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Chapter 209 - 3 Maggot Baby [Seeking Monthly Tickets!]_1

Chapter 209: Chapter 3 Maggot Baby [Seeking Monthly Tickets!]_1

Chirp, chirp, chirp.

There on the empty desk, there was a milk-white fly larvae striving to crawl along... Chu Liang gawked, not sure whether to laugh or cry, at the little maggot baby.

He had painstakingly incubated it for so long, and in the end, it had turned out to be a maggot?

That was indeed a hard pill to swallow.

All his sense of accomplishment as a male mother utterly vanished.

In the Immortal Cultivation World, whether in the past or present, probably no cultivator’s spirit pet was a maggot.

The maggot baby squirmed on the desk at a slow pace. A short distance was like a vast plain for it. Nevertheless, it continued crawling forward, occasionally changing direction, seeming to be on the lookout for something.

Maybe it’s hungry? Chu Liang guessed.

Feed for the maggot baby...

Chu Liang pondered, contemplating whether he should let it go in the latrine.

During this moment of hesitation, when he looked up again, he noticed that the diligent maggot baby had vanished from the desk.

Huh?

It was crawling slowly just a moment ago, could it have now flown away?

Chu Liang looked around and finally discovered its location. There appeared a small hole on the desk, like a needle’s eye, not too conspicuous. With one sweep of his Divine Sense, he found that the maggot baby had drilled into it.

This little thing seems to prefer boring holes like a needle.

Chu Liang laughed lightly, carefully conjuring a strand of True Qi, and gently pulled it out. He pinched it between his fingers, careful so as not to squash it.

Once the maggot baby was back on the desk, it seemed to have found a path, it immediately started burrowing another hole in the wooden desk, squirmed right into it.

It appeared so soft, Chu Liang wondered how it had managed to bore its way into the desk.

However, Chu Liang soon noticed a peculiarity.

As its front half entered the desk, a tiny amount of golden dust came out from its back half. As it was too small, a slight breeze in the air carried it away.

What was this?

Chu Liang hypothesized, could it be that it wasn’t boring holes but feeding? Maybe it had to nibble on wood as there was nothing else to eat?

With this thought, Chu Liang fetched a porcelain bowl and once again extracted the maggot baby from the desk, and put it in the bowl, preparing to feed it, to see if it would eat.

But then he saw the maggot baby once again positioned its head downwards and burrowed right in.

It squirmed headfirst into the bowl at a surprisingly decent speed, and in no time, it had tunneled through the porcelain bowl, leaving half of its body sticking out.

This time its lower half emitted more substantial golden dust, and the tiny particles formed a golden line.

It can pierce through hard porcelain? Chu Liang was somewhat flabbergasted.

This maggot seemed no ordinary one after all, with a very hard head!

Not only had it an intense head, it seemed to gobble up the wood and porcelain instantly. This digestion capacity was fearsome.

If it were a large spirit beast like the Golden Fur Beast, consuming two pounds of raw iron wouldn’t have been surprising. But this newborn maggot baby didn’t seem exceptional, yet its sudden behaviour was indeed baffling.

Even though it’s capable, could it eat something proper?

Chu Liang lifted the porcelain bowl, using an iron slab beneath it to prevent the maggot from burrowing through. But before Chu Liang could feed it anything, the maggot baby tunneled through the iron slab!

What?

It pierced through an iron slab?

With a furrowed brow, Chu Liang took out the Green Leaf Magic Artifact, activated its Defense Array Pattern, and unfolded the green leaf umbrella.

The umbrella surface could now at least withstand the common attack of a Fifth Stage cultivator, there was no doubt about its sturdiness. Chu Liang placed the maggot baby on it, curious to see how far it could go.

The newborn maggot baby’s first lesson in this world seemed to be to explore down for food, it didn’t hesitate at all to start burrowing.

And then, its front half disappeared right into the umbrella surface.

Is that even possible?

