Fantasy: I'm in a discarded alchemy room, but I can turn trash into treasure!

Hua Meiniang chose a canyon with sheer cliffs on all sides, walked alone into its depths, sat cross-legged, and pretended to break through to the Golden Core stage.

Qin Mo hid in the shadows of the valley wall, concealing his presence completely.

Tonight, it's time to settle this mess.

Right now, Hua Meiniang doesn't need to actually swallow the Nine-Turn Breakthrough Pill to condense a Golden Core; this play is just bait to catch her.

"Hua Meiniang, come out and die!"

As soon as the words were spoken, two figures appeared like ghosts at the entrance of the valley.

"Murong Yi? How did you find this place?"

Hua Meiniang stood up from the ground, her face filled with shock.

"Ha...you think you're so well hidden? Don't be ridiculous. Everyone around you, aren't they all people I've planted?"

Murong Yi stood with his hands on his hips, looking smugly at Hua Meiniang who had emerged from the depths.

"So that's how it is..."

Hua Meiniang continued to feign sudden realization, as if she was only now realizing that Murong Yi had spies around her.

In fact, she had already figured out exactly what these nails were all about.

"Hmm, this woman has remarkable potential; she's already at the half-step Golden Core stage. It would be a pity to kill her."

The white-haired old man beside Murong Yi glanced at Hua Meiniang, his tone indifferent.

"Half-step Golden Core? She's already reached this stage? Did she actually take that Nine-Turn Breakthrough Pill?"

Murong Yi's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.

"You want the Nine-Turn Breakthrough Pill?"

Hua Meiniang chuckled softly, flipped her right hand, and a small jade bottle appeared in her palm.

"The elixir is in the bottle; come and take it if you dare."

Hua Meiniang slightly raised her chin, her eyes filled with disdain.

Murong Yi's eyes were practically glued to the small bottle, his voice dry: "Hua Meiniang, hand over the pill obediently, and I'll spare your life."

"Spare my life?"

Hua Meiniang scoffed.

"Hand over the Nine Revolutions Breakthrough Pill, then cripple your cultivation, and I'll spare your life."

"Why waste time arguing with a half-step Golden Core girl? Just take her away."

The white-haired old man took a step forward, his gaze sharp as a knife.

"The patriarch of the Murong family, Murong Jue?"

Hua Meiniang pretended to have just recognized the other party's identity, and her expression changed drastically.

He actually held back his laughter the whole time.

The master is a Pill King, and the old guy in the middle stage of Golden Core is nothing in front of the master.

"You know who I am, so why don't you hand over the pills and cripple your cultivation?"

With a flick of his sleeve, Murong Jue unleashed the immense aura of a Golden Core cultivator, which surged forth from his body like a crushing mountain.

Hua Meiniang suddenly felt a weight on her body, and the solid rock beneath her feet cracked with spiderweb-like patterns, causing her knees to bend uncontrollably downwards.

"Murong Jue! You, a Golden Core cultivator who has lived for hundreds of years, bully a Foundation Establishment junior like me? Aren't you ashamed?"

Hua Meiniang gritted her teeth and shouted.

"You're already halfway to the Golden Core stage, and you still consider yourself a Foundation Establishment cultivator? Besides, if I kill you, who in this desolate wilderness would even know?"

Murong Jue spoke in a calm tone.

"Murong Jue, you old bastard, have you no shame at all?"

Hua Meiniang cursed loudly.

"You lowly servant, how dare you speak disrespectfully to our Ancestor!"

Murong Yi roared angrily.

"come over."

Murong Jue thrust his right palm forward, and an invisible force in the void pulled Hua Meiniang towards him.

Hua Meiniang's body involuntarily flew towards Murong Jue, who grabbed her by the throat and lifted her into the air.

"Nine-Turn Breakthrough Pill..."

Murong Yi rushed forward and snatched the jade bottle from Hua Meiniang's hand.

"With this pill, my breakthrough to the Golden Core stage is just around the corner!"

He stared at the bottle, his eyes shining, and his breathing became heavy.

"Little thing, in front of this old man, you are not even as good as an ant."

Murong Jue stared indifferently at Hua Meiniang, who was pinned in mid-air by him.

"you……"

Hua Meiniang was filled with hatred and anger, and could hardly breathe.

"Ancestor, don't rush to kill her. I want to personally cripple this slut's cultivation, throw her into a brothel, and let those vile men ravage her until she wishes she were dead!"

