Daily Divination From Market Rogue Cultivator To Immortal Venerable - Chapter 168

Chapter 168 Fugui is shocked, Pei Yingyao admits her mistake (Please subscribe)

“Fellow Daoist Li, I’ll be waiting for your reply in three days.” Having

reached an agreement,

Mo Chen said nothing more and walked straight out of the dark room.

He didn’t linger in the black market for long, quickly leaving and heading for Yellow Crane Immortal City.

However,

halfway through,

Li Changan suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Fellow Daoist Li?”

Mo Chen looked wary, quietly taking out his magical weapon and staring at Li Changan.

“Have you thought it through and are planning to sign a spiritual contract with me now?”

“No, Fellow Daoist Ye, you know that Senior Wang Fuan has done me a favor, yet you actually want me to kill his disciple.”

Upon hearing this, Mo Chen’s face suddenly changed.

He had never imagined

that he would invite a Tribulation Cultivator who had received the favor of his own master.

Swish!

Without hesitation, he turned and ran!

As long as he returned to the black market, he would be safe.

There were rules in the black market that prohibited v*olence.

But… he

had only run a short distance

when a thick black mist engulfed him.

“Daoyou Li, spare me!”

Mo Chen’s face was filled with fear, and he begged frantically.

He had long heard of Li Fan’s reputation and knew he was no match for him. A forced fight would surely lead to death, but begging for mercy offered a glimmer of hope.

The next moment, two ninth-level Qi Refining souls appeared before him.

Even facing one alone, Mo Chen was no match.

How much less two?

In the blink of an eye, he was trapped, completely unable to resist.

“You won’t kill me?”

Mo Chen thought secretly, a glimmer of hope rising in his heart.

A moment later,

the surrounding black mist dissipated.

Li Changan, holding the Zunhun Banner, walked up to him and spoke coldly.

“I want to know why you killed Senior Wang Fuan’s disciple? If you’re telling a lie, enter the Zunhun Banner.”

He commanded the Myriad Poison Gu in his sleeve,

instructing it to release a toxin that can arouse emotions.

“Daoyou Li, spare me! I’m also Senior Wang’s disciple!”

At this point, Mo Chen dared not hide anything.

After the recent battle, his disguise had long since ripped apart, revealing his true form.

“My name is Mo Chen, and I’m Senior Wang’s second disciple.”

“Oh?”

Li Chang’an seemed a little surprised.

He asked calmly, “Since we’re from the same sect, why are we fighting each other? Is it to fight for the treasure?”

“Yes, Fellow Daoist Li, your guess is correct.”

Mo Chen’s face paled slightly as he told everything.

His talent wasn’t high.

Without a great opportunity and without the support of his master, he wouldn’t have the chance to achieve foundation building in his lifetime.

“Originally, I thought that since Master’s life span was short, after his death, the treasure could be divided equally among the four of us, but Master is so partial to Xu Fugui!”

At this point, Mo Chen’s words tinged with resentment.

The poison of the Ten Thousand Poison Gu was gradually taking effect.

His motives were similar to what Li Chang’an had guessed.

In the face of the treasure,

the so-called friendship between fellow disciples was so fragile!

Mo Chen continued, “I’ve tried to kill him several times, but never succeeded. Last time, I even went so far as to enlist the help of the Five Poisons Wanderer’s disciples to poison him at the banquet. It seemed like we were on the verge of success, but his eldest brother, Li Chang’an, ruined it!”

“So you’re going to kill Li Chang’an too?”

“Yes!”

Li Chang’an’s doubts were finally resolved.

The poison cultivator at the previous banquet

was indeed Mo Chen’s.

It was he who tipped off the poison cultivator about Wang Fu’an leaving the restaurant to visit a friend.

Thinking of this,

Li Chang’an coldly asked, “You invited the poison cultivator. Does that mean you want to kill more than just Xu Fugui?”

“Yes, I want to kill them all!”

Mo Chen clenched his fists, his words filled with resentment.

Li Chang’an then asked, “I heard that Senior Wang’s third disciple died in the secret realm. Was you involved?”

“Yes, I did!”

Mo Chen, now furious and emotionally unstable, quickly confessed.

He had spared no expense

to invite Lu Yuanji, the head of Black Wind Mountain. He

also revealed Gu Shanxing’s whereabouts to him.

Lu Yuanji was a veteran of the ninth level of Qi Refining, with extensive experience, and was more than capable of killing Gu Shanxing, who had just reached the ninth level.

Furthermore,

he was also involved in his senior sister Tang Suran’s poisoning.

