Destiny is ashes

Chapter 172 Changing Aura
This story has many abbreviations, but it can generally explain why Aunt Huai can live here.

An Jing nodded slightly. There must be a master behind Aunt Huai. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why she could use the earth veins to prolong her life when she was still a girl.

Moreover, her fate is absolutely special and of considerable value. Putting aside other things, the fact that she can achieve a win-win situation with the earth veins alone is worth cultivating.

"And that group of people."

Aunt Huai continued, "They showed up more than a month ago and had been hanging around the tea shop. I thought they had some problems and wanted to ask if I could help them, but they told me they wanted to buy my shop and make me move out."

——That was also when I saved the child.

Shaking her head, the old lady seemed to find it a little ridiculous: "I have already said that the land of this tea shop is not mine. It was lent to me by the Dachen government, but they didn't believe it."

"Not believing it would have been fine, but they also tried to force me to buy something and threatened me... Xiao Wang later drove these people away."

The little Wang mentioned by Aunt Huai was the Captain Wang who had faced An Jing not long ago. He had the cultivation of inner energy like the tide, and was considered a good hand in the whole Kanming City. He could indeed drive away the troublemakers.

At this point, Aunt Huai nodded slightly: "Xiao Wang wanted to help me at the beginning, but he was quite nervous. I'm afraid you gave in to him by not fighting with him at that time. I'd like to apologize on his behalf."

"It's okay. It's my duty. I understand."

An Jing waved his hand, and he was thinking in his heart: "More than a month ago...isn't this the time when I escaped from Xuanming Manor?"

"The demon cult forces in Kanming City have also weakened in order to hunt me down. Because the demon cult has even infiltrated the highest levels of Kanming City, once the demon cult weakens, the defense of Kanming City will also weaken!"

"It seems that these people who are spying on the earth veins are actually enemies of the Demon Cult?"

He was not quite sure about this, so An Jing calmed himself down, raised his head and looked at Aunt Huai who had stopped talking and was waiting for him to speak.

"I am not from Chenli."

An Jing said bluntly: "My family was once a wealthy family, but we were separated due to famine. In order to avoid some enemies who were tracking me, I disguised myself as a visitor from Chenli."

"But because that group of people had already reached an agreement with the surrounding wealthy families, my appearance made them feel uneasy and confused, so they wanted to attack me and ask who sent me."

"To put it simply, they wanted to come and test me because I disguised myself so well... At this point, it's no use saying that I'm not from Chenli. This group of people has already attacked me with malicious intent, and I will definitely retaliate."

At this point, An Jing couldn't help but be curious: "Aunt Huai, how did you figure that out?"

"gas."

Aunt Huai was also thinking about something. She looked at An Jing deeply with a complicated look. After a while, she said quietly, "My fate allows me to see the spirit of souls. The souls of the dusty people carry the wind and frost and the coolness of the northern mountains. Although you do have the martial spirit of the vast northern plains, you still have the smell of living in the city for a long time and being immersed in the fragrance of books."

"As soon as I saw you, I knew you were a decent kid from a wealthy northern family in Dachen, so I slipped up and almost ruined your disguise."

“To be honest…”

An Jing didn't care about this, as long as other people couldn't see it. But he was quite surprised by the spirit energy. He thought, "Fu Xie, this is also a method of investigation, right? How should we conceal it?"

"There are not many people who can observe soul energy. As for concealment, it is a little difficult for others, but it is not difficult for you."

The sword spirit is very reliable in this regard: "The breath of the soul is essentially a concentration of your past life experiences, but don't you have wisdom? Use your past life to make up for it."

"Contemplate the Pure and Quiet Sword Contemplation, recall your past life, and then let this old lady take a look."

“That’s not really difficult for me.”

Ever since he had the dream about his past life, An Jing had a better grasp of the memories of his past life. He closed his eyes and meditated, practicing the Pure and Tranquil Sword Technique. Many scattered memories of his past life emerged in his mind, gradually re-transforming him into the warrior who had experienced the great war and fire in his past life.

When he opened his eyes again, a faint golden light flashed in An Jing's eyes, and he said, "Aunt Huai, can you take another look?"

"Let me try." The old lady was also quite curious. There was a faint halo in her eyes and even a dark light flashed behind her head.

After a few breaths, the old man was quite surprised and said, "He has become a completely different person! His origin is completely unrecognizable, yet he is as mighty as the ocean. However, his waves contain unparalleled sharpness... He is even more dangerous!"

