Chapter 67: Preparing to Reel In

  Starting from this day, the Tianxuan Sect disciples and foreign cultivators in the Yin Wind Gorge discovered a rather strange phenomenon. The activity of the Yin Wind Rats far exceeded that of previous days, their shadows could be seen everywhere, scurrying about, exceptionally busy.

  However, the difficulty of capturing them has increased greatly. These lowest-level demonic beasts seem to have become smarter and no longer act alone, but instead gather in groups of three or five to alert each other. Ordinary traps can hardly catch them now.

  "I guess something big happened within the Yin Wind Mouse tribe, their king is going to get married?"

  Similar jokes spread quickly among the human cultivators, but they didn't take it too seriously after all, those yin winds and mice were just slightly unusual and hadn't caused a big commotion.

  In a certain cave in the canyon, two small mountains were piled up in front of Su Che, one was various minerals and the other was various plants. These were the 'treasures' collected by the Yin Wind Mouse Army.

  After all, it's the lowest-level demon beast, and its intelligence is indeed limited. The 'treasures' that make up two small mountains seem to be in astonishing quantities, but in fact, many things inside are of no value to Su Che. They were just contributed because the Shadow Wind Mice thought they were delicious or fun to play with.

  Of course, there are also real spiritual grasses and minerals, such as: the roots of more than 20 vines of hidden land poison, over 40 stalks of wind spirit grass, more than 30 stalks of thousand gold grass, more than 20 stalks of dazzling flowers, hundreds of valuable mineral blocks...

  Roughly estimated, these things are worth thousands of spirit stones. And this is just the harvest of a single morning for the Dark Wind Mouse Army. If Su Che were to stay in the canyon for a month, the value of the spiritual grasses and minerals he could collect would be immeasurable.

  However, as a result, other human cultivators will find it difficult to gain anything in the Valley of the Windy Gorge in the short term, and this will inevitably lead to some uncontrollable situations.

  "Fifty thousand spirit stones!"

  Su Che gave Lao Hei instructions: "Same words, must grasp the measure well. This time, we can harvest 50,000 spiritual stones of various specialties, I am very satisfied, you let them be careful."

  "Don't worry, master." Old Black replied: "I've already got it figured out in my mind. I'll definitely make arrangements and those human cultivators won't notice anything."

  "Alright."

  Su Che happily gathered up these spiritual herbs and minerals.

  It's said that among the specialties of Yinfeng Gorge, apart from the rare and special spirit grass "Dun Di Du Teng", all the others are low-grade goods. If you were to gather a total of 50,000 spirit stones, even three or five Qiankun bags wouldn't be enough to hold them, especially since unrefined ores take up a lot of space.

  Fortunately, apart from the Qiankun bag, Su Che also had a small world like Xianyin first layer, where he could send all the non-perishable ores, and use the Qiankun bag only to store various spiritual herbs, which could temporarily prevent the loss of spiritual power and medicinal effect.

  I've struck it rich! This trip to the Windy Valley was truly not in vain. Who would have thought that those detestable rats, which I normally can't stand, would bring me such a huge profit...

  It's really true that having money can make a ghost grind, now when Su Che saw the old mouse tail behind Hei Pao's buttocks, it became even more pleasing to his eyes.

  "Old Black, from now on, you don't have to tie up your tail anymore."

  "Haha, okay!"

  In Xianyu, Laohei's long tail swung back and forth with a loud slapping sound, even creating several beautiful whip-like patterns...

  Another day passed, and a mouse king sent a message to Lao Hei that a human monk was found in the central area of Yinfeng Gorge, with characteristics extremely similar to those of Han Zhaoying, especially the dark red birthmark on the right temple.

  "Alright, take him away!"

  Su Che set off immediately and began his journey towards the depths of the Valley of Yin Wind.

  On the road, Lao Hei reminded again: "Master, that Mouse King also said that Han Suo is not alone, and there are several companions by his side."

  "This is certain." Su Che naturally had expected this: "With his abilities, he didn't have the guts to enter the Valley of the Dark Wind alone."

  After expending three time periods, they rushed along for over 600 miles before finally arriving at the central region of the Yin Wind Gorge. Along the way, they encountered several scattered cultivator groups who wanted to block their path and rob them. Su Chen had important matters to attend to and didn't want to get entangled with them, so he used his Rapid Movement Technique and defensive talismans to forcefully withstand their attacks and charge past them without engaging in battle.

  In a certain pile of rocks in the canyon, Su Che hid himself and waited patiently for Han Zao to fall into his trap.

