After retrieving the Soul Ensnaring Zither, Yuan took a seat on the soft ground and placed the zither on his l.a.p.
He then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
A mont of pure silence later, he opened his eyes, and his fingers flicked the strings extrely quickly.
Whoosh!
A massive ripple appeared from the zither and swept the place in an instant.
The next second, the Black Horn Bulls didn’t even have the ti to react before their bodies exploded into a bloody ss.
When Xia Jingyi used the technique, the Black Horn Bulls didn’t explode violently, so when she saw the results, she began gagging from shock, nearly puking.
"Whoa... brother... I think you went a little overboard..." Even Yu Rou had to take a step back with a disgusted look on her face after seeing the magical beasts’ guts and internal organs flying all over the place. Even though they were magical beasts, Yu Rou felt sorry for them.
Luckily for them, they were standing far enough, or the blood and organs would’ve definitely hit them.
Yuan’s jaw dropped wide open when he saw the results.
"I-I also didn’t think it would be so powerful!" He exclaid a mont later.
"Brother Tian... Did you forget your cultivation base? Even a Mortal-rank cultivation technique will display extraordinary strength if it’s used by you." Xiao Hua said to him.
"Even if you say that, this is my first ti using a zither technique, so I didn’t know how to control my strength." Yuan sighed.
"There’s no way we can harvest their horns when they’re in this state..." ixiu said a mont later.
"I’m sorry..." Yuan apologized to them.
"Brother, you’re banned from using that technique if we’re with you! It’s simply too grueso!" Yu Rou said to him afterward.
"I understand." Yuan nodded.
He then turned to look at Xia Jingyi and asked her, "Are you okay?"
She wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded, "Yes... I was just... shocked..."
"I’m sorry..." He apologized again.
Shortly after, they went to look for more Black Horn Bulls.
"ixiu, do you want to try fighting them?" Yu Rou suddenly asked her.
"Eh? I don’t know any techniques besides my cultivation technique..." she said.
"What? You still don’t have any techniques?" Yu Rou looked at her with wide eyes.
She then looked at Yuan, who rely shook his head and said, "Looks like we’ll be returning to the Myriad of Techniques sooner than I’d anticipated..."
Since ixiu didn’t have any martial techniques, Yu Rou and Xia Jingyi took care of the magical beasts without making a huge ss.
After that batch, they continued to spend a couple more hours hunting Black Horn Bulls until they essentially hunted almost all of them in the area.
"How many horns did we collect?" Yu Rou asked Yuan at the end.
"About 400 give or take," he said.
"So 4,000 gold coins, huh? That’s extrely good for a single quest, and it didn’t even take us that long." Yu Rou said.
"And it is mostly thanks to Xiao Hua for locating the magical beasts for us or this would’ve taken much longer, so thank you, Xiao Hua!"
Xiao Hua nodded silently.
"Are we going to go back now?" Yuan asked them.
"Yes. Once we hand in our quest, we can go shopping for so cultivation techniques. Though I doubt 4,000 gold coins will be enough to buy even half a technique..." Yu Rou said.
"Money, huh? Xiao Hua, do you still have the spirit stones I gave you? Feng Feng said that you didn’t spend it."
Xiao Hua nodded and retrieved the storage pouch containing the spirit stones and handed it to him, "Xiao Hua didn’t use it, and if Brother Tian needs more money, Xiao Hua still has the money from the auction."
Xiao Hua reminded him that she still has money from selling her Heaven-grade treasure, sothing that even she forgot about for a mont.
"Okay. We’ll use it if we really need it." Yuan nodded, no longer feeling as reluctant to use that money anymore for so reason.
Soti later, they returned to the carriage, where the driver was taking a nap.
"Hmm? Are you ready to return to the city already, esteed guests?" The driver woke up when he noticed their presence.
"Yes."
Once everyone was inside the carriage, the driver began driving the carriage back to the city.
"ixiu, what martial technique do you want? In fact, what kind of weapons do you want to use?" Yuan asked her.
"I don’t know..."
"Do you have any experience with weapons? I know you have combat experience working as a servant for the Yu Family since you’re expected to be a bodyguard as well. What did your mother teach you?" Yu Rou asked her.