Chu Liang hastily used his hand to infuse True Qi to suction it out, fearing it might damage the array pattern on the Green Leaf Magic Artifact.

Holding the creature in his hand, Chu Liang was very cautious not to let it burrow into his own finger, the thought alone was terrifying...

Looking more closely at it, he found that it had grown!

Previously, after burrowing through wood, porcelain and an iron slab, its size had not changed much. But after boring into the Green Leaf Magic Artifact only once, its size had doubled.

Of course since it was originally as small as a needle point, it wasn’t too large now either.

However, this growth rate was astonishing.

Chu Liang began to understand. Could it be that because the Green Leaf Magic Artifact contained a lot of Spirituality, the maggot baby grew by consuming Spirituality?

He put out a Gold Pattern Berry, placed the maggot baby on it, and once again, the maggot baby didn’t hesitate to burrow in. The soft surface of the berry, this time, it went straight in.

It seemed that the maggot wasn’t only a hard food eater; it could eat soft things too.

After a short while, it had tunneled right through the entire Gold Pattern Berry. Although it had not eaten it all, Chu Liang noticed that the golden pattern on the berry’s surface had disappeared.

This indicates that the berry no longer possesses any spirituality, it’s just a delicious ordinary fruit.

Does this mean when Maggot Baby eats a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, it can absorb all its spirituality?

That’s somewhat formidable.

What Chu Liang was wondering now was... this little thing seems to eat anything and nothing it can’t bite through, then where should he keep it?

Given the way it painstakingly burrowed down, if he were to just throw it on the ground, it might actually come out from the other side of the world after a few years...

After mulling it over for a while, he tried to take Maggot Baby back to the White Pagoda space.

As the radiance flashed and disappeared, Maggot Baby really did appear inside the White Pagoda space, and as soon as it entered, it seemed to fall into a deep sleep and did not move at all.

Chu Liang had been thinking before, since it was born from the beast egg rewarded by the White Pagoda, it should be able to return to the White Pagoda just as the Gold Pattern Berry that was grown from the seed the White Pagoda rewarded and can be stored in the White Pagoda space.

This has saved him from worrying.

It looks like he will need to find more items with spirituality to feed it in the future, to let it grow up quickly. Now, Chu Liang no longer felt the initial contrast he had, a Maggot Baby who seems to be able to eat anything... how amazing!

He was very much looking forward to what state this Maggot Baby could evolve into in the future.

It’s not really going to turn into a fly, is it?

...

After messing about for quite a while, it was already late, so Chu Liang decided to rest first.

The next morning, Lin Bei came to visit him.

Chu Liang looked at Lin Bei curiously: "What are you doing coming here so early?"

"Naturally, I’m here on business." Lin Bei smiled: "Did you know that I’ve recently become a Deacon Disciple in the Foreign Affairs Hall?"

"I didn’t know." Chu Liang shook his head, "Congrats."

Apart from the four Zhenshan Elders and their sects in Shu Mountain, there are actually quite a few other Administrative Elders and sects, it’s just that their status is not that high.

For example, Elder Shen of the Sword Exchange Pavilion, is one of the Deacons of the Sword Exchange Pavilion.

Beneath the four Zhenshan Elders, the highest rank belongs to the Elder of Foreign Affairs. As the name implies, the Foreign Affairs Hall is responsible for foreign affairs.

Whenever Shu Mountain Sect interacts with the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, except for some major incidents that require the Sect Leader and the four Elders to intervene, all other matters, big or small, are dealt with by the Foreign Affairs Hall, ranging from distributing letters sent by other Sects to establishing Shu Mountain Sect’s glorious image in the Immortal Cultivation World...and so on.

And compared to other Sects, competition among Deacon Disciples in the Foreign Affairs Hall is the most intense. Because the regular tasks of the Foreign Affairs Hall often involve interacting with the Imperial Court and other Immortal Sects, they are rarely dangerous but often high-profile, and the rewards are usually quite substantial.

