40: Chapter 40 Jade Water Fairy: The bloodthirsty aura on Qin Muyuan's body should belong to me!

Hongyan Prefecture City.

In front of the Prefecture Governors Estate.

"Not good! The Prefecture Governor... The Prefecture Governor is dead!"

"Run! Run quickly! The Prefecture Governor is already dead. Even if we kill this fiend, we won't escape the fate of death! Run quickly!"

"The Prefecture Governor is dead! The sky of the entire Hongyan Prefecture... is about to change!"

Once Shang Youcai died, the remaining Martial Artists and Bailian Army instantly lost the desire to resist.

Because Shang Youcai was the Prefecture Governor of Huoyun Country, his status was similar to the military commander of a region!

Once the Prefecture Governor died, regardless of the reason, and regardless of whether the Bailian Army and martial arts hall Martial Artists tried their best to protect him,

as long as the Prefecture Governor died, what would greet Hongyan Prefecture would be the thunderous heavy hammer of the Huoyun Country imperial court!

All the Martial Artists and Bailian Army present would, no matter what, be slapped with the label of failing to protect adequately, and be suppressed by the imperial court using iron-fisted methods!

This was the decree of the current Huoyun Country imperial court!

When a city's Prefecture Governor died, the forces of the entire city would face a purge.

This was both to display the thunderous might of the imperial court and to pave the way for the subsequent new Prefecture Governor to take office.

In troubled times, use heavy codes. Amidst the current confrontation and turbulence between Huoyun Country and Xiaoshan Country, this was the norm!

Therefore, when Shang Youcai died, whether it was the Martial Artists, the Bailian Army soldiers, or the commanders of the Bailian Army,

at this moment, none of them had the thought of slaying Qin Muyuan to redeem themselves with meritorious service, because there was simply no redemption possible!

At this moment, they acted as if they had gone mad, no longer caring about anything else, and frantically fled and hid outside the Prefecture Governors Estate.

Even if Qin Muyuan executed the Wind-Treading Step, killing his way in and out of the crowd,

once the soldiers no longer formed a military formation and instead scattered to flee, Qin Muyuan wanting to kill them all was a case of having the heart but lacking the strength.

After all... the Bailian Army soldiers forming a military formation were like queuing up to be shot, whereas soldiers fleeing recklessly were equivalent to hundreds of wild boars fleeing in all directions!

...

Above a jade-carved building close to the Prefecture Governors Estate.

Fairy Yushui didn't care at all about the fleeing stray soldiers and Martial Artists.

At this moment, her gaze was entirely focused on Qin Muyuan, and beneath her veil-obscured face, there was a strange look.

Just moments ago when Qin Muyuan broke through to the fourth stage of the Mad Killing Sword Technique, condensing his own bloody qi onto the sword blade, Fairy Yushui had already made up her mind—

Regarding Qin Muyuan, she would not sign an unranked Warrior contract, nor would she sign a Ninth-Rank Warrior contract!

Furthermore, she was no longer willing to sign a Warrior contract at all!

Because.

"What a bloody baleful qi! It rightfully... belongs to me!"

An extreme greed flashed across Fairy Yushui's expression.

Her gaze looking at Qin Muyuan was filled with affection.

But this affection was not directed at Qin Muyuan, but rather at that share of bloody baleful qi on his body!

The first Realm of the Immortal Cultivator is named Qi-Refining.

Qi-Refining, Qi-Refining, as the name implies, the Heaven And Earth Treasure needed is [Spiritual Qi]!

Only by possessing Spiritual Qi could one break through to the Qi-Refining Realm, absorb the [spiritual essence] scattered between heaven and earth, and become a Qi-Refining Immortal Cultivator!

Whether it was the uncommon [bloody baleful qi], the common [qinghe spiritual qi], or the legendary [Tianshang destiny qi]...

As long as it was qi, it could allow ordinary Cultivators to truly step onto the path of the Dao of Immortality and achieve the Qi-Refining Realm Immortal Cultivator!

However, the thing known as qi was truly too difficult to acquire.

Even though Fairy Yushui came from a prominent and wealthy family, at the Early Stage of the Qi-Refining Realm, she was only able to master a Medium Grade [qinghe spiritual qi] of the Yellow Rank.

