Chapter 10: New Clothes
March season, although the earth warmed up, but still some cold.
If just out of the forbidden zone, for such cold will not feel anything, but if outside for a long time, the body will still feel this silk into the bones of the cold.
Especially at night, this icy cold was a bit heavier.
As the cold wind blew by, Xu Qing's figure didn't pause for a moment, only wrapping the fur coat around his body a little tighter.
He still had things left to do, so he carefully traveled through the camp in the night.
On the way, he saw some wild dogs that bared their teeth at him, but after meeting his gaze, they seemed to notice the bloody odor on his body and shut up and hid.
Xu Qing moved his gaze away from the wild dogs and continued to move forward.
Until he reached a house in the Central Region, he squatted in the gloom and didn't move a muscle, gazing at a large house in the distance.
There was an extinguished bonfire there.
Xu Qing remembered that Fat Mountain, who had separated from Ma Si, had gone here, so he wanted to wait and see if the other party would get up at night and go out.
Icy coldness invaded his entire body, but Xu Qing's figure was as if he was petrified, fixed there, not moving at all, waiting patiently.
Behind him, on the roof of a building, at this moment, the Seventh Master and his servant also followed him over, looking at Xu Qing squatting over there, the Seventh Master smiled.
"Just as I expected, this little wolf cub is trying to catch up with the rhythm."
"Old me is now looking forward to what this brat will do there if he enters the restricted area next to him." The Seventh Master crouched down as he did, watching with interest while talking to the servant beside him.
The servant contained a smile as he squatted next to the seventh master, sizing up Xu Qing in the distance.
As he watched the time pass and half an hour passed, Xu Qing's brows furrowed slightly.
After he thought about it, he turned around and left along the shadows, his entire person like a ghost, coming and going without a sound.
Instead of immediately returning to the Thunder Team's residence, he circled around the neighborhood.
Only after determining that no one was following, did Xu Qing drill into Team Lei's courtyard with a swing, returning to his hut without a sound.
After entering, he took a deep breath and rubbed his hands together, seemingly to dispel the cold in his body with the help of this action.
He then wiped the blood from his body before sitting cross-legged on the bedpan, his eyes showing thought.
"All of these scavengers need to pick up work and go out from time to time, and Ma Si is horny, so as long as it's not too long ago, no one should notice his death, and the probability is that Fatty Mountain won't be alerted by it either."
"But for the sake of being safe, it's still better to take out Fat Mountain as soon as possible." Xu Qing narrowed his eyes.
Like when he had killed the crippled ox, he, who had grown up in the slums, did not allow hidden dangers that threatened his life to be around him.
Killing Ma Si was due to the other party robbing his items and threatening them, preparing to deal with Fat Mountain was also for the same reason.
After pondering Xu Qing rummaged through Ma Si's belongings from his leather pouch and scrutinized them.
Mostly miscellaneous items, there was also a palm-sized iron block, nothing out of the ordinary, like a material.
Other than that, there were more than seventy spirit coins, which was already a huge amount of money for Xu Qing.
He carefully counted them, and took out the white dan, and after comparing his white dan with Ma Si's, he realized that these white dan were all of an unfresh texture.
So in his heart, he believed in the grocery store shopkeeper's words by seven points.
After thinking for a while, Xu Qing took out one and placed it on his mouth and swallowed it, then closed his eyes to silently feel it.
Soon enough, he felt a warm current rising within his body, eventually converging on the alienation point of his left arm, flooding him with a sense of comfort.
After a long time, when the feeling disappeared, Xu Qing opened his eyes and immediately looked at his left arm, where the two alienation points faded slightly, and the tingling sensation was also a little less.
"It's working." Xu Qing's eyes showed joy as he took out a second one and swallowed it.
The same sensation continued to surface until it dissipated again, and his tingling sensation disappeared.
A clear and spiritual feeling rose throughout his body, very comfortable, as if his blood and flesh had been washed, causing Xu Qing to feel as if his speed and strength had gotten a little stronger.
