Chen Nan looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle, "This is a very complex and long topic, impossible to explain in a few words."
"If you must know, why can I see your health bar... perhaps... because I'm better looking than you!"
With that, he stood up and walked towards Yue Shan, "If I'm not mistaken, you should have a storage magic treasure on you, right? Perfect, these things will soon belong to me."
"Go to hell!"
Yue Shan, as if startled from a deathbed illness, suddenly leaped up.
A ferocious punch, without any warning, slammed towards Chen Nan's chest.
This was his last desperate counterattack.
He would pull Chen Nan down with him, no matter what.
*Puff!*
Chen Nan spat out a mouthful of blood, sent flying back more than ten meters by the punch.
Watching Chen Nan bend over, coughing up blood, his face as pale as wax.
Yue Shan burst into laughter, "I am, after all, a powerful expert in the Huaxing realm. Even in death, I can easily kill an ant like you."
"Is that so?" Chen Nan let out a mad smile. He slowly straightened up, a powerful aura erupting from within him.
The next moment.
The Yin energy in the heavens and earth surged towards him from all directions.
Like a demon god awakening.
"You've actually entered the Caiyin realm?" Yue Shan exclaimed, as if witnessing something that sent shivers down his spine.
"Indeed!" Chen Nan laughed wildly, "I was only one chance away from the Caiyin realm. I tried many times, but couldn't break the shackles within my body."
Yue Shan's pupils trembled violently, black blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He glared at Chen Nan with rage, his sharp eyes wishing to tear Chen Nan to shreds, "So, you deliberately approached me earlier?"
"You knew I would make a sudden move."
"And you wanted to use my strength to help you break through the bottleneck?"
Chen Nan nodded without denial, his eyes filled with relief, "It seems you didn't disappoint me!"
*Puff!*
Yue Shan felt his blood qi surge backward, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
He thought he could kill this ant, Chen Nan.
But he never dreamed.
His final desperate counterattack not only failed to kill Chen Nan.
But instead, it helped him achieve his breakthrough.
This scoundrel had been plotting against him even in his dying moments.
Truly cunning and insidious.
Dying at his hands was incredibly frustrating.
But who could blame him, when the other party was an old schemer?
Confirming Yue Shan was dead.
Chen Nan sat down cross-legged, beginning his first cultivation session after entering the Caiyin realm.
Although he had entered the Caiyin realm with Yue Shan's help, the other party's power was incredibly overbearing, nearly tearing his internal organs apart in that instant.
Fortunately, he had succeeded.
After entering the Caiyin realm, his strength had more than doubled.
He could now borrow the Yin energy from the heavens and earth to quickly replenish his stamina, similar to the Foundation Establishment stage in the mortal world.
He could also use the Yin energy from the heavens and earth to heal his internal injuries.
In the past.
If he were seriously injured, it would take at least several days to recover.
But now.
As Yin energy flowed into his body, it felt like sweet dew irrigating parched land, instantly alleviating the pain.
Midnight.
Chen Nan slowly opened his eyes.
His clear pupils gleamed with brilliance.
They were comparable to stars in the night sky.
"Now that I have entered the Caiyin realm, I only need to find a pill furnace to increase my cultivation through elixirs."
"Then I can rise quickly and go to the eighteenth level of hell to meet Empress Houtu."
Having been in the underworld for so long, Chen Nan was very happy to finally enter the Caiyin realm.
But.
Soon, his gaze fell upon Yue Shan's corpse.
Especially the dark black ring on his wrist.
Without a second thought, he walked over, removed the ring, and placed it on his thumb.
"It is indeed as I thought, a storage magic treasure."
Chen Nan felt the fluctuation of the storage magic treasure, and immediately bit his finger, dripping a drop of blood.
The moment the blood dripped onto the ring, the ring emitted a faint white light and then disappeared from Chen Nan's thumb, as if it had merged with his body.
He willed it, and the ring reappeared on his thumb.
Then, with a wave of his right hand.
All the items within the ring flew out, neatly arranged on the ground.
A wooden, round token.
It was almost weightless in his hand, but it exuded a refreshing medicinal fragrance.
It was actually made from the finest ten-thousand-year-old agarwood.
There was also a cloud pattern on the token.
Other than that.
There was no other useful information.
Chen Nan didn't know the purpose of this round token.
But the aroma it released was enough to calm the mind and soothe the spirit.
Therefore, he couldn't discard it.
He willed it, and the token was stored back into the ring.
Then he found a small pile of Xuan Yin stones on the ground. These Xuan Yin stones were the size of his thumbnail and looked irregular, but they contained a dense Yin energy.
Although not many, there were about a hundred of them.
Besides that.
There was also a golden mask.
And some daily necessities.
The mask was quite good; Chen Nan kept it.
After doing all this.
He saw the greatsword that Yue Shan had used before.
This sword weighed about a hundred pounds, definitely a heavy item.
Chen Nan had never used a greatsword.
But he had used a staff.
He could completely use it as a staff.
He put the greatsword away.
As for whether there were any treasures on the green-eyed zombie...
Chen Nan couldn't be bothered to check.
Even if there were, he wouldn't touch them.
For no other reason than they were dirty.
Then.
He found a few pieces of coffin boards, placed Yue Shan's and the green-eyed zombie's corpses on them.
Using the clothes found in Yue Shan's storage ring, he ignited the coffin boards.
The flames burned slowly, and after a moment, a burnt smell diffused.
Just as Chen Nan was about to leave.
He keenly sensed footsteps approaching from behind.
He instinctively drew his greatsword, ready to attack.
But the next second.
Yuan Zun's voice reached his ears, "Your vigilance is quite good. However, if I wanted to kill you, you would never have detected my presence."
Chen Nan breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and said, "The two major hidden dangers have been resolved!"
Yuan Zun stood shoulder to shoulder with Chen Nan, quietly watching the two burning corpses.
His heart was unsettled.
He hadn't expected.
These two troublesome existences would be so easily dealt with by Chen Nan's stratagem.
Whether it was killing the green-eyed zombie.
Or eliminating the remnants of the Anti-Heaven Cult, these were immense merits.
"Oh, right." Yuan Zun suddenly said, "I received a message earlier. The imperial envoy investigating the case of the missing death-exempt token will arrive in Tongcheng tomorrow night."
"Furthermore, his surname is Gong, and he is of the same clan as the Deputy County Magistrate Gong."
As he spoke, a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.
If he hadn't been assigned to Tongcheng, Deputy County Magistrate Gong Ping might have become the City Lord of Tongcheng.
Even though he was about to step down, becoming the City Lord of Tongcheng would be akin to extending his life.
Now that a member of the Gong family was serving as the imperial envoy, and even investigating the case of the stolen death-exempt token, this was a very troublesome matter for him.
This was because the Gong family was on very good terms with Marquis Wen Bo's Liu family.
Chen Nan picked up the greatsword and dug a pit in the ground, his eyes flashing with a sharp glint, "As long as they dare to come, I will bury them all!"