Traveling through the Immortal Realm: Starting from Becoming a Top-Level Furnace Cauldron

Chapter 272 Dangerous Transaction

It was snowing when Li Chonglin left Zuidan Peak.

He stood on the cloud steps and looked back. Lu Yuguan was squatting in the medicine garden picking herbs. The hem of his clothes was stained with dust from last night, which made him look a little silly.

"I didn't expect that after just one dual cultivation session, I could break through the threshold of the Golden Core Stage."

"The Spring Festival is just one month away..."

"Yuguan, wait for me to come out of seclusion, and then we will go back to Longhua Kingdom together."

Li Chonglin stroked the dragon-patterned sword.

Lu Yuguan looked up at the sword light that disappeared in the sea of clouds, and his fingertips unconsciously crushed a piece of ice spirit grass.

The system suddenly dinged:

[Host, your ears are red.]

Lu Yuguan: "Shut up!"

Yang Xun poked his head out from behind the alchemy furnace, holding a wine gourd, his beard still stained with burnt chestnut shells. "How was your dual cultivation last night? Did you make this detoxification pill exquisitely?"

Lu Yuguan picked up the pestle and smashed it: "You old pervert!"

The pestle flew past Yang Xun's ear and smashed a charred hole in the wall.

"Tsk, I've already given you my place," Yang Xun complained, "Could it be that you two still want to have sex outdoors?"

"Master!"

Lu Yuguan shouted anxiously, his face already flushed.

He flashed and in a few leaps and bounds, he was already in front of Yang Xun. "Can't you just be quiet for a while?"

"If someone else hears you being so reckless, how will I face you in the future?"

Yang Xun nimbly turned his head to avoid Lu Yuguan's hand, and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Disciple, you are still too shameless."

"You and the disciple from Tianjian Peak are in love with each other. What is there to be shy about?"

"Besides, dual cultivation is normal. Many practitioners have taken this opportunity to break through."

"You are just like a young boy who has never experienced anything in life."

After saying that, he did not forget to wink at Lu Yuguan, and his look was as mischievous as it could be.

Lu Yuguan glared at him, then turned and walked to the stone bench to sit down, muffled voice said: "Disciple naturally understands the principle of dual cultivation, but... last night was always a bit abrupt."

"When I woke up in the morning and saw that he looked nervous, I felt a little confused."

Speaking of Li Chonglin, Lu Yuguan's ears turned red again.

Yang Xun walked over with a big laugh and sat down next to Lu Yuguan.

He snatched the teacup, tilted his head back and took a big gulp, then wiped his mouth and said, "What's the big deal? Sword cultivators look aloof, but they're actually very thin-skinned. Just be more considerate in the future."

"However, speaking of this disciple from Tianjian Peak, he has excellent aptitude and can protect you on your future journey of cultivation."

"Last night, you two practiced detoxification together. Did you feel any changes in your spiritual or mental power?"

Lu Yuguan lowered his eyes and gently stroked the patterns on the stone table with his fingers.

Recalling the strange feeling of fusion last night, he nodded slightly: "I did feel it, but... I wasn't fully focused on cultivation."

Thinking of those beautiful details, his voice unconsciously lowered.

Seeing his appearance, Yang Xun laughed again, causing the snow on the branches to fall off.

"Forget it, I won't tease you anymore. Let me finish refining the pills for today first."

Lu Yuguan bowed and said, "Yes, Master."

Yang Xun picked up the wine gourd and took a long gulp without caring. A gleam of light flashed in his cloudy eyes: "Since that old dog Du Yuansheng dared to attack in the Cold Marrow Cave, he must have a trick up his sleeve."

"It seems..."

"It's time to teach some self-defense skills."

Before he finished speaking, nine bells rang from the direction of the main hall.

Clouds and mists were swirling around the seventy-two peaks, and the voice of the elder Nan Duo rolled across the sky like thunder.

"Lu Yuguan of Zuidan Peak, come to the main hall immediately to discuss matters!"

Yang Xun slapped his head and immediately looked worried: "Oh no, it really is what I said!"

Main hall.

The star map on the Panlong Pillar is a little darker than usual.

When Lu Yuguan stepped into the palace, he ran into Du Yuansheng, who was brushing off his clothes and resting his withered fingers on Xiao Wan's shoulder, as if the embarrassment in the Hansui Cave last night had never happened.

Qi Wei leaned against the jade table, playing with the bone bell, his wide, moon-white sleeves casting shadows.

