"The kind of powder we talked about in our text messages!"
As he spoke, Tao Bai walked toward Bajit.
He took Yu Qiong's phone out of his robe and waved it in front of him.
"Yu Qiong's phone."
"How do you have her phone?"
"Don't worry about that.
Give me the powder, and I guarantee she won't ask you for money again."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"I know your secret too;
She told me everything.
Lord Ba, you don't want your reputation ruined, do you?"
"Are you threatening me?"
The corner of Bajit's mouth twitched, and his eyes turned incredibly cold.
"You could say that!"
Tao Bai admitted openly.
"Yu Qiong also said she never understood why you wanted her to drug Shen Bing, since the ultimate goal didn't seem to be possessing her?"
"Heh."
Hearing this, Bajit's expression relaxed slightly.
He slowly sat down and said,
"Shen Bing is just a discarded pawn."
"Then what was the purpose of this pawn?"
"Stop fishing for information.
Who are you, Nong?"
Bajit scrutinized Tao Bai's appearance, confirming he had never seen him before.
Currently, Tao Bai was using the Wind-Devouring Gu to alter his appearance to look like Tan Yang, so naturally, Bajit couldn't recognize him.
"Who I am isn't important. I just want the powder."
"Did you kill Yu Qiong? Just for a packet of powder?"
"Pee, do I look like that kind of person?"
Tao Bai narrowed his long, single-lidded eyes, revealing an eerie smile.
"Fine."
Bajit looked at Tao Bai's appearance and thought to himself, You definitely look like one.
He wondered which girl this guy had set his sights on, but since he never meddled in other people's business, he simply said,
"I can give you the powder, but you have to give me her phone."
"No problem."
Bajit took out a miniature square box woven from old vines from the inner pocket of his suit, near his heart.
The box was about the size of a matchbox.
The box was pitch black, with strange talismans drawn on it in finger blood and rooster blood, emitting fluctuations of spiritual energy.
A strip of talisman paper was pasted over the opening, featuring a double-heart totem.
Next to it were incantations written in Thai.
The outside of the paper was wrapped seven times with red cotton thread.
A miniature Gu totem was carved into the bottom of the box.
Tao Bai knew at a glance that what he had brought out was the real deal.
The box itself and the Gu worm inside were undoubtedly valuable, far exceeding fifty thousand yuan.
The two men extended their hands—
Left to take, right to give—
In a gesture that felt very much like a drug deal.
The moment the miniature square box touched Tao Bai's left hand, it vanished instantly—
Stored away in his purple storage bag.
Bajit froze.
The moment his right hand touched the phone Tao Bai offered, he was enveloped in a white light.
In the next instant, both of them appeared in an uninhabited wasteland.
Bajit's suit was custom-made, with special compartments for storing talismans.
Without a word, his right hand reached inside his jacket, pulled out several talisman papers, and threw them at Tao Bai with a flick of his wrist.
Tao Bai broke them with his fists, blasting these low-level offensive talismans apart one by one.
When the smoke cleared, Tao Bai stood there unharmed, smiling at Bajit.
"You dare attack BenZuo? You can go die now!"
Bajit cultivated the Dao of Gu, specializing in placing hexes on people and controlling them from a distance.
His close-quarters combat ability was only slightly better than that of an average mortal martial artist.
His skills were far inferior to Xu Xiao's, so naturally, he was no match for Tao Bai, who cultivated both magic and body, prioritizing magic before body.
Within a few rounds, he was kicked to the ground, and then Tao Bai summoned the Wind Feather Blade to behead him.
Tao Bai collected his soul and Sha Qi, then searched the body.
He found the phone, some HuaXianese currency, colorful Thai Baht, coins with the Thai King's portrait in various denominations, various cards, his ID, and a hotel room key.
Calculating based on the current exchange rate, 1 HuaXianese Yuan was approximately 4.8 Thai Baht.
The cash found on Bajit amounted to about 100,000 Yuan.
