Beast Taming Sect Donghua Market

Chapter 142 Beast Taming Sect Donghua Market

Song Wen watched all the Profound Heaven Sword Sect cultivators leave the ship, quietly moved to the stern, flipped over, and leaped out. Using the cover of night to conceal his figure, he plunged down from a thousand meters in the air.

When he was about to reach the ground, spiritual power suddenly surged for a brief instant, offsetting the powerful momentum of the fall, and he landed silently on the earth.

Then, Song Wen did not circulate his spiritual power. Instead, he relied solely on his powerful physical body to traverse the dense forest.

After advancing several dozen li, Song Wen determined that no Orthodox cultivators were following him, and his highly vigilant heart relaxed somewhat.

He had never intended to ride the flying ship to the Profound Heaven Sword Sect from the beginning.

The Profound Heaven Sword Sect had Core Formation powerhouses and perhaps even Nascent Soul old monsters who would likely see through his lies. If he had wanted to take the flying ship straight to the Profound Heaven Sword Sect, he wouldn't have borrowed Yan Yuyan's name from the start. Once confronted by Yan Yuyan, his lies would have been instantly exposed.

Encountering the Demonic Cultivators midway had given him the perfect opportunity to escape.

After hesitating several times, Song Wen let out a deep sigh and headed toward the cave where Chen Yi had died. He had managed to resolve the Yan family crisis and his own corpse-transformation crisis, which was in no small part due to her favor.

Chen Yi was probably his only friend in this world. Since he could not save her, all he could do was collect her remains.

Not daring to circulate his spiritual power, Song Wen relied entirely on his physical body, taking nearly an hour to reach the cave.

Looking at Chen Yi's corpse on the ground, Song Wen sighed again.

Chen Yi had always harbored a deep disgust for the treacherous, deceitful cultivation world. She considered her talent and Fated Chance to be ordinary, and rather than exhausting her mind pursuing the elusive path of immortality, she preferred to live a solid hundred years as a mortal.

Her only wish over the years was to return to her mortal hometown and live out her life peacefully.

Some people exhausted all means seeking an opportunity for cultivation without success, while others tried every way possible to escape the cultivation world.

But heaven does not comply with human wishes.

Song Wen took out a coffin and placed the scattered, broken limbs inside.

While collecting her remains, he discovered that Lu Chan and the others likely looked down on the meager Spirit Stones on Chen Yi's person and had not taken her Storage Bag, so he smoothly collected it.

After securing the body and leaving the cave, Song Wen identified his direction and moved through the darkness.

As the sky gradually began to brighten, Song Wen arrived before a large river.

Originally, Song Wen had planned to cremate Chen Yi's body into ashes and scatter them in the river, but after checking her Storage Bag, he changed his mind.

The Storage Bag contained only a small amount of Spirit Stones and pills, as well as two books.

One book was the cultivation method, the "Corpse Fiend Art", but the content was incomplete, containing only the first six layers of the Qi Refining stage.

The other was Chen Yi's personal journal, which recorded some important daily events.

Most of the content consisted of records regarding the cultivation of various spirit herbs, detailed down to the frequency and timing of watering them with spiritual water and applying spiritual fertilizer for each type of Spirit Grass.

It also recorded her emotional entanglement with Zhang Xiaofan.

It turned out she had once been pregnant with Zhang Xiaofan's child. During that time, feeling the new life growing in her womb, Chen Yi felt a mixture of joy, anxiety, and fear.

What worried and frightened her was how this weak life about to be born would face the perilous cultivation world in the future.

What made her joyful was that although she had been forced to submit to Zhang Xiaofan, after conceiving the child, she slowly began to accept him. Zhang Xiaofan had also treated her extremely well, with meticulous attentiveness.

That period had been her happiest time within the Corpse Demon Sect, and it had gradually improved her perception of the cultivation world. She had come to feel that with someone accompanying her, the cultivation path might not be as arduous and difficult as she had previously imagined.

But she had underestimated the complexity of human hearts and overestimated Zhang Xiaofan's loyalty.

The good times did not last. Not long after, Zhang Xiaofan hooked up with Lu Chan.

