Immortality begins with upgrading buildings

Chapter 27 Madness

Back home, Deng Yunliang was still somewhat absent-minded, because he hadn't expected Ji Yuan to be such a sentimental person.

Deng Yunliang had initially assumed that Ji Yuan was a cold-hearted and unfeeling Taoist practitioner because he had always kept to himself and rarely left his home.

But today, I never expected that he would be willing to help Lin Hu.

Furthermore, Ji Yuan dislikes gambling, a fact that Deng Yunliang, though unwilling to admit, could genuinely sense.

Thinking back to today's events, Deng Yunliang couldn't help but wonder if Ji Yuan would blame him for Lin Hu's gambling.

After all, it was he who dragged Lin Hu into gambling...

If that's the case, if Ji Yuan really blames him, how can someone at the early stage of Qi Refining withstand a mid-stage Qi Refining attack?

Deng Yunliang recalled the cold look Ji Yuan gave him when he last asked to borrow money, as if he were looking at a... dead man.

Deng Yunliang shivered, his face turning pale with fright.

"No, we can't just sit here and wait to die!"

As a seasoned gambler, Deng Yunliang's first reaction was... to gamble!

He picked up a cup of tea, took a big gulp, and then began to think carefully.

This person has the cultivation level of mid-stage Qi Refining, but seems to be very wealthy. He uses such a high-quality magic boat, and you can often hear the clucking of green and yellow chickens coming from his backyard. It seems that he has also recently started raising spirit pigs.

Damn it, his poop is probably better than what I eat!

How rich do you have to be to do that?

You don't know until you think about it... and once you start thinking about it, Deng Yunliang is even more tempted.

If we could take down this neighbor, the windfall would be considerable, not to mention he's an orphan, which would make things even better.

Even if we kill them, there will be no future trouble.

Then the most important question arises.

How could someone at the early stage of Qi Refining possibly kill someone at the mid stage of Qi Refining?

Moreover, judging from the way Ji Yuan brought out two spirit fish in one go last time, that guy is definitely a person who is extremely skilled in killing.

I definitely can't do it myself; doing it myself would be suicide.

If you want to kill someone, you have to find someone... Coincidentally, Deng Yunliang had been frequenting the gambling dens in Zengtou City during this period, and he had indeed made quite a few friends.

Although they were all friends I met at the gambling table, only friends like that would dare to risk their lives.

If you met them in a respectable place, who would dare to do this?

So who should we find? Ideally, we should find two Qi Refining Level 4 cultivators at once, and during the fight, one of them should perish together with Ji Yuan... It would be great if both of them could perish together with Ji Yuan.

In this way, he could obtain the property of three people for nothing.

Of course, the premise is that he has to stay calm and not be killed by Ji Yuan immediately... Several names gradually appeared in Deng Yunliang's mind.

……

After Ji Yuan returned home, he forgot about what had just happened at the door.

With a breakthrough in cultivation and increased strength, one naturally needs to adapt to their magical artifact.

For example, this black gold knife.

When Ji Yuan was at the fourth level of Qi Refining, using this technique wasn't particularly strenuous, but it always consumed a lot of spiritual energy. However, things are different now.

You can manipulate this black gold blade however you want.

Especially after Ji Yuan learned how to draw talismans, his manipulation of ritual implements became even more refined.

Ji Yuan then spent two more days studying at home. Although he didn't go out during those two days, he could occasionally hear Lin Hu leaving early and returning late.

He said he wouldn't gamble anymore, and it seems he really really means it.

As for Deng Yunliang on the other side, it seems that outsiders have come to his house these past few days. Ji Yuan sensed two auras coming and going, but since it didn't bother him, he didn't pay any attention to it.

It wasn't until the third day that he prepared to go out to buy a few half-spirit fish and green-yellow chickens, and also to purchase some talisman paper and talisman ink.

As Ji Yuan turned to lock the gate before leaving the house, he suddenly realized something was wrong!

A dark light flashed from the storage bag, growing larger as it flew and hovering behind him.

