CHAPTER 694: CHAPTER 552 YOU DESERVE TO BE HUNTED!_2

Controlling ice and snow?

Yang Zhenshan found it somewhat unbelievable.

Was this magic or a spell?

And what exactly was this Ice and Snow Holy Spirit?

A ghost? A fairy?

Yang Zhenshan was somewhat puzzled, but he didn’t feel it was appropriate to inquire further as it related to the secrets of Snow Spirit Palace, and it was indecorous for an outsider like him to probe too deeply.

Yu Qingyi helped shift the topic: "Why were they chasing you?"

Granny Xue took out a small jade box, "We stole their Light Spirit Fruits!"

"Light Spirit Fruit!"

Yang Zhenshan took the jade box and opened it, inside was a fruit about the size of a ping pong ball, which, to his view, resembled a lychee.

He had never seen this kind of Spirit Fruit before, but he had read about it in the "Strange Fruit and Treasure Record".

"How many did you steal?" Yang Zhenshan asked with a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth.

"Four!" Granny Xue answered.

Yang Zhenshan really wanted to say they deserved to be chased after!

The Light Spirit Fruit is the foundation of Martial God Temple, just like the Three Yellow Plums and Da Rong.

This Light Spirit Fruit had the effect of expanding a person’s meridian points, and after consumption, it could expand the meridian points of Innate Martial Artists, leading to faster circulation of True Qi in the body.

Chai Wuji’s rapid condensation of True Qi into armor just now was probably partly due to having consumed Light Spirit Fruit.

Additionally, Light Spirit Fruit could be used for Alchemy. According to the "Strange Fruit and Treasure Record", the Light Spirit Fruit could be refined into a Yijing Pill, which had the ability to expand the body’s meridians, and for Innate Martial Artists, both Light Spirit Fruit and Yijing Pill were very beneficial elixirs.

"This..." Yang Zhenshan wanted the Light Spirit Fruit.

Granny Xue said, "We’ll offer this Light Spirit Fruit as a token of gratitude for Marquis Yang’s rescue."

Yang Zhenshan laughed heartily, "Then I won’t be polite!"

Saying so, he directly tucked the jade box into his bosom.

Granny Xue didn’t care about a single Light Spirit Fruit, after all, they had stolen four.

She had consumed one herself and left one for Xue Qiaoer, which left two more, more than enough to give one to Yang Zhenshan.

Yang Zhenshan hadn’t expected this windfall, he obtained only one Light Spirit Fruit today, but in a few years, he would harvest countless Light Spirit Fruits.

Having received a Light Spirit Fruit, Yang Zhenshan was in high spirits and no longer felt that Granny Xue and the others deserved to be chased.

As for the Martial God Temple!

Cough cough, the items were stolen by Granny Xue and her group, if Martial God Temple was angry, they should seek out Snow Spirit Palace, this had nothing to do with him.

After talking for a while, they hastily buried the bodies and then headed to a nearby market town.

Many people in the town had witnessed their fight.

The entire market town was now on high alert, with hundreds of soldiers stationed outside, watching Yang Zhenshan and his group warily.

As Yang Zhenshan and his company approached, a cautious Military Officer stepped forward and asked, "May I know who you are, sir?"

He was somewhat fearful, but had to come forward and ask.

"I am Marquis Jing’an, Yang Zhenshan. You need not be tense, we only wish to rest here for the night!" Yang Zhenshan stepped forward and declared.

The Military Officer was taken aback, then asked, "Marquis Jing’an, the one affiliated with Duke Xing Mansion?"

"Um!" Yang Zhenshan nodded and then handed over his marquis seal.

His marquis seal had been changed to a jade square seal, because he was now a hereditary First-class Marquis.

The Military Officer looked at the marquis seal, hurriedly bowed and said, "Deputy Thousand Households of Yushan Town, Yang Yanchun, pays respect to Marquis!"

"Dispense with the formalities, there’s nothing amiss here; carry on with your duties!" Yang Zhenshan said.

This market town is called Yushan Town, which is a market town within the territory of Southern Border Town, and there is a Yushan thousand households ten or so miles to the south, belonging to the West Road of the Southern Border Town.

"Right, I prefer not to have my presence here spread, even if your superior officer learns of it, I don’t want them to come and disturb," Yang Zhenshan said to Yang Yanchun.

The Yang family’s alliance with the Qu family was naturally no secret in the Southern Border Town; presumably, by now, all the officials and military officers in the entire Southern Border Town knew about it.

Yet, Yang Zhenshan’s appearance here was bound to attract attention from some of the officials and military officers, whether it was to curry favor or to visit, Yang Zhenshan did not want to be disturbed.

