Chapter 471: Collective Training
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Panther Monarch even roared intentionally after finishing his sentence and broke the Northern Forest array formation with a claw. All at once, a slicing, raging wind came right at them, Rabbit's entire body froze, facing the formidable pressure, she couldn't even move.
Thanks to Lonemoon casually tugging Rabbit aside, she then managed to dodge those winds.
"Terrible bad breath!" Shen Ying subconsciously covered her nose, do all the little animals like to breathe into people's faces? It's not like they were paper planes!
Having missed Rabbit, Panther Monarch's face sunk, before turning to the few others beside her, following that his eyes lit up again, filled with greed. "Human cultivators?" He'd long heard that several human cultivators had appeared in the Southern Land and killed the Wolf Monarch and several tens of thousands of demon troops. Only he had not believed it, it might be true that they killed Wolf Monarch, but how was it possible that they killed tens of thousands of demon troops! It was definitely fake information that the rabbit demon had let out for self preservation, wanting to deter the other demon monarchs.
The other demon races might not know the standards of human cultivators outside of the Southern Land, but he did, as a demon monarch. Those who were able to make it into the Southern Land definitely had a certain level of cultivation, it was highly possible that they were at the Soul Formation or Traveling Immortal level. If he was to fight them one on one, he might still have some reservations, but now they had so many high level demon races here, the other party would only become food in his mouth.
Panther Monarch became more cocky the more he thought, the way he was looking at Lonemoon and Yi Qing was as if he was looking at some sumptuous feast. After eating these two people, he would definitely ascend to the thirteenth level. At the thought of this, he was instantly in no mood to continue chatting, paying no heed to Rabbit, he pounced right on Lonemoon while Lion Monarch wasn't paying attention. "This human cultivator is mine!"
Just as his sharp claw was about to pierce through Lonemoon's chest, a blinding white light flashed before his eyes, Panther Monarch only felt a cooling sensation near his arm and the claw that was outstretched earlier, suddenly fell to the ground with a thud, instantly turning back to a paw, even rolling further before coming to a stop.
Huh?
Panther Monarch faltered, completely stunned, until a massive wave of pain hit him did he shriek out loud. He dropped to the ground turning back into a huge panther, howling again and again.
The demons:"..."
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What had just happened? They hadn't gotten a clear look and their monarch had kicked the bucket?
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A second later, Lion Monarch who was the closest was the first to reach, surrounding the entire area with his demonic aura, he waved his hand at the demonfolk. "Kill those two human cultivators!"
All the demons charged forward.
Lonemoon frowned, his heart full of frustration, it was already fretting enough to have a fool of a disciple and these little animals still came to create trouble. His expression darkened at once as he turned and hollered, seething with anger, "Chef!"
In the next moment, Yi Qing's figure flashed and he was flying out, with a swing of the sword in his hand, he drew an immense surge of Sword Qi and slashed harshly towards the ground. Following a loud rumble, the entire ground split open, like an earthquake, a crack of four to five meters wide appeared, as if he had split the entire forest open.
The demons who were roaring and charging over earlier froze together, instantly dazed!
A strange silence fell all at once in the entire forest, there was only the sound of Panther Monarch howling in pain and the thumping sounds of demons who could not stop in time falling into the crack.
That stroke of the sword earlier, if it had hit them... the demons did not dare to think further, large drops of perspiration slid down their foreheads.
We're dead we're dead we're dead we're dead...
"Run!" A shout from one of the demons snapped the group of demons back to their senses and they took off immediately. As the high level demons had been standing in the front, followed by the fifth and sixth-level demons who naturally couldn't run as fast as the high level demons, a stampede occurred, a sea of demons fell and in seconds, layers had been formed.
"Chef, stop them. I still have some use for them!" Lonemoon instructed.
"Mm." Yi Qing nodded obediently lifting himself into the air.
Master said that Father Niu was going through menopause recently, for the sake of their meal expenses they ought to give in to him more.
He conjured a hand seal and summoned a sky full of sword spirits, falling down like rain, they formed a sword array, trapping every single one of the thousands of demons in it at once.
With a malefic being before them and nowhere to run to, the demons were bewildered.
Yet Lonemoon turned towards Fatty, revealing a smile like that of a headmaster. "Fatty, you can begin your daily training now."
"Huh? Oh!" Fatty who had been happily watching the whole time immediately shivered after suddenly being called up. "What? What training."
