Seized by the System

“That’s not right, it’s not ‘the older, the wiser’, this is clearly defrauding the system…” While Sir System gave the great green insect a lesson or two, it complained to Fang Ning unhappily.

“Alright, you weren’t deceived anyway, didn’t you get your items back?” Fang Ning comforted it.” Stop haggling over such trivial matters, have you not heard that ‘complaining and grumbling too much will make you suffer, be more broadminded to everything’?”

“I’ve never heard of that.” Sir System declined.

“That’s being ignorant and incompetent, you have to study more since you’re a system.” Fang Ning secretly started reading a novel and no longer bothered about sir.

On the other hand, the great green insect listened to Vigilante A talking about his experience.

“The first stage is to not be pleased with external gains and to not be not saddened by personal losses. You’ll have to be like me, don’t segregate one another or have complex thoughts. Naturally, you won’t have illusions and it’ll be as easy as walking on flat ground.” Vigilante A said with a poker face.

“Eh, Great Azure Dragon, every time you obtain precious items, you always look so happy, it doesn’t seem like you’re ‘not pleased with external gains’ at all?” Chong Daqing asked seriously.

“Uh, you have no idea about this…when I obtain precious items, I’ve already let go of them in my heart, whereas commoners like you will still think about them.” Vigilante A said in a serious manner.

“Oh, is that so?” The great green insect exclaimed even though it did not really understand.

“Brother Dragon, you’re indeed fated with Buddhism, what you’ve just said contained a deep Buddhist allegory, which makes one ponder.” After Bodhisattva heard him, he said that undoubtedly and nodded to praise him.

“Tss…” When Fang Ning who was secretly reading a novel heard about this, he immediately lectured the idiot, “Stop quoting words from the internet and fool the others, you’ll cause trouble.”

Sir System was not bothered at all, it said, “What trouble can I cause? If I don’t say that, how can I sell the secret of my success at a high price? Butler Zheng is still having the auction there, I’ll have to present an extraordinary teaching quality.”

Instantly, Fang Ning was at a loss for words.

As for some of the fellows who were eavesdropping from a distance away, they were utterly shocked when they heard this.

So that was it, no wonder Vigilante A was never bothered by his own greed for wealth, he had actually arrived at a level of supremacy such that “picking it up also meant putting it down”…

They quickly raised their spirits as they were eager to listen more, but unfortunately the more important points were conveyed through spiritual telepathy.

At this moment, they had forgotten about a simple theory, which was that free things were never whole…

Not long after, the first auction had come to an end, where the representative of spirits won the bid with three hundred super high-quality evil spirits.

This was within expectation since Fang Ning had ordered Butler Zheng to pay more attention to collecting those high-quality evil spirits, and to prioritize purchasing them.

Butler Zheng understood that the Venerable One was using financial methods to agitate those extraordinaires to capture evil spirits, in order to prevent them from growing more powerful in the dark which would harm the people of the world.

Many a time, an evil spirit might be hiding in a small area. It would not commit evil deeds outside but would just harass that small area, causing the people to have trouble sleeping, and in turn were anxious all the time.

Owing to that fact, when the representative of spirits suggested exchanging with three hundred extremely high-quality evil spirits, Zheng Dao hit the hammer and agreed to it.

After the deal was made, Zheng Dao came over to report.

“Alright, let them listen together.” Vigilante A said faintly.

“Uh, Venerable One, will it cause any disturbance?” Zheng Dao said as he was worried.

“It won’t matter, I’ll just have to do two things at once.”

Right then, a stout enormous spirit full of Yin energy which looked fearsome had already flown over.

Fang Ning did not look at the fellow at all, previously when these spirits gathered, he was really shocked as they really came in all kinds of forms and strange appearances.

Luckily, they never really showed up during daytime, or else how many people could still be living peacefully now?

Vigilante A glanced at that fat spirit and said plainly, “Sit down and listen.”

The fat spirit sat down conscientiously then listened.

Vigilante A spoke for a whole hour about the knacks for all three stages.

The great green insect shook its head and looked like it was in a blur as had not fully understood anything, which made Bodhisattva on the edge as he was worried that he had put the pills in jeopardy.

Since they were borrowed, they had to be returned.

After they listened, Spirit King Bodhisattva asked with concern, “Daqing, how do you feel right now?”

“I’m feeling great,” Chong Daqing said confidently, “Don’t worry, Father Chong, I’ll definitely be able to dash up in a spurt of energy. My strength is at the peak of Lake-level, I’m able to not have complex thoughts or segregate from one another, I’ve died before anyway.”

The more Spirit King Bodhisattva listened to it, the more anxious he was, he pondered then grit his teeth and said, “Sigh, looks like I can’t escape this, what a shame, I’ll have to use heterodoxy.”

When Fang Ning heard that, he became extremely interested. He put his novel away and observed carefully.

Subsequently, he saw Spirit King Bodhisattva chanting a mantra, then rain appeared out of thin air and landed on the great greet insect.

“Uh, Father Chong, why did you suddenly water me?” Puzzled, Chong Daqing said.

