Chapter 383 The Devil’s Smile

“you you–“

Although Zhao Guanshan had a smile on his face and spoke in a casual tone, the woman in black still felt numb and dared not leave. If the young man in front of her was really the number one devil Zhao Chengfeng who was wanted by the five major avenues, could she still leave?

It’s over, it’s over. I’m dead.

The woman in black thought sadly in her heart, and at the same time glanced hatefully at the middle-aged woman who still didn’t know what had happened. She was still chattering, wiping her tears, talking about her brother and friends from the same village, who hadn’t returned home for more than ten years, and how sad their parents were and how they couldn’t close their eyes in peace.

Now she just wanted to spit.

Go to hell with you, you did it on purpose!

I am so unlucky. How could I have the misfortune to end up in the hiding place of the big devil.

However, then again, if Yang Ti and the others really went down the mountain from here, it seemed that this big devil would not harm ordinary mortals.

Thinking of this, the woman in black calmed herself down, ignored the middle-aged woman who was still crying, turned around and walked to Zhao Guanshan’s courtyard, knelt down respectfully and bowed.

“I am blind, please forgive me. To make up for my mistake, I am willing to stay here for the rest of my life.”

“Why?”

Zhao Guanshan thought it was very funny, but didn’t point it out.

“I know the seriousness of the matter. No matter what, I cannot guarantee that I will not leak the secret. Rather than being silenced by my seniors, I would rather stay here. It is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death!”

The woman in black gritted her teeth and decided to just go for broke. She had only one life left, so she could do whatever he wanted. This big devil was such a hypocrite.

“Are you so sure that I will kill you? There is no hatred between you and me.”

“But–“

The woman in black hesitated again, still not daring to expose it in person.

“I don’t know if I am the Zhao Chengfeng you mentioned, but I was indeed called Zhao Chengfeng for a period of time. But it really doesn’t matter. After you go down the mountain, if you want to get the bounty, you can always go to the Five Great Dao Alliance. I don’t mind.”

“why?”

“No reason. You just need to know that I don’t need to kill you to silence you. For example, those people in the village can go down the mountain at any time. They also know that my name is Zhao Chengfeng. Have I ever silenced them?”

“I, I don’t quite understand.”

“It’s okay, let’s go down the mountain.” Zhao Guanshan smiled again and ignored the woman in black. He went to the vegetable garden to weed and tend to the fruits and vegetables.

The woman in black hesitated for a moment, then tiptoed down the mountain carefully. Yang Ti’s sister and some other villagers cried and asked her to find Yang Ti and the young man who went down the mountain with her. She was so scared that she quickly avoided them and ran away.

The mountain is really not big. Zhao Guanshan’s courtyard is halfway up the mountain, and the village is between the mountainside and the foot of the mountain. You can see the desolate path at the foot of the mountain and the distant mountains in the distance at a glance. The terrain is not very complicated.

Even the fields reclaimed by the villagers are so simple.

The woman in black rushed down the mountain, her heart hanging in her throat, fearing that in the next moment an unspeakable terrifying force would blast her into pieces and destroy her soul.

As a result, nothing happened even after rushing to that mountain road.

She couldn’t help but look back. The hill was still there, the village was still there, the cultivated farmland was still there, and even the villagers were still there, including the young man who was still weeding in the vegetable garden, the big devil, and he even smiled at her.

Omg!

The black-clothed girl was so frightened that she broke out in a cold sweat. She didn’t dare to stop any longer and ran hundreds of miles in one breath. Only then did she dare to use the magical escape technique and escape thousands of miles away. Only then did she finally confirm that the big devil really kept his word and did not kill her to silence her.

“Isn’t he the wanted Zhao Chengfeng?”

“Should I claim the bounty?”

“Oh, I came here to look for ashes, but now I have found nothing and I am frightened. What bad luck!”

She had all sorts of thoughts in her mind, but she didn’t actually go to collect the bounty.

Instead, he found an information dealer who he was familiar with, trustworthy, and had dealt with several times before, and asked him about the bounties offered by the five major avenues.

Some well-informed people in the world of immortal cultivation are naturally familiar with this mysterious bounty, but no one expects to be lucky enough to meet Zhao Chengfeng.

“Why are you suddenly asking about this bounty? This is the highest bounty in the universe. We can just treat it as an anecdote.”

“Of course, but some time ago I went to the Western Wasteland to look for the legendary Spirit Ash Mine, but not only did I find nothing, I also lost a lot of my wealth. Now I am penniless, so I want to find a big business that can make me rich.”

The woman in black made up an excuse casually. It was not a sin to want to get rich overnight, and cultivators were no exception. What’s more, she was not a disciple of a famous sect. She was just a small casual cultivator who had just established his foundation. Am I not allowed to dream in broad daylight?
“Hehe, that’s true, but I advise you to forget it. Someone has done something stupid like this before. You should have heard about it. The leader was a person named Yang Ti, who went straight to the Tiandao League and made up a story that was very detailed. It is said that it even alarmed the great immortal Xiao Chengyun, but so what? There was still no follow-up.”

“But if all the stories he made up were false, how could it have alarmed such a big shot?” the woman in black asked.

“That’s true, but this matter is indeed strange. It is said that the great immortal took Yang Ti to search for three years in the Northern Wilderness, but found nothing.”

“Northern Wasteland? How did it become Northern Wasteland!”

The woman in black blinked in shock. The Western Wilderness was more than a million miles away from the Northern Wilderness.

The person opposite raised his head and glanced at her. “Huh, it seems like you know a little more than me.”

