Witch Wind

Chapter 369 What is the Request (Part 2)
The snake-headed, human-bodied creature saw the mocking sneer on Xing Tianli's face. For some unknown reason, it erupted in a hysterical roar: "What are you laughing at? What are you laughing at? What do you know? What do you know?"

The snake-headed, human-bodied creature began to mutter incoherently.

Xing Tianli listened attentively. Although the other party's brother had already had his soul searched by several Great Luo Ghost Venerables, and all his memories were being manipulated and played with by those Ghost Venerables, Xing Tianli was too lazy to go through the other party's memories.

He opened the Heavenly Spirit Banner, allowing the ghost lords inside the banner to hear this guy's narration, and let these ghost lords compare the two with the memories they obtained through soul searching.

The world is so vast and full of wonders; it is truly amazing.

These two unlucky guys are brothers.

They were the first pair of beings in a small world after the creation of the world, and they held extremely high positions and noble status.

Unfortunately, that small world was merely a small world born from a trace of the power of creation when the great world was created. Its innate foundation was insufficient, and its power of creation was weak. The two brothers it nurtured only reached the early stage of the Great Luo Realm after spending a eon of time.

When that vast world was created, the remaining power of creation spewed out, creating billions of smaller worlds in the vicinity of that vast world.

Xing Tianli was horrified and moved upon hearing this.

Billions of tiny worlds?
If every small world could nurture two Great Luo Immortals... tsk, in the Nine Provinces world, during the primordial era, at its most prosperous time, could there have been such a scene where Great Luo Immortals were treated like dogs?
With many people and diverse minds, it's natural that various conflicts and disputes will arise when people are close to each other.

When many of the primordial beings were still in a state of confusion, their strength relatively weak and unable to traverse the void, the countless small worlds naturally coexisted peacefully. However, as time passed and everyone's cultivation gradually improved, friction erupted.

In the starry sky region influenced by the Heavenly Dao Laws of that Great Thousand World, a Celestial Immortal can leave their own mother world and roam freely in outer space, only at a slightly slower speed.

Therefore, in many worlds, at the Celestial Immortal stage, there was already contact and friction, with people fighting each other for various pretexts.

In this chaotic world, the two brothers gradually grew stronger. Even after they broke through to the early stage of the Great Luo realm, they led the natives of the small world to enthusiastically destroy seven neighboring small worlds, allowing their mother world to devour the origin of the other worlds.

"I never expected this!" the unfortunate snake-headed man cried out. "The old woman from the small world we destroyed had an old lover who had no martial ethics and secretly broke through to the early stage of Quasi-Saint."

"A Quasi-Saint? Is that someone our brothers can defeat?"

"When they came to take revenge, we didn't even have time to take a single blade of grass from the Mother World. We only took our companion spirit..." The guy patted the rock under his butt. Clearly, their companion spirit was this small, strangely functional stone lump: "We took it and ran away."

"We watched from afar as our mother world was swallowed up by that scoundrel's world."

"My brother and I have been wandering aimlessly in the void for countless years. About 100,000 years ago, by chance, we learned of the existence of the Black Abyss... We painstakingly accumulated our wealth and finally managed to save up a sum of money before heading to the Black Abyss."

"You've already stockpiled enough stuff, yet you still resort to staged accidents, provocations, and robberies?" Xing Tianli sneered.

"Uh, this place called Black Abyss, how should I put it?" the guy muttered. "Their rules are very strange. The wealth that the two of us brothers brought can satisfy our most basic request, which is a cultivation technique that can allow us to cultivate to the level of a quasi-saint."

“Once we brothers both break through to become Quasi-Saints, killing that unethical guy will be a piece of cake. If we can’t win in a two-on-one fight, we might as well die.”

“But Black Abyss has more than just a price.”

“If we offer more wealth, they can provide more diverse services… For example, they can directly make us brothers quasi-saints, or even higher levels of cultivation…”

The snake-headed, human-bodied creature flicked its tongue wildly and roared, "If we're only exchanging for a cultivation technique, we'll still have to work hard to cultivate it ourselves. I don't know how many eons it will take to break through from the early stage of the Great Luo realm to the Quasi-Saint realm."

