Ch118 - Saving People

When they came to the courtyard, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu kept still along with the bodies of the other young cultivators. Then, Liu Mufeng heard many footsteps coming and going, in and out. Soon, they were pressed under the bodies of the remaining cultivators. Liu Mufeng secretly released a few Earth Spirit Insects. He asked them to look around and listen to the situation outside.

The Earth Spirit Insects quietly flew out of the yard under cover of the night. Through the eyes of the Earth Spirit Insects, Liu Mufeng saw the situation in the village. He saw that there were many men in black carrying bodies. The cultivators who were unconscious were transported together.

Tao Yu, Luo Yuanjing, and two other men – the four of them gathered together and were discussing.

“Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, how is the situation on your side?” Looking at his Senior Brother, Tao Yu asked.

“En, fortunately, I have already found all 100 people. Your Second Senior Brother has also found all 100 people. Fourth Junior Brother, how about you?” Looking at Tao Yu, a middle-aged man asked.

“Fortunately, I also found 100 people. However, only some of them are in the Spiritual Master Realm. It was tough to find more people in the Spiritual Master Realm.” Speaking of this, Tao Yu sighed lightly.

“That’s true, two Senior Brothers. Unfortunately, it was really hard to find Spiritual Master Realm cultivators. I only found a few cultivators in the Spiritual Master Realm on my side as well.” Nodding, Luo Yuanjing also agreed to the point.

“It doesn’t matter. As long as they are less than a hundred years old, it doesn’t matter if they are in the Spiritual Realm. Is the number enough?” Looking at the other two, the Senior Brother asked again.

“Enough, 100 people have been found.” Tao Yu said that he had found enough.

“Yes, I’ve found enough as well.” Nodding, Luo Yuanjing replied.

“Okay, then count the number of people and put them all into the confinement array.

Tomorrow we will go to Phoenix Mountain together. Master is still waiting for us.” Looking at the other three people, the Senior Brother discussed the next plan.

“Yes, Senior Brother.” Nodding, the other three expressed their understanding.

After an hour and a long wait, Tao Yu finally counted the number of people on his side. Then, he collected all the people he found into a confinement array. Of course, this also included Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu and his three confidants.

After entering the confinement array, Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu sat up from the crowd. Then, pushing aside the cultivator pressing on them, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

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“Yes, I heard it with my own ears. I think there should be something in Phoenix Mountain that is worthy of their conspiracy.”

“Then, what should we do? People here are poisoned. Should we treat them?” Looking at his lover, Jiang Xu asked uncertainly.

“Let’s save them. If we save them, our collective strength will be stronger. However, we can’t save them for free. So let’s remove their storage rings and then detoxify them.” Liu Mufeng was not a bad person by nature. However, all the pills he had refined came from his hard work. There was too much hard work in acquiring the materials needed to refine them. He would not give his antidote to others for free.

“En, that’s a good plan.” Nodding, Jiang Xu agreed. He also felt there was no need to give the medicinal pills to others for free. If they were rich, maybe they could consider helping these people for free, but the problem was that they were poor. The spirit stones that they both currently had totalled less than ten thousand. Their situation was already dire, and they really couldn’t afford to give out medicinal pills to ninety-eight people for free.

“Isn’t it a bit unkind for the two Fellow Daoists to do this?” After speaking, the woman in red sat up from the ground with a pale face.

Seeing that Rose was among the group, Jiang Xu was stunned. Immediately, he looked at the other cautiously. “You, why are you here?”

Rose smiled wryly. “I was deceived by that bastard Tao Yu. He promised to take us to the ruins, but he actually tricked us and threw us all here, trying to use us as sacrifices.” Rose’s face distorted angrily. She would have been poisoned like everyone else if she hadn’t been prepared.

Liu Mufeng nodded. He didn’t say much. Instead, he supported Jiang Xu and stood up together.

“Liu Mufeng, Jiang Xu, you can’t save these people. These people are sacrifices. The barrier formation outside the ruins must sacrifice 400 people for it to open. If you save these people, then the sacrifice will fail. At that time, we will not be able to enter the ruins.” Looking at the two, Rose said anxiously.

Hearing this, Jiang Xu was stunned. “Is there really a relic of a Spiritual Emperor Realm cultivator in the Phoenix Mountain?”

“Yes, those Palace ruins were discovered by Tao Yu’s Master. Tao Yu’s Master is a fourth-level Array Master and a cultivator in the Spiritual King Realm. He said that as long as 400 people are found as a sacrifice for the formation, the array could be opened. Then, when the time came, he would take us to the Palace to hunt for treasures. But I didn’t expect that Tao Yu, this bastard, would use beauty to help him deceive so many people. In the end, he even sacrificed me.” Rose gnashed her teeth as she spoke, wishing she could swallow this beast alive.

