Cultivation towards immortality, starting from being a fisherman

Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Guaranteed to be Genuine (Please Follow)

Outside the forest, in the small village at the foot of the mountain.

The martial artists and villagers who had been ordered to wait there looked at the rolling dust on the mountain, recalling the deafening roar they had just heard.

They all wore expressions of relief:

“Who would have thought that the vicious bear was actually a demon beast!”

“Demon beasts are cunning, and it really disguised itself too well! We almost got deceived when we investigated before!”

“Fortunately, the Inspector dealt with the matter prudently, having us patrol the surrounding strange incidents and personally took action to investigate!”

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“Otherwise, once the demon beast went berserk, I fear several nearby villages would have suffered the disaster of annihilation!”

The emotional voices of the martial artists were naturally heard by the nearby villagers. @@novelbin@@

Before long, under the leadership of the village elders, not caring whether the Immortal Master could hear them or not, they knelt down toward the direction of the forest and kowtowed, shouting various words of praise.

So, after Su Ping had packed up the wild bear’s carcass and left the forest, he saw the villagers kneeling on the ground.

He also noticed that the looks in the martial artists’ eyes held eagerness mixed with a bit of admiration.

Slaying demons and eradicating evil, saving the dying and helping the injured, suppressing the strong and supporting the weak.

In the realm governed by the Immortal Sect of the Righteous Path, these are still the default core values held in people’s hearts.

Cultivators who are willing and actually do act accordingly naturally receive respect from the bottom of others’ hearts.

Su Ping nodded slightly, gave a few instructions to have the villagers get up, and then opened the map to lead most of the martial artists to another location.

Su Ping did this with a bit of ulterior motive—with these martial artists and so many villagers as witnesses.

His source for demon beast materials was now established.

At most, some Cultivators might think he was just a bit luckier, coming across demon beasts he could overcome and even successfully hunting them, obtaining the valuable demon beast materials.

Leading his team around the Golden Sparrow City’s territory, Su Ping slaughtered more than a dozen fierce beasts that had been wreaking havoc.

Besides the wild bear, he found a ferocious tiger and a Single-Horned Bull that had gained spiritual awareness, thus becoming the source of Su Ping’s demon beast materials.

The Single-Horned Bull seemed to genuinely possess a hint of divine blood. Once activated, its already mature body grew even larger, and with its roars, its single horn even sparked with bolts of electricity.

Surprised, Su Ping immediately summoned his Spiritual Beasts for a battle of many against one.

It was also a chance to give his Spiritual Pets some more real combat experience.

The Single-Horned Bull had only just become Transcendent and, despite its exceptional talents, was still limited by its own experience and unable to tap into its full potential.

Under the group attack, it persisted for over ten minutes, but ultimately it fell unwillingly, becoming Su Ping’s spoils of war.

After hunting the Single-Horned Bull, Su Ping didn’t immediately start cutting and packing. Instead, he deliberately changed into a cheap Magic Robe, that was tattered and worn, and let a trickle of fresh blood seep from the corner of his mouth while he feigned a pallid complexion as if injured.

Only then did he call the martial artists, who were at a distance, to come help transport the Single-Horned Bull out of the deep mountains.

After all, under normal circumstances, a Qi Cultivator at the Middle Period like him encountering a normally grown demon beast wouldn’t have so many instances where he faced lesser demons and came out unscathed, right?

Especially with a demon beast like the Single-Horned Bull, which clearly didn’t seem all that simple.

If Su Ping didn’t have a single injury,

Others wouldn’t suspect Su Ping of feeding waste pills to cultivate it, as in their common sense such a thing was impossible.

But they would certainly start questioning the true strength of Su Ping, the Inspector.

Even worse, they might believe Su Ping was concealing a powerful Attack Extoic Treasure, attracting unnecessary trouble!

Moreover, succeeding so many times in a row… Sustaining some injuries would also make his fellow companions feel better about it.

Among the Demon Hunters, mostly comprised of Outer Sect Disciples, which one wasn’t covered in scars?

