Vampire Cultivation Notes

Chapter 174 Bai Ningxue

The yellow worms went to feed the black mud pool, stuffed the bats into the light screen, and then returned.

Li Jieqing had finished tidying up and closed the cave entrance, leaving only one point in the magic array for the yellow insects to enter and exit.

"I remember. When the master left, he was tidying up the cave, mainly to make sure no one found out, or you'd better watch out."

Li Jieqing raised his hand and patted the yellow worm horn that had emerged from the underground drill a few times, then walked out of the passage with his hands behind his back.

Li Jieqing opened the magic array concealing the entrance, went out, closed it again, stood in the rain curtain to discern the direction, flew eastward, and disappeared.

The yellow worm sniffed at the entrance of its cave, then burrowed back underground to tend to the crops.

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A bluebird flies across the Gobi Desert.

This bird has a wingspan of about three feet and flies extremely fast. At a height of over a hundred feet above the ground, its body leaves afterimages and flashes of light as it flies, its head looking left and right, and its mouth emitting a clear chirping sound.

In the desolate landscape, where greenery was scarce, the melodious chirping rang out and carried for over ten miles.

A bluebird flew by and landed on a dry, cracked boulder, raising its wings and preening its feathers with its beak.

"Strange... there's a faint demonic aura about this bird."

Li Jieqing was standing right next to him, also on the boulder, and used his divine sense to examine the blue bird with great interest.

When he used his divine sense to probe the body's surface, it was fine. However, when Li Jieqing forcefully used his divine sense to enter the blue bird's body to search for demonic energy, the blue bird jolted and raised its head, looking around in panic. The chirping it emitted was no longer melodious but extremely urgent.

Unfortunately, the bluebird couldn't find the divine sense, but felt a sense of unease, as if its own bones and flesh were being peeled away.

"There is actually a special magical power circulating within my body; no wonder there are signs of magical radiance."

Li Jieqing withdrew his divine sense to avoid frightening the blue bird into fainting.

After his investigation, he discovered that the bluebird seemed to have practiced some kind of special technique, like a cultivator, and had established a small circulation within its body.

In terms of magical power, it is roughly equivalent to the peak of the mid-stage Qi Refining realm.

However, given the powerful physique of the demon beast, this blue bird's combat strength should be comparable to that of a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.

Li Jieqing had indeed heard that there were indeed sects in the East Sea region skilled in beast taming, whose spirit beasts were traded among various families and were not affected by the poisonous aura or evil nature of wild demon beasts.

I never expected to actually see a genuine spirit beast today.

"As expected of Blood Heart Cave Heaven, a vast place, this method is far superior to the old Taoist with the unicorn forcibly driving a nail into the head of a demon beast, leaving it dizzy and confused, and then claiming it as subjugation."

Seeing the bluebird quiet down as if it had survived a disaster, Li Jieqing smiled and said nothing more.

The rumbling sound came from right in front of the boulder.

The clatter of horses' hooves, the rushing of vehicles, and the chaotic sounds of a large number of people and horses passing through the area.

The group headed straight for the boulder where the bluebird stood.

Clearly, the bluebird belonged to someone and was used by this group to gather intelligence in the Gobi Desert.

As the convoy approached, Li Jieqing saw living people again after more than ten years.

The caravan was arranged in a wedge formation, with about twenty men on horseback at the head, each carrying a weapon and wearing armor, dressed as if they were from Luqiu in the past. In the middle were several dozen large carts, each carrying goods and people. At the very back were seventeen or eighteen men on horseback, guarding the rear of the caravan.

The formation was imposing, and none of the men on their horses relaxed their expressions.

The horse he was riding was no ordinary horse. The one Li Jieqing had seen most often on Xiaoxin Island was a horned zebra, but the horse being ridden in this caravan was covered in a layer of dense scales, strong and muscular, and its snorts emitted a vortex of air. It was also much larger than the horned zebra.

When the caravan reached the foot of the boulder, the knights' tense faces finally relaxed a little.

"So someone collapsed here?"

The bluebird swooped down and arrived at the horse of the leading, dashing woman.

This woman had a long braid wrapped around her neck, with a small knife hidden at the end. A ribbon was tied around her forehead, and her face exuded a heroic spirit. Despite being in the scorching Gobi Desert, her complexion remained radiant. This reveals his identity as a cultivator.

A large portion of this entire convoy consisted of cultivators.

The startled bluebird spread its wings in front of the horse, chirped for a while, and buried its head in the woman's saddle.

"Did I scare you? Who is this person?"

The woman stroked the bluebird's head feathers and beckoned the others to come down to the bottom of the boulder to take a look.

In the shadow of the tilting boulder, a man dressed in a brocade robe and wearing a scholar's cap lay on the sand and gravel, his face pale and his eyes closed.

Bluebird had noticed this situation earlier, which is why they called the convoy over.

Seeing that a person was lying there motionless, as if unconscious, the people who approached relaxed even more.

"As long as it's not a monster."

"It would be even better if some senior were lying injured here. Back then, the Xue family found the current Imperial Advisor in the desert and prospered from then on, and they have been tyrannical in the capital, taking away a lot of business from our Bai family."

"It is said that the founding emperor was also picked up by the empress, which is how he protected the eastern lands and established a thousand-year foundation."

"Now that we've encountered such beautiful young women, it's a good time to pick them up along the way."

"absurd!"

The woman laughed and cursed, then simply chased away the nosy onlookers and rode forward to investigate herself.

However, after dismounting, I highly recommend "The Vampire Cultivation Notes"! Click to enter the story world. Slowly approaching the person lying on the ground, she still felt a considerable sense of anticipation.

