95: Chapter 95 Treasure Hunt in the Ghost Market

Gu Shen huddled in the shadows of the stalactites at the very edge of the limestone cave, his breathing barely audible.

He immediately understood Leng Wuhen's intentions.

Although the higher-ups of the Blood Fiend Sect and Danding Sect were hunting Wei Lingfeng in Soul-Severing Valley, the hidden agents left in the Immortal City were not idle.

Wei Lingfeng had been struck by a Foundation Establishment Stage old monster at the Blood River Dark Assembly and must be severely injured.

Leng Wuhen sealing the Ghost Market and searching for top-grade healing medicine was a way to track down Wei Lingfeng's whereabouts!

"When the city gates catch fire, the fish in the moat suffer."

Gu Shen's eyes were cold.

He was currently disguised as a sickly youth at Qi Refining Stage 4; once he handed over his Storage Pouch, the mountain of resources and Spirit Stones inside would immediately make him a target for everyone.

Furthermore, he had just traded a lump of red blood essence glue with the old man wearing the demon mask for two stalks of cold evil grass.

The immense vitality of that red blood essence glue would definitely not escape Leng Wuhen's eyes.

Sure enough.

Leng Wuhen's gaze instantly locked onto the hunched old man wearing the demon mask in the corner.

"You, what are you holding in your hand?"

Leng Wuhen's figure flashed, appearing before the old man's stall as if he had shrunk the earth to inches.

He stared fixedly at the unput-away glass bottle in the old man's arms and the lump of red blood essence glue exuding a rich blood aura.

The old man trembled all over, a trace of despair flashing in his eyes.

He had spent years frequenting death zones and was extremely slippery.

He knew that once such healing medicine was exposed, Leng Wuhen would definitely search his soul and seize his spirit to find out the source.

"I'll fight for my life!"

The old man bit his tongue tip sharply and sprayed a mouthful of essence blood onto the stall.

Boom!

A thick mass of black corpse Qi exploded from beneath the stall instantly.

Using the corpse Qi as cover, the old man's figure turned into a wisp of black smoke, fleeing frantically towards the rock wall on the other side, clinging to the top of the limestone cave.

"You want to leave?"

Leng Wuhen snorted coldly and formed a seal with his left hand.

"Blood Fiend Spirit Binding!"

In mid-air, a giant hand condensed from viscous blood aura appeared out of thin air and grabbed the wisp of black smoke.

"Ah—!"

The old man let out a shrill scream and was crushed by the blood hand directly in mid-air.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and a grey Storage Pouch along with a few miscellaneous items fell from the air.

Leng Wuhen waved his large sleeve, drawing the lump of red blood essence glue and the glass bottle into his hand.

"Such pure vitality... it has no trace of Spiritual Qi fluctuations, yet it can stop bleeding instantly.

This kind of miraculous medicine could never have been refined by this old trash."

Leng Wuhen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned his head sharply to look around.

"Who sold this to him just now? Get out here!"

The Loose Cultivators in the limestone cave were as silent as cicadas in winter and retreated one after another.

Gu Shen remained hidden in the shadows, not moving at all.

"My Lord."

The black iron button at his collar vibrated slightly, and Crab's standalone electronic voice transmitted into his eardrum extremely faintly,

"Sonar detection shows that the stalactite wall three zhang to your right is less than half a chi thick.

It connects to a natural underground fissure behind it.

The structure is extremely fragile."

A sharp glint flashed in Gu Shen's eyes.

He did not use any magic power; his dark golden iron bones quietly gathered strength within his body.

At the very moment Leng Wuhen's attention was drawn by the miscellaneous items dropped by the old man.

Gu Shen's gaze fell on a black bone fragment that had fallen into a pool of blood where the old man's body had been shattered.

That bone fragment exuded a rich Yin Qi, ten times purer than those two stalks of cold evil grass!

"A place that can nurture cold evil grass must be a treasure land of extreme Yin.

This bone fragment is very likely a token recording the location for that old man."

Gu Shen made a decision in an instant.

The finger bone of the Thunder Bone Demon Ape required a massive amount of extreme Yin items to neutralize it.

He was determined to obtain the clue on this bone fragment.

Bang!

Gu Shen's legs exerted force suddenly.

Without channeling a shred of Spiritual Qi, he relied purely on the terrifying physical explosive power of having reached Major Achievement in the first level of the Bone Refining Art.

His entire body turned into a black afterimage that was hard to capture with the naked eye, sliding across a distance of three zhang along the ground in an instant.

He scooped the black bone fragment from the pool of blood into his palm.

