Chapter 80: Scumbag Tower

The light orb rewards Qi Yuan brought were fairly decent.

One spiritual energy light orb, neither large nor small, made the spirit energy in the cave abode slightly denser.

One new second-rank spiritual herb enriched the varieties of spiritual herbs in the cave abode.

One defensive array improved the breadth of the cave abode’s defenses.

Lu Yuan planted the second-rank spiritual herb and promised the Treasure-Seeking Tower that once the spiritual herb matured, he would definitely let it harvest first.

At the same time, Lu Yuan also gave the Treasure-Seeking Tower a warning.

When Qi Yuan entered its body, it immediately bestowed the cultivation method jade slip upon Qi Yuan.

Giant Ape Transformation was clearly much more important than talismans and spirit pills, yet the Treasure-Seeking Tower looked as if it could not wait to throw out every cultivation method it had.

“It only knows how to look at surface-level spiritual qi and can’t appreciate the power of knowledge. Truly shallow.”

After Qi Yuan left, no trace of any cultivator appeared in the cave abode for a while.

Qi Yuan did not come again. From the looks of it, he also had not told anyone else about the existence of the Treasure-Seeking Tower. Perhaps he wanted to keep that stroke of fortune all to himself.

As for the many cultivators who had previously entered the cave abode, since they had known before that a restriction had covered the entire cave abode, and since they knew nothing about the Treasure-Seeking Tower, they temporarily did not appear in the cave abode either.

Demonic beasts, on the other hand, came in one after another.

Among them were those who obtained strokes of fortune and left satisfied.

There were also those that planned to freeload strokes of fortune long-term. They lingered inside the cave abode and came near the Treasure-Seeking Tower from time to time to take a look.

For demonic beasts like these, Lu Yuan would try to drive them away, but most of the time it had little effect.

These demonic beasts that intended to remain in the cave abode long-term either fought with demonic beasts that entered later, or ran into the cave abode’s little ones when they occasionally came out for a snack, ultimately succeeding in merging into the cave abode.

Their souls went to the Ghost-Faced Spider, their flesh belonged to the Blood-Devouring Vine, and the remaining white bones were thrown into the pool.

There was another kind of demonic beast that flipped the table when freeloading failed. Seeing that the wooden tower no longer provided strokes of fortune, they recklessly slammed straight into the Treasure-Seeking Tower.

The result was obvious. The demonic beasts that wanted to feast in the end became the ones feasted upon.

In a certain sense, this could also be considered deepening their fate with the cave abode.

When he saw the Treasure-Seeking Tower get rammed, Lu Yuan could not help but develop a peculiar thought.

If the Treasure-Seeking Tower were knocked down and smashed apart by a demonic beast, would the treasures inside explode out in a massive drop?

Time flew by. After the Treasure-Seeking Tower appeared, Lu Yuan’s life in the cave abode gained a few more traces of amusement.

When demonic beasts or weird entities came in, he would check the light orb rewards they brought, bestow various spiritual herb materials upon them, and watch the myriad ways they behaved in those moments.

When no new chives came in, his divine sense would remain in the cave abode, cultivating spiritual herbs and raising the little ones.

He watched the Little Paper Man tirelessly train its muscles, and watched the pleasing figure of the Red-Footed Golden Crow as it soared through the air.

From time to time, he would also supervise the Ghost-Faced Spider and urge it to hurry up and finish its homework.

In the little lake, the small horn on the Python-Sparrow Eel’s head was becoming more and more prominent. Lu Yuan found a good opportunity and bestowed the Dragon Source Qi upon the Python-Sparrow Eel.

After taking the Dragon Source Qi, the Python-Sparrow Eel’s evolutionary journey was shortened by more than half, and it successfully advanced into a third-rank demonic beast.

After advancing, the Python-Sparrow Eel’s form changed greatly.

The horn on its head was fierce and thick, wreathed in deep black water vapor. Many blue-black scales grew across its body, incomparably hard.

Its control over the spiritual spring in the lake increased greatly, giving Lu Yuan a feeling as though it could command the water as easily as moving its own arm, wielding it with perfect freedom.

Upon sensing that a new third-rank demonic beast had appeared in the cave abode, the most excited one was undoubtedly the Treasure-Seeking Tower.

