Chapter 251: Once out of the city, it won't be up to you

Early the next morning, Chu Danqing sent Xu Kequan and his wife out of the city.

The Prefecture Lord also came to see them off; he didn't know what Yang Qianyuan had said to the other party, but when he came back, he said the matter was handled.

At the same time, he also took a spirit material called "Cloud-Smoke White Peony" from the Prefecture Lord's hands, saying it was a reward for Chu Danqing's righteous act.

【Cloud-Smoke White Peony】

【Type: Material】

【Quality: Exemplary】

【Effect 1: When used for making summoning potions, food, etc., the effect increases by 50%】

Chu Danqing looked at the attribute panel and could only say that it was worthy of being a spirit beast-type world; the output was too suitable for Chu Danqing.

"Too precious." Chu Danqing said, and handed the Cloud-Smoke White Peony to Yang Qianyuan: "This spirit material should have been given to you by the Prefecture Lord."

"Yes, but I don't have a use for it." Yang Qianyuan added: "So I asked the Prefecture Lord to exchange it for the Cloud-Smoke White Peony that Brother Chu needs."

The Fate-Divining Spider Feidi was still young, and what should have been cultivated had already been cultivated; forcing an upgrade with external objects would only be pulling up seedlings to help them grow.

Next, it only needed to grow naturally.

As for continuing to evolve, the time hadn't come.

"Then I won't be polite. I'll accept the item; if you have anything, just say it." Chu Danqing accepted the Cloud-Smoke White Peony.

After dealing with Cheng Xunyan, he could use it as the main material on the road, combined with the auxiliary materials he had bought and had left, to cultivate Da Bao's bloodline concentration.

"Then, the two of you, let's part here." Chu Danqing said to Xu Kequan and his wife after accepting it.

After Xu Kequan and his wife thanked him profusely, they took the gold and silver trinkets Chu Danqing had given them and drove the donkey cart away.

It wasn't that Chu Danqing didn't arrange a carriage or horses for them, but because it was too conspicuous.

Although the couple had spirit beasts, it sounded as if no one else did.

If they were really in the wilderness, the couple riding high-headed horses would easily be targeted.

Instead, the donkey cart was not so eye-catching.

As for Chu Danqing, under the guidance of Yang Qianyuan's Heaven's Secret Divination using the Fate-Divining Spider, he soon found a safe place and waited for Cheng Xunyan to arrive.

"He's coming." The Fate-Divining Spider on Yang Qianyuan's shoulder reminded.

Chu Danqing looked at the time; Yang Qianyuan's Heaven's Secret Divination ability was indeed strong, actually not off by a bit.

Saying he would come at this point, he came at this point.

It was just that the reading time was relatively long, and it couldn't be used to predict things beyond the limit.

Plus, it was laid out by Yang Qianyuan to attract him; the more information known, the more accurate the result of the Heaven's Secret Divination.

In essence, it was a kind of information acquisition.

"Interesting. It seems the Prefecture Lord wants to use your hands to get rid of me." Cheng Xunyan's tone carried disdain.

He didn't come alone; he also brought ten or so trusted confidants.

This time, leaving the city was for personal revenge, so after receiving the news, he acted low-key and didn't leave the city with great fanfare.

He was an official, especially with the Prefecture Lord's attitude toward him changing greatly, so this kind of killing had to be done privately.

"No time to talk nonsense with you; I only hope that when you come, your neck is already washed clean." Chu Danqing finished speaking, and 81 Jin Gang Warriors came out from the Eight Ma Pi Climbing Dragon Chariot talisman.

Cheng Xunyan's face turned green in an instant; without any hesitation, he directly pulled the horse's reins, turned his head, and took his spirit beast, the Blood-Patterned Leopard, and ran back.

In this situation, anyone with a normal brain knew not to go head-to-head.

The Jin Gang Warriors' figures turned into afterimages, piercing through the smoke and dust.

