Free Web NovelChapter 647: Chapter 357: Qigong Deviation Suits Me! (Part 2)
Faced with the vendor’s inquiry, Su Que pondered for a moment, then replied:
"Do you have poisons for sale?"
Su Que knew that to refine Gu insects, a large amount of poison was needed.
This seller of Gu insects probably had a medicine field.
"Then are you going to buy the Gu insects?" The vendor, a man of middle age with a thin face, protruding cheekbones, and a thick mustache on his lips, asked.
Seeing Su Que asking about poison, he suspected that this person wanted to deduce his secret technique for raising Gu through his poisons.
Immediately, he looked at Su Que with a hint of malice in his eyes.
"I just want to see how potent the poisons you use for raising Gu are," Su Que said.
"Hehe, my Gu insects can even poison cultivators at the Third-Layer of the Realm of Merging. What do you think of the potency of the poisons I use for raising Gu?" the vendor laughed.
Hearing this, Su Que shook his head in his heart and left.
His current Myriad Poison True Qi could poison human cultivators of the Creation Realm.
Even if he absorbed that level of poison, it wouldn’t greatly enhance his Heart Scripture of Myriad Poisons.
Few in the Upper Realm used poison, as those who did often ended up poisoning themselves by accident.
The vendor had finally managed to get a customer to stay so long.
But unexpectedly, the customer just left, making him a bit anxious, so he quickly said:
"Hey, friend, why leave so abruptly? We can still negotiate the price!"
Su Que seemed not to hear and walked away without looking back.
He passed by some stalls and saw people buying elixirs, talismans, and the like.
These elixirs, talismans, and other items were cheaper than what he had seen before.
It seemed the vendor wanted to quickly offload these items and exchange them for gold coins.
Su Que glanced at the vendor and saw that he had a face full of ruddy light, indicating he was someone who had ingested an Enchanting Immortal Pill.
Su Que continued to walk forward and passed by a brothel, hearing a commotion inside.
Soon after, a man with a bruised and swollen face was thrown out by several burly cultivators inside the brothel.
This man, once thrown to the ground, also had a Magic Sword, broken into two pieces and dim in radiance, thrown beside him.
A burly man from inside the brothel spat towards him, cursing:
"How dare you enter the brothel while being so poor? Your Magic Sword, which I could break with my bare hands, is a low-grade product!"
"Filthy pauper, hitting you even dirties my hands."
Saying this, the burly man went back inside.
This bruised and swollen man seemed used to such treatment. He didn’t get angry after being cursed; he just picked up the broken Magic Sword.
With a surge of mana, he sprang from the ground.
His body shook, dust fell off, and he cast a spell to hide his face, then walked away.
Su Que averted his gaze from the cultivator and continued walking forward.
"Hey, you stop!"
Not long after, Su Que suddenly saw a person ahead turn and shout at someone fleeing rapidly behind.
The person ahead was a middle-aged man dressed in luxurious clothes.
The person behind was an unremarkable man wearing light gray shorts and a plain appearance.
The man behind acted as if he had a third hand, stealing the storage bag from the person ahead.
But he was discovered by the person ahead.
Though many magical artifacts were in the storage bag of the richly dressed middle-aged man,
the Jade Sword hanging at his waist was also an artifact.
With a thought, he infused mana into the Jade Sword at his waist.
Immediately, the Jade Sword shone with a vibrant green light.
Subsequently, it detached from his belt, elongated into a four-foot Cyan Blade with even more vibrant green light.
It drew a green line in the air, emitting a hissing sound as it pierced toward the thief.
The thief shouted, "Friend, why do you attack me!"
As he shouted, he summoned a Copper Sword, releasing a golden light that clashed with the Jade Sword.
Soon, the Jade and Copper Swords were fighting in the air, clanging loudly.
Su Que noted that this thief’s cultivation was on par with that of the richly dressed middle-aged man.
