Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

“You understand, that’s good. I can’t be by your side every moment. If one day I have my own things to do and I’m not around, and you run into trouble, wouldn’t you be a lamb to the slaughter if you don’t have enough strength? So, you have to be strong yourself to succeed,” Lin Aoxue said.

Ye Liuyun's physical strength definitely needs to be improved, because her soul power increases along with her physical strength. If it doesn't improve, her alchemy skills will also be difficult to improve.

Fortunately, Ye Liuyun had made sufficient preparations before leaving Silent City. His mind had been focused on his secondary profession for some time, and he did need to take some time to temper his body.

Ye Liuyun possesses numerous pills that can accelerate the improvement of physical strength, but these require cultivation to achieve their full effect.

The next day, early in the morning, the sun shone brightly, and it was another damp day.

One treehouse is definitely not enough. Lin Aoxue needs a quiet environment to cultivate, and Ye Liuyun needs a separate room to study pills and other side professions, otherwise it will be easy to disturb Lin Aoxue's cultivation.

So after discussing it, the two of them decided that after renovating this house, they would build a larger treehouse in the canopy of another tree next to it.

"Ugh, another bath. I really want to wear a bikini if ​​I could, it's so uncomfortable," Lin Aoxue complained.

As soon as the two were out of the isolation range of the formation, they immediately felt water seeping out of their bodies, and they were soaked in no time.

In this godforsaken place, it's impossible to keep using your power to evaporate the water from your body, so you can only endure it.

The two of them planned to fully set up the camp before exploring the surrounding area. As for Bai Lin and Jin Chen, the two little ones had already come down from the tree to the ground.

The two of them are rolling around in the swamp.

As for the monsters in the swamp, they were terrified and dared not harm the two of them. Under Bai Lin's orders, the crocodile monsters built a platform in the swamp using crocodiles.

Wherever Jin Chen and Bai Lin went, the crocodiles followed, like moving ships, at their beck and call. As long as the two of them were willing, any demonic beast below the Dao Palace level was equivalent to a slave.

As for demonic beasts above the Dao Palace level, they can resist some of the pressure from divine beasts after transforming into human form, but they will still be afraid.

"Look at us, we're so busy, while these two little guys are having a blast," Ye Liuyun complained, watching Jin Chen and Bai Lin playing with the crocodiles below.

“This place may be a dangerous zone for us, but for Jin Chen and Bai Lin, it’s paradise. Don’t worry about them, they’ll be fine, just don’t go too far,” Lin Aoxue said.

The two estimated that it would take about a week to fully set up the campsite, since it would take more time and effort to make it comfortable.

Ye Liuyun's treehouse is much larger than Lin Aoxue's, at least three times larger. This is mainly because Ye Liuyun has more things to do, while Lin Aoxue's treehouse is just for resting.

These past few days, Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue haven't had time to do anything else, so they've been letting Jin Chen and Bai Lin play around in the surrounding area. With them here, virtually no powerful demonic beasts will approach.

However, groups of cultivators passed through this area every now and then, and these groups of cultivators also noticed the strangeness of this area. After all, there were tree branches cut off by sharp blades everywhere on the ground, which indicated that someone had been active here.

Unfortunately, due to the multiple arrays blocking the way, these people couldn't find the treehouse above them at all.

Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue didn't want their camp to be discovered, so when they sensed someone coming, they immediately went into the treehouse to hide. They would come out and continue working after the person left. They went through this process repeatedly for five days and completed the camp construction ahead of schedule.

"Ah! All done, perfect. This will make living here much more comfortable." Ye Liuyun said with great satisfaction as he looked at the treehouse in front of him.

Her treehouse was less than ten meters away from Lin Aoxue's, with a wooden walkway in between, allowing them to move between each other without getting wet from the water mist.

"Your treehouse practically takes up the entire canopy! Let me tell you, when you're researching pills and other side professions, keep it down and don't cause too much trouble," Lin Aoxue warned.

Ye Liuyun smiled and nodded, but in reality, she really wanted to say that she couldn't guarantee that.

Ye Liuyun had already set up a soundproof array around Lin Aoxue's residence, so that no outside sounds could get in.

Of course, this can definitely be controlled. People inside can choose whether or not to use soundproofing. In addition, there is a monitoring array in this area, so Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue can immediately detect anyone who comes to this area.

"Alright, I'll go inside and get my things ready." Ye Liuyun greeted Lin Aoxue and then went into his treehouse.

