If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1190 Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill
"Ahhh, ahhhh~~~"

The screams were so piercing and getting closer that the people on the mountaintop could hear them more and more clearly.

Before long, even with his spiritual eye closed, Lu Jin Gong could still see the appearance of the person screaming in agony.

It really was Ye Jiutian, the powerful Golden Immortal whom I hadn't seen for months.

He was dressed the same as he had three months ago: a sky-blue cloud-patterned robe, with a sword case the size of a zither on his back.

But at this moment, Ye Jiutian had completely lost his earlier dashing and handsome appearance.

His topknot was disheveled, his crown was nowhere to be found, and his hairpins were missing. His hair was disheveled, and he was shaking his head vigorously, slapping his forehead and skull with both hands.

"Slap slap slap, bang bang bang~~~" The slaps were forceful and loud, as if they were not hitting their own head, but slapping the face of their mortal enemy, using as much force as possible.

His fair, jade-like skin now appeared unusually ferocious and terrifying, with bluish veins bulging high on the surface of his skin.

There are also blood-red lines as thick as chopsticks, shaped like dragons, like venomous dragons crawling all over the skin.

Ye Jiutian kept scratching, drawing blood from his cheeks, tearing his immortal robes, stuffing his fingernails with flesh, and leaving bloody marks on his body and face.

Anyone could see that he was in great pain.

But he still mustered his remaining strength and flew rapidly towards the Qinling Mountains, heading towards Grand Tutor Yu.

Whether it was a misperception or not, Lu Jin Gong felt that the closer he got to Grand Tutor Yu, the more intense the pain on Ye Jiutian's face became, and the more unstable his control over his body became.

"boom!"

While Lu Jin Gong was still observing with suspicion, Ye Jiutian had already torn through the sky like a cannonball and plummeted to the mountaintop at high speed.

It smashed a bloody hole in the rocky hillside.

Ye Jiutian's blood stained the hole.

"No, please, spare me, please, let me go, let me go~~"

His voice was choked with sobs as he rolled, writhed, and struggled on the blood-stained ground, continuing to pound his head and scratch his body.

Lu Jin Gong was both bewildered and horrified.

Ye Jiutian's cultivation is even higher than his; he is a genuine Golden Immortal, having fully cultivated his Rejuvenation Pill, and his immortal energy and body have reached pure Yang. He has not yet severed his path to immortality and has the potential to break through to the Great Luo realm.

How arrogant this great immortal was in the past! Now he's crying and begging for mercy without any dignity, and he's made such a grotesque mess.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, what's wrong?" He asked Ye Jiutian, but his head was turned towards Grand Tutor Yu.

Then he saw a satisfied smile on Yu Taishi's pretty face, and her eyes were full of mockery as she looked at Ye Jiutian.

Lu Jin Gong felt a chill run down his spine, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. "You, what did you do to him?"

Xiao Yu glanced at him, walked up to Ye Jiutian, and chuckled, "Do you think I'm a fool who can be easily fooled by you?"

"You're not, I am, I'm an idiot."

Ye Jiutian's pain seemed to have ended, and he lay sprawled in the stone pit, panting heavily.

Xiao Yu flicked her sleeve, and a pair of golden scissors and a silver iron hoop slid out and landed in front of Ye Jiutian.

"Go and bring Qiu Mingzi here, dead or alive. Kill anyone who dares to stop you."

Even if it's Chen Sheng, you will kill him; even if the master of the Southeast Emperor's Qi tries to stop you, even if a Great Luo Golden Immortal appears, even if the Dao Ancestor shows up, you will still kill him.

"If you can't kill them and bring back Qiu Mingzi, then you'll die!" she said coldly.

Ye Jiutian tremblingly extended his blood-soaked right hand, touched the Golden Dragon Scissors, and as if burned, quickly withdrew it.

"I didn't steal the Great Yu Cauldron, nor did I steal the True Form Diagram. I didn't do anything."

I just missed home, so I went back to Luofu Mountain for a few days.

"Grand Tutor Yu, like Lord Lu Jin, I have not betrayed Qin, nor have I broken my oath."

Xiaoyu sneered, "Do you know why you're in such a miserable state?"

Ye Jiutian looked up at her.

Hidden behind her hair, her eyes were filled with regret, resentment, doubt, and a deep-seated hatred.

"You lied to me on the day of the Huashan Daoist Debate. What you fed me was not some kind of antidote 'immortal apricot' at all."

That was a poison pill.

You even used a secret method to forcibly catalyze that poison pill, sending the poisonous gas into my dantian, allowing it to merge with my pure yang immortal essence.

"You poisoned me."

Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Whether it's a poison pill or not depends on your actions and the karma you bear."

If I had activated it then, you would only have a stomachache and a headache, which you could probably bear and it would have passed.

But just now you only had a throbbing pain in your head and lower abdomen?

"You call yourselves immortals, and have lived for thousands of years, yet you remain as greedy, cowardly, and foolish as mortals."

