Chapter 108: Chapter 97: Ascending the Tower Alone_2
The position of the bell ringer was arranged by the governnt.
However, today’s bell ringer had been replaced by mbers of the Tiger Saber Gang, and there were also mbers of the gang guarding beneath the Bell Tower.
This Bell Tower was the tallest building in Xing City, and from the top, one could almost see half of Xing City clearly. Zhang Mingze had arranged for his path to be mostly within the view of this Bell Tower, which was why he had arranged for people to be stationed here in advance to watch the entire situation with telescopes and relay information at any mont.
However, the number of people stationed here was not large; there wasn’t even a single martial artist, as this place was too far from Zhang Mingze’s convoy. If the Green-faced Ghost really intended to make a move against Zhang Mingze today, he definitely wouldn’t co here.
A few mbers of the Tiger Saber Gang were sitting at the staircase on the first floor of the clock tower playing Pai Gow.
“Ha ha ha, double heavens, I win again! Pay up, pay up!”
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One of the mbers flipped open his cards and laughed heartily.
“F*ck!”
“What kind of luck is that?”
“Did you freaking cheat?”
The rest cursed as they pulled out a few coins.
“It looks quite fun.”
Just then, a voice was heard.
The card-playing mbers were startled and turned their heads to look.
A figure appeared at the entrance of the Bell Tower, dressed in a black martial robe and wearing a green Evil Ghost Mask.
“Gre… Green-faced Ghost?!”
The faces of the mbers turned to shock.
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“Seems like there’s so noise downstairs?”
Xu Si, stationed at the top of the Bell Tower, said to his companion.
“They’re just playing Pai Gow.”
His companion cursed irritably, “Damn it, just our luck to have to stand guard up here.”
“Don’t worry, if we handle today’s task well, the Master will surely reward us.”
Xu Si said.
There were many within the Tiger Saber Gang who could fight, but not many were literate and quick-witted; Xu Si was one of them.
That was why Zhang Mingze had arranged for Xu Si to be up here in the Bell Tower, always ready to signal, with his partner supporting him.
“Really, how much of a reward?”
His companion perked up at the ntion of a reward.
“It depends on whether the Green-faced Ghost shows up today.”
Xu Si said, staring at the slowly moving convoy in the distance.
“There’s a reward if he shows up?”
“Of course.”
Xu Si replied, but right after answering, he realized sothing was wrong because the voice wasn’t his companion’s and it had co from behind.
He reacted quickly, imdiately turning around while grabbing the revolver beside him, ready to shoot.
Since they were supposed to monitor from the Bell Tower today, both he and his partner were ard with a gun.
But just as he raised his gun, his left hand, holding the gun, was seized by soone, making him completely immobilized.
Bang!
On the other side, his partner had been struck down and was now unconscious.
Xu Si’s face turned pale as he looked at the person in front of him with fearful eyes.
The person was wearing a green Evil Ghost Mask and had a chilly gaze.
The person was naturally Li Fei.
He casually snatched the revolver from Xu Si’s hand, then stepped forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Xu Si, looking towards the distant convoy.
Xu Si’s legs began to tremble as he carefully said,
“Ghost… Lord Ghost, what can I help you with?”
He was clever, knowing that since the Green-faced Ghost hadn’t killed him imdiately, he must need him for sothing.
“Lord Ghost?”
Li Fei was amused by the title.
“What thod were you planning to use to relay information?”
He asked Xu Si.
“We use flag signals.”
Xu Si pointed to two small flags on the ground.
“Many high points in the city are manned, and they communicate with each other using flag signals.”
“Quite professional.”
Li Fei remarked.
“I can help you with the flag signals, just please spare !”
Xu Si turned to beg for rcy.
“I might spare you, but would the Tiger Saber Gang?”
Li Fei looked at him.
A look of despair spread across Xu Si’s face as he gritted his teeth and said,
“It’s better than dying right now!”
“Alright, you signal with flags for later, and I’ll spare your life.”
Li Fei said.
“Yes! Thank you, Evil Ghost!”
Xu Si quickly bowed in gratitude, but doubts arose in his heart:
The Green-faced Ghost was alone, even if he used him to signal and move the Tiger Saber Gang from afar, he couldn’t possibly rush over to kill them.
Could it be that he could fly?
However, these doubts Xu Si naturally didn’t dare to voice; he just wanted to stay alive.
But Li Fei didn’t imdiately have Xu Si signal with flags; instead, he stood quietly on top of the building, looking off into the distance.
