After Becoming an Immortal, It Makes Sense to Have a Universal Treasure Pot

5: The Mouse PlagueThe night was as dark as ink. Xu Qi’an was crawling on the nearby field ridge, using a pile of straw to hide his body, while the aura within him was reduced to a low point using the Qi Concealing Technique.

”Qiu Qiu!”

Suddenly, Xu Qi’an’s ear twitched, and he heard a faint sound coming from the spiritual field.

”You little bastard, I finally caught you!”

Xu Qi’an cast a cold glance, waved his hand, and a treasured sword glowing with green light flew out of his storage bag, cutting through the air and shooting directly towards the source of the sound.

The sword light was like a sharp ray, its speed like a flying dragon entering the sea. In just one breath’s time, the black shadow was pierced through.

”Qiu, Qiu,”

”Success!”

Xu Qi’an was overjoyed, used a light body technique around his body, and flew forward, immediately arriving in front of the black shadow.

With one hand, he retrieved the Qingzhu Sword, and with the other, he lifted the black shadow.

Xu Qi’an took a closer look, and it was indeed the Rice Rat from his memory.

This Rice Rat was similar to the field mice in Xu Qi’an’s previous life, but its teeth and claws were much longer, and its fur was slightly greenish. He didn’t know if it was due to the night.

However, Xu Qi’an suspected that this Rice Rat had mutated from a field mouse.

Since the Rice Rat was dead, Xu Qi’an had no intention of staying in the spiritual field either.

The strength of this Rice Rat was at the first rank initial stage. It was ambushed by Xu Qi’an and didn’t even have time to react, killed instantly with one blow.

He turned into a phantom in the night and flew back to his residence.

Xu Qi’an sat cross-legged in the thatched hut, with the corpse of that Rice Rat placed in front of him.

”Things with sentience cannot be put in. This demonic beast should not have awakened its sentience yet, let alone being already dead.”

Today, Xu Qi’an wanted to give it a try and see what he would get by putting in this demonic beast corpse.

”Maybe, I can even get a first-rank middle stage demonic beast?”

Xu Qi’an thought secretly, feeling a little anticipation in his heart.

The early morning hour passed, and moonlight shone through the window lattice onto the Rice Rat’s greenish-brown fur, reflecting a layer of eerie silver light.

He reached out and touched the Rice Rat’s abdomen, where a little warmth still lingered.

Xu Qi’an said this sentence again with interest.

”gathering treasure basin, it’s up to you!”

Xu Qi’an placed the Rice Rat’s corpse against his chest, and his consciousness sank into his Sea of Consciousness.

The ancient bronze gathering treasure basin quietly floated, and the runes on the basin body flowed with mysterious light.

With a thought, the Rice Rat’s corpse instantly disappeared, and a ripple appeared in the gathering treasure basin.

”Buzz—”

A low buzzing sound echoed in his Sea of Consciousness, and five green lights gushed out from the gathering treasure basin.

Xu Qi’an opened his palm, and five identical Rice Rat corpses quietly lay in his hand.

The fur of each Rice Rat glowed with a faint silver light, and their abdomens were slightly bulging, clearly indicating that there was still undigested spiritual rice essence remaining within their bodies.

”Five first-rank initial stage Rice Rats...”

A hint of ecstasy flashed in Xu Qi’an’s eyes. Although it didn’t completely match his expectations, it was still pretty good.

This first-rank initial stage Rice Rat, according to the demonic beast meat market in the Qingzhu Market, is worth five Low-Grade Spirit Stones each!

There are a total of five Rice Rats here, which is twenty-five ling stones!

But soon, Xu Qi’an’s brows furrowed.

”I can’t sell them all at once...”

Xu Qi’an deeply understood the principle that possessing a treasure makes one a target.

A small Cultivator at the Refining Qi Level 4 suddenly taking out five Rice Rats would definitely arouse suspicion from others.

He must think of a reasonable explanation.

”Selling one every few days and changing locations should not be a big problem.”

”Or maybe...” Xu Qi’an thought of Body Refinement.

The cultivation system of Body Refinement is extremely expensive.

It is known as the gold-swallowing beast of the cultivation path and can be compared to the four arts of formations, pills, artifacts, and talismans.

Or even surpass them.

