Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 366 Strengthen Your Spine
I sat on the steps by the roadside.

At Pei Xia's feet lay the long black scabbard, and in her hand she held Zhou Tian's four-foot-long sword.

The hilt is black with a cloth strap wrapped around it for easy grip. The guard is old and shows three or four marks from previous fights. The blade is long and clear, and the edge is well-maintained.

Overall, it is a fine longsword that has been tested in battle. If it were forged by a master craftsman, it should be able to sell for more than fifty taels.

Pei Xia frowned and looked through the pages repeatedly, but couldn't find anything unusual.

The man is an ordinary man, and the sword is an ordinary sword.

Why do I feel uneasy whenever I see this sword?

Could the problem be with the scabbard?

So Pei Xia put down his sword and picked up the black scabbard to examine it closely.

The scabbard is also quite nice; it's heavy and made of metal. What's rare is that the metal scabbard doesn't make any unusual noise when closed, suggesting it was forged in the same furnace as the sword.

If that's the case, the price of this sword will have to double again. After all, with the packaging, it could easily cost over a hundred taels of silver.

"Finished reading?" Old Man Zhou's voice rang in my ears.

Then a short hand reached out.

Pei Xia had no choice but to sigh and give him another Spirit Nourishing Pill.

There is indeed a price to pay for wanting to see his sword.

Sheathed the sword and handed it back to the old man. No matter how suspicious Pei Xia was, she had to face reality. Perhaps she was just being too sensitive.

The old man got another Spirit Nourishing Pill, his little face squished into a chrysanthemum shape, and he couldn't stop smiling.

"God of Wealth, God of Wealth, what else do you want?"

"That's all. I'll go to the clothing store and pick out a couple of changes of clothes."

"Alright, old man, I'll go with you. Who knows, we might find another way to make a fortune."

Pei Xia shook his head and smiled bitterly. They hadn't even been at the ship's location for a night, and four Spirit Nourishing Pills had already been used.

In other states, this would be nothing, but in Qin, it was indeed a waste of money.

Fortunately, buying clothes no longer requires such a large expense; the small amount of cash Pei Xia had taken from Yu Qiong earlier was enough.

After taking off his wet old clothes in the fitting room and changing into comfortable cotton clothes, and then gathering up his long hair, Pei Xia finally showed some handsomeness again, except for that small tuft of beard, which made him look slightly older.

Well, it's not a bad thing to look a bit older in front of the new apprentice.

After getting two more sets of clothes for Jiang Shu and Feng Yao, Pei Xia and Zhou Tian returned to the inn together.

However, upon arriving near the inn, they saw a large crowd gathered at the inn's entrance.

Pei Xia's heart tightened, and she quickly ran over a few steps.

Pushing through the crowd, I discovered a person lying at the entrance of the inn.

It is Feng Yao.

She lay face down on the ground, motionless, with broken window shards scattered around her. Looking up, she could see a hole in the wall upstairs; she must have been beaten out of the room.

"Is he dead?"

"He must be dead. He's not moving at all, and he's not breathing."

"I just saw someone who looks like Jiang Chengshan..."

"Tsk, what a blind fool."

The whispers of conversation around her reached Pei Xia's ears, but she couldn't piece together the situation.

He could only step forward and help Feng Yao up.

Did Feng Yao die?
Feng Yao was already dead.

Pei Xia picked her up, and she leaned back, her eyes blinking as she looked at him.

Those who discovered she was still alive were startled. Pei Xia asked in a low voice, "What happened?"

Feng Yao answered truthfully: "My spine was broken, and I can't move."

"..." Pei Xia was both amused and exasperated. "Nonsense, I'm asking who hit you, how you were hit, and where is Jiang Shu?"

Before Feng Yao could speak, the landlady's voice came from inside the inn: "People from Jiangcheng Mountain have sent a mid-grade Iron Bone expert, and they dragged that boy away."

The shopkeeper came out, leaned against the door, and looked at Pei Xia squatting on the ground. Her tone was cold: "The person you messed with smashed up my shop. You'll have to pay for it!"

