83: Chapter 83 As soon as I arrived at this market town, I discovered three problems.

Outside the market stood a cyan stone tablet.

Inscribed darkly upon the stone tablet were the four large characters for "Lingzhu Market".

Qin Muyuan glanced at the archway of Lingzhu Market and stepped down from Wangcai's back.

"Finally... Finally we've arrived!"

A trace of eager anticipation flashed through his eyes.

Although for him, who was in a state of time acceleration, rushing from Qinghua County in Huoyun Country to Lingzhu Market in Daliang Country...

was merely a matter of closing and opening his eyes.

But while in the state of time acceleration, the entire game world was undergoing changes every single moment.

According to the panel, this time acceleration directly sped things up by nearly two Kuntian, which was five days of time!

"Five days! This is five whole days!"

The killing intent in Qin Muyuan's heart gradually boiled over.

With just the blink of an eye, he had actually let the Yu Family live for another five days!

It was... simply letting them off way too easily!

Furthermore, on the Yu Family genealogy displayed on his quest panel, within these five days, two more names of Yu Family members named Yu Huaizhen and Yu Shuangjian had disappeared.

Qin Muyuan simply could not endure this.

They had agreed on slaughtering the entire Yu Family genealogy, yet two people had already left the genealogy first; wasn't this ridiculous?

It was just like playing a galge: originally there were dozens of targets you could romance, but after progressing through the game's plot, you found...

that the original romance targets were directly short by two!

Although killing two fewer people didn't have much impact, Qin Muyuan's mood value was lowered a lot by this change.

Therefore...

Qin Muyuan strode toward the entrance of Lingzhu Market—he had to kill someone to boost his mood value.

"Halt, whoever comes!"

At the entrance of Lingzhu Market, two guards dressed in dark robes and holding long swords lowered their blades, blocking Qin Muyuan's path forward.

These two guards, one tall and one short, first sized up Qin Muyuan with their eyes.

Seeing that he was a stranger and dressed plainly, unlike those aristocratic Immortal Cultivators who wore gold and jade, the tall guard withdrew his gaze a little and said:

"First time coming to the market? No wonder you don't even understand the rules."

"Every time you enter the market, unless you are a descendant of the market's aristocratic families, you need to pay one piece of spirit sand—"

Before the tall guard could finish speaking, he was pulled by the short guard behind him, interrupting his words.

The short guard pulled the tall guard, glanced at Qin Muyuan a couple more times, and said indifferently:

"Two pieces of spirit sand. To enter the market, you need to pay two pieces of spirit sand."

The short guard saw it clearly: the young man in front of him did not have the slightest aura of an Immortal Cultivator on his body.

This meant that the other party was merely a Martial Cultivator.

And as a Martial Cultivator, there was no contract mark of any Immortal Cultivator Family's warrior on his body—

What did this explain again?

It showed that he was very likely not a warrior raised by an Immortal Cultivator Family.

A Martial Cultivator who couldn't even manage to become a warrior for an Immortal Cultivator Family further showed that his cultivation was mediocre and he had no backing or reliance!

Such a Martial Cultivator without any Foundation, wasn't he the easiest target to manipulate and extort?

These Alchemists of theirs, if they went to secular countries, could naturally live a carefree and comfortable life.

Now willing to throw themselves into Lingzhu Market and condescend to serve as gatekeepers, what were they aiming for?

Nothing more than to save up more spirit sand and Spirit Stones, so as to purchase a strand of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi in the market, thereby achieving a Breakthrough from the Alchemist realm and stepping onto the path of Qi training and immortal cultivation!

Therefore, even if it was just a tiny profit, being able to scrape together one more fraction was one more fraction.

And the powerless young man before him naturally became the "lean meat" in his eyes that he must never let go.

Although it wasn't fat meat, he could still barely take a bite to taste it.

Even...

The short guard glanced at the wolf demon behind the youth.

Even if this youth didn't dare to resist, he would charge two more pieces of spirit sand for that wolf demon behind him!

The bold are stuffed to death, the timid starve to death.

When encountering a soft persimmon, you just have to squeeze it hard!

"Right! Two pieces of spirit sand!"

At this moment, the tall guard beside him also reacted. He propped his long sword down and said:

"To enter the market, you need to pay two pieces of spirit sand, and not a single one less!"

"Tch."

Qin Muyuan shook his head slightly. He extended three fingers and said:

"As soon as I arrived at this market, I discovered three problems."

"What?" The two guards frowned, not knowing what Qin Muyuan was talking about.

"First." Qin Muyuan pressed down one finger and said:

"You've grown so tall, are you planning to ambush me from above?"

Hiss, hiss!

The sea of corpses and blood flashed past like a streak of blood-red light.

The tall guard had completely no time to react; he could only vaguely see a streak of blood-red light rapidly enlarging before his eyes.

The next second, his tall and thin body suddenly shortened, and he collapsed to the ground with a thump.

Fresh blood gurgled out from his broken waist, and his life vanished instantly.

This sword strike, which killed the tall guard in a flash of lightning, made the face of the short guard beside him turn pale in an instant.

"Second." Qin Muyuan looked at the short guard and pressed down his second finger:

"You've grown so short, are you planning to ambush me from below?"

Swish!

The blood-red light lit up once more.

The short guard was instantly split in half from the middle into left and right body halves by a single sword strike.

Under Qin Muyuan's meticulous manipulation, the short guard's left half of the body, like building blocks, was stacked on top of the right half of the body.

Thus, the short guard's height instantly shot up by a large margin.

"Third."

Qin Muyuan looked toward the interior of Lingzhu Market at the other guards who had already been alerted.

Clang, clang, clang!

The ringing warning sound echoed at the entrance of the market, and countless guards of Lingzhu Market immediately gathered toward the entrance, wanting to slay Qin Muyuan who had forcefully barged into Lingzhu Market.

Seeing these guards, Qin Muyuan slowly pressed down his third finger:

"You all grew as tall as me, are you all planning to ambush me from the front?"

As his voice fell, Qin Muyuan gripped [sea of corpses and blood] tightly in his hand, and the strength and Qi and blood within his body violently circulated.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ever since his Breakthrough to the Qi and Blood Realm and completing the first transformation, the Qi and blood around his entire body had already condensed like copper paste and liquid mercury.

When his Qi and blood surged, the sound was like a great bell, rumbling endlessly.

Driven by his majestic Qi and blood, the tips of Qin Muyuan's feet slammed fiercely against the ground, his figure shooting through the air like a crimson rainbow, darting swiftly into the crowd.

Some people kill others when they are unhappy.

But some people, like Qin Muyuan, were different.

He is unhappy unless he kills people.

Therefore...

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Qin Muyuan waved his long saber, and with every slash he made, corpses were separated from heads, and blood gushed out like a fountain!

Bathed in fresh blood, Qin Muyuan could truly feel—

that his mood was indeed getting better!

A moment later...

The guard unit composed of Alchemists was completely slaughtered by Qin Muyuan in just a few saber strikes.

[Mood Value: 50 / 100 → 100 / 100]

"I'm full, but I'm still a little bit hungry..."

Qin Muyuan checked the arrows within his field of vision.

One of the arrows pointed east, while another bunch of arrows pointed west.

These arrows represented the location of every living Yu Family member on the Yu Family genealogy.

"Let's go to the place with more people first."

Qin Muyuan turned around and walked toward the west.

Walking east would only allow him to kill one Yu Family member first, and he could only draw one line on the genealogy.

But going west was different; with a single swipe, he could cross out a large area.

No matter how he thought about it, going west would let him kill his fill even more.