Wild Dogs

Yang Fan had always been wary of Xue Ming, so it was a great thing that Xue Wang was willing to take him as a disciple.

Although he didn't know what Xue Wang was planning, he knew that Xue Ming definitely had ill intentions.

Going to Blood Forgetfulness is definitely better than going to Blood Darkness.

Yang Fan nodded hurriedly.

"Then this disciple will pay respects to Master in advance."

He hurriedly bowed to Xue Wang.

Seeing that Yang Fan was so sensible, Xue Wang was even more satisfied and clapped his hands repeatedly.

"Good, you're pretty good, I like smart people like you."

"Go and do your job for me now. I'll go find Xue Ming right away."

After saying that, Xue Wang urged Yang Fan to hurry down the mountain.

Yang Fan nodded and immediately took his things and went down the mountain.

On the other side, Xue Wangze flew towards Xue Ming's cave.

After descending the mountain, Yang Fan rushed towards the nearby market town.

After arriving near the market, he put on a mask.

This time, because of Xue Wang's request to speak, Yang Fan did not bring the puppet.

Although this meant losing one more helper, Yang Fan didn't mind.

If you're careful, nothing should happen.

And so, Yang Fan walked into the market.

Having learned from his previous experience, Yang Fan was much more cautious this time.

He understood the principle of not flaunting his wealth, so he was extremely careful when making transactions.

After each transaction, he would always find a secluded corner to change into a new mask.

This way, it won't attract the attention of others.

Before long, Yang Fan had completed the purchase of everything Xue Wang needed.

Then Yang Fan started looking for the corpse refining furnace.

However, after wandering around the market for a while, Yang Fan did not see anything related to corpse refining at most of the stalls.

Upon closer reflection, it makes sense; only sects need corpse refining furnaces.

Generally speaking, only sects that refine corpse puppets would use it.

Under normal circumstances, these sects have their own corpse refining furnaces and do not need to buy them separately from outside.

So after looking around, Yang Fan couldn't find a suitable corpse refining furnace.

This made him a little nervous.

However, when Yang Fan turned to a corner of the market, his eyes lit up.

At the stall in that corner of the market, there were many things related to corpse refining.

He immediately went over excitedly.

After searching around the stall, Yang Fan found a dilapidated-looking corpse-refining furnace in the corner.

The corpse-refining furnace looked like it had been neglected for many years.

Yang Fan looked around the stall with great interest, then pointed to the corpse refining furnace.

"How much is this?"

An old woman was guarding the stall. She raised her cloudy eyes and looked at him suspiciously.

This corpse-refining furnace has been on this stall for several years, but no one has ever paid any attention to it.

I never expected that someone would want to buy such a dilapidated corpse-refining furnace today.

After pondering for a while, the old woman shook her head slightly.

"This corpse refining furnace is already broken, it probably can't be used to refine corpses anymore, so there's no point in buying it back."

Yang Fan smiled.

"It's alright. I'm after the materials in this corpse refining furnace. After smelting them, I can forge them into other weapons."

Upon hearing this, the old woman suddenly realized what was going on.

"Oh, so you're collecting scrap metal? That's fine."

"Here's what we'll do: ten spirit stones, you can take it."

"That's good, that's great."

Yang Fan nodded, and then he put the corpse refining furnace into his storage bag.

Then his gaze shifted, sweeping across the stall.

After a while, Yang Fan's gaze stopped.

"What is this?"

He reached out and picked up a skull, which looked quite ordinary.

However, Yang Fan could sense the intense malevolent aura emanating from the skull at first glance, indicating it was a good tool for dealing with enemies.

"Oh, you mean this evil spirit skeleton? This thing is made of evil spirit energy, and it's somewhat effective against enemies."

"What, young friend, you want it?"

The old woman asked Yang Fan in a hoarse voice.

Yang Fan nodded. He did need a lot of things for self-defense, and getting a skeleton like this would be perfect.

"This isn't expensive, only a thousand spirit stones."

"One thousand spirit stones?"

Yang Fan was startled; a thousand spirit stones was no cheap price.

He thought for a moment, shook his head slightly, and put the skeleton down.

Then his gaze shifted, and he started searching again at the stall.

He currently possesses several magical treasures, but the crucial point is that he cannot use them yet.

Only the talismans and spirit treasures are barely usable; it would be good if we could find a few suitable spiritual artifacts.

After searching the stall for a while, Yang Fan found nothing and could only shake his head in disappointment.

Just as Yang Fan was about to leave, the old woman suddenly called out to him.

"Young man, I think you might want some things for self-defense?"

Yang Fan looked up in surprise.

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

The old woman smiled.

"Don't let my age fool you, I still have a sharp eye."

"Young friend, you keep looking at shields and such; I think you're looking for something for self-defense."

Yang Fan nodded noncommittally. Although he had some strength now, his ability to protect himself was too weak.

I need to get something for self-defense.

Seeing that Yang Fan really needed something for self-defense, the old woman smiled.

"I do have some items here that can help you defend yourself, young friend. You might want to take a look."

As the old woman spoke, she shakily took something out of her storage bag.

After seeing what it was, Yang Fan raised an eyebrow.

"How can this be considered self-defense?"

It turned out that the old woman had taken out a pair of tattered straw sandals.

Yang Fan was immediately displeased. What use could such tattered straw sandals be?

"Hey, young friend, you're mistaken. The best self-defense tool in the world is naturally the ability to escape."

The old woman spoke with a smile, then placed the straw sandals in front of Yang Fan.

"Let me tell you, don't be fooled by how tattered these shoes look like straw sandals. They're actually woven from thousand-year-old green vines."

More importantly, these shoes also contain a lot of wind-attribute crystals.

Of course, because so much time has passed, these wind-attribute crystals have lost most of their effectiveness.

However, the speed boost it provides should not be underestimated.

"Oh? It has that function too?"

Yang Fan became interested and took the straw sandals to examine them carefully.

Only then did they discover that there were indeed some tiny crystals embedded in the edges and corners of the straw sandals.

A very faint wind-attribute spiritual energy can indeed be sensed from these crystals.

However, the wind-attribute spiritual energy was too weak to provide much benefit to the straw sandals.

It's obvious that many years have passed since these straw sandals were made, which is why they haven't been improved.

Looking at the straw sandals, Yang Fan raised his eyebrows.

"If these shoes were a little newer and of better quality, and made into leather boots or something, I might be interested."

"But these straw sandals are so tattered."

Yang Fan shook his head.