There are always fairies plotting against me

"Haha, don't worry. When the Blood Emperor Sect unifies the Nanzhuo Region, the Sect Master will definitely not treat unfairly those who have contributed."

"Hahaha, we can finally make those upright and respectable defenders kneel at our feet!"

"Especially Lin Mu, the leader of the Nanzhuo Alliance. Thanks to him, I'm the only one of our Wang family who escaped... My brother only seriously injured an elder of his Lin family, and he provoked him to kill my entire clan. I will make him suffer a fate worse than death!"

"Speaking of Lin Mu, it's rumored that he was originally an ordinary member of the Lin family. It's unknown what opportunity he got that made him soar to fame, reaching the Yun Dao stage at a young age and becoming invincible among his peers..."

"Bah, no matter what opportunity he gets, when Sect Master Li comes out of seclusion, what waves can he make?"

"That's right. When our Sect Master comes out of seclusion, not only will he be forced to pay off the debt he owed the Young Sect Master, but he'll also be made to suffer a fate worse than death. For example, let's take those female confidantes of his and make them watch helplessly as they are murdered by the Sect Master... Hahahaha!"

"That's how it should be. He disguised himself and turned the Blood Emperor City upside down. I owe this scar to him. I'm sure he'll feel pain even deeper than if he were injured!"

"I can't wait for Sect Master Li to enjoy his confidante and give us a share, hahahaha..."

Xia Ming was too lazy to continue listening to the increasingly vulgar noise. She followed Lu Jinan to the door and whispered, "You just said someone would destroy the Blood Demon Sect. Are you referring to this Lin Mu?"

"Yeah." Lu Jinan looked at the Blood Emperor Sect's army marching through the city. "It's surprising that a True Lord at the Sitting Meditation Realm could appear in a small place like Nanzhuo Territory, right?"

Xia Ming nodded, then asked, "Does this mean another era of great conflict with the rise of geniuses?"

"You can say that."

"Oh, your purpose in coming here is to recruit this genius into our Wandao Sect?" Xia Ming's eyes lit up. "We've been waiting for him for over a year to test whether he can destroy the Blood Emperor Sect. If he can't, it means that although he is a genius, his luck is not good. A dead genius is not a genius anymore.

Speaking of which, many great figures recorded in the classics rose from humble beginnings. Is it Nanzhuoyu's turn this time?"

Lu Jinan shook his head: "I want to kill him."

"Ah?" Xia Ming's eyes widened. "Did he offend you? I'll..."

"If he had offended me, I would have killed him long ago."

Lu Jinan was playing with the short blade in his hand, looking calmly at the two dog demons fighting each other not far away. As a reincarnated person, when he first knew Lin Mu, he couldn't help but suspect with his previous life's thinking whether this Lin Mu might be a time traveler and possessor. But when he explored the desolate cave a year ago, he knew that it was not what he thought.

"He comes from a place that claims to be the upper realm, and is related to the ruins."

"Upper realm?" Xia Ming looked at Lu Jinan in confusion. "Ruins? Are there people living in the cave?"

"I'm not sure yet." Lu Jinan didn't explain further, but said, "Just asking, did you bring the Ice Soul Frost Flower with you when you came?"

"I left immediately at the Deputy Sect Master's urging." Xia Ming shook his head: "What use do you have for it?"

"Looking for a place." Lu Jinan sighed softly: "Since you didn't bring me, I can only go to the Blood Emperor Sect."

"Is there such a rare and precious herb in Nanzhuo Territory?"

"The Blood Emperor Sect obtained it from a True Lord's ancient tomb some time ago. As for why it was found in a True Lord's ancient tomb... let's just attribute it to the Great Strife."

Lu Jinan took a step forward and said, "You watch over the clinic for me."

Once he gets the Ice Soul Frost Flower, he will have the confidence to counterattack Zhu Nanzhi.

"understood."

