Chapter 29 - 29 Chapter 26: Taking on a Sect Alone by Oneself_1 (2/2)

That was just the beginning. Gradually, more and more villagers started to die violently, their deaths eerily similar to that of Green Demon’s uncle’s family.

The villagers then realized that the Green Demon had come to seek revenge on them.

Later, someone reported to the authorities, and the Green Demon’s sister died when she fell from the mountains while fleeing from the soldiers. It was said that the Green Demon also fell off a cliff, his whereabouts unknown.

It was seven years later, on the anniversary of the Green Demon’s sister’s death, that the villagers witnessed a truly horrifying scene. Swarms of bees appeared in the village, stinging everyone they encountered, regardless of age, and even the livestock could not escape.

After being stung, a person would not die immediately but instead green pus would ooze from their wounds, and their body would slowly turn into pus until they died, seven days later.

This method of death was even more terrifying than being slowly sliced to death.

People from the neighboring villages discovered something was wrong and entered to investigate, only to find in horror that the entire village of over two hundred people, including the chickens and dogs, had all turned into green pus.

The government sent people to investigate and suffered attacks from an unidentified swarm of bees, presenting the same symptoms as the dead villagers, with green pus oozing all over their bodies. Moreover, treatments from doctors were completely ineffective.

Among the officials, there were skilled individuals who, after inspection, believed that there must be an Insect Master controlling the situation from behind the scenes, seeking revenge on both the villagers and the authorities.

The government dispatched a large number of troops and experts into the mountains to search for the perpetrator.

They encountered endless swarms of bees, suffering heavy casualties. The leader of the local Seven-Star Sect, enraged, personally led experts from the sect into the mountain to hunt down the Green Demon lurking in the shadows. Unexpectedly, hundreds of dark green, strange bees that were immune to swords and spears, and possessed extremely strong capabilities to break defenses, flew out from beneath the cliff. The Seven Stars Sect Leader was stung by one of these strange bees, howled for seven days, and then died in violent convulsions.

This matter alarmed the higher sects, which sent out top fighters to deal with the situation, and they ultimately slew the Green Demon in a cave below the cliff.

It was said that an astonishing number of bee swarms were found beneath that cliff, endless in number.

After killing the Green Demon, the top expert from the sect left with his head as a trophy.

That cliff became forbidden territory, with woodcutters, hunters, and herb pickers daring not to come within ten miles of it, or else they would be attacked by the swarms of bees.

Master Liu, in order to appraise an Insect Control Technique, actually found out so much about the book’s author’s past experiences, which showed the rigorousness of the Supreme Sea’s book collection.

“This volume of the Green Demon’s Bee Rearing is his Insect Control Technique and breeding insights he left behind. Many people avoid his techniques like the plague because he was deemed a demonic cultivator. I personally think there’s no need for this. Whether it’s a cultivation technique or skill, neither possesses intrinsic good or evil—it depends on how one uses it after learning.”

After speaking, Master Liu nodded towards Qin Niu and left on his own.

“Ten pieces of silver money are indeed a bit expensive, but let’s buy it!”

Qin Niu had only spent five pieces of silver money on a cultivation technique, but to his surprise, acquiring an Insect Control Technique cost him ten pieces of silver money.

The price was truly not cheap.

However, the poisonous bees bred by the Green Demon were formidable enough to leave the local government helpless and even kill the leader of the Seven Star Sect, which showed that his bee-rearing techniques must be exceptional.

If he studied it carefully at home, he should be able to gain something from it.

As for challenging the entire Black Tiger Gang alone after mastering it, he, being a conscientious person, dared not entertain such thoughts.

After paying, Qin Niu left the Supreme Sea, satisfied with the two volumes of techniques he had acquired.

He still had ten pieces of silver money left and decided to buy weapons first.

If he had any money left, he would then buy a low-grade Contract Charm.

The weapon shop was located at the very back of the market square.

Nearly seventeen or eighteen weapon shops were set up here, and from a distance of more than ten meters away, one could hear the clanging sounds.

Most weapon shops had been passed down through generations.

There were also some apprentices who, after studying for ten or twenty years and mastering their skills, set up their own businesses.

Qin Niu looked at each one in turn.

Chopping knives, short swords, longswords, bows, arrows, axes, spears… all eighteen types of weapons could be found here.

There were also many exotic and rare weapons.

For example, steel hooks that could be worn on the hands, and hidden blades that could be worn on the feet, and so on.

These hidden blades were typically concealed within the soles of shoes and had a mechanism inside. During a fight, stomping forcefully would extend a hidden blade from the tip of the shoe, allowing one to kill an enemy with an unexpected strike from the foot.