Starting with the Corpse-Eating Worm, he worked his way up to become the Left-Winged Immortal Lord.

The person who came was none other than...

It was Cheng Xiu.

"Master Cheng!"

Li Huo and the other two were overjoyed to see Cheng Xiu and rushed to greet her as if she were a lifeline.

They had previously considered asking Cheng Xiu for help, since Cheng Xiu had been Chen Yedao's right-hand man in the past.

Chen Ye's various miscellaneous and unorthodox disciples were mostly contacted by Cheng Xiu, and Cheng Xiu would personally deliver any tasks to them.

However, upon hearing from their son this morning that Cheng Xiu had been dispatched to guard Dongping Town yesterday, they had to abandon that idea. After all, even Daoist Cheng Xiu was struggling to protect himself, so how could he possibly spare the time to help them?

"Master Cheng, you are not..." Chen's father realized his words were inappropriate as soon as he opened his mouth and quickly shut up.

Cheng Xiu closed the door and said in a deep voice, "Dongping Town was razed to the ground by the Heavenly Principle Sect last night, and many Taoist disciples and fellow practitioners were killed or injured. Fortunately, I dawdled yesterday, otherwise I would have suffered the same fate as the others last night."

"May Master Cheng be blessed with good fortune and may he be safe from danger."

"Master Cheng is a lucky man, blessed by Heaven."

Li Huo and the other two quickly began to flatter him.

Cheng Xiu waved her hand and said solemnly, "But Lu Xingzhi will definitely not let me off so easily. He will definitely send me to another place."

"Master Cheng, what should we do?" Li Huo immediately turned his gaze to his son, Li Huosheng.

Because his own son had ridiculed Gu Qing back then, a grudge had already been formed.

Cheng Xiu glanced at it and reassured her, "Although Master Chen is dead, we still have Vice Abbot Wei above us. When Master Chen selected Li Huosheng and the other two, Vice Abbot Wei knew about it and gave his approval. So you just need to ease your relationship with Gu Qing, and there shouldn't be a big problem. At worst, you can give up one of the spots."

After saying that, Cheng Xiu had no intention of caring about Li Huo and the other two anymore. She asked for some Five Elements Divine Sand and then left.

Cheng Xiu hurriedly left and headed straight for the Hundred Instruments Pavilion.

……

As soon as Cheng Xiu left, Li Huo exchanged a glance with Chen's father and Ning's father, and they already had a plan in mind.

"Master Chen, how much life essence did you store in Master Chen?" Li Huo asked in a low voice.

Neither Chen's father nor Ning's father responded immediately.

They had been secretly accumulating life essence for Chen Ye, and dared not reveal it. However, now that Li Huo had exposed it, and considering that Chen Ye was already dead, after a few moments of hesitation, the two of them said the numbers.

"Thirteen bottles."

"Twenty bottles."

Li Huoxi said, "We'll each take seven bottles... My brat said that Gu Qing is a heretical cultivator, and life essence is an excellent cultivation resource for him. Since he aims for the top three in the assessment, he'll definitely want to improve himself as much as possible, so he has no reason to refuse our gift... Li Lin's gift can't be given away, but ours is different."

The two exchanged a glance, somewhat hesitant.

Li Huo anxiously added, "I know you are worried about the situation in Changping County. Even a single leaf from the Heavenly Principle Sect could cause our families to be destroyed if it were to weigh on us miscellaneous and unorthodox sects."

That's precisely why we need yin and evil elixirs for cultivation, and also to solidify our position in the ghost market. Otherwise, we'll lose the protection of the Wufeng Temple... Don't forget, the Wufeng Temple still has several abbots!

Upon hearing this...

Without further hesitation, Chen's father and Ning's father bid farewell to Li Huo and went straight to their own residence to retrieve the life essence they had hidden away.

soon.

The three reunited, and the twenty-one bottles of life essence were handed over to Li Huosheng and the other two, who were to take them back to the temple themselves.

Li Huosheng and the other two were initially reluctant, after all, they were young and still cared about their reputation.

But after being slapped by Li Huosheng, he had no choice but to obediently bring gifts to visit.

However, when the three of them found Gu Qing's residence, they only found the Taoist boy Lu Tong.

