Chapter 74 – What friends are

Translated by: Pumpkin

Edited by: DeviousGrief, Fumma, Earl

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“This thing ought to be alive. I reckon it should be able to be hatched, right?” Wei Suo looked at the adorable Mind Devouring Bug egg on his hand. Unable to contain himself, he asked. If this Mind Devouring Bug egg cannot be hatched, then it would also be useless to Wei Suo.

Na Lanbing looked to the high spirited Wei Suo and nodded. “We did not do anything to them after we took them from the nest. They ought to be able to be hatched. Brother Wei Suo, could it be that you’re interested in this Mind Devouring Bug egg?”

Wei Suo did not deny, he said, “That’s right, I’m pretty interested in this Mind Devouring Bug egg.”

“Since that’s the case, I have a presumptuous request. I wonder if Brother Wei Suo might be able to agree to it.” Na Lanbing slightly hesitated and then said.

Wei Suo said, “What sort of presumptuous request?”

“The amount of cultivators in this underground tomb that had intercepted us to kill us are pretty numerous. Furthermore, all of them ought to be cultivators. While we’re unable to recognize their ident.i.ty, they were no ordinary low level cultivators and instead all powerful cultivators with decent skill techniques and martial prowess.” Na Lanbing looked to Wei Suo and said. “If all of them were gathered by someone, then the person behind them ought to be someone of considerable influence. Had it not been for Brother Wei Suo, it’s certain that we would all die in this underground tomb. Thus, the items on these people naturally should all be Brother Wei Suo to have. However, I wish that Brother Wei Suo could take note of the items and inform us of what they have when you’re checking out the items that you obtained from them. It might be possible for us to discover clues from their items, so that we could avenge our friends that died today. As long as Brother Wei Suo is willing to a.s.sist us in this, we are willing to give Brother Wei Suo all the Mind Devouring Bug eggs we have.”

“How could I possibly accept that.” Wei Suo swallowed down a gulp of saliva. Informing the people from the Iron Policy exactly what these people had on them was an extremely easy a task for Wei Suo.

Na Lanbing said apologetically, “Brother Wei Suo’s great help is equivalent to saving our lives. Since Brother Wei Suo is interested in the Mind Devouring Bug eggs, they should naturally be given to you unconditionally. However, this matter is of major importance to our Iron Policy, thus, Brother Wei Suo, please forgive my rudeness.”

“No, no.” Hearing what Na Lanbing said, Wei Suo truly felt a bit awkward. After all, the Iron Policy had planned for this for a long time. Yet, after coming here to kill the Mind Devouring Bug, the result was that many of their members ended up dying and all of the good items ended up in Wei Suo’s hands. Thus, Wei Suo shook his head and said, “Informing you all of the items is a very simple task. How about this, you all have come here for the Mind Devouring Bugs to begin with. Other than this matter, I shall give you all two Mind Devouring Bugs in exchange for those Mind Devouring Bug eggs. What do you all think about that?”

“Mind Devouring Bugs?” Na Lanbing bitterly smiled. “Originally, there were someone from our Iron Policy who urgently needed several materials from the Mind Devouring Bug’s body to craft a Magical Treasure. Thus, the Mind Devouring Bugs were also extremely important to us. Since Brother Wei Suo decided, we would also not decline it. However, a single Mind Devouring Bug would suffice for us.”

“Just take two of them. After all, I have four.” While Wei Suo said those words, he was sighing in his heart. Speaking of it, Na Lanbing was not someone that he was acquainted with. However, she had been standing up for him the entire time. Now, the more courteous and modest she tried to be, the more awkward it became for him. It would appear that Wei Suo was truly not suited for the occupation of a crafty merchant.

Na Lanbing said, “Just one would do. Let’s leave this underground mound first. If Brother Wei Suo continued to be this modest, then we would find it hard to accept even a single Mind Devouring Bug.”

“Okay then.” Seeing that Na Lanbing was this decisive, Wei Suo said no more and directly took out a Mind Devouring Bug from his Treasure Receiving Pocket and gave it to Na Lanbing. While he was taking out the Mind Devouring Bug, Wei Suo had also carefully looked at it. After all, he was reluctant to give Na Lanbing the Mind Devouring Bug that contained Wen Daoge’s two bracelets in its abdomen.

