Xie An didn't choose to attack here simply because he was worried that the old man had left a backup plan in his lair, or that he might have hidden accomplices.
It would be more suitable to lure him to Zhao, the old village chief's house.
As it happened, no one was at Old Village Chief Zhao's house...
The old man followed Xie An to Old Village Chief Zhao's house with a smile. As soon as he entered the door, the old man became a little more vigilant. "Who is Master Zhao to you?"
Previously, the old man had been acquiring medicinal materials from various families, but Master Zhao, as a major medicinal material merchant in the village, refused to sell him any. At that time, the old man felt that Master Zhao was wary of him.
Xie An tried his best to make his expression appear natural and modest. "Master Zhao is my uncle. Qingming is approaching, so I came back to worship my ancestors. Since I'm doing some medicinal material business in other places, my uncle asked me to sell all the medicinal materials at home."
With Xie An's many years of martial arts experience, he naturally knew some medicinal materials.
White Deer Blood Clot is a special kind of blood clot, which is very rare. It has excellent effects on promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It can also relieve pain and stop bleeding, and promote tissue regeneration.
Ordinary pharmacies, and even martial artists breaking through, only add ordinary blood clots.
White Deer Blood Clot... is rarely used.
What is Dayin Mountain doing?
In order not to arouse the old man's suspicion, Xie An said readily: "It's easy to talk about the price. May I ask, old man, what is the purpose of purchasing so much White Deer Blood Clot?"
Humph.
The old man snorted coldly, "I can't say!"
...
"I can't say?"
"I can say, I can say!"
In Master Zhao's yard, the ground was cracked, the trees were broken, and it was a mess. The old man with a hideous face had his hands chopped off by Xie An, and his head was firmly stepped on the ground by Xie An's feet.
Obviously, there had just been a fierce battle here.
The old man was defeated.
Xie An was too lazy to talk nonsense, and directly stepped on his head, "Then tell me quickly."
Unexpectedly, the old man, who Xie An had always thought was not afraid of death and had no concept of death... actually told the truth.
"This is what our young master requested. He asked us to buy a large batch of White Deer Blood Clot and give it to the Corpse Refining Hall as a gift."
Xie An immediately realized the key issue, "Is your young master from the Corpse Refining Hall?"
"No."
This information shocked Xie An.
Aren't only the bandits from Dayin Mountain the ones who refine corpses?
Where did these corpses come from?
"Then who is your young master?"
"I don't know, I just call him Young Master Li. After buying the White Deer Blood Clot, go to Cuiwei Residence in Shuideng Town to make contact."
"What does your Young Master Li look like?"
"There is a black mole between his eyebrows. I don't remember anything else."
"How many people like you are there?"
"There are four or five more, I guess. They all went to various villages and towns to purchase medicinal materials."
After asking these questions, Xie An fell into a long silence.
The situation was more serious than Xie An thought.
In fact, when he first entered this yard, Xie An planned to kill the old man directly. However, as the battle progressed, Xie An discovered that the old man was actually afraid, and actually wanted to live...
This was too outrageous.
A dead man actually wanted to live?
This was completely different from the copper corpse he had encountered before.
Now, Young Master Li was involved, and Young Master Li had four or five old men like this under his command.
White Deer Blood Clot...
Xie An was stunned for a long time before he recovered: "The missing people in the village, did you do it?"
Perhaps because he was afraid, the old man did not hide anything, "It was me. This old man doesn't know what's wrong, but I can't stand it if I don't **** human blood every day. So... but I did it very secretly."
Crack.
Xie An's foot stepping on his head continued to increase its strength, "Did you also attack the cavalry camp?"
"That was Young Master Li's order. I was just executing it. I just let two younger brothers slaughter the cavalry camp."
Young Master Li...
Xie An recovered and asked a few more questions. For example, where did Young Master Li come from, and what were his methods? The old man couldn't answer, but only mentioned the sound of bells.
When talking about the sound of bells, the old man was very scared.
Seeing that he couldn't get any more information, Xie An kicked him to death.
"Young Master Li..."
Xie An silently recited this name in his heart, and then he recovered, felt the trembling of the Dao Talisman in his mind, and revealed his greed for the Undead Qi.
"Absorb."
Xie An muttered.
He thought that the process of absorbing the Undead Qi would be as smooth as in the past.
Unexpectedly...
Ding Ling Ling.
The bell hanging on the old man's waist actually shook spontaneously.
