Chapter 34: Chapter 34: Three Thousand Blood Inks

As for buying Spirit Stones to gain experience, now they can be obtained by selling non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans.

The price for non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans isn’t high, about one hundred taels per piece, and ten pieces are worth one Low-grade Spirit Stone.

But the cost is low.

One Low-grade Spirit Stone can buy thirty pieces of non-tier Talisman Paper.

Even including the cost of non-tier Demon Blood Ink, one Low-grade Spirit Stone can produce twenty non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans.

With a success rate of ten out of ten, twenty non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans can steadily earn one Low-grade Spirit Stone.

The only drawback is that they are not easy to sell.

Because Feixian Peak has few mortals, and Deadman Peak prohibits trading with mortals, even rich mortals can’t buy them, only the offspring of cultivators have the money and willingness to buy Soul-Seizing Talismans.

...

The next morning.

With non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans in hand, Wen Jiu went to the Trading Market, found a corner stall, and listened quietly to others chatting.

To be honest.

After hearing a few times.

Wen Jiu found himself quite enjoying the gossip.

In the stall area of the Trading Market, most stallholders are elder cultivators, with average qualifications and cultivation, but they’ve lived long, seen more things, and have more friends, so they know things Wen Jiu doesn’t.

"Have you heard? Steward Zhao from the Demon Suppression Department hasn’t been seen for some time."

"Who?"

"Zhao Sandao."

"Isn’t that the Steward Zhao who can defeat demons with three strokes? Maybe he’s on a mission."

"But the Demon Suppression Department has no record of him going on a mission, and he’s not seen at the Corpse Remains Death Land either. My nephew is in the Demon Suppression Department, so I suspect he’s a traitor and has already been secretly dealt with by the Peak Master!"

"Those damn dogs actually infiltrated the steward!"

Listening to the hushed conversation of several elder cultivators, Wen Jiu wasn’t surprised.

That’s exactly how the Night Patrol Department was back then.

If there’s a problem, they’re taken away on the spot.

No news thereafter.

"The people coming for the corpses and Yin Evil Blood Curse Body, what on earth are their identities?" To be honest, Wen Jiu really wants to cultivate the Yin Evil Blood Curse Body.

If he had the Yin Evil Blood Curse Body, he wouldn’t need to cultivate any Yin Talisman techniques, and wouldn’t fear capturing the thief by capturing the king first.

But now, he definitely doesn’t dare to cultivate it.

So, he’s itching to know.

Also very curious about who those people really are.

After a pause of an hour or two, Wen Jiu sold out all forty of the non-tier Soul-Seizing Talismans at his stall.

After casually buying twenty pieces of tier-entering Talisman Paper at another stall, Wen Jiu returned to his residence.

Continuing to use Earthly Evil Yin Qi for body refining, while infusing Secret Techniques into the Corpse Eye. Speaking of which, over the past ten days, Wen Jiu has infused a large amount of Yin Techniques into it, ten times the yin techniques in his Dantian.

But it’s only reached half the capacity of the Corpse Eye.

If he fills the Corpse Eye with Yin Techniques, Wen Jiu wouldn’t even know how strong he would be when unleashing full power.

Could he instantly kill a Qi Cultivation Third Layer?

...

He kept cultivating until dusk.

As night fell, Wen Jiu suddenly felt a massive, expansive spread of Yin energy and corpse energy.

Like ripples, the spread area reached twenty or thirty miles. Ordinary cultivators might not be so sensitive, at most feeling a cold wind, only those with some understanding of corpse energy and Yin energy could distinguish it immediately.

For Wen Jiu.

This was no different from the water he usually drank.

Once it spread, Wen Jiu felt it.

"If so much Yin energy and corpse energy burst at once, wouldn’t my Black Corpse be overwhelmed to death?"

But after the sigh, Wen Jiu was more curious and unsure.

What exactly happened?

Wen Jiu intended to take a look, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw Sword-cultivators flying constantly over his head.

Also Magical Artifact Flying Ships.

Front and back, amounting to hundreds of people.

This instantly killed Wen Jiu’s desire to investigate.

Half an hour later, Wang Nian suddenly returned, and as soon as he arrived, he hurriedly called Wen Jiu to his room.

"Big news! Something big happened!"

Wang Nian closed the door.

Activated the Sound Insulation Talisman.

Wen Jiu quickly asked, "Brother Wang, what is it?"

Wang Nian took a sip of water, with a look of excitement in his eyes, "While exploring the Corpse Remains Death Land, the Peak Master and others found the corpse of Pavilion Master of the Blood Robe Pavilion, Three Thousand Blood Inks, in an underground cave!"

"Blood Robe Tower? Three Thousand Blood Inks?"

Wen Jiu looked puzzled.

But he could feel their significance from Wang Nian’s face.

