Chapter 255 Settlement

The document that Yuan Ming took out was the contract that he had looted from Xu Changqing. It clearly stated that Guangli Sanmeng had to kill him within the agreed time limit. Now that the time limit had passed, he had caused such a big commotion in the capital of Dajin. Everyone knew that he was not only alive, but also a cultivator in the foundation-building stage.

Now, he was disguised as a disciple of Changchun Temple to collect the debt. He had evidence and no one could find any fault with it.

Moreover, even if they wanted to find Xu Changqing who held the document to verify its authenticity, unless they could find the body in Yuan Ming's storage bag, who could say that he was not a disciple of Changchun Temple now?

Not long after, Zhang Luhe came back with the document, and the smile on his face seemed much more sincere.

"I have confirmed with the leader that your document is real, but why didn't your master come in person?"

"He said that he didn't want to deal with you anymore." Yuan Ming said in a flat tone.

Zhang Luhe's hand holding the document clenched instantly, but after a moment, he put it down and took out a storage bag from his waist.

"Haha, this time it was indeed our mistake. According to the contract, this is a compensation of 1,500 spirit stones. In addition, there is a deposit of 500 spirit stones in advance. Please accept it."

"That's about right." Yuan Ming nodded calmly, accepted the storage bag, said no more, turned around and left the Guangli Sanmeng residence.

After Yuan Ming left, the figure in the wing room flashed, and a man in a white robe appeared in the room. Looking at the direction where Yuan Ming left, he asked: "Brother Zhang, this business is a big loss."

"Alas, there are always times when we fail. I didn't expect that Yuan Ming actually escaped the pursuit and killed the old Taoist Yuhu at the succession ceremony. Fortunately, we didn't meet him. If we really met him, our colleagues in Nanjiang would also be in danger. I have said so many times that we must prepare intelligence. They are just blinded by spirit stones." Zhang Luhe sighed.

A street away, Yuan Ming couldn't hold back the smile on his face when he thought of the two thousand spirit stones in his storage bag. With this amount of spirit stones, he could naturally exchange for a lot of elixirs for cultivation and materials for making spirit incense.

Just as he was thinking about it, his footsteps suddenly stopped.

Yuan Ming looked sideways and saw a unique building not far away. The lower part was still a normal pavilion, but the upper part looked like a huge fine iron sword, inserted straight into the pavilion, which looked quite imposing.

There were only three big characters on the plaque in front of the gate - San Xiu Hui.

Yuan Ming was quite curious. When he entered the door, he saw that the door facing the house was a vertical square stele. The top of the square stone was written with the three words "Evil Cultivator List", and below it were dozens of names written in blood-red ink. The cultivation level was marked behind the name, and after the cultivation level, there was a number, which seemed to represent the number of spirit stones offered.

Yuan Ming looked up and saw that at the top of the square monument was a cultivator named "Old Demon Youquan", who was at the peak of the Jindan stage. The bounty at the end was as high as 500,000 spirit stones.

At the bottom of the square stone was a cultivator named "Pu Zhengqing" in the foundation building stage. His specific strength was unknown, but he was also a soul cultivator. The bounty was also 100,000 spirit stones, but there were two small words at the end - capture alive.

After reading the list, Yuan Ming couldn't help but marvel at it, and also knew how much he was worth.

It seems that in the Dajin cultivation world, where cultivation resources are relatively abundant, the number and strength of independent cultivators are not comparable to those in small places like the southern border and northern regions. There is also such a list, but it is hard to say whether the evil cultivators in it are really full of evil.

Looking at the names on this list, there are truly powerful cultivators behind them. I think they are not something I can deal with at the moment.

Originally, I was complacent and thought that I could be invincible at the same level with my soul cultivation methods. Now it seems too optimistic.

There are always people who are better than you. With my cultivation strength, I have just escaped from the bottom of the world of immortal cultivation. I am not the protagonist in his storybook who can always turn danger into safety.

I still have to keep a low profile. It is better to be safe than sorry.

This time, I dueled with Taoist Master Yu Hu in the imperial city. At that time, I felt happy to take revenge, but now I have to hide away.

However, this also made Yuan Ming's heart sprout a strong desire for the first time. He must constantly improve his cultivation and strengthen his strength to have a say. If I had not only the initial foundation-building cultivation, why would I worry about my family being affected, and even leave my hometown and parents soon after returning home?

The reason is that I don't have the ability to protect my family, and I can't even protect myself completely.

He sorted out his thoughts and looked at the list again. Some doubts arose in his heart. Since this loose cultivator association is set up for the vast number of loose cultivators and loose alliances, it shouldn't only have these rather high-level lists, right?

He went to a nearby counter to ask, and just now he learned that this huge stone only records the cultivators on the evil cultivation list whose bounties exceed 100,000. As for the others with less than 100,000, they need to be checked separately.

