63: Chapter 63 Since both Master and Junior Sister are willing, let's stop arguing and attack together!

At the same time.

Inside the inner chamber of the Lianxiang Peak Main Hall.

Two distinctly different soft sensations were constantly stimulating Cao Kun's nerves.

Suddenly.

A crisp System notification rang out in his mind.

[Ding! Detected that the Jade Beast 'Liu Rumeng' is experiencing strong emotional fluctuations!]

[taming value +5]

[Current taming value 34/100]

[Reward: 500 task points]

Cao Kun listened to the notifications in his mind, still feeling puzzled.

"Revered Master~"

Yu Linglong noticed Cao Kun's distraction and twisted her curvaceous body dissatisfiedly.

"What are you thinking about? That Great Emperor's Legacy power... is it not ready yet?"

"Linglong can't wait to share your burden~"

On the other side, seeing this, Leng Qingyue puffed out her small lips.

She couldn't emulate her Revered Master's naturally dissolute and seductive charm.

But that didn't stop her from protecting her food in her own way.

*Mwah*

As the sound rang out, Leng Qingyue bit her lip, swallowing back the sound that drifted to her mouth.

She sat up, pressed her cheek against Cao Kun's chest, and said softly.

"Senior Brother Cao, Qingyue can do it too."

Listening to the two women's overt and covert vying for favor.

Cao Kun took a deep breath.

Having just fused with the chaos remnant sword, there was indeed a majestic surge of Chaos Qi in his Meridians that was about to overflow and was running wild.

It had to be released.

It was just the right time to temper and consolidate his newly formed Purple-Gold Golden Core.

"Since you are both so sincere."

"Then don't argue anymore."

"Let's do it together."

...

After a day and a night of sorting through it all.

The light of the Formation in the Lianxiang Peak inner chamber gradually dimmed.

Cao Kun sat cross-legged in the center of the messy jade bed.

As the Chaos Unity Art completed its final major cycle.

The once-violent surge of Chaos Qi within his body, caused by the Fusion with the chaos remnant sword, was finally fully refined and brought under his control.

[Ding! Jade Beast Leng Qingyue's subconscious has completely surrendered.]

[taming value +10]

[Current 60/100.]

[Reward: 1000 task points.]

[Ding! Jade Beast Yu Linglong has abandoned all bottom lines and completely fallen.]

[taming value +5.]

[Current 77/100.]

[Reward: 500 task points.]

Cao Kun looked at the numbers jumping on the System panel and exhaled a long breath of satisfaction.

He was one step closer to unlocking the next Jade Beast slot.

Just as he was about to get out of bed.

A smooth, fair arm reached out from behind him, climbing onto his shoulder.

Long purple hair cascaded down.

Yu Linglong rested her chin on Cao Kun's shoulder, exhaling like an orchid against his earlobe.

"Revered Master~"

"Is the Great Emperor's Legacy only this powerful?"

"I want it one more time~"

Her eyes flickered as she glanced at the other side of the large bed.

Leng Qingyue had long since collapsed from exhaustion, with undried tear stains on the corners of her eyes, fast asleep.

A hint of a victor's pride flashed in the depths of Yu Linglong's eyes.

So what if she is the cultivation world's Top-grade Ice Spirit Body?

She still can't compare to this seat's several hundred years of foundation.

"Just one last time, okay?~"

Yu Linglong's slender jade legs climbed onto Cao Kun's waist, gently rubbing against him.

Feeling the warmth behind him, a wicked smile curled on Cao Kun's lips.

"Buy one get one free, is it?"

He reached back and accurately grabbed Yu Linglong's slender, snake-like waist.

He flipped her over.

"Revered Master has given an order, how could this disciple dare to disobey?"

Cao Kun pinched Yu Linglong's delicate and small chin.

"However, if you can still walk out of this hall today, I'll write my name backwards!"