"Junior brother is frightened."

"Yesterday, Elder Du accidentally injured my junior brother while trying to suppress a rampaging ice beast."

"These spirit stones are considered compensation. This Saint Son apologizes on his behalf."

Taoist Changping stood at the corner of the hall with a sword on his back. Upon hearing the words, the sword energy shook, and the star map on the dome suddenly lit up and dimmed.

The elder from the Southern Rudder lightly knocked on the jade platform, and the shadows of the seventy-two peaks moved beneath everyone's feet. "Before the sect leader went into seclusion, he had strictly enforced the discipline of the Law Enforcement Hall. Elder Du has always been highly regarded. This matter..."

Lu Yuguan clenched his fist and said, "Impossible—"

"This hooked nose is clearly trying to kill me!"

A hoarse laugh rolled out of Du Yuansheng's throat, and he suddenly threw out a photo stone from his sleeve.

Amidst the floating light and shadow, there was a scene of him fighting the ice beast and Qi Wei freezing the poison whip.

"The Holy Son can testify that I was indeed suppressing the beasts at that time."

Bah!

Qi Wei lightly tapped his fingertips, and the photo stone suddenly shattered.

He turned to Lu Yuguan, his icy blue pupils reflecting the messy tie in the boy's hair.

"When I arrived, I saw Junior Brother Lu being besieged by ice beasts, and Elder Du was trying his best to save him."

"Could it be that Junior Brother Lu's cold poison hasn't cleared up yet, and he's hallucinating?"

Lu Yuguan gritted his teeth and said, "You're talking nonsense!"

Seeing the two sides' differing opinions and the stalemate, the Nanduo Elder had no choice but to speak, "Since that's the case, let's put this matter aside for now and make a decision after the Sect Master comes out of seclusion."

……

When Lu Yuguan stepped out of the main hall, his palms were still stained with ice from the shadow stone, and the copper bells on the eaves were tinkling in the mountain wind.

"Junior Brother Lu, please stay."

Qi Wei passed by his shoulder, the bone bell swinging lightly on his wrist, splitting the twilight into tiny spots of light.

Lu Yuguan took a half step back, his back pressed against the dragon scales carved on the dragon pillar, and the coldness made his spine shiver.

"Son of God, you are so anxious, are you trying to make fun of me?"

Lu Yuguan said coldly.

"Brother, what are you talking about? I just want to make a deal with you." Qi Wei took out a half-rolled map from his arms. "There are the remains of the Mermaid King on the shore of the Canghai Sea. I want you to help me retrieve the Mermaid Pearl that suppresses the core of the formation."

Lu Yuguan sneered, "The Holy Son has countless talented people under his command. Why would he bother looking for me, a junior disciple from Zuidan Peak?"

Qi Wei chuckled, and the scroll suddenly exploded. A boiling pool of blood appeared in the center, with coral-like red crystals deposited at the bottom of the pool.

Qi Wei's voice was filled with the allure of a mermaid's tears.

"Ruins like these are often mixed with various soul techniques. Explorers need extremely high mental strength to resist them."

"The blood of the mermaid heart can quench the fire of the elixir."

"If you can obtain the mermaid pearl, this pool of mermaid heart blood and mermaid blood crystals will all be yours."

"As an alchemist, Junior Brother Lu will surely not refuse."

Lu Yuguan's pupils suddenly contracted, and the system prompt sounded in his head:

[Ding! Zhengmai Dan alchemy materials detected——]

[Host, it's Shark Heartblood! ]

[This kind of relic is extremely rare. This blood pool is at least a thousand years old!]

Lu Yuguan's heart was moved, but he pretended to be relaxed on the surface: "The Holy Son is so attentive, is he going to use me as a furnace again?"

Qi Wei suddenly stepped forward, the red-gold feather in his hair brushing against his earlobe. "How could that be? Junior brother, you think too badly of this Saint Son."

"If you agree, this Holy Son will have Du Yuansheng removed from his seat at the head of the Law Enforcement Hall before the Moon Festival Ceremony..."

"Fall down."

The last three words turned into frost and penetrated into Lu Yuguan's cochlea, causing his heart to tremble.

"Deal," Lu Yuguan slapped away Qi Wei's hand on the dragon pattern, "but I want to get the mermaid's heart blood first."

Qi Wei chuckled softly, his ice-blue pupils reflecting the dancing sunset on the young man's hair.

"Very good."

"See you at the mountain gate at midnight three days later."