Witch Wind - Chapter 357 You and I Are Different
Witch Wind
Chapter 357 You and I Are DifferentChapter 357 You and I Are Different (Part )
Black Hyena seemed to be truly moved.
However, Xing Tianli didn't quite believe him.
After all, this guy had played the role of 'hero saving the beauty' in front of him yesterday.
Haha, those thieves who were beaten away by him with just three punches and two kicks, weren't they the ones who were brought here by him personally?Hei Lie's personality is somewhat unworthy of his appearance. He is quite cunning and not as honest and reckless as he looks. He is really a pig pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger... Well, there is no need to pretend, because he is a pig-headed and stupid guy.
However, what he said about the "poor family" was really useful to Xing Tianli, especially some introductions about Heiyuan, although Hei Lie didn't know much.
Maybe he knew a lot, but he was not willing to tell Xing Tianli so 'cheaply'.
Even so, what he said now was already very helpful to Xing Tianli.
As he was speaking, Xing Tianli, still holding his breath, gave out another wisp of Primordial Qi and ordered a few more 'delicacies' for Hei Lie... Well, the food that came up this time was a little more normal.
For example, the eggs of the star ants.
This is a species that lives in groups on some wandering asteroids in the starry sky around the "Rampant". They look similar to ants, but are completely different creatures. An adult star ant is more than ten feet long, but their eggs are quite delicate, about the size of quail eggs.
Whether boiled in plain water or cooked in oil, these ant eggs look delicious.
There is also another kind of extremely expensive meat, which is the thigh meat sashimi of the "Sunbird".
The Sun Bird is a group of dozens of suns that are imprisoned motionless in mid-air. It is a strange bird that survives in the sunlight and flames and feeds on devouring sunlight and flames.
This kind of bird, born with the cultivation of a human immortal, is naturally immune to the power of the sun and can even feed on the sun. They are huge in size, and the wingspan of the youngest individuals is a mile away. As long as you can hunt one, it will be a feast for you.
Because they feed on the sun's flames, their flesh and blood are accustomed to high temperatures and it is impossible to 'cook' them.
Therefore, sashimi can only be cut into thin slices.
When the thigh sashimi of the Sunbird was served, the waiter was grimacing from the heat. The temperature was over a thousand degrees. If it weren't for the thick skin and meat of the black mane, ordinary monks really wouldn't be able to enjoy this kind of delicacy.
Black Hyena swallowed a bowl of boiled ant eggs, and then, with tears in his eyes, stuffed several pieces of bright red, hot, flaming bird sashimi into his mouth. The fish even had its muscle fibers twitching slightly.
Sober up.
The hot bird meat slid into his stomach, and the majestic yang energy spread out, burning Hei Lie so much that he was sweating all over. The alcohol in him quickly evaporated, and his pair of dark little eyes began to blink again, looking quite shrewd.
“Master Gouhun, from now on, you are my dear brother.” Hei Lie hugged Xing Tianli’s thigh and said, “Sincerely, you are my dear brother… So, listen to my advice and don’t go to Hei Yuan.”
"That place is said to have incredible fortunes and the opportunity to make people's wishes come true, but how many people have been trapped and killed there? Hey, hey, that's where the real big guys stir up trouble, it's not a place for us little minions to hope for."
'The real boss is stirring up trouble'?Xing Tianli nodded thoughtfully - a true boss is the kind of boss who can casually take out a jade slip and make Xing Tianli, who is in the Taiyi realm, use up all his strength but still be unable to break it in the slightest?
Hei Lie ate and drank heartily. The bird meat of the Sunbird seemed to be the nemesis of the mushroom stew. No matter how much alcohol he drank, the alcohol would evaporate after a piece of meat. The more Hei Lie drank, the more sober he became, but also the more excited he became. He gestured and described some of the unspoken rules of entering the Black Abyss.
He never went in.
His grandfather went in and never came back.
His father originally wanted to go in, but he lost his grandfather who was the head of the family. Before his father could go in, he was hacked into pieces by his enemies, and then cooked into a pot of broth and eaten.
