After two hours.
Qin Wang carefully returned to the cave from before. Looking into the distance, he muttered expectantly, "Three doses of Bewildering Beast Incense should be enough."
He had set up an hourglass thirty miles to the northwest. Judging by the time, the hourglass should have finished, igniting the Bewildering Beast Incense.
Boom! Roar!
At this moment, from the location where the jade slip was buried yesterday, the ground trembled, beasts roared, and birds flew towards the northwest, a black mass like a rolling torrent, blotting out the sky and sun. Everything in their path was trampled to pieces!
"Here's my chance!"
Qin Wang gazed at the location of the buried jade slip, his eyes filled with anticipation.
At this moment.
Not only Qin Wang, but many other cultivators from further away were also eyeing the place where the beast tide had occurred yesterday, their eyes burning with eagerness.
At this moment.
Ten miles east of Qingyun Immortal City.
A seemingly ordinary woman with a magnificent chest and a strong build, about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, in a pink dress, was watching the beast tide rush to the northwest with a frosty expression.
Next to her stood a sixty-year-old man with gray hair, wearing a blue robe.
"Third Miss, the Master is at Foundation Establishment, he should be fine!"
"He might just be in seclusion somewhere!"
The gray-haired old man in blue tried to comfort the woman in the pink dress.
"No, I sensed it. The Master has perished."
Jiang Ping shook her head, feeling very depressed.
As the Dao partner of Mu Zhen, she had refined the essence he left behind, allowing her to sense his general location. This was also a means to prevent him from escaping, which she knew well.
Her cultivation breakthrough required absorbing the essence of male cultivators to improve, but her plain appearance and strong, masculine build severely limited her progress.
Few were willing to dual cultivate with her.
Otherwise, with her enchanting physique and captivating looks, she would have reached Foundation Establishment long ago.
She had finally found Mu Zhen, who was willing to marry into her family. If she could drain him completely, she would undoubtedly reach Foundation Establishment!
But now, Mu Zhen was dead, shattering her plans completely.
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Su Hua remained silent for a moment.
He knew the Third Miss had a unique talent.
"Uncle Su, let's go over there and take a look! Since Mu Zhen has fallen, we need to retrieve his belongings. I sense several places with his presence."
Jiang Ping said indifferently.
She sensed that Mu Zhen had died in the beast tide. Now that the tide was moving northwest, she could use the sensed presence to retrieve Mu Zhen's storage bag.
"Alright."
"Let's go!"
Su Hua nodded, then took Jiang Ping and flew off on his sword.
As the beast tide moved away.
Qin Wang, with Zhao Hunyi, left the cave, concealing his cultivation at Qi Refinement fifth level. Soon, they arrived at the location where the jade slip had been buried the previous day.
Blood flowed like rivers, beast limbs piled high, some trampled into mud.
Like Qin Wang, thirty other Qi Refinement cultivators were scavenging beast corpses and materials here.
Most were mid-to-late Qi Refinement.
There were plenty of beast corpses, so there was no need to fight over them.
Qin Wang didn't pick and choose, focusing on high-value items like rhino beasts, black wild boar tusks, and poisonous fangs from snakes and spiders, putting them into his storage bag.
At this moment.
A streak of light flew from the sky. On it stood an elderly man with gray hair in a blue robe, his hands clasped behind his back, and beside him, a plain-looking, strong woman in a pink dress.
The flying sword was bright red like fire, glowing warmly.
A powerful aura belonging to a Foundation Establishment cultivator swept across the area!
"I am Su Hua, a guest elder of the Jiang family in Qingyun Immortal City. Our Third Miss needs to find something here. Please, everyone, wait aside until we are done."
The gray-haired old man in blue, with a loud voice, spoke slowly but firmly.
"Yes, Senior!"
"Yes, Senior!"
The Qi Refinement cultivators scavenging for beast corpses, seeing the arrival of a Foundation Establishment expert, didn't dare to cause trouble and retreated a hundred meters, waiting by the large rocks and trees.
Su Hua, seeing the scavengers retreat, nodded in satisfaction and said to the woman in pink. "Miss, it's clear now."