"Yes, I'll go take a look around too," Lin Aoxue replied.

She took a deep breath and then explored in one direction of the rainforest.

She and Ye Liuyun couldn't always act at the same time; they each had their own things to do. They would only act together when needed, and when not needed, Ye Liuyun would study his secondary profession, while Lin Aoxue would go to find opponents to fight.

After entering the room, Ye Liuyun simply took off his outer clothes, wearing only a tube top and trousers. The tube top was shaped somewhat like a corset, covering the chest area perfectly. The trousers were actually underwear, made of soft material.

The main reason was that she didn't have Lin Aoxue's abundant spiritual power. Her spiritual power at the early stage of the Spirit Stream Realm wasn't enough to evaporate the mist on her body, and she didn't want to keep doing things while wearing wet clothes.

She removed all her accessories and casually tied her hair up.

Finally, Ye Liuyun took out various items he had prepared in advance, including a crafting table for refining weapons and molds for forging weapons.

In no time, the room was filled with all sorts of props and special magical artifacts.

"Alright, let's try weapon crafting first. Master, didn't you say that weapon crafting and medicine refining are similar? It shouldn't be too difficult for me to learn, right?" Ye Liuyun asked doubtfully.

But Lin Qingyou shook her head.

"I'm sorry, I don't know much about the crafting field. Besides alchemy, I only have some expertise in formations. As for other secondary professions, you'll have to figure them out yourself. You have the Myriad Medicines Immortal Fire, so smelting materials is definitely easy for you. But if you want to combine the corresponding materials to create a magic weapon, that will take time," Lin Qingyou replied.

Having heard this, Ye Liuyun had no choice but to go to the furnace and prepare to try it out slowly.

"Never mind, let's get started first." Ye Liuyun opened the furnace and released his Myriad Medicine Immortal Fire. The emerald green flames merged into the furnace, and the treehouse began to get hot.

The heat required for refining weapons is far greater than that required for refining medicine. She heated the furnace until it was scorching hot before throwing in the refining materials she had purchased.

As the materials entered the furnace, they quickly melted into molten iron. Ye Liuyun was going to forge a low-grade human-level weapon. This was the simplest thing to do, basically requiring no combination of multiple materials. All that was needed was to melt it into molten iron, then turn it into an iron block and hammer it multiple times.

The most difficult part of crafting weapons is melting and tempering the materials. This requires the addition of special auxiliary materials, which need to be integrated into the main materials. The better the integration, the better the quality.

Getting started as a weapon refiner isn't actually difficult; any cultivator can get started if they're willing. The real challenge is growing into a skilled craftsman.

Furthermore, weapon forging is a physically demanding job, and conventional weapon forging is no different from blacksmithing, so the sound of hammering metal constantly echoed in Ye Liuyun's residence.

It took nearly three hours. After three hours, Ye Liuyun had crafted a small, delicate women's sword. However, the sword was too crude and could not be considered a low-grade human-level sword at all.

"Ugh! It's too rough, a piece of junk." Ye Liuyun only glanced at it before tossing it aside. She had to forge a flawless low-grade human-rank magic weapon to officially become a human-rank weapon refiner.

The contrast between her petite and delicate appearance and the image of her shirtless, wielding a sledgehammer to forge iron is striking.

There are almost no female cultivators who become weapon refiners. Out of a thousand weapon refiners, it would be considered good if there was one female weapon refiner.

"Bang, bang..." The sound of hammering continued incessantly. Fortunately, Ye Liuyun had the foresight to take off her outer garment beforehand. Otherwise, her clothes would have been stained black very quickly.

Around 3 p.m., Ye Liuyun, who had just finished forging a weapon, threw it aside in great dissatisfaction. There were already seven defective products piled up in her room.

Her weapon-forging speed is getting faster and faster, and her skill level is also improving, but there is still a considerable distance to go before she succeeds, and she needs more time to hone her skills.

"Sigh! It's really difficult without the blessing of the Myriad Medicines Cauldron." Ye Liuyun was quite frustrated.

It can only be said that the alchemy process went too smoothly before, but the weapon crafting process is fraught with difficulties.

"Hehehe, nonsense. If you didn't have my alchemy skills to back you up, you'd be in just as much trouble." Lin Qingyou said with a grin as she watched Ye Liuyun's discomfiture.

"Huh? Master, why do I feel like you're happy to see me get the short end of the stick?" Ye Liuyun said with dissatisfaction.

"Of course, you call me master, but you probably don't really care about me at all," Lin Qingyou said, tapping Ye Liuyun's chest and narrowing her eyes.

