Chapter 58: 054: The Blood-soaked New Order, Leaving to Encounter the Spider Demon (Seeking Initial Subscription)_1 Chapter 58: 054: The Blood-soaked New Order, Leaving to Encounter the Spider Demon (Seeking Initial Subscription)_1 “Qian Yuan, he was likely captured before the blockade was lifted, imprisoned and tortured, only recently killed and displayed.
Otherwise, he should have long escaped to Luo Family Mountain…”
Chen Dengming, donning a human skin mask and a straw hat, discreetly observed from a forest several hundred feet away from the gathering site.
From a distance, he saw a crowd gathered around the corpse of Qian Yuan, hanging from a wooden stake.
People were eagerly discussing the spectacle, shaking their heads in dismay.
It was quite the spectacle.
Qian Yuan was undoubtedly a Qi Cultivator of the sixth level, a previous leader of Hutong Street.
He possessed countless middle-tier magic artifacts and possibly even top-tier ones.
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Chen Dengming once heard from Luo Bing that the destructive power of the Golden Silkworm Gu is comparable to high-tier magic artifacts.
A typical mid-tier defensive artifact could hardly resist its attack more than five times.
While its destructive force may not top all high-tier magic artifacts, it doesn’t require draining of any spiritual energy, and this is why Luo Bing coveted the Golden Silkworm Gu.
If Qian Yuan indeed possessed a high-tier magic artifact, not many other Loose Cultivators, even those in the late stages of seventh level Qi Cultivation, would be his match.
Moreover, the Luo and Zhu families had called a temporary ceasefire half a month ago and the blockade set up by the Zhu family was lifted.
In theory, Qian Yuan should have already escaped into Luo Mountain City.
But now, Qian Yuan was dead, his corpse left out in the open, stimulating the nerves of many cultivators.
Chen Dengming, with eyes narrowed, took a look from a distance, sent a chill through his heart.
He finally understood why Jiang Qiang’s expression was so intricate when he returned.
Horrible!
Just too horrifying!
Qian Yuan had been beheaded and dismembered, he only originally had one arm.
Now, his other arm had also been severed, the bloody flesh mingling with white bone, it was shoved into his mouth, which gaped open like a dried dead fish.
Clearly, he had been cruelly tortured before his death.
This sixth level Qi Cultivator, once a prominent figure among the grassroots Loose Cultivators of the gathering place, ended up this way, dying with his eyes wide open.
When killing someone, there’s no need to decapitate their head.
The Zhu family is too cruel.
But it’s obviously a blatant deterrent and show of force.
The Zhu family just occupied the gathering place and reclaimed many resource points, naturally, they need to demonstrate their might.
The body of Qian Yuan is a declaration: the gathering place has changed its master, the rules of the Zhu family are now the law.
The neutral forces and Loose Cultivators who have returned should know how to proceed.
“Such ruthless methods…”
Chen Dengming took a deep breath.
His face soured.
Perhaps it was because he could also be hunted down by Xu Ning and the Zhu family, he felt some sympathy towards Qian Yuan, once his arch-nemesis, who had ended up in this tragic position.
He knew, he absolutely cannot fall into the hands of Xu Ning and the Zhu family.
Otherwise, death would be a rather pleasant outcome.
They’d likely torture him, force him to hand over the Gu Refinement Secret, or reduce him to a mere tool.
The Zhu family need not worry about Miss Luo.
He swiftly changed his position, feeling uneasy to stay in one place.
But with the Blood Centipede and Golden Silkworm Gu keeping watch from front and back, and the Mini Array Spirit providing early warning in his arms, he could always dodge out of sight before encountering any Loose Cultivators.
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Chen Dengming had been circling the gathering place for a long time.
Observing the gathering place from all sides.
He noticed that although there were many houses, it was considerably deserted.
There were very few people on the streets, those who did appear walked quickly and kept a low profile.
Close to the city center, many cultivators and commoners were lining up.
It seemed that commoners were queuing for food.
Cultivators seemed to be receiving some kind of job allocation.
The Zhu family was reestablishing their order.
Whether they were cultivators or commoners in the gathering place, they accepted this order and thus restored the previous order.
But this order is filled everywhere with blood and oppression.
Chen Dengming didn’t want to get involved.
He couldn’t change it, but he could choose to stay out of it.
After observing the gathering place, he quickly left, dropping his intention to retrieve the Spirit Crystal from his house in the city.
Outside the gathering place, he saw from afar that several Gu refining places had already been occupied by cultivators who were mining Gu objects.
Chen Dengming indifferently left.
He was open-minded, he had successfully escaped from the turmoil.
Now his strength had even improved.
It was much better than ending up like Qian Yuan, who even lost his life.
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Half a day later.
Chen Dengming stopped near a farmhouse not far from the foot of Luo Family Mountain.
The farmhouse had long become desolate, even showing signs of being invaded by Demonic Beasts.
Through the typical sword or dagger-like holes in the ground and walls, it was clear that a spider-like demonic beast had invaded.
No bodies could be found, evidently, they had been dragged away.
Here was where Xu Wei’s entrusted peasant family lived.
Unfortunately, this family didn’t survive the chaotic winter and had become meals for the demonic beasts.
Chen Dengming suddenly focused his gaze and gestured with his hand.
From the ruins in the corner of a nearby house, several unopened letters flew out.
He opened one and saw that it was indeed a letter left by Xu Wei.
The letter contained all the worries Xu Wei held for his safety and Xu Wei had also written about the Luo family’s attitude towards the war, which she had learned of, in the letter to inform him.
