Chapter 55: Let Me Be the Jellyfish Holy Son?

Luo Zhou confirmed it: the Jellyfish Guardian was Granny Wang, a Qi Refinement stage cultivator who was injured and possessed weak blood and qi. She could be killed!

However, he did not strike.

Instead, he returned home and silently waited for midnight.

This time, the "Reward Good and Punish Evil" mechanism should activate. Having specifically beaten up seven or eight youths, he expected to reap some rewards.

Upon returning home, Zhuo Dan approached him quietly.

"Boss, did I do a good job with that?"

Luo Zhou nodded and said, "You did an excellent job. You deserve a reward!"

With that, he gave Zhuo Dan twenty fragmented spirit stones.

Zhuo Zhou was overjoyed; for him, this was a significant amount.

Luo Zhou said, "Do not leak a single word about this. I see that you are steady and reliable. I lack manpower in the city, so in the future, I will find a good path for you!"

"Thank you, Boss!"

Zhuo Dan left, feeling immensely happy. In truth, he lacked nothing in terms of talent, courage, or ability; all he lacked was social connections.

Luo Zhou was not making empty promises. Over the past few days, Pang Yunhua had been coming to visit him whenever he was free. His intention to recruit him was self-evident.

In reality, the City Lord's Mansion should have been the one most eager to recruit Luo Zhou. However, because of the matter involving Fang Ningshuang, the City Lord completely ignored him, fearing any association with him.

Luo Zhou waited while he cultivated.

During these days, he had applied to his teacher for promotion to other immortal professions. His teacher agreed and brought out his full repertoire of expertise.

Strategist, Talisman Master, Dead Spy, Tea Guest, Alchemist, Sculptor, Spirit Butcher, Solstice, Diviner, Guardian, Miner, Creator, Deceiver, Shadow, Telepath, and more—Luo Zhou was given the choice.

Initially, Luo Zhou was most interested in being a Strategist, but as soon as he tried, he felt it wasn't for him. He already possessed "Omniscience"; adding a profession that required extreme calmness and frantic calculation would be redundant and uninteresting.

It wasn't just the Strategist; he had no interest in Solstice, Divination, Talisman Mastery, Mining, or Creation.

On the contrary, he felt a strong connection to Dead Spy, Deceiver, Shadow, Telepath, and Tea Guest.

However, Omniscience recommended "Spirit Butcher."

Luo Zhou gave it a try, and as a result, the promotion to Spirit Butcher was completed with ease.

A so-called Spirit Butcher was essentially a butcher. They mastered the ability to dissect various spirit beasts and demon beasts, maximizing the use of flesh and bone to obtain various spiritual materials without wasting a single scrap.

A Spirit Butcher had only one special ability: Dissection. The highest realm was akin to "Cook Ding carving the ox."

Waiting silently, midnight finally arrived!

"Luo Zhou, sensing evil spirits committing crimes, punish them!"

"Preventing youths from falling into the depravity of gambling, punishing evil—this is goodness!"

"Reward Good and Punish Evil complete. Awarding prize!"

In a trance, Luo Zhou felt three types of rewards descend from the heavens and pour into his body. However, only one remained; the other two dissipated.

This time, he had beaten eight people, and surprisingly, three of them were able to provide innate abilities?

This was different from the Wang family. The Wang family's abilities were all part of the "Turning Tides and Seas" technique, allowing one to obtain multiple abilities simultaneously. These abilities, however, were all different, so he could only receive one.

Luo Zhou's eyes lit up!

Ability: Bronze!

A body-tempering ability. Upon activation, it allows the user to reconstruct their own bones, skin, and muscles in an extremely short time, while simultaneously providing a massive boost to explosive power, endurance, and self-healing.

The "Bronze" ability could be understood as a healing spell. Once used, it could rapidly restore damaged bone, skin, and flesh, while also allowing for a "burst mode" to enhance physical stats.

Luo Zhou smiled; this was interesting. Moreover, this was currently just an "ability." If he used his spirit runes to temper his body and concentrate his spirit to promote it to a "talent," what would it become?

Luo Zhou nodded repeatedly, wondering what the other two abilities were. They would certainly be different from Bronze.

The next day, Luo Zhou did not attack Granny Wang. Instead, the gambling youths returned once more.

This time, it wouldn't be justifiable for them to just gamble. Naturally, they fought because of yesterday's events. Young people are impulsive; gang fights were normal.

