Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 91 - 91 91 Fermentation

91: Chapter 91 Fermentation 91: Chapter 91 Fermentation On a barren mountain near the ancestral house of the Liu Family, Chen Hai, whose body was weak and frail, lay there for most of the day.

It wasn’t until after nightfall that he, dragging his tired steps, came down from the barren mountain.

Between the Yang Mansion and the Yin House, there must be some differences.

Cutting off the life force and introducing the Evil Qi, what Chen Hai did was still the same.

Of course, there would definitely be some differences in the specific methods he used.

Once again casting the Geomancy Inspection Skill, which took a toll on his already frail body, which had suffered the backlash of Heaven’s Secret, added insult to injury.

It was fortunate that the ancestral house of the Liu Family was dark and empty with no one living in it.

Otherwise, later on, when Chen Hai could barely move his feet, doing these strange actions around this house would inevitably lead to some undesirable consequences.

It was past ten at night when Chen Hai finally settled all the matters.

By then, he was so weak that he could not even walk back to the town, so he had to find a haystack nearby to lie on for most of the night.

The next day, just as the sky began to pale, Chen Hai, whose body had slightly recovered, staggered toward the town.

Little Wangping and Chenjiaping, one south of Wuyang Town and one north of Wuyang Town.

Chen Hai’s reason for not going home but to the town was merely because the town was closer.

This time, he had overexerted himself in casting, not knowing how long it would take for him to recover.

Now, he didn’t want anything but to find a quiet place to wildly sleep and get a good rest first.

Nearly ten miles away, the swaying Chen Hai took almost two hours to finally reach the town.

He found a nearby hostel, gave the landlady a banknote, and instructed her not to disturb him unless necessary before walking into the room prepared for him and collapsing on the bed, soon falling asleep.

…

Somewhere on a small hill under Wuyang Town, which belonged to a village.

A man with shaggy hair and a grim face, dressed in rags and covered in ferocious wounds, looking like a beggar and unrecognizable in age, emerged from the bushes.

“Three years, a full three years!”

“Finally escaped, the Dafu Coal Mine is literally Hell on earth.”

“Once I return to the province, the first thing I will do is write down my experiences of these three years and get them published…”

Still carrying a trace of horror on his face, the man looked back several times, making sure there was no pursuer, before he finally relaxed.

This man was Journalist Yao, a reporter from a provincial newspaper.

Three years ago, upon receiving a tip-off about the frequent mysterious disappearances of mentally disabled homeless people in Liuyuan County, he volunteered to come here to seek the truth.

After disguising himself as someone with intellectual problems, he had been wandering the streets for less than a week.

One dark night, he was knocked unconscious with a blunt stick.

When Journalist Yao regained consciousness, he found himself in a coal mine.

Liuyuan County was not known for coal production, but there were still a few small-scale coal mines.

The true misery for Journalist Yao started after he woke up.

Living in a doghouse, eating pig slop, he spent twenty hours a day forced to mine coal relentlessly.

These kinds of small mines were not registered; they were privately operated.

From the idle talk of the overseers, he learned that this place belonged to Wuyang Town and the owner of the coal mine was named Liu Dafu, the richest man in Wuyang Town.

Journalist Yao endured three years of these sunless days.

Many times, he felt utterly hopeless and thought about just ending it all.

Fortunately, he persevered.

He lasted until today, finally finding a chance to escape from that hellish place.

“I can’t stay here long; even the town or county might not be safe.

I need to find a way to hurry back to the province!”

Remembering some secrets he had inadvertently heard from the overseers’ conversations, Journalist Yao shuddered several times.

He looked up at the pitch-dark night sky and the sporadically twinkling stars.

Roughly judging the direction he needed to head, he stumbled down the hill.

…

In Shachang City, in a hospital within a sanatorium.

A young man, severely depressed and closed off from the outside world, slowly opened his eyes.

He stared blankly at the ceiling above.

“This child, went on a trip to the cities below with his classmates.

Why did he return in this state?”

A regal-looking woman, along with a handsome middle-aged man exuding an air of authority, entered the room.

Seeing the young man in such a state, the woman’s face was filled with distress as she sighed deeply.

“Shengli, haven’t you been investigating this?

Have you found out anything, and what about Xiaofeng’s classmate?

Does she really know nothing?”

The woman looked sternly, glaring at the middle-aged man beside her and rebuked him.

“Honey, do you think I don’t want to clarify everything?”

“Xiaofeng’s female classmate just rejected his advances, and it was Xiaofeng who kept pestering her, even following her to Wuyang Town where she lived.”

“The girl went straight home, and Xiaofeng stayed in Wuyang Town for a few days; she knew absolutely nothing about Xiaofeng’s situation!”

The middle-aged man gave a bitter smile and hurriedly explained.

“Wang Shengli, if you can’t find out anything, that’s your incompetency!”

“Do you really want me to beg my father and let him get involved?” The woman gestured angrily at the middle-aged man.

In the eyes of outsiders, this middle-aged man held a high and respected position.

But at this moment, he hung his head, silent.

There was no helping it; his father-in-law was domineering, and without his support, he wouldn’t be where he was today!

As the couple quarreled, the young man closed off from the world had a seizure, and his cloudy eyes brightened slightly.

His gaze shifted, landing on the middle-aged man and the woman.

“Dad, Mom, your son was tormented in Wuyang Town, almost lost his life!”

“You must help me get justice, otherwise, I can never hold my head up again.”

As if gone mad, the young man roared furiously at the middle-aged man and the woman.