Having climbed to a higher branch, Zhang Xiaofan did not want his affair with Chen Yi exposed and discovered by the petty-minded Lu Chan, so he forced Chen Yi to abort the child.

He thought their emotional entanglement would be concealed this way, but for some reason, Lu Chan found out not long ago.

Lu Chan was narrow-minded and vengeful, bearing grudges over the smallest matters.

During this escape, Chen Yi was extremely unlucky to run into Lu Chan's group of four.

Thus led to the scene in the cave.

Song Wen also found Chen Yi's hometown address in the journal.

Wangjia Village, Guancheng, Zhaoguo.

"Zhaoguo?" Song Wen murmured softly.

The Donghua Market of the Beast Taming Sect, which was quite famous in the cultivation world, seemed not far from Zhaoguo.

Perhaps he could go to the Beast Taming Sect's territory to look for a method to advance his Black-armored Gu, evolving it into the Holy Armor Gu.

Although the Black-armored Gu was a Gu insect, and the Beast Taming Sect raised spirit beasts and spirit insects, different paths led to the same destination. Stones from other hills could polish one's own jade; perhaps he could find a new method for nurturing Gu insects from their beast taming techniques.

Moreover, if he remembered correctly, Senior Brother Xu's family was also in Zhaoguo.

"Then let's make the trip. It's the perfect time to visit Senior Brother Xu's family. After all, I promised Senior Brother Xu back then and even accepted two bottles of corpse fiend qi from him."

With the ongoing war between the Orthodox and Demonic sects, staying in demonic territory was clearly unwise; it was better to stay as far away as possible. This was a good opportunity to take a look at Orthodox territory along the way.

After walking for two more days, Song Wen finally left the bounds of the Tuocang Mountain Range. The peaks ahead gradually became shorter, no longer featuring the previous landscape of towering mountains.

This place was no longer demonic territory; there was no need to be as cautious as before.

Song Wen took out his flying boat, circulated the "Everlasting Longevity Art", and activated the vessel. The flying boat soared into the sky and soon disappeared over the horizon.

...

Wangjia Village, back mountain.

The villagers, busy all day trying to make ends meet, did not notice that a small, newly raised grave mound had appeared here.

The mound had no tombstone, nor did it have incense, candles, or paper money.

Not far down the mountain was a dilapidated farmhouse courtyard where an elderly couple lived with their son, daughter-in-law, and two young grandsons.

Whenever traveling merchants passed through the village, the elderly couple would ask them if they had seen their daughter, who had been missing for several years.

Back then, Chen Yi had been alone at home when she was forcibly carried away by Shi Shou. Her parents had no idea where she had gone, and all these years, they had been clinging to a sliver of hope, still searching desperately.

...

After burying Chen Yi, Song Wen hurried to Senior Brother Xu's home.

Senior Brother Xu's family was quite wealthy; his father was a local landlord but was already advanced in years, over seventy years old. In this world where medicine was primitive, seventy was already a ripe old age, a time when one's life was nearing its end.

As for Senior Brother Xu's mother, she had passed away many years ago.

Upon hearing that Song Wen had specially come to deliver news of Senior Brother Xu, the old man laughed one moment and kept wiping tears the next.

"Is Xu Liang doing well?"

It was only at this moment that Song Wen learned Senior Brother Xu's real name was Xu Liang.

"Senior Brother Xu is doing well," Song Wen said.

"Then why doesn't he come back himself?" the old man asked.

Song Wen was temporarily speechless, not knowing how to answer.

After Senior Brother Xu left back then, Song Wen had never seen him again. Whether he succeeded in Foundation Establishment or not, he should have returned to the Corpse Demon Sect.

That Senior Brother Xu had not returned to the Corpse Demon Sect could only mean one thing...

Senior Brother Xu had most likely perished.

After pondering for a long time, not knowing how to comfort the old man, Song Wen could only speak words that were half-true and half-false.

"Senior Brother Xu is studying the Dao; he has now become what mortals call an immortal. Immortals and mortals walk different paths; not meeting again is beneficial for both you and him."

After using a pure strand of righteous qi to regulate the old man's body, Song Wen quietly drifted away.

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Next stop, Donghua Market!

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