Chapter 381: Chapter 136: Three-Faced Fiend, Hui Jiao Transformation
Tong Jia caught his expression and showed a look of realization, as if she truly confirmed he was a cultivator who escaped from the Corpse Mountain Hidden Demon Country.
She did not continue to question him, instead she tugged at Li Xuan’s hand and said, "Alright, alright, let’s not talk about it anymore."
Li Xuan neither admitted nor denied, slowly closing his eyes.
After this outing, along with Tong Jia’s idle chatter, he gradually realized that "Bixiu Island" and the "Sea Barrier Reef Realm" were really great places.
If he were to run out from here to hunt demons, and then run back to rest after the kill... surely no demon would think to bypass the "Sea Barrier Reef Realm" to search, right?
After all, the notorious "Three-Faced Demon" guards the outside.
It’s a place that could be attacked or defended.
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...
More than a month passed in a flash.
Li Xuan dutifully trained, and because of his previous successful mining outing, he was also included in the "mining outing" listing, with his partner naturally being Tong Jia.
Whether it was because "he escaped from the Three-Faced Demon" was spread by the big-mouthed Tong Jia, Steward Jian seemed to have given up on showing him goodwill.
During this month, cultivators continued to escape to the outside.
Apparently, many cultivators had the same thought, thinking of Bixiu Island as a good place to settle.
Among them was a cultivator named Xu Zishi, who was extremely handsome, almost comparable to Li Xuan. Steward Jian began to throw an olive branch at him, and soon... Xu Zishi moved to live in the western settlement.
Yet, as some arrived, some left.
Mining in the Evil Spirit Reef Realm wasn’t a safe task.
Some familiar faces, visible yesterday, vanished from Li Xuan’s sight today.
...
Several days later.
Li Xuan finished cultivating at the Yin Ore site, and went to find Lu Yanwu, saying: "Mr. Lu, there’s a Vermilion Flame Vine on a desolate island north of Bixiu Island, I want to go out and gather herbs, and refine some Spirit Gathering Pills when I return."
Lu Yanwu gave him a deep look and nodded.
That day, Li Xuan went out diligently to the desolate island, picked quite a lot of "Vermilion Flame Vine," gathered some supplementary materials, and started alchemy the next day after returning.
A day later, the Spirit Gathering Pills were completed!
The medicinal fragrance spread, infusing each settlement, each mud hut.
Many cultivators rushed out, gathering outside.
Once the pills were produced.
Everyone counted a total of fifty pills!
A yield of fifty pills was already high, after all, these "Vermilion Flame Vines" were directly picked from the wilderness, without any selection, drying or such processes.
However, there were over three hundred cultivators on Bixiu Island.
Fifty pills were only enough for fifty people.
Without saying a word, Li Xuan kept four for himself and directly gave two to Tong Jia.
Tong Jia was delighted.
In the crowd, Dugu Qing pouted angrily and stomped her feet.
As for the remaining Spirit Gathering Pills, Li Xuan handed them all over to Lu Yanwu for distribution.
Lu Yanwu distributed them earnestly, allocating based on achievements; those with higher success rates in mining the Yin Ore got them.
Thus, the newly arrived cultivators didn’t get any.
One Spirit Gathering Pill’s effects could last for a whole month.
The newcomers could only look on enviously.
And just then, a female cultivator emerged from the crowd and walked up to Lu Yanwu.
Lu Yanwu paused for a moment, looked at the newcomer and asked, "Steward Jian, is one pill not enough?"
Steward Jian smiled and said, "I want one for Zishi, Mr. Lu, do me a favor."
Zishi was the recently arrived refugee cultivator who had moved to the West District — Xu Zishi.
Lu Yanwu furrowed his brows slightly, but he was not a rigid person, and promptly smiled, "Alright, alright, if Steward Jian asks personally, how could I refuse."
With that, he handed a pill to Steward Jian.
Steward Jian took the pill and handed it over to a handsome male cultivator nearby.
Their eyes met, with a somewhat flirting vibe.
The crowd looked on in astonishment before quickly turning away.
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...
Night fell.
The tigress enthusiastically reciprocated to "the male cultivator who gifted her two Spirit Gathering Pills."
The Spirit Gathering Pills, though important, weren’t really that crucial.
The key was this special treatment which made Tong Jia feel extremely comfortable.
After a joyful time together, they lay down, casually talking pillow talk.
As they chatted, Li Xuan casually asked about the terrain and demon situation outside the Sea Barrier Reef Realm.
He went out by himself and could only see the street scenes, making random guesses.
This was far less than the insights from the Illusion Mountain Sect cultivators who personally experienced the war.
Tong Jia knew a lot, and it seemed to trigger unpleasant memories for her, so she vented, speaking with Li Xuan...
After saying a lot, she finally summarized: "Upper Jingyu Country, that Great Demon I remember! I heard from other cultivators, it was that Great Demon who ate my master!"
She gritted her teeth and said, "Hui Jiao!"
Li Xuan asked curiously, "Hui Jiao?"
Tong Jia said, "It’s said Hui becomes a Jiao after three hundred years, and after another three hundred years turns to a dragon. Hui is a poisonous creature, everyone shouts to kill, once it becomes a dragon, it’s lofty above."
Li Xuan asked curiously, "Can demons transform?"
Tong Jia tapped his forehead and said, "Ignorant! Most demons can only grow, but if during the growth stage they obtain a special cultivation technique from their demon species, there’s a chance to advance into a powerful unique demon.
Hui is such a being.
The cultivation technique Hui practiced, I also know it’s called ’Hui Jiao Transformation,’ it can transform successfully, given it consumes sufficient human blood and flesh.
When it ate my master, it was already a Great Jiao.
This Hui Jiao is terrifying in the water, luckily it can’t fly, otherwise... more people would’ve died as we fled through Upper Jingyu Country.
We might not even have someone alive reaching Bixiu Island."
Li Xuan nodded.
Understood.
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More than ten days later.
Everyone had grown accustomed to Li Xuan going out to gather herbs.
And just as everyone was accustomed, on this day, at the desolate island, Li Xuan lit incense, calculating the distance, allowing the incense to unfurl a golden path, burrowing into the soil, entering the depths of the sea, his figure rapidly bypassed the Evil Spirit Reef Realm, emerging near the waters of Upper Jingyu Country.
Swish...
Swish swish swish...
Li Xuan’s blood and flesh transformed, instantly turning into a tiny insect, flying up into the sky.
He flew to Upper Jingyu Country, stopping between the tiles of a high pavilion, watching from afar as demons whip and yell, forcing humans to carry goods, build new homes, and the new "great fence."
Patiently waiting, upon seeing a group of isolated demons, he quietly flew over.
In the woods, demons were conversing.
"The lord’s Dragon Ascension Feast isn’t long from now."
"Yes, I heard that the new great fence we’re building is the banquet site."
"Really? Does it mean we’ll herd a group of humans here and just feast on them freely?"
"Wrong, wrong, wrong, you know nothing."
"So, tell us, what do you know?"
"The newly built great fence is for a group of relocated people, and those not relocated are the feast’s main dish. The entire human settlement that lived here for many years is the main course of the feast..."
Before the ’dish’ character of ’main dish’ finished, a bloodline appeared on the demons’ necks.
A figure wielded a flying sword.
The power of blood and flesh, the aura of cultivators connected within.
A blood-spurting sword!
Li Xuan stepped forward, swiftly harvesting Demon Points.
The count showed a whopping sixty-five points!
He couldn’t help but reveal a pleased, sinister smile.
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