The thief’s face was flushed, and Su Que sensed his heightened spirit, clearly under the influence of an Enchanting Immortal Pill.
He wondered if it was this pill addiction that led the thief to commit crimes.
From the cultivator’s memory, Su Que knew the city guards of Xianming City were notably stringent.
These two fighting in the street would typically prompt a swift response from the city guard.
However, Xianming City had almost become a "toxic" city in his eyes.
He wasn’t sure if the city guards would still respond promptly.
But after just three breaths, the richly dressed man and the thief were locked in intense combat.
The Jade and Copper Swords clashed in mid-air, the clanging sounds growing louder and denser.
At this moment, another light streaked through the sky.
It was a stream of firelight.
This firelight collided with the Jade and Copper Swords at the moment of their next clash.
A ball of flame exploded in the sky.
Immediately afterward, both the Jade and Copper Swords lost their magical light and fell to the ground.
Su Que noticed fire patterns on both the Jade and Copper Swords.
The patterns resembled talismans, which he couldn’t comprehend.
A city guard holding a Copper Lamp pushed through the crowd and stood before the thief.
"You must have been warned when entering the city, no fighting within the city."
"Violators will have their storage bags confiscated and be conscripted for thirty years."
The city guard stated.
Su Que knew this was the rule in most cities governed by the Celestial Sect.
They almost never had prisons.
If someone violated their rules in the city,
they would only confiscate the person’s storage bag.
They wouldn’t punish the person’s physical body.
Because they needed to conscript those people to hunt demon beasts or fight elsewhere for them.
At this moment, the luxurious dressed man also stepped forward and said to the city guard:
"Friend, this person stole my storage bag, one of those storage bags is mine!"
The city guard glanced at the richly dressed man, then asked: "Can you tell me what’s in your storage bag?"
The luxurious dressed man first looked around, then used a sound transmission Dharma Gate to speak to the city guard: "There are thirty Immortal Ascension Pills inside."
The city guard used his spirit to probe the two storage bags he had just taken.
Indeed, in one of the storage bags, there were three porcelain bottles, each containing thirty Enchanting Immortal Pills.
The city guard nodded and returned that storage bag to the luxurious dressed man.
The luxurious dressed man took the storage bag, thanked him, and picked up the Jade Sword from the ground.
The Jade Sword had completely shrunk back to its original form of a Jade Pendant.
The Jade Pendant still had the fire patterns on it.
"Friend, about these..."
The luxurious dressed man asked the city guard.
The city guard immediately raised the Copper Lamp in his hand, aiming it at the Jade Sword.
A beam of firelight emerged from the center of the lamp, enveloping the Jade Sword.
After a while, as the firelight dispersed, the patterns on the Jade Sword vanished completely.
A wave of mana radiated from the Jade Sword once again.
"Thank you, friend!" The richly dressed man, seeing the Jade Sword restored, was delighted, thanked him, and left.
Su Que watched from the side, concluding that the Copper Lamp must be a formidable magical treasure capable of sealing the power of magical artifacts.
He sensed that the city guard’s cultivation was actually inferior to both the richly dressed man and the thief.
But his confidence came from this powerful magical treasure.
"Daoist friend, while I’m conscripted, could I periodically receive Enchanting Immortal Pills?"
"If I don’t consume Enchanting Immortal Pills, I’ll enter Qigong Deviation while practicing!"
The thief knelt down, speaking to the city guard.
Su Que was taken aback upon hearing this.
Initially, he thought the Enchanting Immortal Pill was just an ordinary hallucinogenic pill with a high addiction level.
But to not consume it and then enter Qigong Deviation when practicing seemed like an exaggeration.
Yet, it seemed this was true.
"While others ruin their prospects and destroy their path with Enchanting Immortal Pills,"
"I could reverse the side effects. Consuming Enchanting Immortal Pills while practicing might enhance my spirit and physique!"
Su Que thought, an unusual light flashing in his eyes.