This place is adjacent to the Western Demon Realm. Those who can appear here are either merchant caravans who earn their living through hard work, or highly skilled individuals who dare to venture into the Demon Realm.

If they could actually bring one back, the Bai family's predicament might be resolved.

Full of hope, the eldest daughter of the Bai family reached out to touch the person lying on the ground, and then—

"—The person is already dead; the poisoning was incurable."

The eldest daughter of the Bai family stood up expressionlessly. What kind of opportunity was this? What a waste of time traveling.

Another person approached, an old woman with shrewd eyes. She glanced at the man in the gravel and whispered, "Ningxue, judging from the style of this man's cuffs, he seems to be from the Yu family in the capital. I wonder how he was poisoned and died here. His family is involved in officialdom and rarely associates with us. It's best not to get involved in this matter."

Bai Ningxue, the eldest daughter of the Bai family, nodded, let down her braids to get some fresh air, glanced at the silent corpse lying on the ground, and to avoid any awkwardness, simply left her storage bag behind, mounted her horse, and called for the caravan to turn around.

The desert trade was over, and the caravan was just about to turn back. Passing by the boulder was just a side trip.

With a command given, the entire convoy changed formation, the front becoming the rear and the rear becoming the front, speeding towards the end of the eastern Gobi Desert.

Li Jieqing remained standing on the boulder, his gaze thoughtful.

This team doesn't have a foundation-building period, which is good.

The timing was also excellent.

He came from the Black Mountain and saw a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator who had just passed away. Just as he was about to examine him, a blue bird flew over, drawing the convoy out of sight again.

He secretly observed the noisy discussions of the convoy, which gave him some impression of the Eastern Lands.

There are emperors, imperial advisors, aristocratic families, and officialdom, but it seems there are no sects.

In unfamiliar territory, with a brand new identity before me, why not take the opportunity?

With a sudden thought, Li Jieqing took the Thousand Illusions Mask, raised his hand and covered his face, transforming it into the appearance of the man on the ground.

At the same time, his aura also plummeted, turning into an ordinary sixth-level Qi Refining Realm cultivator, his magical power and spiritual light merging with the lingering true energy within the man on the ground.

Bai Ningxue had already ridden her horse for two miles and was about to continue forward, personally leading the way for the caravan.

Suddenly, a cry of alarm came from behind. The person who had been laughing earlier shouted in a trembling voice, "Young lady, that man isn't dead! He's come looking for us!"

Bai Ningxue turned around in surprise, her brows furrowing. In the blink of an eye, the Yu family member she thought was dead got up and coughed all the way, using a lightness technique to get close and catch up with the horse.

"Help! I am a member of the Yu family. I beg the leader to escort me back to the capital—"

When the Yu family member arrived in front of Bai Ningxue's horse, he coughed up blood, covered his mouth, and fainted again.

"this!"

Bai Ningxue was so stunned by this scene that she was almost speechless. For the first time, she doubted that she had been so careless as to not even be able to tell whether the person was dead or alive.

At this moment, a burly man who had been frightened recovered and asked, "Miss, should we take him with us?"

"Be careful, or you'll get into trouble..."

The old woman was in the late stage of Qi Refining. She descended from the sky and whispered a warning.

The person in charge of the caravan was Bai Ningxue. She looked at the people on the ground, shook her head and said, "They've called for help so loudly. If we don't help them, it won't look good if word gets out."

"Everyone gathered here is family, all of them are born into the family, who would spread this around?" The old woman still held a negative opinion.

"It's not appropriate, there are still people in the caravan who are traveling with us..." Bai Ningxue shook her head: "Besides, it would be fine if he were dead, but since he's still alive, let's take him for a while, feed him a few pills and see how things go. If anyone comes looking for him, we'll deal with them then."

Bai Ningxue was the one in charge, and seeing that she had made a decision, the old woman couldn't make her own decisions.

I was hoping to rescue a senior in distress in the desert, but it turned out to be a troublesome junior practicing Qi cultivation. What a waste...

The old woman continued muttering incessantly as she took flight once more, suppressing the surveillance convoy.

The convoy never stopped. Bai Ningxue called for someone to make room in the lead vehicle, and then personally took out two spirit pills from her storage bag and gave them to the Yu family disciple in front of her. She then sent him to the vehicle with the available space to rest and recover.

Night fell.

Before the convoy had even left the Gobi Desert, it found a sheltered spot to rest for a while.

With no one coming to look for him, Li Jieqing opened his eyes inside the vehicle.

"That foolish, short-sighted woman almost ruined my grand plan!"

"As expected of the Demonic Sect's territory, they almost didn't help me even though I was howling so loudly. Their atmosphere is almost as bad as my little Xin Island."

It was also because his identity was discovered by Fairy Shecai when he was swimming in the Snake Sea that she gave him a warning.

A newly fabricated identity without any basis or origin naturally carries the label of being untrustworthy. A false identity leaves no room for maneuver, and it is easy to be discovered if one does anything slightly out of line.

Therefore, this time Li Jieqing directly used his identity as a local to disguise himself and then entered the so-called Eastern Immortal Cultivation World, so that he would not easily arouse suspicion again.

As for the original owner being poisoned, the cause and effect behind this remains to be seen.

To be honest, Li Jieqing didn't really care about the cause and effect behind having to resort to poison to deal with someone who was only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

"Stop hiding your true identity! Let me see your name. I am a man of great loyalty and righteousness, and I will avenge you right now!"

Li Jieqing searched for a while but couldn't find the original owner's specific name. He only found a cultivation technique notebook, which, judging from the description, should be the cultivation technique the original owner practiced.