"Ziqing, you've only been back for a year, and you're leaving again?"

The village chief grabbed Yu Ziqing's arm, his face full of reluctance.

"Chief, you've stopped again." Yu Ziqing pointed to the chief's hand.

The chief released his hand, took out a palm-sized half-withered leaf, and pinched an embroidery needle with the other hand. The needle threaded with fine line moved up and down through the withered leaf, and the chief's right hand turned into an afterimage, constantly flying up and down.

In just a few breaths, half of the leaf's shape was already embroidered on the half-withered leaf.

Suddenly, the leaf shattered abruptly, and the thread turned into a tangled mess.

The chief sighed and put it away.

"I'm really practicing hard, and you've just been back for a year. You only advanced to the Blood Sea Realm a few days ago, and you keep saying I can't sit still or settle down."

The nonsense Yu Ziqing said earlier, the chief took seriously. To practice fine control of power, he could now embroider half a leaf on the half-withered leaf with such exaggerated hand speed.

This control over power was already quite outrageous.

Originally, Yu Ziqing just hoped he could embroider slowly, not necessarily to the point of mastering light as heavy, but at least not breaking the needles, tearing the thread, or crushing the withered leaves.

Now his hand moved so fast that no withered leaf could withstand such speed and impact.

The key was that despite such rapid speed, the half-withered leaf could still withstand a few breaths.

Yu Ziqing dared not bring up the matter now, he just said the practice was going well.

"Chief, I really have something important. I've stayed at home for a year just to keep an eye on you. You are the backbone of our village.

If not for this, I would have left three months ago."

Yesterday marked the full year since he returned to the village.

After returning to the village, he cultivated slowly, proceeding step by step, steadily and surely. A few months ago, he had already reached the Yin God Realm in refining god, and with steady effort, he finally opened all seven hundred and twenty orifices in body refinement a few days ago.

After that, naturally, he advanced to the Blood Sea Realm, without needing to make a breakthrough himself. The Qi-Blood power in the seven hundred and twenty orifices surged out automatically, opening the blood sea of the lower dantian.

Three months ago, Uncle Fu had already sent him a message, discovering the whereabouts of the White Sun Evil Cult, and at that time someone even fought with the High Priest Liu Xin.

Later, people from the Shadow Department also discovered in Dali's northern new territories that people occasionally disappeared there, and in some remote places, entire villages disappeared without a trace.

Some villages seemed to have encountered landslides on the surface, burying the entire village, but after uncovering it, no bodies were inside, all the villagers were gone.

People from the Shadow Department tried to use Magical Treasures to track them, but they couldn't, as a master had dealt with it, completely erasing the traces.

Because of this, they even killed a few junior officers who were supposed to check once a month but neglected their duties.

At that time, Yu Ziqing speculated that Liu Xin was preparing to stir up trouble again.

However, when last month, Gu Tianxin was at a gathering with a group of wealthy young ladies, they somehow talked about Uncle Fu and then somehow mentioned Qing Ziyu.

Gu Tianxin could be quite naive at times, but naive wasn't the same as stupid. After returning, she immediately told Uncle Fu.

Because in her correspondence with Cece, the name Qing Ziyu never appeared.

Whenever it did, it was always "Young Master" or "Young Master Qing."

Even Uncle Fu, when mentioning him to her, always called him Young Master Qing.

The Gu family had excellent upbringing, and directly calling someone by their full name was considered very rude behavior. Gu Tianxin naturally understood this decorum.

So, from beginning to end, she had never heard the name Qing Ziyu.

However, at that gathering, she somehow knew about Qing Ziyu, as if she had naturally told the others.

With her upbringing, mentioning Uncle Fu in such a gathering of wealthy young ladies was already the limit because Uncle Fu was someone from her household.

There was no way she would even mention the mysterious Young Master Qing, whom even Uncle Fu deeply respected. Even if she were naive, her family would have taught her what was appropriate to say outside.

So, when she realized this, she pretended to know nothing and immediately informed Uncle Fu after returning.

That night, a mansion outside the city caught fire, and several people secretly involved with the Evil Dao hidden inside were uncovered and burned alive.

Uncle Fu then particularly sent word to Yu Ziqing, informing him of these matters, warning him to be cautious as someone was searching for him, and it was also the Evil Dao.

Thus, Yu Ziqing knew for sure that the White Sun Holy Mother had descended again.

He was more impatient than I thought.

So anxious that his own tail was almost exposed.

Someone as cautious as Liu Xin had been discovered.

And to find himself, he even tried to glean information from Gu Tianxin.

The name Qing Ziyu was one he personally told the White Sun Holy Mother, and anyone related to the Evil Dao knowing this name must have been informed by the White Sun Holy Mother.

It seemed the White Sun Holy Mother truly valued the cultivation of the Hungry Ghost Dao.

It's a pity this "Gua Pi" could no longer find a second living person cultivating the Hungry Ghost Dao.

