Exploring the Barren Mountain Again

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Back when the two were far away on the mountainside, the Witcher was able to accurately pinpoint Ye Ling's location and send peaches over. Qin Yi knew then that secretly going to investigate was pointless. No matter how well he hid, the Witcher probably had some way of seeing everything.

Then we need to find other ways to gather information.

Ye Ling sat in front of him, watching curiously as Qin Yi tore off a strip of cloth and tied it into the shape of a cloth mouse. Qin Yi pointed a finger at the cloth mouse's head, and the cloth mouse began to dart around.

Ye Ling was overjoyed and jumped up, her face beaming as she chased after the cloth mouse, shouting, "Mine! Mine!"

Qin Yi was speechless. Where's your Demon Power? Where's your speed? What's with this little hand outstretched, chasing after a mouse...?

Seeing the mouse about to be caught, he beckoned with his finger, and the mouse suddenly darted back. Ye Ling immediately dropped to the ground, only to find herself missing her target. "Ouch... mine..."

"You're a mature demon now. Once you learn demon magic, you can do as many as you want." Qin Yi picked up the rat, poked it with the spikes on his Wolf Tooth Club, and then let it run off towards the hill.

Ye Ling watched its departing figure with teary eyes. "It will die there..."

"That's just a piece of cloth..." Qin Yi, both amused and exasperated.

The mouse can move, but he manipulates it with Law Power. While his ability to Object Manipulation doesn't reach the level of sword control, he can still easily control a cloth mouse.

The spiked Wolf Tooth Club was used to infuse the Liusu with a wisp of soul power.

Currently, Liusu cannot separate her soul from her body; her soul power is only connected. It can replace her eyes without much problem. Once the cloth mouse "dies," the soul power will immediately break, so there will be no impact.

This kind of cooperation represents the limit of what they can currently achieve in terms of remote reconnaissance.

Liusu kept telling Qin Yi to adjust his direction to the left and right to avoid the monster, and the two of them struggled for more than an hour before they finally managed to get the cloth mouse to the edge of the hill.

The cloth mouse carefully climbed halfway up the mountain, and the feedback that the Liusu's soul power received stunned it.

The mountain was in complete disarray, littered with countless demon corpses that covered the wilderness.

The Blood Flood Dragon lay on the mountainside, covered in blood, struggling to defend itself against the attacks of the last few monsters. However, the monsters were also exhausted. The battle was like that of ordinary wild beasts, tearing at each other with their sharp teeth.

They've been playing for two days now, and they're still playing...

But it was clear that the peach's effect was almost worn off; the monsters' eyes were no longer bloodshot.

The blood pool not far away, which had been almost dried up when they left, is now filled with endless demon blood again, overflowing.

But what's going on? Why isn't the Witcher doing anything about it, just letting things take their course?

Liusu a heavy heart, Liu Su decided to let Qin Yi take the cloth mouse further towards the top of the mountain.

Qin Yi had no idea what Liusu had seen, and in fact, he didn't even know where the mouse was. He just went in whatever direction Liusu told him to go.

The rat continued up the mountain, encountering no more monsters along the way. It did see two more stone tablets, but Liusu's soul power was no longer sufficient to read the fine characters, so she simply skipped them and continued on her way.

Liusu quickly recognized many traces of formations, but they all seemed to be destroyed and ineffective formations, and even the cloth mouse could not trigger any reaction when it passed by.

There was a stone house on the mountaintop, which occupied a large area. The cloth mouse circled around it, but this place, which should have been full of traps and ingenious formations, was just like an ordinary person's dwelling, and nothing happened.

As she approached the stone house's gate, Liusu's soul power waned, and she could no longer be seen.

"Judging from all the signs, this person has been targeted by enemies. I don't know if they're still fighting inside, but he hasn't even bothered to clean up his own elaborate demon-refining and blood-extraction scheme." Despite her severely depleted soul power, Liusu was surprisingly excited. "Let's go! Putting everything else aside, at least we can get a clear look at that stone tablet!"

Qin Yi was overjoyed. If things went so smoothly, this trip might be over immediately. This was the most important goal, much more important than any bargain hunting!

Ye Ling ran even faster than him. "Cloth Mouse..."

Qin Yi simply couldn't bear to tell her that the cloth mouse had traveled thousands of miles and was already a tattered rag.

Upon reaching the hill, the stench of blood assaulted the nostrils, and the visual impact of the mountainside covered in corpses was so overwhelming that Ye Ling even forgot about the cloth mouse.

