A screaming face of a ghost that was what I saw earlier, no doubt about that, the black smoke screaming face was what wake me up from my trance and stopped me from swallowing whatever that pill was .
The scene was too much of a startle, to the point that the pill was directly thrown out of my hands instinctively, my heart was not as calm as before, not able to comprehend what just happened and what exactly was going on, but one thing was certain to me, something very evil was going on with that weird round pill .
Something malicious enough to make my body shudder and had goosebumps all over it, it took me a few seconds to catch my breath and regain my composure, it was difficult to make sense currently of what was exactly going on with that pill, but I have become a bit fearful of just looking at it .
The pill was weird to the extreme, not to mention that a screaming ghostly face came out of it, the pill once it landed on the floor, it didn't broke nor did it roll on floor, like how a round pill like it would, making me feel like not only was that pill made evil, but I was beginning to think that it might as well be possessed .
The vials didn't gave the tiny bit of information about the pills that were in them, the green vials had brown pills, the red vial had that weird red pill, after what just happened, I wasn't going to risk doing something as stupid as taking them without understanding of what their uses might be .
That goes especially for that red pill on the floor, I was thinking of crushing directly with my leg, but just as I was about to step on it, a bad premonition suddenly came to my heart, so I stopped trying to crush it and the bad premonition disappeared .
I didn't want to have anything to do whatsoever with that Blood colored pill, but I decided to at least put it back in the vial it belonged, leaving it here was beginning to make the room had a foul odor to it, the still opened vial also did the same, so it was better to put everything back in its place quickly as to not create any unnecessary trouble for myself .
I looked around me and saw that there was nothing around me that I can use to get hold of that pill with, I wasn't going to risk touching that thing anymore than needed, that pill was absolutely dangerous .
Looking around, I found nothing but to use either the books or the Paper Money to get hold of that pill without having to touch it directly, the Paper Money was a no go after all I will have to hand it over to cash out the money, so that foul odor might be found and if I was unlucky, it might be reported as well .
Yes, I had quite the strong suspicion about where this pill came from and how it reached the hand of Deacon Lu, something this sinister could only come out from the hands of the Evil Tigers organization, so it was better not to get others attention to the fact that I reeked of the scent of that pill .
As to not create a misunderstanding or bite my own foot, if someone who was knowledgeable about the matters of the Evil Tigers sensed something, I might be arrested directly, after all from the words I heard earlier, those guys went against the Emperor, so being a suspect, meant being a culprit directly .
As I thought of this, I looked at the hand that was holding that pill earlier and almost bit it off, that hand will need to be washed throughly later, as I thought of this, I once again noted that I will need to be a bit more careful and try not to act recklessly like this again, especially when dealing with new items that I have no idea about what they do .
After I decided on using the books to hold that pill, I looked at the three books that was put on each either, I chose the book that seemed to be thicker than the rest, without even reading the title on the book, I used its pages to get hold of the pill, I then moved it back to the vial then sealed it in a hurry and went and opened the door for the foul smell to disperse from the room .
After doing that I took a breath of relief that the screaming ghostly face didn't appear again, even though the ghost had a horrified expression as it screamed, their was minimal sound coming out of it, which at to the weirdness of the pill a lot more, but thankfully I won't be needing to deal with any longer .
Tomorrow, I will be finding away, I can use to get rid of that pill, after deciding this, I supported my head with my palm, my mind was really tired of having to deal with all that happened today, I was sleepy and tired, but I still to finish sorting all my gains today's, hoping to find something that might help me out of my tight situation .
If I really were to find something like that, I might go to sleep and discard of the thought of me training after this, I looked at the book still in hand and began to read the title on it, the title said ' Journey Of The Immortals ', seeing that title, my heart shook a little, but then I started to read the content and was both surprised and amused in the same time .
To think that the shrewd Deacon Lu was actually reading this fictional stories, was both a surprise and amusement, the book seemed to be similar to the fictional stories I read in my past life .
The book told an exciting story of a world where good and evil coexisted, but also repelled one another, a world where strength and wit were worthy of respect, yet it was also a cruel world where the weak were being preyed upon by the strong .
A world where strange and dangerous creatures existed, A World about magic swords that allowed their wielders to fly in the air, A World where human powerful enough to split mountains and stop the rain actually existed, A World where experts were like clouds looking down on all of the creations weaker than them .
The book went on and on at describing the said world, if I was first amused thinking that the book in front of me was fictional storie, something fun to spend some time in reading, reaching the middle of the book, my expression couldn't help but turn solemn .
The book began describing different items in this world, but just as I turned the page, the texts that I read next blow my mind, the author of the book talked about the people living in that world longer than a human back in my old world can ever be able to, he was mentioning that living for a few centuries was no problem to the people living in that world, but that wasn't what made my expression change .
It was the fact that people in that world living secluded from the mundane world of people and the only interaction that they had with the mundane world is through sending Heavenly Messenger .
I felt as if someone had suddenly squeezed lemon juice in my eyes, I felt my eyes hurt due to how wide eyed I have become, my mind was jolted back to that incident I had earlier today with that young master Han Jun, or maybe Young miss, he or she did mention that they wanted to aske the Heavenly Messenger to come and to go away with him .
That could be much of a coincidence, but I was beginning to believe that both the Heavenly Messenger from Han Jun words and the one written in here were both the same thing and held the same meaning, but my heart couldn't help but be uneasy at how this wasn't making any sense in my mind .
I looked at the words ' Heavenly Messenger ' for a minute or two wondering about the meaning of those words, but not wanting to make wrong speculations about what was going on, I suppressed the uneasiness in my heart and decided to continue reading first before I began making assumptions .
