196: Chapter 196 Picking the Moon

For a moment, the women looked at each other, slowly unable to hold back their laughter.

"Damn! Returning kindness with enmity!" Lin Bei gnashed his teeth.

To actually make him lose face like this in front of the women! Today, he must burn this tree as firewood!

"Swoosh!" Before he could do anything, the willow tree flashed, detaching from the Chaos Five-Colored Soil and appearing at the edge of the Holy Medicine Garden.

"Crack, crack, crack..." The dozens of thin willow branches that had just grown out snapped off one by one.

Qin Xiaobo watched with heartache, "Willow tree, we were trying to help you..."

"Brother Lin, quickly move the soil over!"

"Alright..." At Qin Xiaobo's request, Lin Bei could only give up the idea of burning it for firewood and return good for evil for once.

"No! Don't come over here!" A crisp female voice came from the willow tree, startling everyone.

Only Kunkun instantly became energetic, jumping up and down, "Look, look! I told you! I told you so! She can talk!"

"Enough, enough!" Lin Bei pushed it aside, his eyes flashing as he stared at the willow tree.

"Are you suppressing your own strength, not wanting to recover?"

"I indeed have a secret that is difficult to speak of, so please do not force the matter any further..." The female voice paused slightly before continuing.

"Thank you for your help!" As she spoke, the dozens of branches that had fallen to the ground turned into a mass of green light and injected into Qin Xiaobo's body beside her before anyone could react.

"This woman's Physique is very compatible with my energy. These spiritual powers in her body will allow her Cultivation speed to be incredibly fast, which can be considered a reward for you all..."

Afterward, the willow tree seemed to fall silent again, making no more sound, and remained rooted at the edge of the Holy Medicine Garden.

"What the hell?" Everyone present was a bit confused.

"Disperse, disperse..." This was the willow tree that accompanied Shi Hao. Even knowing its strangeness now, Lin Bei couldn't possibly throw it out.

An incense stick's time later, Lin Bei stood by the small lake of divine source liquid, holding three immortal bell fragments in his palm.

They were discovered while uprooting the fusang divine tree.

"Ninety-five, ninety-eight..." he murmured, then put the fragments away.

The words of the Lord of Sacred Heart Mansion had put a lot of pressure on Lin Bei.

To quickly improve his strength, he ultimately had to focus on the immortal bell fragments.

After saying goodbye to the other women, Shangguan Yue returned to her own small courtyard.

She cultivated the Heavenly Secret Technique and needed a relatively quiet environment, so her residence was located quite far from the other women.

Two months ago, she had successfully broken through to the Early Stage Saint realm.

"Hmph... Stinky man, he only looked at me five times this time, a full two times less than that little vixen Luo Qingcheng!"

"Ahem..." Lin Bei had just appeared in the courtyard when he heard this, and he almost fled in panic.

"Eh? Why are you here?" Shangguan Yue changed her expression faster than flipping a page, immediately breaking into a smile.

"Uh..." Even though Lin Bei was thick-skinned, he felt a bit embarrassed to speak at this moment.

He usually didn't come, and when he did, he immediately asked for help; it made him sound like a scumbag...

"Pfft..." Shangguan Yue covered her mouth and smiled. "What? Does someone heartless like you actually have a conscience?"

"Tell me, what do you need help with?"

"I urgently need to find more immortal bell fragments now..."

"I knew it would be this!" Shangguan Yue gave him a coquettish look and pouted. "But... I've tried many times before, and I really can't calculate it now... even after becoming a Saint!"

"Alright..." Lin Bei had expected this and didn't show much disappointment.

Shangguan Yue bit her lip, feeling somewhat frustrated.

"It's okay, I'll think of another way!" Lin Bei shook his head with a smile and stepped forward to gently stroke her hair.

Suddenly, Shangguan Yue's eyes lit up. "Perhaps we can try that method!"

"Hmm? What is it?" If there really was a way, Lin Bei still wanted to try.

"I am currently at the second stage of the Heavenly Secret Dao Physique. If I can upgrade it to the third stage, maybe I can calculate it!"

