In order to prevent the smell of blood from attracting more carnivorous beasts, Qiu Jiu hurriedly led his team away from the battlefield after dealing with the pile of wild wolf and tiger corpses.
Su Rui also drove the donkey cart and followed the caravan at a leisurely pace, looking like he was traveling and enjoying the scenery.
When night fell, Qiu Jiu led his team to set up camp beside a stone stream.
That night, Su Rui ate the wolf and tiger meat that Qiu Jiu had sent over. To be honest, the meat of these two animals was not tasty. The meat was too firm, too lean, and had a very strong fishy smell. Although Qiu Jiu had stewed the meat with peppercorns and rice wine, the taste was really not very good.
Su Rui asked Qiu Jiu to bring half a tiger skeleton and picked out four ribs, intending to try roasting the bone marrow. He then found some wild vegetables to cook a bowl of tiger bone and vegetable soup with the rest.
In fact, this tiger bone should be used to make wine. Unfortunately, although Su Rui's small cloth bag contained a lot of things to use and eat, there was no good wine.
The roasted bone marrow tasted a bit bland because it lacked cumin and chili powder, but Chi Jiao actually enjoyed it. After Su Rui tried one, he gave the remaining three to Chi Jiao. Chi Jiao wanted more, so Su Rui had no choice but to ask Qiu Jiu to pick out a dozen more bones.
The tiger bone and vegetable soup was quite to Su Rui's taste, but Chi Jiao took a sip and didn't touch it anymore.
The next day, early in the morning, the convoy continued its journey.
The journey lasted more than ten days and was smooth sailing.
Su Rui usually sits on the shaft of the cart. In addition to practicing martial arts, he takes out treasures such as the Mirage Dragon Pearl, Gengjin Elite, Black Gourd, and Xuanyin Banner to study.
He had previously used his demonic body to refine the Mirage Dragon Pearl into an external elixir. After returning to human form, if he wanted to use it, he had to unseal the demon elixir, call upon his demonic power to connect with it, and stimulate the Yuan Shen Qi, making it very troublesome to use. Su Rui figured he would use his human body more often in the future, so he used Shangqing Qi to re-refine the Mirage Dragon Pearl according to the Yuan Shen Sutra, and re-mastered the Yuan Shen illusion and transformation techniques recorded in the Yuan Shen Sutra.
As for the Gengjin elites, some of them had been separated out to refine the "Maori Golden Light Pupil". Although the remaining amount was not much, it was enough to refine the flying sword. However, since Su Rui did not understand the refining method, he had not been able to settle down for a long time.
As for the black gourd left behind by Taoist Qiao San after his death, although he had previously practiced rituals with it, he had never remembered to carefully examine its contents. Now that he had some free time, he decided to investigate. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but the sight of it nearly gave him a fright. It turned out that Taoist Qiao San's most powerful Nine-Child Mother Ghosts had all retreated into the black gourd after Taoist Qiao San was slain by True Man Yu'e.
However, they seemed to have been seriously injured and all fell into a coma. Only the ghost mother seemed to feel Su Rui's gaze and woke up from her slumber.
"Su Erlang, why aren't you dead..." Seeing Su Rui, she was stunned at first, then realized the inappropriateness of her words and immediately changed her words: "Congratulations, my dear, for escaping from the cage and gaining a new life. My dear, you now control the black gourd, just like you control the vital points of my mother and me. If my dear finds us annoying, he only needs to activate the restrictions in the gourd to beat us to pieces and make us never reincarnate!"
Having said this, she paused and continued, "If you are willing to continue using us mother and son, we are willing to serve you and make the most of our remaining energy!"
Su Rui was also a little entangled at this time. Taoist Qiao San had killed countless lives to sacrifice to refine the Nine-Child Mother Yin Ghost. Now that the Nine-Child Mother Yin Ghost had been refined, they just needed to wait for them to recover, which would be a great help. You know, the Nine-Child Mother Yin Ghost had a telepathic connection and also possessed spatial abilities, which was very rare.
But the ghost of the Nine-Child Mother was one of the poor creatures persecuted by Taoist Qiao San, so on the one hand he was reluctant to let her go, and on the other hand he felt that the ghost of the Nine-Child Mother was also very pitiful.
"How about we make a contract? Now my cultivation is still shallow, so you protect me. When I have enough cultivation in the future, I will send you to reincarnation!" Su Rui asked tentatively.
"That's good!" The ghost mother let out a sigh and let go of her anxious heart.
Then he immediately got into character and said, "The Nine Sons Mother Yin Sha Formation that Taoist Qiao San had cultivated has been broken by the Ghost King of Hell, and most of the formation flags have been lost. The strength of my mother and I has also been greatly damaged! If you want more powerful help, you might as well cultivate a set of Nine Sons Mother Yin Soul Swords. My mother and I can live in the swords and act as sword spirits!"
Su Rui's eyes lit up when he heard this. He also knew about the Nine-Child Mother Ghost Sword. It was one of the Wutai Sect's sacred swords. However, even if there was a trick, refining the Nine-Child Mother Ghost Sword would probably be quite difficult.
"Let's talk about this later!" Su Rui was also powerless and had to put it aside.
"Master Qiao San has already collected a lot of materials for refining the Nine-Child Mother Ghost Sword. They are hidden in this black gourd space. Now, the only materials missing are Gengjin Elite, Stardust Blue Sand, and Demon Sealing Stone. If you are interested, please feel free to ask around!"
When Su Rui heard this, he thought there was a chance. He already had the Gengjin Elite, and he believed that the remaining two would not be difficult to find.
Later, he really found a lot of materials for refining flying swords in another layer of the black gourd. Even though Su Rui was mentally prepared, he was still very happy.
After putting away the black gourd, he took out the semi-finished Xuanyin Banner that Taoist Qiao San had given him specially in order to increase his speed in refining the black silk.
The reason why it is called a semi-finished product is because there is no main soul in this Xuanyin Banner.
Some time ago, Su Rui had captured the spirit of Elder Xing from the Law Enforcement Hall and imprisoned it within a banner, but had yet to refine it. This time, he wanted to see if he could extract something valuable from him, which he could then refine into Black Silk. As for the main spirit, he planned to capture a powerful demon in the future and refine the Xuanyin Banner into the Xuanyin Cult's Xuanyin Beast Gathering Banner.
By the time he had cleared out the "inventory" in his hands, the caravan had already entered the southwest road.
Surprisingly, after entering the southwest road, they encountered two groups of bandits on the way. The first group, mostly elderly, weak, and sick, were allowed to pass after hearing Qiu Jiu was willing to hand over some food as a tribute. The second group was not so easy to deal with, and the two sides eventually fought a fierce battle on the third road.
Su Rui did not take any action, but just sat on the shaft of the cart and watched the show quietly.
The young master of the Divine Sword Villa did not take any action either.
What Su Rui didn't expect was that Qiu Jiu was tall and mighty, and was actually a good fighter.
He held a black copper stick in his hand and performed very formal moves, emphasizing the power of force and heft. Any thief hit by his stick would almost always end up with a bloody head and broken bones.
When they encountered the third robbery, Qiu Jiu had no choice but to invite Su Rui and the young master of Shenjian Villa out.
There was only one robber this time. He stood in the middle of the road, with thirty-six emerald green flying swords hanging in the air outside his body.
"I am Chen Ting of the Zhushan Sect, and I'm in urgent need of three young, fresh corpses. Whoever is in charge, hand them over immediately!!"
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