Chapter 4: Life and Death

  Ten days later.

  Qin Long opened his eyes from meditation, gazing forward with a hint of disappointment and anger flashing across his eyes. He had been cultivating according to this spiritual secret for ten whole days, but from the few sentences on this secret, Qin Long was completely clueless. In other words, these two pages of spiritual secrets were utterly useless!!!

  "As expected, you didn't have good intentions!!" Qin Long's face turned gloomy and terrifying! Although he had guessed that Qin Hao wouldn't give him a chance to cultivate, after confirming it, his anger surged up to his head, making Qin Long almost explode in despair.

  "One day!! I will become a bone, and for what you have given me, I will repay it a hundred times!!" Qin Long was hysterical.

  Just as Qin Long had thought, Qin Hao and that woman were not kind-hearted at all! Or rather, even if the woman had the complete cultivation secret manual in her hands, she wouldn't take it out for Qin Long to cultivate. After all, among the people of the Qin family, Qin Zhan was the number one young master, a position he deserved, and they wouldn't be willing to see Qin Long become a Bone. If that were to happen, even if Qin Zhan became the Young Master, it would still be difficult for him to become the Clan Master!

  But they did not expect Qin Changkong's real concern, nor did they anticipate that this move would thoroughly provoke Qin Long's fighting spirit!!

  These years, Qin Long has experienced too many disappointments. Even this time, he still didn't thoroughly give up on cultivation. Qin Long quickly walked out of the gloom and once again placed his mind on the beast skin scroll!!

  While attempting to cultivate the two pages of cultivation secrets, Qin Long did not forget to purchase a large quantity of spiritual beast blood for the scroll to absorb. Over these ten days, what made Qin Long incredulous was that this scroll seemed like a bottomless pit; although more and more seals were appearing, he had no idea how much more it would take to reveal the complete seal on the scroll. And the gold spent purchasing spiritual beast blood over these ten days almost depleted all of Qin Long's private savings.

  As the eldest son of the Qin family, he had everything he needed and never worried about food or clothing. Gold was just a concept to him, but at this moment, it made him want to get more gold to buy more spiritual beast blood for the scroll to absorb!

  He vaguely felt that if he could satisfy the scroll, he would necessarily get a certain opportunity!!

  "Where can I get more gold?" Qin Long muttered to himself, knowing that as long as he spoke up, his father would satisfy him, but he didn't know how to bring it up, saying buy the blood of a spiritual beast for an unknown origin scroll to absorb?

  Just as Qin Long was pondering, a loud and clear voice came from outside: "Young Master, the Clan Leader has instructed me to purchase 1,000 catties of Ling Beast fresh blood for your use. If it's not enough, just let me know." Qin Long's massive consumption of Ling Beast fresh blood over the past ten days had already drawn attention from others, although no one came to ask about it, but many eyes were secretly watching him.

  Qin Long was taken aback, a complex expression appearing on his face. He turned around and opened the door to see ten large barrels neatly arranged in the courtyard. A warm feeling filled Qin Long's heart as he took a deep breath, looking towards the depths of the Qin estate. "Move all of these Spirit Beast blood barrels into the room," he instructed.

  "Yes! Young Master!" The ten burly men outside respectfully replied, and immediately moved the large barrels into Qin Long's room.

  After a while, Qin Long looked at the ten buckets of Ling Beast blood, picked up the scroll and put it into one of the wooden buckets. Under Qin Long's gaze, the blood in the bucket decreased silently, and in less than half an hour, the originally full bucket of Ling Beast blood had dried up. Looking at the scroll lying at the bottom of the bucket, he noticed that there were more marks on the scroll, and Qin Long eagerly picked it up and put it into another bucket.

  "Creak..." The door was opened and a tall figure stood at the entrance. Qin Long raised his head and said, "Xiaohu, come quick and take a look!"

  The newcomer was Qin Hu, he walked silently to Qin Long's side and followed his gaze into the wooden barrel.