Xing Tianli was startled. Huh? What?

It takes you a calamity-level amount of time to break through from the Great Luo realm to the Quasi-Saint realm.
Well, cultivators of the Nine Provinces, in the primordial era, as long as they had enough opportunities, good fortune, and good luck, and did not suffer a tragic death, becoming a Quasi-Saint was not easy, right? But how could it take so long?

Xing Tianli looked the guy up and down and was certain—yes, you two brothers are too stupid.

"So, of course we want to stockpile more wealth and acquire more good stuff, so we can get it all in one go." The snake-headed, human-bodied creature wailed, "Originally, when you killed my brother, I was both heartbroken and excited."

"It is heartbreaking because we were born together and have gone through thick and thin together over the years."

"What excites me is that if I were to use all this wealth by myself, I would be qualified to become a quasi-saint!"

Xing Tianli glanced at him sideways.

The guy said dryly, "Before, my brother and I even fought... because, after all, this wealth is enough for one of us to become a Quasi-Saint... cough... actually, wouldn't it be easier for me to break through first, and then go and loot wealth once I have the cultivation of a Quasi-Saint?"

"Perhaps, in just thirty to fifty thousand years, I will be able to gather enough wealth to help him break through as well?"

Xing Tianli understood.

This pair of oddballs are truly something else... Ha, because they couldn't divide the spoils equally, they decided to pool their resources and have the two brothers break through to the next level together... Little did they know, they'd run into Xing Tian the Carp while trying to extort money from him.

The power of the immortal soul swept through the cave inside the small mountain. The cave, which spanned 100,000 li, was filled with all sorts of messy things... But in Xing Tianli's eyes, the total value of all the items piled up in this entire cave, within a space of 100,000 li, was probably just that.
cough.

Not to mention that Xing Tianli possesses an enormous quantity of innate spiritual materials obtained through transactions with the World Mother Tree.

Take Xing Tianli's presence around the Yaksha Star, for example. He wreaked havoc on millions of stars, large and small. These stars ranged in size from a few thousand miles to tens of millions of miles. If, using the fundamental method of the "Heaven and Earth Furnace: A Stick of Incense," these stars were traced back to their origin, transforming into primordial energy, and then, through the supernatural power of "manipulating creation," converted into acquired spiritual materials…

Tsk, the spiritual materials transformed from a single star are worth a thousand or even ten thousand times more than the scraps in this cave.

No wonder our group entered the Black Abyss Market so easily.

I really am a big spender!
Xing Tianli sighed, then casually rubbed his hand, destroying the unfortunate fellow's physical body. A wisp of his immortal soul roared and was absorbed into the Tongtian Yuling Banner.

"This is interesting. You should cherish it," Xing Tianli said to the ghost lords.

Although weak, these two brothers are innate beings with an incredibly high level of essence—their weakness is due to insufficient nutrients acquired later in life.

If Xing Tianli deliberately nurtures them and focuses on providing sufficient nourishment to these two immortal souls, what will their future be like?
Xing Tianli silently pondered for a while, erased the true self from the two immortal souls, and had the Tongtian Yuling Banner imprint the mark of enslavement on their true spirits. Then he threw them into the sacrificial formation to temper and nurture them little by little.

Strands of innate wood energy continuously flowed into these two immortal souls, gradually strengthening them and propelling them towards unpredictable evolution.

Xing Tianli unleashed a burst of his natal fire, which also refined the companion spirit beneath his feet.

Within the internal space spanning a radius of 100,000 li, piles of miscellaneous spiritual materials were all stuffed into the Tongtian Creation Tower by Xing Tianli. After making a copy of all those spiritual materials and herbs, he directly summoned tens of thousands of Golden Immortal-level Ghost Kings to devour these odds and ends, even some that could be considered trash, and sent them back to the Tongtian Imperial Spirit Banner to digest them slowly.

He condensed streams of spiritual water and carefully cleaned the companion spirit stone inside and out more than a dozen times, wiping and polishing it until it was spotless and odorless. Only then did Xing Tianli throw the companion spirit stone, which was still steaming hot, into the Tower of Creation.

