Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

The main gate of the Danta Tower.

Hundreds of Protoss guards clad in silver armor surrounded the entire Dan Tower like sharp swords.

The leader was suspended in mid-air.

It was a tall, slender man with a silver mask covering his face, devoid of any facial features. Only a rhombus-shaped crystal emitting an eerie blue light was embedded in the center of his forehead.

Protoss envoy, codenamed "Sky Eye".

Mid-stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm.

The oppressive aura emanating from a higher-dimensional being caused thousands of alchemists in the Dan Tower Square to prostrate themselves on the ground, not daring to even raise their heads.

Where is Gu Qinghan?

The sound from the Heavenly Eye was flat and monotonous, like a synthetic sound of metal rubbing together, piercing the eardrums painfully.

"I have sensed it." Heavenly Eye raised his gloved finger and pointed it directly to the top of the Pill Tower. "That lower realm ant that ruined my clan's plans is right there."

Zhao Wu knelt at the very front, a fawning smile on his face, his swollen face resembling a pig's head looking particularly comical.

"Your Excellency is wise! That enchantress is indeed hiding in Tower Master Gu's private forbidden area! Your subordinates have tried to capture her several times, but Tower Master Gu has always stopped them..."

"Noisy."

Tianyan waved his hand casually.

boom!

Zhao Wudu felt as if he had been struck by an invisible giant hand, his entire body embedded in the stone slabs of the square, impossible to pry out.

"I'm asking a question, what right do you have to interrupt?"

The entire room fell silent.

Tianyan snorted coldly, his body transforming into a streak of light as he rushed straight to the top of the Pill Tower.

"Since they won't come out, I will go and capture them myself."

Just as he was about to touch the top-level defensive array.

hum-

A towering white pillar of fire erupted with a deafening roar.

The entire Pill Tower seemed to come alive. At the same time, dazzling runes lit up all ninety-nine floors of the tower, transforming into a gigantic frost dragon that roared as it crashed into the Heavenly Eye.

"roll!"

Gu Qinghan's figure appeared at the top of the tower.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his white hair dancing wildly. His silver-threaded medicinal robe fluttered in the gale. With his Dao Inquiry Realm domain fully activated, he actually forced the Spirit Awakening Realm's Heavenly Eye back three steps.

"Gu Qinghan!"

Tianyan steadied himself, the blue light on his mask flashing violently. "You dare to attack an envoy? Do you want your Pill Tower to be expelled from the Canglan Realm?!"

Gu Qinghan stood there, like an insurmountable iceberg.

"Danta is my sacred site."

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried throughout the entire city of Dan: "Even the Star Spirits, if they want to enter my bedroom to search for people, they'll have to ask the poison in my hand for permission first."

As he finished speaking...

A sweet, cloying fragrance suddenly filled the air.

The armor of the silver-armored guards behind Tianyan began to grow green mold, which then rapidly corroded.

"Are you insane!" Tianyan roared. "You're going to rebel for a wanted criminal?"

"the wanted?"

Gu Qinghan gave a cold laugh.

He suddenly stepped aside, clearing the laboratory door behind him.

"Has Your Excellency made a mistake?"

Gu Qinghan slowly adjusted his cuffs, his eyes full of contempt. "There is indeed someone in my room. But that's not a wanted criminal."

"That is my cultivation partner."

boom!

These words were like a bombshell, exploding in everyone's minds.

Not only were the alchemists in the square dumbfounded, but even Zhao Wu, who climbed out of the wall, was dumbfounded.

Gu Qinghan, the ancient iron tree that's been around for thousands of years, actually has a Daoist partner?!

Tianyan was also taken aback.

"A Daoist partner?" He stared at Gu Qinghan suspiciously. "You, a swan of ten thousand years, where would you get a Daoist partner? Don't try to come up with such a clumsy excuse..."

"What? Is Your Excellency even going to interfere in my private life?"

Gu Qinghan interrupted him, her tone carrying an extremely convincing mix of impatience and...smugness?

"Last night, my wife and I were engaged in dual cultivation in our room. The noise was a bit too loud, and we let our aura slip out. I didn't expect it to alert the special envoy."

He pointed to the side of his neck.

There was a faint red mark there.

That was because Jiang Yining had secretly pinched him to get revenge for forcibly giving him medicine.

But in the current context, it looks exactly like... a hickey.

"My wife has a thin face and is a bit shy around strangers."

Gu Qinghan spoke nonsense with a straight face, "If the special envoy insists on going in to search, that's not impossible. But if it disturbs her and ruins my important matter of having offspring..."

He flipped his palm over.

A jet-black bead appeared in the palm of his hand.

That was his natal poison pill—the Deathly Asura Pearl.

Once detonated, nothing will grow within a hundred miles, and even a Saint Realm expert will suffer greatly.

"Then I'll have no choice but to drag the special envoy down with me to be buried with the unborn child."

madman.

Tianyan looked into Gu Qinghan's emotionless gray eyes and his heart skipped a beat.

Gu Qinghan cultivates the art of medicine, but who doesn't know that he is a notorious poison madman in the Canglan Realm?

It's not worth risking your life for a so-called "wanted criminal" and a poison cultivator at the peak of the Dao Inquiry Realm.

Moreover...

The Heavenly Eye swept across the area again. Indeed, the top floor was permeated with a rich aura of the Nine Yang Melting Snow Pill, mixed with a scent of both men and women.

Am I really finding fault with myself?

"snort."

Tianyan snorted coldly and concealed his aura.

"Since this is a matter concerning Lord Gu's family, I naturally won't be unreasonable. However..."

He took a deep look at the tightly closed door.

"That wanted criminal is of great importance. I will stay in Dan City for a few days. If there are any problems with Master Gu's 'Daoist partner,' don't blame me for being ruthless."

After saying that, he waved his hand.

"withdraw!"

The silver-armored guards retreated like a receding tide.

Gu Qinghan stood atop the tower, watching the receding figure of Tianyan, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

He won his bet.

but……

"puff!"

Gu Qinghan suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

That was a side effect of consuming the waste pills before, plus the backlash from forcibly activating one's origin to resist the pressure of the Spirit Awakening Realm.

Worse.

The pink mist emanating from the "Nine Suns Melting Snow Pill" was completely locked inside the top-level space because the defensive array had been fully activated.

He pushed the door open, swaying unsteadily.

Jiang Yining was sitting on the chalcedony bed, her face flushed and her eyes glazed over.

The Shadow Poison within his body launched a final counterattack, colliding with that eerie heat.

Ice and Fire.

"Gu...Gu Qinghan..."

She murmured his name.

Gu Qinghan's legs went weak, and she knelt down in front of the bed.

The door closed.

The pink mist completely engulfed the two of them.