Including the 250,000 obtained from the search at the factory earlier, his wealth had now reached around 18.9 million Yuan.
He quickly tallied the numbers in his mind, then raised his hand and threw a ball of crimson flame, destroying the corpse and eliminating all traces in one smooth motion.
The suspended Blood-Link Mill gradually stopped spinning, and Tao Bai began to interrogate the soul.
Inside the grinding groove, Bajit looked up through the three layers of restrictive formations.
He stared in horror at the giant figure before him, his entire body trembling.
Bajit's eyes went wide.
He pointed at Tao Bai and shouted,
"It's you!
You... you actually didn't die?! How... how is this possible?"
Tao Bai had exerted over thirty percent of his spiritual power during the teleportation.
At this moment, he had already revealed his original appearance.
As Chaiwa Ajan's eldest disciple, Bajit obviously knew the fact that Tao Bai had been captured for sacrifice.
He couldn't fathom how Tao Bai could have escaped from that situation.
It was incomprehensible...
Furthermore, wasn't he one of the Tao family members who couldn't cultivate?
How does he now seem to possess a body full of mana?
A flash of golden light, and my head was cut off?
And now, how did I end up here?
This isn't the Underworld;
What the hell is this place?
Why can't I move?
His soul body looked around.
Heh, good grief!
Everyone inside is a 'talent'.
There are even several black people!
More than fifty soul bodies were fixed to the strip-shaped grinding grooves, cursing incessantly, their bodies radiating resentment.
"What is your real name?
Where did the powder come from?
Why make Yu Qiong drug Shen Bing? ..."
Tao Bai smashed a series of questions at Bajit.
Bajit wanted to lie or remain silent, but he couldn't.
He could only narrate the entire sequence of events in full detail.
Through his narration, Tao Bai learned that Bajit was also a pawn, though his position on the chessboard was more important than Yu Qiong's.
Tao Bai learned that the powder was given by his master, Chaiwa Ajan.
Having Yu Qiong plant the Hehe Gu (Union Gu), also known as the Love Gu, on Shen Bing was to control her to better steal information from the Tao family.
Tao Bai calculated secretly in his heart.
Spending over a million just to steal information from the Tao family...
What information or secret was the Tao family hiding that was worth spending millions to steal?
As a member of the Tao family, he didn't know.
Perhaps only his brother, father, or the upper management knew.
...
On the first night Tao Bai returned through the spatial rift, he had used the "Three Realms Source Formation" atop the abandoned villa to search for his blood relatives.
He threw out over a dozen yellow talismans, which flew within the formation for a while before burning out completely.
The light of the great formation dimmed instantly; he couldn't sense any information.
The Immortal, Mortal, and Underworld realms—
None yielded any signal of them.
This great formation had cost Tao Bai five years of cultivation for nothing, though fortunately, he could offset it with the five years of cultivation he had absorbed from the Hei Feng.
If he had used talismans instead, the consumption would have been much smaller.
A "Three Realms Source Talisman" only consumed one month of cultivation per use.
But Tao Bai had just traveled back, and seven years had passed.
Talismans wouldn't work at all.
He had to unleash the great formation.
Talismans and formations share the same origin.
A formation is an amplified, enhanced version of a talisman.
It requires array flags to lay out the formation, as well as one's own essence blood, and then spiritual power to activate it.
...
"Came to HuaXia alone?"
"No, there's a little girlfriend, under 20 years old."
"Oh? Tell me about her..."
After listening to Bajit elaborate for a quarter of an hour, Tao Bai retracted the Blood-Link Mill into his body.
The moment the mill handle engaged with the blood wheel, a chorus of miserable howls erupted from within the mill.
Tao Bai sent a QQ message to Gui Nianqiu:
[Have to go to Thailand.
Will be back as soon as possible.]
Then, he walked in the direction of the Jiangnan International Hotel.
Thai-HuaXianese?
Interesting...
So, should I swipe your card, or swipe my card?
( So, should I say Sawasdee krap? Or Saneedee krap? )