"Stand down!"
The sinister-looking man paid no heed to the blood still flowing from his wrist. Without a word, he withdrew beyond the stone door and stood there quietly, like a mindless dried corpse.
"If you supplement it with blood rich in vitality, it will work faster. Take this bottle too."
Mu Bai did not accept the jade bottle of blood Gusu Wan'er offered him. He simply turned and left with the bottle of Mighty Corpse Powder. As he passed the sinister-looking man, Mu Bai felt a chill that pierced his marrow. But the man did not attack, and Mu Bai walked straight past without looking aside.
"Don't tell him, tell him what you saw today..."
"All right, I promise!"
The sinister-looking man did not stop Mu Bai. Mu Bai leaped up several dozen steps, pushed open the tree door, and went outside. Then two crisp smacks sounded behind him.
It was not that Mu Bai lacked curiosity, but he disliked meddling in others' affairs. He walked straight out of the courtyard, closed the residence's gate for her, and hurried back to his room at the inn.
After half a night of the Corpse Plague's ravages, half of Chen Shichong's upper body had shriveled, and wisps of green smoke curled through the vat of wolf blood. Mu Bai had been right to soak him in wolf blood, but its effects fell far short of the corpse powder's. Mu Bai immediately uncorked the jade bottle and caught a rich fragrance drifting out. Without hesitation, he sprinkled all the corpse powder into the wolf blood and stirred it, filling the room with an even stronger scent.
After half a night, most of the vitality in the vat of wolf blood had already dissipated. Anxious to save him, Mu Bai took up his