After leaving the grain shop, Xu Jinhuan went straight to the Fifth Prince's residence, but after searching around, he couldn't find Lei Tingjun anywhere.
After listening to the servants' conversation, I learned that Lei Tingjun had gone to the Taoist temple in the north of the city today.
Using the map provided by the system, Xu Jinhuan quickly found the exact location of the Taoist temple. She then used her lightness skill to quickly leave the Fifth Prince's residence.
About fifteen minutes later, Xu Jinhuan arrived at the Taoist temple mentioned by the servants.
However, this Taoist temple was not quite what Xu Jinhuan had imagined. The temple gate was dilapidated, the houses inside were also very run-down, and there were no worshippers at all.
If Xu Jinhuan hadn't gotten the information from the servants of the Fifth Prince's residence, she would never have guessed that Lei Tingjun would come to a place like this.
Xu Jinhuan continued to use his invisibility ability and lightly entered the Taoist temple using his lightness skill.
After entering several rooms, she found that only one room had a few young Taoist boys reciting the Tao Te Ching, while the rest of the rooms were empty.
After searching for a while, Xu Jinhuan found the abbot's room. The room was quiet and empty.
After checking it over, Xu Jinhuan indeed discovered something amiss. She lifted the abbot's bedding and found a secret passage with an open door underneath, suggesting that the person who went in had not yet come out.
Xu Jinhuan concealed herself and entered the secret passage. Using the candlelight on the walls of the passage, she quickly found Lei Tingjun and the Taoist temple abbot.
"Can this thing really restore my virility?" Lei Tingjun looked at the deep red pill handed over by the abbot with disdain.
The old Taoist priest smiled mysteriously upon hearing this, and said confidently, "No matter how much I say, it's just self-promotion. Your Highness will know the effect once you try it."
Although Lei Tingjun still looked at the pills with disdain, he thought of his beloved Xu Youyou. For Youyou's sake, he also wanted to become a strong man!
With that thought in mind, Lei Tingjun closed his eyes and resolutely swallowed the deep red pill.
"Ugh~"
After swallowing, Lei Tingjun felt a strong, bloody taste rush into his throat, making him instinctively want to vomit.
But before he could actually vomit anything, the old Taoist priest slapped his mouth shut and said earnestly.
"Your Highness, there is only one of this in the entire world. If you spit it out, all your efforts will be in vain."
Lei Tingjun took a long time to swallow the nauseating fishy smell. He angrily shook off the old Taoist's hand and said nonchalantly.
"If it weren't for your service, I would have sent you back to the drawing board just for covering my face with your hand."
"Besides, you have so many materials; it's not like you can't refine more. Why make this prince suffer?"
The old Taoist priest gave Lei Tingjun a somewhat speechless look, but for the sake of his future wealth and glory, he patiently explained.
"Your Highness, it's not that I'm unwilling, but the ingredients are indeed rare. It takes the heart's blood of ninety-nine women born in the yin year, yin month, and yin hour to make this pill."
You had your men capture over a thousand women to barely scrape together ninety-nine."
Upon hearing this, Lei Tingjun gave a wicked smile and said arrogantly, "Hmph, once I ascend the throne, I can have as many women's blood as I want."
Upon hearing this, the old Taoist smiled obsequiously, knelt respectfully on the ground, and shouted, "Then let's first congratulate His Majesty on his victorious campaign! Long live His Majesty! Long live His Majesty! Long live His Majesty!"
Lei Tingjun nodded smugly and said with a smile, "Rise, my dear minister. When I ascend the throne, I will certainly appoint you as the Imperial Preceptor."
A hint of satisfaction flashed in the old Taoist's eyes. Just as he was about to say something, he noticed that Lei Tingjun's face was turning increasingly red, so he immediately spoke.
"Your Highness, please circulate your internal energy and regulate your breathing as soon as possible. The effects of this pill are even more potent than I imagined."
Although Lei Tingjun frowned, he still sat down in a clean place and began to quietly regulate his breathing.
When Xu Jinhuan entered the secret passage, she happened to overhear the story of the girl's heart's blood. She thought to herself that her previous investigation was indeed correct, and the girl's disappearance was indeed related to Lei Tingjun.
However, Xu Jinhuan was puzzled. Everyone knows that you are what you eat, so logically, since Lei Tingjun was impotent, he should eat supplements like sheep penis.
Why did he go against the grain and choose a woman with strong yin energy? Wasn't he afraid of backfiring?
Xu Jinhuan looked at Lei Tingjun with a hint of mockery. She really wanted to see what Lei Tingjun would become after he completely absorbed the pill.
As for now, let's deal with this deceptive old Taoist priest first.
Xu Jinhuan quietly walked to the old Taoist priest's side, and before he could react, he raised his knife and brought down a perfectly severed head that fell to the ground.
The old Taoist priest stopped breathing completely without making a sound.
Xu Jinhuan carried the old Taoist's head to Lei Tingjun's vicinity. She placed the bloodied head in front of him, eagerly anticipating Lei Tingjun's expression.
Lei Tingjun, who was focused on regulating his breathing at the moment, smelled a bloody odor, but he did not hear any sounds of fighting or killing around him, so he naturally did not expect that someone had been killed.
They assumed it was because he had just taken that heart-blood pill and was still traumatized by it.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Lei Tingjun finally recovered. He felt full of energy and his martial arts seemed to have improved. He couldn't wait to fight someone for three hundred rounds.
As he opened his eyes in surprise, the first thing he saw was a blood-stained head.
The owner of the head was none other than the old Taoist priest he knew very well.
Lei Tingjun looked around with a livid face. Killing his people right in front of him was like slapping him in the face!
"Who did this? Come out now and confess, and I might leave you a whole corpse!"
After Lei Tingjun finished speaking, he subconsciously touched his neck, not for any other reason than that he made a sound that he would never normally make.
The voice was high-pitched and thin; he had only ever heard it from the eunuchs in the palace.
"What's going on?" Lei Tingjun looked at the old Taoist priest in shock, wanting a satisfactory answer.
Unfortunately, the old Taoist priest was already dead and could not answer any of his questions.
In fact, this old Taoist priest was not a real old Taoist priest, but an old beggar who had picked up a fragment of Taoist alchemy techniques. His family was quite well-off in his early years, so he knew a little about reading.
Later, his family fell into poverty, and he was uneducated and incompetent, unable to do anything right. In the end, he lost everything and had no choice but to become a beggar.
He found the Taoist alchemy manual by chance and originally intended to sell it to someone, but unexpectedly, he tried it casually and actually saved the dying little beggar.
From that day on, the old beggar took that incomplete Taoist alchemy manual and began a life of swindling and cheating.
Lei Tingjun was the meal ticket he chose for himself for life.
However, because the book was an incomplete alchemy manual, he did not find a prescription suitable for Lei Tingjun's illness, but he did find one that was said to greatly increase one's power.
And so, for his own wealth and glory, the old Taoist priest chose to take the risk...
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