When no demonic beasts entered the cave abode’s range, the wooden tower would stride on its two long wooden legs and circle the lake over and over.

The lake was unlike the stone cave. It did not contain surging, scorching magma, which posed an enormous threat to the Treasure-Seeking Tower. This allowed it to persist tirelessly in its bootlicking conduct.

The Python-Sparrow Eel, unable to bear the disturbance, shed a huge blue-black scale and flung it to the Treasure-Seeking Tower.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower hurriedly caught it with both hands and carefully placed it inside the tower.

Just like that, it spent most of its time afterward circling the Python-Sparrow Eel.

Before the Python-Sparrow Eel had even emerged from the depths of the lake, the Treasure-Seeking Tower, as if it could foresee the future, would already be quietly waiting by the shore.

“It moved on to the new favorite this quickly?”

Lu Yuan looked at the Treasure-Seeking Tower, which had changed targets again, and sighed inwardly.

But the Treasure-Seeking Tower’s next behavior overturned Lu Yuan’s opinion of it.

After discovering that both the Red-Footed Golden Crow and the third-rank Python-Sparrow Eel paid it little attention, it did not give up on either side.

On the contrary, under the temptation of treasures, the low-intelligence Treasure-Seeking Tower independently worked out a set of patterns.

The Red-Footed Golden Crow spent most of its time in the magma environment, while the Python-Sparrow Eel mainly stayed at the bottom of the lake. The two rarely appeared at the same time.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower figured out when they came out. When the Red-Footed Golden Crow was about to emerge, the wooden tower would obediently wait outside the stone cave.

Then, following the Red-Footed Golden Crow’s flight path, it would chase all the way behind, holding out both hands and looking forward to the Golden Crow goddess’s reward…

Once the Red-Footed Golden Crow entered the stone cave, the wooden tower would rummage through the ritual implement junk inside the cave abode. Estimating that the time was about right, it would then come to the lakeshore again.

The instant the Python-Sparrow Eel revealed itself, the Treasure-Seeking Tower would bounce around on the shore, putting on an extremely happy appearance.

Lu Yuan was shocked by this whole operation.

“A true master of time management. As expected of someone surnamed Luo…”

“Scumbag tower!”

However, this behavior of making an enemy of time would always have moments when mistakes happened.

One day, on a sudden whim, the Red-Footed Golden Crow grabbed the Phoenix-Resting Wutong Wood and flew out of the stone cave. With one glance, it saw the Treasure-Seeking Tower waiting devotedly by the lake shore.

“It’s here, it’s here! The love-triangle showdown is here!”

Lu Yuan’s divine sense swiftly arrived. Inwardly, he had been looking forward to this scene for a long time.

The Python-Sparrow Eel looked at the Red-Footed Golden Crow that had flown opposite it and was completely unafraid.

After advancing to the third rank, it now had ample confidence when facing the equally third-rank Red-Footed Golden Crow.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower turned its wide, flat head and stretched out the two arms tucked beneath it.

One hand pointed toward the Red-Footed Golden Crow, while the other pointed toward the Python-Sparrow Eel. Its two long legs folded in order and spread out on the ground.

“What love-triangle showdown? I want them all!

Today, I, the Treasure-Seeking Tower, am going to kneel and earn those treasures!”

The awkward scene Lu Yuan had imagined might occur was thus dissolved into nothingness by the thick-skinned wooden house.

The Python-Sparrow Eel ignored everything, took the big-headed strange fish hanging from its fin, and dove to the bottom of the lake.

The Red-Footed Golden Crow looked haughtily at the Treasure-Seeking Tower. Flames rose from its brilliant golden wings. It let out a clear cry, turned, and left.

It flung several lumps of golden feces with astonishing spiritual power to the wooden tower.

The Treasure-Seeking Tower immediately stood up. Its hands danced out a series of afterimages, catching the golden clods one by one as if they were priceless treasures, then storing them all inside the wooden tower.

To it, as long as it could obtain the treasures it wanted, that was enough. As for how it obtained them, that was not important.

The Red-Footed Golden Crow’s behavior would not make it feel humiliated.

On the contrary, seeing even more golden feces than usual, it grew even more excited…

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