"I have twelve Strength Pills and two Poisonous Beast Pills. The remaining pills are the Beast Repelling Pill and the Body Protection Pill, which I haven't finished refining yet. Time is of the essence, so I need to quickly refine the pills and prepare in advance."

With these thoughts in mind, Lin Xiaofei entered the spatial bead and began refining pills.

The Poisonous Beast Pill has a great allure to strange beasts, making them unable to resist wanting to devour it. Lin Xiaofei knew that Zhang Yugui possessed the art of beast control.

Therefore, Poison Beast Pills are a very important means of dealing with alien beasts. Currently, he only has two Poison Beast Pills, and he plans to refine two more to be on the safe side.

Next, there were plenty of stamina pills, so they didn't need to be refined.

Among them, the Beast-Repelling Pill emits a foul odor that disgusts and deters strange beasts from approaching. Once a strange beast inhales too much of the Beast-Repelling Pill's odor, it will become dizzy and disoriented, as if it were drunk.

As for the Body Protection Pill, it is a pill that can greatly enhance the skin's toughness and play a defensive role in a short period of time. Swallowing one pill can make an ordinary person's skin tougher than cowhide by three or four times, and can temporarily withstand the blows of swords and knives.

These pills can help enhance combat power and can be used as a means to achieve this, which is also part of his strength.

"Due to time constraints, only two Poison Beast Pills, four Beast-Repelling Pills, and four Body-Protecting Pills were successfully refined."

However, I estimate it will be enough.

Overnight, Lin Xiaofei refined ten relatively difficult pills. Exhausted, he went straight to sleep.

He woke up when the sun was high in the sky in the morning.

He spent the whole night refining medicine and didn't sleep. Fortunately, since he started practicing martial arts, his sleep time has decreased, and he only slept for five hours before feeling tired.

After practicing swordsmanship with Master Li for a while, Lin Xiaofei quickly returned to his room, entered the spatial bead, and made some simple arrangements.

With four or five hours left until sunset, Lin Xiaofei, without hesitation, carried nothing but a small package and headed towards the back gate of the gang's compound.

Inside the spatial bead, he placed a longsword that he could take out at any time, intending to use it to ambush Zhang Yugui. If the other party was not vigilant enough, he could even kill him with one sword.

The fact that a long sword was hidden inside the spatial bead was something Zhang Yugui could not have predicted, nor could anyone else. This spatial bead was also Lin Xiaofei's secret.

In addition, he had also arranged more than twenty pills in a suitable position, which he could easily reach into the space bead to take them.

After leaving the city, he did not rush to Xiaonanshan Yinggoutan, but went to his second uncle's house.

Arriving at his second uncle's house, Lin Xiaofei found the gate open and went straight in.

This time, Lin Yiying was drugged and carried away while he was sleeping at night. When he woke up, he was bound hand and foot and blindfolded. He thought he had been taken away by ghosts, which terrified him.

Although he was not physically injured, he was in poor mental condition.

"Second Uncle, are you alright?"

Lin Xiaofei entered the tile-roofed house and saw Lin Yiying sitting blankly on a stool. He quickly asked her in a low voice.

"Huh? I...I'm fine."

Xiaofei, what brings you here?

Lin Yiying's eyes were glazed over, and she looked listless and weak as she spoke.

"Second Uncle, why do you look so listless? Are you alright?"

Lin Xiaofei asked.

"Xiaofei, I have something to tell you. I was resting at home yesterday afternoon, but when I woke up and tried to open my eyes, it felt like something was blocking them, and I couldn't see anything at all. Also, my whole body was tied up and I couldn't move. I thought I had gone blind and my body was stiff, and I thought I was going to die."

But after some time, when I woke up again, I found myself inexplicably lying on a mountain path. Had I encountered a ghost?

Lin Yiying said listlessly.

When he found himself lying on a mountain path, he was terrified and rushed home. He trembled all night and even forgot to close the door.

Lin Xiaofei listened silently. Seeing that his second uncle had not suffered any physical injuries, but had been mentally traumatized, he guessed that after Zhang Yugui took his second uncle away, he did not have time to punish him, but only used some frightening methods.

Lin Xiaofei offered a few words of comfort, fed his second uncle a stamina pill, and seeing that his second uncle had regained his strength and was in better condition, he left directly.

Near Yingoutan in Xiaonanshan, there used to be a small village of two or three hundred people. The villagers carried water from Yingoutan for drinking.

However, seven or eight years ago, something happened in the village. Every day, three or four people would mysteriously disappear without a trace. This continued for a month before the constables of Qingshan Town investigated and discovered that all of this was the work of a strange beast in the Yingou Pool.

Legend has it that a powerful water python lurks in the dark ditch, devouring people.

At that time, the government of Qingshan Town sent troops to fight against the water python beast. Many soldiers and a top expert from the government died.

Later, the government sealed off the Yingou Pool, saying that the strange beast, the water python, had been killed, indicating that the place had become an ominous place.

However, everyone in that small village near Xiaonanshan eventually disappeared, causing villages further away from Xiaonanshan Yingoutan to be afraid to approach it, making it a place that ordinary people dared not go.

Nowadays, although people occasionally pass by the ditch, they all keep a distance and no one dares to get close.

As they walked towards the dark ditch, the number of people gradually decreased, and eventually, no one appeared at all.

Lin Xiaofei walked cautiously, observing his surroundings as he went, very vigilant.

Although the authorities said the water python had been killed, why did no one dare to approach the Yin Gully Pool in Xiaonanshan? This puzzled him greatly.

Soon, Lin Xiaofei arrived at Xiaonanshan and stopped about a kilometer away from Yingoutan.

Feeling the silence of the forest, Lin Xiaofei looked at a body of water in the distance with a lot of dry leaves floating on it. It seemed that everything around him was very quiet. There were some flat, large stones lying next to the pool. Lin Xiaofei guessed that these stones were probably placed there by the villagers in the past, probably for washing clothes and vegetables.

Lin Xiaofei had been there for about an hour, but Zhang Yugui had not shown up.

As the sun began to set and gradually faded, he didn't want to wait until nightfall. A thought struck him, and he looked around, then said to the woods:

"If you come, hurry up and come out. I don't have the patience to wait for you. Otherwise, I'll put the things in the woodpile and then burn them."

As he spoke, he threw a small, somewhat heavy black package he was carrying on the ground, then piled up some dry grass and leaves around him, preparing to burn the package.

Moreover, he knew that Zhang Yugui was likely after the red seed inside the collar. If the collar were to be burned by flames, it would be equivalent to destroying the seed. Therefore, he wanted to provoke Zhang Yugui.

"Lin Xiaofei, wait a minute, don't burn it."

I was just observing to see if you had sent anyone to follow you. After all, I didn't want a third person to know about this, otherwise I wouldn't have made you wait for over an hour.

Just as Lin Xiaofei was about to light the pile of grass and wood, a voice suddenly rang out, and a figure appeared in the woods more than fifty meters away.

Zhang Yugui, dressed in a white Taoist robe, leaped more than ten steps in succession and quickly arrived in front of him.