Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
His eyes sharpened, the vital energy in his body slowly gathering. Just as he was about to strike out, he suddenly saw Xinran’s body blocking in front of him. Soul power charged out as she reached out with her hands and coldly spat, “Back off!”
Her jade-like five fingers suddenly opened. A small yellow talisman appeared there. A strong repelling force forced that winged rat backwards.
In the next moment, a martial cultivator cleanly killed it in one swordstroke.
“How dangerous! We kept talking and nearly forgot that this is Blood Valley.”
Looking at that winged rat being cut up into minced meat, Gong Xinran patted her chest in fear. She looked around, “Senior Brother Gao, are you a little tired? Why not retire first and rest up. Although my ancestor left some treasures, we don’t have to risk our lives.”
Gao Yi at the front smiled bitterly. He turned around and looked over apologetically, “It’s okay, it was just a moment of carelessness. We still can handle most Grade Three beasts. That flying rat was too cunning and we weren’t on our guard.”
Zong Shou’s eyes turned slightly cold, looking at Gao Yi with a dark expression.
Was it just carelessness, what had happened just now? With his peak martial cultivation in his last life, even when he spoke he wouldn’t give up awaeness of the surrounding environment. That winged rat had charged across at such a coincidental time. It wasn’t that the nearby Mythic Masters couldn’t stop it.
Half a day ago, he already felt that the way Gao Yi and the others were looking at him wasn’t right. At that time, he thought that he was thinking too much into it, just following them along. After all Gantian Mountain and Dragon Spirit Mountain were so far away from one another and didn’t have any conflict of interests, so he felt that he had misjudged it.
Only now was he sure that this Gao Yi was filled with killing intent towards him! He just didn’t know what the reason was.
The two of them didn’t have any grievances, and if he said that it was jealousy because of Gong Xinran’s protection, then it didn’t make any sense. His senior sister only treated him as a little brother. With his identity and character, he shouldn’t have a reason to treat a publicly humiliated failure like that.
Was it because of Xinran’s ancestor’s belongings? But this Gao Yi was the Young Master of the Dragon Spirit City Gao Family, so what things couldn’t he get? A Day Wandering Realm spirit master, no matter how precious the items he had on him were, three thousand years had passed. Was there a need to kill him before he got those items?
The doubts and questions in his heart grew stronger and stronger, but he couldn’t get an answer. Zong Shou didn’t dare to be careless anymore; if it happened once it would definitely happen another time. He focused and took out some medicine, quietly rubbing it onto his body.
He then took out a few thin pieces of fur as well as silver needles for drawing talismans and stabbed them into the sides of his ears and his temple.
Instantly his listening and visual abilities grew greatly. His previous vision range was only around five thousand feet while now he could see everything within ten thousand feet.
The noises he could hear were similarly increased by ten times, just like that day when he opened up his soul ocean. All the movements and actions of the beasts around, even the movement of the wind, were all picked up by him.
Originally it was to perceive the environment and not be plotted against. But when Zong Shou blocked off some of the useless noises, he heard a few of them talking.
“Unfortunately… Young Master, that person… spoiled it!”
“Damn it! … Why did you act on your own accord!? His identity, if he dies at our hands…we won’t be able to wash our hands of it..”
“…That girl likes him, forget it! Don’t care… Gantian Mountain Prince… would die anyways, he’s trash, so what if he knows?”
“But that thing… is really important… the fewer people know the better…”
“The matter is simple… wait until we all get out… there were people prepared behind… even that person should have come..”
The voices were muddy and hard to pick up. Even when using lip reading he was unable to understand totally. The fierce glows in the eyes of the six Mythic Masters made Zong Shou’s heart sink even further.
Just as he wanted to listen in more, those people had stopped talking. On Gao Yi’s face, it was a gentle and warm smile, such that they couldn’t see any abnormality.
A killing intent rose in his heart, lasting for a short while before he forcibly suppressed it.
Su Chuxue had a beast-like intuition, and she instinctively leaned towards Zong Shou, one of her hands also similarly pressed onto her sword, her expression totally alert.