"What do you mean?" Ye Jiutian asked in surprise and doubt, still trying to struggle. "I really didn't take the True Form Diagram, and I didn't steal the Divine Cauldron."

"Although I am the Celestial Master of the Great Qin Dynasty, what's wrong with me returning to my own cave to rest for a while?"

"Hehehe, I called you stupid, and you're even smugly acting stupid?"

Will cause and effect disappear just because you make a few excuses?

I believed your nonsense, but it didn't help.

You've deceived yourself, and even the Dao Ancestor, but it's still useless.

What has brought you such a miserable state is the karma you have created!
Cause and effect do not lie, nor can they be deceived.

I've explained it to you clearly, yet you still don't understand. How did you manage to cultivate to the Golden Immortal realm? Or is your current behavior simply a normal case of tribulation energy entering your brain?

Xiaoyu initially had a face full of mockery and ridicule, but in the end, a hint of curiosity appeared in her eyes.

"You forced me to eat the poison pill, and you still talk about cause and effect!" Ye Jiutian cried out in grief and indignation, "Don't think I don't know, this is a poison pill!"
It was specifically designed to control the fierce and unruly Taoist soldiers and servants.

I also know where you learned this secret technique.

Ying Zheng summoned immortals to research elixirs that could poison and control immortals, leaving behind a wealth of information.

You saw those documents and learned the art of poison pills.

He became more and more agitated as he spoke, and finally shouted out all his true feelings, "Do you really think I'm an ignorant fool?"

Long before Qiu Mingzi invited me to defect to Qin together, I had already noticed something was wrong with my body and guessed what you had done to me.

I entered the Qin Dynasty archives multiple times to peruse the research files related to the 'Hongjun Red Pill'.

I also talked to Lei Junzi.

Lei Junzi was the biggest fool. He was smug and thought that after more than half a year of hard work, he had finally mastered the essence of the 'Hongjun Red Pill'.

I subtly inquired about your situation, hoping to find out which secret records you had read.

He said you only scratched the surface and probably didn't even grasp the basics.

Damn it, even though I don't believe him, I've been influenced by him to some extent.

Do you really think you've only scratched the surface, at most producing a finished poison pill, which isn't very advanced?

Even if you launch an attack in secret, I can suppress it with my Pure Yang Immortal Body.

The resentment in his eyes turned into discontent and incomprehension. "As it turns out, Lei Junzi was terribly wrong."

But I still don't understand, you only stayed in the storage room for a few days at the beginning of the year.

After that, you should go to the southeast to clear the earth's veins.

Even if you are exceptionally talented, and you're multitasking, simultaneously clearing the earth's veins and secretly researching poison pills and elixirs, how could you possibly have reached this level in just six months?

I am a Golden Immortal who has cultivated the Pure Yang Immortal Body.

My golden core is perfectly mature, flawless, and untouched by any impurity. What right do you have to poison me?

He certainly didn't lie.

When Qiu Mingzi called him to join the group, he was already certain that Yu Fengxian had fed him a Qi Pill that imitated the "Hongjun Red Pill".

The red pills refined by Hongjun Laozu could even poison the Three Pure Ones.

The upper limit of the poison pill's power can be very high.

However, even a powerful Golden Immortal like him couldn't refine a high-grade poison pill that could harm a Golden Immortal.

First, there is a lack of technology; second, there is a lack of personal ability.

The most crucial ingredient for refining poison pills is "original qi".

He refined his own vital and spiritual essence into a living elixir.

When others take the Qi Pill, they will absorb the exotic "high-level primordial Qi" inside into their own Qi Sea and Dantian, and merge it with their own primordial Qi, but they will not be able to truly refine it.

The key is that the original energy must be "high-level" enough.

If Yu Fengxian wanted to poison him, the energy level of Yu Fengxian's primordial energy must be higher than his.

Only when Yu Fengxian's primordial energy is of a higher level can he not digest that wisp of spiritual "vitality".

Therefore, only Dao Ancestor Hongjun could refine the red pill that could poison the Three Pure Ones.

Others' primordial energy is not as advanced as that of the Three Pure Ones.

Once the Three Pure Ones break through their realms and their own primordial energy level becomes similar to that of Hongjun, they may be able to digest and absorb the "different kind of primordial energy" within their bodies and make it their own.

Ye Jiutian is a Golden Immortal, and even with his superb skills, he cannot refine a Qi Pill that can poison a Golden Immortal.

As a result, Yu Fengxian's realm was inferior to his, and the level of her primordial energy was far inferior to his, yet she still managed to poison him, a dignified Golden Immortal.

This is not reasonable.

If Yu Fengxian is a Great Luo Immortal, then that makes sense.

But if Yu Fengxian were a Great Luo Immortal, knowing he had been poisoned by the Qi Pill, he wouldn't dare to run away at all.

