Chapter 134: I... Have a Daoist Friend

Chapter 134: I... Have a Daoist Friend

With the absence of the Ambition Pill, the financial income was instantly reduced by half.

Li Changshou looked at the meticulously designed array diagram in front of him, roughly estimating the quantity, quality, and value of the precious materials needed to refine the array base, and couldn't help but ponder for a moment.

The long-term plan was to transform Little Qiongfeng into a treasure, creating a comprehensive portable cave for offense, defense, residence, and entertainment.

Currently, the path to "treasure transformation" needed to be taken in three steps.

For the sake of caution, the first step was to turn Little Qiongfeng into a mobile composite array for offense and defense, meeting the basic requirement of treasure transformation—scalability.

Since immortal power was insufficient to directly refine the entire Little Qiongfeng, it could only be supplemented by the Qiankun Array Formation, which had high requirements for the basic strength of the array base...

Li Changshou did some calculations:

"If we rely only on my, Master's, and Junior Sister's monthly income, plus the fixed quota of Little Qiongfeng, it will probably take about three... thousand years.

If we rely on the speed of earning thick money through alchemy and selling it in the town, it will probably take over a thousand years..."

A thousand years, although not considered long from his current lifespan perspective, and it was unlikely that the Path of Immortality would collapse within a thousand years.

But in any case, Li Changshou still wanted to complete it as soon as possible, so as to have a little more sense of security.

So, Li Changshou spent half a day devising several ways to make small fortunes without leaving the mountain gate, revealing his true strength, or affecting the harmony within the sect—

The way to make small fortunes.

However, after considering comprehensively, Li Changshou abandoned several ideas in succession;

For example, things like "Little Qiongfeng's Trapped Array Maze Tour", "Little Qiongfeng Barbecue Villa", all of which would affect Junior Sister and Master's cultivation.

In the end, Li Changshou only kept one plan with the least impact and the smallest profit, and casually prepared the items needed for this plan, placing them by the lake in Little Qiongfeng...

Consider it not a waste of his half day.

It was a half-zhang-high wooden box with a 'fat cat' wooden carving inside, lazily painted without much detail.

Next to the wooden box stood a wooden sign with the words:

[This item is named Immortal Cat Fortune-Telling Barrel; But in reality, it is a strategic barrel that will give you some advice based on your words; Before use, please insert valuable items such as spirit stones, treasures, elixirs, etc. into the mouth of the cat immortal. Bamboo slips with strategies written on them will appear under the box. Note: By using it, you agree to the relevant terms of use of the "Little Qiongfeng Strategic Barrel" and do not accept refunds. Qi Source, Master of Little Qiongfeng]

"Who would fall for this thing?"

Li Changshou shook his head, leaving a small piece of Reverting Pupil Spider silk in the wooden box, then drifted away, returning to the alchemy room to continue refining pills and enlightenment.

There were some tiny designs in the wooden barrel, with forty-nine bamboo slips inside, each containing phrases like 'not too bad' and 'ambiguous'.

"My talent for deceiving people is really not good."

Li Changshou sighed, lit the black alchemy furnace, and began to put in the pre-arranged medicinal materials.

Half a day later...

Li Changshou's mind moved, and the scene in front of the wooden barrel appeared in his mind:

A small head leaned over, delicate features, a lovely face, with short brown hair, looking up and down at the wooden cat inside.

Suddenly, seeing the face up so close, Li Changshou didn't react for a moment;

But as the other person bent down, the stretched linen shirt... Jiu Shifu!

At the same time, Li Changshou's directional whispering spell brought the murmurs of Little Shifu...

"Strategic Barrel? Who are they trying to fool? Just by putting this here, do they expect people to give them spirit stones?"

Little Shifu chuckled lightly, picked up a stone, and threw it into the cat's mouth.

Then, she said with all seriousness: "Strategic Barrel, listen up, I have a little problem now, how can I get more fine wine, delicacies, and handsome men! Well... we can leave out the last one."

Li Changshou immediately narrowed his eyes and, with a slight movement of his mind, the miniature array in the wooden barrel activated, and a bamboo slip popped out from under the box, which Jiu Shifu caught.

