I'm Really Not an Undercover Agent!

After a moment of shock, recalling the contents of the Treasured Mountain Seal, Jiang Chuan murmured to himself.

"Is this the legendary Mount of Treasures where King Buddha of Many Treasures stored all his treasures?"

"If it's not Mount of Treasures, what else could it be?"

A booming voice sounded from Jiang Chuan's side.

Jiang Chuan turned his head and saw a large water vat flying towards him.

The vat was entirely silver, surrounded by auspicious colors, and a powerful aura emanated from it, as if it weren't a water vat but a mountain peak.

Most striking was the oval face on the surface of the vat.

"A Dao Artifact! Senior, are you here to form a contract with me?" Jiang Chuan asked.

Mortals often spoke of achieving immortality through cultivation.

Dao Artifacts were magic artifacts that had developed sentience and birthed artifact spirits.

A low-grade Dao Artifact was worth more than ten top-grade treasured artifacts combined.

If Jiang Chuan could contract a Dao Artifact, borrowing even a small portion of its power when using the Treasured Mountain Seal would at least multiply its might several times over.

"You brat, did your master die? Where did you get this inheritance from some wild temple? You don't even know who the guide is," the oval face on the water vat looked at Jiang Chuan with disdain.

Jiang Chuan: "..."

Wild temple?

Abbot Kong Ming, there's a Dao Artifact here insulting our Bodhi Temple. Can you come over and beat him up?

Jiang Chuan clasped his hands together. "Amitabha! This humble monk is Jiang Chuan from Bodhi Temple in the Qingyuan Realm. I trouble the guide to take me to Mount of Treasures."

"Who said I'm taking you to Mount of Treasures?" the water vat retorted.

Jiang Chuan: "..."

Isn't 'guide' meant literally, someone who leads people to start their journey?

Does it have another meaning?

"It's true that I am a guide, but just because I have this position doesn't mean I have to do the work."

The water vat was quite proud of its blatant shirking of duty.

So...

Your true identity is the vat responsible for managing Mount of Treasures?

"Since that's the case, this humble monk will head to Mount of Treasures on his own." Jiang Chuan immediately prepared to set off for Mount of Treasures.

"The kid is quite perceptive. Since you're so eager, I'll give you a lift."

As soon as the water vat finished speaking, Jiang Chuan felt a jolt in his heart.

But before Jiang Chuan could react, the silver water vat crashed directly into him.

"No need to thank me."

Jiang Chuan, like a sandbag, was sent flying directly towards the towering Mount of Treasures.

"Who the hell would thank you!!!"

Jiang Chuan roared internally.

Listening to the whistling wind around him and seeing Mount of Treasures drawing closer, Jiang Chuan had only one thought in his mind.

"It's over! The rewards from the simulation are gone again!"

Jiang Chuan, like a meteor, smashed directly into the mountainside of Mount of Treasures.

Contrary to his expectation of being smashed into a pulp, Jiang Chuan found himself completely unharmed.

"Falling from this height, how can I be unharmed? Could it be that this isn't my true body, but merely a wisp of Divine Sense?"

"Bad luck! I thought I'd see if a genius had arrived, but it turns out to be someone with a not-so-bright mind." A sapphire treasure orb landed just above Jiang Chuan's head, then flew away without stopping.

"Although this little monk's mind isn't too sharp, reaching the Third Realm at this age can be considered a small genius." A golden alms bowl then descended.

A long banner enveloped in black energy commented, "A genius with a dull mind, no matter how high their cultivation, will still be tricked to death by others."

"That makes sense."

You're the one with the dull mind!

Jiang Chuan's eyes twitched slightly.

Watching the Dao Artifacts descend one after another, he felt like he had become pork on a cutting board, waiting to be chosen.

"Maybe we should go too."

"I don't want to contract with someone with a dull mind either."

"Huh? Ghost Rain, do you want to contract with this kid?"

