Witch Wind

Chapter 30: Desperate (Part )

It was almost evening.

Nan Yu walked out of the market staggeringly, carrying a small basket. In the basket were a handful of green vegetables, a handful of beans, a piece of tofu, a grass carp less than a foot long, and a few eggs that were covered with chicken manure and looked very fresh.

The bamboo basket swayed back and forth. Nan Yu grabbed a sour fruit in his right hand and bit it with a grin.

The young master of the Ma family and a few good friends were squatting on the roadside, with greasy hair and powdered faces, holding small bowls in their hands and sipping iced green bean paste with a "slurp" sound.

Young Master Ma stared at the road leading to the vegetable market with a pair of little bitch eyes. When he saw Nan Yu coming, he stood up quickly and greeted her with a smile: "Xiao Yu, would you like some mung bean soup? There are people handing out free mung bean soup over there, saying it's for the benefit of our sick young master."

Nan Yu rolled her eyes beautifully, snorted softly, and took a bite of the sour fruit with a "crunch". She slurped her saliva because of the sourness, which made Master Ma and several of his playmates grin.

After finally chewing the fruit and swallowing it, Nan Yu lazily said, "Things on the roadside are dirty. Who would dare to eat them?"

"Oh, it's clean, how can it not be clean?" Young Master Ma hurriedly raised the small ceramic bowl in his hand and said, "Boss Lei's Thirteenth Concubine, the two-year-old young master fell ill, so she spent a lot of money to make mung bean paste. According to the advice of the Feng Shui master, she distributed the mung bean paste in several places in the city."

"Our Shan De Fang is a Feng Shui treasure land, right at the heart of a fortune, that's why we can have this free green bean soup!"

"Boss Lei's Thirteenth Concubine, how could the things she made not be clean?"

Nan Yu frowned slightly.

Young Master Ma smiled brightly: "We are not greedy for such a small advantage. Who can't afford a bowl of sugar water? We are also praying for the son of Boss Lei!"

Young Master Ma reached out to pull Nan Yu's sleeve.

Nan Yu was a little hesitant, and was pulled by Master Ma to an exit south of Shan De Fang. There was indeed a stall here, with several large clay pots with interlayers, filled with cold green bean paste. Many neighbors from Shan De Fang had already gathered around, eating happily with small ceramic bowls.

Some people ate three or five bowls and still felt it was not enough, so they kept ordering more.

Behind the stall, a sturdy man in a tight-fitting short shirt, dressed like a servant, was knocking on a clay pot and smiling brightly: "If it's not enough, just come back and add more. It's enough for everyone. If there are any utensils, take them back for your family to try. It will bring blessings to our young master. Thank you, neighbors!"

Surrounded by a few green-faced boys, Nan Yu shyly came forward, took the bowl of mung bean soup, and started eating it in small bites.

As the sky gradually darkened, most families in Shan De Fang started cooking, and the smell of smoke filled the air.

Some people with a good income or bachelors who are too lazy to cook would place orders at small shops outside for a long time. When the time came, the shop assistants would naturally carry food boxes and deliver various set lunch boxes to the neighborhood. Sometimes, a shop assistant would carry seven or eight food boxes and shuttle through the streets full of miscellaneous items with great difficulty.

After Xing Tianli shook off the group of missionaries, he ran to two more places and returned to Shan De Fang when it was almost dark.

He looked around warily for a while before entering the neighborhood.

Playing with a gold coin that he exchanged at the Republic Bank of Farus in the afternoon, Xing Tianli's palm was filled with bronze divine light, and the small gold coin was shrinking bit by bit. As he walked, he thought that he couldn't let his tenants stay. For safety reasons, he should find a way to get them to move out in two days.

How about even compensating them a little bit of rent?

It's better than being suddenly attacked and chased by someone, which would implicate them.

If he was blocked in the small building, Xing Tianli was confident that he could escape safely.

But these tenants don’t have his abilities, who knows what will happen!

After returning to the door of his small building, Xing Tianli looked around again. It was quiet and safe. With the power of his soul released, the small building was also peaceful.

Among the college students in the basement, two were reading miscellaneous books seriously, and the others gathered at four tables and played mahjong.

