Natural Disaster, Man-made Calamity: Trouble at Wind Howl Mountain

After winning Sword Bamboo, Xiao Chen simply rejected Xiong Family's invitation.

His goal has been achieved and he has no interest in the subsequent Xiong Family Marriage Selection.

Although Xiong Family hinted that they will select young talents to make an engagement with the Xiong Family, he does not want to become a son-in-law.

Several other invitations from Lineage were also rejected.

This time when he came to Crushed Stone Valley, he tasted the special Spirit Wine, solved the problem of One-Eye, repaired Azure Gourd, and bought Thousand-Year Sword Bamboo. It can be said that the trip was completely worthwhile.

It seems that this trip has been out for nearly a month, and it is time to go back.

"You're already here, let's bring some specialties."

Walking in the small town outside the valley, Xiao Chen saw more stalls set up on the streets.

But surprisingly, I scanned both sides of the street and found no vendors selling Spirit Herb.

After walking for a while, we were about to go out, but we still didn't encounter any place.

This is very strange.

Xiao Chen spotted a casual cultivator selling elixirs, walked over and picked up a bottle of Qi Nourishing Pill and asked, "Fellow Daoist, is this Alchemist?"

The other party shook his head. "Who am I Alchemist? I just learned a little bit of craftsmanship and can barely make ends meet. How many bottles of elixirs do you want, senior?"

"A bottle of Qi Nourishing Pill only costs ten yuan Spirit Stone. If you buy two bottles at a time, you can save five pills of Spiritual Sand."

Xiao Chen was shocked. "Ten yuan Spirit Stone? When was the price?"

Compared with the five yuan Spirit Stone bottle the year before last, this has doubled.

Although some monks can eat Qi Nourishing Pill or even Qi Gathering Pill.

But in fact, for low-level casual cultivators, they are only willing to take a magic pill under special circumstances.

For some casual practitioners in the early stages of Qi Refining, several people pooled their money together to buy a bottle and share it.

With the previous continuous price increases, many monks can no longer afford it.

He really didn't expect that the price of this thing could continue to rise.

The stall owner explained with a wry smile, "You don't know something, but our Li Province has two locations that produce ordinary Spirit Herb, namely Plain County and Big Foot Basin."

Xiao Chen actually knows that Big Foot Basin is a natural basin located southwest of the Azure Flame Sect and in the middle of Volcanic Cluster.

Because when viewed from the sky, the overall shape looks like a huge footprint, it is called Big Foot Basin.

The stall owner sighed, "But just two years ago, on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Earth Fire suddenly erupted, and there was no harvest of Spirit Herb in the entire basin."

"This is not over yet. Last month, the plain was robbed by a group of Bandit Cultivator."

"It is said that if the local Liu Family Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator hadn't taken action and forced the Foundation Establishment Bandit Cultivator who was leading the team back, all the Spirit Herb would have been destroyed."

"It's not that the price of elixirs is rising now, it's actually that Spirit Herb is out of stock."

Hiss~!

The situation is a bit serious.

It is true that for many Lineages, there are their own Spirit Fields, but I guess it is difficult to be self-sufficient.

It is estimated that in the next few years, the shortage of Li Province Spirit Herb will be difficult to alleviate.

Xiao Chen couldn't help but frown, this is not good news.

At the same time, he was also a little confused. When the price of Spirit Herb increased last fall, he had already heard about what happened to Bandit Cultivator in Pingyuan.

Unexpectedly, it happened again this spring, and it sounded like there was Foundation Establishment Cultivator among those Bandit Cultivator.

What are they planning?

Logically speaking, the best way to grab it is to grab the elixir directly or grab Spirit Stone. Why are you always targeting Spirit Herb?

There is definitely a key clue here, but he doesn't know it yet.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, there should be trouble next.

Xiao Chen immediately lost all thought of picking out specialties and left Crushed Stone Valley in a hurry.

Shortly after he left.

Azure Flame Sect Dark Hall Master Lu Wuqiang, then led a group of men into the yard he rented.

"Where are the others? Already gone?"

"Crack!"

Lu Wuqiang slapped his subordinate until the corners of his mouth bleeded. "Trash, what use do I need you for?"

"Such a big man appeared in our Azure Flame Sect territory. Why the hell did you wait for him to leave before you came to tell me?"

The other subordinates were all silent.

Only the person in charge of the Dark Hall Crushed Stone Valley gave a hesitant explanation. "Boss, I asked, that Xiao Chen hid in the yard as soon as he arrived and didn't come out for ten days."

"There are so many new faces these days, it's really hard to spot them."

Lu Wuqiang went up and kicked him. "Why the hell are you looking for a reason for me? I beat him but not you. Is your skin itchy?"

"Huh~! Also, send someone to find Tian Family Three Brothers and ask them what they do for food?"

"Xiao Chen is not in the sect, why wasn't he summoned immediately?"

"Besides, I'll give them another month. If Xiao Chen can't be solved before July, they don't have to come back."

Twelve days later.

Xiao Chen traveled all the way over the mountains and came to Wind Howl Mountain, four hundred miles south of the Li Fire Sect.

Originally I just wanted to find the direction at the top of the mountain.

But I just happened to see, about twenty miles away to the east, large groups of black clouds rolling in, covering most of the village, and among them there were bursts of Poison Smoke rising into the sky.

And at the entrance of the village that was not covered, the corpses of villagers were lying everywhere.

There were demonic monks in black robes collecting blood in wooden buckets.

Xiao Chen rubbed his eyes and pinched his arm again.

For a moment, he wondered if he was dreaming. How could he bump into a demon cultivator in broad daylight?

He has only been away for a month, but it feels like he has been away for decades.

Where are the monks from the Li Fire Sect?

At this distance, the sect should be able to detect abnormalities in time.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the big black cloud again. Could it be that he was trapped?

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen touched over there directly.

After approaching the entrance of the village, it turned out that there were still a large number of Magic Trace around that I had not had time to clean up.

You can even clearly distinguish among them, there are many Li Fire True Art who are practicing inner disciple, and there are Water Burst Technique that Azure Water Peak brothers like to use.

I didn't rush forward and took a good look at <Star Gazing Qi Observation Technique>'s thoughts Mnemonic.

Xiao Chen used Qi Observation Technique somewhat unfamiliarly to check the magic cultivator at the entrance of the village.

As a matter of fact, since he obtained the Qi Observation Technique, he has had almost no chance to use the Cultivation Method.

The main reason is that the only function of this Cultivation Method is to judge the enemy's strength.

But he had encountered several battles before.

But every time, the enemy had already taken the lead, and he was forced to accept the fight. There was no need to investigate further.

From the perspective of Qi Observation Technique, all other things between heaven and earth fade away, and only different Spiritual Qi are gathering and flowing.

The three demon cultivators at the entrance of the village also turned into three humanoid Spiritual Qi groups.

"Just three Mid-stage Qi Refining Realm?"

Xiao Chen was a little surprised. "That's it?"

He turned to look into the village, but there were no longer black clouds there.

They were clearly tens of thousands of dead souls, struggling desperately and roaring silently.

There are six locations among them, Spiritual Qi is particularly strong, and each place exudes fluctuations equivalent to Late-Stage Qi Refining.