socalfunplaces Chapter 20 Status
Chapter 20 Status
Chapter 20 Status
The Li family patriarch and the Dong family Foundation Establishment cultivators respectfully saw Fairy Qin off. Afterwards, the Dong family Foundation Establishment cultivator, under the pretext of thoroughly searching for traitors, actually brought several Qi Refining cultivators and brazenly stayed at the Li family's residence.
They even forcibly rented a spiritual vein temple.
In response, the Li family patriarch repeatedly backed down, consistently demonstrating that he was nearing the end of his life and unwilling to cause trouble, and reluctantly agreed to all of the Dong family's unreasonable demands.
As for the photographic stone, the Li family also made a copy, claiming it was to help the Dong family find their mole.
The real purpose of the investigation is to examine the thousand people who stood up.
Within a month, more than a thousand people left the town at midnight.
What do these people want to do?
If you can't fight against sects and the Dong family, can't you at least control ordinary martial artists like you?
When Chen Yi was called in for questioning, he explained that he had to go to Miss Li Yudie's place every day to process monster hides, and sometimes he would come back late from work, so he would leave the lakeside town in the middle of the night.
Miss Li confirmed Chen Yi's statement, but the Li family's investigation team did not pursue it further.
However, the elite martial arts team of seven, including Madam Huo, was caught red-handed by the Li family's investigation team.
It's difficult for a martial artist to keep a secret from a cultivator.
The group of seven was taken away for three days, during which they confessed everything they had done.
They cooperated to kill nearly ten mortal martial artists from outside the region, and also set a trap to kill a rogue cultivator from elsewhere, gaining a large amount of resources.
This martial arts organization had seven members who had advanced to the peak of first-class martial arts.
Even the Li family was shocked after this was discovered.
Now that the threat posed by the Li family patriarch has weakened, unexpected resources have appeared in the lake, and the lakeside town is in chaos, no one expected that such a group of people would be right under their noses and have accomplished such a major feat.
As a result, all seven members of Huo Niangzi's team were punished by the Li family with a one-year salary deduction.
At the same time, the Li family took this opportunity to establish a secret guard team. These seven people were one of the secret guards, responsible for monitoring the behavior of outside mortal martial artists and low-level cultivators. They could act first and report later when something happened.
Simply put, it meant recruiting them into our ranks.
At the same time, the Li family also gave them different high-level martial arts techniques, all of which could help them reach the innate level.
Huo Niangzi and the others thus became the Li family's secret guards, their feelings extremely complicated.
Although the rewards were greater, an additional layer of constraints made them less free and their actions more dangerous.
Moreover, they have not received official recognition, and if something were to happen to them one day, the Li family would definitely abandon them.
Meanwhile, the Li family also uncovered a number of dirty deeds among the remaining thousand people, such as petty theft, adultery, and assassination. In the end, those who should be killed were killed, those who should be punished were punished, and those who should be incorporated into the organization were incorporated. I won't go into details.
Meanwhile, the Dong family dispatched more than ten cultivators to patrol the wilderness every night.
In hopes of finding the "young innate martial artist" who was not in town,
As a result, they found several caves and underground nests containing supplies, but they didn't see a single person.
"That kid, could he have left the Li family? He hasn't been to any of his strongholds even once in all these days!"
The Dong family cultivators cursed under their breath. They had painstakingly waited for many days, only to find nothing.
In those spiritually impoverished places, if a cultivator stays for even one more day, they will lose their magical power and feel extremely uncomfortable.
Finally, left with no other choice, the Dong family cultivators withdrew their team and decided to start their investigation from among the most talented mortal martial artists.
They decided to investigate slowly, since investigating people was just an excuse, not their real purpose for coming to the Li family.
Upon investigation, they discovered a talented individual: Hao Youren, the former deputy chief steward.
The fact that the Dong family's Foundation Establishment cultivator personally arrived revealed that Hao Youren's secret—that he had already recovered to the peak of a first-rate martial artist—was seen through at a glance.
"If I'm not mistaken, you've consumed the Cold Jade Marrow, haven't you? Hmph, you've got pretty good luck."