On the second floor, the Ma family, a father, a mother and two brothers gathered together to denounce their 13-year-old sister who was in a premature relationship.

The Nanyu family on the third floor was peaceful and harmonious. It was clear that they had just finished dinner. Professor Nan was writing in the study, Mrs. Nan was painting in the studio, and Nan Yu was eating sour fruits and playing the piano in the piano room.

Xing Tianli stood in front of the door of the small building for a long time.

The college students in the basement, their lives were the ones he once had.

He also once enjoyed the Ma family's household chores on the second floor.

The peace and happiness on the third floor was what Xing Tianli had dreamed of in his previous life, but his dream was aborted. Xing Tianli smacked his lips, looked up at the sky, and murmured to himself: "If I in my previous life ran to you and told you that you gave up a fairy who could sweep everything away, would you regret it?"

"Ah, you lick dog!"

"Thank you, I wish you happiness in your hometown... If you hadn't wanted to break up, I wouldn't have gone to Huangshan in the rain to get the last chance on Earth at the end of the Dharma." Xing Tianli sighed softly, and bowed gently towards the sky, towards someone who was nowhere to be seen.

With his mind focused and his heart calm, Xing Tianli entered the wonderland of a peaceful ancient well. He walked into the small building quietly without disturbing anyone and went straight to the rooftop terrace. Standing on the terrace, he looked around for a while, nodded with satisfaction, and turned to go into the attic.

After opening the huge safe and looking at the many items inside, Xing Tianli pondered for a while, and placed the copper and iron blocks he had exchanged in the afternoon on the purple ribbon Taoist robe. He muttered a spell, and his hands kept forming seals. Every time he uttered a spell, a little blood was imprinted on the purple ribbon Taoist robe.

The entire Taoist robe glowed dimly, and the heavy iron and copper blocks quickly melted away and were continuously swallowed by the Taoist robe. Under the enlightenment of Xing Tianli's essence and blood, part of it turned into 'innate derived primordial qi' and merged into the Taoist robe, and part of it was tempered into the essence of five metals and merged into the Taoist robe itself.

The purple ribbon Taoist robe is made up of 108 pieces of bamboo shoot shells. After the robe was formed, Xing Tianli discovered that the robe contained 108 space germs. Each space germ can grow into a small space with infinite uses.

However, in the Dharma-Ending Age, people are poor and destitute.

If this purple ribbon Taoist robe wants to grow, it must, like Xingtian Carp itself and Tongtian Miaozhu, devour a large amount of 'Primordial Qi', and it also needs Xingtian Carp's own essence and blood to assist in smelting.

When in Xiaolongqiu Town, supplies were scarce, and Xing Tianli could only barely open a germ, and a small space of three feet square grew out of his left sleeve.

Once you arrive in Pinghai City, as long as you have enough gold coins, you can get whatever you want.
When Xing Tianli was outside during the day, he opened five more embryos and opened five small spaces again. He also purchased a large number of copper and iron blocks in the market to fill the five small spaces.

The cauldron in the heart glowed with light, and Xing Tianli did not hesitate to consume his blood and essence. With the help of the materials purchased today, he opened thirty more space embryos in just a quarter of an hour. A total of thirty-six small spaces were evenly distributed throughout the purple ribbon Taoist robe, which not only provided enough storage space, but also made the defense of the entire purple ribbon Taoist robe several times stronger.

Xing Tianli, whose face was slightly pale, took a breath, stood up, clenched a handful of gold coins in both hands, and silently practiced the fundamental method of "A Stick of Incense in the Furnace of Heaven and Earth". The cauldron shook, and strands of golden light were swallowed by his body. In an instant, they were transformed into strands of primordial Qi, which were extracted and reversed by the cauldron.

I was sweating all over and the heat was rising.

With a low roar, the cauldron in the heart roared again and slightly expanded. Especially the golden light in the cauldron, which also became two circles thicker from the thickness of a mung bean and reached a length of nearly an inch.

The pure energy rises and merges into the spirit and soul.

The turbid air sinks and brands the body.

