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Chapter 82 Qiu Qianhai's Fate [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Decades ago.

Old Blind Qin was not old yet, nor had he gone blind. He had an elegant and scholarly name: Qin Shu.

That was the year he broke through to the sixth level of Qi Refining, a year that changed his life.

He still remembers it clearly. It was a foggy morning when he invited a friend to go out on the boat with him, as usual. And that day they went to the deep water area.

I don't know if it was good luck or bad luck.

The two encountered a storm while on their boat. In a panic, they frantically searched for a way out and ended up accidentally entering an underwater cave.

It was there that they encountered a set of remains.

The fact that the remains could glow in this dim underwater environment meant they were extremely valuable, and besides the remains, there was also a jade slip nearby.

We're all friends until we find something good, but once we actually find something good, then we're a little embarrassed to say no.

I want them all.

Unable to decide the winner, the two decided to play rock-paper-scissors.

The winner chooses first, selecting one from the remains and the jade slip.

Qin Shu was lucky and won, so he asked for the jade slip.

His friend obtained the remains, but was unwilling to accept it, so he planned to kill Qin Shu and keep them for himself.

As luck would have it, Qin Shu had the same idea.

Once the storm had passed, the two immediately engaged in combat.

In the end, Qin Shu won, but he also damaged his eyes, leaving him with a lifelong ailment.

When Qin Shu returned, he found that the jade slip was empty, but the skeleton was actually a valuable item... indestructible and could be used to suppress demonic beasts.

Even a late-stage first-tier demonic beast wouldn't dare to move when it encountered these skeletons.

Qin Shu… Blind Qin could guess that the skeleton was definitely the remains of a powerful being, but he couldn’t figure out its specific uses.

He could only rely on his remaining power to intimidate the monsters, so that they would be at his mercy.

The skeleton is a good thing, but it's missing a finger bone.

Blind Qin naturally believed that his friend had torn off a branch and thrown it into that body of water before he died.

Qin the Blind went back to search, but couldn't find it. Later, after making many inquiries, he learned that in the days following the storm, someone had gone fishing in that area.

That man was Qiu Qianhai's grandfather.

At that time, he was a fisherman at the fifth level of Qi Refining. When Blind Qin found him, he tried to coerce and entice him to hand over the finger bone.

No matter what Qin the Blind Man said, Qiu Qianhai's grandfather insisted that he hadn't seen any finger bones.

They had no idea what the blind man Qin was talking about.

Left with no other option, Blind Qin returned to that area of ​​water to search carefully. Several days later, finding nothing, he forcibly killed Qiu Qianhai's grandfather and seized his storage bag, but ended up with nothing.

Qin the Blind felt he had accidentally killed someone, but fortunately no one knew.

Since the broken bones were also usable, he couldn't be bothered with them anymore.

More than a decade later, Blind Qin became Old Blind Qin, and the Qin family became the Qin Mansion.

By chance, he learned that Qin Long had killed a fisherman couple, and coincidentally, the man's surname was also Qiu... He was a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator and the son of the man he had killed years ago.

That's fine.

Old Blind Qin didn't take it to heart. With his lifespan already limited, he focused all his attention on the skeleton.

They were trying to find a way to build a foundation or prolong their lives.

He found nothing, but just as he was about to despair, he heard some news: Qin Long had killed the son of the enemy he had killed years ago...

That is, Qiu Qianhai.

He's actually reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining!

In this way, even if Old Blind Qin was completely blind, he would know that something was wrong.

Three generations of this family have all broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and all of them achieved this level through their own efforts without any family support.

Wouldn't this be understandable without some kind of stroke of luck?

Therefore, the remaining finger bone is almost certainly from Qiu Qianhai!

But at that time, Old Blind Qin was already quite old, so he thought he would let his family do it. But he never expected that it would cause so much trouble.

Logically speaking, if someone in the mid-stage of Qi Refining couldn't defeat Qiu Qianhai, then someone in the late-stage of Qi Refining, like Qin Long or He Laosan, should have gone instead.

