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Chapter 117: Medicine Stone, Ancient River Channel

Cheng Hui whispered:
"You're going to take this convoy with you, right?"

Geng Xuan nodded, it was of course.

Of course he would find a way to take away the spoils that he had spent so much effort to obtain.

Cheng Hui said: "But it's not easy."

Geng Xuan, who was also thinking about this matter, became more interested and said, "Tell me about it."

"Anleji's infiltration into Baiyuanji is very strong. Many people in Baiyuanji are loyal to Anleji and will actively inform them of the situation.

In addition, this place is not far from Anleji, and the convoy can return to Anleji in half a day according to its normal itinerary.

Therefore, no matter how well you conceal it, it will take at least half a day for Anleji to know that something is wrong with the convoy and they will find this place very quickly."

Cheng Hui paused and whispered:
"Many of the traces here are difficult to handle. With the cooperation of those who are interested in Baiyuanji, they can easily find the location of the incident."

Geng Xuan sniffed the strong smell of blood in the air, glanced at the land that was soaked with too much blood, and nodded in approval.

“In such a short time, even if you urge the convoy to travel at full speed, it can only travel two or three hundred miles at most, and the traces will be very obvious.

You are being held back by the convoy. Unless you can abandon the convoy and go alone, Anleji will catch up with you tonight.

If this problem cannot be resolved, even if you try to use Master Feng to distract attention and delay time, it will be in vain."

Cheng Hui stood straight, looking straight ahead.

Hong Quan standing next to him couldn't help but glance at his former colleague.

What's the matter? There are so many ways to survive, but you have to choose the one that takes advantage of your brother?

Geng Xuan, who had been leaning against the car door, sat up and asked, "Do you have a solution?"

Cheng Hui said, "I know a tunnel entrance... It's not in Baiyuanji, but in this wilderness, only about ten miles away from here. The place is very hidden, and I discovered it by accident while I was out hunting.

If you temporarily hide the convoy's supplies there, you'll have enough time to eliminate any traces along the way and set up some deceptive formations. This will be safer than simply driving away."

Geng Xuan asked, "Does that tunnel connect to the underground Baiyuanji?"

"I don't know." Cheng Hui shook his head.

"You do not know?"

"After discovering the tunnel entrance, I went down to explore it twice.

But I came across several forks in the road and turned several times, and I didn’t even know where I was.

I was afraid of getting into someone else's pocket, so I didn't dare to continue exploring, and I sealed the entrance to the tunnel again."

Geng Xuan nodded and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he looked at the third person and asked, "What about you?"

This person is the youngest among the three, and has the smallest and lightest red aura on his head.

After hearing this, his body trembled noticeably, and then he stammered:
"I... my name is Xie Hang. I'm twenty-six this year. I haven't reached the bone refining stage yet. I..."

"A reason to stay alive." Geng Xuan said.

"me……"

Xie Hang's voice was trembling, his body was shaking, and he was so sad that he was about to cry.

But in the end, he just cried, "I...I...I don't know."

"Ok?"

Geng Xuan nodded lightly, and Xie Hang shuddered again.

"I'm sorry, I...I didn't mean it, I really don't know what to say.

I don’t have Captain Hong’s experience, nor Brother Hui’s luck. I… I… I don’t know what to say.”

At the beginning, everyone was prepared to die, and the time was too short, so everyone was still confused and had not yet fully reacted.

There was a sense of anger in my heart that was holding me up. Even if I died, I would still be able to maintain basic decency.

But now, the longer time goes by, the stronger his attachment to life becomes, and Xie Hang becomes more and more frightened and desperate.

Geng Xuan frowned. Originally, as long as this person fooled around a little, the matter would have been over.

But the look on this kid's face now shows that he is determined to crash into his sword!

What's the matter? Will I be embarrassed if I don't kill you today?
"Tell me, how do you know it's not possible if you don't tell me?"

"I...I..." Xie Hang was trembling so much that he couldn't utter a complete sentence, his face was covered with snot and tears.

Geng Xuan's face darkened. He clasped his hands in his arms and watched his performance quietly.

