If I become a saint, a celestial official will summon me to raise horses.

Chapter 60 Ancestor, save me!

"Can you deal with that Demon Lord?" Gu An asked with a doubtful look.

Li Ya laughed smugly, "I have already formed my core, don't underestimate me!"

"In the Tai Xuan Sect, a Core Formation Realm cultivator is merely an inner disciple. How could they possibly be a match for the Demon Lord?"

"You little brat, I came all this way to protect you, and you're still complaining?"

“I’m afraid you’ll end up like you did back then. Have you forgotten how you rushed out to fight the demons of greed and anger, only to get injured and fall to the ground?”

"Can we not talk about that anymore?"

The two started bickering. Li Ya was teased by Gu An, but he wasn't angry at all because he could tell that Gu An meant well and was afraid of implicating him.

Little did Gu An know that what he was worried about was not being implicated, but being dragged down.

Brother, if the Demon Lord comes, I won't be able to make a move if you're next to me!

Gu An couldn't reveal his true thoughts, but Li Ya insisted on staying, so he had no choice but to give up.

"By the way, have you seen Junior Brother Lu recently?" Gu An asked.

Li Ya shook his head and said, "I haven't seen him before. I ran into him before. He joined the Demon Extermination Hall. I didn't get along with the elders of the Demon Extermination Hall, so we haven't had any contact since."

When the matter was mentioned, his expression was indifferent, and he didn't take Lu Jiujia to heart at all.

Despite his enthusiasm for Gu An, he is actually quite cold towards others.

"Let's go upstairs and have a good chat. I heard you've acquired another medicine valley, and it's even in the inner sect. You should tell me about it." Li Ya pulled Gu An upstairs.

This conversation lasted until late at night.

Gu An did not mention his identity as Pan An, but said that the harvest of Xuan Valley satisfied the higher-ups, so they assigned him another medicinal valley.

Li Xuandao was criticized because of the Investiture of the Gods, so how could Gu An dare to tell Li Ya about Pan An's identity?

What if Li Ya accidentally lets something slip?
After all, they are father and son. No matter how big the conflict is, before they completely break off their relationship, their relationship is still closer than that with Gu An.

……

Even as summer transitions into autumn, the temperature remains somewhat hot.

Ten days have passed since Li Ya arrived. During these ten days, Xuan Valley has not encountered any danger. Gu An has gone out to manage the cave dwellings of the outer disciples. Li Ya insisted on accompanying him, but when they arrived at the cave dwellings, he did not go in, fearing that he would cause trouble for Gu An.

Gu An wanted Li Ya to stay in Xuan Valley to protect the disciples, but Li Ya didn't care about anyone else. In his words, he was only able to teach swordsmanship to those disciples because of Gu An.

That evening, Gu An was picking ripe herbs, while Li Ya sat cross-legged on the western mountaintop, the setting sun hanging directly overhead, making him look like a peerless master.

Suddenly, Gu An noticed something, his right hand paused, and then he continued picking.

"There really is a Demon Lord. I hope he doesn't have his eye on my medicine valley."

Gu An silently thought that the other party's aura far exceeded that of the Foundation Establishment Realm, but it did not pose a threat to him.

The faint demonic energy began to move away from Xuan Valley, which relieved him.

He feared revealing his strength more than gaining decades of life by killing his opponent.

Until night falls.

Gu An was reading the Ziwei Array Records inside the house. He was looking at the arrays related to the wood element and was engrossed in them.

His brows suddenly furrowed, followed by a sigh.

Xuan Gu didn't cause any trouble, but Li Ya attracted the Demon Lord's attention.

At the mountaintop, Li Ya, who was meditating and absorbing qi, suddenly opened his eyes. He stood up, walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked down at the forest below. About a hundred feet away from the mountain he was on, a mysterious figure, like a ghost, stood under a tree, watching him from afar.

Under the moonlight, the mysterious figure blended almost into the darkness, and could only be seen by getting close.

Li Ya frowned, pointed into the distance, then leaped up and flew towards the end of the night sky.

The mysterious figure under the tree then turned into a wisp of black mist and vanished without a trace.

After one stick of incense.

Li Ya landed beside a river in the mountains. The river flowed through the mountains and was about two zhang wide, its surface shimmering in the moonlight.

As soon as he landed, a cloud of black mist appeared out of thin air on the grass across the river, and then condensed into a human figure.

Li Ya asked, "You're not the Demon Lord of the Heavenly Annihilation Sect, yet you seem to know me?"

The mysterious man spoke in a hoarse voice: "Prince Li Ya, who inherited the Nascent Soul Sword Intent of the number one swordsman in Jizhou, it is a pleasant surprise to meet you."

Li Ya drew his sword from his waist, pointed it at the mysterious figure, and said, "Playing tricks!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his body erupted with violent sword energy, causing his black clothes to flutter violently like flames. Seven silver sword shadows quickly condensed around him, dazzling in the darkness.

"You dare to defy me even at the Core Formation stage?" The mysterious man let out a contemptuous sneer.

He vanished into demonic energy once more, and almost instantly, he reappeared behind Li Ya out of thin air.

Li Ya's pupils contracted, and he immediately leaped up, simultaneously twisting his body to slash behind him. Seven silver sword shadows rushed towards the mysterious man at an extremely fast speed.

boom! boom! boom……

The flashes of silver swords landed one after another, stirring up clouds of dust and causing the surrounding trees to shake violently.

Before Li Ya could see whether the mysterious man had been hit, a strong gust of wind swept in from the side. He had no time to react and was sent flying.

Li Ya plummeted into the forest like an arrow, crashing through trees along the way, flying hundreds of feet before finally stopping.