However, each drop of this Cold Jade Marrow is worth several spirit stones, and you have consumed at least ten drops.
"If the Li family finds out you found something so valuable and didn't hand it over, what will happen to you?"
Without saying a word, Hao Youren immediately bowed down in reverence.
"My esteemed master's eyes are discerning; I dare not presume to act rashly. In this life, I am willing to serve as your loyal servant!"
After the last incident, Hao Youren had come to terms with it. Loyalty to the Li family was a joke; nobody in the Li family treated him like a human being.
Now that a Foundation Establishment Immortal Master has come to him, he naturally takes the opportunity to climb up the ladder.
As expected, the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Dong family smiled and stroked his beard, leaving him a bottle of pills:
"Reach the Innate Realm as soon as possible. Remember to conceal your strength and keep a low profile. I will assign you tasks if needed."
"Thank you, my lord!"
In the following days, Chen Yi met Hao Youren several times. Hao Youren always greeted him with a smile. Although he had recovered, he remained low-key and never made a fuss.
Chen Yi clearly sensed the powerful qi and blood energy within the other party's body, almost reaching the innate level, yet the other party continued to feign being recovering from a serious illness.
Chen Yi sighed, it seemed that after surviving the near-death experience, Deputy Chief Steward Hao had begun to temper his arrogance.
As for Madam Huo, since they had new identities and missions, Chen Yi had less contact with them.
However, when information came in, Chen Yi was willing to exchange it with Madam Huo, and the two sides maintained contact.
Chen Yi still remembered the note that Lady Huo had given him, as well as the things she had done to help him conceal his abilities and introduce his cultivation techniques.
As for Chen Yi himself...
These past few days, after Li Yudie demonstrated her ability to process demon beast hides at her cultivation residence, Lin Youyou called her to find a master craftsman to learn the art of making talisman hides for a few days.
Making talisman skin is not difficult. Select the hide of a demon beast with suitable fur and texture, remove the flesh and blood, soak it in medicine to soften it, remove the water, scrape, knead, and dry it. Finally, nurture it with magic.
This allows it to absorb the spiritual ink evenly, ensuring a stable flow of spiritual energy.
Except for the final step of nurturing with magical power, which requires specific magical tools and equipment, the preceding steps can be done manually by ordinary martial artists.
Ordinary animal hides and spirit plant hides are not difficult to process.
Only special types of leather, like the tortoise shell Chen Yi dealt with last time, require the use of a flying sword.
Having gained experience in handling tortoise shells, Chen Yi was able to easily handle ordinary animal hides and learned the ropes in just a few days.
So far,
He was taken in by Li Yudie as her private leather tanner.
The related benefits were also increased from one Qi and Blood Pill per day to one Blood Power Pill per month.
"Young Miss, when I was making materials for demon beast spirit skin, I had some discarded demon beast flesh and blood. Could I dispose of it myself?"
Recently, I learned a set of techniques called "罡甲功" (Gāngjiǎgōng), which requires the support of demon beast flesh to practice.
Li Yudie frowned: "The Blood Power Pill is already enough for your cultivation needs. Isn't it a bit too much to ask for more demon beast meat?"
I can help you conceal your abilities, disguise your age, and handle chores like going out at night. But when you work for me, just do your job properly and don't be too greedy.
What's yours, I will give you.
Upon hearing this, Chen Yi clasped his hands slightly and said nothing more.
Cultivating the Vajra Technique is based on the power of Qi and blood. His own Qi and blood power is already very abundant, and he can barely get started without consuming the flesh of demon beasts. As for what happens next, we'll talk about that later.
After Chen Yi left,
Lin Youyou asked, "Sister Yudie, those demon beast meats aren't worth much. Qi Refining cultivators have to refine the demonic energy to consume them, so not many people need them. Why not reward him?"
Li Yudie's gaze was calm. "Giving him Blood Power Pills is a sweet treat, but not giving him demon beast meat is to let him know his true identity and not to push his luck."
"Reward him with monster meat next time he makes progress; that way he'll understand his place."
(End of this chapter)