What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

She recalled the moment she had feigned betrayal.

He never believed her from beginning to end.

Then look at this man in the Qi Refining stage.

The Forbidden God Technique held her life in its hands, yet it gave her top-grade pills to help her break through to the late Foundation Establishment stage. During the battle, it allowed her to judge the timing of her attack. After being "betrayed" by her, it did not immediately detonate the Forbidden God Technique, and even rushed to save her when Chu Tianhan was about to kill her.

She raised her head and her gaze fell on Lin Yuan.

"Master, just now... I hesitated."

"Okay, don't do it again next time." Lin Yuan didn't even turn his head.

Jiang Huaiyue did not speak again.

She closed her eyes and began to regulate her breathing.

"You should focus on healing your wounds; I will protect you."

Lin Yuan glanced at the two women and walked to a relatively flat spot in the passage, where he sat down cross-legged.

He took out all the storage bags he had obtained through murder and robbery—no, it was all done in self-defense—a total of five.

Turn the bag upside down and give it a gentle shake.

The contents of the five storage bags spilled out onto the ground, piling up into a small mountain.

Broken bronze and iron magical artifacts, scattered spirit stones, and miscellaneous odds and ends made up most of the space. There were quite a few pills, all standard items for healing and restoring mana. Lin Yuan picked up a bottle, uncorked it, and smelled it.

The medicine has a murky taste and contains many impurities.

With his alchemy skills, these things are useless to him, but he can take them out and sell them to the Pill Treasure Pavilion.

But spiritual herbs and medicines are different.

Needless to say, Sun Yan had a four-hundred-year-old Blood Jade Ginseng in his storage bag, and the others had also gathered some rare spiritual herbs. Lin Yuan sorted and categorized the spiritual herbs one by one, his eyes shining brighter and brighter.

Especially Chu Tianhan's storage bag.

As expected of a master who could seize the position of Holy Son, this guy actually collected thirty or forty different kinds of spiritual herbs.

One of the spiritual herbs, entirely black with dark gold patterns on its roots, was taken out by Lin Yuan from a sealed jade box.

The Netherworld Grass, with a medicinal age of over four hundred years, is one of the core auxiliary materials for refining the Foundation Building Pill.

Lin Yuan quickly calculated in his mind.

With the purple orchid and blood jade ginseng he had previously collected, he now only needs the last main ingredient—the Soul-Gathering Flower—to complete all the materials for a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Even after leaving the forbidden area, all kinds of spiritual materials must be handed over.

But if I refine these spiritual materials into pills and consume them within the Crimson Forbidden Land, it shouldn't be against the rules, right?

He carefully stored the spiritual herbs in his storage bag, and finally his gaze fell on a fist-sized, jet-black token.

The token has the character "blood" engraved on the front and the character "god" on the back, with a faint blood-red glow flowing throughout.

This clearly aligns with what Jiang Huaiyue said: the token itself is a token of the Blood God Palace.

With this token in hand, he can enter the Blood God Palace's Inheritance Hall and comprehend the cultivation techniques within.

Lin Yuan smiled slightly and carefully put the token away from his body.

Then, his gaze fell on a jade box with a bright green color.

The jade box was covered with three layers of spirit-sealing talismans. When opened, the inside was lined with a layer of Xuanbing cotton that emitted a chilling aura. Embedded in the cotton layer were dozens of pitch-black insect eggs the size of a fingernail, each with faintly visible fine spiritual patterns on its shell.

It turned out to be the eggs of the Soul-Devouring Demon Worm.

Chu Tianhan burned the ancient alien insect swarm that he had cultivated for decades to the ground, but the insect eggs were left behind.

Lin Yuan picked up an insect egg and examined it closely. This thing had a long cultivation cycle and consumed a lot of resources, so it wouldn't be useful in the short term. But if he had the chance to raise it slowly in the future, it would be a rather disgusting trump card.

He sealed the jade box and put it into his storage bag.

It's a pity about that talisman; its power has been reduced by seventy or eighty percent. It could probably only be used one last time.

Besides these things, there is also a set of array flags and array plates called the Six Yin Soul Locking Array. This treasure is much better than Lin Yuan's set, which can only conceal one's aura. This treasure has an extremely strong trapping array. Once one falls into this array, even a Core Formation cultivator can be trapped for a short while.

After clearing away all the spoils, Lin Yuan got up and burned the three corpses into flames.

After doing all this, he clapped his hands and walked back to the two women.

Half a day has passed.

