Seeing its corpse become still, Xun Xie insisted on throwing a few stones and poking it before he was relieved.

While he a little rash in not using deception which was safer, he wasn’t stupid enough to not check if it was really dead. Wildlife had the most instances of playing dead.

Xun Xie slowly observed every inch of its body before he dared to take a breath.

He turned and walked towards the bamboo basket, took out a torch, lit it with flint, and walked into the bear cave holding the torch.

The flame dispelled the darkness, and the bear cave brightened.

Xun Xie frowned, covering his mouth and nose involuntarily. The smell inside the cave was extremely unpleasant, the urine was stinky, the excrement was foul and there was an extra decayed scent that assaulted the nostrils.

Chi Chi!

There was a sound under Xun Xie's feet. He looked down and moved his foot. A broken bone was on the ground.

It’s impossible to tell whether it’s a human bone or an animal bone.

There are tooth marks all over the bones.

Xun Xie glanced up and saw that there were piles of bones in the cave, no wonder the smell was so bad. The bones were irrelevant, the corpses they had belonged to was the source of the stench.

"Where are the gold, silver, and jewelry?"

Xun Xie looked left and right, kicked away the pile of bones, and suddenly found a skull, the more he looked at it, the more human it looked.

"This brown bear has eaten people..."

Thinking about it, a bag of gold and silver jewelry will not appear in the bear cave for no reason. Someone must have been killed and dragged into the cave by the black bear as a snack, along with his luggage.

Xun Xie cleaned up all the bones near the skull, and then a corner of some old clothes was exposed on the ground.

"Found it!" Xun Xie was overjoyed.

A bulging package came into view!

Xun Xie opened it and took a look. The moment the package was spread out under the light of the fire, the dazzling rays of light suddenly burst out, colorful, and the bear cave was as bright as day, with brilliant splendor.

Brilliant gold bars, shining silver ingots, strings of pearls the size of a cat's eyes...

"So much!"

Xun Xie was taken aback, his first reaction was not ecstasy because he got a windfall, but mostly shock. There was actually so much gold and silver!

Counting down…

There are twelve gold bars, each one weighing a catty.

There are nine silver ingots, each weighing about 10 taels.

There are nine pearl necklaces, each with more than twenty pearls.

In addition, there is a pair of bracelets, which are made of rare blood chalcedony, and the luster is still bright and moving.

Xun Xie quickly covered it!

Then, he took a deep breath.

With his limited eyesight, He can't estimate the total price of this package of gold and silver jewelry. In short, it must be worth a lot!

"I don't know who is the rich man who died, carrying so much property..."

There was too much money, making Xun Xie feel a little restless. Like randomly picking up a briefcase with tens of millions.

If someone finds out that this property is in his hands, it may lead to death and robbery.

Xun Xie carefully checked the gold bars and silver ingots again, and suddenly found a detail, whether it was a gold bar or a silver ingot, there was a lifelike totem carved on it, the blue-eyed green bull.

Xun Xie had never seen gold bars and silver ingots before, so he didn't know if there were totems on them.

But obviously, these gold and silver are most likely the property of a certain force, and they have marked them.

"Blue-eyed green bull, where have I seen it?"

Xun Xie couldn't help feeling agitated. The blue-shirted guest that Old Man Hu had entertained had a blue-eyed green bull embroidered on his clothes, exactly like the totems on the gold and silver.

"This property may not be unowned."

Although the rich man in the bear cave is dead, it does not mean that no one is looking for this windfall.

Realizing this, Xun Xie felt that the money could not be taken out and spent casually, so he had to be careful.

The best thing to do is to melt all the gold and silver and recast them. Or beat them with a hammer…but his perfectionist nature would feel like it was eaten by ants…at least check first. If so, then he had no choice but to beat the gold and silver until the patterns were unrecognizable.

"These nine pearl necklaces don't have any signs, so they should be able to be sold without risk." Xun Xie thought.

Getting rid of these would have been troublesome normally, after all the pawnshops might not be honest, and selling to jewelry shops is also not guaranteed. Fortunately, he was a man with cheats.

Both invisibility and the grand prize robbery were enough to cleanly get rid of the bounty as long as he disguised himself.

He had been a part of the drama club before although it was way back in high school and his skills weren’t superb even among his peers then, increasing his height and changing features wasn’t hard. If he wrapped himself tightly it would be even more impossible to see his appearance. As long as he acted like someone else to hide his normal way of walking and moving, he should be fine. A few rehearsals would be enough to have a passable proficiency to disguise himself.

In modern times this would be very suspicious but he had seen several oddly dressed fellows in town and with no police it was even more of a non-issue.

Unless he met an old silver coin who had vast experience it should be fine, what experts could this country town have? Although he planned to ask around first and screen the targets he would sell to.

He could even exchange with individuals!

Of course, the basis of any exchange would be either Invisibility or 10 second Robbery.

Pick up the package and walk out of the bear cave.

Xun Xie looked at the brown bear, stepped forward, chopped off four bear paws with a chopping axe, and threw it into the bamboo basket along with the package.