It was he who revealed Tang Suran’s whereabouts to the poison cultivators.

“Eldest Sister and Third Junior Brother are both geniuses. They could potentially achieve Foundation Establishment without even needing Master’s support. But geniuses like that deserve to die!”

Mo Chen gritted his teeth, his emotions growing increasingly agitated.

His face was twisted with jealousy.

“Geniuses deserve to die! Only after they’re all dead can I rise to prominence!”

“If all the geniuses die, then I’ll be the new genius!”

“Only then will those seniors be willing to train me…”

Mo Chen’s eyes were red, his voice hoarse.

Under the effects of the poison, he had become somewhat frantic.

He stared at Li Changan and roared, “Friend Li, you should understand me. Outsiders say you have average talent and mediocre strength, but you’re just relying on the Exalted Soul Banner! You and I are the same kind of people. We’re not geniuses!”

Hearing this,

Li Changan sneered. “I’m certainly not a genius, but   why

should I understand you?”   He waved his hand, unleashing a stream of spiritual energy.   With a snap, Mo Chen’s head flew off, a trace of madness still lingering on his face.   With a single wave of his hand, Li Changan flung his soul into the Exalted Soul Banner.   Then, he stepped aside and put away a photo stone.   He had placed it there   at the beginning of the interrogation.   Since then,   everything Mo Chen said had been recorded in its entirety by the photo stone.   ”Although Fugui has become more tactful than before, he still has too little experience to understand the treacherous nature of human nature. I hope this stone can help him see things more clearly.”   Li Changan sighed softly and put the photo stone away.   Back then,   when he left the village,   he had promised Xu Fugui’s parents that he would take good care of him.   But he couldn’t watch over Xu Fugui every moment; he could only help him grow as quickly as possible.   He returned to Mo Chen’s body, took his storage bag and treasures, and burned his body to ashes.   ”This man is a Foundation Establishment disciple after all. He has been operating in Yellow Crane Immortal City for so many years, so his storage bag should contain many treasures.”   Li Changan easily removed the restrictions on the storage bag and opened it to take a look.   The treasures inside   were not as numerous as he had imagined.   Perhaps because Mo Chen had repeatedly hired people to attack his three fellow disciples, expending a considerable amount of spirit stones,   Li Changan quickly completed his inventory.   Among them,   only one treasure caught his eye.   ”This is…”   He thought, and a long incense stick appeared in his hand.   The incense stick was completely dark, emitting a chilling aura that made the very sight of it unsettling.   With Li Changan’s current knowledge, he couldn’t immediately discern its purpose.   Just then,   a weak voice suddenly emanated from the Soul-Respecting Banner.   ”Soul-Respecting Incense…can draw out the soul…”   ”Soul-Respecting Incense?”   Li Changan was slightly startled, and a description of this treasure immediately flashed through his mind.   He had seen it in a book in the Wanbao Tower.   Some cultivators,   during their training, suffer accidents that cause their souls to leave their bodies.   If they fail to recall their souls in time, their bodies decay, their aura fades, and they are forced to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.   If they could quickly find a Soul-Respecting Incense stick and light it,   they could summon their souls back.   As for the “drawing out the soul” mentioned by the Soul-Respecting Banner spirit, that was a different matter.   Some souls don’t originally belong to this body, but simply forcibly occupy it, usurping its power.   In such cases, soul-calling incense can be lit   to draw them out.   ”This is a treasure! If something unexpected happens during my cultivation and my soul leaves my body, I’ll have Da Huang light the soul-calling incense.”   Li Chang’an smiled, this was a pleasant surprise.   According to the book,   soul-calling incense is extremely rare, even for those in the Foundation Establishment stage. But Mo Chen unexpectedly had one in his storage bag. This must be his chance.   …   Not long after,   Li Chang’an returned to the black market.   He found Luo Baitong and handed him the image stone.   ”Fellow Daoist Luo, please help me find a runner to deliver this image stone to Xu Fugui at the Yuelai Restaurant.”   ”Okay!”   Luo Baitong was quite reliable.   Instead of hiring someone to run errands, he used his righteous identity to make the trip himself.   Soon,   the image stone was delivered to Xu Fugui.   ”Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by this?”   Xu Fugui was confused and wanted to ask for clarification.   Luo Baitong smiled mysteriously and said, “Fellow Daoist Xu, you will understand after reading the contents of this photo stone.”   After saying this,   he turned and left without stopping.

Xu Fugui frowned, wary.

