Upon hearing this, Xu Mu frowned and said, "You killed her?"
"No, I beat her, trying to force her to give up the prescription, but she refused no matter what, so I starved her for a few days."
Zhang Kaijie said to Xu Mu, "I really deserve to die."
"Take me there now."
Xu Mu immediately said.
"Okay."
Zhang Kaijie nodded repeatedly, "She's not here. I intentionally parked her car here to throw people off the track. I'll lead the way on my motorcycle."
Xu Mu nodded, "Then we'll follow in the car."
After saying that, he and Dai Xingluo returned to the car.
On the way, Dai Xingluo smiled at Xu Mu, "Brother, your skill at lying is truly impressive. I'm afraid your little sister has been kept completely in the dark."
"Dark my ass! Get in the car, quick."
Xu Mu's heart wasn't entirely at ease either.
From Feng Yue being captured this time and not giving up the prescription out of fear of death, it proved she was worth deeper investment.
Not to mention, she was already considered his woman to begin with.
Xu Mu planned to focus on improving Feng Yue's strength from now on.
His own people shouldn't keep getting bullied.
Led by Zhang Kaijie, Xu Mu drove to another village.
He opened his perception and found the village was almost deserted, with only a dozen or so elderly households remaining.
Zhang Kaijie led Xu Mu and Dai Xingluo to a house door, took out a key, and opened it.
With a single sweep of his perception, Xu Mu saw Feng Yue locked in the cellar.
Entering the courtyard, the weeds covering the ground proved no one had lived here for a long time.
According to Zhang Kaijie, the old folks of this family had passed away, and their son had bought a house in a nearby county town.
He had rented the place quite easily.
Opening the cellar door, Zhang Kaijie headed down.
Xu Mu and Dai Xingluo followed behind.
Upon arriving, they found Feng Yue bound there by ghost vines.
She seemed somewhat dazed, her lips pale, weakened to the extreme.
When she saw Zhang Kaijie enter, gloom clouded her face again, but upon seeing Xu Mu following behind, the gloom instantly vanished.
[Favorability +20]
"I'm sorry!"
Zhang Kaijie walked up to Feng Yue, knelt on the spot, kowtowed once, then forcefully slapped himself several times.
"Get up!"
Xu Mu patted Zhang Kaijie's shoulder, then quickly walked behind Feng Yue and untied the ghost vines binding her.
Feng Yue opened her mouth, but her throat was completely parched, unable to utter a word.
"Let's exchange contact info. Wait for my notification."
Xu Mu took out his phone and said.
"Okay."
Zhang Kaijie nodded and immediately took out his phone.
After exchanging contacts, Xu Mu picked up Feng Yue and quickly left the place.
Back in the car.
Xu Mu took out a bottle of mineral water and handed it to Feng Yue, "Don't drink too fast. Moisten your throat first."
Feng Yue nodded slightly. After taking a sip of water, she clearly felt much better.
Returning to the previous village, Xu Mu had Dai Xingluo drive Feng Yue's car back.
Xu Mu himself planned to take Feng Yue directly back to Jiang City.
Seeing Feng Yue's haggard appearance, Dai Xingluo didn't say much more.
...
"Boss, if you had come a few days later, I'm afraid I would have died."
Feng Yue took another big gulp of water, leaned back in the seat, and closed her eyes.
"I'm sorry. If Ye Tong hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have even thought you were captured."
Xu Mu's face was also full of apology, then he said, "From now on, exercise more. I plan to continue improving your strength."
"Really? That good?"
Feng Yue had just laughed when she broke into a fit of violent coughing.
"You're my person. I won't let you get hurt again!"
Xu Mu's eyes looked ahead.
[Favorability +20]
A faint smile appeared on Feng Yue's lips.
...
After taking Feng Yue home, Xu Mu personally cooked her some light meals.
He told her to eat and rest, and they would talk about the rest after she woke up.
Xu Mu left her villa and went to his own home.
Just as he entered the living room, a message came through on his phone. It was Tantai Quan from Lu Mang Mountain.
