Hiking Up the Price

Zhang Xiaofan returned to the Corpse Demon Sect and headed straight for a cave at the southern foot of Corpse Demon Mountain.

Above the cave entrance were three large characters—White Bone Cave.

No one stood guard before the cave, but restrictive formations had been set up to prevent outsiders from entering.

Zhang Xiaofan took out a token. After activating it, he easily entered the cave.

The cave wound downward all the way. After descending several dozen li, Zhang Xiaofan saw an enormous underground cavern hall, where white bones were piled layer upon layer.

Scattered sparsely among those bones were more than a hundred vines.

The vines were grayish white, some long and some short. The longest stretched several zhang, while the shortest were only one or two chi long.

In one corner of the cavern hall stood several simple stone houses.

Zhang Xiaofan flew into the stone houses, where a male cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage came forward to greet him.

"Greetings, Steward Fanchen. What orders bring you here today, Steward?"

Zhang Xiaofan said, "Deacon Wang, how were the two Dead Man's Vines parasitized by Phosphor Bone Moths last month handled?"

Deacon Wang replied, "Reporting to Steward, based on past experience, once a Dead Man's Vine is parasitized by Phosphor Bone Moths, it will inevitably contain moth eggs within it. There is no way to remove them completely. To prevent the other Dead Man's Vines from being infected, I already uprooted those two."

"Were those two Dead Man's Vines destroyed?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.

"Well... they were not destroyed."

Deacon Wang hesitated for a moment before finally revealing the truth.

Those two Dead Man's Vines were only several decades old, and they had been infected with Phosphor Bone Moths, but they could still be used to refine certain second-