Corpse Burier: I Can Nourish Corpse

"However, Fellow Daoist Han, there are not a few Heterodox Evil Cultivators with thoughts like yours and even many mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators." Feng Jue reminded, implying that if you want the Blood Corpse Mushroom, you might have to compete with mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Unlike Righteous Cultivators, Heterodox Evil Cultivators don’t like making friends when doing things; even if Foundation Establishment cultivators are not familiar, they will still give each other some face.

But for Heterodox Evil Cultivators, if you have no background, I definitely will not give you any face. If you dare to compete with me for something, then prepare to die!

Wen Jiu nodded, anticipating this, after all, Blood Corpse Mushrooms are not circulated in the market, belonging to those high in demand but hard to find resources. Usually, the Three Wonders Blood Corpse Sect keeps them for their own use and won’t sell them, at most offering them as gifts, so it is bound to attract many mid-stage Foundation Establishment Heterodox Evil Cultivators.

Especially Corpse Cultivators.

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Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

On the day of the trade, Wen Jiu set off early, initially planning to go alone, but unexpectedly Feng Jue wanted to go too. Feng Jue’s reason was that the items sold by the Disciple of the Departed Soul this time included not only Blood Corpse Mushrooms but also some Evil Yin Spiritual Medicines.

Among them was the core Evil Yin Spiritual Medicine for refining Barrier-Breaking Pills — Tier Two Middle Grade Reed Evil Fruit.

"Even selling Tier Two Middle-Grade Yin Evil Spiritual Medicine?" Wen Jiu was a bit puzzled, but since he couldn’t guess the reason, he gave up trying to guess.

Not long after, Wen Jiu arrived at the Thousand Corpses Cave with Feng Jue. The Thousand Corpses Cave is located in the west of the Little Demon Realm, within a cliffside, with paths as intricate as an ant nest. The moment he stepped into the cave, Wen Jiu felt a strong wave of corpse Qi assault him.

The corpse Qi mixed with death Qi was exceptionally rich, making the Corpse Remains Death Land on Deadman Peak seem like a nature reserve by comparison. Led by the Disciple of the Departed Soul, Wen Jiu passed through paths hung with Evil Corpses.

Evil Corpses are not zombies, not even as good as the most basic Black Corpses, but once they become Evil Corpses, dead bodies will provide endless corpse Qi and evil Qi, serving as excellent sustenance for certain zombies.

This Corpse Nourishing Technique is mentioned in the Yinzhou Heterodox Record, a far more sophisticated technique than the Three Evil Corpse Nurturing Technique, but it requires too many living people, so Wen Jiu hadn’t considered it before.

This is likely one of the reasons behind the origin of the Thousand Corpses Cave.

After advancing a thousand feet within the cave, they emerged into a bright and spacious underground cave dwelling. The cave was filled with Corpse Mushrooms, and some Tier Two Yin Evil Spiritual Medicines, enveloped in Yin Spirits to prevent the loss of spiritual qualities.

Wen Jiu glanced around and saw at least a hundred Tier One Top-Grade Corpse Mushrooms, with even more below Top-Grade.

He also spotted Tier Two Corpse Mushrooms.

Seeing them made Wen Jiu itch with desire, but he also noticed a few people sitting in the cave dwelling.

Five men and three women, six early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, and two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators. When the eight of them saw his arrival, they all cast unfriendly glances, except for Li Hun, who greeted them with a smile.

"Fellow Daoist Li, Fellow Daoist Feng, please!" Li Hun welcomed the two into the cave dwelling to take a seat, and a maid quickly served Spirit Wine and Spirit Fruit.

Wen Jiu didn’t care about the things on the table, only focusing on Li Hun’s broken arm, carefully sensing his aura, which was strong on the outside but weak on the inside; he hadn’t saved his arm, indicating severe injuries.

However, fortunately, the injuries seemed to be stable.

But Wen Jiu faintly sensed a strange presence within Li Hun, as if there were traces of ghost Qi erosion.

And it was Ghost King-level ghost Qi.

That ghost Qi continuously eroded Li Hun’s vitality, with an increasingly uncontrollable feeling.

Perhaps because of this, Li Hun couldn’t help but announce the auction’s start right after Wen Jiu’s arrival. Initially, the items auctioned were only Tier One Middle Grade and High-Grade Blood Corpse Mushrooms.

The prices were not low, about thirty percent higher than ordinary Evil Yin Spiritual Medicines, yet they still drew multiple bids from several Foundation Establishment Heterodox Evil Cultivators. Within less than half an hour, over a thousand Middle-Grade and High-Grade Blood Corpse Mushrooms were all sold.

Next up was what Wen Jiu wanted, a total of one hundred and twenty Tier One Top-Grade Blood Corpse Mushrooms.

Ten were sold together, starting at fifty thousand low-grade Yin Spirit Stones.

Wen Jiu didn’t rush to bid, waiting until the price rose to sixty thousand before offering sixty-five thousand.

After surpassing seventy thousand, Wen Jiu stopped bidding.

After Wen Jiu bid, no one else spoke, not even the mid-stage Foundation Establishment Ghost Cultivator who raised the price to sixty thousand. Initially, Wen Jiu thought it was because their anticipated price was only at sixty thousand, but unexpectedly, the second batch of Blood Corpse Mushrooms started selling, and an early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator bid sixty-five thousand right away.

The mid-stage Foundation Establishment Ghost Cultivator raised the price to seventy thousand without hesitation.

Only then did Wen Jiu realize that they were giving him some face earlier.

Subsequently, Wen Jiu bid a few more times, securing thirty Blood Corpse Mushrooms at seventy thousand, making it forty in total, costing him two hundred seventy-five thousand low-grade Yin Spirit Stones.

For a typical Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator, this fortune would be beyond their entire net worth, only cultivators from major sects like the Divine Extinction Thousand Peaks would have this amount. Even the mid-stage Foundation Establishment got cold feet after bidding two or three times.

Wen Jiu naturally didn’t continue bidding.

Continuing to bid would only attract the attention of those two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators since even a fool knows that anyone who can spend so many Yin Spirit Stones to buy Blood Corpse Mushrooms cannot have just these Yin Spirit Stones.

Even though he stopped bidding and feigned poverty, those two mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators still cast greedy glances his way, probably mentally calculating how to kill him.

If not in the Little Demon Realm, then outside of it.