Yu Linglong was not frightened but delighted, a yandere-like fervor rising in her peach-blossom eyes.

"Revered Master must be true to your word~"

...

After another round of earth-shattering battle.

Yu Linglong also went completely silent.

Cao Kun put on his green robes and stood by the bed, clicking his tongue in secret.

If not for the Chaos Qi reshaping his Physical Body, combined with the domineering recovery power of the Blazing Sun Spiritual Root,

an ordinary Cultivator would never have been able to withstand such consumption.

He looked into his Dantian.

That Purple-Gold Golden Core was round and flawless, its size a full circle larger than when it was first formed.

The Golden Core Early Stage Realm was thoroughly consolidated.

Cao Kun flipped his wrist, and a black iron token fell into his palm.

It was precisely the token of the Alchemy Pavilion's highest authority that Ye Ting had handed over before his death.

"Thunder without rain just won't do."

Cao Kun tossed the token into the air and caught it steadily.

Ye Ting was dead, and the fat meat that was the Alchemy Pavilion had become a masterless object.

Instead of waiting for the Sect to slowly send people to take inventory and take over,

it was better to strike first and seize the Alchemy Pavilion for himself.

Cao Kun did not disturb the two sleeping women and walked out of the Main Hall alone, heading straight for the Alchemy Pavilion.

At this time, inside the Alchemy Pavilion's Main Hall.

The atmosphere was in a state of eerie fervor.

Six managers with actual power in the Alchemy Pavilion, dressed in brocade robes, were sitting around a jade table in the center of the hall.

Rumors were flying outside—Elder Ye had fallen, and Grand Elder Su had been reduced to ashes.

Moreover, Sect Master Qin Canglan had not yet issued a clear order for takeover.

This gave the Alchemy Pavilion an excellent power vacuum.

Men die for wealth, just as birds die for food.

After the initial fear receded, these old foxes, who had grown fat from skimming off the top for years, immediately became active in their thoughts.

"Now that Elder Ye is gone, our Alchemy Pavilion is without a leader. That new batch of thousand-year Spiritual Plants in the storehouse needs someone to keep them safe, doesn't it?"

A lean manager with a goatee was the first to break the silence, stroking his beard.

"Manager Zhang has a point."

Another manager with high cheekbones immediately agreed.

"Especially those three grade 6 barrier-breaking pills in the Core Storehouse No. 1."

"Those are strategic resources; it's too unsafe to leave them in the storehouse. I say, why don't several of us take them for ourselves and keep them on their behalf for the time being?"

Keep them on their behalf?

It sounded nice, but once they were in private Storage Rings, there was no way they would be spat back out.

A fat manager sitting to the left of the main seat gave a cold laugh and patted his round belly.

"Your appetites are a bit too large."

"The keys to the Core Storehouse No. 1's Formation are divided into six. Each of us has one."

"If you want to open the door and take things, you have to discuss a distribution plan based on merit first, right?"

"Fatty Li, stop acting like a big shot!" The lean Manager Zhang got anxious.

"Do you really think everyone was blind to you secretly misappropriating three hundred thousand Mid-Grade Spirit Stones to launder money on the black market last month?"

"Bullshit! That was normal procurement wastage!"

The hall immediately descended into a chaotic argument.

For the sake of resource distribution ratios, several managers who usually called each other brothers were arguing until they were red in the face, spit flying everywhere.

They were so engrossed that they didn't notice at all when a slender figure appeared at the entrance of the hall.

Cao Kun stood with his arms crossed, watching this dog-eat-dog farce with cold eyes for a full half-cup of tea's time.

Finally, he let out a light laugh.

"You managers really have such elegant interests."

"Should I bring you some stools and brew a pot of good tea so I can listen to you finish dividing the accounts slowly?"

Cao Kun's voice wasn't loud, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears.

The arguing in the hall came to an abrupt halt.

The six managers turned around in unison.

The moment they saw who it was, the six of them immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

Cao Kun!

