Snatching People

Zhang Xuezhou was in charge of building Maoling and was also qualified to repair other imperial tombs.

He himself did not participate in the construction; Rong Tianding modified the entrance to Yangling so that digging was no longer necessary when entering the tomb.

The original entrance was filled with yellow mud, but now it has been paved with bluestone.

Simply turn a stone gate to return to the original entrance.

The stone gate was as narrow as the opening of a well. Zhang Xuezhou pushed the gate open and squeezed through, while the Nine Spirits Primal Sage chasing behind him cursed and yelled for a while.

He patted the entrance several times, causing several bluestones to collapse, but seeing that the interior was not a hollow layer, but rather layers of neat bluestone, the Nine Spirits Primal Sage could only transform himself.

"You poor thing, you stay here and don't move. I'm going to capture that kid and take him back to the Sacred Land to refine medicine. I'll be right back!"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage gave a word of advice, and Hongku could only agree with a pale face.

It's not good to do things poorly, but it's not good to do them too well either.

The fact that the required elixir could be completed in just a few days demonstrates an ability that surpasses many people's imagination, both in terms of alchemy skills and the mobilization of resources within the Great Han Dynasty.

Hongku had mentioned long ago that the cultivators of the Xiong State had a simple and brutal philosophy: they would snatch back anything they offered.

He and Zhang Xuezhou and others made an agreement, which also mentioned barter. According to the normal procedure, the Xiong State lacked medicinal resources, so Hongku should have brought a lot of medicinal materials, as well as Law Treasure, Law Artifact, secret manuals, ores, etc., and then exchanged them for pills to take back.

However, when Hongku was ordered to stay in the palace for two months and was reappointed as an envoy, all the medicinal herbs had already been collected.

Thanks to the resources of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and after a two-month delay, the group managed to complete the transaction without giving away their own treasures.

What Daojun and others struggled to accomplish even after months of coordination, the Great Han Dynasty completed in just three days—a stark contrast.

This time, the powerful cultivators didn't come to snatch the treasures; instead, they directly tried to take the people away.

On one side is Zhang Xuezhou, who is involved in alchemy; on the other side is the Marquis of Pingyang, who is involved in filling the gaps through the Great Han Dynasty.

Zhang Xuezhou only needs to be bound and brought back to the Sacred Land, while Marquis Pingyang needs to be controlled through Incantation Technique to force him to submit and cooperate.

For Daojun and his ilk, such methods were somewhat underhanded, but driven by self-interest, they couldn't care less about such matters.

"Wu Jin, we wouldn't harm you. You can come back to the Sacred Land with Ninth Master to refine pills, and we'll even give you some benefits. Why wouldn't you do that!"

Transforming into human form, Nine Spirits Primal Sage tore off Hongku's outer garment and casually tied it around his lower body to cover his ugliness. Then, he too burrowed into the layer of bluestone the size of a well opening.

They fly around wildly and are difficult to catch, but getting trapped in this kind of graveyard is like being a turtle in a jar.

With victory assured, Nine Spirits Primal Sage urged Zhang Xuezhou to give up resistance.

But he quickly stopped talking. The massive Dragon-Slaying Gate, weighing tens of thousands of pounds, was pushed open by Zhang Xuezhou. Putting aside the opponent's immense strength, the intense stench emanating from the tomb entrance caused Nine Spirits Primal Sage strong sense of discomfort.

A burst of blue light appeared on his body, and Demon Power continuously washed over it.

The Sha Qi and Demon Power mingled and merged, only to dissipate as new Demon Power washed over them.

"It's actually corpse Sha Qi! This damn thing will corrode and taint you as long as your strength is insufficient. Once it enters your body, it won't stop until it devours your flesh and blood. What kind of awful place is this?!"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage quickly discerned the trouble at the cemetery.

Given the abundance of malevolent Sha Qi in this tomb, either some treasure is continuously generating malevolent Sha Qi, or the tomb is sealed extremely tightly, causing malevolent energy to linger within it.

"Damn it!"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage.

Whenever it comes to poisonous gas or miasma, he manifests his demonic form, gulps it down, and then spits it out elsewhere, thus completing the process of expelling gas and expelling air.

Even the mighty Nine Spirits Primal Sage wouldn't dare to drink excrement and urinate if he were exposed to this kind of corpse- Sha Qi.

