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"Who is Hong Xiu? Come out and let me see him." Chen Mu emerged from the ground with a stern look on his face.
I heard the gossip about Shi Dechun yesterday and I was unhappy.
I work and you make money?
You still don't give me dividends?
Why!
The more he thought about it, the more unwilling he felt. He decided not to rob those minions, and set out early in the morning to go straight to Hong Xiu who was blocking the road.
You dare to use me as a knife? I want to see who the bastard is!
With the Qi Jin Baili activated, three men who were obviously the leaders were lifted up.
Seeing the familiar embarrassed figures, Chen Mu laughed: "Hey, Niu Chengzong? Isn't this Old Niu?"
He walked forward and patted the other person's shoulder: "I knew you were involved in this."
"Come on, tell me, who is that bastard who dares to cheat people under the name of Hong Xiu?!"
As he spoke, he glared fiercely at the short and fat man next to Fei Yong.
There are three leaders, next to him is Lao Niu, the bearded man next to him is Fei Yong, and the only one left is a shorty, this must be Hong Xiu!
Fei Yong and Niu Chengzong stared at Hong Xiu hard, especially the short and fat Niu Chengzong, whose big eyes widened!
Hong Xiu's face twitched, and he said with gritted teeth: "Well... maybe, maybe, I am the bastard who pretended to be Hong Xiu."
What the hell is this world? Do you have to pretend to be someone you really are?
Now it was Chen Mu's turn to glare.
How could he not understand that the guy in front of him was not Niu Chengzong at all, he was Hong Xiu himself!
So the last time I pretended to be Hong Xiu, people saw through me on the spot?
Tsk! This is so embarrassing!
"Well, Lao Niu." Chen Mu said calmly.
"I'm here!" the shorty replied quickly.
Chen Mu immediately glared at the other person: "I didn't call you!"
He turned his head and stared at Hong Xiu and continued calmly: "Old Cow."
Hong Xiu: “…”
"Oh!" Hong Xiu's mouth twitched, and he nodded reluctantly.
Chen Mu immediately showed a satisfied smile.
That's right!
I am Hong Xiu, so of course you must be Lao Niu, right?
"I'm here now, look..."
"Everything here is at your disposal!" Hong Xiu's face twitched, but he pretended to be generous and bowed.
Chen Mu immediately nodded with satisfaction.
As he raised his hand, a group of figures wearing black robes and clay masks appeared, pretending to be the red-eyed water ape on the roadside and left.
Chen Mu followed suit, and with a wave of his hand, half of the ape was swallowed by the Five Ghosts Bag. He then saw the air-eating bags on the waists of the three men, and immediately stepped forward and grabbed them away without any hesitation.
He planned to stop after this job, and of course he would take as much as he could.
Since these guys dared to use him as a knife, then what he took would be his dividend!
After looting everyone, Chen Mu disappeared with his men with a wave of his hand.
Hong Xiu and the other two stood at the foot of the hill, looking at the quickly receding team with bewildered faces. It took them a long while to sort out their thoughts and regain their composure.
Niu Chengzong immediately glanced at Hong Xiu: "Old Niu, huh?"
Hong Xiu: “…”
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 441 Soul Separation Soup
The camp of the third flag of the Yanxing tribe.
Chen Mu sat cross-legged on a cushion, holding a palm-sized pottery figurine and looking at it from left to right.
The entire terracotta figurine is a miniature version of a red-eyed water ape, with four arms, protruding fangs, and eyes that seem to be inlaid with two crystal clear blood-red gems.
Whenever I meet those blood-red eyes, a malicious roar will suddenly appear in my mind.
"Could this terracotta ghost be made from the corpse of a red-eyed water ape?" Chen Mu couldn't help scratching his head: "That's a bit weird."
He took out a human-shaped pottery figurine and turned it over and over to examine it carefully.
"Fortunately, this is just an ordinary clay puppet, otherwise..." Chen Mu couldn't help but shiver.
Both of the terracotta warriors and ghosts are from Hongxiu.
The first one was looted last time, probably purchased in Jiugu City. The second monkey soldier came from the opponent's air-eating bag, probably recently exchanged for military merit.
"No wonder the Hai Camp is obsessed with water monkeys." He felt that his previous guess was correct. The Hai Camp was stationed here just to hunt water monkeys.
Shaking his head and not thinking any more, he took out a bamboo tube that was as long as a palm and as thick as a child's wrist.
The bamboo tube also came from Hongxiu's food bag. It was sealed with a wooden stopper and beeswax. It was verdant in color, with three simple and simple characters "Huangquan Yin" engraved in the middle.
