Chapter 96: Creditor at the Door

It was noon, the sunlight was thick, and the sun hanging high in the sky was difficult for mortals to look at directly.

Just like Gu Muqing standing in the sunlight at this moment, she was incomparably bright, better than a fairy.

Although the light orange Daoist robe covered her figure, her own excellence could not be completely covered by the robe. Between the undulations, one could imagine what kind of graceful figure was hidden under this robe.

The soft jade arms like snow lotus roots exposed outside the sleeves, the beautiful and smooth fragrant neck, as well as the blue silk like a waterfall, matched with the delicate, tender, and jade-like ice skin and jade bones, she was truly standing gracefully.

This beautiful picture fell into Zhang San's eyes. His expression was a bit dazed, and his old face turned red. However, Xu Qing, who was standing in the dark place on the side, had no changes in his expression, and his gaze was coldly sizing up the neck of this woman in front of him.

Whether this woman was beautiful or not was not important to Xu Qing. This was not the first time he had seen the other party. He hadn't seen many core disciples in the main city, so he recognized at a glance that she was the woman he met outside the pharmacy a few months ago.

It was just a brush past that day, but the other party called out his name in one breath now, which made Xu Qing's vigilance extremely high, so he had to determine whether the other party possessed the strength to threaten his life safety.

After sweeping past, Xu Qing had a judgment in his heart. If they really fought, he was confident he could kill her quickly. The other party's cultivation base was okay, but whether it was her standing posture or vigilance, she was far inferior to the loose cultivators on Sea Lizard Island.

As for the other party's identity as a Second Peak core disciple, considering that the Second Peak was mainly alchemy, Xu Qing instinctively identified the surroundings, checking whether there were traces of poison.

"Junior Brother Xu Qing, you don't need to be surprised. Your name wasn't told to me by Senior Brother Zhang San; I learned of it inadvertently." Gu Muqing smiled brightly, her voice clear and pleasant to the ear.

Zhang San on the side felt his heartbeat accelerate at this moment. He only felt that this woman in front of him was worthy of being the recognized genius girl of the Second Peak. This 'Senior Brother Zhang San' made him feel incomparably comfortable.

So he laughed, just about to say something, but Xu Qing's calm voice came out.

"I wasn't surprised."

"Uh..." Zhang San looked at Xu Qing and sighed in his heart, secretly thinking, Xu Qing, oh Xu Qing, the young girl is so proactive, why do you still have no reaction? If it were me, I would definitely go up to chat immediately, and then make an appointment. Fate, isn't it coming?

Gu Muqing heard this, smiled lightly, took out an elixir from her body, placed it in her palm, and handed it to Xu Qing.

"Junior Brother Xu Qing, all your white pills were sold to my shop. I have studied your pills for a long time and am very curious why the purification of these pills is so high."

Xu Qing glanced at it and recognized that this was indeed his pill, so he thought for a while, didn't answer the other party's question, but took out a few pieces of sea lizard skin.

"Eighth layer of Qi Condensation sea lizard skin, 530 spirit stones; ninth layer sea lizard skin, 960 spirit stones; Great Perfection one, 1430 spirit stones. How many do you want?"

Xu Qing's quotation was the selling price in the shop. He felt that selling to a commercial shop wouldn't give this price. Since this Gu Muqing in front of him wanted to buy, selling to her was more cost-effective for him.

Gu Muqing looked at those sea lizard skins, her eyes brightened, but she didn't buy them immediately, but continued to ask the previous words. It seemed that after recognizing Xu Qing, her interest had shifted from the sea lizard skins.

Xu Qing frowned slightly, but thinking that her shop had collected many of his white pills and she was going to buy his sea lizard skins next, he endured his impatience and spoke.

"In the blending stage, appropriately adding some night corpse shepherd's purse will improve some purity."

The young girl heard this and showed contemplation. After a while, she asked again. Her demeanor was very polite, but the impatience in Xu Qing's heart rose again. In his cognition, the acquisition of knowledge could not be free.

The other party doing this was a bit too much.

Like Senior Sister Ding before, she understood this truth very well. Every time she asked, she would give something of a certain value.