"Let's begin with this old, weak, sickly and crippled one!" Lonemoon ignored him and walked right to Panther Monarch who was rolling around in pain. Conjuring a spell, he stanched the blood flowing from his broken paw and said, "Panther demon, if you can beat him, I'll let you off!"
With that he threw the sword in his hand to Fatty standing behind him.
Huh?
Beat who?
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Fatty who had caught the sword on reflex was utterly confused. But he looked up to see a huge, three-legged panther roar loudly, baring his fangs and brandishing his... no claws, as he bounded forward.
"M... mmmaster..." He's for real!
He was wrong, grain liberation was paradise, but practicing the sword arrays wasn't hell, this was hell!
Shen Ying: "..."
Rabbit: "..."
Mm, I somehow feel that I should pretend I'm non-existent right now.
Fatty who finally made it past the first level of sword arrays after eight months and four days in the Southern Land began his combat career, currently the number of people training with him: eight thousand! Progress... very slow.
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Perhaps actual combat could really train a person's crisis consciousness, Fatty whose sword techniques were in rags was slowly improving. Though Lonemoon was still showing great scorn but at least he was able to dodge the strikes coming at him.
To reach this level, he spent a good five years training. And the demonfolk of the western forest had been his training companions for five years. At the start, they'd still thought of escaping, especially Lion Monarch who had the highest level of cultivation, but after Chef's sword array made a few holes in him, he started to behave.
They'd even built houses nearby and settled down. The entire sword array was showing the tendency of developing into a little demon town. At first, Lonemoon would pull several little demons slightly weaker than Fatty to train with him, Fatty always lost but slowly... he became sturdier.
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All the demons that trained with him rose through the levels too, towards the end, those fifth and sixth-level demons were no longer needed. For the sake of their good behavior all these years, Lonemoon let the little demons out of the sword arrays.
However, the odd thing was that those little demons had jumped for joy when they first left, but months later, they came running back, claiming that they'd gotten used to living inside the array and couldn't bear to leave, there were even some who righteously explained that their wife and kids were still inside, it was too "indemone" 1 to leave alone. And hence begged Chef to open the sword array to let them back in.
More and more of such situations occurred, Lonemoon then instructed Chef to remove the sword array and let them do as they liked. Yet only a handful of demons escaped, the rest even habitually queued up in the morning for Lonemoon to call upon them to go beat up Fatty and those not called would disperse and get on with what they had too.
Seeming like they'd gotten used to this way of life. Even the demons' way of greeting changed from "have you practiced cultivation today" to "have you beat up Fatty today?"
Lonemoon: "..."
Feels as if that the demon clans who'd charged their way here to snatch their territory back then was an illusion, this bunch of demons had just collectively migrated.
Chapter 472: Invincible Bragger
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The 180 degree change in the thinking of these demons actually had a little do with Rabbit, the new Demon Monarch. And the reason was her being timid! After the demons from the western forests were trapped, Rabbit was rather happy at first, but she slowly became aware of the subsequent problem it brought. Although she had Great Immortal backing her up now and she need not be afraid that those big demons would escape the array formation and get even with her...
But the future remains uncertain, if Great Immortal were to leave in the future and they put all the blame onto her, what would she do? Even if her cultivation level had risen by then, she still wouldn't be able to beat them as a lone rabbit.
All of them were high level demons, let's not mention the dozens of tenth level ones, the key was that there were demon monarchs at the eleventh and twelfth level. As a rabbit at the bottom of the demon realm, she could not sleep for nights, even distracted from cultivation practice. In addition, her comrades had been brought to experience real combat, after living in fear and having nightmares for an entire month, Rabbit finally could not hold back and moved with her little stool to the borders of the western forest and sat beside the sword array, beginning to brainwash... no, admonish those demons with sincere words.
"Let me tell all of you, the level of Great Immortal's cultivation is something that you cannot even imagine, give up! Wolf Monarch is an example for you."
"Let me tell all of you, Great Immortal has been merciful to you all this time, do you know what happened to the previous bunch of demons that offended him? Gone! Not just killed, there weren't even any remains left." Everything was served on the table.
"Let me tell all of you, Great Immortal hates demons eating humans the most, that's why I become the demon monarch. If you all were to switch to a vegetarian diet now, he might let you keep your life."
"Let me tell all of you, as demons, we mustn't be too so hot-tempered, if there's a problem, eat a carrot and calm down. Think about it, as long as you're alive, everything else is not a big deal!"
