Villain Master, my disciples all want to backstab me

That doesn't matter.

Anyway, the other party will come out sooner or later, so there is no need to rush.

the other side.

Ji Tingxue was not aware of Bai Yuan's little thoughts, nor did she know about the existence of the [Three Corpses Reversing Fate Gu], so she showed a concern that was rare in her usual days. She tugged at Bai Yuan and even wanted to pull open her collar to see inside her clothes to see if she had any sword wounds from the [Zhenhai Sword].

Bai Yuan couldn't resist, so he could only take the initiative to unbutton his clothes and show her the pale golden leaf veins on his chest, which made Ji Tingxue feel relieved.

"I see."

Ji Tingxue knelt on the couch, leaning close to Bai Yuan's chest, her fingertips gently tracing the veins on her chest. "So she used this method to save you... No wonder I felt a little deficient in Qi and blood after waking up this time. But as long as I can help you, Bai Yuan, it would be great."

"Well, thank you Tingxue anyway. If you can meet Senior Ji Lingyun next time, please convey my gratitude to her."

Bai Yuan said this, then shuddered a little unnaturally: "Tingxue, have you finished reading? If so, get up first. That place... is a little itchy."

Freshly reshaped skin was exceptionally sensitive, something Bai Yuan had already experienced downstairs. So now, as Ji Tingxue's fingertips traced the surface of her skin, she naturally felt the cool, soft touch of her fingers, accompanied by her warm breath against her chest, causing her ears to flush uncontrollably and her breathing to quicken.

but.

Ji Tingxue didn't seem to understand what was happening. She looked up, her eyes naturally drawn to the two snowballs. "Speaking of which... Bai Yuan, your body seems to be different from before. It feels like when I was in the 'Yuankong Secret Realm', this place wasn't this big."

"You just noticed..."

Bai Yuan pursed her lips and was about to say something when she heard a series of footsteps coming from downstairs.

But it was Ye Shuang'er who ran up hurriedly.

The little girl paused at the second-floor stairwell. Just as she was about to speak, her eyes widened in shock. From her perspective, she saw Bai Yuan, her clothes disheveled, and Ji Tingxue half-kneeling on the couch, her head buried in her chest. The impact of this scene was so strong that Ye Shuang'er's brain froze for a moment, and a flush immediately appeared on her face.

"Master, you, you guys are... this is broad daylight!"

Ye Shuang'er spoke incoherently.

At this moment, almost the entire plot of "The Story of the Blood Kite Demon Lord and the Saintess of the Ji Family" flashed through her mind, and her entire thinking was in chaos:

Could it be that... Master and Sister Tingxue really did the things described in the story without telling her?

But, I was here first...

"Ahem, I just asked Tingxue to help me check the vein patterns on my chest."

Bai Yuan naturally didn't know that her apprentice had already started imagining some strange things. She casually closed her clothes and buttoned them while asking casually, "Is there something wrong?"

"……some."

Ye Shuang'er looked at Bai Yuan suspiciously, then at Ji Tingxue. After a long while, she calmed down a little and said, "It's about the attack on the Hidden Moon Sect. I forgot to tell you, Master, downstairs..."

"……oh?"

Next, Bai Yuan listened to Ye Shuang'er describe what happened that night when she returned from Falling Star Valley, and the expression on her face changed:

"Did the Qingxuan Sect really take advantage of our absence to raid Yinyue Mountain? And cause massive casualties?"

"Okay, okay, this old bitch Qing Lingzi is really good."

Bai Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and a sharp murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

In her opinion, this confrontation with Qingxuan Sect was undoubtedly a loss for her side.

It can be said that both sides suffered losses in Luoxing Valley.

But the people of Yinyue Mountain were completely defeated.

——This also had her, the sect leader, to blame. After all, Bai Yuan hadn't planned a retreat for the Hidden Moon Sect members like he had for Ye Shuang'er. Otherwise, at least some of them could have been evacuated in advance.

But it doesn't matter.

Now Bai Yuan just wants to fight with Qingxuan Sect and get back at the place he lost before.

But the time is not now—

After being transformed by the "Ancient Tea Tree Fluid," Bai Yuan's innate Dao body had been elevated to an unprecedentedly powerful level, rivaling even the Jiang family's "Five Elements Divine King Body." Therefore, with a brief retreat of ten days to half a month, she would likely be able to reshape her Golden Core. Given even more time, recultivating to the Nascent Soul stage wasn't impossible.

