The original repairer

Chapter 188 Forced to join the gang

The information Shi Chen had purchased from the Immortal Inn was expensive! However, he felt it was well worth it.

Although Lingxilou's information was more comprehensive and the price was lower than what he paid this time, Shi Chen did not consider obtaining information from Lingxilou at the first time.

Because buying information from Lingxi Tower would be recorded by Lingxi Tower, which was run by the Dahe Xianzong. In recent years, there would be someone to follow up on highly sensitive news, which would put Shi Chen in a very passive position.

Although the records of information purchased through the Immortal Stack would be transmitted to the Dahe Immortal Sect, the risk assessment reported by the Immortal Stack would be much lower, giving people the impression of being a social novice. This way, Shi Chen would have enough space to buffer and verify a lot of information.

During his contact with Qingluo and her subsequent seduction, Shi Chen acted indifferent to his friend, but his expression revealed anxiety.

This directed Qingluo's attention to finding friends, and by the way, she intercepted a few people who had escaped the auction house's looting and made a fortune, while also learning the truth about the God-Forging Pill recipe.

The next day, at noon, Shi Chen left the cave and quickly walked out of the Immortal City, heading north. Outside the north gate, a Foundation Establishment cultivator watched Shi Chen disappear. He took out a communication talisman, his mouth slightly open for a moment, then put it away and followed the crowd into the Immortal City.

In half a day, Shi Chen arrived more than 400 miles north of Chaoruixian City.

Tall trees stood all around, and sunlight filtered through the dense leaves, casting dappled rays of light that fell on the ground like golden sand. The road under Shi Chen's feet was rugged and covered with thorns and rocks.

There are many caves in the mountains and forests, many of which are interconnected. Shi Chen estimated that the group of monks who kidnapped Huang Qi should be within a hundred or two hundred miles. However, their tracks are difficult to find. Among them, there must be experts in tracking, making it very easy to eliminate their tracks.

He could only resort to the most foolish method, but also the most effective one. He hid his cultivation level to the early stage of the Golden Core, pretending to be a solitary cultivator hunting monsters. The magical weapons he wore were all top-grade, revealing the appearance of a nouveau riche.

Every day, he would circle around within a hundred miles, hunting some monsters in the late foundation-building stage and early golden elixir stage.

On the third day, Shi Chen had an intuition that he had entered a surveillance area, but he failed to detect the surveillance methods.

After nearly a month of hunting, he had killed two early-stage Jindan monsters and seven or eight foundation-building monsters. Shi Chen had already searched the entire two-hundred-mile area but hadn't found any trace of the cultivators.

Occasionally, I would encounter a team of foundation-building monks hunting monsters, but they were not my target.

Shi Chen's thoughts began to waver, wondering whether he should return to Chaorui Immortal City and look for information about the group of cultivators again, or whether they had already gone somewhere else.

He only vaguely felt that this place, which gave him the feeling of being monitored, should be the hiding place of the monks. However, his tracking skills were too poor, and he could only detect some of the monitoring feelings by intuition.

He made a final decision to search for another ten days. If there was still no clue, he would return to Chaoruixian City to deal with the hunted monsters, and then find out the latest news to see if there was any trace of their latest whereabouts.

The feeling of being monitored is always there.

He now appears to be a cultivator who hunts monsters alone. Capturing ten monsters in a month is already a considerable amount of resources for a single monster-hunting cultivator. He should also return to the Immortal City to deal with the monsters and supplies, and collect information again.

Another eight days passed, and still no clues were found. Shi Chen encountered several foundation-building monsters, but he was in no mood to hunt them. He searched the deep mountains and forests for a long time when he suddenly heard a roar.

"Ow!"

Shi Chen scanned with his spiritual sense and spotted a giant black-scaled python entwined with an Ironback Bear ten miles ahead. The two Jindan demonic beasts engaged in a fierce battle, their black scales shattering and blood splattering everywhere. The bear's claws smacked the snake's head, its jaws biting the neck beneath it. On the surface, the Ironback Bear seemed to have the upper hand.

"Hey! Hiss!"

The black-scaled python's body tightened, wrapping around the Iron-backed Bear. Shi Chen could feel the pressure of the Iron-backed Bear being entangled in his consciousness.

"Snap! Snap! Snap!"

The Ironback Bear's bones were squeezed by the enormous entanglement pressure, making a grinding sound. Many bones could not withstand the pressure and began to break.

"Roar!"

The Ironback Bear roared angrily.

Taking advantage of the Iron-back Bear's loose mouth, the Black-scaled Python slid its body around the Iron-back Bear's neck and came behind the Bear's head.

The black-scaled python bared its fangs and bit the back of the Iron-back Bear's neck.

The Ironback Bear sensed the danger and quickly turned around to try to resist.

However, the giant python was extremely fast and bit the Ironback Bear's back, with its sharp fangs deeply embedded in its flesh.

The Ironback Bear roared in pain and struggled with all its strength, trying to break free from the python's restraints. However, the python's grip tightened, making it almost impossible to move.

At this tense moment, the Ironback Bear suddenly launched a final counterattack, swinging its huge paw with all its might, fiercely hitting the python's body.

