Chapter 318: Entering the Village

Chapter 318 – Entering the Village
Not long after, the leader went and returned, followed by an old man, back to the village.

The old man’s gaze fell on Xu Chuniang, revealing a kind smile.

“I am the village chief of this village. I heard that it was you who saved my clan.”

“It was just by the way. I have nowhere to go, so I wonder if you could take me in for some time?”

On the way here, Xu Chuniang had thought about following this group of people to blend into the village first.

“Of course you can, it’s just that our village is simple, and there’s nothing we can take out for hospitality.”

A hint of hao and embarrassment flashed across the village chief’s face.

“I can take care of my own food, I just need a place to land.”

At those words, the village chief led Xu Chuniang into the village, pointing to an aged thatched hut, an apologetic look flashing across his face.

“Our village doesn’t have many empty huts, only this one is still empty.”

“No harm done.”

Xu Chuniang walked all the way to the village.

She understood that the village chief wasn’t deliberately making things difficult for her, but that the village was poor and backward, and only had such conditions.

A grateful smile appeared on the village chief’s face, “That part of your prey, I’ll have Ah Da handle it and send it in a while.”

Xu Chuniang nodded, Ah Da was the leader of the party, on the road she had heard the others call him that.

The village chief didn’t stay long, and was soon called away by the others.

Only a few half-grown children remained, looking at Xu Chuniang from afar with a curious expression in their eyes.

“A foreigner, another foreigner!”

“I heard that she saved Uncle Six and even fought a tiger!”

“Wow, this outsider is so powerful.”

The children were so far away and spoke so quietly that they thought no one could hear them.

But although Xu Chuniang had no cultivation left, the cultivator’s spiritual sense was still there, and she heard their conversation word for word.

She pushed open the door to her room without a change of color, but a thought flashed through her mind, could it be that there were other people who had come to the village before her?
The door of the room was pushed open, and a thick layer of dust was reflected in her eyes, accompanied by a faint musty smell.

Without aura, it was naturally impossible to use the Pure Dust Technique as usual.

Xu Chuniang swept her gaze around the room, picked up a broken broom from the corner, and cleaned it up unhurriedly.

Halfway through cleaning, footsteps came from outside the door.

She thought it was Ah Da coming, but in the end, when she went out to take a look, it was actually a pair of unfamiliar men and women.

After scanning the two men’s attire, Xu Chuniang’s heart was clear, she thought that they must be the outsiders that those children said had come first.

Nine times out of ten, they were also cultivators participating in this trial and happened to have been teleported to the vicinity of the village.

Seeing the broken broom in Xu Chuniang’s hands that was covered in dust and spider silk, a hint of disdain flashed in the eyes of the strange male cultivator.

However, he remembered the purpose of his trip and quickly lowered his eyelids to hide the disdain.

The female cultivator opened her mouth full of smiles and explained the purpose of her visit.

“When we heard that there were outsiders again, we knew that a fellow Daoist had entered the village, so we took the liberty of looking here. This place is very odd, there’s not half a bit of aura in the air, it’s a real headache.”

The female cultivator said, frowning a bit in distress.

“And those companions of mine are all separated, there’s no way to contact them at all. Do you have any way to contact the outside world?”

“No.”

Xu Chuniang didn’t move and took a step back, pulling away from the distance between the two.

“Well, it’s us who are interrupting.” Seeing her defenses, the two exchanged a glance and left in a sensible manner.

After the silhouettes of the two disappeared completely, Xu Chuniang reentered the house, cleaning while pondering its those two’s intentions.

She didn’t think that they had really come simply to say hello.

In this trial, other than the team that had sworn to join, the rest of the people were enemies, not friends.

Moreover, when that female cultivator approached just now, she had a not-so-comfortable feeling, like she was being watched by something.

I’m only afraid that their greetings were fake and the trial was real.

But since they hadn’t made a move, Xu Chuniang naturally wouldn’t act rashly without knowing the two men’s details.

After those two unfamiliar cultivators returned to their rooms, the kind smiles hanging on their faces instantly disappeared.

The male cultivator snorted coldly and lowered his voice, “Such a good opportunity just now, why didn’t you make a move?”

The female cultivator rolled her eyes and said with a slight anger, “Do you think I don’t want to, that woman was too alert and didn’t give me a chance.”

“There is no opportunity, then create an opportunity. The two of us dealing with a person with no aura, isn’t it a handful?”

The male cultivator was unimpressed, in this land of extinct spirits, everyone had no aura, and he was the same.

However, as a veteran in using poison, he had a lot of poison hidden all over his body, and before entering the village, he had silently gotten several cultivators killed.

And although his Daoist partner, Sinniang, was not good at using poison, the Compassion King, which was tied to her soul, was carried with her all year round.

Although the Compulsion King had similarly lost its aura after entering this land of extinct spirits, its nature as a compulsion had not disappeared.

As long as she got enough blood, she could restore the Compulsion King’s strength to one or two percent.

With this 10% to 20% strength, coupled with the poison in his body, the two of them would be able to walk horizontally in this Land of Extinct Spirits.

Sinniang, however, shook her head with a slightly condensed expression, “Just now, when approaching that female cultivator, Xiao Jin was a bit uneasy, and seemed to be quite wary of that female cultivator.”

Xiao Jin was the name of the Compassion King she had raised.

“I see.”

The male cultivator’s complexion flashed with a flash of realization, which made him understand why Sinniang refused to make a move.

To be able to make Xiao Jin, who was the Compass King, somewhat fearful, that female cultivator’s strength must not be as mediocre as her appearance.

“It’s my fault for not thinking carefully, that female cultivator will stay put for now and start with the others first.”

Sinniang naturally had no opinion, this land of extinct spirits was very unfavorable for others, but for the two of them, it was like a fish in water instead.

Xu Chuniang naturally didn’t know about the scorn this strange pair had for her, after she finished cleaning the house, Ah Da came to the door carrying processed food.

In addition to the meat, he had also thoughtfully prepared a small bag of grains, his personal thank you gift.

“Put it here.”

Xu Chuniang casually pointed to the table, watching Ah Da carefully put the things down, and spoke without thinking, “Does your village rely on hunting for its livelihood?”

Ah Da put down the food in his hands and smiled nervously, “We have a hard time growing grains here, but the mountains are inexhaustible for hunting.”

“Is your village the only one around here?”

Ah Da nodded and shook his head again.

“We’re the only village around here, but there are other villages far away that I haven’t been to. But every year when we go to the ancestral land to offer sacrifices, we can see people from other villages.”

“Rituals?”

Xu Chuniang’s heart stirred, this was the land of extinct spirits, to whom were they making sacrifices?
Realizing that he had spoken out of turn, Ah Da shut his mouth tightly in fear, refusing to say another word.

(End of chapter)