Hei Lie had not yet had the chance to learn about Hei Yuan's true situation from his father. What he said now were just some rumors and legends he had heard. The real core secrets were not something that he, a mere celestial being, was qualified to find out.
Black Abyss, very magical.
The black abyss is even more terrifying.
If you want to enter the Abyss, you must be prepared to lose everything.
Of course, if you are wealthy and have countless rare treasures, then your chances of escaping unscathed after entering the Abyss will greatly increase.
After entering the Black Abyss, nearly 30% of those who left safely got what they wanted.
Some people have made great progress.
Some people revive their family business.
Some people glorify the ethnic group.
Someone stood at the top of the world, and somewhere in the vast chaos, he established himself as a king and called himself the ancestor of a sect.
What is incomprehensible is that among those who entered the Black Abyss, some of them carried huge amounts of rare treasures, but there were also people who were so panicked by the pursuit that they didn't care at all and rushed in alone with nothing.
Until now, there is still no specific answer to the conditions under which Heiyuan allows people to leave safely.
Those lucky ones who broke in alone, barefoot and empty-handed, seemed to have their memories wiped out after leaving the abyss. They didn't know how they got in or how they left.
In "The Rundown", there was once a big guy living in the center of the earth who took action and set up a trap to capture a similar lucky guy alive.
It is completely useless to force a confession through words and actions. The unlucky guy who was captured alive has no idea how he got out.
Some big guys couldn't hold back their itch and searched the souls of the unlucky guys they captured alive...
The soul search did not reveal any results, and it seemed that something bad had happened, so soon, the trend of hunting down the lucky guy quickly disappeared, and no one did this futile thing anymore.
Xing Tianli nodded slowly.
If he were a 'down-and-out' Earth Core Boss, and if he captured a hapless person who had just left the Black Abyss alive, and after dissecting that person, he was horrified to find a jade slip that he could not destroy no matter what, or even knock off a residue, or something similar, and that jade slip seemed to have a faint foreshadowing of his future life...
Ah.
That kind of fear that goes deep into the bones!
He could understand this invisible deterrence.
Black Hyena was still talking on and on, and as he talked, he turned to some strange places in the "run-down house".
It might be because this place is close to the Black Abyss. Apart from the dozen or so suns that were fixed in the void with broken treasures by some bored powerful man at some unknown time, there are often some messy things that suddenly and inexplicably appear in the void around the "ruined house".
For example, the big grave that Black Hyena had broken into before, hoping to steal some wool.
For example, there is that spooky house with long-haired female ghosts floating around in the yard, which occasionally have conflicts with the neighbors. Over the years, no one knows how many female ghosts have been killed, but the number of haunted houses has not decreased at all.
For example, the ancient palace that sank deeply into the planet, created a large basin on the planet, and was covered in flames. It had been sealed off by several big guys in the center of the earth and was considered a forbidden place, and no one else was allowed to approach it.
For example... Black Hyena blinked his eyes and said, "The most interesting thing is that three hundred years ago, a naked girl suddenly emerged from the bathtub."
"Well, that girl is not very interesting, but her bathtub is more than ten acres in size, and it is made entirely of spiritual crystals that are full of spiritual energy. Tsk tsk, many people died in order to snatch that girl's bathtub."
"What a pity, such a nice big bathtub is still divided up by the three big guys in the center of the earth." Liu Jing was chewing a piece of beef jerky in small bites. She widened her eyes and couldn't help asking: "Then, where is that big girl?"
Hei Lie pointed at the old woman with eyes all over her body, squatting in the shed and boiling medicine. "Look, isn't that her? Her bathtub was taken away from her, and she got mad. I don't know what she did to make herself so old and ugly. She boils some messy medicine all day long."
"Well, then again, her medicine is still useful, it's just that the ingredients are a bit strange, but sometimes, it can really save lives." Black Lie blinked his eyes: "It's just that her appearance is not to Old Black's taste, otherwise I would like to be a pair with her and live together."
Far away, the old woman who was sitting cross-legged under the straw hut suddenly opened her eyes. Her dark eyes flickered with a faint light and she stared straight at the black mane.
Black Hyena lowered his head hastily and muttered in a low voice: "You heard it wrong, you heard it wrong, you definitely heard it wrong."