"bite--"

After a crisp sound of metal colliding, the black gold blade was actually pushed back by this tremendous force and pressed against Ji Yuan's back. The force was immense; if it were an ordinary cultivator, this move would likely have caused internal injuries.

Unfortunately, Ji Yuan had already undergone physical training!

He rolled into the yard and closed the door behind him.

"not good!"

A gasp came from outside the courtyard, followed by a water jet that shattered the wooden door instantly.

"Fuck your mother!"

Ji Yuan's spiritual energy surged wildly, and four water shields instantly appeared and hovered around him. He then leaped onto the wall.

He understood what was going on at a glance.

Two middle-aged men, dripping wet, stood on the shore. One was dressed in black, and the other in a gray robe. Both exuded the aura of the fourth level of Qi Refining, and their expressions were extremely fierce.

The black-clad man had a magical artifact floating above his head, which looked exactly like a bronze nail the size of an arm.

Clearly, this is the thing that just ambushed Ji Yuan.

If he had reacted any slower, he might be a corpse lying on the ground right now.

In addition, Deng Yunliang was standing at the gate of his house, holding a water arrow talisman in each hand, and he looked at Ji Yuan with a flustered expression.

Seeing this, Ji Yuan immediately understood what had happened.

The gambler...gambled!

Deng Yunliang truly lived up to his reputation as a gambler. Despite being only at the third level of Qi Refining, he dared to hire two fourth-level Qi Refining cultivators to assassinate him.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

Ji Yuan had barely stepped onto the top of the courtyard wall when he activated the Black Gold Blade.

"go--"

He gave a soft shout, and the short sword vanished instantly, slashing straight at the black-clad man with the magical artifact. At the same time, he pointed both hands at Deng Yunliang.

The water droplet points out!

Two beams of spiritual light shot out, and Deng Yunliang threw out two water arrow talismans in his hand without saying a word.

They collided, producing the sounds of metal and water droplets exploding together.

A muffled groan followed.

Suddenly, the gray-robed man, who had been motionless, shuddered and then fell straight down, becoming a corpse.

His eyes were wide open, and he died with his eyes open, unable to close them in peace.

The man in black turned his head and glanced at it, then turned back as if in disbelief. "You..."

Before he could finish speaking, a faint red light appeared before his eyes, and he instinctively summoned back his magical artifact.

Ji Yuan, standing on the wall, pointed again.

The water droplet tip overturned the bronze nail.

The deadly needle pierced through his brow and into his body in an instant.

"boom--"

The body fell backward into the lake water of Yunyuze.

These two were hiding in Yunyu Marsh before, which is why Ji Yuan didn't notice them at all. Now, they might as well die in Yunyu Marsh.

Having killed the two attackers in one fell swoop, Ji Yuan didn't feel anything.

Firstly, these two people's cultivation level was lower than his, and secondly, they were all just showy but incompetent at fighting.

Take the fight just now as an example. Ji Yuan feigned an attack on the man in black and Deng Yunliang, but in reality, he aimed the deadly needle directly at the person in the middle, yet he didn't even bother to use the water shield.

They must have all been gambling addicts that Deng Yunliang recruited from the gambling den.

Forget about fighting, they're only thinking about getting rich.

Ji Yuan jumped down from the wall, while Deng Yunliang, who was standing to the side, collapsed to his knees.

Seeing Ji Yuan looking at him, he kowtowed even more vigorously.

"Senior Ji...Brother Ji, please spare my life, Brother Ji!"

Ji Yuan was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see others weeping, so he relieved their suffering with a single water droplet.

Ji Yuan only has two choices when faced with someone who wants to harm him.

Either you get fucked to death by the other party, or... fuck the other party to death.

Having gathered almost all the treasures the three gamblers had left, Ji Yuan used three drops of corpse-dissolving water to erase all traces. Before leaving, he looked around and arrived at Lin Hu's door, knocking on the door.

There was no response, which suggests that Wu Qin had also boarded the ship.

Thank you to the Engineering College Venture Capital for the 3 monthly tickets, and thank you to Xiaoyaorufengw, Dream Novel Island, and Night King Shuracha for the 1 monthly ticket each.

(End of this chapter)