Hide in the world of gods and demons

Chapter 124 The Descent of the Golden Core
The prey was skewered on wooden sticks, and under the lick of the flames, the meat quickly turned golden brown, overflowing with oil and emitting a fragrant aroma.

In this desolate wilderness, under a sky full of stars, a group of people sat on the ground, enjoying the gentle summer breeze and eating freshly roasted wild game. If the time and place were different, it would certainly be quite a rustic experience.

Unfortunately, no one was in the mood for it.

"Everyone be careful, someone's coming!" Zhang Yan warned, his face tense. "Shuniang, stand behind me."

“Father, Uncle is here,” Zhang Shuniang said.

Wang Qing had just picked up the child when she heard this and looked at Chen Li: "Fellow Daoist Chen, are you alright?"

Chen Li put down the beast leg he had mostly eaten, looked up, and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine!"

It wasn't just one person, but a group of more than ten people, each with their faces covered, chatting and laughing as they approached. Although they were well disguised, the tension they inadvertently revealed still betrayed their ill intentions.

Chen Li, too lazy to waste words, raised his hand and his palm suddenly lit up.

"Snapped!"

There was a loud bang.

A bolt of lightning instantly traveled thirty or forty meters, striking the group in front of them and unleashing a blinding burst of light.

"Get out!" Chen Li shouted angrily.

The crowd was startled and immediately stopped in their tracks. The next moment, various defensive talismans lit up rapidly, and they cursed incessantly. The leader of the rogue cultivators slapped on a golden protective talisman, feeling more confident, and cupped his hands in a smile, saying, "Fellow Daoist, you have really misunderstood. We have been waiting here for this time... Ah!"

He had only spoken halfway when it turned into a short, painful scream.

A blinding bolt of lightning instantly shattered his golden protective shield, and the residual power of the lightning struck him, turning his body into charred remains.

The atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"Get out!" Chen Li shouted angrily again.

The crowd turned pale with fright, and when they came to their senses, they scattered in all directions.

"Some people just won't listen no matter how nicely you talk to them," Chen Li said helplessly to Zhang Yan.

Sigh, he didn't want to kill anyone, he was forced into it by the world.

"Hehe, yes! Isn't that right?" Zhang Yan chuckled dryly in agreement. He wanted to ask what advanced technique was used just now, since it was so similar to the Palm Thunder, but he swallowed the words back down.

"The uncle did the right thing! These are all bad people, and bad people should be killed!" shouted the little kid next to him, his eyes shining.

Wang Qing gritted her teeth and felt an itch in her palms. If the occasion weren't so inappropriate, she would have spanked him.

"That brat!" Chen Li laughed as he stood up and said to Zhou Hong, "I'm going to check on the body."

Zhou Hong responded, "Be careful!"

Chen Li nodded and walked all the way to the charred corpse.

The max-level Palm Lightning is comparable to an eighth-level spell, and is on par with the Golden Light Amulet. However, even though they are on the same level, there is obviously a difference in strength. The Golden Light Amulet was shattered by the Palm Lightning in one strike.

He first stabbed the corpse again, then examined it.

Take away his storage bag and magical artifacts.

It has to be said that murder and arson bring wealth and honor. On this day alone, he amassed six storage bags and more than a dozen bulging bundles. Although he hadn't counted them, the contents were clearly substantial.

This time, the rogue cultivators practically looted the entire city of Luanluo, acquiring immeasurable wealth.

Anyone who participates in the looting and survives will become rich overnight.

……

The whole night was incredibly chaotic.

The crowd was like hyenas searching for food, coming and going, leaving behind one or two corpses each time.

The screams and roars from afar rose and fell, never ceasing.

Until dawn.

It gradually subsided.

The sun rises, and a new day begins.

Chen Li came to a nearby hillside and looked out. The entire wilderness was littered with corpses lying everywhere. As for the shantytown in the distance, thick smoke was billowing out. He had no idea what had happened.
……

With the fall of the Longevity Sect, this region ushered in the era of the True Nature Sect.

Not long after dawn, with the arrival of a group of Zhen Huan Sect members, order was finally restored. By the time Chen Li and his group returned to the shantytown, the fire had been extinguished, and the entire shantytown was devastated.

I encountered a group of corpse collectors on the road.

Several wheelbarrows were piled high with corpses.

“Isn’t this… Manager Liu?” Zhang Yan, with his sharp eyes, pointed to a corpse on the wheelbarrow and said.

Chen Li looked at the gray-haired corpse on the wheelbarrow and found that it was indeed him. The corpse's eyes were wide open in anger, the tip of its tongue was sticking out, its face was swollen and bluish-purple, and there were rope marks on its neck. This was obviously not a murder.

Instead, he hanged himself.

Recalling his recent erratic behavior, he couldn't help but sigh.

"Manager Liu, who are you calling Manager Liu? You're just a remnant of the Longevity Sect. Call me that again and I'll slap you." One of the corpse-collecting team members, with sharp ears, chuckled.

Zhang Yan looked embarrassed and dared not speak.

Once they were far away from the corpse-collecting team, Zhang Yan said angrily, "They're really just bullies relying on their master's power."

Zhang Shuniang quickly tugged at Zhang Yan's sleeve: "Father, don't say anything, be careful someone hears us."

