Extreme Seal Branch Evolution Appears Once More! Extreme Rift Gen Demon Earth Disaster Origin Method, Evolve 20 Pieces of Fortune Meat

[Detected faint, incomplete Calamity Intent. Available Evolution Branches: 3]

[1, Incomplete Breathing Method: An extremely incomplete breathing method. It can be used to strengthen tendons and bones, temper the legs, and increase appetite and digestive ability. It grants one wisp of extremely faint Earth Qi each month (10 years)]

[2, Incomplete Gen Vein Root Method: An extremely incomplete root method. It can be used to temper the body and undergo a metamorphosis, increase leg strength, and increase appetite and digestive ability. Standing on the earth grants an unexpected boost, and may attract the attention of Calamity (1000 years)]

[3, Incomplete Extreme Rift Gen Demon Earth Disaster Origin Method: An incomplete origin method. It can be used to temper the body, gorge, devour, grow gigantic, and gain absolute defense. It can control the direction in which the earth and mountains shift, and trigger disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, collapses, and mudslides. It can contain a tiny portion of Calamity's origin (10000 years)]

"What's going on?"

Shi Wen's breath caught. He stared in disbelief at the words floating above his left hand.

What... was this?

Breathing methods, root methods, origin methods...

He hadn't heard of any of these things before, but surely anything the Extreme Seal could identify had to be extraordinary.

Only...

The Incomplete Gen Vein Root Method required a thousand years to evolve?

Even Sun Wukong had only been trapped beneath the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years. This thing needed a thousand. Where was he supposed to find a life long enough to wait for it to finish being derived?

And the third branch, the Incomplete Extreme Rift Gen Demon Earth Disaster Origin Method, needed ten thousand years to evolve...

The Extreme Seal thought far too highly of him, didn't it?

Ten thousand years... He wouldn't live that long even if he were reincarnated a hundred times.

"An Earth Disaster Origin Method seems to go beyond the scope of martial arts, doesn't it?"

"I've never heard of martial arts being able to shift the direction of mountain ranges and trigger a whole string of geological disasters. Is that really within a martial artist's abilities???"

"And what's Calamity, anyway?"

Shi Wen furrowed his brows and sank into thought. The branches that had appeared when the Fortune Meat evolved came back to mind. They, too, had been connected to Calamity.

But the problem was...

Calamity.

What exactly was it?

"If I'm not mistaken, those Daoists have been handing out wooden statues everywhere. Could each one contain a faint, incomplete trace of Calamity Intent?"

"But how could that have happened? They're just ordinary pieces of wood!!"

"Who exactly is the Supreme Saint Immortal Mother?"

"Why have these mysterious Daoists appeared in Black Cloud County?"

Shi Wen felt a heaviness in his chest. The situation in Black Cloud County seemed to have grown even more chaotic!

He couldn't see through it, and didn't know the truth.

But an intense sense of unease was spreading inside him.

"Son, would you mind handing me the Immortal Mother Statue?"

The voice beside him roused Shi Wen.

He quickly handed the wooden statue to the old man, exchanged a few casual words, and then left.

He decided to test his suspicions.

He began visiting households and shops that worshiped the Supreme Saint Immortal Mother. What he discovered chilled him to the bone.

Every wooden statue contained a faint, incomplete trace of Calamity Intent!

Every one of them was an item that could evolve into a breathing method, a root method, or an origin method!!

Fortunately, the wooden statues weren't cursed, but Shi Wen still didn't dare touch them.

He took a deep breath and headed toward Minggong Street.

His thoughts continued to churn.

The things the Extreme Seal evolved wouldn't harm him. For example, the Fish-Dragon Precious Blood evolved from the Fortune Meat earlier hadn't hurt him at all.

Thinking about it that way, he could indeed try using a wooden statue to evolve a mysterious cultivation method!

For example, if it evolved into an origin method, he would be able to control the course of the earth and mountain ranges, trigger all kinds of geological disasters, and become a being like a god!!

Shi Wen knew that all things that existed, even so-called technological civilizations,

were as fragile as paper in the face of natural disasters!

If he could control natural disasters, who would be able to threaten him in the future?

"Forget it. I'd better stop imagining the impossible."

"I'll go pick up the Fortune Meat and leave right away. I won't have anything to do with those mysterious Daoists."

Shi Wen hurried off.

For now, he didn't dare touch anything like breathing methods.

For one thing, the Supreme Saint Immortal Mother had gone from being a group of swindlers tricking old people to a mysterious, evil organization in the blink of an eye.

He didn't want to get involved with them.

For another, the evolution took too long. Even the breathing method, which required the least time, took ten years.

Ten years was a long time. During that period, the Extreme Seal wouldn't be able to evolve anything else. Wouldn't that leave him in the lurch at a critical moment?

What's more, there was no guarantee of what might happen over the course of ten years.

He might as well spend that time collecting Fortune Meat, evolving it into Treasure Blood, and drinking it. Who knew what unexpected benefits he might gain?

By the time Shi Wen reached Minggong Street, it was too late.

In an open space between the streets, the goateed Daoist sat atop a makeshift wooden altar, preaching scriptures. Below him, a packed crowd queued up to receive coarse rice.

He'd heard that the supply was limited today: only the first three hundred people would get half a jin of coarse rice. There'd be none left for everyone else.

Naturally, the crowd surged forward to compete for it.

"They're not handing out Fortune Meat anymore?"

Shi Wen's expression darkened as he arrived.

In the end, he spent fifteen copper coins to buy twenty pieces of Fortune Meat from some elderly scavengers.

[Contaminated Fortune Meat. Available Evolution Branches: 3]

[1, Fish-Dragon Fortune Meat: Contains a wisp of extremely faint yet pure Fish-Dragon Precious Blood. Consuming it may nourish the body (20h)]

[2, Hell Demon Skull Black Disaster Dragon Fish Meat: A piece of meat contaminated by the erosion of Hell Calamity's origin. Consuming it will bring unexpected changes (2000 years)]

[3, Red Current Demon Flame Calamity Fire Dragon Fish Meat: A piece of meat contaminated by the erosion of Flame Calamity's origin. Consuming it will bring unexpected changes (2000 years)]

[Please select an evolution branch...]

"It works!"

Shi Wen was overjoyed.

One drop of Precious Blood was as tiny as a strand of hair, but surely twenty drops of Fish-Dragon Precious Blood would be about the size of a sesame seed, right?

He'd be able to tell whether it did any good after swallowing it.

"We'll find out whether the breathing method is worth deriving based on whether the Fish-Dragon Precious Blood actually works!"

"It's a shame stacking the Precious Blood doesn't shorten the time, but there's no rush to do it one at a time. I can evolve them all together."

Shi Wen immediately chose Evolution Branch 1.

Soon, a countdown appeared on the Extreme Seal.

By the time he returned to Peace Lane, the sun was setting. The dark veil surged in from the distance like a roaring tide, about to swallow the daytime clamor.

For some reason, Peace Lane was in a bit of a turmoil today. The sounds of smashing things and arguing rang out everywhere.

Shi Wen didn't meddle in other people's business. He hurried home.

But he saw a carriage parked outside his house.

"Whose carriage is that?"

Shi Wen was astonished.

After all, in this era, ordinary people couldn't afford to ride in a carriage.

Keeping a horse cost more than supporting several poor families!

Even if it was only a nag.

It still wasn't something an ordinary family could afford.

Puzzled, Shi Wen entered the house. There he saw his parents, their faces full of deference and unease, and two figures seated in the place of honor, looking imperious.

His pupils contracted.

A memory surfaced in his mind.

Was it her?