Chapter 119: Preparing Mu Hun Ye

"Alright." Immediately, Su Jian and Liu Pingping both contacted the Patrol Bureau.

Soon Su Huchen brought a few people, swiftly riding flying swords over.

They drifted lightly down beside Su Jian and Liu Pingping.

"What's going on? Who's dead?" Su Huchen's forehead was sweating with worry. Su Huchen thought to himself, please don't let it be Su Jin, the contract master of the Blood Xue Chiluo.

"There's a little boy dead over there." Su Jian pointed at the little boy's corpse. "It was my family's little Su Jin who discovered him. When she first found him, the child didn't seem to be dead yet."

"Su Jin, you're the one who found that little boy. Can you tell your uncles what happened when you discovered him?" Su Huchen asked again.

Su Jin nodded, and repeated to Su Huchen what she had already told her big brother and Liu Shi.

"What kind of bug?" Su Huchen walked over, and had Su Hanlin put the white caterpillar into a small transparent box. "Su Jin, do you know what kind of bug this is?"

Su Jin shook her head. This kind of white caterpillar was also her first time seeing one.

Su Huchen's brows knit tight. He suddenly sent a voice transmission to Su Jian: "Are you sure your family's little Su Jin didn't bring the Blood Xue Chiluo when she went out?"

The corner of Su Jian's mouth twitched, and he directly replied via voice transmission: "My family's Su Jin never brings the Blood Xue Chiluo to school. Besides, if the Blood Xue Chiluo were here, do you think you'd still be able to take away an intact bug corpse? It wouldn't leave you even a single scrap."

Su Huchen pinched his forehead after hearing that.

He really had been thinking along the wrong lines.

The thing that killed the white caterpillar couldn't possibly be the Blood Xue Chiluo.

But then what exactly was the thing that killed the caterpillar?

The cut on it is way too perfectly smooth, isn't it?

Even if I took a knife and hacked at the bug, I couldn't produce such a smooth, perfectly divided cross-section.

And this bug that can burrow out of a human brain is also a bit strange.

After recording the situation here, the Patrol Bureau people took the little boy's corpse back. This matter still needed further investigation. At the very least, they had to figure out what the little boy's name was and where he was from.

In the end, only Liu Shi, Su Jian, and Su Jin remained.

Looking at Su Jin's pale little face, Liu Shi said with a headache: "How about Su Jin takes a day off? Come back to school tomorrow, alright?"

Su Jian answered on Su Jin's behalf: "Alright, then I'll carry her back. She's probably been frightened; I'll take good care of her."

Liu Shi nodded.

Then the group parted ways—Liu Shi returned to the clan school, and Su Jian carried Su Jin back to rest.

"Don't be afraid. In the future, the probability of you running into anything this strange is less than one in ten thousand. This is clan territory after all—very safe." Su Jian soothed Su Jin.

Su Jin: "……"

Su Jian carried Su Jin along in silence.

After quite a while, Su Jin finally said: "Big Brother, I'm not afraid. I want to become even stronger in the future. No matter what kind of crisis I run into, I'll be able to survive."

"Right, that's the right way to think. That's exactly what Big Brother hopes for in you." Su Jian said happily. "When we get home today, I'll have your sister-in-law make some extra good food. We'll rest up properly for a day."

"Alright then. I'll relax once in a while too—no cultivation today. Oh, right, since I'm resting today, how about Big Brother takes me to buy some medicinal ingredients? I want to prepare a bit more Bing Chen Lu and Mu Hun Ye." Su Jin suggested.

Su Jin thought to herself, sharpening the knife doesn't delay the work of chopping wood.

Don't think I'm not cultivating today, but if I can prepare Mu Hun Ye, it won't be a loss. Once it settles in three days, a small bowl should help me break through to the third layer of Qi Refining with ease.

"What is Mu Hun Ye?" Su Jian asked.

"Mu Hun Ye is a kind of spiritual liquid suited for wood-attribute cultivators to simultaneously accumulate Qi Refining and Spirit Refining progress. The recipe was left behind by my mother." Su Jin explained.

"Sounds pretty good. Alright, let's head to the medicine shop first, buy the ingredients, and then go home." Su Jian said.

The two siblings, laden with parcels large and small of medicinal ingredients, returned home.

They gave their sister-in-law Liu Yunniang quite a fright.

"What's going on? Su Jian, how could you take your little sister and skip school? If your uncle finds out, he'll skin you alive."

"How could I possibly take my little sister to skip school? Besides, is the clan school that easy to skip out of?" Su Jian immediately retorted.

"Then what's going on? Out with it, I'm dying of worry here." Liu Yunniang punched him.

Seeing his wife getting worked up, Su Jian quickly composed himself and told her in earnest everything Su Jin had encountered on the way to school.

"This newly appeared bug can not only eat brains, but can also keep its host looking just like a living person without leaving the host. This kind of bug is definitely not simple. Remember those protective headwear artifacts your uncle left for us?

Go dig them out—our whole family has to wear them.

I'll send one over to Su Hua later."

"That's too scary—our Su Jin is only six years old." Liu Yunniang immediately understood why Su Jian had brought Su Jin back.

Su Jin had been frightened.

"I'll go find a packet of calming medicine and brew a bowl for Su Jin. Su Jin, drink a bowl first, then sleep a bit. After you wake up, we'll do the spiritual dew preparation—alright?"

"Alright." Su Jin thought it over and agreed.

If she didn't drink the calming medicine, Big Brother wouldn't feel at ease either.

Sister-in-law hurriedly went to find the protective artifacts.

Soon, even Su Xiaohe was wearing a headband similar to a forehead wrap. The center of the headband was inlaid with three gems—one silver-white, the largest; one emerald-green gem on each side.

Su Xiaohe's, Su Jin's, and Su Jian's headbands were all the same style—even the gems were identical.

Sister-in-law Liu Yunniang's headband, however, had the emerald-green gems replaced with aquamarine-blue ones.

Su Jian watched Su Jin drink the brewed calming medicine, waited until she settled down to sleep, had his wife keep watching, and went off himself to deliver the headband to Su Hua.

This time when Su Jin fell asleep, she slept a full day.

In between, her body occasionally twitched, as if startled by something in a dream. But it seemed to settle down again quickly.

Without Su Jian and his wife noticing, a strange, mysterious blue spiritual light churned within her Sea of Consciousness.

Su Jin woke up in the afternoon.

Not only had her vitality and spirit fully recovered, but her soul power had also mysteriously grown by another small stretch. Her soul power had become over two hundred and eighty threads. She had a premonition that once her soul threads reached six hundred, she should be able to break through to the fourth layer of Spirit Refining.

So the limit of her first layer of Spirit Refining is one hundred and twenty soul threads, and the limit of her second layer of Spirit Refining is two hundred and forty soul threads.

But the limit of the third layer of Spirit Refinement is six hundred soul threads?

It seemed her soul-force capacity limit was somehow different from other people's!?

"Su Jin, are you really all right now? Do you need to drink another bowl of the Calming-Spirit Decoction?" Su Jian, seeing that her vitality and spirit had all recovered and her little face had once again turned rosy, immediately asked. Su Jin directly shook her little head like a rattle-drum.

"I don't need to take the Calming-Spirit Decoction anymore, really, I'm all better now."