I am just a mortal, why do you all worship me as a saint?

Chapter 31: The senior had actually seen through everything long ago.

but……

What should we do? Qin Feng was somewhat worried.

The only thing he was certain of was that there were good things in this burial mountain, but he didn't know exactly what those good things were.

This young master Gu is a master alchemist and also possesses high cultivation. He must be after the treasures in this burial mountain. We are simply not qualified to compete with him.

How to do?

Qin Feng frowned, pondering a solution.

But after thinking for a while, he gave up because he had no solution at all. The weak are not qualified to compete with the strong. Trying to break a rock with an egg will only result in shattering. What good would it do to find something if he continued? So, this treasure hunt in the burial mountain is actually over!

It’s so uncomfortable!

And just like that, we missed our chance!

Gu Heng saw that Qin Feng was silent, his face full of worry and very pale. He wondered if Qin Feng was thinking about something terrible, or if he was really weak and couldn't go without eating.

His impression was that Old Wang was both poor and reluctant to spend money, a potential miser.

Seeing his pale and weak appearance, Gu Heng was really afraid that he would just collapse by the campfire and die.

That sugar pill was really effective; one pill was enough for a whole day. But Old Wang treasured it. What could he do? He couldn't force Old Wang to eat it.

But after glancing at Old Wang's anxious expression a few more times, Gu Heng realized that he was probably thinking too superficially.

Old Wang is a hunter who lives off the land. Judging from his disheveled appearance, he probably hasn't caught anything all day. If he weren't a widow, his family would be starving by now!

He's still on the mountain, probably thinking of going around a few more times to hunt something back... But there's a giant python in the mountains that he can't handle. If he doesn't come down soon, he might not be able to find any prey, and he himself might become the prey.

Does anyone know if that python has a habit of eating late-night snacks?

So, Old Wang must be very anxious right now!

Look, this honest and kind man is almost crying with anxiety!

I gave him a sugar pill. No wonder he refused to eat it before. It turns out he didn't want to enjoy it all by himself. If he can't hunt for food in the end, this sugar pill might keep his whole family safe!

"……Ugh."

He sighed, realizing that his habit of being charitable was hard to break.

"Old Wang, take this." Gu Heng tossed a jade bottle into Qin Feng's arms. The latter trembled, staring at the four Qi-Consolidating and Blood-Gathering Pills rolling inside the bottle, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"This, Young Master Gu, what does this mean?" Qin Feng swallowed hard.

Gu Heng leaned against the large blue stone, the firelight illuminating his face in a dim light. Qin Feng suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

"Keep it. If we leave this mountain and stay here, something bad might happen."

Gu Heng's plan was to give him a few more sugar pills and persuade Old Wang to go down the mountain. Since he thought the sugar pills were valuable, he would give him a few more. After all, things are valued for their scarcity, and now that he had five sugar pills, they weren't so rare anymore.

One pill would be enough for him to make his way down the mountain and back to the village. Even if he didn't catch anything that day, his family wouldn't go hungry with these sugar pills, so there was no need for him to stay on the mountain and risk being eaten by snakes while hunting. "Young Master Gu, you..."

Qin Feng looked down at the jade bottle.

Five grade seven pills, and these rogue cultivators who entered the mountain also had exactly five.

Is this to give each of them one?

He looked up at Gu Heng, as if trying to find some clues on his face.

"Stop looking at it. Consider this as compensation for your losses. Go down the mountain as soon as possible. If you stay here, do you want to lose your life too?" Seeing that he was still hesitant, Gu Heng's expression darkened.

Old Wang is too honest; sometimes being so honest makes him vulnerable to being taken advantage of!

"……I see."

If Qin Feng still doesn't understand the meaning behind these words after all this explanation, then he might as well give up. Young Master Gu must have realized long ago that his identity was suspicious. After all, the possibility of a mortal coming to the Burial Mountain is extremely small. Didn't the group of them go to great lengths to guess Young Master Gu's strength because they also felt that he was unlikely to be a mortal?