As a Daoist disciple, Lu Tong was naturally aware of the three men's past sarcasm and ridicule towards Gu Qing, and he also knew about their slander behind the scenes.

So they didn't give them a friendly look.

No matter how much Li Huosheng and the other two pleaded, Lu Tong only said that he dared not disturb Master Gu's cultivation.

Left with no other choice.

Li Huosheng and the other two could only wait at the door.

Five days passed.

……

Over the course of five days, Gu Qing nurtured the Shattered Hollow Shovel Beetle in the Taiyin Urn, a first-tier Yin artifact, for twelve hours each day.

The daily corpse energy gain has increased to 60, while the corpse energy return is 30.

In five days, a total of 300 corpse energy points were collected, plus 150 regenerative yin energy points.

Then, by nurturing the second-tier Ghost Leaf medicinal seed with Yin methods for twelve hours, the daily corpse energy gain increased to 120 points.

After five days, the amount of corpse energy reached 600.

However, compared to the 1000 corpse energy and 500 points of yin energy gained daily from refining Chen Ye and his natal ghost, this gain is nothing at all.

But Gu Qing has always been a pragmatic person.

10 points of corpse energy is still corpse energy.

He would never waste it.

After five days, the remaining death energy has returned to 6000 points.

[Remaining Corpse Energy: 6043]

The return of Yin energy continues to rise steadily.

[Replenishment of Yin Energy: 7375]

"Currently, the Corpse-Eating Worm can obtain 1000 Corpse Qi per day, and the Void-Shattering Stag Beetle needs 8000 Corpse Qi to break through to the second-tier upper realm. It will be able to successfully upgrade in two more days."

However, Chen Ye and his natal ghost have been completely refined. If he wants to continue to improve rapidly, he can only continue stealing zombies.

The thought that he now had control over the shady area behind the mountain filled him with secret joy.

He had previously discovered that refining too many purple zombies would cause subtle changes in the yin energy of the shady area behind the mountain. Although cultivators below the sixth level of Qi Refining wouldn't be able to detect it, the probability of it being noticed was still quite high if the change was too significant.

But now that the shady area behind the mountain is under his jurisdiction, and he says there's no problem, then Li Feng can't possibly bypass him to report this matter.

After all, Manager Lu's disciple had just been entrusted with an important task, and you turn around and say that there is a problem with the Yin land he is in charge of. What are your intentions?

Unless Li Feng is stupid, he won't tell.

After all, it's better to avoid trouble.

The fact that Li Feng contacted him immediately a few days ago is enough to prove that he is not stupid.

Putting his thoughts aside, Gu Qing turned off the control panel and pretended to be diligently nurturing the Ghost Leaf medicinal seed, while in reality controlling the Corpse-Eating Worms to rush straight into the ground.

However, this time they weren't aiming for the first-tier purple zombies, but rather for the twenty-six second-tier purple zombies.

He had carefully observed the twenty-six second-tier purple zombies deep in the Yin Land over the past few days, and found that they were all sealed by second-tier Yin artifacts.

It needs to be a level more durable.

But today's Void Stag Beetle is not what it used to be; breaking through a second-tier Yin organ is no problem for it.

"If all twenty-six second-tier purple zombies are refined, it will be enough for me to cultivate the Shattered Void Stag Beetle and the Forbidden Word Insect to the third tier."

However, if we were to refine them all, the yin area behind the mountain would inevitably be affected, making it impossible to hide them. It seems we can only take a portion. If we can't solve the problem of the subsequent yin energy's impact, we'll have to temporarily abandon refining these zombies.

After pondering in secret, Gu Qing controlled the Corpse-Eating Worms and the Void-Shattering Stag Beetles to continue deeper into the area.

But just as Gu Qing was about to reach the area where the second-tier purple zombie was located, an unexpected accident suddenly occurred.

An extremely terrifying aura of death pressed down like a mountain.

Even the hollow stag beetle was startled by that feeling and instinctively backed away.

When Gu Qing used the Corpse-Eating Insect's perception to probe forward...

Gu Qing's expression froze.

It's those few Tier 3 zombies!

They are not asleep!

Furthermore, carrion-eating worms and hollow-stag beetles have been discovered!