Chapter Eighteen: Refining the Gourd

  Pangzi's complexion is not good-looking, no matter which era, the sister-in-law and the younger brother-in-law's wife having an affair is not a good thing, once it spreads out, the reputation will be ruined.

  Although the fatty himself puffed out his chest and said he was a mountain bandit, the guilt in his eyes couldn't be hidden. However, thinking of that little girl's fiery figure and charming face, a fire ignited at the bottom of Fatty's heart.

  But Chen Jiu's words were like a hammer hitting Paozi's heart: "Yes, if she was a respectable woman, why would she come to me, and I'm not even handsome".

  Fatso sullenly said: "Ninth Brother, you're not just calling me over to tease me, are you?"

  "You're going to die and still don't know it!" Chen Jiu put down the water jug and gave Pangzi a white eye.

  "What did you say?" The fat man suddenly became tense.

  "I'm telling you, you're going to die," Chen Jiu repeated again.

  Fatty's eyes narrowed slightly: "This is impossible, how can it be? With a body like mine, I've had three thousand concubines and killed over a hundred people, nothing has ever happened to me."

  "Don't you feel that your Qi Hai is slightly weaker than before?"

  Fatso was stunned upon hearing this, and after a check, he broke out in cold sweat: "What's going on?".

  "Your vital energy has been sucked away by others, yet you're still so smug. At this rate, it won't be long before your energy is completely drained."

  "You're talking about...," Fatso recalled last night's little girl.

  Chen Jiou let out a slight sigh and then walked into the house. Before long, a gourd the size of a palm appeared in his hand.

  "Fatty, it's not me saying this, but you need to change those habits of yours from when you were a mountain bandit. Now that you have a wife and son, today you ran into me, and I just so happen to be on the path of cultivation. Otherwise, if you keep going like this, who knows how you'll end up dying?" As he spoke, he picked up a small knife and slowly cut open the calabaza.

  Fatso's face turned red with rage: "I'll go back and kill that woman".

  "Good-for-nothing" Chen Jiu said disdainfully.

  Looking at Chen Jiu's disdainful expression, Pangzi helplessly said: "Then what exactly do you want me to do?"

  "Do you think she's just an ordinary woman? An ordinary woman can't absorb your vital energy without you even realizing it."

  "What is she after all?"

  Chen Jiu put down the knife, and then a series of talismans were branded onto the inside of the gourd as it turned over, even the gourd seeds inside did not escape, all being branded with talismans by Chen Jiu.

  "What is she? I don't know, we'll have to wait until after the surrender to see what happens."

  "When will I be able to subdue her?"

  Chen Jiulou looked at the fatty with a somewhat strange expression: "How can you say that she was also your overnight dew wife last night, yet you are so heartless, patting her on the butt and not acknowledging it?"

  Fatso made a crying face: "Ninth brother, Ninth elder brother, he's going to suck me dry and make our family discordant. If my wife finds out about this, I'm done for. I've committed such a huge mistake, sleeping with my younger sister-in-law, I'll have no face to show anyone from now on."

  Chen Jiu didn't quite believe what the fatty said. Having been a mountain bandit for so many years, Chen Jiu understood this dead pig better than he understood himself. Although it was that demonic woman who intentionally tempted him, if this dead fatty hadn't had those thoughts to begin with, how could she have succeeded in tempting him?

  "Boss, I'm a man, a normal man. When facing such a charming and seductive beauty, even if she's your younger brother's wife, can you really hold back?" The fatty explained with a bitter tone, seeing Chen Jiu's disbelieving face.

  The corners of his mouth revealed a smile that was not quite a smile, Chen Jiu looked at the fat man's face, which was pinched like a chrysanthemum: "Alas, my gourd has just begun to be refined and still needs to undergo a period of fetal nourishment through the law, namely absorbing the heavenly purple energy between heaven and earth, I'm afraid it won't be done in ten days or half a month."

  "Boss, what's going on? If you don't come up with a solution soon, I'll be ruined!"

  "Who told you to lose control of yourself? First, pretend to be with him for a while, and wait until I've mastered this demon-capturing gourd before going to find you."

  Saying so, Chen Jiu made a gesture of sending off guests.

