Chapter 423 (1/2)

Chapter 423: 423

News of the battle on Compa.s.s Mountain, as well as news of Long Chen killing monastery disciples in the canyon, resounded throughout the entire secret realm .

Quite a few people ran over to confirm its veracity . Seeing the ghastly corpses, they were all horrified .

At the same time, countless criticizers came from Long Chen, believing Long Chen to have a vicious heart and ruthless methods . Having slaughtered members of the same path, he was guilty of terrible crimes .

However, such words could only be said behind his back . That was because after those two huge battles, no one dared run out and provoke Long Chen again .

They could only express their own sense of righteousness behind his back . No matter how great the rewards offered were, no one once more went to find trouble for Long Chen .

As for that hand behind the curtain that had been constantly urging people on, it had become powerless . One reason was because the matter of someone deliberately targeting Long Chen had already become common knowledge . As cultivators, just how many people were so stupid? The majority of people had already seen through what had happened .

The other reason was that while some subordinates were busy trying to instigate people to target Long Chen, most people had already entered seclusion now . So just who would bother with them?

Just how many of them truly cared about who was good and who was bad? Those subordinates were just wasting their time . In just a few months, the secret realm’s exit would finally open .

At that time, there would be a huge battle between the Righteous and Corrupt paths . Those with weak cultivation bases would all die within the secret realm .

These people all considered the first monastery, as well as Long Chen, to be acting idiotically .

Before that huge battle, they were actually busy with inner strife . If that wasn’t idiotic, then what was? So most of the Righteous path’s experts were all just sneering at Yin Wushuang’s attempt to spread her propaganda .

As for the Corrupt path’s experts, they had long since vanished into seclusion . They were focused on that final battle .

They didn’t like inner strife . If the Righteous path wanted to fight amongst themselves, then that was fine . They would focus on increasing their strength, and when the time came, they would slaughter the Righteous disciples . In the end, wouldn’t those treasures that the Righteous disciples had risked their lives for end up in their pockets anyways?

Yin Wushuang had a group of people spreading her propaganda, but everyone was already in seclusion . Just who were they spreading that propaganda to? It wasn’t as if they could just shout as loudly as possible all day . If they ended up disturbing an expert’s seclusion, they would probably be directly killed .

After trying to instigate more people for two days without any results, Yin Wushuang could only helplessly give up . Her people all went into seclusion .

So this was the calmest time of the Jiuli secret realm . Other than some brazen experts or some criminals fleeing deeper into the secret realm, essentially everyone had entered seclusion and begun tempering their bones .

As for those disciples who had come from humble origins and didn’t have Bone Tempering Pills to use, the only thing they could do was focus on increasing their cultivation base, wanting to use their realm to make up for their lack of tempered bones .

Although that wasn’t very effective, it was better than doing nothing . That final battle would have to do with everyone’s life and death . No matter how many treasures they had gained in the secret realm, if they couldn’t leave, it would still be useless .

During this time, Long Chen was still focusing day and night on refining pills . At this time, the only person guarding them was Guo Ran .

Everytime someone would furtively attempt to spy on them, Guo Ran would get rid of them with a single arrow . Those who were still focused on them at this time had to be enemies .

So Guo Ran was now like a hunter patiently waiting for rabbits to take the bait . But after killing several people, a week pa.s.sed without him making anymore harvests . He began to feel bored .

Although looking at Long Chen refine pills was something very pleasing to the eye, no matter how amazing it was to watch, after seeing it dozens or even hundreds of times a day, a person would still get tired of it .

“Boss, how much more until you finish refining?”

“Not much . Right now we already have six thousand Bone Tempering Pills . After another two days, all the medicinal ingredients will be used up,” answered Long Chen .

After refining day and night, Long Chen had acc.u.mulated more and more medicinal pills . However, the medicinal ingredients only decreased .

Some of those living medicinal ingredients had been kept within his life ring . He wasn’t planning on using them to refine pills . After all, living medicinal ingredients were a hundred times more valuable than dead ones . In the outside world, Long Chen could obtain a ma.s.sive amount of wealth from them . Furthermore, these living herbs were ones that people would fight over to buy, which would make the price skyrocket .

His life ring was packed with precious herbs, but Long Chen didn’t care whether or not they were comfortable inside . In any case, it was fine as long as they didn’t die . Even if their branches snapped or their leaves fell, even if they were on the verge of dying, it was still fine .

In any case, those things were priceless treasures in the outside world . Even half-dead herbs would be treated importantly by sects . Those sects definitely had ways for them to flourish again .

In the outside world, many precious medicinal ingredients had already gone extinct . But there were also some precious herbs that were all in the hands of certain sects and powers . They treated those precious herbs as things even more important than their wives, and sometimes they wouldn’t even let others know they had them .

Even if they were to sell them, they would only sell dried up herbs . They would rarely ever let people know they had living versions they could breed themselves .