But Old Blind Qin knew that if Qiu Qianhai had some other tricks up his sleeve and Qin Long and He Laosan got into trouble again, what would he do?

In the end, I still have to go by myself.

If you really have to deliver them one by one, you might as well just do it yourself and solve the problem all at once.

Old Blind Qin first went to Qingbo Pool, where he searched for three days without success. He then returned to the Qin family in Zengtou City and asked Qin Long and He Laosan to contact the various markets in Yunyuzhe, spend more spirit stones, and send more people, as if he was determined to find Qiu Qianhai at all costs.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.

These three months were also three months of extreme comfort for Ji Yuan.

Aside from cultivating every day, he had nothing else to do. Moreover, having reached the late stage of Qi Refining, he posed no safety risks in Zengtou City. On the contrary, he was respected (or even humiliated) wherever he went.

Even Luo Tong took the initiative to come to him, first praising him highly, and then taking out the magic ship that belonged to the original owner's father.

Ji Yuan then remembered this matter.

After the original owner's father was killed by Liu Laizi, this magic ship fell into Luo Tong's hands, who said he would buy it back after Ji Yuan reached the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Later, as things got busy, Ji Yuan forgot about it.

Now, Luo Tong has taken the initiative to return it.

Ji Yuan didn't let Uncle Luo suffer a loss. After finding out the price, he bought back the magic ship with the same amount of spirit stones.

Even though he doesn't need it, it's still something in the house, so he can keep it as a memento.

During those three months, Yao Jingfeng organized a gathering of four people.

The reason was that news came from the upper meeting that the conflict between the Water Dragon Sect and the Joyful Palace had intensified, with several more Qi Refining stage disciples killed or wounded, and Foundation Establishment cultivators already rushing to the battlefield.

That's all I have to do.

Ji Yuan took this opportunity to return the gifts to the three of them.

They didn't give too much, just a little over an ounce of blood essence per person.

Its value is also comparable to the three gifts I received earlier.

In addition, Du Kang, a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator from Zengtou City, and Hu Fang, a cultivator from Jingdefang, came to Ji Yuan's door, saying that they had discovered a late-stage first-order demon beast somewhere in Yunyuze, and asked if Ji Yuan was interested in joining forces to kill it.

Three late-stage Qi Refining cultivators joined forces to fight a late-stage first-tier demon beast.

It's a sure win situation; you can basically just go and wait for the spirit stones to be distributed.

But Ji Yuan still politely declined.

With a level 2 fishpond, cave, chicken coop, and pigsty at his disposal, Ji Yuan has no need to go on adventures.

Even if you spend all your time cultivating with spirit stones at home, you can still save some every day.

In terms of magic, he finally mastered the second level of "Canglang Sword Manual" "Stacked Mirror" and began to try to comprehend the third level of "Water Drop Finger" "Accumulated Explosion".

He estimated that this third level of "accumulated explosion" was probably even stronger than the Water Mine. Once he fully comprehended it, along with other techniques, he could probably dominate in the late stage of Qi Refining.

As for the formation, he spent spirit stones to ask Manager Wu to bring him a lot of dirty things, and spent three months cultivating them at all costs, finally getting the two Yin Ghosts to the sixth level of Qi Refining.

With the Yin Ghosts feeding back, the power of the Yin Ghost Formation is gradually increasing.

I believe it won't be long before we can trap cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining.

The peaches in the front yard were ripe, and Ji Yuan picked them as promised and gave them to Wen Ling'er. But after taking only one bite, she refused to eat any more.

acid.

The kind that makes your teeth ache from the sourness.

Ji Yuan secretly tasted one as well, and then planned to bury some spirit eggshells under the peach tree to see if the peaches next year would taste better.

Ji Yuan also didn't waste the other [spiritual field], planting a lot of spiritual wheat on it.

The main principle is to not waste a single resource.

During the same three months, Old Blind Qin received several pieces of intelligence, each time claiming to have discovered Qiu Qianhai's whereabouts.

The intelligence mentioned Heishuifang, Huaiyinfang, and Jingdefang, and each time Old Blind Qin went there in person, he either couldn't find it or it wasn't there.

