Chapter 93
"I couldn't possibly be an evil spirit. Look, this is Wang Ruhai's head, along with that bizarre skin sack on his body, all executed by my blade."
Li Jianfeng held a bloody, fleshy head and a soft, squishy skin sack in his hands.
One end of the sack drooped down, faintly revealing Wang Ruhai's features.
"Why didn't you say so earlier, Li Dao You? You made me suspect needlessly, nearly tarnishing your reputation."
"As for the code, there isn't one, really. If you had mentioned it, that would've been suspicious."
Lu Xuan sheathed his silvery-white blade, smiling.
"You're truly quick-witted, Lu Dao You."
The centipede-shaped scar on Li Jianfeng's face twitched involuntarily.
Both men cast away their suspicions and drew closer.
When they were less than a yard apart, Lu Xuan discreetly flicked his right hand's two fingers.
In an instant, a thin red needle shot out at an imperceptible speed, piercing into the left temple of Li Jianfeng, traversing his entire head, and exiting from the right temple.
A golden sword light followed, piercing into Li Jianfeng's heart, leaving a bowl-sized hole in his chest.
"Lu Dao You, what's the meaning of this?"
Blood sprayed from the chest cavity, red and white brain matter occasionally trickling from the temples. Ignoring this, a stern-faced Li Jianfeng questioned Lu Xuan.
"Even under such a severe injury, it doesn't affect you. You're truly not Li Jianfeng, Dao You!"
Lu Xuan retracted the red needle, his expression grave.
"Haha, if I'm not Li Jianfeng, who could I be?!"
"Fine, if you don't recognize Li Jianfeng, how about this?"
Li Jianfeng reached out and forcefully tore from top to bottom, shedding the skin sack to reveal a new face inside.
It was one of the plant cultivators who had come with Lu Xuan.
"And this?"
Thus, he realized that he had successfully destroyed this high-level inhabiting skin sack.
Out of caution, he swiftly took out several evil-dispelling talismans from his storage bag, allowing pure spiritual light to sweep through the entire battleground, ensuring not a trace of malevolent energy remained.
With a movement of his spiritual power, a head-sized crimson fireball landed on the sack fragments, quickly reducing them to black ash.
"You were recognizable through all the changes before, but once turned to ashes, I no longer recognize you."
Lu Xuan sighed, then approached the remains of Li Jianfeng after removing the skin sack, used the evil-dispelling talisman to incinerate his corpse into black ashes, which he collected in a jade bottle and buried beneath a crooked-neck tree.
With this, the high-level inhabiting skin sack was thoroughly dealt with.
"The outside world is too dangerous. I came out only to help the Wang family harvest and handle spirit plants, yet I encountered an invasion of evil spirits."
"Fortunately, it's been resolved without incident. I obtained five Ghost-Faced Stone Mushrooms and, hmm, Li Jianfeng's storage bag to somewhat soothe my injured soul."
Lu Xuan took out a Blood Essence Pill, swallowing it to replenish his blood energy.
The Xun-Lei Sword Pill returned to his dantian. For precaution against difficult-to-kill evil spirits, Lu Xuan had nearly expended all the sword energy accumulated in the pill during this time.
He needed to nurture it properly again for the next exchange of sword energies.
After consuming the Blood Essence Pill, his pale face gained some color. After orienting himself, he headed back towards the outskirts of the secret realm.
"With the disturbance caused by evil spirits in the Dragon Whisker Grass camp, the surviving spirit plant cultivators probably won't return."
"To avoid any unforeseen events, it's better to return to the market sooner."
"I wonder how the Grass Puppets are managing. The four Iron-Clawed Crab juveniles should still be manageable, right?"
Lu Xuan sped along the way, reminiscing about the spirit plants and beasts in his spiritual field.
Midway, he opened the storage bag he had taken from Li Jianfeng's body, finding dozens
of partially processed Dragon Whisker Grasses, unsure how many of them were normal spirit plants.
There were also some elixirs, two second-grade artifacts, over ten talismans, and over two hundred spirit stones.
There was no trace of the hefty broadsword. As for the storage bags on the other cultivators, he had no idea how the inhabiting entities handled them at that time and didn't find any.
Nevertheless, this unexpected discovery was a stroke of luck. He hadn't planned on returning to search for more storage bags. At this moment, all he wanted was to leave the secret realm and return to his courtyard.
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