out of time

Chapter 58 Give a Spirit Coin

What happened that night made Xu Qing very annoyed. He didn't want to kill people on the first day of Qixuetong, but the other party forcibly blamed him.

If it wasn't for Xu Qingxiu's sufficient base and fighting power, if someone else was replaced, his life and death would be unpredictable in this night of setting the blame.

So at this moment, his shot was extremely fast, and as his voice came out, the woman who was screaming suddenly stopped, trembling all over, but she knew the advantage of being a woman.

I also understand that for a man, a frightened woman will make people more or less pitiful, so he exaggerated his fright.

Xu Qing had no expression on his face. While chewing the last candied haws in his mouth, he walked towards the other party. At the same time, he did not forget to be vigilant about whether the other party had accomplices around him. As he walked, the passers-by around him had already distanced themselves.

Even a few of them with cultivation base wanted to intervene when they saw the woman's misery, but after noticing that Xu Qing's aura was not bad, they quickly dismissed the idea.

Seeing Xu Qing approaching, the woman who was in severe pain with her feet pierced was trembling deliberately, her forehead was filled with sweat, and she recognized Xu Qing's voice.

In fact, ever since she framed Xu Qing that day, she has been very vigilant since she noticed the other party's eyes and the fierceness of the attack. She knew very well that she had provoked a terrifying existence.

So she has been hiding for the past few days and hasn't gone out. Today, she also feels that the limelight should pass away. There is a high probability that the terrifying existence is a cross-river dragon, so she shouldn't dare to make trouble during the day.

That's why she came out, but she never expected that she would still meet the other party.

It's okay to meet her, she is confident that she can escape, after all, she is a civilian, and the inspection department is in charge of security, so she is safe under the rules.

But at this moment, looking at the figure who came to her and squatted down, she suddenly had an intuition that she was going to die here before the Inspectorate arrived.

So she fully expressed the feeling of pity as a woman in the trembling of her body and the fear in her eyes, trying to delay time.

"Stop pretending." Xu Qing squatted in front of the woman and pulled the bamboo stick out of her foot.

The severe pain and being touched by the other party made the panic in the woman's eyes real, and she also noticed that the other party was very close to her at this moment. The poisonous powder inside spilled out.

But at this moment, there was a whistling sound from the street in the distance, and a group of inspector monks who were patrolling here seemed to have noticed what happened here, and they were rushing over quickly.

The woman's eyes suddenly showed hope.

But soon, as Xu Qing took out the badge of the criminal arresting department from his body, the monks of the inspecting department turned and left without looking back. The hope in the woman's eyes was replaced by despair, and she suddenly spoke in a low voice while trembling.

"What happened last time was my fault. I am willing to make up for it. I... I know a clue to a wanted criminal!"

She didn't bargain with Xu Qing. She, who has been walking in the dark all year round, knows very well that she is not qualified to bargain with someone who is stronger than herself and can crush her. Obedience is the only way to survive.

So she didn't wait for Xu Qing to speak, and quickly gave the clue.

"The wanted criminal is Qing Yunzi, an abandoned disciple of Lingyun Sect. He has been living in Banquan Road for the past few days, which is the inn where we met last time."

"Wanted criminal?" Xu Qing took out the jade slip given by the captain, checked it and found Qing Yunzi's name, glanced at it, and it looked like the reward was twenty spirit stones.

"Also, I heard what your murderer is investigating recently, and I also know a stronghold of Yejiu." In this huge crisis, the woman did everything she could to save her life, so she hurriedly continued to speak and told The location of the stronghold.

After Xu Qing heard this, he looked at the woman meaningfully, and thought of the captain's informant, so he took out a spirit coin and handed it to her.

"There will be such clues in the future, just wait for me here."

The woman froze for a moment, hesitated for a moment, she knew the meaning of this sentence very well, quickly gritted her teeth, nodded, took the spirit coin, and limped away at a high speed under Xu Qing's watch.

Until the figure of the woman disappeared into the crowd, Xu Qing stood up. He did not verify the authenticity of the Yejiu stronghold that the other party said, he only needed to report it to the department, and someone would naturally verify it.

So after inspecting the city again, at sunset, Xu Qing went to the inn where he lived that day.

During the day, the inn is also open, but few people enter.

Xu Qing scanned from a distance, remembering the weirdness of the old man in the inn, he did not act rashly, but returned to the murder department, reported the clues he had obtained to the stronghold, and then left.

As for whether the woman would agree on the surface and disappear afterwards, Xu Qing didn't care, because she took the spirit coin, and it was...poisonous.

After three days, detoxification is required.

On the way, I met a few members of the sixth team. When they saw Xu Qing, they all glanced indifferently. They didn't speak to each other. There was only one middle-aged member who smiled and invited Xu Qing to drink with him.

The Seven Blood Pupils, who are not allowed to kill each other on the bright side, but plunder each other in secret, such an invitation was a bit abrupt, which made Xu Qing vigilant and calmly refused.

Today is a special day, he doesn't want to kill people, he wants to be alone.

In addition, he also planned to go to the pharmacy.

