Chapter Sixty: The Wealth of the Dead

  Yao Buping is full of tricks, just now he killed Qian Ming with one sword, not only because of Xiao Chen's threatening and tempting words, but also secretly leaving a backhand for himself, framing Xiao Chen for Qian Ming's death. Moreover, during the day, Qian Ming accused Xiao Chen, finding an excuse for Xiao Chen to harbor resentment and retaliate against Qian Ming, which is completely established, no one will disbelieve it, and when the time comes, Xiao Chen will also be left speechless.

  Moreover, those who saw this scene were all his confidants and would not betray him. Therefore, Yao Buping felt that he also had an ace up his sleeve and planned to use it to blackmail Xiao Chen.

  "Xiao Chen, you've fallen into the Ten Days Drunkenness, everything is under my control, I am the true mastermind. You'd better think clearly." Yao Buping said.

  However, Xiao Chen just smiled faintly and ignored it, he naturally had his own confidence.

  Yao Buping thought a thousand times, ten thousand times, but he didn't think that Xiao Chen hadn't actually been drunk for ten days, but was just pretending. From the very beginning, Xiao Chen knew that Yao Buping wasn't simple.

  Seeing Xiao Chen's silence, and instead mocking him, Yao Bu Ping's face gradually turned unpleasant. Xiao Chen pretended to be stupid, causing Yao Bu Ping's patience to lose. Yao Bu Ping said in a sinister tone: "Xiao Chen, my junior brother, I advise you to speak out, otherwise, if the matter of you killing Qian Ming is made public, the consequences will be imaginable."

  "Yao Shixiong, you really know how to joke. Do you think you can intimidate me?" Xiao Chen said with a smile, not showing any tension at all.

  "Hmph... You don't have the ability to resist now. Even if you don't hand it over, I'll find it myself. But the crime of killing Qian Ming, I've pinned on your head, and I also have witnesses." Yao Buping said with a sinister tone, his so-called witnesses being his trusted subordinates.

  "Haha……Yao Shixiong, you're accusing me of poisoning, that's a serious crime! If I were to get angry, who do you think would be worse off!" Xiao Chen heard this and burst out laughing, suddenly standing up from the ground, no longer showing any signs of intoxication. He opened his mouth and spat, immediately shooting a water arrow from his mouth, which flew several meters away.

  "Yao Bu Ping saw this scene, his face suddenly turned ugly to the extreme, and in an instant he became pale. Even a fool could see that Xiao Chen was pretending, not only pretending to be stupid but also poisoning in disguise."

  Yao Buping always thought that Xiao Chen was pretending to be stupid, but he didn't know that Xiao Chen was not only pretending to be stupid, but also poisoning him. As a result, Yao Buping naturally thought that from the beginning, Xiao Chen had seen through his scheme and turned it around, using him to kill Qianming.

  What's even more deadly is that the black pot for killing Qian Ming has to be shouldered by him, and in this way, Xiao Chen breaks his supposedly trump card without being surprised or moving. He thought he had grasped Xiao Chen's handle, but didn't know that Xiao Chen suddenly turned the tables, abolished the handle, and instead grasped his small ponytail.

  "This kid is really cunning." Yao Buping's eyes flickered at this moment, his face changing color constantly, and in his heart, he felt more and more that Xiao Chen was terrifying.

  At this moment, Yao Buping began to think about how to make amends. Now he had no choice but to hold Xiao Chen down and do a perfect job of making amends to save himself.

  At this moment, Xiao Chen did not intend to continue pressuring Yao Buping, and instead left him aside, directly coming to the side of Qian Ming's corpse, squatting down, slowly searching his body.

  Before long, Xiao Chen searched the corpse of Qian Ming and found an ancient book, as well as three or four exquisite jade vials filled with elixirs.

