Chapter 1 Since Mother-in-Law Left

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

Holding a piece of blood food, Hu Ma examined it carefully before sighing, taking a deep breath, and then frowning.

Logically speaking, this blood food was a rare treasure, and it could be eaten raw without any problem. But when he first arrived in this world, the conditions were so poor that Mother-in-Law had to cook it for him. Now, eating it raw was a bit much.

But making blood food pills was a technical job, requiring various herbs and careful refining. He didn't know how to do that. What he gave to Little Hongtang were just pieces of meat, which he had tried to roll into a round shape.

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

In the large dormitory in the front wing, the workers in the village had long followed Li Wazi's instructions, hiding inside and not daring to show their faces. But after waiting all night, apart from a few faint gusts of yin wind, they didn't notice anything strange.

Until they smelled a strange aroma of roasted meat 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 roasted meat!

After eating two large pieces of blood food, Hu Ma once again felt the fiery energy surging in his stomach, just like when he first arrived in this world, washing through his limbs and bones, almost bursting through his meridians.

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

He would be thinking about them intensely!

But now he restrained himself, silently circulating his energy. The fourth pillar of his Dao cultivation, which he had refined earlier but had not yet fully completed, was rapidly filling up. He could clearly feel this pillar of destiny outside of destiny growing rapidly.

He took a brief look inside his Natal Spiritual Temple and saw that besides the three incense sticks in his incense burner, a section of the fourth incense stick had already solidified.

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

Then, once the fourth incense stick was completed, it would be the time when he was in the best condition, had the greatest abilities, and the timing was most suitable after 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 were flashing through his mind, Di Gua Shao's expectant and excited voice pulled him back to reality: "It's safe to return 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 to attack a few Truth Cult members to divert their attention?

But he didn't delve into it now, just exhaled slowly and said with a faint smile: "It went smoothly enough. I used my heaven-defying techniques and successfully obtained the blood food."

"Ah?"

Di Gua Shao was both surprised and delighted. He had been in the crowd, paying attention to the movements of the blood food warehouse. He clearly hadn't seen anyone approach it. The Senior had finished the job silently?

This was truly a heaven-defying technique!

He hurriedly suppressed his wildly beating heart: "Then... then how much did you get? Did you get two thousand *jin* (approximately 1000kg)?"

He had heard Hu Ma say that there were three thousand *jin* of blood food there, but he didn't really expect to empty the entire warehouse. Getting two thousand *jin* would already be a huge profit, and even just one thousand *jin* would be an unprecedentedly large deal.

Listening to his cautious guess, Hu Ma just smiled faintly and said: "What two thousand *jin*? I plan to give you two thousand *jin* alone."

"What?"

Di Gua Shao's voice suddenly rose, then fell silent for a long time, and then trembled a little: "Senior, such an amazing person like you, wouldn't... wouldn't be joking with me, right?"

Hu Ma said calmly: "I don't like to joke with people. This is what you deserve."

Di Gua Shao's voice disappeared again. After a long while, the sound of sobbing could actually be heard: "Senior, how can you be so generous to me? In two lifetimes, I've never met someone so generous..."

"Senior, you're giving me so much all at once, I really don't feel secure. If... if it's not too much trouble, I'll go and sleep with you once?"

"?"

Hu Ma was stunned by this one sentence. It took him a while to recover before he said: "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, dispose of the goods, and deduct the earlier intelligence, so I might get a little more than you. You wouldn't mind, would you?"

""

"No, no, absolutely not..."

Di Gua Shao was still sobbing just now, but now he cried out with a wail: "As expected, transmigrators are the only ones you can trust. I only did such a small thing, and you're giving me two thousand *jin*..."

"This is enough to support me..."

"Alright, alright..."

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

"The things we're going to do later are the real big deals. It just depends on whether you can keep up."

"Big..."

On Di Gua Shao's side, there was the sound of wiping his face and snot with his hands. Soon, there was a voice full of excitement and anticipation: "How big?"

"To put it simply..."

Hu Ma also slowly pondered and said: "Use your imagination and think about what the biggest thing is..."

"Hua..."

Di Gua Shao became excited all of a sudden upon hearing this: "Destroying this world?"

"?"

Hu Ma was stunned this time. No, how could you have such a grand vision? How am I supposed to follow up on that?

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

"For example, killing until the blood flows like a river, piling up corpses like mountains, using the heroes of the world as chess pieces, fighting and raising Gu (a venomous insect in a jar), or asking the aristocratic masters to die, and changing the world for a new sky?"

"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 Mingzhou, we'll start with the Red Lantern Society..."

At the same time, in the Red Lantern Nanny Temple in Zhu Men Town, which looked like it was trying to be low-key but still appeared somewhat magnificent, the red lanterns hanging at the entrance illuminated half the street, and the light inexplicably made people feel a sense of confusion.

The Left Protector followed the Red Lantern Nanny back and asked the Red Lantern Nanny to return to her position. He knelt on the prayer mat in front of the altar. After all, the Nanny 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 Nanny back because she felt confused: "That General of Heavenly Mandate is perhaps truly destined by heaven. Just a distant bow made me feel like Mount Tai was pressing down on me, and I had a feeling of being soul-snatched."

"But what confuses me the most is, when did Nanny's magic power advance so greatly, that she's actually not weaker than him and scared him away?"

""

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

But unexpectedly, on the face of the newly sculpted statue of a woman in palace attire behind the incense altar, there was even more confusion and incomprehension than her. In the vague light, 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..."

"Didn't you and the Right Protector tell me about building the temple?"

"At the beginning of building the temple, it was okay, but after it was completed, I only felt that the incense was flourishing, rolling in. From time to time, I only feel countless people bowing before me, but I can't see their faces clearly."

"Building a temple..."

The Left Protector became even more confused when she heard this: "Building a temple wouldn't have such benefits, right?"

A statue and a living person looked at each other and only saw timidity and distress in each other's eyes.

"We still have to ask the Right Protector, but it's a pity he's not here..."

The Left Protector, Shen Hongzhi, sighed first after all, shook her head and said: "But no matter what, the Nanny's magic power is profound, which is our foundation. That General of Heavenly Mandate has an extraordinary background. With someone to support us, we wouldn't be able to provoke him in the past."

"We can't provoke him now either..."

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

"He's being polite, and he only wants ten thousand *jin*, so even if we give it to him, we'll still have three or four thousand *jin* left. It's all for nothing."

These words made the Left Protector Shen Hongzhi also fall silent. At first, she only hoped that the Truth Cult would be greedy and swallow everything, but now that they had spoken in front of everyone and asked for ten thousand *jin*.

Moreover, in the *jianghu* (martial world), they were not 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 squeezed by the other party's approach. Now, they were really conflicted about whether to protect all the blood food.

But just as the two were struggling to weigh the pros and cons, as the sky gradually darkened and the chickens had already crowed, they couldn't make a decision for a while. The Left Protector was preparing to leave first and send a little imp to ask the Right Protector for an idea, when she suddenly felt a gust of yin wind blowing in from outside.

It was a little imp dressed as a green-robed servant. As soon as he rushed into the temple, he cried out: "It's gone, all the blood food in the warehouse is gone!"

"What?"

The Left Protector stood up abruptly, and the Red Lantern Nanny's lanterns suddenly shone ten times brighter. After asking in detail, she learned that at the blood food warehouse, after the chickens crowed, they opened the lock to check and found that the doors and windows were undamaged, but the blood food had been swept away.

"That's bad..."

The Left Protector suddenly reacted, got up abruptly, and her lips trembled: "We fell for the Truth Cult's trick!"

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

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