There was no wind around.
It moved without wind.
The bell was particularly harsh, causing a strange impact on people's brain nerves.
What surprised Xie An even more was that the process of absorbing the Undead Qi... actually encountered obstacles!
It was as if something was playing tug-of-war with the Dao Talisman in his mind.
"What's going on?"
Xie An had never encountered such a thing before.
Someone was robbing the Undead Qi in the old man's body with him?
Bell...
It's scary.
You must know that the Longevity Fate is Xie An's biggest secret. Now this secret has been messed with? And it's still tug-of-war...
Xie An naturally wanted to help the Dao Talisman.
However, his methods were limited and he couldn't help.
He could only be a spectator.
The Dao Talisman in his body was trembling, and the bell outside his body was humming.
The bell and the Dao Talisman were tugging-of-war with each other.
What they were tugging-of-war with was the Undead Qi.
Xie An, who couldn't help, didn't have the heart to be a spectator, but instead went down and became the Dao Talisman's cheerleader. He kept shouting in his mind: Dao Talisman, come on!
Come on!!
Soon, as the sound of the bell became louder and louder, the Undead Qi was pulled over by the bell by 70 to 80 percent. It looked like the Dao Talisman was about to lose its grip.
Seeing that the Dao Talisman was about to fail, Xie An also felt that the situation was over.
The five strands of Undead Qi that were about to be obtained were about to fly away.
In the past two years, Xie An had only obtained four strands of Undead Qi... which was not as much as this time.
Hey.
The fusion degree of this Dao Talisman is still too low.
Suddenly, Xie An felt disappointed with his own golden finger.
It's not strong enough.
Is it going to be defeated?
Suddenly...
He didn't know whether the Dao Talisman felt the master's thoughts, or whether the Dao Talisman was stimulated. In an instant, the Dao Talisman burst out with a bright white light. The white light became brighter and brighter, and finally pulled the Undead Qi back little by little...
Crack.
The bell suddenly stopped. Immediately afterwards, even the bell cracked.
The Dao Talisman absorbed all the Undead Qi.
"Good!"
Xie An couldn't help but cheer for the Dao Talisman.
The Dao Talisman seemed to be very aloof and didn't pay attention. The bright white light on it gradually dimmed.
[Successfully absorbed 5 strands of Undead Qi.]
[Level 1 Longevity Fate has grown.]
[Current fusion degree: ]
In one breath, five ten-thousandths of a point were added.
For Xie An, this was an unprecedented achievement.
He immediately pulled up the panel:
[Bright Jade Skill: Awakening of Insects 65/100]
Sure enough, the Awakening of Insects directly increased the progress by forty points.
How terrifying!
"The Longevity Fate is too powerful! Even if the Fate fusion degree no longer increases in the future, I feel that it will take twenty or thirty years to refine the Bright Jade Skill to great perfection!"
After the excitement, Xie An quickly calmed down and felt that he was too optimistic.
Not to mention how difficult it is to practice the solar terms after the Awakening of Insects in the Bright Jade Skill. There is also the problem of the four seasons attribute, whether it can be cracked is also a problem.
However, in general, Xie An was still very happy.
It was just that after experiencing the first tug-of-war of the Undead Qi, Xie An felt uneasy. He always felt that something was staring at his biggest secret, or that his biggest secret had met an opponent...
"Forget it, let's go back first."
Xie An found a quilt, wrapped the old man's body, and tied it tightly with hemp rope, before carrying the body out.
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In order to determine whether the old man had accomplices, Xie An also took the initiative to sneak into the old man's house, and only after confirming that there were no other monsters did he safely return to the camp's hall.
When Xie An opened the quilt, Old Village Chief Zhao saw the old man's body, and was immediately very excited and relieved.
"Hall Master Xie, did this old man really have a problem?"
Xie An said: "Yes. The missing people in the village were killed by him. He also asked people to attack the camp. The temporary crisis in the village should be lifted."
Old Village Chief Zhao burst into tears, "Thank you, Hall Master Xie, you are the great benefactor of the village. You saved the lives of four hundred people in our village."
As he said that, Old Village Chief Zhao was about to kneel down to Xie An. Xie An quickly helped him up, "Old Master Zhao doesn't need to be like this, this is Xie's duty. However, I fought with that old man in your house, and I inevitably damaged a lot of furniture and walls. Fortunately, that old man left a lot of silver, and I have put it all in your house.
