Chapter 101: Aftermath

Morning had arrived, and the voices were clamorous.

Having fallen asleep late last night with worry, the corpse-buriers, who hadn't slept well at all, heard fragmented discussions the moment they stepped outside.

"Hey, did you know?"

"Know what?"

"About Du En! You still don't know?"

"What, what, what happened to that person?"

"Still calling him 'that person'! He was taken away by someone last night!"

Because the one who came had high cultivation!

The five of them rolled their eyes in annoyance, their attitudes still appearing poor.

Although Du En had returned once before dawn to tell them a rough situation and not to worry, being suddenly taken to Qingya Garden for house arrest was still endlessly worrying.

"Damn it! You bunch of lowly things, you actually dare to show off!"

However, they had no ability to change it and could only watch the situation develop this way.

Damn it!

Can this be endured?

The crowd hurriedly turned their heads to look and saw the figure of the corpse-transport supervisor Li Jian, and immediately scrambled to back away.

However.

And now, just as Du En was gone, work suddenly arrived, and it was the corpse-transport supervisor Li Jian himself who came to pass the word; it was clearly an attempt to wipe them all out!

First came confusion, then realization, and then... gratification!

One can only say that mountains and rivers are easy to change, but a person's nature is hard to alter!

Before Du En had his incident, they were all obedient and honest, but now that they heard the situation had changed, except for a few who still knew how to be grateful, the other guys let all the negative emotions that had been suppressed by fear and unease jump out impatiently.

Therefore, although the corpse-buriers needed to face a pile of accumulated corpses today, they didn't need to worry about encountering any evil corpses.

They thought this would scare these cowards, but because the shanty town area was crowded and the noise was still very loud, those who joined from the back didn't see the people in front being knocked down, couldn't hear the screams clearly, and kept shouting and clamoring to make them look good.

Even the supervisor was arranged to come and work, so he, this lone seedling of a corpse-transporter, was of course no better off.

"Looks like that brat Du En finally got his retribution!"

Because there were actually some slight issues with the bottling of these pills, by observing the act of cultivating with them, one could basically judge and confirm that what Steward Shi said was true, and that their side currently still possessed privacy.

Just feeling that aura of magical power made these guys, who were weak to the bone, lose their nerve and go weak in the knees.

After moving over and Steward Shi took his leave, he began to act in an orderly manner.

It was mainly out of concern for He Bo, the Corpse Affairs Steward above, so he couldn't do it openly.

The corpse-buriers were immediately enraged, released their Gray Jackals, grabbed their shovels, and charged out.

"Sigh! How could such a thing happen?"

Li Jian looked at the corpse-buriers who were curled up for protection, covered by a layer of thin earth armor, and having suffered no actual injuries, he didn't say much and hastily brushed the matter aside.

Meanwhile, the person everyone was thinking about was as calm as ever.

"What are you all doing here?!"

Glancing at such looks, Li Jian's lips twitched twice, but he still couldn't help but say: "You don't need to worry too much about the burial work; last night, Foreman Du crushed the evil cultivator and the corpses of their victims into such a state that the evil nature has completely dissipated."

It would be strange if they could have a good expression!

"Haha! Serves him right!"

A sudden, sharp shout drowned out the clamor, startling the people there and causing them to quickly calm down.

As a result, being at a great disadvantage in numbers, lacking a clear advantage in strength, and not daring to kill to establish authority for fear of causing trouble for Du En, the corpse-buriers were eventually overwhelmed by the sea of people and could only shrink their defenses, curling their bodies to take the beating.

"Everyone go to work."

Although shortly after, when they arrived at the workplace and learned that the supervisors were all dead, and that those with status in the shanty town had met the same end, they were all scared out of their wits, panicked, and no longer had such an excited mood.

Li Jian looked toward Ning Caize and the others, his brows slightly furrowed, his gaze flickering, wanting to speak but stopping, but in the end, he just spoke normally: "Work has come today, let's go."

Thus, the actions of these people began to synchronize, and they turned their heads one after another to look at the corpse-buriers who had just stepped out.

With Li Jian secretly helping, they would be tired, but they wouldn't die.

Especially when thinking of the past when Du En "forced" them to hand over spirit stones due to the monster invasion, it was even more uncontrollable!

Of course, looking at the sour and swollen faces of the corpse-buriers, Xu Ran didn't dare to express his thoughts so bluntly.

Are we worrying about this right now?

The group silently arrived at the corpse-burial wasteland and saw Xu Ran, who was working around the clock.

And what surprised him most was Du En's strength.

Du En was currently residing in Qingya Garden, in a three-story exquisite small building that was relatively central but not particularly conspicuous among the many pavilions and terraces.

The bruised and swollen Ning Caize and the others looked at each other with stiff expressions and no good looks, hitched back the two Gray Jackals that were walking with a stagger, and pulled the tools on the cart, slowly following Li Jian's pace.

At the beginning, relying on the Sand-Raising Earth Armor and the nourishment of spirit meals, Ning Caize and the others were indeed like war gods possessed, extremely fierce, and knocked down a large crowd of people.

Afraid of being beaten!

Regardless, things had reached this point, and they could only accept and adapt.

The reason they didn't have good expressions was, of course, that they felt the Corpse Affairs Steward He Bo was 100% the main reason Du En was taken away for house arrest.

"What are you looking at! Don't you need to work? Get out of here!"

To think he quietly reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining!

Clearly, we all came to the border city at the same time, clearly my position was the relatively better corpse-transporter, clearly... but why am I still at the early stage of Qi Refining, while you are already at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, and even killed an evil cultivator for real?

This is not the Dao!

It makes me suspect that you might be colluding with evil cultivators or something!

"Oh! He's anxious! He's anxious!"

All sorts of rumors were spreading rapidly, and with them, people's gazes also gradually underwent a noticeable change.

Relying on their superior numbers and uniform cultivation levels, these neighbors were not afraid in the slightest; they immediately grabbed various objects and engaged in close-quarters combat, fighting fiercely against the corpse-burying men.

Seeing this, Li Jian realized he had misunderstood their intentions; he wanted to speak but stopped himself, ultimately saying nothing more.

The strange gazes cast by these ingrates right now immediately provoked Wei Ming into a rage.

First, he circulated his Qi to heal his injuries, and once he was mostly recovered, he consumed the medicinal pill he had obtained less than a day ago.

Ning Cai and the other four were feeling uneasy and anxious now.

"Isn't that so? I saw it with my own eyes when I got up in the middle of the night; late at night, he was brought over under guard, seemingly to get some daily necessities, and then he was escorted away again. It took no more than the time it takes to eat a meal from start to finish. Judging by the direction they left in, it should be toward the Qingya Courtyard, right?"

Xu Ran sighed while working, feeling that the development of the situation was abrupt and that he hadn't been able to react at all.

These people felt as if they had been granted a reprieve and immediately scattered in all directions.

His mood was actually exhilarated, feeling as though he had finally vented his pent-up anger.

In last night's looting, he had obtained six bottles of cultivation pills, all of which were first-grade high-tier, and their quality was excellent—they were fine goods.

"Ah? There's such a thing?!"

However, for Du En now, no matter how good the quality of this grade of pill was, the effect would be minimal; after refining all one hundred and twenty pills from the six bottles, he could barely increase his cultivation accumulation by twelve points.

In other words, those stewards, every single one of them, did not want to get themselves involved in any trouble.

After confirming this, Du En temporarily exited his cultivation state and looked at a small bag to the side.

(End of this chapter)