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Chapter 8: Ice Soul Frost Flower

Dozens of miles north of the Blood Emperor City, there is a long and deep canyon. The mountains and rivers are stained with a layer of blood for some unknown reason. On the cliffs, the ancient and magnificent buildings are silent, giving people a dull and gloomy feeling.

The area around the cave facing north and south in the back mountain was filled with blood mist, and everything was scarlet.

The pile of white bones was faintly visible in the blood-colored formation, and the sound of shrill wails seemed to echo faintly.

Three men and women in the Yundao realm and more than twenty men and women in the Ningdan realm, wearing blood-red robes, sat cross-legged at different centers of the formation. Using themselves as the intermediary, they controlled the refined essence and blood and sent them into the cave.

As the deputy leaders and elders of the Blood Emperor Sect, they all had pale faces and thin cheeks, as if they had not been exposed to light for a long time.

This is related to the "Blood Emperor Sutra" they practiced.

This technique absorbs the blood of others to quickly improve one's strength. Although in Lu Jinan's eyes this technique has too many flaws, for a small place like Nanzhuoyu, it is considered a very remarkable practice method.

Looking at the entire Nanzhuo region, only the Blood Emperor Sect can produce so many powerful people in the late Yundao Realm and Ningdan Realm.

Lu Jinan, who was hidden in the sky, took a casual glance and after not finding any Ice Soul Frost Flowers outside, he went straight into the cave.

The place where the Blood Emperor Sect's leader Li Huangquan was in seclusion was filled with a disgusting smell of blood. Countless corpses were piled up around the stone platform, some of which were shriveled and some were still fresh.

The blood flowed upstream along the groove leading to the stone platform and sank into the blood lotus blooming in the depression in the middle of the stone platform. The shirtless middle-aged man sat cross-legged with his eyes closed and pinched the magic formula. The purified blood continued to sink into his body, and his blood vessels were wriggling on his body like worms.

The Blood Emperor Sutra practiced by Li Huangquan, who was in the late Yun Dao realm, was obviously much more complete than that practiced by the elders. At least he looked no different from an ordinary person.

This is because he discovered an opportunity to perfect his skills and then break through from the ancient tomb of the True Lord that appeared some time ago.

"Not enough, not enough, not even close..."

Li Huangquan opened his bloodshot eyes and clenched his hands: "It's only half a step away from sitting, it's far from enough..."

"The state of sitting and meditating is the state of sitting and meditating, and the state of accumulating the Dao is the state of accumulating the Dao. Where does the saying of half a step come from?"

The sudden sound made Li Huangquan's face change. He raised his hand and a blood-red light formed by the gathering of blood-colored spiritual energy blasted towards the source of the sound: "Who is it?!"

The blood-colored spiritual power that was blasted out dissipated like clouds and mist. Li Huangquan stared at the young man floating in front of him with wide eyes full of horror. Just by meeting his gaze, he felt cold all over, as if falling into an ice cave.

As a cultivator who practiced the Blood Emperor Sutra, he was more sensitive to death than the average cultivator, so he knew that he was no match for the young man in front of him.

As a big shot in the Nanzhuo Territory, Li Huangquan had the good fortune to have traveled outside of the Nanzhuo Territory and witnessed the True Lords, and then he quickly returned...

The young man before him was even more unfathomable than the True Lords he had seen from afar, so...

"I've seen an immortal!"

Li Huangquan in the blood pool immediately prostrated himself on the ground, his face immersed in the blood pool, not daring to move.

Looking at the entire Yunding Continent, Nanzhuo Domain is like a village that has not yet escaped poverty. Influenced by the "information cocoon", in the solidified cognition, the True Lord of the Zuozhao Realm is the pinnacle that can be reached, and it has no understanding of higher-level information.

So Li Huangquan naturally thought that Lu Jinan was the immortal in the legend.

It is natural to worship the legendary immortals to show one's awe.

"You got a flower from the ancient tomb..."

Before Lu Jinan finished speaking, Li Huangquan immediately offered his storage ring: "It's right inside. Please accept it, Immortal."