He wants to buy some medicinal herbs for refining Baidan, try to refine it and sell it for money, and at the same time, there are not many poisons and black pills left, which need to be replenished, and he still has more ideas about poisons, which he needs to verify.

According to the map drawn in his mind, Xu Qing soon found a pharmacy.

This pharmacy is very big, and there are many people coming and going inside, all dressed in gray Taoist robes.

Pills and other items are needed by all peak disciples.

Xu Qing's walk-in attracted some people's attention because of his handsome appearance, but most of them were swept away, and the expression would not be clearly shown on his face.

With a calm expression, Xu Qing also swept across the crowd in the store and walked towards the counter in silence.

At the counter, besides an old man who looked like a shopkeeper, there was also a little fat man.

This little fat man has an ordinary appearance, a gray Taoist robe is very tight on his body, it looks like circles, there are some freckles on his white and fat face, he looks sixteen or seventeen years old, and he is also a customer.

He was breathing heavily at the moment, putting the medicinal herbs piled up on the counter into the huge pocket that he carried with him.

There is no pattern to the movements, outsiders may not be able to see anything, but Xu Qing can tell at a glance, the other party does not understand herbal medicine.

There were some in it that couldn't be put together, and he randomly stuffed them into his pockets.

"Shopkeeper, this time the herbs are a bit short, is that all?" As Xu Qing approached, he heard the dissatisfied voice of the little fat man.

"You come here every day, and you've sold out everything. Let's do it tomorrow. Tomorrow, the goods from my boss will arrive." The shopkeeper and the little fat man are obviously very familiar. After taking out all the herbs the other party bought, he looked at Xu Qing who was coming.

"This junior, what kind of medicine do you want?"

"I need [-]-year-old sphenoid flowers, [-] golden-winged leaves, [-] delicate branches, [-]-leaf clover of any year, and [-] golden buttongrass." Xu Qing said calmly.

"There are also rhino sparks with roots, and Lingling leaves, ten each with white roots."

"I don't know if there are rotten cloud mud and black rose thorns?" After thinking about it, Xu Qing added a few snake venoms and poisonous weeds, and looked at the shopkeeper after speaking.

The shopkeeper's eyes were fixed, and he looked at Xu Qing carefully. The people he met here on weekdays were all disciples who bought pills, and occasionally some people who bought herbal medicines were mostly from the same sect of the second peak, and Ru Xiao Fatty doesn't understand anything like that.

And the young man in front of him speaks so clearly and vividly, and it is rare for him not to be a second peak monk.

Especially among the other party's medicinal herbs, most of them were what Bai Dan needed, which made the shopkeeper thoughtful, and after taking a deep look at Xu Qing, he shook his head.

"I have everything else, a total of 380 Lingcoins, but only Ningling Ye, the last one hundred copies, was bought by him. You can come over tomorrow to have the goods." The shopkeeper pointed to the little fat man who was packing.

Xu Qing nodded, although the Ningling Leaf is important, it is not bad for this day. As for the price of the herbal medicine, it is considered reasonable. If it is successful, about [-] pieces of Baidan and some poisonous powder can be refined.

Just about to buy, but at this moment, the little fat man on the side raised his head, looked at Xu Qing, and asked curiously.

"Ningling Leaf? You also want this thing. What's the use of this thing? I asked the shopkeeper several times, but he didn't tell me."

"You have to ask a lot of questions every time, and I will tell you every one of them, whether you still want to do other people's business..." The shopkeeper sighed helplessly.

Xu Qing glanced at the little fat man, thinking that he used to be so thirsty for knowledge, so he spoke softly.

"Ning Ling Leaf has two main functions. One is to catalyze other herbs to mutate in the direction you want, and the other is to nourish the skin very well."

Hearing this, the little fat man suddenly realized, he boldly took out a handful of Ningling leaves, about seven or eight, and generously placed them in front of Xu Qing.

"Thank you brother, these are for you." After the little fat man finished speaking, he picked up the bag and walked outside happily. It seemed that to him, giving some herbs to others was just a trivial matter.

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a while and was about to refuse, but the little fat man hurried out of the gate, and took out the jade slip, as if he was sending a voice transmission.

The shopkeeper on the side smiled and said.

"This little fat man is called Huang Yan. He is a disciple of the Seventh Peak. He is also an infatuated woman. I don't know which female disciple has been fascinated. He has come to me to buy herbs for many years. He is enough to be my boss, but this kid is not simple, he is so high-profile, he can still live till now."

Xu Qing took a deep look at the direction in which the little fat man was going, did not speak, and left after purchasing the remaining herbs at the pharmacy.

All the way back to the berth, after checking that there was no problem as usual, Xu Qing walked into the Fazhou and immediately opened the protection. When the protection appeared, he was relieved.

Compared with the outside world, Fazhou can give Xu Qing a sense of security. At this moment, he entered the cabin and sat down, took out the herbs he bought, put them away by category, and Bai Dan's recipe came to mind.

Although he hadn't gathered the medicinal herbs that Bai Dan needed before, Xu Qing never let up on the preparation of the medicinal pills, so now that these medicinal herbs were complete, he thought about it and began to refine.

Time passed slowly, and midnight came.

(End of this chapter)