Chapter 12: Refining the Wine Insect, Miyun City is About to Fall into Chaos

"An accident? You're the one having an accident! How could I possibly have an accident while at home?!"

Zhou Sui said with annoyance.

"Cough, cough, a misunderstanding, it really is a misunderstanding. Look at this mouth of mine, it just doesn't know how to speak; please don't take offense," Zhang Cheng apologized repeatedly. "By the way, what are you planning to do going out today?"

His expression was extremely awkward; after all, he was the one who had spoken wrongly.

"Going to buy some things."

Zhou Sui couldn't be bothered to waste any more breath on the other party and simply lifted his feet to leave.

Just as Zhou Sui left this street, the surrounding neighbors seemed to have all come out, each of them looking at Zhou Sui's departing back with uncertainty and shock.

"No way, the Zhou kid actually didn't die? Could it be that he wasn't harvested by that demoness?"

Someone felt very surprised.

Because according to their estimation, Zhou Sui should have been dead by this time; who would have thought he would be so full of life.

If they hadn't witnessed it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed it at all.

"It is indeed a bit strange. Could it be that the female Cultivator really didn't want to harvest him, but instead wanted to become his Dao Companion?"

"Impossible. This kid has low cultivation; how could he be favored by a beautiful and powerful female Cultivator? Stop joking."

"I don't believe it either, but the problem is that facts speak louder than words. This kid is perfectly fine, and his cultivation has even improved."

"Fake, it's all just an illusion. Don't be fooled by the demoness's methods. Perhaps that demoness felt the Zhou kid's cultivation wasn't enough and wants to fatten him up before killing him."

"That is also a possibility. If he is only at Qi Refining First Layer, even if he were truly drained dry, there wouldn't be much benefit. It would be better to raise the Zhou kid's cultivation before draining him; that would yield more benefits."

The crowd discussed it heatedly.

They would never believe that the beautiful female Cultivator had truly taken a fancy to Zhou Sui; they reckoned that the demoness must be planning to fatten Zhou Sui up and then harvest him.

If it weren't for this, there would be no way to explain such a thing.

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Before long, Zhou Sui arrived at the Pill Pavilion in Miyun City with practiced ease; this shop not only sold all kinds of pills but also sold all kinds of medicinal herbs.

Shopkeeper Zhao of the Pill Pavilion could be considered an acquaintance of Zhou Sui's parents, after all, they had known each other for over a decade.

"Little Zhou is here. Are you looking to buy some pills today?"

Shopkeeper Zhao smiled slightly.

"No, I want to purchase some Spirit Medicine, such as ten-year-old Wine Snake Grass. I wonder if you have any?"

Zhou Sui stated his requirements straightforwardly.

The reason he needed Wine Snake Grass was that it was the main material for refining a Wine Insect, which was also a special Gu Insect he wanted to refine in order to earn Spirit Stones.

The so-called Wine Insect is a Gu Insect that lives on wine and possesses incredible power over wine.

Even a portion of ordinary wine, under the power of the Wine Insect, would transform into First-tier Spirit Wine.

One must know that a pot of ordinary First-tier Spirit Wine is worth at least forty or fifty Low-grade Spirit Stones, making it more expensive than ordinary pills.

The reason for this is that compared to pills, Spirit Wine does not have much pill poison and also has the effect of purifying the spiritual power within the body, making it very popular among Cultivators.

Unfortunately, the difficulty of producing Spirit Wine is high and the yield is scarce, leading to Spirit Wine always being in a state of short supply; even if one has Spirit Stones, one might not be able to buy it.

Once the Wine Insect is successfully refined, relying on the power of the Wine Insect, one can transform ordinary wine into Spirit Wine.

This is equivalent to evolving worthless wine into Spirit Wine worth dozens of Low-grade Spirit Stones; this is simply an overnight windfall, equivalent to a money-printing machine.

In fact, Zhou Sui had also wanted to refine the Wine Insect at the first opportunity to earn a large amount of Spirit Stones.

However, he also knew that if he really did that, even if Miyun City were incredibly safe, he would die an unnatural death the next day, assassinated by other Cultivators to snatch the Spirit Stones.

After all, the reason Cultivators don't make a move is simply because the profit isn't large enough.

If the profit were truly large enough, then after killing him, the other party could escape Miyun City at any time.

Even if pursued by Miyun City, they could just not come to Miyun City in the future.

With a large amount of Spirit Stones, the world is vast; where can one not go?

Therefore, he didn't dare to refine the Wine Insect at all.

But now it is different; with a Qi Refining Ninth Layer Dao Companion backing him, even if he earns a large amount of Spirit Stones, he can easily protect this huge wealth without worrying about the covetousness of others.

"Wine Snake Grass? Of course I have it. This is one of the materials for refining Spirit Wine, but a portion of Wine Snake Grass costs one hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones. Do you want to buy it?"

Shopkeeper Zhao said.

"One hundred Low-grade Spirit Stones? How can it be so expensive? It was clearly only seventy Low-grade Spirit Stones last month?"

Zhou Sui frowned; he was no sucker and naturally wouldn't buy overly expensive Spirit Medicine.

Was this Shopkeeper Zhao seeing that he was easy to bully and thus raising the price on the spot?!

"Little Zhou, I am not trying to cheat you."

Shopkeeper Zhao explained: "You might not know yet, but recently the prices of pills, Talismans, Spirit Medicine, and so on in Miyun City are all rising. Perhaps in a while, the prices will be even more expensive."

"What do you mean?"

Hearing this, Zhou Sui was stunned, because the prices in Miyun City had always been very stable, and rarely would there be huge fluctuations.

But now such a change had actually occurred; could it be that something had happened in Miyun City?

"Could it be that you don't know yet? This matter has long been the talk of the town."

Shopkeeper Zhao said in a deep voice: "Recently, the Xianxia Sect discovered a Red Gold Mine in the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, as well as a Spirit Stone Mine, with a yield exceeding one hundred thousand tons. Now the entire Xianxia Sect is going crazy.

In order to develop this mine, the Xianxia Sect has already dispatched a large number of personnel to arrive at the Cloud Mist Mountain Range, and following the Xianxia Sect are many Cultivator families who have also swarmed over.

After all, the terrain of the Cloud Mist Mountain Range is complex, shrouded in clouds and mist all day long, and there are many Monster Beasts, so the difficulty of development is very high. Therefore, the Xianxia Sect invited a large number of Cultivators to develop it together.

It is precisely because of this that a large number of outside Cultivators have flooded into our Miyun City during this period. Haven't you noticed that the public security in Miyun City has become much worse recently? Things like killing people and seizing treasures happen at every turn.

If it were the Miyun City of before, it would have been impossible for such things to happen, but because there are simply too many outside Cultivators, the Law Enforcement Team of Miyun City simply cannot manage it all.

Of course, even if the Law Enforcement Team wanted to manage it, they have no way to do so. After all, these outside Cultivators are all fierce and ruthless, and some even have Foundation Establishment families as their backers. The Law Enforcement Team can only turn a blind eye to these illegal activities."

What?!

Upon hearing these words, Zhou Sui was very surprised; he had not expected that in just a month's time, such changes could have occurred in Miyun City.

This month, he had basically been immersed in a bed of pleasure, staying in his own home the entire time, paying no mind to the things happening in the outside world.

He had not expected that in a mere month, such great chaos would appear in Miyun City.

No wonder he had constantly felt that there were many more Cultivators on the streets, each of them permeated with a baleful aura.

(End of this chapter)