Xie Hang was so frightened that he lost two of his three souls. On the contrary, Hong Quan and Cheng Hui next to him had already vaguely grasped the thoughts of the "evil man" in front of them, so they were very anxious about Xie Hang's poor performance.

If the other party gets upset with Xie Hang, wouldn't they also suffer?

Cheng Hui glanced at Geng Xuan, then leaned towards Xie Hang and whispered:
"Ancestor, I call you Ancestor. Don't whine about it. Just say something. You can say anything!"

"Brother Hui... I want to say something too, but I really don't know what to say... I don't want to die either. You know, if I can't go back, my grandma... wuwu... she..."

Cheng Hui wanted to punch this usually clever boy to death, but at this moment he had no choice but to look at Geng Xuan and said:

"You...you've heard it too. He has an eighty-year-old grandmother and a..."

Before he could finish his words, Geng Xuan interrupted, "Isn't it mother?"

Cheng Hui was puzzled, not knowing why the vicious man in front of him asked such a question, but he still said with certainty: "It's grandma, not mother."

"Are there really eighty?" Geng Xuan asked again.

"Yes." Cheng Hui nodded.

But the next moment, Cheng Hui almost suffocated from anger.

Xie Hang, who was still sobbing, suddenly said: "My grandma is seventy-six this year, not eighty."

Hong Quan bared his teeth and Cheng Hui's face twitched, but Geng Xuan completely ignored them and asked curiously:

"What's next? A son or a daughter?"

Why are you asking this?
What's the point of this?
Cheng Hui felt that the shape of the "murderer" in front of him was becoming more and more abstract, but he still replied honestly:

"No, he's not married yet. He has a younger sister who's nine..."

Just as he was about to finish his words, Cheng Hui suddenly remembered the lesson he had just learned and turned around to ask, "How old is your sister?"

Xie Hang said: "Nine years old."

Cheng Hui was furious and inexplicably wanted to hit someone, especially the idiot named Xie in front of him.

"Are there only these two people in his family? ...Where are his parents?" Geng Xuan.

"It's just his grandmother and sister. Five years ago, his parents went out for something and never came back." Cheng Hui.

"...Okay, this reason convinces me."

After saying that, Geng Xuan left the three people with different expressions and walked towards Luo Qing, who was sticking his head out of a nearby carriage and waving at him.

"But what did you find?"

"Boss, please come in and take a look."

Geng Xuan lifted the curtain and entered the carriage, and found that the space inside was quite spacious. There was not only a bed, but also a low table for reading and resting next to it, and a set of utensils for making and drinking tea next to it.

A wooden box of just the right size was placed between the low table and the wall of the carriage.

As Geng Xuan surveyed the interior of the car, Luo Qing whispered,
“I’ve taken inventory of all the other carriages, and there are only two categories.

The first is a huge medicine bag that is tightly wrapped and has labels with the names of various medicinal materials on the outside.

The second is a wooden box for silver bars.

This one and the one behind it are the most special.

The car behind was loaded with a lot of miscellaneous items.

There were many wooden boxes for gold and silver bars, as well as two wooden boxes specifically for precious items such as pearls, jade and gems.

In addition, there are many jars of high-quality medicinal wine, as well as many blood-replenishing pills, essence pills and other cultivation materials, detoxification pills, hemostatic powder and other medicines.

I guess that the carriage behind and the one we are in now are both Zang Zigao’s personal belongings. From the shape of the carriages, we can also see some differences. "

Geng Xuan nodded, looked around the carriage, and then reached out to open the wooden box next to the coffee table.

In an instant, Geng Xuan's eyes lit up.

There was a wooden box full of books.

Geng Xuan immediately felt that this box of books was not simple. The gold, silver, and cultivation resources were all placed in a carriage at the back and were not carried with him.

In this carriage that Zang Zigao rode in both day and night when he was on the road, there was only this box of books, apart from some simple furnishings.

Compared to those gold, silver, and cultivation resources, this box of books is his real favorite.

