“I’m not....I’m not....I’m not dead, please.....”
The Old Goat stammered out half a sentence, then gasped for breath with difficulty, facing Du ke saying: “Please....please.....please.....”
The Old Goat stammered for a long time, but he couldn’t get the words out afterwards.
“Are you asking me to select a feng shui treasure land for you?”
Du ke tentatively asked, and the Old Goat was so angry that he choked on his words, rolling his eyes.
“Speak slowly, don’t rush, I have plenty of time!”
Du ke said in a soothing tone, but the Old Goat was cursing inwardly.
You have time, but I’m fucking running out of time.
After a long while, the Old Goat finally caught his breath again.
“Please help this one!”
The Old Goat spoke rapidly to say what he wanted to say. Du ke directly patted his chest and said, "When I see injustice on the road, I will naturally draw my sword to help!"
But in an instant, the cat revealed an awkward expression, struggling to say: "But my brother has contracted a terrible illness and needs to see a doctor!"
"I want to save you, but I really can't!"
When Du ke said this, he also shook the thirteen a little, "After all, I only have money for one medical consultation, and that doctor is a miser."
"I...I have money!"
The Old Goat arduously raised a goat hoof, but Du ke glared at him and scolded loudly: "What are you talking about? I'm saving you for moral reasons, how can I take your money!"
"What I mean is...." the Old Goat struggled to breathe, then said: "I mean I'll pay for the medical consultation!"
"What, brother what did you say?"
Du ke looked up at the thirteen above his head in surprise and said in astonishment: "Are you about to collapse!?"
"Okay, I'll take you to see the doctor now!"
As Du ke spoke, he was about to run away.
This old goat had turbid demonic energy and his aura was filthy. His yellow pupils were also covered in bloodshot veins.
At a glance, he was a blood demon who had eaten people. Du ke must have gone crazy to save this kind of blood demon!
As Du ke held up the thirteen to escape, the Old Goat anxiously shouted: "Sir, sir, sir!"
"Don't leave, don't leave!"
"Oh, it's not that I don't want to save you, it's just that I'm willing but unable."
"How could I bear to abandon my brother?"
As Du ke retreated, he smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm really sorry, I'm truly sorry!"
Du ke's figure gradually disappeared into the fog, and when the Old Goat saw this, he anxiously screamed: "Don't go, I'll give you.... I'll give you..."
Du ke heard the Old Goat's words in the fog, and immediately twisted his mouth. Even if you give me mountains of gold and silver, I won't come back... Hey!
Du ke's ears suddenly stood up, and his pupils also suddenly shrank into vertical lines.
And at this moment, the Old Goat also spit out a blood-stained crystalline stone, tremblingly holding up the stone and saying: "I'll give you compensation!"
"Oh, how can this be!"
Before Du ke could finish speaking, he ran back out of the fog again.
When the Old Goat saw the white cat's appearance, the rage in his heart also surged.
He was also a prominent figure in the Cangzhou Demon Market, so how could he have such bad luck after getting into trouble, and run into such an unlucky thing?
This white cat's fur was white, but his heart must be black!
After Du ke put down the thirteen, he grabbed the crystalline stone block in the Old Goat's hand.
This stone was also strange. Although it was only the size of a mahjong tile, it emitted aura on its own.
Of course, what attracted Du ke back was not the aura emitted by the stone, but the spiritual aura contained in the stone.
The moment this stone appeared, the demonic energy in Du ke's body stirred.
He needed this stone!
To be precise, his Demon Sealing Meditation needed this stone!
As Du ke grabbed the stone to take it back, who would have thought that although the Old Goat was grievously injured and on his last legs, his hooves were extremely powerful, firmly grabbing the crystalline stone and not letting go at all.
"Old sir, what are you doing?"
Du ke showed a fake smile on his face, "I really didn't come to save you for your reward, mainly because when I saw you, I felt as close as when I saw my second uncle who got drunk and drowned in a cesspool in my early years!"
