Chapter 71: Beautiful Female Gui Are an Extremely Scarce Resource
Li Lin arrived at the North City Gate and saw that Su Huafang and the others were already there.
When they saw Li Lin, they smiled as well.
Li Lin walked over.
“Ready to set off?”
“Sure.”
Su Huafang said with a smile,
“The blood and qi of five Spirit Hunters isn’t enough to form a barrier, but this old man bought some Boundary-Warding Powder for us. The road ahead will be much easier.”
Bai Liwei could not help laughing.
“Old Su, you’re truly reliable. You’ve thought of everything for us.”
“Ah, after spending a few more years traveling outside, you’ll become like this too.”
But in truth, most Spirit Hunters might not leave their county even once in several years, or even more than ten years.
Su Huafang was rather unique among Spirit Hunters.
The group was just about to depart when they suddenly heard a delighted shout from behind.
“Patrol Hunter Su, Patrol Hunter Bai... it really is you!”
Everyone turned around and discovered that He Yumao was approaching with several dozen ordinary people.
Su Huafang stepped forward.
“Weren’t you planning to stay a few more days?”
He Yumao smiled.
“Good luck, good luck. We just happened to run into a group wanting to return to Yulin County.”
“Congratulations.”
Su Huafang cupped his fists and smiled.
“Want to cooperate?”
He Yumao pulled Su Huafang aside and lowered his voice.
“It’s just that there are fewer people this time, so the payment we can offer will be much lower. Ten taels of silver. What do you think?”
“Sounds good.”
Su Huafang immediately agreed.
They had to return to Yulin County anyway.
It was along the way, and they could earn another ten taels of silver.
Why not?
Meanwhile, Bai Bufan walked over to Li Lin and suddenly sniffed the air.
“Brother Li, there’s a wonderful rouge fragrance on you. Did you visit a brothel earlier? Why didn’t you bring me along?”
Li Lin was momentarily stunned.
It was normal for him to smell of rouge.
After all, he had visited a cosmetics shop.
But logically, the smell of blood on him should have been stronger.
Yet Bai Bufan could not smell it.
Why?
Li Lin smiled.
“I didn’t.”
Bai Bufan refused to believe him.
Li Lin could only say,
“I went to a cosmetics shop to buy lip rouge.”
“Oh?”
Bai Bufan asked curiously,
“Brother Li, have you found a girl you like? Is a happy event approaching?”
Li Lin shook his head.
“The Tree Immortal Lady asked me to buy it.”
The moment those words were spoken, Bai Bufan’s expression froze.
Moreover, Bai Liwei, Zhao Hao, and Su Huafang all looked over as well.
Their expressions carried envy.
Li Lin blinked.
“Why are you all looking at me like that? It’s rather creepy.”
Bai Bufan walked off to one side, looking dejected.
Bai Liwei and Zhao Hao merely smiled bitterly.
Su Huafang walked over and pulled Li Lin aside.
“In the future, you should build a good relationship with the Ding Family. Do your best to learn dual cultivation techniques from them, even if it’s only a fragment.”
“Why?”
“Are you pretending to be confused with me?”
Su Huafang’s face became stern.
“I’ve treated you with complete sincerity, yet you refuse to tell me the truth?”
“I’m not.”
“Then answer honestly. Do you want to have a relationship with the Tree Immortal Lady?”
Li Lin froze and said nothing.
Su Huafang was his benefactor.
Since he had asked so directly, Li Lin naturally could not lie.
After seeing the Tree Immortal Lady’s face, and considering that her figure was not much inferior to those tall Western women, Li Lin was a normal man.
How could he not have such thoughts?
Su Huafang smiled and continued,
“Forget you. Any Spirit Hunter would want to keep a beautiful female gui. Do you think Wang Tianyou really wanted to kill that beautiful female gui during the incident at the Earth God temple? He wanted to capture her and bring her home. Understand?”
“Why?”
“Because that way, a Spirit Hunter can nurture yin energy more quickly.”
