70: Tender

Xu Sanyan put on his clothes, and Bai Qingyu, who was beside him, also pulled up her collar to cover her fair arms. The carriage drove to a secluded alley and stopped.

Xu Sanyan jumped out of the carriage and turned back with a smile, “We are fated to meet again.”

With that, he turned and left without looking back, a perfect example of heartless abandonment.

Bai Qingyu’s expression was conflicted. She wanted to follow him and beg the man to cure her, but she also worried he might propose conditions she wouldn’t accept.

After a moment of hesitation, she looked up again and Xu Sanyan’s figure was already gone.

“Sigh…”

Bai Qingyu shook her head with a bitter smile. She had circled back to Dafeng Town, lost a pile of goods, and her innocence. This long journey…

…

Following his memory, Xu Sanyan arrived outside the former Ma family mansion, and in a small alley not far away, was the small courtyard where he had buried the Blood Demon’s corpse.

Xu Sanyan listened intently. There were three people breathing inside the house: one heavy, two light, likely one man and two women.

As dusk gradually fell, Xu Sanyan leaped, landing silently in the courtyard. He quietly approached the eaves, and through the window paper, he could see a kerosene lamp lit inside the house.

“Husband, it’s getting cold. We need to prepare some charcoal,” a middle-aged woman said.

Then a muffled male voice replied, “Mm.”

Bang bang bang—

Xu Sanyan stood up and knocked on the door.

“Who is it?”

“Me.”

According to Xu Sanyan’s experience, when someone says “Me,” the person inside will automatically associate it with someone they know.

Creak—

The door opened. The three people inside didn’t know that as this door opened, the door to Hell also opened with it.

“You are…?”

The burly man frowned, looking at him, trying to recall who he was.

Xu Sanyan stepped in, gently pressed his finger on the back of the man’s neck, and the man immediately fainted.

The remaining two women didn’t even have time to make a sound before Xu Sanyan knocked them down, but he didn’t take their lives. He would kill them later if he confirmed the Blood Demon was still there.

Then he grabbed a shovel from the courtyard and began digging according to the remembered location.

A moment later, three sharp, knife-like fingers appeared in the deep pit. Continuing to dig downwards, a slender, three-meter-tall, pitch-black figure was revealed.

The Blood Demon was still there, and it hadn’t rotted yet.

Xu Sanyan breathed a sigh of relief. Then, with a flick of his sleeve, the chests of the three people caved in, and they instantly died.

Actually, it didn’t matter whether these three were killed or not, but since it was convenient, he just killed them.

After cleaning the dirt from the Blood Demon, he immediately decided to refine it right there. Otherwise, this three-meter-tall corpse would be truly inconvenient to carry.

Xu Sanyan sat cross-legged, placing the Blood Demon in front of him. He bit his middle finger and smeared blood on the Blood Demon, gradually forming a bloody, eerie symbol.

Then he mobilized his magic power, and the bloody symbol gradually disappeared beneath the pitch-black skin.

The Blood Demon’s skin bulged, as if thousands of insects were crawling within its flesh.

Swish—

The Blood Demon suddenly opened the vertical eye on its forehead, its upper body rising stiffly. Its head twisted, and it stared at Xu Sanyan with Death Qi.

A thick black mist rose in the room, enveloping the Blood Demon and Xu Sanyan. The three corpses on the ground also shriveled, their vital essence completely drained.

In an instant, Xu Sanyan felt a surge of insane killing intent rush into his mind, as if an outer-realm demon was whispering in his ear,

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

“Kill!”

The ceaseless voices stirred Xu Sanyan’s heartstrings. Endless killing intent erupted from him, and his pair of narrow eyes slowly opened, revealing crimson blood-red eyes.

“Kill!”

Xu Sanyan’s mind was muddled, with only this single thought remaining.

As time passed, the black mist grew denser. The Blood Demon, enveloped by the black mist, seemed like a pool of black ink, slowly melting and merging into the black mist.

The black mist was gradually absorbed by Xu Sanyan, and the ink that the Blood Demon had transformed into also seeped into his body.

After an unknown amount of time, the blood-red color in Xu Sanyan’s eyes receded slightly, granting him a moment of clarity.

“Clear Mind Technique!”

Xu Sanyan suddenly remembered the Clear Mind Technique, which was a Packages Cultivation Technique for the Blood Demon Corpse Refining Method. This Cultivation Technique was specifically used to suppress the fierce Qi in one’s heart.

So, without hesitation, he activated the Clear Mind Technique with a thought.

Slowly, the crimson in his eyes faded, and the black mist filling the room was gradually absorbed by him. Xu Sanyan felt an itch on his back, as if something was wriggling behind him.

Xu Sanyan remembered that when Ma Tianqing Cultivated this Cultivation Technique, a pattern resembling an ink painting was left on his back, and he should be the same.

The sky began to clear. Unknowingly, a night had passed, and Xu Sanyan could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The Blood Demon’s refining was complete!

This was the first Cultivation Technique he had learned!

He finally possessed Immortal arts. Although they seemed somewhat sinister, Xu Sanyan didn’t care; as long as they were effective.

The room was a mess. The family of three on the ground were only shriveled corpses. Xu Sanyan gently squeezed them, and their bones turned into powder.

“Whoa!”

Xu Sanyan exclaimed. This was even cleaner than what the Blood-colored Small Knife absorbed, not a bit wasted.

Now that his trip to Dafeng Town was over, as long as he perfected the Life Coffin Technique, he could go to the Upper Sect to find the next Cultivation method.

He just didn’t know which Sect the Cultivation Technique, The Supreme Truth and Serenity Scripture of Eliminating Illusion and Attaining Reality, belonged to. If he could directly join that Sect, it would be even more convenient.

While contemplating, Xu Sanyan had already walked out the door and noticed that the former Ma residence had been changed to the Bai residence.

“What a coincidence,” Xu Sanyan chuckled softly. He was just thinking of going to the Bai residence to “borrow” a few horses.

In the main hall of the Bai residence, a middle-aged man sat in the head seat, looking at Bai Qingyu with a face full of anger, asking,

“You mean you encountered horse bandits?”

“Yes.”

“Then your goods were robbed?”

“Yes.”

“All the accompanying personnel died?”

“Yes.”

“Then you were rescued?”

“Yes.”

“The person who rescued you made a deal with you?”

“Yes.”

“Then he took your body?”

“Yes.”

“And then he sent you back?”

“Yes… No.”

Bai Qingyu shook her head. “That person was originally coming to Dafeng Town; he just brought me back along the way.”

The Bai Family Head looked depressed. In other words, he had lost a lot of goods on this trip, many of his subordinates had died, and his daughter’s innocence had been taken.

What a huge loss!

The Bai Family Head was momentarily overcome with anger, his face turning beet red.

In contrast, Bai Qingyu said calmly, “That person also said he could cure my illness, but I need to offer a bargaining chip that interests him.”

The Bai Family Head had a bewildered expression. “He already took your body, isn’t that enough?”

Bai Qingyu seriously said, “Father, it’s not calculated that way. Him taking my body was a condition for saving me from the horse bandits; treating my illness is separate.”

The Bai Family Head looked at his naive daughter and crushed the teacup in his hand. She was actually still speaking up for that man?

He then took several deep breaths, suppressing the anger in his heart, constantly reassuring himself,

She’s my biological daughter!

She’s my biological daughter!

Just as he finally managed to calm down, a servant came to report from outside, “Family Head, a young man who claims to have saved Young Miss’s life requests an audience.”

In an instant, the Bai Family Head’s face turned beet red again.