  "There were four of them, apart from Han Zaojing, there was also the young couple who had ambushed you and the Lei siblings last time; and a twenty-year-old female cultivator, who seemed to be quite close to Han Zaojing. They had just killed a black gold python and were skinning and dissecting it, dividing up the spoils."

  Lao Hei's probing ability had long since clearly investigated all the situations dozens of feet away. Due to the shelter of many giant rocks, plants and forks in the canyon, these situations were definitely invisible to Su Che's naked eye.

  As for the four of them, their cultivation strength doesn't need Lao Hei to explain, they definitely haven't made any progress and are still at the third layer of Qi Refining. Because if they exceeded the third layer of Qi Refining, they wouldn't be allowed to enter the Yin Wind Gorge. In this regard, the Tian Xuan Sect's law enforcement team stationed here is managing things quite well.

  Su Che had set up an ambush and was waiting for Han Zao Jing and the others to pass by, planning to launch a surprise attack on them. However, he suddenly heard Lao Hei report: "Master, three outer sect disciples of Tian Xuan Sect have come from the other side, all with cultivation at the third layer of Qi Refining. They are rushing towards Han Zao Jing and the others."

  Lao Hei conveyed everything he saw to Su Che in a spiritual painting, and it was clear that the three Tianxuan Sect outer sect disciples were all around 18 or 19 years old. There were no identity jade cards at their waists representing the Ten Great Peaks, indicating that they were only low-level disciples of the Tianxuan Sect, which made up the majority of the sect's population.

  One of the rules of the Tianxuan Sect: If a 20-year-old's bone age has not yet advanced to the middle stage of Qi training (fourth layer of Qi training), they will be stripped of their outer sect disciple status and demoted back to self-cultivating disciple. Only those who advance to the late stage of Qi training (seventh layer of Qi training) before the age of 30 can return to the mountain gate.

  These three young men are already at the age of nineteen, facing tremendous pressure to be swept out of the mountain gate at any moment. In order to obtain more cultivation resources and break through the cultivation barrier, they may rush for quick success and resort to unscrupulous means...

  As expected, Su Che's prediction was not wrong. The three outer door disciples came to the front of Han Zuo and his four companions, and immediately threatened and extorted them with a high tone: "You guys are lucky, you hunted down an adult Black Gold Snake... No need to say more nonsense, this is the training ground for our Tianxuan Sect disciples. Since we've encountered you, whoever sees it should have a share. Hand over the snake gall and demon core of the Black Gold Snake, and the rest can belong to you. Otherwise..."

  Han Suo and the other three looked ugly, but they were already used to this kind of thing. In the Yin Wind Gorge, it was common for Tian Xuan Sect disciples and loose cultivators to fight each other, whoever had the upper hand could plunder others' belongings.

  This competitive model is actually deliberately created by the high-level managers of Tianxuan Sect. Since it's a place for training, the more complicated the situation, the more meaningful the training will be. Anyway, they are all at the initial stage of Qi training, so it can be considered as fair competition.

  At this moment, the three Tianxuan Sect disciples may not have an advantage in numbers, but their overall strength is comparable to that of Han Sa and his four companions. After all, the personal strength of a sect disciple is slightly stronger than that of a cultivator of the same level.

  Actually, the two teams facing each other were not willing to really fight. Because once they started fighting, even if no one was injured, the spiritual symbols and medicine would inevitably be consumed, in that case, a black gold python might not be enough to make up for the loss.

  Then the two groups began haggling over prices, like aunties at a vegetable market, arguing endlessly over tiny profits.

  After listening for a while, Lao Hei became impatient: "It's just a black gold python, it's only worth a few dozen spirit stones at most, is it worth arguing about?"

  "It's not like they can be blamed for being stingy." Su Che thought to himself: "Even a top-notch sect like the Tian Xuan Sect, an outer disciple's monthly allowance is only ten spirit stones. Let alone scattered cultivators, every single spirit stone has to be carefully calculated. If it weren't for you and the Immortal Prison, I would have also ended up with this kind of behavior."

  Lao Hei smiled slyly and didn't think it was a good idea to evaluate his master in this aspect.

  After a brief pause, Su Che said: "Or, why don't we just catch them all at once and get it over with? What do you think?"

  "Alright!" Old Hei exclaimed excitedly: "As they say themselves, whoever sees it gets a share. Since we've encountered them, let's take them down together."

  "There are so many minerals in Xianyu waiting to be refined and purified, the more people working on it the better......" Su Che nodded and said: "Then let's reel it in!"

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