Longevity Begins With The Birth Of A Daughter At An Old Age

Chapter 26: Knocking on Bones and Sucking Marrow

Half a month later, the cultivators living in the shantytown had paid their dues to the extent they could.

Those who hadn't either moved away or died.

On this day, news came from outside that the patrol team had captured Xie Chong, but not without suffering significant losses.

Xu Mu couldn't help but sigh, the timing really was just right.

...

"Lord Jia, greetings!"

"Fellow Daoist Jia, greetings!"

"No need to be polite!"

On the street, Jia An, who was patrolling with a few subordinates, would occasionally receive respectful greetings from passersby.

Jia An smiled and nodded in response.

At this moment, he could be said to be in the prime of his life, completely different from the person everyone despised half a month ago.

"Jia Ge, we've arrived at Xu Mu's house!"

Ma Rui, who was leading the way ahead, smiled obsequiously.

At this point, he had become Jia An's lackey, despite his cultivation level being no lower than Jia An's.

"Knock on the door! Call him out!"

Jia An stood with his hands behind his back, his belly protruding, looking calm and composed.

"Yes!"

Ma Rui nodded and stepped forward, forcefully knocking on the door a few times, and loudly shouted, "Fellow Daoist Xu, Fellow Daoist Xu, we have something to discuss with you, please come out!"

Xu Mu opened the door and frowned slightly at the crowd in front of him.

"Fellow Daoist Jia, may I ask what brings you here?"

"Hehe!"

Jia An, who had just been full of confidence, suddenly bowed slightly, rubbing his hands together, and smiled, "Fellow Daoist Xu, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to pay another ten pieces of low-grade spirit stones!"

"..."

Xu Mu's face turned ugly, and he laughed in anger, "Fellow Daoist Jia, do you think I'm easy to bully?"

Ten spirit stones were nothing to him now, but if he paid this time, they would probably come back in a few days.

They were treating him like a cash cow!

"Fellow Daoist Xu, you've misunderstood me!"

Jia An's chubby face was full of grievances as he said, "It's not that I want to make things difficult for you, but we received strict orders from above! You know, when we captured Xie Chong, many people were injured, so we have to give them some compensation, right?"

"But the patrol team has just been established, and we don't have that many spirit stones, so we can only trouble Fellow Daoist Xu, who is relatively wealthy!"

"If Fellow Daoist Xu doesn't believe me, you can come with me to the patrol team later, and the commanding officer can explain it to you in person!" Jia An bowed and smiled, clasping his hands together.

"......"

Xu Mu's eyes flickered, and after a moment of silence, he took out ten spirit stones and handed them to the other party.

With his strength, it would be easy for him to kill a few people, but after killing them, it would probably be like poking a hornet's nest, attracting even more attacks.

"Hope there won't be a next time!" Xu Mu said coldly.

"Definitely! Definitely!"

Jia An took the spirit stones, put them in his pocket, and smiled, nodding repeatedly.

"Oh, Xu Fellow Daoist, why don't you pay for Blue Fellow Daoist as well! After all, you will be a family sooner or later!" Jia An said with a sly smile.

"Blue Fellow Daoist has already moved out. If you want spirit stones, go to the market and ask her for them!" Xu Mu said coldly.

A few days ago, Blue Shijin had made arrangements and already booked a ticket to leave. In addition, there had been evil cultists in the slums recently, so she simply moved to an inn in the market and temporarily stayed there.

As soon as the flying boat arrived, she would leave immediately.

"Well, that's really... lucky! Hahaha!" Jia An laughed.

Xu Mu no longer paid attention to him, turned around and entered the house, closing the door.

Jia An, who had been smiling, immediately stopped when he saw Xu Mu enter, and his face became disdainful.

"No more next time? Hehe! You're thinking too beautifully. Just wait, this is just an appetizer!"

Having finally caught a fat sheep, he wouldn't let him go until he had eaten every last bone. How could he justify his servility and the many benefits he had given away during this time?

...

In the room, the golden sword appeared in Xu Mu's hand out of thin air. He slowly drew the long sword, and the originally snow-white blade revealed faint red veins as spiritual energy flowed into it, emitting a scorching aura that spread around.

"I don't like taking risks. I only like to kill danger in its infancy!"

Looking at the long sword in his hand, Xu Mu muttered to himself.

Ten spirit stones meant nothing to him, but it was a bad sign.

For the safety of his wife and daughter, this kind of sign must not exist.

At night, after instructing Ye Yingying, Xu Mu used invisibility technique to leave his home.

Under the cover of the night, Xu Mu moved like a ghost. When he encountered patrol teams, he used invisibility technique to hide, and continued on his way after the patrol teams passed.

The place he was going to was the base camp of the patrol teams.

Night.

The houses where the patrol teams lived were still brightly lit.

Gurgle gurgle!

In the center of the room was a large iron pot, inside of which was boiling soup and palm-sized pieces of monster meat.

The air was filled with the aroma of the food, mixed with a strong smell of alcohol.

"Come, let's toast to Boss Jia! If it weren't for Boss Jia, how could we live such a heavenly life! Eat monster meat as we please, drink spirit wine as we please! Haha!"

Ma Rui held a cup, his face flushed, not sure if it was from eating something hot or from drinking alcohol, even his tongue was a bit slippery.

"Yes, yes, let's toast to Brother Jia!"