The old woman held a long-handled soup spoon and stirred the sticky red medicine for a while, then muttered slowly, "Old Black, this is a pot of blood god soup that is very good for replenishing qi and blood. You will need it soon, very soon, very soon, hehe...be prepared to pay for it!"
Hei Lie's face turned dark and he almost cried.
Xing Tianli looked at Hei Lie in astonishment.
Black Lie cried with a sad face, "This old woman has a very vicious mouth. The last time she said this to me, I almost had my heart ripped out by an iron corpse ghost in a small grave... This old woman usually doesn't say anything, but when she speaks, someone is bound to be in trouble."
"Look, her shabby shed is all alone, and there are few neighbors nearby. Who would want to keep her company?"
Xing Tianli glanced at the old woman.
The old woman stared at Xing Tianli with a dark look, then slowly lowered her head, without saying a word, with her eyes closed, quietly stirring her medicine - from time to time, she would pick up a head that Black Mane had traded to her last time, tear it apart, and throw an ear into the medicine, then throw an eyeball in...
The three daughters of Liu Xie were grinning as they watched.
They also make witchcraft medicine, but the witchcraft medicine inheritance of the human witch temple is all glorious and righteous, using some rare and precious medicines. Even if there are some voodoo, the materials used are a bit strange, but they are all essences refined by witchcraft, in the form of various crystals, powders, and serum.
How could you just grab someone's ears and eyeballs and throw them in there?"Rough!" muttered Liu Liao.
"Too brutal." Liu Yan shook his head.
"However, it seems a bit interesting... I have never seen this kind of witchcraft method. If I can snatch it... well, learn it, it can also enrich the inheritance of the Witch Palace." Among the three women, Liu Jing specializes in witchcraft and voodoo. Although she can't stand the old woman's method of refining medicine, she is also full of curiosity about her method, which aroused her strong desire to learn.
A low 'humming' sound was heard.
Black Hyena, the waiters with human heads and eagle bodies, and many guests who were enjoying "fine food and wine" in the tavern, all changed their expressions suddenly. Some guests with bad tempers even grinned and cursed in a low voice.
The edge of this Bird's Nest Tavern is covered with a lot of wood, bamboo, cloth, grass and other things. The thinnest of these things is only three inches, and the widest is dozens of feet. They connect dozens of large and small "run-down" settlements in all directions. Within the field of vision, there are sheds, houses, jars, caves, floating hills, wooden stakes, nests, earth blocks and the like of all heights and sizes, floating hills, wooden stakes, nests and earth blocks. There are at least 70,000 to 80,000 of them within a radius of 100 miles.
It was messy, extremely messy, up and down, left and right, everywhere.
At this moment, along a green blade of grass that was about a foot wide, a group of strange creatures, no more than two feet tall, with pointed chins and monkey-like faces, like hairless monkeys, were walking quickly towards them.
These guys are obviously from the same tribe as the creature that "greeted" Xing Tianli a few days ago.
This group of strange creatures wore red shorts, green short shirts, and a bright golden hat on their heads. The colors of their clothes were tacky, but full of absurd joy. There were about a hundred people in their group, each with a strange short bow on his waist and various strange weapons on his back. The leader was walking while shaking a rotating barrel-like object, which kept making a low, disturbing "buzzing" sound.
Each of the creatures in this team has the cultivation level of a celestial being, and the one leading them has the strength of a half-step golden immortal.
Xing Tianli also understood.
The acquired spiritual energy of the "poor man" is turbid, and it has been used to maintain the realm from falling, which has exhausted the energy of the residents here. If you want to improve your cultivation, forget it.
In this situation, everyone is trying their best to avoid losing mana. Generally speaking, the residents here are very "peace-loving". They try their best to avoid fighting, for fear that their mana will be depleted too much and cannot be replenished in a short time, which will cause all kinds of bad things to happen.
Therefore, this group of dwarfs with extraordinary cultivation still walked into the tavern on their own two legs.