When the cork was pulled out, the liquid inside was seen to be as clear as water, with several thin threads floating in the air, flashing silver light from time to time.
"I spent all day thinking about earning military merits to buy secret techniques, but the secret techniques were delivered to my door?" Chen Mu stared at the silver thread in the bamboo tube with a smile: "That Hong Xiu is really a good person."
This liquid with silver threads is called Soul-Separation Soup, which is similar to the jade tablets used by qigong practitioners to pass on their teachings.
As long as you take it, you can obtain the true seed of the secret technique, and by constantly watering it with the power of the Yin spirit, you can gradually master the secret technique.
Chen Mu looked at the water ape terracotta warrior, then at the green bamboo tube, and couldn't help but grinning.
"With both the terracotta warriors and the secret method, this fellow Hong Xiu is going to set up checkpoints on the road. He must have made a fortune."
"But now it's all good for me, haha!"
……
a few days later.
Next to a blood-red river that stretches as far as the eye can see.
Chen Mu drove the flame cart closer to the river bank, pulled a four-meter-tall water ape that was half-lying on the river bank out of the river, and threw it towards the hill of corpses on the flame cart.
Ever since he got the secret method of Huangquan Yin, he immediately stopped doing it and returned to Yisan Banner with Shi Dechun and others.
On the surface, he was carrying water apes honestly, but in fact, he was secretly practicing fishing all day long.
Just like at this moment, he pretended to search for corpses everywhere, but the power of the Yin spirit continued to pour into the palm of his right hand.
Although Chen Mu felt a burning pain in his palms, he continued to practice without changing his expression.
At a certain moment, a drop of transparent water the size of a mung bean suddenly appeared in front of him.
Chen Mu was delighted and quickly took out the small jade gourd he had prepared long ago and collected the drop of Forgetful River water.
"It's finally done!"
He looked down at the palm of his right hand, and saw a silver thread pattern that looked like a tangled mess of wool, engraved in the middle of his palm.
The silver thread pattern is the true seed of Huangquan Yin's secret method, which appears after taking the Soul-Separating Soup. But if you want to truly practice the secret method, you need to constantly water it with the power of the Yin Spirit.
He had been trying these past few days, but every time he injected divine power, it was like pouring water into a tangled mass of pipes.
The resistance was strong and it was difficult to pass through. Apart from the burning pain in the palms of his hands, there were no other symptoms. He once thought that he had drunk a fake soul-leaving soup.
Today, he successfully condensed a drop of water from the Forgotten River, which meant that he had finally crossed the threshold.
He looked down at the pattern on his palm again.
The palm was originally covered with dense silver threads, but a round blank spot the size of a mung bean suddenly appeared in the center. The silver threads that originally covered this place seemed to have melted into the skin and drilled into the palm.
With a thought, a gray wall appeared.
Huangquan Yin: 5/10000/first level;
"really……"
"Next, it's time for the familiar part." Chen Mu smiled confidently.
He was not in a hurry to continue practicing. Instead, he stood by the river in a happy mood, admiring the wonderful river in front of him.
The river water is as red as blood, and the river surface is so wide that you can't see the edge. Amid the turbulent waves, gusts of river breeze blow, and a faint fragrance fills the nose. A light sniff gives people a refreshing feeling.
"Although it is indeed bloody in color, naming it the Blood River gives people a rather fierce impression." Chen Mu commented cheerfully, "If it was called the Red River, the Red River, or the Dan River, that would be much better."
"Well...it is said that the Red-Eyed Water Ape lives in the Blood River."
"So, the Red-eyed Water Ape is... the Red-eyed Water Monkey?"
"Ah……"
Chen Mu was happy.
Just as he was daydreaming, his scalp suddenly tightened and a murderous aura suddenly hit him, and he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
His heart skipped a beat and he suddenly turned to look at the source of the evil spirit.
A water ape appeared on the river surface far away from the river bank. Most of its body was submerged in the water, with only its head above the water.
Unlike those huge creatures, the ape was only the size of a human at most. Its blood-red eyes were filled with coldness. Chen Mu just stared at it and felt as if he was frozen.
He shuddered suddenly and almost disappeared into the ground, but he just blinked and when he looked again, he found that the other person had disappeared. It was like an illusion.
But Chen Mu knew that what happened just now was definitely not an illusion.
His good mood immediately dissipated and he immediately moved away from the river bank.
He pretended to continue searching for the water ape, but in fact he started a new round of training.
"After all, this is a battlefield, and there are dangers everywhere."