9: Chapter 9: Exterminate them all, and seize the divine medicine again!

The supreme bone!

That was supposed to be his hope of defying Heaven and changing his fate!

It was the capital he would use to trample Lin Yi underfoot!

But now, everything had turned into a bubble, an illusion.

The supreme treasure he had searched for, enduring countless hardships.

In the end, had merely prepared a bridal chamber for another.

And he himself had been insultingly called a treasure-hunting rat by that person!

This was even worse than killing him!

"Child of Destiny?"

"Hahaha... What kind of Child of Destiny am I!"

"I'm just a joke!"

Struggling at the bottom of the pool, Xiao Fan's heart was filled with despair.

However, just as his consciousness was about to fade.

Deep in the pool's depths, a faint, flickering fluorescent light seemed to appear.

"That... what is that?"

Instinct for survival drove him to use the last of his strength to swim toward that point of light.

The pool water was piercingly cold. For every inch he descended, the bone-deep stinging pain increased severalfold.

He didn't know how long it took, but Xiao Fan finally neared the light.

It was an underwater cavern, its entrance covered by a thin layer of light that isolated it from the pool water.

Struggling, Xiao Fan passed through the light barrier and tumbled into the cavern.

A rich medicinal fragrance assailed his senses, invigorating his spirit.

The cavern wasn't large.

In its center, a crystal-clear lotus, as if carved from ice and jade, was quietly blooming.

The lotus had nine petals in total.

Each petal was wreathed in pure Spiritual Qi, emitting a refreshing, chilling cold.

At its heart, a lotus seed the size of a fist emitted a soft, multicolored glow.

"This... this is the nine-aperture ice-heart lotus!"

Inside the ring, Old Grandpa's weak voice rang out once more.

This time, however, it carried boundless ecstasy and excitement.

"Fan'er! It's the nine-aperture ice-heart lotus! A top-grade Imperial Rank great medicine!"

"This lotus grows in places of extreme cold, blooming once every thousand years, bearing fruit once every ten thousand.

It contains the purest life Origin and the Dao principles of extreme cold!"

"Not only can it instantly heal your injuries, it can also repair the cracks in your Dao Heart.

It might even allow your Burning Dao Holy Body to sublimate on the spot, reaching Major Achievement directly!"

"Hahaha! Heaven has not abandoned us! Heaven has not abandoned us, master and disciple!"

Hearing this, Xiao Fan was also stunned.

He stared fixedly at that divine lotus, his breathing becoming incredibly rapid.

In the abyss of despair, a ray of dawn abruptly illuminated his world.

Right, right, right!

Falling off a cliff must lead to a fortuitous encounter!

This was the standard treatment for the Child of Destiny as recorded in ancient texts!

"Hahaha! Hahaha!"

Covering his face, Xiao Fan let out a mad, hysterical laugh.

"Lin Yi! So what if you stole my supreme bone!

My Luck is Heaven-Defying, I can still stumble upon a nine-aperture ice-heart lotus!"

"I, Xiao Fan, am the true Child of Destiny! Even Heaven is helping me!"

"Once I refine this great medicine and my Holy Body reaches Major Achievement,

to what level will my strength skyrocket?"

"At the Holy Son Trial, I will return the humiliation I suffered a thousandfold, ten-thousandfold!"

Hope rekindled in Xiao Fan's eyes.

He stared fixedly at the soon-to-mature multicolored divine lotus, his face filled with fanaticism.

Time passed, second by second.

Finally, the last wisp of radiant light on the lotus seed fully blossomed, and a rich medicinal fragrance permeated the entire cavern.

It was mature!

Trembling with excitement, Xiao Fan reached out his hand, about to pluck this Heaven-Defying Opportunity.

But at that very moment.

A familiar voice, one he dreamed of forgetting yet was etched into his very bones,

carrying a hint of lazy amusement, drifted softly from the cavern entrance.

"Junior Brother Xiao, look...

Your Opportunities always seem to be connected to me!"

Boom!

That voice was like a demonic curse from the depths of Hell.

Causing Xiao Fan's outstretched hand to freeze once more in mid-air.

The ecstasy on his face vanished completely in that instant.

