Chapter 189 Tenderness after the Beating

In the spiritual platform, Shangguan Xiaoxiao stared at Li An, with murderous intent and hatred in her eyes. She was extremely angry, extremely angry!

If she could recover a little bit of her cultivation, she would make Li An pay an unimaginable price.

She was a princess of the Heavenly Demon Sect, a high-ranking person who once dominated the spiritual world...

Now she was humiliated by a small cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core...

"Don't look at me with that kind of eyes, otherwise, I don't mind teaching you a lesson again."

Li An's Yuanling said calmly, "I just beat you this time. If there is a next time, I will definitely refine you."

"Definitely!"

He just used a heavy hand, even weakening Shangguan Xiaoxiao's Yuanling power a little.

Because he really wanted to kill.

For Li An, Shangguan Xiaoxiao has always been a thunderbolt. If it weren't for guarding against Shangguan Shengxian, he would never show mercy and directly kill Shangguan Xiaoxiao.

It's just that Shangguan Xiaoxiao has hardly done anything naughty over the years, and she has recently given him the method of alchemy and formation, so Li An subconsciously relaxed his vigilance against her.

That's why he fell into her trap.

If it weren't for Li An's special fate, which supported his soul and spirit to be completely different from ordinary people, he might really be in danger this time.

Whether it was She Anqi who spied on his secrets, or Shangguan Xiaoxiao's spirit became stronger...it could lead to his murder.

So, no matter what, he must teach Shangguan Xiaoxiao a lesson, let her remember it for a long time, and let her understand that this is the bottom line that cannot be crossed.

"Ungrateful, repaying kindness with enmity..." Shangguan Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth, "If I had known this would happen, I should have let Shangguan Shengxian take over your body... What a heartless thing!" Li An was silent for a moment, and suddenly said seriously: "The princess has done me a favor, I have not forgotten it, but the princess saved me at the beginning, and her purpose was not simple." "In the final analysis, the princess and I are just using each other." "Since we are using each other, we must have an attitude of mutual use. Li can make a promise to the princess." "If Princess Xiaoxiao treats me with sincerity and helps me with all her strength, Li will definitely help you one day, kill your sister, let you restore the Demon Sect, and let you leave and get a new life! If you violate this oath, Li will have a demon in his heart and will never be reborn!" "What do you think, princess?" Shangguan Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, but she didn't expect Li An to be so serious all of a sudden... He had never solemnly called her princess before. But she said contemptuously: "When will that be? Li An, a vow without a time limit is like waste paper. Do you think such a low-level trick can fool me?"

Li An pondered for a moment: "Then, how about 10,000 years?"

He said very seriously: "With my cultivation speed, it will take a long time to surpass your sister and compete for the spiritual world... But Li An really has no intention of deceiving."

After Shangguan Xiaoxiao heard this, she could not subconsciously get angry. She only had an unspeakable feeling and a deep despair...

10,000 years? ?

She knew that Li An was not joking, he was really serious...

But the more so...

She was really desperate!

"Refine me, refine me!"

She couldn't help it, she might as well just die.

Li An: "..."

"I was in a hurry just now, so I humiliated the princess. I am really sorry. Please forgive me, princess. I will treat the princess's injuries just now."

...

Li An sighed lightly.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao really gave him a headache.

It was a pity to refine her. After all, she helped him a lot, resisting Shangguan Shengxian, and passed on the alchemy formation to him. Including this time, She Anqi was also thanks to her.

But Shangguan Xiaoxiao has always coveted his body.

Although he knew that he was not born with a demon body at all, and everything was due to the fate seed, he could not explain this to Shangguan Xiaoxiao.

And this time, he was really a little too angry...

After he beat Shangguan Xiaoxiao, he roughly understood why Shangguan Xiaoxiao wanted the fourth-level soul-breaking grass...

It was not because he wanted to take advantage of Li An.

It was because she had stayed in Li An's spirit platform for too long, and without the nourishment of soul power, her Yuan Ling was about to dissipate.

This little girl, too, should have said it earlier. She directly said that she was dying, and Li An would definitely help her maintain it.

But she insisted on using this method to exchange it.

It only increased Li An's anger and hurt herself.

Li An roughly guessed it... self-esteem, dignity.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao was unwilling to take the initiative to ask him for anything. She would rather coerce Li An, take the initiative, and make Li An hate her, rather than be humble and ask for help.

...So after beating her, Li An regretted it a little, and said those words on purpose.

