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Chapter 77: Natural and Man-Made Disasters: Incident at Fenghou Mountain

After taking the sword bamboo, Xiao Chen decisively rejected the Xiong family's invitation.

His goal had been achieved, and he had no interest in the subsequent Xiong family marriage selection.

Although the Xiong family hinted that they would select young talents to engage in marriage with the Xiong family, he did not want to be a son-in-law.

The invitations from the other families were also declined.

This time when he came to Gravel Valley, he tasted the special spiritual wine, solved the problem of one-eyed man, repaired the green gourd, and bought the thousand-year-old sword bamboo. It can be said that the trip was worthwhile.

It has been nearly a month since I left, and it is time to go back.

"Since you're here, you might as well bring some local specialties."

Walking in the small town outside the valley, Xiao Chen saw more stalls set up on the street.

But surprisingly, when he glanced at both sides of the street, he did not find any vendors selling spiritual herbs.

After walking for a while, I was about to leave, but I still didn't encounter a single place.

This is very strange.

Xiao Chen spotted a casual cultivator selling pills, walked over, picked up a bottle of Qi-nourishing Pills, and asked, "Fellow Daoist, are you an alchemist?"

The other person shook his head and said, "I'm not much of an alchemist. I've only learned a few skills and can barely make a living. Senior, how many bottles of pills would you like?"

"A bottle of Qi-nourishing Pill only costs ten spirit stones. If you buy two bottles at a time, you can save five grains of spirit sand."

Xiao Chen was shocked: "Ten spirit stones? When was this price?"

Compared to the five spirit stones per bottle two years ago, this has doubled.

Although some cultivators can eat Qi-nourishing pills or even Qi-gathering pills as meals.

But in fact, for the low-level independent cultivators, they would only be willing to take a magic pill under special circumstances.

Some independent cultivators in the early stages of Qi Refining often pool their money together to buy a bottle and share it.

With the previous continuous price increases, many monks can no longer afford to eat.

He really didn't expect that the price of this thing would continue to increase.

The stall owner smiled bitterly and explained, "Fellow Daoist, you may not know this, but there are two places in Lizhou that are rich in common spiritual herbs: Pingyuan County and Big Foot Basin."

Xiao Chen actually knew that the Big Foot Basin was a natural basin located in the middle of a volcanic group southwest of the Cang Yan Sect.

It is called Bigfoot Basin because its overall shape looks like a huge footprint when viewed from the sky.

The stall owner sighed, "But just before the New Year, on the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the underground fire suddenly erupted, and all the spiritual herbs in the entire basin were completely destroyed."

"That's not all. Last month, the plains were plundered by a group of robbers again."

"It is said that if the local Liu family had not had a great foundation-building cultivator who stepped in and forced the leading foundation-building cultivator to retreat, all the spiritual herbs would have been destroyed."

"It's not that the price of pills is rising, it's that the spiritual herbs are out of stock."

hiss~!

The situation is a bit serious.

It is true that many families have their own spiritual fields, but it is probably difficult for them to be self-sufficient.

It is estimated that in the next few years, the shortage of spiritual herbs in Lizhou will be difficult to alleviate.

Xiao Chen couldn't help but frown. This was not good news.

At the same time, he was a little confused. He had heard about the disaster that hit the plains when the price of spiritual herbs increased last autumn.

I didn't expect it to happen again this spring, and it sounds like there are foundation-building cultivators among that group of tribulation cultivators.

What exactly are they trying to achieve?

Logically speaking, if you want to rob something, you should directly grab the elixirs or spirit stones. Why are you always targeting the spiritual herbs?
There is definitely a key clue here, but he doesn't know it yet.

There will be chaos next due to natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Xiao Chen suddenly lost interest in choosing local specialties and hurriedly left Gravel Valley.

Shortly after he left.

Lu Wuqiang, the Dark Hall Master of the Cang Yan Sect, rushed into the courtyard he had rented with a group of his men. "Where is he? Has he left?"

"Snapped!"

Lu Wuqiang slapped his subordinate so hard that blood oozed from the corner of his mouth: "Waste, what use do I have to you?"

"Such a large person appeared in our Cang Yan Sect's territory, and you waited until he left before telling me?"

The rest of the men were silent.

Only the person in charge of the Dark Palace's Gravel Valley hesitantly explained, "Boss, I asked around, and that Xiao Chen hid in the yard as soon as he arrived. He hasn't come out for ten days."

"There are so many new faces these days, it's really hard to find them."

Lu Wuqiang went up and kicked him: "Still making excuses for me? I beat him up but not you. Are you itching for trouble?"

"Huh! Also, send someone to find the three Tian brothers and ask them what they do for a living."

"Xiao Chen is not in the sect, why didn't you send a message immediately?"

"Also, I'll give them another month. If they can't deal with Xiao Chen before July, they don't have to come back."

Twelve days later.

Xiao Chen climbed over mountains and crossed rivers, and arrived at Fenghou Mountain, four hundred miles south of Lihuomen.

I originally just wanted to find the direction at the top of the mountain.

But he happened to see that about twenty miles to the east, huge black clouds were rolling, covering most of the village, and bursts of poisonous smoke were rising into the sky.

At the uncovered entrance to the village, the bodies of the villagers were lying all over the place.

There was a demon monk wearing a black robe, collecting blood with a wooden barrel.

Xiao Chen rubbed his eyes and pinched his arm again.

For a moment, he wondered if he was dreaming. How could he run into a demon cultivator in broad daylight?

He's only been gone for a month, but it feels like he's been gone for decades.

Where are the monks from Lihuo Sect?
At this distance, the sect should be able to detect abnormalities in time.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the big black cloud again. Could it be that it was trapped?

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen moved directly over there.

As we approached the village entrance, we saw that there were indeed a lot of traces of magic that had not been cleaned up in time.

One can even clearly distinguish that there are many inner disciples practicing the Fire Separation Technique and the Water Explosion Technique that the brothers and sisters at the Bishui Peak like to use.

I didn't rush forward, but carefully recalled the secret formula of "The Art of Stargazing and Qi Contemplation".

Xiao Chen used the Qi-gazing technique somewhat awkwardly to check for the demon cultivators at the village entrance.

To be honest, ever since he acquired the art of qi-gazing, he has had almost no chance to use this skill.

Mainly, the only function of this technique is to judge the enemy's strength.

But he had encountered several battles before.

But every time the enemy took the initiative and he was forced to fight back, so there was no need to explore further.

From the perspective of Qigong, everything else between heaven and earth fades away, leaving only different spiritual energies gathering and flowing.

The three demon cultivators at the entrance of the village also turned into three human-shaped spiritual energy balls.

"Just three people in the middle stage of Qi Refining?"

Xiao Chen was a little surprised: "That's it?"

He turned his head to look at the village, but there were no longer any dark clouds there.

There were clearly thousands of dead souls struggling desperately and screaming silently.

There are also six locations where the spiritual energy is particularly rich, and each of them emits fluctuations equivalent to the late stage of Qi Refining.

(End of this chapter)