When the Old Goat heard Du ke insult him in such a roundabout way, he spit out another mouthful of blood.
This white cat is inhuman, simply inhuman!
But now that he was in trouble, he needed this white cat's help.
When his injuries healed, he would definitely skin and debone this white cat to vent his hatred!
"Gulu~~"
"~~Ribbit!"
Suddenly, two croaks came out of the fog, but they sounded extremely weak and powerless.
After all, they were swept by the aftermath of the Sun Essence Pellet explosion, if Du ke hadn't escaped quickly and got out of the explosion range early, I'm afraid Du ke would have suffered some internal injuries as well.
Moreover, at the moment the Sun Essence Pellet exploded, Du ke ran outward, while this goat and two toads ran towards the house.
So they were unlucky, while Du ke was fine.
"Hengha Brothers?"
When the Old Goat heard these croaks, he also became excited.
"How are you two?"
"Not dead yet,"
"But injured!"
"We two brothers,"
"Were swept by the fiery aura of the explosion just now,"
"Our skin and flesh are ripped open everywhere,"
"Need to recuperate for some time before we can move again."
In the alternating croaks, Du ke also looked in the direction the sounds came from, squinting his eyes.
These two toads were also blood demons!
"Can you still move?"
As soon as the Old Goat said this, Du ke let go of his paws and walked towards the direction of the croaks.
"Let me go see how those two are doing, wait here for me."
When Du ke said this, his expression also became sinister.
"If their injuries are minor, I can still save them!"
When the Old Goat saw Du ke's expression, his heart suddenly chilled, but before he could speak, Du ke had already walked into the fog and disappeared from the Old Goat's sight.
The anxious Old Goat looked in the direction Du ke had left, also worrying about the Hengha Brothers in his heart.
Although these toad brothers were just gatekeepers, the gifts they were given weren't much. But at this critical juncture, these two toads were the only ones this old goat could rely on.
But there was only deadly silence in the fog, unspeakable silence.
It was as if the white cat who had entered the fog and the croaking brothers from before had never existed at all.
"Snoring~~"
The sound of snoring suddenly came, startling the Old Goat and making him look sideways. As the Old Goat tilted his head, he saw that the wolf cub the white cat had put down was sleeping soundly, even snoring, sleeping so sweetly that snot bubbles came out.
Seeing this scene, the Old Goat cursed loudly in his heart. Didn't you say your brother was terribly ill and needed treatment?
How is this wolf cub sleeping more soundly than a pig?
But at this moment, the white cat walked back out of the fog again, with a sinister smile on his face, and his fur was stained with dots of crimson.
When the Old Goat noticed this, Du ke casually wiped away the blood spots on his body.
As for where these blood spots came from?
Naturally, it was from those two toads!
Those two toads were stronger than Du ke. In a direct confrontation, Du ke might not be their match.
But they were injured now. Du ke directly used Light and Shadow to sneak over, took out his sword pellet, spat out his sword energy, and took the lives of those two toads.
And Du ke had stuffed the toad corpses into the Black Cauldron Space, and cleaned up the surrounding scene, leaving two Sun Essence Pellets behind.
When the Old Goat saw Du ke's sinister expression, he couldn't help but close his eyes in anguish, thinking to himself: "I'm done for!!"
"I'm really sorry, the fog was too thick and I couldn't find the two brothers who croaked just now!"
"Old sir, let's talk again about how to save you!"
Du ke approached the Old Goat, but he did not even glance at the translucent stone block in the Old Goat’s hand.
“You are in a very dangerous situation and need to be rescued immediately.”
“Old sir, do you have any way to call for help? Bring it out so I can save you!” Du ke said in a sinister voice as he approached the Old Goat.
Du ke did not have any good feelings towards these bloodthirsty monsters that ate people.
Although he was also influenced by what had happened at Steaming Cloud Mountain, Du ke was mostly unable to accept the idea of eating people on a psychological level.
