The Eerie Immortal Path: Begin by Devouring Fairy Flesh

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Damn it! I ended up in the same team as Dorothy Lin!

Brandon Jiang frowned deeply and silently retreated to the back of the group.

Just what I was afraid of. Looks like I need to keep a low profile and avoid drawing Dorothy Lin's attention.

I just need to get through today.

Hearing her assigned task, Dorothy Lin nodded and joined the team where Brandon was.

Several elders, being perceptive, immediately greeted Dorothy and collectively nominated her as the leader.

Blending in with the elders, Brandon echoed their words, successfully avoiding Dorothy's notice.

This made Brandon breathe a sigh of relief, realizing he might have overreacted earlier.

Although they entered the sect on the same day, Dorothy Lin was directly admitted and didn't know him at all.

He was just an ordinary person with B-grade top-tier aptitude. Despite catching the eyes of Patricia Qing and Sandra Ye, two Foundation Establishment senior sisters, he wasn't famous enough to be widely known.

He was a nobody; why would Dorothy Lin pay attention to him?

Under Dorothy Lin's leadership, the team entered Senior Sister Heavenly Phoenix's medicinal field.

This medicinal field was vast, far larger than Patricia Qing's, with countless medicinal people stretching beyond the horizon, forming a small world of its own.

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Brandon was in awe. Just within his line of sight, there were no fewer than ten million medicinal people. He couldn't even imagine how many there were beyond his view.

This was just the tip of the iceberg of the wealth of the top talisman master among the Heavenly Lotus Sect disciples, truly astonishing.

But the most terrifying part wasn't the number of medicinal people; it was that a significant number of them emitted Qi Refining auras, ranging from early to late stages.

These Qi Refining medicinal people were completely naked, looking no different from real humans, unlike the mortal medicinal people with blood-red tendrils.

They were no different from the herb gatherers.

These Qi Refining medicinal people filled Brandon with immense fear.

Where did they come from? Would he one day be planted among them?

At this moment, a white-robed disciple beside him noticed Brandon's thoughts and comforted him with a smile:

"Don't worry, Junior Sister Jiang. These Qi Refining medicinal people are mostly cultivators from external forces or captured evil cultivators and demon cultivators."

"Our Heavenly Lotus Sect members won't be planted here unless they commit heinous crimes like betraying the sect or offending the sect master or elders."

Brandon felt slightly relieved but also a bit speechless.

Betraying the sect, sure, but offending the sect master or elders counts as heinous?@@novelbin@@

Does the Heavenly Lotus Sect have a misunderstanding of what constitutes a heinous crime?

But all Brandon could do was silently complain. The most important thing was his current task.

Brandon humbly asked the white-robed disciple beside him:

"Senior Sister, with so many Qi Refining cultivators in the medicinal field, how do we find those with Dragon Thunder Fate?"

"That's simple."

The senior sister smiled, took a hollow awl and a handful of seeds from a tool cabinet at the edge of the medicinal field, and showed them to Brandon, explaining:

"Use this awl to pierce the heart of a Qi Refining cultivator, letting their heart blood flow through the hollow awl to water this seed called Fate Seed."

"If the Fate Seed sprouts a dragon-shaped bud with thunder patterns, it indicates the person has Dragon Thunder Fate."

"If it sprouts into other shapes, it means the person has a different fate, but those must also be recorded for potential future use."

After the explanation, the senior sister solemnly added:

"But Junior Sister Jiang, be careful to only draw heart blood to water the Fate Seed. Don't kill them! Each Qi Refining cultivator is valuable. Losing one or two is fine, but if too many die, Senior Sister Heavenly Phoenix will be furious!"

With that, she handed the hollow awl and Fate Seeds to Brandon.

Brandon looked at the tools in his hands, feeling troubled.

The heart is still a vital point for Qi Refining cultivators.

Drawing heart blood without killing them is quite a challenge!

This requires skill.

Suddenly, Brandon thought of something and curiously asked:

"Senior Sister, you said Qi Refining cultivators are precious. How many ordinary mortals are they worth?"

The senior sister explained:

"It depends on their cultivation level. Early Qi Refining is one tier, mid Qi Refining is another, and late Qi Refining is yet another. Those about to reach Foundation Establishment are in a tier of their own!"

"Qi Refining levels one, two, and three correspond to ten thousand, twenty thousand, and thirty thousand mortals respectively; levels four, five, and six correspond to one hundred thousand to three hundred thousand mortals; levels seven, eight, and nine correspond to one million to three million mortals."

"As for those at the peak of Qi Refining who have taken the Foundation Establishment Pill and are about to establish their foundation, their value is astonishingly high, ranging from five million to ten million mortals depending on their progress!"

"I remember an auction three months ago where a Qi Refining cultivator on the verge of Foundation Establishment was sold for a staggering thirteen million mortal sacrificial furnaces!"

Hearing the clear pricing of Qi Refining cultivators, Brandon was amazed.

He didn't expect his own value to be as high as twenty thousand mortals!

And someone like Chu Jun, who had a high chance of breaking through to Foundation Establishment, had a starting value of five million mortals. No wonder Patricia Qing was so eager to absorb Chu Jun's power and fortune.

At the same time, the strict hierarchy between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment was shocking.

Even if one was just a step away from Foundation Establishment, as long as they were still in Qi Refining, they were an auction item.

But the moment they stepped into Foundation Establishment, they became a buyer.

It was truly cruel.

He suddenly thought of a question: given the consumption of mortal resources, this world must be far more vast than he imagined!

Or perhaps there were other methods of mass-producing mortals that he didn't know about.

Brandon shook his head, refocusing, and followed the senior sisters to find Qi Refining medicinal people with Dragon Thunder Fate.

He approached a male medicinal person at the third level of Qi Refining, piercing his chest with the hollow awl, pushing it in bit by bit.

Soon, Brandon felt the awl pierce something tough, and drops of ruby-like blood flowed out through the hollow awl.

It was the heart blood of a Qi Refining cultivator.

Brandon quickly took out a Fate Seed, letting it soak in the heart blood.

Soon, the Fate Seed trembled, a red sprout broke through the shell, growing rapidly into a flame shape.

It wasn't Dragon Thunder Fate, but seemed related to fire.

But how should he record this? On paper?

Brandon looked up and saw the senior sisters around him using various methods: some carved the fate pattern on the medicinal person's head with a sword, some released insects to bite the pattern onto their forehead, and others used poison, fire, ice, and more.

Those marked medicinal people stood quietly in the vast medicinal field, like categorized merchandise.

Seeing this, Brandon sighed and followed suit, carving the pattern on the Qi Refining medicinal person's forehead.

But he quickly realized that ordinary carvings would heal instantly for Qi Refining cultivators.

He really needed to use Daoist Arts like the senior sisters.

And the only Daoist Art he had learned was the Fire Control Technique, so fire it was.

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