So Xu Qing didn't answer, but instead asked about medicine Dao.

"For the blue blood of the ghost desire horseshoe crab, what method can make its toxicity greater and its preservation time longer?"

Gu Muqing pondered for a while, her expression serious.

"I haven't thought about this point. What the master taught is all positive medicine. Let me think... If it were me, I would add 'in-the-world tea'. With the heaviness of 'in-the-world tea', I would improve the toxicity of the ghost desire horseshoe crab."

Xu Qing heard this, his eyes condensed, and he pondered for a moment. His mind fluctuated slightly. The other party's words opened up some ideas for him, so he began to ask about poison Dao.

"'In-the-world tea' itself is for neutralization, but it also contains a certain amount of toxins. How to turn its toxins into a medicinal guide?"

"Ah? Poison again? Let me think... Maybe you can use gold button grass to force it out?" Gu Muqing said uncertainly, but her words were still enlightening to Xu Qing.

This made Xu Qing's interest increase, and he began to communicate with Gu Muqing about medicine Dao. The communication between the two was a bit strange. Xu Qing asked mostly about poison Dao, and Gu Muqing asked mostly about medicine Dao.

But it didn't affect it. They faintly had some verification of each other. Even the more they communicated, the more they felt enlightened, until finally Gu Muqing simply walked into the dark place and communicated with Xu Qing sentence by sentence.

Time passed.

In the sunlight, the two in the dark place, the man was handsome, the woman was refined, like a beautiful picture. Only Zhang San, who was like an old farmer on the side, was a bit out of place in this picture.

Zhang San was dumbfounded at this moment, looking at the two, and after a long while, he sighed in his heart, secretly thinking that being beautiful really had too much advantage.

His heart skipped a beat again, pondering that his plan to go out to sea this time wouldn't be ruined, right? But thinking that Xu Qing had just returned from going out to sea, he probably wouldn't go out to sea again, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, but he couldn't help but speak.

"That... Junior Brother Xu Qing, why don't you give the magic boat to me first? I'll refine it for you. I see that you two won't be able to finish talking for a short time."

Xu Qing heard this, cupped his fists at Zhang San, took out the flying boat, and gave it over.

Zhang San subconsciously raised his hand to take the small bottle containing the flying boat, and his eyes suddenly widened. He looked at the thin and tattered flying boat in the bottle, stunned for a moment.

"Where is the magic boat? Isn't this the flying boat I put in your magic boat?"

"Shattered." Xu Qing said calmly, then turned to ask Gu Muqing about poison Dao again.

Zhang San took a breath, looking at the small bottle in his hand, his heart had already realized that Xu Qing had encountered a life-and-death crisis this time going out to sea.

Just like this, two hours passed.

Until the sunset glow fell, and the darkness on the ground merged with the light outside, as if they had fused together. Under Gu Muqing's unfinished interest, Xu Qing ended the communication and completed the transaction of lizard skins with the other party.

"Junior Brother Xu Qing, thank you for your clarification. It's a bit late today, I'll take my leave first. I'll try the method you said when I go back, but I think it's probably very difficult to succeed. Actually, I tried many times before, but only occasionally could I reach that kind of purity."

Gu Muqing said distressedly.

Xu Qing thought for a while. He felt that on one hand, this should be related to the blending method taught by Master Bai, and on the other hand, it might also be related to the fact that his body had no alien substances.

When he refined pills, he didn't radiate any mixed aura and didn't blend into the pills.

But he naturally wouldn't say this.

Gu Muqing shook her head and left with contemplation.

Xu Qing watched her leave, his expression serious and he bowed slightly. He benefited a lot from this communication, and his understanding of poison Dao became more integrated, and some ideas for refining poison faintly emerged in his heart.

At this moment, seeing Gu Muqing leave, Zhang San came to Xu Qing's side with a worried face and sighed.

"Xu Qing, that boat of yours... it's not easy to handle. I can't cover so many spirit stones. This is equivalent to rebuilding a boat. It's too expensive."

Xu Qing didn't speak, looked around, and took out one of the three pieces of divine lizard skin from his body.