As the myriad Dao Artifacts conversed, a slender long sword landed in front of Jiang Chuan.

The sword was pitch black, as if condensed from boundless darkness. Its blade exuded a soul-stirring killing intent, sending shivers down one's spine.

"Senior has a good eye, spotting my extraordinary side at a glance."

For a moment, Jiang Chuan felt the black longsword before him was incredibly amiable.

"Kid, don't overthink it. it's just that the Treasured Mountain hasn't seen a demonic cultivator in a long time. Seeing as your undercover work in the Buddhist sect isn't easy, I decided to make a contract with you."

The Ghost Rain Sword paused before continuing, "No wonder the demonic path is suppressed by the Buddhist path. They're all idiots, sending a spy who isn't even clever."

Jiang Chuan: "."

So, you're pitying me, is that it?

Thank you very much!

"Um, Senior Ghost Rain, I'm really not a demonic sect spy."

Though he, Jiang, cultivated demonic arts, he was truly not a demonic sect spy.

"Kid, you don't need to be scared. Every year, the demonic path sends no less than eighty thousand spies to the Buddhist sects."

The golden alms bowl spoke slowly, "If we had to catch them one by one, we'd die of exhaustion, and we still wouldn't catch them all. So, we're too lazy to bother."

"I'm really not a demonic sect spy!" Jiang Chuan tried to argue desperately.

"It's not easy being a demonic sect spy in the Buddhist sects. Live well."

As the Ghost Rain Sword spoke, a stream of pitch-black sword energy shot out from its body, piercing into Jiang Chuan's form.

Jiang Chuan sighed lightly.

So, I've been made a spy?

[After contracting with the Ghost Rain Sword, your Divine Sense left the Treasured Mountain and returned to your body.]

[When you returned to Bodhi Temple, you discovered that a month had passed.]

[Without eating or drinking for a month, even a Third Realm cultivator would starve to death. But you were surprised to find that your body was perfectly fine, and instead, it was filled with immense spiritual energy.]

[You guessed that perhaps the Treasured Mountain had been continuously infusing your body with spiritual energy while your Divine Sense was external, which is why you didn't starve.]

[Understanding everything, you immediately circulated the Void Devouring Scripture to refine the spiritual energy within you.]

[Three days later, you broke through to the Third Realm, Second Layer.]

[Half a year later, you successfully broke through to the Third Realm, Fifth Layer.]

[The Maha Hall was suppressed by the Three Buddhist Dao Sects, and you felt it was time to leave Bodhi Temple.]

[So, you accepted the mission to hunt underground demons in the Southern Domain again, and then set off to find Lu Chenling. Elder Jingyun did not stop you, and you successfully boarded the Flying Boat heading to the Southern Domain.]

[As the Flying Boat reached Youyun City, your storage bag showed signs of unusual activity.]

"What's going on?"

Jiang Chuan looked at his storage bag floating up from his waist, his eyes filled with confusion.

With a scan of his Divine Sense, Jiang Chuan discovered that the Ruyi Heart Sutra was floating out of the storage bag's spatial dimension, attempting to fly out of the storage bag like a homing swallow.

"What has the Ruyi Heart Sutra sensed?"

In Jiang Chuan's mind, Su Wanwan's figure reappeared.

"Could it be that the senior who created the Void Devouring Scripture also left behind treasures or a Cave Mansion? That Demoness Su Wanwan obtained that senior's Cave Mansion, which is why she knows the secret of the Ruyi Heart Sutra?"

The more Jiang Chuan thought about it, the more convinced he became.

The Southern Domain was the territory of the six demonic sects. If any treasures or Cave Mansions appeared, they would most likely fall into the hands of demonic cultivators.

"The senior who pioneered the Void Devouring Scripture was probably close to a True Immortal. If such a being left behind even a little something, it would likely benefit me boundlessly."

Taking out the Ruyi Heart Sutra, Jiang Chuan was already eager to seek out this fortuitous encounter.