Chapter 36: 35. Leave No Survivors

35. Leave No Survivors

【You interacted with your wife Gu Xinyue for a day, making efforts to spread your branches and leaves, Divine Sense +2.】x45

【Name: Gu Xinyue】

【Attributes: Pure as ice and clean as jade, loyal and steadfast】

【Affection: 2 stars (132/500)】

【Divine Sense strength provided: 358】

【Golden Finger proficiency provided: 154】

"Yue, I have been careless and neglected you during this time. Can you forgive me with this much compensation?"

"Yue... Yue has never held a grudge against my husband."

Gu Xinyue lay weakly on the bed, panting incessantly from exhaustion, unable to even speak clearly.

But she liked this feeling very much and felt extremely satisfied.

After soothing the icy little concubine.

Chen An got dressed, climbed out of bed, and headed to the Alchemy Room to work.

He set up the alchemy furnace and took a look at the panel before starting to refine pills.

【Name: Chen An】

【Cultivation: Qi Refining Fifth Layer】

【Alchemy: First-tier Intermediate (459/500)】

【Divine Sense: First-tier Intermediate (358/500)】

【Golden Finger: Proficient (239/500)】

【Spouses: Song Huaying, Gu Xinyue】

【Offspring: Chen Yuejian】

Alchemy Dao is still 41 experience points away from a breakthrough.

Currently, one interaction with the little wife adds 3 experience points.

That means it will take 14 more times to break through.

This amount can be completed in two days.

Seven times a day is not excessive.

Thinking of this, Chen An felt slightly invigorated.

He stopped refining pills.

He immediately got up and found a pile of medicinal herbs.

Then he ran to the backyard and caught a Spirit Chicken.

Afterwards, he ducked into the kitchen and started stewing soup for his little wife.

Only when the little wife's body recovers can she help him break through to become a First-tier Advanced Alchemist.

Several days later.

Chen An brought the pills to the Market to sell.

Walking along the way, he discovered that the Core Area was no longer safe either.

The chaos was visible to the naked eye.

Because of the Bamboo Leaf Gang's operation to purge undercover agents, while they appeared to be catching people based on evidence, they were actually following the principle of "better to kill the wrong person than to let one go," which had everyone feeling panicked.

Especially at the border with Black Iron Villa, friction between the two gangs had become increasingly frequent, with fights breaking out almost every day.

Just a few days ago, experts at the Qi Refining Late Stage had clashed, the scene was chaotic for a time, and both sides suffered casualties.

If it weren't for some big figures coming out to negotiate peace later, the two gangs would likely have gone to war that very day.

Although the war did not break out, both gangs were continuously sending personnel to the border, the situation had become very tense, and a major battle could break out at any moment.

Take the Bamboo Leaf Gang, for example; most of the members originally responsible for security in the Core Area had now been transferred to the border.

This resulted in the Core Area becoming more chaotic by the day, almost catching up to the Cheap Area before the blood demons ran rampant.

He walked quickly to the Market.

Chen An picked an empty spot at random to set up his stall.

Just like before, he only sold Severing Emotion Pill.

Actually, Soft Bone Powder would sell better because it had a wider range of uses.

But Chen An dared not sell this poisonous powder, fearing that once it circulated, someone might use it on him one day.

Of course, the most critical point was that it was a banned drug and not allowed to be sold.

Trading it privately carried the risk of being double-crossed, so he simply didn't sell it.

"Fellow Daoist, how are you selling this Severing Emotion Pill?"

"Half a Low-grade Spirit Stone per bottle, not sold separately."

"So expensive?"

The male cultivator who came to ask the price shook his head and turned to leave.

Chen An didn't care; he wasn't worried about selling them anyway.

It was nothing more than spending a little more time.

This was Chen An's first time setting up a stall here, and many vendors, seeing he was a stranger, chatted with him off and on.

Among them, a vendor selling Wuji next door asked:

"Fellow Daoist, haven't you been living in the Core Area for long?"

"Not really, I've been moved here for almost three months, it's just that I was setting up my stall on the other side of the Market before, and since my spot was taken today, I came here to set up."

"Fellow Daoist's cultivation doesn't look high, yet you can settle in the Core Area; it seems your attainments in alchemy are not low."

"Just average, barely enough to scrape by."

"Fellow Daoist, to be honest, the Core Area hasn't been peaceful lately. Do you want to buy a Wuji for self-defense? Since we're in the same trade, I'll give you a cheaper price. Consider it making a friend."

"No need, I have Wuji at home."

Chen An glanced at the crudely made Wuji on the other party's stall and found a random excuse to politely decline.

At this moment, a vendor selling Talisman across from him chimed in:

"Fellow Daoist, I have a niece, sixteen years of age, with excellent figure and appearance, and a cultivation of Qi Refining Second Layer. She currently lives in the Cheap Area and wants to marry into a family in the Core Area to move over. I wonder if Fellow Daoist is interested in meeting her."

"No need, I already have two wives and concubines at home; my energy is limited."

Chen An smiled and politely declined.

In truth, his energy was very vigorous; finding seven or eight more wives and concubines would be no problem.

But he only married orphans, to save himself from the endless trouble of relatives and connections later on.

Just like that, while tending his stall, he chatted idly with the few vendors around him.

Five-plus hours later.

Chen An's Severing Emotion Pill were all sold out.