  "I was right, this Qianming is indeed suspicious. I don't know what these things are, let's put them away for now and examine them later." The current situation wasn't suitable for examination either, so Xiao Chen flipped his hand and stored all the items in his storage ring. His expression remained calm as he said to Yao Buping: "Brother Yao, this sword of yours is truly profound, a single sword can seal one's fate!"

  Xiao Chen's words were actually a cover for his true intentions, making it seem like he was going to check on the injuries. Yao Bu Ping wouldn't think much of it, and at that moment, he was worried about how to escape, not noticing Xiao Chen's small movements. Once Xiao Chen exposed the truth about him killing Qian Ming, his troubles would be huge.

  Although Qian Ming has been expelled from the sect, one day in the sect is a disciple of the sect. Now he killed an outer door disciple, even if he was the head of the court, he would have to suffer punishment, and the punishment was very severe.

  At this moment, Yao Buping didn't care about the 'Guiyuan Dan' or the lone fire unicorn. He was now a clay Bodhisattva crossing the river, struggling to save himself, and wouldn't bother with what Xiao Chen was doing. His mind was preoccupied with thinking of ways to salvage the situation.

  When Xiao Chen said some sarcastic words, Yao Bu Ping couldn't get angry at all. His little tail was in Xiao Chen's hands, and he wanted to kill Xiao Chen to silence him. Firstly, he didn't have the ability to do so, and secondly, he also didn't have the guts.

  At this moment, he said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Chen Shidi, Shixiong was confused for a moment, maybe I got drunk..."

  Yao Buping finally chose to compromise and soften, hoping that Xiao Chen could give him a chance to start anew, hoping that Xiao Chen would treat him with leniency. However, just as he had barely finished half of his prepared words, Xiao Chen waved his hand to interrupt him.

  Xiao Chen stood up from the ground, patted his hands and said: "I think Master Yao is also drunk, definitely doesn't remember anything. I drank a lot earlier too, can't quite recall what happened either. Oh right, Master Yao, Qianming has already gone down the mountain, hasn't he?"

  Yao Buping heard this and immediately nodded his head, saying: "Right! Right! We've all had too much to drink. I think Qianming must have gone down the mountain long ago. By now, they should be at Shili Slope."

  "Hmph……" Xiao Chen sneered, his gaze at Yao Buping filled with disdain. He wasn't intentionally trying to let Yao Buping off the hook, but even if he were to expose Yao Buping's involvement in Qian Ming's death, Yao Buping wouldn't be put to death anyway. Moreover, Yao Buping had a powerful backer, so going against him would only lead to a complete falling out and force Yao Buping into a desperate situation, which was not something he wanted to do.

  So Xiao Chen simply did a favor and gave Yao Buping a way out, otherwise he would be pushed to the end of the road and wouldn't be able to squeeze out any more "oil".

  Xiao Chen continued: "Yao Shixiong, I don't know if that 'Guiyuan Dan' and the 'dog' have been found yet?"

  "Found it, found it." Yao Buping said repeatedly. Under Xiao Chen's words, he naturally understood that if he said he hadn't found it, then Xiao Chen would go and report him.

  "That's truly congratulations to Elder Yao, a long-cherished wish fulfilled." Xiao Chen said: "Right, Elder Yao, Xiao Chen still has one more thing he wants to ask for your help with."

  "Although Xiao Chen said so, Brother Danfan will definitely help if he can." Yao Buping immediately showed a heroic and generous appearance, patting his chest loudly, fearing that one misstep would displease Xiao Chen.

  "It's not a big deal, I've heard that Master Yao is as rich as a country, and his junior brother has just started out, but he's already going to the Fei Long Temple, with very little wealth on him, so I'd like to ask Master Yao to 'lend' some Huang Xuan Dan to help him out."

  Xiao Chen said slowly and calmly, rarely grasping such an opportunity, Xiao Chen would not easily let it go, naturally wanting to make a big profit, otherwise he would just let Yao Buping, this despicable and shameless person, off too easily.

