Jiang Liu noticed that Murong Yin was staring at him and wondered if there was something on his face. He looked himself up and down but didn't find anything.
"What are you thinking about? You seem so engrossed." Jiang Liu asked.
Murong Yin awoke with a start, a blush rising on her cheeks. Unfortunately, it was already dark, and Jiang Liu didn't see it.
Murong Yin quickly waved his hand and said, "It's nothing. Is the rainbow bird pickled yet?"
"Oh! It's best to marinate it for about 15 minutes! Let's wait a bit longer!"
The two then began to chat, mostly about martial arts, with Murong Yin asking questions and Jiang Liu answering. This was because Jiang Liu had already mastered all five elements, Murong Yin had not yet begun to cultivate them all.
Seeing that it was almost time, Jiang Liu started roasting the colorful bird. Before long, a fragrant aroma wafted up.
Murong Yin smelled the fragrance and listened to the firelight, lost in thought.
Jiang Liu ignored her and continued to focus on roasting the colorful-winged birds. After they were all roasted, he gave one to Murong Yin, and Jiang Liu took one in each hand and started eating the remaining two.
Murong Yin took out a small knife, sliced the colorful bird, wrapped it in an oiled paper, and slowly ate it.
Jiang Liu glanced sideways at them. In the wilderness, all they had to do was eat something to fill their stomachs, why all the fuss? Jiang Liu shook his head, wondering what these women were thinking.
After finishing their dinner, the two returned to their huts to meditate and cultivate.
Jiang Liu spread his Divine Sense to be on guard while meditating using his inner cultivation technique.
Murong Yin sensed a disturbance in her consciousness and knew it was Jiang Liu probing with his Divine Sense, so she didn't think much of it and continued meditating and cultivating.
It was soon midnight, Murong Yin had already fallen into a light sleep.
Jiang Liu then leaped down from the tree and began Soul Refining Technique.
Jiang Liu felt something was off; why were there still so few Spirit Power Particles here? But it wasn't as few as when he encountered the Ghost School summoning spirits before.
After midnight, Jiang Liu finished Soul Refining Technique and leaped onto the hut to continue meditating and cultivating.
At the Ghost School Altar, this ceremony was only held once a month by the Ghost School. Its benefits were not as great as those of the Soul Summoning Ceremony. Therefore, the Ghost School members present dispersed in twos and threes after the ceremony, waiting for the next month's ceremony.
Elder Bai left as soon as the ceremony ended.
The main activity of the Ghost School is the monthly sacrifice held on the fifteenth of each month. This is also a time for Ghost School to connect with each other, since they usually cultivate freely in various places.
As for summoning spirits, it is the Ghost School's primary method for cultivating promising disciples. It is always presided over by Grandmaster; otherwise, they wouldn't be able to withstand the mental storm.
The monthly sacrifices are presided over by the Minor Grandmaster. The Ghost School Technique mainly focuses on cultivating the spirit, and it looks very similar to the Soul Valley's Soul Technique.
However, the Soul Valley's Soul Techniques primarily rely on one's own talent to cultivate the basics, followed by arduous training day and night. The Ghost School's techniques, on the other hand, involve initiation, forcibly seizing another's spiritual power and soul-capturing.
Therefore, the cultivation methods of the Ghost School are much more evil, but Jiang Liu doesn't know much about them yet.
Gui Fang and Gui Chou left the altar together and stealthily made their way towards the forest where the Jiang Liu flowed.
If Jiang Liu were to maintain a state of extreme Divine Sense during cultivation, it would consume a great deal of his mental energy. Therefore, when meditating, he would only maintain his Divine Sense to probe within a radius of 100 meters, keeping a basic level of vigilance.
Gui Fang and Gui Chou arrived near where Jiang Liu had landed earlier and used the Ghost School's special Soul-Searching Grand Art to search for fresh living souls. Following the special markings, they found Jiang Liu and his group's location.
Looking from a distance of two or three hundred meters (they dared not get too close, knowing that the consciousness of Rank 9 Martial Practitioner was only a little over two hundred meters, not more than three hundred meters, for fear of being detected if they got too close), they saw a pile of firelight on the ground but did not see any trace of Jiang Liu, so they knew that they must be meditating and cultivating in the tree.
Then Gui Fang took out something: Soul-Fixing Grass, a unique drug of the Ghost School that attracts a person's soul and stabilizes their mental state.
