After 100 years of leatherworking, I have become a giant in the magic sect.

Chapter 85. Chaoli County, Master Li (84K words - please subscribe)
A few months later, in autumn
Song Yan also began to wander around the deep mountains, occasionally relying on conversations with villagers in some small villages to learn about the situation outside.

He also learned a lot about the Crimson Palace through Grandma Fox.

Mainly the source of "blood".

Killing someone, even if it is a cultivator in the Crimson Palace Realm, is impossible to obtain the essence and blood in his body.

What Grandma Fox provided him was only the "multi-tailed fox essence blood" of her own race.

However, Song Yan had no plans to place the "multi-tailed fox blood" in the "left and right palaces" for the time being.

Firstly, he learned from Grandma Fox about the "importance of essence and blood combination". A good combination can give oneself a "crushing advantage" in battles with opponents of the same level.

Secondly, once the "multi-tailed fox blood essence" is placed in the left and right palaces, the power it can exert will be only 60% to 70% of the original, and the "three tails" will probably become "two tails".

Thirdly, after becoming a ghost, Grandma Fox told him a lot of things. One of them was that the "essence and blood of the central palace" could be further purified. The way to purify it was to absorb blood of the same kind, but the number of purification times was limited, usually in the single digits. Some people only had three or four times, while others had eight or nine times, and so on.

Before, she had released the fox cubs because she wanted to raise some powerful fox cubs through the Gu, and then let it eat them to purify the blood. As for the ability to "give birth to fox cubs", it was the blood of its other palace - "Pig Queen Ant". The characteristics of this blood are simply "eating human flesh and giving birth to babies".

Since the "Central Palace Essence Blood" can be purified, Song Yan naturally had a glimmer of hope in his heart: by killing the multi-tailed fox tribe, absorbing their blood, and purifying the blood, he would be able to turn the "three tails" into "seven tails".

As for why it is Nanao?
That’s because in Grandma Fox’s impression, the strongest of the “multi-tailed fox clan” is the seven-tailed one.

Kyuubi?

That is the last digit in the legend.

Today, leaves are falling and the autumn rain is bleak.

Song Yan was patrolling casually along the mountain as usual.

However, the mountain village is isolated from information, and the farthest place some villagers have ever been to in their lives is even a nearby small county. To them, monks are still regarded as illusory gods and stories from far away.

Even here, Song Yan couldn't find any useful information.

Through Grandma Fox, he also learned the origin of the "blood of the tiger clan".

In short, the Shanhai Demon Kingdom is more of an alliance of demon tribes than a country.

The "Tiger King Tribe" originally ruled over the "Multi-tailed Fox Tribe" and the "Corpse-eating Wolf Tribe".

However, the fox and wolf tribes had been plotting for a long time. After the tiger tribe was injured, they suddenly launched an attack, intending to wipe out the tiger tribe and devour its essence and blood.

They succeeded and they failed.

The reason for their success was that they actually wiped out the "tiger clan".

The reason for their failure was that they were not able to swallow the essence and blood of the "Tiger King Clan".

The great demon king of the tiger clan "destroyed himself" with his entire clan.

Only one little kid left.
The cub had no essence or blood, so he was raised in the fox clan, ready to be killed when he grew up. At that time, whoever got the essence and blood and who got the blood would be determined by the fox clan demon king.

Grandma Fox was not guarding the cub, but she unexpectedly found an opportunity and ran away with the cub of the "Tiger King Clan".

Then, because the little tiger hated the fox and wolf tribes, when it saw Song Yan, a stranger human, appear in front of it, it took the initiative to give him its essence and blood.

That's how it is.

Grandma Fox was planning to use the ancient teleportation array to escape.

But it didn't know where the ancient teleportation array led to, and it couldn't even be sure that "the teleportation array would not lead to the Mountain and Sea Monster Kingdom."

Isn't this nonsense?
Song Yan had made up his mind that he would not gamble his life with the teleportation array unless there was no hope.

As he was thinking, his eyes suddenly shifted to a certain place.

He had walked this mountain road many times, and today, a dead body appeared on the slope not far away.

The male corpse was fat and plain-looking, his clothes were stripped, and there was a deep wound on his chest, and the blood had almost drained out.
Song Yan quickly rushed over, raised his finger and searched the soul quickly.

When a person dies, his soul remains for seven days.

Looking at the appearance of this fresh corpse, there must be some memory.

Fragments of memory flashed by.

Song Yan probably understood.

The man's name is Li Fusheng, and he is a businessman from the north.

