Chapter 92 - 81: Selling Monsters in the Mountain Town, A Body Full of Treasures, 560 Taels, Fish Dragon Transformation Completed, 24-Section Great Dragon Bone

Chapter 92: Chapter 81: Selling Monsters in the Mountain Town, A Body Full of Treasures, 560 Taels, Fish Dragon Transformation Completed, 24-Section Great Dragon Bone

Earth Dragon Cave.

"Father, Father!!"

"Which goddamn bastard dug up your grave??"

Within White Ape Gorge, a territory controlled by Long-armed Ancient Apes.

A Giant Ape, over three meters tall and built like a small mountain, roared at the sky in indignation. It was covered in white fur, with crimson eyes. Having refined its Horizontal Bone, it had even started to imitate humans, dressing itself in a set of clothes.

’That Celestial Kill human woman is even more wicked than a Demon!’

’Seventeen years ago, my old man had just succeeded in Opening the Sea of Qi when he was tainted by the Abyss Ruins Qi. Because of that, he was ruthlessly hunted by those Qi Cultivation Grandmasters who claimed to be exorcising demons and defending the Dao.’

’He barely made it back with his last breath and passed away a few days later. As a filial son, I followed the customs of the Human Race and let him rest in peace in the earth.’

’And the result...’

’All because I went for a drink with the other two Demon Group leaders in the Earth Dragon Cave, who, like me, were stuck at the bottleneck of nine hundred and ninety-nine years of Dao Practice.’

’We discussed our plans: once the Abyss Ruins Qi leaks on the Four Departure and Four Extinction Days, we’ll break through our bottlenecks, storm the Prefecture City, and cooperate with the Central Yellow Sect. We’ll gorge ourselves on the flesh and blood of the living to vent all the years of hardship we’ve suffered in these barren mountains!’

’So we drank to our hearts’ content. But when I came back, I found that—’

’My own ancestral grave had been dug up!’

The White-Armed Ape King was so furious he sobered up instantly, smashing stones and shattering the tombstone in a rage.

Heavens, have mercy!

When his old ape father died seventeen years ago, he couldn’t bring himself to consume that Qi Dao Demon Pill out of filial piety. He waited, and now, after ten years, all of its Qi Essence has completely dissipated!

But even so, it couldn’t escape the fate of being stolen!

’Humans, sometimes they’re even more damn wicked than Demons!’

"You’d better hope I don’t catch you, or else..."

He bared his teeth, his breath coming out in white puffs, his face a picture of ferocity.

...

Outside Anning County, five hundred li of Mountain Dao snaked around the eighteen Lianhuan Mountain Towns.

If the County seat had other ways to make a living,

then in the Mountain Towns and Hunting Manors, there were only woodcutters, Hunters, Medicine Cultivators, and other similar professions. Among the tens of thousands gathered in each town and manor, you couldn’t find a second way of life.

「On this day.」

At the foot of Wushan Town, vendors hawked their wares on both sides of the road. Most sold mountain goods, medicinal herbs, and a wide variety of other items.

However, when three figures descended from the Mountain Dao and entered the town, the sight of a young man with a bow on his back and a sword at his hip dragging a long line of corpses—several Bone Tempering Realm and even two Skin Refining Long-armed Ancient Apes, all strung together by their sternums with hemp rope like a row of gourds, CLANKING and CLANGING—left the people who made their living in the Mountain Town utterly stunned.

"Who is the biggest Boss around here that can afford to buy the entire carcass of an Enlightened Demon?"

Ji Xiu found a stall and asked the brawny owner. It took a long moment before the man snapped out of his daze and pointed toward the very center of Wushan Town.

"O-Only Song Boss from the Wushan Hunting Manor. He runs the Hunting Manor, has over a hundred Guests, and they’re all expert Swordsmen."

"M-may I ask, Your Excellency, did... did you drag all these Demons down from the mountains?"

His teeth chattered as he looked at the Demon corpses. Each one weighed over a hundred jin, and he couldn’t imagine the total weight of them strung together. Yet the young man held the rope and walked as if unburdened. The stall owner couldn’t help but swallow hard.

Then, he saw the young man before him nod.

"Where else but the Mountain Dao near the Earth Dragon Cave could you hunt so many Enlightened Demons?"

With that, he turned and headed for the Hunting Manor without a backward glance.

He had just reached the entrance of the so-called "Song Hunting Manor,"

when he saw from a distance...

a rugged-looking, middle-aged man in hunting attire, draped in a large beast-hide robe and gripping a broad-bladed saber. He was flanked by more than a dozen experts, all waiting for him.

With a single glance, Ji Xiu’s eyes narrowed. He could tell the man’s Flesh, Bone, Skin, and Membrane were perfectly integrated—a genuine Skin Refining master. The men beside him were all at the Bone Tempering level, which made him sigh with some emotion.

’As expected,’ he thought, ’in the Eighteen Linked Rings of Mountain Towns around Anning County, anyone who can establish a firm foothold and rule over a Mountain Town and Hunting Manor like a Local Tyrant...’

’...absolutely can’t do so without some serious power.’

"I am Song Chai, Master of the Wushan Hunting Manor in Wushan Town."

"And you are...?"

Song Chai, the Hunting Manor Master with the most power in the Wushan Town area, felt his pupils shrink.

He stared at the White Ape corpses strung up behind Ji Xiu, momentarily stunned. It was exactly as the messenger had just reported.

’It’s been a long time since I’ve seen... such a fierce piece of business.’

Moreover, when he inadvertently glanced at the young man’s companions,

he saw that the young woman, though grimy and dejected,

had delicate skin, abundant Qi and Blood, and a lustrous sheen to her bones, which told him she was of no ordinary background.

As for the other figure...

he could faintly sense Gang Qi circulating around them. Any thought he might have had of robbing them—a notion he barely entertained to begin with—vanished in an instant.

’This person’s Cultivation is even higher than mine!’

’Heavens, have mercy! Where did this Overseas Dragon come from?’

"Ji Xiu, from the Wind and Cloud Association in Anning County."

"Manor Master Song, in total I have two Skin Refining and six Bone Tempering Realm Long-armed White Apes. Their Heart Essence Blood and Demon Pills have been removed, but the remaining flesh, bone, and blood can still be consumed by Martial Artists for daily training to strengthen their sinews and bones. I wonder... can you take them?"

Of the dozen or so Long-armed White Apes on the Mountain Dao before, only these few were well-established in their cultivation. The rest were just at the Bone Marrow stage to make up the numbers, small and of average value.

Besides, there were too many of them, and they were too big. The harvest was already plentiful, so I didn’t bring them all.

But even with just these...

the haul is still substantial enough.

Even after removing the most valuable parts—the Heart Essence Blood and the two Blood Pattern Demon Pills from the Skin Refining apes, each with a Centennial Dao Practice!

The remaining flesh, bone, and blood... can still fetch a very good price!

"The Wind and Cloud Association... Ji Xiu..."

In an instant, Song Chai recognized the name.