Indeed, Ye Liuyun and Lin Qingyou's relationship was more like sisters than master and disciple. Ye Liuyun lacked the respect due to an elder towards Lin Qingyou, and she seemed very casual.

"Oh, Master, why do we have to show you so much respect? I think we should just be more casual around you normally," Ye Liuyun said with a grin.

Lin Qingyou couldn't do anything about her, but just then, Lin Qingyou suddenly glanced outside.

"Someone's coming, and there are quite a few of them. They'll be passing through this area soon, so be careful," Lin Qingyou warned.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun immediately stopped smiling, put down what he was doing, ran out of the treehouse, jumped onto a branch with a wide view, and observed a certain direction.

Once Ye Liuyun left the treehouse area, the stains on his body were quickly washed away.

As for what was happening over there, a female cultivator was seen riding a flying sword, quickly traversing through the rainforest. This female cultivator was dressed as a man, and it seemed that she was most likely a man before. She was carrying an injured girl in a blue dress as she fled.

Behind them, a dozen or so cultivators were in pursuit; judging from their attire, they were likely all independent cultivators.

"Brother Yu, please, please don't worry about me. I, I can't hold on any longer. If this continues, you won't be able to escape either. Please put me down." The girl pleaded weakly, her face pale.

Both of them had multiple wounds. The female cultivator dressed as a man had mainly superficial wounds, but the girl in the blue dress had several potentially fatal injuries.

In particular, there was a knife wound on her back that was nearly half a foot long, from which blood was constantly seeping out. If this continued, the girl would eventually die from excessive bleeding.

Getting injured in the Rainforest is a very troublesome thing, because the area is so humid that wounds are almost always soaked in water and cannot heal.

"Yao'er, hold on! You must hold on! I'll get rid of them soon!" The female cultivator in men's clothing looked at the girl behind her, whose breath was growing weaker and weaker, and said in a panic.

One of them was a rogue cultivator named Yan Yu, and the other was Chen Yao, a direct disciple of the Jade Cry Sect.

The Jade Cry Sect is one of the ten major sects within the Cloud Sect territory. The so-called ten major sects consist of four lower-level sects plus six powerful sects.

The six powerful sects are: Tianfu Sect, Yuming Sect, Linglan Sect, Fengjian Sect, Siji Sect, and Tianlei Sect.

Before, Yan Yu was indeed male. She changed her gender due to the previous gender-swap phenomenon. The girl she was carrying was the love of her life.

Yan Yu and Chen Yao's experiences are somewhat similar to those of Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue.

They were both born in the same place and were about to get married. Unfortunately, on their wedding day, an elder from the Jade Cry Sect passed through their town and, noticing Chen Yao's good aptitude, forcibly took her away.

Yan Yu was naturally unwilling to let his wife be taken away like this, but she didn't have the aptitude for cultivation; to put it bluntly, she didn't have spiritual roots.

Without spiritual roots, he couldn't enter the path of immortality and had no way to find his woman. But perhaps perseverance pays off. On his way to the Jade Cry Sect, Yan Yu unexpectedly encountered a dying cultivator. Out of kindness, Yan Yu saved him, but unfortunately, the cultivator eventually succumbed to his injuries.

But before he died, he entrusted everything to Yan Yu, including a very special cultivation technique called the Spirit Devouring Technique.

This technique requires devouring the spiritual roots of others to cultivate, and only mortals without spiritual roots can use it.

By absorbing the spiritual roots of others, one can condense pseudo-spiritual roots within one's own body and embark on the path of immortality.

The name of this technique is fine, but its effects definitely make it a heretical technique.

The person she saved was actually an evil cultivator who had devoured the spiritual roots of many other cultivators in an attempt to improve the quality of his own. However, he was unlucky enough to be caught by righteous cultivators, and was subsequently surrounded and severely injured, eventually dying.

Before he died, he learned about Yan Yu's story, so he guided her to cultivate the Spirit Devouring Technique, and then let her devour his own spiritual root, sending Yan Yu into the cultivation world. This can be considered fate.

Yan Yu, relying on the pseudo-spiritual root he devoured from the evil cultivator, successfully infiltrated the Jade Cry Sect and met his fiancée, Chen Yao.

However, Chen Yao is now a direct disciple of the Jade Cry Sect, while she is just an ordinary outer disciple. It would be difficult for the two of them to meet, and even if they did meet, what would be the point? Once she entered the cultivation world, she knew that with her current strength, it was basically impossible for her to be with Chen Yao.

