As the saying goes, flies don't bite seamless eggs. Once there are cracks, you can always find some clues.
The major counties in the Southern Dian Kingdom actively responded to the central government's call and began to thoroughly investigate some strange events that have recently occurred in their areas.
Sure enough, some abnormal situations appeared in different places.
For example, in some counties, large families that were once prosperous suddenly declined, and all senior officials disappeared.
In some places, similar situations have occurred in the city lord's palace, and even in some small sects.
But it is strange to say that there should be more or less a reason for such a thing to happen.
And here's the problem, whether it's the big family or the city lord's mansion, they all disappeared inexplicably.
This has to make people wonder whether there is a super strong person behind all this.
If there is just a fight between ordinary families or sects that leads to destruction, a victor can always be found.
However, these things happened without beginning or end, as if these families and sects suddenly got together and disappeared together.
These investigation results all prove in one direction that there is an invisible network behind Nanding Country affecting this matter.
But the specific person who did it is currently unknown, but everyone is sure that the person who can do this is at least in the Nascent Soul stage.
Such things were not only discovered within the Nanding Kingdom, but also in the Tang Dynasty that had been destroyed.
Who on earth has so much energy and dispatches so many Nascent Soul Stage powerhouses, but only does some petty things!
What is their purpose in doing this?
So far, only some clues have been found, no substantial progress at all, and no suspicious enemies have been caught.
To put it bluntly, they are just trying to catch wind and shadow, which makes Nanding Country very uncomfortable.
And the reason why this situation is happening now has to do with the Ten Thousand Miles Transmission Note that day.
Guo Xun defeated the Blackwater Demon Sect's Demonic Cultivator Shan Yushi with his absolute crushing strength.
Shan Yushi desperately sent out the transmission talisman at the last moment of his life. It was precisely because of this transmission talisman that the Black Water Demon Sect became wary and began to restrain itself.
A long-term plan cannot be put on hold because of a small oversight. This is something the Blackwater Demon Sect will never tolerate.
It was very simple for the Blackwater Demon Sect to receive the message from Shan Yushi.
"The plan is ruined! Nanding Yuanshen takes action."
After receiving the message, the Blackwater Demon Sect immediately chose to endure in order to prevent the failure of their plan. They had been waiting for thousands of years anyway, so it might as well wait a little longer.
As a result, all the demon cultivators of the Black Water Demon Sect who were planning secretly outside were hidden, and any doubts that might be exposed were dealt with, and no further action was taken since then.
So this led to the fact that although Nanding Country found some traces, when they wanted to investigate in depth, they found that the clues were broken again, and they were still unable to follow the clues and discover the truth of the matter.
Before everything was clear, the major counties in Nanding Country were also in a state of distress.
This feeling of having a knife hanging above their heads made all the senior officials of Nanding Country feel ashamed, but there was nothing they could do about it.
Although no one has found any substantive evidence, everyone knows, or perhaps guesses, that all this was done by the demonic cultivator, and the only place where the demonic cultivator once existed was the Blackwater Dead Sea in the south.
The attitude of ordinary cultivators or humans when facing demonic cultivators is almost exactly the same as when facing monsters, or even worse.
It is still possible for monsters to be tamed, but it is completely impossible for demonic cultivators to be tamed. After all, demonic cultivators are also a group of people, but these people are cruel and murderous and cannot be treated as normal people at all.
After Nan Yueze, the lord of Shanghai City, left, Guo Xun also breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Nan Yueze completely believed what Guo Xun said.
Therefore, Guo Xun has no worries. As long as the matter does not involve merchants, he will be satisfied.
Two more days passed in a flash. Guo Xun waited and waited for Wu Xiao and the others for these two days, but did not wait for them to come back.
This incident made Guo Xun feel very bad. Wu Xiao was a Yuan Shen stage monster, so it shouldn't be very difficult to find someone special who is his own kind.
But it’s been so long, why is there no news now?
The merchant's matter has come to an end. Now that the Lord's Palace of Shanghai City has joined forces with the merchant, the merchant has once again become the master of Shanghai City.
Although he still looks a little puffy now, no one dares to look down on the merchant. After all, there is a super strong person behind the merchant.
Guo Xun didn't wait for Wu Xiao and the others to come back these days, but Guo Xun wasn't idle either. He wanted to try his best to win over the merchants before leaving.
As for how to do it, it was actually very simple. Refining a large amount of elixirs was the best way Guo Xun thought of.
In the past, Guo Xun got the recipe for the Huan Dan from his teacher Shang Wang, so Guo Xun used the Huan Dan to practice.
The result was beyond Guo Xun's expectation. With sufficient raw materials, Guo Xun was able to refine the reducing pill easily.
This gave Guo Xun great confidence. Although the restoration pill was only a recovery type pill, it was still very helpful to practice.
Guo Xun felt guilty when he thought of his teacher.
Guo Xun immersed himself in training and refined a large number of restoration pills in one breath, and finally achieved a feeling of ease.
The quality of the reduction pills refined by Guo Xun is also getting higher and higher. Top-grade reduction pills are often found, and occasionally one or two top-quality reduction pills can even be produced.
Things like restoration pills are useless to Guo Xun now, but they are like treasures to merchants.
Refining the Restoring Pill was not a challenge for Guo Xun. Later, Guo Xun found a way to obtain the recipe for the Gold-forming Pill.
Guo Xun followed the same method and refined some more gold-forming elixirs. The gold-forming elixirs were much more difficult than the restoration elixirs.
Guo Xun became a monk halfway through alchemy. It was because he had a very good foundation that he succeeded in refining the golden elixirs. However, the quality was not too high. Most of them were middle-grade pills, and occasionally there were one or two high-grade pills.
Guo Xun gave all the elixirs to the merchant, and Shang Tian was shocked beyond measure.
Things like restoration pills are extremely rare for them, and each pill costs a sky-high price.
Looking at the thousands of restoration pills that Guo Xun gave him, this was a huge sum of money!
Shang Tian didn't know what to say.
Until Shang Tian saw Guo Xun taking out other elixirs, Shang Tian couldn't bear it after seeing the elixirs clearly.
Shang Tian fell into a daze. He paused for a moment before stammering: "This, this, this! This is the Golden Pill!"
Guo Xun didn't expect Shang Tian to be so shocked, but when he thought that he had spent a lot of time to obtain the Golden Pill before, Guo Xun felt relieved.
Guo Xun has nothing to hide, so he just said that these elixirs were refined by himself and specially made for merchants. You must accept them.
Guo Xun's attitude was quite tough and he gave Shang Tian no chance to evade.
Shang Tian never dreamed that a drowned boy whom he once looked down upon would become Shang Tian's great benefactor.
Shang Tian did not publicize this matter. As the saying goes, a man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade.
If this matter is publicized, it will not be a good thing for the merchants, and it may even attract countless people's attention.
Afterwards, Guo Xun gave Shang Tian many treasures, including some skills and spiritual weapons.
After everything was explained, Guo Xun decided it was time to leave.
