Chapter Eighty-four Substitute for Spiritual Grass

  Xuanji Peak, outside Su Che's cultivation cave mansion.

  Yu Qing said in a low and serious tone: "Su Shi-di, for the time being, unless it's absolutely necessary, it's best not to leave Xuanji Peak."

  Su Che nodded in agreement, understanding that Yu Qing meant that the Zhen sisters might cause trouble for him afterwards. However, as long as he stayed honestly at Xuanji Peak and didn't run around everywhere, those Tianwu Peak disciples wouldn't dare to come to Xuanji Peak to stir up trouble.

  So Su Che said to Ling Long, "Ling Long Shijie, next I will be in closed-door training to break through the middle stage of Qi cultivation, at least for half a year, I won't be able to go to the medicine garden to treat the spiritual grass."

  "It doesn't matter." Linglong nodded briskly: "Retreating for closed-door training is also a fairly wise choice."

  Linglong also felt that the Zhen sisters would not let things go easily, especially Zhenzhen, as a true disciple, it was easy to find an excuse to make things difficult for Su Che.

  After that, Yu Qing and Ling Long did not ask Su Che where he got so many high-grade spirit symbols, nor did they ask about the mysterious circumstances of Song Bao's suicide on the competition stage. These things were all Su Che's personal secrets, and it was inconvenient to casually inquire about them.

  Cultivators, who doesn't have a little secret?

  Yu Qing and Ling Long left, Su Che dragged Jiang Chen into the cave mansion, without even giving him a chance to untie his seal, directly throwing him into the immortal prison.

  Lao Hei said that he would have to be thoroughly interrogated, and only after he had tasted the three thousand tortures of the Great Law would he be sentenced to death; Su Che, on the other hand, was no longer concerned with these matters, because his resentment towards Jiang Chen had long since dissipated, and there were no more knots in his heart.

  After this, such a small character was no longer worth Su Che's attention, and Lao Hei was willing to do whatever he wanted, it didn't matter.

  When night fell, Leixiao also returned to Xuánjī Peak and delivered the 2,000 spirit stones as a wager to Sū Chè. He himself won 500 spirit stones.

  "Haha, it's too great! Just the two of us won 1,500 spirit stones from them. This time, those people from Tianwu Peak were utterly defeated." Lei laughed excitedly: "I've finally figured it out, you're a super vice-general, and from now on, I'll follow you to get rich!"

  Su Che smiled and nodded, a mere 1,000 pieces of spirit stone was now nothing to him.

  Lei Xiao looked around the cave and asked in a low voice, "That Jiang Chen, has he been taken care of?"

  "Hmm." Su Che pointed at a small pile of white ash in the corner of the wall: "It has already turned into ashes."

  This is of course a lie, at this moment, Jiang Chen is screaming in agony in the Heavenly Prison, the pain is unbearable, and the Heavenly Prison has become an endless abyss of suffering for him.

  "Good riddance!" Lei laughed and waved his hand, saying: "This kid is too poisonous. If he didn't die, if he lived for a few more years, who knows what kind of evil he would become."

  Su Che nodded with a smile and said: "I want to retreat for half a year, our spiritual grass transaction can only continue after half a year."

  "It's nothing." Lei Xiao also understood the reason behind this and thought that Su Che should temporarily avoid the wrath of the Zhen sisters.

  "However, before I go into seclusion, I still need to complete the transaction of at least 200 Earth Spirit Pills for my family's elder." Su Che asked again: "How many more Earth Spirit Pills can the Lei family take out?"

  "It's only been a few days since the last Lingcao transaction, I reckon they can't come up with more Dilindan..."

  Lei Xiao thought for a moment before saying, "How about this? If you trust me, I can help you deliver the spiritual grass to my uncle's shop on Motian Peak and sell it on your behalf. It's estimated that in a short period of time, we can exchange it for several dozen Earth Spirit Pills. However, this consignment method requires deducting 10% commission."

  Su Che naturally remembered that Lei Xiao's clan uncle from the foundation-building period was in charge of a shop on Mowu Peak, and consignment sales were a relatively safe method, almost no need to take risks himself. So he said happily: "Of course I trust you, deducting commission is also reasonable."

  Next, Su Che gave Leixiao three stalks of medium-grade spiritual grass with a medicinal age of five hundred years. As agreed upon, he should be able to get back at least eighty Earth Spirit Pills.

  After Leixiao left, Su Che thought silently: "The method of acting as an agent is not bad, but it always relies on the Lei family, after all, it's not a long-term plan, and there will still be some risks..."

  "There's some risk, but that can't be helped." Lao Hei replied, "If you want to go to the Yin Wind Gorge for a long-term retreat, you'll have to exchange a large amount of Diligent Spirit Pills. Let the Lei family help; it's much better than you taking the risk yourself, Master."

