Cultivating Immortality from the Book of Life and Death

Chapter 548 Merit. (Second Update!)

The rare and precious treasures hidden in Xue Tong Pass?

Zheng Que frowned slightly, immediately realizing that the [Evil Shadow Play] was referring to that thing that still had five hundred years to mature!

He had just painted a rosy picture for this "evil," and this "evil" immediately painted another rosy picture for him.
Thinking of this, Zheng Que stopped wasting words with [Evil Shadow Play] and directly said to Linghu Yuniang beside him, "I want to cultivate now. Take me to the cultivation room."

Linghu Yuniang immediately replied, "Yes."

As she spoke, she floated ahead, leading the way, with Zheng Que, Mu Xiangu, and Xue Shuangzi following closely behind.

Before long, Linghu Yuniang led Zheng Que to a secluded courtyard located in the southwest corner of the market, at a distance from other buildings.

The materials, specifications, and details of this courtyard are all particularly exquisite. A plaque has already been hung on it, bearing the three characters "Fangzhu Mansion".

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The half-open door was pushed open, and the shadows of runes briefly appeared in the air, seemingly recognizing the visitor before quickly disappearing.

As soon as Zheng Que crossed the threshold, he felt the malevolent and yin energy that filled the entire Xue Tong Pass drop sharply. Clearly, the entire ward master's mansion had been set up with an array to block the yin and malevolent energy.

However, with the world in disarray and this being the Blood Pass, the Yin and evil energy within the mansion are only relatively less than outside; overall, they still exist.

Linghu Yuniang led the way. After turning past the screen wall, they entered the front courtyard. Passing through the hanging flower gate, they entered another courtyard, surrounded by covered walkways and houses.

After entering a room on the left, Linghu Yuniang stopped and said, "Fellow Daoist Zheng, this is the cultivation room. A spirit-gathering array has been set up. Shall we open it now?"

Seeing Zheng Que nod, she made a hand seal, and the doors and windows closed automatically. The ground and the four walls lit up with crisscrossing array patterns. Soon, large amounts of spiritual energy surged out. However, due to the influence of the area, a considerable amount of yin energy was still mixed in with this spiritual energy.

Zheng Que sat down at the head of the table, but instead of immediately starting to cultivate, he looked at Mu Xiangu and said, "Seal this place off."

Mu Xiangu nodded, her divine sense spreading out in a vast and powerful manner, instantly isolating all external detection methods.

At this moment, Zheng Que looked at Linghu Yuniang and instructed her, "Tell me everything that happened here after I left."

Upon hearing this, Linghu Yuniang immediately nodded: "Yes!"

"After Fellow Daoist Zheng left, everything was normal at first."

"Later, two Core Formation cultivators suddenly arrived."

"After sensing the presence of the two, [Shadow Play] worried that he would not be able to defeat them both alone, so he sent his corpse puppet to ask me for help."

"I gave it a little guidance, instructing it to use my soon-to-be-useless senior sister as bait..."

Linghu Yuniang was eloquent and, in just a few words, recounted everything that had just happened.

Of course, when [Shadow Play] asked her to borrow people, she directly attributed it to her own merits.

After all, Zheng Que had just praised [Evil Shadow Play] for being well done!
Since that's the case, even if she didn't do anything, Zheng Que still asked about it, so she definitely deserves half the credit!
It's a pity her cultivation level is too low; otherwise, all the credit for this should have gone to her, and had nothing to do with that "evil"...

After hearing the general outline of what had happened, Zheng Que immediately understood that the two Core Formation cultivators from the Zhuo family of Yanzhou were indeed after him.

The reason [Evil Shadow Play] targeted the two Core Formation cultivators wasn't because of him, but because this "evil creature" simply wanted to turn them into its own "shadow puppets"...

Furthermore, the true strength of [Shadow Play] seems to be a bit stronger than he thought!
Mu Xiangu had told him before that if he faced the two Core Formation cultivators from the Zhuo family of Yanzhou alone, one of them would die and the other would escape.

As for the two Core Formation cultivators who faced off against [Evil Shadow Play], one died and the other escaped!
The reason why [Evil Shadow Play] could not defeat Ghost Bride or Mu Xian Gu may not be due to a difference in strength, but rather because his ability to control shadows was countered.

Neither the ghost bride nor Mu Xian Gu had a shadow. This rendered the [Evil Shadow Play] technique half useless.

However, when facing human cultivators of the same level, the methods of [Evil Shadow Play] suddenly become terrifying!
Moreover, according to Linghu Yuniang's account, when the [Evil Shadow Play] first made its move, it deliberately lured the two Core Formation cultivators into a dark room...

Without light, you can't see a shadow.

As for the "shadow" of the [Evil Shadow Play], apart from the fact that it has no shadow, the cultivator's detection methods are completely ineffective.

Everything about the "shadow" is exactly the same as a normal living person, including their expression, personality, and even their aura.

The two Core Formation cultivators were caught off guard not because they were careless, but because they used detection methods but failed to discover the problem.

This lack of understanding of "evil" and the information gap led to the subsequent disastrous defeat...

However, this matter should have nothing to do with Linghu Yuniang.

Because Linghu Yuniang had no idea what the [Evil Shadow Play]'s innate talents, ghost skills, and Yin arts were.
That so-called guidance on the "Evil Shadow Play" was mostly just a scene that Linghu Yuniang added for herself...

Thinking of this, Zheng Que nodded and then said, "I understand."

"You go down first."

"Continue to supervise the work."

"Come find me after the entire market is built."

Linghu Yuniang said, "Yes!"

After watching her leave, Zheng Que withdrew his gaze, took out Sheng Du's storage bag, emptied all the contents, and began to take inventory.

Among these items, the most eye-catching were the spirit stones. Low-grade spirit stones were piled up like a small mountain, and there were more than two thousand mid-grade spirit stones. They gathered in the room and shone brightly, making the spiritual energy in the spirit gathering array much stronger.

However, although the number of these spirit stones is not small, it still seems to be a little less than what Gao Yinxia of the Heavenly Artifact Sect received back then.

This cultivator is supposed to be at the Core Formation stage, yet the spirit stones in his storage bag are less than those of a Foundation Establishment disciple from the Heavenly Artifact Sect.
Zheng Que was surprised and continued to count the other items.

The second item he checked was the pills. There were many pills, in a huge pile of bottles and jars, but when he randomly picked some to examine, he found that the quality of these pills was very average and not as good as that of the disciples of the six major sects.

However, there were many pills among them that he had never seen before. They looked very similar to the Yin-Clearing Pill, but there were subtle differences, suggesting that they were pills of a higher grade than the Yin-Clearing Pill.

Zheng Que observed them briefly, then shook his head slightly, put them back, and began to examine the materials again.

The materials were of all kinds, taking up most of the room. Many of them were semi-finished products used to set up formations, build houses, and pave roads. There were very few materials that a Core Formation stage cultivator could actually use.

Clearly, these things are all used to build markets!

"It seems that the contents of this storage bag are not the entire fortune of a Core Formation cultivator."

"It was a resource that the Zhuo family of Yanzhou prepared temporarily so that Zhuo Tingchen could cheat."

"Unfortunately, they don't have the Foundation Establishment stage techniques I'm looking for..."

Thinking of this, Zheng Que put away all the spirit stones, and as for the pills and materials, he took out several new storage bags and put them in them in different categories.

After tidying up Shengdu's storage bag, he turned to Xue Shuangzi and got down to business: "I have a technique here. Try practicing it."

(End of this chapter)