Return Of The Demon - 136 Meeting Huang Yao

So Bai Yun quickly ate a qi replenishing pill, as well as a healing pill. The healing pill could only heal his minor injuries but not his burned hand. But Bai Yun realized that one of the advantages of Undying Body was its ability to heal. Since Bai Yun had only completed skin sewing, any skin level injury would heal in time, not even leaving any scars. It would take some time that’s all.

So Bai Yun wrapped up his left arm with bandages. Then he went to the snake and collected all of its blood. The three headed snake was a very valuable animal and all of its parts could be sold for a great price, and that was not including the uses Bai Yun had for it.

Bai Yun first pulled out the demonic cores of the three headed snake. The three headed snake was special in that it had three demonic cores, each for one of its heads. All of the multiheaded snakes were like that. After this Bai Yun tied it in bandages to stop the bleeding, and then wrapped it up and tied it up with nearby vines. All through this Bai Yun did not show any weakness, just in case, someone around him tried to attack.

After this Bai Yun went back to the lake. He had left the fourth blue lotus there when the three headed snake attacked him. Even though the fight with the snake had been intense, it had actually only taken a short time. So Bai Yun did not think that it had been taken yet. After all, anyone nearby would have been attracted by the sound of fighting and not gone to check the lake.

And just as Bai Yun thought, the lotus was still here. Bai Yun walked to the shore, and quickly plucked the lotus, and put it in his backpack.

When Bai Yun turned around, he found that there were a couple of groups of people standing there looking at Bai Yun. Seeing them Bai Yun suddenly felt irritated. These guys had been watching when Bai Yun was fighting the three headed snake. But not a single one had come forward to help. And now that Bai Yun had killed the snake and found a blue lotus, they all appeared to steal from him.

“I’m going to this say this once and just once,” Bai Yun said, “get lost before I kill you all.”

Along with those words, a powerful killing intent and a coercion rose from Bai Yun. A terrifying killing intent permeated the surrounding. Bai Yun usually did not like using his killing intent to power through, but right now he didn’t care, and it flowed out like a river.

And those adventurers were now regretting their choice. When they initially surrounded Bai Yun, they thought that he was weak after the fight with the three headed snake. They were staring at Bai Yun who was now nearing them with each step he took. Bai Yun’s coercion made it nearly impossible to breathe. They were sweating visibly. Some of them even gulped audibly.

Bai Yun walked past them calmly without looking back. A few moments after Bai Yun disappeared into the trees, the adventurers all collapsed to the ground. Only they knew just how much pressure they were under just now. Some of them even decided to quit and change their lifestyle.

Bai Yun walked forward for a good while longer before he stopped. He let out a deep long breath, and bend over, clutching his stomach.

The truth was Bai Yun was quite tired and injured after the fight with the three headed snake. He was mostly just posturing. True, Bai Yun had enough strength to escape from the hands of the adventures, but he might have had to leave the snake behind, and he didn’t want to do so. Thankfully nobody picked up on his weakness.

After checking that no one was around, Bai Yun put the snake corpse in his storage ring. Bai Yun then sat down and properly bandaged up his various injuries, and his arm once again. Then he started to walk out of the poison valley. He had had enough adventures here for now.

It took Bai Yun nearly half a day to make it out to the entrance of the poison valley. On the way, he saw many people quickly passing by him. Seeing Bai Yun’s age as well as his severely injured look, they all assumed that Bai Yun had had all of his things stolen, so no one tried to steal from him.

When Bai Yun reached the entrance, he found that there were a lot more people standing there than usual. Many of them had very high cultivation bases. Bai Yun even saw a few in the core formation realm.

From the discussions around him, he understood that they were waiting for the purple lotuses to arrive. Purple lotuses only bloomed a day or two after the miasma explosion so these guys were not in any hurry. Bai Yun wondered whether he should go look for them too, before deciding against it. He had already gotten so injured just from the search for blue lotuses. Bai Yun had no idea what purple lotuses would do to him. So he decided to return to terracotta hill with his current haul.

“Hey there brat.” Suddenly Bai Yun heard a familiar voice.