The warrior in the lead locked onto the horse's neck mane with one hand, his arm muscles bulging like horned dragons, pressing the galloping horse until its front hooves knelt to the ground.

The horse neighed and flipped to the side, and Cheng Xunyan fell off the horse, rolling to the ground on the side.

Another Jin Gang Huangjin Lishi's fist, carrying the sound of breaking wind, hit Cheng Xunyan's left cheek with a heavy punch.

Finally, he held back, and five fingers like iron pincers locked onto Cheng Xunyan's throat and lifted him up, dragging him in front of Chu Danqing.

The companions who didn't hold back set off a bloody storm; a certain confidant was smashed in half along with his sword, his upper body hitting the side, and his intestines falling all over the ground.

"You... who exactly are you?" Cheng Xunyan, who was being lifted by the neck, asked with horror on his face; the situation was too wrong.

If it were eight Jin Gang Warriors, he could understand, but there were eighty-one; let alone Cheng Xunyan not being able to understand, even Yang Qianyuan's brain couldn't turn around.

Chu Danqing gave a look, and a Jin Gang Huangjin Lishi immediately stepped forward, slapping Cheng Xunyan so that his right cheek caved in, and five bloody marks tore from the root of his ear to the corner of his mouth.

Before his head could turn back, the left palm backhanded and slashed his left jaw; in the muffled sound of the lower jaw joint dislocating, the shattered molar powder sprayed out along with the nosebleed.

The attribute limit of Rank 1 was only 30 points; even if the Jin Gang Huangjin Lishi didn't have Chu Danqing's boost, the base attribute was 45 points.

"Where is the Konggu Youlan Blood Dew?" Chu Danqing asked coldly.

As soon as the words came out, Cheng Xunyan was stunned for a moment, then immediately burst into a cold laugh: "So it was for the Konggu Youlan Blood Dew."

"As for the matter of the Ning Prince, I think you'd better meddle less, lest you die without a burial place."

Chu Danqing didn't expect the other party to confess so honestly; he had originally just been bluffing.

The item had indeed been transferred and transported away by him.

"Your hands and feet are quite nimble; it was transported out in just one night. It seems this line of yours is not ordinary." Chu Danqing continued to bluff.

"I'm actually very curious, which faction are you from? To actually have the guts to dare to move the Ning Prince's people." Cheng Xunyan's courage grew at this moment.

What he feared most was that Chu Danqing knew nothing and was just a reckless youth.

But from the questions Chu Danqing asked, he believed that Chu Danqing knew part of the situation.

This was his confidence in having nothing to fear.

"Heh, so what if the Ning Prince is powerful?" Chu Danqing pretended to be disdainful, then rebuked: "Confess it; I'll give you a quick death."

In this instant, many thoughts flashed through Cheng Xunyan's mind.

Being able to find the entire line of the Ning Prince's cultivation of Yaksha Soldier spirit beasts and accurately grasp the lifeline of the entire process, apart from the Emperor who was currently on a southern tour, he was afraid only some powerful vassal princes could do it.

Several candidates quickly appeared in his mind.

Only by accurately determining the mastermind behind these two people could he successfully escape.

"The people of the Min Prince are indeed extraordinary, but if you kill me and still want to cut off this line, I'm afraid this matter cannot end well." Cheng Xunyan immediately said.

"Don't you think this is a great merit?" Cheng Xunyan didn't threaten everything, but reasoned with him: "Where in the world is there anything seamless?"

"If the leak is known to the Ning Prince, the Min Prince will only hand you over to the Ning Prince to deal with in order to settle the matter."

"For you, for me, there is no benefit."

Chu Danqing said nothing, relying entirely on his own brain to fill in the blanks, and then he just needed to follow the words.

"What you said is indeed correct." Chu Danqing nodded in approval, then continued: "Then I can't have made the trip for nothing."

