Corpse Burier: I Can Nourish Corpse

However, what Wen Jiu didn’t expect was that Gu Daoist suddenly sought his help, wanting to find a place to settle near him.

The reason was none other than this.

Just because after Liu Qianling revealed the matter of the Law-Devouring Yin Insect, Gu Daoist had already become the target of public criticism within the circle of the Heterodox Dao.

”Senior, it’s my honor to take the fall for you. For the rest of my life, I just wish to serve you loyally, cultivate Heart-devouring Gu for you, and control more cultivators!” Gu Daoist earnestly transmitted his thoughts.

Hearing such sincere words, Wen Jiu felt very satisfied.

Unfortunately.

He didn’t need subordinates.

He only needed useful people.

Since Gu Daoist was no longer useful and had harmed Liu Xiao before, he could only die.

In the next moment, Wen Jiu directly used the Heart-Eating Gu Mother Insect to control the Heart-devouring Gu inside Gu Daoist’s body.

Meanwhile, Gu Daoist, who was hiding under a different identity within the market’s cave abode, was quietly waiting for Wen Jiu’s response.

The next moment.

The Heart-devouring Gu stirred.

”No...”

Gu Daoist exclaimed in surprise.

After the exclamation, Gu Daoist’s eyes filled with blood, and with a thud, he fell inside the cave abode.

The corpse was discovered only a few days later.

However, because of the disguise, with no remaining aura after death, the people of the market thought of him only as a loose cultivator and dealt with him perfunctorily. The infamous Gu Daoist of Deadman Peak became nothing but a fleeting memory. Before long, no one would remember this name.

”Without Gu Daoist, there’s one less person to tell me about the situation between the Celestial Left Alliance and the outside world. It seems I need to find others.” The Heart-devouring Gu still controlled two cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer, both were insiders of the Celestial Left Alliance. Wen Jiu decided to let Ping Mountain contact them to be his eyes and ears in the future.

The first was a Ghost Cultivator from the Mountain Lineage, named Ghost Fang.

The other was a Demon Cultivator from the Earth Lineage, named Lu the Third.

Previously, Wen Jiu had asked Gu Daoist about his relationship with these two. Gu Daoist spoke very vaguely and reservedly, only saying they were ordinary friends, but Wen Jiu estimated that someone who could be caught off guard by a Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer must have been a close friend of many years.

Ghost Fang, within the Mountain Lineage, had no backing. Originally a loose cultivator, he got acquainted with Gu Daoist and was subsequently introduced to the Celestial Left Alliance. Yet, he handled interpersonal matters with finesse, being a smooth operator in every situation.

Wen Jiu speculated that a significant part of Gu Daoist’s information was obtained from Ghost Fang.

As for Lu the Third, he was a demon cultivator and a businessman, mingling between the Celestial Left Alliance and the loose cultivators doing various assassination deals. If a loose cultivator wanted someone dead, they could contact him, and he would, in turn, get the Heterodox Cultivator from the Celestial Left Alliance to do it.

Someone engaged in such business was bound to have a wide circle of acquaintances.

However, after being ambushed by Gu Daoist, he immediately captured Gu Daoist’s foster family for leverage, so over the years, Lu the Third hadn’t faced threats from Gu Daoist, at most only helping to kill some people.

The next day.

Ping Mountain made contact with the two, but as instructed by Wen Jiu, Ping Mountain took all the blame upon himself.

From then on, Ping Mountain managed the cultivators controlled by the Heart-devouring Gu on behalf of Wen Jiu. How they were used was of no concern to him; as long as they weren’t used to death and could provide information, Wen Jiu would not interfere.

”Serve me wholeheartedly. You’re different from Gu Daoist. You’re from Deadman Peak.” To ensure Ping Mountain’s loyalty, Wen Jiu specifically reminded him, ”Loyalty to me is loyalty to Deadman Peak and the Inspection Hall.”

Yet Wen Jiu didn’t expect that after knowing Gu Daoist’s uselessness resulted in his death by Wen Jiu, Ping Mountain wasn’t at all panicked.

Instead, he was very shocked.

Because he knew why Gu Daoist was deemed useless.

Only Gu Daoist possessed the Law-Devouring Yin Insect, but the destruction of the Ming Lineage at Black Moon City was closely related to the Law-Devouring Yin Insect. This certainly wasn’t Gu Daoist’s doing; it could only have been done by Wen Jiu, who also possessed the Law-Devouring Yin Insect.

”The Silence Technique saved my life.” At this moment, Ping Mountain felt fortunate, knowing he was the only one aware of the truth. If not for the Silence Technique, Wen Jiu might have killed him just as he killed Gu Daoist.

Thinking of this, Ping Mountain hurried to transmit his thoughts, and his address changed accordingly as he sought to seize this opportunity, ”Master, rest assured, from now on, Ping Mountain will serve only you.”

Wen Jiu’s hidden intentions.

Remained undiscovered by all.

His ambitions must be significant.

If he could follow by his side, becoming his right hand, it would surely be more promising than merely being a Side Peak Master in the future.