With the help of top-grade elixirs, Jiang Huaiyue's complexion recovered significantly, her damaged meridians were reconnected, and her magical power flowed smoothly. She opened her eyes, moved her wrist, and found that about 70-80% of the bruise on her chest had dissipated.

Lin Feilu's situation is much worse.

Although the bleeding from the wound on her left shoulder had stopped, the lightning-attribute true energy that Chu Tianhan had left in the wound was extremely domineering.

Her face was still pale, and her breathing was shallow.

Lin Yuan squatted down in front of her and reached out to check her pulse.

His meridians were damaged in many places, and cracks appeared in his dantian. Without two or three days of rest and recuperation, plus the aid of medicinal pills, he simply could not recover his fighting strength.

Lin Yuan took out a whole bottle of Xuan Gu Sheng Mai Pills from his storage bag and handed them to Lin Feilu.

"You stay here and heal your wounds. Senior Sister Jiang and I will go down and check on the Cold Marrow Lotus."

Lin Feilu took the porcelain bottle. She glanced at Jiang Huaiyue behind Lin Yuan, hesitated, and finally just nodded.

"careful."

Lin Yuan didn't say anything more, turned around and walked deeper into the passage. Jiang Huaiyue followed closely behind, and their figures were quickly swallowed up by the cold air.

The deeper you go into the passage, the colder it gets. A thick layer of black ice has formed on the stone walls, and it makes a soft, crunching sound when you step on it.

After walking about a hundred paces, the view suddenly opened up.

At the bottom of the cave lies a deep, bottomless, azure pool, its surface shrouded in a thin layer of white mist. In the center of the pool, a white lotus flower, the size of a fist, floats on the water, its petals translucent and radiating a soft, milky-white glow.

"Let's explore the surroundings first."

Jiang Huaiyue took out a bronze mirror from her storage bag. The mirror surface was simple and ancient, while the back was engraved with dense array patterns.

"This is the Demon-Revealing Mirror, which can detect the aura of demonic beasts within a radius of fifty feet."

She infused her magic into the bronze mirror. A pale blue light shone on the mirror's surface, slowly spreading and covering the entire cavern.

A moment later, a dazzling red dot suddenly lit up on the surface of the bronze mirror, located at the bottom of the icy pool.

Jiang Huaiyue's expression changed slightly: "There is a lurking demonic beast at the bottom of the cold pool, and its aura strength... is at the peak of the second level."

She put away the bronze mirror and lowered her voice: "Equivalent to a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator. In our current state, a head-on clash would be difficult. I've only recovered about 60-70%, and you..."

She glanced at Lin Yuan and swallowed back the words, "You're only at the Qi Refining stage."

After these two days of experience, she no longer dared to judge this man by his cultivation level.

Lin Yuan stared at the cold pool for a few moments, then took two steps back.

"No rush. Let's wait until Lin Feilu recovers before the three of us work together. We'll rest here for the next few days."

Jiang Huaiyue nodded.

This decision is perfectly reasonable. A level-two peak companion beast, coupled with the home-field advantage of the Cold Pool, would be suicidal to act rashly.

The two retreated to the middle of the passage and found a relatively spacious area.

After doing all this, he turned to look at Jiang Huaiyue.

"come over."

Jiang Huaiyue was stunned for a moment, then realized what was happening, and her ears instantly turned red.

"Ah, here it is?"

"Your injuries are too severe. Let me examine you more closely to see if there are any hidden injuries," Lin Yuan said seriously.

Jiang Huaiyue bit her lip. She understood perfectly what Lin Yuan meant by those words.

She took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said in a very low voice, "You really are... In all my years of life, I have never seen a cultivator more shameless than you."

Lin Yuan remained unfazed: "Humans all have emotions and desires; there's nothing shameful about it."

……

Above the cave.

Lin Feilu sat cross-legged, the medicinal power of the pill slowly repairing her damaged meridians.

Suddenly, a very faint sound came from the stone wall beneath their feet.

The sounds were muffled by the thick layers of rock, but the cultivator's hearing far surpassed that of ordinary people. Those intermittent noises sounded like someone constantly calling out to each other.

Lin Feilu didn't pay attention at first, thinking that Lin Yuan and Jiang Huaiyue were dealing with the monster.

But she soon realized something was wrong.

The frequency of the sound didn't sound like a battle.

more like...

Lin Feilu's face instantly turned from pale to bright red, burning all the way to the tips of her ears.

This...this bastard!

The sound stopped after about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

But after about two hours, the sound came again.

Lin Feilu clenched his fists.

When will this person ever stop?

However, for the next three days, every one or two hours, that embarrassing noise would come from below.