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Chapter 109 Layout, Golden Core

Lu Chen fell into a coma.

Fortunately, the place he chose was deserted, and no one noticed him.

Baxia hurried all the way back to Shahu County.

To his relief, nothing seemed amiss here, but when he returned to the previous spot, Xiangfei was no longer there.

His heart tightened immediately.

Please, please don't let anything happen!

He wandered around the streets wearing only an outer robe.

"Concubine! Concubine!"

Baxia's face was pale, and he was somewhat frightened. His heart felt like it was being squeezed, and he could hardly breathe.

His pitiful appearance also attracted the attention of others, who all looked over and whispered among themselves.

Baxia ignored the strange looks from others and frantically shouted in Shahu County that he was looking for someone.

"Stop shouting, aren't you ashamed?"

A cold, clear voice brought him back to his senses.

He turned to look behind him. The man was carrying a load of goods, dressed simply, and had a very alluring mole at the corner of his eye.

Baxia immediately felt the air become lighter, his eyes reddened, and he smiled.

He was terrified.

Xiangfei was somewhat annoyed. Looking at Baxia's miserable and disheveled appearance, she frowned again.

"Come with me!"

Baxia ignored Xiangfei's expression and asked with concern, "No one came after I left, right? Are you alright? Did you notice anything unusual?"

Xiangfei didn't answer Baxia's question, but instead asked, "What could possibly be wrong with me? Did you catch that person?"

Baxia hesitated for a moment, then shook his head: "No, he ran away after I beat him badly, saying that someone was coming to deal with you. I was worried that it was a diversionary tactic and that something might happen to you, so I came back."

Xiangfei's face twitched, and she looked at Baxia in disbelief.

"Baxia! He only said that to save his own life. How old are you? Don't you know such basic tricks? Do you really want to help me?"

She shook her head, very disappointed.

Baxia remained silent for a long while before speaking, "It's good that you're alright. He was seriously injured, and it won't be easy for him to recover. I won't let him go next time, believe me! Besides, he's very strong and has a secret technique that can kill someone else. Next time you encounter him, don't act impulsively!"

Xiangfei ignored him and continued walking forward, already extremely dissatisfied with Baxia.

A person who has reached the peak of the Yuanqi Realm is just one step away from becoming a Martial Saint, but instead, a person who has reached the peak of the Innate Realm and at most entered the Yuanqi Realm escaped. Isn't this a joke?

And you even pretended to be injured like this?

Who are you putting on this for?

She walked forward with a cold expression.

Baxia followed closely, completely disregarding its bloodied appearance, and constantly looked around, fearing someone might suddenly appear, remaining extremely vigilant.

At the entrance to Shahu County, Yang Ce frowned as he looked at the dilapidated town.

"Can such a dilapidated place really produce that kind of person?"

He suddenly felt a little uncertain about this path of revenge.

"Young Master, I've already planned it out. Once the news spreads, we can just sit back and wait for him to come to us!"

Yang Zhan looked confident.

He waved to the cars behind him.

Inside were people he had obtained from the Black Killing Pavilion.

"Uncle Zhan, what are your orders?"

A young man stepped forward and asked.

"Go and arrange accommodations; we'll be staying here for a while. Also, find a few poor scholars and have them come and copy things in the evenings."

"Okay, Uncle Zhan."

After entering the city, the group divided up their tasks and dispersed to get busy.

Looking at their professional demeanor, Yang Ce felt his confidence rise again.

In Shanyang Prefecture, the Tang family members had already learned the general situation through their own channels.

"Third Uncle, should we continue investigating? This matter clearly has nothing to do with us; there's no need to get involved, is there?"

A young man asked.

"Let's see how things go. This person's hidden weapon techniques are said to be extremely exquisite. You all saw what happened at the Black Kill Pavilion; they're completely different from our Tang family's methods. If we can acquire these hidden weapon techniques, our Tang Clan will definitely reach a new level!"

After learning about the strength of the protagonist of the story who destroyed the Black Killing Pavilion and made the second young master of the Yang family flee back to the capital in a sorry state, Third Uncle became greedy.

He's just a martial artist at the Innate Realm; dealing with him is a piece of cake!

With the Tang family's methods, they are confident they can extract some martial arts techniques by using poison or other means.