He would take the bear bile but unfortunately, he didn’t know where it was and it was too much trouble, his heart also itched for the skin, it was his first prey a souvenir of a warm coat would be wonderful but he didn't know how to skin animals.

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If he didn’t have to be cautious, he would ask some people to carry back the bear or call someone to peel it for him. Unfortunately, he couldn’t.

Being extra paranoid, Xun Xie didn’t know if anyone was looking for the bounty but if they were…and if they knew a bear was involved…the injuries of this bear were clearly man-made, so the evidence must be destroyed.

He had heard some wolfish howls a few times, even if they weren’t wolves they were definitely carnivores so he laboriously chopped up the bear, poking holes everywhere with wide gashes to leak a lot of blood, not satisfied until the stench of blood began to spread.

As insurance, he even cut off a piece of flesh and left it to roast. Placing the stick in the right position so the wind could carry the scent. If he was certain that someone was looking then he would have done a bit more but this was already a bit overboard and pass the caution line.

Afterward, he found a good location, dug a pit, buried the bag of belongings, and only took a silver ingot and a pearl necklace with him.

Weakness…if he was strong then he could easily trot the streets with these in his hand not caring what others thought but even in his past life he wouldn’t dare do so, the ones capable of doing so both there and here, were worthy of being called powerful… or foolish.

With the martial arts in this world and his cheats, he felt the future was bright, until then, he would have to act cautious with every step.

The next day.

As soon as Xun Xie was free, he ran to the shops on the street for a walk.

This afternoon, the autumn wind was bleak.

From a gambling house, there is a lot of commotion.

Xun Xie looked up and walked slowly into the gambling den. There were many people gambling.

Xun Xie was wandering between the gaming tables, looking here and there.

People thought he was here to gamble, and no one chased him away.

After all, he is 1.7 meters tall, not too short, he was also fit to boot and not just tall. If you don't look at his face carefully, he looks like an adult at first glance. Even if not, while some words might be exchanged, there was no such thing as ‘underage’ here, and he would not be kicked out for that reason.

Suddenly, he saw a man throwing a silver ingot on the gambling table and shouted "big! Big?" in his mouth.

Xun Xie hurriedly leaned in and took a closer look at the silver ingot and found that there was also a blue-eyed bull totem on the silver ingot, which was the same as the silver ingot in his arms, so he couldn't tell the difference.

"It seems that I think too much, and the silver ingot looks like this." Xun Xie secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Just to be absolutely certain, he lingered a while and looked at some other silver ingots, he even saw someone win after 7 losses and successfully saw a gold ingot through their victory.

As such, it was confirmed.

The bounty can be sold at will.

The blue-eyed green bull was the standard mark.

"As long as you are careful and don't reveal your wealth, there shouldn't be a big problem." Xun Xie finally let go of his dangling heart, and he couldn't help but feel extremely happy.

He could caress the smooth ingots for a while longer as he slowly liquidized them. They were so nice to touch and pleasing to the eye, if he didn't have to spend it he would love to spend hours looking at it like a piece of diamond jewelry.

A peaceful and regular life begins again.

Xun Xie spins the wheel for a prize every day, takes wax pills, eats exotic animal meat, and practices writing and painting.

At this point three months later, he had already moved on to the 50 year old chewing gum grass, with purple tips like poison and a venomous green mixed with blue lines, he would not have dared to eat it if the plug-in didn’t say it was ok.

While he wasn’t capable of eating it all at once either, a third of the grass was no problem at this point.

A few days later, Old Man Hu suddenly told the apprentices that he had something to do and was going out, and he would come back in a month or so.

All the affairs of the Hu residence are left to his wife to take care of, to collect wax pills and buy exotic animal meat, find the teacher’s wife.

The first time Xun Xie heard that Old Man Hu had a wife, he had never seen this teacher before.

After inquiring a bit, I found out that the mistress has always lived in the inner courtyard and seldom made public appearances.

Old Man Hu left Blue Grain Town the next day. He left with him, Si Luoyan, Di Renjie, Li Che, Sun Bin, and other apprentices, more than 30 people, all of whom were good players in the courtyard.

They escorted truckloads of grain out of Blue Grain Town.

There are many fertile fields around Brue Grain Town. On average, each person can get more than ten acres. It is definitely a large grain-producing area. Selling grain is the main source of income for the common people.

The piles of grain looked like pieces of sapphires as they glistened with the touch of sunlight. With white spots mixed inside the piles of blue.

They were called blue spirit rice and were the common crop grown here. The yield was high and the nourishment was good, better than average rice by 2-3 times. Moreover, when planted with three till wheat, the yield of both was tripled, which was the peculiarity of these two crops.

In Blue Grain Town, most of the people live by farming, and a few do business.

Among the tens of thousands of people, there are not many people who actually learn martial arts.

In the courtyard of Hu Mansion, sometimes new people enter the door, and sometimes old apprentices leave, and they stop learning. The number of people never increased by much, there were only hundreds of apprentices coming and going.

