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The core King Chao and the twelve... eleven generals left the city early.
At the latest tomorrow night, the subsequent baggage and civilian labor teams will also leave.
Moreover, some people discovered that the evil spirits disappeared outside the city three days ago.
Many people have secretly fled out of Nanyang.
"No rush." Jie Jia was calm and composed.
The evil spirit is gone, but there is no guarantee that it will not come back. The Zu Ming Fu is selling like hot cakes.
Chen Mu nodded. Now that the evil spirit was gone and King Chao had slipped away again, there was nothing he was afraid of.
If he didn't feel that Nanyang was unsafe, he would not have left.
"It seems that the positioning of the stick is not very accurate." Chen Mu came back to his senses at this time.
"Perhaps the Five Ghosts Bag is blocking the detection." Chen Mu understood a little.
"Then just lie in the bag first."
For the next few days, Chen Mu stayed in Hesheng Hall.
Keep practicing the Serpentine Breathing Method every day to improve your proficiency.
He slowly flipped through the dozens of books that he had swindled out of the prefectural government office.
Especially the book "Bone Reading and Face Checking".
The more he looked, the more he felt that the thin and dark old man, Xing Laoliu, must have seen something.
"No wonder he ran away so quickly. He's a smart guy."
"Did you also notice something was wrong when you searched outside Jian'an Gate?" Chen Mu chuckled and shook his head.
He's also a sly old fool.
……
With the departure of King Chao and the disappearance of the evil spirit guarding the city, many people in Nanyang Prefecture began to run out of the city.
Many people also took advantage of this period to do evil.
But just five days later, order was restored on the market.
Because Shangguan Ji is back.
Returning with him were 8,000 elite armored soldiers from the Tangshan Camp.
The wolf-like and tiger-like army quickly took over Nanyang, methodically striking down the chaos and restoring order.
Open the granaries to release grain and issue notices to appease the civilians.
He reduced taxes for all industries for one year and hired laborers at high prices to repair the inner city.
The city of Nanyang recovered rapidly.
……
In the private room on the third floor of Sihai Tower in Fanlou, Taipei City.
Tu Shan munched on the roasted lamb leg with big mouthfuls, his hands and face were covered in oil.
Chao Fang played with his wine glass, looking at the red dot on the bright yellow cloth in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh: "It looks like it's really gone."
"Let's go now." Tu Shan said nonchalantly, "With this time, you can even refine another one."
"Okay." Chao Fang nodded helplessly.
“We can only look for suitable towns along the way.”
"Where is the human stake?" Tu Shan asked.
"I found a Taoist priest in his forties, at the Wandering Soul realm, who is just the right person."
"What a pity! I was thinking of being a human stake, counterattacking and successfully killing you." Tu Shan said with regret: "That's what the novels say. Very interesting."
"Heh..." Chao Fang raised the corner of his mouth and chuckled nonchalantly.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 130 Luck
In the evening, the tempting fragrance wafted from the backyard of Heshengtang again.
Chen Mujiejia ate quickly in silence.
Both of them were big eaters and the food on the table was quickly finished.
Immediately, black smoke billowed up and all the dishes and chopsticks became clean.
In the corner, black smoke filled the wooden trash can, into which a pile of bones and vegetable juice had fallen.
Jie Jia looked at Chen Mu with a complicated expression.
"What's the matter?" Chen Mu stared at Jie Jia and spread his hands: "Isn't this very convenient?"
Jie Jia had no choice but to nod.
However, using the magical tool in this way, the feeling is really... indescribable!
Chen Mu rolled his eyes.
"Are all the ghosts and monsters outside the city gone?"
"Let's go." Jiejia took the teacup handed over by Chen Mu and nodded.
"The waterway from here to Lijiang Acropolis is also safe, right?" Chen Mu's eyes lit up.
"Before, the ghosts were only around Nanyang City, but not on the Li River..."
As Jiejia was speaking, his hand holding the teacup suddenly paused.
Does this guy want to run away now?
"Then I'll leave tomorrow!" Chen Mu said excitedly.
Although Nanyang Prefecture was temporarily safe, what if another Heavenly King Li came after Chao Tianwang left?
It is better to stay as little as possible.
Jiejia put down the teacup and his eyelids drooped.
Without the evil spirit, there would be no need for him to personally escort the guy in front of him.
A deal is lost...
"By the way, do you know this thing?" Chen Mu suddenly asked as if he had thought of something.
A long black stick emerged along with black smoke.
Jiejia glanced at the black stick on the table, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes.
"This is..." After saying just two words, Jiejia suddenly stopped.
He narrowed his eyes and glanced at Chen Mu's left arm.
"Here, here, here!" Chen Mu rolled his eyes and took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Jie Jia.
Jiejia slowly lowered his head, looked at the silver, slowly stretched out his right hand and spread out his five fingers.
"Five... fifty taels?!"
"Hey! You're getting darker now, huh?!
"The asking price was two taels of silver before, why has the price increased now?!" Chen Mu glared at Jie Jia.
Jie Jia looked at Chen Mu calmly without saying anything.
"Hurry up and tell me!" Chen Mu gritted his teeth and took out another forty taels of silver.
He was burdened with a huge debt and wished he could use one tael of silver as two taels. However, Jie Jia cheated him out of fifty taels and his face was full of reluctance.
Jie Jia rubbed the silver beads slowly.
The escort travel expenses are gone, but the information consultation fee is here!
……
"Soul-fixing stake."
"Take the heart of a hundred-year-old locust tree and refine it using a secret method."
"This..." Jie Jia gently ran two fingers across the black long stick: "At least three hundred years."
"Is this thing locust wood? Are you kidding me?" Chen Mu touched the long black stick that looked more like jade and glass, in disbelief.
Can the heart of the locust tree be black? And still so hard?
That night he hid on the beam and suddenly attacked.
As a result, the dagger in the sleeve that could pierce the armor and soul could not hurt the soul-fixing stake at all.
"The Thousand Mountains Sutra is a side secret method, and is best at refining strange instruments. It is not surprising that it changes its nature."
"Though your ghost paper figurine looks fragile, isn't it indestructible?"
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.
"Thousand Mountain Scripture?"
Jie Jia glanced at Chen Mu and said, "What a fuss."
"Thousands of mountains stretch across the sky, pressing down on all directions."
"What I'm saying is that the Qianshan Sutra has many secret methods and is widely spread. You will know it later."
Chen Mu nodded. He had been in this world for three years, and the number of magical weapons he had heard of and seen did not exceed the number of his palms.
It turned out that two of them came from the Qianshan Jing, which was indeed widely spread.
"The Soul-Fixing Stake is an auxiliary tool for the Yin-raising Strategy." Jie Jia continued, "It is used to imprison and raise Yin souls."
Raising evil spirits? Raising evil spirits?!
Chen Mu raised his eyebrows.