So she chose to secretly protect him while trying to improve her cultivation, waiting for the day they would meet again.

Unaware of each other's presence, the two cultivated together in a sect for decades.

Chen Yao has reached the late stage of the Spirit Pattern Realm, and Yan Yu has reached the early stage of the Spirit Pattern Realm.

However, Yan Yu's cultivation was accompanied by bloodshed and killing. In an accident, her sect discovered that she had devoured other people's spiritual roots, and she was forced to defect from the Jade Cry Sect and wander in the Six Yang Mountains.

However, without exception, all the people Yan Yu killed either delivered themselves to her doorstep or brought trouble upon themselves; her Spirit Devouring Technique never devoured the spiritual roots of an innocent person.

Even so, she was still labeled as an evil sect and was hunted down and wanted by the Jade Cry Sect.

Fortunately, the yin-yang reversal phenomenon last time turned her into a woman, which completely freed her from the pursuit and the wanted man.

A few hours ago, Chen Yao's team was attacked by a large group of rogue cultivators in the Weeping Rain Forest. Except for her, all the other fellow disciples were killed by the rogue cultivators.

Yan Yu happened to witness this scene. She attacked some rogue cultivators from behind, risking her life to rescue Chen Yao from their encirclement and then fled.

During their escape, the unfortunate couple finally recognized each other, but the group of rogue cultivators refused to let them go.

The main problem is that we dare not let these rogue cultivators go. Chen Yao already knows their identities, and we must eliminate them completely, otherwise they will face the bloody retaliation of the Jade Cry Sect.

"Brother Yu, I never imagined that you've been by my side all these years without my knowledge. I also never imagined that you would resort to evil arts and embark on the path of cultivation just to find me. It's all my fault," Chen Yao said weakly, leaning on Yan Yu's back.

"Yao'er, don't talk anymore. Just hold on a little longer. I will definitely be able to get you out of the pursuit. You must believe me." Yan Yu wanted Chen Yao to save some energy so that she could hold on for longer.

However, Chen Yao knew very well that the other party was relentlessly pursuing her, and her injuries were far from stable. Death was already beckoning her, and she had to take advantage of the strength she still had to say everything she wanted to say.

"Brother Yu, I really can't hold on anymore. I hope that in our next life, we can be husband and wife again." As Chen Yao spoke, the hand that was wrapped around Yan Yu's neck finally loosened weakly.

When Yan Yu sensed the person behind her disappearing from life, she was completely stunned. She gradually stopped flying and stopped trying to escape.

"Yao'er, Yao'er, Chen Yao, say something!" Yan Yu called out several times in fright.

Unfortunately, there was no response.

She lowered her head and sobbed for a moment, then, with a pained expression, looked up to the sky and let out a mournful roar.

"No... God, why are you doing this to me? Why are you taking away even my last hope?"

The place where Yan Yu stopped happened to be right below Ye Liuyun's camp.

Therefore, Ye Liuyun clearly saw Yan Yu crying and roaring below. She was stunned when she saw this scene.

"Sigh!" Ye Liuyun sighed sadly upon seeing this scene.

As soon as Yan Yu stopped, her pursuers quickly surrounded her.

"You meddlesome bitch, why aren't you running anymore? Oh dear, it seems that little wench from the Jade Cry Sect is finally dead. What's the point? It's better to die sooner rather than later. It's a complete waste of our time." The leader of the opposing group, a rogue cultivator at the peak of the Spirit Pattern Realm, mocked the dead Chen Yao.

Yan Yu stopped talking. She rode her flying sword and landed on a nearby tree branch, gently setting her wife down. Then, she suddenly raised her head and looked at the rogue cultivators with bloodthirsty, red eyes.

"You, you all must die." Yan Yu let out a terrifying, hoarse voice, like a demon demanding death.

These people were also immediately intimidated by Yan Yu's murderous gaze.

But then they immediately remembered that they outnumbered her and had nothing to fear. So they became defiant again.

"Hmph! You dare to talk big when you're only at the early stage of the Spirit Pattern Realm? You're not bad looking. After I capture you, I'll personally take your primordial yin, and then we'll see how arrogant you are." The leading rogue cultivator was initially startled by Yan Yu's murderous aura, but immediately, he became somewhat enraged, and a cold and ruthless expression appeared in his eyes.

There was no longer any desire to live in Yan Yu's eyes; all she wanted now was to kill these people.