"Let me tell all of you, you've been trapped in for long, I know all of you are hungry. As a demon myself, my heart aches for all of you too. I can't do anything else but I can definitely provide enough carrots! If you prefer grass I can pull out some for all of you."
"Let me tell all of you, how wonderful is it to be a follower of Great Immortal? Do you see all these demon cores? They're Great Immortal's rewards to me, one a day, yes! You did not hear wrongly, it is one a day, as long as you're obedient!"
"Let me tell all of you, though I am almost reaching the tenth-level now, two years ago, I was only a seventh-level rabbit! It's all thanks to Great Immortal that I could rise through the levels so quickly."
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"Let me tell all of you, Great Immortal said that if demons ate humans, we become filled with bloody grievous energy, even if we are able to improve our cultivation in the short run, but after immortal ascension, we will end up being struck to death by divine lightning. Think of why there hasn't been any demons successfully ascending? It's all because of eating humans!"
"Let me tell all of you..."
The demonfolk ignored her at first, but slowly, the more she shared, somehow there were a few demons who believed her, together with Lonemoon's intentional cooperation, more demons believed her words, Besides, as Rabbit would send them carrots, vegetables and grass occasionally, more demons were increasingly bought over and began to accept Rabbit as a demon monarch, even the twelfth level Panther Monarch and Lion Monarch began to be courteous towards Rabbit.
Such recognition remained even after the sword array was removed, Rabbit, the demon monarch who wasn't even a tenth level, surprisingly earned the acknowledgment of all the demons and became a demon monarch of an area, true to her name, and she even managed to do so through bragging.
Five years later, Fatty who was used to being beaten up, could already hold his own against the offense from an eleventh level demon monarch, his sword techniques had also seen a solid improvement. Though at the most, he could only be considered a body... ah bleh! blend of a Five Element cultivator and a sword cultivator, but at least he could last in a battle. Mm, he's definitely not a body cultivator.
Lonemoon then canceled the daily activity of the demons beating up Fatty, then brought him back to the Demon Palace and threw him back in the sword array. He kept guard outside, allowing him to get knocked around inside.
Yet, with the chattering demons that would always surround them suddenly gone, and also missing Rabbit's brain-washing words, it somehow felt like something was missing.
Hence... he locked Rabbit in too.
Rabbit: "..." Damn it!
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Perhaps due to the having the foundation to bear beatings, Fatty made it past the second level very quickly and successful entered the third level, then... he was stuck again!
However, this time, Lonemoon did not shower Fatty with his icy cold stares, but changed his training companions from the demons, to himself, personally beat... no, it's spoon-feeding him with strikes.
Fatty's face that was as fat as a pig head never recovered. With a pig face, he continued to practice his sword for more than years, Fatty used action to prove that, constitutions that could not master sword techniques did exist.
Even after Rabbit successfully ascended to the eleventh level and made it past eight levels in the sword array, he was still at the fifth level.
Hence when Fatty finally broke through the fifth level in the sword array, Lonemoon did not force him to continue with the sixth level, instead he removed the sword array. Then formally began with imparting him the skills involving pills, talismans, arrays, weapons and spirit beasts. Though level five in a sword array could be nothing to a sword cultivator, but for Fatty, it ought to be enough for him to hold off a sword cultivator's attack.
Lonemoon carved some five elements reversal formation, arrays spells and talismans spells onto jade slips and handed them to Fatty. Whereas for expensive, time-consuming technical skills like core cultivation that cannot be used in actual battle, they could learn at the end. As for beast control, all the demons in Southern Land knew that he was a best bud of the Rabbit Monarch, seems like there was no need to master that too. That left them with weapon refinement, Chef was more familiar with that.
He'd intended to get Chef to carve a legacy about weapon refinement, but he did not manage to find him in the kitchen. He then remembered that it seemed like he hadn't seen the two rascals in a long time. Instinctively using his divine perception, he swept across the entire demon palace but did not sense any familiar aura.
Where were they?!
He searched the back palace, still no one, he could only go to Rabbit.
"Great Immortal Shen?" Rabbit faltered for a moment before realizing that he was referring to the other two Great Immortals. "They... aren't they having their meal at the back palace?"
"I've just searched there, there's no one." Lonemoon's face darkened, accurately speaking, they weren't in the entire demon palace. "Did they secretly sneak out to find trouble again?"