“Because the information I got said it was in the Western Wilderness, you bastard, damn it!” The woman in black cursed and then tried to cover up the truth, but the shock in her heart was indescribable.

She was sure that the hill was in the West Desert. After she came down the hill, she headed eastwards and ran thousands of miles. This was not wrong. So, either the Zhao Chengfeng she met was not the Zhao Chengfeng who was wanted.

Or that Yang Ti is not the Yang Ti here.

There are countless people in the world of immortal cultivation, and there are countless people with the same name. What’s more, Yang Ti should be just a mortal. How could he run from the Northern Wilderness millions of miles away to the territory of the Tiandao Alliance?

Oh, hey, she was really dizzy. Someone took her in with good intentions, but she actually suspected that the other person was a big devil.

Forget it, let’s just leave it at that.

After saying goodbye to the information dealer, she put the matter behind her. She was just one of the countless living beings. In order to achieve immortality and strength, she embarked on this path of cultivation. Only she knew the bitterness and hardships involved. But no matter how hard it was, she had to advance to the Golden Core Realm.

Secretly cheering herself up, she once again embarked on the tedious and dangerous journey of collecting cultivation materials, over and over again.

Everything is for the purpose of cultivating immortality.

As for the hill and the mysterious boy on the hill, she gradually forgot about them. It wasn’t intentional forgetting, but she really forgot them without realizing it.

Go into seclusion, practice, come out, accept rewards, obtain spiritual stones and materials, and then go into seclusion again.

In this way, unknowingly, more than ten years had passed, and the black-clothed woman’s cultivation level had finally been improved by her, and she finally cultivated her own golden elixir.

And because of the fighting and missions she had done over the years, she had gained quite a reputation in this area. Several small sects had sincerely invited her to become a guest elder of the sect.

After all, he is a Jindan cultivator.

Of course, these small cultivation sects are just that, they are just registered and recognized sects under the jurisdiction of the Tiandao League, and their founders are at most at the Nascent Soul stage.

After some consideration, the woman in black finally chose a small sect with good conditions in all aspects, a good reputation as the founder of the sect, a good character, considerable wealth, and quite prosperous industries in the mortal world, and became a guest elder.

She receives a generous offering every year, has her own independent cave for retreat, does not have to worry about the small matters of the sect, and has the support of the sect leader in big matters. She is only responsible for waving the flag and shouting. As long as she can advance to the Nascent Soul stage within fifty years, her lifespan can reach five hundred years.

All of a sudden, it seemed like the future was all golden.

The future is promising.

After two years of peace and tranquility, a rare mineral vein was discovered in the Western Wilderness. Under the auspices of the Tiandao Alliance, dozens of sects, large and small, got a bigger or smaller share of the spoils.

However, the benefits are different. Some large sects can get a lot of benefits just by putting forward their names, while small sects need to send people to mine and guard the mines, and work hard all year round to get a small amount of benefits.

As for the sect to which the black-clothed woman belonged, the founder of the sect acted with great courage, borrowing money, making adjustments, and doing favors, even sacrificing his reputation, and finally won the auction for a mining right.

But it is not exclusive, but is mined together with twelve other small sects.

It sounds frustrating, but this is indeed the only way for a small sect to be promoted and grow into a medium-sized sect.

Even if you can’t get too many benefits, there are still some small benefits after all, which can be used to train disciples of the sect and for your own cultivation, which is extremely good.

However, the Sect Master is the Sect Master after all and cannot go to the mine in person to protect it. As the only guest elder in the sect, she has to be responsible for this leisurely and stable job.

He flew here on a cloud boat, bringing with him twelve disciples of the sect, three hundred hired mortal miners, and three hundred mechanical beasts that could assist in mining.

It can be said that all the sect’s wealth is invested in this. If there is no profit from mining after three months, the sect will go bankrupt.

So, even though the master said that this was an easy and stable job, she was extremely attentive along the way. From every sect disciple, to every mortal miner, to every mechanical beast, she would personally inquire about it to ensure that there would not be any trouble. After all, you have to pay to hire mortals, and you also have to pay compensation if people die.

The sect’s revitalization cannot afford to fail.

In this way, we arrived safely and smoothly on the way to the barren mountain where the mine was located.

But before the rented cloud boat landed, countless demons suddenly rushed out from the mine where several sects had arrived and started mining, and the entire mountain and field was covered in blood.

Too much!
There was no way they could resist at all. Those sects were also staffed by Jindan cultivators, but they were overwhelmed in just a moment.

The good news is that their cloud boat has not landed yet.

The bad news is, demons can fly!
At this moment, her heart was cold and she was in despair. Somehow, she recalled a long-forgotten past.

It seems, it seems, that hill is nearby, right?

Wait, how could she be nearby? She had been here before when the mining rights were auctioned.

As she was thinking this, she was shocked because she really saw the hill.

It’s just a hundred miles away, but if you want to get there, you have to kill your way there.

“We have to break out from that direction. I know there is a magical mountain there that demons dare not approach.”

She roared and rushed into the control room of Yunzhou, but here, a cultivator who was also in the Jindan realm looked at her coldly.

The Yunzhou was only rented, and the owner was another medium-sized sect. The transportation business was very profitable.

They have their own Jindan monks to protect them, so why would they listen to her?

Seeing that the cloud boat was accelerating and rising into the air, trying to get rid of those flying ghosts and demons, she made up her mind and jumped out of the cloud boat.

Life or death, she had to take a gamble.

(End of this chapter)