Just as Geng Xuan opened the box and looked at the box full of books, Luo Qing said:

"I guess this box of books must be very valuable."

"You haven't watched it yet?"

"No, I saw it was a box of books, and I thought that since Zang Zigao could carry it with him, it must be very valuable, so I immediately asked you to come and check it in person."

Geng Xuan nodded, and without avoiding Luo Qing beside him, he picked up the wooden box and poured all the books in the box onto the low table.

You can clearly see that the colors of the books are new and old.

The old ones were mostly pill recipes, medicine recipes, and many techniques for identifying and processing medicinal materials. There were also some cultivation techniques, but compared to the whole box of books, they accounted for a very small proportion. The ones that seemed to be the newest were mostly summary notes on making medicine and alchemy.

Geng Xuan quickly checked and put the books back into the wooden box.

Finally, he had an old book and a carefully folded piece of paper in his hands.

On this piece of paper was written the recipe for a drug called "Xuanyou Dan" and the production steps.

And on that old book, there were three words written.

Medicine Stone

Just these three words made Geng Xuan think of a lot of things.

After he glanced through it, he became even more convinced that this was another part of the series of books that was said to be related to Emperor Yuan.

The outside world uniformly calls it the "Nine Streams of Secret Arts."

Geng Xuan put the two items into his arms, stuffed the wooden box into Luo Qing's hands, and walked out while saying:

"Is everything almost done now?"

Luo Qing got off the carriage holding the wooden box and replied:
"Everything is ready and we're ready to go... But, could you train them a little more, Gang Leader?"

As he spoke, he looked at the horses and said with some distress:

"We also have brothers who can drive carriages, but few are proficient. The key is that these horses are very shy and don't listen to instructions very much."

Geng Xuan nodded, reached out and gently stroked the forehead of the nearest horse for a while, until its restlessness was completely dispelled, and then he walked towards the next one.

It took Geng Xuan about twenty to thirty minutes to pacify all thirty horses.

Together with the six horses that had already been tamed, a total of thirty-six horses were harnessed to the cart again, ready to set off at any time.

Because there were not enough people, several carriages were restored to being pulled by two horses at a time, and the number of carriages attached to the back was increased from two to four or even five.

As soon as Geng Xuan gives the order, everyone will set off immediately.

"Which direction is the tunnel entrance?" Geng Xuan asked Cheng Hui.

Cheng Hui raised his hand and pointed into the distance, "It's right in front."

Geng Xuan looked in the direction of his finger and nodded secretly in his heart. That was the direction away from Baiyuanji.

So, he reached out and picked up Cheng Hui, and said to Luo Qing: "Wait for me."

As he spoke, he flashed out and rushed towards the direction of Cheng Hui's finger.

Under Cheng Hui's guidance, Geng Xuan traveled more than ten miles and arrived at the entrance of the tunnel in just six or seven minutes.

This is an ancient river channel.

Looking at the winding and dry ancient river channel, there are rugged rocks and a sense of antiquity.

The tunnel entrance is inside a naturally formed, irregular cavity in one of the huge rocks.

Looking around, on both sides of the ancient river channel, from upstream to downstream as far as he could see, there were irregular cavities formed by the continuous erosion of flowing water over the years in these huge rocks.

Not to mention that it is difficult to see from the outside that there is a tunnel in this crack, even if you enter it, as long as you don't explore the entrance of the tunnel, it is difficult to find any trace of the entrance in this natural crack.

Following Cheng Hui's instructions, Geng Xuan entered one of the water-eroded cavities. After going some distance, he stood at the entrance of a tunnel and suddenly asked:

"Did you really find this by accident while hunting?"

"Yes."

"Shouldn't hunting be headed towards Chiwu Mountain? What are you hunting here? Rabbits?"

"..."

Cheng Hui suddenly stopped talking.

Geng Xuan came out carrying Cheng Hui, looked at the winding dry river, and asked again:

“How many years has this river been dry?”

"...I heard from some old folks in the neighborhood that the river has been dry for nearly four hundred years. It's said that one summer, the rainy season was particularly severe, and a section of the mountain somewhere upstream slid directly into the river, causing the entire river to change course.

