"Excited my ass!" Of course, I only dared to say this in my heart.

The two men took the incredibly realistic fake back to the black market.

At this moment, Fan Mingzhu disguised herself and infiltrated the black market. When she saw someone coming to hand in a mission, she excitedly walked over and took a closer look. She wanted to know as soon as possible whether Shi Xuan was dead or not.

The cultivator handed over a recording stone indicating severe injury. It's a bit of a shame, but not unacceptable.

Fan Mingzhu couldn't wait to see Shi Xuan's severely injured and disheveled appearance.

The person in charge of the mission did not disappoint everyone, and played the content on the memory stone in front of everyone.

They were indeed severely injured. It's a pity they were rescued, otherwise these two cultivators who completed their mission could have received three thousand high-grade spirit stones!

Without encountering any difficulties, the two of them quickly exchanged their spirit stones and left the black market.

In the black market, Fan Mingzhu was overjoyed. She had just witnessed Shi Xuan being severely injured up close, and she couldn't help but feel relieved after being targeted by Shi Xuan at the auction.

Ha, what goes around comes around. Shi Xuan was just too arrogant.

On the other side, two cultivators at the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage returned to the place where they had just fought Shi Xuan, carrying two thousand high-grade spirit stones.

As expected, Shi Xuan was waiting for them. The two obediently handed over two thousand spirit stones, their hands trembling as they handed over the stones, constantly lamenting their bad luck.

Who exactly posted this task? They were completely fooled! If they find out who posted it, they'll definitely be in for a beating!

Shi Xuan collected the spirit stones and casually tossed them into her storage bracelet. She, Shi Baiwan, was already quite wealthy and wasn't actually after just two thousand spirit stones, but since the stones were offered to her, she figured she might as well take them.

"Our antidote..." the two asked cautiously, afraid of accidentally displeasing this big shot.

"Oh," Shi Xuan casually took out two Rejuvenation Pills refined by Zeng Mo and gave one to each of them.

The pills in their hands looked increasingly familiar; weren't these the Rejuvenation Pills they used to take?

"Was it...was it a mistake?" one of them asked Shi Xuan, holding up the pill.

Shi Xuan said, "That's right, the antidote is the Rejuvenation Pill. Once you take it, your poison will be neutralized."

If they had known that only one Rejuvenation Pill was needed to cure the poison, why would they have bothered coming back? Wouldn't it have been more appropriate for them to just take the two thousand spirit stones and run away? Although they couldn't defeat her, it wouldn't be easy for her to catch them either!

With tears in their eyes, the two swallowed the hard-won Rejuvenation Pill. Seeing that Shi Xuan would not make things difficult for them any further, they turned to leave.

Shi Xuan casually complained to Lu Wenxing behind their back, "That Fan Mingzhu really likes to target me. Who gave her the idea to issue a mission to kill me on the black market? She even deliberately lowered my cultivation level. Isn't that just setting me up?"

Lu Wenxing was clearly still angry. He had no idea about Shi Xuan's complicated schemes. He couldn't understand why Shi Xuan had let the two people who were supposed to kill them go.

"Junior Sister, you're just going to let them go like that? They came here to kill you no matter what..."

He Weiqing chimed in, "Yes... ah."

Shi Xuan sighed and said, "They are quite pitiful. They were terribly tricked by Fan Mingzhu. Now they have lost all their wealth. Let's let them off the hook."

His tone was so compassionate that it almost moved the two people who were about to leave.

Fan Mingzhu, right? It was this Fan Mingzhu who released such outrageous false information that caused them such a big loss. The two of them decided in their hearts that once they got back, as soon as they realized what was going on, they would definitely find this Fan Mingzhu and teach her a lesson!

Lu Wenxing was still muttering about why they let them go. He Weiqing, however, understood a bit better; his junior sister had essentially issued a free counter-attack mission.

They kept saying that Fan Mingzhu had given them a task, and that she had ruined them. These two would definitely not let it go once they got back. Fan Mingzhu was in trouble this time.

The two men left indignantly, while Shi Xuan chuckled and shrugged, keeping his achievements hidden.

He Weiqing looked at Shi Xuan with starry eyes, thinking to herself: So amazing! I wish he could be like my junior sister!

The next day, Shi Xuan took his two senior brothers to stroll around the market again. The market was as lively as ever, as if nothing had happened.

The bustling market town was also a hub for gossip. Shi Xuan and his companions overheard something along the way: last night, two cultivators were asking around if anyone had seen a female cultivator named Fan Mingzhu...

Although they had never met Fan Mingzhu, they had heard of her as the daughter of the Divine Cauldron Sect's leader. They wondered why these two were so aggressively questioning Fan Mingzhu; could it be some kind of romantic entanglement?

Shi Xuan listened with great interest, while Lu Wenxing, oblivious to anything amiss, even chimed in, "I saw her at the Jubaozhai auction yesterday. No wonder she looked so unwell..."

It wasn't until they were on their way back that he realized what had happened. He slapped his forehead and said, "Junior Sister, do you think those two people looking for Fan Mingzhu are the same two who robbed us yesterday?"

Now, even He Weiqing laughed at him. Shi Xuan laughed uncontrollably and said, "Second Senior Brother, if I prick you with a needle, you won't let out a sound until next month, will you?"

Lu Wenxing: ...

His heart was deeply wounded, and he could no longer play happily with the two of them.

For the next two days, Shi Xuan did not go down the mountain again, but instead went into Yinshuang to prepare some pills for the official Six Sects Grand Competition.

The newly purchased slaves are now kept in Zeng Mo's courtyard, and Zeng Mo's daily routine has changed from refining elixirs and tending to the medicinal fields to refining elixirs, tending to the medicinal fields, and managing the slaves.

He was very interested in the cage that had fallen from the sky, but the person inside was lifeless and wouldn't respond when spoken to.

Li Jun was utterly despondent, sensing that this time his chances of survival were slim. What good could come of being bought as a slave? There were only a few possibilities: torture, being treated like an animal, or being turned into some strange puppet…

He had already imagined the scene of himself suffering humiliation and dying. At this point, he truly felt no will to live and thought it would be better to die quickly and painlessly.

Shi Xuan didn't enter until the third day. Zeng Mo greeted him cheerfully, saying, "Master, you've come!"

“Hmm,” Shi Xuan nodded, then walked to the cage containing the slaves.

"Your name is Li Jun?" she asked.

The slaves remained silent.

Shi Xuan was not angry and directly stated her purpose.

"I bought you mainly so you could refine magical artifacts here. I'm going to open a magical artifact shop later, so you'll have to let me earn back the spirit stones I spent on you."

Hearing her say that, the slave finally raised his head. He looked at Shi Xuan in disbelief, as if wondering if what she said was true.

Zeng Mo, standing to the side, exclaimed in surprise, "So you're a master craftsman! You should agree quickly, then we can keep each other company."

When he's been alone for a long time, he sometimes wants to talk to someone.