novelapdf Chapter 24 The Demonic Cultivator Who Slaughtered the Village
Chapter 24 The Demonic Cultivator Who Slaughtered the Village
There are 11 Shadowless Earth Spirit Needles in total. If all of them are used together, Su Qingyan's spiritual power is only enough to support one full-power use.
However, if only one is taken out and reused, Su Qingyan's spiritual power can support him to use it more than ten times.
The effect is far from satisfactory. If used against cultivators, it can only damage a small part of the spiritual veins in their bodies, so it is not very useful.
However, it should be extremely effective against small, ordinary fish or small, aquatic fish.
Thinking this through, Su Qingyan took out a Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle from the jade box in his bundle, infused it with spiritual energy, and then gently tossed it into the water.
The Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle slowly sank to the bottom of the water and instantly melted into the silt below, leaving no trace to the naked eye.
A few minutes passed just like that.
A large bluefish weighing seven or eight pounds swam slowly over, its fins gliding along, its mouth opening and closing with a leisurely air.
It's now!
Su Qingyan quickly recited the incantation for controlling the Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle. At the same time, a flash of light appeared in the silt at the bottom of the Three Pit River, and the Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle, which had been fused into the silt, instantly flew out, pierced the skin of the big blue fish, and burrowed into its flesh and bones.
In less than two breaths, the big bluefish, which had been struggling frantically in pain, stopped moving and went limp.
Its internal meridians have been completely destroyed.
My mind was clear, but my body had completely lost sensation and I couldn't muster any strength at all; it was no different from being dead.
The actual situation was similar; the bighead carp surfaced within seconds, belly up, unable to move.
When Su Qingyan used a willow wood harpoon to spear the big bluefish ashore, the big bluefish had already suffocated due to lack of oxygen, once again benefiting Little Grey.
It went into its belly.
Over the next half hour, Su Qingyan continued to familiarize himself with the control methods of the Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle, and came up with many different ways to use it.
Not only did it kill three or four large grass carp and bighead carp, but it also killed a meter-long bigmouth bass. Little Grey ate so much that it burped on the spot.
"I'm pretty familiar with the Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle now; it's time to go find Plum Blossom Village and Blackwater Pool."
"Let's restore our spiritual energy first, and set off immediately once we're in good condition." Su Qingyan retrieved the Shadowless Earth Spirit Needle, cleaned it, and carefully placed it back into the jade box.
Then he found a quiet corner, sat cross-legged, and began to absorb spiritual energy to replenish his own spiritual power.
It took about half a day for Su Qingyan's spiritual power to recover to its peak.
"Little Grey, get up, let's find out where Plum Blossom Village is." Su Qingyan scratched the back of Little Grey's head and picked it up.
The man and the beast then consciously began to avoid the cultivators who were trying their luck around the Three Pit River, and instead searched for mortals nearby to inquire about the locations of Plum Blossom Village and Blackwater Pool.
Cultivators are often scheming, and if this gets noticed, it could lead to some unfortunate events.
Su Qingyan's greatest principle in doing things is to be prudent.
Soon, he found a father and son fishing by the river. They had no spiritual energy fluctuations and were just ordinary fishermen from the neighborhood.
After some communication, Su Qingyan successfully learned the location of Plum Blossom Village.
Just to the east was the neighboring village, about seven or eight miles away from the area where Su Qingyan was standing.
Having determined the direction, Su Qingyan didn't linger and headed east towards Plum Blossom Village with Little Grey. It was at this moment that the sound of sobbing came from a group of people on the riverbank in the distance.
Su Qingyan looked closely and saw a group of disheveled mortals kneeling and kowtowing to the cultivators who were trying their luck in the Three Pit River to find traces of the Xuan Shui Catfish.
He kept shouting something, and upon closer listening, Su Qingyan, with his first-level Qi Refining hearing, could barely make it out.
"Immortal Master, please, please save our Plum Blossom Village!"
"Demonic cultivators have stormed into our village and are killing everyone they see!"
"He turned my 80-year-old mother into a drop of black blood; it's utterly cruel!"
"This is a massacre of the entire village!"
"..."
Several cultivators nearby were annoyed by their noise. One of them shouted angrily, "Your noise has scared away my spirit fish. If you keep making a fuss, you'll make me miss my opportunity. I'll kill you all later."
Another cultivator chimed in, equally furious, "What good is it for you to come to us crying and complaining after demonic cultivators massacre villages?"
"This is the Zhou family's territory!"
"You need to find the cultivators from the Zhou family to resolve this matter."
"If all else fails, we can go to the cultivators of the Moon Shadow Sect to complain. Since such a thing as a demonic cultivator massacring a village happened in the area managed by the Zhou family, the Zhou family will also be reprimanded and held accountable by the Moon Shadow Sect."
"Asking us cultivators from other places to get involved in this matter is like a dog trying to catch a mouse."
"If we're not careful again and get killed by that demonic cultivator, the cultivators from the Zhou family will probably laugh at us. It would be a pointless death."
After saying that, the cultivator suddenly glanced at a young cultivator in gray robes who was drifting over in a boat not far away, pointed at him and said, "That person is the cultivator from the Zhou family. Go find him."
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed.
What came into view was a young face, looking much younger than Su Qingyan, only about fourteen or fifteen years old.
Cultivators begin their spiritual practice earlier than mortals and appear more mature. Perhaps the true age of this Zhou family cultivator is not as old as his appearance suggests.
Under the gaze of so many people, the young cultivator from the Zhou family immediately realized what was happening and hurriedly waved his hand to deflect the attention, saying, "Don't look at me, I'm just a lowly Kalami at the second level of Qi Refining."
"Asking me to fight that demonic cultivator is like handing over resources to someone else!"
"You mortals of Plum Blossom Village don't need to worry so much. I have already sent a message to my elders at home, and they will be here by flying boat to deal with this demonic cultivator soon."
"Pfft—"
No sooner had the young cultivator from the Zhou family finished speaking than a middle-aged cultivator with a scar on his face couldn't help but laugh. Seeing the young cultivator looking at him, and realizing that his cultivation was not as high as his own, he immediately straightened his back and sneered, "You can only fool these mortals."
"We rogue cultivators know better than anyone what kind of people the Zhou family is."
"They were just waiting for the demonic cultivators to have their fill of killing and leave. Then they sent a few old guys whose families were about to die to make a show of threatening you mortals not to cause trouble for the Moon Shadow Sect. In the end, the matter was resolved just like that, very easily."
"In reality, you mortals don't even know where the Moon Shadow Sect is located, and you can't cause trouble there."
"But now that you know the truth, some cultivators from the Zhou family are probably already planning to kill you to silence you."
After the scarred rogue cultivator finished speaking, he looked at the young cultivator from the Zhou family with a hint of schadenfreude.
They seemed to enjoy watching the drama unfold.
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