  Huang Xuan Dan is a type of elixir that can suppress hunger and contains pure yang energy, making it extremely effective in healing injuries. It also has the effect of quickly recovering one's true qi. For warriors, this elixir is equivalent to ordinary people's food and money, and is considered a universal currency among the warrior community.

  It's currently in the Yunchuan Sword Sect, so the preciousness of Huangxuandan is not prominent. If it were to leave the sect and enter the secular world, buying secret books, magical artifacts and the like would require the use of Huangxuandan. As for gold coins, those things are not used by warriors, they are used by ordinary people.

  Yao Buping's teeth chattered as he spoke, "Xiao Chen is clearly making a bamboo clapper. Since it's a bamboo clapper, of course, there won't be less. I don't know how much Xiao Chen needs, but Brother Yao has been very poor lately."

  Yao Buping was so angry that he wanted to kill Xiao Chen right now, but unfortunately, he had no way to do it, and could only swallow his anger.

  "Since Master Yao is recently poor, Xiao Chen isn't someone who doesn't understand reason either. How about three thousand Yellow Mystical Pills?" Xiao Chen said casually, but in reality, he was opening his mouth very wide.

  If one were to exchange a Yellow Mystic Pill for gold, one pill would be equivalent to two taels of gold. Then, Xiao Chen's single sentence was worth three thousand taels of gold.

  If Yao Bu Ping's status were to be placed in the secular world, at most it would be equivalent to that of a small wealthy merchant. For a small wealthy merchant to take out 3000 taels of gold would absolutely be a case of bankruptcy.

  Xiao Chen just wanted to cut down Yao Buping ruthlessly, anyway he and Yao Buping would never become friends, he was not willing to befriend such a despicable person, one cut was one cut, absolutely no mercy.

  When Yao Buping heard Xiao Chen utter a single word, three thousand Yellow Mystical Pills suddenly appeared, and his entire body stumbled, his eyes turned black, and he almost fell to the ground.

  "Oh no! I'm so dead, Xiao Chen, you've killed me, and I won't be able to get out of this!" Yao Buping said in a crying tone, thinking to himself that today was really an unlucky day, running into Xiao Chen, the harbinger of doom.

  "Yao Shixiong, you've been the head of the institute for over a decade now, right? I've heard that you've accumulated quite a bit of wealth over these years. You're saying you can't take it out? It seems like you're not being very sincere. In that case, I won't be sincere either. Xiao Chen bids farewell." Xiao Chen's gaze suddenly turned sharp, looking at Yao Buping, making Yao Buping feel as if he was being pierced through.

  At the same time, Xiao Chen's tone also turned unpleasant, "Tomorrow, I'll go see Qi Changlao and will take the opportunity to 'ask after' Yao Shixiong."

  Yao Buping's face changed instantly upon hearing this, and he hastily took two steps forward to grab Xiao Chen, saying: "Xiao Chen, wait!"

  "Has Yao Shixiong arrived?" Xiao Chen asked coldly.

  "Xiao Chen, junior brother, I really don't have that much, can you make an exception? Or maybe I can exchange something else for it?" Yao Bu Ping pleaded.

  "Could it be that he doesn't have that many?" Xiao Chen thought to himself: "I don't know what he's using as collateral, but if he gives me a few of those magic swords to play with, that would be okay too."

  "I don't know what Master Yao wants to exchange for it, but don't try to cheat me with some fake goods."

  "It's not natural." Yao Buping seemed to have a chance, and he hastily said: "Xiao Chen Shidi, I have a treasure here that was given to me by a disciple who wanted to curry favor with me. How about I exchange it with you?"

  "What treasure? Xiao Chen heard this and couldn't help but laugh: "Yao Shixiong, aren't you trying to fool me? That disciple must be an outer sect disciple. What kind of treasure could he have? You might as well give me a few magic swords instead."

  "Xiao Chen, you might as well take a look and then say, its value is absolutely above that of the Fa Jian." Yao Bu Ping said with great confidence, as if he knew Xiao Chen would definitely want it after taking a look.