Chapter 68

Li Tianyan looked around and noticed that the woman’s body had been preserved. He then nodded and said, “Her life span has been exhausted.”

However, this woman must have consumed the finest beauty-preserving elixirs. Not only did she maintained her beauty until her death, but she also appeared young and beautiful. Remarkably, her body remained uncorrupted even after being sealed in the underground palace for so long.

“Young master, shall we explore elsewhere?” Cheng Qi suggested, glancing around. The previous sensation seemed to have returned, though not as prominently as before.

“Yes,” Li Tianyan agreed, scanning the area. Apart from the crystal coffin, there were only two additional doors on the left side of the empty hall.

They approached the first door together. Li Tianyan attempted to push it open, but it resisted as if it were a stone slab rather than a door.

Cheng Qi’s eyes lit up, reminiscent of their experience in the secret room. He infused a bit of spiritual power into the door, and immediately heard the sound of a stone slab sliding. The door slowly swung open from left to right. Li Tianyan pulled Cheng Qi back cautiously, watching the door warily.

As they got a clear view of the room, Cheng Qi couldn’t help but gasp. After a moment of silence, he finally found his voice, “Young master, what… there’s nothing here.”

Indeed, the room appeared empty except for a beautiful glass platform. Cheng Qi felt a tinge of disappointment, expecting to find spiritual beads or medicinal pills like in the secret room.

Observing Cheng Qi’s reaction, Li Tianyan shook his head amusedly. How cute. “Let’s check the next room,” he suggested.

“Okay,” Cheng Qi agreed, leading Li Tianyan to the next room. Using the same method as before, he opened the door, and the sensation that seemed to indicate emptiness became stronger.

This time, there were two stone platforms in the room. One held a complete set of exquisitely crafted jewelry, including rings, bracelets, necklaces, belts, and a jade pendant. On the other platform floated a red crystal. Li Tianyan and Cheng Qi’s attention was drawn to the crystal simultaneously.

Li Tianyan speculated that this must be the complete inheritance stone. Cheng Qi gazed at the red crystal, his emotions intensifying. However, his eyes gradually dimmed, and he advanced toward it step by step.

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The two of them passed by the first stone platform where jewelry was placed. Li Tianyan recognized at a glance that these were not ordinary decorations but high-quality space artifacts. He stopped to pick up one of the rings to examine it.

Indeed, the ring contained a space of three hundred cubic meters, housing low-grade spiritual stones useful for low-level cultivators. Li Tianyan checked several other pieces and found that, without exception, these space magic tools were all useful for low-level cultivators—a collection of items handy for beginners.

Li Tianyan’s suspicions grew stronger, especially when he noticed a large number of women’s clothing and jewelry among the stored items. He turned to look at Cheng Qi, only to find him standing in front of another stone platform, reaching for something on the table.

“Don’t touch.”

Li Tianyan’s voice jolted Cheng Qi awake, but he found himself holding the red crystal in his hand, unable to recall how he got there. As he opened his mouth, the crystal’s contents flooded into his consciousness, causing a sudden headache.@@novelbin@@

Seeing Cheng Qi in pain, Li Tianyan hurried over, intending to take the crystal from his hand. Unfortunately, he was too late. Cheng Qi’s pupils turned scarlet, and he muttered to himself, “Unexpectedly, the one who came was a shuanger.”

“Cheng Qi,” Li Tianyan called out tentatively.

Cheng Qi raised his head, smiling seductively at Li Tianyan as he reached out to caress his chin. “Not bad, you’ve sent me such a top-notch man.”

“Is that brat out of his mind?” Tan Eyu, who emerged from the soul-nurturing tree, felt an ominous premonition upon seeing Cheng Qi’s behavior. The brat dared to speak to Li Tianyan in such a manner; he must have lost his sanity.

“A ghost slave dares to speak out here,” Cheng Qi’s eyes flashed coldly.

With those words, Tan Eyu was suddenly sent flying backward, as if her soul were pinned to the wall, rendering her immobile.

Initially stunned by the sudden turn of events, Tan Eyu then erupted in anger. “You little bastard, let me go this instant.”

Ignoring her protests, Cheng Qi turned to the man beside him, slowly removing the mask from his face to reveal his flawless features, and said with a charming smile, “Now, no one will disturb us.”

As Li Tianyan observed Cheng Qi, who seemed like a different person, his face darkened, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes as he seized the hand causing trouble on his face. “Do you want to leave on your own, or shall I assist you?”

Still in shock, Tan Eyu trembled involuntarily upon hearing Li Tianyan’s icy words. It seemed that Li Tianyan was genuinely enraged.

However, the warned individual, lacking Tan Eyu’s awareness, continued without hesitation, “Haha, I didn’t expect a fourth-level Qi Condensation boy to have such audacity. It’s fortunate for me to favor you. Serve me well, or I’ll suck you dry.”

Li Tianyan’s sneer deepened upon hearing the arrogant words. He reached out to grasp the back of Cheng Qi’s head, and before the other could react, their lips met in an unexpected kiss, allowing the dormant soul within Li Tianyan to pass through their intertwined mouths.