On that day, the Qin family received another intelligence report that Qiu Qianhai had been spotted at Qingbo Pond.

He Laosan held the intelligence report, unsure whether to deliver it to Blind Qin.

In the end, Qin Long made the decision. He sighed and said, "Send it over. Killing Qiu Qianhai is Father's obsession. As his children, we should just listen to him."

As expected, not long after He Laosan sent out the intelligence, Qin Laoxiazi left alone in his flying boat.

……

After parting ways with Ji Yuan, Qiu Qianhai went straight back to Qingbo Pond.

He first found an opportunity to kill Deng Lang, and later, to be on the safe side, he also killed Deng Lang's good brother, Sun Dazhi.

After killing the man, he settled down at Qingbo Pond.

When they run out of spirit stones, they go down to mine some ore. After mining a few kilograms, they sell them at the nearby market and then return to continue their cultivation.

Life was relatively peaceful, but the more peaceful it was, the more panicked he felt, and he would even wake up from his dreams from time to time.

His intuition told him that he was probably being watched.

If that's the case, then we can't stay at Qingbo Pond anymore. As Ji Yuan said before, we shouldn't go to Heishui Market either. We'll just have to find another market.

Qiu Qianhai was preparing to go to Jingdefang.

Since he was planning to move to the market, he needed to stock up on more spirit stones, so Qiu Qianhai prepared to mine with all his might for three days.

After three days, no matter how much cold iron sand there is, we will have to leave.

Unexpectedly, when he returned from mining on the first day, he found someone sitting in his house—an extremely old man.

The moment Qiu Qianhai saw him, he knew he had no chance of escaping.

How can a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator escape when facing a peak Qi Refining cultivator?

What the hell!

"I never thought that I, Qiu Qianhai, could force the Qin family patriarch to come and kill me personally. It seems that my death was worthwhile." As Qiu Qianhai spoke, he began to retreat.

He remembered his father's dying words.

That was also what his grandfather told his father about the feud between their enemies and the Qin family.

Therefore, that finger bone that can be used to find the Cold Iron Sand... even if it means death, it must not fall into the hands of the Qin family.

Qiu Qianhai took a step back, and the moment he stepped onto the sand, he had already transferred the small finger bone from his storage bag to his foot. With a little force, he pressed it into the sand.

Any further and there's nothing we can do.

"You can choose not to die."

Sitting on the stone chair, the blind old man Qin slowly spoke: "As long as you hand over that finger bone, I will spare your life."

Qiu Qianhai thought to himself, "As expected," but outwardly remained calm and asked, "What finger bone?"

"Fine, all of you from the Qiu family are just like that, there's no point in saying more."

Old Blind Qin shook his head, took a step and was behind Qiu Qianhai. Before Qiu could react, the old man sent out a water dragon phantom with his palm, which knocked Qiu into the house.

"Bang—"

As Qiu Qianhai, who had just fallen heavily to the ground, was about to get up, he discovered a blood-red flying sword hovering in front of him.

There is no escape.

Old Blind Qin returned to his original seat and sat down.

"Your grandfather died because of that finger bone, your father did something similar, and now you are too... Are you really willing to risk your life for a mere chance?"

Old Blind Qin's voice carried a hint of doubt, as if he was extremely puzzled.

"I... I really don't know what finger bones are."

Qiu Qianhai, coughing up blood, smiled bitterly, looking as if he had been completely wronged.

But just as he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed something floating in front of him. This thing stunned him, and it also left Old Blind Qin speechless.

Because what floated right in front of him was none other than that finger bone!

The finger bones rotated incessantly, then a "snap" sound rang out.

It felt like someone snapped their fingers behind your back.

The sound faded.

Qiu Qianhai suddenly found himself unable to move.

Immediately afterward, a bright and cheerful voice rang in his ears, a voice that seemed both extremely distant and very close, carrying a seductive charm.

The voice said:

"A soul filled with hatred, a master who can help you at any time, plus a classic opening of suffering... Heh, and a peerless genius is created."

"But the hatred doesn't seem enough, and Canglu Island is too small..."

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