The Tower of Creation roared and began to fully refine the seemingly small companion spirit stone.

This spirit stone has no offensive or defensive power, but it is of extremely high quality. It is a byproduct of the creation of a small world and has the unique properties of being pure, tranquil, and able to ward off all internal and external demons.

The Tower of Creation has no shortage of offensive and defensive capabilities. But as for such rare and precious auxiliary power, the more the better; we would never have too much.

With a smile, Xing Tianli carefully manipulated the Tower of Creation, slowly drawing the spirit stone deeper into it and beginning to slowly melt and absorb it.

After all, it was a spiritual creature born from the creation of the world, so the smelting process was very slow, but Xing Tian Li was not in a hurry at all.

The group slowly moved forward along the narrow street.

Black Mane followed behind Xing Tianli, shaking his head and looking around. He muttered to himself, "Master, we must be careful. The thieves we've encountered these past few times were just petty criminals that you could easily deal with. But what if we encounter those who are ridiculously strong..."

Xing Tianli glanced at the black mane and said softly, "Pig head, are you starving? Are you going to go back and steal the crumbs of bread from the ants' mouths?"

Black Mane's eyes widened, and he hurriedly said, "How could that be? I, Old Black, am not that kind of low-class... uh... uh..."

Black Hyena stopped chattering; he understood.

Xing Tianli lightly touched the Tongtian Miaozhu, and the group walked unhurriedly down the street.

Inside the buildings, large and small, of all shapes and sizes, there were far fewer covetous eyes.

As Xing Tianli said, true masters look down on the meager wealth of these 'insignificant Golden Immortals'—and no one knows just how wealthy Xing Tianli really is.

As for the ordinary guys who just want to make a quick buck to enrich their trading chips, they're probably no match for Xing Tianli. With two unlucky Great Luo Immortals setting an example, this line of work shouldn't be too troublesome, right?

"The Heavenly Calculator, the Heavenly Calculator..." Xing Tianli muttered softly.

Xing Tianli came to the Black Abyss because of the jade slip from the Celestial Calculator, which triggered his impulse. He didn't know much about the Black Abyss, and the two brothers whose souls he had searched didn't know much either.

Xing Tianli knew that the Heavenly Calculator was in the Black Abyss, but he had no clue exactly where he was.

The Tarot people whose souls he searched completely forgot their specific experiences in the Black Abyss—those guys only remembered the title of 'Heavenly Fortune Teller,' but they had no recollection of where he was, what he looked like, or what he did to them.

They slowly moved forward for more than ten miles.

A dilapidated wooden door stood by the roadside, with only a door frame and two doors. There was no fence, no yard, and no attached house. It stood there bare and abruptly by the roadside, slowly opening with a creak.

As soon as the door opened, a sliver of light shone out from inside.

Xing Tianli followed the dim light and looked inside. To his surprise, he saw that inside this abruptly standing, dilapidated door was a magnificent, round, domed hall that was entirely golden and inlaid with countless fist-sized gems. The various colors of fire were so dazzling that people could not open their eyes. It covered an area of ​​hundreds of acres and was tens of feet high.

In the center of the main hall stood a huge four-legged round cauldron. Beneath the cauldron was a fire eye, from which a blue pillar of fire, about ten feet in diameter, roared out, illuminating the faint light outside the door. It was this pillar of fire that emitted the light.

Inside the cauldron was a pot of fragrant soup, with red and white flower petals floating on top.

A woman with snow-white skin, jet-black hair, and an exquisite figure is soaking in fragrant hot water, enjoying a blissful 'hot water bath'.

The fragrant soup was bubbling and boiling, the terrifying heat rising. The stunning woman, immersed in the boiling soup, vigorously wiped the beard off her face, chuckled at Xing Tianli, and gave him a charming wink.

Xing Tianli shivered and hurriedly took a few steps back.

The three women, as if they had seen a ghost, let out a strange "howl" and jumped backward to Xing Tianli's back.

Zhong remained indifferent and silent.

Only Black Mane stared at the beauty's thick beard, each hair standing up like a steel needle, and slurped up a mouthful of saliva: "Hey, hey, this mane is so thick, I, Old Black, am really itching to get my hands on it."

