Immortality by Inheriting Friends' Legacies

Chapter 39: Chapter 39: Your Friend Wu Ningxue Has Died!

[Your friend Wu Ningxue has died. As a friend, you can randomly inherit one of three portions of Wu Ningxue’s legacy.]

Legacy 1: [Red Legacy, 20 Tier-Two Qi Blood Pills.] Inheritance carries a slight risk. The Tier-Two Qi Blood Pills were refined specifically for Wu Ningxue by her father, boasting higher efficacy than ordinary Qi Blood Pills. However, in all of Fenglin Town, only the Wu family’s Direct Lineage possesses this Elixir, so it must not be exposed to others.

Legacy 2: [White Legacy, 80 points of Strength Attribute.] Risk-free inheritance, but requires touching Wu Ningxue’s body.

Legacy 3: [White Legacy, 80 ordinary Qi Blood Pills.] Risk-free inheritance.

Wu Ningxue was dead, too! Fang Xu was mildly startled.

Chu Li and Wu Ningxue clearly had not died at the same time, which proved they likely weren’t in the same place.

If Wu Ningxue wasn’t at Qinxiang House, she could only have returned to the Wu family’s home. If she had stayed at the Wu family’s home last night and still died, then the Wu Family Ancestor...

At the thought that the Wu Family Ancestor—a Third Realm Martial Master—might have also died tragically in last night’s attack, Fang Xu couldn’t help but feel a pang of regret.

A Third Realm Martial Master! He was also the Patriarch of the Wu family who had controlled Fenglin Town’s Elixir business for decades. If that old thing had attended the opening of the Blood Food Shop, Fang Xu would have definitely befriended him no matter what.

If that had happened, he would have had a high chance of inheriting the entire Wu family’s decades of savings today!

How much money would that be!

Filled with chagrin, Fang Xu immediately selected to inherit.

The three legacies rolled rapidly across the screen before the light screen gradually settled.

[Congratulations on obtaining Legacy 2: 80 points of Strength Attribute.]

[Touch Wu Ningxue’s body to claim this legacy.]

After the prompt appeared, an arrow emerged at the bottom of the light screen, pointing in the direction of Wu Ningxue’s corpse.

”Fang Xu?”

In front of him, Chu Muyun called out in confusion, seeing that Fang Xu had been standing behind her wheelchair for a long time without moving.

”Hmm?” Fang Xu snapped back to reality, remembering that he had promised to take her to Qinxiang House. He immediately pushed the wheelchair out the courtyard gate.

In front of Qinxiang House, countless members of the common people who had been severely bitten were crowded around the entrance. The people at the front were frantically pounding on the tightly shut doors, hoping to get inside and buy medicinal materials to suppress their pain.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard they pounded—almost breaking the doors—no one inside opened up.

Fang Xu pushed Chu Muyun to the edge of the crowd. Looking at the impenetrable throng of people, he understood in his heart that the shop assistants in Qinxiang House and Chu Li had likely perished last night.

”Make way! Make way!”

Pushing Chu Muyun, Fang Xu tried to squeeze through.

Seeing it was him, the crowd gathered in front of the door parted to make way.

After all, Fang Xu had directly or indirectly saved everyone present with a single move of his Fire Dragon Art last night. The common people already regarded him as their great benefactor. Many had even secretly decided to hold a Fire Dragon Festival on this day every year to commemorate their survival.

Passing through the crowd with Chu Muyun, Fang Xu arrived at the front doors of Qinxiang House. He pressed his palm against the latch and exerted a slight force, directly snapping the wooden bar inside.

The shop doors swung open. The crowd was just about to rush in when they were stunned silly by the sight before them!

Inside Qinxiang House, massive amounts of medicinal materials were scattered across the floor, with Medicinal Powder and ointments strewn everywhere. Amidst these medicines lay three corpses, so swollen that their features were completely unrecognizable.

Judging by their clothes, these three were Chu Li and the other two assistants of the shop.

”Grandpa...?”

From her wheelchair, Chu Muyun recognized from the clothing that the corpse closest to her was the grandfather who had been her only family. Her face instantly turned pale, and large teardrops uncontrollably rolled from her eyes.

Outside the shop, the crowd couldn’t help but sigh in lament at the tragic state of Chu Li and the others.

