Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 136 - 95: Tie Sha Swears Loyalty to His Adoptive Father, Ghost Gate of the Black Market Opens
General Gu Xiang suddenly bowed and said, "If there’s nothing else, we juniors will take our leave. After all... we are just passing by."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and Zhao Xiantong along with the remnants of his troops began to slowly retreat, heading west.
This frontier is not just about Hua Mo, Tian Nan, and Shanbao Three Counties; there are other places too, so there’s no need to die hard here.
They came to be local warlords, not to fight to the death.
If it were a fight to the death, why come back?
Once they had gone far away, Zhao Xiantong said, "General Gu Xiang, there is still Cyan Pool County nearby. There are more Seventh Grade warriors there, but they can’t withstand our attack, it just requires a little more effort. Let’s attack there."
"Alright, once we take it down, we can then explore the situation here..." said the strong man with a head like copper and arms like iron, "We need to figure out what’s going on here. If not... we’ll have to relocate again."
"Yes..." Zhao Xiantong responded, then suddenly asked, "Could it be that it is..."
"No."
General Gu Xiang immediately dismissed it, then said quietly, "A living person practices, and the source of practice is in the blood, but the soul is a forbidden zone. Any tiny aberration in the Divine Soul can drive a person mad or even lead to death.
Therefore, no one can have a soul outside the body, except for the anomalously born bodies or... ghosts."
Li Yuan watched them go far away and only then breathed a sigh of relief, secretly thinking "fortunate" in his heart.
But it seemed fortunate, if he hadn’t previously exterminated General Qing Xiang and displayed its head at the entrance as a warning, the result might have been entirely different.
This remnant army would enter the canyon, unite with General Qing Xiang, then understand the local situation, and finally quickly target the "Blood Saber Ancestor."
After that, they would test the waters.
How would they test?
By capturing some disciples of the Blood Saber Sect, then setting up a Celestial Net to see if the Blood Saber Ancestor could rescue them, and how he would do it. In this process, the power of the Blood Saber Ancestor would be laid bare.
If it came to that, all his actions would be trapped in extreme passivity, every move seeming to undergo a form of trial, nervous and on tenterhooks, and then... if General Gu Xiang found him to be no more than this, everything would be over.
Li Yuan did not hear words like "anomalous bodies," but at this time he still felt a sense of oppression.
Now he must do two things:
First, the Life Atlas, always the Life Atlas;
Second, find out what kind of existence can observe others like he does through birds.
The former is his true strength, the latter... is his facade.
Various thoughts flashed by, and Li Yuan squeezed the sides of his horse, removing the saddle upon reaching a mountainous area, patted the horse’s rear to let it return by itself, while he would circle around Xiao Mo Mountain, randomly hunting, and then return from the direction of Little Ink Workshop.
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"Elder Li, back from hunting?" When Li Yuan returned to the Inner City, a miscellaneous task worker at the gate greeted him respectfully. Elder Li’s good temper was well-known, otherwise, he wouldn’t have led the initiative to "reduce the rations for the farmers."
Plus, with those congee shops in front of Silver Creek Square, Li Yuan’s family was almost bound to words like "good people" and "bodhisattva."
So, the miscellaneous workers were genuinely close to Li Yuan, whereas with other elders, or even Inner City disciples, they wouldn’t dare speak so casually.
Li Yuan smiled kindly, "Yes... Having been a hunter before, now that it’s winter, I still want to experience it again, isn’t my hand itchy? Haha."
The worker didn’t expect Li Yuan to say much, he was happy just to receive a response.
Seeing Li Yuan say so much at once, he felt a surge of warmth, and respectfully bowed again as Li Yuan went away.
Li Yuan returned to Courtyard No. 9, first calling for Aunt Wang to heat water, then went to his room, took out "Soul-Throwing Technique," and stared at the Life Atlas of "Form Without Soul."
Soon, the water was heated.
Herbs floated on the warm water, the young man undressed and slid into the water, thoroughly cleaned, then changed into loose robes and rocked back and forth in a reclining chair.
After a brief separation, the evening was filled with long-missed passion for Li Yuan.
After intense exertion, he held Lady Yan’s waist from behind, in their twists and turns, the snow was subtly melting; while the lady boss leaned lazily against him, her body like water, delicate peaks lightly rising, her breath a spring breeze.
Lady Yan softly said, "Outside the county, there was a band of bandits, said to have been suppressed by the Blood Saber Ancestor; they went mad, shouting for the Ancestor’s mercy..."
The lady boss said, "But the county people all waved their hands in approval, saying the Blood Saber Ancestor was removing evil for the people."
Li Yuan directly said, "I did it."
The two women fell silent.
Both women were very clever, so they understood "why didn’t their husband tell them he was eliminating bandits, and only said he was going to hunt in Xiao Mo Mountain," was to prevent them from giving away secrets.
This "giving away" didn’t mean speaking out, but sometimes a facial expression could reveal the truth.
The lady boss was smiling, yet there was a hint of fear.
Li Yuan noticed her emotions, turned around, and embraced her...
The lady boss dared not move, her body somewhat stiff.
Ordinary people only knew General Qing Xiang as a mountain bandit, but only she knew how powerful General Qing Xiang really was, and... that it was a force of thousands.
Li Yuan said, "Am I very scary?"
The lady boss wanted to shake her head but didn’t, she didn’t want to lie, so she gently lowered her head and said, "Anyone who knows you’ve killed so many, even if they were all bad guys, would be afraid... Sister Yan surely is too..."
Li Yuan turned his head to look at Yan Yu.