Lu Jinan directly took out the Ice Soul Frost Flower with seven leaves, which looked like an ice sculpture, from the storage ring. He immediately performed a spell to preserve the Ice Soul Frost Flower, whose medicinal properties were leaking, into the barrier.

Fortunately, these rare treasures that are useful to cultivators in the Hedao realm have strong vitality and were not taken away for long, so the medicinal properties were not lost much.

"Seven leaves of Ice Soul Frost Flower are enough."

Lu Jinan put away the Ice Soul Frost Flower and looked at Li Huangquan who was still kneeling. He put his hand on the back of his head and gave him some advice.

Li Huangquan's body stiffened, and he felt that the spiritual power in his body circulated by the "Blood Emperor Sutra" was smoother than before, and he had a clear understanding of how to take the practice to a higher level.

Li Huangquan raised his head with a look of ecstasy, but where was the immortal?

"Tomorrow... I have a feeling that tomorrow I will be able to break through to the Zuozhao realm!"

"Thank you Immortal, thank you Immortal!"

Li Huangquan, with an excited expression, kowtowed several times towards the air, and then concentrated on using the more complete "Blood Emperor Sutra" to purify the blood and break through.

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On the way back to Blood Emperor City from the Blood Emperor Sect, Lu Jinan, after contemplating the long river of time for a while, opened his eyes with no abnormality in his expression.

Before going against the flow of time, Li Huangquan was able to break through and come out of retreat. After resolving the crisis of the sect being besieged, he attacked Lin Mu who was in retreat in the ancient tomb. At the critical moment, Lin Mu broke through and came out of retreat, and fought fiercely with Li Huangquan. And then...

Without waiting for the battle to end, he went back to the present in the hands of Zhu Nanzhi, who showed her yandere side.

This time he advanced the time for Li Huangquan to launch the attack.

Lu Jinan didn't want to get involved in the battle for destiny in Nanzhuo Territory in advance, because he didn't want to be contaminated by the destiny of the cultivator named 'Lin Mu'.

The cultivator with the Seven-Star Meridian Body named "Lin Mu" has a more important status in the long river of time than ordinary cultivators. There will be some problems if the abnormal struggle for luck is affected by the cause and effect of others.

Lin Mu was only at the Yun Dao Realm, and bullying the weak when they had no prior experience was bullying. The competition between peers with great luck meant that those with the right fate (strength) would prevail. However, bullying the weak without competing was the same as bullying; it violated the rules and would lead to unnecessary trouble.

It is said that heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things equally like straw dogs. However, this is only a "ruthless" equality in the two things that every individual will "be born" and "die", but the process from birth to death is not equal.

Otherwise there would be no distinction between different classes.

So Lu Jinan, who was making a deal with Li Huangquan, felt a little unlucky at the moment.

However, in order to avoid being refined into a sword spirit, Lu Jinan did not regret it even though he felt unlucky.

Fortunately, the immortal fate related to the Ice Soul Frost Flower has not yet begun, so the luck that has been infected is not that great.

There would definitely be no problem for Lin Mu to break through to the Zuozhao realm, and as long as he sat on himself, he would be able to resolve all the contamination he had acquired - waiting for Lin Mu to break through to the Zuozhao realm and then dealing with it was the biggest reason why he had stayed here for more than a year.

Lu Jinan had no intention of plundering and inheriting Lin Mu's luck. It wasn't that he couldn't bear it, but that he didn't like it.

Because he has his own way, and also because his goal is the Seven Star Meridian Body.

It was already noon when they returned to the clinic. Lu Jinan closed the clinic for a lunch break. Since it had been like this for the past year, the demon cultivators present did not say anything and just left obediently.

After closing the door, Lu Jinan walked towards the backyard and said to Xia Ming, "Don't let outsiders disturb me. I'm refining a pill."

"Ok!"

Xia Ming, who had turned back to his original form, flew out of the window, landed on the eaves and carefully monitored the surroundings.

