Chapter 75: Strange Situation
Other than the changes in his body, Yu Nianzhen felt a change in his soul.
He didn’t know what the change was, but he was sure it was there.
"I will ask him for now."
Yu Nianzhen took a deep breath, let out a turbid breath, and then opened his eyes.
When he did, he realised he was alone.
"Where did he go?"
He looked around, but he couldn’t find the black-clothed youth.
Yu Nianzhen frowned and decided to ask the young cultivator he met when he first arrived.
"Fellow Daoist..." He called.
The homely cultivator turned pale when he realised that Yu Nianzhen was talking to himself.
He took a few steps backwards and fled right after.
Yu Nianzhen was confused by this reaction.
’Did something happen while I was meditating?’ He wondered and then looked around.
Other than the homely cultivator, everyone was looking at him strangely.
’Forget it. Every encounter is fated. If we are fated, we will meet again.’
Yu Nianzhen sat on the rock and reset the pieces on the chess board.
Now that he won the dragon-scaled fruit, he planned to wait there for it to ripen before he harvested it.
Although he could ripen it in the jade box, he didn’t want to act suspiciously.
Everyone knew there was no benefit to harvesting an unripe dragon-scaled fruit.
If he did so, other cultivators would think he had a secret method to age the fruit.
This speculation was not good for him.
Because of this, he decided to patiently wait for the fruit to mature naturally.
As he waited, he carefully studied the fruit.
From what he could see, the fruit had nine scales.
Each scale represented one hundred years of growth.
With that, the one in front of Yu Nianzhen was nine hundred years old, and only a high-grade silver rank fruit.
Although its rank was not high, it had a tier seven rarity.
This was because a dragon-scaled tree could only grow in areas contaminated with dragon blood.
The blood didn’t need to be that of a real dragon.
A dragon-scaled tree could also grow from the blood of a creature with dragon heritage.
However, the higher the blood heritage, the higher the grade and rank of the dragon-scaled fruit.
In this case, Yu Nianzhen suspected that the fruit had grown from the blood of a creature with a low blood heritage.
’It doesn’t matter. Any kind of dragon-scaled fruit is valuable.’ Yu Nianzhen thought as he moved a chess piece.
At the meridian awakening realm, Yu Nianzhen used one hundred years stone milk to temper his body.
However, at the origin forging realm, one hundred years stone milk was not effective.
Although refining a sword body had improved his physique, Yu Nianzhen wanted to refine himself to a perfect state.
Until now, he planned to rely on body tempering pills.
However, now that he had a dragon-scaled fruit, his plan had changed.
Using the dragon-scaled fruit, he could refine dragon-scaled body tempering pills.
Combined with the golden bones pills refined from the golden bones grass, he could elevate his body to a very high state.
’I don’t know if the dragon-scaled tree can be transplanted into the jade box...’
He looked at the tree and wondered.
He didn’t know if the jade box contained any dragon blood elements.
If it didn’t, it could not support the growth of the dragon-scaled tree.
’I won’t know until I try it later.’
After thinking that, Yu Nianzhen no longer placed his mind on the issue.
He was about to move a chess piece when he heard footsteps behind him.
His body tensed, and his mind tightened in preparation.
No matter what, he wasn’t planning to lose the dragon-scaled fruit.
As he was about to open his mouth, a voice came from behind, and his body loosened.
"Nianzhen." Jiang Yue called as he walked towards the other.
His face was filled with happiness, but there was a hint of worry in his eyes.
"You are already in the ninth level of the origin forging realm?"
Jiang Yue was surprised when he saw Yu Nianzhen’s cultivation level.
They had only been apart for two months.
Even though the thousand herbs garden was a treasure trove for herbs, there weren’t many herbs that could improve cultivation.
The few that could only increased cultivation by one level at most.
However, Yu Nianzhen had improved by two levels.
This meant that he ate more than one herb to increase his level.
