Chapter 15

Qin Jiang remained silent, looking at the woman in the pink dress with a cold expression.

The woman in the pink dress wore a charming smile, walked closer through the air step by step, and stretched out her arms to wrap them around Qin Jiang's neck.

"Young Master~ do you really not want to engage in that joyful act with this humble one?"

Qin Jiang's eyes gradually became vacant; a moment later, he lowered his head slightly and looked at the woman in the pink dress.

Ssh~!

The Black Water pierced into the chest of the woman in the pink dress, directly stabbing through her heart.

"I'll joy your mother's head!"

Swish! He pulled out the blade violently, bringing with it a wisp of black blood, and leaped, rushing directly into the room.

With a flip of his palm, the bronze mirror appeared in his palm and slashed directly across the Black Water blade.

The moment the two rubbed against each other, sparks splattered immediately, igniting the blood on the blade in the blink of an eye, which then dripped onto the flames below.

Whoosh——! It was like cooking oil with a fierce fire; the firelight boiled instantly! The surging flames rushed in all directions, and the intense burning sensation made him unable to help closing his eyes; the surrounding scene changed in an instant.

After a breath, when he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the corner of the mine cave.

The surroundings were filled with thick pink mist, and wisps of firelight kept burning, burning the pink mist into nothingness after a while.

Putting away the bronze mirror in his hand and gripping the Black Water tightly, Qin Jiang walked out of the corner.

Looking at the mine cave space in front of him, it was almost exactly the same as in the illusion.

Only this time, a figure with white hair spread on the ground was sitting cross-legged in front of the fox immortal statue, dressed in white Taoist robes, leaning against the statue, with their head slightly lowered.

Their face was peerlessly beautiful, possessing a strange temperament, seven parts similar to the statue; it was exactly the woman in the pink dress he had seen in the illusion.

"It was my carelessness; I didn't expect to be set up by those two little girls."

An old voice sounded; judging by the voice alone, one might think it was an old white-haired woman.

Qin Jiang didn't speak; he stepped forward and charged over, stabbing his blade into the white-haired woman's heart.

The white-haired woman raised her head, wearing a smile of relief, her eyes looking at Qin Jiang gently.

"Not bad, the chaotic world should be like this. Thank you; I was eroded by a weird artifact back then, and I have lived long enough all these years. If it weren't for..."

Speaking of this, her gaze became dim, "After you go back, ask your master for me, why has he been unwilling to come see me for so many years? Tell him to collect my corpse!"

After saying this, she reached out and beckoned, and a scroll fell into her hand, which she stuffed into Qin Jiang's hand.

Then her head tilted, and her breath ceased.

Thick black smoke drifted out from her body and then dissipated into the air; her lustrous white hair also became withered and rough.

【Potential points absorbing... 0.1... 0.2... 0.2】

Qin Jiang's pupils shrank slightly, feeling the icy cold aura surging into his body—potential points?!

A moment later, the icy cold aura surging from the scroll gradually weakened until it disappeared.

He glanced at the panel; the potential points had reached 2.8.

He looked at the scroll in his hand with an inexplicable expression; after thinking for a while, he cut off a piece of the white-haired woman's Taoist robe and wrapped it solemnly.

Weird artifact?

Was the master talking about the old physician?

It should be.

He pinched his face lightly; the pungent scent of garlic made him a bit clearer-headed.

No wonder the old physician knew so much... He glanced at the white-haired woman's corpse, his eyes complex, and raised the Black Water to stab a few more times into her vital points.

After all, she was a demon; fortunately, she was a dead demon.

He walked to the wooden box in the corner, took out ten pieces of blood gold, and then came to the door outside where the tombstone was erected.

Looking inside, seventeen tombstones were already covered in dust.

Whoosh——! He unleashed a burst of internal Qi, sweeping the dust away with the air.

Boom——! He kicked the rock wall, and the huge stone protruding above the door fell, blocking the entrance completely.

After doing all this, he glanced at the white-haired woman's corpse again and decided to respect her last wish and let the old physician collect the corpse himself.

It was already afternoon when he came out of Daheishan. Looking toward Black Mountain City, he saw black smoke rising from afar, rising to the sky like a pillar.

After walking for a long time, before he even reached the city gate, he smelled a burnt odor; he saw that about two li outside the city gate, a group of gang disciples were lighting torches and throwing corpses into a pit one by one to be burned.

