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

Lin Yuan closed the jade box, sealing off the cold air.

"I'll do my best, but I need a month," Lin Yuan stated his bottom line.

The dark blue lines at the corner of Wen Yuci's eye twitched violently. She stepped closer to the stone bed.

"Half a month," Wen Yuci uttered three words.

Lin Yuan looked up and stared directly into her eyes: "Senior Sister Wen, alchemy is not like kneading dough. The fusion of Xuanwu True Blood and Cold Marrow Lotus requires extremely precise control of the heat. If the medicinal properties go out of control in half a month, you won't even see the dregs."

"If you can't produce the elixir in half a month, you'll die," Wen Yuci said coldly. She didn't care about the process, only the result.

"In that case, I'll do my best." Lin Yuan's tone revealed no resentment, and even carried a calm, consultative tone.

"But half a month is too short a timeframe. I need to be distracted to suppress the conflicting effects of the medicine. I also need a lot of other pills to practice the process. These materials..."

He's a professional at banging bamboo bars.

Wen Yuci did not refuse. She waved her sleeve.

Several bulging storage bags lay on the stone table.

Lin Yuan picked up the storage bag, which contained a total of over 4,600 spirit stones, which he estimated Wen Yuci had saved up over the past two months.

"Then, senior sister, wait for my good news!"

Wen Yuci glanced at him, then turned and left.

Lin Yuan's expression turned cold.

The day the Soul Purifying Pill is completed will be the day Wen Yuci breaks through to the Core Formation stage.

She is currently at the halfway point of the Foundation Establishment stage, and her divine soul is already so powerful that it is terrifying. Once she enters the Core Formation stage, the foundation of her divine soul will definitely increase several times over.

By then, the Soul Devouring Technique imprint in Lin Yuan's sea of ​​consciousness will become indestructible.

However, if he deliberately fails to refine the pill within these two weeks, or refuses to refine it, when Wen Yuci's cold poison enters her heart meridian and she is on the verge of death, she will definitely drag him down with her.

Success means death, failure means death too.

The only way out is to reverse the possession and seize control of the imprint.

The operating logic of the Soul Devouring Technique is to use the strong to control the weak.

The caster's soul must be superior to that of the recipient.

As long as Lin Yuan's soul strength surges to surpass Wen Yuci's Core Formation stage within this half-month, the Soul Devouring Technique will no longer be a death warrant, but a chain that allows him to control Wen Yuci's life and death.

He closed his eyes and concentrated, plotting how to boost his soul strength to surpass Wen Yuci within half a month.

The latter half of the Soul Forging Technique is the ideal solution. However, Jiang Huaiyue said it would take at least one or two years to obtain it from Sima Duan. A distant solution cannot quench an immediate thirst.

While he was pondering, a very subtle fluctuation of magical power suddenly came from the outer perimeter of the Six Yin Soul Locking Formation.

Someone is coming.

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly. Tonight is certainly lively.

He raised his hand and cast a spell. The thick gray fog slowly parted to both sides, creating a narrow path that could only accommodate one person at a time.

A figure shrouded in a large black cloak swiftly slipped into the formation. The movement was extremely fast, clearly indicating a desire to remain unseen.

The gray fog quickly closed behind him, leaving no trace.

The person walked along the passageway into the stone chamber. His pace was unhurried, but each step revealed a deliberately suppressed urgency.

She raised her hand and pulled down the heavy black hood, revealing a bright and mature face.

It was Li Yang.

She took off her cloak and casually draped it over a nearby stone bench.

She wore a minimalist plain silk dress underneath, without any extra accessories, and even removed the red gold necklace that she always wore.

The elaborate cloud-like bun was changed to a simple low bun, secured with an ordinary wooden hairpin.

It was clearly a deliberate attempt to keep a low profile.

She didn't want anyone to know where she was going tonight.

Li Yang stood in the center of the main hall, not in a hurry to speak. Her gaze first slowly swept across the four walls of the entire cave, from the entrance to the dome, from the ground to the corner, examining it inch by inch.

From the outside, Black Crow Mountain is the worst-located and most spiritually desolate mountain in the entire Xuan Yin Sect. Even the outer disciples look down on it.

But now that he was inside, Li Yang's eyes flashed with undisguised surprise.

The ground was flat and dry, smooth as a mirror. The hidden array patterns on the stone wall intertwined and connected in an extremely ingenious way, forming a highly sophisticated spirit-gathering and breath-sealing array. Laymen couldn't see the intricacies, but Li Yang had been in the spiritual materials business for over a decade and had some knowledge of various arrays.

The layout of this formation is extremely sophisticated. Not only can it increase the concentration of spiritual energy within the cave several times over, but it can also completely seal off all fluctuations of magical power inside, making it impossible to detect anything unusual from the outside.

It appears dilapidated and slovenly on the outside, but its interior holds hidden wonders.

This kid is indeed a master of deception.

Li Yang withdrew her gaze and turned to look at Lin Yuan sitting on the stone bed.

"How effective are the pills?" Lin Yuan asked, skipping the pleasantries and getting straight to the point.

Li Yang walked to the stone bed and stopped. Her voice was very low, so low that it could be heard only between the two of them.

"Eighty percent of the hidden injuries have been removed."

She paused for a moment. A hint of resentment flashed in her phoenix eyes.

"The remaining 20% ​​is hidden in the deepest crack in my dantian. I've tried everything, whether it's a strong attack with medicinal power or a direct assault with magical power, it can't penetrate. That crack remains completely unmoved."

She took a deep breath and looked directly into Lin Yuan's eyes.

"I'll try your method."

When she said those words, Li Yang's voice was extremely calm. But Lin Yuan noticed that her right hand, which was resting at her side, was gripping the hem of her skirt.

A woman who has been in business for over a decade has long since learned not to let her emotions show on her face.

Lin Yuan nodded. He patted the empty space on the stone bed beside him.

Li Yang did not hesitate. She lifted her skirt and sat down on the edge of the stone bed.

……

The clash between Yang and Yin techniques.

The magical power within the two bodies was connected end to end, yin and yang linked together, slowly forming a complete closed yin-yang circuit.

Yin gives rise to Yang, and Yang transforms into Yin. These two diametrically opposed forces constantly flow, merge, and transform within the circuit.

Each cycle generates a new force—neither pure yin nor pure yang, but the creative power of yin and yang in harmony.

This new true power, which combines the attributes of Yin and Yang, is far stronger than any single-attribute magic power.

It was like an invincible blade, easily piercing through all the defenses and barriers in Li Yang's meridians.

The crack in Li Yang's dantian that the medicinal power could not penetrate was like a paper wall in the face of the Yin-Yang True Power.

The true energy transformed into countless tiny threads, penetrating every corner of the crack without leaving any gaps.

"Um……"

Li Yang let out a muffled groan.

The muffled groan escaped from deep within his throat, carrying an intense, suppressed pain.

This hidden injury tormented her for more than a decade.

For more than a decade, she tried countless times to repair this crack with various elixirs.

She thought this was how her life would be. Stuck at the early stage of Core Formation, watching her family's patience slowly run out, watching the increasingly cruel sneer appear on Li Lan's face, which was exactly like hers.

But at the moment.

That Yin-Yang true energy was steadily and relentlessly advancing into the depths of the crack.

……