Chapter 47: Intelligent Battle with Huoyun

  Yu Ze Cheng then held onto the pagoda and watched for a whole night. The next day, at dawn, Yu Ze Cheng finally stopped watching and stood on the rooftop as the sun rose, absorbing the power of the sunlight to cultivate his Blood Ring Technique.

  Things on the ground are all stable, controlled by Master Gao Feng, everything is normal, income and expenses are gradually reasonable, after deducting various expenses, there are at least three hundred taels of silver that can be put into one's own pocket every month for consumption in the rouge building.

  But that would cut off the source of income for his subordinates, and he wouldn't have time to cultivate himself either. Now it's just right, as long as his own strength increases, it's much more useful than an extra 180 silver coins a month.

  These days, the only abnormal thing is that Choi In-ho has finally brought in a disciple of Iron Ruler to build an organ array for his own stronghold.

  However, the subordinates he brought with him were a bit off. Yu Ze Cheng discovered through his Blood Eye Technique that these workers who built the array, each and every one of them had vigorous blood energy, none of whom were weaker than Lin Ye Hong's blood energy, and some had even reached Ma Lao Hei's level. There were more than twenty people like this, among whom two Yu Ze Cheng had seen before, both of whom were high-ranking masters nurtured within the Black Tiger Hall's inner circle. Ma Lao Hei showed great respect to them, but now they were doing hard labor for him, building his array and living in the stronghold, it was unclear what they wanted to do.

  Do whatever you want, anyway, it's not necessary to use such means to deal with yourself. Now that everything on your own turf is going smoothly, every month you have money coming in, although those under you may not be so clean, they're all using some small tricks to make money for themselves, but as long as nothing big happens, then just turn a blind eye, without benefits who will work hard.

  What should I do next? First, I need to complete the Heart Ring's transformation, that's my next goal. Yu Ze Cheng spent the past few days absorbing the remaining three Spirit Stones for cultivation, then shifted his focus onto the Gan Qing Tong Xin branch.

  According to the records of the Buddhist scriptures, this spiritual branch can increase the cultivation of the cultivator, which is much more useful than the spiritual stone. If you get it yourself, you can turn blood into a gourd and cultivate it into the third layer of blood gourd Xian bone. At that time, you will reach the high level of the Qi-gathering realm, the third layer of the Qi-refining period.

  Thoughts are not as good as actions. Then I started to think of ways, how can I get rid of Huoyun Snake and get the Ganqing Tongxin branch?

  Mobilize the disciples to surround and attack? It's useless, Huoyun Snake can spit out fire clouds, and the entire 100-meter range will be filled with fire poison. None of these disciples have entered the Xiantian realm, it's just sending them to their deaths.

  Go outside to hire a master? No way, money moves people's hearts. If you find Grandfather, he will definitely monopolize this spiritual medicine and not even leave a hair for himself. Yaxiang will definitely suspect how she can find so many good things, it's simply like inviting a wolf into the house.

  What to do? Yu Ze Cheng thought for half a day and still couldn't think of a solution, so he stood up and started pacing around the room. What to do?

  Yu then thought about it again and again, and once more took out the Hu Tu Lu to watch, suddenly seeing a passage of introduction about the Fire Cloud Snake:

  "Likes to eat pheasant, greedy beyond measure"

  Yu Ze Cheng then slapped his thigh, and had an idea. He immediately stood up, went out to issue orders, and ordered his disciples to start buying up all the wild chickens and drunken red fruits everywhere. The wild chicken is a kind of mountain fowl that can climb to tens of meters high on the green pines in the mountains, they like to eat the pine trees' cones, their whole body is snow white, so it's called wild chicken. Wild chicken tastes delicious, but is difficult to catch, and is one of the specialties of Shanzhu City.

  Zui Hong Guo is a common medicinal herb in the mountains of 100,000 Great Mountains. The mountain people also collect and cultivate it specifically, which is a material for brewing wine. Eating too much can easily cause dizziness, and snakes love to eat it. After they finish eating, their movements will become slow. These two things can be bought as long as you have money.

  Yu Ze Cheng bought thirty live pheasants, fed them with drunken red fruit and green pine tree towers, and raised them for ten days. They were all fat and strong, ready to be used.

  Yu Ze Cheng would take a pheasant with him every day to the location of Gan Qian Tong Xin Zhi, which was a high mountain. The locals called this mountain "Pen Rack Peak", a fitting name as it resembled a pen, straight and piercing the sky.

  On the halfway up the Pen Rack Peak, there is a slope with a slightly flat terrain, about 100 square meters in size, formed by rainwater erosion. The ground is covered with stacked rocks, and under the rocks on the surface, there are many hidden ditches and gutters formed by rainwater erosion. In the center of the slope, three huge stones surround a place in a "?" shape, and in the middle of the surrounded area, there is an inconspicuous small tree, which is the Gan Qian Tong Xin branch.

  Huoyun snake is coiled under the giant stone, every day when the sun rises, it hides in the shadow of the stone, motionless.

  This fire cloud snake, which guards the Gande Tongxin branch, has a body that can stretch up to two zhang in length and is as thick as one chi. It has a white crown on its head and a fiery red body. Any flying bird or walking beast that approaches within ten zhang of it will be sucked into its belly with just one mouthful.

