Demonic World: I Pay to Win in Cultivation

Du Kang raised his umbrella and walked in the alley in the dark.

In the past, it was depressing and dull, but it also reveals the twisted and bustling Tuwei Alley. There is no pedestrian in the Tuwei Alley.

Fortunately, most of the small towns in the south of the city were engulfed in flames tonight, and the flames illuminated the way forward for pedestrians.

The sky was burnt red, and the red light passed through the dense cover above Du Kang's head and hit the wet bluestone slab, reflecting a dreamy color.

"When the moon is dark and the wind is high, when killing people and setting fire. The fire tonight is really big. It burns the night into day. Pity me, a hard worker, who has no time to go home and look at my house. After escaping an unreasonable disaster Come here first."

Du Kang stopped in front of the grocery store, hid under the eaves in front of the store to avoid the rain, and then put away his bamboo umbrella and knocked on the closed store door.

Boom boom boom!

"I'm a customer who came here a few days ago. I'm suddenly very interested in the iron star wood business that the store mentioned that day. Can you come in and discuss it in detail?"

What Du Kang responded to was a long silence, and there seemed to be no one in the store.

"I came here with sincerity. If I don't open the door, I will wait outside the store to let the store know my sincerity."

Du Kang was not in a hurry, and knocked on the door of the iron star wood store again, causing the unique deep sound of this kind of wood to spread far in the silent Tuwei alley.

squeak--

This time the shop door was opened, and the old man holding a snuff bottle looked at Du Kang expressionlessly, then turned and walked back into the dark shop.

"Please come in and discuss in detail."

The bamboo umbrella in Du Kang's hand turned into a green light and disappeared. He walked into the shop, turned his head and closed the door.

Amidst the creaking sound, the red light shining on Du Kang's face through the gap in the door became narrower and narrower, and finally the door was completely closed, and the Tuwei Lane returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.

Du Kang's fingertips lit up with a ray of fire, piercing the darkness in the store.

The narrow aisle is full of lingering smoke, and the firelight can only penetrate a small piece of smoke, and at the edge of the firelight, you can faintly see the shops leading the way ahead.

"Come on, Tie Xingmu is in the store."

An indistinct voice came from the smoke. After Du Kang heard the words, he followed him and walked forward.

"Why did the customer suddenly change his mind and want to buy the wood for my coffin?"

"I went to see the sea boat seller you introduced today, but the boat was broken and expensive, so I wondered if I could build one myself. If the store's iron star wood can sell me cheaper, I'll buy more , build a bigger ship."

"The customer came to the right place. In the early years, I bought iron star wood logs, which can be made into keels by simple cutting, and can also be made into various boards. You must buy more."

"Since I'm here, I don't want to return empty-handed."

The conversation between the two became indistinct in the fog, which seemed very strange.

But the two of them had their own thoughts at the moment, and they pretended not to know the atmosphere at the moment. Amidst the uninterrupted conversation, they came to a spacious room deep in the shop.

Du Kang has always been curious about the structure of Tuwei Lane. From craft workshops to grocery stores, it seems that there is an open space behind their narrow storefronts. If every store does this, the underground and ground spaces will not be enough. Zhan Cai is right, and I don’t know how these black shops negotiate to solve these problems.

This place is also filled with thick fog, and tall logs are faintly standing in the smoke, and the end can't be seen at a glance.

"Here, there are a total of more than 160 logs stored here. The thickest one is two feet thick, and the thinnest is one foot thick. The length is variable. You can buy as long as you like it."

Du Kang came to the outermost log and tapped it lightly. The iron star wood sounded as dull as iron, and it was indeed a good wood.

"There are bigger ones inside, so come in and have a look."

The shopkeeper's voice sounded in the depths of the smoke, and the refraction of the fog and the logs made his voice even more weird, but Du Kang smiled faintly, and walked towards the woods composed of logs.

"There is one thing, I have always wanted to ask the guest, my buddy went to buy the boat with you, the guest has already returned, why didn't he come back?"