"I heard you, so I heard you," Zhang Yan said, his voice noticeably softer.

With Zhang Yan's foul mouth, it's no wonder he kept getting beaten up.

Chen Li thought to himself, "I'm so annoyed."

Soon the group arrived at their doorstep.

"We owe a great debt to Fellow Daoist Chen. Otherwise, my son and I would not know how to get through this ordeal," Wang Qing said gratefully.

“We’re all neighbors, we should help each other out. It’s too formal to say that. Go back and see if anything is missing from your home,” Chen Li said with a smile.

After chatting for a few minutes, everyone went home.

The front door of the house was broken open, and the inside was ransacked. Chen Li and Zhou Hong then cleaned up the house, not to mention repairing the front door.

Having lived in this world for many years, Chen Li has been forced to become multi-talented.

……

After a busy morning, Chen Li finally had time to take stock of his achievements in the afternoon.

In the underground quiet room, goods were piled up like mountains.

The room was filled with all sorts of magical implements, robes, spirit stones, and herbs, almost filling one corner of the meditation room.

Chen Li sorted and categorized the various goods carefully.

8 storage bags.

There are seven one-sided storage bags and one three-sided storage bag.

There are 108 ritual implements, including eight top-grade ones.

There are 58 sets of robes, including four top-quality robes.

The spirit stones, converted to mid-grade spirit stones, total 325.

In addition, there are various talismans, elixirs, herbs, and refining materials, a dazzling array of items.

Chen Li even saw a demon core.

It was slightly larger than the one in his hand.

Because there were too many items and he didn't recognize many of them, Chen Li only roughly estimated the value of the ones he could identify. Even so, the total value exceeded two thousand mid-grade spirit stones.

"hiss!"

He was taken aback by the numbers he had estimated.

"These things are not easy to sell for the time being; we need to wait a while before selling them in batches," Chen Li thought to himself.

Don't even think about it.

In the days to come, prices for all kinds of goods will certainly remain low for a long time.

"This is a great opportunity to buy at the bottom, a once-in-a-lifetime chance. Once things stabilize, there won't be such a good opportunity again." Chen Li couldn't help but feel tempted. He then put everything into his Five Directions Storage Bag and prepared to go outside to check the trading situation.

He walked out of the basement and informed Zhou Hong.

He then went out and arrived at the market for wandering monks.

Sure enough, the place was incredibly lively, bustling with people, shoulder to shoulder, just like a festival.

Previously, only mundane items were traded here, but now all sorts of magical artifacts, elixirs, and talismans are openly displayed and sold on the stalls. However, after looking around, Chen Li found that only low-grade items were being sold. He then went to the trading market in Luanluo City and found the same thing.

"Those who are eager to sell today are probably down-on-their-luck rogue cultivators who are short of money. Those who have extra money are probably thinking of holding onto it for a while before making a move," Chen Li thought to himself.

Fortunately, he wasn't in a hurry.

Take it easy.

Value investing is all about patience.

Keep your composure.

……

Do you know how much we reaped this time?

That night, after several attempts, things got messy.

afterwards.

Chen Li held Zhou Hong in his arms as they lay on the bed, whispering intimate words.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Hong struggled to sit up and asked curiously, "How much?"

"It's worth about two thousand mid-grade spirit stones."

Zhou Hong was dumbfounded: "How can there be so many?"

"That's exactly how many there are!" Chen Li chuckled. "Those people were desperately looting and killing each other, but it all came to me."

“You took a bit of a risk yesterday. Watching you fight, I was on tenterhooks the whole time, afraid that something might go wrong!” Zhou Hong lay down beside her and whispered.

"This time, I didn't take action for money, but because the Yu family had done me a favor and I had to help them. Actually, before I take action, I always have a clear understanding of the situation and I only do so when I am confident. It's not as dangerous as I imagined."

Chen thought for a moment and said, "You don't know this, do you? Two years ago, on the way to our migration, if it weren't for the Yu family patriarch scaring away a terrifying evil spirit, I would probably be dead by now. It's no exaggeration to say that I was saved."

"Ah!" Zhou Hong was shocked, then felt a wave of fear: "You never told me this before."

"That's all in the past, why bring it up! It's just a pity that the Yu family was almost wiped out this time, and the fate of the Yu family patriarch is unknown, but he's most likely dead..."

Zhou Hong hugged Chen Li tightly: "I don't care about anyone else, as long as we're safe and sound."

"How difficult it is to find peace! Even someone as strong as a Foundation Establishment cultivator can die at any moment," Chen Li sighed.

Zhou Hong quickly covered his mouth: "You're not allowed to say such unlucky things."

……

The Golden Core Ancestor of the True Sect arrived on the third day.

Chen Li knew this because the other party made no attempt to conceal it. The high-speed escape light and the pressure of the Golden Core clearly announced his arrival. The once bustling shantytown instantly became completely silent.

He felt a nameless fear creeping into his heart as he watched the high-speed beam of light swiftly fly towards the mountaintop.

"So this is the Golden Core? It's a truly terrifying existence!"

I remembered the direction he came from.

It was the very direction from which the Changsheng Sect's flying boat had set off.

Chen Li suddenly realized: "I'm afraid the Longevity Sect and those rebellious forces have been completely quelled. The Longevity Domain... no, it should be called the Realization Domain from now on."

(End of this chapter)