Replaced by...

A terror even more horrifying, more bone-chilling than before!

He turned his head mechanically.

At the cavern entrance, that figure in white robes stood there, having arrived at some unknown time.

Lin Yi stood with his hands behind his back, his clothes spotless, leisurely surveying everything within the cavern.

That handsome face still wore the playful smile that Xiao Fan would never forget for all eternity.

A nightmare!

This was absolutely a nightmare!

"You... you... how can you be here!!"

Xiao Fan's teeth chattered, his entire body shaking as if sieving chaff.

Hadn't he escaped by jumping off the cliff?

This was the bottom of a ten-thousand-zhang freezing pool!

How did he follow!

Why!

Why was it him again!

"Why can't I be here?"

Lin Yi smiled, ignoring the seemingly insane Xiao Fan, and slowly walked into the cavern.

He walked directly to the nine-aperture ice-heart lotus, reached out, uprooted it, and brought it to his nose for a gentle sniff.

"Mmm—"

"A chilling cold assails the nose, the medicinal fragrance is rich, not bad!"

Lin Yi casually appraised it, his tone so light it seemed to indicate that

this top-grade great medicine, enough to make Saint-level experts fight fiercely,

or even make a quasi-Emperor willing to pay a price,

in his eyes, was merely 'not bad'!

"Pfft!"

This scene became the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Xiao Fan could no longer withstand this series of heart-piercing humiliations.

His mind completely shattered, and he violently spat out a large mouthful of blood.

"Ahhhh!"

"Lin Yi! I'll fight you to the death!!"

Burning everything, like a cornered beast driven to desperation, he madly lunged at Lin Yi.

"Overestimating your own strength!"

Lin Yi shook his head, casually raised his foot, and kicked forward.

Thump!

Xiao Fan's lunging body flew back faster than it had come.

He crashed heavily against the stone wall of the cavern.

Then rolled back into the unfathomably deep freezing pool.

The bone-piercing cold enveloped him once more.

But this time, he didn't even have the strength to struggle.

As his consciousness blurred.

He saw Lin Yi's figure appear at the cavern entrance, a trace of icy mockery hanging at the corner of his mouth.

"A treasure-hunting rat should have the awareness of a treasure-hunting rat!"

"Young man, don't be so hot-tempered!!"

"This freezing pool is quite nice, you should cool off here properly!"

"Oh, right!"

"Next time you find something good, remember to notify me first!"

With that, Lin Yi's figure disappeared from the cavern entrance.

"No..."

Xiao Fan let out a despairing wail, then lost consciousness, sinking toward the dark pool bottom.

"Fan'er!! Don't sleep, you mustn't sleep!"

Inside the ancient ring, Old Grandpa shouted loudly while frantically burning his Divine Soul power.

Using his last bit of strength, he swept up Xiao Fan and fled toward the unknown depths underground.

...

Under the night sky.

Lin Yi silently returned to his Immortal Cave on the First Peak, as if he had never left.

Looking at the intercepted supreme bone and the nine-aperture ice-heart lotus.

Lin Yi could no longer hold back the smile on his face!

The Child of Destiny truly was a mobile treasure trove.

I just wonder...

After having his Opportunity intercepted again, could Xiao Fan even survive until the day of the Holy Son Trial?

However, that wasn't important.

Even if Xiao Fan managed to return alive to the Heavenly Profound Holy Land,

during the Holy Son Trial, he could just finish him off then!

"This nine-aperture ice-heart lotus is actually quite suitable for me to consolidate my Hongmeng Chaos Body!

As for this supreme bone, I'll give it to Su Yuxi when the Holy Son Trial begins!"

"Gifting such a divine object, what will be returned..."

"How truly anticipated!"

Lin Yi sat cross-legged, slowly circulating his Hongmeng Chaos Body, releasing its phenomena.

With a thought.

The nine-aperture ice-heart lotus floated before him.

On its crystal-clear body, cold air misted, and multicolored light flowed.

Just the medicinal fragrance it emitted made the Spiritual Qi in the Immortal Cave several times denser.

"Truly worthy of being a top-grade Imperial Rank great medicine!"