In addition, in addition to the evil cultivation list, there is also a special task list. As long as a deposit is paid, anyone can post tasks or bounties on both.

And if there are casual cultivators who want to accept tasks, they also need to pay a certain deposit, and at the same time, they need to verify their strength. In principle, they cannot accept tasks that are too different from their strength.

Yuan Ming did not want to accept the task for the time being, so he just borrowed a name to quickly scan the evil cultivation list. In fact, after confirming that his name was not on it, he did not stay any longer.

He had planned to go to Qingmu Building to buy some Four Spirit Pills, but he didn't have the heart to do so at this moment. After all, as long as there were enough spirit stones, the pills could be bought at any time. There was no need to rush. There was something that needed to be verified right now.

On the way back to Dajin, he tried many methods to hatch the blood egg that Xiying had given him before, but he couldn't. He even tried the method of dripping blood every day that Xiying taught him. Not only that, he couldn't feel the spiritual energy fluctuations in the egg.

This made him wonder if this blood egg could be hatched, or at least if there was any way to confirm whether it was still alive?

After thinking about it, he still had to find someone who was proficient in this way to ask about the situation.

Now that he came to Leizhou, he thought that the sect of the one-armed old man Gu Qiuming was just specialized in this way.

Yuan Ming took out the map and quickly found the location of Zhenling Pavilion and walked over quickly.

As soon as he entered the door, a steward in a fiery red robe came up to him.

Without waiting for him to ask, Yuan Ming said, "Excuse me, fellow Daoist, is there a cultivator named Gu Qiuming here?"

"Sorry, Deacon Gu returned to the sect not long ago and is not here now. However, if you need, I can send a message to him on your behalf." The steward said politely.

"Okay, just say that an old friend from Black Rock City is visiting, and he knows who it is." Yuan Ming said so after hearing this.

The steward immediately agreed, and then promoted the various rare birds and animals in the store to Yuan Ming.

Many of them are common in southern Xinjiang. The good ones are unaffordable, and the bad ones are not as good as his own. However, the price is more than three times that of southern Xinjiang. Yuan Ming is not interested in this, and he casually responds with a few words and turns away.

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At night, Yuan Ming stood by the window of the inn room and looked out.

This is the second floor, and the view is quite open.

The lights in Xiaohu City are bright at this moment, and it is extremely gorgeous against the backdrop of the night.

After a long time, Yuan Ming turned around and walked back to the bedside, took out the white jade ring and looked at it for a long time, then put it into the storage ring, his eyes gradually became firm.

He finally made a decision in his heart: not to go to Shengye Sect, but to live in this small lake city market for a long time to practice.

First, he was afraid of bringing trouble to his grandmother's sect. Because of himself, his mother's family was implicated, which added another worry to his mother. Second, Yuan Ming was really tired of the various cumbersome rules of the sect. He needed to report to any place and leave the sect. He also needed approval. This small lake city market was the second largest market in Dajin. The spiritual energy was also rich and there were all kinds of things. Third, there were many casual cultivators in the market, and the great hidden in the city.

As for the resources such as elixirs needed for cultivation, he planned to find a way by himself. He asked himself that even if he went to Shengye Sect, although he was a foundation-building cultivator, he was an outsider after all, and he might not be treated preferentially under someone else's roof.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ming became more determined in this choice.

The next morning, he came to a huge palace building near the lake in the city. It was bustling with people coming and going.

Two gatekeepers stood at the entrance of the main hall, ignoring the people coming in and out.

Yuan Ming entered one of the side rooms. The room was simply furnished with only a long gray-white stone table, and four or five white-robed monks sat behind it.

Many monks gathered in the hall, sitting at the stone table, whispering with those white-robed monks, some were in high spirits, and some were frowning.

This is the place where houses are rented in the market of Xiaohu City.

"Does this Taoist want to rent or buy a house? Have you chosen the location?" The white-robed monk asked with a smile, and did not look down on Yuan Ming because of his Qi Refining period.

"Rent a house in the outer area, but along the street, it's cheaper." Yuan Ming didn't want to ask about the price of buying a house, thinking that he couldn't afford it, so he said.

"There are many cheap unused houses in the outer areas. There are 89 in the east of the city and 121 in the west. Here is the price list. You can take a look first." The white-robed cultivator took out two jade slips and handed them over.

Yuan Ming picked up the jade slips and used his spiritual sense to explore. He frowned and hesitated. The rent of houses in Xiaohu City is really not cheap. Even houses in the outer areas cost one or two hundred spirit stones a year.

"The spiritual energy in this city is rich. There are Yuanying cultivators in charge. It is safe. Xiaohu City is the second market in Dajin. Life is convenient even in every corner of this city. As for where to live, it depends on what you need." The white-robed cultivator kept talking about the benefits of living in Xiaohu City.