Xu Mu answered the call, "Sister Quan, what brings you time to call me?"
"We all agreed to cooperate back then. What do you think I'm calling you for?"
Tantai Quan's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Where are you now? I'll be at your doorstep in a moment."
"My doorstep?"
Xu Mu was full of surprise, "You know where I live?"
"Xu Mu, the young master of Jiang City's Xu Group, so famous. A little investigation, and isn't it easy to find out?"
Tantai Quan said with a laugh.
"I happen to be home today. Just drive over."
Xu Mu said into the phone.
"Okay."
Tantai Quan agreed.
Xu Mu sat on the sofa and opened his perception.
About a few minutes later, a Range Rover stopped outside his villa gate.
Xu Mu checked the people inside. There were three in total.
Tantai Quan, a male driver, and besides them, a young and beautiful woman.
After the doorbell rang, Xu Mu got up and walked outside.
He opened the main gate and said with a smile, "Please come in."
"Where should I put the rare herbs?"
Tantai Quan, holding a slender tobacco pipe, smiled at Xu Mu.
"Just put them in the yard."
Xu Mu pointed to the side.
"Okay."
Tantai Quan gave a look to the driver beside her.
The man opened the trunk, carried out several large bundles of rare herbs, and walked towards the yard.
"This many?"
Xu Mu looked at the rare herbs with great surprise, "Still Hongyuan Pills?"
"That's right. Based on the amount you needed for refining last time, I prepared materials for a hundred pills this time, if not more."
Tantai Quan glanced at Xu Mu, "Shall we go inside to talk?"
Xu Mu nodded.
The three of them came to the living room together.
Xu Mu proactively went to get two glasses of water. While delivering the water, he used his God's Eye to check the young woman beside Tantai Quan.
She looked to be just over twenty, wearing a black dress, her bust at least reaching the C-cup realm.
Her eyes were very spirited, and she was quite beautiful.
Name: Tantai Piao
Identity: Lu Mang Mountain Finance
Favorability: -6
Fate Level: 2 (Max Level 10)
Seeing this information, Xu Mu relaxed his guard. It seemed she wasn't some big shot.
"What does Sister want to talk about?"
Xu Mu sat on the sofa, crossed his legs, and looked at Tantai Quan as he asked.
"These materials are more than enough. We want to take seventy Hongyuan Pills. The rest are all yours."
Tantai Quan gave Xu Mu a charming smile.
"Sister Quan, you'd better take the herbs back. I'm really not short of a partner like you."
Xu Mu waved his hand at Tantai Quan.
"But partners who make such large-scale deals like me probably aren't many, right?"
Tantai Quan smiled at Xu Mu, "Getting over thirty Hongyuan Pills at once is really not a small amount. Consider this a test. I can tell you clearly, we also have ninth-grade rare herbs, and when the time comes, we'll entrust them all to you for refining."
"A test? Sister Quan, the only ones qualified to test me are the nation and its people. You're not qualified."
Xu Mu raised a finger and gently shook it.
"I am one of the people."
Tantai Quan struck a match, smiling as she looked at Xu Mu.
"Is that so? Let me see the 'people's currency' then."
Xu Mu said to Tantai Quan.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
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pression Bureau] Transported to a fantasy world overrun by demons and monsters, Gu Qingfeng becomes a jailer in the Demon Suppression Prison of the Great Yan Dynasty's Demon Suppression Bureau. From this point on, bizarre cases frequently occur in the Demon Suppression Prison, once known as hell on earth and infamous for its gloomy, terrifying atmosphere! Why do the demons and monsters in the prison wail miserably every night? Why has the corpse demon, capable of transforming into various beauties, donned black stockings and switched careers to become a foot massage therapist? Why has the eye demon, expert in soul-snatching and illusions, turned into a VR headset? Why is the fox spirit performing otaku dances? Are all these occurrences a twisted expression of demonic nature, or a descent into moral depravity? After peeling away layer upon layer of mystery, all clues ultimately point to a jailer named Gu Qingfeng. Gu Qingfeng: "Hehehe... My dear demons and monsters, whose card shall we flip today?"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