The figure of the shopkeeper had completely disappeared into the thick fog, and his voice had also become to sound from all directions.

"We separated at the pier. I have always walked fast. Your guy should have been left behind."

Du Kang stopped in the logs, and seriously answered the shopkeeper's question.

"Okay, something happened in the city tonight. The Bai family directly released the Bone Demon God to fight with people. There seems to be a lot of commotion on the bank of the Canglan River. You came back from there, do you know what happened there? ?”

"It seems that the spies of Heimu Island were exposed. After a fight, many ships sank and many people died."

"So that's the case, the customer is really big-hearted. After such a big incident, he still has to come to buy wood tonight. Aren't you afraid of bumping into the bone demon soldiers of the Bai family on the road?"

"It's because something happened that I was in a hurry to come tonight. If your store is afraid of the power of the Bai family and keeps closing, even if I have money, I won't be able to buy Tie Xingmu."

Du Kang responded to the other party's trash talk with a smile, but an iron-black shield appeared in his hand, and turned around to block a silent stab from the old man in the store.

clang!

The old man had already changed his attire. He wore a bamboo hat made of condensed smoke on his head, and a coir raincoat of the same texture on his back. After the sneak attack's sleeve arrow was blocked by the iron lion shield, he retreated into the dense fog and disappeared again.

"Why did the shopkeeper sneak up on me?"

Du Kang 'turned pale with shock' and hurriedly asked.

"I should ask you this. Did you kill my buddy? Why did you come here late at night?"

clang!

Sparks came out from the collision between the Iron Lion Shield and the Hidden Arrow, and the old man who had just emerged from Du Kang's feet was crushed under the shield he pressed down on.

Seeing that he was under control, the smoke from the old man's coir raincoat and bamboo hat spread out and enveloped his whole body, and the old man under the shield instantly dispersed into a cloud of mist and disappeared into nothingness.

"Please stop the store, is there any misunderstanding between you and me?"

"Since we have made a move, even if we didn't have a misunderstanding before, we have it now. You can stay here today."

"That's what I've been waiting for, you can attack me first... that's really great."

Hearing this, the anxious look on Du Kang's face gradually disappeared. He stood the shield on the spot, scanned the surroundings with his eyes, and then a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and rushed into the smoke like a ghost.

bass!

The golden claws cut through the smoke behind a thick log, and a stream of blood sprayed out, dyeing the dry and hard bark of the log crimson.

The old man in the smoky coir raincoat showed his figure on the spot, clutched his stomach and quickly disappeared, causing Du Kang's second claw attack to miss, and only stirred up a thick cloud of smoke.

After shaking off the blood stained on the claw blade, Du Kang checked the opponent's information while being alert to possible sneak attacks in the smoke.

【Name】: Left Smoker

[Smoke method]: The smoke is lingering, like a dream, if you inhale more, you will feel like a fairy. The lungs are transformed with spiritual smoke all the year round. If the human lungs can adapt to the poison of smoke without dying, they can be trained to store smoke and gain the ability to control smoke.

Grade: D

Skill: Misty Cape and Smoky Shroud (Quadruple)

Storage in Smoke (Quadruple)

Blue smoke miasma (quadruple)

Surrounded by clouds and smoke (triple)

Smokey (Triple)

Advancement condition: The monk himself developed a spiritual smoke, and after smoking it, he would ascend to heaven immediately, or be promoted immediately.

"It turned out to be an old man playing with cigarettes. Although you are a middle-level monk, it is not good for your health to take so much smoke into your lungs when you are old."

Du Kang walked forward among the logs, using words to test the opponent's state, but unlike before, he changed from a prey to a hunter.

The only thing Du Kang has to worry about now is how he should chase the prey if the prey is afraid of running away.

It is really a last resort to come to Tuwei Lane late at night.

Du Kang made a move on the pier before, and even killed a mid-level demon soldier from the Bai family. The Bai family will definitely not let go of this clue.

