Translator: Cinder Translations
In order to obtain more corpse path spiritual materials, Song Wen captured four more second-tier human snakes.
At this point, he had a total of seven second-tier human snakes in his possession.
Most of the second-tier human snakes in the Serpent Cave were now under his control.
To distinguish them conveniently, he assigned numbers to the human snakes.
The first human snake was the one that had already rged its essence energy.
A few days ago, Song Wen perford another corpse refining on it.
The first human snake had undergone corpse refining eleven tis.
The other human snakes had undergone corpse refining one to two tis each.
To outsiders, each corpse refining session took about three to four days.
Additionally, after each corpse refining, the recovery ti for the human snakes was roughly between twenty days to a month.
This led outsiders to mistakenly believe that Song Wen was almost refining the human snake corpses non-stop.
In reality, the ti Song Wen needed for each corpse refining session was about one day.
Most of his ti was still spent following his cultivation habits, refining and consuming blood spirit pills to enhance his cultivation.
At the sa ti, he didn't neglect his practice of alchemy.
Whenever he had free ti, he would also try to refine new second-tier pills.
Seven days later.
Song Wen encountered Zhou Siyi in the Serpent Cave.
"Junior Brother Wu, sothing has happened at Sui Mountain."
"What could happen at Sui Mountain? That place is located deep within the sect. Could Blood Sui have undergone a mutation?" Song Wen asked curiously.
His two Sacred Gu were still in the Sui Mountain formation, and hearing Zhou Siyi ntion
Sui Mountain, Song Wen was eager to know the situation there.
"My father and Teng Jingshan tried to capture the Blood Kui Beast, but they failed."
"How could they fail? Haven't they successfully captured over a dozen Blood Kui Beasts in the past thousand years? How could this ti be a failure?"
Zhou Siyi replied, "My father said they didn't even see the Blood Kui Beast's face."
"They used a large amount of blood food to feed Blood Sui, after which Blood Sui fell into a deep sleep. They thought this was a sign of Blood Sui nurturing the Blood Kui Beast."
"However, what they didn't anticipate was that they waited in the formation for a full five days. By then, Blood Sui had awakened again but still showed no sign of the Blood Kui Beast."
"The Blood Kui Beast is extrely important to the sect; failing to capture it has left my father and Teng Jingshan very frustrated."
Song Wen said, "Isn't it true that the sect has captured over a dozen Blood Kui Beasts before? Losing one shouldn't have a significant impact, right?"
Zhou Siyi responded, "These dozens or so Blood Kui Beasts were captured over the past thousand years. The Blood Kui Beast can die; currently, there are only three surviving in the
sect."
"I see." Song Wen acknowledged.
After a mont of silence, he continued to ask, "Since Blood Sui has awakened again, does it still need to continue feeding?"
"Of course, it does. Moreover, because it is nurturing the Blood Kui Beast, Blood Sui's appetite has increased."
Upon hearing this, Song Wen nodded and ceased further questioning.
Since Blood Sui needed to be fed continuously, there would be a large number of flying ships coming and going every day, providing the Sacred Gu with an opportunity to escape the formation.
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Two days later.
As Song Wen had anticipated, the two Sacred Gu crawled into his cave dwelling.
The state of the Sacred Gu was quite strange; their strength had slightly increased, and they appeared to be stuffed, even struggling to fly.
The two bugs crawled all the way to the cave.
They also emitted a peculiar aura; this aura was very faint, containing a sense of ethereal grandeur as well as a chaotic and corrupted evil sensation.
"What exactly did the Sacred Gu consu inside Blood Sui that endowed them with this strange aura?"
"What kind of being is Blood Sui? Why does it have this peculiar aura, and why must it consu the blood and flesh of living people to survive?"
Song Wen had many questions in his heart, but as long as the Sacred Gu returned alive, it was ultimately a good thing.
He stored the Sacred Gu away and continued his closed-door cultivation.
...
"Junior Brother Wu, are you there?"
A few days later, while Song Wen was cultivating, he suddenly heard Zhou Siyi's voice outside
the cave.
Song Wen ended his practice, stood up, and opened the cave's restrictions.
"Senior Sister Zhou, is there sothing you need from ?"
Zhou Siyi looked disheartened, her face filled with anger.
"I failed again at refining the human snake corpse. I had successfully done it five tis before, and if I succeeded this ti, it should have shown initial signs of the fusion of corpse
energy and life energy. But unexpectedly... sigh."
After a long sigh, she continued.
"What's more frustrating is that the human snake was eroded by corpse energy and died. All
my previous efforts went to waste, a total loss."
"I chose a human snake corpse at the eighth level of Qi Refinent, which should have been
easier to refine than a second-tier human snake. It seems I really have no talent for corpse
refining."
Seeing Zhou Siyi wallowing in self-pity, Song Wen could only speak up to comfort her with a
few kind words.
After a mont, Song Wen shifted the topic and asked.
"Senior Sister, have you co to see for sothing else in the past few days?"
Zhou Siyi reined in her emotions and spoke.
"Based on my analysis, the reason I have been failing in corpse refining repeatedly is
primarily due to my lack of understanding of the corpse refining techniques. I have only seen the set of corpse refining secret techniques in the Serpent Cave."
"Perhaps if I observe a few more corpse refining techniques and learn from various sources, I
could quickly improve my skills in corpse refining."
"I've heard that not far from East Huafang Market, there's a ghost market that sells various
magical secret techniques. I want to go take a look."
Song Wen asked, "Are you referring to the 'Mountain Stream Ghost Market'?"
TL: Previously simply translated as Ghost Market in chapter 154.
"Yeah, that's it! Have you been there?" Zhou Siyi's face suddenly brightened with surprise.
"Junior Brother Wu, could you take there? I'm worried I won't be able to enter without a guide."
Song Wen shook his head.
"I've never been there; I've just heard people ntion it. It is said that the Mountain Stream
Ghost Market is a chaotic place where snakes and dragons mix. Senior Sister, it's better not to
venture there lightly."
Hearing that Song Wen hadn't been there either, Zhou Siyi looked a bit disappointed.
Then, with wide eyes full of anticipation, she looked at Song Wen.
"Junior Brother Wu, can you accompany ? I'm a bit scared to go alone."
Having recently encountered Lan Chen in East Huafang Market, Song Wen was reluctant to easily leave the Beastmaster Sect.
After pondering for a mont, he found a suitable reason to refuse.
"Sorry, Senior Sister. I need to manage the Serpent Cave and have seven human-snakes to
refine; I really can't spare the ti. You should find soone else to go with you."
Zhou Siyi's face fell.
"But within the sect, the only friends I trust are you and Senior Brother Liu. Senior Brother Liu
is out capturing living blood food for Blood Sui. I can only seek your help."
Looking at Zhou Siyi's pitiful expression, Song Wen sighed deeply.
"Senior Sister, thank you for your trust, but it's truly inconvenient for to go out."
"If you just want to buy so corpse techniques in the black market, you don't necessarily
have to go in person."
"There are bound to be Foundation Establishnt cultivators within the sect who have
dealings with people from the black market."
"You could ask around at the Alchemy Peak and Spirit Beast Peak to have them purchase the
secret techniques for you."
(End of the Chapter)
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