Looking at the words above, Jiu Shifu read softly: "Doubts are heavy, answers lie within the heart, do not forget those who dug the well for you, cherish them as you go."

Jiu Shifu blinked, hummed softly twice, and muttered, "That's actually quite insightful." After flipping through the bamboo slip, she saw the words

[Please do not take away, return it to the hole on the side of the barrel], and casually put the bamboo slip back.

Naturally, she didn't recognize that it was written by Qi Yuan.

After some thought, Jiu Shifu took out a spirit stone with almost depleted spiritual energy and threw it into the cat's mouth.

Then, she said, "Let me ask you another question.

Lately, I've been hearing my Sixth and Fourth Senior Sisters complaining about their Dao companions.

Are Dao companions a good thing or a bad thing in the end?"

Li Changshou in the alchemy room thought for a moment, flicked his fingers, and the miniature array popped out another bamboo slip.

After Jiu Shifu read it, she suddenly showed a thoughtful smile and respectfully bowed to the cat immortal.

"Thank you for your advice, Cat Immortal."

With that, she turned and left with a smile on her face, heading towards the gambling house she had built with her own hands... cough, the Royal Gambling House.

"I guess only Little Shifu, who drinks too much, would... cough, fall for this."

Li Changshou chuckled inwardly, the jade was quite good, he could exchange it for some precious materials later.

However, what Li Changshou didn't expect was...

Two days later, Jiu Shifu brought another Jiu Lu'er... Jiu Lu'er also had some troubles and asked for advice, it was about her own marriage, but she started with a sentence: "I have a Daoist friend..."

Li Changshou naturally couldn't be a bad person;

The bamboo slip he gave her was just some advice to relax, focus more on cultivation, and as long as she was confident, there would be nothing difficult in the world.

Jiu Lu'er pondered for a while, then suddenly showed a sweet smile, bowed to the cat immortal, and left with a spring in her step.

This time the income was not bad, Jiu Lu'er took several large pieces of spirit stones.

In the following half month, several disciples of the Jiuzi Immortal Sect came one after another, and there were also five or six true immortals from the Broken Sky Peak who were acquainted with them.

Li Changshou effortlessly earned over a hundred spirit stones and spirit jade.

After calculation, it was almost equivalent to his monthly quota...

And every time, these people left satisfied, actually gaining nothing, just confirming what they already had in mind.

Li Changshou also didn't have any karma.

Was this method really feasible?

He only occasionally spent a strand of his spiritual mind on it, without much effort.

Li Changshou was also somewhat surprised, he quickly made three hundred and sixty bamboo slips overnight, expanded the barrel a bit, and set up the arrays and prohibitions inside more delicately.

The content on the bamboo slips was not very complicated, nor did it have any practical significance, it could be interpreted positively, negatively, or biasedly. How to interpret it depended on the person seeking advice and which answer they were inclined towards in their heart.

And if there were really difficult or confused people coming to seek solutions, Li Changshou also prepared three types of bamboo slips for them.

The first type was "A Nobleman Will Help on the Road";

The second type was "Step Back, Broaden the Horizon";

The third type was "Still Need to Ask Your Heart"...

So, a seeking advice barrel that tended to be perfect was quickly improved, and one or two people came to ask for advice every day.

Li Changshou moved this thing to the back mountain forest of Little Qiongfeng, so as not to disturb Master's cultivation.

What Li Changshou found interesting was that most of the people who came to seek advice would bring a sentence: "I... have a Daoist friend..." ...

Another half month passed, nearing dusk.

A familiar figure quietly appeared in front of the seeking advice barrel.

She was dressed in an ice-blue long skirt, extremely beautiful but not smiling, naturally it was Qin Xuanya.

At first sight, Li Changshou thought she was here to cause trouble, but Qin Xuanya soon made several quite familiar movements...

Looking around, setting up a barrier, taking a deep breath, and... putting in two pieces of immortal spirit stones!

Even Li Changshou, who was refining pills, couldn't help but show a serious expression.

These immortal spirit stones were valuable, did Poisonous Junior Sister encounter some big problem?

However, what Li Changshou didn't expect was... "Cat Immortal, I... I have a Daoist friend."

Qin Xuanya said softly: "She, I don't know what's wrong with her recently, she sometimes feels restless, with a senior brother's figure appearing in her mind.