After a mont, Li Fei took an elixir from his bosom.
“Turn around.”
Li Fei said.
Xu Si was startled but quickly understood and swiftly turned his back to Li Fei.
Li Fei lifted his mask and pulled up the hood below, exposing his mouth before ingesting the elixir.
This elixir was not for cultivation but was a poison—Nether Spring—that he had successfully concocted recently.
Nether Spring poison ca from the leader of “Wolf Pack” and included a guidebook on poison-making.
After getting his hands on it, Li Fei had studied it night after night, putting in the effort he once did for his college entrance exams, and eventually succeeded in concocting a new type of Nether Spring that satisfied him.
The Wolf Pack leader’s Nether Spring poison was liquid and could only be used to coat weapons to harm enemies, a thod that Li Fei wasn’t too satisfied with; he wanted to create a legendary, colorless, odorless gaseous poison.
But this kind of poison was very difficult to concoct, and Li Fei used up all the Nether Spring poison he had without successful experintation.
The reason he didn’t use poison when he killed Zhang Mingze was that he had run out of poison by that ti.
Later, he slowly gathered raw materials and, following the guidebook written by the Wolf Pack’s boss, recrafted Nether Spring poison.
This ti, he changed his approach, not pursuing the colorless, odorless gas, and eventually managed to concoct two types of poison.
One of these was the poison pill he had just ingested, a slow-acting poison whose initial effects weren’t very strong, but with ti, the toxicity would progressively worsen, making a person feel increasingly ill.
Li Fei could use this poison to threaten others and also to accelerate the upgrading of the Myriad Blood Pearl!
He had thoroughly researched the principle behind the Myriad Blood Pearl’s upgrade, the core aspect being “absorption of external damaging energy.”
Hence, harming oneself couldn’t provide energy to the Myriad Blood Pearl; the energy had to be external and harmful to oneself.
Food, elixirs, and external forces like blows, arrows, bullets, Innate Qi, etc., all could be sources of energy for the Myriad Blood Pearl.
Li Fei found that most of the energy in Martial Arts Cultivation elixirs beneficial, ant to improve the body and strengthen implants, and what the Myriad Blood Pearl could absorb was the energy harmful to the body.
So, he decided to take an opposite approach: since Martial Arts Cultivation elixirs were mostly beneficial, he directly ingested poison, which naturally contains more harmful energy.
The Nether Spring poison pills he had refined provided more than 50% more harmful energy than the original liquid version!
After successfully concocting it, Li Fei took several pills daily to speed up the upgrade of the Myriad Blood Pearl.
On the Bell Tower, after taking a Nether Spring poison pill, Li Fei checked the status of the Myriad Blood Pearl inside his body:
[Rank: 8 Level 99%
Blood Soul: 85 pieces 96%
Blood Soul Skill: Blood Rage, Blood Slaughter]
In the last few days, by taking the poison, the Myriad Blood Pearl had absorbed a lot of energy, and now it was just 1% away from the next upgrade!
According to his previous ‘poisoning records,’ after the full effect of a Nether Spring poison pill, it would provide about 5% of energy to Li Fei.
Thus, after taking a new poison pill, Li Fei just needed to quietly wait for the upgrade.
And what he was waiting for wasn’t just the upgrade of the Myriad Blood Pearl.
At one mont, suddenly a signal flare rose near the distant convoy.
The fireworks exploded in the air, visible to half the city.
Li Fei picked up the telescope beside him and took a look, then handed it to Xu Si:
“Take a look.”
Xu Si was taken aback, took the telescope, and looked towards where the signal flare had risen, his eyes widening in shock.
He saw a person in a black Martial robe, also wearing a green Evil Ghost mask, engaging with the Tiger Saber Gang!
“This…”
Xu Si put down the telescope, looking at Li Fei beside him in astonishnt.
If that person over there is the Green-faced Ghost, then who are you?
“What are you staring at? The Green-faced Ghost has appeared, hurry up and signal.”
Li Fei said.
“Ah? Yes, yes!”
Xu Si quickly picked up two flags from the ground, and then, leaning half his body over the railing, began signaling with the flags.
After finishing the signals, Xu Si turned around and saw Li Fei holding two cards.
He had casually taken them from downstairs just now.
“Ask you a question, what are these cards?”
Li Fei showed Xu Si the cards in his hand.
Xu Si was taken aback, unconsciously saying:
“Ding three paired with two and four, Supre Treasure, kills all!”
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