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Chapter 27 Escape
The two men shivered and shrank back. The shadows under their feet surged like thick black water. Two ghost soldiers with sharp claws and bloodshot eyes suddenly emerged from it and pounced on their backs!
"Ow—"

The two screamed and instantly turned into horrible monsters!
His body quickly deformed, becoming neither human nor ghost, with foul-smelling saliva, red eyes, howling and roaring, and driven by the maid to pounce on Xu Yuan.

The maid pulled the Saint Aunt and whispered, "Let's go!"

The living people and the ghost soldiers merged, and the living people died and the ghost soldiers were useless. The maid used her two ghost soldiers as abandoned pawns to fight for a chance to escape for herself and the Saint Lady!
But then another yellow shadow jumped out from the pool with a splash.

There were several patches of fur on her body. She lowered her body and stared at the Saint Lady with resentment.

The maid gritted her teeth and stepped forward: "Saint Aunt, you go first..."

The Saint Lady said, "I paid for the passage."

The fox suddenly froze and spoke in human language, "Shang Fa...it's that crossbow arrow!"

The crossbow arrows were very valuable, and the two sisters held them in their mouths, which was considered a deal.

The fox reluctantly gave way.

"This woman is not only a craftsman, but also a magician!" The fox said to himself in hatred, "Damn it, she's even more cunning than us foxes. I fell into her trap without even noticing!"

She could force herself not to abide by the rules of the transaction, but that would only cause her more harm, which would not be worth the loss.

The Saint Lady and her maidservant retreated quickly and disappeared into the mountains in a few flashes.

The fox looked at them unwillingly again, then turned around to help Xu Yuan kill the two monsters.

Xu Yuan glanced at the two foxes calmly: "I don't need your help."

The two foxes were also covered with scars.

Especially when they saw the plum tree in their old nest, which had been burned to a bare trunk, the two yellow foxes hugged each other and cried.

Xu Yuan began to search the corpse. The two foxes stopped crying and jumped up to block Xu Yuan: "Don't move!"

"It's all ours!"

In Xu Yuan's palm, a golden pill was spinning around, as if he was just playing with it casually.

"I killed all of these people. How much effort did you put in? Why do you deserve the lion's share?" Xu Yuan squinted his eyes and said disdainfully, "I came here to seek cooperation with you. I thought you must have some skills to occupy a base in Ghost Witch Mountain. I didn't expect you were really just good at flirting."

"This..." The two foxes' four little eyes rolled around quickly, trying to come up with an excuse: "If we hadn't stopped those two women, how could you have hunted so much blood food by yourself?"

Xu Yuan snorted, "Even if you have a point, you should each take half! How about this, the blood and food are yours, and I only want the things on their bodies."

The two foxes hid under the old plum tree, head to head, and discussed something with their butts raised.

Then the elder sister came forward, coughing twice with her little paws on her sharp lips, and said in a pretentious manner: "Well, this is our first time working together, so we sisters will suffer a little loss. That's it."

Xu Yuan quickly looted everything from the corpse without even looking at it: "I'm going to hunt down those two women. Are you coming? I'll give you both of them to eat."

The two sisters waved their paws repeatedly: "No, no, no..."

Xu Yuan urged: "They both have cultivation skills, and are rare and good blood food..."

The two sisters jumped into the pool with a splash and no longer listened to Xu Yuan's instigation.

Xu Yuan shook his head and criticized, "You don't know how to seize the opportunity!" Then he strode in the direction where the Saint Lady and the maidservant fled.

In the Plum Blossom Pond, the water roared, and two graceful figures swam and played: "If you have this kind of business again in the future, don't look for us sisters again."

Something was crawling under the ground beside the pool. Old tree roots emerged from the ground, rolled up the corpses and dragged them into the pool.

The sound of chewing could be heard. A moment later, two yellow foxes, each holding a gleaming thigh bone in their sharp mouths, chased and played happily in the forest near the pond like puppies.

Strange laughter echoed among the mountains and rivers.

……

With the help of the "Tengyun" and "Chengfeng" calligraphy, Xu Yuan strode out of the pool at great speed. He immediately broke out in a cold sweat, his face turned black, and he fell down to sit down at the foot of a stone cliff.

After taking a breath for a while, he used some medicine to treat himself and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The wound on his back, left by the lantern ghost's claws, worsened further.

The ghost energy on the wound corroded the skin and flesh, and the area four fingers wide around the wound had lost all feeling.

Xu Yuan had been holding on, and the "golden pill" he was playing with in his palm was actually a medicinal pill in disguise.

There was only one golden pill, which was shattered in the final showdown with Dan Xiu.

But Xu Yuan was very sure that if he showed even the slightest bit of weakness, the two foxes would pounce on him without hesitation and turn him into a blood meal!
Even at the end, Xu Yuan warmly invited the two foxes to continue hunting down the Saint Lady together, which made the two foxes believe that he was fine.

Xu Yuan took out all the things he had just looted from the corpse.

The first is Dan Xiu's golden pill - this golden pill has been transformed by Dan Xiu to the level where it can be initially shaped, and is very precious.

Xu Yuan took the bait without any hesitation and refined it with the fire in his stomach.

There are also seven or eight kinds of elixirs, some for healing, some for detoxification, some for aphrodisiacs, some for bewitching... These medicines are all made to cheat people out of money.

If you think the medicine Dan Xiu sells you must be extremely effective, then... that's great, Dan Xiu hopes you think so.

But Xu Yuan also found a small gourd with only a few pills left in it.

Xu Yuan pulled out the plug from the gourd and smelled it, and immediately understood: this is the kind of vicious drug that turns people into goblins!
The smell emitted from those dog goblins is exactly the same as this pill.

Xu Yuan kept it, thinking it might be useful in the future.

The saddlebag Dan Xiu was wearing was a bit special, divided into small bags filled with various metals.

Each piece is not big, but there are twenty-seven kinds.

Xu Yuan only recognized four or five of them.

This cloth bag represents the normal way of practicing Dan Xiu: collecting various metals and using them as bait to strengthen one's own golden pills.

Golden pills and fire in the abdomen are usually the two most powerful fighting methods of alchemy practitioners.

As for one's own inner elixir, it is not easy to strengthen it.

People like Xu Yuan are really different.

Xu Yuan also ate these baits and refined them into the second golden pill.

Xu Yuan planned to carefully cultivate the golden pill that Dan Xiu had, and the second one was a consumable - Xu Yuan would prepare a few more of such consumables in the future.

It doesn't need to be too big, just like before, the size of a longan will do.

Several calligraphy copies were found on Wen Xiu, but Wen Xiu was far inferior to Master Qiao in strength.

His calligraphy can only control ordinary people and is of little use to Xu Yuan now.

(End of this chapter)