"That, I don't know..." Rabbit shook her head. "But about four hours ago, I saw the two Great Immortals having tea in the pavilion beside the front palace, perhaps they..."
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Before he could finish, Lonemoon had already turned around and walking towards the front palace. Sure enough, from far he could already see two familiar figures sitting inside, one chewing on pastries, the other pouring tea, only thing was they weren't speaking, their expressions were slightly tense, which made them seem a little unnatural.
Lonemoon paused in his steps, his face instantly turning as dark as the bottom of a pot.
"Ah, aren't the two great immortals here?" Rabbit who followed behind him said instinctively. "I've told you Great Immortal, you don't..."
He had yet to finish his sentence when Lonemoon waved his hand, a stream of Spirit Qi swept over. Flashing out a white light, the two people in the pavilion instantly became two pieces of white paper shaped like human figures, swaying and falling through the air, the teapot that was held in Chef's hand earlier dropped to table, water splashed in all directions.
The next moment...
A furious roar sounded throughout the entire Demon Palace.
"I'm going to break the legs of those two wastrels!"
Rabbit: "..."
Um, is it too late to sneak away now?
Chapter 473: Master and Disciple In Trouble
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Lonemoon had flown out of the Southern Land in a rage. If murderous vibes could kill, the few hundred miles all around the Southern Land would have been wiped out.
He was really angry, here he was working himself to death in guiding his disciple and those two rascals actually sneaked out to play behind his back and even left two fake people to fool him! Hey whose plane was this? They also probably spent all their money on this trip, the main point was that they did not ask him along!
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Damn it, his 1001st time wanting to sever father and daughter ties! Whoever wants such a daughter can have her, buy one get one free!
Lonemoon charged right to the nearest immortal city, he'd thought it would some time to find those two wastrels but not too long after flying out of the Southern Land, he saw a trail left behind. Two anxious figures were approaching him at an extremely high speed, dust swirling behind them. Shen Ying ran in front, a pastry held in her mouth, one of her hands was holding Chef while the other was grabbing something as they raced forward madly.
Lonemoon had yet to react and Shen Ying had already spotted him, her eyes instantly lit up as she dashed towards him.
"Fa... ther....Niu!" Three short syllables, but she managed to make it sound like an entirely different thing, giving one the visual of all flowers blooming in Spring, as if she had seen her savior. Instantly arriving before him, she halted suddenly, unlike her usual languidness, she smiled brightly. "Father Niu, we miss you so much."
"A day apart from you feels like three years!" Chef also added on.
"You're indeed the best Father Niu under the sun."
"You are the one and only, the best."
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"Father Niu, first in the world for generations to come!"
"Father Niu's name will resound through the ages!"
"That's enough, did you two think were dancing a carefully choreographed dance!" Lonemoon's mouth twitched as glanced coldly at the duo, instantly having an ominous feeling. "Tell the truth, what have the both of you gotten into now?"
"Nothing!"
Both master and disciple shook their heads together.
Lonemoon gave them another cold look and threw out two words. "Heh heh!" Like I would believe you!
"Really Father Niu, you must believe me!" Shen Ying blinked. "We just bought some food!" Her thumb and index finger pinched together, gesturing a small gap as she spoke, she even stuffed a paper bag in her hand over.
Lonemoon took it instinctively but before he could check it, indignant voices sounded from in front.
"They're here, catch that liar!"
"Quick everyone stop him, we must not let them get away!"
"Another one has joined them, they must belong together, we'll beat them all up."
With that, dozens of fierce, bulky men came flying through the air, some held swords, some held artifacts, there were even some who held choppers, spatulas and aprons. With even landing, their blows came pelting in the direction of the trio.
Followed by several thuds, they were pushed back by the array around the few.
Lonemoon was startled by them, losing his grip on the paper bag in his hand, it fell open. All at once, thick stacks of strips of paper scattered on the ground, he could vaguely see debt slips written in black and white in between the few recipes. His heart sank as he turned towards the two exact same "innocent faces" beside him.
"You two wastrels, what have you done now?!"
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Both master and disciple looked up to the sky, feigning ignorance.
Yet those people had already landed and had formed a solid circle around them. They picked up their weapons on the ground while panting, each of them looking like they couldn't wait to come chop them out!