At least in the Early Stage of Body Refinement, a lot of demonic beast meat is needed as nourishment for Body Refinement.

Cultivating to Body Refinement third layer would cost at least a hundred ling stones, and cultivating to the Peak of Body Refinement would probably cost thousands of ling stones.

Without being a Young Master from a cultivation Family, it is simply impossible to Cultivate steadily.

If there is no Family financial support, but a rogue Cultivator practicing Body Refinement alone, then they have to live a life of licking blood from the tip of a knife every day.

They have to fight with demonic beasts all day long to obtain demonic beast meat resources.

Therefore, those who can grow through Body Refinement are all ruthless individuals, and they are also much stronger than Cultivators at the same Realm.

Xu Qi’an let out a long breath and still felt that he could practice Body Refinement, after all, he now had the Omnipotent Treasure Basin.

Resources were not something to worry about.

Thinking of this, Xu Qi’an grinned.

”Indeed, life with resources is good!”

”Now, I just need to go to the Qingzhu Market and buy a Body Refinement Cultivation Technique.”

......

Early the next morning, the Spiritual Farmers in the shantytown exploded into an uproar.

”My spiritual rice! It’s all gone!”

”Damn Rice Rats, they didn’t even spare the rice stalks!”

”Where is the demonic beast hunting team from the Qingzhu Market? Why aren’t they here to eliminate the demonic beasts?”

Xu Qi’an pushed open the door of the thatched hut, and saw Old Yan Tou squatting on the field ridge of the spiritual field in the distance, his dry tobacco pipe tapping the ground with a ”Dongdong” sound.

He walked over to take a look, and Old Yan Tou’s three mu of spiritual fields had been ravaged beyond recognition. The rice ears were scattered everywhere, and the muddy ground was full of claw marks.

”Xu Qi’an, it’s you...” Old Yan Tou raised his head, his cloudy eyes full of bloodshot veins.

Xu Qi’an froze on the spot.

He really didn’t expect that these Rice Rats were not just one, but a group.

The Rice Rats had become a disaster!

This was something that had never happened before in the Qingzhu Market.

Old Yan Tou suddenly stood up, his dry tobacco pipe almost poking Xu Qi’an’s face.

”Xu Qi’an, hurry up and go check your own spiritual field! If your damn spiritual rice is ruined, when are you going to pay me back the two ling stones!!!”

Xu Qi’an let out an ”Ah”, only then quickly coming back to his senses and running towards the direction of his own spiritual field.

Xu Qi’an’s spiritual field was a bit of a distance from the shantytown.

He came back relatively early last night and only thought that only one Rice Rat was eating his spiritual rice, which was why he didn’t mind.

He really didn’t expect there to be so many Rice Rats.

”I’m afraid my spiritual rice has all been eaten!”

Xu Qi’an didn’t feel it was a pity, he just put on an anxious expression on his face.

But as soon as Xu Qi’an arrived at the spiritual field, he found that his own spiritual field was perfectly fine, without a single problem.

The rice ears from yesterday were the same as usual, swaying slightly under the gentle breeze.

Except for a few spiritual rice grains which had already been eaten by that Rice Rat from yesterday.

”What’s going on? Why is my spiritual field fine?!”

Xu Qi’an was genuinely panicked this time, because his spiritual field was too unique.

The spiritual fields of other Spiritual Farmers were all ruined, but his spiritual field was actually still intact.

Too conspicuous!!

Too damn conspicuous!

Xu Qi’an didn’t want to be such a conspicuous person at all!

”Could it be that these Rice Rats also divide up the eating locations?”

”Other people’s locations cannot be trespassed upon?!”

”Are they that obedient!”

He even wished that all the spiritual rice in front of him was ruined.

But now, he was dumbfounded.

”The Qingzhu Market Enforcement Team will definitely come later. What should I say?”

”Should I just say that I killed a Rice Rat yesterday and saved my own spiritual field?”

”What if they see the injuries on that Rice Rat!”

”If they are sharp-eyed, they will definitely be able to tell that the wounds were caused by a mid-grade magic tool!”

”If sold in the Qingzhu Market, others definitely won’t care much. After all, it’s just a first-rank initial stage demonic beast.”

”But that group of scum from the Enforcement Team might not!!”