"Okay."
The woman in pink nodded and cast a spell, sending out a pink light orb, which spun in the air and finally flew towards a pile of beast corpses thirty meters away.
"Miss Jiang! The Dao partner of the Purple Cloud Elder, the fat woman from the Spirit Pill Pavilion that day!"
"Jiang Ping!"
Among the many cultivators, Qin Wang's heart skipped a beat. It seemed Jiang Ping had some special method or mark to find the Purple Cloud Elder?
He hadn't expected Jiang Ping to have a method to find the Purple Cloud Elder, and she had brought a Foundation Establishment cultivator!
"Miss Wu, the Dao partner of the Purple Cloud Elder has arrived with a Foundation Establishment cultivator, seemingly having some way to track. Can you check if there are any other traces on the storage bag?"
Qin Wang communicated with Wu Su through the Soul-locking Jade.
Though he had asked Wu Su to help remove the traces from the storage bag yesterday.
But the Purple Cloud Elder's corpse was in his storage bag. Could it be detected?
"That woman might have a special talent. Don't worry, I'll wrap the storage bag with my divine sense!"
Wu Su's voice sounded in Qin Wang's ear.
"Thank you!"
Qin Wang thanked Wu Su.
At this moment.
The pink light controlled by Jiang Ping flew around, finally landing on a severed hand thirty meters away.
"Uncle Hua, it's here."
Jiang Ping said to the elder beside her.
Su Hua nodded, swinging his sword to clear away the pile of beast corpses and dirt, revealing a large pit. The pink light orb hovered over a severed hand.
"Uncle Hua, Mu Zhen was killed by a third-rank beast. There's a third-rank beast's aura on this."
Jiang Ping's face was somber but not sad. She continued to control the pink light orb.
She and Mu Zhen were just using each other, with no real affection. The only regret was losing a good Foundation Establishment target.
Now.
She just wanted to find Mu Zhen's body and recover some losses. The storage bag was on his waist, so she had to find his body.
The pink light orb controlled by Jiang Ping searched the area within a hundred meters, finding some fragments and pieces of clothing, but no complete body of Mu Zhen.
"It seems we can't find it."
Jiang Ping looked at the beast corpses all over the place, feeling unwilling, but she waved her hand, collecting the beast corpses. Even if she couldn't find Mu Zhen's body, taking these beast corpses back could fetch some spirit stones.
As the Third Miss of the Jiang family, her storage bag was quite large.
With a wave, she collected half of the beast corpses on the site. The Foundation Establishment guardian also collected a lot. Though the surrounding loose cultivators were angry, they dared not speak out. After all, this woman was the Third Miss of the Jiang family.
"Hmm?"
"What's your name? I saw you at the Spirit Pill Pavilion the other day!"
Jiang Ping, while collecting beast corpses, paused beside Qin Wang, looking at him with surprise.
She remembered.
A few days ago, her husband Mu Zhen had looked at this little cultivator. She had also noticed him. She didn't expect to meet him here again.
From her brief understanding of Mu Zhen, he never did anything without profit. Why did he pay attention to this little cultivator?
Could it be that this little cultivator had something special?
"Third Miss, my name is Zhao Yulong."
Qin Wang looked at Jiang Ping, respectfully cupping his fists. "I did go to the Spirit Pill Pavilion the other day to buy pills."
Since she didn't know his real name, he gave a fake one.
Qingyun Immortal City was big, so the chance of running into her again was slim.
"Mm, Zhao Daoyou, you are quite handsome. Meeting twice is fate. This is my Jiang family's recommendation token. If you are interested, you can take it to the Jiang family to find me."
Jiang Ping scanned the surrounding cultivators, took out a token from her storage bag, and tossed it to Qin Wang.
This token allowed the bearer to become an outer cultivator of the Jiang family.
Under the protection of a big family, life as a cultivator was much easier.
She was curious about what made Mu Zhen notice this person, so she left an imprint on the token.
With so many cultivators around, coercing him would harm the Jiang family's reputation.