Su Ping still took great care of the feelings of his peers.

After killing the Single-Horned Bull, Su Ping used the excuse of needing to heal his wounds to end this campaign of eliminating danger for the people.

The martial artists and villagers all expressed their understanding, and there were even healers who voluntarily offered all kinds of strange secret medicines for healing.

In Golden Sparrow City, wealthy families who heard of this matter also raised funds to build a longevity tablet for Su Ping.

One could foresee that as long as Golden Sparrow City remained,

even if Su Ping left one day, the deeds he left behind would become the stuff of legend, passed down through word of mouth and even adapted into operas…

And for Su Ping, the benefits of high-profile monster hunting were just beginning.

In the Immortal Sect Territory, there was always a shortage of monster materials.

Not to mention, there were no few cultivators who enjoyed culinary delights and concurrently fortified their bodies.

Dishes made with monster meat as the main ingredient had always been the best-selling items in the larger workshop restaurants.

After his reputation had spread,

this time, Su Ping didn’t need to personally visit other workshops and carefully sell his wares.

Owners of restaurants and Artifact Refining Workshops within the Immortal Sect workshops came to visit Su Ping.

Of the three demon beasts, Su Ping kept one-tenth of the materials for each and sold the rest for Spirit Stones.

Then, at the kitchen of a restaurant in one of the Immortal Sect’s workshops that had bought the monster meat,

several kitchen managers looking at several hundred pounds of monster meat felt that something was off no matter how they looked at it.

With their rich experience in handling monster meat, they suspected there was a problem with the meat!

This concern quickly brought the shopkeeper to the kitchen.

“I ask you, does this look like monster meat?”

“Yes…!”

“Good, then I ask you, does this smell like monster meat?”

“It smells… also yes!”

“Very good, then does this taste like monster meat?”

As the shopkeeper asked this, golden light appeared in his right hand, and he directly tore off a small strip of raw meat and began to chew it slowly and deliberately.

The kitchen managers exchanged glances as they had naturally also tasted it and did not dare to nod in agreement without consideration:

“It does!”

“Then that settles it!”

After swallowing the monster meat, the shopkeeper waved his hand:

“Since this looks like it, smells like it, and tastes like it, then this is genuinely authentic monster meat!”

“Whatever doubts you have, I understand, but it’s related to some matters that you don’t need to know, just continue with your work.”

“But… shopkeeper, the quality of this monster meat might not even count as Low Grade.”

A responsible manager stepped forward, speaking out with some trepidation yet still voicing his concerns.

“I know, and we won’t let our customers suffer a loss!”

“Have the restaurant introduce several special discounted dishes using this monster meat, just make it clear that the taste is consistent but the efficacy is lower.”

The shopkeeper had already prepared a solution.

In fact, each of the establishments that had purchased monster materials from Su Ping had discovered the quality issue at the time of inspection.

However, no one suspected Su Ping of foul play or adulteration.

In this world, no one would sell materials from the Spiritual Beasts they took great efforts to raise!

And the secrets known to the Yun Family were naturally also known to those who conducted business under the protection of powerful backers.

In their view, it was probably some powerful monsters covertly meddling behind the scenes, using secret techniques to prematurely mature a batch of monsters and infiltrate them into the Immortal Sect Territory of the Mortal World.

They didn’t expect these to run into a responsible Inspector who preemptively killed them!

Although there was competition among the buyers at the time of purchase, there was also some understanding, and the pricing had been clearly discussed with Su Ping.

They did not end up at a loss because of this.

However, as news of this event slowly spread, there were Inspectors in other cities or family cultivators who tried to imitate it.

The result was either futile efforts or an actual encounter with a monster hidden deep in the mountains. After a great battle, they often allowed the monster to escape!

There were even unluckier ones who, whether encountering an Evil Spirit or a Tribulation Cultivator, ended up dead and their path extinguished.

This wave of imitation came quickly, and it ended even quicker!