The god of slaughter who had withstood the purple-gold heavenly thunder and killed a Nascent Soul powerhouse with a single sword strike!

The hall was as silent as a grave.

These managers were all shrewd people who had survived years of infighting within the Sect; their ability to read the room and change faces was top-tier.

Fatty Li was the quickest to react.

The fat on his face trembled, and he forced out a fawning smile, quickly stepping forward.

"Oh my! It's Elder Cao's grand arrival! Forgive us for not welcoming you, truly forgive us!"

He directly skipped ranks and addressed Cao Kun as Elder.

The other five also woke up as if from a dream, quickly surrounding him, bowing and scraping, their faces full of humble flattery.

Cao Kun stood tall, his cold and sharp gaze sweeping over these six greasy faces.

"Enough, put away your empty tricks."

He walked straight through the crowd and sat down in the main seat at the very top of the hall.

"Ye Ting is dead," Cao Kun said, looking down at everyone. "From today on, the Alchemy Pavilion is under my management."

Cao Kun reached out his right hand and opened his palm.

"Hand over all the keys to the Core Storehouse No. 1's Formation."

The smiles on the six managers' faces froze at the same time.

Hand over the keys?

That was equivalent to handing over the bargaining chips for their control over the Alchemy Pavilion's lifeblood, handing over their cultivation resources for the rest of their lives!

The several of them quickly exchanged a subtle look.

Fatty Li's eyes darted around, and he took a step forward, bowing deeply.

"Elder Cao, your willingness to personally take over our Alchemy Pavilion is a blessing for everyone here!"

His tone was extremely respectful, but his words took a very smooth turn.

"It's just... there's something you don't know."

"The internal handover procedures of this Alchemy Pavilion are very tedious. Hundreds of thousands of accounts are intertwined, and the reports on wastage of various Spiritual Plants and Medicinal Pills are even more complex."

"The Core Storehouse No. 1 is a vital area of the Sect, and the implications are huge. For this handover, the account books must be cleared first, and the materials must be verified. I think..."

"this will take at least half a month of inventory time."

The lean Manager Zhang understood immediately and stepped forward to help.

"That's right, Elder Cao. How could we trouble you to personally oversee such crude and tiring work?"

"Why don't you go back to Lianxiang Peak and rest for a few days? Once we've completely sorted out the accounts and finished the records, we'll personally deliver them to your peak?"

They were playing a game of tai chi, using soft tactics to resist.

They were certain that Cao Kun was young and aggressive, only knowing how to kill and fight, and didn't understand the intricacies of these logistical accounts at all.

As long as they could delay for three to five days, they would immediately empty out the Core Storehouse.

When the time came, they would hand over an empty account book, and there would be no evidence left.

Cao Kun sat in the main seat, watching these old dogs perform their double act.

He sneered in his heart.

Playing this corporate tai chi with me?

He didn't even bother to respond with a single extra word.

He flipped his wrist.

*Thwack!*

The black iron token was slammed heavily onto the sandalwood table in front of him.

The powerful force directly shook the hard tabletop, creating several cracks.

The Alchemy Pavilion's highest authority token.

Immediately following that, the majestic Spiritual Pressure of the Golden Core Early Stage, like a bursting flood, poured out without reservation.

The six managers only had cultivations ranging from the Middle to Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.

Under this terrifying pressure that approached the Middle Stage of Golden Core,

their legs shook uncontrollably and violently.

Fatty Li's face turned pale.

But relying on the fact that he had operated in the Alchemy Pavilion for decades, and believing that the law wouldn't punish everyone, he gritted his teeth and held on, refusing to kneel.

He brought out his final life-saving trump card.

"E-Elder Cao!"

He struggled to lift his head and shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Even if you hold the token, according to the Sect's iron laws! The handover of the Alchemy Pavilion's head must have a manual decree and seal personally issued by the Sect Master!"

