Chapter 114
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Chapter 114: A Little Broken Net
Wang Chen was naive.
He thought a little spirit mouse weighing half a pound wouldn’t eat much rice.
But Wang Chen was wrong.
Completely wrong!
While Wang Chen was crafting the Small House for his pet, Yuan Yuan, perched on his shoulder, conveyed her desire to eat.
After completing the vital blood bonding, Wang Chen established a soul awareness connection with the little guy.
Thus, their communication was seamless and without any barriers.
Wang Chen fully understood her thoughts.
So he took out some rice balls to feed her.
To his surprise, Little Yuan Yuan refused.
She wanted meat!
Alright then.
Wang Chen pulled out a piece of braised magical beast meat and tore off a strip for her.
As soon as he placed it in her tiny mouth, it vanished in an instant.
It wasn’t nearly enough!
Next, he offered a piece of jerky.
Then it became half a piece of braised meat.
In the end, the chunk of beast meat weighing three to four pounds was completely devoured by the little guy.
She was an insatiable eater!
Wang Chen wasn’t particularly shocked.
Many monsters possess the same "gluttonous" trait, capable of consuming food far exceeding their body weight.
This ability allows them to endure long periods of famine.
It is their survival strategy.
The most iconic example is the Sky-Swallowing Giant Toad.
This creature has an insatiable appetite, devouring whatever it catches and never feeling satisfied.
Its stomach pouch can be used to craft a grain storage bag capable of holding hundreds of thousands of pounds of rice!
Wang Chen hadn’t expected that Yuan Yuan would also be such a foodie.
Now he finally understood why Little White and her mate had fled so quickly.
They were afraid he would discover the issue and demand a return!
Moreover, Wang Chen strongly suspected that Yuan Yuan and her siblings were all food lovers.
Their parents must have been driven to despair by their voracious appetites.
So he reluctantly found someone to take over!
Wang Chen thought about it and felt a wave of sympathy for Little White and her mate.
Life as a mouse is not easy!
…
After finally feeding Little Yuan Yuan, Wang Chen continued to work on the small wooden house.
Although compared to his past life, the tools he had were pitifully few, and there was no technology available to use,
working on this pure manual project felt even more natural!
This pet Small House was designed to be two stories, using a full wooden mortise and tenon structure, with a bedroom upstairs and a playroom downstairs.
Wang Chen even made a running wheel to place inside.
He felt as if he had returned to his past life, during those nights spent filming handmade videos.
It had been over a year since he crossed into the world of cultivation.
The memories of the past were gradually fading, or buried deep within his heart.
Wang Chen rarely focused solely on something unrelated to cultivation like this.
He did it purely out of love.
When he finished building the pet Small House, he noticed Yuan Yuan had already fallen asleep on the table.
Wang Chen smiled and placed the little guy into the wooden house to rest.
Then he took out a storage bag.
This storage bag once belonged to Lu Defang!
Wang Chen had checked it, and there were no hidden markings; the restrictions had also been undone by Lu Defang himself.
This Qi Training master, before his death, reached perfect mastery of understanding.
He gave all his belongings, including the Deed to the house and the heads of gray-eyed thieves, to Wang Chen.
He had not yet counted the other items inside the storage bag.
The Deed to the house had already been placed in Wang Chen’s own storage bag.
After removing thirteen heads of gray-eyed thieves, he found over a hundred spirit fragments, dozens of talismans, six bottles of elixirs, and a small gray-black net in Lu Defang’s storage bag.
As for backup clothing, spiritual rice, and jerky, they were hardly worth mentioning.
The talismans and elixirs were merely ordinary legal symbols, ones Wang Chen could draw himself.
This outcome greatly exceeded his expectations.
He never imagined that a dignified Qi Training master would have so little to his name!
Of course, the Deed that originally belonged to Wang Shaoyuan and was then transferred to Wang Chen by Lu Defang was quite valuable.
Wang Chen estimated that the estate where the original owner lived during his childhood would now be worth at least ten thousand spirit fragments.
In recent years, the housing prices in Yunshan City have risen rapidly.
Especially from last year to this year, they have doubled!
For this house, Lu Defang suppressed his obsessions and inner demons and waited until he was eighteen before taking action.
In the end, things went wrong.
This situation is truly darkly humorous!
Shaking his head, Wang Chen pulled out the little net from the very back of his storage bag.
A small net.
This net was neither completely black nor fully gray, it had little weight, and felt rough in his hand.
Although it was woven quite intricately, it looked like it hadn’t been well maintained, making it appear rather old.