He had sold a full half-month's worth, earning 11 Low-grade Spirit Stone.

Not much, but better than nothing.

After all, even a mosquito's leg is meat.

After selling the medicinal pills, Chen An didn't dare stay long and immediately packed up his stall to leave.

His Divine Sense was powerful, and he sensed that he was being watched by several ill-intentioned cultivators.

He reckoned it was because his cultivation was low, making him a piece of fat meat in others' eyes that could be torn apart at will.

"Sure enough, strength is the absolute truth."

"If one only has money but no strength, one can probably only become someone else's meal."

"Hmm, I must hurry and leave this Market that is full of wolves."

Chen An shouldered his medicine chest and walked away quickly while thinking to himself.

As he walked, he went faster and faster, his brows gradually knitting together.

He discovered that the few cultivators who had been staring at him in the Market were actually tailing him!

There were five of them in total!

One at Qi Refining Sixth Layer, four at Qi Refining Fifth Layer!

Adhering to the principle of "If others do not offend me, I do not offend them; if others offend me, I will surely grind their bones to dust," Chen An made a bold decision and naturally walked toward a secluded forest ahead.

The five cultivators tailing him behind saw this and couldn't help but show joy, immediately following him quickly.

But when they followed him into the forest, they found that Chen An's figure had disappeared.

"Where did the person go?"

The bald male cultivator at Qi Refining Sixth Layer who was leading them asked with a face full of confusion.

At this time, Chen An walked out from behind a tree in front and smiled faintly:

"Fellow Daoists, are you here to buy medicinal pills from me?"

"We don't have money to buy medicinal pills, but we've been a bit short on money lately, so we want to borrow some Spirit Stone from Fellow Daoist to solve an urgent need."

The bald male cultivator smiled gently.

However, he was a smiling tiger; while speaking, he secretly slid a short blade from his sleeve, intending to rob him of his wealth and kill him to silence him.

After all, committing crimes in the Core Area would lead to punishment.

Chen An took out all 11 Low-grade Spirit Stone he had on him and tossed them casually onto the ground a meter ahead.

"Then Fellow Daoist, come and get them yourself. This is all the Spirit Stone I have on me."

"Fellow Daoist is generous!"

The bald male cultivator smiled and stepped forward, the short blade in his sleeve pressed tightly against his arm.

Just when the two were less than two meters apart.

Hmm?

For some reason, the bald male cultivator suddenly felt that he wanted to sleep.

Before he could react to what was happening.

The next second, a blur of a figure flashed past his eyes at extreme speed.

"Puff!"

Only such a dull sound was heard.

The bald man only felt a hot current surging from the center of his brow.

Then, in an instant, his limbs went weak.

His whole body collapsed to the ground and lost all movement.

He was dead.

Headshot at close range by Chen An's Golden Finger.

Red and white splattered all over the ground.

"Qi Refining Sixth Layer?"

"Just like that."

"Snap!"

Chen An stomped the head under his foot into a pulp and looked at the remaining four with a harmless expression.

The faces of those four people turned pale with fright, and they hurriedly knelt on the ground to beg for mercy:

"Fellow... Fellow Daoist, it's all a misunderstanding!"

"Right, a misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding. We were just thinking of coming to borrow some Spirit Stones, the kind we could pay back double in two days."

"Fellow Daoist, I am a female cultivator, and I am still a virgin. Please spare my life, I will be your..."

"... Puff!"

Chen An, from a distance of over ten meters away, used a direct Golden Light Projection to blow the female cultivator's head apart.

A mere Qi Refining Fifth Layer cultivator did not require him to get close to increase the lethality of his Golden Finger.

"Fellow Daoist, don't kill me, I know a secret about a treasure map..."

"... Puff!"

Chen An listened to nothing; he raised his hand and used his Golden Finger to blow their head apart.

The remaining two were in despair.

At this moment, they were under the effects of Soft Bone Powder and found it difficult even to stand, so they could only watch helplessly as death descended.

"I don't want to die, I don't want to die!"

One of them was so scared that they lost control of their bladder, wailing incessantly.

"Puff!"

"Puff!"

Chen An remained expressionless as two shots of Golden Light Projection took the lives of these two.

Regardless of whether the grudge was big or small, as long as there was a grudge, he would kill.

This was his current survival principle.

Soon, he squatted down to loot the corpses.

The harvest was decent, totaling 34 Lower Grade Spirit Stones.

After putting all the Spirit Stones into his bosom.

Chen An dug a pit on the spot and buried the five corpses inside.

He covered them with a layer of soil.

Then, he planted a sapling he had pulled up nearby.

A perfect job done.

After coming out of the woods, Chen An walked quickly straight toward the direction of his home.

The Core Area was becoming increasingly chaotic now.

Taking advantage of the fact that the sky hadn't turned dark yet, he hurried home to take out half of his savings and head to the Market to purchase supplies.

From now on, if there were no urgent matters, he would stay at home and not go out.

Come to think of it, his current strength seemed to be quite formidable already.

With the support of the Sleep Aid Technique, his Golden Finger, and the Soft Bone Powder, he could easily achieve an instant kill against a cultivator with a cultivation level as high as Qi Refining Sixth Layer.

The future was promising!

Thinking of this, Chen An couldn't help but feel invigorated.

PS: Setting out the bowl, begging for monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!