Chapter 140: The Truth

"What on earth is going on? Logically speaking, the spiritual foods I consumed should have been a piece of cake for me, yet they turned me into this state. If I hadn't dispersed my cultivation in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable." The more Lin Yanghao thought about this incident, the more bizarre it felt. There had to be something wrong with those spiritual foods.

"The problem should lie in those last ten portions of spiritual food," Ling'er said after carefully reviewing the events, sounding somewhat uncertain.

"I have no enmity with anyone there, so who on earth would want to harm me?" Lin Yanghao was extremely puzzled.

"I have no idea about that. Could someone have recognized you and wanted to kill you for the bounty?" Ling'er guessed.

"If that's the case, wouldn't I be in great danger right now?"

Never mind, I should go out and test the waters first.

At this moment, the inn was already bustling with activity. Seeing Lin Yanghao walk out, everyone was secretly startled.

"Look at him. He ate so much spiritual food last night and didn't suffer the slightest bit."

"Could he really have some method to quickly digest all that spiritual food?"

The people inside the inn muttered in low voices.

Now, they no longer dared to hold any contempt for Lin Yanghao. Could someone who could consume that much spiritual food be an ordinary person?

What if he was a high-level cultivator concealing his true realm?

It was very likely that he was some great expert in cultivation.

Not only that, but they felt that Gushi was even more extraordinary, as they couldn't perceive Gushi's cultivation realm at all.

Lin Yanghao observed every move of these people, not missing their expressions at the moment.

That's right, Lin Yanghao wanted to read some clues from their faces.

However, the result left him disappointed; none of the people in the inn showed any abnormal reactions.

"It seems this wasn't their doing. Then who could it be?" The anger in Lin Yanghao's heart could not calm down. He had almost lost his life because of this!

Thinking about it now made it even harder for him to swallow this resentment.

If he ever found out who did this, he would tear them limb from limb.

"Oh? You brat are still alive and kicking. I thought you had kicked the bucket." Just as Lin Yanghao was lost in thought, Gushi had already flashed right before his eyes.

"The spiritual foods from last night had a problem." He had to tell Gushi about this. What if it really was because of a bounty?

"Oh? What kind of problem? Could those spiritual foods have been fake?" At this, Gushi had already guessed most of the truth. If that were the case, everything would make sense.

Lin Yanghao had eaten fake spiritual food, so naturally nothing would happen to him.

"Not only were those spiritual foods not fake, but their efficacy was actually magnified tenfold!" Lin Yanghao gave Gushi a speechless look. If they were fake, why would he make such a big deal out of it? Wouldn't all his boasting from yesterday have been for nothing?

Why would he have made such an unnecessary fuss?

Without a word, Gushi directly reached out and pinched Lin Yanghao's face left and right, not knowing what he was doing, leaving Lin Yanghao completely baffled.

"What are you doing?"

"Are you still asleep and out of your mind?" Gushi finally squeezed out these words after a long while.

"You're the one out of your mind! Your whole family is out of your mind!" Lin Yanghao genuinely felt like beating Gushi up right now.

He was talking to him about something serious! Yet Gushi was acting like this.

"Are you telling the truth?" Seeing the absolute seriousness on Lin Yanghao's face, which didn't look like he was lying, Gushi was instantly filled with disbelief.

Even a Void-Integration Realm cultivator would find it difficult to consume that much spiritual food in one sitting, and now you're telling me the efficacy was multiplied tenfold? What kind of concept was that...

Gushi simply couldn't imagine how immense that medicinal power must have been.

"Freak..." Gushi managed to spit out this word after a long pause.

"Did you actually understand what I meant or not?" Lin Yanghao wore a look of utter helplessness. After talking for so long, the guy still hadn't grasped his point.

Had he been a zombie for too long and rusted his brain?

Through their time together, Lin Yanghao had naturally figured out the secret behind Gushi.

At first, Gushi refused to reveal a single word to Lin Yanghao no matter what, but he ultimately couldn't withstand Lin Yanghao's relentless pestering, and finally told him everything about how he became a zombie and his life before death.

After pouring it all out, Gushi felt a great sense of relief. He had suppressed these things for too long, and now he finally had someone to confide in.

Moreover, Lin Yanghao had already earned Gushi's trust, or else why would Gushi have told him all this?

Not to mention that Lin Yanghao had saved his life several times, Gushi had also thoroughly understood him through their time spent together.

"If you have something to say, just say it directly without beating around the bush. You don't just want to let me know how awesome you are, do you?" Gushi genuinely had no idea what Lin Yanghao was trying to express.

"You're overthinking it..." Lin Yanghao truly admired Gushi's imagination. Was there anything he couldn't possibly overthink?

"What if those people who harbor ill intentions toward you and me wanted to target me?" Lin Yanghao continued.

"You're saying they've already recognized us? Who is it?" Hearing this, Gushi realized the gravity of the situation. His eyes instantly flashed with ferocity as he scanned everyone present in the inn.

"It shouldn't be them," Lin Yanghao shook his head and said.

"Then who is it?"

"How should I know? If I knew, I wouldn't be asking you."

Thud~

Right at that moment, the heavy sound of something dropping to the ground suddenly came from the doorway.

Lin Yanghao and Gushi looked over at almost the exact same time, only to see a person standing dazedly at the entrance of the inn.

This person was none other than the inn waiter from the previous night. His expression was tense, his body was even trembling slightly, and beads of sweat were rolling down his forehead.

Of course, none of this escaped the eyes of Lin Yanghao and Gushi.

This waiter definitely had something to hide, Lin Yanghao thought silently to himself.

"Don't come closer! Are you human or a ghost?" Although the waiter was already at the Nascent Soul realm, the sudden appearance of Lin Yanghao still shattered his psychological defenses.

Lin Yanghao's appearance was simply too unexpected for him, and now his whole body couldn't stop shivering.

That's right, everything from yesterday was his doing. The poison he gave Lin Yanghao was potent enough that even a Body Integration Realm cultivator would have to expend considerable effort to refine it. Yet Lin Yanghao, a mere Golden Core realm cultivator, had consumed those spiritual foods—even a Celestial Immortal would find it hard to save him.

However, reality had turned out contrary to his expectations. Lin Yanghao was now standing right before his eyes, and the waiter could only view him as a ghost.

"Oh? Aren't you surprised that I'm not dead?" Lin Yanghao retorted. Even if he were slow-witted, he naturally knew by now that all of this must have been orchestrated by this damned waiter.

"What! You're not dead? How is this possible? How can this be?" Hearing that Lin Yanghao was still alive, the waiter was first shocked, and then a feeling of despair washed over him.