Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 157

Andersen stood up straighter and stretched, sweat running down his back.

These four blind people deserved to die, and encountering this kind of damnable person, peaceful fighting, would never have any good intentions.

All of his kind thoughts shouldn’t have been given to such a person, not a single bit.

He turned and went into the house without lighting the lamp.

The guards were four blind men, who never turned on the lights even in the darkest of nights.

Maybe from somewhere in the distance where you could see it, someone was watching to see if any lights were going on.

The moment the lights were lit up, it proved that the four blind men were already dead.

An Zhan’s reaction was one of accumulating enough experience, yet he had unwittingly saved himself once again.

As soon as An Zeng entered the room, he saw the candlestick with the help of the dim moonlight after the dark clouds had dispersed.

However, he didn’t light it up. Thus, the candle made from the poisonous substance had no way to release the poisonous gas.

The room was simple, with only a few large boxes.

After a moment of silence, An Zui did not open the few boxes.

It was because these boxes were too obvious, just like the candlesticks on the surface.

Who were those four blind people?

When they were in the Da Xi region, they had created a killing spawn that could wipe out sixteen families in a row, making them extremely greedy.

So, if these big chests really had priceless items, would the four blind people just stay here and guard them?

The four of them had probably already escaped with their belongings.

Based on their many years of hiding, even the people from the Great Xi Empire were difficult to find, so it wasn’t easy for Li Changlu to find them.

There were actually candles in the candlesticks in the four blind people’s houses. It was obviously a little strange.

The lesson of the struggle was that no matter how curious one was, they would never touch things that didn’t make sense.

Some people couldn’t help but open the crates out of curiosity even when they thought they might be bait or trap them.

Therefore, the mechanism in the box would instantly kill the person who opened the box.

He turned away from the house and did not linger a minute longer.

He was such an irrationality, but it was based on common sense.

The four blind men must have no idea where Li Changlu had hidden his things.

And, if nothing else, the four blind men must have gone through all the rooms.

he thought, and began to look around.

At this moment, he saw the not-so-large fake mountain in the courtyard.

The rockery appeared somewhat rough and was obviously newly piled up. When they came close to the rockery, An Zhe couldn’t help but laugh.

This Li Changlu was really bullying people.

It was precisely because the four could not see that he had so blatantly piled up his things in the courtyard and then piled up some stones outside.

There was a small hole behind the rockery where a person could enter with his head bowed.

The rockery was in the yard. If everything was hidden in the rockery, how did Li Changlu hide it from the blind men?

Those blind people couldn’t see it, but their senses must be extremely sensitive.

It was … An Zhe suddenly understood.

After Li Changlu had hidden his belongings in the rockery, he invited the four blind men to watch over him.

Since the arrival of these four blind men, Li Changlu had not entered the rockery once.

Each yard contained only a few things, which Li Changlu no longer looked at, so that he could ensure that the guards did not steal.

Anjou picked up a rock and threw it in, and there was a hollow echo from inside.

Then, An Zhe pushed a mass of cultivation power inside. The cultivation power slightly exploded in the fake mountain, but it didn’t cause any reaction.

Only after trying did he bend over and enter the fake mountain.

The space inside was not big. It was only about two to three meters, and it was also very low.

It was empty, and even though the light was dim, he could feel it.

Then, An Zhe suddenly reacted and couldn’t help but have a whole new level of respect for Li Changlu’s methods.

He looked around, and to the left of him, a rock stood out a little.

An Zaiyue knew that his time was limited, so he did not dare to waste too much time. He picked up the rock that was around one meter in length, put it into the Blood Pearl bracelet space, and then quickly retreated.

An Zaiyue crossed the streets and alleys, purposely circling around before returning to the Heavenly Awakening Sect.

Entering his own room, An Zhe lit up the lamp and took out the stone from the Blood Pearl bracelet.

Indeed.

An Zhan muttered to himself.

The surface of this big stone was glued together by the stone shell.

The stone shell was also known as the Jade Robe. It was a layer of stone that was wrapped around the spirit stones. It was extremely sturdy and sealed, which was why it was the stone gambling industry.

If one were to see through what was inside the jade robe, there would be no more stone gambling.

Li Changlu collected the cut off jade clothes and stuck them together once again, sealing the treasures within.

In this way, Yu Yi sealed the aura of the treasure, so no matter how sharp the senses of the four blind people were, they wouldn’t be able to detect it.

There were no stone knives, but there were plenty of good things.

He took out the Grief Sword from the space of the Blood Feather Pearl’s bracelet. This was a gift from Xu Meidao. He had traded it for the Red Luan hairpin from before the dispute had begun.