Jiang Chengshan was visited by a mid-grade Iron Bone cultivator who happened to be one level above Feng Yao, and he took Jiang Shu with him.

It's quite clear who was behind this.

They met Ma Shilin while traveling at night. In the Jiangcheng mountain area, it wasn't hard to guess their destination by looking at the direction.

Jiang Chengshan might not have enough informants to keep track of everything at the ship's location, but if he knew in advance that Pei Xia and her group were coming soon, that would be a different story.

Pei Xia thought that by sneaking in and staying for a while, she wouldn't be discovered... Tsk, she was still careless.

Pei Xia held Feng Yao in her arms and said, "I'll nail your spine in place first."

The innkeeper didn't really care about the losses; having worked at the boat company for many years, she was used to it.

The cold words were simply a ploy to get Pei Xia to give her another Spirit Nourishing Pill.

"I want an empty room, and I don't want anyone to disturb me," Pei Xia instructed before carrying Feng Yao upstairs.

They opened another room, and Pei Xia put Feng Yao on the bed, stripped off her clothes, then rolled over onto her back, exposing her back.

Her fair upper body had more than one scar, indicating that Feng Yao must have faced not only a Tie Gu who was of a higher cultivation level than her, but also other disciples from Jiangcheng Mountain.

Some external wounds and bruises were minor; the main problem was a thick, deep bloodstain on his waist, as if he had been struck hard by an iron rod or something similar.

Pei Xia reached out and pressed down, and could clearly feel that her spine was dislocated and slumped, indicating that it was broken.

He had once used a long needle to prick Ye Baicha's cervical spine; if he did the same to Feng Yao, his waist should still be usable.

However, as her fingers caressed the supple and slender waist, Pei Xia had to consider the subsequent issues.

Jiang Shu has been kidnapped by the people of Jiangcheng Mountain, so we definitely have to go and rescue him. In that case, a fight is probably inevitable.

His biggest trump card right now is those Yangchun Pills. With the spiritual power that he recovers temporarily, he is confident that he can match them as long as he doesn't encounter a master cultivator in the Undying Realm or a warrior who can kill ten thousand men.

One person can shake an entire sect, and even the most powerful inner cauldron might not be enough, let alone elixirs.

From this perspective, Feng Yao's combat strength is essential.

With her mind made up, Pei Xia silently took out a barrier talisman.

A flash of light enveloped the entire room, ensuring that no spiritual energy or movement would leak out. He then swallowed a Spirit Nourishing Pill.

The spiritual energy restored by the Nourishing Spirit Pill was minimal, only enough for Pei Xia to clearly extract a few items from the jade pendant.

Placed on the edge of the bed, he took out six magical needles fused with the Blazing Sun Profound Gold, two Yangchun Pills, and a blood bead of Pure Returning to Emptiness Blood.

He first put a Yangchun pill into Feng Yao's mouth and instructed, "Hold it in your mouth first, and swallow it when I tell you to, then absorb it with all your might."

Then, Pei Xia let out a soft breath and swallowed the remaining Yangchun Pill in one gulp.

As spiritual energy revived within her body, Pei Xia moved with lightning speed, grabbing six long needles and threading them through the blood droplets.

The pure blood power of the Great Demon Guixu began to wriggle on the long needle as if it were a living thing.

Pei Xia's gaze sharpened, and starting from the lumbar spine, she inserted all six long needles into Feng Yao's neck, one by one!

"Take the pill!" he hissed.

Feng Yao immediately swallowed the Yangchun Pill. As the abundant spiritual energy spread into her body, the flesh and blood power of her head was stimulated to the maximum extent.

Pei Xia placed her hand on his smooth back.

He had actually thought about this for a long time. Since Feng Yao was dead, but her body retained the properties and strength of the Refined Head, then in a sense, wasn't she also a magical artifact obtained by chance and skill?
Pei Xia's gaze began to calm down. Coincidentally, I am a vegetarian.

(End of this chapter)