"You'd rather die here than go back to the Sacred Land with Ninth Master?"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage pushed the Dragon-Severing Gate and shouted inside again, but no one responded from within the tomb.

"Ninth Master is guarding this entrance. Let's see if you really want to die!"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage let out a shout and tightened the Dragon-Severing Gate even more to prevent the Sha Qi in the tomb from overflowing and affecting him.

He plopped down at the entrance and called out to Hongku outside, signaling him not to shout so as not to attract the tomb's guards.

"I'm not afraid of those little things, but if they spread the news, it'll attract a huge crowd. If it brings that Young Master Li here, Ninth Master won't fare well either!"

Nine Spirits Primal Sage grunted a few times.

The memories of being beaten to the point of vomiting in the past are too painful to recall. Even though Nine Spirits Primal Sage is magnanimous, he still harbors resentment. He is even more wary of meeting Li Shaojun, fearing that the other party might entangle him in his sleeve and cause him endless trouble.

"Ninth Master, this place is very quiet, nobody comes here!"

Yangling became Rong Tianding's cultivation ground, and obviously, the fewer the guardians of Yangling, the better.

Nine Spirits Primal Sage arrived in a very casual manner, and there really weren't any patrolling guards around.

Hongku outside Yangling gave an awkward reply, which immediately put Nine Spirits Primal Sage at ease. He then kept peeking out to listen, trying to hear what was happening inside the tomb.

"What a disaster! There's no movement inside. Does Wu Jin have some kind of ability to evade the corpse's Sha Qi? I hope he doesn't die in there!"

Although Nine- Nine Spirits Primal Sage Nine Spirits Primal Sage was guarding the entrance to Yangling and waiting for Zhang Xuezhou to collapse and escape, he was genuinely afraid that Zhang Xuezhou would die inside. After all, he was only capturing people to refine pills, not killing them.

Just like Zhu Jiuyin capturing the Zou Bugui, everyone was simply asking for help, not killing someone.

After waiting for a while, Nine Spirits Primal Sage couldn't help but call out to Hongku outside.

"Ninth Master, I only taught Wu Jin for three months. He later returned to the Great Han Dynasty, so I really don't know what skills he learned. He has only been cultivating for twenty years and needs to refine elixirs all year round, so I guess his skills are limited except for the art of flying!"

Hongku had some guesses about Zhang Xuezhou, including the identity of the Kunlun Holy Son.

Hongku kept everything to himself. He was coerced into cooperating, but he genuinely hoped that Hongku Zhang Xuezhou could escape this trouble.

If Zhang Xuezhou can move to another location, making Hongku to find him, this trouble will basically be over.

In the vast sea of people, he couldn't find Zhang Xuezhou, Nine Spirits Primal Sage and the others wouldn't force him to stay.

His future cooperation with Zhang Xuezhou will inevitably be troublesome; it will likely require him to make some sacrifices.

Hongku sighed inwardly, feeling no joy whatsoever at being the second-in-command of the Yedie River Holy Land.

No matter how hard he climbed, the gap between the first and second beings could not be filled. In the eyes of top beings like the Nine Spirits Primal Sage, he was still just a servant who did errands.

He pursed his lips and pinched his hands together as he looked up at the sky.

A feeling of closeness welled up in my heart, only to be followed by an emptiness that defied comprehension.

Zhang Xuezhou did not demonstrate his Physiognomy Technique, but he also avoided the deductions made by Zhang Xuezhou's Star-Fixing Technique, indicating that he was clearly in good physical condition at this moment.

Having made a simple deduction about Zhang Xuezhou's condition, Hongku was momentarily at a loss as to how Zhang Xuezhou would avoid this trouble.

He gave the Nine Spirits Primal Sage words. The Nine Spirits Primal Sage, who was pacing back and forth outside the tomb, couldn't help but push the heavy stone door of the Dragon-Severing Gate and then shout inside.

"Damn it, I'm fed up with Lu Ya and Zhu Jiuyin. They get sick whenever they cause trouble, and even when they're sick, they're still stubborn. But stubbornness doesn't cure illnesses, and in the end, I'm the one who has to clean up their mess!"

The Nine Spirits Primal Sage cursed and swore, but finally pushed the Dragon-Severing Gate open most of the way before crawling inside.

The dark tomb was devoid of light, Nine Spirits Primal Sage shook its head vigorously.

His eyes had not yet fully adjusted to the environment inside the tomb when a dark red Sword-Ray flashed past in the darkness.