Since Mother-in-law left, there had never been such an abundance of blood meat.

Holding a piece of blood meat, Hu Ma couldn't help but sigh after examining it carefully. He took a deep sniff, and then frowned.

Logically speaking, this blood meat was a rare treasure, and it could be eaten raw. But when he first arrived in this world, the conditions were so poor that Mother-in-law had to cook it for him. Now, the thought of eating it directly was a bit stressful.

But making blood meat pills was a technical job, requiring various herbs and careful refinement. He didn't know how to do that. What he had given to Little Hong Tang was actually just a piece of meat, only he had tried to rub it to make it look round.

Therefore, although he was very eager, he pondered for a moment and went to the kitchen to gather some firewood, then set up a wooden frame.

In the large common room in the front wing, the workers in the manor had long listened to Li Wazi's instructions and hid inside, not daring to show their faces. But after waiting all night, besides a few weak gusts of yin wind, they didn't notice anything strange.

Until they smelled a strange meaty aroma after being nervous for most of the night, they finally became a little confused: "What exactly is Manager Hu doing outside?"

Of course, he was eating barbecue!

After eating two large pieces of blood meat, Hu Ma once again felt the heat rising in his stomach, just like when he first came to this world. It washed over his limbs and bones, almost breaking through his meridians.

Normally, in this state, he would be thinking of women.

He would be thinking of them intensely!

But now he restrained himself and silently circulated his energy. The fourth pillar of his Daoist cultivation, which he had refined earlier but never fully completed, was also rapidly filling. He could clearly feel this pillar of fate outside of fate growing rapidly.

He glanced inward at his natal spirit temple and saw that besides the three incense pillars in his incense burner, a section of the fourth incense pillar had already solidified.

This was only the result of one night, and he hadn't even reached his limit in refining the blood meat yet. At this rate, wouldn't he be able to completely solidify this fourth incense pillar within a few days?

Then, once the fourth incense pillar was complete, it would be the time when he was in his best condition, with the greatest ability, and the most opportune moment since arriving in this world…

It was time to retrieve the Hu family heirloom!

"Senior... Senior!"

Just as Hu Ma was caught up in his thoughts and various deductions flashed through his mind, Di Gua Shao's expectant and excited voice pulled him back to reality: "It's safe to withdraw here, Senior."

"How is it on your end? Was it smooth? What do you think of my performance?"

"Performance? What performance?"

Hu Ma didn't even know what Di Gua Shao had done. Wasn't it just attacking a few Zhenli Sect disciples to divert their attention?

But he didn't delve into it now, just slowly exhaled and said with a faint smile: "It went smoothly. I used my Heaven-Reaching Technique (通天之术) and successfully obtained the blood meat."

"Ah?"

Di Gua Shao was both surprised and delighted. She had been in the crowd, paying attention to the movements of the blood meat storage. She clearly hadn't seen anyone approach the storage, so Senior had completed the task silently?

This was truly a Heaven-Reaching Miracle Technique!

She hurriedly suppressed her rapidly beating heart: "Then... then how much did you get? Did you get two thousand *jin*?"

Hu Ma had told her that there were three thousand *jin* of blood meat there, but she didn't really expect to empty their storage. Getting two thousand *jin* would already be a big profit, and even just one thousand *jin* would be an unprecedented feat.

Listening to her careful guess, Hu Ma just smiled faintly and said, "What two thousand *jin*? I'm planning to give you two thousand *jin*."

"What?"

Di Gua Shao's voice suddenly rose, then there was a long silence. Then, her voice trembled a little: "Senior, you... such a powerful person, wouldn't... wouldn't be joking with me, right?"

Hu Ma said calmly, "I don't like joking with people. This is what you deserve."

Di Gua Shao's voice disappeared again. After a long while, she actually started sobbing: "Senior, how can you be so generous to me? In two lifetimes, I've never met anyone so generous..."

"Senior, you're giving me so much at once, I really don't feel secure. If... if it really doesn't work, I... I'll come and sleep with you?"

"?"

Hu Ma was stunned by her words. It took him a while to recover: "Don't joke around. I got a lot this time, but I haven't weighed it yet. Since you helped, I should at least give you two thousand *jin*."

"Of course, I need to handle the aftermath and dispose of the goods. Deducting the earlier intelligence, the amount I keep might be a little more than yours. You wouldn't mind, would you?"

""

"No, no, definitely not..."

Di Gua Shao, who had been sobbing just now, suddenly cried out: "As expected, transmigrators are the only ones who treat me like family. I only did such a small thing, and you're giving me two thousand *jin*..."

"This is enough to keep me..."

"Alright, alright..."

Hu Ma was also a little speechless. He cleared his throat to regain his seriousness, deliberately saying calmly: "Don't have such a narrow perspective. What is this little bit?"

"What we're going to do later is the big deal. It just depends on whether you can keep up."

"Big..."