Bai Yun looked to the right to see Huang Yao approaching him. She was surrounded by her mercenary group. Bai Yun also saw two other people who were standing there. One of them was a young man who seemed to be in his twenties. The other was an older middle aged man, who was standing behind the young man, and appeared to be protecting him.

Bai Yun rolled his eyes and turned to face them. Even though the mercenary team was a bit noisy for Bai Yun, he liked them.

“Hey brat, you look like death.” Huang Yao said. “Arre you okay? Did you just come out from poison valley? What happened in there?”

Bai Yun chuckled in response and explained what he witnessed in there.

Of course, Bai Yun didn’t tell them everything. He explained how he was adventuring in the poison valley when the miasma levels rose, and how he escaped into the cliffs. He then told them about how he came down and found out about things and went to the lake to collect blue lotuses. Of course Bai Yun didn’t tell them how many lotuses he found or about the three headed snake. Bai Yun only told them about a single lotus and that he got hurt while running away with the lotus. Considering Bai Yun’s strength that they witnessed, the group believed it. He did tell them about the many lotuses he saw, he just didn’t tell them he collected them,

“Are you telling me that there were many lotuses?” The young man who was with the mercenary group asked.

“Well, I did see quite a few.” Bai Yun replied.

“Can you show me on this map where all you saw blue lotuses?” The young man asked while taking out a map of the lake.

For a moment Bai Yun was confused, but he showed them the location of the various lotuses he saw. When they saw the dense spot of lotuses on the map, the young man and the middle aged man with him grew excited. Then the two of them whispered to each other for a moment, before the middle aged man sped off in the direction of terracotta hill.

“What’s going on? Who are these guys?” Bia Yun asked Huang Yao.

“Oh I forgot to introduce you guys.” Huang Yao said. “This is the young city lord of the terracotta hill, Qin Feng. Young city lord, this is the person we told you about, Long Tian.”

“You are the Long Tian who killed Ye Chen?” Qin Feng asked.

“Yes, that’s me.” Bai Yun replied.

“In that case, I suppose I must thank you.” Qin Feng said. “Without your help, I probably would have died by now.”

“There is no need for that.” Bai Yun replied casually. “I was just doing it to survive myself.”

After this the group stood there chatting for a while. It was mostly Huang Yao over dramatizing their work and asking Bai Yun to join her mercenary group. Bai Yun had to turn her down many times before she finally stopped, but not before threatening that she will be back again. Bai Yun could only sigh after hearing that.

“Can I ask something?” Bai Yun asked Qin Feng after a while.

“Sure.” Qin Feng replied.

“Why were you so excited when you saw the density of lotuses in the lake?” Bai Yun asked.

“That’s simple.” QIn Feng explained with a smile. Even the mercenary group was listening in at this time. They were also confused by the excitement shown by Qin Feng. “My family has been in charge of terracotta hill for centuries. And we have seen many miasma revolts during that time. And what we have understood after studying them is that the greater the density of lotuses, the more powerful and valuable the lotuses that will appear. A greater density of blue lotuses means that there will be very large purple lotuses, even ones that could be of use to nascent soul cultivators. And we have never seen a density quite like this before. So we believe that there will be some very large purple lotuses this time around. That is why I asked my protector to return to the city and inform my father. Only with his strength can we make sure that we can get the greatest return.”

With this Bai Yu understood their excitement. Qin Feng and his guardian had come to poison valley to check out the density of the lotuses, to see if there was a need for the city lord, who was the strongest person in terracotta city to come personally. And they had hired Hunag Yao’s mercenary group as protection for Qin Feng, in case something happened in poison valley. After the events of caravan, their trustworthiness had increased.

After explaining the events to BAi Yun, Qin Feng and the mercenary group quickly left towards the lake. They were hoping to get there early so as to make sure they got a good spot and that the large purple lotuses did not fall into anyone else’s hand. Having Qin Feng there would dissuade people with his father’s name. And they could also try and find some blue lotuses to increase their haul.

After The group left , Bai Yun turned around and headed back straight to Terracotta hill.

He had a lot of work to do.