Looking at the city gate again, there were fewer refugees, and the original pile of corpses was gone.

Walking into the city, the streets were much deserted, and he could hardly see anyone.

"Who goes there! Stop!" Wang Dali at the checkpoint stood up abruptly, holding the machete at his feet.

"It's me, Qin Jiang." Qin Jiang said, looking at his fair skin with some helplessness.

???

Wang Dali tilted his head, his gaze puzzled.

It wasn't until Qin Jiang walked up close that he recognized him from his appearance.

"My little teapot spout, Xiao Jiang, what happened to you? You're so beautiful! Even better looking than the women in the brothel!" Wang Dali said stutteringly.

Not only him, but even the lackeys beside him couldn't help but look at Qin Jiang, their gazes restrained, but also unable to restrain themselves.

Qin Jiang was speechless; what kind of metaphor was that?

"Didn't Physician Baiyun teach me the Five Animal Frolics before? I luckily practiced it to completion in Daheishan today, and it became like this.

However, it feels like it consumes a lot; I've been hungry for half a day, so if there's nothing else, I'll go first."

Wang Dali reacted and nodded repeatedly, "Oh, oh, oh! Enter! Hurry in! If you're hungry, you have to eat! Only after eating do you have the strength to work, right!"

Entering the area north of the city, Qin Jiang scanned the surroundings; there weren't many people, but they were all secretly looking at him.

Shaking his head helplessly, he walked into a corner and got some dust on himself.

Walking out again, sure enough, no one looked at him anymore.

Arriving at the medical hall, the old physician was seeing patients, so Qin Jiang found a place to sit down.

A moment later, the consultation ended, and the old physician walked over and sat down, "How was the harvest? Why are you covered in dust? And your clothes are broken like this?"

Qin Jiang put the medicine basket on the table, "It's okay. This time I accidentally ate an exotic fruit, and with the help of the Five Animals Pill, I luckily practiced it to the third layer, so my skin became a bit... tender."

The old physician nodded, then froze, raised his head to look at Qin Jiang, pulled up the other's arm, and wiped it lightly; a piece of fair skin was revealed.

Hiss~ 'Does the third layer of the Five Animal Frolics have this effect?'

He wasn't very sure, because when he practiced the third layer of the Five Animal Frolics, he was already nearly forty, and apart from his face becoming younger, there was basically no change.

After thinking for a while, he got up and walked to the counter, took out a jade box from under the counter, and took out a pill placed in the corner inside.

After giving it to Qin Jiang, he seemed to think of some unpleasant memories and said with some difficulty: "This is an Ancient Bronze Pill; after eating it, it can turn your skin into a bronze color."

Qin Jiang raised his eyelids slightly, "It can only change color?"

Which divine person developed such a chicken-rib pill?

The old physician nodded, "Yes, when I traveled the world in my youth, I met a group of people in a small country who considered bronze-colored skin beautiful. This pill was developed at that time; I didn't expect it to be useful."

He sighed slightly; if he hadn't been truly penniless back then, he would never have developed such a pill.

Qin Jiang looked at the pill in his hand with surprise; he didn't expect that in this world, there would be such an advanced aesthetic.

After taking the pill, with his current perception, he could clearly perceive the medicinal power reaching the surface of the skin along the meridians; it only took a few breaths for the medicinal power to be completely integrated into the skin.

Whoosh~ His internal energy surged, and a cloud of dust rose around him; looking at his arm again, it had already presented a dull bronze color.

Seeing this, the old physician sat down to count the medicinal herbs; after a while, he finished counting, "Not bad, you went to the inner circle, right? The quality of the herbs is indeed much better."

Calculating with his fingers, "It's one tael and four qian in total; deducting the one hundred wen for the Five Animals Pill, it counts as one tael and three qian."

As he spoke, he took out a tael of broken silver from his money bag and waved at the apprentice at the counter, "Xiao Fang, take three strings of copper coins."

"Eh! Understood, Master!"

Before long, Xiao Fang came out from the backyard, carrying three strings of copper coins in his hand.

After putting away the coins, Qin Jiang looked at the old physician; the old physician, who was sorting the herbs, noticed his gaze and looked up.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Jiang looked around, "I went to the inner circle this time and encountered a fox spirit."

(End of chapter)