Are you really trying to cultivate immortality? Something feels off.

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"The information we gathered from the outer sect was indeed correct," the female deacon said, squatting down and touching the fresh footprints in the soil with a look of delight. "That lion is pregnant."

Ren Wenxue's eyes lit up: "Really?"

The female deacon nodded: "The Azure Lion has only two vulnerable moments in its life: when it is undergoing tribulation and when it is pregnant. Such opportunities are rare, occurring only once every hundred years."

She smiled and said, "Wen Xue, your spirit beast is going to be settled."

Ren Wenxue turned to the masked person beside her: "Steward Hua Ling, what do you think?"

They seemed to value her highly.

Shen Chunri, who had activated an invisibility spell, followed behind.

She had only recently formed her core, and her invisibility would be easily detected by cultivators at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm or above. Therefore, she took an extra Lightness Pill and carefully concealed her aura so that she would not be discovered.

Upon seeing the woman, Shen Chunri couldn't help but grit his teeth.

Despite causing such suffering to her clansmen, she still relies on the forbidden techniques of the Shen family to establish herself in the Flower Goddess Sect and act arrogantly.

This is absolutely outrageous!

The woman with emerald eyes slightly raised her eyelids, her voice surprisingly hoarse: "The Azure Lion is a powerful being that ranks among the top ten on the Spirit Beast Ranking. It inherits water-type spiritual power, making it extremely suitable for Ren's personal ice spiritual root. Moreover, it has a cold and aloof personality. Even if it perishes during its tribulation, it may not be willing to sign a contract with a human. However, it is different when it is pregnant. You can use its unborn child to threaten it, and it is almost always true. This Azure Lion seems to be at the eighth rank. It is indeed a once-in-a-century opportunity."

Shen Chunri frowned slightly.

As a member of a different race, she was naturally closer to spirit beasts.

It's utterly despicable to threaten a mother with her unborn child!

Oh no, it's something even snakes would find despicable!

Ren Wenxue laughed: "Really? Shall we set off to find it now?"

"However, a spirit beast of this level is not something that you and I can subdue," Hua Ling shook her head. "Let's set a trap here and observe the situation."

She turned to one of her disciples and said, "Go back and report to the sect leader, and tell him everything."

"Yes."

To subdue the Azure Lion, it must survive; the sect needs to send at least two Nascent Soul Realm experts or above to be on the safe side.

"Set up the formation," the female deacon said, pressing her index and middle fingers together against her chest, "The Purple Emblem Clear Sky Formation!"

The formation caused a surge of spiritual energy.

Shen Chunri's invisibility technique vanished instantly.

The female deacon turned her head, glaring at her: "Who's there!"

Before he could finish speaking, a force struck him!

Shen Chunri retreated several meters in an instant, and the green snake suddenly rushed out.

"Entwined by vines—"

She flipped her fingers, and a vast expanse of trees spiraled away.

Hua Ling's eyes widened, and her face instantly darkened.

The Azure Serpent Clan!

She snorted coldly, and several spikes rose from the ground, heading straight for Shen Chunri.

Hua Ling also possesses a wood-elemental spiritual root and is in the late stage of the Golden Core realm. Furthermore, due to her practice of forbidden techniques, her true strength is comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Shen Chunri had only recently formed his core, and faced with the pursuit of two late-stage Golden Core deacons, he could only turn and run.

A green barrier suddenly rose up.

There's no escaping it.

It's over.

If we're talking about concocting poisons and medicines, she would definitely rank in the top three among her peers.

But if it's close combat...

Brother, it's true what they say: what you learn isn't on the test, and what's on the test isn't what you learned.

Shen Chunri gritted his teeth, turned around abruptly, held a fan in front of him, and gently peeled open the poison bottle with his fingers.

Let's fight them!

The thought had barely formed when a sword aura pierced through the air and slammed into the ground in front of her. Dense lightning spiritual energy spread out, blocking most of the attack for her.

Shen Chunri looked up, shocked: "Xiao Tan—?!"

Even before entering the ranks of the Feng Hua Clan's disciples and before obtaining his own sword, the sword intent contained within it already made everyone present tremble.

I can't imagine how terrifying his talent is.

Tan Suiting raised his hand to sheath his sword, held it horizontally in front of him, his brows and eyes cold and indifferent.

His sword gleamed with a chilling aura, inspiring fear and dread: "Tan Suiting of the Eastern Sea Taixu Dragon Clan, please enlighten me."

Shen Chunri's lips twitched, feeling that she had been with Xie Weixing for too long and had caught his infection.

Because of this supposedly touching scene of a hero rescuing a damsel in distress, what she blurted out was...

"Holy crap. You were really showing off..."

She's going back to learn swordsmanship from her master; she's such a show-off who can fool young girls.

Ren Wenxue, standing at the back, widened her eyes upon seeing the newcomer: "Tan Suiting?"

She had met him before at the Sword Inquiry Tournament and remembered him for a long time.

He began cultivating Qi at six, established his foundation at twelve, and formed his core at seventeen. He possesses dual top-grade spiritual roots in both lightning and spatial realms, a rare find in the cultivation world.

Even among the geniuses personally taught by various sects, he was a top-notch figure.

The female butler frowned: "Why is the Dragon Prince here?"

Shen Chunri snorted coldly: "Then you'll have to ask the person next to you where they came from!"

Hua Ling's eyes turned cold, and she immediately took the initiative: "One is at the early stage of the Golden Core Realm, and the other is at the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. How dare you offend the Flower Goddess Sect? Could it be that you want to steal the opportunity from the Azure Lion?"

The female deacon instantly became serious, standing with her sword in hand: "Even the Dragon Prince cannot stop my Flower Goddess Sect from subduing spirit beasts for its personal disciples!"

"Bullshit Flower God Sect!" Shen Chunri cursed. "Are you blind? Don't you even know who you've recruited! You dare to take someone who secretly learned my Azure Serpent Clan's forbidden techniques? Are you out of people to use?!"

Ren Wenxue frowned: "What did you say?"

Hua Ling raised the array, her tone cold: "Stop spouting nonsense here. The cultivation world is a dog-eat-dog world. If you really have the ability to snatch this Azure Lion, then come on!"

First, they put the hat on the person.

She snorted coldly. They were just two juniors who had just reached the Golden Core stage, not difficult to deal with, especially with other members of the Flower Goddess Sect present.

The female deacon snapped, "Charge!"

The disciple made a hand seal and chanted an incantation, and the Purple Emblem Clear Sky Formation instantly rose up, heading straight for Tan Suiting and Shen Chunri.

A strong sense of crisis struck, and Tan Suiting raised his hand to form a hand seal.

"The wind and thunder move."

Shen Chunri's face stung from the sword energy, and he raised his hand to block it with his fan: "Xiao Tan! Have you seen Xie Weixing?!"

"Yes. I've already sent him back to his sect."

Shen Chunri breathed a sigh of relief after desperately resisting.

That's good, Master and Senior Uncle will be here soon.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew and cranes cried out.

Everyone was taken aback and looked up.

A handsome young man dressed in a black robe leaned against a tree trunk, a leaf between his lips, looking every bit the dashing and unrestrained romantic.

He smiled and winked: "Hi?"

Shen Chunri's vision went black.