In the next few days, Jing Yi continued to work in the herb field. The servants that had previously been against him slowly warmed up to him when they saw that he was indeed willing to do his share of work. While they couldn’t exactly be called forthcoming, they at least weren’t talking about him …
Tag: Wandering Cultivator
OMF V3C154 Why Is It Like That?
Peng Mu raised his brows when Jing Yi didn’t answer. "Is something the matter?" Jing Yi blushed and hurriedly shook his head. "No, that’s not it." He rushed to sit down, almost stumbling over the hem of his robe. The smile he gave Peng Mu was half-embarrassed because of his own actions and half-apologetic for …
OMF V3C153 Infiltrating the Herb Field
The next morning, Jing Yi went to the herb field together with another servant of the estate and a man that the merchant had hired from outside to pitch in for the men that had died. Having more people than just Jing Yi go had been the idea of the merchant when he heard the …
OMF V3C152 Not So Difficult
As it turned out, the general gist of Liu Cheng’s plan wasn’t that difficult: Jing Yi was supposed to infiltrate the herb field by pretending to be a new worker who had been hired to make up for the ones they had lost. Then, he was supposed to get close to Peng Mu and gain …
OMF V3C151 How about Assisting Me?
Liu Cheng did not have to think for long to figure out a suitable candidate to help him with this task. As soon as he returned to the merchant’s estate in the evening, he went to look for Jing Yi. Knocking on the door, he couldn’t help but smile to himself. It really was a …
OMF V3C150 A New Lead
When Liu Cheng went to speak with the other workers from the herb field, he wasn’t able to find any further clues at first. Everybody was just repeating what a nice person that Peng Mu was and how he would never even hurt a fly. In short, they thought it ludicrous that he could actually …
OMF V3C149 Quite Suspicious
The steward had talked with Liu Cheng several times already, mostly detailing what had happened on that herb field, so he wasn’t surprised at all to see him again. "Demon hunter Liu, please come inside." Right now, the man had returned to the small house not far from the herb field where he was living …
OMF V3C148 The Other Side of the State
Seeing that Jing Yi finally relented, Liu Cheng was satisfied. "Alright, first of all, where exactly did this happen?" He needed to know just how big the scope of this demon’s actions was. For one, this might give him valuable clues as to what kind of demon this was and secondly, this might also help …
OMF V3C147 Maybe It Was a Demon
Liu Cheng returned in the evening, with his robes and boots dusty. The task he had been asked to come here for were strange occurrences in a herb field a few li outside of the city that was owned by the merchant he was currently staying with. Both the workers and the merchant believed that …
OMF V3C146 Time to Say Their Farewell
Liu Cheng excused himself so he could go and make some inquiries for his mission while Jing Yi went and asked one of the servants to bring him back to the inn just as the merchant had told him. When Jing Yi arrived, he first went to see Si Fen to tell her about how …