170: Chapter 170: Spread the word about this

"Why are you all here?" Xiao Yuan dry-laughed as he walked up to greet them.

Although he knew that the six women always came together every time, to cover up the guilt in his heart, he could only ask this superfluous question!

Ye Qingcen rolled her eyes at him. "What do you mean by why are we here? We wanted to come yesterday, but Elder Yun said you were busy and wouldn't let us come and disturb you."

Su Li nodded, her eyes filled with concern. "Are you alright? Did that Nascent Soul Old Ancestor from yesterday give you a hard time..."

The matter of the Nascent Soul Old Ancestor breaking into Dan Peak yesterday was known to the entire Dan Peak, but no one knew the specific details.

However, the six women knew that Xiao Yuan had also been called into the main hall of Dan Peak.

Moreover, it was rumored that that Nascent Soul being seemed to be from Fire Peak, and definitely had a connection with the grandfather-grandson pair Sun Yue and Sun Rui!

Their first reaction was that the other party had come to assign blame and exact retribution; after all, Xiao Yuan had killed Sun Yue!

"It's fine, it's fine, it's all resolved." Xiao Yuan quickly waved his hand. He didn't want to make the six women worry!

There was no way he could tell the six women about possessing the dan bell. If things went poorly, it might bring danger to them!

Su Ruotong glanced at him, confirming that he was indeed fine, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

The six women walked into the Cultivation Room, sat down around Xiao Yuan, and began talking all at once.

Su Li was here to express her gratitude... Xiao Yuan had avenged her, and though she didn't say much with her mouth, the look she gave him was gentler than anything else.

Ye Qingcen was here to act spoiled... Xiao Yuan had crippled Chen Yin, and she was overjoyed inside, feeling that Xiao Yuan had done it specifically for her.

Luo Ziyan, Liu Qingqing, and Zhou Ruoxi simply worried about him and wanted to come and check on him.

Although Su Ruotong didn't say much, being able to come voluntarily already explained everything.

Surrounded by the six women, Xiao Yuan felt immensely pleased. But before this sense of delight had even passed, he realized something was amiss.

Ye Qingcen suddenly wrinkled her nose. "Eh? What is this smell?"

Su Li also frowned slightly and gently sniffed. "There is a faint fragrance..."

Luo Ziyan blinked. "It seems to be a woman's body fragrance?"

Liu Qingqing and Zhou Ruoxi exchanged a glance and also began sniffing around.

Su Ruotong didn't speak, her gaze merely looking indifferently at Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan's scalp went numb!

Only then did he remember... Last night, Leng Youyue and Lin Zhirou had stayed here for the better half of the night, and inside the inner room, even more so... that sort of thing... the smell definitely hadn't completely dissipated!

The noses of the six women were sharper than one another; how could they possibly not smell it out?

"This..." Cold sweat instantly poured down Xiao Yuan. "It might be the medicinal fragrance from yesterday's Alchemy, mixing together and..."

"Medicinal fragrance?" Ye Qingcen didn't believe it. "Can medicinal fragrance have this kind of smell? It's clearly a woman's!"

Su Li didn't speak, only watching him with a gaze so calm it made people panic.

Luo Ziyan lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Liu Qingqing and Zhou Ruoxi looked at each other in dismay, wanting to say something but not daring to.

Su Ruotong gently sighed, her look seeming to say: "Who did you provoke again?"

Xiao Yuan's heart was filled with guilt.

He couldn't possibly say "Two Golden Core Junior Martial Uncles came to find me for Dual Cultivation", could he? Wouldn't that be courting death!

Seeing that the six women were about to start questioning him, Xiao Yuan hardened his heart...

"Aiya, you all finally came here with great difficulty, why talk about these things!"

He stepped forward, wrapped his left arm around Su Li and his right arm around Ye Qingcen, turning back to wink at Su Ruotong and the others.

"Let's go, go, go into the inner room to talk!"

The six women instantly blushed.

"What are you doing!" Ye Qingcen chided coquettishly, yet she didn't break away.

Although Su Li didn't speak, even the tips of her ears turned red.

Su Ruotong gave a soft scoff. "In broad daylight..."