Wang Nian stood up excitedly and said, "Blood Robe Tower used to sweep around the regions of Deadman Peak and three surrounding mortal realms five years ago. From county magistrates to emperors, Blood Robe Tower had people everywhere, and Deadman Peak could do nothing about them... Corpse Remains Death Land is where Blood Robe Tower and our Deadman Peak cultivators fought back then!"

"I see."

Wen Jiu sat upright.

Eagerly listening.

Through Wang Nian’s narration, Wen Jiu learned about the Blood Robe Tower, about its peak period having seven thousand Qi Refining cultivators, five hundred thousand mortal followers, and a terrifying heterodox influence with Qi Cultivation Perfection.

Back then in the battle at Feixian Peak, if not for the Master of Deadman Peak reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage on the eve of his life’s end.

Perhaps those thousands of corpses would have been disciples of Deadman Peak!

And not people from Blood Robe Tower!

However, after that battle, the remaining disciples of Deadman Peak cleaned the battlefield seven or eight times, with divine sense searches over ten times. Yet, they could never find the corpse of the Pavilion Master Blood Ink Three Thousand.

Despite many witnesses seeing Blood Ink Three Thousand being struck by the divine sense attack from Deadman Peak’s Foundation Establishment Immortal Master.

Despite seeing Blood Ink Three Thousand on the verge of death, falling down.

But without a corpse found, no one dared to conclude Blood Ink Three Thousand was truly dead, knowing that heterodox demons always find a way to survive.

Who would have thought that when this time Feixian Peak’s insider caused such a disturbance? After excavation, it turned out Blood Ink Three Thousand, transformed into a Yin Corpse, was found in an underground cavern—the insider aimed for it!

Because in Blood Ink Three Thousand’s possession was Blood Robe Tower’s strongest secret technique, his capital for reaching Qi Cultivation Great Perfection at the age of fifty-six.

Qi Cultivation Great Perfection at fifty-six.

Eight years faster than Deadman Peak’s most dazzling ancestor three hundred years ago!

It goes to show the power of that secret technique!

"Brother Wang, did Blood Ink Three Thousand really reach Qi Cultivation Great Perfection at fifty-six?" Wen Jiu asked.

If he remembers correctly.

Back then, the corpse’s bone age was indeed fifty-six.

And it was Qi Cultivation Great Perfection.

Wang Nian nodded, "Quite dazzling... you kid, despite your strong heterodox talent, are far off compared to him."

"Was he the only one in Blood Robe Tower to achieve Qi Cultivation Great Perfection?" Wen Jiu asked again.

Wang Nian, feeling somewhat bewildered by the question, replied quickly: "What else? You think Qi Cultivation Great Perfection is easy to reach? After the trouble with Blood Robe Tower, now Deadman Peak’s main peak has cultivated just two with Qi Cultivation Great Perfection."

With Wang Nian’s response.

Wen Jiu instantly understood.

The news was likely fake.

The corpse was equally likely fake.

If there’s no second person who reached Qi Cultivation Great Perfection, then what’s buried underground is Blood Ink Three Thousand’s corpse.

Wang Nian spoke again, "If Blood Ink Three Thousand’s corpse is unearthed, it would alarm entire Deadman Peak."

Wen Jiu listened from the side.

Silently.

To be honest, he smelled a hint of conspiracy.

The overwhelming corpse energy and yin energy spreading just now in the sky.

Now the news of Blood Robe Tower’s Pavilion Master’s corpse, known even by Wang Nian.

How could he not suspect it’s intentionally spread?

Next, Wang Nian enthusiastically discussed more about Blood Robe Tower, with amazement and anger.

Wen Jiu listened quietly.

But in his mind, he thought only of Blood Ink Three Thousand.

That secret technique, perhaps it was the Yin Fiend Blood Curse Body.

Thinking this, Wen Jiu couldn’t help but touch the storage bag within his embrace, because the item now lay inside his storage bag.

Luckily, he hadn’t rushed to practice it back then.

Otherwise, he would be the first to die.

"Seems like the days ahead might not be so peaceful." The Peak Master of Feixian Peak openly staged such an act, surely with a large motive.

After thinking darkly, Wen Jiu felt somewhat relieved.

Thankfully, he’s currently just an apprentice disciple.

Bottom of Feixian Peak.

Not involved.

No qualifications to get involved.

...

In the following three days.

Many discussed matters of Blood Robe Tower at Feixian Peak, even the servants knew about the Pavilion Master Blood Ink Three Thousand’s corpse being unearthed.

Just then, the seal at Corpse Remains Death Land was lifted.

Corpse buriers could resume their tasks.

He could continue entering to cultivate as well.

Unfortunately, the central area of Corpse Remains Death Land was shrouded by an array, prohibiting Wen Jiu from absorbing blood and qi.

During this day.

The Black Corpse’s experience reached full.

Overcoming to upper realm!

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