Chapter 93 Reunion of Old Friends Wan Xiu Chang Fan

  "Privilege is the root of all evil." Wang Guang couldn't help but recall the scenes of the government's cruel exploitation of hunters like him when he was wandering around Jianghu. If it weren't for the government constantly increasing taxes back then, he wouldn't have killed officials and learned martial arts, and he wouldn't have become a new privileged person in front of ordinary people today.

  Some merchants were tired of the scene, and Wang Guang quickened his pace. After turning a few corners, the two finally arrived at the Luo family's mansion.

  The Luo family had already known the news, so they prepared fine wine and delicacies, and also had a pure songstress to help with the excitement. The head of the Luo family also led his family members to wait in the living room for the arrival of the two people.

  King Guang was too lazy to talk to the Luo family, and instead played with the songstress in his arms. The Black Mountain Taoist, on the other hand, kept asking the Luo family if the ancient divine method they had given him was missing any sentences or if the order of the sentences had been altered. This round of questioning scared nearly a hundred members of the Luo family, young and old, into sweating profusely; if King Guang hadn't been there to intervene, they would have knelt down to beg for mercy long ago.

  As the night wore on and the singing and dancing became dull, Wang Guang began to feel a desire to leave. The Black Mountain Taoist, seeing that he couldn't get anything valuable out of him, also gave up.

  "You listen, if I find out that the secret recipe you handed over to me has errors, hehe! Don't mention capturing your souls and imprisoning them forever, at least I will wipe out the entire Luo family, and there won't be a single drop of Luo family blood left in the entire Tianyu Imperial Court." The Black Mountain Taoist was not pleased in his heart, so he put down this cruel talk.

  The ruler of the Naruo family didn't mind at all, because his family had been dealing with Qi practitioners for too long and knew that many of them were just talking big but wouldn't actually cause any trouble. After all, the divine techniques they handed out were genuine and unmodified, so they weren't afraid of the other side causing trouble for them.

  "From now on, if you need anything, just let me know. The Luo family will spare no expense, even if it means spending all our wealth, to satisfy your needs." As he was leaving, the head of the Luo family personally escorted Wang Guang out and said in a low voice.

  "Venerable Master of the Infinite Heavens! I, a humble Daoist, no longer have much to do with your Luo family. From now on, if there's anything that needs attention, I won't bother you again." Wang Guang shook his head and smiled. Although he didn't speak during the banquet, he could still sense the respect and fear the Luo family had for him. This made him very pleased. "If any of you have troubles, tell me about it. Perhaps at some point, I'll lend a hand or two."

  These words moved the ruler of the Luo family to tears. "Daoist, you truly have a good heart. Since the Lord of the Rift established the new emperor, our families no longer had the ability to worship Qi practitioners. Today, thanks to Daoist's promise, even if it's thousands or hundreds of years later, the Luo family will forever obey Daoist and his descendants."

  Look at the ruler, crying with a nose full of snot and tears. Wang Guang, who had not come, was annoyed in his heart: "You listen well, I'm not going to have a lot of time to help your family. If a family wants to be strong, don't rely on others, but on the efforts of its own members. Otherwise, even if I use my skills to make your family the number one family in the empire, once I leave, your family will still fall apart and can't maintain itself for half a minute."

  The ruler of the Luo family nodded and bowed repeatedly in agreement, and it wasn't until Wang Guang and Hei Shan Dao Ren left that the people from the Luo family returned to their respective residences.

  After more than ten days, the Lu family's ruler often invited Wang Guang to drink and have fun in the mansion, but Wang Guang mostly declined. If he really had some free time, he would go over to rest for a while. Several times, the Lu family also provided many treasures, such as deep-sea pearls, mountain stone essence, thousand-year-old spirit turtles, and other materials and medicines. Calculating it, the harvest was still pretty good.

  "Wang Dao You, are you really planning to use these materials to refine your magic treasure? Can this thing really be refined into a magic treasure? Will the refined magic treasure really work?" In a mansion outside the Imperial City, Hei Shan Dao Ren pinched his nose and looked at Wang Guang with a strange expression. Tie San Dao Ren, who often hung out with him, had long since fled without a trace, because he couldn't bear the lethal power brought by those materials.

  "Haha! In the world of Qi training, there are countless techniques and methods for refining equipment. You don't even know some of the unconventional methods for refining equipment, which is why you dare not acknowledge my treasure. Now that the materials have been gathered successfully, I'll let you witness the power of my new treasure!" Wang Guang laughed maniacally, completely disregarding the strange smell brought by the materials.

  "For over thirty years, the hair had not been washed and was used to make a banner." He stretched out his hand and grabbed a pile of scattered hair that emitted a foul odor and sprayed some magical power onto it. The magical power merged into the hair, and the disheveled hair quickly became smooth. A servant nearby took over the hair and placed it on a loom to weave. Before long, over a hundred strands of filthy hair were woven by the servants into a banner that was four feet long and one foot two inches wide.

  That servant was extremely skilled, and according to Wang Guang's requirements, he wove dozens of strange patterns on top. With a casual grab, although it was somewhat fragile, as long as the Taoist continued to refine it with his magical powers, it would gradually become more solid.

