Yutai County, located south of Jiaxiang County, is quite far away and situated on a major thoroughfare of the Grand Canal.

At the crack of dawn, the county magistrate was startled by the panicked voices outside. Countless people rushed to the county office, claiming to have witnessed the passage of ghost soldiers. The magistrate was stunned, initially believing it to be a ghost calamity.

He immediately and hastily gathered the local Daoist priests from the Daoist Association, along with some temple monks from the temples, and led them, along with the county constables and the reporting citizens, to the location of the sighting.

If it really was a ghost calamity, it would be troublesome. A ghost calamity appearing on the Grand Canal would affect north-south trade and might even delay the transport of grain. After all, if a large-scale monster and ghost invasion occurred, no one would come to this supply point.

Ships that could not resupply en route would have to sail for a longer time, increasing the risk, and Yutai County would lose its vital economic pillar, leading to its decline.

So, the magistrate was very anxious, but when he saw the situation before him, he was stunned once again.

Where were the ghosts!

This was clearly a group of living people! But these people were covered in blood and dust, their clothes were tattered, and there were signs of tearing and fierce fighting. This vast crowd of tens of thousands of people had come from afar, had they come to seek refuge?

Could it be, had a great famine occurred somewhere?

They had eaten a lot of tree bark and grass roots along the way, making them all gaunt and pale, but fortunately, they were still alive.

At this moment, someone from the crowd of tens of thousands stepped forward and said stiffly:

"Our leader told us to surrender in the neighboring county."

"Along the way, we were punished, eating tree bark and grass roots when we were hungry. Now we pay our respects to the county magistrate, and we ask the county magistrate to lock us up and report to the imperial court."

The magistrate's mouth dropped open.

These tens of thousands of people, they were here to surrender?

They were here to freeload!

"Wait, what exactly is going on with you? Are you really not refugees? Who are you? You suddenly say you want to surrender, let me take a moment to process this."

"We are members of the Wenxiang Sect. Just think of us as the White Lotus Sect. We have all killed people and fought against monsters."

"Ah???"

........

"The Charming Pearl is so useful. Just a wisp of fragrance in their noses, and they obey obediently. It seems to last for a long time."

The little fox sat on the boat, looking at the small pearl in her hand with satisfaction.

After all, they couldn't really take this group of murderers on the road, so at Ji Xiang's suggestion, the little fox used the Charming Pearl to bring them all to Yutai County, near the Grand Canal. And along the way, in order not to disturb the people, and also to punish them, she made them eat tree bark and grass roots, keeping them hungry but not dying, and without too much strength to resist capture.

As for how the county magistrate would deal with them next, the prison certainly couldn't hold them all. If ten thousand people didn't eat tree bark and grass roots, then the government of this era could only cook rice porridge to "provide disaster relief." Next, they would wait for troops to be mobilized from other places to come and punish all these people.

"They are going to die anyway. I originally wanted to kill them all on the spot, but considering that they helped the Celestial Fox to fight against the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, I'll just let them be dealt with by the government."

Ji Xiang opened his mouth, and three sentences couldn't leave the topic of killing people, and without any psychological burden. However, the Wenxiang Sect members were originally all blood-stained executioners, not kind people, so everyone here felt that killing them was not a problem.

There weren't so many stories of turning over a new leaf.

There were many who didn't repent even when death was imminent.

There were many boatmen in Yutai County, after all, it was an important port on the canal. At the port of Jiaxiang County, the boatmen had indeed run away. After all, such a serious matter as the burning of the county town would naturally bring great disasters, and running away was normal. Anyone would run.

Earning two taels of silver wasn't worth risking their lives. However, unexpectedly, they encountered these boatmen again in Yutai County. It turned out that they had discovered that the county town was filled with shouts of killing and flames, and they thought that monsters or bandits were attacking the county. But then they discovered many murderous butchers, who looked very familiar, and even the boss from whom they purchased goods. So, in panic, they sailed downstream, preparing to wait two or three days, until the matter of Jiaxiang County was over, before returning to take a closer look.

They didn't expect to meet Ji Xiang and his group so quickly in Yutai County.

So, the boatmen reunited with the group, and began their journey of running away again. After passing this section of land, they reached the Huai River area. Ji Xiang flipped through several sacks on the road, and began his daily treasure appraisal.

There were really a lot of treasures in the Milong Casino. In order to collect the Seven Treasure Tower, the important things of those demons, ghosts, monks, and Daoists in the casino were all deceived and accumulated. There were even Quanzhen Dao people who were bewitched and entered it, which was really lamentable.

But most of them were low-end magical artifacts, belonging to the consumable category. There were also the inner cores of demon kings, which made Ji Xiang dumbfounded. In the end, he threw the inner core to the little fox.

Gambling away one's inner core, that was really being blinded by greed!

There were even female Daoist robes, but obviously no one had worn them. He didn't know who had stolen them from which palace or temple. They were called the Litian Huangluo Cape and the Yun Diao Baiyu Crown, and they were very beautiful.

Feng Menglong took a fancy to it at a glance and wanted to ask for it. Ji Xiang gave it to him without hesitation.

"Thank you, Brother Ji! This dress, let me think about which sister I should give it to...."

The more Feng Menglong looked at the dress, the happier he became, and Ji Xiang told him:

"After wearing this thing, smoke rises from the sleeves, as if one were a floating celestial being. Moreover, it can drive wind and spread mist, purify the surrounding atmosphere, dispel turbidity, and fly in the air for about a hundred breaths. It also has a certain degree of defense, and can resist ordinary magical artifacts and attacks from cultivators below the seventh realm. And it can amplify the wearer's charm. An ordinary woman who puts it on immediately turns into a celestial being."

"And that white jade crown can keep the body free from any dust or dirt, and always maintain a clean state."

"In short, it is indeed a good thing for women, but it is not particularly practical."

Feng Menglong said that he thanked Daoist Ji for the product introduction.

Ji Xiang snorted and began to pick out the magical artifacts that he could use. There were many consumables, such as Liu Zhu needing to wear six strings of beads on her hands, three strings on each arm, with everything from twelve beads to thirty-two beads. Tokens were hung all over his waist, bells were lined up in a half-circle, and flags were even bundled into bunches and placed in the barrel of the meteor cannon.

There were also large Buddhist beads, which Ji Xiang put around his neck without saying a word. There were also wooden fish, cloud boards, banners, and heavenly canopy umbrellas....

As for the treasures of the demon kings, they were even more bizarre, such as a fox fur scarf that could increase charm, a elm wood crutch with its own navigation ability, a snake bone soft whip with a poisonous scattering poison, a soul-snatching golden pipa, luminous pearls, fire-breathing beads, a bull horn magic lamp that could recite spells and copy spells by itself... and even the bear paw of a black bear spirit, who seemed to be a member of the剁手党 (duò shǒu dǎng; shopping addict) party.