novelapdf Chapter 178 A Swift and Decisive Move
Chapter 178 A Swift and Decisive Move
Chapter 179 A Swift and Decisive Move
Just as his thoughts drifted to a bizarre conjecture, Lu Jianghe's voice, devoid of emotion, resounded directly in his mind.
"Stop it! If you keep thinking like that, you can figure out the inner palace yourself."
Han Li's smile froze instantly. He awkwardly raised his hand to touch his nose, too embarrassed to say anything.
Lu Jianghe looked at Zi Ling, his tone somewhat solemn.
"Have you forgotten what I said so quickly?"
Upon hearing this, Zi Ling lowered her head slightly, turned to the side, raised her slender white fingers, and gently wiped away the tears in her eyes.
Han Li watched from the sidelines, filled with admiration.
Such a beauty, if it were anyone else, they would probably be eager to hold her in their hands and cherish her, how could they dare to say a harsh word?
Zi Ling could clearly sense that Lu Jianghe might be a little angry, so she lowered her eyes and obediently responded.
"Understood."
Seeing her like this, Lu Jianghe continued, "I have something to take care of. When the teleportation array is activated, I'll take you to gather some spiritual herbs."
Upon hearing this, Zi Ling's face instantly brightened, and she nodded vigorously, her eyes filled with anticipation and joy: "Yes!"
Then, Lu Jianghe didn't delay any longer. He turned his gaze to Han Li and gave him a look, signaling him to follow.
The latter understood immediately and followed closely behind.
The two walked through the scattered strange rocks and spiritual plants in the waterside garden, and went straight to Xuan Gu, who was sitting alone in the corner, wearing a green robe and pretending to meditate with his eyes closed.
Lu Jianghe's footsteps were steady and silent, carrying an invisible pressure, and finally stopped in front of him.
Xuan Gu's body stiffened almost imperceptibly. He forced himself to remain calm, slowly opened his eyes, and tried to force a puzzled expression onto his face, but there was little regret deep in his eyes.
What's done is done. Even if I'm beheaded here today, it's just fate, a miscalculation.
Heaven is unjust; it simply hasn't taken my side.
According to his original plan, if this person hadn't interfered, the probability of his plan succeeding would have been as high as 60-70%.
Once success is achieved.
While it won't immediately restore me to my peak, with that thing, I'll definitely be able to roam freely across the chaotic star sea in the future.
Han Li looked at Xuan Gu, his heart filled with both hatred for him taking over Zhang Tie's body and the unavenged hatred for the murder of several comrades. His eyes grew colder and colder.
Lu Jianghe remained silent, but pondered in his heart whether or not to kill him.
For a ruthless and ambitious figure like Xuan Gu, he is not lacking in intelligence and strategy, and his methods are even more cunning. He has mastered most of the hidden legends of the Chaotic Star Sea and knows a great deal.
But it was precisely this mindset that destined him to be unusable by anyone.
Even if you pretend to be compliant, the other party will immediately see through it and will never believe you.
This kind of old fox can't be fooled by words alone.
Lu Jianghe didn't beat around the bush. His gaze fell on Xuan Gu, and he said directly, "Let's make a deal."
Unable to bear the condescending gaze, Xuan Gu abruptly stood up from his cross-legged position and said in a low voice, "Please speak, senior."
"I will kill the Yin for you."
Lu Jianghe said calmly, "Hand over the method for obtaining the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng and the recipe."
Upon hearing the terms of the deal, Xuan Gu showed no surprise. After a moment of silence, he asked in a hoarse voice, "So, am I alive or dead?"
Lu Jianghe's eyes were indifferent, as if he were stating a trivial fact: "It's hard to say. You might die, or you might be left with a wisp of your soul."
Upon hearing this, Xuan Gu first let out a soft, ambiguous chuckle, then his shoulders began to tremble, and his low chuckle gradually turned into a hoarse laugh: "Ha—hehehe—that's satisfying, you've got it! I agree!"
After he finished, he pulled out a jade scroll from his ribcage.
"This contains a pill formula. When refined into pills, it can alleviate the pain of reversed meridians during the formation of the Nascent Soul and the breaking of the core, and increase the success rate by about 10% to 20%. However, since the Void Heaven Palace has been closed for three hundred years, I cannot predict whether the spiritual ginseng still exists or where it is now."
Lu Jianghe reached out and took it, scanning it with his divine sense.
It contains a marker for an outer hall area, indicating the possible location of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, as well as a complete prescription.
With a flick of his finger, the jade slip flew steadily toward Han Li.
The latter accepted it solemnly, his heart filled with turbulent emotions.
The Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng is supplemented with this small green bottle of ripening-promoting elixir.
Could this legendary Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng Pill be continuously produced?
A glint of light flashed in Han Li's eyes.
The effects of this elixir are nothing short of miraculous; for Core Formation cultivators, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a legendary celestial treasure.
If it could be mass-produced—thinking of this, even Han Li, with his calm and composed nature, couldn't help but feel his heart pounding wildly.
The value of these elixirs is so high that they could fetch unimaginable prices.
Whether used for personal cultivation improvement, given to close friends and family to help them break through bottlenecks, or used as a supreme treasure to win people's hearts, it will be a great asset.
No wonder he's an old fellow who's lived for hundreds of years.
Even in such a predicament, they were still searching for a glimmer of hope.
After a moment's hesitation, Lu Jianghe's mind stirred.
Xuan Gu's face turned deathly pale instantly, sensing an immense terror from the unseen world.
"senior----"
Before he could utter a word, his body instantly transformed into a thick, blinding cloud of blood mist without warning, leaving not even a single intact bone fragment behind.
Blood mist spread out, carrying a heavy stench of blood and an eerie, malevolent aura.
After all, it was a body that Xuan Gu had refined using the Xuan Yin Refining Demon Technique.
Even if Zhang Tie's primordial spirit problem is resolved in the future, this original physical body will no longer be usable.
They either have to find a new body to possess, or they can only rely on a puppet.
Han Li was startled, his eyelids trembling slightly.
Amidst the churning blood mist, an exceptionally refined and extraordinary ghostly figure, far surpassing that of ordinary Core Formation cultivators, struggled to emerge—it was none other than the primordial spirit of Xuan Gu Shangren, Xiao Cha.
Lu Jianghe slightly spread his five fingers, thus imprisoning him in his palm.
The Yin spirit of Xuan Gu trembled violently in Lu Jianghe's palm. He never expected that the other party would turn on him so suddenly, giving him no chance to react or negotiate.
They didn't even understand what kind of supernatural power the other party had used to so suddenly crush this physical body.
Is this the power of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator?!
The Xuan Gu Yin spirit subconsciously glanced back at the spot where the physical body had exploded, at the center of the still-lingering blood mist.
There, a section of clear, transparent, spiraling "water" was quietly suspended and slowly flowing.
Pure and flawless, as if it had fallen from the heavens, the blood mist generated by the explosion of the flesh just now did not touch it at all, which made it seem extremely strange.
"What...what is this?!"
Xuan Gu was utterly terrified.
With his Nascent Soul stage divine sense, he finally glimpsed a clue at this moment. That was no ordinary "flowing water".
It was clearly formed by countless tiny sword energies, so fine they were as round as water droplets, yet containing unparalleled sharpness!
They chase, entwine, separate and reunite, endlessly regenerating and flowing, forming their own mysterious trajectory.
What kind of magical artifact is this?!
What kind of supernatural power?!