“Heh, this is Bodhi dew, that has a cleansing function, it’ll allow living creatures to have their minds temporarily cleansed. Daqing, do you still want to eat now?” Spirit King Bodhisattva smiled and said.

“Oh, I don’t really feel like eating. Ah, how can this be?”

All of a sudden, Chong Daqing became frightened, it flew crazily everywhere then flew towards the sea below.

“Sigh, I seem to have outsmarted myself, I can’t be eager for instant success indeed,” Bodhisattva shook his head and sighed then communicated with Daqing through telepathy “Don’t be flustered, a month or two later, everything will go back to normal.”

Upon hearing that, Chong Daqing was startled. At this instant, a blue and white whale happened to emerge from the sea surface, and it seemed to be taking a breath.

It lowered its head and widened its mouth as it wanted to eat the whale.

“Hey, hey, you little insect, how can you open your mouth so hugely and be so frightening?” The blue-white whale dodged frantically and spoke.

“Uh, so the whale can speak,” Chong Daqing closed its huge mouth embarrassedly and said, “I won’t eat whales from now on then.”

“You look like a good insect. You seem to be very panicked just now, what happened?” The blue-white whale asked out of curiosity.

“Oh, a terrible fellow cast magic on me, causing my appetite to be greatly reduced. I wanted to see if I would still eat a lot…” The great green insect said in a down spirited manner.

“Heh, that’s simple, I give you something which will certainly help you with your appetite.” While the blue-white whale said that, it used its pelvic fin to toss a black object to it.

“What is this?” When the great green insect saw that, it quickly kept it with the silver jade bracelet on its leg.

“This is a unique seasoning that I found from the bottom of the sea, each time when I’m low on appetite and I can’t eat those shrimps, I’ll mix a little of this in the sea water so to increase my appetite. With that, I can eat many tonnes of little fish and shrimps in one time.” The blue-white whale explained kindly.

“Thank you, big whale.” The great green insect thanked continuously.

“Mmm, eat more and grow, but just don’t eat whales anymore.” The blue-white whale said, then it dove back into the water and swam away slowly.

Spirit King Bodhisattva flew over and said to the great green insect, “Alright, don’t eat whales anymore. I’ve said it before, you’ll get better after a while. Go climb the stairway now, the longer you drag it on, the lower the effectiveness. If you use it repeatedly, the effectiveness will decline too.”

“Hmph, I’ll go then.” The great green insect was currently very dissatisfied with Father Chong and the Bodhisattva. He actually dared to affect its appetite, even its old father in the upper realm dared not use this magic against it…

…

After the brief interlude, not long after, the crowd saw a tiny insect of the size of a palm on the Divine Fate. It swayed and flew into the Divine Gate.

At the first stage, the crowd widened their eyes to see if it could actually pass it.

The little insect was undisturbed by it, it flew up directly!

It had already arrived at the second stage!

“Eh?! It actually works!” Instantly, everyone was inexplicably surprised, they looked towards Vigilante A eagerly.

“He’s truly the Dragon God after all, his personal teaching is really special!”

“Yes, it’s a value for money, it’ll depend if that spirit can do it.”

“Don’t talk so much, look, the little insect went up the second stage too!”

“The third stage, eh, the green-skinned frog appeared again!”

“Actually, the third stage is quite easy, you just need to have profound knowledge…”

Right then, the great green insect stared at the green front in front of it.

Looking at a certain perspective, this was its natural enemy…

The green-skinned frog stared back at the little insect with its round eyes.

A brief moment later, it made “gua gua” sounds. The great green insect was confused.

The green-skinned frog could only speak human language, “As expected, an ignorant fellow. Little insect, I have three things here, if you can do all of them, you may pass.”

At once, the great green insect was dissatisfied. “Look at your thick brows and huge eyes, how can you lie so bluntly? The Great Azure Dragon just said that he passed by just doing one math question.”

“Uh,” The green-skinned frog became impatient when it heard that. “He’s different from you, he knows frog language. Since he can understand this profound foreign language, it proved that he has a great knowledge, so there’s no need for further inspection.”

“Damn it, I know insect language, does that not count as a foreign language?” The great green insect was extremely displeased.

“Uh, what insect language do you know, can you speak it for me?” The green-skinned front said as it was astonished.

“Ji ji, ji ji ji ji…” The great green insect was unwilling to be outdone, so it started making sounds.

“What’s that insect language? I don’t understand, it doesn’t count.” The green-skinned insect said irritatedly, “Do you want to be obedient or not? If you don’t listen to me, I’ll go back and you’ll never be able to go up the third stage.”

“I’ll listen then, tell me about it.” The great green insect could not help but showed defeat.

“The first thing is to solve this advanced mathematical question for me. The second thing is to write an essay on current events. As for the third, I haven’t thought about it yet, finish two first and I’ll tell you later.”

The green-skinned frog tossed a scroll out with its foreleg, then showed an expression of “you won’t pass for sure” as if it was too lazy to even set the third task.

“How abominable, how dare you underestimate me. I, Chong Daqing, know more than just eating.”

The great green insect lay on the scroll and started writing energetically.