Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Pay-to-Win Players and Hackers!

"Master Taibai, please help me drive this nail into the skull of the bamboo rat."

"The physical strength of a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Spirit Beast is too high. I can’t break through its defenses."

Clang—

Taibai Phecda flicked the Soul Suppressing Nail with a finger.

A soft sound followed as the nail accurately embedded itself in the bamboo rat’s head, locking its soul firmly within its body.

"Master Taibai, ordinary boiling water can’t remove the fur from this guy. Do you have a way?"

A myriad of sword lights flashed, each strand of fur on the bamboo rat was cleanly severed by Sword Qi without harming its skin or flesh.

"The next step is to gut it, and I would need Master Taibai’s help again."

Another sharp Sword Qi appeared, neatly slicing the bamboo rat’s belly open, its innards smoothly spilling out.

The rest was something Su Yuan could handle on his own.

Watching Su Yuan enthusiastically start roasting the bamboo rat, then at his daughter, who stood by watching while holding a snake, Master Taibai felt a bit of a headache coming on.

Why was he, a universally acknowledged Righteous Sword Immortal, participating in such things as soul suppression and applying evil techniques on corpses?

Moreover, he would have to partake in eating this bamboo rat, whose eyes were still wide open in death.

Where did things go wrong?

But when the kitchen filled with the alluring aroma of roasted meat, he decided to overlook everything.

The delicacies previously enjoyed had no soul; maybe food with a soul would taste even better.

During the roasting process, Su Yuan cleaned up the scraps from the Bamboo Rat Demon King and pocketed them.

Items like the rat’s fur, for example, are the best material for making a Fur Zombie from a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Demon King.

If he had to buy it, he definitely wouldn’t, but if it was free, he’d take as much as he could.

Also, the bamboo rat’s innards, which Su Yuan kept for himself when Bai Ling declined his offer.

Big shots are extravagant and dismissive of these scraps.

Su Yuan wasn’t planning on cooking these scraps but intended to use them as materials for practicing the Demon Technique·Finger Spirit.

What kind of Spirit Elixir could be refined from the body parts of a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Demon King? It’s exciting to think about!

A chef who doesn’t skim a little can’t prosper in the kitchen.

Overall, even without Bai Ling’s prior tip of two hundred thousand, Su Yuan already made a huge profit just from these scraps.

When the bamboo rat was nearly done, Su Yuan quickly made a pot of snake blood vermicelli soup with Bai Ling’s essence blood.

A dish and a soup were served simultaneously.

And naturally, Su Yuan was asked to stay for dinner.

Taibai Phecda sat at the head, with Su Yuan and the white-haired lolita sitting side by side, resembling siblings.

"Su Yuan, when eating the meat later, take care not to overdo it. With your cultivation, you won’t digest too much Foundation Establishment Stage ingredients."

Taibai Phecda reminded.

Su Yuan nodded but had already made up his mind.

Whether I can digest it, I’ll know once I eat it!

After all, this is a dish worth millions; not eating a bit more would be a disservice to myself.

As soon as Taibai Phecda picked up his chopsticks, Su Yuan immediately grabbed a thumb-sized piece of rat meat and stuffed it into his mouth.

The exquisite flavor exploded in Su Yuan’s mouth.

Then, the vast Spiritual Power contained within the rat meat, easily absorbable by the human body, began rushing into Su Yuan’s entire being.

Every cell in his body started greedily devouring this Spiritual Power.

But the energy contained in the flesh of a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Demon King was enormous; after just one bite, Su Yuan felt stuffed, his cells struggling to digest the influx of Spiritual Power.

Even with the Abyssal Magic Vein helping share the load, refining the power proved overwhelming.

No choice, blue pill, activate!

Su Yuan pulled out a blue pill and popped it into his mouth, significantly enhancing his digestive and absorption capabilities.

The Spiritual Power from the rat meat was quickly absorbed.

Su Yuan eagerly reached for more meat with his chopsticks.

The scene of Su Yuan taking the blue pill did not escape Taibai Phecda’s notice.

This Master Golden Core instantly recognized that the blue pill contained no illegal substances or toxins, so he said nothing.

However, he was surprised when his daughter also noticed the blue pill.

"Brother Su Yuan, what did you eat? Can I have one too?"

"Only one, open your mouth."

Watching his daughter being fed what seemed like an evil pill by Su Yuan left Master Taibai feeling a bit frustrated.

Yet the pill wasn’t harmful, leaving him no reason to intervene.

He couldn’t shake the feeling he was acting in a drama entitled "The Helpless Father," playing the role of the father.

By the end of the meal, Su Yuan had devoured three pounds of roasted bamboo rat and downed a big bowl of snake blood vermicelli soup.

Through the full-force operation of his body, boosted by the Abyssal Magic Vein and blue pill, he managed to absorb all the Spiritual Power.

As a result, Su Yuan had marked improvement both in his physical strength and cultivation.

His physical strength was hard to quantify, but Su Yuan felt his power had increased by about ten percent from before the meal; other metrics would take time to manifest.

However, the gain in cultivation was apparent.

Before the meal, his Spiritual Power measure was only 62.5. After eating, it was estimated to reach 64, an immediate increase of 1.5!

The higher the realm, the slower the cultivation advances.

But a single meal had accelerated his cultivation by such a margin, catapulting him up at least three hundred spots in the spiritual power rankings among all the city’s high school seniors!

No wonder students with top high school exam scores predominantly come from wealthy families; there’s an explanation for this.

They dine on dishes worth millions, consume elixirs costing tens of thousands, and of course, they have high scores.

This is the difference between a universal cultivation society versus a previous world without magic.

In the past, unless one was wealthy enough to skip the college entrance exams and study abroad, everyone had to play by the rules, relying on extra tutoring at best; rich families had nowhere to splurge on their children’s education.

But in a universal cultivation era, money opens myriad ways on the Immortal Dao to improve scores.

This was true in both the Ancient Cultivation Era and the modern Cultivation Realm.

Luckily, Su Yuan had an edge.

Without the blue pill and Abyssal Magic Vein, most of the affluent second-generation cultivators couldn’t absorb high-grade ingredients and elixirs as efficiently.

Once he has money in the future, Su Yuan plans to dine on million-dollar meals, challenging anyone to outperform him!

Su Yuan secretly set a goal for himself.

Just then, Taibai Phecda spoke:

"Su Yuan, I’ve heard you’ve been working lately. How’s it going for you?"

Su Yuan snapped back to reality, and honestly replied:

"Not too bad; I should easily make about a million a month. You don’t have to worry, Teacher Taibai, I can definitely pay the Special Advancement Class fees on time."

A million a month...

Though he’d anticipated this, hearing Su Yuan’s admission still astonished Taibai Phecda at his ability to earn.

Yet considering the ever-emerging Demon Inheritance in Su Yuan’s possession, it made sense.

He nodded and said:

"You saved Bai Ling; such a favor isn’t repayable with just one meal. I should show more appreciation."

"Since you don’t have financial pressure, I won’t give you money directly; I’ll send you something else in gratitude."

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