Aqi, you send the old man back. You will live in the old man's house recently to see if there are any other changes. Pay special attention to foreigners."
After arranging everything properly, Xie An went out, put the old man's body on the horse's back, and rode away.
Behind him came Old Master Zhao's grateful shouts, "Hall Master Xie, you are so righteous."
...
In Shui Deng Town, near the docks, along the first row by the river, there was a secluded residence.
It was called Cui Wei Residence.
Although this house was close to the docks, it was surrounded by lush willow trees.
The courtyard walls were completely hidden from the outside, making it very secretive.
Inside the courtyard, four old men were helping to sort medicinal herbs, mostly White Deer Dragon's Blood.
A young man with a black mole between his eyebrows, wearing a brocade robe, sat under the eaves, flipping through ancient books.
A maidservant stood nearby, offering tea.
"Young Master, at the current rate, we will definitely be able to gather enough White Deer Dragon's Blood by July.
And Dragon's Blood too.
When the time comes, we can go into the mountains to see the High Priestess."
The young man in the brocade robe snorted coldly, "A village woman fallen on hard times in the mountains dares to make such outrageous demands.
If it weren't for my father insisting on this, why would I have run all the way from Nanzhou to suffer in this kind of place?
It's so boring."
The maidservant echoed his complaints, "The Master is also considering things for the Young Master.
But Young Master, you don't need to worry, completing this task will be a great achievement.
When that time comes, the Young Master's position in the Royal Mansion will surely advance further.
Becoming a Young Lord in the future is not impossible."
The brocade-robed youth said, "If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have come all the way to this barren and freezing land."
The maidservant giggled, "Young Master has great ambitions and can endure hardship.
This time, completing the task assigned by the Master will surely earn the Master's praise."
The two of them chatted idly.
Suddenly, the brocade-robed youth glanced at the sky, "Why hasn't Number Five come to report yet?
Green Fish, go get the bell."
"Yes, sir."
The maidservant named Green Fish quickly ran into the room and brought out a silver bell, handing it to the brocade-robed youth.
The youth took it and gently shook it.
The four old men in the courtyard immediately trembled and prostrated on the ground, as if they had heard some terrifying sound.
The brocade-robed youth was very satisfied with this sight, and the corners of his mouth curved into a smile, "This thing provided by the mountain village woman is quite interesting, allowing me to control a few corpses.
It saves me a lot of trouble and is much easier to command than my servants."
Suddenly—
The bell in the brocade-robed youth's hand became extraordinarily heavy and trembled incessantly.
Even with the brocade-robed youth's strength, he couldn't hold it steady.
The small bell in his hand seemed to have become infinitely heavy, and no matter how he shook it, it wouldn't move.
"Hmm?"
The brocade-robed youth immediately became serious.
With a grab of his large hand, a surge of powerful energy suddenly burst out, transforming into a gust of wind that swept in all directions, cracking the bluestone bricks under his feet.
The brocade-robed youth, who originally looked somewhat thin, suddenly became like a fierce tiger, exuding layers of scalding heat from his body.
This heat gathered on his right hand, tightly pressing down on the bell, trying to continue shaking it.
Green Fish was also an expert and immediately realized the problem.
A surge of heat also emerged from her palm, "Someone is disrupting the corpse energy.
Young Master, use the secret method given by the High Priestess to hold the corpse energy in place.
Otherwise, Number Five will lose control.
Someone has targeted Number Five…"
"Alright."
Knowing the urgency of the situation, the brocade-robed youth released even more heat from his body, pressing down on the bell and continuing to shake it.
But…
Crack!
In a moment, the bell cracked and then shattered.
The brocade-robed youth was shocked back three steps, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his face turning pale, "How could such an expert exist in this small place of Qingwu County?"
Green Fish was also very surprised, staring blankly, muttering in her heart: Young Master is already a fourth-level Inner Strength martial artist.
Even the two leaders of the Tiger Wolf Sect are only at the second or third level.
Where did such an expert come from?
…
Great Yin Mountain, Corpse Refining Hall.
A solemn ancestral hall.
This ancestral hall was different from ordinary people's ancestral halls.
Instead of spirit tablets, it displayed transparent containers, each containing a heart.
These hearts were all beating.
There were more than eight thousand hearts in total.
Even more strangely, each heart emitted a wisp of white gas, flowing out of the container, then gathering together, turning into a thick stream of white gas that flowed into an ancient pagoda behind the ancestral hall.