I have to find a way to help her maintain it in a few days.

...

It was dawn.

Li An woke up from his sleep and continued to refine the talisman.

She Anqi also came out, but there seemed to be a hint of inexplicable change in her eyes when she looked at Li An.

"Did Daoist She not sleep well?" Li An smiled.

"No, everything is fine."

She Anqi took a deep breath and said, "Go on."

Li An continued to concentrate on refining.

At sunset.

"Daoist She, you don't have to wait here. I will send it to you after I finish refining. The evil spirit here is too heavy. It is not suitable for long-term residence..."

Li An smiled and said.

He thought that She Anqi should leave.

He had already tried it once.

Moreover, according to what Shangguan Xiaoxiao said before, once she entered the dream, the feeling she got would be like a real experience. He used the dream to scare her once. She should be afraid, right?

After all, thinking of She Anqi's performance during the zombie siege, Li An couldn't help laughing.

In fact, if it was in reality, let alone those zombies, even if she really wanted to die, She Anqi would probably not be so out of control.

It is precisely because, after entering the dream, she is actually the most real self, the deepest consciousness of the subconscious, without the support of cultivation magic weapons, etc., and also out of the various moral concepts of the real world, so the side that is shown is cowardly, and there is really not much difference from ordinary people.

But She Anqi thought for a while and said: "How can Anqi leave before the talisman is finished? Tonight, Anqi will continue to protect the Taoist friends, and the Taoist friends should have a good rest."

Hearing this, Li An was shocked, this... still coming?

...

Night.

"Do you still want to go..."

She Anqi was very hesitant.

Now she thinks of yesterday's dream experience, she still feels terrified.

But she has endless curiosity in her heart...

She has never seen such a subconscious!

What is the deepest part of Lin An's heart?

The small town of mortals, everything collapsed, especially the tears and desperate eyes...

She inexplicably wants to figure it out.

And there is a very important point. When she escaped from Li An's dream, she found that her mental power had actually increased a little... As a soul-seeker, her soul consciousness and mental power were stronger than those of ordinary practitioners, and they grew faster. But after entering Li An's dream this time, the growth was too obvious! Was it mainly because the other party's dream was too special? She didn't know. But in the end, she gritted her teeth and decided to enter again... Not long after. She woke up crying again. She encountered another world-destroying disaster, all kinds of monsters and ghosts, she was helpless like a weak chicken, and when she finally escaped from the dream, she still saw Li An buried in the destruction, with desperate eyes... ... "This lady..." Li An's heart was complicated. When would she give up? "Come again, I'll make you watch horror movies every night!" Li An gritted his teeth. The horrific dream he created was like a horror movie. It should be very intimidating to She Anqi's spirit...

...

On the fifth day, Li An finally sent She Anqi away.

"Fellow Daoist Lin,"

Before leaving, She Anqi seemed to be curious and finally asked:

"Did you have a very tragic experience in your early years? Do you have a knot in your heart that you can't get out of?"

She had nightmares every day these days...

She couldn't understand why a person's subconscious mind would be intertwined with various destruction and dark pictures, and there was not a trace of hope.

Every time it was Li An's desperate eyes, it was his destruction.

She thought about it for a few days, and vaguely seemed to understand that Li An was neither without desire nor firm in his heart... He was probably, heart dead, desperate!

The whole person's subconscious was shrouded in the shadow of destruction and despair, so it was like this...

But, what kind of pain and what kind of shadow did he experience to be so heartbroken?

Li An was stunned, then smiled brightly, "No."

"I have been living a good life and I am very happy."

Hearing this, She Anqi felt a sudden twitch in her heart. She actually felt that there seemed to be a huge sadness hidden in Li An's words...

"Sorry."

She suddenly said, then turned and left.

...

"Finally I am gone..."

Li An let out a long breath, then he suddenly went down the mountain, found many ordinary spiritual herbs in the nearby forests, and then returned to Lingsha Peak and quickly began to refine pills.

His top priority now is to challenge the third-grade alchemist!

After a long time.

Li An suddenly spoke to the spiritual platform: "Come out for some fresh air?"

He opened his spiritual platform.

This was the first time in a hundred years that he was ready to let Shangguan Xiaoxiao out.

Before that, he had always used the spiritual platform as a prison cell.

