inside its head and finally found a white ball of light containing a miniature rabbit.

This is the spirit beast's essence.

He took out the token and absorbed the essence, which then entered Lin Suzhou's body through the spiritual power transformed by the token.

Instantly, he felt that his internal organs had been strengthened.

Experience +3.

If he was worse than a complete weakling before, he is now a complete weakling.

Lin Suzhou looked up in the direction the woman had left, and a bold idea formed in his mind.

Chase!

Then Lin Suzhou crouched down and headed away in the direction the two were.

Fortunately, the girl left traces along the way, and Lin Suzhou picked up several spirit beast essences as he chased after her.

It seems that the woman has a really fiery temper, but she is also very strong; all the spirit beasts that came to attack her were killed.

Unfortunately, after Lin Suzhou collected seven or eight spirit beast essences, the woman stopped in her tracks.

Ahead of her, a handsome young man with black hair and black eyes also stopped in his tracks.

Before him stood a mountain peak about a thousand meters high, from which the roars of mythical beasts could be heard from time to time.

It must be because the boy was wary of the powerful spirit beasts in the mountains.

"Don't chase after them! There are spirit beasts everywhere in the mountains. You might get bitten to death and not reach the end without the spiritual path to enlightenment. That would be a huge loss."

The handsome young man stood at the foot of the mountain, turned around and shouted loudly at the girl.

"Don't even mention the Earthly Ranking spirit beasts; even if there were Heavenly Ranking divine beasts among them, I would still kill you!"

But the girl remained defiant and showed no sign of stopping.

The boy tried to persuade her a few more times, but seeing that the girl was still determined to kill him, he started fighting her directly.

The girl holds a Guan Gong sword, while the boy wields a bright silver dagger.

We no longer have an advantage in weaponry.

This is Lin Suzhou's idea.

But the result was unexpected; the boy actually planned to exchange injuries for injuries.

Ignoring the wound on his back, he struck the girl with a palm. Upon seeing this, the girl decisively abandoned her knife and began a fight with her fists and feet.

In the end, the boy was clearly more skilled in martial arts and subdued the girl.

After the two exchanged a few more insults, Lin Suzhou, who was hiding on the mountainside, finally understood when the girl uttered the name "Wu Yingying".

No wonder that young man was so strong, he was none other than Mu Chen, the protagonist of The Great Ruler!

Right now, it's the plot where he just entered the Spiritual Path. Lin Suzhou had just rewatched the earlier parts of The Great Ruler, so he definitely remembered it correctly.

"You scoundrel! Put me down right now!"

Then, the girl's angry shouts broke Lin Suzhou's train of thought.

Mu Chen suddenly swept her up in his arms and threw her directly into the stream in front of him!