The dwarf in the lead smiled and bowed to a man who was covered in black armor, looked like some kind of giant beetle, was about two meters tall, had broad shoulders and a big waist, was extremely sturdy, and his gender could not be identified. "Hey, Master Jia, where are you? Uh, this year's security fee, cleaning fee, enclosure rent, and donations..."
The dwarf muttered a long list of names, including some kind of pet injury exemption deposit, and listed more than 200 in total: "Thank you, it's a new year again, you have to pay these fees."
The beetle's shell flipped up suddenly, making his body suddenly become two times thicker. He angrily blew out a stream of turbid cold air from his mouthparts, then took out a six-sided, two-inch thick, five-inch long spiritual crystal column and threw it to the dwarf: "I don't have a pet... Here, you have to return this spiritual crystal column to me. This thing is not easy to handle."
The dwarf laughed and took out a spirit crystal ball the size of a human head. The spirit crystal column and the spirit crystal ball touched each other. Strands of dim acquired spiritual energy in the spirit crystal column sank into the spirit crystal ball, and soon the spirit crystal column became empty.
He bowed to the big beetle and said with a smile: "Just because you don't have a pet now doesn't mean you won't have one in the future... Besides, the fees we charge are all based on the unified fee list drawn up by our eldest brother. We treat everyone equally and charge the same fee... It's fair and reasonable."
The big beetle was mumbling something.
The dwarf took out a long scroll, flipped through it, found the name of the big beetle, took out a small copper seal, and stamped a small seal under the big beetle's name.
The dwarf and his group of more than a hundred people found the guests in the tavern one by one and collected "protection fees" from them.
The tavern owner came out with a gloomy face and handed ten fist-sized spirit crystal balls to the dwarf.
Obviously, because he has such a lucrative business, the various fees he has to pay are much higher than those of ordinary residents.
After a while, this group of dwarfs came to Xing Tianli and his group. They were very careful and formed a strange formation in groups of five, surrounding Xing Tianli and his group in the middle.
"Soul-stealing Master, your fame has spread to our eldest brother these days." The leading dwarf bowed to Xing Tianli and said with a smile, "However, rules are rules... Although you have only been here for a few days, it happens to be the day to collect the 'annual fee'. You should still pay the fees for the previous year, right?"
"Oh, you still have to add a 'guide fee'. Our third brother worked hard all day to guide you to our 'feng shui treasure land'. Our place is the most orderly and stable place among the many settlements outside the 'poor families'... How much trouble has our third brother saved you with this 'guide fee'?"
"This expense cannot be saved."
"Especially, your cave..." The dwarf turned around and pointed at the Tongtian Creation Tower: "It's really too big. The place you live in alone is more than dozens of other neighbors. So, your 'annual fee' has to be increased."
Xing Tianli smiled.
Collecting protection money?I vaguely remember that in my previous life, when I was in elementary school and junior high school, there were always some low-class little hooligans who did this kind of thing. At that time, Xing Tianli was cowardly and weak, so he couldn't resist at all and could only pay the money obediently.
However, he has already become a Daluo Jinxian.
If he still has to pay protection fees to a group of dwarfs, wouldn't his cultivation as an immortal be in vain?Xing Tianli raised his head, as if he saw his youthful and tender self in his previous life. He said quietly, "You and I are different after all."
He slapped the dwarf in the face.
With a muffled sound, the dwarf's face exploded and he was knocked unconscious. Xing Tianli smiled at Hei Lie and said, "You and I are different."
"Let your eldest brother come." Xing Tianli smiled and looked at the stunned dwarfs; "Don't use these little tricks to test me. If you want to control and swallow me, let him come here himself."
On the Lingtai Zifu, Pangu's incarnation slightly opened his eyes.
Xing Tianli just didn't believe that among these impoverished people who dared not step into the Black Abyss, there were still people who could withstand the full-force attack of Pangu's incarnation at this stage - well, Xing Tianli had thirty-six Daluo Ghost Lords under his command, and in the Tongtian Creation Tower, there were three Daluo commanders, and countless Taiyi War Puppets and Golden Immortal War Puppets were ready to go.
Paying money is impossible.
A group of dwarfs screamed in unison, brandished their weapons, and rushed towards Xing Tianli.
(End of this chapter)