The Great Hero

## The Great Hero

Li Banfeng felt a great sense of regret at the loss of a corpse for alchemy.

He regretted it seriously for a full minute, then began searching for the Home Spirit.

The Home Spirit was Li Banfeng's most urgent desire at the moment, without exception.

With a Home Spirit, a Shut-in Cultivator could advance. This was the only possible way to bridge the gap between Travel Cultivators and Shut-in Cultivators, and it was crucial for Li Banfeng's life.

Of course, having a Home Spirit also meant that Li Banfeng would have to live in this house from now on. He would need to maintain a certain degree of travel each day to sustain his Travel Cultivator practice, and also remember to return home promptly to maintain the foundation of his Shut-in Cultivator practice.

It sounded very contradictory, but Li Banfeng believed he could find a solution.

What did a Home Spirit look like?

It should be human-shaped, right?

Since it was called a spirit, it must be human-shaped.

There were three tiled houses and one Storage Room in the courtyard. That Storage Room was the Hostage Room, and there was only a pile of firewood inside. There were no human-shaped creatures here.

He went to the room on the east side. There were many bottles and jars inside, as well as a mortar and pestle and a clay pot.

This should be De Cai's room. These were all tools for refining poison.

Was the Home Spirit here?

Li Banfeng still didn't see any human-shaped creatures.

Walking out of De Cai's room, Li Banfeng saw a human-shaped creature.

"Benefactor, we haven't thanked you yet," Xiao Yeci looked at Li Banfeng cautiously.

Seeing him kill just now, Xiao Yeci was still shaken.

Behind her was another person, her daughter Lu Chunying, who timidly peeked out and glanced at Li Banfeng.

"No need to be polite." Li Banfeng had no time to bother with the mother and daughter. He bypassed them and went straight to the tiled house in the middle.

"Benefactor, what are you looking for?" Xiao Yeci followed him.

"I'm looking for my wallet. They took my wallet," Li Banfeng said casually to brush her off. "You must have had a lot of things stolen too. Hurry and look for them, and leave as soon as you find them."

"Benefactor, it's best not to wander into this room. There's a Home Spirit."

She knew there was a Home Spirit in this room?

Li Banfeng didn't rush to open the door. He pretended to be completely ignorant and asked, "What did you just say about a Home Spirit?"

"A Home Spirit is a spirit raised by a Shut-in Cultivator. Benefactor knows that old woman was a Shut-in Cultivator, right?"

"What's a Shut-in Cultivator? I don't know!" Li Banfeng continued to play dumb.

"A Shut-in Cultivator is a Dao Gate practitioner who stays in their house. This Dao Gate isn't very powerful when they leave their house, but they are incredible inside their house.

That old woman just now, even at her age, was so capable of fighting. Benefactor couldn't hurt her, and I couldn't talk her down. Actually, she should also be at the first level, but inside her house, even a second-level might not be able to defeat her. This is all thanks to the Home Spirit helping her."

This woman seemed to have quite a bit of experience. Li Banfeng suppressed his strong desire for knowledge and calmly asked, "What does a Home Spirit look like?"

"That's hard to say. Some Home Spirits look like water tanks, some look like rice scoops, some look like roof beams, and some even look like old yellow dogs guarding the door."

Li Banfeng was stunned. "Are there any Home Spirits that look like people?"

Xiao Yeci thought for a moment. "I haven't heard of that."

Li Banfeng stared at Xiao Yeci for a moment and asked, "Have you seen a Home Spirit?"

Xiao Yeci shook her head. "No."

"If you haven't seen one, why are you talking nonsense! You Mouth Cultivator are too much!" Li Banfeng didn't want to bother with this woman anymore.

Xiao Yeci's cheeks flushed. "Benefactor, Mouth Cultivator is a derogatory term. Our Dao Gate is actually called Scholar Cultivator. Because we have the Lotus Tongue Technique, we are often called Mouth Cultivators. What I just told you, I read in a book."

Lu Chunying poked her head out from behind. "My mom has read a lot of books. My mom is very knowledgeable. Her mouth skills are very powerful!"

Li Banfeng casually replied, "Yes, so powerful that they're tight."

So this woman was a Scholar Cultivator. What kind of skills do Scholar Cultivators have?

Before Li Banfeng could ask, the woman proactively explained, "To cultivate in our Dao Gate, you have to read a lot of books. Only by reading many books will you know what to say when you meet different people and how to react when you encounter different things."

Li Banfeng asked very seriously, "When you met this old lady, how did you react?"

"Benefactor is making fun of me," Xiao Yeci said, lowering her head. "Originally, my Lotus Tongue Technique was quite good, but I had never encountered a Shut-in Cultivator, and I didn't expect this old woman to be so stubborn. But her two sons were persuaded. If it weren't for that old woman, those two sons would definitely have let me go. Her youngest son is named De Mao. I don't know where he is now. He was the one who told me his mother was a Shut-in Cultivator and that the Home Spirit was in his mother's room."

So she got the information from De Mao. It seemed highly credible.

"Did he say what the old lady's Home Spirit looked like?"

Xiao Yeci shook her head. "He didn't dare to say. He said the Home Spirit would hear him. He just said it was a not-so-big object."

A not-so-big object?

