Chapter 286: Chapter 123: Lady Yan’s General Store, Visitor Arrives

His eyes shifted surreptitiously, suddenly walking towards the family of three. Li Yuan glanced at him, his expression changing slightly because the data he saw seemed abnormal.

The data read “165~330.”

The lower limit was standard for a Seventh Grade, but the upper limit was nearly reaching the level of a Sixth Grade.

This kind of range was very abnormal.

Li Yuan instinctively stepped forward, blocking his wife and daughter, a natural reflex, even though entering Ghost Street through a dream, the reflex persisted.

The man glanced at Li Yuan and said with a smile, “A meeting is destined, my name is Bao Liuqi.”

Li Yuan glanced at his bulging waist, it was obvious there was a dagger there.

The man held his gaze for a while, seemingly dispelling the original intention.

After all, he had initially intended to wipe out that family, then fled into the wild and inexplicably ended up on this ancient street. Driven by the hope of finding fortune, he followed the grey-clad woman into the depths of the street to a shop.

Yet, along the way, he had sensed the strangeness here.

But no matter, wealth is sought in danger; without risk, how could one gain reward?

The man named Bao Liuqi was also quite daring, not buying goods at the street but following the grey-clothed peddler here.

Originally, he planned to abduct that girl, but now… he inexplicably dispelled the idea, only clasping his hands and asking, “Where is this place?”

Li Yuan saw no “equipment” on this man and realized he was an ordinary Martial Artist who had mistakenly entered. At the moment… he didn’t know what to say.

The Ghost Shop was terrifying.

When he first entered the Carpenter’s Shop, it had also chilled him to the bone.

But if it was someone else breaking into his Ghost Shop,

the feeling was quite different.

Li Yuan didn’t speak, but Lady Yan suddenly started speaking in a calm, measured voice, “Xu Qi, Seventh Grade Martial Artist, from Fujiang Path’s Phoenix Fairy Prefecture,

raised by the Wang Family since childhood. His talent was outstanding, so the Wang Family taught him martial arts to strengthen his body and planned to send him to a sect.

However, due to issues with sect quotas, the Wang Family sent their own descendant to the sect instead, denying him entry.

Though unable to enter the sect due to limited quotas, they compensated by giving him a high position, managing some lucrative affairs of the family.

By chance, he used money pathways to join another sect.

In public, he continued to manage the Wang Family’s affairs; in private, he diligently practiced cultivation skill and reached the Seventh Grade.

That year, the Wang Family faced a great enemy attack.

As the enemy destroyed the Wang Family, he stood by and did nothing because he harbored a grudge, feeling the Wang Family owed him, used him, and there was no need to act for them.

After the enemy left, he unexpectedly discovered someone from the Wang Family secretly emerging from a hidden passage, holding a treasure, something that could be called a Social World Demon Blade.

At that moment, he acted, taking the demon blade and then turning his gaze toward the escaping Wang Family members.

The leader was his sister-in-law, whom he killed, and then proceeded to silence all the others.

Then, in a panic, he fled here.”

Lady Yan articulated each word clearly, unhurriedly revealing that the man was not called Bao Liuqi but Xu Qi.

Evidently, as the man stepped into this place, she had already discerned his sins.

Xu Qi didn’t speak much, instantly drawing out the “dagger” from his waist.

When it emerged, the “dagger” revealed its true form.

The blade was scorching hot, with crimson threads swirling, seething with evil qi.

Li Yuan looked at it, recognizing it as the ordinary Blood Gold Crystal?

Unable to generate a soul or become a Spiritual Artifact in a Weapon Forger’s hands, yet after nurturing by a Sixth Grade Martial Artist, it held evil qi, emotions, and some residual power.

The user could harness these powers to unleash greater strength, but might also be driven mad, murderous by the aura within the blade…

“Who are you? Why do you know these things?”

Xu Qi stared at Lady Yan, both fearful and frenzied.

Then he cried out harshly, “I… I killed them because they owed me!

I was a martial arts genius; if they had sent me to the sect, I would have become a top-notch warrior!

But they wanted me to settle for mediocrity!

Did they think a little filthy money could buy me, pacify me?”

Yan Yu replied calmly, “But you used that filthy money to find your way into another sect.”

Perhaps due to the environment and pressure, Xu Qi, slightly out of control, yelled, “That money I earned managing the family business, and what does the Wang Family have to do with it?

I had to give some of that money to the Wang Family every year, which has repaid their kindness!

That sister-in-law held the demon blade. Do you know how important this demon blade is to me?

She saw me and still wanted me to take the demon blade to avenge the Wang Family.

Hahaha, what a joke! I could kill her to get the blade; why would I avenge the Wang Family?

When I refused, she threatened me, saying she would throw the blade off a cliff if I didn’t agree…

I had no choice but to act, to kill her and those children behind her.”

Xu Qi gripped the demon blade, aiming it at Lady Yan, yet stepped backward gradually.

He wasn’t stupid; he’d already sensed this place was tremendously bizarre, perhaps not a place he should have come to.

He retreated step by step to the door, using his elbow to push it, but it didn’t budge.

He suddenly turned around, slamming hard on the door, but it still didn’t move.

Suddenly, Xu Qi felt something, rapidly turning his head only to see a white-clothed clerk with hair covering their face grabbing his hand.

All he felt was a chill piercing his head; he wanted to struggle, but… found he couldn’t move at all. Except for his eyes which could still roll, everywhere else was immobile.

Feng’Er took Xu Qi’s hand, stepping forward, Xu Qi moved step by step along with her.

Soon, Feng’Er opened the back door of the grocery store, leading Xu Qi into the darkness beyond, disappearing from sight.

Li Yuan said quietly, “To the warehouse…”

Yan Yu said, “He attacked me, so even having money is useless.

By the way, someone else came with the peddler during the day, they also entered Feng’Er’s warehouse now.

These who were brought from Ghost Street into the warehouse won’t be turned into corpses; soon there will be customers to buy them.”

Li Yuan, resting his chin in his hand, looked at his wife and suddenly said, “Sister Yan, if I put your portrait on the door, and at night a thief tried to break in, would they trigger Feng’Er’s rule of murder?”

He pondered again, adding, “If I carry your portrait and put it on my chest like armor, and if I faced an enemy who struck at me, essentially at your portrait. Would Feng’Er act then?”

Yan Yu: …

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