Hide in The Immortal Cultivation World, Strike Hard in the Martial World
Chapter 368 - 180: Exaggerated Harvest

During these two months on the official large passenger ship, Chen Yi didn't touch the spoils of war in his storage bag,

He was mostly drawing talismans, doing some simple meditation, practicing fist techniques to cultivate his body, and gradually accumulating some Wave Stacking Strength in his spine.

Two months later, Chen Yi returned safely to Little Cold Peak. Before he got off the boat, a piece of news had spread around,

Yue Xiu, the former rotating city lord of Wangyue City, was killed in a fit of rage by a loose cultivator named Zhao Jingwu!

After inquiring in detail, Chen Yi understood what had happened.

It turned out that back when Liu Yonggang was killed, rumors circulated that Zhao Jingwu had murdered him in order to take his possessions after making a deal, killing the buyer and taking back the goods, getting twice the benefit from a single transaction.

It seemed that without a thorough investigation, Wangyue City officials concluded this and issued an arrest warrant,

Issuing a manhunt for Zhao Jingwu within the Ten Thousand Islands Alliance.

This enraged Zhao Jingwu. He hadn't even done anything and yet he was being set up?

It should be known that although Zhao Jingwu had been a loose cultivator with a notorious reputation, he had unrestricted access to the official islands of the Ten Thousand Islands Alliance.

Now he had been labeled as a bandit cultivator by the manhunt, becoming a rat everyone was shouting to hit, with a hefty bounty on his head if he were killed,

He couldn't let that slide.

After a thorough investigation conducted by Zhao Jingwu, based on an early witness at the scene who seemed to have heard Liu Yonggang shouting, "City Lord Yue, what are you doing?"

And the fact that Zhao Jingwu was wanted so quickly, certainly due to City Lord Yue's instigation,

Moreover, with Yue Xiu knowing about Liu Yonggang's wealth, he had every reason to ambush him for personal gain,

It was concluded that Yue Xiu was the one who had killed Liu Yonggang,

"You committed murder and then pinned the blame on me?"

"I didn't do it!"

Zhao Jingwu intercepted Yue Xiu and after a brief conversation, wouldn't believe Yue Xiu's explanation.

Thus, since Zhao Jingwu was already wanted, he decided to conform to his criminal status, he drew out his Vajra Hammer, and killed Yue Xiu with three strikes.

This incident was seen by a passing cultivator and spread around.

After Zhao Jingwu killed Yue Xiu, he solidified his identity as a bandit cultivator, and was now unable to enter any official venues within the Ten Thousand Islands Alliance.

What annoyed Zhao Jingwu was that after he had killed Yue Xiu, he hadn't found any of Liu Yonggang's treasure,

Moreover, upon further reflection, he had had considerable difficulty handling Liu Yonggang at first, yet now he had easily killed Yue Xiu with three hammer strikes,

Even if Yue Xiu had ambushed Liu Yonggang, it shouldn't have been so easy to kill him,

"Damn it, I've been duped."

Zhao Jingwu had been framed, and unless he saw the Blue Sword Talisman or Liu Yonggang's Third Tier Spiritual Fire again, it would be extremely difficult to determine who had killed Liu Yonggang and set him up,

Moreover, judging from the situation at the scene, the person who killed Liu Yonggang had used a body cultivator's method, so that Fist Technique could well have been performed by someone from Jiang Hao's camp,

Zhao Jingwu didn't dare to retaliate against Jiang Hao's side,

This whole situation was infuriating. He had made the move, ate the turtle, gained no benefit, and instead brought endless trouble upon himself,

Zhao Jingwu cursed in fury!

As a result, he even laid an ambush outside Wangyue City for more than a year in order to kill two important people inside the city to vent his anger.

After all, since he was already established as Yue Xiu's murderer, no matter what he did, he couldn't wash his hands clean. Thus, he held the Wangyue City officials responsible for everything,

The people who initially issued a warrant against him without a thorough investigation must have harbored ill will towards him.

...

When Chen Yi heard this news, he felt so relieved that he drank a few more cups.

Upon returning to Little Cold Peak, Chen Yi immediately took out the Third Tier Spiritual Fire, Red Maple Fire, and spent some time refining it and incorporating it into his Dantian,

The second-tier Spiritual Fire in his Dantian was naturally absorbed by the third-tier Spiritual Fire,

Now Chen Yi had a third-tier Spiritual Fire. After familiarizing himself with its characteristics, his efficiency and success rate in pill refining had increased significantly,

Chen Yi reckoned that in a little while, he could almost make a breakthrough to become a second-tier top-grade alchemist.

After refining the Third Tier Spiritual Fire, Chen Yi began to carefully organize the gains from this trip,

Firstly, he had obtained a large amount of stalactite milk from Wang Tengfei and Song Chengcheng, including 6 drops of Third Tier lower grade, several tens of drops of Second Tier upper grade, and almost a hundred drops of the mid-grade variant,

Besides, there were also some spirit medicinal materials and Spiritual Wood Bark, Demon Beast skin, etc., Chen Yi didn't have time to bother about these at the moment and put them aside.

In the end, while organizing Liu Yonggang's storage bag, he got quite a surprise.

"One Blue Sword Talisman, three top grade magical tools, five upper grade magical tools, and more than 30 various kinds of second tier top and upper grade talisman scrolls!

Nearly a hundred bottles of various first and second tier pills!

Among them, valuable ones like the Exploding Sun Pill, which Liu Yonggang had previously taken in battle to temporarily increase his mana limit, there were three of them,

This pill is extremely useful in the battlefield and is quite prominent among pills that temporarily increase combat ability because its side effect is not a large physical damage afterward like other pills,

The side effect of this pill is just a slight swelling of the meridians and Dantian, which can be restored if the matching Clear Green Pill is taken afterward."

This was a good thing, Chen Yi accepted them excitedly.

"Three Nine Zhi Pills, which are Breaking Tier Pills to use during the Foundation Establishment Period, can increase the probability of a breakthrough from the early to the middle stage by 30%, and from the middle to the late stage by 10%."

This was also a good thing, but Chen Yi himself couldn't use this pill, as he didn't have any bottleneck at his small stages of cultivation. If he took this type of pill that aids in breaking through stages rashly, it would only consume his potential in advance.