Chapter 143: Adventure: It's Mine

Lin Guangcheng nodded: "Very good. Now I'll give you a chance to redeem your life. What do you think you have, or what news, that can redeem your life in my hands?"

"You can say it now. You only have one chance; think about it carefully yourself."

"Also, let me make it clear first: even if I let you go, I will cripple your cultivation, making it so you can never cultivate again. You need to be aware of this; it's impossible to let you go unscathed."

After saying this, he ignored him, found Lu Xinyi's storage bag, and began to refine it. Thanks to his powerful divine sense, he finished refining it very quickly.

He probed with his divine sense and found two or three thousand low-grade spirit stones, five medium-grade spirit stones, five medium-to-low-grade dharma artifacts, and a shield, which was a high-grade defensive dharma artifact. There was also a red crossbow dharma artifact; this should be the God-Breaking Crossbow that shot down Lin Guangcheng's flying boat! The rest were some jade boxes, clothes, sundries, and he also flipped out a manual. Lin Guangcheng took it out of the storage bag.

On the cover was written "Red Lotus Sky-Burning Technique". He flipped through it and took a look; this was a high-grade cultivation method for single-cultivation of the fire element. It could be cultivated to the late stage of Foundation Establishment. As for the specific grade, it wasn't written on it; the high grade was Lin Guangcheng's own guess.

After all, the two cultivation methods Lin Guangcheng himself practiced were both Heaven-grade, so he had a sense of whether they were good or bad.

At this time, Lu Xinyi also thought it through and made up his mind: "I have a piece of news that should be able to redeem my life."

Lin Guangcheng glanced at him and said: "Fine! Speak. I will naturally judge whether it can redeem your life."

Lu Xinyi organized his language and said: "The reason why my brother and I embarked on this path of cultivation was because we encountered some adventures."

"We were originally born in a remote little mountain village under Baishan County, Jinzhou Prefecture. When I was fifteen, my brother and I went into the mountains to pick herbs. Because we were greedy for medicinal materials, we went too deep into the mountains and got lost without knowing it."

"The two of us walked in the mountains for several days, hungry and tired. Later, we discovered a cave on a cliff wall, so we thought about going inside to rest. Unexpectedly, after entering..."

"We discovered that it was a cave abode. In several rooms inside, we found two cultivation manuals and a few dharma artifacts. The cultivation method in my storage bag and that God-Breaking Crossbow were discovered there."

"Inside the cave abode, there were five rooms. We only opened four. One of the rooms could never be opened. We estimated that the owner of the cave abode should have passed away inside, and their cultivation should not have been low."

Hearing this, Lin Guangcheng's heart stirred, and he asked: "How can you be sure their cultivation was not low?"

Lu Xinyi explained: "Because these two cultivation manuals and dharma artifacts were found in the study and a storage room, which proves the cave owner didn't think much of them."

"So they didn't carry them with them. Plus, when we were in the mid and late stages of Qi Refining, we went twice more and used all methods but couldn't break the restriction on the door, so we judged that the cave owner had at least Foundation Establishment cultivation."

Lin Guangcheng nodded, which counted as approving his judgment, and asked again: "Where is the other cultivation manual?"

Lu Xinyi replied: "It's in my brother's storage bag. There is also a first-grade top-grade flying sword discovered in the cave abode, which is also with him."

Lin Guangcheng found his brother's storage bag and began to refine it. Not long after, he finished refining it.

His divine sense entered to probe: over a thousand low-grade spirit stones, no medium-grade spirit stones, and a pile of jade boxes and sundries. He would deal with these when he had time. He found that cultivation manual and took it out.

The name on the cover was "Mysterious Gold Sky-Splitting Technique". He flipped through it; it could also only be cultivated to the late stage of Foundation Establishment.

Lin Guangcheng didn't care about the wealth of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but these two cultivation methods were somewhat attractive to him. They were clearly much more brilliant than the legacy cultivation methods in the clan, so it was worth finding them to see if he could find the subsequent cultivation methods.

Whether it was for his family to cultivate or to increase the clan's foundation, both were good choices.

Lin Guangcheng glanced at him and said: "Record the specific path and how to walk into the mountains clearly. Once finished, I will let you go."

Lu Xinyi shook his head and said: "The place where I was born is too remote, and every time we went in, we used some markers to recognize the road. You must go there in person to know how to walk next."

Lin Guangcheng thought for a moment and nodded. Then he would talk about it when he had time in the future. Anyway, raising him in the spirit beast bracelet just wasted a bit of ordinary food, and he wasn't afraid that he could turn the tables.

However, he should cripple him first! That way it would be safer.

Thinking of this, he lifted Lu Xinyi up and reached out to pierce his dantian. Lu Xinyi let out a miserable scream, twisting and turning in Lin Guangcheng's hands in pain.

The spiritual energy of his whole body leaked out from the damaged dantian and from the pores all over his body.

Lin Guangcheng didn't care about him and untied him, lest he be strangled to death due to poor blood circulation.

Then he threw him into the spirit beast bracelet and threw a big pile of food and drink in for him.