"You're courting death!"

Leng Wuhen reacted extremely quickly.

Detecting that someone dared to snatch treasure right under his nose, he shouted angrily, and the blood-colored long sword in his hand turned into a shocking rainbow, slashing straight at Gu Shen's back.

This sword strike sealed off all of Gu Shen's escape routes.

But Gu Shen had no intention of retreating at all.

Using the momentum of his forward dash, he clenched his right fist and slammed the power of his dark golden iron bones without reservation into the seemingly solid stalactite wall on his right.

Rumble!

The half-chi thick stone wall was shattered by the punch like rotted wood, revealing the pitch-black underground fissure behind it.

Gu Shen shrank his figure and dived into the fissure.

Swish!

Leng Wuhen's blood-colored sword gleam was a thousandth of a second too late, slashing heavily onto the shattered stone wall and carving out a terrifying sword mark several zhang deep.

Debris collapsed, instantly burying the narrow fissure completely.

"Bastard!"

Leng Wuhen landed in front of the ruins, his face livid.

He scanned the collapsed stone wall frantically with his Divine Sense, but only detected complex rock layers that were bottomless; that figure who snatched the treasure hadn't even left a trace of magic power fluctuations and had just vanished into thin air.

"Relying purely on physical strength? A Body Cultivator?!"

Leng Wuhen gripped his long sword tightly, his eyes extremely sinister.

"Seal all underground water veins and fissure exits in the Outer City! Even if you have to turn this Yunze Immortal City upside down, dig this rat out for me!"

...

Beneath Yunze Immortal City, within the intricate natural rock fissures.

Gu Shen moved silently through the darkness.

He did not use any illumination Spells, relying entirely on his night vision and Crab's microwave detection to avoid dead ends.

He spent two full hours winding through the underground.

Confirming there were no pursuers behind him, Gu Shen followed a dried-up underground water vein and flipped out from an abandoned dry well in the Outer City.

The night rain had stopped, and dawn was approaching.

Gu Shen fine-tuned his Thousand Faces appearance again, transforming into an ordinary-looking grey-robed Loose Cultivator, and returned silently to his Grade C Immortal Cave in Qingyi Alley.

He activated the Thick Earth Array.

Gu Shen sat cross-legged on the stone bed and let out a long breath of turbid air.

Although tonight was dangerous, the gains were immense.

He opened his palm, and the black bone fragment snatched from beside the old man's corpse lay quietly in his hand.

The bone fragment felt ice-cold to the touch, as if he were holding a piece of ten-thousand-year black ice.

Its surface was carved with a rough route map and a few strange runes.

"Crab, scan the route on this bone fragment," Gu Shen thought silently.

"Understood, My Lord."

The iron button at his collar lit up with a faint blue light, scanning over the bone fragment.

"My Lord, the terrain depicted in this route map highly matches an area called 'Baiyin Mountain' three hundred li west of Yunze Immortal City.

According to the markings on the map, the destination points to a hidden valley deep within Baiyin Mountain."

Crab's database was extremely vast and quickly provided the comparison results.

"Baiyin Mountain..."

Gu Shen searched the geographical gazetteer of the Great Yu Cultivation World in his mind.

Legend had it that Baiyin Mountain was once an ancient battlefield from the ancient era, filled with soaring Evil Qi and shrouded in Yin clouds all year round.

Ordinary Cultivators who entered it were easily eroded in their sanity by the Yin Qi.

"Since that old man could produce hundred-year cold evil grass, he must have found some treasure land of extreme Yin within Baiyin Mountain.

Perhaps even a 'Corpse Raising Land' left behind by an ancient Cultivator."

A Corpse Raising Land gathered the extreme Yin and extreme Evil Qi of heaven and earth.

It could not only nurture cold-natured Spirit Medicine like cold evil grass but was also the favorite habitat of the Nine Nether Silkworm!

"The finger bone of the Thunder Bone Demon Ape needs extreme Yin items to neutralize it, and refining the 'Soul-Pulling Threads' requires the silk of the Nine Nether Silkworm.

This Baiyin Mountain is simply a treasure land tailor-made for me."

Gu Shen solemnly put the black bone fragment into his Storage Ring.

He was not in a hurry to set off.

Yunze Immortal City had just experienced the turmoil of the Blood River Dark Assembly, and Leng Wuhen had gone on a killing spree in the underground Ghost Market.

At this moment, the city gates must be tightly sealed, and the eyes and ears of the Danding Sect and Blood Fiend Sect were spread throughout the city.

"I will lie low in the Immortal Cave for a few days first.

Avoid the heat for now."