  "A thousand years old bleached bones used as flagpole."

  King Guang took out a white bone from the treasure bag, and then used the pubic hair of an old woman who had entertained over a thousand guests to rub into silk threads. He then used these silk threads to tie the banner and the white bone together.

  "Is the treasure really like this?" The black mountain Taoist on the side saw that Wang Guang didn't take action, but just held his hand still, thinking that the treasure was already formed, so he hurried over to watch. "What are those things for? You're not going to use them to temper this newly formed treasure, are you?"

  "Haha! If the treasure is going to be like this, why would I have spent so much time refining it?" Wang Guang let out a strange laugh and pointed at a pile of golden objects in the distance, saying: "Watch how I continue to refine it."

  After finishing speaking, he threw the long banner in his hand onto that pile of golden things. This pile of golden things was collected by Tie Yun Dao Ren to help him, all of which were the excrement of seven-month-old female infants, with a total of tens of thousands of copies piled up.

  The long banner fell into it and remained still, King Guang opened his mouth and sprayed out several mouths of green smoke that wrapped around the pile of filth. He also sprayed out a stream of blood that drew hundreds of talismans in mid-air, branding them onto the long banner.

  Only to see the long banner obtained the symbol, suddenly slow rotation. A thread of golden yellow impurities, like clear water falling into the desert, rushed into the long banner.

  Hei Shan Dao Ren stood by, staring with his mouth agape, momentarily speechless. He had seen all sorts of refining equipment materials before, but this was the first time he had ever seen such a material.

  The long banner rotated for a moment, and then floated in the air, trembling slightly. A thread of black smoke drilled back and forth on the surface of the banner. When the wind blew by, the black smoke did not disperse, looking very strange. Moreover, the foul smell in the courtyard also followed the tremble of the long banner, all drilling into the long banner.

  King Guang saw the long banner floating in mid-air, but he didn't look happy. On the contrary, his face was extremely ugly as he stared at the remaining yellowish-brown filth under the banner. Those filthy things occupied more than half of all the filthy things he had collected before. "You Iron Umbrella Taoist, I trusted you in vain! You actually gave me unqualified materials to collect. Don't you think I'm easy to cheat?" His mind was racing with regret for letting the Iron Umbrella Taoist help him collect these materials. "I hope the other materials are not problematic, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless." Looking at the other materials in the courtyard, he was extremely angry, but since Black Mountain Taoist was present, he couldn't lose his temper.

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  As expected, afterwards it was put into dozens of large water vats, which were filled with the blood of fierce and brutal men who had killed more than ten people. The long banner only absorbed about half of the blood from each vat before stopping. It was clear that these bloods were also not suitable for use.

  There were also plague-killed corpses, only a little more than half of which could be used, the rest couldn't. There was also snake venom, only half of which could be used.

  When the last kind of corpse oil squeezed out from the corpse had been absorbed by more than half, Wang Guang thoroughly fell silent.

  Hei Shan Dao Ren, who was standing beside him, noticed the situation and hastily asked, "Wang Daoyou, I see that your treasure has been successfully refined. Why don't you look happy?" He pointed to the long banner that had automatically floated in front of Wang Guang.

  Only to see the black air around the long banner completely dissipate, the banner surface is windless and automatic, a thread of gloomy breath emanates from the long banner, that Black Mountain Daoist feels that this treasure's power is even stronger than his own low-grade, unranked treasure.

  "Alas, Infinite Heaven Lord! I'm ashamed to admit it, but I thought this treasure could be easily cultivated, yet it ended in failure. It's truly infuriating." Wang Guang forced a smile and grasped the long banner, shaking it casually. No dark winds swirled, nor did black smoke rise. "It can't be used for great things, nor small things, nor can it be stored in the Hundred Treasures Pouch. Apart from being used as a weapon, it has no other effects."

  "How is this possible? I saw that the treasure's aura was strong, at least it should be a mid-grade lower-ranking treasure, how could it have no effect?" Hei Shan Dao Ren's face was anxious, he worried that Wang Guang wouldn't be able to accept it if his treasure refinement failed. So he opened his mouth again to comfort him: "Fellow daoist, don't worry, since the dark clouds pressed down, many fellow daoists who are skilled in refining equipment, even when refining the lowest-grade treasures, often make mistakes easily. If all else fails, we can wait for some time, collect new materials and refine it again. I'll go ask Lie Di Dao Ren to help us collect materials if necessary, I don't believe that with the entire Tian Yu Huang Chao's power, we still can't refine a single treasure."

  Wang Guang lowered his head and remained silent, but in his heart, he began to wildly speculate: "One material failing by one-fifth is still acceptable, it can be said that Iron Umbrella Taoist was just being lazy for a moment. But if all the dozens of materials he collected failed by one-fifth or even more, then it would absolutely not be a matter of laziness."

  "Tiān Sǎn Dào Rén! What are you planning? Are you thinking of finding an opportunity to kill me and take my soul, then extract the memories from it?"

  "It should have been a low-grade top-tier treasure, but now it's only a low-grade mid-tier one. It looks decent in quality, but wanting to upgrade it again would take too much time."