They might be able to get involved in this matter!

Moreover, people from Xiangfei, Heisha Pavilion, and the Yang family have all come. Such a lively event is worthwhile, even if you just sit back and watch the show!

"Let's go, let's head to Shahu County now, there's bound to be a good show there!"

Lu Chen, the protagonist of the "good show," has just woken up.

He got up from the ground, shook his head, and checked his injuries. His face was still a little pale.

"My body's energy has recovered somewhat, and the injuries to my internal organs are also healing. At the current rate of natural recovery, it will take another five or six days."

He assessed his physical condition and looked out at the sky.

The sun was shining brightly at that moment.

It was still noon.

Enduring the pain, Lu Chen sat cross-legged and began practicing his Qi-refining technique.

In about an hour, his energy was fully replenished.

Lu Chen circulated the golden power of the sun, channeling it into his internal organs.

The golden energy transformed into wisps of golden mist upon contact with the wounds, seeping into them little by little and slowly nourishing and repairing them.

A gentle warmth rose in my stomach.

He closed his eyes, looked inward at his internal organs, and after seeing the energy flow through them, he focused his gaze on the broken bones in his body.

This time, he was seriously injured. He had more than a dozen broken ribs, a shattered sternum, and his legs were also severely injured from taking a direct hit from Baxia's golden mace.

The arms were the worst affected area; the muscles were smashed to pieces, and the arm bones were broken into dozens of pieces, with fragments embedded in the flesh that were difficult to remove.

He first wrapped and fixed his spine, ribs, and sternum with energy, then fully activated the energy to penetrate deep into his bone marrow to heal his injuries.

As for superficial injuries, those heal quickly.

The sun was about to set, and Lu Chen was completely different now than when he had just fallen.

"The injury is about half healed, but it will take about another day to fully recover."

He stood up from the ground and looked at his destiny number.

9853 points.

He had previously considered using life points to modify the entry, changing "Near Death" to "Severe Injury" or "Minor Injury," but he didn't have enough life points.

Looking at it now, the entry has been marked as severely damaged.

Even after changing it to a minor injury, it still wasn't enough.

"Previously, modifying an entry only cost 10 points, but now that we're stronger, it costs over 10,000!"

He shook his head and gave up on the idea.

As long as you don't wander around and spend only one day, no one will find you.

"Who is that person with Xiangfei? We haven't seen any information about him in the Black Killing Pavilion's intelligence. We don't know his strength."

Lu Chen rubbed his still throbbing temples, mentally reasoning, "The way he acted when he was with Xiang Fei, like a little brother next to her, so humble, he probably isn't stronger than her, right? The Black Kill Pavilion's intelligence said Xiang Fei's strength was only at the entry level of the Yuan Qi Realm. That intelligence was from a year ago, so even if she broke through this year, she'd only be at most at the minor completion level of the Yuan Qi Realm. Damn it, I'm still too weak, I can't even beat someone at the entry level of the Yuan Qi Realm!"

He clenched his fists, still feeling some pain in his body.

"I thought that after upgrading my strength, these millions of jin would be enough to deal with a Yuan Qi Realm expert. I never expected that a random assassin could beat me up like this, almost killing me! If a Yuan Qi Realm expert is this strong, how strong must a Martial Saint be?"

He sighed.

Previously, I thought that the Martial Saint was nothing special, and I even thought that killing Yang Ce wouldn't matter, since the other party's father wouldn't travel all the way from the capital to Shanyang Prefecture to kill him.

I'm really not sure now.

Judging from his current strength, it would probably take him less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea for the Martial Saint to arrive in Shanyang Prefecture.

At that point, he will truly be in a desperate situation with nowhere to turn.

"My Fate Points are still not enough! I'm too weak. Next time I add points, I need 4 Fate Points. Where am I going to get so many Fate Points?"

Lu Chen felt an extremely strong sense of crisis and almost immediately thought of human trafficking organizations like the Black Killing Pavilion and the Black Stick Gang.

His rapid advancement was largely thanks to these two organizations!

He's almost developed a path dependency; whenever he's not strong enough, he raids another's base. Not only does he level up and gain experience, but he also manages to save some people while doing good deeds.

"I'm injured now. If they set up an ambush in places like Black Kill Pavilion, I'm doomed. We were just saying we should play it safe and not be reckless."