In the spiritual platform, a ray of light flashed by, and in front of him, the figure of the sickly girl had emerged. In the faint light and shadow, she folded her hands coldly, glanced around, and said:

"Hehe, you let the prisoners out for some fresh air, right, Warden Li, you are so merciful."

She had already seen that Li An had set up three killing arrays targeting the soul around him, and the Blue Flame Divine Bird was ready to attack her at any time!

It's really a dog!

Li An looked stern, pointing to the alchemy furnace in front of him, and said: "This furnace of pills is made for you, try it?"

"It's just a second-grade pill, not even a third-grade one, and you're sending beggars away?"

Shangguan Xiaoxiao was very disdainful.

"Who said this is a pill?"

Li An opened the lid and took out a round pill, with a flash of murderous intent in his eyes:

"This is poison. I have refined all the poison in my body into it. Don't you want me to refine you? Because we have been together for more than a hundred years, I don't want to do it myself. You can take poison and commit suicide--"

He poured a furnace of pills into the jade butterfly and handed it to Shangguan Xiaoxiao calmly, saying coldly:

"Either eat it and die, or from now on, completely serve me as your master and hand over all the secrets of the Demon Sect!"

His words were full of threats.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao stared at Li An, gritted her teeth, and said: "Mr. Li, don't even think about it--"

After that, she waved her hand directly, and many pills came into her hand, and then swallowed them directly-

But as soon as these pills entered her mouth, she was stunned for a moment.

The pill was quickly split open, turning into a trickle, replenishing her Yuan Ling, making her Yuan Ling more solid, and the Yuan Ling light more powerful!

Moreover, the taste of this pill...

She didn't know what she was thinking of, and looked at Li An in a daze, and didn't know what to say for a while.

"As expected of the Demon Cult Princess,"

Li An clapped his hands and laughed: "What courage, what courage, I admire--"

"With such courage, it's a pity to die, please Princess, go back to my Lingtai Prison and continue to be in prison--"

While speaking, he secretly prepared to take action.

The divine bird glanced slightly, and the formation was activated at any time.

Although he had made precise control of the pills for Shangguan Xiaoxiao, so that Shangguan Xiaoxiao would not recover too strongly, at most just maintain it, he was really afraid that the other party would take action.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao recovered in just a moment, as if she had seen through his little tricks. Under her long eyelashes, a hint of sarcasm flashed in her watery eyes, "If I want to do it, can you kill me?"

After saying that, she turned into a beam of light and flew into Li An's spiritual platform.

When the spiritual platform was closed, Li An heard her last words:

"The sugar beans you made are too unpalatable. Don't waste the medicinal materials in the future--"

Li An finally relaxed and couldn't help but smile slightly.

He made this furnace of elixir just to replenish Shangguan Xiaoxiao's spiritual power. For this purpose, he used some of the breath of life seeds.

--After all, he couldn't give the fourth-grade soul-forging flower to Shangguan Xiaoxiao to nourish her soul.

First, the medicinal properties of the fourth-grade soul-forging flower were too strong. It was difficult to predict to what level Shangguan Xiaoxiao could recover. If it exceeded the scope that Li An could control, he would be in danger.

Second, the fourth-grade soul-forging flower is the opportunity for Li An to impact the Nascent Soul in the future, how can he share it with others!

Of course, he also concealed and changed the breath of the life seed so that the other party could not see it.

In addition, he also picked some beets, sugarcane leaves and other spiritual herbs in the surrounding mountains and fields, just to extract some sweetness and make the pill sweeter.

I remember she said that when she was a child, she liked to refine the pill into sugar beans to eat... It can be regarded as a small gift from Li An. After all, it is still important to beat Shangguan Xiaoxiao and ease the relationship.

Shangguan Xiaoxiao is still useful to him.

Next, Li An continued to refine the pill crazily-

...

"What, despair?"

In Mrs. She's cave, listening to her sister's description, Mrs. She looked puzzled.

"Yes, deep in his subconscious, there are scenes of despair..."

She Anqi's expression was slightly complicated, "Sister, I think he must have encountered some major changes, and his heart was dead, so there was always confusion in his subconscious, and he was even more trapped in sadness..."

Mrs. She was in deep thought. She knew her sister's ability. Since her sister said that Lin An was in despair, she should not be wrong...

But she still said: "What about his bird? Did you get the bird feathers?"

She Anqi: "Forgot..."

It was mainly because she was obsessed with entering Li An's dream every day...

"Sister, I will find a chance to get close to him next time... I must find out!" Her eyes were full of fighting spirit.