The harmonious energy swirled in his internal organs and limbs, and gradually merged into the golden light in the cauldron. Then his whole body felt light, with a fragrance floating in his nose and a breeze flowing around him. Xing Tianli's muscles rose and fell, and his body rose slightly.

Make a fist with your right hand and lightly punch the air.

With a crisp "pop" sound, the air was hammered to pieces and a ball of white gas flashed out.

Xing Tianli only felt waves of warmth in his bone marrow, old blood plasma was constantly burning, and new blood essence was growing. His chest was hot, and the image of the arm tightly holding the beast-faced square shield became clearer, and the arm became more complete, with half of the muscular shoulder exposed.

"In terms of pure physical strength, I'm afraid it's about 7,000 to 8,000 kilograms. A normal person would be punched through by one punch." Xing Tianli muttered in a low voice: "But, it's far from the limit of my bloodline in this life."

The Primitive Witch Scripture shone with a chaotic light, unfolding slowly on the Lingtai Purple Mansion. Various visions bloomed like fireworks, and the magnificent scenes of the terrifying ancient witches and primitive witch gods picking stars and moons, carrying mountains and rushing to the sea made Xing Tianli tremble all over, but he was also yearning for it.

If I had such a terrifying body, magic power, etc...

Well, mana is still very important.

Xing Tianli reminded himself that magic power was still very important, and a simple muscle mass would not get him far!

"The cultivation of life and death is the fundamental!"

After working in the attic for a while, Xing Tianli finally completed his practice. He walked to the safe and sorted the many items in the safe into different categories and put them into the thirty-six spaces of the Purple Ribbon Taoist Robe.

Just as I finished cleaning up, a bright moon rose two poles high outside the dormer window.

The moon in this world is too bright, and it seems to overshadow the main attraction. At night, as long as the moon phase is good enough, the moonlight will be as bright as during the day, except that the tone is a little colder.

In the distance, children were running and playing in the moonlight, and the roars of dogs fighting each other could be heard.

Suddenly, the sound of a foreign woman and a man quarreling and cursing could be heard. Gradually, the sound spread, and at least four or five people were involved in the dispute. The chicken coop and dog kennel were overturned, and the sound of chickens and dogs jumping around and the old man scolding could be heard one after another.

Xing Tianli frowned and locked the safe doors one by one.

In the distance, there was a faint sound of silver bells. Then, the entire Shan De Fang suddenly became quiet. It was as if an unpredictable powerful person stretched out his palm and sucked out the air in the entire Shan De Fang. All the sound waves disappeared instantly.

The sound of children laughing.

The dog is barking.

Men and women were shouting and swearing at each other.

The old man shouted angrily.

The sounds of other insects chirping, and even the sound of the pine branches swaying beside the small building in the wind, all disappeared.

Xing Tianli's face suddenly changed, and he brought up a breeze and arrived at the attic door. He suddenly opened the heavy iron door and rushed to the terrace.

With his hand on the fence and looking into the distance, Xing Tianli's heart sank suddenly - he saw that hundreds of residents of Shan De Fang, both near and far, regardless of gender, age or young, and even some chickens and dogs, were all staring at the direction of the small building.

Silently, with strange smiles on their faces, their straight eyes flashed with strange light. Under the moonlight, the eyes of these people, as well as those of the dogs and poultry, emitted a faint green light.

The faint sound of silver bells gradually approached.

From the inner road entrances of several rows of buildings, Saint Norman soldiers in iron-gray uniforms appeared. There were also burly men in dark clothes who stood in the shadows of the rows of buildings, staring at this side furtively.

Dozens of missionaries in robes lined up in two rows and turned in from a road.

Walking in front was a middle-aged man wearing a white robe with three silver lines on his cuffs.

A white robe with silver cuffs is the symbol of the parish priest of Our Lady Church, or the archdeacon. The old priest who had caused so much trouble in Xiaolongqiu Town before was just an ordinary priest in a black robe, a mere lower-middle-level clergyman.

Apart from other things, the silver bell gently swung by the man in white robes looked much better than the silver bell in the old priest's hand. The bell was carved with intricate images of the Virgin Mary and inlaid with several large green gems. As he swung it gently, the bell emitted a faint glow that was half a finger thick.