The giant python was in great pain from the blow, but it still held on to the Ironback Bear tightly and refused to let go.

The battle between the two entered a white-hot stage, and the air around them seemed to freeze.

When Shi Chen arrived at the scene on his sword, he discovered that there were already three groups of monks hiding in the dark, waiting for the outcome of the battle between the monsters so that they could reap the benefits.

His appearance made the three waves of hidden cultivators visibly nervous. Even the fighting Jindan monsters stopped their attacks.

His spiritual sense swept in all directions, and after a glint of light flashed in his eyes, he said, "You guys continue, sorry to bother you!" The flying sword under his feet turned back on the spot and flew away quickly.

Less than three breaths after he left, a group of five cultivators came chasing him. Two of them were at the middle stage of the Golden Core, one was at the perfect stage of the Foundation Establishment, and the other two were at the late stage of the Foundation Establishment.

If Shi Chen was only at the initial stage of the Golden Core stage, the strength of this group of cultivators would be enough to crush him.

A quarter of an hour later, he had already flown dozens of miles on his sword. He slowed down his flying speed and waited for the group of monks behind him to catch up.

"Fellow Daoist, please stay!" From a distance, the leading cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm asked Shi Chen to stop.

Shi Chen cooperated and stopped, waiting until the others flew up to him before he spoke: "Fellow Daoists, why don't you go hunt the two monsters and chase me instead? What do you think?"

The mid-stage Jindan cultivator who spoke waited until another mid-stage Jindan cultivator behind him blocked Shi Chen's retreat before speaking, "Haha! Fellow Daoist, seeing two monsters fighting each other, you don't want to be the one to take advantage? We would like to invite you to join us in suppressing the other two and seizing the monster corpses. What do you think?"

Shi Chen sneered in his heart. These people clearly saw that he was alone and wanted to recruit him to their group before finding a chance to deal with him.

However, he remained calm on the surface, frowning slightly as he thought.

He knew that if he refused outright, these people would definitely not give up and might even attack him immediately. But if he agreed to their request, he would definitely get into trouble.

He quickly weighed the pros and cons and thought about how to deal with it.

The strength of these people cannot be underestimated. Two mid-stage Jindan cultivators are already difficult to deal with, and with the other three foundation-building cultivators, if a conflict arises, he is confident that he can escape unscathed.

However, judging from their behavior, they are definitely not good people and will definitely pursue us relentlessly.

In the end, he agreed to let them take the monster's corpse together, and they might attack him in the end.

Shi Chen sighed inwardly. He didn't want to cause trouble, but he didn't expect trouble to come to him.

He decided to stabilize these people first and then look for an opportunity to escape.

So, he slowly said, "My fellow Daoists, your suggestions are not bad, but I am weak and I am afraid that I will hinder you. Besides, those two cultivators are not easy to deal with. Are we really sure we can suppress them?"

"Don't worry, fellow Daoist. The strength of our side is comparable to that of the two sides combined. If you join us, they will weigh the pros and cons and may retreat without a fight." The Jindan cultivator in front of him explained with a smile.

"I'm afraid what fellow Daoist said is not true. If we cooperate, they can also cooperate. By then, their strength will be so great that it will be difficult to deal with them. There are also two monsters ahead, so I'm afraid we will return empty-handed." Shi Chen said coldly, looking at the cultivator in front of him.

"Don't worry, fellow Daoist. As long as you join us, we can scare off the other two parties first, and then capture the monster." The Jindan cultivator behind him said softly.

"If that's the case, why don't you three cooperate, kill two monsters, and then divide the profits equally according to the effort?" Shi Chen raised a doubt.

"Three-party cooperation is certainly good, but the distribution of income will be reduced a lot. Don't you want to get a bigger share, fellow Daoist?" said the Golden Elixir in front of him.

"Haha! It's better to get less profit if you are not strong enough than to fight each other and put your life in danger, right?" Shi Chen said with a sneer.

"Fellow Daoist, we all understand the benefits at hand. If none of the three parties were strong enough to intimidate the other two, there wouldn't be the current three-way confrontation. You should decide whether or not to join!" The Jindan cultivator in front of him released his aura, hinting at the intention of taking action. The Jindan cultivator behind him also became alert.

For a moment, the scene fell silent.

Shi Chen looked at the Jindan cultivator in front of him coldly, his heart calm, his eyes half-closed.

Several foundation-building cultivators outside the three of them retreated one after another, holding talismans and magic weapons tightly in their hands to prevent the Golden Core cultivator in the field from exploding.

"Fellow Daoist, if you act this way, and I don't join, are you not allowed to leave?" Shi Chen said angrily.

The Jindan cultivator who was blocking the way behind him said, "Don't worry, fellow Daoist. We have good intentions, but our strength is not much different from the other two parties, so we can only resort to this last resort. If you ask fellow Daoist to join us, we can suppress the other two parties."

"I can agree to join you, but you have to make it clear that I can only stop one cultivator below the middle stage of the Golden Core. After obtaining the monster's corpse, I want 20% of the harvest." Shi Chen put forward the conditions.

"Okay, but you must stop at least one Jindan cultivator so that we can free up our hands to deal with the other cultivators." The Jindan cultivator in front of him said happily.