Chapter 295: Chapter 295: Corpse Rot Powder, There’s a Girl in the Village Named Xiaoxiang

Princess Lan Yue watched this, her brow furrowed slightly before realization dawned on her.

"This is Corpse Rot Powder."

She naturally knew of this excellent tool for disposing of bodies. Just a small amount sprinkled on a corpse would completely destroy it, leaving nothing behind.

However, it required numerous materials and was not easy to refine. Only an Intermediate Pharmacist with outstanding Alchemy Ability could produce it.

Although she had the formula for Corpse Rot Powder, she had no confidence she could successfully refine it.

For one, she had never tried. For another, the refining process was extremely difficult, and failure was common.

She never expected Yang Chan to have something like this.

Come to think of it, its value was comparable to a Cyan Spirit Pill. There was no need to use it unless absolutely necessary.

After a plume of white smoke dissipated, the bodies of Nalan Hongbo and Wulan Haochuan vanished, leaving only their clothes, weapons, Hidden Weapons, and other belongings.

Seeing this, Princess Lan Yue felt a wave of relief. It was a good thing she’d had something valuable on her, or she would have become one of them.

"In a moment, you will leave a trail leading to the bank of the Qingyuan River. Then, you will make it look like you jumped in. Tear a corner from your clothes and toss it into the river to float downstream."

"I will also tear off a piece of Nalan Hongbo’s and Wulan Haochuan’s clothing and throw it into the Qingyuan River. I’ll toss their sabers in and deliberately leave footprints."

"After all that, burn your clothes and the clothes from these two men. You’ll change into some of my clothes and disguise yourself as a man."

"When we reach Xiaoyuan Village ahead, I will use the Soul Capturing Technique to make the few villagers there believe you grew up among them. When I return to the Cyan Yuan Sect, you will become my new Little Attendant and come with me to the sect."

Yang Chan looked at Princess An Lan Yue and began arranging a new identity for her, one that would allow her to stay by his side without raising suspicion.

"Once you have told me everything you know about the Cultivation Technique to break through to Martial Saint and the King-level Pharmacist’s legacy, I will let you go."

"This is a demand, not a request. If you don’t agree, then I’ll send you on your way to the afterlife. It would save me a lot of trouble."

Yang Chan continued, making his bottom line clear.

Princess Lan Yue was a problem. From the moment he decided not to kill her, he had been planning how to give her a new identity. At the same time, she had to stay by his side. If she were captured by someone else, it would likely lead back to him.

Therefore, he couldn’t let Princess Lan Yue out of his sight, especially for the next few years. His strength was still insufficient, so he needed to focus on improving his Cultivation and ensuring he had the power to protect himself before anything else.

"Fine. I’ll do as you say."

Princess Lan Yue really didn’t want to stay with Yang Chan, but one look at his expression told her the outcome was non-negotiable.

And so, she could only accept.

Besides, she had nowhere better to go. Her original plan was to leave the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty and hide in the borderlands, but if war broke out between the two nations, the borders would be unsafe. In fact, they would likely be the first place drawn into the conflict, making them a poor choice for a hideout.

By comparison, the Cyan Yuan Sect was an excellent alternative.

’Besides, if I want to practice Alchemy, the necessary Alchemy Materials are hard to come by. But inside the Cyan Yuan Sect, it’s a different story.’

’With Yang Chan’s status as a Pharmacist, I can get my hands on some medicinal herbs. Then I can refine the Elixirs I need and won’t have to worry about a shortage of Cultivation Resources.’

’I’m currently at the External Refining Iron Bone Realm. The Cyan Yuan Sect can satisfy all my needs until my Cultivation reaches the Inner Refining of the Five Viscera.’

’In a few more years, once my Cultivation breaks through to Inner Master, I can think about my next steps.’

’After all, External Refining is still too weak. It’s better to raise my strength and become stronger. Then I’ll have the means to protect myself.’

With these thoughts in mind, Princess Lan Yue naturally agreed.

"Don’t touch the bodies of the Night-Shining Jade Lion and the Jin Meng Horses. We’ll leave the tracks here so that when the Six Gates investigate, they’ll know a great battle took place."

Yang Chan said, looking at the three horse carcasses to the side.

After Princess Lan Yue nodded, he began leading her away to create a trail leading toward the Qingyuan River. Twenty li wasn’t very far, at least not for the two of them.

Although Princess Lan Yue was poisoned, she had taken a more potent Antidote during this time and had recovered some of her strength. Besides, the tracks she left in her current state would seem all the more authentic.

As for Yang Chan, he used the shoes left behind by Lan Hongbo and Wulan Haochuan to create pursuit tracks in the dirt, leading all the way to the Qingyuan River. Only then did he toss some items belonging to the two men into the water.

If the agents from the Six Gates investigated as far as the Qingyuan River, they might find the items left in the water. They would then assume the fugitives had used the river to escape. Since the Qingyuan River connects to the Abyssal Sea, they would surmise that the people from the Jin Meng Empire used this route to flee the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty. Naturally, they would focus their energy on that line of inquiry, which meant they wouldn’t spend much time looking into him.

After all, he was just a Basic Level Pharmacist at the External Refining Copper Skin stage. He was no match for people of that caliber and surely couldn’t have been involved in this affair, which would clear him of suspicion.

After leaving the false trail at the Qingyuan River, the two of them returned, carefully erasing all their tracks along the way, leaving nothing behind.

This included burning all the clothing left by the two from the Jin Meng Empire and the clothes Princess Lan Yue had been wearing, leaving no trace.

Even the faint traces left by the Corpse Rot Powder were thrown into the Qingyuan River by Yang Chan, disappearing completely.

Once the entire cleanup was complete, the two of them headed toward Xiaoyuan Village, one walking in front of the other.

For the journey, Princess Lan Yue was disguised as a man and walked ahead, while Yang Chan followed at a distance.

Upon reaching Xiaoyuan Village, Yang Chan saw it consisted of only five households, with fewer than twenty people in total. After entering, he used the Soul Capturing Technique on the villagers, implanting the subconscious memory of a girl named Xiaoxiang.

Yang Chan had actually wanted to implant the memory of a boy, which would be less suspicious, but Princess Lan Yue had refused. In her words, if her identity were ever discovered, it would be far more suspicious if she had been pretending to be a man. It was better to establish her as a girl from the beginning.

After all, daily habits like eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene, as well as certain feminine mannerisms, were not so easily changed. And so, after Yang Chan left, Xiaoyuan Village had a new, plain-looking resident named Xiaoxiang, who lived with her elderly grandmother. The two of them relied on each other to survive.

When Yang Chan returned, fortune would smile upon this family: the Pharmacist from the Cyan Yuan Sect would take a liking to Xiaoxiang and accept her as a Maid to serve him on the mountain.

This was what the two of them had agreed upon. In exchange, Yang Chan had also obtained several new Pill Formulas from Princess Lan Yue—all for Elixirs useful to an Inner Master.