Chu Liang looked at Lin Bei, thinking about his hair-raising social skills, he thought it was quite fitting for him to join the Foreign Affairs Hall.

"I’m not here to announce good news to you today, I’m only on probation right now, it’s not certain whether I can stay in the Foreign Affairs Hall in the end." Lin Bei said, "I’m here to tell you that there’s something that needs your help to deal with."

"What could the Foreign Affairs Hall need from me?" Chu Liang wondered.

"I’m not sure about the specifics, it’s a task assigned by the Foreign Affairs Elder, all I know is that the person is from the Lunar Sect." Lin Bei said.

"The Lunar Sect?"

Chu Liang couldn’t imagine what connection he could possibly have with this most mysterious of Nine Heavens Immortal Sects, but since there was a summons, he had no choice but to accompany Lin Bei to go check it out.

"Anyway, you’ll know what’s going on when we get there." Lin Bei suddenly asked mischievously, "Do you know why I joined the Foreign Affairs Hall?"

"Because you talk a lot?" Chu Liang countered.

"..." Lin Bei was rendered speechless for a moment, finally, he said, "It’s because the Foreign Affairs Hall allows me to interact with disciples from the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, among which naturally includes Immortal Sects filled with beauties like Nanyin Square and the Lunar Sect. There are too few senior sisters on Shu Mountain, moreover they are all local girls and in the future, this bro’s gotta expand his horizon to the outside."

"...Blessings." Chu Liang simply responded with two words.

"Today’s first assignment is to liaise with someone from the Lunar Sect, it’s a golden opportunity." Lin Bei said, "I had conceded to you before with Miss Song and Miss Xue, this time I must take the lead."

Chu Liang quickly glanced around, then said, "Watch what you’re saying here on Shu Mountain, what did I take the lead in?"

"You took the lead in getting to know them, what did you think?" Lin Bei looked puzzled.

"Ah, never mind." Chu Liang shook his head, quickly changed the subject and said: "But isn’t it said that people from the Lunar Sect all cultivate the Supreme Heart and are cold-hearted? Do you think you can handle it?"

"Not everyone can cultivate the Supreme Heart, and there have always been a considerable number of female cultivators from the Lunar Sect who got married." Lin Bei said with full confidence, "Even if she’s an iceberg, I’ll just melt her with my enthusiasm."

...

As they were talking, the two arrived at Tontian Peak, and a quiet room had been prepared early in the Foreign Affairs Hall.

As soon as Lin Bei entered the door, his eyes lit up.

In the room sat a young woman in black robes with her hair tied up, her skin as fair as porcelain, her features heroic, her eyes clear, and her gaze somewhat indifferent.

He had not seen this disciple of the Lunar Sect before his arrival, and now that he had, he found her looks and temperament indeed worthy of her background

"Hi, hi, hi!" Lin Bei started with a loud laugh, "This beautiful lady, you must be a disciple of the Lunar Sect. I’ve always heard that the Lunar Sect is brimming with beauties, and now it seems the rumors are true."

The woman in black furrowed her brows, seeming to want to say something but holding back.

"This is Chu Liang, the one you’re looking for, and I’m Lin Bei." Lin Bei sidled over, continuing with a smile, "Once we’ve finished with the business, do you have any plans? Let’s go out for a meal together? It wouldn’t be right to come to Shu Mountain and not have a spicy and fragrant hot pot! Or would you like to admire the romantic moonlight of Shu Mountain tonight?"

With his sharp eyes, Chu Liang caught a glimpse of her lips moving slightly, the lip-reading vaguely seemed to say "moron".

However, Lin Bei was oblivious to this. Seeing her remaining silent, he laughed and said, "Don’t be afraid, we disciples of Shu Mountain are always this enthusiastic when dealing with friends."

Finally unable to bear it any longer, with her brows heavily furrowed, the woman in black opened her mouth. What came out was a deep, masculine voice which coldly uttered a single word: "Scram."