Wang Chen tried to infuse it with his spiritual power.
The result was as if a lump of mud had fallen into the sea—there was no reaction at all!
There were no restrictions on it either.
Wang Chen remembered Lu Defang mentioning that he and Wang Shaoyuan had teamed up to explore a secret realm, and in the end, only the two of them came out alive.
Lu Defang was heavily injured and left his storage bag inside the realm.
He ended up “only picking up a useless broken net,” which left him feeling stifled and unable to vent.
This unremarkable little net was undoubtedly the broken net Lu Defang referred to!
Yet he still couldn’t bring himself to throw it away.
After thinking for a moment, Wang Chen called up the Cultivation Panel.
He checked his equipment section.
【Heavenly Net for Exorcising Evil (Sealed): 99476/100000】
What the heck!!
Before checking with the panel, Wang Chen had guessed that the little broken net was certainly not ordinary.
It just needed the right driver to unleash its power, similar to the Runying Golden Needle.
But he never expected that the little broken net would not only display a name on the panel,
but also belonged to the category of sealed equipment, with seal points exactly the same as the Thousand Transformations mask.
A total of one hundred thousand points!
The difference was that the Thousand Transformations mask required over ninety thousand points of Virtue to unseal.
This “Heavenly Net for Exorcising Evil” only needed 524 points to be complete!
Wang Chen currently had over two hundred points of Virtue.
If he just scores another three hundred points or so, he can unlock the seal on this equipment!
A surge of wild joy flooded Wang Chen’s heart.
This time, he hit the jackpot!
He knew that a Thousand Transformations of the same level had perfect disguise abilities without being unsealed.
What kind of brilliance would the Heavenly Net for Exorcising Evil display once unsealed?
Wang Chen couldn’t imagine!
The key was that he had already mastered a reliable way to gain Virtue.
Gaining a few hundred points was absolutely not a problem!
At that moment, Wang Chen felt like running straight to the graveyard and shouting at the black wandering Evil Spirit hiding inside, “Come and fight!”
Calm down!
He restrained his excitement, insisting on letting reason take charge of his mind.
In the graveyard instance, Wang Chen was determined to clear it.
That black wandering Evil Spirit had to be taken down.
But not right now.
He needed to prepare thoroughly, just like when he planned to deal with Lu Defang, ensuring everything was foolproof before taking action!
Thinking of Lu Defang, Wang Chen held the Heavenly Net for Exorcising Evil in his hands.
He silently mourned for three seconds.
Lu Defang’s greatest grievance was that during their exploration of the secret realm, Wang Shaoyuan gained treasures while he suffered great losses.
However, he did not know that this "broken net" was a top-notch treasure!
Lu Defang might have had some suspicions, but unfortunately, he didn’t have the Cultivation Panel, so he couldn’t decipher its mysteries.
The treasure could only be stored at the bottom of his bag!
In the end: He bitterly regretted year after year, serving others while gaining nothing for himself!
Deed to the house, heads, and the Exorcising Net.
This perfect mastery of Qi Training cultivator had spent years accumulating his fortune, all weaving a splendid garment for Wang Chen!
It truly spoke of the cycle of heaven, and retribution was certain.
When Wang Chen looked at the little net in his hands, he no longer found it shabby, old, or eye-catching.
It was clearly understated luxury with depth.
What a good treasure!
“Watch out!”
Wang Chen raised his hand and threw the Exorcising Net forward, covering the little pet house on the table.
Inside, Little Yuan Yuan was sleeping soundly, completely unaware.
Wang Chen reached out to retrieve the little net.
This time he used Object Manipulation.
Wang Chen discovered that although the Exorcising Net had no reaction to spiritual power, it could indeed be controlled with Object Manipulation…
He caught a few small fish and shrimp.
There was no way to catch big fish with such a small net area.
Wang Chen could clearly imagine Lu Defang, who had exchanged a heavy price for this little broken net, trying every method to figure out its usage and purpose, feeling the frustration and depression in his heart!
It was truly pitiful.
He threw and retracted the Heavenly Net for Exorcising Evil again and again, playing with the little net until he could manipulate it as easily as moving his fingers.
Until dawn.
Wang Chen left enough food and water for the waking Little Yuan Yuan, then returned to the surface.
He headed to Yunshan City.
This time, Wang Chen was going to the outer sect headquarters to exchange rewards.
The thirteen heads of gray-eyed thieves stored in his storage bag were more than enough for his promotion to the inner sect.
He was going to level up!