No one knew what was inside the ancient pagoda, but faint, terrifying sounds could be heard.
Crack.
The door of the ancestral hall was pushed open.
Two people entered.
A little girl and a tall young man.
The little girl had a blood-colored bell hanging from her waist, while the tall young man had a cyan jade flute inserted into his belt.
"Brother Changchun.
Come and see, this is the Corpse Refining Hall that your sister has been operating all these years."
The little girl pulled the tall young man into the ancestral hall, proudly pointing at the surrounding containers and the wisp of white smoke, "Over a hundred years, I've gathered eight thousand wisps of corpse energy!
It's enough to support that thing.
I've been waiting, waiting for Brother Changchun to master the Bright Jade Skill.
Then, after cultivating together, I'll succeed as well.
In this way, our Corpse Refining Hall will no longer be a mountain wilderness side branch.
I contacted the people from Nanzhou, and the people from Nanzhou contacted the people from the capital.
Soon, we can complete the transaction.
When that time comes, we can enter the capital.
Just like before, even better than before.
We can be honored as esteemed guests."
The tall young man looked on, silent.
After a long time, the tall young man finally smiled, "Sister, you've done a good job."
"Hehe."
The little girl revealed a sweet smile, "In another year, we'll be able to enter the capital.
This path is better than returning to the Eternal Life Sect headquarters.
A hundred years of effort has finally brought us this opportunity."
The tall young man smiled broadly, as if letting go of all past grudges.
He gently took the little girl's hand, "You've worked hard these years."
The little girl said, "With those words from my brother, no matter how hard I work, it's worth it.
When we've collected enough White Deer Dragon's Blood and hold a ten-thousand-person sacrifice, we can gather the final two thousand wisps of corpse energy.
At that time, we can enter the capital again."
The tall young man said, "Yes, the capital is where the winds and clouds gather, the place to do great things."
The little girl said, "I just don't know what's going on, but we've lost four wisps of corpse energy recently.
That's very unusual.
Even if the Bronze Corpse and Green Wood Black Corpse died, the corpse energy would be recovered by this ancestral hall.
Besides my Corpse Refining Hall, no one else can refine corpses in this place, and no one else can collect corpse energy.
It's really strange…"
The tall young man said, "Perhaps it's because too much time has passed, causing some losses."
The little girl tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "That should be the reason.
It doesn't matter, the overall situation is set.
Soon, it will be time for the Blood Ridge Black Market to upgrade to a trade center.
When that time comes, the ten-thousand-person gathering will be perfect for me to conduct a grand sacrifice, completing the final two thousand wisps of corpse energy.
The White Deer Dragon's Blood is almost fully collected as well.
No one can stop us."
The tall young man nodded heavily, "Sister is very capable!
I've also figured it out, the past is just fleeting clouds, returning to the capital is the real grand achievement."
Hearing this, the little girl couldn't stop smiling, "It's good that Brother understands.
In a few days, the people from Nanzhou will come up the mountain.
When Brother meets them, you'll know that our plan is foolproof."
The tall young man was overjoyed, "Good.
But that Immortal Treasure still needs to be found."
"I know, I've already arranged for pawns, Brother, don't worry."
The little girl was extremely excited, nestling in the tall young man's arms, and the tall young man gladly accepted.
The two of them looked very affectionate.
Suddenly—
Hmm?
The little girl suddenly straightened her body, staring intently at a container in front of her.
The heart in the container was beating violently, and the five wisps of corpse energy emanating from it were also shaking incessantly.
It was as if they were in a tug-of-war.
Da, da, da.
The little girl immediately walked forward, greatly shocked, "Someone is fighting with us for corpse energy!"
Quickly, the little girl formed a hand seal, and a blood-colored stream of light was released from her palm, injecting it into the container, attempting to suppress the restless heart and corpse energy.
Even so, the heart was still beating frantically, not only not stopping, but the turmoil was getting bigger and bigger.
Before long, the little girl's face turned pale, and cold sweat streamed down her forehead, showing that she was very strained.
"How is this possible?
In this small place of Qingwu County, how could there be a second corpse refining master?
And one who can compete with this priestess for corpse energy?
Could it be that the person from Nanzhou is messing around?
I gave him five silver corpses to command, intending to show off my corpse refining skills, but I didn't expect him to not hide them well and be targeted!"
The tall young man said, "It doesn't matter.
It's just a corpse refiner.
I'll go down the mountain, find this person, and kill him."