Even now, Yu Ziqing hadn't figured out how others could cultivate the Dharma Method of the Hungry Ghost Dao.

The White Sun Holy Mother wanted to find such a person; she could only find him.

Yu Ziqing feared the White Sun Holy Mother could hold her patience and not rush for revenge, hiding her hand first.

So, Yu Ziqing gave him this reason, revenge plus benefit, and he surely couldn't hold his patience.

There was simply no Dharma Method for cultivating the Hungry Ghost Dao with the human body, and if Yu Ziqing didn't say, the White Sun Holy Mother wouldn't know it didn't exist.

He would only see a ready-made successful example.

According to normal logic, naturally, there must first be a Dharma Method for someone to cultivate successfully.

This was indeed true and was the innate truth assumed by everyone. Even the cultivators skilled in research and creation first learned, only to grow new buds on substantial accumulation.

Nobody would think about, in the very beginning, how the first person to refine Qi or the first to refine god had the ready Dharma Methods or knowledge to accumulate.

The step from nothing to something was certainly first exploring a successful example, sorting it out afterwards, and forming the first Qi Refinement and first Refining God Cultivation Technique.

Clearly, no one would consider these, as no one would believe Yu Ziqing, such an "insignificant figure," was that first successful example.

After knowing Yu Ziqing came from Jinlan Mountain, they would instinctively assume Yu Ziqing found a huge opportunity and obtained the Dharma Method.

Yu Ziqing never mentioned it, letting them deduce from the existing clues.

Now, someone couldn't hold their patience, so of course, he had to stoke the fire further, absolutely preventing the other party from slowly losing hope and regaining patience.

Walking on the snow, this time, he only brought Cece and Wu Shuangge.

Er Han wanted to come along, but Yu Ziqing didn't want him to follow, and the village chief suppressed him.

The exact words were: "A body cultivator not yet at the fourth tier, going out to cause trouble, if something happens, Yu Ziqing would have to protect you, wait until you've reached the seventh tier, or beaten me first."

"Young Master, where are we headed now?"

"To Dali, Abyss Great Rift Valley, Almsgiving Town."

Yu Ziqing gazed toward the northeast direction. Leaving Jinlan Mountain and heading northeast all the way would lead to the Abyss Great Rift Valley in the northwest of Dali.

A small town had emerged there now because a town arose for the purpose of Almsgiving Hungry Ghosts.

Despite that place being almost desolate, with the will of Dali's upper echelons, and several powerful and influential figures having already visited,

Even Duke Lin of Dali had publicly appeared there, Almsgiving Hungry Ghosts.

Regardless of whether the people below knew the inside story, there was no shortage of those trend-followers.

In merely a year, Almsgiving Town had already begun to flourish, with the probability of experts appearing quite high.

And within this year, several tens of cultivators had already been killed by Dali's upper class with thunderous methods, including a seventh-tier great cultivator, obliterated publicly.

Using such ruthless, thunderous methods, the environment around Almsgiving Town was now splendid.

Anyone not blind could see how much attention Dali paid to this place.

Whoever caused trouble there would be dead.

Seeing such an environment, Yu Ziqing was willing to go there.

"We open a shop there, and then wait for people to come to us."

"Uh, open a shop?" Cece was a bit surprised. She thought about it: "Young Master, are we selling sweet rain?"

"No, a detoxification and beauty care store."

Currently, Yu Ziqing had no intention of openly selling sweet rain, firstly because his own strength wasn't enough, openly selling it would be risky, and secondly, he wanted to maintain the sweet rain's high value and scarcity.

By maintaining its high value, even if he gave it as a gift, it would be an extremely valuable present or a favor.

"Didn't Gege recently say that his cultivation for the first three tiers is complete, but he can't advance?"

"Yes, that happened..."

"His grade is closely related to his Companion Magical Treasure, and recently he said he couldn't refine poison anymore? Then we find him more people.

All cultivators are uniform, those guys, even if they're not poisoned, regularly take pills like food. Their bodies surely have accumulated a large amount of pill poison.

We can charge some money to let Gege's Companion Magical Treasure ascend while doing a good deed to detoxify them."

"Thank you, Young Master." Wu Shuangge, who had been silent on the side, quickly expressed his gratitude.

He had indeed been a bit worried because his Companion Magical Treasure couldn't advance, insufficient poison, not enough filth. He had corrupted everyone in Jinlan Village, yet it was still not enough since nobody in the village had taken any pills or been poisoned. One or two times, and there was no more poison.

The Companion Magical Treasure being stuck also stuck him, and he couldn't advance no matter what.

"The detoxification store, it's actually quite suitable."

Cece was thoughtful; her advancement wasn't troublesome. Her domain wasn't from accompanying the position of the hungry ghost; it was forcibly stripped and shoved into her by the king of hungry ghosts. Advancements for her didn't face obstacles, instead after the advancement, the Despair Abyss would improve along with it.

"Mistake, it's detoxification and beauty care!" Yu Ziqing corrected seriously with a hint of earnestness.