Hearing Rose’s words, Liu Mufeng smiled. “Don’t tell me you are still thinking about the Palace ruins and the opportunities you can find there? Don’t be stupid. It is good fortune that we can get out alive from here. With the strength of the three of us, we can’t kill them at all. We need the strength of the other ninety-seven people. Therefore, we must detoxify them. When they release us out to be sacrificed, and a hundred of us rush out together, there would be a better chance of surviving.”

“This…” Rose bit her lip when she heard Liu Mufeng’s words. She knew that just with the strength of the three of them, they couldn’t compete against Tao Yu’s group.

Liu Mufeng and Jiang Xu took away all the storage rings of the remaining ninety-seven people. Afterwards, Liu Mufeng took out the pill cauldron and some spiritual plants and refined thirty detoxification pills from five furnaces. Finally, he took out all the detoxification pills on his storage ring and gave them to his lover.

Jiang Xu took the pills and counted them. “Sixty-eight medicinal pills, Mufeng, it’s not enough.”

“It’s okay. You can administer them first. One for the Spiritual Master Realm cultivators and a half for the Spiritual Mortal Realm and Spiritual Realm cultivators. I need to adjust myQi, and I will continue to refine pills for the others when my soul power recovers.” Liu Mufeng found an open space and sat down with his legs crossed. He secretly released the Fire Spirit Insects to help protect himself.

Seeing that his lover had released the Fire Spirit Insects to protect himself, Jiang Xu took the medicinal pills and went to save the other cultivators.

“I’ll help you.” Rose came over and offered to help.

Glancing at Rose, Jiang Xu gave the other five pills.

Rose took the medicinal pills and immediately ran to rescue her two good sisters, Jasmine and Peony. She was on guard against Tao Yu, so she held her breath in time and hence she was not poisoned. However, her two good sisters were not so lucky. Fortunately, Liu Mufeng was an alchemist who could refine the antidote. Otherwise, there was nothing she could do, and she could only watch her two good sisters get poisoned and killed as sacrifices.

In less than half an hour, Jiang Xu put all the medicinal pills into the mouths of every cultivator. Soon, the cultivators who took the antidote woke up one by one. At this moment, Jiang Xu had returned to Liu Mufeng’s side.

“What, what is this place?”

“Yeah, why are we here?”

“What happened to these people? Are they poisoned?”

After waking up, a group of cultivators looked confused and at a loss, not knowing where they were.

“Rose, what is this place?” Looking at her good sister, Jasmine asked suspiciously.

Hearing the question, Rose showed a self-deprecating smile. “You know very well, don’t you?”

“We, we are also poisoned? So Tao Yu wants to kill us as well?” Peony’s whole face was contorted in anger as she understood the situation.

“That scum has no real feelings for us at all. He just wanted to use our beauty to help him deceive more people. Now you understand?” Looking at the two of them, Rose said with heartache.

“Rose!” Jasmine and Peony’s expressions were extremely ugly.

“It’s Tao Yu. It’s Tao Yu who poisoned us, took away our storage rings, and brought us here, right?”

“It must be you. You three bitches and Tao Yu are in the same group!”

“Damn, it must be you!” After returning to their senses, many male cultivators looked at the three sisters angrily.

“Okay, stop arguing. We will be sacrificed in three days. Since you guys are free to quarrel here, why don’t you think of a way to escape?” Jiang Xu couldn’t help rolling his eyes, inwardly thinking,‘They were already going to be killed, but these bastards were still free to quarrel. So foolish.’

Hearing Jiang Xu’s words, everyone fell silent.

“This formation is a four-level chain confinement array. It is impossible for the people from inside to go out. Someone from outside must open the array and let us out.” Looking at Jiang Xu, a middle-aged male cultivator explained.

Hearing this, Jiang Xu frowned. “Are you an Array Mage?”

“Yes, I am a third-level Array Mage. Is this Fellow Daoist an alchemist? Did you save us all?” The middle-aged male cultivator asked again.

“I’m not an alchemist. My partner is an alchemist. He spent a lot of money to detoxify everyone. Still, everyone can rest assured that after my partner recovers, he can continue to refine more pills tomorrow to help other poisoned people detoxify. At that time, a hundred of us will leave here together.” Jiang Xu said as he looked at the crowd.

“Thank you, two Fellow Daoists!”

“Yes, thank you, two Fellow Daoists!” After hearing Jiang Xu’s words, everyone thanked them one after another.

“Everyone, you’re welcome. This is what we should do.” They had benefited, so naturally, they should be helped. To avoid attracting these people’s attention, Jiang Xu and Liu Mufeng hid their storage rings. And Rose also cleverly hid hers, Jasmine’s and Peony’s storage rings. Therefore, these cultivators thought Tao Yu and his group had taken their storage rings away. They didn’t even doubt Jiang Xu and Liu Mufeng a tiny bit.