frightfiction Chapter 123 Mu Jing
Chapter 123 Mu Jing
"Hehe, what a coincidence, Manager Zhao, I also have something to discuss with you."
Cui Ying raised her eyebrows, and instead of being angry, she smiled and walked towards her stone house first.
"If Manager Zhao is not busy, please come with me."
"Haha, I didn't expect you to be so sensible, even though you always have such a cold face."
Zhao An's eyes darted unabashedly over Cui Ying's body before he followed her.
"Fellow Daoist Cui, no!"
Seeing things escalate to this terrible state, Xu Hai was completely bewildered.
He was both anxious and angry and wanted to stop him, but he suddenly stopped after taking only two steps.
However, Zhao An, blinded by greed, thought that Xu Hai was afraid of him and that was why he dared not make a move against him. Upon seeing this, he spat a wad of phlegm at him and then followed Cui Ying into the stone house.
"Oh, what exactly do you have to give me?"
"Pfft"
As Zhao Angang stepped into the stone house, he felt a flash of light before his eyes, followed by a tingling sensation in his chest and a warm, sweet-smelling liquid gushing from his throat.
In an instant, his blood surged and he was filled with rage.
"How dare you ambush me? Aren't you afraid of offending the Zhao family?"
"Manager Zhao, are you so happy you've lost your mind?"
Cui Ying smiled sweetly, but her eyes were cold and bloodthirsty: "Or is it that you don't like the gift I gave you?"
"You bitch, I won't let you get away with this."
Zhao An gritted his teeth, exerted all his strength, and as if suddenly realizing something, turned around and transformed into a ball of silver light, trying to escape.
But at that moment, Cui Ying flicked her wrist, and the Yao Guang sword flashed with silver light, instantly producing a silver-white sword aura.
Zhao An felt a cold glint flash before his eyes, and immediately, startled, he painfully pulled out a short blue ruler and swung it fiercely behind him.
A cyan ruler, about ten feet long, flashed into view and blocked his path.
But the next moment, after a few cracking sounds, the silver-white sword energy shattered the cyan ruler shadow along with Zhao An's protective aura, and swept past Zhao An's waist.
Zhao An let out a scream as his upper body fell off and crashed heavily to the ground.
However, Zhao An did not die immediately under these circumstances. Instead, with a ferocious expression, he quickly pulled out a talisman from his waist and gritted his teeth, ready to tear it to pieces immediately.
But the next moment, with a "whoosh," a golden thread shot out from below, and after a moment of trembling, it pierced directly through Zhao An's head.
At the tip of the gold thread was a remarkably sharp golden scorpion hook.
This time, Zhao An only moved his mouth slightly a few times before the object in his hand slowly slipped out of his hand, and he fell silent with his neck tilted to the side.
At this moment, a silver-white golden scorpion slowly crawled out of the nearby soil and pulled its stinger off the corpse.
Cui Ying then calmly walked over, glanced at the things that had fallen near the corpse, and with one hand, grabbed them out of thin air.
It was a white talisman.
However, the surface of the talisman was inscribed with crimson spiritual patterns. After Cui Ying scanned it with her spiritual power, she immediately sensed the wind and fire spiritual energy contained within, and it turned out to be a wind and thunder talisman.
Moreover, it was a Wind and Thunder Talisman of considerable quality. Cui Ying smiled and immediately put it into her storage bag without any hesitation.
With a flick of its claws, the golden scorpion swiftly picked up two pieces from the nearby ground and eagerly brought them to Cui Ying's feet.
Cui Ying looked closely and found that it was the short blue ruler that Zhao An had used to defend himself, but it was now broken in two. Cui Ying put the item into her storage bag, and then there was a knock on the door.
Immediately afterward, Xu Hai's slightly anxious voice reached her ears: "Fellow Daoist Cui, shall we proceed according to plan?"
"Ah."
That night, the moon was as cool as water, and the earth was completely silent.
Just then, the sounds of fierce fighting came from the dense forest north of Qingyang Lake, accompanied by roars of beasts, followed by bursts of fire and waves of magical energy from the battle spreading all around.
When the cultivators stationed nearby arrived, they saw Zhao An's body, which had been burned in two by the flames, and another pile of demon beast corpses next to him, still emitting black smoke.
Xu Hai, who had rushed over, pushed through the crowd, kicked aside the pile of snake-tailed fish corpses, found a male corpse that was also burned beyond recognition, and took out a token that had been deformed by the fire from the body. He exclaimed in surprise:
"It's a token from Lotus Hidden City, and this person is a beast tamer from Lotus Silver City."
Cui Ying analyzed, "It must be that Manager Zhao was passing by and accidentally stumbled upon some shady plot by this beast tamer from Lianyin City, which is why he was killed."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Chunlu, who was in the crowd, said thoughtfully:
"Manager Zhao, with his Qi Refining Level 6 cultivation, only lasted a short while. I bet that beast tamer had an accomplice. Oh no, the other accomplice must have escaped. We need to report to our superiors immediately."
Everyone nodded after hearing this.
Soon someone notified Zhao Yutang, the manager of Qingyang Lake.
"Hmph~ These bastards from Lianyin City have overstepped their bounds."
Zhao Yutang was an elderly man with gray hair. He arrived here as if riding on clouds, and after briefly understanding the whole story, he took the token and turned to leave.
Since the black-robed man and Zhao An died, not only have the number of monsters stealing fish decreased significantly, but even the life of the garrisoned cultivators has become much better.
Soon it was the last day, and with nothing to do, Cui Ying decided to go into the dense forest behind Qingyang Lake to collect herbs and transplant them to her own herb garden.
This place is also part of the Phoenix Mountain Range, but it is sparsely populated and should have more various kinds of medicinal herbs.
After several days of being cooped up in the snow, Treading Snow ran ahead to scout the way, while the Golden Scorpion appeared in the rolling purple mist, affectionately rubbing its front claws against Cui Ying's calves a couple of times before disappearing into the soil.
Cui Ying smiled and followed behind, riding a cloud that flew low.
Cui Ying traveled along the way, stopping frequently and encountering many demonic beasts, but she still couldn't find any valuable spiritual plants.
"puff"
Just as she summoned her two spirit pets and prepared to return home, billowing purple smoke rose from a tree hole not far away.
The next moment, the little golden scorpion, which arrived late, crawled out of the soil and croaked a few times at Cui Ying and Taxue. When it saw Cui Ying looking over, there was a hint of smugness in its two little eyes.
Cui Ying was slightly taken aback before noticing that each of its two front claws was holding a bright green, crystalline stone.
"Wood crystal stone".
Cui Ying reached out and picked up the two green crystals. After turning them over slightly in her hand, she recognized them with some surprise.
"No wonder you didn't respond when I called you for so long; it turns out you saw something good and didn't want to leave."
Cui Ying chuckled and scolded the little golden scorpion, then asked curiously:
"Where did you find it?"
"Quack quack quack".
As a result, the little golden scorpion shook its head and cried out a few more times, then suddenly turned around and quickly jumped down from the tree hole and burrowed deep into the mud.
About half a cup of tea later, the little golden scorpion reappeared, and two more shiny wood crystals suddenly appeared in its empty front claw.
"Could there be a lot of wood crystals down there?"