"Too... cruel..." Ye Ling murmured to herself, "This person, we must stop him, he's too cruel..."

Qin Yi's stomach was churning. Without seeing it with his own eyes, he could never imagine what it would feel like to see so many corpses stretching as far as the eye could see, especially the sight of so many heads shattered, brains split open, intestines ripped out, red and white blood flowing all over the ground, internal organs and lungs everywhere. It was so disgusting that no one could look at it directly, and the smell alone could make one vomit.

He held his breath and slowly approached the Blood Flood Dragon, which was still locked in fierce combat.

No matter how much pity I feel, this Blood Flood Dragon is an enemy's pet and cannot be kept alive!

The Blood Flood Dragon, having slain the last demon, glared at Qin Yi, utterly exhausted. "It's you again, you monkey..."

"A monkey?" Qin Yi grinned. "That's perfect, it's here to steal peaches."

The Wolf Tooth Club slammed heavily into the Blood Flood Dragon's abdomen.

Ye Ling darted into the blood hole. She knew that the blood of the Blood Flood Dragon would be of great use to her.

The Blood Flood Dragon rolled wildly on the hillside, crushing countless corpses, before finally convulsing a few more times and falling silent. Ye Ling tossed a peach from its body. "Brother, it seems useless now."

Qin Yi took it and Liusu, "Keep it. It will still be useful after refining. At least it can be used as an auxiliary material for refining weapons."

Qin Yi put it away, then took out a medicine bottle from his pocket, poured out the medicine, and handed it to Ye Ling, saying, "Go to the Blood Pool and find that drop of blood essence. I'll go up the mountain to look at the stele first."

The third stone tablet was located two-thirds of the way up the mountain. There were some skeletons around, Qin Yi lightly touched one with his foot, causing it to turn into dust.

The stone tablet is inscribed with the words: "Co-Death Curse".

It was the sorcery used by Dong Huazi, which used all of his life force to Curse the person who killed him, causing them to lose their life. If the strength level were equal, it might have been able to drag the other party to their death on the spot, but Dong Huazi's actual cultivation was inferior to Li Qinglin's, so it could only cause him to age.

Ironically, this process of aging has become a very interesting form of self-examination.

Qin Yi's heart sank.

Because the inscription is exactly the same as the copy made by Dong Huazi, no matter how many times you look at it, you can't find the explanation or any other chapters.

If you carefully consider the meaning of this inscription, it may truly be an unsolvable Curse, because it pulls away life force, and there is nothing that can break it unless you restore its life.

If it can truly increase lifespan, then it is the Longevity Method.

"The person who devised this spell must have been involved in the art of life's origin, which is the power of a great being, something this Witcher could not achieve," Liusu judged. "This set of things must have been a minor technique that one of my enemies came up with while researching the origin of life, and it was scattered in the valley with their deaths, where it was accidentally obtained by this Witcher."

"Minor skill?"

"It's a minor technique. At my or their level back then, such incantations were like a breeze, completely useless. At most, they were just a record of insights, hoping to one day delve deeper into them."

"..." Qin Yi said, unwilling to give up, "Didn't they say there were two stone tablets? Let's go up and check the other one; maybe it holds the solution."

Liusu didn't say anything to discourage him.

Qin Yi rushed upwards to find another stele.

Finding a stone tablet was too easy without any obstacles, and he spotted it quickly. Qin Yi rushed over, and after just one glance, his expression turned extremely grim.

It's not a solution, and it has absolutely nothing to do with that spell.

It is the "Three Hundred Sixty-Five Heavenly Cycle Soul-Seizing Arrows".

This thing seems somewhat similar to the impressive Seven Arrows with Nail Heads, but the difference is vast. It requires collecting as much of the target's hair, personal belongings, and so on as possible; their birth date and time must be detailed down to the hour. Then, it needs to be meticulously carved from peach wood to resemble the target as closely as possible, equipping them with all their commonly used items. After completing these preliminary steps, a full year of incantation is required to completely lock the soul connection, and finally, several days and nights must be spent nailing 365 acupoints...

Dong Huazi and Li Qinglin have been at odds for so long, and this whole thing was only recently sorted out.

It's true that this can be used to kill opponents of higher levels, but not by much. Against opponents already at the level of spiritual cultivation, there's a high possibility of backlash. Besides, aside from palace intrigue, where else can you find such conditions to slowly play around with it in ordinary battles? With Liusu by your side, high-level Technique Method will only increase, not decrease, so there's no need for this; it's essentially a useless move.

It's pointless to use a useless move; without a way to break the Curse, there's no point in gaining anything!