Though the nighttime version of himself was violent and ruthless when killing sheep, especially with the boost from martial arts, his attributes soared, making killing sheep as easy as killing chickens.

But the small amount of attributes given was still a bit depressing.

He opened his attributes.

"Name: Ye Se Liming."

"Realm: Acquired Third-Rate."

"State: Weird Curse [Back of Hand/Deepening]."

"Health Points: 200/200."

"Inner Force: 50/300."

"Control: 78.7 [Base: 58.7] [State/Bonus: +20]."

"Defense: 94.4 [Base: 74.4] [State/Bonus: +20]."

"Talent: Night Breathing [Human Grade High]."

"Skills: Analytical Eyes [Human Grade Low], Xinghuo Blade Technique Level 1 [Acquired Third-Rate], Shuitian Blade Technique Level 1 [Crude Martial Art], Xinghuo Heart Technique Level 3 [Acquired Third-Rate/Max Level]."

"Lifespan: 1 month 20 days."

His lifespan had increased a lot, but the Xinghuo Blade Technique consumed a lot too, so the improvement wasn't that great.

Wait! The status bar…

Fang Yue's heart skipped a beat.

"State: Weird Curse [Back of Hand/Deepening]."

"Name: Weird Curse [Back of Hand/Deepening]."

"Effect: The range of the scent's spread is greater, special weirds will smell it and come. Hatred deepens. Killing specific weirds will gradually make it impossible to obtain rewards, and even reduce attributes."

"Explanation: You have killed more special weirds, planting the seeds of hatred between the two sides."

"Time: Thirteen days."

"Note: Put on a cloak, take a greatsword, and break an arm, and you can be the Black Swordsman!"

Ah, this…

Fang Yue's face was a little unsightly.

Originally, he thought it was nothing to be able to attract more sheep weirds when he saw the description.

Anyway, he could use the Xinghuo Blade Technique during the day, so he could kill them as they came, treating them as attribute points.

As a result, killing each sheep weird would deepen the weird curse, creating a vicious cycle. The most disgusting thing was that killing too many would reduce his attributes!

How could he kill anything like this? It would only get more disgusting the more he killed!

No wonder Chonggui Flowers didn't want to provoke this thing. It was like sticky candy. Once you were entangled, you could only admit you were unlucky.

"Ye-ge!"

"Yeye!"

"Vice-Captain Ye!"

At this time, Physician An and the others had gathered around.

Fang Yue asked them to return to the village first to report the good news and stabilize morale.

Then he picked up all the black embers dropped by the sheep weirds.

"System prompt: Congratulations, you have obtained 180g of black embers."

When Fang Yue collected all the black embers, he almost grinned from ear to ear.

Although the attribute rewards for killing sheep weirds had decreased, the black embers given were actually much more.

He didn't know if the black ember reward for sheep weirds was always given like this.

Or if the black ember reduction would only happen after the attribute reward of the weird curse turned negative.

Including the 55g of black embers he had kept before, Fang Yue had a total of 235g of black embers, which was definitely a huge sum!

He happily took out all the black embers, and Fang Yue found that the black embers were slowly merging, gathering into two stones of the same length, width, and palm size as the silver stones, but black in color.

"System prompt: Congratulations, you have obtained 2 Black Stones."

He weighed them, and they were a bit heavy.

The remaining 35g of black embers were still in the form of black embers.

Two Black Stones!

Fang Yue was a little excited. He had been worried that he wouldn't have money to buy things from the merchant caravan when he went to Ink Village, but now that he had two Black Stones, he felt much more confident.

No matter how greedy the merchant caravan was, they couldn't set the price too outrageously, right? After all, this was a remote and poor place, and they were all small businesses. If the price was too high, no one would be able to afford it.

"Vice-Captain Ye."

Hearing someone calling him at the entrance of the village, Fang Yue suppressed his excitement.

Returning to Chaoyue Village, Fang Yue found that a group of people had already gathered in the village.

In addition to their escort team, the others were from Chaoyue Village.

The people from the escort team didn't need to be said, but the people from Chaoyue Village were all surrounding Captain Shan.

Captain Shan had a cold expression, as if being respected didn't make her happy.

Until she saw Fang Yue, she smiled and walked over.

"Vice-Captain Ye, it's been agreed. We can rest in Chaoyue Village for one night."

"So fast?"

Fang Yue was a little surprised. At this time, a man from the Chaoyue Village guard team, rubbing his hands, bowing, and wearing a flattering smile on his face, came over.

"Captain Shan, not just one night, you can stay as long as you want, we don't mind!"

"This is…"

"My name is Jia Kong. A few minutes ago, I was the vice-captain of Chaoyue Village, but now I'm the captain. So, if you two need anything, just tell me, and I'll definitely cooperate."

Fang Yue: ...So you got rich off a dead man and got promoted.

Although he had a part in this dead man's wealth…

Fang Yue felt a little embarrassed. Also… this person was also a captain, how could his posture be so low? Could it be that he saw his heroic performance and became his fan?

Fang Yue thought so, but he soon discovered that this person had been carefully peeking at Captain Shan, as if trying to figure out her thoughts and nervously observing her expression changes.

This kind of look… was as if his status was inferior, and Captain Shan was his immediate superior.

"Alright, alright, we don't have anything else to do here. Arrange a place to stay, we'll rest for a night and leave tomorrow."

Captain Shan waved her hand impatiently, and the man breathed a sigh of relief, smiled ingratiatingly at Fang Yue, and retreated.

"He's…" Fang Yue asked confusedly.

"It seems that Vice-Captain Ye doesn't know much about Chaoyue Village."

Captain Shan moved a little closer to Fang Yue, and a faint fragrance wafted over.

"Chaoyue Village is just a small village, or even, in a sense, not even a village."

"If you look closely at the buildings in the village, you can see that many of the houses are built temporarily, using the simplest construction methods and the cheapest materials, emphasizing cost-effectiveness. Look at those houses."

Fang Yue followed the hand that Captain Shan raised and looked at the houses she was pointing at. He really found something wrong.

Different from the solid houses built with stone in Guyue Village, most of the houses in Chaoyue Village were built with wood, and the structure was simple and compact. A few large logs were used as the foundation, sinking into the ground, and a large cloth was pulled over to complete the simple structure. There were some differences in the details that followed, but they were all relatively simple.

Only a small portion of the wooden houses that looked relatively large had a relatively solid structure.

Finally, there were the fewest stone houses in Chaoyue Village.

These houses looked very old, covered with moss, dilapidated, as if no one had lived in them for more than a decade.

But that wasn't the case. Looking through the various holes in these dilapidated stone houses, you could see that there were various daily necessities inside, and someone lived there, but they looked relatively shabby and had no privacy.

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Basically, any passerby could see the situation inside the stone houses.

He didn't know why, but the people of Chaoyue Village didn't repair these houses.

"Does Vice-Captain Ye think the houses in Chaoyue Village are very broken? There's a reason why they do this."