Chapter 58 The Old Thief of the Golden Core, Wu Tianli

Before the dust from the shattered stone door had even settled, a spiritual pressure far more powerful than Zhu Wang's shrouded the entire East Mountain Medicine Garden like dark clouds.

The flow of the spiritual spring suddenly froze, the spiritual plants that had just regained a bit of vitality all wilted, and even the air seemed to have solidified.

Lin Yue's clenched fist tightened abruptly as the gold and silver patterns of the prajna divine armor began to tremble violently. The stinging pain from the mark on his chest made him almost unable to breathe—this wasn't the pressure of the Foundation Establishment Stage, but a spiritual power field unique to Golden Core Cultivators that could crush all low-level Cultivators!

A figure in green robes arrived through the air, his toes not touching the ground, yet causing the Spiritual Veins of the entire Medicine Garden to hum faintly.

His face was gloomy, and a heart-palpitating glint shone in his eyes; he was none other than the Qingyun Sect's Pill Room Elder, Wu Tianli.

"Zhu Wang, you can't even handle a Qi Refinement Stage Cultivator and even ruined one of my xuantian swords. Useless!" Wu Tianli's voice wasn't intentionally raised, yet it struck everyone's heart like a heavy hammer.

He glanced at Zhu Wang, who was embedded in the pile of rubble, without a hint of pity in his eyes. When he turned to look at Lin Yue, his gaze suddenly became as sharp as a blade.

Lin Yue felt a massive force pressing down on his shoulders, his knees bending uncontrollably. The bluestone slabs beneath his feet cracked even deeper.

He wanted to activate the Wanjun Overlord Body to resist, but the spiritual energy in his Dantian was frozen and hard to circulate. The light patterns of the prajna divine armor also dimmed—the gap between the Golden Core Stage and the Qi Refinement Stage was simply as vast as the heavens and the earth.

"You are Lin Yue?" Wu Tianli approached slowly, looking down at the half-kneeling Lin Yue with contempt. "Back then, I personally fed you the pulse-wasting pill. Your Meridians should have been shattered, making it impossible for you to even achieve Qi Induction. How could you possibly Cultivate to the Ninth Level of Qi Refining and even activate such divine armor?"

These words exploded in Lin Yue's ears like a thunderclap. He snapped his head up, his eyes filled with shock and rage: "Back then... it was a pulse-wasting pill... not a pulse-cleansing pill?!"

"How could a piece of trash like you be worthy of an Advanced Medicinal Pill like the pulse-cleansing pill?" Wu Tianli looked at Lin Yue with utter disdain, like a high-and-mighty deity. "You still think of resisting? A mere ant-like fellow dares to defy me? Humph!"

With Wu Tianli's cold snort, Lin Yue felt a mountain-like pressure weigh down on him. His bones, muscles, and Bloodline felt as if they were about to shatter.

Yet Lin Yue still refused to yield. Gritting his teeth, he forced his body to hold up, refusing to kneel...

"Interesting!" Wu Tianli looked at Lin Yue with a sinister smile. But soon, his gaze fell upon the three women nearby, his eyes filled with undisguised possessiveness.

"Are those damned fools truly blind?! Or were they blinded by greed?!!" Wu Tianli looked at the three women and said through gritted teeth, "To think such three excellent Cauldrons were thrown into a wretched place like the Sect's marriage pool. This trash actually got them for nothing."

The Aptitude of these three women was better than the last.

Even someone with A He's Aptitude would be enough to enter the Qingyun Sect's inner Sect, or even become a Personal Disciple! Su Qingyuan and Luo Ningshuang's Aptitudes were even more extraordinary, one in ten thousand.

If he could take them as Dual Cultivation Cauldrons, they might even help him break through the Golden Core Middle Stage Bottleneck!! At this thought, his desire burned like fire, and he wished he could just kidnap the three women right then and there.