The fact is, even though Yu Fengxian isn't a Da Luo, he still fell victim to the attack.

Suddenly, Ye Jiutian sensed the dragon energy around Grand Tutor Yu, and also thought of the faint dragon energy in his own dantian.

A thought struck him, and he exclaimed, "Could it be that the source energy you used to condense your Qi Pill is not your own immortal energy, but the energy of the Ancestral Dragon?"

Xiao Yu laughed and said, "Your reaction is really slow. When I fed you the 'Immortal Apricot' that day, didn't you taste the obvious aura of the First Emperor of Qin?"

Actually, your analysis is quite correct. In just six months, I can only condense ordinary Qi pills.

Let alone poisoning a powerful Golden Immortal like you, it wouldn't even be able to control an ordinary immortal.

Such poison pills are useless.

I had no choice but to find another way, combining the secret techniques of the Ancestral Dragon to create the 'Ancestral Dragon Poison Pill'.

You are a powerful Golden Immortal, and your primordial energy is of a very high level.

But can your Pure Yang Immortal Source be as advanced as the 'Ancestral Dragon Qi'?

Ye Jiutian was still incredulous and exclaimed, "But the Great Qin Ancestral Dragon is already dead, without any vitality or spirit."

Xiao Yu asked curiously, "Didn't you cultivate the Ancestral Dragon Secret Technique that I taught you?"

With my level of attainment, I can achieve the unity of man, dragon energy, and the Nine Cauldrons.

Is it so difficult for me to use my own divine energy to add spirituality to the ancestral dragon's energy?

"But the dragon energy of the Ancestral Dragon is malevolent energy, how can it be integrated into the primordial energy of an immortal?"

Lu Jin Gong, who was standing to the side, listened for a long time, but he couldn't understand much of what he was saying because he had never studied the Poison Pill Qi Pill.

But as a veteran immortal, he at least knew that dragon energy was the essence of evil energy, while the energy of immortals was light and ethereal.

The two are in conflict and cannot be perfectly integrated.

Xiaoyu hesitated.

They are not very willing to reveal their secrets.

If she doesn't make things clear, all the immortals will probably fear her like a tiger, always on guard against her, worried that she will use poison pills and energy pills to control them.

If she could truly control them, that would be ideal. But her poison pills only work best on the "Great Qin Celestial Master," and cannot be fed to others.

"Why can't the Earthly Fiend Qi and the Light and Ethereal Immortal Qi be integrated? Every Great Qin Celestial Master who obtains the power of Celestial Master can freely draw upon the Qi of the Ancestral Dragon, control the dragon Qi, and use the dragon Qi to perform the secret techniques of the Ancestral Dragon."

At this very moment, isn't the earthly dragon energy merging with your immortal energy?

The closer your relationship with the Ying clan, the more obedient the dragon's energy will be to you.

The easier it is to control dragon energy.

My Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill can be eaten by anyone, but anyone who eats it will be poisoned.

However, the essence of the Dragon Qi Poison Pill is ultimately Dragon Qi. The higher the degree of integration with Dragon Qi, the deeper the toxicity penetrates into the bone marrow.

For example, you newly promoted Celestial Masters of the Great Qin Dynasty.

You are able to accept the aura of the ancestral dragon.

The more benefits one receives from the Qin Dynasty, the heavier the karmic ties become, and the closer one's connection with the dragon's energy.

But once you betray the Qin Dynasty, the backlash from cause and effect and karma will be even heavier.

The greater, deeper, and more ruthless the betrayal, the greater the karma and the more potent the poison.

Ye Jiutian stared blankly, his eyes filled with realization, as well as regret and remorse.

Xiaoyu looked at him and continued to sneer, "Now you understand? I don't need to listen to your sophistry. Cause and effect and karma record everything and explain everything."

Although you have already taken the 'Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill' and are already poisoned, the toxicity varies in strength.

If they had not betrayed the Qin Dynasty, they would not have suffered the consequences.

The more severe the backlash you suffer, the more miserable you will be when I activate the secret technique and the poison pill.

Conversely, the more miserable you are, the more serious your thoughts and actions of betraying the Qin Dynasty are.

In short, the worse your situation, the more you deserve it.

"I see." Lord Lu Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and the solemnity on his face eased somewhat.

Although he didn't understand the underlying principles at all, he did understand the result: he hadn't betrayed the Qin Dynasty, nor had he taken the Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill, so he was at least temporarily safe and secure.

Yes, only temporarily.

Ye Jiutian did not take the Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill voluntarily; he was forcibly fed the poison pill.

If Grand Tutor Yu could forcibly poison Ye Jiutian, he could also feed him the Ancestral Dragon Qi Pill. Didn't Grand Tutor Yu just order Ye Jiutian to go find Qiu Mingzi?

Clearly, Akiko is in big trouble.

It seems that not only Qiu Mingzi, but all the defecting Celestial Masters are going to be in big trouble.

(End of this chapter)