Meanwhile, as Wen Jiu received Ping Mountain’s transmission, a faint smile of satisfaction appeared on his lips.

He knew.

Ping Mountain had guessed the truth.

But with the Silence Technique and the Heart-devouring Gu, Wen Jiu wasn’t afraid of exposure.

As for whether to kill Ping Mountain in the future, Wen Jiu’s answer was necessary: someone who submits under the pressure of a strong person cannot be used for long.

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A few days later.

The experience with the Soul-Seizing Talisman was finally maxed out by Wen Jiu.

Low-Grade Soul-Stealing Talisman (Maxed)

Thus Wen Jiu began trying to draw a Tier One Middle Grade Soul-Seizing Talisman with the Tier One High-Grade Talisman Paper made from the demon skin of a True Spirit Demon.

Perhaps because the experience with the Low-Grade Soul-Stealing Talisman was maxed out, Wen Jiu found it quite smooth to draw a Tier One Middle Grade Soul-Seizing Talisman.

In the first drawing, he succeeded three times out of ten.

Of course, this was also related to the talisman paper made by the True Spirit Demon Race.

Theoretically, the better the talisman paper, the higher the success rate of the Soul-Seizing Talisman. However, typically, even a Tier One Middle-Grade Talisman Master dared not use Tier One Top-Grade Talisman Paper to draw talismans, for even if successful, it wouldn’t cover the costs.

If one sheet was wasted, it would be a great loss.

But with the backing of the Ten Thousand Demon Abyss, Wen Jiu didn’t have to worry about profit or loss anyway. After all, the True Spirit Demon Race’s skin would be wasted in refining if not used for drawing talismans.

Also during this time, the True Spirit Blood Body of the Three Evil Flying Corpses advanced to the Seventh Layer, but the effect of the Corpse Blood cultivated by the True Spirit Demon Race was also reduced, with fifty pounds of Corpse Blood merely yielding 250 experience points.

Once the Three Evil Flying Corpses reached perfection, the True Spirit Blood Body could step into the Eighth Layer, needing only seventy more days to perfect it.

”The day of External Foundation Establishment is drawing near.” At this moment, Wen Jiu was filled with anticipation for the future.

Meanwhile, Wen Jiu received new information from Ping Mountain, which was that Deadman Peak had also issued a bounty.

Countering bounty with bounty.

They even posted the bounty in Little Inference Mountain and Cloud Mist Peak, as if they intended to draw loose cultivators from other peaks to Deadman Peak.

Thus, the conflict between Deadman Peak and the Celestial Left Alliance entered a fervent stage.

Deadman Peak was wealthy and influential.

The Celestial Left Alliance wasn’t entirely unafraid, with the Three Life Gates supporting them from behind.

As a result, more and more loose cultivators and tribulation cultivators were heading towards Deadman Peak.

Seeing the situation intensifying, Wen Jiu sought out Ye Chen, requested a spot on the main peak, and then brought his sister Wen Ya over. From then on, his sister Wen Ya would help him cultivate the Evil Yin Spiritual Medicine at home.

Moreover, Wen Jiu also had Feng Xuan send some talismans to Liu Xiao, Wang Nian, and Mu Canglong.

They were all Tier One High-grade Body-Protecting Talismans.

For Mu Canglong, there was also a Tier One High-grade Attack Talisman, obtained from Liu Qianling’s storage bag.

When Mu Canglong received the Tier One High-grade Attack Talisman, he couldn’t help but smile, ”The kid didn’t love him for nothing back then.”

Currently, the Cultivation Realm at Deadman Peak was becoming increasingly chaotic. This Tier One High-grade Talisman might become

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Also, on this very morning, Wen Jiu received a piece of news.

From Ping Mountain.

Two days ago, Chen Daoqing’s grandfather, Chen Yebai, the Elder of the Demon-slaying Department at Feixian Peak, had fallen. While supporting the disciples of the Spirit Suppression Department in the Blood Demon Abyss, he was ambushed and killed by Heterodox Cultivators. But Chen Daoqing hadn’t informed him of this.

And at present, with the chaos at Deadman Peak, the fall of a side peak cultivator at the Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer didn’t cause any stir in the main peak.

”The favor owed to the Five Ghosts I haven’t repaid yet.” Wen Jiu sighed helplessly. He originally intended not to leave the main peak until the Three Evil Flying Corpses reached perfection, but today he could only proactively alter that plan.

Some matters.

He had to attend to.

The favor owed to Chen Yebai couldn’t be repaid immediately, at least he had to attend the funeral.

The debt to Chen Yebai was to be repaid to Chen Daoqing in the future.

That night, Wen Jiu announced he was entering closed cultivation, reminding his sister Wen Ya not to leave the cultivation residence during these days.

The following morning, Wen Jiu left Deadman Peak, heading towards Feixian Peak, arriving there in less than an hour and a half.

By that time, Feixian Peak was enveloped in a somber atmosphere, white silk visible everywhere, and Chen Yebai’s body lay in the main hall.

Chen Daoqing knelt before the coffin, lost in spirit.

[Last day.

Asking for a monthly ticket!

See you tomorrow!]