Chapter 49: Impurities Are Also Essence

"What, he actually hit Dugu!" The young prince was stunned.

After all, Dugu was a Spirit Master at the Qi Refinement stage! As Dugu's master, the young prince didn't dare to slap him! Ding Hao was only at the Seventh Stage of Innate, was he crazy?

"After punishing your subordinate for you, Young Prince, he doesn't even know the rules. How can he interrupt when his master is speaking?" After hitting Dugu, Ding Hao acted as if nothing had happened, as if he had just hit a dog.

Dugu himself was also stunned. After entering the Qi Refinement stage, no one at the Innate stage dared to attack him. Therefore, he had no guard against Ding Hao, which allowed Ding Hao to succeed.

By the time he realized what had happened, his face was already twisted with rage.

"Little waste, if you want to die, I'll grant your wish!" Dugu slapped his spirit pouch and grabbed a dark red spirit talisman.

Dugu had just entered the second level of Qi Refinement and hadn't learned the technique to control objects, so he didn't have a flying sword. However, he could release a spirit talisman. This dark red spirit talisman was a low-grade fire spirit talisman, which could unleash an unquenchable spirit fire when activated!

Unquenchable spirit fire was not ordinary fire; it couldn't be extinguished by water or smothered by sand. It could even burn ordinary metal weapons to ashes! For Innate-level experts, it was like a death warrant.

However, Ding Hao didn't take it seriously. He sat back and took a sip of tea, saying, "Young Prince, you're too kind to people. How can you let your subordinates get so out of hand? It's like my servant, Old Ding. If he can interrupt you today, he'll be able to interrupt your wife tomorrow!"

The young prince almost fainted again. Interrupting and interrupting his wife were two different things, right?

After Ding Hao finished speaking, he added, "Let him know that if he's a dog, he should have the awareness of a dog!"

"Boy, you're calling me a dog!" Dugu was so angry he could go mad at any moment.

Ding Hao said, "Young Prince, look, he still doesn't know he's a dog."

The young prince almost spat out a mouthful of blood, thinking this boy was too arrogant. He had seen arrogant people before, but never one this arrogant.

However, at this moment, the young prince realized something. Ding Hao had the blessing of a fairy and the protection of the Will of Heaven!

Although the Will of Heaven's protection wasn't completely invincible, it was certainly unbreakable by a Spirit Master like Dugu who had just entered the second level of Qi Refinement! Ding Hao was already in an unbeatable position, so what was there to fear?

If they really fought, Dugu wouldn't have any advantage. Besides, this was Wuzhou City, and Ling Yunxiao would definitely support Ding Hao.

Thinking of this, the young prince quickly smiled and pulled Dugu aside, saying, "Misunderstanding, all misunderstanding, it's all my fault. Dugu, although you're under me, you're not my servant. Let's go."

Dugu still wanted to fight Ding Hao to the death, but was eventually dragged away by the young prince, "Let's go! Dugu, we'll talk outside!"

When the young prince pulled Dugu out the door, Ding Hao's voice came from behind, "Young Prince, your silver ticket."

Then, Big Yellow ran out with a silver ticket in his mouth.

The young prince took the silver ticket and said, "Young Master Ding, we'll meet again."

Ding Hao's voice came, "Control your dog. Look how obedient my dog is."

Dugu became furious again, but seeing the young prince leave in a rage, he also sighed in frustration and followed.

After the young prince and Dugu left the Ding family, Dugu quickly followed, saying, "This little brat is too arrogant. He doesn't even respect you."

The young prince's face was dark, "He has the protection of the Will of Heaven and Ling Yunxiao as his backer, of course he's arrogant!"

Dugu gritted his teeth, "I considered this, otherwise I would have thrown the fire spirit talisman to burn him to death!" He then asked, "Young Prince, are we just going to let him be arrogant?"

The young prince thought for a moment and said, "Didn't the chief manager of our Tang family's business house say he would help Dugu Lang avenge his death? Go quickly to the native city and ask the chief manager for a plan!"

"Yes, if the chief manager takes action, even Ling Yunxiao won't dare to favor him! Little brat, you're dead!"

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After seeing off the young prince, Ding Hao became worried about his cultivation.

Now, he could only absorb the spiritual power from spirit trees and demon trees to refine the original dan. However, in the Will of Heaven, demon trees were impossible to exist, and spirit trees were very rare.

Don't be fooled by the large number of plants and trees in the Ding family's courtyard; they were all ordinary trees with very little spiritual power, not enough for significant use.

Thinking of this, Ding Hao suddenly remembered the green vine left by the tree demon, which was still in his Star Absorption Stone.

"To drink and sing, how long is life? Mind clear, heart calm, not a speck of dust."

Soon, Ding Hao entered a perfect state of tranquility, and in this state, his consciousness entered the space within the Star Absorption Stone.

"This..." Ding Hao was surprised to find that the green vine was slowly moving on the ground of the space.

It moved so slowly that it was hard to notice.

"What is it doing?" Ding Hao observed carefully and found that the finger-length vine was actually searching for food!

However, strangely, there was a pile of spirit rice in one corner of the space, but the vine showed no interest. Instead, it was eating some green dust on the ground!