On Di Gua Shao's side, there was the sound of wiping her face and nose with her hand. Immediately, she said with excitement and anticipation: "How big?"

"Simply put..."

Hu Ma also slowly thought, saying: "Use your imagination and think about the biggest thing possible."

"Hua..."

Hearing this, Di Gua Shao became excited: "Destroying this world?"

"?"

Hu Ma was stunned. No, your ambitions are so great, how am I supposed to respond?

But after thinking about it again, he sighed softly and said: "If we're really being strict, perhaps the difficulty is even greater than what you said..."

"For example, killing until rivers of blood flow and mountains of corpses pile up. For example, using the heroes of the world as chess pieces, engaging in a *gushen* (蛊神) style battle. For example, inviting those aristocratic masters to die, so that the world can have a new dawn?"

"Ah?"

Di Gua Shao's voice trembled: "Is it really such a big deal?"

Hu Ma smiled and whispered, "Yes, it has already begun. Here in Ming Prefecture, we will start with the Red Lantern Society..."

At the same time, in the Zhu Clan Town, in the Red Lantern Goddess Temple that looked deliberately low-key but still appeared somewhat magnificent, the red lanterns hanging at the temple entrance illuminated half the street, and the light inexplicably gave people a sense of confusion.

The Left Guardian had followed the Red Lantern Goddess back. She had requested that the Red Lantern Goddess return to her position, and she herself knelt on the prayer mat in front of the altar. After all, the Goddess had built a temple and become an enshrined deity, so the rules that should be followed must be followed properly.

But now, she had followed the Goddess back because she felt confused: "That General of Heavenly Mandate, perhaps he really is favored by Heaven. Just a distant bow made me feel like Mount Tai was pressing down on me, as if he was trying to seize my soul..."

"But what confuses me the most is, when did the Goddess's magic power increase so much that she was no weaker than him, scaring him away?"

""

She was already trying to make her voice polite, so as not to be disrespectful, but the confusion and incomprehension in her words couldn't be hidden no matter how hard she tried.

But unexpectedly, the face of the newly carved statue of a palace-dressed woman behind the incense altar had even more confusion and incomprehension than she did. Faintly, the red lanterns hanging in the temple had a strange light flowing, as if a voice sounded in her mind:

"I... I don't know either..."

"Wasn't it you and the Right Guardian who told me about building the temple?"

"In the beginning, when the temple was being built, it was okay, but after it was completed, I only felt that the incense was flourishing and rolling in. From time to time, I felt countless people worshiping in front of me, but I couldn't see their faces clearly..."

"Building a temple..."

Listening to this, the Left Guardian became even more confused: "Building a temple doesn't have such benefits, right?"

A statue, a living person, faced each other, but they both only felt that they saw timidity and distress in each other's eyes.

"We still have to ask the Right Guardian, but unfortunately, he's not here..."

The Left Guardian, Shen Hongzhi, sighed first, shook her head, and said, "But in any case, the Goddess has profound magic power, which is our confidence. That General of Heavenly Mandate has an extraordinary background. With someone to back us up, we couldn't afford to offend him in the past..."

"We can't afford to offend him now either..."

The light of the red lanterns in the temple was obviously a little timid: "Since he's asking us for blood meat, then let's just give it to him. Anyway, it wasn't ours to begin with..."

"He's being polite, and he only wants ten thousand *jin*. Even if we give it to him, we can still have three or four thousand *jin* left, which is all free money..."

The Left Guardian, Shen Hongzhi, also fell silent at these words. At first, she only hoped that the Zhenli Sect would be greedy and swallow everything, but now that they had spoken in front of everyone, asking for ten thousand *jin*...

Moreover, in the martial world, they weren't afraid of the other party being fierce, but they were afraid of the other party being polite. The Red Lantern Society was originally weaker than the other party, and they were being pressured by the other party's behavior. Now, in the situation where they could protect most of the blood meat, it really made them conflicted...

But just as the two were struggling to weigh the options, as it was getting late and the chickens had already crowed, and they couldn't make a decision for a while, the Left Guardian was preparing to leave first and send a minor ghost to ask the Right Guardian for advice when she suddenly felt a gust of yin wind blowing in from outside.

Coming in was a minor ghost dressed as a green-robed servant. As soon as he rushed into the temple, he cried out: "It's gone, all the blood meat in the storage is gone!"

"What?"

The Left Guardian stood up abruptly, and the Red Lantern Goddess's lanterns suddenly shone ten times brighter. After asking in detail, she learned that at the blood meat storage, after the chickens crowed, the locks were checked, and it was discovered that the doors and windows were undamaged, but the blood meat had been swept away.

"Crap..."

The Left Guardian suddenly reacted, stood up abruptly, and her lips trembled: "We've been tricked by the Zhenli Sect!"

"He only wants those ten thousand *jin* of blood meat, he's not giving us face..."

"Those bastards took advantage of the chaos just now to transport away all our blood meat, and then said they wanted those ten thousand *jin*. They were deliberately tricking us..."