Hurriedly, Yuchi stuffed the elixir conjured by the three sisters into the small deer’s mouth: 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"Ancestor, after eating this medicinal herb, hurry and leave from here. I’ve decided to bury these remains elsewhere, consider this your fee for bringing me here."

The small deer, pushed away by Yuchi, seemed awkward, rummaging through the nearby bushes to find various bone fragments, a pile of over ten pieces ultimately placed in front of Yuchi, evidently thinking it was exchanging these meat bones with him.

Yuchi knelt.

Damn, wasn’t this done by a cultivator, but taken directly by you, you deer girl? You little deer do have some manners, don’t you flip the plate while eating? You even know to stop gnawing when a piece loses its flavor before going for another? Truly not holding back at all!

Laughing and crying, watching the small deer leave satisfied, Yuchi could only resume his old trade, digging a deep pit with the Immortal Sword before burying the skulls and other bones beneath the soil, patting the earth firmly until he felt content.

The righteous path shines... Though this isn’t much related to the small deer, the cultivator’s flesh is still very nutritious, containing a lot of elixir Spiritual Qi, akin to the culinary king’s roast, comparable to Tang Monk’s meat, a human delicacy no wild animal could refuse.

"Thus, having buried you, I took your Storage Ring, that’s not too overboard, right?"

"After all, I know nothing of your name, where you’re from, where you’re headed, or who your enemies might be."

Yuchi then infused Spiritual Qi into the Storage Ring, throwing aside fragments found on the ground, converting what can be exchanged into Dao Points directly.

The result was truly indescribable, roughly equivalent to ten thousand taels, saying it’s plenty would be false, like tasting wax.

Ultimately, what remained was a letter; with fingers resting on the envelope’s opening, instinct warned him not to open it, else there’d be a mess to deal with.

"No way."

"It should be just an ordinary letter, right?"

"Or maybe it’s private, like a diary, something he didn’t want outsiders seeing?"

Thinking back to his past life when he suddenly disappeared, the mobile needed a complete wipe, hard drive study materials needed destruction before he could leave peacefully, else being discovered by outsiders meant dying socially, even as a ghost.

"So this is personal privacy?"

Yuchi held the letter up to the mountain stream’s sunlight, realizing through the rays that the letter contained densely packed text inside, even noticing a red thumbprint at the end.

"Coo, coo, coo," that’s a bird call.

"It’s you, Guo’Er," Yuchi responded.

The surrounding temperature dropped a bit, then Yuchi opened the letter after all, as living Storage Rings didn’t warrant a read, but dead ones might contain plea clues, and also to satisfy his curiosity.

The letter’s content slowly unveiled before Yuchi’s sweating forehead.

...

"Greetings upon reading, this letter I left knowing survival was elusive, severely wounded and uncertain if I could escape. When this letter sees daylight, that’s unknown, but if you chance upon it, could you help me with something? I have some gold and silver, perhaps boasting, but truly is life’s savings, about thirty thousand taels!"

":)"

Seeing this, Yuchi nearly spat blood, my gosh, this guy’s dying but still using emoticons? Shaking his head, he muttered:

"Shouldn’t have read, reeks of a mess."

"And thirty thousand taels of silver, thinking that would get me to help, truly simplistic thinking. Do I, honest Yuchi, seem short of thirty thousand taels? If it were three hundred thousand, I’d maybe consider. Crucially, I don’t know if you were a good person or not, perhaps you led yourself to doom, what’s that got to do with me?"

As Yuchi spoke, he flipped to the next page, but seeing the overwhelming text on it left him speechless.

The written text read:

"I’m a good person! Truly a good person! I know currently you may suspect I led myself to doom, but that’s not the true case! I’m a good person! Absolutely a good person! I’ve done nothing immoral! Genuinely a big, good person!"

"Believe me!!! This letter’s singular, no backup, if you don’t help, then nobody can help me! Brother, sister, I’m calling you mom and dad!"

Yuchi: "...I don’t have a son like you."

As for believing you? I only trust Chun Ge...