Although they had been severely bitten, they were at least alive, whereas Chu Li’s group...

”Could two people come help carry them out?” Fang Xu said.

A few young men with relatively minor injuries immediately stepped out from the crowd, helping Fang Xu carry the bodies of Chu Li and the other two out.

As for the items inside the shop, no one dared to touch them.

They all belonged to the Wu family. If they dared to take even a single thing from Qinxiang House today, the Wu family would definitely settle the score with them once they found out.

”Grandpa!”

Chu Muyun struggled to crawl out of her wheelchair and over to Chu Li’s corpse, hugging his body as she wept bitterly.

Fang Xu hurriedly comforted her from the side.

”I’m all alone now...” After crying for a long time, Chu Muyun leaned against Fang Xu’s shoulder, her tear-streaked face full of sorrow as she murmured.

This scene brought tears to the eyes of many onlookers.

”Mu Yun, you still have me,” Fang Xu comforted her.

Since he had decided to accept this legacy, he would definitely take good care of Chu Muyun in the future.

Hearing Fang Xu’s words, Chu Muyun felt a sourness in her nose. She tightly hugged Fang Xu’s neck and sobbed, ”Fang Xu...”

Profuse tears soaked Fang Xu’s clothes. He gently picked her up and placed her back in the wheelchair. Afterward, he instructed the crowd to transport the bodies of Chu Li and the other two to the center of the town.

At this time, the able-bodied common people of Fenglin Town were spontaneously helping to transport the corpses of those who had died last night.

These bodies had to be disposed of. The weather was getting warmer; if the corpses weren’t handled properly and bred a plague, it would be another disaster.

By the time Fang Xu pushed Chu Muyun over, Yun Wan was directing a hundred Government Soldiers to gather dry firewood and kerosene. Next to her, Town Mayor Huang Dechuan didn’t even care about his face, which was swollen like a pig’s head, as he busily directed the town’s Si Ji to pour kerosene over the dry wood and throw the corpses on top.

”Fang Xu, thank you for last night,” Yun Wan said, bowing slightly when she saw him.

Fang Xu quickly waved his hands. ”Miss Yun, please don’t be so polite. I just didn’t want to see everyone die in vain.”

Yun Wan nodded slightly. She was about to speak when she noticed Chu Muyun in the wheelchair. Her beautiful brows furrowed slightly, and her nostrils flared for a second.

”This little girl is...”

Fang Xu gently patted Chu Muyun’s head and said, ”She is Shopkeeper Chu’s granddaughter from Qinxiang House. Her parents died early, and Shopkeeper Chu tragically perished last night as well. I figured I’d take her in, and we can rely on each other from now on.”

Hearing this, Yun Wan hesitated for a moment. She was just about to speak when Huang Dechuan tossed the torch in his hand directly onto the massive pile of corpses!

A roaring fire instantly ignited!

”Grandpa!”

Watching the corpses be swallowed by the raging flames, Chu Muyun let out a heart-wrenching wail of sheer agony!

Yun Wan sighed softly. The question on the tip of her tongue ultimately remained unasked.

The fire grew increasingly intense, forcing the spectating common people to retreat again and again. Smelling the foul stench in the air, Fang Xu gently patted Chu Muyun’s shoulder and said, ”Mu Yun, let’s go.”

Tears still streaming down her face, Chu Muyun nodded.

Fang Xu pushed her to Zhiyuan Hall. He briefly explained Chu Muyun’s identity and his plans. Beside them, Lu Qingluo looked at Chu Muyun with pity, directly taking the wheelchair from Fang Xu and offering to take her to get some proper rest.

”Master, I will go back first and come pick up Mu Yun later,” Fang Xu said.

Lu Zhiyuan nodded without speaking.

Leaving Zhiyuan Hall, Fang Xu immediately headed toward the location of Wu Ningxue’s death according to the arrow on the virtual light screen.

After leaving Fenglin Town, Fang Xu originally planned to head toward the Wu Family Manor, but he suddenly realized that the direction the arrow pointed was not toward the Wu Family Manor at all.

He thought, ”Could it be that Wu Ningxue didn’t die in her own home!?”

Curious, Fang Xu immediately followed the arrow’s guidance and hurried in another direction.