  "As the absorbed blood increased, more and more marks appeared on the scroll!" Qin Long exclaimed. Qin Hu looked at the wooden barrel, then glanced at Qin Long, his eyes narrowing slightly, but he didn't seem to be thinking about anything in particular.

  When the eighth bucket of spiritual beast's blood was almost gone, the seal on the scroll became dense and messy. This made Qin Long hold back his excitement in his heart and put the scroll into the ninth wooden barrel!

  When the tenth bucket of spiritual beast blood was absorbed by the scroll, Qin Long's hands trembled as he picked it up. When he saw the dense marks on the scroll, Qin Long was stunned!! The dense marks on this scroll surprisingly... formed a blurry shadow of a seated figure!! Apart from that, there were no other words, as if this scroll was just an ordinary painting scroll!!

  Qin Long stared at the blurry figure on the scroll, his face stiff with an expression that seemed to dare not believe that after spending so much spiritual beast blood, he had only gotten a painting.

  A painting!

  "Haha!" Qin Long smiled wryly, staring at the blurry figure on the scroll, murmuring weakly: "Xiao Hu, am I being too extreme? To actually think of obtaining the spiritual cultivation technique from this scroll!"

  The response was a silence, Qin Hu stood on one side, quietly gazing at Qin Long.

  "It's okay, Xiao Hu, after all these years, I'm already used to this kind of disappointment. Alright, Xiao Hu, you go back first, I want to be alone for a while!" Qin Long forced out a smile as he looked at Qin Hu.

  Qin Hu's pair of clear and distinct black eyes gazed at Qin Long, took a step forward, patted Qin Long's shoulder, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything, then turned around and left the room.

  Listening to the footsteps fading away, Qin Long collapsed to the ground! The thick hope he had placed in the scroll was heavier than the two pages of spiritual cultivation secrets. Otherwise, he wouldn't have gone crazy buying the Ling Beast's blood! But what he didn't expect was that these seemingly strange marks would eventually form just an ordinary painting!

  Softly seated on the ground, Qin Long picked up the scroll and looked at the blurry figure above, still unwilling to give up muttering: "If it's just an ordinary painting, it can't absorb so much spiritual beast blood! There must be some unusual place that has not been discovered yet! But how can we find out what's special about this painting? Is it that the absorbed spiritual beast blood is not enough?"

  Thinking of this, Qin Long hastily stood up, picked up his fur coat and walked out of the room.

  In the following days, the scroll absorbed nearly ten buckets of spiritual beast blood every day. If converted to gold, it would be an astronomical figure!

  These days, Qin Long has been staying in his room and having his meals delivered there. All his hopes are pinned on the scroll. Unable to bear depriving Qin Long of his desire for cultivation, Qin Changkong satisfied Qin Long's needs. In his view, what Qin Long is doing cannot obtain the spiritual refinement technique!

  On this day, after the tenth bucket of spiritual beast blood was absorbed by the scroll, Qin Long bent down to pick it up. Just as his hand was about to touch the scroll, his body suddenly shook violently, and he stared at the scroll with an intense gaze, two beams of light bursting out from his eyes.

  On the scroll, it was no longer just a faint shadow. On top of the shadow, two blurry characters actually floated up. Although they couldn't be seen clearly, this made Qin Long's heart burst with joy, as if he had seen the dawn of hope. He rolled up the scroll and tied it to his body, hastily leaving the room, even forgetting to put on his fur coat to ward off the cold.

  The next day, thirty barrels of spiritual beast blood were placed in the courtyard of Qin Long's mansion, while Qin Long wore a beast skin cloak and slowly placed the scrolls into each wooden barrel to absorb the spiritual beast blood.

  The scroll absorbed the blood of the spiritual beast for five days, which was equivalent to one hundred and fifty buckets. The two blurry characters finally became clear!

  "Life and death!!"

  Qin Long stared at the two ancient characters on the scroll's virtual shadow, muttering to himself.

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