novelraw Chapter 366 - 292: Sudden Wealth, Clues About My Elder Brother! (Double-Length)
Chapter 366 - 292: Sudden Wealth, Clues About My Elder Brother! (Double-Length)
He dared not shake his head and say he hadn’t seen it, fearing that Song Changming would cut him down in anger.
Hesitating, he saw Song Changming losing patience. To save himself, he quickly came up with an idea and said.
"I, I can go back to the Sect to investigate for you. If I find that person, I can help you lure them out."
Upon hearing this, Song Changming paused slightly with the long saber he had just raised.
If there was an insider willing to investigate the whereabouts of his two elder brothers for him, it would indeed be much more convenient.
"But how can I trust you?" Song Changming asked calmly.
Hu Yan hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "I have a bottle of Secret Bone Dissolving Pill, obtained by chance, in my Spirit Crystal Bag. The one who takes it will suffer the pain of a thousand worms gnawing at their bones every night, and this poison is incurable. They must continuously take the Bone Dissolving Pill every month to survive...
I am willing to take this medicine and entrust the remaining Bone Dissolving Pills, along with my life, to your hands!"
"Oh!" Song Changming took Hu Yan’s Money Bag and indeed found a small dark brown medicine bottle.
Inside the bottle were dozens of small pink pills, colorless and tasteless, with no apparent use.
"Agreed." Song Changming used Innate Qi Aura to extract a pill and placed it before Hu Yan.
Hu Yan looked at Song Changming, still somewhat hesitant, sweating on his forehead, but eventually resigned himself to swallow the pill.
"Sir, are you satisfied..." Hu Yan bowed his head and respectfully called Song Changming ’Sir’.
Song Changming immediately used his Spiritual Power to inspect him.
The Medicinal Power quickly began to take effect, attaching to his bones to erode them.
Song Changming said nothing but handed over another black pill.
"Swallow this as well."
"This..." Hu Yan’s face changed slightly.
Song Changming didn’t waste words; he raised his sword and looked at him.
Hu Yan knew if he didn’t satisfy Song Changming today, he faced only a dead end.
Eventually, he gritted his teeth and swallowed the black pill.
"This substance is called the Void Heaven Pill. It contains Void Heaven Poison, which gradually erodes the mind until it vanishes into nothingness.
Once you complete the task for me, I’ll give you the antidote." Song Changming explained leisurely after seeing him swallow it.
Hu Yan’s complexion turned pale.
Indeed, he sensed the already poor state of his Nether Sea being eroded, and his Spirit Body was in pain.
This made him believe Song Changming’s words.
In fact, he wasn’t worried about the Bone Dissolving Pill he just swallowed.
Although the pill indeed required long-term consumption for survival, he had other ways to eliminate this poison, albeit troublesome, but not completely hopeless.
Once he stabilizes Song Changming, returns to the Sect, everything will be resolved easily, and he won’t have to follow Song Changming’s orders.
His plan was good, but now after swallowing the other poison from Song Changming, it fell apart.
Unless he finds a way to neutralize this poison, he cannot escape Song Changming’s control.
"Sir, your instructions." Hu Yan’s tone became even more respectful and humble.
"Take these two portraits, return to the Corpse Refining Sect, and I want you to find them. After that, I’ll tell you the next steps." Song Changming said calmly.
Hu Yan agreed and secured the portraits.
Soon, he summoned several yellow-eyed and white-eyed Corpse Puppets to carry him away.
Song Changming watched him leave, contemplating the feasibility of the matter.
If everything went smoothly, he might soon hear from his two elder brothers.
As for the Void Heaven Pill, it was refined using several Treasure Medicines from the Other Shore of the Abyss at Jade Void Mountain in Da Lai.
Void Heaven Poison, incurable!
The only way to remove this Void Heaven Poison from the body, supposedly, is to attain Purity Body and reach the Innate Realm, at which point the poison will dissipate naturally.
Given Hu Yan’s Cultivation Realm, Song Changming estimated it would take 20 to 30 years to break through to the Innate Realm.
Before that, the Void Heaven Poison would have already ravaged the Corpse Refining Sect member to death, leaving him no hope of becoming an Innate Martial Artist.