Wu Tianli said to the three women, "What future can you have following an old thing like Lin Yue? You'd be better off following me; I guarantee you a bright future!"

In his view, as soon as he spoke, the three women would surely be like Ren Yanran and the others, taking the initiative to offer themselves and rushing to cling to him.

Who would have thought that the reaction of the three women would be completely beyond his expectations.

"Old scoundrel!" Luo Ningshuang's eyes were filled with hatred, her hand clutching a final poisoned silver needle. "As long as I, Luo Ningshuang, have a single breath left, I swear I will kill you!"

It was this Wu Tianli who led the slaughter of Baicao Valley. More than half of the one hundred and thirty-seven Cultivators in the valley died at the hands of Wu Tianli and his Disciples.

Wu Tianli looked at Luo Ningshuang with contempt and sneered, "A remnant of Baicao Valley, a mere ant like you wants to seek revenge? Even if I stood here and let you try, you couldn't kill me! Not just you, even your Valley Master—so what? Didn't they fall to me within three moves?"

While speaking, without any apparent movement, the poison needle in Luo Ningshuang's hand flew into his palm. With a casual squeeze in mid-air, it exploded into a cloud of poisonous mist and vanished without a trace.

Seeing this, everyone was inexplicably shocked.

The poison needle Luo Ningshuang had refined was called 'Condensed Light and Refined Color,' and it was extremely toxic. No one expected it to be destroyed so easily by Wu Tianli.

Wu Tianli turned his gaze to Su Qingyuan and smiled at her, "I didn't expect the Su Family line to still have a Sword Cultivator with such excellent talent. What a waste! I'll give you a chance now: if you are willing to stay by my side and serve me diligently, I will bestow upon you a High Grade sword technique. How about it?"

"A bamboo may be burned, but its integrity remains! I have already married Lin Yue, and I will remain faithful for life." Su Qingyuan gripped the crimson flame skyfall sword tightly, her words ringing out clearly. "As a Golden Core Cultivator, you do such wretched things. Aren't you afraid of divine retribution?"

"Divine retribution?" Wu Tianli laughed wildly as if he had heard a great joke. "In this Qingyun Sect, I am the heavens! What if I take your virtue and ruin your purity? You low-level Cultivators are no different from ants in my eyes. Even if I kill you, the Sect will only turn a blind eye!"

As he spoke, he flicked his finger, sending Su Qingyuan and her sword flying. Her fate remained unknown!

Lin Yue's eyes were nearly bursting with rage. He pushed his Dantian's spiritual energy to the limit, and the prajna divine armor glowed with a faint light once more. But just as he was about to stand up, Wu Tianli condensed a wisp of blue-gold Pill Fire, imprisoning and burning him along with the armor.

How terrifying was the intensity of a Golden Core Stage Pill Fire?

Even with the Wanjun Overlord Body and the protection of the prajna divine armor, Lin Yue couldn't withstand it. His heart and soul felt as if they were being crushed by the burning Pill Fire on the spot!

Yet he still refused to yield, his eyes full of fury as he glared at Wu Tianli.

"An ant is an ant; struggling is useless." Wu Tianli sneered as he walked toward A He, his voice full of temptation. "Little girl, I'll give you a chance. If you submit to me, I'll grant you a Foundation Establishment Pill to help you reach the Foundation Establishment Stage. How about it?"

In his view, this girl had a gentle Heart-Nature and would be the easiest to conquer. As soon as he spoke, A He would surely yield.

A He stood in front of Lin Yue, shaking her head resolutely. "I have already married Lin Yue; I will only serve him in this life!"

"Only serve him?" Wu Tianli was finally enraged. He pointed at A He and said, "Since you dare to defy me, I have a thousand ways to make you wish you were dead. Furthermore, I will sell you to the Heavenly Immortal Pavilion to be ridden by thousands and trampled by tens of thousands!!"

With that, he prepared to tear A He's clothes apart on the spot...