Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31: 31. The golden wind has not moved, but the cicada senses it first.

Rumble...

The stone gate opened.

Song Yan entered the cave mansion as usual.

It was midsummer, and a sudden rainstorm was outside the cave.

The gray gale and the pale torrential rain almost drowned the whole mountain, making visibility narrow.

It was just like the completely unclear situation Song Yan faced.

Yet life had to go on.

Escape was not even an option.

As he entered the cave mansion, Lady Qiu joyfully raised her head, called out "Brother Song," and hurried over with a towel.

Song Yan wiped his slightly wet hair and looked around the cave. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

In other cave mansions, the furnace had long been replaced, yet in his, the two women were still lively and energetic.

The strong vitality of the Multi-tailed Fox Race was vividly manifested in the Princess Consort; although she was older, she remained charming and attractive, her skin taut and elastic, even more delightful than Lady Qiu when they were intimate.

Not far away, in the flower bed, the Profound Flowers and Profound Grass had long flourished, prompting Song Yan to walk over and pause, listening to Cao Xuerou’s detailed explanation of each flower and each grass.

Cao Xuerou seemed quite skilled at tending these plants and was familiar with them.

Song Yan had asked her about this.

She merely said that when she was a maiden in Western Shu Kingdom, her grandfather had once gotten her a book on Profound Flowers from somewhere unknown that explained these things.

Previously, when she was a Princess Consort, dealing with intrigues, handling royal affairs left her no time and energy to manage these, but surprisingly, now that she was here, she had the time and opportunity.

"Song Lang..."

The Princess Consort spoke, her eyes moist, rising like a small woman to lean closer to Song Yan, her face full of joyful happiness, brought by the "Fanatic Fans and the dual effect of wanting to forget pain."

Song Yan held her waist and suddenly said, "Tomorrow I’ll go to the market at the foot of the mountain, is there anything you want?"

"Nothing."

The Princess Consort gently shook her head.

Song Yan suddenly asked again, "Want to drink?"

The Princess Consort hesitated but gently nodded.

Song Yan laughed, "I’ll bring you some."

"Song Lang... Thank you," the Princess Consort tightly hugged the man in front of her.

If there’s fine wine, then one can better indulge in pleasure, immerse in desires, and not think of other superfluous pains.

Wine and lust certainly harm people.

But if a person is already deeply hurt, wine and lust become the last solace.

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The next day...

Song Yan went down the mountain and went to the low-level market around Shadow Puppet Peak, familiar and unimpeded.

Today he didn’t hide but wore the official disciple uniform in profound color.

Over the years, he had figured out one thing: in the sect-run marketplace, you should absolutely not expect to buy any core items, whether it’s Skin Masters, Talisman Masters, Pill Masters’ magic techniques, or the unique Skin Control Technique of Shadow Puppet Peak.

Items for promoting realms are even more out of the question.

Apart from "Fasting Pills," this place primarily sells a kind of elixir called "Profound Qi Pill."

Profound Qi Pill, to put it bluntly, is an "unsuccessfully refined Little Profound Spirit Pill."

"Little Profound Spirit Pill" is given one each month to Song Yan and other official disciples, used with the "Profound Qi Guiding Technique," better than the furnace.

The inferior so-called "Profound Qi Pill" due to its sparse profound qi can help Jianghu people improve their skills, even directly breakthrough certain bottlenecks.

Even without a breakthrough, this pill can solve many unsolvable strange poisons in Jianghu, making it an "all-purpose elixir."

However, "Profound Qi Pill" can only be purchased with Contribution Points.

This makes "Contribution Points" a "high-end currency" in the eyes of Jianghu people coming here.

Simply put, this is a marketplace deceiving servants and Jianghu people, mainly serving to connect with external mortal forces.

The goods here for trading naturally do not reveal any sect secrets and are all standard items.

The real marketplace is likely the "Qingxi Market where Shadow Puppet Peak goes to purchase beast skins."

But Qingxi Market is a chaotic mix.

If you want to go to such a place, either a major force goes in a group or you are a fierce person with adequate power, otherwise, once you leave the market, you might end up empty-handed.

Nonetheless, Song Yan returned to this market, ostensibly shopping and spending contribution points, but actually he was listening to Jianghu talk to understand the outside situation.

Previously, he understood how Blood Spear Sect was cleaning Great Wei remnants, how they sent the Great Wei Royal Family to Puppet Palace, and how they established a new Dynasty, named "Jin."

But in the past six months, he heard some unusual information.

First was the "Demon Beast tide" invading from the Desolate Wilderness north of Jin Kingdom, and Jin Kingdom’s frontier defense army was actually overwhelmed, even the leading general was trampled to death by demon beasts.

Now there was news of "Jin Kingdom planning to relocate its capital."

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