Chapter 192 Chaotic Dance of Gods and Demons

Monsters eating children is like people getting addicted to gambling; once you're hooked, it's hard to quit.

If we allow monsters to capture and eat children with impunity, the human population will surely plummet. Talented people need a large population base, and this is intolerable.

Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing learned from them that the human and demon races in this world had been in conflict for many years. It wasn't until ten thousand years ago, when the human race rose to power and mobilized all its strongest warriors to fight against the great demons, that this ironclad decree was issued.

Rong Yi was a little surprised. The history of this world is really peculiar. He wondered how many dynasties had gone through in ten thousand years.

While pondering, I unconsciously opened my purse and felt a surge of energy.

Huh? What is that?

She thought her purse would at most contain the inner cores of demons or precious herbs, but she was surprised to find that she had a very good haul.

The purse was wide open, and Rong Yi saw that it was full of irregularly shaped green jade stones. He reached in to take a closer look, but his wrist went straight in.

The purse looked no longer than the palm of her hand. Realizing something, she continued to reach down and, sure enough, touched more jade.

This is a storage item similar to those sold in Obsidian City.

Wei Yanqing watched her rummage through her purse, with half her arm inside, and naturally noticed the purse was different.

Rong Yi withdrew her hand, holding a jade stone in her palm. "A third-tier energy stone." She shook the jade stone in front of Wei Yanqing.

"Jade Spirit Stone?" Wei Chang exclaimed with a hint of surprise, "No wonder it suddenly appeared in the last two or three years, it turns out it was because it obtained the Jade Spirit Stone."

Wei Yanqing took the jade spirit stone from Rong Yi, feeling its smooth, warm texture. Even without spiritual energy, it was still excellent jade material for ordinary people. "How are jade spirit stones usually obtained?"

Compared to killing demons one by one, collecting naturally occurring energy stones like jade spirit stones is much simpler for him.

Wei Chang was initially surprised that he didn't know about Jade Spirit Stones, and then explained: "Jade Spirit Stones only form in mountains with abundant spiritual energy. They are usually integrated with the spiritual energy of the world. Since the spiritual energy in the mountains is already abundant, they are not easy to detect."

It turned out to be a mineral energy stone that was difficult to detect.

"Judging from the amount of jade spirit stones this bull demon is carrying, it seems to have found a small mine," a disciple said.

Rong Yi tossed the jade spirit stone back into her pouch. Since she had this kind of energy stone, she would be more careful in the future. As for the place the white bull demon had found, her first thought was to avoid it.

She felt it was unnecessary to compete with players for resources, but subconsciously she felt it was pointless to compete with the natives, since they were outsiders to begin with.

However, given that the white bull demon possessed so many jade spirit stones, and not knowing what kind of bull demon it was, Rong Yi asked them curiously, "Do you know exactly what kind of bull demon that is?"

After all, the humans and demons here have lived under the same sky for many years and are very clear about the different types of demons.

"That's an Ice-Infused Ox. Wearing its inner core can refresh the mind and keep it clear."

Rong Yi quickly followed up with, "Does it taste good?"

"Huh?" Wei Chang didn't react for a moment. He always asked about the usable parts of the monsters, and this was the first time someone had asked him if it tasted good. "Uh... it's pretty good. We had a piece by chance before."

The most important thing about demons is their inner core. Except for the first and second tiers, few people would sell the inner energy of other tiers. Next is their various furs, on which the energy can remain for many years. Finally, there are their flesh, bones, and the like.

However, they all have one thing in common: they are very expensive.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Wei Chang and his group are lay disciples of the immortal sect, but in fact they are outer disciples. Unlike inner disciples who receive monthly stipends, they have to rely on their own hard work. It is common for close-knit groups like them to team up for missions.

Hearing that it tasted good, Rong Yi nodded in satisfaction.

The demons have gathered today and suffered heavy losses; they will not appear again. Wei Chang and his group can leave the next day to return to their immortal sect and report back.

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The next day, the whole town was bustling with excitement. Villagers from the surrounding villages were packing up to leave. Wei Chang and his group from Ziyang Sect were also leaving, but since they weren't going the same way as Rong Yi and his group, they had to part ways at the gate.

The townspeople showered Wei Chang and his companions with praise, and amidst this warm welcome, they carefully guarded the Qiankun bags at their waists and departed.

During their conversation yesterday, Rong Yi learned that the pouch with storage function was called a Qiankun bag, which is one of the commonly used items by cultivators. The white ox may have bought it himself, or it may have stolen it from someone else.

Rong Yi and Wei Yanqing also arrived at the gate. The county magistrate had just seen Wei Chang and the others off when he turned around and saw these two.

"Miss Rong and Young Master Wei left so early?"

Rong Yi nodded, "We should have left half a month ago, but we were delayed until today because we wanted to see the sacrificial ceremony. We should have set off earlier."

Fan Xinyuan bowed to the two men and said, "I hope you two have a safe journey and arrive in the capital soon."

To make their departure easier and to avoid being mistaken for monsters by flying, the two bought a carriage in town. The county magistrate gave them a discount, so they didn't have to pay and it was a personal gift from him as a thank you for his help yesterday.

It was Rong Yi's first time riding in such a carriage, so he sat directly on the outside while Wei Yanqing drove.

As promised, the magistrate gave them a geomantic map yesterday, clearly marking the route. Even if they went the wrong way, they could find someone to ask for the location of one of the marked points and arrive safely.

They had been traveling slowly along the path for quite some time.

"Reaching 50% is difficult by quantity alone; we can only pursue quality," Rong Yi said, beginning to discuss their plan to leave the area.

The fact that the violators were left here does not mean that the two of them have no way to leave.

Neither of their systems are in a "healthy" state. To help the host jump, some permissions need to be released. It's easier to do for Wei Yanqing, but more difficult for Rong Yi, whose system is more tightly sealed. It would require a lot of energy to release permissions.

When her decommissioning progress reaches 50%, she will be able to cooperate with Wei Yanqing's system to leave this world.

After all, an adventurer cannot stay in one world for long. Due to the special nature of their work and the fact that they are outsiders, even if they don't obtain inner cores and jade spirit stones, the energy in the air they breathe and the energy they consume in their daily lives are all resources of this world, even if it's just a small piece of firewood.

If you really rely on the world's consciousness, it won't understand your difficulties and will just kick you out. Who knows where you'll end up then?

Rong Yi felt that the violators were just waiting for the world's consciousness to deal with them, preferably severely injuring them, since their strength was already being suppressed.

Wei Yanqing: "So we have to go to the capital. If you're talking about where there are many great demons, that's definitely it. Besides, I'm very interested in the gods and immortals in the heavens."

Anyway, the fact that they didn't kneel down to the gods in town has already displeased those gods, and they might find a way to cause trouble for them in the future.

“God? He seems more like a cultivator who has obtained special energy.” Rong Yi casually picked up a book of miscellaneous writings. The county magistrate, considering that the two of them knew nothing about worldly affairs, found some miscellaneous writings on gods and spirits for them to read on the road, so that they could at least get a general understanding of the world.

(End of this chapter)