Chapter 1 Dense Forest in the Early Morning

In the early morning, amidst desolate mountains and dense forests, Li Ang sat up from an elaborately crafted rattan hammock. He yawned, jumped to the ground, and the hammock vines behind him writhed and contracted like snakes, dismantling themselves and reattaching to the surrounding trees, no longer resembling a hammock.

"Awake?"

Miss Chai slowly floated down from mid-air, head down and feet up, holding a paper modern romance novel in her hand, and said without looking up.

"Yeah."

Li Ang responded and casually patted the nearby tree. Immediately, a section of vine extended down, like a faucet, pouring out clear water for him to wash his face and brush his teeth.

Miss Chai was still engrossed in reading the novel – considering that the trigger rhythm of certain world anomaly events would be relatively slow, Li Ang would place some electronic game consoles, paper novels, and other entertainment products in the automated pet feeder to prevent Chai Chai from becoming mentally depressed due to being out of activity for too long.

Well... When Chai Chai first came to the modern era, she still preferred high-quality classical Chinese romance novels. She spent a lot of money on Jinjiang Literature City to reward the authors. As she became a useless bum with all kinds of vices, the books she read also became broad and diversified. Or rather, she was indiscriminate, accepting everything and returning to her original nature.

Things like "The Evil Princess's Hunting Plan: The Cold CEO Submits," "The Goddess Returns Home and Finds Her Husband Living in a Doghouse," and "Anti-Charge Fighter: My Princess Is a Foul-Mouthed Iron Bumpkin" were too strong, and Li Ang couldn't bear it.

"Hoo, this fanfiction of Wu Dalang x Ximen Qing is really exciting."

Miss Chai put down the novel, rubbed her temples, closed her eyes to rest for a while, and turned her body to face Li Ang, saying, "Where do we go now?"

"Go north."

Li Ang spat out the mouthwash, not bothering to complain about what Wu Dalang x Ximen Qing was.

"Aren't you going to look for Xing Hechou and the others?"

"No."

Li Ang shook his head. "I wrote a letter while you were reading the book last night and had the bee soldiers take it to Lao Xing and the others. I told them that I would be acting alone temporarily and would meet them again in Luzhou."

"Acting alone?"

Miss Chai tilted her head, puzzled, "What are you going to do?"

"Of course, I'm going to be a chivalrous hero, punish evil and promote good, and collect the power of faith by the way."

Li Ang wiped the water off his chin and snapped his fingers to let the vines return to the distance.

After Li Ang killed those White Lotus Sect members last night, he followed the same method and made them all like Wu Hu.

Since the White Lotus Sect members had to go to Luzhou according to plan, Li Ang also used his experience in modifying Ma Bangde's brain to slightly adjust their brains, keeping them at the most basic activity level, able to manipulate their bodies, eat normally, walk, speak, and rely on a new type of bee soldier code-named "Brain Bug" flying in the air to release pheromones or ultrasonic waves to issue instructions, achieving remote control.

The Brain Bug was loaded with a transplanted brain and had the most basic low-level intelligence, which could assist Li Ang in commanding lower-level biological weapons, serving as a command node, and greatly expanding the scope of use of biological weapons.

Li Ang only needed to use the Swamp Divinity to contact the Brain Bug hundreds of miles away.

It wasn't that he was directly consuming divine power to cross hundreds of miles, but rather using a clever trick.

Previously, in the Modified Fairy Tale World, Li Ang had seized a part of the knowledge of divine power prayer, which could gather the power of faith from the people of the Kingdom of Luen to the capital.

Li Ang thought of this when designing and manufacturing the Brain Bug. As long as the Brain Bug encountered a special situation that it could not solve, it would pray to the existence of "Daoist Ximenzi" like a believer.

The Brain Bug loaded with Wu Hu's brain only had low-level intelligence, similar to a sheepdog.

But this was a good thing.

As a believer, the Brain Bug could provide a small amount of but highly pure power of faith, building a bridge in the dark that connected to Li Ang.

I believe in myself.

Moreover, since Li Ang only had one fanatic like the Brain Bug.

Other ordinary people who had received help from Daoist Ximenzi only provided a little bit of the power of faith, not even considered shallow believers.

This would clearly highlight the Brain Bug's excellence, allowing Li Ang to lock onto the Brain Bug, spend divine power, and communicate with it over long distances, guiding the Brain Bug to make judgments.

Of course, the production of the Brain Bug was very complicated, requiring a lot of sanity value and divine power points.

Usually, contact would also consume a lot of Swamp Divinity.

So far, Li Ang had only created one Brain Bug using Wu Hu as a material, allowing it to command those White Lotus Sect members to go to Luzhou and meet the scheduled contact person.

"Now the divine power points have dropped below two hundred. I have to do some good deeds, accumulate the power of faith, and make up for the deficit."

Li Ang stretched and cleaned up the traces left behind.

The mechanism of the Divine Mark was very special, and with Xing Hechou, Liu Wudai, and the others nearby, it was not easy to use.

After cleaning up the traces, Li Ang put on a black cloak, put on cloth shoes, took out the pet feeder, and nodded at Miss Chai.

Miss Chai reluctantly handed over the romance novel in her hand, watched Li Ang put the book into the feeder, and drilled back into Li Ang's body.

"By the way,"

Miss Chai poked her head out, "If we go to other towns and don't encounter abnormal events, do you want me to come forward and create trouble?"

"No need,"

Li Ang shook his black cloak and stepped onto the narrow mountain road, "This world has the Wude Guard and famous Taoist priests. If you come forward, they will find out. Besides, the world is dangerous and chaotic. Even if there are no abnormal events, I have a way to farm faith points."

"Oh."

Miss Chai blinked her eyes, slightly dazed, "Eh, wait, you're pretending to be a Taoist priest now. What if you really encounter a Longhu Mountain Taoist priest? Will you be exposed?"

"At most, I'll just sit down and discuss Dao with him."

Li Ang said casually, "As we all know, Ximenzi Shangqing Miaoxuan practices spirit refining to return to emptiness is a very peculiar technique. But how peculiar is Ximenzi Shangqing Miaoxuan practices spirit refining to return to emptiness? I believe many people, like this poor Daoist, have had the same confusion. Today, this poor Daoist will take everyone to explore and see how peculiar Ximenzi Shangqing Miaoxuan practices spirit refining to return to emptiness is. Okay, that's all for the content of Ximenzi Shangqing Miaoxuan practices spirit refining to return to emptiness. We'll see you in the next issue."

"???"

Miss Chai had an expression of seeing confusing human behavior on her face, "The title is attractive, but the content is one sentence. Are you the legendary Baijia number editor?"

Li Ang smiled triumphantly: "Discussing Dao is like this. Even if you encounter a righteous Taoist priest, you can fool them with a few ambiguous words. Trust me, I'm right."