"That makes sense! But... how can you upgrade your Physique to the third stage?"

"This..." At this point, Shangguan Yue began to stammer. "Sister Liu Wei and that little girl Shirui said..."

"They both said that after doing 'that' with Brother Lin, their Physiques were upgraded to the third stage..."

"Damn!" Although she spoke implicitly, Lin Bei understood her meaning instantly.

"I came to ask you for help, and you're actually lusting after my body!?"

"Hmph! Come here, you!" Shangguan Yue reverted to her rogue-like nature, dragging Lin Bei into her room.

Like most women's rooms, it was decorated primarily in pink, with a faint fragrance lingering around the nose, making one's mind waver.

"Oh!" A moment later, an ecstatic male voice drifted out from the room.

Lin Bei had to admit that Shangguan Yue hadn't been bragging; her flute-playing skills were indeed excellent, not at all inferior to the eloquent Yun Qianyun.

However, compared to the experienced Qin Xiaobo, she was still slightly unskilled.

More than an hour later, the two were fully dressed. Shangguan Yue's eyes were still filled with infinite charm as she looked at Lin Bei with a mischievous smile.

"I really broke through to the third-stage Physique! I didn't expect Brother Lin to be so useful! If we're ever short on money in the future, selling you to those Saintesses or Princesses for a night wouldn't be a bad idea!"

"Stop being cheeky!" Lin Bei slapped her perky butt. "You got your way this time, so hurry up and help me out!"

"Hmph! But I was on top just now, so I put in quite a bit of effort too!" Shangguan Yue gave a playful smile, but her hands didn't delay as she began to perform the Heavenly Secret Technique.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, a look of pleasant surprise appeared on her face. "It really works! I have a vague sense of it now. If we get closer, we should be able to find it!"

Lin Bei was overjoyed to hear this and took her small hand. "Let's go!"

Six days later, the two arrived within the borders of the Great Yu Imperial Dynasty.

"Over there!" After closing her eyes to calculate for a moment, Shangguan Yue pointed in a direction.

Half a day later, they appeared in a continuous mountain range in the east.

"Brother Lin, it should be in this area, but it's still a bit blurry, as if it's being blocked by something..."

"It's a Formation!" Lin Bei smiled slightly and threw a punch forward.

"Buzz!" The entire mountain shook as a Formation emerged. It distorted for a moment under Lin Bei's attack before recovering.

"It's actually a Peak Great Saint-level Formation!" Lin Bei's gaze narrowed, feeling that it was a bit tricky.

"Brother Lin! Look, there's someone!"

Following the direction Shangguan Yue pointed, a figure approached from afar, quickly arriving before them and staring at them through the Formation.

"It's you? Princess Lingdie?" Lin Bei recognized this woman.

Back in the mountain and river map, he had once used a sacred heart token to exchange for an immortal bell fragment from this woman's Storage Pouch.

Now that he was searching for fragments and met her here again, could it be a coincidence?

However, the woman before him no longer had her former glamour; her clothes were tattered, revealing large patches of snow-white skin, barely covering her body.

"Fellow Daoist! Fellow Daoist! Please help me send a message to the Great Yu Imperial Palace, saying that I am trapped here! I will definitely reward you well afterward!"

Before Lin Bei could speak, Princess Lingdie said hurriedly.

"How long have you been trapped here?" Lin Bei frowned.

"Nearly two years! Please, Fellow Daoist, help me!" Her voice already carried a hint of sobbing.

"One last question, what did you come here for?"

"I..." Princess Lingdie fell silent for a while. "I accidentally learned that an immortal medicine was hidden in this region!"

"After the Sacred Heart Mansion trial ended and I joined the Sacred Heart Mansion, I chose to return to the Great Yu Imperial Dynasty, wanting to see if I could take the immortal medicine away..."

"But when I saw the immortal medicine, I found it was guarded by a powerful Formation. When I tried to retreat, I discovered that this Formation had appeared on the outside at some unknown time!"

"This Formation not only prevents us from leaving but also blocks any means of communication..."

"Alright, I understand! Step back!" Lin Bei said in a heavy voice.