Hearing this comment, An Jing also breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for your great help, Aunt Huai. I will always remember this."

Although he is still unclear about what path his future will take, An Jing has instinctively predicted that he will definitely become enemies with many people in the future.

Because his enemy is not a single evil person or a single evil cult, but the world that has created this corrupt society.

In other words, he will have countless enemies, many of whom have supernatural powers.

If he can win, he will fight. If he can't win, he will find a way to win. While finding a way, An Jing must hide himself when being chased. This is why he is so focused on learning the art of changing his appearance and spiritual characteristics.

Now, thanks to Aunt Huai's reminder, he has filled another loophole. How can he not relax and be grateful?

"It's not that difficult, as long as it helps you."

Aunt Huai didn't take it seriously. Many things in the world were like this. A casual action could enlighten others. She had seen a lot of things and didn't care about this false reputation. It was good enough as long as she could help.

An Jing and Aunt Huai summarized the information and quickly came to a general conclusion of the whole matter.

There was a group of people who sneaked into the city after finding out that it was empty, and began to fight openly or covertly for the control of the unguarded earth veins.

Before that, they had contacted the surrounding Chenli people and asked them to stand aside and not interfere with their actions towards Kanming City.

An Jing didn't know why at first, but when he thought about the situation of the Frost Catastrophe and the Northern Barbarians in his hometown, he began to understand a little - as the influence of the Frost Catastrophe continued to spread, the environmental pressure on the Chenli people would definitely become greater and greater.

Those around the sect are still okay, as they have strong people to protect them, but the ethnic groups close to Dachen are certainly in a dilemma now, not knowing whether to seek protection from the sect or completely surrender to Dachen.

But the best option is to remain independent and migrate south. After all, even if they take the initiative to surrender, Dachen may not necessarily ask them to do so, and even if they do, they may not let them migrate south.

In short, Dachen is blocking their way. They don’t want to start a war like the Northern Barbarians, so they can only hope that there will be chaos in Dachen.

As long as there is chaos in Kanming City, no matter how chaotic it is, they will have an excuse to go south, and then naturally integrate into Dachen, or occupy this land.

"The frost disaster is coming... in a few days."

An Jing murmured to himself: "If nothing unexpected happens, Cheng Zheng will then use the magic to combine the earth veins and display his magical powers to curb the frost and snow."

“But if the earth vein nodes are occupied by evil people, and they take advantage of the situation to reverse the magic power, the city chief may be seriously injured or even killed... If the earth veins backfire, the foundation of the entire Kanming City will be shaken!”

"Add to that the frost and heavy snow, and there will be countless casualties. The entire northwest border will be in turmoil!"

——It’s just… just like what my hometown in Northern Xinjiang was like back then!

When he thought of this, An Jing clenched his fists.

In addition to being angry, An Jing was somewhat confused and frowned: "But why? Are they just trying to create chaos and bloodshed?"

"This is not even as good as the Demon Cult!"

In An Jing's understanding, even the Demon Cult would not cause chaos for the sake of chaos.

Artificially creating chaos is inconsistent with their doctrine of "obeying God's will", and the most they can do is to go with the flow.

Not to mention, this city is most likely the base of the Tianyi Demon Cult in Dachen. Even if they really want to collect more Sons of Disaster, they can collect them somewhere else. There is no need to do this in their own nest.

Could it be that it is to make more blood pills?
However, the blood pill of the Demon Cult is quite special. It requires rituals and life-saving instruments, as well as the preparation of the medicine shop owner and the pharmacist. It is completely different from the inferior blood pill that An Jing had seen.

There is no point in making this inferior blood pill. It can only be said to be a more effective qi-nourishing pill. It may be able to replenish blood and qi, but that's the best it can do.

Not to mention, making it doesn't require such a big effort... If you have to refine it, wouldn't it be more convenient in small villages and towns?

If you don’t understand, don’t think about it.

An Jing knew that he was still missing a crucial piece of information from the truth.

As it happens, he has the means to detect key information.

During this period of time, Aunt Huai's tea shop would definitely not be open. An Jing placed his luggage in the private room and stayed at Aunt Huai's place, which could also protect Aunt Huai and the local land veins.

After making all the preparations, An Jing closed the door of the private room on the pretext that he needed to practice, so that he could control the drone and let Aunt Huai prepare for the unknown mysterious man.

The trust between the two parties has not reached that level yet, and there is no rush. If they meet suddenly, both sides will be embarrassed.

Soon, night.

A lotus seed drone flew quietly and came into Chongyi Building.

(End of this chapter)