"Well... Everything..." ixiu said.
"When we’re trained, we’re not just trained as servants. We also have bodyguard training as well as other things, and as the future personal servant of Yua— Yu Tian, I had to train more than the others, so I am proficient with a lot of weapons, especially guns." ixiu said.
"Wow... I didn’t know that." Yuan began seeing ixiu in a new light now.
Yu Rou chuckled and said, "Brother, ixiu is probably strong enough to beat you in a fight without any cultivation techniques or cultivation."
"Really? She’s that powerful?" Yuan’s eyes widened.
Yu Rou nodded, "I have seen her beat up people twice her size by accident once. It really widened my eyes."
ixiu blushed slightly after hearing Yu Rou’s words.
"Anyways, guns, huh? Are there any weapons in the cultivation world that resemble guns?" Yu Rou wondered.
"What’s a gun?" Xiao Hua asked.
"Well... How should I explain this? It’s a weapon that cos in many different sizes and shapes, but they all do the sa thing— shooting bullets." Yu Rou said.
However, Xiao Hua didn’t understand a word she’d just said.
ixiu then said, "Imagine a weapon that can shoot a small rock so quickly that it can pierce one’s body. Kind of like a bow and an arrow."
Xiao Hua pondered for a mont and said, "Like a slingshot?"
"Yes, sothing like that."
Xiao Hua then shook her head and said, "Xiao Hua has never seen anyone using slingshots as a weapon of choice, but there are many people who use bows and arrows."
"Bows... I have never used a bow before." ixiu said.
"What about just using your fists, ixiu? Besides guns, you should also have plenty of hand-to-hand combat," said Yu Rou.
ixiu nodded.
"Hand techniques, huh? I actually have one on right now." Yuan suddenly said.
And he asked her, "Do you want to try learning it?"
"Okay."
Yuan then retrieved the Ancient-rank technique he’d obtained from the Dragon Temple and handed it to ixiu in a casual manner. While he also wanted to learn the technique, he never really got the chance to do so, as he has been busy with cultivation in the real world shortly after leaving the Dragon Temple.
"Thank you."
After accepting the technique, she opened it.
ixiu’s eyes widened when she saw the rank of the technique, but she didn’t say anything, and she proceeded to study the technique until they returned to Seashell City a few hours later.
"How was it? Were you able to understand it?" Yuan asked her.
ixiu shook her head and said, "I think the technique is too complex for right now."
"I see... Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll find sothing suitable for you at the Myriad of Techniques." Yuan said to her after storing the technique back into his spatial ring.
"Thank you for your business." The driver said to them after dropping them off inside the city.
Yu Rou and the others began making their way back to the store to turn in their harvest.
"Welco, young lady. Hmm? You’re back already? Did you forget sothing?" The manager there asked Yu Rou when she returned much faster than he’d anticipated.
"No, I am here to hand in the horns we have hunted." Yu Rou said.
The manager raised his eyebrows upon hearing this. He can only imagine how little horns they have collected after leaving for such a short ti, but he didn’t say that to them.
"Okay. Let see how many you’ve collected. 10 gold coins each," he said a mont later.
Yu Rou then looked at Yuan and said, "Let him see them, brother."
Yuan nodded and went to look for an empty and spacious spot to dump the black horns.
Once he found the spot, he went there and began dumping out the black horns from his spatial ring.
The manager’s jaw dropped when he saw the black horns piling up into a small mountain inside his shop. In fact, he has never seen so many black horns gathered in the sa place at once before.
And the manager began worrying about whether he would be able to afford to pay them for so many black horns.
Yu Rou chuckled when she saw the manager’s reaction, as this reminded her of her first quest with Yuan when they had to gather Spirit Grass, and Xiao Hua collected so much that the manager of that store began sweating.
"Okay, that should be the last one. Please count them." Yuan said to the manager after dumping out all of the black horns.
The manager showed a crying smile before kneeling on the floor and crying out loud, "Please have rcy!"
The manager’s response imdiately dumbfounded Yuan and the others, as they didn’t know why he was crying or pleading for rcy.
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