Luo Zhou even had Zhuo Dan find a few more friends to create the appearance of a grudge, making it look like both sides were calling for backup to fight. He chose a location near Granny Wang, specifically to annoy her.

Sure enough, Granny Wang sent another telepathic message

"These little bastards have no sense of peace! Why are they making a fuss again? Can't they just stay quiet? So annoying!"

"So annoying!" was Granny Wang's catchphrase.

Hearing her inner thoughts, Luo Zhou immediately stepped forward and roared

"Why is it you lot again? Instead of working properly, why are you fighting? Was yesterday's gambling just a joke to you? You clearly don't take me seriously at all!"

After speaking, he stepped forward to lecture them one by one, either giving them a kick or a slap. He settled the matter, resolving another dispute and winning the cheers of the onlookers!

At night, Luo Zhou waited silently, and as expected, there was another reward. Because he had called more people, four forces descended, but only one remained.

Ability: Azure Thunder.

It allowed the user to control the lightning energy in the surrounding environment, condensing it to form a weak lightning domain. This lightning was azure-white, hence the name.

The so-called "lightning energy" was what was known as electric charge in his previous life; by accumulating charge, he could form a static electric field.

It didn't look particularly fierce, but this was currently just an ability. In the future, once promoted to a talent, it would become rolling azure thunder, dominating heaven and earth. Combined with his Heavy Water Qi, he would be essentially invincible in the Qi Refinement stage.

Two days in a row, two abilities. This made Luo Zhou immensely joyful.

Should he continue tomorrow? These were abilities, and there were several more left.

The next morning, Luo Zhou woke up in high spirits, preparing to try again to obtain another ability. Since he was in the shadows and Granny Wang was in the light, she didn't know he had discovered her identity.

But suddenly, Luo Zhou froze. He calmed down. He remained motionless for a long time, then burst into laughter.

"Luo Zhou, oh Luo Zhou, what gave you such courage?"

"To be driven by desire and seduced by greed time and time again. The opponent is a Jellyfish Guardian who can trigger a sea beast catastrophe. Your parents died at her hands, yet you still covet her telepathic connection just to obtain so-called abilities..."

At this moment, Luo Zhou was incredibly lucid.

He would not attempt a third time. He would go straight for the assassination of Granny Wang to avenge his parents and all those who died during the sea beast sieges all those years ago.

On the third day, early in the morning, before the sun had fully risen, Luo Zhou appeared in an alleyway, carrying three leveling sticks on his back, looking like he was out for a morning run. These were his last three "Dragon-Slaying Spikes"; because he hadn't used them with the iron mace last time, they had been preserved.

After confirming Granny Wang's identity, Luo Zhou had researched an assassination method. Every day, Granny Wang would take this path to the flower, bird, fish, and meat market. Perhaps due to her age, she couldn't sleep and woke up very early. Here, at this time, under the open light, there was conveniently no one around!

However, this time, Luo Zhou would not assassinate her. He would only greet her and pass her by. He would establish a habit to make her lower her guard, waiting for the next time—or a much bigger time—to strike!

The sun had not yet risen, and Luo Zhou indeed encountered Granny Wang.

"Morning, Granny!" Luo Zhou called out from a distance.

"Luo Zhou, what a good boy! Are you out for a run?"

"Yes, Granny. The road on Dongqian Street is under repair, so I'm taking a different route for a bit."

As he ran closer, he saw Granny Wang carrying a bucket filled with goldfish.

"Granny, let me carry that for you!" He snatched the bucket and carried it for her.

"Such a good boy!" Granny Wang kept praising him...

"Luo Zhou, truly a good boy! And a boy at that! I have a child, but I feel he is getting stupider and stupider; he is simply not worthy... All these years, a useless waste, he can't even greet someone properly. He's like a dead man all day, motionless, wasting so much of our hard work... I feel your aura is like ours. You are much better than that fool. I want to swap him for you..."

Her voice was very soft, like she was talking to herself...

But Luo Zhou broke into a cold sweat!

Luo Zhou had once possessed Heavenly Water Qi, Heavy Water Qi, Weak Water Qi, and Tide Qi. He also possessed the divine abilities "Turning Tides and Seas" and "Three Thousand Weak Waters." "Turning Tides and Seas" could even be cultivated into battle momentum and intent—the absolute innate physique of a Jellyfish Holy Son!

Was she trying to make me the Jellyfish Holy Son?