Although Lin Kuohai was killed, as the landlord of Canglan City, the Bai family found out the identity of a person through a dead body very easily.

Du Kang was busy with work, and the early communication with the grocery store was all done by Zi She. He couldn't guarantee that Zi She didn't show any signs of leakage in front of the other party.

Originally, if the transaction did not go wrong, none of this would be a problem. But something went wrong in the transaction. The seller of the sea-going ship happened to be Heimu Island, and during the transaction, the Bai family happened to attack Heimu Island.

The Bai family must be able to find a sundry shop. If this shop really saw something from Zi Snake, if Du Kang didn't come tonight, he would have to run away with his whole family overnight.

He must silence everyone who may know that he appeared on the boat tonight, so as to prevent the Bai family from finding him through the remaining clues. Du Kang, who is still in the stage of wretched development, does not have the strength to face such a powerful force head-on.

Therefore, this old man must die, besides, this time he was the one who attacked Du Kang first, didn't he?

Doing mental work, Du Kang's heartbeat became more stable. He walked a few more steps in the smoke, and suddenly he knelt down slowly while clutching his chest, and groaned in pain.

"You, you poison the smoke, you, you don't talk about martial arts..."

The stabbing pain in his lungs made it difficult for Du Kang to breathe. He opened his mouth wide and wanted to continue panting, but the pain of suffocation made his face turn red and he couldn't take a breath.

"help me……"

"Don't pretend, the poisonous attack in the smoke is not like this. If I approach you to make up the knife, you will only poke a few more holes in my body."

There was a sense of weakness in Zuo Smoker's voice. It seemed that the claw just now had been seriously injured, so he paused before continuing.

"I suddenly figured it out just now, why did you take the initiative to provoke me in the middle of the night. The place where the accident happened by the Canglan River is very close to the business I introduced. The Bai family has always been domineering. Did you hack to death in the chaos? Their demon soldiers? Don't worry, I won't say anything about them, those big forces and us little... poof..."

Puff puff.

In a corner of the log forest, Zuo Smoker, who was leaning against a thick log, looked in horror at the several vines piercing from his chest.

These vines pierced his body, rapidly growing smaller forks in his body, and the forks grew fine wooden thorns, spreading rapidly through the flesh and blood, and soon covered his muscles and bones, Fix him firmly to the log and cannot leave.

Zuo Smoker opened his mouth to say something, but the blood poured into his lungs made him unable to make a sound, only the holes in his chest were bursting with thick smoke, making him look like a burst balloon.

The fighting ability of the smoke method is not strong. The reason why Du Kang followed Zuo Yanke into the house just now was because he was afraid that the noise of the fight on the street would be too loud and attract unnecessary attention.

The reason why the indoor battle was dragged on for so long was just to figure out his magic ability, so that he could kill him with one blow and not give him a chance to escape. The ability to hide in the smoke is extremely useful in assassination and escape. superior.

Du Kang, who was strolling in the courtyard, walked up to the dying Zuo Yanke, put the claw blade on his neck, and said.

"Do you have any last words?"

"Why, why?"

"It's our bad luck. But I'm more to blame. It's my lack of carefulness that hurt you. Do you have any regrets in your life? I can help you do it."

"My biggest... regret is that... I can't... kill you."

Zuo Smoker spat out these words with the last of his strength, and then his brain was invaded by vines, and he fell into the emptiness and dazedness of physical death.

The hole on the back of the chest and the billowing smoke are still coming out of the mouth and nose. Du Kang's fingers wrapped in five-color chains grabbed the head of the dead Zuo smoker, forming a cloud of gray mist and constantly struggling. Just got caught in the hand.

"Forgive me for not being able to help you fulfill this last wish of yours, so I'll change it for you on my own."

He took out the jade-necked jug from his stomach, and with five-colored lights flashing in his hands, he patted the jug into Zuo Smoker's yin spirit, stabilizing the gray mist.