Su Huafang sighed.
“But beautiful female gui are extremely rare. So now you understand why Young Master Wang’s family was so furious after he failed last time.”
“Oh.”
Li Lin committed that information to memory.
Su Huafang continued,
“The Ding Family loves magical arts. You can trade your Falling Lightning Incantation for it. If you have annotations to go with it, the Ding Family might even be willing to give you the complete dual cultivation technique.”
Li Lin thought for a moment.
“Unfortunately, the Ding Family is in Gui City. If I go there, the round trip would take at least a month. With the trouble in Yue City right now, the County Magistrate won’t allow Spirit Hunters like us to leave the county for that long.”
“There will be opportunities in the future.”
Su Huafang patted Li Lin on the shoulder.
Then he went off to discuss matters with He Yumao.
A short while later, Bai Bufan seemed to have recovered from his disappointment.
He came over and whispered,
“Patrol Hunter Li, teach me.”
“Teach you what?”
“How to win the favor of female gui like Her Ladyship!”
Li Lin thought for a moment.
“Talk to her often. Even if she doesn’t respond, don’t be afraid. Greet her frequently. Given enough time, it should work out.”
That was exactly what he had done.
At the beginning, aside from interacting with him while absorbing essence energy, the Tree Immortal Lady ignored him entirely.
Now they could at least chat occasionally.
Although she still spoke very sparingly.
Bai Bufan nodded repeatedly.
“So in other words, cling to her relentlessly. Looks like female gui and women aren’t that different.”
He felt confident now.
All he lacked was meeting a beautiful female gui.
Li Lin patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.
Su Huafang soon finished negotiating with He Yumao.
Returning, he handed each of them a small money pouch.
“Escort Chief He is generous. This time, he paid the reward in advance.”
Ten taels of silver might not sound like much.
But receiving that reward simply for traveling along the same route was actually quite worthwhile.
Very soon, the group set off.
The first four nights passed normally.
No problems arose.
But on the fifth night, an accident occurred.
A woman could no longer endure her need to urinate.
She was unwilling to relieve herself near the group.
After all, she still had some sense of shame.
So she went farther away and reached the edge of the circle formed by the Boundary-Warding Powder.
She hid behind a clump of grass to relieve herself.
Unexpectedly, because she was too close to the Boundary-Warding Powder, and because there was rather a lot of urine, some of it flowed to the side, soaking the powder.
It even washed open a small gap.
Then she was seized by a gui.
She let out a scream.
The five Spirit Hunters immediately became alert upon hearing it and rushed out to rescue her.
Su Huafang immediately restored the Boundary-Warding Powder.
The white jade plaques on Li Lin and the others emitted red light as they followed the screams.
Inside the protected circle, He Yumao was cursing furiously.
“How many times have I said it? Don’t wander too far from the group. Damn it, some people just refuse to listen. If you want to die, go die by yourselves. Don’t drag everyone else down with you.”
At that moment, a man was desperately kowtowing, wailing loudly.
“Escort Chief He, please, have mercy. Save my wife. Our two children are still too young. They can’t do without her.”
He Yumao rushed over and kicked the man to the ground.
Then he cursed angrily,
“You bastard, and you still have the nerve to cry! You can’t even keep your own wife under control. You might as well die. You’re a disgrace to men.”
The two children nearby were trembling with fear.
They threw themselves beside their father and did not dare move.
The crowd was deathly silent.
No one dared speak.
Only the man’s sobbing could be heard.
But after a while, several people rushed in from outside the Boundary-Warding Powder.
It was Li Lin and the others.
At the same time, Bai Liwei and Bai Bufan were dragging a woman back between them.
It was the woman who had been carried away by the wild gui.
However, upon seeing this woman, everyone except the Spirit Hunters was filled with horror.
Including her husband, the man who had been crying so miserably moments ago.
Because the woman’s stomach was enormous.
As enormous as that of a woman carrying a full-term pregnancy.