The rest of the white dan, he didn't continue to take, placing it inside his leather pouch, closing his eyes and starting to cultivate.
The night was silent.
Early the next morning, Xu Qing opened his eyes and got up to go out.
Just as he pushed open the door of the house, he saw Team Lei in the courtyard, cross-legged, as if he was exhaling.
Xu Qing didn't bother, gently opening the door to the courtyard and carefully closing it again before stepping away.
Today's wind seems to be colder than last night, blowing on the body not only makes people shiver, and even those wild dogs, are shrinking in the hole rarely go out.
Xu Qing could see the fog appearing between his breaths, which brought back some bad memories of his time in the slums to his mind.
He hated the cold.
Because the cold was a calamity for a homeless child who lived in the wind and needed to struggle hard to survive.
Therefore, Xu Qing, who was passing by a clothing store in this freezing cold, couldn't help but pause in his footsteps and look at the thick and clean clothes hanging in the store.
He touched his bulging leather bag, turned around and walked in.
There weren't many people within the store, and Xu Qing came in to look towards the hanging clothes, looking very carefully.
At a side cabinet, the shopkeeper swept Xu Qing a glance, not caring too much, and ordered with the fellow beside him.
"You go to the back and organize, take those customized clothes that haven't come back to pick them up after a month, take them out and hang them to sell."
"Then what if the people who customized the clothes come back?" The fellow seemed new and hesitated for a moment.
"Come back? People go missing every once in a while in the camp, some die in the forbidden zone, some inexplicably disappear, the only ones who can come back are ghosts, go."
The shopkeeper waved his hand impatiently, and the fellow hurriedly ran towards the back room.
Soon, before Xu Qing could choose his clothes, the fellow had already come out holding a large number of clothes, and after hanging them up one by one, Xu Qing took a glance at a dark-colored tumbled fur coat.
That was the clothes that someone else had ordered but could never come back to pick up.
After burning incense, when Xu Qing stepped out from the store, he was wearing that dark-colored tumbled fur coat.
The clothes were insulated from the cold and not too heavy, and the degree of warmth on his body exceeded Xu Qing's previous clothes by too much.
The only thing was that because he was skinny, it was as incongruous as a coat on his body.
But Xu Qing was happy, walking along the road he carefully avoided some dirty places.
When he was about to go and look for Fat Mountain, he noticed that outside the camp, at the moment, there were sounds of chaos coming from the camp, and at the same time the scavengers inside the camp, there were many of them all stepping out, eyeing with anticipation close to the direction of the sounds coming from the camp.
Xu Qing also raised his head to look.
Gradually, he saw that under the sunlight, a convoy of more than ten carriages was heading towards this place.
The people sitting on them, even if they were just guards, were all incomparably well-dressed, their faces were rosy, their eyes even more refined, and most of them had amazing spiritual energy fluctuations on their bodies.
As for the carriages, Xu Qing couldn't see them, but he could also guess that they must be people of honorable status.
Such a caravan, Xu Qing had heard Team Lei talk about it, and it seemed that they would often come to the campsite, either as traders or to procure the Seven Leaf Grass for refining the White Dan.
The figure of Fatty Mountain, too, appeared in the crowd, and after attracting Xu Qing's attention, he no longer paid attention to the caravan, but instead narrowed his eyes, stared at Fatty Mountain, and began to follow.
It was just that perhaps due to the arrival of the caravan, the campground was bustling with activity throughout the day, forming a bazaar, and Xu Qing was never able to find an opportunity.
Until late at night, he watched as Fat Mountain once again returned to the large hut, so he put away the dagger in his sleeve and turned to leave.
Although he didn't have a chance to strike this day, Xu Qing was patient, and after returning to the hut he meditated and practiced in his newly purchased clothes, not taking them off even when he slept.
It wasn't until after dawn once more, when he was ready to continue going out to look for opportunities, that he lovingly took off the tumbled coat and changed into his worn-out leather jacket again.