"These dust particles!" Ding Hao picked up some dust with his fingers and sniffed it, suddenly understanding.

"These dust particles are the impurities from the spiritual power I absorbed!"

No matter what spiritual power Ding Hao absorbed, it wasn't pure and contained impurities. After the spiritual power entered the Star Absorption Stone, the stone absorbed the spiritual power, and the remaining impurities formed dust, scattered on the ground of the space.

Ding Hao studied it himself and found that the green impurities were from the spirit rice and spirit trees; there were also many white particles, which were impurities from the beast stones! Additionally, there were some black, green, and other colored impurities, which were likely from the large number of ordinary dan he had previously absorbed!

Although these dust particles were impurities, in a certain sense, they were also essence!

For example, the leaves of the Seven-Injury Tree had healing properties. If Ding Hao absorbed a large amount of spiritual power from the leaves into the Star Absorption Stone, a lot of impurities would remain. These impurities were actually the purest form of the healing properties!

"Ah, I see, these dust impurities are all good things!" Ding Hao's eyes lit up, "Others refine healing pills, but I just need to absorb the spiritual power from the raw materials to quickly refine a large amount of healing powder! And the effectiveness of my healing powder far exceeds ordinary pills!"

Thinking of this, Ding Hao quickly gathered his thoughts and called out, "Steward, help me buy some leaves from the Seven-Injury Tree."

Ding Lao Si's family had been killed, but the household couldn't do without a steward. Ding Hao appointed an old man named Ding Lao Da, who was relatively honest and straightforward.

"Master, I'll go buy them right away."

Ding Lao Da took two servants and went out to buy the leaves. By afternoon, they had bought a full cart and delivered it to Ding Hao's meditation room.

"Alright, you can all leave now."

Ding Hao closed the door of the meditation room and placed his hands in the leaves, "Star Absorption Spell, absorb!"

While Ding Hao was conducting his experiment overnight, outside the city lord's residence, a white-haired, ethereal figure stood!

"Tell them that the chief manager of our Tang family's business house has arrived," Dugu said arrogantly to a guard at the city lord's residence.

Although it was already late at night, the chief manager of the Tang family's business house, a Spirit Master at the fourth level of Qi Refinement, had arrived, and Ling Yunxiao would have to be woken up to greet him.

Soon, Ling Yunxiao, still fastening his shoulder belt, came out to greet him. Ling Yunxiao himself was at the third level of Qi Refinement and quickly bowed, "Senior, please come in!"

The transition from the third to the fourth level of Qi Refinement was a significant hurdle, and the difference between these levels was substantial!

The chief manager's face was dark as he followed Ling Yunxiao into the hall, passing by the statue of the fairy Wu, and sat down, saying, "City Lord Ling, I have come at night because the matter is serious!"

Ling Yunxiao, seeing his serious expression, asked nervously, "What is it that requires the chief manager to come at night?"

"Your Wuzhou has produced a demon path Spirit Master!" Dugu said with wide eyes.

Ling Yunxiao was shocked, "That's a serious accusation. Even if there are demons, they are in the outer realms, not in Wuzhou."

The chief manager snorted, "Why not! This demon not only entered the Will of Heaven's protection but also deceived you, despite you nurturing him as a genius! In fact, he has already colluded with the outer realm demons and killed people from our Tang family's business house!"

Ling Yunxiao quickly shook his head, "Absolutely not!"

"How not, look!" The chief manager immediately took out Dugu Lang's eyeball and used his spiritual power to activate it, projecting an image in front of them.

The image was a record from Dugu Lang's eagle eye, now in the chief manager's hands. However, the chief manager had previously refined it, so some scenes were not shown. The main scenes were three: the figure of Tuo Ba, the corpse of the female demon path Spirit Master dug up, and the battle between Dugu Lang and Ding Hao, where Ding Hao released an eight-tentacled vine demon and killed Dugu Lang.

Seeing Ding Hao cut off Dugu Lang's head with the Ghost Head Blade, Dugu fell to his knees and cried out, "Please, Chief Manager, do something!"

The chief manager looked at Ling Yunxiao, "I think we should let City Lord Ling decide."

Dugu moved to Ling Yunxiao's front and said bitterly, "City Lord Ling, my brother died a terrible death! Ding Hao, as a genius of Wuzhou, is addicted to forbidden drugs and colludes with outer realm demons! I said before, how could an Innate Third Stage person dare to venture into the outer realms alone, but it turns out he had already colluded with the outer realm demons!"

The chief manager also said, "City Lord Ling, you saw it yourself. That eight-tentacled vine demon is unprecedented! Dugu Lang released his ancestral treasure, the Qi Shield, but still couldn't survive! It's too terrifying. If it grows, it will become a great demon! We cannot let it go unchecked!"

Ling Yunxiao was also shocked by the eight-tentacled vine demon, but he still had doubts, "However, Chief Manager Tang, there are many gaps in the image. I can't see how he released the demon..."

"The image is damaged," the chief manager sighed and then said coldly, "But the fact that he has a demon is clear! No matter how he released it, we need to interrogate this demon personally to uncover the details!"