44: Chapter 44 Changes in Family Fortune

The sky grew dark. Night slowly descended.

Pei Qingyun sat by the window, gazing at the vast moonlight. His gaze remained fixed in a certain direction, as if lost in thought.

In fact, his attention had been focused on the attribute panel.

[Name: Pei Qingyun]

[Lifespan: 10 years and two months]

[Cultivation: Mid stage of Five Viscera Realm]

[Cultivation Technique: Pei Family Evergreen Art Perfection (Yellow-grade Peak), Thousand Blade Slash Perfection (Yellow-grade high-tier)]

[Family Luck: 593 (700) (Note: Family Luck can be restored, with 7 points naturally recovered every day. If Family Luck falls below eighty percent of the total, unpredictable disasters will occur.)]

"Family Luck has increased by fifty points." Pei Qingyun was somewhat surprised.

After killing Wang Yang, he had observed the changes in the attribute panel. To his disappointment, the Family Luck had not changed due to Wang Yang's death.

But by nightfall, the Family Luck had increased by fifty points out of thin air. If one were to say it was related to clearing the Demon disaster during the day, Pei Qingyun would not believe it for a second.

For so many days, clearing out Demons had long become a daily routine. If the Family Luck were to change, it would not have waited until today.

As for quantity changes leading to qualitative changes, he ruled out this possibility first.

After some thought, he thought of the matter he had arranged for Pei Tianlin.

Although there was no evidence, he guessed that this was most likely the cause.

It was just that Pei Qingyun did not expect that a casual move he made unintentionally could actually have this effect.

The only thing he felt regretful about was that the increased Family Luck was a bit too little, far from enough to allow him to improve his Realm.

Having experienced the Ling Ziwen incident, Pei Qingyun realized that the strength of the Mid stage of Five Viscera Realm could not guarantee his own safety, let alone the development of the Family.

A mere Blood Demon Evil Servant could already threaten his own life. Perhaps others would treat the appearance of a Blood Demon Evil Servant in Wuyang County as an accident, but Pei Qingyun did not think so.

He understood the principle of being prepared for danger in times of peace.

Not to mention that there was no safe environment at this moment.

Since a Blood Demon Evil Servant could appear, there was no guarantee that a stronger person would not intrude.

A mere Mid stage of Five Viscera Realm could not even dominate a county, so what reason did he have to slack off.

But wanting to break through from the Mid stage of Five Viscera Realm to the Late Stage of Five Viscera was not something that could be done simply.

Even using Family Luck to add points, it still required two hundred points.

Although he could reduce the Family Luck needed for adding points during a Breakthrough to a certain extent through Cultivation, looking at the current situation, he would still need twenty days to achieve it.

Being able to break through to the Late Stage of Five Viscera in twenty days, if this were placed on anyone in Wuyang County, they would be happy to the point of madness.

But Pei Qingyun felt that this was still too slow.

Ling Ziwen was injured due to the backlash of the forbidden technique; if this were on other Martial Artists, it would certainly require a long time. But Evil Path Martial Artists could not be judged by common sense.

Perhaps in less than a week, Ling Ziwen would recover.

As one of the people who ruined Ling Ziwen's plan and caused him to lose a precious blood demon pill, the other party would definitely come for revenge.

Additionally, although Pei Qingyun had other plans, they all could not be separated from one core, which was his own strength.

If strength is insufficient, everything is just empty talk.

...

Wuyang County. In a hidden and unknown deep mountain.

A man wearing ragged clothes and covered in blood was leaning against a large tree.

Violent coughing sounds echoed in the valley like thunder.

Suddenly. The man coughed up a mouthful of black blood, and his body twitched violently, looking as if he had epilepsy.

The originally rosy complexion also lost all traces of color in an instant.

Just like that, I don't know how long passed. The bright daylight also gradually dimmed.

As time passed. Gradually, the man's body stopped twitching, but his face remained deathly pale.

And this person was none other than Ling Ziwen.

After escaping from Pei Qingyun and Chen Yuanba, Ling Ziwen sped all the way until he was far away from the source of the Demon, only then did he stop suppressing the backlash of the forbidden technique.

Long-term suppression made his injuries even more serious.

The first thing he did upon waking up was to check the situation inside his body.

But this check made Ling Ziwen's bloodless face look even worse.

He knew that forcibly using the Blood Demon Evasion Technique this time would inevitably lead to a backlash. But in his view, his overall Qi and blood would decrease by an estimated fifty to sixty percent.

But now the situation was serious, far exceeding his expectations. His overall Qi and blood had dropped by more than seventy percent.

With his current condition, let alone dealing with Five-Viscera Martial Artists, even facing a Martial Artist at Divine Power Perfection, he would be unable to cope.

"I didn't expect the backlash of the Blood Demon Evasion Technique to be this serious; the Qi and blood in my body are less than thirty percent of my Peak. If I recover by normal means, it will take at least three months."

If his identity had not been exposed before, three months would naturally not be considered long, and he could fully recover slowly.

But it was no longer possible; his identity had been exposed.

The identity of Blood Demon Evil Servant was a taboo within the Great Jing Dynasty. As long as he appeared, it would inevitably attract pursuit from various major agencies.

The reason why only the Evil Suppression Bureau of Wuyang County took action against him was just because the Demon disaster was rampant, trade routes were blocked, and communication between counties was impossible.

But this was only temporary. In another two months, once the Winter Solstice arrives. A food crisis will inevitably break out in Jinhuai Prefecture, and Wuyang County is one of the important granaries of Jinhuai Prefecture.

The Prefecture City would absolutely not watch the famine break out with folded arms. Therefore, before the famine breaks out, the Prefecture City would absolutely spare no effort to open up the trade route blockade of Wuyang County.

Furthermore, this time should be sooner rather than later.

Once the trade route blockade is lifted, his identity as a Blood Demon Evil Servant would surely resound throughout Jinhuai Prefecture.

By then, the Martial Artists coming to deal with him would not be Five-Viscera Martial Artists; it was highly likely he would face a Six Viscera Grandmaster directly.

Facing a Six Viscera Grandmaster, even if his strength recovered to its Peak, it would still be certain death.

That is to say, he didn't even have two months left.

If one counts the time needed for him to execute his plan, then the time reserved for him is at most one month.

Thinking of this, the coldness in Ling Ziwen's eyes grew stronger, and a sharp murderous intent erupted from his whole body, while his hatred for Pei Qingyun also deepened.

"If it weren't for that old thing Pei Qingyun interfering, I would have already stepped into the Late Stage of Five Viscera, and would not have lost the blood demon pill, nor would I have ended up in this current state."

Dozens of miles away, Pei Qingyun couldn't help but shiver. He seriously suspected that someone was cursing him, but sleepiness soon struck, and he fell asleep again.

For a long time, Ling Ziwen finally suppressed the hatred in his heart for Pei Qingyun and thought about a countermeasure.

"One month is still too long; the Prefecture City side might not give that much time. My time is only half a month; within half a month, I must recover my strength. Therefore, I must perform a blood sacrifice!"

Thinking this, his gaze looked towards a small village not far away.