Even if it was just the [qinghe spiritual qi] that was one grade higher than the Yellow Rank Low Grade,

it could also greatly accelerate Yushui's speed of nourishing spiritual power in her Dantian, enabling Fairy Yushui to absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi more efficiently than other Immortal Cultivators and fill her own spiritual power.

This made Fairy Yushui, right at the time of initially becoming an Immortal Cultivator, overwhelmingly suppress a crowd of Early Stage Qi-Refining Immortal Cultivators, becoming a renowned Genius of Lingzhu Market!

Merely a Medium Grade Yellow Rank Spiritual Qi could achieve such a state, which was sufficient to show how great the usefulness of Spiritual Qi was!

Fairy Yushui had once heard that within the territory of Daliang Country, large noble families upon first entering Qi-Refining could master two strands of Spiritual Qi.

After mastering two strands of Spiritual Qi, regardless of whether it was combat power within the same Realm or the speed of Realm advancement, they far surpassed other geniuses, and were called "Prodigies"!

"And at this moment... If I snatch the bloody baleful qi on his body, I too can become a Prodigy!"

Fairy Yushui gazed infatuatedly at that faint wisp of bloody baleful qi on Qin Muyuan's body, her heart surging with excitement.

Bloody baleful qi was a High Grade Yellow Rank Spiritual Qi, which was countless times stronger than the qinghe spiritual qi on her body!

If she could master this bloody baleful qi, and match it with qinghe spiritual qi,

let alone Lingzhu Market, even in the entire Daliang Country, she, Fairy Yushui, would be able to establish a foothold!

"This barren land of spiritual essence on the southern wilderness border could actually produce such Spiritual Qi; it is truly gratifying!"

Fairy Yushui hadn't expected that coming to this remote mountain corner place, she only wanted to recruit a Warrior, but by a fluke, she encountered a person hiding qi.

As long as she used immortal Dao techniques to pull the tendons and extract the marrow of Qin Muyuan, then take out his spinal bone, squeeze out his vital blood, and carve the [Four-Vessel Qi-Extraction Formation],

she would be able to extract the bloody baleful qi contained within Qin Muyuan's body and turn it into her own use!

"Don't be anxious! Must not be anxious!"

Fairy Yushui closed her eyes and let herself calm down.

Encountering Qin Muyuan was her great Opportunity; she must not cut off the Opportunity prematurely out of impatience.

She observed that the bloody baleful qi on Qin Muyuan's body was only in wisps and had not yet reached its most flourishing time.

"Let him kill more people, preferably killing all the Martial Artists of Huoyun Country, and let those Martial Artists properly nourish the bloody baleful qi on his body."

"At that time, after the bloody baleful qi is nourished and reaches the fullest and most flourishing state, I will take it..."

Fairy Yushui's well-proportioned body trembled slightly. Thinking that she could obtain such a huge Opportunity, her heart fluttered with excitement, and her complexion flushed.

"Endure! Still need to endure!"

Fairy Yushui let out a soft hum, and even the veil on her face could not block the breath of Qinghe emitted by her.

"However, this matter cannot be let others know! All people who know about it must be killed before it will do."

Fairy Yushui thought of that Martial Artist named Shi Gandang, and her gaze suddenly turned cold.

Even if Shi Gandang only knew the difference between Immortal Cultivators and Martial Cultivators and understood some intelligence,

however, since a strand of bloody baleful qi appeared in this remote mountain corner region, just in case, it would be better for her to conveniently kill Shi Gandang.

"No, neither can I leave."

Fairy Yushui thought in her heart instead.

Her most urgent task at present was still to closely follow Qin Muyuan at all times, and wait until he raised the bloody baleful qi to its peak before making a move to harvest it.

As for the likes of Shi Gandang... after killing Qin Muyuan, taking away the bloody baleful qi on his body, and destroying the corpse to eliminate traces, she would then go deal with these scattered loose ends.

Otherwise, if Qin Muyuan were killed halfway, or beaten into serious injury and hid in some deep mountain where she couldn't find him, her losses would be heavy.

"Grow up quickly..."

Fairy Yushui stared at the bloody baleful qi on Qin Muyuan's body, her gaze carrying intense greed and affection...