Now the north is in chaos, Jin has completely swallowed up Wei, and in the name of "pleasing the immortal sects and slaying demons and monsters", he has been collecting money and women everywhere, making the people miserable.
Li Fusheng then took away his family property and fled south with his wife and loyal servants.

When they ran to this place, the loyal servant said he knew a shortcut to a safe city. Li Fusheng listened to him.

As a result, when they reached the wilderness, the loyal servant killed his master with a knife, took his money, stripped off his clothes, and ran away with his mistress.

Song Yan thought for a moment.

He didn't care about money, but from Li Fusheng's information, he knew that "the fox and wolf tribes should not have come yet", because the fox lady chose the perfect time to steal the tiger cub, and it was estimated that the fox demon who was guarding the tiger cub was still keeping this in mind and was frantically looking for the tiger cub, so it hadn't been completely exposed yet.
On the other hand, Li Fusheng’s luggage contained authentic household registration certificates and customs clearance documents.

Considering that Li Fusheng also looks ordinary and has no special features.
Song Yan had an idea in mind.

It was not a good idea to stay in the deep mountains and forests all the time. Before the fox and wolf tribes came to find him, he would get an identity and settle down in the mortal town, and then make plans.

He quickly buried Li Fusheng, then released his spiritual sense and swept the surroundings, leaving traces of running around, and then chased after him.

After a while.
A ghost appeared on the black spots on Song Yan's back, and then disappeared, as if it had sunk into the "water".

The servant's body fell to the side, and a young woman with some beauty was crying and begging for mercy.

“I am also trying to survive.

He killed the master, and if I don't obey him, I will die."

"Please spare me. I am willing to do anything, anything."

As she spoke, the woman hurriedly unbuttoned her clothes with one hand, and grabbed Song Yan's hand with the other, wanting to take his hand and touch her chest.
However, Song Yan had already known the truth through searching the servant's soul.

It is nothing more than a story of "the master takes a concubine, the concubine becomes his wife, the wife and servants collude to frame the master."

He paused not because of this, but because he felt that "Grandma Fox's minions and ghosts" were ready to make a move.

The soul at the level of Crimson Palace is different from that of ordinary people and cultivators of Xuan practice. It can possess another body.

Grandma Fox can take over the body of this young woman.

"Master, I want to take it away."

'That won't work.'

"Master, are you still worried that I will harm you?"

"No, you are at the level of Crimson Palace. Even if you can possess someone else's body, you can only do it once." Song Yan responded.

Grandma Fox was ecstatic: "Master, you mean, you want to help me take over the body of a talented Xuan cultivator?"

Song Yan said: "Look for an opportunity."

Grandma Fox suddenly sank again.

Song Yan raised his hand and killed the woman, then skillfully captured her soul and turned her into a ghost.

Afterwards, he changed his clothes and took the customs clearance documents, household registration certificate, etc.
The place Li Fusheng originally wanted to go was a place called Handan City.

It was a city that was poor but far away from disputes.

The place Song Yan planned to go was Chaoli County, a small county south of Handan City.

Before leaving, he took the "Leather Making Experience Notes", "Hundred Aspects Divine Control", "Small Five Elements Silk-Wrapping Hands", and "Painted Skin Requiem Technique" that the Stone Master had given him before, burned them to ashes, and then buried them in a place with beautiful scenery. He also erected a stone tablet with the words "Rest in Peace" written on it.

Grandma Fox has searched the soul of Stone Seat Old Man before, and now it has become Song Yan's lackey. Song Yan naturally has a deeper understanding of that teacher, and knows that his true love for him is genuine, as well as his malicious intentions.

He had only guessed before, but now that it had been confirmed, he was filled with emotion.

At this time, burning the books into powder and burying them underground can be regarded as an alternative cenotaph.

“You are a great teacher”

"You not only taught me magic, but also taught me the unpredictable hearts of the people in this world of cultivation."

"When you shouted 'avenge me' before you died, I'm afraid you didn't shout it for Junior Sister Wang to hear, right?"

"But why can't you see through it? Junior Sister Wang will not avenge you."

"Forget it, your spirit has already flown away. Rest in peace. Be a craftsman in your next life, not a monk."

More than half a month later.
Chaoli County welcomed a Mr. Li.

Mr. Li came from the north and encountered bandits on the way. His wife and servants were all killed.

He built a tomb for his wife, cried bitterly, and then bought a butcher's shop and started raising pigs and slaughtering them.
(End of this chapter)