As for the reason, Just look at Xun Xie, the spare change of the village was equal to the life savings of several households or a well-off household.

Even then he had to sell herbs to supplement his study and he was still poor until a few days ago with a ‘jackpot’ like windfall.

"These people are all masters!"

Xun Xie watched the food convoy leave and thus confirmed which people had a higher realm.

Just like Yun Shan, he is not qualified to follow Old Man Hu, obviously, his strength is not good.

Although Old Man Hu and others left, Xun Xie was not greatly affected, and life went on as usual.

It's just that when he received the wax pills and the exotic animal meat, he didn't see the wife. A maid came forward on her behalf and did all the work.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed in a flash.

Xun Xie still did not feel the birth of "blood energy" in his body, he was not in a hurry and insisted on studying hard and practicing hard.

woohoo…

It's winter, and it’s cold and windy.

This evening, a strong wind suddenly blew, and the sky was dark and chaotic as dark clouds covered the sky.

"Why is it like a thunderstorm in summer?"

Xun Xie was practicing painting in the Song mansion's study at the moment when the strong wind blew in the door, the pages of the book were flipped, and there was a rustling sound.

Mr. Song was also reading in the study, looked up at the door, got up, and walked out.

Xun Xie also went out, looking up at the sky.

I saw dark clouds like ink, rolling like tides.

The strong wind blew Mr. Song's arms around, and for some reason, his brows were tightly wrinkled, and his face was solemn.

"Xiao Xie, hide in the study and don't come out." Mr. Song turned his head and looked at Xun Xie and said with a serious expression. Xiao was a similar term to the young in young man.

Seeing this, Xun Xie froze in his heart. He didn't ask any more questions. He turned around and walked into the study, closed the door, and looked out through the crack of the door.

Who would have thought that at just this moment, Mr. Song was no longer there, and he didn't know where he went.

It quickly became dark outside.

In the strong wind, there is fog, the fog is not white, but dark gray, like a tide, it is used from all directions, filling every street and alley, and occupying every courtyard.

Soon, Xun Xie became blind with his eyes open. The outside was filled with gray fog, and he couldn't see anything.

Boom!

Somewhere, there was a huge shock!

"Earthquake?"

Xun Xie clearly felt a slight tremor on the ground, followed by another huge roar.

The tremor was more intense.

Then, the roars came one after another...

"What's the situation?" Xun Xie's heart gradually became uneasy, and something must have happened outside.

In this uneasy atmosphere, time passed little by little.

"It's useless to be in a hurry, be silent, and be calm in every major event, worrying achieves nothing..."

Xun Xie sighed softly and simply stood in front of the desk, holding a pen and drawing, ignoring all the movements outside.

Unconsciously, a picture of a beautiful woman was completed under his pen.

The character in the painting is his maid, Lan Yue, with a lifelike image and expressive eyes.

After the painting is finished, people are also tired.

Xun Xie listened to the outside and became quiet.

But Mr. Song hadn't come back yet. He simply sat on the chair and squinted for a while. Unexpectedly, he went straight to sleep.

It was the second day when I woke up.

Xun Xie opened the door, the sun was shining on him, there was no wind, and the yard was full of dust.

Not long after, he saw Mr. Song.

Mr. Song's face was exhausted, his face was faintly pale, he occasionally coughed a few times, and his health suddenly appeared unwell.

Xun Xie wanted to ask something, but Mr. Song went straight into the bedroom to rest, as if he hadn't slept all night, so he had no choice but to go to Hu's house step by step.

The street is empty.

Xun Xie walked three or four streets, but he didn't see a single person. He felt like he was in a ghost town.

Arrived at Hu Mansion.

Xun Xie was also the first to arrive. He warmed up first, received wax pills and exotic animal meat, and practiced alone. He couldn’t sustain the 5th move as casually as the first four so it didn’t matter if practiced the first four in the yard, when he left, he would simply focus on doing all five until he was tired.

Later, people came one after another.

Yun Shan also showed up, and Xun Xie rushed over to ask about the situation.

"Last night, there was a fierce wind that overturned a large house in Greene Bird Square. I heard that many people were swept away by the strong wind, and there were many missing or dead" Yun Shan said solemnly.

Xun Xie was stunned and a little disbelieving. He went to Greene Bird Square to see it with his own eyes. The sight he saw was ruins, the uniform houses on the street suddenly stopped in one area where rubble was everywhere, and the insides of houses were scattered and mixed with walls.

"Monster, the monster ate my husband..." A woman looked like she was mad and cried hoarsely.

"What monster, I didn't see a monster?"

"Yes, it was so foggy last night that I couldn't see anything."

The people around were talking about last night.

The woman cried: "I saw a monster, very tall, the courtyard wall was only as high as its waist, grabbed my husband, lifted it up, and stuffed it into his mouth..."

Xun Xie listened, cold sweat dripping down.

He thought of the man-eating Bodhisattva again.

Wasn’t that guy supposed to be super rare?

That damned land god!