"I'll see where you... can run too!" One of the in the center was panting real hard and he was the cultivator with the highest cultivation level amongst them, he panted as he pointed a finger in their direction. "You all... you all... you all just wait till I catch my breath!"
Lonemoon: "..."
Yi Qing: "..."
Shen Ying: "..."
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Lonemoon was speechless, after sweeping past everyone on the site, he realized their cultivation levels weren't high, the highest was a late stage Golden Core, while the others were all at the Foundation Establishment level, including some at the Qi Refinement stage.
His expression darkened at once as he turned to glare at the duo again, Chef and Shen Ying, one was a manager, another assistant, both were Cheats, one big and one small, just how did they manage to get themselves into the situation of being chased everywhere by low level cultivators in the lower realm who weren't even at the nascent soul level?
Master and disciple continued to stare at the sky, hmm, the weather's not too bad today... it's a day suited to... eat(cook)!
What else could it be, losing on the side of reason!
"Fellow Daoists." Lonemoon inhaled deeply, suppressed his urge to give the two a good beating and said to everyone with cupped fists, "May I know how my two friends here have offended you that everyone took the trouble to come chasing? If it's a misunderstanding, why don't we sit down and talk it through?"
"Cut the nonsense!" The Golden Core core cultivator who finally caught his breath glared at him and said, "You're the one with them huh? Everyone don't listen to him, let's capture them before anything else!"
As soon as he finished, the others raised the weapons in their hands once again, some conjured spells, others struck out, coming right at the three of them.
Seems like speaking reasonably won't work, Lonemoon frowned and released the suppression of the Soul Formation stage, a huge slab of pressure swept towards everyone at once.
The people who were calling to fight and kill earlier froze, their bodies so tense that they couldn't move, the cultivators with the lowest level of cultivation even fell to their knees. Silence fell instantly, everyone felt perspiration form at the top of their heads, the Golden Core cultivator who led them had even gone pale, wearing an expression of disbelief.
"Soul... Soul Formation... Supremacy!" How was this possible?
They'd only thought of giving chase and nothing else and did not expect those two liars to know a Soul Formation Supremacy.
"Now can we talk about what happened?"
Everyone: "..."
Lonemoon's suppression was retracted just after a moment of releasing it, without making clear the facts, it was naturally not right to start fighting directly.
The furious expressions on the men's faces were then put away, after staring at each other for a moment, the Golden Core cultivator gritted his teeth and stepped forward. "Supremacy, it's not that we meant to offend you, it's... your two friends, ruined the treasures that we have painstakingly collected for years and even destroyed our space for the alchemy room, those were our life-time of hard work."
He seemed to recall something as some fury surfaced in his eyes, he forcefully suppressed them after glancing at Lonemoon, then tried asking, "As a Soul Formation Supremacy, you must be a fair person, even if they are your friends, I believe you will allow us to seek justice right?"
Lonemoon's expression darkened, turning back to the two behind him, he bit out, "What have you two done?"
"Nothing." Shen Ying replied. "I just accidentally burned some carrots."
"You shut up!" Lonemoon glared at her and turned directly to Yi Qing. "Chef you tell me."
Yi Qing peeped at his master before saying, "Well... master and I just went to buy some snacks, then while at it, learn some new recipes. In the end... we accidentally set the kitchen on fire."
"..." What kind of kitchen? A kitchen used to store elixirs?
"Don't worry Father Niu, we paid with spirit stones!" Shen Ying raised her hand and added.
Chapter 474: Professional At Finding Fault
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"You're spouting nonsense!" The moment he finished his sentence, the Golden Core cultivator immediately retorted fumingly. "What they'd burned wasn't the kitchen, they clearly burned our entire alchemy room using Deviant Fire. There were also many completed elixirs and rare spirit herb, they'd all been destroyed by this liar... person!"
The others had also joined in the condemnation.
"That's right, the neonate formation pill that I'd spent substantially and went to great efforts to buy was also inside, everything was totally burned."
"Yes, and my thousand year old spirit mythic plant and five hundred year-old jade spirit bark."
"And mine, my benevolent fruit!"
"There's also mine..."
"Supremacy." The Golden Core cultivator took a step forward, as if having his courage to question. "These people ruined our spirit herbs and fungi and even burned down the alchemy room that we worked together to build on the pretense of wanting to learn to cook. Their intentions were truly malicious, even if you are a Soul Formation Supremacy, you should not be biased to such evil people, otherwise, we would definitely take this to the Great Court to seek justice."
