In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 665: Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio - Fairy 37

"In the beginning, with the blessing of Zhigong, the land god, the whole area around Zhigong Temple was blessed with good weather and good harvests, and everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment. But at some point, the atmosphere of this world changed, and the number of man-eating monsters gradually increased. At the same time, the gods and immortals disappeared."

"I don't know since when, the land god disappeared from the Zhigong Temple, and the land near the Zhigong Temple gradually became deserted..." When Qingyi said this, there was a nostalgic look on her face, her eyes lost focus, as if she was lost in memories.

Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye did not interrupt Qingyi's reminiscence. They waited quietly for a while. When they saw Qingyi's expression return to normal, they asked, "Since you said that Zhigong Temple has long lost Zhigong, then what is the matter with this Zhigong now?"

"Ah, him?" Qing Yi mentioned that Zhi Gong with a look of sarcasm and contempt on his face, "He's just an old spider who got lucky."

Looking at Qingyi's expression of disgust, envy and jealousy, Ruyi found it a little funny. This female monster did not have this attitude when she was crying and begging for mercy from the old spider in the painted wall world!

"Really? Tell me more about this old spider!" However, Ruyi did not expose Qingyi's "pretense". Seeing that Ruyi did not speak, Zhiqiu Yiye could not help but ask out of curiosity.

Qingyi had long been dissatisfied with Zhigong. In the past, in order to stay alive, and because she really couldn't beat the other party, she could only pretend. But now she couldn't pretend anymore, and Qingyi could finally say what she had been holding back for a long time.

While she complained that because of Zhigong's appearance, she had lost her freedom and was forced to become a harmful monster, she also recounted Zhigong's "experience of becoming king", occasionally mixed with a lot of envy, jealousy and resentment. After listening to her, Ruyi and Zhiqiu Yiye selectively eliminated the selfishness mixed in her words, and they also figured out the origin of the entire painted wall world.

The current Zhigong was originally just an ordinary big spider living in the Zhigong Temple. However, he was very courageous. He built his nest behind the statue of the land god enshrined in the Zhigong Temple. When the land god received incense, he gradually gained intelligence and turned into a demon.

After the land god disappeared, the spider demon was lucky enough to find the land god's divine essence in the land god statue. After refining it, it can directly use it to control an area of ​​land, including the land harvest, people and living beings in it.

So from then on the spider demon named himself Zhigong, but his cultivation was low, and he could not completely refine the divine energy, and could only bring out a little of its effect.

What happened next is very clear. The spider demon took a fancy to the spirit stone wall and used the divine power of the land god to turn the spirit stone wall into its own jurisdiction. The spirits like Qingyi who were originally carved on the spirit stone murals naturally became subjects of the spider demon's jurisdiction.

All those insect monsters somehow became the "civilians" of the painted wall area because they either crawled over the painted walls or landed on them.

It has to be said that after learning the truth about the world of the painted wall, Ruyi was indeed quite disappointed. She had thought that the formation of this painted wall space would be related to some more powerful treasures, such as Xirang, the Tree of Life or something like that.

"So it's the divine essence of the land god."

It's not that Ruyi looks down on this divine power. No matter how small the duties of the land god are, it is still an orthodox divine position. No matter how small the function of the land god's divine power is, it is still an orthodox divine power, which involves rules.

But for Ruyi, the divine essence of the land god is not as useful as treasures like the Xirang and the Tree of Life. The effects of these treasures are constant. Ruyi can not only use them to upgrade his own soul space, but also take them away directly without being affected by the rules of the world. However, things like the divine essence of the land god are different. Their use often has many restrictions.

Take the land god's essence in Zhigong's hand for example. Its effect is limited to the area previously under the jurisdiction of Zhigong, the land god. It is basically useless outside this area. It cannot be used to upgrade the soul space, and it cannot be taken out of this world.

"But in this case, what is this boundary bead?"

Since the space on the painted wall is not what Ruyi imagined, then this so-called space boundary bead should not be the space boundary bead that Ruyi imagined.

"Zhi Qiu Yi Ye, I'm going to rest first. I've been tired all day. I'll leave this female monster to you." Ruyi's original excitement was completely extinguished by this tragic harvest. At this moment, she just wanted to go back to absorb the merits and use the growth of her cultivation to comfort her disappointed heart.

"Okay, senior, you go and have a rest." Zhiqiu Yiye agreed straightforwardly. However, Qingyi, who was standing beside him, saw that he had said everything he wanted to say, but this person still refused to let him go, so he couldn't help but shout at Ruyi: "Hey, I've said everything you asked me, didn't you say you would let me go?"

"It's too late today, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

On the other side, in the underground palace under the rockery in a remote courtyard in the painted wall space, the injured Zhi Gong was refining a bead. The bead looked as big as a longan and emitted a dazzling golden light. There was a small black dot in the center of the transparent golden bead. After careful observation, it can be seen that every time Zhi Gong exhaled, a wisp of black and purple evil spirit would come out of his mouth and entangle the golden bead and invade the golden bead bit by bit. As the black and purple air in the golden bead increased, the black spot in the center of the golden bead gradually grew larger.

While Zhi Gong was refining the golden bead, he also kept drawing golden light from the bead into his own body for healing. However, without the transformation of the boundary bead, directly absorbing the golden light was not only difficult, but the whole process was also accompanied by unbearable pain. Zhi Gong kept screaming while healing his wounds.

"If that woman hadn't taken my boundary bead, how could I have fallen into this situation? When my injuries are healed, I will definitely capture that woman and torture her day and night, making her want to live but not die!"

Ruyi returned to the room, put aside all distracting thoughts, calmed down, got into position and began to practice seriously. Even though the monsters and goblins in the world of the painting had low cultivation levels, the merit power they dropped was quite considerable.

Ruyi only absorbed fifty monsters before his cultivation officially broke through to the sixth level of immortal. He leapt a major level in just one night. This speed was really amazing.

Ruyi killed a total of more than 380 fairies in the paintings, plus more than 150 insect monsters, and absorbed fifty of them. There were also nearly 500 merit light balls. If you do the math, once all these merit light balls are absorbed, it is still unknown to what extent his cultivation will increase.

"Looking at it this way, I think this trip was a good one. The half year I spent here was not wasted!"

To advance from the first level of immortal to the sixth level of immortal in one year is already an unprecedentedly fast speed, not to mention that Ruyi still has nearly five hundred light balls that have not been absorbed. Thinking of this, even Ruyi himself couldn't help but gasp.