The beasts on the Demon Corpse Mountain were even rarer, but their strengths were much stronger, all close to the peak of Grade Three. Even the Dark Chill Tiger was finding it tough to go up against them. If they delayed for too long and attracted a beast pack, they would be unable to break away.
Luckily this wasn’t the beast flood period, and their group was really careful and tried to walk a secluded way up the mountain. Their luck was really good, and they only bumped into around four or five in total. As they were really strong, it wasn’t that dangerous for them.
After walking for roughly four miles, the bunch of them started to look around the middle of the mountain.
Zong Shou was worried about Xinran, acting dumb, like he didn’t find it. It was best if they dragged things on to late night, when the beast packs on the mountain went berserk, so that these people would give up and go down the mountain.
That is, until he saw unhappiness growing on the faces of Gao Yi and the others. Even Gong Xinran started to frown, and Zong Shou knew that he couldn’t drag it out anymore.
Silently sighing to himself, Zong Shou looked around and after a short while, joy appeared on his face as he walked off to one side.
Not far away, beneath a giant rock was a red-beige spiritual grass around half a human’s height, its leaves jade in colour.
The spiritual grasses on Demon Corpse Mountain were all slightly poisonous on the outside. Before Zong Shou got close, he took out a leather glove and carefully plucked off one of them. He injected in a thread of true qi and also a drop of blood.
When this drop of blood was absorbed, instantly red meridian veins appeared on the leaf. Just needing some slight confirmation, Zong Shou was able to confirm that this grass was exactly the same was the Meridian Spirit Grass in his memory.
There were hundreds of grasses here, and Zong Shou checked them one by one, picking out around fifty. This number was more than enough for him to make into medicine and pills. What was special was that at the end of this Meridian Spirit Grass there were ten-some rice-grain sized fruits.
The Meridian Spirit Grass would bear fruit every hundred years and the ones in his hands were obviously over three hundred years old, seeming very strong.
“As expected from things that people don’t care about. If it was ten thousand years from now, even ten-year Meridian Spirit Grass is rare.”
Although this grass had few uses, it didn’t stop people from harvesting them. Ten thousand years from now, wild Meridian Spirit Grass was really rare.
With these in his hand, if it was the future, he would become a multi-millionaire.
Zong Shou placed all this into a long rectangular bag at his waist, satisfied. He saw Gong Xinran suddenly appearing by his side with a wide smile. “Getting this Meridian Spirit Grass, Junior Brother must be satisfied?”
She opened her hand and passed six over talismans, “These are invisibility talismans I requested from master. Each can last for four hours and can hide one’s tracks and aura. Junior Brother, with this help, should be able to return without problem.”
Zong Shou shook his head, looking at Gao Yi from the corner of his eyes. Although his previous thoughts were just guesses, and it was like he was being too suspicious… After all, although Gao Yi had killing intent towards him, but Gong Xinran he had taken good care of from start to finish. But he still felt a little worried.
Taking in a deep breath, Zong Shou smiled and tried to probe, “Why not let Junior Brother follow you along? Or I can let Xue’er follow you. Anyways, with these talismans, I can walk out myself…”
The moment he said that Chuxue frowned and exclaimed, “Young Master!”
Gong Xinran knocked his head, “Stop it! Even if this invisibility talisman is strong, accidents might happen. With no one following you, I will be worried.”
Zong Shou smiled bitterly and knew that his suggestion would never work. Even if he said that he was at the Martial Master Realm, sword art connecting to the spirit, it also wouldn’t work.
Not only couldn’t he persuade Gong Xinran and Chuxue, Gao Yi’s expression became colder and colder, shining dangerously.
Without any hesitation, Zong Shou chose the next best solution, taking out a stack of talismans he got from Qi Xiao. Without using his brain he shoved them into her hands, “Senior Sister, take these, I can’t use them. The mountain is dangerous, maybe you can use them…”
Gong Xinran initially hesitated, and studied at how serious this teen looked. She thought back to his identity as the Gantian Mountain Prince, as such he shouldn’t lack such talismans. She smiled and stowed all the talismans.
