Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

105: Ancient Yu Kingdom Sacrifice SiteA flash of white light, and a young rabbit-eared girl appeared before Qin Jiang.

”I didn’t mean to! I was just hungry! I’ll leave right now! I’m sorry! Don’t eat me!”

A clear female voice rang out, and the rabbit-eared girl looked at Qin Jiang in terror, inching backward.

Her heart trembled, only blaming herself for not being able to control her mouth. The Mountain Lord had said this Dragon Clan wouldn’t stay here for long, so why couldn’t she just endure it!

”Don’t kill me, don’t kill me! It wasn’t easy for me to cultivate a human form, and I haven’t even been to a human city yet. At least let me see it before I die.”

Opposite her, Qin Jiang had already transformed into his Dragon form, his vertical pupils shifting between the rabbit-eared girl and the ginseng.

He bared his teeth in a smile, ”Very well, for stealing and eating my ginseng, have you decided how you want to die?”

The rabbit-eared girl’s eyes were wide with terror. She stared blankly at the ginseng beside her, ”Is this yours? I didn’t know! I’ll compensate you, okay? Please, don’t kill me—Ah!!!”

Seeing Qin Jiang approaching step by step, the rabbit-eared girl immediately sprang up and fled, crying as she ran, ”I’ll compensate you! I really will! Mountain Lord! Mountain Lord! Mountain Lord, save me!”

That night, near the middle section of the Maple Forest Mountain Range.

Qin Jiang sat in front of the bonfire, stirring the soup base in the pot with a spoon. Inside, some meat chunks and ginseng were stewing, the sinews tough, without a trace of fat.

He picked up the spoon and took a mouthful of soup to taste, ”It’s a bit bland, get some salt.”

The rabbit-eared girl beside him flinched, quickly stood up, and walked to the side, her face showing distress, as she tearfully took out her treasured snowflake salt.

Looking at all the treasures on the ground, they were hers just a moment ago, but now they all belonged to this Dragon Clan fellow!

But thankfully, her life was saved. At worst, she could just find humans to trade with later.

”Use it sparingly, it’s very precious,” she said, emboldened.

Qin Jiang smiled at her words, ”Speaking of which, Xiaobai, where did you get all these things? Do humans come to this place too?”

This Maple Forest Mountain Range was already close to the desolate lands, with many Essence Spirits and no human cities. How could humans come here?

”Don’t call me Xiaobai! I told you I have a name, I’m called... just call me Xiaobai.”

Under Qin Jiang’s gaze, Xiaobai gradually shrank her head, and her ears drooped.

”You still haven’t told me where these things came from.”

Qin Jiang asked with a smile. If it was from robbery and murder, he wouldn’t mind trying spicy rabbit head, since the Materials were all there.

”You mean these? I exchanged them with merchants outside the mountain range. They are very nice people! They gave me three liang of snowflake salt for just one foot-long ginseng! They even gave me candy! Do you want some?”

As she spoke, Xiaobai rummaged through her belongings and pulled out a pink candy ball.

Qin Jiang smiled at her words. What did she mean, they were very nice people?

A foot-long ginseng was at least five hundred years old, easily worth a thousand taels of silver, yet she only exchanged it for three liang of snowflake salt?

Suddenly, his gaze lingered on the pink candy ball in Xiaobai’s palm.

He casually took it and threw it into his mouth under Xiaobai’s expectant gaze.

Well, wasn’t this a sleeping drug?

And it was the highest grade, capable of knocking out even an ordinary Grandmaster.

He looked at Xiaobai, his gaze a little amused. It was only because this fellow had the Physical Body of a great Essence Spirit; if she were an ordinary Essence Spirit, she would have long been drugged, captured, skinned, and had her tendons pulled out.

The Physical Body of a great Essence Spirit was quite valuable.

”Why are you looking at me like that? Don’t use that kind of look... You’re not still thinking of eating me, are you? We already agreed that I’d find you ten ginseng kings, and you wouldn’t eat me. Your Dragon Clan can’t go back on your word...” Xiaobai retreated timidly.

