Steward Wang said, "The root of all this stems from someone offering a bounty to kill your friend."
"While I cannot reveal the identity of the person who posted the bounty,"
"However,"
"You can also post a bounty."
"The bounty's content is simple: hunt down the person who wants to kill your friend."
Chen Nan looked at him with surprise, "Is that allowed?"
Steward Wang nodded, "Although no one has done this before, it does not violate the internal rules of Qingyun Tower."
"Then it's settled. We'll do as you say, Steward Wang. Post a bounty to hunt down the murderer who wants to kill my... friend." Chen Nan gave him a thumbs-up.
It had to be said.
Steward Wang's move was incredibly clever and unexpected.
Even though he came from the mortal world and traversed the immortal realm, he had never seen such a devious tactic.
Steward Wang politely asked, "The minimum bounty is one hundred thousand taels of silver. Will you be paying with current silver or silver notes?"
Chen Nan rolled his eyes at him, "Talking about money between us like this feels too distant, doesn't it?"
"We don't have that kind of relationship to talk about, do we?" Steward Wang chuckled.
Damn it all.
He wanted to talk about feelings now?
Why didn't he mention feelings when he was threatening me earlier?
"Alright, alright. It's just one hundred thousand taels of silver. Do I look like someone who lacks money?" Chen Nan generously took out one hundred thousand taels of silver. He had initially intended to keep pressing Steward Wang for more.
However, he found that.
Steward Wang was not the type to humor him.
If you joked with him, he would easily get annoyed.
He generously paid with one hundred thousand taels of silver notes.
Upon receiving them, Steward Wang said, "I will post the mission. At the latest, within three days, the killer's corpse will appear in the moat."
Hearing moat.
Chen Nan's scalp tingled, "Please spare the moat, alright? Just kill the target, I don't need to see their corpse."
Regarding Qingyun Tower.
Chen Nan trusted them quite a bit.
"You go ahead and busy yourself, I'll go back and refine the Soul Gathering Pills for you." Chen Nan turned to leave, but then said, "Oh, right, you still owe me fifty Shore Flowers for refining the Soul Gathering Pills."
Steward Wang's mouth twitched uncontrollably. He thought Chen Nan had forgotten about the fifty Shore Flowers, but he hadn't expected him to remember.
He immediately took out a storage bag and gave it to him, which contained fifty Shore Flowers.
"Steward Wang, await good news!" Chen Nan accepted the storage bag, let out a hearty laugh, and disappeared into the night under Steward Wang's murderous gaze.
"This guy is truly inhuman. I must keep my distance from him in the future."
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After leaving Qingyun Tower.
Chen Nan went to the herb shop and purchased the auxiliary ingredients for refining the Yin Gathering Pill.
Even though he had fifty free Shore Flowers.
Other ingredients were still needed to refine the Yin Gathering Pill.
Fortunately, those ingredients were not valuable.
He bought enough ingredients to refine one hundred portions of the Yin Gathering Pill, which cost no more than twenty thousand taels of silver.
Around eight in the evening.
Chen Nan returned home.
Having been unconscious for seven days, and not having returned home for several days before that.
His mother and Song Ziwei had been worried for a long time.
Fortunately, Wu Jiu and the others had come to deliver books earlier and learned that Chen Nan was safe.
The two of them were finally able to put their minds at ease.
They had also prepared a table full of a sumptuous dinner.
After the meal.
Chen Nan took a cold shower and returned to his room to begin refining pills.
However, he was refining the Yin Gathering Pill.
Because only by maximizing his strength could the success rate of refining the Soul Gathering Pill be increased.
By the latter half of the night.
All fifty Shore Flowers had been transformed into pills.
Without any hesitation, he swallowed the fifty Yin Gathering Pills one after another.
Then he sat cross-legged.
He felt the Yin energy rampaging uncontrollably within his body, on the verge of erupting.
This sensation of his body swelling and the Yin energy about to gush out was incredibly thrilling for Chen Nan.
It was like dancing on the tip of a knife.
If the Yin energy broke free from his body, he would suffer a backlash.
At best, his meridians would be severed.
At worst, he could very well die on the spot.
Conversely.
If he could completely control the Yin energy within him, he would undoubtedly break through his limitations.
And enter the sixth layer of the Yin Gathering realm.
Of course.
Chen Nan never fought battles he wasn't sure of.
He always acted with discretion.
With his level of control, he could fully manage the Yin energy within him.
Boom boom boom!
In the beginning.
His body erupted with bursts of rumbling sounds.
Like the sound of a speeding vehicle passing through a tunnel.
But as time passed.
The booming sounds gradually subsided.
They became like waves crashing against the shore.
One wave after another.
"One!"
"Two!"
"Three!"
Chen Nan controlled the Yin energy within him to impact the invisible barrier in his Dantian.
"Nine!"
After the ninth impact.
A look of determination appeared in his eyes.
He fully controlled the Yin energy within him and fiercely slammed it against the barrier in his Dantian.
Nine gentle, one forceful.
He had long since figured out the trick to breaking through.
Poof!
As the Yin energy struck the invisible barrier in his Dantian.
A faint sound emanated from Chen Nan's body.
As if a thin membrane had been broken.
The next moment.
Chen Nan clearly felt his Dantian double in size.
It could now store more Yin energy.
"Sixth layer of the Yin Gathering realm, this day has come sooner than I expected!" Chen Nan's eyes were filled with fervor.
Although the sixth layer of the Yin Gathering realm was still insignificant.
But Rome wasn't built in a day!
"Now that I've reached the sixth layer of the Yin Gathering realm, my strength has increased by about five times compared to before."
"With my current control and spiritual power."
"I can fully attempt to refine the Soul Gathering Pills."
He sat cross-legged and opened the storage bag that Steward Wang had given him.
It contained not only the ingredients to refine ten Soul Gathering Pills but also notes on refining them.
After memorizing all the precautions.
Chen Nan picked up the pill furnace and began to refine the Soul Gathering Pills.
The Soul Gathering Pill was different from the Yin Gathering Pill.
Refining the Soul Gathering Pill required thirteen types of medicinal herbs.
And it was time-consuming.
It would take at least an hour.
However.
A mere hour was nothing to Chen Nan.
He devoted himself entirely to refining the pills, completely losing track of time.
An hour later.
He withdrew his spiritual power.
A medicinal fragrance wafted from the pill furnace.
Upon opening it.
A white pill appeared in his sight.
"Indeed, with my experience and knowledge from the mortal world, refining pills is not difficult for me at all." Chen Nan's lips curved into a radiant smile.
He willed it.
He took out a glass bottle from his storage ring, intending to place the pill inside.
But he unexpectedly discovered.
A line of text had appeared on the communication wooden token of the Rebel Sky Sect.
This made his eyes light up.
After he had fallen unconscious, he had checked the communication token to see if anyone had contacted him or if he had missed any important information from the Rebel Sky Sect.
But when he looked.
There was no text on the token.
Now that some text had appeared, it was clear that someone had just sent it.
The sender was Number Three.
After reading the content, Chen Nan's eyes immediately lit up with fervor...