145: Chapter 145 Taking a Concubine! The Saintess of Alchemy

Night shrouded the wasteland of the Immortal Realm.

Deep within the shattered mountain range, a rich medicinal fragrance mingled with the scent of blood.

Dan Xin leaned against a fractured boulder, panting heavily.

Her luxurious moon-white alchemist robe was tattered and stained with spots of crimson.

Her face was pale, but her eyes were filled with stubbornness.

She clutched an Immortal Plant tightly against her chest.

It was crystal clear, possessed nine leaves, and was emitting a dreamlike halo.

Nine-Orifice Exquisite Grass.

For this main ingredient required to refine the Emperor-rank Medicinal Pill, the "Nine-Orifice Heaven-Mending Pill," she had come alone from the Central Immortal Realm to this wasteland.

She had found it.

And she had also attracted the most lethal pursuers.

"Hehehe... The Saintess of the Alchemy Temple, indeed lives up to her reputation, actually managing to get one step ahead of us from the Medicine Ghost Sect."

A hoarse, grating voice echoed through the valley.

A dozen black-robed figures closed in, blocking all paths of retreat.

Their bodies emitted a foul, rotting medicinal stench.

Leading them was an old man with a withered face and sunken eye sockets.

He leaned on a staff made of countless infant skulls, his turbid eyes filled with unconcealed greed.

The Medicine Ghost Sect Grand Elder, Old Ghost Xue Ku.

Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal.

Dan Xin gripped the jade alchemy ruler in her hand; her Lifebound Treasure had become dim and was covered in cracks.

She said coldly:

"Old Ghost Xue Ku, your Medicine Ghost Sect only knows how to use despicable tactics. If you have the ability, let us have a fair Alchemy Duel!"

"An Alchemy Duel? Hahaha!"

Old Ghost Xue Ku laughed.

"Little girl, you are truly naive. Once I capture you and refine you into a humanoid Alchemy Slave, I will have plenty of time to duel with you slowly!"

He licked his cracked lips, his gaze scanning over Dan Xin's exquisite figure.

"Your Alchemy Cauldron Holy Body is a top-grade Cauldron that is hard to find in ten thousand years. It is a perfect match for refining our sect's Seven Emotions and Six Desires Bone-Eroding Soul-Dissolving Pill! When the time comes, you will beg me to enjoy you to my heart's content, hehehe..."

"Shameless! Filthy!"

Dan Xin was so angry that her face turned deathly pale, and a mouthful of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

She had been struck by the opponent's exclusive deadly poison, the Immortal Dissolving Powder.

Seventy percent of her Immortal Qi was suppressed.

"Attack! Remember, I want her alive! Don't ruin my precious Cauldron!"

Old Ghost Xue Ku waved his hand impatiently.

"Yes! Elder!"

A dozen Golden Immortal-rank Medicine Ghost Sect Disciples grinned hideously at the same time.

Pitch-black toxic smoke and poisoned Magic Treasures surged toward Dan Xin.

A flash of determination crossed Dan Xin's eyes.

She knew very well that there was no escaping today.

Even if she died, she would never fall into the hands of these beasts to suffer such humiliation.

The remaining Immortal Qi in her body began to reverse.

A destructive aura erupted from her body, and her spiritual power became violent.

She was going to self-destruct.

A young man's voice, carrying a hint of laziness and curiosity, echoed over the valley.

"Eh? Since when did my backyard start growing these pitch-black weeds?"

The voice was not loud, but it caused the attacks of Old Ghost Xue Ku and the others to freeze in mid-air simultaneously.

Everyone, including Dan Xin who was preparing to self-destruct, looked up.

Under the cover of night, within the Void Realm, a figure slowly stepped out from the void.

It was a young man wearing simple black robes.

His black hair draped over his shoulders, and his features were clear and bright.

In his arms, he held a baby who was fast asleep.