The others echoed his words in succession and resumed their aggressive manner from earlier.
Lonemoon's expression dimmed, sweeping a glance across everyone, he peered at the recipes on the ground before making an estimated guess. "All of you are saying that, these two friends of mine was originally consulting all of you on cooking?"
"That's right!" A cultivator wearing an apron stepped forth and said, "My Fragrant Restaurant is the most famous restaurant in Bian Immortal City, the first restaurant they'd stepped in was mine and they'd ordered a dozen of the signature dishes. I'd originally thought they were sincerely seeking guidance, hence I handed my recipes over out of goodwill. Who knew that wasn't what they truly intended!" With that, he even sneered coldly at Yi Qing, seeming to be rather irate.
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"It's the same for our Drunken Immortal Restaurant."
"And our..."
The rest had also begun an uproar, looking at Chef as if they were looking at their foe.
"According to what all of you said..." Lonemoon began to say in a low voice, "They did not manage to cheat you of your recipes and even set the alchemy room that all of you have built together and ruined all the spirit herbs and elixirs."
"That's right!" The men nodded firmly, everyone boldly and courageously displaying their anger.
Lonemoon's expression became increasingly dark as he listened, suddenly lifting the corner of his lips, he revealed a forceful smile. "Then, do all of you cultivators think that I'm kind and good-tempered that you can fool with me as you like?!" With that said, he released his suppression once more, not holding back at all this time.
At once, all the cultivators around collapsed, dropping to their knees like they had been subjected to immense pressure, it was the same even for the Golden Core cultivator right at the front. His face paled instantly. "Supremacy... what do you mean by this?"
"What do I mean?" Lonemoon laughed coldly. "Did you think I couldn't tell? I don't know what kind of people you all are, but this friend of mine is a chef, in cooking, even ten of you won't be a match for him. Any dish that he has eaten, without any help, he is able to make the exact same one. You actually dared to say that you were passing on recipes to him out of good will, hmph, what a joke!"
"..." The men's expression saw a slight change, their eyes slightly unfocused.
"Talk about passing on recipes?" Lonemoon glanced at the huge pile of debt slips on the ground and continued. "It must be that the bunch of him realized that he was able to tell the method of cooking and ingredients used in every dish! Unwilling to take it lying down, all of you took advantage of having more people on your side and bluffed them into buying your recipes in order to swindle all the spirit stones they had, am I right?"
"..." The men began to turn pale, not daring to say a word.
"Let me guess! What will happen next?" Lonemoon's smile grew colder. "You realized that since he could taste the difference in the dishes, he might be able to do the same for elixirs. Deciding to go all in, you brought them to the alchemy room, intending to let him taste the elixirs, then tell you the formula, to earn some confidential formulas of other sects?"
"..." The men were starting to break out in a cold sweat.
"Not only that, you even had the strange idea that since he had such gifts, why not let him try refining elixirs. Only you didn't think that he did not know how to refine pills at all, not only did the refining failed, he even accidentally burned everything to the point where the entire alchemy room was destroyed." His eyes dimmed as he glanced at the men. "Tell me, did I guess correctly?"
All the cultivators were deathly pale, looking with guilty after being exposed, their heads forced to bow by suppression.
"All of you cheated my friend, then fooled him into refining pills. And you dare to seek justice from me, how shameless!" Once Lonemoon's words fell, his suppression went up by another level, several low level cultivators directly fell flat onto the ground.
"Supre... Supremacy calm down, calm down Supremacy!" The men who were still arrogant earlier hurriedly begged with terrified expressions. "We lost our heads at the moment, such that we committed such an immoral crime, please have mercy on us on the account that this is our first time! We won't dare to do it again."
The rest also began to beg, their confidence and boldness earlier all gone. They'd never expected that he would be able to see through their plans after asking a few questions.
"Have mercy?" Lonemoon sneered coldly. "Earlier on, weren't all of you pushing to slaughter my two friends. Why are you asking to be let off lightly when it comes to you now?" Hmph, my defense won't be in vain!
Dread rose amongst the men, that was a Soul Formation cultivator, he could turn them into ashes with a snap of his fingers. They trembled terribly and begged even louder. Something flashed in the eyes of the Golden Core cultivator in the middle and he said loudly. "We ask that Supremacy let us off for the sake... for the sake of the Qi Clan, we are merely disciples that distribute elixirs."
