Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 52

Chapter 52: 52. Fox Fur

The incident rate at the Chores Room of Shadow Puppet Peak in the Puppet Sect is actually not low.

Yet no Official Disciple is willing to be on night patrol there.

First, it’s dangerous, requiring constant resistance against ghost entities, which is noisy and consumes a lot;

second, it’s unnecessary.

It’s a deserted place despised by all, even ghost cultivators are unwilling to attack at midnight.

The reason is simple: Ghost cultivators don’t seek dead people but dead cultivators, especially Great Cultivators.

And this requires a stable and healthy growing sect.

Ghost cultivators would rather protect the talent reserve base of the Puppet Sect, so why would they slaughter?

However, even so, incidents are still frequent at the Chores Room, with ghost entities breaking in from time to time.

The reason for setting the Chores Room in such a place is equally simple: it reduces runaway attempts and lowers guard costs.

People can’t run away at night, and due to the night watch, they expend so much energy that combined with daytime skin-making, they are drained, leaving no energy to think about escaping.

Everyone has gotten used to it.

Even as recent as ten years ago, when Song Yan opened the door and committed murder at midnight, it was left unresolved.

Let alone now?

In the mountain ranges here, spanning thousands of miles north to south, there are two Profound Vein spirals, one at Paperman Peak, and the other in the Evil Sea as thick as red jade at the Evil Land.

Since there are ghost cultivators, the Red Mist Ghost Master, and the Double-faced Ghost in the Evil Sea, ghost entities running amok at night and occasional incidents are inevitable.

Thus, no one has ever paid much attention to the ’midnight deaths.’

Song Yan himself didn’t care either.

But after hearing the Empress’s information, a strange sense of awareness arose in his heart.

No!

It’s not awareness but an inexplicable excitement and anticipation.

It even made him feel as though he were about to fall in love, accompanied by a nervous thrill of gain and loss.

’Since there are so many fox cubs, since the bloodline illusion techniques of those fox cubs are so terrifying, since cultivators are the best food for those fox cubs, then...’

’The Multi-tailed Dragon Bo Cannibal Fox cubs should be of high grade but not overly powerful demons, right?’

...

...

"The easy acquisition of longevity" granted Song Yan tremendous patience, a highly stable style, and strong action power.

He began "staking out," going to the Chores Room every few nights, hiding far away under the tree shadows in the bloody mist, expanding his perception.

But nothing was gained.

Ten days...

Twenty days...

Winter passed, yet he still found nothing.

With the arrival of early spring showers, the mountains bloomed in peach pink and apricot white, dazzling with colors.

On this day, an incident suddenly occurred at the Chores Room.

This time, it was a "consecutive door-breaking" event.

Throughout the night, three Suspended Rooms in the Chores Room were simultaneously broken into, and among the six people inside, four disappeared, leaving two dumbfounded and stupefied.

An Inner Sect Disciple in red from the main peak of Shadow Puppet Peak came, and Song Yan, as the senior brother of South Bamboo Peak, naturally accompanied him.

The Inner Sect Disciple wasted no words, directly capturing the servants around the incident room to begin a soul search. After finishing, he concluded that "last night was a rare peak period of bloody mist, with some powerful ghost entities breaking in, which is normal."

These words instantly solved Song Yan’s confusion from years ago.

He still remembered that day, during the day, he was nervously skin-making, nervously watching the Inner Sect Disciple investigate "the cause of death of Sheng Dazhu and Wen Erniu," yet nothing came of it...

Song Yan suddenly had a look of realization and praised, "So that’s it, senior brother, you are wise."

The Inner Sect Disciple was pleased with his realization, smiling as he looked at him and said, "I know you, you’re the junior brother of Wen Shu and Jin Yuntian, a registered disciple of Master Shi, and the future Great Skin Master."

Song Yan awkwardly scratched his head and said, "Junior brother’s knowledge is shallow, and I didn’t even recognize senior brother in person, shameful, shameful."

The two exchanged brief pleasantries before the Inner Sect Disciple intended to kill all the servants rendered stupefied due to soul searching, but after another disciple whispered a few words, he only killed half and then took them all away.

This time, Song Yan also understood the role of "corpses" and "stupefied servants" within the Puppet Sect.

As servants, if they become stupefied... they are sent to "Bizarre Poison Peak" for drug testing; if they die... they are sent to "Blood Corpse Peak" for new disciples to practice making flesh puppets, extremely evil and cruel.

Song Yan watched the Inner Sect Disciples leave, sighed lightly, looking at the eyes of awe and the shrinking attitudes of the surrounding servants, waved his hand and said, "At night, keep your doors reinforced, there’s invigorating powder in the market at the foot of the mountain, if it comes to that, buy a bottle! Don’t be stingy with contribution points, when you’re dead, nothing’s left!"

He left somewhat irritably.

But he... did not believe that last night’s "consecutive door-breaking" incident was an accident.

Just as he knew that the "door-breaking" on that day was not caused by ghost entities, but by him.

...

...

That night.

Song Yan staked out.

Nothing happened.

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