The reason why the sword was so powerful was not only because it was a purple-grade divine artifact, but also because it contained the sword intent of the creator of Skyfire Palace.

With a sad sword, Angang cut the stone again, then had to look at Li Changlu in a new light.

It must have been Li Changlu himself who had reclaimed the rock. Before the Nether Realm had attempted to assassinate the Duke of Yan and the Empress Dowager at Empyrean, the Empress Mother had said that Li Changlu’s ability at appraising treasures was extraordinary.

Whether it was glue or something else, the layers of rock were all weak, and the scent of treasure could be released from these cracks.

But Li Changlu was not using glue or ordinary things, but was using a piece of melted jade.

In other words, Li Changlu had at least one pill furnace or cauldron of a very high grade in his hands.

He would use the pill furnace or the cauldron to burn the cut jade clothes into magma and then pour them back into the furnace. This way, the stone layer would no longer have any cracks and the energy inside would not leak out.

An Zaihai’s hand was very steady, and his sword was also very sharp. The layers of stone were cut off one by one, and no one knew just how many things were hidden within such a large rock.

About ten minutes later, the stone floor was completely peeled off by An Zhe. There was an iron box inside.

An Zeng used at least another twenty minutes to clear all the stone layers. Then, he used his Dark Sword to cut open the seal on the iron chest.

An aura somewhat familiar to An Zeng was released from the box, and An Zhe instantly thought of something.

scales of saint-fish, saint-fish, saint-fish, saint-fish, saint-fish, saint-fish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish, sainfish

The first thing he saw after he opened the chest was a piece of the scales of the Sacred Fish lying quietly in the very back of the chest.

Obviously, Li Changlu didn’t know what the scales of the holy fish were, so he put them away together as if they were ordinary objects.

Actually, even until now, he still had no idea what the Sage Fish Scale was used for.

Judging from the position of the items in the box, the scale of the holy fish should not be attached to the innermost corner.

An Zhe carefully kept the scale, and unknowingly collected four.

Gu Qianye had said that the scales of the holy fish had a total of 108 scales, and they could be very useful as long as they were gathered.

Of course, this was only a legend of the Ancient Hunters.

Apart from the scales of the Sacred Fish, there were also a few spirit stones in the box.

An Xuan took a look. One of the gold spirit stones was priceless. The rest were all below the white rank. If one absorbed the spirit energy from the spirit stones, these spirit stones combined would be enough to raise his cultivation level by two levels.

Du’s thin innate talent was not good. If a cultivator with good innate talent was in the ascending realm, then a top grade gold spirit stone would be enough to allow his cultivation realm to take a big leap.

However, for Skinny Du, this gold grade spirit stone could even help him break through when he needed to.

However, for An Zaiyue, this didn’t matter. Du’s thin and weak cultivation realm was accumulated by him as he slowly piled up spirit stones during the examination.

Even if there was an existence that defied the Heavens Seal, with Du’s thin and one and a half star talent, his cultivation base would still rise a bit too slowly.

Putting away the spirit stones in the box, An Zhe realized that there was something that looked like a silk scarf inside. It had a very strong scent to it.

He took the scarf out of the box and looked at it over and over again. He discovered that at the corner of the box, there were four small and beautiful words embroidered.

Sky Flowing

It was actually this thing!

An Zaixin’s heart skipped a beat as he thought to himself, how lucky I am this time around.

In the Great Xi, there were two female cultivators who stood at a terrifying height.

One of them was the Palace Master Xu Mei-die of Heavenly Hao Palace, and the other was the pavilion master of Phoenix Pavilion, Chu Liuyun.

This magic tool that looked like a scarf was something that Chu Yun had brought with him when he was cultivating.

Chu Liuyun and Xu Mei-Di were both heaven’s pride experts. Even the magical equipment they used earlier were of extraordinary quality.

However, Li Changlu clearly didn’t know much about the situation with Da Xi, and didn’t know where the clouds came from on the horizon.

Of course, no more than ten people knew that these four small words were embroidered on the scarf.

This handkerchief had extremely strong defensive capabilities. After pondering for a moment, he should give it to Gu Qianye.

That little girl was too impatient. It would be better to have the Floating Cloud Guardian on the horizon.

The Floating Cloud on the horizon was a metallic magical artifact, but because one could not tell what material it was made of, those who did not recognize it would often underestimate its value.

Even if Li Changlu has a certain talent in appraising treasures, his lack of experience is his fatal flaw.

He had never left the Yan Kingdom, so his knowledge was still too low.

