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Chapter 404 Brick Kiln
What Lord Xu most wanted to find was, of course, the cunning technique of the giant python that allowed it to freeze Wei Zhenbang.

Although Xu Yuan did not cultivate the "Thunderfire Tune," with the strength of a fifth-rate alchemist, he still easily used the method of separating the strange techniques within it.

To Xu Yuan's surprise, this seemingly powerful giant python only had two tricks.

One was the one that froze Wei Zhenbang, and the other was the "virtual scroll from a distance".

Simply put, it means being able to control power from twenty feet away, like directly entangled or tightened around a target.

However, after separating them, Xu Yuan did not refine these two strange techniques into pills.

Deceptive techniques are only seventh-rate.

In other words, that seemingly terrifying giant python was at most a seventh-rate evil spirit.

Xu Yuan waved his hand to disperse the two strange techniques, then turned and left with his hands behind his back: "Let the brothers handle it."

Several alchemists stepped forward and together breathed fire to refine the giant python's corpse.

The alchemists looked on with anticipation.

The materials refined from the corpses of evil spirits naturally belong to them.

Of course, nominally a portion of it had to be handed over to the government's private treasury.

But those in charge naturally take the lion's share.

Such a large evil spirit should yield a lot of good materials.

When Xu Yuan discovered that the giant python was only a seventh-rate creature, he lost all desire to "eat" it.

The county magistrate and Wei Zhenbang quickly followed, accompanying Lord Xu on either side.

Wei Zhenbang said with shame, "This evil spirit is not really worth your personal trip, sir. I am truly ashamed, but even if it is a seventh-rate monster, it is indeed an unparalleled monster in our county..."

After thinking about it, Lord Xu realized that perhaps he was just overthinking things.

Back in Shanhe County, all sorts of evil spirits ran rampant.

The county government was at a loss as to what to do about it.

Now that I'm only a fifth-rate person, dealing with evil spirits of this level is a piece of cake.

It's a pity that such a huge anaconda couldn't be eaten by the pisiform dragon.

They went ahead and returned to the county town. As soon as they entered the town gate, a burly middle-aged man came running up, panting, saying, "Sir, we've been waiting for you! A great evil spirit has appeared in Xinyifang!"

The middle-aged man was the head of Xinyi Ward in the city.

The family owned three brick kilns, and almost everyone in Xinyifang relied on them for a living.

The three brick kilns burned continuously, producing bricks and tiles that supplied Champa and Luocheng.

Champa is alright, but Luocheng has become increasingly prosperous in recent years, with many people building houses and bricks and tiles being in short supply.

Xu Yuan followed the village head and quickly arrived at Xinyifang in the west of the city.

Before even entering the workshop, a loud bang was heard. A large house on the left side of the workshop gate exploded, and then the bricks and tiles inside came to life and automatically reassembled into a five-zhang-tall humanoid monster!

"Om-"

Within the monster's hexagonal eye sockets, a raging kiln fire ignited, and it gained sentience.

It turned its head and saw the village head and Xu Yuan's group, then it charged fiercely and recklessly towards them.

The village head turned pale with fright and hid behind Wei Zhenbang: "That's it!"

Xu Yuan waved his hand, and the foul net was released.

The brick monster was five zhang tall and five zhang wide, with two arms made of bricks that hung down to the ground.

To ordinary people, it is a colossal behemoth.

However, the filthy net instantly expanded to a size of several tens of feet, rushing towards the monster and immediately trapping it inside.

The monster roared in fury, its voice like a raging storm raging wildfire.

It strained to tear at the filthy web, but the web was incredibly resilient and wouldn't break no matter how hard it was torn.

Then tighten slowly.

Before long, the monster was tightly bound together.

Xu Yuan secretly sensed that this monster was roughly at the seventh-rate level.

However, among the seventh-rate, it is considered to be in a relatively strong tier.

Xu Yuan opened the "Wang Ming" and made a new discovery. A thread was pulled out from the murky net, burrowed into the brick monster's body, and wrapped itself around a piece of blue brick.

The remaining bricks and tiles immediately swarmed forward, desperately trying to stop the foul silk from pulling the brick away.

Xu Yuan let out a cold snort, and the sword pellet flew out, instantly shattering the bricks and tiles.

The foul-smelling silk flew out with a whoosh, pulling the blue bricks along with it.

Suddenly, a pair of fiery eyes opened on the blue brick!
A trail of fire erupted violently from behind.

Using the force of the foul silk, it suddenly crashed into Xu Yuan.

Then he crashed headfirst into a piece of supple material.

Pidan opened the bundle, and the menacing blue brick fell into darkness.

Without these blue bricks, the monster in the murky net collapsed with a crash, turning into ordinary broken bricks and tiles scattered all over the ground.

The village head exclaimed in surprise: "This monster...that brick...the root of all things is actually just a brick?"

Lord Xu walked into Xinyifang with his hands behind his back.

The neighborhood was in complete disarray.

All the houses built with bricks and tiles have collapsed, and even the houses built with grass and wood have been knocked down...

The village head, still shaken, said, "Around 9:00 AM, the houses in the neighborhood suddenly started to change strangely!"
One by one, they turned into monsters. Those who were originally inside the houses fell directly into the monsters' bellies and were squeezed into minced meat!
Those monsters could kill several people with a wave of their hands.

I was lucky; I went out to run errands early in the morning and saw these monsters wreaking havoc outside the neighborhood, so I quickly fled.

Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll end up like them...

After the village head entered Xinyifang, he walked even faster.

They came to a brick kiln, let out a loud scream, and plopped down on the ground.

The brick kiln has been completely destroyed.

The family business was ruined.

Xu Yuan stood behind the village head, who was pounding the ground and wailing, and slowly opened his palm, revealing a glass bead in his hand.

On the way, Xu Yuan had already secretly refined the blue brick and obtained a piece of seventh-rate material.

This is the bead.

It seems to have nothing to do with bricks and tiles...

The materials left behind by evil spirits should, in theory, have some connection to the original entity.

Xu Yuan then used his "Wangming" technique to scan the entire Xinyifang area once more.

The culprit was that blue brick; now there are no more evil spirits in the neighborhood.

Xu Yuan could only give the village head a sympathetic look before turning and leaving.

Back in the county government office, Xu Yuan remained silent.

The county magistrate and Wei Zhenbang could not fathom Lord Xu's thoughts, and dared not say anything more.

After having tea with Lord Xu for a while, the captains who had stayed at Xiaohei River to deal with the giant python's carcass returned.

Xu Yuan immediately asked, "What kind of material was produced?"

Several alchemists looked disappointed: "There are only a few beads, and the quality isn't very good..."

As he spoke, he took out a few glass beads and showed them to Lord Xu.

Then they saw that Lord Xu had also taken out an almost identical glass bead!

The alchemists were dumbfounded: What's going on?

Xu Yuan: "They are clearly two completely unrelated evil spirits, so why did they leave behind the same material in the end?"

The county magistrate and Wei Zhenbang were completely baffled.

Lang Xiaoba replied, "Because these two evil spirits come from the same source!"

Xu Yuan gave Lang Xiaoba an approving look: "Not bad, you've improved."

The county magistrate and Wei Zhenbang were still somewhat confused: "From the same source? But those bricks and the giant python look completely different..."

Xu Yuan glanced at the sky: "Just wait, there will probably be more evil spirits appearing in the county today!"

(End of this chapter)