"This is a low-level magic weapon. Although it is not very powerful, it can help you stabilize the Yin God. I will not snatch those precious items in your magic space. Leave this world."

"Why? I still don't understand."

Passively refining a natal magic weapon made Zuo Yanke's yin spirit much stronger. He questioned angrily, after all, no one can calmly accept being killed.

Du Kang closed his eyes and remained silent, perceiving the ghost world closest to the present world, following the mysterious induction in the dark, he raised his hand and beat the roaring Zuo Smoker into it.

"Of course it's to save your life. Go to another world and start a new life. In my hands, you still have a chance to live another life. If the Bai family finds you, you won't be treated so well."

With Yinshen's departure, the smoke in the left smoker's lungs was completely out of control, and thick smoke of various colors mixed into a black-gray mist spewed out from the wound, dyeing the originally white smoke outside into black.

Du Kang's Qingluo cover that was hidden on the body surface was completely released after the enemy's death, forming a spherical cover to wrap him in it. After looking around the remaining scene, Du Kang said to Zuo Smoker's body.

"Although the value of the jade-necked jug is far from comparable to this batch of wood, you don't need them to support you in another world. As a benefactor who saved your life, it doesn't seem right for me to take them as a reward." It's too much."

Du Kang put his hand on an iron star wood log beside him, and this two-foot-thick and one-foot-long log was taken into his stomach.

Walking around in the spacious room, more than one hundred and sixty logs were transferred through the stomach bag and transported to Wuyun Palace as reserve wood for building seagoing ships.

This time sending Zuo Smoker to reincarnate, Du Kang just wanted to protect himself and had no greed for his wealth.

Zuoyanke's smoke method has the ability to store things in smoke. If you really want to kill people and steal money, forcing the other party to take out the items in the storage space is the right way.

Those things that look small but expensive are the most valuable things in Zuoyanke, and they are much more valuable than these large pieces of wood.

But Du Kang couldn't do such a thing of killing and extorting goods, and he collected these woods based on the principle of not wasting. In addition, he just needed iron star wood as an alternative for shipbuilding, so he chose them as his reward.

When everything was tidied up, there was only one corpse that kept spewing thick smoke left in this room.

Du Kang lightly tapped the corpse with his index finger, golden ripples of the rejuvenation technique rippled on the corpse, and the wound made by the blue-faced boy healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

But in a short while, Zuo Yanke's pale-faced body returned to a ruddy complexion, and after the wound on his body was sealed, the lungs no longer emitted smoke.

Putting this not yet completely dead body into the demon refining beads, leaving a glimmer of hope for the return of the other party, Du Kang got up and was about to leave, but unexpectedly found that there was a blue light reflecting on the ground.

He leaned over and took the object in his hand, and found that it was an emerald green snuff bottle, and the other party's information also appeared on the panel.

【Name】: Jasper Gold Silk Snuff Bottle

Level: middle and lower grade magic weapon

characteristic:

Thousand Smokes: Thousands of smokes can be stored in it, and each smoke can be stored in one side.

Jasper Gold Silk: A jasper gold smoke can be automatically generated every day, which can be accumulated every day.

"Yeah, feelings are magic weapons and magic weapons that can be exchanged for one, so Zuo Smoker will lose a lot."

Du Kang, who had just bought a hip flask, bought a snuff bottle with similar functions in a blink of an eye. These things fell into the hands of Du Kang, who was not good at drinking or smoking.

The jasper bottle of this magical weapon was also inlaid with fine golden threads. Du Kang took it to his eyes and looked at it carefully, and the panel unexpectedly responded again.

[Name]: Du Kang

[Life]: 43 years and 192 days / 285 years and 334 days

[Smoke method]: Slightly...

[Holding spiritual smoke that meets the requirements can consume 86 days of lifespan to complete, do you want to practice? 】

The gold thread inlaid on it turned out to be the cultivation method of smoke method...