Chapter 372.
The Cave of Truth was the advanced spell of the Spiritual Eyesight Technique, and Wang Chen had long since brushed up this Purple Mansion level skill to the Zong Master level.
His perception wordlessly expanded in all directions, covering all the surrounding villagers.
Although Shangyang Village was in a remote location, the percentage of cultivators among the villagers in this village was quite high.
Only their cultivation levels were generally very low, mostly below the fourth level of Qi Practicing.
Wang Chen was confident that these villagers would definitely not be able to escape his insight as long as they were tainted with evil qi!
The higher the cultivation level of an evil cultivator, the easier it was for the evil power in his body to go out of control, and even if he could still maintain his sanity, he would still experience spillover and spreading.
Therefore, if the villagers here had contact with the target, they would definitely be contaminated with some evil energy.
However, to Wang Chen’s disappointment, he observed for a moment and found nothing.
Could it be that the information from Dongmingju was inaccurate?
Wang Chen first ruled out such a possibility – this was intelligence that had been exchanged for 100,000 spirit stones!
If the information was accurate, then it was possible that Zhou Senzhi was hiding very deeply and hadn’t had any direct contact with the villagers here recently.
Or the villagers who did have contact are not here.
There was also the possibility that this evil cultivator had mastered some sort of aura-concealing technique.
But no matter which reason it was, it caused Wang Chen a great deal of trouble.
Evil cultivators are different from devil cultivators, devil cultivators can hide in the wilderness and deep mountains to cultivate, as long as there are enough resources, it’s not a problem to live for a few years or ten years.
But evil cultivators have a strong instinctive desire for “popularity”, the more people around, the more conducive to cultivation.
Once separated from the human environment, they are like fish out of water, and will quickly die of lack of oxygen!
It is only that big cities are usually equipped with magic formations or suppressors to drive away evil spirits, so low-ranking evil cultivators cannot survive and can only hide and cultivate in villages, towns, and fortresses.
Wang Chen’s trouble was that even if he could determine that Zhou Senzhi was in Shangyang Village, he could not search house by house.
He had to quietly lock on to the target and then strike a successful blow.
Otherwise the mission could easily fail!
Wang Dust was thinking and trading with the villagers at the same time, and he didn’t make any mistakes with his two distractions.
It was at this time that he suddenly had the feeling of being spied on.
Wang Dust glanced without moving and realized that a hundred paces away in the left direction, a few stout village loafers were looking at him with their arms folded.
One of them had thatched grass in his mouth, his eyes flashing with a gangly look.
Wang Dust was a little disappointed.
These guys don’t look like evil cultivators, it is estimated to be the gangsters in Shangyang village.
The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, a village of hard-working and down-to-earth people again, there are also a few lazy and frivolous guys.
He didn’t care and exchanged the last piece of cinnamon rice candy to a villager.
“There are no more cinnamon candies.”
Wang Dust said with a smile, “All exchanged.”
In fact, he still had quite a few hidden in his storage bag, but he had just exchanged out three boards, so taking them out again would be a bit inconsistent with the persona of a traveling merchant.
Traveling merchants did small business and usually didn’t hoard large quantities of goods.
As a result, his words just fell, a child with herbs cupped in his hand, who had just rushed over, suddenly howled.
Just come one step late, sweet and delicious rice candy is gone!
Looking at his companions were all eating candy beautifully, the sadness in his heart simply flowed against the river, crying like a one meter four child.
Wang Duan sweated a handful of times, and hurriedly said, “Don’t cry ah, I will come back in a few days, and leave you a good copy.”
Only then did the other party stop his sadness, “Really?”
“Of course it’s true!”
Wang Dust swore with conviction, “You keep the stuff first, and when the time comes, I promise to exchange it with you first.”
The kid sobbed and nodded, “Good.”
Seeing that the exchange of things was almost complete, Wang Dust decisively retreated.
As the saying goes, you can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry, the time left for Wang Dust was still quite sufficient, he didn’t want to rush it.
While he was leaving, Wang Dust also promised many villagers’ commissions.
This was also one of the business of traveling merchants.
After leaving Shangyang Village, Wang Dust followed the map to a small city two hundred miles away.
He circled around this city and stayed for another night before leaving the next day for another city further away.
Four days later, Wang Chen came to Shangyang Village again.
This time, many villagers already knew him.
Wang Chen honored his promise and delivered some of the items that the villagers had entrusted him to buy first.
Of course he didn’t forget to exchange rice candy for the boy.
This time the number of villagers who came to exchange things was even higher, many of them were ones he hadn’t seen last time.
However, Wang Chen used his Cave Truth Technique and still didn’t find anyone who had come into contact with an evil cultivator!
This was a bit troublesome.
If he couldn’t find a target, then he could only resort to the last resort, sneaking into the village at night to scout from house to house.
With Wang Chen’s current cultivation strength, coupled with the Clan Master’s Invisible God Art, the possibility of being discovered was still very low.
However, only observing outside may not be able to find the target, if that evil cultivator is hiding in the underground chamber, his Cave of Truth Art is no longer strong, but also unable to penetrate the thick layer of earth.
When Wang Chen thought about it, he could only take one step at a time.
When he was almost done, he once again withdrew from the stall and left.
The identity of the traveling merchant, Wang Chuan temporarily can not be used, and then again the time interval is too short, it is easy to make people suspicious.
But what Wang Dust didn’t expect was that he left Shangyang Village and just embarked on his return journey, he was stopped by someone on the road.
“This friend, do you understand the rules of doing business?”
The ones who blocked Wang Duan’s way were the very same idle men he had seen the first time he came to the village.
The leading village man had a ferocious face with a tiger’s back, his eyes gleaming as he stared at Wang Chuan, as if he were a vicious wolf staring at a lamb.
The three hans standing behind him tacitly spread out and took up an encircling stance.
These people were all at the third or fourth level of qi cultivation, and with the leading brother at the sixth level of qi cultivation, they were quite bold to rob Wang Chuan, a traveling merchant at the “seventh level of qi cultivation”.
Obviously, this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing!
Wang Dust smiled, “What rules?”
The burly man’s eyes flashed with a touch of greed, “Of course it’s our Shangyang Village’s rules, last time we let you off, this time you have to leave a buying fee.”
He rushed at Wang Chen and opened his palm, “Fifty spirit stones, I’ll let you off again today!”
Fifty spirit stones was not much.
But Wang Chen didn’t want to give a single piece, “But I don’t want to let you go!”
As soon as the words fell, Wang Chen slapped over with a Fixation Technique.
The four village men were immediately struck by lightning, their bodies stiffened and they couldn’t move.
In the next moment, they fainted in unison.
Wang Chuan shook his hand and shot out a scroll, instantly unfolding a long painting, which included all of the village men.
It was precisely the Tai Xuan Mirage Dragon True Form Diagram!
This precious diagram was able to receive living things, and the big green donkey had been housed inside.
It was also able to take in people.
Wang Dust’s movements were extremely fast, and the moment he collected the people, he swept out tens of paces away in a Shrinking Ground.
In an instant, he disappeared without a trace!