Chapter 560   – Evolving Karma Centipedes

With Miaomiao's help, the stable was restored to its glory. Miaomiao and the black catopus admired the clean barn with a proud look on their faces.

While Miaomiao was mesmerized by the new stable's look, a group of five cultivators flew over and dropped human corpses and animal remains from their spatial rings to the top of the trash mountain. Then, they left.

Miaomiao didn't mind that since it was a daily occurrence here. Weak cultivators died left and right in this forbidden zone every day. These guys were nothing but food or cannon fodders for the strong.

However, those cultivators just now were careless. They dumped too many corpses at once and caused a landslide.

Dead bodies, animal bones, and rotten junk fell onto the barn, broke the repaired roof, and flooded the junk in the stable.

The cleaned stable was ruined!

Seeing how their hard work was in vain, tears swelled in the black cat's eyes. Yet, she swallowed her pain and turned to Miaomiao, "I-It's okay, Munya! It happens every day. We can leave that section alone and clear the other rooms next to mine."

Unable to bear the pain look on the black cat's face, Miaomiao felt like he had to do something.

Also, he was enraged.

"Wait here."

Miaomiao tossed the mop and the bucket in his hands and followed the group of cultivators earlier.

One of them wore an initiate's uniform while the others were candidates. The strongest among them was an Immortal Soldier, aka the first rank Immortal.

"Oi, shithead!" Miaomiao bellowed and threw a bag of wet trash at their leader.

Because it came out of nowhere, the initiate couldn't dodge it. The bag hit him and shattered, scattered whatever was inside onto his clothes.

The initiate's face turned dark. He grounded his teeth, "Who the fuck is courting death?! How dare you!"

Miaomiao gargled and spat a saliva bullet. Even though the target was 300 meters away, it hit on the initiate's face.

Miaomiao also added fuel to the flame by raising his middle finger, "You fucktards caused a landslide and destroyed my room. Come back here and clean the mess you made, or I'll fucking send you to the River Styx!"

The initiate and his followers glared at Miaomiao in anger. They inspected Miaomiao's cultivation to see who the assailant was.

As soon as they discovered Miaomiao's cultivation base, they laughed, "You're talking big for a nascent soul. Do you realize the gravity of whom you have offended?!"

Miaomiao snorted, "Oh, I know for sure that I can instant-kill all of you fucks. I'm giving you a chance for redemption. I'll be counting to three. If you don't behave when I count to three, don't blame me that I didn't warn you."

"HAHAHAHA! That's rich! I want to see you try!"

Miaomiao scoffed as he stomped toward the group, "One."

The initiate's followers had another idea, "How about we kill his ass when before he counts to three?"

"Sounds good!"

Two 8th-stage cultivators rushed Miaomiao. They activated their soul domain power.

As soon as they activated their domain, they suddenly stopped moving. On the other hand, Miaomiao, with Killer Queen in his hand, blinked and reappeared behind them as if he had teleported.

The two cultivators dissipated into dust, and their belongings dropped to the ground.

"!!!"

The initiate and his two followers didn't understand what had happened.

"Two."

BOOM

Miaomiao's footstep was firm and heavy. His killing intent and his dark aura manifested a Dao Avatar behind him.

However, the Dao Avatar was neither the tower shield nor Xu Chu. It was something new that Miaomiao had been comprehending.

It was a shadow silhouette of a swordsman with no face. He held a katana in his right hand while his left hand held a long Odachi, aka a longer version of a katana.

The Dao of Slaughterer and the Dao of Swordsmanship had formed because of Miaomiao's current progress and emotion. Unfortunately, it was incomplete since they lacked a proper Dao Pillar or a Totem Pillar.

The initiate had a bad feeling about the Dao Avatar. He bellowed, "Kill that guy before he completes his domain! That Dao Avatar is a Slaughterer Dao! If his domain is completed, we're dead!"The remaining followers activated their domain as well. One of them used a ranged weapon domain while the other used a sword domain.

Unfortunately for them, their domain could only be effective if their opponent fought using the same [Time Flow].

Miaomiao reappeared behind the initiate. He grabbed the back of the group leader's neck.

"Three."

The two followers earlier were also disintegrated into dust. Now, only the leader remained.

"W-Who are you?! What did you do?!"

The initiate was confused. He didn't understand how Miaomiao killed his followers.

"Time's up."

BOOM

A large karma centipede burst out from the initiate disciple's neck while a million smaller centipedes ate the guy from the inside.

Although Miaomiao couldn't touch or tamper with karma strings, he could still manipulate these cute centipedes to infiltrate his opponent's body. He tested it on the guy and commanded the centipedes to multiply.

It worked as planned. The centipedes ate all the initiate's soul Qi and gave birth to a million babies. As for the mother, it came out as a giant centipede.

The large centipede coiled around Miaomiao, wanting to go back into his body. However, Miaomiao had another plan.

"I have a job for all of you. I wonder if you can eat those," Miaomiao pointed at the mountain of trash.

The centipede starred at the rotten mountain of corpses and random junk. Then, it repeatedly nodded.

