This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

Seeing Lu Qingshan wave his hand and kill all the poison geckos he had cultivated for many years, pain seized Centipede Man's heart.

However, through this incident, he understood the gap between himself and Lu Qingshan. He immediately grabbed the Scar Man, who still hadn't reacted, and bowed deeply to ask for mercy, saying, "Senior, I was presumptuous. I hope Senior will forgive my offense."

"If there is anything you need, just give the command. If I can do it, I will fully cooperate. If I can't, I will still try my best."

Centipede Man's submission was rapid, but it was justified.

He and the young man before him were strangers, without grievance or enmity. The young man definitely wasn't here for revenge.

Besides, even if he had been seeking revenge, the young man's cultivation far surpassed his own, and killing them both would be as easy as flipping his hand, but the young man hadn't shown much aggression in the face of their attack. Coupled with the techniques the young man had just used, it was clear that he wasn't practicing witchcraft.

This left only one possibility: the young man was from the outside world.

The biggest possibility for someone from the outside world stopping the two minor cultivators was that they had questions to ask. If they fully cooperated, the chances of preserving their lives were still very high.

Seeing how astute Centipede Man was, Lu Qingshan didn't say much. He spoke in a cold voice, "Just now, I was in the restaurant and I heard your conversation."

A chill ran through Centipede Man's heart as he realized that this was how he had provoked Lu Qingshan, and he regretted not slapping himself hard.

"I just heard you mention that White Flower Snake Village was almost destroyed six months ago? Tell me what exactly happened," Lu Qingshan demanded, a thread of Sword Qi on his fingertip flickering brightly, then dimming, causing Centipede Man's eyelids to twitch.

But upon hearing Lu Qingshan's question clearly, a relief washed over Centipede Man.

From the looks of it, the young man was interested in White Flower Snake Village, not targeting them specifically.

As it happened, Centipede Man harbored jealousy and dissatisfaction towards White Flower Snake Village, so he didn't feel any psychological burden and divulged the full details to Lu Qingshan.

It turned out that six months ago, the Great Witch Doctor of White Flower Snake Village, the Black-tailed Witch Doctor, had risked practicing forbidden Poison Art and bred a highly poisonous Spirit Snake.

However, due to a lack of caution, the Spirit Snake had escaped and dripped its venom into the well water, poisoning most of the villagers.

This toxin, recorded in the Poison Scripture as a forbidden poison, was difficult to cure even though the five-part alliance was informed immediately.

Moreover, this poison was a latent, severe toxin with less than a month's time from infection to death.

Under these circumstances, everyone had written off White Flower Snake Village as doomed.

Yet, who would have thought that a half-month later, the Black-tailed Witch Doctor would perform a remarkable feat by concocting a Rejuvenating Elixir!

This Spirit Pill, once dissolved in water, would transform the liquid into a Rejuvenating Spirit Liquid capable of neutralizing all poisons, instantly curing the entire village.

Moreover, the witch doctors, needing to survive among the Three Thousand Great Mountains, had long consumed water steeped with Poisonous Spirit Flower, accumulating toxins in their bodies, and even becoming cultivators couldn't expel it.

These toxins weren't highly lethal, but they caused those infected to live significantly shorter lives than others, an issue that had always been a major concern for many witch doctors.

The Rejuvenating Spirit Liquid, however, could even expel the toxins contained in the Poisonous Spirit Flower!

Additionally, witch doctors needed to contact various severe poisons for practicing Poison Art. Accidental poisoning was inevitable. Typically, it was manageable if there was an antidote, but for those practicing uncurable Poison Arts, the witch doctors could only wait for death.

Therefore, unless necessary, witch doctors wouldn't easily attempt to practice those powerful but difficult forbidden Poison Arts.

With the Rejuvenating Spirit Liquid in hand, all their problems were undoubtedly solved, allowing them to fearlessly practice the Poison Art that they wouldn't normally dare to approach.

For a time, countless witch cultivators, alerted by the rumor, flocked to purchase Rejuvenating Spirit Liquids, turning White Snake Village into a bustling marketplace.

This was also the reason why Lu Qingshan felt White Snake Village was extraordinarily lively.

Lu Qingshan pondered thoughtfully, having made a rough guess about the situation in White Snake Village and had also found the answer to what he was most concerned about.

After a moment of contemplation, Lu Qingshan turned his head and asked, "You seem to know quite a bit about the Great Elder, Golden Snake Granny, share some of her tales with me."

The centipede man cast a surreptitious glance at Lu Qingshan, cursing his luck inwardly, but he dared not play tricks and had no choice but to honestly confess, "Actually, most of the information I have comes from what my uncle told me, since as a lowly Qi Refining Cultivator, it's impossible for me to know too much about the Great Elder......"

The centipede man then prattled on with the details.

Once the centipede man had spilled everything he knew about Golden Snake Granny, Lu Qingshan's eyes were certainly filled with continuous astonishment.

It was indeed very interesting, according to the centipede man, the life of Golden Snake Granny was extraordinarily legendary, even possessing an air of a 'protagonist template' NPC.

To put it briefly, it was the story of a nobody turning the tide and then leading a declining family to rise dramatically.

Golden Snake Granny was born in a small village in the Spirit Snake district; the strongest witch cultivator in the village was but a cultivator of the tenth level of Qi Refinement.

She was just a little girl with an ordinary Spirit Root, talented in cultivation, but not exceptionally high. Normally, she should have ended her days as a Qi Refining Cultivator.

Despite the lack of innate talent or background, Golden Snake Granny rose to power in a miraculously aggressive manner.
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In just over sixty years, she advanced from Qi Refinement to the Nascent Soul realm, and thereafter, represented the Spirit Snake district to win the position of Grand Elder in the Federation of Tribes at the Witchcraft Conference three times in a row.

Before the rise of Golden Snake Granny, the Spirit Snake district was only ranked third or fourth among the five witch districts and only because of Golden Snake Granny's ascendancy did the Spirit Snake district become the uniquely dominant group among the five.

But Golden Snake Granny was not satisfied with this.

She had had enough of the witch lineage hiding in the Three Thousand Great Mountains, relying on the self-destructive Poisonous Spirit Flower to simply survive.

With grand ambitions, she wanted to lead the witch lineage out of the Three Thousand Great Mountains and back to Qing State.

But for such a populous witch lineage to establish themselves in Qing State, the territory and resources needed were an overwhelmingly large figure.

Resources were fixed in amount, and the major powers of Qing State had long divided these resources among themselves.

To obtain sufficient resources to support her people's survival, any intervention would mean that other sect forces would lose an equivalent share of resources.

Thus, it could be foreseen that if she led her people into Qing State, where resource distribution was already nearly balanced, she would need sufficient strength to overcome various obstacles in order to secure a territory and resources that could sustain her people's survival.

The cultivation of Nascent Soul was certainly far from enough, so Golden Snake Granny, using her authority as the Great Elder, gathered various resources from the five districts to make a breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm.

Thus, the entire federation was filled with complaints.

After all, with resource quantity balanced, most of Golden Snake Granny's consolidation of resources for breakthrough naturally made other witch cultivators' lives much harsher.

And most people do not possess such grand and long-term aspirations as Golden Snake Granny; they are more concerned with immediate personal benefits.