  Yu Ze Cheng had been observing for a long time and each time he would use the Blood Concealment Technique to sneak up to within thirty zhang of Huo Yun She before proceeding, at which point Huo Yun She would discover Yu Ze Cheng's presence.

  Yu Ze Cheng finally chose the direction, at thirty-three zhangs east, and released a live pheasant nearby. The pheasants would have their wings broken and legs snapped, unable to escape. After releasing it, he sensed the aura of the Fire Cloud Snake and called out non-stop.

  The cry of the pine chicken gradually attracted the fire cloud snake, luring it to leave the protected Ganyan Tongxin branch to eat the pine chicken.

  The pine chicken has a flavor of drunken red fruit inside, and the fire cloud snake can't resist this delicious taste. However, it is still very vigilant, moving left and right to check its surroundings, making sure everything is okay before gradually relaxing its attention and eating the pine chicken.

  From then on, Yu Zhen would come to Chengdu every day to release the relaxed chicken, luring the Huo Yun snake to swallow it. Each time the release location would move one zhang eastward, slowly and imperceptibly luring the Huo Yun snake away from the Gan Qing Tong Xin branch. The Huo Yun snake ate chicken every day, savoring the delicious taste, but as an animal, its spiritual awareness was not open, and it gradually crawled further and further away to catch the relaxed chicken.

  In this way, thirty pheasants were used over a period of one month to achieve Yu Zecheng's goal, and the Huoyun snake was lured sixty zhang away to eat the pheasants. Gradually, the Huoyun snake completely relaxed and became accustomed to swallowing the pheasants, and the day for taking action finally arrived.

  This time, he released a relaxed chicken, but not Yu Ze Cheng's, but his own. After releasing the relaxed chicken, he fled desperately. The relaxed chicken this time was actually dead, and the cry was learned by humans. Inside the body of the relaxed chicken, a large iron hook was hidden, and several strands of strong golden thread were firmly locked on a giant stone in the distance.

  Huoyun snake is still the same as before, going out to swallow pheasants. Before leaving, it habitually checked around and didn't find any danger, then slowly walked over, swallowed a pheasant in one mouthful, waiting for slow digestion.

  Just as it swallowed the pine chicken into its abdomen, Yu Ze Cheng suddenly rushed out from the south, relying on the Blood Hidden Technique to ambush, and charged towards Gan Qingtong's Heart Branch thirty feet away, wanting to steal Gan Qingtong's Heart Branch.

  Rushing to the side of Gan Qingtong's Heartwood Branch, Yu Ze suddenly felt a wave of dizziness, and in the vicinity of Gan Qingtong's Heartwood Branch, there was actually a large amount of highly toxic gas. No wonder Huoyun Snake dared to go out and swallow the Pine Chicken with such arrogance, it turned out that there was this ambush.

  At the critical moment, a thin membrane rose up, which was the protective talisman obtained by Yu Ze Cheng from Tan Er Lang. It activated and raised a protective shield to defend against the invasion of the highly toxic substance. Taking advantage of this brief moment, Yu Ze Cheng's blood energy stirred, and he immediately expelled the highly toxic substance absorbed in his body. During this process, Yu Ze Cheng slowed down his speed, but it was still extremely fast. He pulled out the Gan Dry Heart Branch from the ground and then fled wildly to the west.

  That fire cloud snake suddenly let out a roar of anger, and frantically chased after it. At this time, the huge fish hook that had been swallowed into its belly took effect, and with a fierce tug on the golden thread, it felt an intense pain, and immediately stopped, losing precious time. The fire cloud snake let out a furious hum, opened its mouth and spat out a piece of fire cloud, which instantly melted the golden thread. As soon as it opened its mouth, it spat out the fish hook containing the cold iron along with the chicken.

  Then he chased after Yu Ze Cheng, occasionally spitting out fire clouds. The fire clouds rushed straight at Yu Ze Cheng but the distance between them was too far and had no effect. The fire cloud snake chased in the direction that Yu Ze Cheng escaped towards. For ordinary people, the speed of the fire cloud snake was extremely fast, but for Yu Ze Cheng who relied on his Lightness Skill and Blood Escape Technique to run at full strength, it was still much slower.

  Chased for three miles, in front of a mountain pass, only to see the mountain pass piled up with sulfur and snake-repelling medicine. The fire cloud snake was powerful, but it too was a snake. It immediately slowed down upon seeing these things, fortunately they were just blocking the mountain pass, snakes have their own paths, the fire cloud snake quickly avoided these things and crossed the mountain pass at another location.

  Who would have thought that on the snake path of Huoyun Snake, not far from crawling out, there was another pile of blocking medicine? This was Yu Zecheng's invitation to many mountain bamboo people who were good at catching snakes, and the layered obstacles they laid down. In this way, the first opportunity was lost, and the huge body of Huoyun Snake wanted to chase after it, but where was Yu Zecheng's opponent? Moreover, all the tracking marks were blocked by these medicines. When Huoyun Snake turned around here, it had already been left far behind by Yu Zecheng, and could no longer see Yu Zecheng's figure.

  Yu Ze returned to the mountain bamboo stronghold in one breath, laughing loudly, with the spiritual medicine in hand, his own cultivation had hope again, it was truly a heaven-sent opportunity.