He held the child as he walked out of the void, his demeanor calm and relaxed; he did not look like he had trespassed into a battlefield, but rather like he was taking a stroll in his own garden.

This bizarre scene left everyone present momentarily unable to react.

Old Ghost Xue Ku's turbid eyes rolled, and he swept his Divine Sense over the young man, but he could detect nothing.

He was startled, then immediately sneered.

A Mortal without any aura, carrying a burden, dared to barge into his Medicine Ghost Sect's hunting ground?

He was courting death.

"Where did this wild brat come from? Tired of living? Daring to meddle in the affairs of our Medicine Ghost Sect?"

A Golden Immortal Disciple shouted.

"If you don't want to die, get lost immediately with your brat!"

Li Xuan looked down at Li Dansheng, who was frowning from being disturbed, and raised an eyebrow.

He did not look at the blustering Golden Immortal.

His gaze passed over the crowd, landing on the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Grass, then he glanced at the dying Dan Xin, and finally looked at Old Ghost Xue Ku.

"Was it you, urinating and defecating here, stinking up my flowers?"

Li Xuan's tone was very calm.

But these words made everyone in the Medicine Ghost Sect turn the color of liver.

"You are courting death!"

Old Ghost Xue Ku was completely enraged.

As a dignified Taiyi Golden Immortal, when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

He couldn't be bothered to let his Disciples act, so he thrust out his withered ghost claw.

A pitch-black ghost claw, carrying the power to tear through space, clawed towards the top of Li Xuan's head.

It intended to crush him and the baby in his arms into pulp.

"Senior, be careful!"

Dan Xin exclaimed.

She felt this young man was mysterious, but facing the thunderous strike of a Taiyi Golden Immortal, there was only one outcome: death.

However, Li Xuan remained standing in place, unmoving.

He merely raised his eyelids and glanced at the menacing ghost claw.

With just that one glance.

That pitch-black ghost claw, capable of crushing an Immortal Mountain, melted silently three feet above Li Xuan's head.

There was no explosion.

There was no energy shockwave.

It just vanished into thin air, bizarrely.

"What?!"

The hideous grin on Old Ghost Xue Ku's face froze.

Only horror remained.

Dan Xin also widened her eyes, and the Immortal Qi she was preparing to self-destruct with stopped.

What kind of technique was this?

A single glance, and he neutralized the full-force strike of a Taiyi Golden Immortal?

"Are you done playing?"

A hint of impatience finally appeared on Li Xuan's face.

"My son needs to sleep; you bunch of flies are too noisy."

"You... who exactly are you?!"

Old Ghost Xue Ku's voice was trembling.

He opened his mouth and spewed out a cloud of colorful toxic mist.

"Ten Thousand Poisons Return to Source! Die for me!"

This toxic mist was a Divine Ability he had spent one hundred thousand years refining; if a Taiyi Golden Immortal of the same rank touched even a trace of it, their immortal body would turn into pus and blood.

The toxic mist shrouded the space where Li Xuan was.

However... Li Xuan just gently... blew a breath.

Whoosh.

That colorful toxic mist, which claimed to be able to poison a Taiyi Golden Immortal to death, along with the terrified Old Ghost Xue Ku behind it, and his dozen Golden Immortal Disciples, all began to weather away.

First, their flesh and immortal bones were blown away, turning into the finest dust.

Then, their Primordial Spirit and Dao Fruit also shattered and annihilated under this seemingly casual breath.

Throughout the entire process, there wasn't a single scream.

The wind passed, the clouds dispersed.

Within the valley, silence was restored.

Dan Xin stood stunned in place, her mind blank.

Her hand, tightly gripping the alchemy ruler, was trembling slightly.

A... a single breath?

Blew to death a dozen immortal experts, including a Taiyi Peak expert?

Is this real?

What level of existence is this?

Grand Unity Golden Immortal?

No!

She had seen the Grand Elder of the Alchemy Temple in action; although that Grand Unity giant possessed vast Divine Ability, he could never do it so easily and effortlessly.

