Chapter 360: Night Raid at Chu River, Wedding Procession! Wealthy Middle-aged Man! Black-and-White Dao Robe!
Night fell, and the prefectural city was under curfew. Earlier that day, a suspected case of live sacrifice had come to light: seven corpses of young women in bright red wedding dresses were dredged up from Chu River.
It caused a great uproar. Instantly, the city was filled with tense and uneasy whispers.
Inside his room, Li Yanchu sat cross-legged, regulating his breath and cultivating qi. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered around him, circulating through his meridians, before finally settling into his dantian’s sea of qi.
At this pace, he would soon succeed in refining the Longhu Golden Alchemy Method. On this journey, whether at Mount Jiuxuan, the haunted Yang Family Town, or deep within Fengdu, he had fought with reckless ferocity.
The fierce ghosts of Yang Family Town, the mysterious Night-Wandering Spirits of Fengdu, the blocking fiends: the sinister old crone, the ghostly couple, the headless corpse, the old farmer of Mount Youming, the old man in a Dao robe, the terrifying giant face in the great ravine, the millennium demon tree, and the eerie eye sealed within the altar were all destroyed; all karmic ties were severed.
His merit points now swelled to seventy-two thousand. In just one incursion into Fengdu, he had gained over thirty thousand merit points. It was truly a windfall, his merit points nearly doubled!
He had also reaped several magical artifacts: a Nine Yao Sword, a Night Watchman token, a mysterious brush imbued with sealing power, three sheets of Yinde Money, and an ancient coin capable of withstanding even his full-strength martial arts strike after manifesting the Martial Dao Manifestation.
He also obtained an immortal jade slip, a piece taken from that Dao-robed elder, recording an ancient alchemical formula, as well as a Spirit-Refining Pill. It used the souls of living beings as its foundation, refining them into a great pill for the primordial spirit, capable of breaking through realms, even allowing one to step into the third realm in a single leap.
But its requirements for souls were exceedingly strict. That Dao-robed elder with unknown origins had actually discovered such a divine pill for breaking into the third realm. Yet, it defied the laws of heaven and nature!
Li Yanchu judged that, of all the spoils, the most valuable was likely that mysterious brush. It was of higher quality even than the Night-Wandering Spirit’s Night Watchman token. At one point, he even suspected it might be the Judge’s Brush.
But before he could return to Wei City and consult the Old Celestial Master about its origins, he was delayed by the sinister incidents breaking out in the prefectural city.
Knock, knock, knock!