Fellow Daoist Entrusts His Child: Immortality Begins with Nurturing a Demoness

Chapter 9 Qi Refining Level 4, Waiting for the Rabbit to Run into the Tree Stump

At the same time, Luo Fanchen appeared to be breathing with his eyes closed, but his peripheral vision was always focused on Ling Moxue.

His heart surged with murderous intent until the girl put away her dagger, snuggled against his shoulder like a cat, and only then did a slight smile appear in his eyes.

What enchantress? She's just a sensitive girl who lacks a sense of security.

If Ling Moxue had thrown the knife even a moment later, he would have activated the blood pact, leaving the girl with an unforgettable lesson.

Fortunately, the girl was not bad; she was grateful and able to control her evil thoughts, making her much easier to teach than he had expected.

Luo Fanchen's mind stirred slightly, and he summoned the Record of the Eight Desolate Demonesses.

The girl's admiration level has increased from -4 to -1, and the -1 is most likely due to Ling Moxue's childhood experiences, which led her to dislike cultivators indiscriminately, rather than targeting her personally.

The number of admiration points also increased from 42 to 83.

The 41-point surge was due to teaching Ling Moxue how to cultivate immortality?
Luo Fanchen pursed his lips in thought. He didn't believe that Ling Moxue, apart from her instinctive desire for security, had ever admired him.

The two increases in admiration points were: one was signing a blood pact, and the other was teaching her cultivation.

From Ling Moxue's perspective, both times she was promoted, it was because of her fear of being abandoned. After being anxious and trembling, she gained a sense of security and thus received the promotion.

Having endured a repressive environment for over a decade, Ling Moxue is insecure and sensitive. She appears resilient, but in reality, she is extremely insecure.

She subconsciously develops a sense of subservience and dependence on those who provide her with a sense of security.

Over time, the girl's worn-out trust will grow back and be poured out to him without reservation.

"Isn't that just a stray cat?"

Luo Fanchen smiled faintly, and the slight displeasure in his heart vanished.

He turned his gaze to the cultivation technique, the Longevity Technique, Level 3 [920/1000].

Without much hesitation, he directly poured his admiration into the Longevity Technique, successfully breaking through to the fourth level of the technique.

The spiritual energy surged through the Ren, Du, and Chong meridians, was refined into true essence through the microcosmic orbit, and slowly seeped into the flesh and blood under the circulation of the longevity technique.

A dense, pricking sensation spread throughout Luo Fanchen's body. His features contorted, his face flushed, and sweat billowed from his head.

The Qi Refining stage has nine levels: the first three are for opening the meridians, the middle three are for cleansing the marrow, and the last three are for opening the sea of ​​qi.

The four-fold primary cultivation of the spleen and stomach begins at the Mingmen acupoint, passes through the Zhangmen acupoint, and locks at the Shenque acupoint. Once completed, a belt-like meridian ring forms, and the true essence transforms into a golden ring that tightens around the waist and abdomen, making it difficult for ordinary poisons to harm one and preventing all kinds of diseases from afflicting the body.

His shoulders felt like they weighed a thousand pounds, and his abdomen felt like it was being burned by fire. When Luo Fanchen regained consciousness, his skin was covered with a thin layer of black mud.

"Done?"

Luo Fanchen could not hide his joy and murmured softly that his Mingmen and Zhangmen acupoints were now open and his true essence was entering. He could now observe his spleen and stomach through self-reflection.

The breakthrough in the Fourth Life Technique, with its burst of spiritual power, finally helped him to use his true essence to rush into his life gate acupoint, breaking through the three barriers that had been blocked for more than five years.

"Unfortunately, this method is difficult to replicate."

Luo Fanchen cast a low-grade cleansing talisman, and after cleansing his body, the joy on his face slowly faded.

The Longevity Technique was of extremely low quality, almost unacceptable. Although he used the Admiration Point to break through, the burst of spiritual power was only enough for him to break through at the last moment. Normally, when he opened acupoints and tempered his internal organs, he still needed to slowly nourish them with true essence.

Unfortunately, admiration points cannot be directly used to improve cultivation.

Furthermore, although he accidentally bound himself to Ling Moxue through a blood pact, he did not receive the cultivation points that she would have returned after her breakthrough.

In other words, he needs to raise the admiration level to at least 2 before he can truly profit from the girl.

"Breakthroughs are always a good thing."

Luo Fanchen stood up and, after a brief moment of sensing, discovered that his true essence capacity had increased by 30%, and that his breathing speed had also slightly improved after the breakthrough in the Longevity Technique. For someone with poor cultivation aptitude like him, this was undoubtedly a godsend.

It's time to take action.

Luo Fanchen slowly walked to the outside of the cave. Beside him, Ling Moxue, who had said she would keep watch, looked tired and had already fallen asleep fully clothed.

The young girl had just begun to explore the path of immortality, and after dozens of breathing exercises, she had already exhausted her energy.

Luo Fanchen didn't wake Ling Moxue. He gently draped a sheet over her. The girl was a light sleeper. She rubbed her dirty face and noticed Luo Fanchen so close to her. She jumped up, lowered her eyes, and looked embarrassed.

"Master Luo, it's me."

"It's alright, now that you're awake, you can come with me."

"Master Luo, where are we going?"

Ling Moxue tilted her head, looking puzzled, her thin shoulders drooping from the cold.