Without water from upstream, this section of the river gradually dried up."

Geng Xuan carried Cheng Hui and hurried along the edge of the river at a speed of more than ten meters per second, looking for a route that was suitable for a large group of vehicles and horses to pass through without leaving too many traces.

It took some extra time on the return trip.

However, it took less than half an hour from leaving the convoy to returning.

Luo Qing and others breathed a sigh of relief when they saw him return.

During the time he was away, no accidents happened to the team.

Geng Xuan placed Cheng Hui next to the carriage driven by Luo Qing and said to him:

"You should have seen the route I explored just now. Lead them there."

Luo Qing was surprised and asked, "Boss, you won't be joining us?"

Geng Xuan shook his head and said, "You guys go first. I need to wait a little longer."

As he said this, Geng Xuan also specially asked Hong Quan to stay.

Hong Quan and Cheng Hui both have reached the Bone Refining Realm. Geng Xuan believes that Luo Qing and the others are capable of handling the situation by leaving them alone in the convoy.

But Geng Xuan couldn't guarantee what would happen if he left both of them in the convoy without him.

Geng Xuan knew one thing very well: no matter what time, one should never test human nature.

It is also a good thing for Hong Quan, Cheng Hui and others not to put them under a certain choice.

Luo Qing and the others already knew roughly the purpose of the gang leader's actions. They all felt a little embarrassed and ashamed, and did not dare to waste time. Led by a good driver, the convoy slowly set off.

Watching the convoy quickly go away, Geng Xuan sighed inwardly. The more time passed, the more Geng Xuan felt the lack of capable manpower at his disposal.

Luo Qing and others are capable of helping out and handling logistics.

However, due to his insufficient cultivation strength, he simply does not have the ability to stand on his own.

Thinking of this, Geng Xuan looked at Hong Quan beside him.

Hong Quan was also looking at him.

He asked carefully, "When will you...let me go?"

Geng Xuan stared at him, asking for advice, and asked, "If you were me, what would you do now?"

Hong Quan's face turned pale in an instant.

Geng Xuan quickly comforted him:
"Don't worry, since I said I won't kill you, I won't kill you.

But I won’t let you go just like that.”

"So... are you going to keep us detained forever?" Hong Quan couldn't believe it.

Put yourself in their shoes, isn't this just looking for trouble?

Geng Xuan shook his head:

"It's unrealistic to detain you all the time, and I can't keep an eye on you all the time. I want to make you my own."

"This……"

Hong Quan didn't know how to respond. He really wanted to say, "Aren't you trusting us a little too much?"
“You heard it too, they all call me the gang leader, and this is the first big thing I did after the gang was founded.

But you also saw that, except for me, the strength of the other gang members is really not enough.

If you join, you will directly become the second best in my gang.

If you exclude me, you will be the best master!"

Upon hearing this, Hong Quan couldn't help but swallow hard.

Not heart-throb.

It’s definitely not heart-throb!

He was scared.

Reason told him that he absolutely could not agree to this. He simply couldn't bear to think about the future of a gang where he would become the best master besides the gang leader after joining.
This is definitely a very novel way of committing suicide!

But his emotions told him that the last thing he could say at this moment was words that would displease the vicious man in front of him.

Otherwise, he really could become a corpse at any time.

He now has a feeling that this "murderer" in front of him, who looks more and more normal, is actually crazy at heart, and a very special kind of crazy.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that he didn't answer, Geng Xuan asked directly.

After hesitating for a while, Hong Quan chose to be partially honest.

"I don't know why you trust us so much. As far as I know, any force will be very cautious when recruiting new people."

Geng Xuan patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry about this. My gang is different from other forces. We have our own set of standards."

After hearing his words, Hong Quan seemed even more worried.

At this moment, Geng Xuan suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked at the figures approaching from the direction of Baiyuanji in the distance, and laughed:

"It seems that there are indeed many of you who are devoted to Anleji."

(End of this chapter)