He would only need him when he had time to go treasure hunting in Qi Yun Prefecture. Now he would just raise him and ignore him for the time being. There were still two more that needed to be dealt with! He released the alchemist Wang Youzong from the spirit beast bracelet again.

As soon as this spineless guy came out, he kept begging for mercy, which made Lin Guangcheng start to feel annoyed.

He decided to bluff him, so he asked directly: "Lu Xinyi said you saved thirty thousand spirit stones there? Tell me and I'll spare your life?"

When Wang Youzong heard Lin Guangcheng's words, his face turned pale with fright, and he greeted everyone in Lu Xinyi's family ten thousand times in his heart.

He began to argue: "He's talking nonsense. Where would I have so many spirit stones? I only have a little over ten thousand in total, and they are all in the storage bag."

"Consider it a gift to you, Young Master; just beg you to spare my life!"

"I can refine pills for you, or be a beast of burden; as long as you let me live, anything is fine!"

Lin Guangcheng heard this, glared at him, and said: "The things in the storage bag are all my spoils of war. You want to use my spoils of war to exchange for your life? Isn't that too whimsical? And your alchemy skills are so poor, yet you still want to stay and continue to ruin my spirit medicines and spirit grasses? You are simply looking for death! Now I'll give you one more chance: take out twenty thousand spirit stones—of course, spirit objects of similar value are also fine."

"Or have valuable news to redeem your life. Otherwise, I won't raise trash like you; I'll send you on your way immediately."

After Wang Youzong finished listening, he was terrified, trembling all over, pissing and shitting himself, constantly begging Lin Guangcheng to spare his life.

Seeing him like this, Lin Guangcheng could already confirm that he couldn't squeeze any oil out of him. Like this kind of robber, he didn't know how many people he had harmed. Lin Guangcheng wouldn't pity him, let alone show mercy.

Since it had been confirmed that he had no value, then treat it as eliminating harm for the cultivation world! A Golden Thread Escape Light Needle flew out from Lin Guangcheng's hand, passed through Wang Youzong's head, and flew back into Lin Guangcheng's hand. Wang Youzong's figure paused, and he immediately fell straight to the ground.

There was no need to clean up the corpse; leave it for Xu Meiniang to see later. It could be considered making use of waste.

This should be called killing the chicken to warn the monkey! Of course, if Xu Meiniang couldn't surrender sincerely, then this monkey would also have to be killed.

It was impossible for Lin Guangcheng to keep a scourge by his side. And last time, seeing her come to strike up a conversation with him, with a look of being full of dust and full of coquettishness, she didn't look like a good person either.

Lin Guangcheng sorted out his thoughts and released Xu Meiniang from the spirit beast bracelet.

As soon as she came out, she saw a person lying next to her; it was her accomplice, the alchemist Wang Youzong. She was immediately scared pale, without a trace of blood, trembling non-stop, and began to weep.

Lin Guangcheng asked expressionlessly: "Xu Meiniang, do you have anything you want to say? If not, I'll send you on your way."

Hearing Lin Guangcheng say he wanted to send her on her way, she was even more scared, pissing and shitting herself, crying uncontrollably, constantly saying that she hadn't killed anyone and hadn't done anything bad, and that her crimes didn't warrant death.

Lin Guangcheng stood there and observed carefully for a while. He was eighty or ninety percent sure she wasn't lying. After consideration, he decided to give her a chance, so he asked: "You said you are a brewer?"

Xu Meiniang heard this, as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, and was so excited she couldn't speak, only nodding desperately.

After a long while, she recovered and hurriedly said: "Yes, I am a brewer. What I am best at is brewing Green Moon Spirit Wine. This spirit wine has the effect of helping to break through bottlenecks."

"And I can also brew many different kinds of spirit wine. I am willing to brew wine exclusively for you in the future."

Lin Guangcheng nodded: "How can you guarantee that you won't betray me in the future, so that I can use you with peace of mind?"

As soon as Xu Meiniang heard this, she hurriedly knelt down and swore: "Heaven as witness, Great Dao as proof, I, Xu Meiniang, am willing to recognize the cultivator in front of me as my master, to serve as a slave and maid for the rest of my life, never to betray for all eternity. If I violate this oath, may my soul fly and scatter immediately, and may I die an untimely death!"

As soon as the oath was finished, a magical power descended into Lin Guangcheng's sea of consciousness, forming a tiny silver rune. Lin Guangcheng had already had one experience with this kind of scene.

The two silver runes were side by side. He tried to touch Xu Meiniang's rune with his divine sense, and a feeling of panic, unease, nervousness, anticipation—all kinds of emotions woven together—was transmitted to Lin Guangcheng's heart.

He instantly understood that these emotions should be Xu Meiniang's current mood.

It was truly very magical. Relying on this rune, Lin Guangcheng could feel Xu Meiniang's various emotions, and Lin Guangcheng had a feeling that if he shattered this rune, Xu Meiniang would immediately have her soul fly and scatter and die an untimely death.

Last time with Mu Xiaoxiao, the time in the Secret Realm was too rushed, and Lin Guangcheng didn't have time to study it. Later, he was busy and threw it aside.

It just so happened that Xu Meiniang's oath this time also formed such a rune, and only then did Lin Guangcheng take this opportunity to study it.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 144 =====