This was complete annihilation.

Just as her heart was stirred, that figure had already appeared before her, holding the child.

Li Xuan's gaze fell upon the Nine-Orifice Exquisite Grass in her hand, and he evaluated it indifferently:

"The quality is not bad; it has three hundred thousand years of maturity. It is quite rare in this wasteland."

That calm voice pulled Dan Xin back to reality from her shock.

Instinctively, she hid the Immortal Plant further into her chest, looking at Li Xuan with vigilance, and said hoarsely:

"This is... this is mine."

After speaking, she wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

In front of such a terrifying existence, what difference was there between her small actions and a clown?

Li Xuan looked at her startled appearance, couldn't help but smile, and said leisurely.

"Rest assured, I won't take yours."

"This thing, I have a whole field of it planted in my garden."

"What?!"

Dan Xin lost her voice again, her eyes filled with disbelief.

Nine-Orifice Exquisite Grass... planted a whole field of it?

What kind of heritage is this.

"The poison you are afflicted with is the Medicine Ghost Sect's Immortal Dissolving Powder; it is a bit troublesome."

Li Xuan's gaze shifted back to her.

"If it is not dispelled, I fear your Alchemy Cauldron Holy Body will be ruined."

Hearing the words "Alchemy Cauldron Holy Body," Dan Xin's heart tightened.

This person had seen through her greatest secret at a single glance.

Just as she was nervous, Li Dansheng, who had just been woken up in Li Xuan's arms, opened his hazy sleepy eyes.

He was a little milk baby, curiously sizing up the beautiful big sister in front of him, then looked at the fragrant little grass in her arms, and smacked his lips.

Li Xuan smiled and said to his son in his arms:

"Dansheng, do you like this plant?"

As he spoke, he actually reached out, making a gesture to take it.

Dan Xin subconsciously wanted to resist, but reason told her that would be courting humiliation.

She could only watch helplessly, a sense of powerlessness surging in her heart.

However, Li Xuan's hand did not actually take the Immortal Plant.

He just paused in mid-air, then said dotingly to his son:

"Daddy promised not to take the big sister's things. However, since you like it so much, I will let you smell it."

After speaking, Li Dansheng in his arms seemed to understand, opened his little mouth, and blew a breath towards Dan Xin.

A pure white stream of Qi drifted towards Dan Xin.

Dan Xin instinctively wanted to dodge, but that aura locked onto her, leaving her unable to move.

The Qi stream touched her body.

The next moment, Dan Xin froze completely.

The deadly Immortal Dissolving Powder poison lurking deep in her Meridians, in the face of this white Qi stream, was like snow meeting the sun, rapidly dissolving and vanishing into nothingness in an instant.

Not only that.

That white Qi traveled through her Meridians for a cycle, and her previous serious injuries healed rapidly.

Her dried-up Immortal Qi was replenished.

The Taiyi Golden Immortal Bottleneck that had trapped her for thousands of years, at this moment, actually... loosened!

Just a breath from a baby.

The effect was even more terrifying than the legendary Emperor-rank Medicinal Pill.

Dan Xin was completely dumbfounded.

She looked down at the harmless little milk baby, then looked up at the young man holding the child.

What kind of monsters are this father and son?!

She trembled, bowed respectfully, her voice filled with excitement and reverence.

"This junior, Dan Xin, is from the Alchemy Temple of the Central Immortal Realm! Thank you... thank you, Senior, for the grace of rebirth! May I dare to ask for Senior's honorable name? Senior's great kindness, Dan Xin will never forget in this lifetime, and I am willing to follow by your side to repay it in some small way!"

Li Xuan looked at her appearance, as if she were about to faint from excitement, and nodded with satisfaction.

My son is indeed useful for recruiting talent.

He just stood there calmly, and the majesty belonging to the Lord of the Heavenly Court revealed itself naturally.

"My name is Li Xuan."

"Lord of the Heavenly Court."