Chapter 147: Man Self-Proclaimed as Reincarnation of Great Sage, Challenged a Wild Horse to a Duel.
This didn't happen only once, but the mannequins randomly fetched merit coins out of nowhere now and then. The amount ranged from one to five per hour.
Additionally, the basic livestock farm experienced exponential growth. Farm products, including meat, dairy, and eggs, were added to his inventory.
The first few hours seemed normal. A day later, the products mutated.
DING
Your ranch has been upgraded.
Your ordinary lambs (no grade) have evolved into mottainai lambs (earth grade).
Your ordinary pigs (no grade) have evolved into kurobuta (earth grade).
Your ordinary cows (no grade) have evolved into wagyu cows (earth grade).
Your ordinary chickens (no grade) have evolved into silkie chickens (earth grade).
Even if they were upgraded, Fu Tong had no use for earth-graded food. He left them be and waited for the Fusang tree to mature.
While waiting, Fu Tong thought of Xia Chen. He decided to divine Xia Chen's karma to spy on him.
In his room, Fu Tong meditated, using his divinity. A vision entered his mind.
He saw the Sleipnir Field City. However, his view zoomed through a rooftop and entered a tavern room. In the room was a handsome man in the iconic black armor.
Xia Chen sat cross-legged, meditating and recovering his Qi after the divine bomb incident.
Fu Tong raised an eyebrow. When he noticed how weak Xia Chen was, he was tempted to teleport there and assassinate him. However, something else came into his view.
Black strings fluttered in the room, invisible to everybody in the city. Xia Chen's arms, legs, and neck were loosely wrapped by black threads. Some of them moved toward Fu Tong and vanished from his vision.
The strings were karmic threads that only sages could see. Immortals and saints could only sense them if they divined someone's karma. In this case, they represented mutual hatred.
Black karmic threads were indirect curses. The deep-seated hatred they felt for one another created a karmic knot, and they hindered each other's cultivation speed. The curse gradually grew more severe as time passed. The situation would remain unchanged unless someone forgave the other or someone died.
While spying on Xia Chen, Fu Tong noticed how the natural Qi in the room was destroyed when they touched a string of black karma. Because of the fluttering threads, Xia Chen couldn't fully absorb everything in the room. He sweated profusely and gasped for air every second.
Fu Tong smirked. He made his decision.
This might be the right time to end this protagonist before he gets too strong.
Fu Tong withdrew his senses, and the vision zoomed out. His mind escaped the room and hovered above the city, gradually leaving the area.
While Fu Tong was retreating, a massive eyeball appeared, staring straight into his mind's eye. Its green pupil flared, and the voice of a mysterious entity echoed in his mind.
"FOUND YOU, SUN WUKONG!"
Fu Tong opened his eyes. A second later, both of his eyeballs exploded, gushing red and transparent fluid. He coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, suffering from the divinity backlash.
The voice echoed in his mind once more.
"SUN WUKONG! YOU WILL PAY WITH YOUR LIFE!!"
Suddenly, the Divine Cloud Sect, the Celestial Fox City, and everything within a 100-kilometer radius shook. A terrifying saint, seemingly from another realm, disregarded the Heavenly Dao and maintained his cultivation.
However, his saintly aura quickly faded, as the Heavenly Dao Laws were superior to his authority, suppressing his cultivation to the quasi-saint stage. Still, it was enough to put heavy pressure on mortals and immortals of this world.
The man had two deer antlers protruding from his temples. His green skin was covered in scales and blue tattoos. However, his lower body parts resembled those of a horse instead of a human.
This centaur donned green scale armor. He carried a longbow. Carried on his horseback were quivers full of immortal-grade arrows and throwing javelins.
The lord of Sleipnir Field City and the patriarch of the Xiao Clan, Xiao Ma, made his appearance.
Fu Tong exited his house. His wives, Fu Yanxiong, Huli Jiubai, Lu Liang, Lu Liekong, and Meng Tianrui, also came out of their residence to see the commotion.
They all stared at the centaur, who glared back at the crowd.
"SUN WUKONG! COME OUT AND ACCEPT YOUR DEATH!"
Fu Tong smiled wryly while his wives all looked at him. They instantly figured out who 'Sun Wukong' was.
Jin Yu sneered. "Husband, is that your new nickname?"
Fu Tong sighed. "I was trying to hide my karma footprints, but he found me anyway."
"That's a saint. You can't fool his eyes. What the hell have you done to provoke him?"
"That's Xiao Han Ce's father."
"…Oh."
"…And I dropped a divine bomb in the middle of his city. I failed to kill anybody, though."
"…"
Everybody's face turned dark.
Meanwhile, Fu Tong pulled the new sword out of his inventory. He glanced at the system status menu.
He was not the same weakling in the past. A saint was nothing to him.
Cultivation Base: Quasi-Saint Level 100
Status Attributes
Health: 3,501,198 / 14,601,575
Mind: 2,815,906 / 5,288,905
Qi: 137,903 / 423,892
Strength: 265,089 + 691,666
Vitality: 265,114 + 716,666
Dexterity: 267,546 + 706,666
Agility: 572,873 + 731,666
Intelligence: 265,671
Wisdom: 296,055
Divinity: 403,892
Charisma: 100
Luck: 100
A mortal's max status cap was 999. An immortal was 9,999. A saint had 99,999 points per attribute at best. Only sages and cheating protagonists could raise their attributes to 999,999.
Cultivation suppression of a mortal world capped the stats at 999. However, players, protagonists, and named NPCs who had a perfect foundation ignored these rules. In combat, they could suddenly unleash their full power without incurring the wrath of the Heavenly Dao.
A saint like Xiao Ma had at best 99,999 in natural agility. Combined with his equipment, his agility shouldn't surpass 200,000.
Fu Tong glanced at his agility and smiled with confidence. He was geared toward a direct confrontation with Xia Chen, whose agility would hit the max cap at 999,999. Facing a mid-boss like Xiao Ma was nothing.
He charged forward and stopped 500 meters away, levitating and confronting Xiao Ma.
"What? Your kid fucked around, killed millions, and raped countless. And yet, you've taken no accountability. Now that your son has found out, and your birthplace is in shambles, you come to take revenge?"
Xiao Ma frowned deeply. "Who exactly are you?!"
"The Great Sage, the Heaven's Equal, the most handsome immortal, SUN WUKONG!"
"…"
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Meanwhile, Jin Yu and Fu Tong's wives facepalmed. The introduction was cringe.
"I'm embarrassed."
"Me too."
However, Meng Tianrui took notes. "A sage?! The lord was a sage?!"
Lu Liekong, a fellow player, had a dark expression on his face. He didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.
"…Impersonation is a sin, Fu Tong."