“So much for two, you’re truly a miser!” This little movement that Wei Suo had made was seen by Nangong Yuqing. Nangong Yuqing immediately gave Wei Suo a side eye and then softly said to his ears.

Wei Suo laughed mischievously and pretended to not hear her. After receiving the other four Mind Devouring Bug eggs from that cyan clothed scholarly cultivator, Wei Suo took out the map and began to carefully inspect how to get out of here.

Na Lanbing took out a yellow colored Treasure Receiving Pocket that appeared to be about the same quality as the one Wei Suo used to have. She placed the corpses of the people from the Iron Policy and the group led by the gray clothed cultivator into the Treasure Receiving Pocket. She ought to be trying to see if she could figure out the origin of these people after inspecting their bodies.

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“I finally do not have to enter into a hole again!”

After over two hours, a sudden gasp sounded from one of the Cyan Wind Mound’s cave entrance.

Wei Suo, Nangong Yuqing and co. have walked out from this cave entrance.

At this moment, the sun was s.h.i.+ning high above the Cyan Wind Mound. The s.h.i.+ning sunlight had given Wei Suo a feeling of life returning to his own hands.

“Someone’s fighting?”

However, before Wei Suo could gasp some more, he heard dull explosions ringing from the forest afar. It seemed to be the sound of a certain type of skill technique or artifact continuously bombarding a defensive artifact or a defensive light cover.

Surprised, Wei Suo gazed at Nangong Yuqing, Na Lanbing and them. Then, without saying anything, the group proceeded to rapidly run toward the forest where the sound came from.

“Ye Xiaozheng, Ye Guwei?”

After they stealthily entered into the forest and saw the two parties that were fighting in the distance, Wei Suo immediately became stunned.

The two groups that were fighting was Ye Xiaozheng and Ye Guwei and a middle aged cultivator who wore a golden inlay blue robe.

This middle aged cultivator had a square-jawed face. On the left side of his face was a centipede-like knife scar that came from his cheek bone all the way down to his chin. It appeared that if the scar was a bit higher, then his left eye and nose would all be cut off. However, merely with this scar, it had caused this middle aged cultivator to appear extremely fierce looking.

Using some sort of unknown skill technique or artifact, this middle aged cultivator was flying over a hundred feet above ground. Ye Xiaozheng who was not proficient in long distance attack was simply unable to land any attack on him. As for this middle aged cultivator, he was incessantly casting wood elemental skill technique, rays of cyan light. Like numerous wooden blades, they fell from the sky toward Ye Xiaozheng and Ye Guwei nonstop.

At this moment, the light of the white light cover that covered Ye Xiaozheng and Ye Guwei seemed to be already be in disorder, it appeared that it would collapse soon.

Wei Suo immediately took a glance at the middle aged man with his Aura Determining Technique. After using it, he was immediately relieved; this middle aged scar-faced cultivator flying in the sky was only a level five Divine Sea Stage cultivator.

Wei Suo turned around and hinted with his eyes at Nangong Yuqing and Na Lanbing. After that, Na Lanbing, Nangong Yuqing and them immediately dispersed without making a sound and surrounded this scar-faced cultivator. As for Wei Suo, he openly flew out from his hiding place. At the same time, he shouted loudly, “This brother, you looked extremely cool flying in the sky like that. May I know how you accomplish that? Is it possible for you to tell me that?”

“Who is it?” The middle aged scar-faced cultivator who was originally extremely complacent was shocked and instantly turned to the sound.

“Wei Suo?” Upon seeing that it was Wei Suo who had appeared, Ye Xiaozheng and Ye Guwei were immediately met with a great pleasant surprise.

The middle aged scar-faced cultivator’s expression grew dim and said, “The Spirit Peak City’s Iron Policy is doing something here. If you wish to meddle into other’s business, you should first consider your own weight.”

“If you’re from the Iron Policy, then who are them?” Wei Suo laughed.

“You all…” Only at this moment did the middle aged cultivator discover that he had been surrounded by cultivators from all sides. His expression instantly changed.