With this piece planted, Song Changming discreetly returned to the main battlefield.
In that large pit, there should have been two lairs of the Spider Demon Patriarch, which may also store a large amount of Spirit Crystals.
Though now it wasn’t likely to be his turn.
The battle with the Spider Demon ended quite quickly.
Three Spider Demon Patriarchs in the sky had already been taken down by military experts, and the remaining Spider Demons were about 90% dead.
Various teams also started their search operations, and the underground spider nests were likely swarming with soldier generals, so he didn’t join the hustle.
"Changming, where did you just go?"
After a stick of incense burned, Fu Yuan emerged from the underground spider nest and immediately asked upon seeing Song Changming.
"Of course, to kill the Spider Demon." Song Changming opened his portable bag, which contained a pile of black, green, and pink thin needles.
Every Spider Demon tail had such a tiny venomous needle, seemingly trivial but deadly.
Killing and collecting the needles also facilitated claiming merits later.
"That’s good." Fu Yuan nodded.
Not seeing Song Changming for a while had made him somewhat worried.
Afterwards, indeed, quite a few spoils were moved out from the underground spider nest.
Many Spirit Crystals were dug out among them.
This item was also a hard currency for the Demon Race’s Cultivation.
Besides the two patriarchs, the other spider nests stored some Spirit Crystals, mostly low-grade or Broken Spirit Crystals.
The high-quality Spirit Crystals were mainly aggregated around the Spider Demon Patriarchs.
Of the three largest Spider Demon nests, two were emptied by the military, and the last one was mostly considered by the military to have been cheaply taken by the Corpse Refining Sect members.
Since the damaged Corpse Puppets were discovered in that nest.
For this, several Little Flag Masters were quite upset and unwilling to let the Corpse Refining Sect members off, so they sent teams to track them.
The officials now mining along the entire Spirit Crystal Vein, yet high-quality Spirit Crystals remained scarce.
The majority of Spirit Crystals produced by the vein daily were crushed by the rocky ground and mainly used for making Spirit Coins.
Ninety-nine percent of the remaining intact Spirit Crystals were low-grade.
There weren’t many middle-grade Spirit Crystals, let alone rare top-grade ones.
Possibly after several days of mining, only one or two top-grade Spirit Crystals might be seen.
Thus, high-quality Spirit Crystals being snatched under their noses was enough for these commanders to feel regret and annoyance.
Of course, Song Changming felt no regret, maintaining a calm exterior.
By dusk, the army finally sounded the retreat.
Hu Yan, who had already fled far, wasn’t captured in the end.
A battle with the Demon Race thus came to a close.
Afterward, with the Spider Demon exterminated, no other Demon Race dared to cause trouble near the Spirit Crystal Vein.
And the 41st Flag Army, where Song Changming belonged, received Prince Cui’s decree; the whole army retreated to the main city for recovery and rest.
Another Fanqi Army took over the remaining mining tasks.
A year later, Song Changming finally returned to Cui Bai Main City.
The Third District, a modest residence.
The plaque above the residence bore two words, Song Residence.
In the yard were two small children.
The slightly older child was holding a broom, sweeping the yard, occasionally glancing towards the library with opened window panels.
The slightly younger child was holding a brush, grooming two dogs far larger than him.
The large dogs lay on the ground contentedly, eyes half-closed, as the child fussed over them.
Inside the study, Song Changming casually wore his hair down, dressed in loose robes, writing with a brush on paper.
His strokes were forceful, showing strength and dominance.
If viewed with the mind’s eye and inspected spiritually, the strong Sword Intent attached to the letters was observable.
At Song Changming’s current Sword Tao Realm, practicing writing was also practicing swordsmanship!
The pen as the sword, the text as the intent.
This discovery in recent months showed that practicing writing could hone his Sword Tao!
Suddenly, a small carrier pigeon landed near the inkstone in the study, looked at the writing on the desk, then at Song Changming.
Song Changming laid down the pen, scattered some rice on the desk, and took the letter down.
The pigeon pecked at the rice while Song Changming opened the letter, glanced at it, and felt invigorated, his casual expression vanished.
"Finally!"
"Finally found them! Brothers!"
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