"What distribute..." Lonemoon wanted to reply instinctively but felt his sleeve being tugged. His eyes dimmed before he said with slight hesitation. "Since that's the case... I can restrain myself, but what should you do about all of you lying to my friends and cheating them of their spirit stones?"
"We'll return them, we'll return them."
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"Yes yes yes, these belonged to them in the first place, we were foolish."
"Give it back, give everything back to him!"
The men visibly relaxed and immediately pulled out their storage bags and dug all the spirit stones out, their eyes secretly peeping at the few people in the middle from time to time.
As a qualified cunning businessman, Lonemoon naturally understood their look of "selling less". Hence he added, "Oh, I forgot to let you know. The spirit stones that this friend brought out with him were borrowed from me, do count correctly." Let's see if you dare to give me one piece less?
The men felt their hearts sank and quickened their actions of digging, not daring to miss out any piece and even added more, simply afraid that if they didn't match the amount correctly, they would have more to face.
Lonemoon only retracted his suppression then.
The men trembled as they finished digging out all the spirit stones. "Supremacy I promise that we will never do such an immoral thing again."
"Mm." Lonemoon answered.
"Then we shall not disturb Supremacy any longer, we'll take our leave." Everyone bowed and turned to leave.
"Hold on." He suddenly called out.
"!!!"
Chapter 475: Soul-Preserving Pill
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All of them paused and could not help but turn around. They were smiling, but they looked worse than if they were crying. "Supremacy... What instructions do you have for us?"
Lonemoon smiled his brightest smile, causing each of the other cultivators to lower their heads in fear. Then, Lonemoon gestured and the pieces of paper that had fallen to the ground earlier all returned neatly in a stack back to his hands.
"Since these recipes mean nothing to my friend anymore, there's no point in leaving them behind." He lowered his gaze and put on his business-like smile. "Didn't you say these were your signature recipes? Redeem them back!"
"Re-Re-Redeem them?" They hesitated.
"That's right. Don't you sell recipes? We don't need them anymore – we should be able to refund them, shouldn't we?"
They all looked at him in fear. He had a point, but they had already returned Lonemoon all of his money earlier! Yet, he was looking at them so seriously that they knew no way to retort. Therefore, they gritted their teeth and nodded. "Of... course."
"Good, I'm not going to cheat you. Let me refund them at full price. These invoices reflect what these recipes are worth!" Lonemoon picked one up and read, "This secret recipe for barbecue spirit meat from Fragrant Restaurant was sold at 1500 top-grade spirit stones. Chef, please collect the stones from the boss."
"Yes, Father Niu!" Yi Qing immediately pulled out his storage bag and walked toward the man who was still putting on his apron.
"Oh, that's right. You haven't bought any spirit stones with you. That's alright – we can write I.O.Us."
Everyone: "..."
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They were in so much pain that they wanted to badly to cry. What kind of evil landlord criminal syndicate was this?
Lonemoon spent an entire hour writing I.O.Us for each of the invoices he had in his hand, before returning those invoices back to their respective owners. Of course, this was what they owed him. The I.O.Us that cultivators used were very different from those that mortals used. These I.O.Us had spiritual powers. They could not be undone by anything other than repayment and death. That meant that the bosses would have no choice but to return the stones to Lonemoon, otherwise their cultivations will suffer.
He calculated for a moment and found what Shen Ying and the others used as living expenses for two months amounted to about 20,000 top-grade spirit stones. He had more than a million spirit stones in his hands now, so he could afford more than 50 times of their living expenses per month. That was not even counting the amount stated on those I.O.Us.
"Father Niu, you're amazing!" Shen Ying stood up and clapped.
Chef paused, then followed suit.
"Father Niu, nobody is your match!"
"Get lost!" Lonemoon shot a glare at them. "Don't think that I'm going to let you off now that I have my money back." Even if ordinary people splurged on food, they would not lose more than two mid-grade spirit stones. How did they manage to spend tens of thousands of top-grade spirit stones in just one day? They even landed themselves in such a huge debt!
"Aiya, Father Niu, stop worrying about those details!"
"Details my ass!" How the hell were tens of thousands of spirit stones considered details? " Do you think we mine spirit stones?"
"Yes, Fatty has a meridian-"
"Shut up!" If he had been a step slower, they would have been bankrupt even if they really did mine spirit stones. These two wastrels!
"Oh."
