With the Eight Immortals' magical treasures in hand, even a mortal like myself! Ha!

Gu Qing hadn't expected to end up with a caravan from a large family. Fortunately, the caravan didn't have any Foundation Establishment cultivators in charge.

However, it seems that Foundation Establishment cultivators are rarely present to oversee these miscellaneous tasks in caravans; having one or two Qi Refining disciples is already considered quite good.

The beautiful woman in purple robes looked Gu Qing up and down again, then asked, "Where do you plan to settle in Yuanwu Kingdom this time, fellow Daoist? If you have nowhere to go, you can come to our Qin family and become an outer disciple retainer."

"Hehehe, I'm used to being idle and don't want to rely on any power for the time being. I'll stay in the market for now. If there's no suitable place later, I'll come to your Qin family," Gu Qing said with a smile.

He finally managed to jump out of one pit, how could he possibly jump into another one so quickly?

The beautiful woman in purple robes did not insist, but simply said that Gu Qing could come to her anytime.

Just as the two were chatting, a rumbling sound suddenly came from the top of the mountain. Then a large rock blocked the mountain path, and twenty or thirty people swept down from the top of the mountain to block the way.

The beautiful woman in the purple robe frowned upon seeing this, and her gaze involuntarily turned to Gu Qing beside her, because the attire of the twenty or thirty people was somewhat similar to that of Gu Qing.

Gu Qing was afraid of any misunderstanding, so he quickly waved his hand and said, "We are not in cahoots. There are many people in Yue who dress like this. Please don't misunderstand."

"Alright, I'll take care of those people." With that, Gu Qing stepped forward, and a short knife appeared in his hand.

This short sword is not an ordinary weapon, but a top-tier magical artifact.

It could conjure flames when swung and kill someone from several feet away. After Gu Qing came up, he did not rush to make a move. Instead, he revealed his Qi Refining 13th level cultivation and shouted to the group opposite him, "Robbers, can you give me, Fei Yu, some face and make way for me?"

The leader, a middle-aged cultivator in gray robes, was only at the tenth level of Qi Refining. Seeing Gu Qing's thirteenth level Qi Refining cultivation, he was somewhat wary and said, "Among this cart of herbs, there is a thousand-year-old spiritual herb. Don't you want it, fellow Daoist?"

Gu Qing was somewhat taken aback upon hearing that it was a thousand-year-old medicinal herb, as she hadn't expected to encounter one here.

The beautiful woman in purple robes chuckled upon hearing this: "I don't know where you got this information from. Even if there really is a thousand-year-old spiritual herb, how could you possibly ask someone like me, who is only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, to escort it?"

Gu Qing immediately felt that there was some truth to what he said, and then said, "Fellow Daoist, is there some misunderstanding? I think what Madam said makes perfect sense."

"Hehehe, under normal circumstances, we would not have asked a Qi Refining disciple to escort you, but now the Yue Kingdom is blocking all Foundation Establishment cultivators from leaving the country, so we have asked a Qi Refining eighth-level disciple to escort you, is that right or wrong?" The gray-robed cultivator said.

The beautiful woman in purple robes was slightly surprised upon hearing this, but quickly regained her composure: "These are just your side of the story."

"Fellow Daoist, have you thought this through? Their elders from the Qin family are on their way. If you don't act now, you'll miss your chance," the gray-robed cultivator advised again.

The beautiful woman in purple robes rarely showed a hint of nervousness, and said very quickly, "Fellow Daoist, please don't believe what they say."

"Alright, even if there are thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in the team, they belong to someone else. Don't try to sway me." Gu Qing was a fairly upright person, so he was not persuaded by the other party.

"Hmph! Then there's nothing I can do. Today, you'll all die together." With that, the gray-robed cultivator took out a yellowish talisman from his storage bag and began chanting incantations. A bluish-purple light emanated from the talisman.

The beautiful woman in purple robes was greatly surprised upon seeing this and hurriedly said, "Be careful, that's a mid-level talisman. It can unleash the full power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's attack."

Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Qing twirled his short sword to gather power before unleashing a powerful slash: "Flame Slash!"

"Boom!"

The massive blade of flame, wreathed in intense heat, cleaved through the massive stone blocking its path, shattering it in two. The surrounding martial arts masters were all injured by the falling debris, each spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Even the gray-robed cultivator who was about to activate the talisman staggered backward, spitting out a mouthful of blood before he could even use the talisman.

Seeing this, Gu Qing threw the short blade, which immediately pierced the gray-robed cultivator's chest.

The battle lasted only a short while, and the gray-robed cultivator was defeated by Gu Qing before he could even use any talismans.

After dealing with the person, Gu Qing didn't forget to loot the corpse. He then obtained a high-grade magic weapon, several bottles of pills, more than thirty spirit stones, some talismans, books, and the like. But these weren't the most important things. The most important thing was that there was a waist tag with the character "付" (Fu) written on it.

"Could it be someone from the Fu family?" Gu Qing frowned.

Yuanwu Kingdom has three major families: the Fu family, the Qin family, and the Hu family. The Fu family eventually rose to power by siding with the Demon Flame Sect, the Qin family wavered, and the Hu family was backed by the Heavenly Star Sect.

It's normal for the three families to fight each other. Among the three, the Fu family is the most famous because they were later wiped out by Han Li.

Gu Qing didn't want to get involved in these family disputes, so he burned the token and pretended he hadn't seen anything.

Gu Qing turned to look at the beautiful woman in purple robes and found that she was staring at him with a wary gaze, clearly not expecting the enemy to be dealt with so quickly.

"Senior, our caravan really doesn't have any thousand-year-old medicinal herbs," the beautiful woman in purple robes said cautiously.

Gu Qing smiled upon hearing this. It seemed that there might really be thousand-year-old spiritual herbs in the caravan. Even the most ordinary thousand-year-old spiritual herb was worth twenty spirit stones.

If it's a rare item, it can sell for thirty spirit stones, and it's always been in high demand but short supply. This is considered a commodity in dire need.

Twenty spirit stones would tempt even a Foundation Establishment cultivator, let alone a Qi Refining cultivator.

Gu Qing scanned the medicinal herbs on the cart with his divine sense and immediately discovered that many of them were processed herbs that had been aged for ten or twenty years, and the best one was a hundred-year-old Dan Yuan ginseng.

The divine sense swept across the area but did not find any thousand-year-old spiritual herbs. However, if there were truly thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, they would not be mixed with these ordinary medicinal materials.

Since it wasn't in the cargo, it could only be on the only cultivator in the caravan—the beautiful woman in purple robes.

"Don't be afraid, I don't even care about a thousand-year-old elixir." Gu Qing slowly walked towards the beautiful woman in purple robes. With each step he took, the woman in purple robes took a step back, and finally fell heavily to the ground.

"Alright, senior, the thousand-year-old elixir is on me. You can have the elixir, but you cannot harm the people here." The beautiful woman in purple robes finally gave up struggling.

This made Gu Qing a little embarrassed, but in the end she still took the wooden box, opened it, and found a processed Ganoderma lucidum inside.

"This? The Huang Jingzhi that Han Li sold ended up in my hands. What a twist of fate." Gu Qing was clearly surprised.