...

In the blink of an eye, half a year passed.

That day, in Lingsha Peak.

Li An was sweating profusely, staring at the alchemy furnace in front of him.

Gently opened the furnace cover...

A fragrance immediately emanated, and I saw three pills in the furnace...

Third-grade Qingsha Pill

Three pills were made, two of which were normal pills and one was a second-rate pill!

Until today, Li An finally became a third-grade alchemist!

"Thank you."

He said.

The rapid promotion was largely due to Shangguan Xiaoxiao's guidance.

After the last incident, she seemed to be more careful and patient in guiding Li An.

Of course, Li An also refined a furnace of "sugar beans" for her to add sweetness.

Then, Li An got up and left, heading for Tiansha City.

He did not enter the city directly, but circled outside Tiansha City for a long time, combining the surrounding terrain and constantly deducing.

Because, after becoming a third-grade alchemist, the bait he spread should be able to be reeled in soon.

His target has always been the fourth-grade talisman master under Jie Shanzhu.

The other party will definitely find Li An and ask Li An to help refine.

But in order to be assured, the other party will definitely ask to refine in person to avoid Li An's tampering.

At this time, you need to consider where to refine?

Li An's cave? The other party is absolutely unwilling, and Li An will not go to the other party's territory.

It can only be in a place that neither of them is familiar with, and this place should also have a ground vein. After all, the ground vein can increase the success rate of the pill to a certain extent.

It is possible in Tiansha City, there is no shortage of ground veins, but the news will be leaked, after all, the ground veins are in the hands of others... and it is not convenient for Li An to lay out.

"Outside Tiansha City, there are three places with earth veins... Blue Moon Valley, Tongling Lake, and Broken Dragon Mountain. These three places are far away from the territories of the major mountain masters, so they do not belong to any mountain master. In addition, the evil spirit is too heavy, so no one goes there on weekdays."

"When the time comes, use the evil spirit blocking array to block the evil spirit, and you can use it temporarily. It should be enough for refining pills... Although the cost of the evil spirit blocking array is too high, the other party should accept this plan in order to get the Qinghun Pill safely!"

Li An had a goal.

Immediately, he rushed to these three places first, familiarized himself with the terrain one by one, and then set up magic arrays in all three places!

After all, when bargaining, who knows where the other party will choose? It is best to be fully prepared!

After doing all this, he went to Tiansha City.

...

The news circulated in Tiansha City.

It is said that the demon army will officially arrive at the Tiansha Mountains next month, and more information about the demon army has also been reported-

It seems that the "Suzaku" tribe came to the Tiansha Mountains. It is said that the Suzaku is one of the four demon kings of the demon tribe.

Li An inquired about the Suzaku tribe's intentions. He was worried that the Suzaku tribe was going to attack the human city.

After all, if that happened, the demon tribe would probably collide with Shangguan Shengxian, which would be bad.

"It's not an attack, but a retreat. I got a little news that the demon tribe is fighting for the position of the demon master. The Suzaku tribe was defeated by the Qinglong tribe and suffered heavy losses, so they retreated to the vicinity of the Tiansha Mountains to rest."

An old man sighed.

Everyone was in awe.

After the information was exchanged, everyone officially began to exchange things.

"I am still the same. I want to exchange the third-grade Qingsha Pill for Qingling Grass first!"

Li An continued to speak. Since he came to this trade fair once many years ago, he has been coming here frequently, and he would bring some pills every time he came. Now, everyone knows that he is a third-grade alchemist who has been looking for pills to make Qinghun Pills.

Someone hinted at it, and Li An's answer was that an old friend of his was hit by a soul demon, so he wanted Qinghun Pills.

But everyone still didn't give him the pills he wanted.

Before leaving.

"Daoyou Mushi——"

At this time, a middle-aged man suddenly followed and called Li An.

"Daoyou Lutong, is there anything important?"

Li An's heart moved!

This Lu Tong is under the command of Master Jieshan. A few years ago, when Li An was looking for Qingling grass for the first time, he was in this trade fair. In the middle of the way, Li An deliberately sold a second-grade top-grade Qinghun Pill to the other party. The other party also tried Li An once later, but did not give Li An the corresponding herbs.

Now he takes the initiative to speak... Is it because the bait has finally bitten the hook? !

"Daoyou, I know where the Qingling grass you want is."

Lu Tong smiled slightly, "To be honest, a friend of mine has this thing in his hands--"

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