Heaven-defying Phoenix

When Jiu Muli saw the object in front of him, his eyes lit up.    

What caught his eye was a small tree. It wasn't more than a foot tall, and its leaves were dark green like jade. At the top of the tree grew a fiery red fruit that was like a cherry.    

This small tree was extremely inconspicuous. It had been hidden by a large rock in the eye of the storm, and it did not emit any spirit energy. If it were not for Blacky's reminder, it would not have been noticed at all.    

"Good stuff, the Blacky is doing quite well."    

Jiu Muli nodded in satisfaction and plucked the Chiyang fruit off without hesitation.    

The Chiyang Fruit was an extremely good ingredient, although it grew in a cold and gloomy place, the fruit was not cold, and its Yin energy was positive. Once it matured, it would contain a very rich amount of Yang energy and vitality, and although it was not a spirit medicine, it was still valuable.    

"Master, I'm amazing, right? Look, I've done a great deed this time. That bamboo shoot …" Blacky rubbed his head against Jiu Muli's neck, trying to please him.    

"Come on, don't think I'm stupid. The Chiyang Fruits are all grown at the same time, once I mature, there would definitely be two of them. The last one is in your stomach, right?"    

Jiu Muli scoffed, her face had a look of disapproval, just now when she looked, she knew that there was another fruit that had been stolen by the cunning Bitch Bird.    

"We'll split the time we meet. I haven't eaten in a long time and I can't hold it in." Blacky trembled as he hurriedly tried to defend himself.    

"Then, go and search again. If you can find two more that are of similar value, then I will give you a third of the time when it comes to bamboo shoots and time." Jiu Muli immediately said in a bad mood.    

"Alright, this lowly one will go now."    

Hearing that, the Blacky became excited, and flew away without any hesitation.    

Seeing that, Jiu Muli also moved his body, and looked towards the side.    

Evil Wind Valley was not a place filled with dangers. As long as one's cultivation was above Star Spirit Stage, they could withstand the cold wind here, so there were a lot of people who came looking for treasures.    

Even though Jiu Muli had the help of the Blacky and his own speed was not slow, in the following half a day, his harvest was still not too much. Other than himself discovering one medicinal ingredient, only the Blacky had found three other decent medicinal ingredients.    

However, the value of these herbs were barely comparable to the Chiyang Fruit. As for the spirit herbs, they were never seen again.    

After searching for a long time, seeing that the harvest was not too big, Jiu Muli did not have the interest to continue digging, so he decided not to continue searching. Instead, he brought Blacky and left, rushing straight for Huangquan Mansion.    

The Huangquan Mansion was not in the territory of the Qing Yun Sect, and it ran in the opposite direction of the Songming City. It took Jiu Muli three days to reach the closest city to the Huangquan Mansion, Long Tian City.    

It was said that in the past, when the Twin Dragon City was still barren, a flood dragon had suddenly transformed into a True Dragon, trapping the dragon in the sky.    

The Huangquan Mansion was a part of the secret realm that had sunk deep into the ground and was covered by a huge barrier. Every full moon night, the ghost aura would be the strongest and the yin aura would be the densest, thus allowing the barrier to be activated.    

According to the records of the Qing Yun Sect, the Huangquan Mansion was originally built a thousand years ago by a sect. However, later on, for some reason, the entire sect completely disappeared overnight.    

Not only that, the entire Huangquan Mansion was also affected by this strange occurrence. Most cultivators who entered the Huangquan Mansion would suffer all kinds of curses, and even those with profound cultivation would sense that there was an extremely high karmic effect within it.    

The Long Tian City was remote and did not rely on any sect, so there were not many cultivators here. Most of them were rogue cultivator, making it seem like they did not care much about the city.    

"As expected, this place is truly chaotic."    

The moment Jiu Muli entered the city, he immediately felt the chaos within. There were even people brazenly killing people on the streets for their treasures;    

"Hmm? Did someone notice me? "    

At the same time, Jiu Muli was also acutely aware that there were a few auras in the dark that were constantly watching him and faintly emitting killing intent. They were obviously treating her as a fat sheep.    

"Master, someone has ill intentions."    

Blacky also detected the abnormality and reminded Jiu Muli in a low voice.    

"Yes, I know, no need to say anything!"    

Jiu Muli sneered in his heart, he could not be bothered with it, and immediately barged into a nearby restaurant.    

When the waiter saw Jiu Muli walking in, he greeted politely, "Greetings senior, may I know what you need?"    

"Do whatever you want."    

Jiu Muli laughed, he took a look around, and realised that the restaurant was open for cultivators, he immediately understood, and took out a spirit stone to pass to the waiter: "That's right, waiter, I have something to ask of you."    

The waiter saw that Jiu Muli was about to throw out a piece of spirit stone after he said that, so he couldn't help but narrow his eyes and hurriedly asked: "I wonder what senior wants to ask?"    

"Is this Long Tian City always so chaotic? And the Mayor? " Jiu Muli asked about the biggest doubt in his mind.    

No matter how bad a city was, there would always be a big boss. This type of chaotic phenomenon was definitely abnormal. This completely piqued her curiosity.    

"Is this your first time in Long Tian City?"    