The others also raised their glasses and toasted Jia An.

"Brothers, no need to be polite! As long as I, Jia An, have something to eat, none of you will go hungry!" Jia An said confidently.

After a round of drinking, he was a bit dizzy.

"Alright, alright, don't drink too much! We still have to go out and change shifts later!" Jia An reminded.

"What's the big deal? With the relationship between Jia Laoda and Captain Luo, even if we don't go, who would dare to say anything? Besides, those poor guys have already paid the spirit stones! We don't need to put on a show anymore!"

"That's right! We used to have to act, but now they've all become obedient. It's okay to skip a few patrols!"

"You guys are thinking too simplistically!" Jia An took a sip of wine and pretended to be profound.

"Jia Laoda, is there something we don't know about?"

The others put down their glasses and leaned in, curious.

"Nonsense! There are some things, especially things that you guys wouldn't know!" Jia An said arrogantly.

"Please enlighten us, Jia Laoda! We promise not to tell anyone!"

Ma Rui licked his big face and poured Jia An a glass of spirit wine with a smile.

"Yes, yes! We promise not to tell anyone!"

Faced with the flattery of the others, Jia An was quite pleased and whispered, "Do you think Captain Luo went through all this trouble just to collect a few low-grade spirit stones?"

"Why else would he do it? Thousands of spirit stones a month is already quite a lot!"

The others were puzzled.

"Thousands of spirit stones may be a lot for us, but for Captain Luo, it's nothing! What he really wants to do is to subdue the entire slum area and make it a source of free labor!"

"Free labor?"

The others still didn't quite understand.

"I knew you wouldn't understand. Let me give you an example! You guys know Xu Mu from our alley, right?"

The others nodded repeatedly. They lived in the same alley, so they naturally knew him, and they had just collected spirit stones from him today.

"The Sword Sect is currently gathering all its forces to counterattack the Soul Refining Sect. We have received orders here as well. I have already discussed it with Captain Luo. In a few days, we will go to Xu Mu's place in the name of the Sword Sect and have him refine pills for us for free!" Jia An said proudly.

Through Ma Rui's surveillance, he had long known that Xu Mu could refine high-level pills.

"But what if he refuses?" the others worried.

A man's anger can cause blood to splatter five steps away!

They could tell that Xu Mu was not the kind of person who could be bullied easily.

"Refuse? Heh! This is an order from the Qinghe Sword Sect. If he dares to refuse, we'll just arrest him and throw him in the prison, use him as an example to show everyone how powerful our patrol team is!" Jia An sneered.

He had long been displeased with Xu Mu.

Why is it that you can easily make so many spirit stones by casually refining a few batches of elixirs, while I work hard day and night but can't even have enough to eat?

In the past, there was no opportunity, but now that there is, naturally I have to go all out.

"What if he escapes?"

"Escape? Where can he escape to? All the flying boats have been requisitioned by the major families, there is simply no way out unless he is willing to take his wife and children and venture through the dangerous wilderness alone!"

"Even a cultivator at the Foundation Building stage may not be able to do such a thing, I doubt he has the courage!"

"I hope he resists, so we can just kill him when the time comes and save ourselves a lot of trouble! And maybe we can enjoy his little wife too! She's so tender! It's a pity that the mother and daughter with the surname Lan ran away, otherwise..."

When the group of people heard Jia An's words, they all unconsciously revealed wicked smiles.

Compared to the young ones, they prefer the old ones.

"In addition to that old man, there's also Zhang Lao in the alley, who will have to work for us for free in the future!"

While they were talking and fantasizing about a bright future, they didn't know that a figure was hiding in the shadow outside the door, with a murderous intent in their eyes.

This figure was none other than Xu Mu, who had quietly infiltrated.

He originally wanted to gather some information first, but unexpectedly ran into a conversation with a few people.

"It's really a case of reaping what you sow, you brought this upon yourselves!"

Xu Mu's eyes were cold.

He didn't expect that in just half a year, this once good neighbor would become so ruthless.

Power and ambition truly corrupt the heart!

"In that case, I can only send you on your way!"

Puff!

A ball of orange-red flames appeared in Xu Mu's palm. Under his control, the center of the flame turned into a vortex and began to rotate incessantly.

With the continuous infusion of spiritual power, the vortex spun faster and faster, and the whole ball of fire was like a rolling snowball, constantly attracting fire elements from the air and squeezing them towards the center.

The fireball gradually changed from orange-red to dark red, and strange blue light even emerged from the center.

At this moment, the power contained in this small fireball made even Xu Mu, the creator, feel his heart pounding.

He was like touching a domino, once the compression of the flame reached a certain degree, he could no longer control it.

Either drain all the spiritual power in his body and increase the power to the maximum, or throw it out now and detonate it.

In order to ensure the death of several people, Xu Mu had almost infused more than half of his spiritual power.

The scorching spiritual power kept evaporating, and even Xu Mu himself could hardly bear it. The invisibility technique on his body disappeared prematurely due to the violent fluctuations of spiritual power.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

A passing patrol member immediately noticed Xu Mu, who was hiding in the shadows with a black face towel.

No more waiting!

After taking a protective talisman for himself, Xu Mu immediately threw the compressed fireball into the room!

And he himself used the light body technique and desperately ran in the opposite direction.

(End of this chapter)