"I have to reveal a little something to me so I can go back and report." Chu Danqing said with dissatisfaction: "I traveled thousands of miles to come here only to return empty-handed; how do you think my outcome will be?"

"We are all people running errands; I won't make things difficult for you, so don't make things difficult for me."

The meaning was for you to say at least something.

Cheng Xunyan felt it made sense upon hearing this.

"Xuanyuan Temple." Cheng Xunyan gave a place name: "The upstream of this line of mine is Xuanyuan Temple."

"That's it?" Chu Danqing asked: "What is the specific location?"

"Follow the official road for more than fifty miles..." In order to survive, Cheng Xunyan explained the location and how to get there in great detail.

After the other party finished speaking, the Paradise mission appeared simultaneously.

【Side Mission: Exterminate the Xuanyuan Temple Yaksha Crowd within 48 hours】

【Trial Difficulty: A-Rank (Heroic)】

【Trial Reward: Paradise Points x 10000, Attribute Points +4】

【Trial Failure: Paradise Points -20000, Random Attribute -1】

Two pieces of good news.

One was that this Xuanyuan Temple was related to the trial mission, triggering a side mission.

Another piece of good news was that this Xuanyuan Temple was on the route to Meilong Town.

According to Chu Danqing's estimate, even walking wouldn't take too long.

So forty-eight hours was more than enough.

As for the difficulty being A-Rank? Wasn't this even better news?

And the treasure chests from exterminating the Fang Fu and the wandering monk hadn't dropped yet.

He estimated he was counting on this Xuanyuan Temple.

"So that's it; no wonder it was escorted by those two wandering monks." Chu Danqing tried to bluff again, then continued to ask: "Is there anything else?"

Eliminate evil completely; they actually disguised themselves as a temple to kidnap women to refine Konggu Youlan Blood Dew, so Chu Danqing didn't believe there was only this one Xuanyuan Temple.

"Brother, we are all working for the princes; I gave you a merit, so don't smash my rice bowl." Cheng Xunyan narrowed his eyes, indicating he wouldn't say any more.

Saying more would implicate himself.

Chu Danqing saw this and sighed: "Fine, it was my greed."

After speaking, Da Bao directly pierced Cheng Xunyan's chest with a claw.

Cheng Xunyan's expression revealed disbelief; he didn't understand why Chu Danqing wanted to kill him.

"Rest assured, when I have time, I will send the Ning Prince down to accompany you." Chu Danqing leaned over and whispered in Cheng Xunyan's ear.

In this moment, Cheng Xunyan's eyes widened; he understood he had been deceived.

But unfortunately, he no longer had the ability to speak; as Da Bao's claw was pulled out, Cheng Xunyan died on the spot.

As for the corpses of the spirit beasts, they were collected together by the Jin Gang Warriors.

"All are top-notch materials." Chu Danqing refrigerated them and put them all into the storage space: "Da Bao, you're in luck."

When the time comes, he would use cooking methods to make them into food-type resources for Da Bao to eat.

He certainly wouldn't think about how delicious it would be; Chu Danqing wasn't a professional, and the most he could do was maximize the medicinal power and let Da Bao absorb the medicinal effect more comprehensively.

As for Da Bai and Big Bone, these materials were not suitable for them.

"Brother Chu, so many Shinto spirit beasts, the quantity... is it a bit inhuman?" Yang Qianyuan couldn't help but ask at this time.

Chu Danqing casually put the Jin Gang Warriors back into the space of the Eight Ma Pi Climbing Dragon Chariot talisman, and only then said: "There will always be people who exceed common sense; it's a small matter."

He really couldn't explain it, and immediately changed the subject: "Let's go, let's go to Xuanyuan Temple and solve them as soon as possible."

"Otherwise, for every minute this group of people lives, perhaps one more person will be harmed."

Yang Qianyuan knew Chu Danqing was changing the subject, but he didn't get to the bottom of it; everyone had secrets, and he was the same.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 252 =====