The difference between Li Changlu and An He was just like the difference between Yan Guo and Da Xi.

There weren’t many things in the box, but it was precisely because Li Changlu didn’t know the origins and ranks of these items that they were all hidden in the most secure house.

The guards for the courtyard were those who were blind, so Li Changlu considered them to be important places.

Apart from these items, there was also a small scroll.

To the appraiser, the most difficult part was the scroll.

Because it was not open, it was difficult to determine its value and significance just by what one saw from the outside.

Furthermore, scrolls were rare. Even if one was an artificer master, he or she wouldn’t be able to just casually create one.

Often, the scroll would contain the power to control space.

To cultivators, the power of space was unattainable.

Thus, as long as it was a scroll, it was extremely valuable, and had an irresistible attraction to cultivators.

Li Changlu clearly could not tell what grade and use this scroll was, so all the things that he could not understand were all stored in this box, and as a result, they were all fought over.

To be honest, there were very few things that An Zaiyue could not see through. Scrolls were one of them.

The crafting of scrolls was complicated. Not only did the best spirit stones have to be transferred into the scroll, but there were also runes masters involved in the process.

Most importantly, the runes.

There are a lot of things to argue about, but they are not sensitive to runes at all.

When he was in the Great Xi, he had wanted to study the magic characters more than once, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t make any progress.

Some people said that there were countless cultivators in this world, but the number of talisman masters was as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.

Among the hundred thousand cultivators, there might not be a single Symbol Master.

Symbol Masters obtained ancient enlightenment and cultivated ancient characters. If a cultivator had no sense towards ancient spirit energy, he would never be able to cultivate the Symbol Technique.

An Zhe had seen the scroll before, and the only time was when he was in the Da Xi region, he had personally hunted down a person who had committed a great sin.

That was also the only time he failed after he became the head of the Hall of Magic.

Just as he was about to kill that person, that person activated a scroll and disappeared in an instant. Not even a trace of his aura was left behind. There was simply no way to find out where that person had gone.

However, he didn’t know what the purpose of this scroll was.

The scales of the holy fish, the clouds on the horizon, the scrolls, these things could not be valued with money.

In comparison, that valuable gold grade spirit stone seemed rather ordinary.

He could never have imagined that a mere Eunuch of the Yan Kingdom actually managed to restrain so many things in just a few short years, and this was only one of the many mansions Li Changlu had.

Besides these items, there were also eight hundred thousand silver taels worth of banknotes. These were all banknotes from the Bank of the Great Xi’s World.

Unregistered, it could circulate throughout the world.

All in all, he had made a fortune this time around.

After he had packed his things, Anjou hid the iron box and let Old Huo melt it at dawn.

Afterwards, An Zaiyue entered the cultivation state of the Heaven Defying Seal. Nothing could stop him from becoming stronger, and nothing could prevent him from taking revenge for himself.

After daybreak, An Zhe left the banknotes for 100,000 taels of silver, then he sent Madman Qu to send the remaining 700,000 taels of silver to Zhuang Fei Fei.

The war was still raging in the south, and there were plans to use the money to resettle the refugees.

No matter how many countries fought against each other, the people still suffered in the end.

After making the arrangements, An Zhe suddenly thought of something.

In the future, these matters could not all rely on the Gathering Shang Manor. After all, it was the military, so no one could guarantee that there would be no Li Changlu.

Therefore, An Zhe immediately sent people to chase Madman Qu back. He personally brought the banknotes to find Zhong Jiuge.

The front of Zhong Jiuge’s shop was being renovated, so it probably wouldn’t take long for it to open.

Zhong Jiuge was surprised when he saw An Chou coming.

“”Boss, you’re here to patrol?””

Zhong Jiuge greeted him with a smile.

“”I’ll give you one thing. You’re going to build a shop that will be linked to your powder shop. You can be the owner.””

Half of the money made in the powder shop was used to settle refugees in the border areas of Yan Country.

“”This is seven hundred thousand taels of silver. After you build the trading company, you will personally take this seven hundred thousand taels of silver to the southern border.””

Zhong Jiuge said, “”Pay me the money. I’ll do the good. What if I become an immortal in the future?””

An Zhan shook his head. “”The heavens aren’t that blind.””

Zhong Jiuge laughed out loud. At this time, a beautiful woman walked in while swinging her waist like a willow tree. She spoke with a sweet tone, “”Little brother, your shop has not been renovated yet. It’s so annoying.””

Zhong Jiuge lowered his voice and said, “”This person is very important, it has something to do with Li Changlu.””