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Yuan was already pulling them toward the inner room.

"Whatever you have to say, we'll say it inside! The Pill Furnace outside is still hot, don't let it burn you!"

As he spoke, he pushed the six women inward, his movements as smooth as flowing clouds and water.

Half-reluctantly and half-willingly, the six women were pushed into the inner room by him with blushing faces.

Liu Qingqing and Zhou Ruoxi walked at the very end. The two exchanged a glance and saw the shyness in each other's eyes, but still obediently followed inside.

The inner room door closed with a "bang".

Outside, the flames in the Pill Furnace slowly extinguished, and the medicinal fragrance gradually dissipated.

Only those few lingering, faint wisps of fragrance still floated in the air.

However, no one cared about that anymore at this moment.

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Wood Peak, Elder Chen Mo's Immortal Cave.

Chen Yin lay on the bed, his hands wrapped completely in bandages, his complexion as pale as paper.

He was already awake, but those eyes stared blankly at the ceiling of the Immortal Cave, looking like two dead fish eyes.

"My hands..." he muttered, his voice as hoarse as sandpaper grinding against stone, "My hands have no feeling..."

Beneath the bandages, although those hands had been reattached, they hung from his wrists like two noodles, limp and soft, unable to move even a single finger.

His Meridians were broken.

Completely broken.

If he wanted to recover, unless he could Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage and reshape his Physical Body.

But with his hands crippled and half of his Meridians blocked, reaching Peak Foundation Establishment would already be burning high incense.

Golden Core? Keep dreaming. Nascent Soul? Needless to say even more!

Chen Yin suddenly let out a beast-like low roar, abruptly sitting up with blood-red eyes.

"Xiao Yuan! I want revenge! I want him to die! I want him to die without a burial place!"

He roared hysterically, his voice so hoarse it didn't sound human.

His bandage-wrapped hands flailed randomly in the air, like two boneless strips of meat, both ridiculous and pathetic.

Elder Chen Mo sat to the side, his face as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Watching his grandson in this state, the hatred in his heart churned like overturning seas and rivers.

He had only this one grandson, raised carefully in the palm of his hand since childhood. Now, his hands had been crippled by a former trash from the Outer Sect, ruining his entire life!

But how could he get revenge?

He had just Breakthrough to the Early Golden Core stage, ranking last among the seven Golden Core Elders of Wood Peak, and his words carried no weight whatsoever.

Go find someone else for help? Who would care about him?

Go beg that Nascent Soul Old Ancestor of Wood Peak? That person might not even know who he was.

Furthermore, behind Xiao Yuan stood the entire Dan Peak!

Peak Master Yun Ruowei, Yun Qingwan, Leng Youyue, Lin Zhirou... which one of them could he afford to provoke?

Elder Chen Mo gritted his teeth, his fists clenching with a cracking sound.

Seeing him like this, a trace of viciousness flashed through Chen Yin's eyes.

"Grandfather, that dan bell... was definitely obtained by Xiao Yuan."

Although he had previously always felt that he was the one who obtained the dan bell and even lost face because of it, upon thinking about it later, the two kinds of perfect Medicinal Pills brought out by Xiao Yuan made him realize that Xiao Yuan might really be the person recognized by the dan bell!

Elder Chen Mo was stunned. "How do you know?"

"I guessed it." Chen Yin sneered. "In the Alchemy Hall, only he refined Medicinal Pills surpassing the perfect grade. If the dan bell doesn't acknowledge him, who else would it acknowledge? And look at those old women from Dan Peak, protecting him like he's their treasure; it must be for the dan bell!"

Elder Chen Mo narrowed his eyes, deep in thought.

He also felt it was like this, only that he was somewhat reluctant to believe it.

After all, the former Xiao Yuan was just a piece of trash, and furthermore, he only had the cultivation of the Qi Condensation Stage. Letting the dan bell acknowledge someone at the Qi Condensation Stage as its master was simply too impossible!

But looking at it now, he felt once more that he had underestimated Xiao Yuan!

Thinking of this, his gaze turned somewhat more vicious, and he said, "Since that's the case, let's spread the word about this matter."