Having long since learned a measure of Li Changan’s steadiness, he didn’t open the image stone directly. Instead, he retreated to a distance and manipulated his puppet to examine the stone’s contents.

As the image appeared,

Xu Fugui froze.

“Second Brother?”

What followed widened his eyes, his disbelief growing.

After reading it,

Xu Fugui seemed to be petrified, and he stood there in a daze for a long time.

He really didn’t want to believe that his second senior brother Mo Chen would actually harm him.

He had always regarded Mo Chen as an elder brother, and Mo Chen treated him almost like his own brother.

But the images and sounds in the photo stone did not show any flaws.

The several times Mo Chen described fighting also matched what happened in reality.

“Could it be that I have been deceived by my second senior brother all this time?”

Xu Fugui stared blankly at the photo stone with a dull look.

At this moment,

he suddenly thought of Li Changan’s words.

As early as the first day Li Changan came to Huanghe Immortal City, he warned him that there was something wrong with Mo Chen.

But he didn’t take it seriously at the time, just thinking that Li Changan was not familiar with Mo Chen, which led to misunderstandings.

But now, the facts were before his eyes!

…

That evening.

Li Changan was practicing in the house.

Xu Fugui suddenly came to visit.

He said in frustration, “Brother, I misunderstood you before. There really is something wrong with my second-class brother, Mo Chen!”

“Oh? What’s the problem?”

Li Changan pretended not to know and asked him.

Xu Fugui then told him everything.

He said that he had checked with his senior sister and master, and the image in the photo stone must be real.

In other words,

if Mo Chen was not dead,

then he and Li Changan would sooner or later be killed by the robbery cultivators hired by Mo Chen.

“Brother, I didn’t listen to you and almost implicated you!”

Xu Fugui regretted it.

It would be fine if he died himself, but he couldn’t let Li Changan be implicated.

In the image, the robbery cultivator was too powerful. With a treasure as powerful as the Zunhun Banner, Li Changan would most likely be unable to stop him if he really took action.

Listen to what he said.

Li Changan smiled and said, “It’s okay. I have a formation to protect my house. Ordinary robbery cultivators can’t do anything to me.”

“Brother Li, that’s no ordinary robbery cultivator. That Li Fan is quite famous in the black market now. It’s said that even Foundation Establishment cultivators can’t do anything to him!”

“So powerful?”

“Yes…”

Xu Fugui recounted some rumors.

Some of them,

even Li Changan himself had never heard of.

This was not a good thing. After all, as his reputation grew, one day, like Lu Yuanji, he would be blamed for some inexplicable crime.

Fortunately, Li Fan was just a fake identity.

If he encountered a powerful enemy,

he could just change to a new one.

Li Changan had barely mastered the art of skin painting, and could create disposable human skin.

Changing identities was not difficult for him, just a bit of trouble.

The two talked until late at night.

Xu Fugui said goodbye.

Before leaving, he felt that Li Changan’s house was not safe enough and suggested that Li Changan stay at the Yuelai Restaurant.

“Brother, my second senior brother just died, and his place is now vacant. Why don’t you move to Yuelai Restaurant? It’s protected by a second-level formation, much safer than outside.”

“No problem, I’m fine here.”

Li Chang’an smiled as he escorted Xu Fugui out of the courtyard.

Yuelai Restaurant had Wang Fu’an, a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Practicing under his watchful eye for so long would inevitably be unsettling.

Furthermore,

the Yuelai Restaurant’s formations weren’t necessarily comparable to the nineteen linked formations Li Chang’an had disassembled from his cave dwelling.

…

For a period of time afterward,

Li Chang’an’s life continued as usual.

His progress in Qi and Body Refining steadily improved.

Six months passed in a flash.

One evening,

within the house,

mist rose, and the stench of medicinal liquid filled the air.

Li Chang’an had reached the final stage of the ninth stage of Body Refining.

At this moment,

his entire body was crimson, steaming like a cooked prawn.

The medicinal liquid in the medicinal bath tub kept rolling, and it was scarlet all over, like a bucket of boiling blood.

Li Changan frowned, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping from his forehead.

He was in severe pain all over his body, and every bone seemed to be broken, and every inch of flesh and blood seemed to be torn and reassembled. The pain was beyond words.

This pain lasted until the second half of the night.

Finally…

Li Changan suddenly felt his whole body lighten.

The severe pain disappeared instantly.

The medicinal liquid in the tub stopped boiling and gradually returned to calm.

“The ninth stage of body refining is done!”

Li Changan slowly breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and a smile appeared on his face.

His body refining progress once again reached the stage before Qi refining.