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Chapter 9 "My husband and that girl seem very close?"

The backyard of the hospital.

After washing his hands, Lu Jinan sat cross-legged on the cushion, his hands covered with a layer of blazing fire, refining the ice soul frost flower between his palms.

Lu Jinan has always believed that it is better to rely on oneself than on others, so before embarking on the path of immortality, he learned the relevant knowledge of alchemy. Before he was seven years old, he was able to refine some elixirs that were effective for ordinary people at home.

Now that he has been on the path to immortality for thirteen years, his path to alchemy has kept pace with his cultivation. He is a fourth-grade alchemist who is able to refine most of the elixirs that are useful to the cultivators in the realm of saints.

At his level, he could refine the Ice Soul Frost Flower even without the help of an alchemy furnace - in fact, he didn't need an alchemy furnace.

It is said to be refining elixir, but in fact it is just to refine the flower and extract the two medicinal liquids hidden in the petals and stems and leaves.

Ice Soul Frost Flower can be a medicine or a poison.

As a medicine, the petals of the Ice Soul Frost Flower can temper the meridians throughout the body of a cultivator due to their cold nature. The 'cold contraction' of the meridians caused by the medicinal properties, combined with the 'thermal expansion' of spiritual power, makes the meridians full of toughness, thereby increasing the speed and storage of the cultivator's spiritual power.

However, once the medicinal liquid extracted from the stems and leaves is added, the Ice Soul Frost Flower becomes a poison, a poison that can freeze the meridians of the cultivator and make it impossible to mobilize spiritual power.

Looking at the Ice Soul Frost Flower gradually turning into liquid in his hands, a mischievous smile gradually appeared at the corner of Lu Jinan's mouth.

This was the method he came up with to counter Zhu Nanzhi—to treat the yandere with the yandere's own methods!

He also wanted to poison the gun to give Zhu Nanzhi a surprise.

As for whether it can succeed - it will definitely succeed!

Because the nameless poison that Zhu Nanzhi had planted on himself was aimed at the Saint Realm, it could not be higher or lower than that.

If it is lower, it is useless. If it is higher, the medicinal properties are too strong and it is impossible for a monk to have no rejection at all.

So Zhu Nanzhi just used some kind of undetectable technique when poisoning, and he also knew this type of technique, and he was sure that Zhu Nanzhi would not be able to discover it.

Zhu Nanzhi, who had already successfully poisoned the victim, was definitely not as vigilant as him!

After calming down, Lu Jinan put aside all distractions and continued to concentrate on refining the medicine, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

There was only one Ice Soul Frost Flower at hand, and it related to his future destiny of being a human or a sword spirit. So even though he had refined the same grade of medicinal liquid countless times, at this moment he still had the same mentality as when he first refined a fourth-grade elixir. All he saw were drops of transparent medicinal liquid being refined and stored in the barrier.

As time passed, the blood donors who had finished their lunch break gathered at the door of the clinic, looking at it in surprise that the clinic was not open at this time.

But despite the noise, no one dared to ask for the door to be opened.

Xia Ming, who was on the roof, looked at the group of demon cultivators indifferently, thinking in his heart that Lu Jinan should give him a good meal today, right?

What should I eat?

As he was thinking, he didn't know how much time had passed, but many of the demon cultivators who wanted to donate blood dispersed, and Xia Ming also felt that the burning fire in the backyard had subsided.

He looked up at the sun and realized that it was just after the afternoon, so he flapped his wings and flew to the backyard.

After changing back into human form, Xia Ming stared at the porcelain bottle holding the liquid medicine in Lu Jinan's hand, blinked, and asked, "Aren't you going to make an elixir?"

"Do not care of details."

Lu Jinan carefully filled a bottle of medicine, let out a long sigh, and a relaxed smile appeared on his face.

Xia Ming looked at Lu Jinan strangely. Although the Ice Soul Frost Flower was relatively rare, it was easy for the eldest senior brother to refine this grade of medicine. Why did he look so cautious?