txolops Chapter 71 Green Vine
Chapter 71 Green Vine
The corpse appeared to be corroded by strong acid, hissing and constantly oozing pungent pus, quickly becoming unrecognizable.
Killing Song Ming wasn't difficult; the important thing was how to do it without anyone noticing.
There are not many lightning-type body refiners, making it very easy for others to trace them back to them.
Zhou Qiuyuan didn't want to deal with the government, let alone have a direct conflict with Huixianzhai. He wanted to handle things cleanly and leave no hidden dangers.
While honing his skills in the outer city of his future dream, he encountered two body cultivators who were robbing him. After killing them, he discovered a bottle labeled with corpse-dissolving powder, and the test results were quite good.
Last night he went to the black market and bought goods specifically for disposing of Song Ming's body.
After confirming that no hidden dangers had been left behind, Zhou Qiuyuan quickly left the alley.
The battle ended too quickly, unlike the first time he fought Song Ming, when the commotion had attracted the attention of the head constable, which led to the exposure of his identity.
As Zhou Qiuyuan walked out of the alley, he glanced one last time in the direction of Huixianzhai before leaving.
Song Ming is dead; only the manager of Huixianzhai remains.
This old fellow lives in a separate courtyard of Huixianzhai. Many body cultivators live in the separate courtyard, so it's not advisable to force your way in. We can only wait for another opportunity.
Zhou Qiuyuan returned home and carefully took out thirty-five secret medicine talismans.
The Secret Medicine Talisman is valid throughout Blackswamp City, so buying the Dragon Tiger Bright Bone Pill shouldn't be a problem.
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A dream of the future.
As usual, Zhou Qiuyuan gave the man in the dark a portrait and then planned to head to the east side of the city.
As soon as they stepped out of the city gate, they encountered dozens of body cultivators engaged in a fierce battle outside the city.
He had no choice but to abandon his idea of venturing into the outer city and quietly cultivate his secret techniques at home. Only when it got dark did he go to the various pharmacies in the city to inquire about secret medicines.
Most of the pharmacies in Black Swamp City were closed, and most of the pharmacies that were open for business did not have the secret medicine. Only three large pharmacies had it in stock.
Zhou Qiuyuan used the secret medicine talisman to find three large pharmacies outside of Huixianzhai and bought more than twenty Dragon Tiger Bright Bone Pills in total.
As usual, he went to Tianxiang Tower, met Gong Lei, and obtained the intelligence provided by An Ye.
After Gong Lei finished bowing, he said with a solemn expression, "Sir, Huang Jiu of the Intelligence Hall is dead."
"Huang Jiu found the trail of the two people you mentioned. After notifying the other members of the intelligence agency, he followed the two to a house in Mati Lane in the South City."
"After those two went in, they never came out again. Huang Jiu tried to climb over the wall to get more information, but after that, he was never heard from again."
Cao San's code name in the intelligence agency was Huang Jiu. Unexpectedly, this guy made a great contribution before he died.
In the future, it's not important that people die in dreams; what matters is obtaining useful information.
To avoid disheartening his subordinates, Zhou Qiuyuan replied, "Take 100,000 coins from the accounts as compensation."
He reached out and took a piece of paper from Gong Lei. On it was written the character "Yuan" in tiny characters, along with the exact location of the residence and the specific time of the search.
After many days of hard work, we finally reaped the rewards.
Zhou Qiuyuan received a satisfactory reward and returned home.
He took out the Dragon-Tiger Bone-Enhancing Pills he had bought from three pharmacies and began taking them to confirm whether the pills contained any extremely obvious toxicity.
Only after confirming that there are no major hidden dangers will one dare to take it in real life.
As soon as the dream ended, Zhou Qiuyuan changed his appearance and went to a pharmacy to buy Dragon Tiger Bright Bone Pills. After checking them, he found that there was nothing wrong with the pills and that he could buy them with confidence.
The secret medicine was rare, and the pharmacy didn't have much stock. Zhou Qiuyuan only managed to buy twenty Dragon Tiger Bright Bone Pills.
The fifteen secret medicine tokens can only be purchased when the pharmacy has them in stock, and when they will be available depends entirely on luck.
Huixianzhai might still have some in stock, but Song Ming is dead, and the whereabouts of the secret medicine talismans he possessed are unknown. If he were to go to Huixianzhai with a large number of secret medicine talismans at this time, wouldn't that be an admission of guilt?
It just takes more time to exchange them gradually.
Alternatively, wait until the matter has died down before going to Huixianzhai to purchase the Dragon-Tiger Bone-Enhancing Pill.
Zhou Qiuyuan went to his master's sect to cultivate as usual, and it wasn't until 1:15 PM that he arrived outside Mati Lane in the South City.
He changed his appearance and clothes, hid in an inconspicuous corner thirty feet away, and quietly waited using his Wind Listening Technique.
Before long, a young man in green arrived in front of the mansion. He was holding a cloth bag in his hand, which seemed to contain a living creature. The bag could be vaguely seen to have a human-like face protruding from it.
Zhou Qiuyuan was too far away from the green-robed young man to see him clearly.
"They're like a persistent ghost!" The young man in green stared in the direction he had come from, then closed the door after entering.
A moment later, two men with similar appearances arrived outside the mansion where the young man in green had stayed. The man in the lead was holding a black beetle.
The two men looked at the courtyard with cold eyes and spoke in hushed tones.
"Since the Scent-Seeking Insects have tracked us here, this person must have killed our men. He is probably a cultivator from Tianqiao City."
The Yuan family's men sent from the inner city died one after another, so their superiors gave them a special pill called Yingxiang Pill. This pill was harmless and emitted a very faint fragrance after being taken.
Once someone kills someone who has been exposed to the Fragrance Pill, the fragrance will change, landing on the killer and lasting for several days. At that time, with the help of the Fragrance-Seeking Insects, the location of the mastermind can be found.
The two found their target's residence, and knowing that the target was suspected to be a cultivator, they had no intention of confronting him directly and quickly returned to report.
Just then, green vines burst from the ground and quickly wrapped around their legs.
The sudden turn of events was far beyond what the two had anticipated. By the time they realized what was happening, the thorns on the green vines had already pierced their legs.
The two reacted quickly, rapidly channeling their spiritual energy to fight back and try to break free of the restraints.
Golden and yellow auras shone on the two of them, then quickly vanished. Wherever the green light passed, their bodies developed bark-like patterns, revealing no trace of flesh or blood, as if they had transformed from humans into wood...
The two stood frozen in place like puppets, their faces still showing fear.
The green vines lashed out at the distant house, and the two fell into the house, whereupon they remained motionless.
Two green vines retracted into the ground as if they were alive, and the broken soil and pebbles quickly restored the ground to its original state.
Zhou Qiuyuan felt a chill run down his spine.
Such bizarre methods undoubtedly belong to cultivators.
Even if he reaches the Vajra Realm, he still cannot snatch food from a tiger's mouth.
We have no choice but to give up the magic weapon of the Chu family in Tianqiao City.
Zhou Qiuyuan returned home without any hesitation and took out the Dragon-Tiger Bright Bone Pill to cultivate.
As long as he exchanges the other fifteen secret medicine tokens for pills, along with thirty-five Dragon Tiger Bright Bone Pills and other bone-tempering pills, Zhou Qiuyuan is confident that he can meet the requirements of the Thunder Bone Nine Refinements within half a month.
At that time, after taking the Nourishing Thunder Pill, he will be able to achieve perfect external cultivation and officially advance to internal cultivation.