From then on.

He could withstand attacks from an ordinary ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator.

Next, he only needed to consume some more Qi and Blood Elixirs to completely consolidate his physical strength.

Then, he could strive for the second-level Body Refining!

“Unfortunately, the essence and blood of a second-level dragon-type demon beast has never been found.”

…

A few days later,

Li Changan went to Wanbaolou.

He sought out the shopkeeper, Jin Yue, and inquired about this essence and blood.

This time, Jin Yue shared a piece of information.

“Fellow Daoist Li, dragon-type demon beasts are incredibly rare, and their essence and blood are incredibly precious. Wanbaolou currently doesn’t have any in stock, but I recently heard that Senior Pei has some.”

“Which Senior Pei?”

“Female Sword Immortal, Pei Yingyao!”

Jin Yue mentioned a name Li Changan was familiar with.

However,

although Pei Yingyao had the essence and blood, she wasn’t planning on selling it.

Li Changan couldn’t understand what he was saying.

Pei Yingyao had neither physical cultivation nor alchemy skills, so what did she need the essence and blood of a demon beast for?

The next day,

he visited Pei Yingyao to inquire about the essence and blood.

Pei Yingyao patiently explained, “Monster blood can nourish swords. My sword needs to drink blood frequently to maintain its killing intent. Dragon monster blood is particularly effective.”

“Nourish the sword with blood?”

Li Changan was a little frustrated. It seemed that this blood essence was not for him.

He had no choice but to say goodbye.

…

Time flew by. More than a month passed.

Li Changan still hadn’t found the dragon monster blood essence, but his physical realm had completely stabilized.

He had become a true first-level peak physical cultivator!

A few days later,

Li Changan went out again, planning to go to Wanbao Tower to ask.

If Wanbao Tower still didn’t have it, he would go to Zheng Qingqing.

“I hope Zheng Qingqing has this kind of blood essence.”

Soon,

he arrived at Wanbao Tower.

Before he could ask, Jin Yue spoke first.

“Fellow Daoist Li, you’ve come at the right time. I was just about to find you.”

“Me?”

Li Changan was stunned.

“Shopkeeper Jin, what’s going on?”

“It’s Senior Pei. She suddenly issued a bounty today, urgently seeking a Soul-Guiding Incense, but hasn’t found it yet.”

Jin Yue spoke hurriedly, explaining the situation.

Early this morning,

Pei Yingyao had searched every shop in Yellow Crane Immortal City, hoping to buy a Soul-Guiding Incense.

However, this treasure was too precious, and no one would normally need it.

No major store had any in stock.

“My other Jin family shop does have Soul-Guiding Incense, but it’s too far from Yellow Crane Immortal City, and Senior Pei is in such a hurry that even if they could deliver it, it would be too late.”

Pei Yingyao had now made an offer.

Anyone who could find a Soul-Guiding Incense for her would receive a favor.

This favor could be exchanged for a treasure,

or she could even ask for a favor.

Jin Yue said to Li Chang’an, “Senior Pei is so anxious. It’s likely that a friend or relative’s cultivation has gone awry, causing their soul to leave their body. Fellow Daoist Li, if you have any soul-guiding incense, you could try it.”

“Okay, thank you, Shopkeeper Jin, for the information!”

Li Chang’an’s heart skipped a beat. He happened to have

a bottle of soul-guiding incense.

As for why Pei Yingyao needed it so urgently, Li Chang’an had a rough guess.

It was probably because Ji Mengyun was about to be possessed by the evil spirit and was showing unusual symptoms.   Pei Yingyao had already lost one disciple

before ,   and she probably didn’t want to lose another.   …   A moment later,   Li Chang’an arrived outside Pei Yingyao’s residence on the hillside of Yellow Crane Mountain.   ”Senior Pei, I, Li Chang’an, have come bearing the soul-guiding incense.”   He had barely finished speaking   when the gate to the courtyard opened.   Pei Yingyao’s voice echoed at that moment.   ”Come in!”   Hearing this, Li Chang’an was about to step inside when a powerful suction force sent him flying uncontrollably.   He didn’t resist the force, allowing himself to be sucked deeper into the cave.   As expected,   Ji Mengyun was also there.   She sat cross-legged, her pretty face pale, her forehead covered in sweat, and her closed eyelids trembling slightly, as if she was fighting something.   Pei Yingyao stood behind her, a hand on her shoulder.   Seeing Li Changan,   her expression was complicated and she sighed softly.   ”Li Changan, you are right about the sword. I was wrong.”   (End of this chapter)