Killing was acceptable, but eating people was out of the question!
Otherwise, back at Steaming Cloud Mountain, he would have taken the corpses of those scumbags and used them to refine Blood Food Pellets.
No matter what, there had to be a bottom line.
And this Old Goat and Toad Monster, along with the other monsters killed in the Sun Essence Pellet explosion, had already crossed Du ke’s bottom line.
So don’t blame Du ke for being ruthless!
“Calling for help.....”
The Old Goat gritted his teeth. “I do have a way!”
“But I need to use demonic energy to activate it in order to call for help.”
“You mean this?”
Hearing the Old Goat say this, Du ke immediately remembered the Bone Fragment he had obtained earlier.
He promptly took it out from the Black Cauldron Space.
As soon as the Bone Fragment entered his hand, Du ke immediately infused it with demonic energy, activating it.
Under the stimulation of Du ke’s demonic energy, the Bone Fragment trembled with a buzz, radiating out ripples that disappeared into the void.
Du ke felt a little uncomfortable as the sound waves washed over him.
This was his first time using this thing, and it felt a bit strange!
Seeing Du ke activate this Bone Fragment, a look of desire to survive also exploded in the Old Goat’s eyes. He hadn’t expected this white cat to have the Monster Market’s entry pass.
Once demonic energy activated this pass, it would immediately resonate with the user’s demonic energy, attracting the Monster Market’s ushers.
The Bone Fragment was just the medium, the demonic energy was the beacon.
The Monster Market ushers would follow the demonic energy to arrive, and when that time came.....
As the Old Goat’s thoughts turned, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
Looking up, he saw Du ke raising his head to look at the sky, seemingly waiting for the Monster Market ushers to arrive, with no visible peculiarities.
“Why did you spit blood again?”
As Du ke said this, he also grabbed the Old Goat’s hoof.
“Are you alright?!”
The Old Goat wanted to speak, but spit out another mouthful of fresh blood. As this blood sprayed out, his vitality quickly faded. The Old Goat stared fixedly at Du ke, as if wanting to engrave him into his bones.
As time passed, the light in the Old Goat’s eyes gradually dimmed, his head drooped, and he died on the spot.
“Hey, hey, hey!” Du ke shook the Old Goat. “Dead?”
Du ke examined the Old Goat’s condition again, loosening his grip on the hoof, and curled his lip.
“Looks like he’s really dead!”
“Alas, I didn’t intend to save you, I was going to leave you here to live or die on your own. But I didn’t expect you to be so greedy as to kill yourself for wealth!”
“But who can blame me for seeing through you and you revealing your treasure?”
Du ke pulled out the translucent stone block that the Old Goat had been clutching tightly in his hoof, tossed it up and down, then threw it into the Black Cauldron Space.
Du ke had directly forcibly extracted this old goat's spiritual essence and killed him. Now that the spiritual essence was extracted, Du ke didn't absorb it either, just letting it dissipate.
Forcibly taking lives and extracting spiritual essence would damage one's cultivation.
It would be better to find some items containing spiritual essence and extract the essence from them for cultivation.
Du ke put the Old Goat’s corpse into the Black Cauldron Space, then carefully cleaned up the scene.
He even scattered some Sun Essence Pellets around.
After arranging everything, Du ke carried the unconscious teenager and quickly left this place. Once he reached a certain distance, Du ke directly detonated the Sun Essence Pellets, burying all traces of himself.
Half an hour later, a shadow descended from the sky, black-feathered and gigantic claws, its body massive.
It was a Giant Black-winged Eagle. Seeing the ravaged ground, the Eagle tilted its head, seeming puzzled that the monster it was supposed to usher was not there.
But at that moment, the Eagle suddenly raised its head, looking into the misty distance, flapping its wings and flying away, following that thin but extremely pure demonic aura.
The Monster Market ushers' mission must be accomplished!