The author then went on describing what the objective that Heavenly Messenger came to do, it was said in the book that he came to collect the kingdom fortune and to give fortune in some cases, for some reason the author didn't delve deep into explaining this vague description and simply mentioned that Heavenly Messenger taking people from the mundane world to their world, to do what, that too wasn't explained .
The author of the book continued to describe things he saw, flying castles, powerful dynasties and on and on, but at the end of the book, he was warning those who read about this world not seeking their own death by snooping around the opportunity to reach that world, otherwise instead of them finding a chance to ascend to heaven, they will be seeking their own death .
He ended his severe warnings with a few last words, he said in the last few lines of the book :
Birds die for food, people die for wealth .
Withfate's will, people either soar to heaven or plummet to hell .
I kept on staring at those words as I read them and felt as if I heard an old voice repeating those few words in my mind over and over again until that voice seemed to have given up on hope and stopped repeating them in my mind .
Even though the echoing voice repeating these words in my mind stopped, I couldn't sweep my eyes or attention from those two sentences, I felt as if my eyes were glued into them somehow, I also felt that those words seemed to have a weird aura about them, that made dismissing them as mere words insanely difficult .
The words were quite clear yet when they sounded in my mind they became obscure, as if I hadn't understood anything from it, this weird feeling gave me a strong headache, not to mention a great startle, it wasn't an every day thing to hear an old man voice in your head .
After a few minutes, I was finally able to move my eyes away from the book and completely closed the book after I had completely memorized the content of it in mind, even those two last sentences .
After putting the book aside, my brain was troubled by ton of questions, but the most important ones were about the person who wrote this journal and who were these people he mentioned and why was it dangerous to snoop around for their news, why didn't the author mentioned them and a lot of other weird questions .
Even though after I finished reading the whole book, I have some suspicions about whether what was written inside this book being completely authentic or someone might have tempered with it, I still believe that at least 60 or 70 percent of this book content was authentic .
If I had hadn't heard Han Jun talking about that Heavenly Messenger, I might have continued to believe that this was nothing but a fictional book, or at least falsified most of the book if not all of it .
But just due to how strange was this world I was in and the fact that I heard those words, I believed that it might indeed have some truths to it, but all in all, I believe that I currently had no benefit nor ability in continue to contemplate on it any further .
So for the meantime, I should just drop it and not even try to inquire about it, the severe warnings in the book were successful in making the dangers of snooping around clear and I already had my own set of trouble, so it was better not to stir the hornet's nest .
I released a sigh and wondered if I can consider knowing of such a secret information as a gain, I wasn't able to make my mind, so I released another sigh and looked at the items that were waiting for me to check, in front of me there were, two booklets and the sword .
I wanted to check the sword first, but no matter how hard I tried to pull it out of the sheath, it wasn't budging, the sword itself was quite heavy as well, I wasn't even able to pull it off the ground, feeling that dwelling on it was quite useless, I discarded the thought of inspecting it first and couldn't help but beginning to feel a bit disappointed .
The only thing that I could say to have gained up to this far was the silver taels waiting for me to go and cash them out, I looked hopefully at the two books in front of me, the first book was actually Martial Technique manual under the name, Ferocious Blood Refinement .
The technique name alone gave the wrong assumption, but I still read it throughly first, the book had 44 pages, sadly there was no indication of what the grade of this technique was, but judging by the content inside, I wouldn't be surprised if it were a Yellow High-grade Martial Technique .
This technique was what allowed the Deacon Lu to be smug about his defense, the Technique in my hands wasn't as evil as its name made it sound to be .
That technique was weird due to not asking me to execute any posture, it completely required the use of Blood Qi and circulate it in a unique pattern inside the body, but without the Blood of Ferocious Beast the tempering effect this technique have on the body won't be triggered, that's where the name came to be from perhaps .
After finish rummaging through the book pages, I was able to know the side effects of this technique, it had two, first due to the use of the ferocious beast blood in practicing this Marital Technique, the practitioner will have to disperse the resentment in that blood after he apply it to his skin, otherwise the resentment left in the blood will enter the body and wreck havoc in it, leaving the person practicing this technique, seriously injured or even dead .
The second effect would be making those who practiced this technique short-tempered and easy to be provoked, after all, the resentment in the beasts blood will affect the the head of the Practitioner in some way or another, unlike with the techniques back in Martial Dojo, no warning note was found anywhere nor any more info at all, other than the way to circulate Blood Qi and how to apply the blood .
After reading the information regarding this technique, I couldn't help but take a liking to this technique, I believe that I can make quite the use of especially with the panel I have in mind, it gave me a huge advantage in practicing this kind of techniques, but although I understood the content of this technique, I still have one thing that was troubling me .
What exactly were those Ferocious Beasts mentioned in the booklet and how different was them from normal wild animals, were the horses in the stables ferocious beasts, there was still a lot of things I still don't have a clue on in this world .
Leaving the matters at that, I turned to look at probably the last item in the loot this time, the last book in front of me wasn't a Martial Technique, no it was a Martial Sword Skill that went by the name, Life-Severing Sword, I was a bit disappointed at the fact that it was a weapon Martial Skill .
It wasn't that this skill wasn't welcomed or anything like that, I just wanted the Footwork Skill that those guys were using to move, after all, if I were to have a skill like that in my arsenal, even if I were to find myself in an unfavorable situation, I would still have the ability to escape, after sighing disappointingly for a bit more time, In the end I shook my head and chuckled at how cocky was I beginning to become .
Hours ago, I was wondering whether will I even be able to learn Martial Arts, now I had both technique and skills and I was beginning to be picky, after my mood eased a little, I opened the last booklet and the moment I did, I couldn't help but take a breath of air .
The reason was because the quite catchy Martial Skill Life-Severing Sword, wasn't actually a Martial Skill, BUT A SECRET MARTIAL SKILL .