Qin Jiang shook his head, ”Of course, the Dragon Clan never goes back on their word.”

He even wondered how this fellow managed to become a great Essence Spirit. With such a personality, she should have been eaten clean long ago.

”How did you become a great Essence Spirit?” he asked directly.

Xiaobai was stunned, ”Huh? I don’t know. When I first became a Essence Spirit, I ate a red fruit in a valley, and then I became one.”

”A valley? Where?” Qin Jiang asked.

The Maple Forest Mountain Range had such a treasure? It could make a Essence Spirit directly become a great Essence Spirit!

If he could find that kind of treasure, even if he couldn’t become a high-level Secret Martial Artist due to being restricted by high-level Secret Martial Arts, it could still make his Physical Body stronger! Making his combat power stronger!

”Don’t even think about it, that place is already the Mountain Lord’s territory,” Xiaobai said.

She still remembered her first time attending the Maple Forest Mountain Range’s great Essence Spirit meeting; the Mountain Lord looked at her as if he had seen a ghost.

Later, after knowing how she became a great Essence Spirit, he had always taken good care of her.

Qin Jiang nodded slightly, ”Tell me the location. I’ll go find Wang Wu then.”

Xiaobai’s ears twitched, ”Alright, but you can’t tell the Mountain Lord that I told you.”

”Of course.”

Deep in the Maple Forest Mountain Range, Qin Jiang looked at the large mountain before him. On the cliff face halfway up the mountain, there was a cave entrance.

Comparing it with the map in his hand, he confirmed that this was the location of the Ancient Yu Country’s sacrificial ground he was looking for.

”This is, what you’re looking for, that, what-what?” Xiaobai followed behind Qin Jiang, gnawing on a ginseng root.

”This is it. Do you want to go in together?” Qin Jiang asked.

Xiaobai shook her head repeatedly at his words, ”No, no, no... It’s so eerie and terrifying, there might be ghosts! I’m scared to death!”

Qin Jiang smiled, then turned to look at her, ”If you’re not going, just stay here.”

With that, he casually drew a circle, enclosing Xiaobai within it, ”Guard the seasonings well. If you dare to run, I’ll turn you into spicy rabbit head!”

After speaking, he directly leaped and rushed into the cave in the rock wall.

Xiaobai squatted on the ground, clutching her bundle, staring longingly at the place where Qin Jiang disappeared. They were clearly my things...

She took out a snow-white ginseng and began to gnaw on it. Thankfully, she had kept a jade crystal ginseng.

Inside the cave, Qin Jiang walked nearly a hundred meters along the passage and arrived before a bronze door.

Patterns were carved on the copper door, identical to the Nightmare Beast patterns he had seen that day.

He gently placed his palm on the copper door and applied a little force.

Screech—!

Accompanied by a piercing metallic grinding sound, the bronze door slowly opened.

”Dong!”

Unsure what mechanism had been triggered, a muffled sound came from within the main hall, like a drum, yet somewhat different.

Entering the main hall, Qin Jiang looked around. With his eyesight, even in a place with no light, he could still clearly see things in the darkness.

The main hall was empty, with only a bronze statue standing at the front.

He slightly raised his hand, and black flames fell into the braziers around the main hall. The fuel ignited, emitting a faint oily scent, and bright yellow flames lit up.

Under the illumination of the firelight, Qin Jiang looked at the bronze statue. Its appearance was that of a beast, somewhat similar to the Nightmare Beast patterns on the bronze door.

”Swish!”

A blue light shone from the Nightmare Beast bronze statue, revealing a red-robed woman whose face could not be seen clearly.

At the same time, two copper doors slowly opened on the left and right sides behind the Nightmare Beast bronze statue.

One was marked ’Life,’ and the other ’Death.’

Clearly, this was a multiple-choice question.

However, Qin Jiang was not in a hurry to choose. Instead, he walked to the Nightmare Beast bronze statue and gently placed his palm on it.

[Potential points absorbing... 0.50. 60.70. 8]

[Potential points: 96.1]