"I guess you're a gross eater. Well, if your babies don't mind, would you please take care of that mountain for me?"

Hiss!

The centipede screeched in delight. It charged at the trash mountain while its babies frantically followed its mother.

After the centipede parade was gone, Miaomiao leisurely picked up his loot.

The four spatial rings of the followers each contained three coins and a dozen third-grade soul stones. They also carried grain pills and medicinal pills, but they had no noteworthy treasures.

As for the initiate, he was quite rich. He carried a thousand third-grade soul stones, ten Adam Coins, and a giant flying sword that could be used as a vehicle.

Miaomiao destroyed the followers' ID tokens, but he kept the initiate's ID with him. There was also a notebook, which recorded several sect rules that Miaomiao didn't know.

…

Codes of Conduct and Initiate Peak Rules

- General Rules and Basic Information

. An initiate must not have cross-species sex without condoms.

. An initiate must protect their badge at all costs. Should it be stolen by an initiate candidate, you will lose your position to that candidate.

. The initiate badge number is also the number of your identity. The assigned mountain peak is the first two digits, such as 01XX, 02XX, 10XX, and so on.

. Sect Elders will give a lecture to initiates once a month at the lecture hall. An initiate must bring their identity badge with them to receive the lecture.

. An initiate may commission elders to request an additional lecture or guidance.

. An initiate may access the Treasure Hall's first floor to purchase treasures, pills, cultivation manuals, and supplies.

- Sect Missions

. An initiate may earn Adam Coins by taking sect's assignments, aka missions from the Assignment Hall.

. An initiate may only take one mission at a time.

. After an initiate completes a mission, they may accept a new mission. There is no limit to how many missions they may complete in a month.

. Every mission has a time limit. You must complete your assignment within 30 days, or it will be treated as a failure.

. If an initiate hasn't taken any mission from the sect for more than 3 months, the initiate will be demoted to an initiate candidate.…

Miaomiao skimmed through a hundred pages of the book. Then, he threw it to the corner of his spatial ring's space since everything was none of his business.

Even if Miaomiao had the badge, he couldn't simply bring it to the Initiate Mountain Peak and apply to be an initiate of the sect. Had he done so, he would have become a target of other candidates.

For the sake of his peaceful cultivation life, he chose to lay low until he became a proper immortal.

However, what interested Miaomiao was the sect mission section. It seemed that initiates could earn some Adam Coins by taking missions.

Miaomiao rechecked the spatial ring again to find the badge.

And he found it. The badge was hidden in the pile of soul stones.

The badge was made of pure gold and jade. An engrave number [1212] was clearly visible.

'1212? So this guy's affiliated mountain is the mountain number 12?'magic

Miaomiao put the badge away. He was satisfied with his earning.

'Yup, robbing random villains is better than working my ass off as a villain's lackey. I should have joined the protagonist's faction long ago.'

Miaomiao collected everything and walked back to the black cat's stable.

When he returned, he found the black cat inside the barn, cowing in a corner. She had been hiding from the large centipedes that had passed by.

"MUNYA! MAMA, I WANNA GO HOME!!"

Miaomiao sighed and carried the cat in his arms. He scratched her head, "Relax. That monster is my friend. She won't eat you."

"B-But those monsters are karma centipedes, Munya! Grandma said they only appeared when a player is close by, Munya!"

"…"

Players?

It seemed that Catopuses and Cathulhus had a long history with the Players.

"By the way, I'm Mao Miaomiao. What's your name?"

"Sir Cat Meowmeow, Munya! You have a nice name, Munya!"

Miaomiao rolled his eyes, "Yeah. Everybody said that."

"I'm Nya-Nya, Munya!"

"… Pretty name."

"Hehehe."

Nya-Nya purred as she enjoyed Miaomiao's petting. Her tentacles coiled around his arms, and she accidentally fell asleep.

Miaomiao had a wry smile on his face.

'She must have been working hard by herself. Come to think of it, Meowmeow might be lonely by himself. Should I make a pact with her? Or… should I try a cat?'

The sinful desire of Miaomiao resurfaced, but he slapped it down. He closed his eyes and stabilized his heart.

Unknowingly, he accidentally formed a wisp of an incomplete Dao Avatar. It was a shadow silhouette of a muscular dog with a baseball bat.

It faintly muttered.

'No horny.'

…

Four hours later, Miaomiao finished cleaning the barn without using his hands and arms. He continued carrying the sleeping cat, not wanting to wake her up.

One doesn't simply wake up a sleeping cat.

Unfortunately, Miaomiao wasted one of the dummy spatial rings for collecting the trash. Then, he threw away the trash-filled ring toward the trash dump, which was now a new nest for karma centipede babies.

These centipedes shouldn't be visible to naked eyes. Yet, these monsters evolved after they had lived inside his body for a long time.

They could now eat physical objects, which was a good thing. Miaomiao planned to use them as his personal garbage power plant in the future.

'Keep eating and growing, my children. When you're old enough, I'll claim your Soul Qi and Soul Essence.'

He snickered, wondering if this was what Liu Guang felt like when she raised bugs inside her body.