Lonemoon kept his newly earned spirit stones and made up his mind. They were not getting any allowance from him the next month! He sucked in a deep breath, then spoke calmly again. "Talk – what exactly did the two of you find out? You angered this bunch of fools on purpose and even made me play along with your act." If Lonemoon had not been standing between the two of them and the group, their smug expressions would have been exposed a long time ago.
Although the two of them were unreliable cheats, they were not stupid. Shen Ying's intelligence, for one, hit her at the most unpredictable of times. How could she possibly fall for such a see-through trap like this one? What's more, she had Chef with her. In other words, they "fell for it" on purpose.
"Aiya, don't put it that way. Weren't you happy when you counted your spirit stones!"
"What's wrong with me collecting spirit stones! Was he supposed to act for free?" Every time he stepped up to put on a show, he would charge ten million dollars at least. Now, he was only collecting a couple million spirit stones. He was already giving them a discount.
"Yes, yes, yes, Father Niu, you're a veteran actor! You're always right!" They were only poor worms who had to rely on him for food and lodging.
"What exactly is going on?"
"It's those elixirs," Yi Qing explained, stepping forward. "Master and I wanted to go to Immortal City Bian to buy some snacks. Along the way, we met an injured cultivator. He asked us to go to a medicinal shop at the end of the street and buy a bottle of top-grade Qi Preserving Pills for him. So we went there to get a bottle."
"There's a problem with those pills?"
"They worked well – they did indeed help to preserve one's Qi and core. They were regular Qi Preserving Pills that we normally see. The only thing was that we found one additional ingredient in those pills."
"What was it?"
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"Soul-Preserving Herb!"
"What?" Lonemoon paused. "Isn't the Soul-Preserving Herb a seventh-grade spirit herb? The Qi Preserving Pill is a first-grade pill. Why would they use a seventh-grade herb in a first-grade pill? Was the alchemist so rich that he had to find a way to burn off his money? Or did he put them in by accident? Or were the Qi Preserving Pills mixed together with the Soul-Preserving Herbs so a bit of the latter's aura stuck onto the former?"
"I thought so too, at first." Yi Qing frowned and continued, "But I used my True Phoenix Fire to find out what was mixed into the pills. The entire pill turned into dust.
"How could that be?" Lonemoon stared at him in shock. "Shouldn't your True Phoenix Fire only burn to ashes things that are poisonous..." Wait! Lonemoon stopped himself mid-sentence as his eyes widened. "Are you saying that it was not the Soul-Preserving Herb that was found in the pill, but... Soul Extracting Pill!"
"That's right." Yi Qing nodded.
"Shit!" Lonemoon cursed under his breath. The Soul Extracting Pill also made use of a part of the Soul-Preserving Herb. Spirit Herbs like the Soul-Preserving Herb were extremely special. They only grew in places where the yin Qi was especially thick. Although their roots were in so-called yin soil, their branches were the main ingredients in Soul-Preserving Pills. Soul-Preserving Pills could fill up one's soul, and were normally used to improve one's divine perception. It could also be used to restore one's primordial spirit. That's why people say that it's an eighth-grade herb. But the roots of the Soul-Preserving Herb is the opposite. The yin Qi from the soil gathers in the roots of the herb, so that anyone who consumes it would injure their own divine perception. In serious cases, their primordial spirit might even be injured. The Soul Extracting Pill was made from the powder of these roots.
"The amount of Soul Extracting Pill in those pills was extremely small. Nobody would have realized," Yi Qing continued. He only realized because Master said that the pills were smelly, and he thought he should analyze what they contained. "No cultivator would be injured by that little bit of Yin Qi. The most that would happen is it would leave a mark in his or her divine perception."
"So..." Lonemoon looked to the two of them and narrowed his eyes. "You created such a huge problem out of the recipes just to enter their kitchen and see if there were any Soul Extracting Pills?"
"That's right!" Yi Qing answered firmly.
"Father Niu, we were so hardworking, weren't we!" Shen Ying said seriously.
"Hardworking my ass!" Lonemoon immediately exposed her. "Chef was alright – do you think I wouldn't be able to tell that you wanted to get in there for more food?!"
"Stop worrying about the details."
"What details? If you have the guts, open all of your storage bags and let me take a look!"
Shen Ying immediately pushed the storage bag behind her over to Chef and shook her head. "What snacks?" She did not have any guts to begin with.
"..." Do you think I'm blind? You've said it yourself – you took snacks!