Qin Feng thought he could hide his identity as a cultivator by relying on a secret talisman, but he didn't expect that not only did the other party see through his foolish trick, but they also knew that there were exactly five of them, and the other four were not far away.

The meaning of these five pills is already very clear—

The seventh-grade pills are compensation. Once they've taken the elixirs, they'd better get out of here and not even think about getting their hands on anything in the burial mountain!

"Thank you for the medicine, Young Master Gu. I will not bother you any longer and will take my leave now!"

Qin Feng bowed and then quickly left, his figure disappearing into the gaps in the dense forest.

"Hmm... finally."

Gu Heng breathed a sigh of relief. At least tonight he wouldn't have to hear screams of people being eaten by snakes coming from the mountains.

……

Qin Feng walked to the edge of the dense forest and shouted in a low voice, "Come out, all of you!"

Wow!

Four figures appeared out of thin air like ghosts.

"How about it?"

One of them asked rather nervously.

“We’ll go down the mountain now. Whatever the treasures in this mountain may be, they now belong to that senior. We can’t interfere anymore.”

Qin Feng took a deep breath and said earnestly.

Upon hearing this, the four people had different expressions, and one of them asked in confusion, "Senior?"

"That's not an ordinary person?" Qin Feng didn't answer. He simply took out the jade bottle containing four Grade 7 spirit pills and said with a serious expression, "That senior actually knew about your existence a long time ago and saw through our clumsy actions, but he was willing to pay one Grade 7 spirit pill per person to let us leave."

Upon seeing the pills in the jade bottle, the other four stared wide-eyed, but what followed was a growing sense of horror.

Five grade-seven pills, given away just like that?

What level of power does an expert need to be to make such a large-scale donation?

Integration Stage? Tribulation Stage? Or Mahayana Stage?

But no matter which level they were at, they were people they couldn't afford to offend! And what lingered in their minds, besides horror, was also curiosity—a very deep curiosity!

If that senior was willing to offer five Rank 7 pills in exchange for their departure, wouldn't that mean the treasure hidden in this burial mountain was a thousand times more precious than five Rank 7 pills? But curiosity aside, as rogue cultivators, the reason they've survived to this day is because they have a clear self-awareness, knowing what they can get involved in and what they'd better not hear about!

The things that happen here are the kind of things you shouldn't even listen to!

Curiosity killed the cat!

So the five of them discussed it, divided the pills among themselves, and then quickly headed down the mountain.

Getting a seventh-grade pill is already a huge win for anyone. If you still have any greed in your heart, you won't even get the pill, let alone your life!

……

Gu Heng stared at the campfire, then suddenly remembered something.

Why hasn't that little silver cat that ran off to relieve itself come back yet?

Will we get lost? "Meow!"

Xiaoxi's meowing sounded from behind.

Su Jinxi was very excited. In Gu Heng's eyes, she was wagging her tail and head together, hopping around on her four short legs, looking like she was about to fly with joy.

Gu Heng couldn't help but smile. When Su Jinxi bounced over, he stretched out a finger and gently touched its ear.

Xiaoxi closed her eyes in comfort.

Gu Heng smiled and said, "What good stuff did you find? You look so happy."

I don't know why this little one is so happy. It only took her a short time to relieve herself. If you didn't know better, you would think she found a mate in this desolate wilderness and put on a passionate performance.

However, Su Jinxi was excited because she had indeed found the "secret" in this burial mountain!

"...Should I go take a look?" Gu Heng understood the meaning behind Xiao Xi's jumping and hopping.

She nodded, her tail wagging rapidly, as if urging him to hurry up and follow her.

Gu Heng looked at her and shook his head with a smile. Although this pet was not easy to take care of, she was still very cute whenever she was so happy.

He was also a little curious. What else was hidden in these mountains?