“You’re an accomplice of that guy wearing yellow and that purple gowned old daoist, right?” Wei Suo immediately took out Wen Daoge and the purple gowned old daoist’s clothes from his Treasure Receiving Pocket. He mischievously laughed at this scar-faced cultivator who had an ugly expression. “That guy wearing yellow clothes had been sliced into two by me. I then used his body to write ‘tragic’ twice on the ground. As for this old daoist, I had filled his planted hair on him[1]. If you wish to compare yourself with that yellow clothed guy and have your body used to write ‘tragic’ on the ground or have your planted hair like that purple gowned old daoist, then you could totally try fighting us. If you do not wish to do that, then it’s best for you to stop floating so high in the air, come down here obediently and surrender.”

{[1] is described further down, the real question is who taught this to our little evil MC}

The middle aged scar-faced cultivator’s complexion had turned deathly pale. “What do you mean by planted hair?”

Wei Suo chuckled. “Planted hair, you ask? It’s just first pulling out all of your head’s hair and then creating numerous tiny holes on your body so that your hair could be planted into those holes. It was said that if the planting hair process was done well, not only would you not die, those hair would also continue to grow. At that time, your body will be filled with hair.”

The middle aged scar-faced man’s legs suddenly grew weak, he nearly fell from the sky. He glanced left and right at Wei Suo, Na Lanbing and them. Finally, he clenched his teeth and descended. “It’s not related to me, I had merely received three hundred Low Quality Spiritual Stones from Wen Daoge so that I would intercept anyone who might be trying to enter the Cyan Wind Mound.”

“Wen Daoge, you’re taking about that yellow clothed level two Heavenly Circuit Stage cultivator?” Na Lanbing looked to the middle aged scar-faced cultivator, “who exactly is he?”

“That’s right, it’s him.” The scar-faced cultivator said while trembling. “I only know that he is a cultivator from the vicinity of the Seven Stars City. As for the rest, I don’t know anything at all.”

Na Lanbing sneered. “You’re lying. Merely three hundred Low Quality Spiritual Stones, how would you possibly come here to risk your life and try to deal with us of the Iron Policy?”

“If I was to speak a single lie, then I shall be struck to death by the thunders from heaven.” The scar-faced cultivator bitterly smiled and said. ”The reason why I agreed to merely three hundred Low Quality Spiritual Stones is because he possessed some compromising information of mine.”

Na Lanbing continued to ask. “Possessed some compromising information? What are they?”

The scar-faced cultivator swallowed a gulp of saliva with some difficulty. “I had once killed a cultivator. That cultivator was someone with some background. That Wen Daoge just so happened to see me kill that cultivator. As far as I know, for the remaining people, they were either Wen Daoge’s friends or people like myself, who had been employed by him.”

“So he was actually seen killing another for their property.” Wen Suo’s mind immediately moved. “Could it be that all of the people Wen Daoge found were like that? No wonder all these cultivators were extremely malevolent and filled with killing intent whenever they attacked and possessed quite many good things on them. So it was actually because they were already accustomed to killing others to steal their properties.”

“Brother Wei, what do you think about leaving this man for us to handle?” Na Lanbing turned to Wei Suo and asked.

Wei Suo shrugged his shoulders and nodded; he didn’t have any objection.

Seeing that Wei Suo had nodded, the scar-faced cultivator immediately heaved a large sigh of relief.

“You are to allow yourself to be captured and follow us back. We have many things to investigate. If all that you have told us were true, then when we are done with our investigation, we would naturally release you unharmed.” Na Lanbing looked to the scar-faced cultivator and said, “You should also know about the reputation of our Iron Policy.”

Helpless, the scar-faced cultivator smiled bitterly. He spread out his two hands and said, “It would appear that is the only choice I have.”

“Why did you all start fighting with him here?” Seeing that Na Lanbing and them had already captured the scar-faced cultivator who had been scared witless by him, Wei Suo walked over to Ye Xiaozheng and Ye Guwei, looked to them and asked.

“We were worried about you. Thus, we came over at daybreak.” Ye Xiaozheng explained, “Merely, some people claimed that the Iron Policy is inside there killing a demonic beast and would not allow anyone else to enter into the Cyan Wind Mound. Lil’ Wei and I thought that they are definitely not people from the Iron Policy so we sneaked in. Never did we expect that we ended up being discovered by this man.”

Once he heard what Ye Xiaozheng said and saw the gentle and quiet Ye Guwei who would lower her head shyly and not dare to look at him, Wei Suo’s heart immediately felt a burst of warmth. There were people who were willing to ignore their own safety for him.