As the soul entered Cheng Qi’s consciousness, Li Tianyan heard a faint sobbing sound. He realized that the little one’s mind hadn’t been consumed by the woman, prompting a sigh of relief.

“Hold on there, leave the rest to me,” Li Tianyan directed towards the source of the sound before proceeding to search for the woman’s soul.

With Cheng Qi only at the third level Qi Condensation, his physical body couldn’t support two souls, necessitating a swift resolution.

Upon hearing Li Tianyan’s voice, Cheng Qi initially thought he was hallucinating but complied, blocking his senses to minimize his presence.

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Li Tianyan swiftly located a cluster of black mist, which also detected his presence. “Who are you?” it demanded.

“It seems you’ve put considerable effort into creating this underground palace to seize a body and reborn. Unfortunately, you’ve chosen the wrong person. This kid is the one I favor, not someone for you to toy with.” Li Tianyan showed no mercy toward the evil cultivator, enveloping the black mist with his own soul.

“Your Majesty, spare me. I acknowledge my mistake. I’ll vacate this body,” the woman pleaded, realizing her spirit was no match for Li Tianyan’s.

However, having resided in the inheritance stone for too long, relinquishing the body would result in her soul’s destruction. Her plea for mercy was merely a stalling tactic.

“It’s too late.” Li Tianyan, aware of the impossibility of the woman’s departure, didn’t dare to engage in a soul battle here. Instead, he swiftly consumed her soul and initiated the Five Elements Technique to extract the Yin energy from her soul.

“Wait a minute, are you interested in this body? Don’t you also want to use it as a furnace? As long as you spare my life, Yan Li is willing to be your furnace.” Sensing the Yin energy in her soul rapidly gone made the woman really anxious, and she kept struggling to get out of the opponent’s soul.

“You want to be my furnace, but you are not worthy.” After Li Tianyan uttered a few cold words, he extracted it faster.

“Stop it. You immortal cultivators are all sanctimonious. What’s the difference between you and evil cultivators behind the scenes? You were also reborn by seizing a body. Don’t you have any bad intentions for being nice to this kid? You are raising him, for what reason, you know best in your heart.” Seeing that begging for mercy was useless, Yan Li cursed angrily.

Li Tianyan did not answer her this time because his own body was about to burst from the Yin energy drawn out. No matter how weak this woman’s soul was, she was not someone weak like Cheng Qi.

Li Tianyan could only run the Yin Yuan Cultivation, continuously compress the extracted Yin energy, and take out a few spirit beads and held them in his hand. In this way, the six energy groups in his body were constantly expanding. Li Tianyan took advantage of this opportunity to entangle six different energies into one, trying to attack the blood orifices in his body that had not yet been opened.

The first, second, and third, Li Tianyan effortlessly broke through all the nine acupoints of the blood orifices in one go and successfully advanced to the fifth level. However, the Yin energy was still continuously transmitted. Li Tianyan’s hand changed batch after batch spirit beads, constantly filling the other five energy balls.

Until he was about to be exploded by this Yin energy, Li Tianyan repeated his old tricks and continued to use the excess Yin energy to attack the acupoints to break through again.

Because the continuous advancement was obviously a bit difficult this time, Li Tianyan was already sweating profusely when he hit the sixth acupoint. When he reached the seventh acupoint, his speed slowed down obviously. When he reached the eighth acupoint, Li Tianyan tried twice. Success, the last acupoint Li Tianyan almost exhausted all his strength before finally succeeding.

After advancing to the sixth level of Qi Condensation, the tendons and Dantian in his body had been broadened a lot. Fortunately, this woman’s soul had been trapped in the inheritance stone for some years, and the Yin energy contained in it had long since dispersed. Just after Li Tianyan advanced to the sixth level, her Yin Qi energy finally began to weaken.

The woman’s soul without Yin Qi turned into a transparent mist. After Li Tianyan removed the consciousness from her soul, he dispersed the mist, allowing Cheng Qi to digest it slowly.

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After dealing with the female evil cultivator, Li Tianyan’s soul was also preparing to evacuate, but he accidentally saw the memory fragments in Cheng Qi’s Sea of ​​consciousness. No matter which picture he saw, his image was there.

Not daring to stay here for a long time, Li Tianyan only took a quick glance, and the soul had already separated from Cheng Qi’s Sea of consciousness, returned to his body.

When Li Tianyan opened his eyes, Cheng Qi’s consciousness finally recovered. As soon as their eyes met, Cheng Qi couldn’t help but throw himself into Li Tianyan’s arms.

Just when the woman invaded his body, Cheng Qi thought he was dead, but what he was more afraid of was that the woman would use his body to do something bad to Li Tianyan.

Li Tianyan glanced at the person in his arms, then stretched out his hand clumsily and patted his back to comfort him, saying, “It’s okay.”

Note: okay, Li Tianyan basically forced himself to advance two levels by stealing the woman’s Yin energy.