If she has time to spare from cultivation, the first thing she thinks about is going to her senior brother's place.

Although she may not necessarily see him, just being near him makes her mind calm.

My Daoist friend deeply admires this senior brother in her heart and takes him as a role model, but her Master... her Master says this may be stirring emotions, which confuses her a lot.

Cat Immortal, what should I do?"

Li Changshou: ...

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he hinted to Qin Xuanya not to spend too much effort on him. Li Changshou quickly selected a 'very good' bamboo slip among those in the barrel and sent it out with an array.

"The path of immortality is full of beautiful things, not bound by form.

Tomorrow's fortune will be discussed with laughter."

After reading the bamboo slip, Qin Xuanya immediately showed a thoughtful smile;

She quickly understood what it meant, smiled with relief, bowed respectfully to the cat immortal.

"Thank you for your guidance, Cat Immortal."

With that, she turned and flew away with a smile on her face, heading towards the gambling house she had built with her own hands... cough, the Royal Gambling House.

"Poisonous Junior Sister should have understood something."

Li Changshou pondered for a moment, the bamboo slip just now was without ambiguity, it simply meant to cultivate well, the great Dao was promising, and there were even more beautiful sceneries ahead.

However, Poisonous Junior Sister's thinking was always different, unique, and peculiar.

Li Changshou didn't know how effective this bamboo slip would be for her...

Half a day later, Jiu Wu furrowed her brows and drifted over.

This senior brother didn't seek advice from a bamboo slip, but instead circled the thing twice.

Then this senior brother understood what it was all about and laughed: "Little Changshou did a good job with this thing, taking the initiative to give some advice to the sect is also a good thing, not in vain, that cunning little brain of his."

Li Changshou couldn't help but convey his voice, "Senior Brother, I can hear you."

"Cough, I still have something to do, still have something to do, this time I came to represent the Hundred Venerable Hall to take a look, I will go back to report immediately."

With that, Jiu Wu hastily left on his cloud, running quite swiftly.

With Senior Brother Jiu Wu helping to take care of the Hundred Venerable Hall, this seeking advice barrel also had a legitimate reason to stay.

In the days that followed, one or two people came to seek advice here every day, mostly from the Jiuzi Immortal Sect;

The reputation of this seeking advice barrel had not yet spread.

Li Changshou's income was quite substantial. After all, this was a deal without any investment, relying solely on a bamboo slip, similar to the temple priests in the South Sea Temple.

And Li Changshou quickly came up with a new idea for making a fortune.

He built a simple isolation array around the seeking advice barrel, and every time, he only needed to put five spirit stones into the "Activate Array" wooden box, and the array could be activated for half an hour!

With these five spirit stones, Li Changshou could earn four.

Of course, he also left himself a "back door" to hear any words spoken to the Cat Immortal.

Two months later, in the late afternoon, Liu Feixian, who had a worried expression and a distracted spirit, also drifted over.

After looking around and finding no one, she took out five spirit stones and put them in the wooden box, activating the array.

This slightly plump peak true immortal who was considered stylish in the Micro Pudgy Realm sighed silently, took out two bottles of elixirs, and put them into the Cat Immortal's mouth.

"Junior Brother Qi Yuan... oh no, Cat Immortal. I... have a Daoist friend.

She did something silly before, acted out of greed, and had some accidents.

Now, when walking on the road, she would occasionally be beaten by someone.

Once when she was cultivating in her cave, she inexplicably fell asleep and woke up naked, tied to a tree...

My Daoist friend also knows she was wrong and sincerely wants to make amends, but she is unable to calm down with such suffering.

How can this be good?"

Li Changshou: ...

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he subtly suggested to Liu Feixian that she shouldn't spend too much effort on him.

Li Changshou quickly selected a 'very good' bamboo slip among those in the barrel and sent it out with an array.

But as soon as he finished his action, Li Changshou couldn't help but frown.

Out of nowhere, he had a bad feeling that something might have happened on the side of the South Sea Sea God Sect, and this time, Li Changshou inexplicably felt a touch of blood color in his heart.

A blood-red glow lingered...

Calculating by pinching his fingers...

It was an ominous sign!