Murong Yi leaned closer to Hua Meiniang's face, laughing wildly.

This slut actually cheated on him with another man, so let her become a plaything to be trampled on and rot in the lowest brothel.

"Murong Yi..."

Hua Meiniang was so angry that her eyes turned red.

"In that case, I'll start for my grandson, ha..."

Murong Jue burst into laughter.

"It's genuine..."

Murong Yi uncorked the bottle and brought it to his nose to sniff; the rich fragrance of the elixir invigorated him.

He carefully sealed the bottle opening and was about to put the jade bottle into his storage ring.

A silvery-white arc of light swept past silently.

Murong Yi's right hand, which was clutching the jade bottle, was severed at the wrist and fell to the ground.

Murong Jue's pupils shrank sharply.

"Ah... my hand!"

Murong Yi froze for a moment before clutching his bloodied severed wrist and letting out a heart-wrenching scream.

The next moment, the silver light turned back and struck down at the hand that Murong Jue was using to hold Hua Meiniang.

Murong Jue had no time to think, he released the person and quickly withdrew his five fingers.

At the same time, a fist silently approached from the side, rapidly enlarging in his field of vision.

This punch contained no spiritual energy fluctuations whatsoever; it was purely the brute force of the physical body.

"Bang!"

The fist slammed solidly into Murong Jue's right cheekbone.

The old man screamed in agony as he flew backward, his body tearing through the ground and kicking up clouds of dust before disappearing into the primeval forest a hundred feet away, sending twigs and leaves flying in all directions.

In the valley, a figure wearing a black iron mask appeared where Murong Jue had just stood, holding a rusty broken sword in his hand.

"Owner!"

Hua Meiniang landed firmly, her face filled with ecstatic joy.

It was Qin Mo who made the move.

Although the broken sword was covered in rust, it was an ancient immortal artifact, capable of cutting through gold as easily as paper.

"Who are you... how dare you cut off my hand!"

Murong Yi's face was deathly pale. He clutched his severed wrist, trembling all over, and stared intently at the masked man.

"You don't recognize my master?"

Hua Meiniang stepped forward, bent down, and picked up the severed hand from the ground.

Five fingers were still gripping the jade bottle tightly, and blood was still flowing out.

"Murong Yi, the Holy Maiden gave you a chance, but unfortunately you failed to live up to it. This Nine-Turn Breakthrough Pill is destined to be out of your reach."

Hua Meiniang smiled as she pried open the severed finger joints, took out the jade bottle, and casually tossed the bloody severed hand aside.

"You...my Dan..."

Murong Yi was so angry that his facial features were contorted.

Just moments ago, he was dreaming of breaking through to a higher realm by swallowing the elixir, but in the blink of an eye, he was trampled into the mud.

"Didn't you say you were going to cripple my cultivation and throw me into a brothel? Well then, I'll cripple your cultivation too and send you to serve those customers with special tastes, how about that?"

Hua Meiniang tilted her head to look at him, her face beaming with smiles.

"No...don't..."

Murong Yi scrambled backward, his face filled with terror.

"roar!"

A furious roar echoed from the depths of the dense forest.

"boom!"

A violent golden core spiritual pressure exploded from the forest, uprooting the entire dense forest. Thick tree trunks broke into dust, and debris, carried by a gale, swept in all directions.

Hua Meiniang exclaimed in surprise and quickly hid behind Qin Mo.

Qin Mo swung his left arm horizontally, and the flying wood fragments struck his forearm, shattering into pieces.

"No matter who you are, you're going to die here tonight!"

Murong Jue, covered in blood, walked out of the ruined forest step by step.

With each step he took, the rocks beneath his feet cracked and split, revealing a spiderweb-like pattern.

"What is his cultivation level?"

Qin Mo spoke indifferently, his gaze fixed on Murong Jue, whose murderous aura was boiling.

Hua Meiniang peeked half her head out from behind him, her voice trembling: "Mid-stage Golden Core!"

Faced with the full power of a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, she felt her very bones trembling.

If her master hadn't been present tonight, she probably would have had her cultivation crippled and been thrown into a brothel by that madman Murong Yi, suffering an extremely tragic end.

"Mid-stage Golden Core?"

Upon hearing these four words, Qin Mo's lips curled up in a smile.

Previously, when dealing with Ling Han, the peak Foundation Establishment cultivator was carried away by him with one hand, leaving him no room to resist, and he was still not satisfied with the beating.

Now, finally, he has found an opponent who allows him to play freely.