If such information were to leak, and the people of the Luo family found out, it would surely lead to a dead end.
A letter intended for a colorful note and a sheet of plain paper, knowing not where they are between the long mountains and wide rivers.
The commoners in the farmhouse have already perished, but the letter is still left in the ruins.
The content of the letter, every word and sentence, expressed Xu Wei’s concern for his safety.
At the same time, Xu Wei also had written about the Luo family’s attitude towards this war, which she found out to inform him.
Such a leakage of information, if known by the Luo family, would certainly lead to death.
“This Friend Xu…”
Chen Dengming chuckled, realizing that this was the last letter.
Clearly, after the all-out war between the two families, Xu Wei had no chance to descend the mountain.
He noticed in the last line that Xu Wei had left something for him in a sachet.
“A sachet…”
Chen Dengming continued his search and found three sachets amid the ruins, each emitting extremely weak spiritual energy fluctuations.
Upon opening them, he saw two low-grade spirit stones in each sachet, wrapped in soft clay and cotton wool, totaling six.
Chen Dengming frowned and glanced back at Luo Family Mountain which had already been sealed off.
“Fe-e-ell-ow…”
At this moment, the Mini Array Spirit, through a sentiment captured from Chen Dengming, caused the array plate on his waist to tremble slightly.
Chen Dengming asked, “What’s the matter?”
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“No-no-nothing…
again…
again there are spirit stones for cultivation…”
Chen Dengming frowned, “Really nothing?
You’re stuttering, you seem very nervous.”
“No-no-no-no, it’s not!just!just!just that, we can cultivate now…”
Chen Dengming chuckled, stood up and swiftly left with his movement technique.
Six low-grade spirit stones, it was not hard to imagine how painstakingly Xu Wei had saved up these at the Luo Family.
But this resource was too few for him.
Sometimes, he also thought about finding a serene place and a safe environment to exchange time for space, gradually cultivating to higher realms.
But having been in this world for so long, he found that there was not a single place for peace and tranquility.
Perhaps he could prepare a coffin, dig a pit on the spot, bury himself alive, and cultivate in the coffin, which would be completely peaceful and last for a long time.
However, this premise was based on the condition that he could go without eating, drinking or excreting for decades, and his mind would not distort under stifling stress.
Humans, after all, are social creatures.
Chen Dengming knew that the Luo Family and the Zhu Family were no longer suitable for him to stay.
He had to leave.
He had to go to an unknown place to cultivate, currently, the best option was Jingxiu Workshop.
He needed more resources for longevity and cultivation.
Only by continuously becoming stronger could he survive longer.
Only when he was strong enough could he keep his life and achieve immortality.
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Upon returning to the valley.
Chen Dengming informed Jiang Qiang of his plan to leave.
Jiang Qiang agreed to accompany him, coincidently having the same plan.
The two quickly packed up and collected all the formations in the valley, preparing to leave together.
However, not long after they left the valley.
The scouting Blood Centipede Gu sent a warning, and Chen Dengming abruptly stopped.
‘Flap flap flap’ A large group of birds burst out of the forest.
An agitated and oppressive atmosphere was suddenly born.
It felt like some enormous creature had swept through the forest in front of them, revealing its sharp, gruesome smile.
Two cultivators came running out of the forest, crying out in fear.
“Demonic Beast?”
Chen Dengming’s expression changed, and at the moment he spread out his hand, his Ice Spirit Sword whirred and vibrated, surrounding him as he cast his spell.
Almost at the same moment when Chen Dengming and Jiang Qiang started to prepare their defenses.
An intense and fierce spiritual might burst out of the forest ahead.
“Br—”
Before Chen Dengming could get the warning word “ring” out of his mouth, the forest trees shook violently, the vines on them seemed to let out heart-wrenching screams as they broke.
A weird creature spewed out a puff of white sticky stuff, which engulfed the two fleeing cultivators in an instant.
With a ‘bang’, one of the cultivators seemed to activate the Big Fireball Skill.
The violent fire erupted within the white sewage, but the sewage expanded like spider silk and rapidly contracted.
In the blink of an eye!
Both men were enveloped by the spider silk and disappeared into the forest as the huge green shelled figure quickly retreated.
Chen Dengming’s forehead was cold.
He thought of the forest that he had once burned down and the countless cocoon packs.
He quickly came back to his senses and rushed out like the wind with a loud shout.
But just as he was about to rush up, he suddenly woke up, controlled his anger and impulse, slowed down, his face hardened like iron, holding the Ice Spirit Sword and summoning the Ancient Bell.
The Golden Silkworm Gu and Blood Centipede Gu flew around him.
The instinct to rush out and save people showed that his deeply-held principles were still intact, and that his repression under the pressure of this cruel world was resisting and breaking free.
But his hesitation to rush out was due to his quick rationality and responsibility for his own safety after calming down.
These are human instincts.
Chen Dengming quickly dived into the forest and frowned at the sticky trail all over the ground.
There was something like a coin purse left on the ground.
He could see that some trees on both sides were rammed and broken, their pulp exposed, and broken gray vines, like countless whips, aimlessly flapping around in the wind.
This clearly illustrated the brute force of the demonic beast’s impact.
“Brother Chen …
let’s go quickly!”
At this moment, Jiang Qiang, who was nervously approaching, looked around in fear, his face suddenly changed and he cried out.
“It’s coming back——”
Almost without needing Jiang Qiang’s reminder, Chen Dengming already felt the fierce and formidable spiritual might, which was returning.
Clearly, the demonic beast had noticed them and was not going to let them go!….