The waiter was startled when he heard that, but seeing Jiu Muli nodding his head, he couldn't help but explain: "Senior, you might not know this, but our Long Tian City was originally not in a state of chaos. It's just that recently, our Mayor was ambushed by our enemies, and we couldn't even preserve our position, that's why this place is so chaotic."    

"So you're saying that someone intentionally tried to obstruct us? "Those aristocratic families?" Jiu Muli was deep in thought.    

"This, this little servant doesn't know." The waiter's eyes lit up and he let out a few hollow laughs.    

Jiu Muli understood but she did not ask any further. She was just passing by anyway, so she was not in the mood to interfere in this kind of trivial matter, and immediately asked the question she was most concerned about, "Then every time the Huangquan Mansion opened, were there many cultivators that went in?"    

"Huangquan Mansion?"    

The waiter said with a serious expression, "Senior, there aren't many. After all, they open once a month and are very easy to enter. Generally speaking, it's good to have ten or so cultivators enter every month.    

Jiu Muli nodded his head. After all, it opened once a month and was basically everyone's backyard. After a while, there were only a few people who were in the mood to enter.    

However, this way, Jiu Muli was a little worried, if there really was a Sky Blue Fruit inside, after all, Huangquan Mansion had been around for a long time, and many people must have explored every corner of it, if there really was something good, it probably wouldn't be her turn.    

There were still three days until the full moon, so Jiu Muli was not in a rush. After leaving the restaurant, she immediately prepared to find a place to temporarily cultivate for a while.    

However, when she came to the main street again, she realized that the fight just now had not ended yet. It had turned into a huge ruckus. Thirty people had gathered on both sides, confronting each other!    

Regarding this, the more Jiu Muli saw, the more he was speechless.    

Tat tat tat!    

The sound of the horses' hooves became hurried, and like a dense drum beat, they charged forward with a majestic aura coming from behind Jiu Muli.    

"Get out of the way, get the hell out of the way, or you'll be killed without question!"    

Jiu Muli turned his head and discovered that the carriage was extremely exquisite, like a small pavilion, especially when pulled by two Flood Dragon Horses.    

The Flood Dragon Horse was an existence that was not weak amongst the demonic beast, and looking at the imposing manner of these two Flood Dragon Horses, it was clear that they already had the cultivation of the Star Master Stage.    

As for the carriage driver, his expression was cold and he emitted an ice-cold killing intent. Looking at his cultivation level, he had actually already reached the peak of Star Master Stage.    

Wherever the carriage passed by, the cultivators would react quickly. The ordinary people weren't able to react in time, but the carriage driver didn't care at all. He even whipped those who reacted slowly.    

With his cultivation, even without the spiritual energy, the whip still made many people roll back ten feet. When they fell to the ground, blood flowed out of the corner of their mouth, they could not get up at all, and some of them were even seriously injured.    

Miserable screams and cries of alarm rose and fell, looking extremely cruel.    

"Who is this? How arrogant, how ruthless!"    

Jiu Muli's gaze turned slightly cold.    

In just a breath of time, the carriage was already less than three meters away from Jiu Muli.    

She didn't want to be nosy.    

"Scram!"    

"Pah!"    

Accompanying the driver's explosive shout, a snake like long whip whizzed straight towards Jiu Muli's neck.    

"I've already moved out of the way, but you still dare to attack me!"    

Jiu Muli's eyes flashed with killing intent, his body did not move, he raised his hand slightly, and fiercely flicked the tip of the whip!    

"Ding!"    

The long whip suddenly came to a halt, then it bent in an instant and fiercely curled backwards. The sharp whip coiled around the coachman's neck like a snake.    

"Hmm? "How dare you!"    

Seeing that Jiu Muli had retaliated, the coachman's eyes flashed with a cold light. With a flick of his wrist, his whip immediately stretched straight, like an iron rod, and swept towards Jiu Muli without hesitation.    

A red dot of light flashed on the whip, like a spark, suffused with an endless murderous aura.    

"How dare you! How dare you be powerless to my master, come down and accept your death!" When the parrot saw this, it cursed without the slightest hesitation.    

Jiu Muli also did not want to be outdone, so he reached out with a single palm, grabbed the long whip, and pulled fiercely!    

The driver felt an irresistible force coming from the whip, causing his entire body to sway violently.    

"Crack!"    

The carriage shook, and the coachman could no longer hold onto his whip. His expression changed slightly as he hurriedly pulled on the reins.    

"Roar!"    

The flood dragon's horse let out a long hiss and stopped in the blink of an eye.    

The carriage driver's aura skyrocketed, like a towering mountain, he shouted at Jiu Muli: "Small cultivator, how dare you disturb Miss Wan, quickly get the hell over here to receive your death!"    

"Miss Wan, I've never heard of this before, but this servant has the guts to attack me. Do you know who I am?"    

Jiu Muli's eyes flashed with killing intent, and her voice turned ice-cold.    

"That's right, don't think that just because you got such a slutty carriage you can sweep the world, ignorant fool, no matter who you are, you're dead for sure, you know, there's still your master, you can't escape, and you even caused your master to get into big trouble, or your family was exterminated. I really feel sad for your master, I feel sad for your master's mother, I feel sad for Uncle Wang who is next door to your master …"