The Frost Floating Sword was very reluctant when it stabbed its master's face, but as long as it was stained with ice liquid, it had to be cut off. This was the wisest choice.
Standing in the shadows, watching this scene unfold, the cold and elegant white-robed venerable clenched his fingers, exerting immense effort to suppress his urge to slay the ice beast with a single blow. The ensuing fight would prove to be a test for Xuan Lingzi.
No matter how much the five-star ice beast misdemeans its name, it is still a demon beast in the tribulation period.
After this battle, Luo Jianqing left hundreds of wounds on the five-star ice beast, but he himself was also covered in scars. He had to remove each wound himself, leaving two broken skins on his face and wounds all over his body.
The green clothes had already been cut into strips, revealing many mottled bloody wounds.
Luo Jianqing propped himself up on his sword, gasping for breath. The five-star ice beast wasn't much better off, its four hooves struggling to hold on to the ground. Blood was all over the floor, and much more was still oozing from its wounds.
The two sides stared at each other for a long time, and suddenly, they moved together!
"The sword leads the sky!"
"roar!"
The sharp sword energy transformed into a six-petaled blue lotus, swirling and crashing into the white ice beast. The moment the two collided, the entire cave trembled violently twice. Countless rocks crashed down, crushing the giant beast beneath them, forming a small hill. Blood overflowed from beneath the hill, quickly staining the entire ground red.
After a shrill howl, the hill trembled slightly twice and finally returned to calm.
Luo Jianqing finally breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his hand to recall the orb, and the barrier that trapped Li Xiuchen immediately vanished. The next moment, Xuan Lingzi flashed by, grabbed Luo Jianqing's hand, and transmitted his powerful spiritual power to him.
Luo Jianqing looked at him amusedly and said, "Master, when I was being beaten by this five-star ice beast, you didn't show up. Now that I've finally defeated it, you've appeared to heal my wounds. Do you know that there's a word to describe your behavior in the mortal world?"
Xuan Lingzi didn't have the mind to think about this. He took out the pill and gently applied it on Luo Jianqing's wound with gentle movements.
Luo Jianqing only said: "This is called hindsight!"
Xuan Lingzi's body stiffened for a moment, and he continued to apply ointment to Luo Jianqing after a while.
Although Luo Jianqing condemned him, he obediently let Xuan Lingzi apply the medicine to him. He looked up at him, his eyelashes fluttering. Two scarred wounds suddenly crossed his elegant and handsome face, making him look very miserable.
After Xuan Lingzi finished applying the medicine, Luo Jianqing turned around and looked at Li Xiuchen, who was lying on the ground unconscious.
With a flick of his wrist, the ring on Li Xiuchen's finger flew into his palm. Luo Jianqing raised his hand and wiped away the trace of Li Xiuchen's consciousness from the ring. At the same time, Li Xiuchen groaned, and a trace of blood flowed from his lips.
Xuan Lingzi watched the scene calmly, with no intention of condemning his disciple for stealing other people's treasures. Instead, when Li Xiuchen was about to wake up, he sent a stream of spiritual power and knocked Li Xiuchen unconscious again.
Seeing this, Luo Jianqing nodded as a matter of course, took the ring, and tried to leave. This surprised Xuan Lingzi a little. He stood there, watching his disciple walk away, without saying a word.
Luo Jianqing turned to look at him. With just one glance, he understood Xuan Lingzi's intention. He smiled and said, "Master, you know he's the protagonist of this so-called 'Seeking Immortality'. I've experimented before. First, I can't kill him. Second, if I tried to do anything that could affect his fate or even ruin his future—like shatter his dantian—the Heavenly Dao would intervene to stop me."
Xuan Lingzi nodded slightly: "So, you're just going to let it go?"
Luo Jianqing raised the storage ring in his hand, raised the corner of his lips, and revealed a sly smile: "Don't you think that all his treasures are now in my hands?"
Xuan Lingzi paused for a long time before saying, "Hmm."
Luo Jianqing paid no attention to Xuan Lingzi's expression. As he walked out, he said, "I'm actually not sure where Heaven's bottom line lies. But one thing is certain: I stole Li Xiuchen's storage ring, and Heaven didn't strike me with divine thunder, which means it's still within its acceptable range."
Xuan Lingzi became interested: "So?"
"So..." Luo Jianqing smiled gently, a smile that was harmless and pure, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. "Master, let's come look for Li Xiuchen every three years from now on. His storage ring is a treasure, and I've always been very jealous of it."
Xuan Lingzi: “…”
Well, Jianqing like this... is obviously very cute and not scary at all!
Just as Luo Jianqing had said, for the next seven years, he would visit Li Xiuchen every three years. Initially, finding Li Xiuchen was a difficult task, but Li Xiuchen had a very good habit: every time he left Taihua Mountain for training, he would report his whereabouts to the sect.
Ever since he discovered this, it became easy for Luo Jianqing to find Li Xiuchen.
As the years passed, Li Xiuchen never imagined he would be so unlucky, his ring being stolen every three to five years. Despite reaching the Half-Step Nascent Soul stage, he had been incredibly poor for the past seven years. No matter what treasures he possessed, they were always stolen. This made Li Xiuchen wonder if someone was deliberately targeting him.
At the same time, the seven wandering cultivators who had escaped from the Cold Light Cave were also furiously hunting him down. They also spread bad words about Li Xiuchen among the wandering cultivators, telling them everything that had happened in the Cold Light Cave, calling him a treacherous and ungrateful villain.
This troubled Li Xiuchen greatly, adding to his hardships along the way. His name had become synonymous with "villain" among the casual cultivators, and they all avoided him. Li Xiuchen repeatedly defended himself, but these people refused to believe him.
He had clearly only been training with that group in the Cold Light Cave, and he had even helped them obtain so much Cold Light Jade Liquid. In the end, he hadn't even obtained the ten thousand year old Cold Light Jade Liquid. Why did those people only know how to speak ill of him? How could they forget that he had helped those people obtain so much Cold Light Jade Liquid?
Meanwhile, Luo Jianqing's cultivation base steadily improved. With two storage rings belonging to Li Xiuchen in his hands, coupled with the extraordinary power of dual cultivation, in just seven years, Luo Jianqing's cultivation base had reached the level of Half-Step Crossing the Tribulation.
Why is he only half a step away from transcending the tribulation and hasn't advanced yet?
This was done intentionally by Xuan Lingzi.
If he truly reached the realm of transcending tribulation, the Heavenly Dao would surely rain down ninety-nine eighty-one bolts of lightning, striking Luo Jianqing to death. Luo Jianqing now needed to accumulate strength, suppress his realm, and strive to be in the best possible condition and most fully prepared to deal with that life-or-death thunder tribulation.
However, at the end of the seventh year and the beginning of the eighth year, one thing happened that was beyond everyone's expectations.
In the 13th Sea of the Demon Realm, a huge storm was set off. Within a day, the 13th Sea Master died tragically on the spot. Before the news could be passed back to the Demon Realm, a dark and chaotic scene suddenly appeared.
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