"For you to forcibly demand the storehouse keys like this... it's against the rules!"

Rules?

Cao Kun looked at the sophistry-spouting Fatty Li, and the smile on his face completely vanished.

"If you hadn't mentioned rules, I almost would have forgotten."

Cao Kun slowly stood up.

Chaos Qi surged through his entire body.

*Whoosh!*

Cao Kun's figure instantly turned into an afterimage where he stood.

The next moment, he leaped over the jade steps and appeared directly in front of Fatty Li.

Fatty Li's pupils dilated suddenly; he didn't even have time to put up his Protective Aura.

Cao Kun had already slapped Fatty Li's fleshy cheek hard.

*Bang!*

A tooth-aching sound of flesh exploding rang out in the hall.

Fatty Li's nearly three-hundred-pound obese body was like a torn sack caught in a gale.

He was sent flying dozens of feet away by this single slap.

In mid-air, he spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with half a row of broken teeth.

Then he crashed heavily against a thick stone pillar in the hall.

The surface of the stone pillar cracked inch by inch.

Fatty Li slid to the ground like a puddle of mud.

Half of his facial bone had completely collapsed and deformed; his body twitched twice, and he was barely breathing, having fainted on the spot.

The remaining five managers saw this scene and their whole bodies went stiff.

Striking directly without a second word—this was simply not someone they could afford to offend!

Cao Kun turned to look at the remaining five people, revealing a smile as warm as a spring breeze.

"From now on, I am the rules here."

"Who else has an opinion? You can continue to raise them; I am a very democratic person."

*Thump!*

Manager Zhang was the first to kneel on the ground.

"No, no opinion! Elder Cao is the rules!"

His hands trembling, he pulled a white jade key from his robes and handed it over.

"This is the Formation key kept by this lowly one! Please have a look, Elder Cao!"

The power of an example was infinite.

Under the suppression of absolute force, resources and factions all became bullshit.

If your life is gone, are you going to keep the Spirit Stones to buy a coffin!

*Thump! Thump! Thump!*

The remaining four people scrambled to kneel on the ground.

"This lowly one is also handing mine over! I've been looking forward to Elder Cao taking over for a long time!"

"Elder Cao, please calm your anger, they are all here!"

Five white jade keys, along with the one searched from Fatty Li's robes,

were neatly placed on the table in front of Cao Kun.

Cao Kun collected all the keys into his Storage Ring.

"It would have been so much better if you'd cooperated like this earlier; why hurt the harmony?"

He sat back in the main seat and pointed at the half-dead Fatty Li on the ground.

"Drag him out."

"Then, take me to Core Storehouse No. 1."

"Yes! Yes, yes! This lowly one will lead the way right now!"

Manager Zhang scrambled to his feet.

He quickly ordered people to drag Fatty Li out of the hall.

Then, bowing his waist, he personally led the way for Cao Kun.

Passing through multiple Restrictions, the two arrived in front of a hidden underground palace behind the Alchemy Pavilion.

Two heavy and ancient bronze doors were embedded in the mountain wall.

"You may leave."

Cao Kun dismissed Manager Zhang and walked forward alone.

He inserted the six white jade keys into the six keyholes of the bronze door in sequence.

He poured in his spiritual power.

*Rumble—*

Accompanied by a dull grinding sound, the heavy bronze doors slowly slid open to both sides.

A rich medicinal fragrance wafted towards him.

But at the same time, the System's cold notification suddenly rang out in Cao Kun's mind.

[Ding! Detected a top-grade Spirit Beast within a ten-meter range!]

[Target Status: Soul Body (Extremely Weak)]

[Capture Difficulty: ??? (Due to the target's special form and loss of Physical Body, conventional forced methods and items are ineffective!)]

[Comprehensive Assessment: This Spirit Beast has a mysterious origin and special identity. It is recommended that the host subdue it at all costs!]

Yu Linglong