Gui Chou pulled out something else. As soon as Gui Fang saw it, he immediately gave Gui Chou a thumbs up. Gui Chou pulled out a Rapture Herb, a medicinal herb used to enhance sexual intercourse between men and women.
The two then lit the two herbs together and used their energy to blow them towards Jiang Liu and the other person.
The unique aroma of the two herbs quickly mingled and drifted away towards Jiang Liu and Murong Yin.
When the strange fragrance wafted closer to Jiang Liu was already alert. He immediately released his Divine Sense and discovered Gui Fang and Gui Chou.
Jiang Liu immediately Annihilation by Thought, directly enveloping Gui Fang and Gui Chou.
The two immediately felt their souls stabilize, knowing they had been discovered. They quickly used the Ghost School's Soul Cultivation Technique to fix their spiritual sea, but before they could even rejoice...
Jiang Liu's Ice Blade had already pierced the dantian of the two men. They immediately felt a sharp pain in their dantian, followed by the rupture of their meridians, and finally, they were plunged into darkness.
It turned out that when Jiang Liu saw that Annihilation by Thought had been used, he did not immediately finish off the two men. Instead, he flashed over and delivered an Ice Blade to each of them as a finishing blow.
It seems that even Annihilation by Thought encounters a martial artist with abnormal mental strength, it cannot be resolved in one go. Jiang Liu thought to himself that he should pay attention to this situation next time.
Jiang Liu remembered encountering these two dead individuals before. Fearing that the Minor Grandmaster behind them would arrive, and also unsure of the strange fragrance he had inhaled earlier, Jiang Liu quickly leaped onto a large tree and shook Murong Yin.
Upon discovering that Murong Yin appeared to be unconscious, Jiang Liu disregarded everything, scooped Murong Yin up in his arms, and vanished in a flash.
Jiang Liu dashed away for seven or eight miles, feeling increasingly hot as he went, while Murong Yin in his arms was also getting hotter and hotter, and he immediately knew that he had been tricked.
At this moment, Murong Yin in his arms groaned and woke up. He opened his blurry eyes, looked up and saw Jiang Liu, and immediately leaned closer.
Jiang Liu's mind exploded as if by a thunderbolt. He stopped in his tracks, and the emotions he had been suppressing surged up, prompting him to respond.
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The next morning, the two, who had been busy all night, finally stopped.
Exhausted, the two then embraced each other and lay down on the ground to continue resting.
The two exhausted men didn't wake up until the sun was high in the sky. Murong Yin woke up first and then gently punched Jiang Liu.
Jiang Liu then fully regained his senses. The two looked at each other in silence and straightened their clothes.
Jiang Liu looked at Murong Yin and was about to speak, but before he could say anything, Murong Yin stopped him.
Murong Yin looked at Jiang Liu, "Will you regret it? I know you agreed to this marriage against your will!"
Jiang Liu stopped Murong Yin from continuing, pulled her into his arms, and looked at her, saying, "You are my fiancée, and I will definitely take responsibility for you!"
Murong Yin's face immediately lit up with a happy smile, like a blooming white rose.
Jiang Liu was deeply moved by what he saw, so he lowered his head and kissed her.
Murong Yin also cooperated.
"Roar!" A beastly roar came from afar.
The two immediately came to their senses. Jiang Liu carried Murong Yin and leaped into the air. It turned out that the Frostwing Dragon was circling in the air, searching for Jiang Liu.
Jiang Liu flew over and calmed the Frostwing Dragon, then placed Murong Yin Frostwing Dragon its back. He then leaped down and headed towards the place where the shack had been built the night before.
When Jiang Liu got closer, he saw only two piles of burnt grass ash on the ground. The bodies of the two people he killed last night were gone. After examining them closely, Jiang Liu discovered that they had been carried away by Exotic Beast.
The messy pile of Exotic Beast footprints on the ground confirmed Jiang Liu's guess.
Jiang Liu then ignored it, leaped onto the shack, tidied up his and Murong Yin's belongings, and casually turned the shack into ashes with a single palm strike.
Jiang Liu then leaped into the air, and the Frostwing Dragon flapped its wings and flew over to catch Jiang Liu, continuing to fly towards Cloud City.
P. S.: Just a heads-up, tomorrow's update will explain why Feng Yue and Murong Yin were involved. Actually, the protagonist is just an ordinary person; his mindset needs to change gradually. There are many things to fear in this world. And a harem is impossible.