Chapter 171: Honest Qi’s Blunder (1/2)

Chapter 171: Honest Qi’s Blunder

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Qu Jiangyuan interrupted their argument, ”Elder Jin, for something that’s not confirmed yet, it would be better not to use Heaven Seeking Palace’s or even the Dao Gate’s name to put out a bounty. Even if an outer disciple goes out to train, under unconfirmed circumstances, we can’t use the method of putting a bounty on him to get him back.”

On the inside, Jin Yu hated what Qu Jiangyuan just said. Even if he could not use Heaven Seeking Palace’s name, he would still use a bounty to catch this outer disciple back. To daringly occupy Jiuzhen’s seat in the Technique Hall, this was enough reason for him to have no mercy towards this mere outer disciple.

”Let’s disperse.” Now that they knew that this matter only involved an outer disciple, Qu Jiangyuan could not bother to say anything else. Jin Yu was very calculative, and protective of his own people, hence it would be impossible to get him to stop pursuing this matter.

The Dao Gate did not only have Jin Jiuzhen as the only genius disciple. Moreover, he did not like Jin Jiuzhen in the first place, so if he died, he died.

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After entering the desert, Mo Wuji was completely relieved; it would be impossible for anyone to find him in the endless Lost Sky Ruins. He had the shop assistant to thank for this. If it were not for the shop assistant calling out to him, he might have fallen into someone else’s trap.

However, while Honest Qi, which the shop assistant recommended, demanded quite a sizable amount of spirit stones, he could still deliver the goods, allowing Mo Wuji to find the Sky Channel Flower on his first try. From the looks of it, this was not the first time that the shop assistant introduced someone to Honest Qi’s shop, which made it more likely that the shop was legitimate…

At this point, Mo Wuji’s came to a sudden realisation. It was obviously not the first time that the shop assistant directed people to Honest Qi’s shop, and everything that Honest Qi took out were quality goods. Since this was the case, he must not have been the first person to buy the map from Honest Qi.

However, if Honest Qi’s map was so expensive, and had been sold so many times, why hadn’t it been leaked out by then? Disregarding other people, even he would have sold Honest Qi’s map to someone he knew or at least a merchant house before leaving the Lost Sky Ruins. After spending so many spirit stones, it wouldn’t make sense to use it only once.

In reality, from the shop assistant’s words, Mo Wuji could infer that Honest Qi’s map was a unique copy.

Upon reaching this point in his chain of thoughts, a shiver went down Mo Wuji’s spine. Things were very obvious now. The first possibility was that everyone Honest Qi sold maps to had fallen in the Lost Sky Ruins. If this was the case, there could only be one reason behind it: the treasures marked out on the map were located in dangerous places, and it would be difficult to survive going there.

The second possibility was that all those who bought Honest Qi’s map had obtained treasures in the Lost Sky Ruins, but when they returned, all of them disappeared. Why would they disappear? It would be because of Honest Qi.

Now Mo Wuji did not have the mood to continue running. He immediately found a pile of rock and sand, bug a hole inside, and hid.

The first thing he did was to take out Honest Qi’s map, and use his spiritual will to memorise everything on it. An hour later, the sizable map was already imprinted in Mo Wuji’s mind. Following which, he took out the small book detailing various treasures, and spent another hour writing all of it down.

After that, Mo Wuji scanned both map and book, but simply could not find any sort of imprints at all.

Mo Wuji impatiently put down both of those things, as he only knew the most basic way of manipulating spiritual will. Without any techniques for training spiritual will, it would be too difficult for him to use his spiritual will to detect imprints made by other people.

These two items were now ticking time bombs in his hands, and he had to find some way to dispose of them, best not burying them at a fixed location.

No, he had also bought a black antidote pill too.

Once he recalled this fact, Mo Wuji quickly took out the antidote pill from his storage bag. When he bought this pill previously, he did not check it in detail. But now that the pill was in his hands, he could see that this pill was not that simple.

From his observations as a pill refiner, the pill in his hand was completely spherical, and without any impurity in colour at all, indications that the pill refiner that made this pill was highly skilled.

Mo Wuji brought the pill to his nose carefully for a whiff, and shockingly he smelled a slight stench. Finally, he remembered what this pill was, and it was a rather impressive pill, definitely not only worth 30,000 Earth grade spirit stones.

When the wordless pill manual introduced Tier 7 spiritual pills, it mentioned this particular pill, called the Solitary Dark Pill. It is very difficult to concoct, and was an antidote pill. However, the Solitary Dark Pill did not counter regular poisons, but a type of nerve poison. The price of such a pill was definitely much greater than the Elementary Life Pill that Yan Qianyin used previously.

It would have been such a waste to throw such a pill away, and he could not bear to do that either. However he also dared not to keep it by his side. Honest Qi was indeed quite scary, and he really did not want to leave anything from Honest Qi by his side.