As the dust settled, Li Ya, covered in blood, leaned against a tree trunk riddled with cracks, its branches still trembling. The mysterious figure appeared in mid-air, looking down at Li Ya, and sneered, "Boy, you dare to fight me after just forming your core? You've got guts. Do you even know what realm I'm at?"

Li Ya struggled to look up, his vision stained crimson with blood.

"hateful……"

Li Ya gritted his teeth and tried hard to stand up, but he couldn't.

"Hey kid, how did you get injured again? You're not just risking your own life, you're risking your ancestor's!"

An aged voice echoed in Li Ya's mind, its tone filled with helplessness.

The mysterious man raised his right hand and pointed it at Li Ya from a distance. In the darkness, he was surrounded by demonic energy and did not reveal his true appearance.

Just as he was about to speak, a hand wreathed in demonic energy pressed down on his shoulder, startling him.

In an instant, his body suddenly sprouted branches, mixed with blood, which seemed to bloom into a blood flower in the air.

The demonic energy on his body dissipated, revealing his true form: a middle-aged man whose outer sect elder robes were pierced by wooden branches, his ferocious and majestic face filled with disbelief.

He turned his head with difficulty and caught a glimpse of a purplish-black figure standing behind him.

“The Shadow Technique…you…” the middle-aged man said in a trembling voice.

Li Ya's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted angrily, "Elder Chen, how could it be you?"

Before the middle-aged man, known as Elder Chen, could answer, the storage bag at his waist was snatched away by the person behind him. Immediately afterward, the wooden branches on his body burst into green flames, quickly burning him to ashes. He and his soul vanished completely.

The purplish-black figure stood in the air, its right arm still gripping Elder Chen's shoulder.

Li Ya below felt immense pressure. He knew that Elder Chen was a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, yet he was annihilated without any resistance despite his cultivation level.

"Transcending Void Realm! At least at the fifth level!"

The voice of the ancestor echoed in Li Ya's mind, his tone extremely solemn.

The words "Crossing the Void Realm" made Li Ya's heart pound.

The mountains and forests under the night sky fell silent. Li Ya's heart was in his throat, ready to defend himself against any attack.

He roared in his heart, "Ancestor, save me!"

After counting the breaths.

The purplish-black figure vanished into thin air, startling Li Ya so much that he trembled and quickly looked around.

"He's gone. He must have weighed something." The old ancestor's voice echoed in Li Ya's mind, making him breathe a sigh of relief.

"You brat, forget about Gu An and hurry to the inner sect. The outer sect is becoming increasingly sinister; someone must be harming Tiande. If you stay here, something bad will happen to you sooner or later!"

The old ancestor's tone became stern, while Li Ya remained silent.

……

Inside the Xuan Gu Pavilion, Gu An looked at the storage bag in his hand and sighed softly.

Senior Brother Li, I'm sorry, if I didn't let you get hurt, you would have stayed here forever.

Gu An felt very guilty, after all, Li Ya came for him. Although Elder Chen clearly wanted to capture Li Ya, if Li Ya had gone directly to the inner sect, there would have been no further trouble.

He decided to send Li Ya more herbs when he returned.

Killing Elder Chen granted him thirty-seven years of lifespan, no more, no less.

He began to examine Elder Chen's storage bag, scanning it several times with his divine sense and taking out and burning some potentially dangerous items.

Li Ya didn't return until dawn.

The guy changed into clean clothes and looked like he hadn't been through a major battle.

Gu An ran into him downstairs and asked, "Senior Brother Li, you don't look too well."

Li Ya smiled and said, "I had a minor mishap while practicing last night, but it's nothing serious."

Gu An frowned, then pulled him upstairs and took out all the pills he had refined, dozens of bottles in total, which he claimed he had bought and stored himself.

Li Ya asked in surprise, "Junior Brother Gu, what are you doing?"

"You came back from outside the valley looking pale. You must have been in a fight last night, right?" Gu An said in a deep voice.

Li Ya's expression turned ugly.

He took a deep breath and said, "I did encounter a demonic cultivator last night and was injured. Junior Brother Gu, you should move to the Inner Sect's Medicine Valley. You can't stay in the Outer Sect!"

Can't wait any longer?
I do not believe!
Gu An's foundation is here; he cannot abandon it. Anyone who dares to cause trouble will die!
Gu An smiled wryly and said, "Senior Brother Li, the herbs we grow in this herb valley are all low-grade. The Demon Lord wouldn't even look at them. Actually, we're safer without you here. Go to the inner sect. We'll be fine. I can ask Lu Jiujia for help. Our relationship hasn't been severed."

“But…” Li Ya hesitated.

Gu An interrupted, "Senior Brother Li, I always felt that the chaos in the outer sect had little to do with demonic cultivators. The Demon Extermination Hall has been established for so many years and has captured so many demonic spies. Is it possible that someone is using the name of the demonic path to cause trouble? If you go to the inner sect, you might be able to save the outer sect, but if you stay here, how long can you protect me on your own?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ya's face instantly darkened, and he thought of Elder Chen.

After struggling for a few breaths, he took a deep breath and said, "Junior Brother Gu, you're right! I'll go to the inner sect now!"

Gu An smiled and then forcefully stuffed all the pills into his hands, which moved him deeply.

After a few more words, Gu An urged him to set off, as he also felt that things couldn't be delayed.

Because of his injury, Li Ya could only fly on his sword. After flying out of Xuan Valley, he couldn't help but look back and murmur, "Do you see? This is why I can't let him go. No matter who it is, whoever dares to hurt him, I will make them regret it!"

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