Looking at the new clothes, Xu Qing felt that he had been a bit reckless yesterday.
Wearing his tattered leather jacket at the moment, Xu Qing walked inside the camp, passing by the bazaar where there were quite a few crowds, his gaze seemingly surveying the caravan's stationing place, but in reality, he was actually looking for Fatty Mountain's silhouette.
In the distance, the Seventh Master snorted, sitting on a roof with his servant, his gaze sweeping over the caravan and back to Xu Qing, casually asking the servant beside him.
"Has the post been sent to Master Park?"
"Seventh Master, it has already been sent, but Master Park said that he has been unwell recently ......"
"Sick? He is the physician, what is he ...... eek, this kid yesterday I remember wearing a new shirt, why did he change back today?" As the seventh master was talking, he noticed Xu Qing's clothes and was surprised for a moment.
When the seventh master was puzzled, Xu Qing was within the crowd, and his afterglow locked onto Fat Mountain.
Just like that, under Xu Qing's afterglow lock, a whole day passed.
With the arrival of the late night, that originally wanted to walk back to the house fat mountain, somehow changed direction, actually in this night, toward the outer ring area.
It was relatively speaking, somewhat remote there.
"Discovered me?" Xu Qing's brows furrowed, his eyes narrowed, and his gaze gradually grew even colder.
He didn't follow, but instead surveyed the surroundings until he was certain that the other party was only traveling alone before circling around, sneaking in the shadows, and arriving at the outer ring ahead of Fat Mountain.
Determine that there is no ambush here, his eyes in the cold more dense, hidden in the dark.
And at this moment, Fat Mountain also walked to this range, footsteps suddenly stopped.
"Little brat, I detected someone following me yesterday, come out, this place is very remote, suitable for disposing of your corpse, if you don't dare to come out, next time it won't be me alone, even if Team Lei protects you, we, the Blood Shadows, will be able to make you pay just the same."
Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, the other party's words had reached this point, there was no need to hide, so he stepped out from the shadows.
"Ma Si wasn't secretly picking up work to go out, you're the one who got him killed, right, I've underestimated you." Fat Mountain laughed sarcastically, looking towards Xu Qing who stepped out.
"But there is no harm, I have been looking at him for a long time, if you don't get him killed, I also plan to get him killed the next time I go out, so I also have to thank you for that, and I don't care if he lives or dies, but a certain thing in his leather pouch should be at your place, right?"
Fat Mountain looked towards the pocket at Xu Qing's waist, greed in his eyes, and without waiting for Xu Qing to reply, his body swayed, and his fat, round body actually erupted with a speed that surpassed the second level of Qi Condensation.
The spiritual energy fluctuations on his body were all much stronger at this moment as well, and he even formed a layer of artifact airflow outside of his body, driving the cold wind, and his entire body, like an ice ball, slammed into Xu Qing.
He was not at the second level of Qi Condensation, and at this moment, his spiritual energy fluctuations had already reached the third level.
It was also because of this, coupled with spying on the same thing in Ma Si's leather bag, that he went out alone.
Xu Qing's eyes narrowed, it was his first time engaging a cultivator head-on, especially since the other party's outer body air currents were clearly made of spiritual energy, but he believed in his own strength and speed.
Thus, the moment the other party arrived, Xu Qing surged out, his speed under the full force of his outburst causing his figure to almost leave some residual traces behind.
In the blink of an eye, he avoided Fatty Mountain's body, and in Fatty Mountain's apparent daze, Xu Qing had already arrived behind him, his right hand lifting up with the same full force outburst, a fist blasted out.
This is the first time Xu Qing used all of his strength, this punch directly set off a popping sound, and when it landed behind Fatty Mountain, it made a banging sound.
Fat mountain the whole person trembled violently, outside the body of the barrier formed by the airflow inch by inch broken, the body of the five viscera rolled, blood wow sound sprayed out, Xu Qing eyes killing machine has been thick.
Iron stick appeared when his right hand was raised, his body swayed from the side of the fat mountain staggering backward in a moment, the iron stick was about to stab into the fat mountain's head.