The missionaries stopped about ten feet away from the small building.

The man in the white robe gently rang the bell, walked straight into the house, and went straight into the small building with his head held high. As he walked, he rang the bell, and the college students in the basement, the five members of the Ma family on the second floor, and the three members of the Nan Yu family on the third floor all walked to the stairs, knelt stiffly on the ground like zombies, and worshiped him devoutly.

Xing Tianli exhaled, took two steps to the side, and leaned against the iron door of the attic, eliminating the possibility of being sniped from behind. He faced the small door leading to the terrace and whispered, "You guys are amazing, how did you find me?"

The man in white robe pushed open the small door and walked onto the terrace.

He smiled at Xing Tianli and said softly, "My Lord's eyes are on you. The moment you stepped into the International Concession, we knew you were coming. Any attempt to escape is useless. On the contrary, it will implicate many people."

Xing Tianli shook his head slightly.

He didn't believe what the charlatan said.

With his celestial-level Yangshen soul - and, after being trapped in Lingtai Zifu for fourteen years, under the 'friendly interaction' of the bronze sword and the boundless chaos around him, his soul is hundreds of times stronger than when he first became a celestial being.

If there was 'someone' staring at him, Xing Tianli didn't believe that he would have no foresight at all.

In this Dharma-Ending Age, you want to manipulate a celestial being into your hands? Hey, can you please have some basic logic?
"I don't believe it!" Xing Tianli smiled and said, "If your Lord has such power, why does he still send out secular soldiers?"

The man in the white robe was silent for a while, then suddenly laughed: "Okay, okay, I admit that we did some tricks. We knew that you came to Pinghai City on Yingjishi's gunboat."

"The police station in the International Concession was established under the leadership of the Kingdom of Saint Norman. The Kingdom of Saint Norman has a deep-rooted and powerful influence in the police station. They can easily monitor the entire concession. No matter where you are, you can't escape their pursuit."

The man in the white robe spread his hands and shook the silver bell gently: "So, you are already very alert, but you are on our territory."

"This is the land of the East Country, not your territory." Xing Tianli corrected the white-robed man.

"Legally, the International Concession is our territory." The man in white robe said easily, "And the entire East Country? Sooner or later it will be our territory. There is no doubt about it."

Xing Tianli dropped the topic: "Why did you go to so much trouble to find me?"

The man in white robe smiled brightly: "Because of the information sent back by Xiaolongqiu Town, you can fight against the powerful warriors who have received the grace of God? This makes us very, very interested!"

He sighed and said, "We expressed our goodwill to you. We even used some of our influence to make you an official in that county. We originally thought that you would take the initiative to throw yourself into the arms of the Virgin Mary because of our goodwill."

"But you let us down."

The man in white robes had a ferocious look on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "You participated in the ambush of my lord's pious servants. So many of my lord's pious servants were brutally killed by you. Our goodwill was severely trampled by you. You must be punished, and it just so happens that some distinguished adults are so interested in you!"

Xing Tianli frowned and said in a deep voice: "I participated in the ambush? You mean..."

The man in the white robe said coldly, "It's no use pretending to be stupid. We have extremely reliable intelligence channels. They told us that you participated in the ambush and killing of the army of the Saint Norman Kingdom and our missionaries outside Xiaolongqiu Town that night."

Xing Tianli frowned.

He was wondering who leaked this information.

In his mind, the image of a sleek Great Dane suddenly flashed. That's right, considering the entire ambush process that night, the only thing that could have revealed that Xing Tianli was involved in the ambush that night could only be this Great Dane.

As for that big black dog who was always swearing, he was from the weaving department, and there was absolutely no reason for him to leak this matter to these damn charlatans!
Xing Tianli pointed at the dead silent neighbors outside and asked: "What did you do?"

The man in white robe looked at Xing Tianli seriously and said softly, "They all drank some of the little dessert given by God. And this is exactly what we will do to those refugees you trafficked to Yingjishi in the future."

"A small-scale human experiment. Can you understand?" The man in white robe smiled brightly. He gently shook the bell, and a dozen college students walked up step by step in a neat line with stiff steps.

(End of this chapter)