After the rain cleared, Luo Fanchen remained silent, took out the last two fragments of the Concealing Breath Pill, swallowed one himself, and tossed the rest to Ling Moxue.

"Exorcising demons."

After speaking, Luo Fanchen took out a talisman, bit his fingertip, and used his blood to write array patterns on it. Then, he made a hand seal, chanted incantations, and poured in a large amount of true essence. The talisman activated, folded itself into a paper crane, and slowly floated in mid-air before flying towards the mountaintop.

"Walk."

Luo Fanchen grabbed Ling Moxue by the back of the neck, carrying her like a chick, and followed closely behind the paper crane, disappearing at lightning speed.

He activated the Gu puppet inside the serpent's belly. At this moment, Ling Youdao should be able to use a secret technique to sense the serpent's location and will surely rush over overnight.

He needs to find the snake demon in advance and ambush it secretly to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

As for Ling Moxue, she was his means of survival.

If Ling Youdao's cultivation level far surpasses that of the demon snake, and in the worst-case scenario where he is discovered by the snake, he can still gain a glimmer of hope by taking Ling Moxue hostage.

"Master Luo, are you going to hand me over to the demonic cultivators?"

Ling Moxue was held between Luo Fanchen's waists. The biting cold wind made her face turn red, her eyes were red, and her voice was stammering.

She had just practiced Qi cultivation last night; engaging in combat with her opponent was purely a burden to Luo Fanchen.

"You silly girl, if I don't bring you along you start overthinking, but if I do, you get scared."

Luo Fanchen smiled and took the time to slip her a fragment of a Concealing Breath Pill.

"You are indispensable in this battle. Swallow the elixir and watch me slay this demon. After that, you will be completely safe."

Seeing that Luo Fanchen needed her, Ling Moxue's almond-shaped eyes sparkled, and her hesitation vanished completely.

She immediately swallowed the elixir, her small hands entwining around Luo Fanchen's waist like an octopus, holding him very tightly.

What an gullible stray cat!

Luo Fanchen felt a slight pang of guilt, but quickly dismissed it.

His mastery of the Cloud and Mist Escape technique was superb; in less than a quarter of an hour, he used a paper crane to find an underground cave in the very center of the Four Directions Valley.

In terms of formations, this place can be considered a central dragon's lair, capable of absorbing moonlight and gathering a limited amount of spiritual energy.

The cave entrance was muddy, and even before entering, gusts of cold wind swept over her, filling her nostrils with a putrid stench. Ling Moxue's face turned pale, and she kept gagging.

Luo Fanchen concealed his presence and walked in. Along the way, there were bones everywhere, mostly from animals, but occasionally human joints could also be seen.

As they went deeper, they heard the crunching sound of scales scraping against each other. Ling Moxue covered her lips tightly, barely managing to suppress the urge to scream.

What a big snake!
Deep within the cave, a giant snake, over ten meters long, coiled up like a small hill. Its dim eyes, about the size of lanterns, suggested it was refining the spiritual stone within its belly in a deep slumber.

Luo Fanchen felt a pang of heartache. He took out a low-grade magic sword, covered Ling Moxue's lips, and whispered, "Bear with it."

The magic sword slashed Ling Moxue's wrist, and her bright red blood seeped into the mud, forming a pool of crimson.

Luo Fanchen continued to tear off half of Ling Moxue's hemp clothing, mixing it with a few strands of hair and soaking it into the blood. He then slowly retreated, leaving traces of blood along the way.

The snake's nose twitched, as if it sensed the blood.

Fortunately, after it devoured the Blood-Gathering Talisman, its mouth and nose were filled with a strong smell of blood, which was not enough to make it take it seriously.

The snake demon narrowed its vertical pupils, and after a brief sensing, it did not find Luo Fanchen and the other person who had swallowed the Concealing Breath Pill, so it continued to close its eyes and refine the spirit stones.

"so close."

Luo Fanchen sighed softly, maintaining his crawling position as he and Ling Moxue slowly retreated from the cave.

Covered in mud and emitting a nauseating stench, Luo Fanchen used several cleansing talismans, but the talismans were crudely made and could only remove the surface dirt from him and Ling Moxue, unable to eradicate the stench.

"Can it hold up?"

"Master Luo, I will try my best!"

Ling Moxue's lips were pale, her consciousness was blurred, and she had lost too much blood. Luo Fanchen hesitated for a moment, then poured out a Qi Gathering Pill and fed it into the girl's mouth.

The two bottles of Qi Gathering Pills left by Fellow Daoist Ling contain a total of twenty pills, each worth five spirit dust.

Now, including this one, there are only fifteen left. It's really painful to think about.
After taking the Qi Gathering Pill, her true essence transformed into blood. When the girl regained consciousness in a daze, she was already in Luo Fanchen's arms, crawling about 500 meters away from the snake pit.

"I'll refine the medicinal power and handle the rest."

"I'll listen to Master Luo."

Ling Moxue's pretty face turned pale, and she trembled as she shrank into Luo Fanchen's arms until her back was pressed against his chest.

She pressed her little head against Luo Fanchen's neck, and only then did she feel relieved and silently began refining the elixir.

She didn't have any concept of the separation of men and women; rather, it's because of her long and arduous life that her mentality couldn't keep up with her physical age.

(End of this chapter)