  "Brother Jiu, it's not fair..." said Pangzi with a sense of grievance.

  "Look at you, aren't you the one who loves to show off? This time you're satisfied, don't worry, I will definitely save you back before you die."

  Chen Jiubai waved the gourd in his hand as he spoke.

  Fatso sobbed with a gloomy face: "Go back and go back, at worst she scolds me, I just won't agree".

  Watching the fat man's departing figure, Chen Jiu slowly used his magical power to nurture the gourd in his hand: "You don't agree, this is probably not something you can control, that demon's methods are unbearable for a man, let alone you, a lustful ghost."

  Unfortunately, this remark was inaudible to Fatty, because the voice was too small, so small that even Chen Jiu himself could only hear it vaguely.

  After engraving the talismans one by one, start using the law to nourish and cultivate them. Three times a day, each time for three hours and three quarters of an hour, without interruption within a week.

  Chen Jiu took out his peach wood sword again and began to nurse it slowly after nursing the gourd for a while.

  Now this peach wood sword is shining with a layer of flowing light, and its appearance is extraordinary. I just don't know how much of its true power can be displayed.

  A whistling sound came from the courtyard, Chen Jiu began his own sword practice journey again, practicing every day, this is an unshakeable thing, later don't want to stay in this small mountain village, a must-have defensive skill is essential.

  Next door, Old Man Wang lay on the stone chair, listening to the whistling sound from next door. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Hmph, that kid next door is crazy, every day stabbing and thrusting with that peach wood sword, and he even spent a hundred taels of silver to buy a branch of peach wood. If he were to sell him the entire peach tree, wouldn't that be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver?"

  As he spoke, the old man fell into deep thought, as if pondering how to sell this peach tree to the fool next door.

  The sun rises and the moon sets, the moon sets and the sun rises. At dawn, when the first wisp of purple gas had just risen between heaven and earth, Chen Jiū suddenly took a deep breath, and a wisp of purple gas was absorbed by him. Then he gently exhaled, and it fell into the gourd on his leg.

  At this time, Chen sat cross-legged, his hands pinched into a seal, and the gourd was placed between his legs. The first wisp of purple energy in the world is not only nourishing the body, but also the best thing for the primordial spirit, as well as the supreme treasure for subduing demons and evil spirits, expelling ghosts and destroying evil.

  He slowly opened his eyes and looked at the gourd in front of him: "It's been seven days, this gourd has been nurtured enough, but I don't know if that fat guy can still hold on. This time, let's give him a lesson."

  Chen Jiu said that refining the treasure would take ten days to half a month, but that was just to scare that dead fatty, and in reality it only took seven days.

  Not to mention Chen Jiulian's successful creation of the demon-driving gourd, but that fatty, these past few days have been absolutely tumultuous for him. A pair of eyes appeared with a faint yellowish eye circle, his skin was somewhat wrinkled and shriveled, and he had lost weight all over.

  Look at his younger brother-in-law again, who is even worse than him. His legs are trembling non-stop and he can't even stand still.

  Looking at this enchanting and seductive woman in front of him, although Fatty knew that he couldn't continue like this, he just couldn't help himself.

  Brother-in-law

  Upon hearing this voice, Paozi's heart instantly turned to mush. However, after taking a look at his own body which had slimmed down by a circle, he still pushed away the woman: "Your sister is right outside, aren't you afraid of being discovered? Alright, I have something else to do, let's talk again tonight."

  After finishing speaking, the fat man stood up straight.

  The woman's voice was soft and numb: "Brother-in-law, you're really great, worthy of being a brother-in-law. That little kid is just a weakling, his body is very weak. It's still brother-in-law who treats me well, I must repay brother-in-law properly."

  Fat boy heard that his body trembled, didn't dare to speak, walked out of the house directly, looked at Lijing who was busy in the yard, didn't say much, and went outside.

  "Brother Jiu, I'm done for, you gotta save me!" Fatso wailed somewhere.

  Chen Jiu looked at the pale face of the fatty, which had turned slightly yellowish, and his legs were trembling non-stop. He no longer had the usual calm and composed demeanor of a mountain bandit.

  It seems this kid has learned his lesson.