Lu Chen dismissed that idea and came up with another solution.

Alchemy!

He gave all the pills he refined during that period to the villagers, earning over ten thousand yuan in one go.

"But who can I sell to? The most important thing isn't just selling; I have to get them to eat it as soon as possible!"

He can't exactly take the pills to other villages to sell or give them away for free, can he?

Who would dare eat that?!

"The only one I can think of right now is Hu Bufan! Also, perhaps Zhuo Li can help."

Lu Chen then thought of something else.

"I only glanced at those two, how could they be so sure they'd followed? I've never used this face before, how did they find out? And I had a warning from the Primal Chaos Body, did they have one too?"

Lu Chen suddenly remembered the strange look on Lu Xiande's face when he saw him.

Could it be that it's my fault?

Lu Chen reacted quickly.

He felt it was very likely, almost certainly true.

"By the way, in the novels I've read before, it's often written that some powerful figures exude an aura of authority and oppression. Could this be the reason?"

He seemed to understand.

No wonder!

"Most martial artists conceal their power, so when they walk on the street, they look just like ordinary people. Those assassins must also have ways to conceal their aura and power, otherwise how could they carry out assassinations? With that powerful aura, it's like a bright lamp in the night, that's not an assassination, that's a brutal killing."

Lu Chen lowered his head and pondered.

"How do I subdue this invisible and intangible thing? And how can I be sure I've subdued it or not? What is the source of its power? Is it energy? Or something like my life force field? With my strength of several million pounds, there should be something like a life force field, right?"

Thinking of this, Lu Chen looked inward at himself.

Two thousand golden energy threads slowly swirled in his dantian.

Lu Chen's Qi Refining Technique has a unique feature: whether it is the power of the sun or the power of the moon, he can convert the absorbed solar power into the power of the moon to maintain balance, so as not to run out of energy at night without any solar power to replenish it.

The principle of yin arising from yang and yang rising from yin applies to all things.

It was still daytime, and he was absorbing the power of the sun without transforming it. Therefore, his dantian was filled with golden threads.

With a thought, the energy threads instantly coalesced into a sphere.

The sphere, only the size of a soybean, shone brightly in my dantian like a golden elixir, dazzlingly bright, and was spinning rapidly.

"Will this work?"

Lu Chen wasn't sure.

Outside the crumbling walls of the courtyard, cicadas chirped incessantly in the trees.

Lu Chen's eyes darted around, and an idea came to him.

Before long, he had two cicadas in his hands.

The cicada was still struggling in his hand, but Lu Chen released his control over the golden core, and the two thousand silk threads returned to their original state, swimming in his dantian.

The two cicadas seemed to have encountered their natural enemy and actually urinated, leaving our hands wet.

Lu Chen's face twitched, and he released his hand. The two cicadas didn't dare to fly away, but instead stayed on his hand, motionless.

He paused for a moment, then plucked the two cicadas.

Huh? Dead?

He was speechless for a moment, then ran out and caught two more. This time he released them completely. The cicadas didn't die, but they didn't dare to chirp.

He opened his palm, but the cicada did not fly away.

Then, Lu Chen controlled the silk threads to condense into a golden core, and then moved his palm.

As if sensing the departure of its natural enemy, the cicada suddenly became arrogant. With a flap of its wings, it was about to fly away, but Lu Chen caught it in one go, and the cicada began to chirp.

Lu Chen released the energy threads again, and the cicadas immediately stiffened.

I was scared to death again.

He finally understood.

"It turns out that it's about gathering all the energy in your body. If it were them, it would be about gathering all the Qi in your body, so there would be no pressure emanating from them. After completing this small experiment, he devoted a little of his mind to controlling the silk threads to maintain the Golden Core state, and walked out of the dilapidated courtyard."

"Now, let's start refining pills. To level up, I need at least 30,000 more life points, which means 3000 pills! I need to find a super-large pill-refining furnace!"

Lu Chen took off his tattered clothes, grabbed a piece of clothing from the alley, threw a small piece of silver into someone's yard as payment for the clothes, then went to a clothing store, took out the last piece of silver he had, changed his clothes and shoes, dressed neatly, and then went to Lao Jiu Pawnshop.

Not only can you pawn things here, you can also buy things!

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