BookMe Chapter 366 Cuilin Pavilion
Chapter 366 Cuilin Pavilion
Ye Fan turned and walked towards the reef. Halfway there, he smelled the smell of rotting meat. He frowned slightly and continued walking forward. When he reached the reef, he immediately found another pile of corpses brought over by the black water of the swamp. The corpses were highly rotten and had a large number of maggots on them... emitting an extremely strong stench...
"Ye Fan, those... most of those corpses are also prisoners. Look at the one with the left arm missing. His name is Li Yingfeng. He committed a crime and his left arm was cut off. He was sent here to transport the Xuanqi Stone... The ones over there are the guards who escorted the Xuanqi Stone..."
After observing for a while, Lei Yu covered his nose and mouth and explained to Ye Fan in a muffled voice.
“What the hell is this… The bodies are clearly highly decomposed… Some don’t have any body odor at all, but others stink terribly…”
Ye Fan looked puzzled, "Lei Yu, think carefully about the difference between those rotten corpses that stink and those that don't!"
"this………."
Lei Yu's eyes kept wandering over the highly decomposed corpses, and he even approached them to examine them. "Ye Fan, I don't recognize many of these corpses... But judging from their clothes and the handcuffs and leg shackles on their bodies, they should all be the seriously sentenced prisoners sent by Blackwater Town... We eat and drink the same, and live together. If there is any difference... it's only the powder painted on their bodies..."
As he spoke, a light flashed in Lei Yu's hand, and the small bottle of gouache that he had shown to Ye Fan before appeared again.
"Ye Fan, those corpses that don't have a bad smell...they were painted with the same batch of gouache as the one I currently have...and those corpses that emit a bad smell, the ones I can recognize, were painted with gouache that is not from the batch I have..."
"The reason why I remember it so clearly is because this batch of gouache was distributed through me. A group of guards were attacked by monsters while crossing the swamp, and several of them died. They were short of manpower!"
Lei Yu quickly explained to Ye Fan.
"But this isn't right... These gouaches are all produced by Cuilin Pavilion... They didn't say before that they can cover up the stench of a corpse. No... It's not covering up the stench of a corpse, it's making the stench of a corpse disappear..."
After a pause, Lei Yu spoke again, confusion evident in his voice.
"During the thunderstorm, the corpses... not only did the stench disappear... but they also gave off a faint fragrance, a smell of old people... it's just that ordinary people can't detect it..."
Ye Fan frowned and analyzed.
"Brother, there are more and more smelly corpses. Let's get out of here first!"
At this time, Liu Mengying frowned and spoke.
"Well, let's go!"
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Soon, Ye Fan, Liu Mengying and Lei Yu climbed back on the head of the red-eyed iron-scaled anaconda and continued to move forward.
As the sun sets,
Crows are flying in the sky,
"Lei Yu, we will be able to leave this swamp in two days. Once you are out of the swamp, you better be careful. The mastermind of the assassination gang led by two Hou-level Xuan cultivators will most likely not give up until he achieves his goal!"
Ye Fan, who had just finished practicing the mysterious movements in the Tianyuan Fragments, walked over and spoke to Lei Yu who was helping to light a fire and cook on the reef.
"That's true...but...I don't have anything on me that would be worthy of being targeted by someone with the ability to send out a group of marquis-level assassins..."
Lei Yu looked puzzled. "If they are the Lei family's enemies, then that's understandable... After all, Grandpa has offended many people in his many battles... But whether it's the prisoners or the guards, it's unlikely that they know the identity of my Lei family... The prisoners only have numbers, not names..."
"Could it be that you have obtained some treasure, or know some secret?"
Liu Mengying continued the conversation with great curiosity.
"As for treasures, there are definitely none... As for secrets, it is impossible for a prisoner like me to know any secrets... Grandpa would not tell me important secrets, and my brain is not suitable for knowing important secrets..."
Lei Yu scratched his head, looking even more confused.
"Could it be that the bottle of powder you have... can make the stench of corpses disappear immediately... This is a treasure..."
Ye Fan hesitated for a moment and then spoke.
"If it can make the stench of corpses disappear... it is indeed a good thing that can make the dead live longer... the coroner will also like it... the coroner can also use it... but it won't cause a Hou-level Xuan cultivator to come and hunt me... and he has been hunting me for more than half a month..."
"And even if it's because of the gouache... the gouache comes from Cuilin Pavilion. If you want it, just buy it directly from Cuilin Pavilion... It can be used by prisoners like us, so it must not be something particularly valuable!"
Lei Yu quickly gave his analysis.
“That’s exactly the case!”
Ye Fan nodded, "Lei Yu, just be careful!"
"okay!"
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Two days later in the evening,
With the help of the red-eyed iron-scaled anaconda, Ye Fan, Liu Mengying and Lei Yu finally walked out of the swamp.
"Thank you, Snake. Goodbye!"
As he spoke, Ye Fan threw half of a hundred-year-old blood ginseng to the red-eyed iron-scaled anaconda. The other party immediately bit it, chewed it for a while, and swallowed it with satisfaction.
"Goodbye, Big Snake!"
"goodbye!"
Liu Mengying and Lei Yu also greeted the red-eyed iron-scaled anaconda, and then walked towards the dense forest outside the swamp with Ye Fan.
The red-eyed iron-scaled anaconda held its big head high, and watched Ye Fan leave quietly with its big eyes like big red lanterns. It didn't turn around until Ye Fan's back disappeared from its sight, then it twisted its body and returned to the swamp...
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Three days later at noon,
"Finally we got out of that dense forest~"
Ye Fan stretched and muttered.
"Big brother, look over there, there are a lot of houses and smoke from cooking... This should be the Cuilin Pavilion that Lei Yu mentioned before!"
Liu Mengying continued the conversation excitedly, and while speaking, she pointed to the large buildings built against the mountain in the distance ahead.
Ye Fan turned his head and looked at Lei Yu with an inquiring look. Lei Yu nodded, "That should be Cuilin Pavilion! Although I only came here when I was very young, I remember the architectural layout and the three towering mountains in a triangular shape very clearly!"
"Let's go!"
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The night gradually fell,
Ye Fan, Liu Mengying and Lei Yu did not rush to Cuilin Pavilion, but found a place to set up camp and planned to rest for a night before going.
"Fourth Young Master, we are almost at Cuilin Pavilion!"
"Hurry, there's a smell of food ahead!"
"Let's go!"
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Ye Fan and the other two were eating roasted chicken when suddenly, a loud noise came from afar. After a while, six men, young and old, with tattered clothes, bruises on their faces and many wounds on their bodies, appeared in the sight of the three.
“Gudong~Gudong!”
One of the young men couldn't help swallowing his saliva when he saw the golden and fragrant roasted chicken on the grill. The other men also looked eager for food.
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