Li Banfeng thought of the old lady's hairpin and then the short knife. If the Home Spirit was a similar object, could it be carried around? If it could be carried around, wouldn't the conflict between Shut-in Cultivators and Travel Cultivators be completely resolved?

"If the Home Spirit can be carried around, even if they leave the house, Shut-in Cultivators would still have the Home Spirit's protection. Wouldn't Shut-in Cultivators be invincible?"

"Take the Home Spirit out of the house? You can't do that!" Xiao Yeci's eyes widened. "Benefactor, you don't know anything about Shut-in Cultivators. Most Shut-in Cultivators themselves don't know what kind of existence the Home Spirit is. How would they dare to take them out!"

"What would happen if you took it out?"

"Some books say that Home Spirits are actually evil spirits. In a Shut-in Cultivator's house, the evil spirits are chained up. Evil spirits that leave the house have no chains. Once there are no chains, who knows what the evil spirits will do? I've never heard of a Shut-in Cultivator taking a Home Spirit out of the house. I have heard of Home Spirits becoming powerful and running out of the house. Those evil spirits kill everyone they see. Several nearby villages were wiped out."

"That Shut-in Cultivator and his family hid for over a year, but in the end, they couldn't escape death. The Home Spirit killed every single one of them."

Li Banfeng chuckled, "It's good that they can't be taken out. Otherwise, the next time I encounter a Shut-in Cultivator, I wouldn't know how to deal with them."

He said this, but Li Banfeng felt a pang of sadness in his heart. The conflict between Shut-in Cultivators and Travel Cultivators, these two opposing Dao Gates, truly wasn't something that could be easily resolved.

But no matter what, he had to take over the Home Spirit first.

Before taking over the Home Spirit, however, he had to let this mother and daughter leave. Li Banfeng didn't want others to know about his Dao Gate, and even less did he want any accidents to happen while he was receiving the Home Spirit.

Xiao Yeci said, "Benefactor, De Cai told me that everything they stole is in the cellar in the backyard, not in the house."

The three of them went to the backyard. Xiao Yeci continued, "He said the cellar is under the big stone next to the well."

There was indeed a stone block next to the well. Just as Li Banfeng was about to move the stone block, he turned back to look at Xiao Yeci.

If I move the stone block, and she kicks me into the cellar, what should I do?

Xiao Yeci was startled and quickly explained, "Benefactor, I'm not lying to you. I'm telling the truth."

Whether she was telling the truth was impossible to verify for now, but Li Banfeng was very curious about one thing.

Why would I believe her words?

Is this the skill of a Mouth Cultivator?

Xiao Yeci saw through his thoughts and quickly explained, "Benefactor, sometimes I can't control my Lotus Tongue Technique and it just comes out.

Please don't be suspicious. How about this, I'll move this stone, and I'll go down and get the things!"

This stone block looked like it weighed several hundred pounds. Li Banfeng didn't think this woman could actually move it.

But Xiao Yeci was very confident: "We are all people with cultivation. Our strength is definitely not something ordinary people can compare to. Benefactor, just watch, you don't need to help."

Li Banfeng just watched from the side. No matter what flowers she spouted, Li Banfeng had no intention of lending a hand.

Xiao Yeci squatted down, spread her legs, tensed her buttocks, hugged the stone block, and took a deep breath.

With her silver teeth clenched, her pretty face turned red. Putting all her strength into it, she actually managed to move the stone block.

There was indeed a door under the stone block. Xiao Yeci panted, "Benefactor, I'll go down and take a look first. Chunying, stay up here and don't move!"

Li Banfeng didn't act modest and just watched Xiao Yeci enter the cellar. After a short while, Xiao Yeci climbed out of the cellar: "Benefactor, there are a lot of things down here. I don't know which ones are yours."

"You don't need to worry about my things. Just take your own things and come up quickly!"

Xiao Yeci held a wicker basket and climbed out of the cellar: "Benefactor, our mother and daughter's belongings are all here. What does your wallet look like? I'll go down again and help you get it."

Li Banfeng lowered his gaze and looked Xiao Yeci up and down: "Why are you helping me?"

Xiao Yeci lowered her head and said, "Benefactor, you shouldn't say that. Our mother and daughter owe you a life."

"You're doing this to repay a debt of gratitude?" Li Banfeng didn't believe her.

"It's to repay a debt of gratitude, but, but there's also something I need to ask of you," Xiao Yeci's voice got softer and softer as she spoke.

Li Banfeng's face was expressionless: "What is it?"

"My daughter and I need to go to the Inner Valley of Medicine King Gully. We are unfamiliar with the place, and the journey is dangerous. We want to ask Benefactor to escort us."

"I won't see you off!" Li Banfeng refused directly. "It's not far from Inner Valley, just over thirty li. I can show you the way."

With that, Li Banfeng drew a simple map on the ground.

Xiao Yeci looked at the map, then at Li Banfeng, and pleaded, "This is our first time in Medicine King Gully. We've been terrified the whole way. Benefactor, please see us off. We can pay!"

"Paying won't work either! I have to stay here and fight the Home Spirit to the death! You two, mother and daughter, hurry and leave!"

Xiao Yeci was stunned. "Benefactor, you're going to fight the Home Spirit again?"

Li Banfeng straightened his back and said, "Otherwise? Let this evil spirit stay here and harm the world?

Since you've read so many books, don't you know what The Great Hero is?"

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