At the moment this lizard skin appeared, Zhang San just glanced at it with his peripheral vision and trembled all over. In an instant, all his worries disappeared. His eyes widened, looking at a golden glint on the lizard skin, and he took a breath.

"This is..." He just said this, and he grabbed Xu Qing and headed straight for his warehouse. After entering the warehouse, he tremblingly took Xu Qing's lizard skin.

After checking it carefully as if looking at a treasure, his breathing became more rapid, and after a long while, he suddenly raised his head to look at Xu Qing.

"Divine lizard slough!"

"And it's a Foundation Establishment lizard slough, and it also possesses a trace of Golden Core aura. The value of this thing is too great. If it is released, it will definitely cause a lot of slaughter and snatching. How did you get it!"

"Snatch it. Is it enough to build a new magic boat?" Xu Qing spoke peacefully.

Looking at Xu Qing's expression, Zhang San's eyes contracted. He heard the thick bloodiness from this sentence, and finally knew why it was a magic boat when he went out, and a flying boat when he came back.

"More than enough. The magic boat built with this thing will reach an incomparably astonishing degree. I need some time to prepare. Come and get it tomorrow!"

Zhang San turned to look at the divine lizard slough, a strong light appearing in his eyes. He felt that the magic boat built with this object would be his most outstanding work in these years.

Xu Qing nodded and took out some spirit tickets, about 5000, and placed them on the side. After thinking for a while, he also took out the spirit stones in his storage bag, adding up to a full ten thousand.

Among those spirit stones, many were stained with blood.

These spirit stones made Zhang San's eyes shrink again, his mind shook, and his expression became even weirder. He couldn't help but ask a question.

"How many people did you kill this time?"

"Not many." Xu Qing shook his head.

"You use all the spirit stones to refine the magic boat, what about the needs for cultivation? And... do you trust me so much?" Zhang San looked at Xu Qing.

"Someone still owes me a few thousand spirit stones, I'll go ask for them tonight. As for trust, I think the things in Senior Brother Zhang San's place add up to more than my harvest this time."

Xu Qing spoke seriously, cupped his fists at Zhang San, clean and neat, and turned to leave.

At this moment, it was dusk outside, and heaven and earth gradually darkened. Zhang San looked at Xu Qing's departing back, his heart full of emotion.

"There is actually someone who dares to owe this person spirit stones? Also... since he trusts me so much, I shouldn't secretly deduct it. Since I have invested in him, then I will persist to the end!"

At the same time, in this dusk, in the inn on Ban Quanlu, the old man was happily smoking a pipe, his face full of pride.

"This time I made a fortune. A mid-stage Foundation Establishment lizard slough, worth 5000 spirit stones. It's just a pity that I didn't get the divine lizard slough."

"But that poisonous brat probably didn't have a good time, maybe he came back empty-handed."

"Thinking that he gained nothing makes me happy, haha, I haven't been in business for many days, today there will definitely be many people coming to stay, double happiness."

The old man was proud, and a great force rushed toward him from his side.

It was that large snake. It slammed hard into the old man at this moment, emitting a sorrowful 'Gurgle, gurgle' sound.

The old man glared, just about to teach it a lesson, but seeing the large snake's sad look, his heart softened and he sighed.

"Sigh, that brat is very cunning. Seeing that things were not looking good, could he not run? He won't die, he won't die."

The large snake heard this, and its mood only then eased a bit, but it was still a bit listless, shrinking in the corner.

The old man felt distressed, comforted it for a while, until the sky outside was completely dark, and in the distance, there were figures of guests coming quickly.

"I'll get you some snacks to eat later, let's not talk about it, I'm going to open for business."

The old man hurried out, looking at the guests coming in the distance, a smile appeared on his face, but the next moment, his expression suddenly changed.

A dagger shining with cold light, at the moment night fell, whistled from the distance like lightning, directly piercing the neck of the wanted criminal who was about to enter his inn, nailing him to the wall on the side.

The force was so great that the wall emitted a 'Boom' sound, and blood splashed everywhere.

Screams erupted shrilly at this moment, and then stopped abruptly!

Only the sound of footsteps, in this night, came slowly from the distance. ===== CHAPTER 97 =====