"Yes! I will convey the Marquis’ wishes to the superior officer!"

"Hmm, is there an inn here?" Yang Zhenshan asked.

"No, but there are a few courtyards for rent in the town," replied Yang Yanchun.

Yang Zhenshan nodded, "Then please trouble you to rent a courtyard for us, we need to rest here for two days!"

Subsequently, Yang Yanchun led Yang Zhenshan into the town and found a small courtyard to settle down.

The small courtyards in the town were that kind of rural homestead, with wicker fences and a few wooden huts. Although very simple, they were still suitable for living in.

After settling down in the courtyard, Yang Zhenshan immediately took out a small porcelain bottle and tossed it to Yang Yanchun, "For your reward, Bone Strengthening Pill!"

Bone Strengthening Pill!

Yang Yanchun clumsily caught the small porcelain bottle and thanked with a beaming face, "Thank you for the Marquis’ reward!"

"Go about your business, don’t come to disturb us!" Yang Zhenshan tossed out a sentence and then entered the wooden hut.

Yang Yanchun bowed and left the courtyard, closing the courtyard door behind him before leaving with a face full of joy.

For Yang Zhenshan, the Bone Strengthening Pill was of little use, but for Yang Yanchun, it was a rare treasure.

Inside the room, Yu Qingyi was chatting with Xue Qiaoer. Xue Qiaoer was recounting their experiences in the Jinlong Dynasty over the past few years. In fact, over the years, they had not only gone to the Jinlong Dynasty but also visited many dynasties to the south, and they had even gone to the territories of the Martial God Temple. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been able to snatch four Light Spirit Fruits from the Martial God Temple.

However, Xue Qiaoer wasn’t very afraid of the Martial God Temple. Even though Snow Spirit Palace’s strength was nowhere near that of the Martial God Temple, the Spiritual Grace Holy Sect as a whole wasn’t much inferior to the Martial God Temple.

After listening to them chat for a while, Yang Zhenshan asked, "Do you still need the Flame Red Lotus?"

"Yes, did you find it!" Xue Qiaoer excitedly looked at Yang Zhenshan.

They had spent years searching but hadn’t found Flame Red Lotus; indeed, it was very rare, even the Jinlong Dynasty hardly could find traces of Flame Red Lotus.

"Hmm, I’ve found it. I have six Flame Red Lotus seeds here; I don’t know if it’s enough for your needs!"

Saying this, Yang Zhenshan took out a wooden box from the bag beside him.

Of course, it wasn’t taken out from the bag but from the Spiritual Spring Space.

These six seeds were left by Yang Zhenshan from last year, and there were also twelve more that Yang Zhenshan had planted in the pond of the Spiritual Spring Space. Now those Flame Red Lotuses were flowering and in a few months could bear some lotus pods.

So Yang Zhenshan wasn’t short of this stuff at all.

"Enough, enough!" Xue Qiaoer, looking at the red-veined seeds in the wooden box, said with a joyful face.

"What do you need so many treasure medicines for?" Yang Zhenshan asked.

In total, Xue Qiaoer had received thirteen types of treasure medicines from him, and Yang Zhenshan felt that this must be an elixir recipe, just that he didn’t know what kind of elixir recipe it was.

And there was also a main ingredient missing, which might be a Spirit Fruit.

Xue Qiaoer hesitated for a moment, then said, "To refine the Soul-attaching Pill."

"Soul-attaching Pill? What is that?" Yang Zhenshan had never heard of this name.

"For the inheritance of the Holy Spirit," Xue Qiaoer explained.

Yang Zhenshan was stunned, "So you gained the power of the Ice and Snow Holy Spirit after consuming the Soul-attaching Pill?"

"Correct, each Palace Master of Snow Spirit Palace must consume a Soul-attaching Pill. However, the pill is extremely difficult to refine, requiring a total of three Spirit Fruits, eighteen treasure medicines, and seventy-two medicinal ingredients, with only three pills able to be produced each time!"

"When the stock of Soul-attaching Pills at Snow Spirit Palace runs out, the new Palace Master has the responsibility to refine a batch of Soul-attaching Pills to ensure the continuation of the Snow Spirit Palace’s lineage for three generations!"

Xue Qiaoer explained.

Yang Zhenshan suddenly understood, that made sense.

The inheritance of the Palace Master of Snow Spirit Palace wasn’t passed down from generation to generation, but rather, they chose the youngest elder female from the Snow Clan, presumably to reduce the consumption of Soul-attaching Pills.