When Jiang Yue thought of this, his face creased in a frown.
Using herbs to increase one’s cultivation was not a bad thing.
However, it was not good to rely on herbs.
"Give me your hand." He said as soon as he arrived next to Yu Nianzhen.
Yu Nianzhen did not hesitate.
He stretched out his arm and allowed Jiang Yue to inject a strand of consciousness into his body.
"How could this be possible?"
Jiang Yue looked at Yu Nianzhen in amazement.
Unlike what he expected, Yu Nianzhen’s foundation was very stable.
His origin qi was compact, and his qi circulation system was very healthy.
Other than that, Jiang Yue realised that there was something strange about the other’s qi.
He could detect an incredible complexity that was absent in his own qi.
Jiang Yue was about to talk about it when he suddenly remembered what he heard when he arrived.
His face flashed a complex look, and he looked Yu Nianzhen in the eyes.
"It’s been a while since I saw your domineering side." He said and tilted his head toward the mountain of corpses.
"I didn’t do that."
"What do you mean?"
When Yu Nianzhen heard the question, he explained everything that happened after he arrived at the clear water lake.
However, the more he explained, the more Jiang Yue frowned.
"What’s wrong? Why do you keep frowning?"
"If what you say is true, something strange is going on."
When Jiang Yue arrived at the clear water lake, he noticed the strange situation on the banks.
At that time, he questioned a random cultivator and learned that a domineering cultivator had appeared on the eastern bank.
The cultivator challenged others to a chess game.
If they couldn’t win, the cultivator would ruthlessly kill them.
At the time, Jiang Yue frowned, but he didn’t think the other side was wrong.
In this world, strength was king.
Without strength, one shouldn’t challenge others.
If they challenge others, then they should always be prepared to die.
Although he thought like this, Jiang Yue wouldn’t do the same in a similar situation.
After learning everything, he planned to fight the other to grab the dragon-scaled fruit.
However, when he looked at the domineering cultivator, he realised it was Yu Nianzhen.
He confirmed with the random cultivator he questioned, and there was no doubt that Yu Nianzhen was the domineering person in their mouths.
"Are you saying that they all think I killed these people?" Yu Nianzhen looked at the mountain of corpses.
At this time, the mountain had more than fifty bodies.
"Yes."
"How could that be?"
He was silent for a moment before speaking again, "what about the black-clothed young man?"
"He wasn’t mentioned. The one I asked said that you have been here for more than a month."
Yu Nianzhen was flabbergasted.
He hadn’t been at the lake for a day, but somehow, everyone had seen him there for more than a month.
"Is this an illusion?" He wondered aloud.
He looked around, and this time, he took his time to study different things and people.
However, no matter what he did, he couldn’t detect an illusion.
Also, everyone in the secret realm was in the origin forging realm.
Yu Nianzhen didn’t believe there was someone in the secret realm that was powerful enough to create an illusion that affected so many people.
If everything was not an illusion, he could only think that everyone’s mind was rewritten.
However, this conclusion was even more outrageous.
"The black-clothed young man." He finally said.
"I also think he has a problem."
Jiang Yue frowned lightly.
In the Sea Cloud region, there were many foods and wines that were beneficial to cultivation.
However, their effect was mild.
This was the first time he heard of a wine which could offer such exaggerated benefits.
"It seems you are about to gain a certain reputation in this secret realm."
When he thought about it, Jiang Yue was now slightly amused.
After coming to the Cangxing world, Yu Nianzhen spent most of his time at Yang mountain.
Although he had killed many sea beasts, he had not killed a human yet.
However, he now had a reputation as the fiercest murderer in the thousand herbs garden.
"How ironic!" Jiang Yue chuckled, and Yu Nianzhen understood.
His lips curled upwards, and mirth coloured his eyes.
When it came down to it, he wasn’t a saint.
He was a ’demon boss’ in his previous life, and it looked like he was about to become a ’sword demon’ in this life.