  "I completely trust Leixiao, but I'm still a bit worried that his family elders might... " Su Che sighed: "But before thinking of a good solution, it can't be helped."

  The next morning, Su Che went to the Transmission Hall of Xuanji Peak and found Zheng Guanshi. He exchanged a few stalks of low-grade spiritual grass for enough sect contribution points and received some techniques that could be cultivated during the middle stage of Qi Refining.

  Then went to the library, found a few ancient books related to the ancient text. After checking, finally confirmed that the two ancient characters on the golden banner on the lava lake island in the underground fire vein of Yinfeng Gorge should be "Misen" two words, belonging to the ancient witch script, which is a kind of text created by the ancient witch tribe.

  "The ancient witch tribe, which had completely disappeared millions of years ago, has a legend that it was completely extinct due to the rise of humans and demons; there is also a legend that the whole tribe migrated to another big world..."

  Su Che read some ancient books about the ancient witch tribe and thought to himself: "That banner with the witch script embroidered on it, could it be a treasure left behind by the witch tribe hundreds of millions of years ago?"

  "It's unlikely." Lao Hei analyzed, "A treasure that won't decay for hundreds of millions of years should at least be a Dao instrument level, but I don't think that command flag is that powerful."

  Su Che waited in the library for a whole day, almost flipping through all the relevant ancient books, but still couldn't find the two words "Mi Xian", and what they meant.

  In the following days, Su Che stayed at Xuanji Peak, just waiting for Lei Xiao to bring the subsequent Earth Spirit Dan, before heading to Yinfeng Gorge to close his doors and cultivate bitterly.

  During this time, he also went to the secret cave in the Lingcao Medicine Garden and transplanted ten middle-grade lingcao, five high-grade lingcao, all of which were 500 years old. As for those top-grade treasures with a thousand-year-old medicinal age, they didn't dare to sell them out for the time being. Their strength was insufficient, and it was too easy to lose their lives because of the treasure...

  On the sixth day, Lei Xiao finally arrived.

  "Not bad, three stalks of spiritual grass were exchanged for ninety-six Earth Spirit Pills. After deducting the commission, this is the eighty-six Earth Spirit Pills that should be given to you, and there's still a remainder of one hundred spiritual stones." Lei Xiao placed the pills and spiritual stones on the table.

  Su Che pushed the one hundred Ling stones that Yu had taken out back in front of him, smiling as he said: "Still the same rule, we brothers doing things together must make money."

  "Hehe, okay." Lei Xiao also didn't bother with pleasantries and readily accepted it.

  "Then, starting tomorrow, I will be in seclusion." Su Che added: "We won't see each other again for at least half a year."

  "In half a year, you'll probably be at the intermediate level of Qi training." Lei Xiao's expression turned serious: "I must also work hard to cultivate, these past few days, I've been fiercely stimulated by your rapid promotion."

  "You should work hard! The conditions the Lei family has provided for you are so good, you should make good use of them." Su Che patted him on the shoulder: "Don't let me surpass you too much, okay?"

  "I'll definitely catch up with you, just wait and see!"

  Two people of the same age bid each other farewell.

  Su Che left Xuanji Peak that very day, but he hung a notice of closed cultivation outside his cave to confuse others.

  Several hours later, a middle-aged monk with a dark complexion walked out of the Tianxuan Mountains and began to move towards the Yin Wind Gorge.

  This middle-aged cultivator, although possessing the spiritual power fluctuations of the seventh layer of Qi Refining, is only an outer sect disciple. There is no identity jade pendant belonging to the top ten main peaks at his waist, indicating that his cultivation talent is relatively ordinary. This life will not become an inner sect disciple of Tianxuan Sect, and it's likely that building foundation is also hopeless.

  Such an outer sect disciple, Tianxuan Sect has at least tens of thousands of people, can be considered extremely ordinary, this is Su Che's appearance after changing his face.

  The art of disguise is nothing, the key is that Lao Hei and Xian Yin's 'Concealing Spirit Technique' played a crucial role. I suppose the Zhen sisters couldn't have guessed that Su Che would still have such skills, able to fake the spiritual fluctuations of a 7th-layer Qi Practitioner.

  So all the way here was extremely smooth, and Lao Hei also confirmed that he had never been followed by anyone behind him.

  The days of closed-door training in the Windy Valley Gorge have officially arrived...

  PS: The two sockpuppets in my book review section who slandered me for plagiarism have been verified to be the same author, and it turns out that they are also the ones who borrowed ideas from Tianyu. I privately contacted him and advised him not to be so unreasonable, but unexpectedly, his response was "Take the opportunity to advertise and promote my book, brother, why are you being so serious?"

  "My god, coffee is speechless. He borrowed my idea, turned around and bit me back, framed me for plagiarism, and then gave such a response. Coffee has to admit, it's really encountered a rascal."

  It is said that thugs are not scary, but thugs who can write books are the scariest. I've learned my lesson!