This is awesome!
As soon as he finished speaking, the beauty in the fragrant soup giggled: "Oh dear, there are finally some people in the world who understand my beauty... In that case, brave man, shall we play a game together?"

The portal suddenly swung open, and a terrifying suction force pulled Black Hyena in. Black Hyena let out a miserable howl, and its body was suddenly lifted into the air, flying into the portal.

Xing Tianli moved with lightning speed, grabbing a piece of fat on the black mane's waist with his five fingers like hooks, and pulling hard inward.

Black Hyena's waist was torn open, and large amounts of blood gushed out. Xing Tianli forcefully pulled up his massive body and said in a deep voice, "Senior, this fellow is stupid and doesn't know what's good for him. If he has offended you, please spare his life!"

The bearded beauty stared intently at Xing Tianli with a mesmerizing, eerie light in her eyes for a long while before chuckling and slowly standing up—good heavens, Xing Tianli's gaze was chilling.

This fellow's upper body was nothing more than a layer of skin and flesh. Below her waist, it was just a thin bamboo pole, on which the upper body of a beautiful woman was woven from fine bamboo strips. The layer of skin and flesh was attached to the human figure woven from the bamboo strips...

As she stood up, several sticky, elongated creatures that sent shivers down one's spine dangled from her empty upper body.

These creatures, shaped like lampreys, are grayish and constantly dripping mucus.

Occasionally, when they open their mouths, they reveal a dense array of spirally distributed fangs and sharp teeth. Thick blood drips continuously from their ferocious mouthparts, falling into the fragrant soup and turning into red and white petals that exude a sweet aroma. They look incredibly fresh, as if the petals have just been plucked from a flower branch.

Several mollusks stared intently at Black Hyena. The suction from the wooden door suddenly intensified, but Xing Tianli's hook-like fingers gripped Black Hyena tightly. Even though his body had been sucked off the ground, he remained frozen in place, completely still.

Black Mane trembled all over in pain, but he gritted his teeth and dared not make a sound, for fear of disturbing Xing Tianli. If he let go—seeing those gray, slimy creatures with such terrifying mouthparts, Black Mane knew that if he fell into their hands, his life would definitely be in serious danger.

Suddenly, the suction disappeared.

The beauty sat back down in the fragrant soup. She scooped up a handful of the scalding soup and splashed it on her cheeks. Blisters appeared on her face, and soon they burst open, tearing her skin and flesh. The tender flesh was cooked and fell into the fragrant soup, revealing a skull made of bamboo strips under her skin.

"Heh heh, interesting, very interesting. Since that's the case, tell me, what brings you to the Black Abyss?" The beauty said leisurely, "I haven't sensed any deep-seated hatred or bitter feuds from you... My main business is helping people kill..."

"If you have enough leverage, and if the person you want to kill is no more than the Great Luo Realm, then I will agree."

Xing Tianli released his grip on Hei Lie's waist, blood splattering everywhere. Hei Lie groaned and sat down heavily on the ground, panting heavily, unable to recover for a long time.

Xing Tianli flicked his fingers and cupped his hands toward the strange creature: "Thank you for your trouble, senior. I came to the Black Abyss not for fighting and killing."

The beauty snorted coldly: "No fighting and killing? Heh, you've killed quite a few people on your way here... You're just a bloodthirsty bastard, don't you know that? Ah, is the person you're going to kill very strong? It doesn't matter if they are strong, I can't deal with anyone above the Great Luo Realm, but I know some experts!"

The beauty let out a long howl and screamed at the top of her lungs: "Old coffin, old coffin, wake up! I'm here to make a sale, a big sale... Remember, if the sale is successful, you have to give me a 10% commission!"

'Boom.'

The surrounding space suddenly expanded and spread out, and a huge, gray coffin covered in green mold and with several poisonous mushrooms growing on it slammed heavily in front of Xing Tianli.

From inside the coffin, a clear and sweet female voice floated out: "He's actually a handsome guy! Uh, what do you want? Since he's handsome, I'll do it for you no matter how difficult it is."

(End of this chapter)