But in the next instant, Xu Qing's face changed slightly, and his body retreated rapidly.
Right at the moment he retreated, Fat Mountain's eyes revealed a sinister aura.
Two black threads suddenly drilled out from his ears, one after the other with sharp whistles heading straight for Xu Qing's face.
The two black lines were black winged centipedes with extremely fast speeds, and as they were about to approach, they were directly chopped off one by one by the dagger Xu Qing drew out with his left hand.
The last one, when it was cut off, was less than seven inches away from Xu Qing's eyes.
This dangerous scene made Xu Qing's killing intent in his eyes even more intense, and he rushed forward again.
And with the help of Xu Qing's previous moment of retreat, the tumbling of the five viscera in Fat Mountain's body had also recovered a bit.
At this moment, his rounded body backed up sharply, his hands were even lifted up to pinch, and his face instantly reddened, directly spraying a mouthful of poisonous mist towards the rushing Xu Qing.
Mist rolling, range is very large, toward Xu Qing speed rolled, where the ground are coming from the sound of ZiZi, visible toxicity is strong.
After doing so, Fat Mountain's face turned pale, his stomach grew smaller, and he once again retreated backwards, both ruthlessness and palpitations in his eyes.
Xu Qing's toughness was beyond his expectations.
He didn't expect that with his third level of Qi Condensation and a poisonous attack, he was actually almost killed by the other party in one blow.
And this mouth poisonous mist, has been his killer technique, if still can not help each other, he must shout, so that the other side scorn.
Just shouting words, Ma Si's that item, he was afraid that it would be very difficult to obtain.
And here he actually still has a forbidden object did not go to use, this object has great side effects, but still he took out, that is an amber.
In his mind's hesitation, he looked towards the area filled with mist where Xu Qing was.
But the moment he looked, the fog rolled away violently in all directions, and within it Xu Qing's figure rushed out in an instant.
The speed was so fast that Fat Mountain's eyes blinked and his heart thumped, his right hand was just about to crush the amber and his mouth was about to cry out, but it was too late.
A black iron stick, with incomparable sharpness, instantaneous arrival, like a cracker, from its head through in a flash, blood splattered out, fell on its side Xu Qing's body.
Fat Mountain's body stiffened, wanted to turn his head but couldn't, his body slowly collapsed, motionless.
Not bothering to look at Fatty Mountain's corpse, Xu Qing panted and looked around vigilantly.
This place was remote, after making sure that it did not attract attention, he quickly approached Fatty Mountain's body and took away the other side's leather bag.
He was about to stab it with his fangs, but Xu Qing noticed that Fatty Mountain seemed to be grasping something in his right hand, so he broke open the other's fingers and saw a piece of amber that had already been broken in half.
This object appeared to be as usual, nothing out of the ordinary, except for the fact that there was a scorpion tail sealed within it.
Xu Qing carefully took it away and made the corpse as he had done, and when this corpse turned into blood, he flew away.
While walking, he wiped away the blood on his body and disappeared into the night.
The Seventh Master, along with his servant, stepped out of the darkness at this moment.
Looking at the place where Xu Qing had disappeared, the Seventh Master didn't seem to care very much about the battle between Xu Qing and Fat Mountain just now, but instead pondered for a while, revealing an expression of sudden realization.
"I see, that kid doesn't wear new clothes because he's afraid of getting bloodstained ah, he's poor and scared, he's heartbroken about his clothes."
The servant at the side also breathed a sigh of relief.
This whole day, the seventh master was pondering why that kid didn't wear new clothes, at this moment, he finally had an answer, so he didn't have to ponder the reason every time he heard it.
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Although it's a two chapter update, they are actually both big chapters, this chapter is almost 4500 words, and the next chapter is almost 4000 words.
It could actually be split into 3 chapters, but I don't think that's necessary and would ruin the integrity of the chapter.
I hope you can feel my sincerity, thanks for your support.