By then, if she uses the "86x Chixiao Sword", I'm afraid it will be a completely different scene.

And Ye Shuang'er's "Poisonous Gu Spirit Body"...

"Well, since the outside world believes that Blood Kite is dead, that's just perfect."

"From today on, you and I, master and disciple, will lie low for a while, refine everything we need to refine, and then go and destroy the Qingxuan Mountain Gate and take revenge on that Qingling Elder."

Bai Yuan made up his mind.

In fact...

Even if Bai Yuan wanted to go out, there was no way for the time being.

Because, when Ji Lingyun entered this bedroom, she conveniently set up a space restriction. The original intention of this restriction was to prevent outsiders from breaking in and disturbing her refining the "Human Pill". However, when Ji Lingyun "left", she did not remove this restriction.

Therefore, Bai Yuan and his companions were trapped inside.

Theoretically, Ji Tingxue should be able to try to break the ban.

But it's not necessary.

Because both Bai Yuan's Reshaping Golden Core and Ye Shuang'er's Blood Melting Pill required a relatively safe environment. No place was safer than a restricted area set up by a Return to Void Realm cultivator. Even if Qing Lingzi came over with his Sea-Suppressing Sword and hacked away for a whole day, he wouldn't be able to do a single iota of damage to this barrier.

Therefore, it would be best for Bai Yuan to just stay in seclusion here for a while and go out after everything is almost ready.

(By the way...little waste, are you still there?)

Bai Yuan suddenly remembered this.

[Yes, yes, yes]

[Wow, that woman's aura is terrifying! She's even scarier than the host in his prime, and even that old man Qing Lingzi! I didn't dare show my face in front of her for the past few days. If she noticed me, I'd probably be taken away and tortured.]

(?)

“That woman”, is she referring to Ji Lingyun?

What the hell are you talking about, you useless system? How can a cheat exclusive to time travelers be detected by the natives of this world?

[Normally, it's not allowed, but that woman is so scary! She's almost scared this system to death.]

"..."

Bai Yuan curled the corners of his mouth, a little speechless.

She had always known her system was useless, but wasn't this a bit too useless... Was she really that scared by a suspected Celestial Realm cultivator? If she encountered a true Celestial Realm cultivator next time, wouldn't he just unbind her and run away?

[Oh, yeah, there's another piece of good news]

[During the time when you, the host, were reshaping your body, your cumulative fluctuation value has reached 3000.]

"……so much?"

Bai Yuan was puzzled and looked at the list provided by the system, then he understood -

As early as when she met Jiang Rao and said "Time is an invincible road", her fluctuation value had returned to above 1000, and in the following days, Ye Shuang'er provided some more intermittently, plus the 1000+ that Ji Tingxue exploded in the battle of Luoxing Valley, all in all, it just broke through 3000.

——After all, she did block the knife for Ji Tingxue once. As the former "protagonist of destiny", it is normal for the latter to have a little more fluctuation value.

"Let's save some first."

"Although it's a bit difficult, if I can get another magic weapon like the [Nine-Turn Exquisite Dice], I'll be more confident in facing Qing Lingzi next time."

Bai Yuan made up his mind.

Bai Yuan then took a few breaths upstairs, then took a few more Qi and Blood Pills. Once her energy had gradually returned to full strength, she returned to the courtyard and pulled out piles of natural treasures from her storage bag, arranging them next to the Green Wood Cauldron. These natural treasures were the forty-four ingredients needed for the Blood Melting Pill.

"It's time to begin. Refining the [Gu Ling Rong Xue Dan]."

Ye Shuang'er had naturally been looking forward to this medicine refining for a long time. She was both excited and nervous at this time. She stayed beside Bai Yuan, waiting to help her.

Ji Tingxue also came to the yard, ready to help with the checkpoint.

Wait until everything is ready.

Bai Yuan went over the process of refining the elixir in his mind again, then he snapped his fingers, raised the flame under the cauldron, and began to put all kinds of medicinal materials into the cauldron one by one in order, and simmered them carefully.

[Gu Ling Rong Xue Dan] is a high-level elixir.

The refining of this kind of elixir is often very lengthy, taking weeks to complete. This is why Bai Yuan did not start refining the elixir the moment he got the herbs.

And now...

As the herbs were thrown into the cauldron, a gurgling sound began to come from inside the green wooden cauldron. A faint stench began to waft out, outlining an irregular Gu pattern in the air.

For the first three or four days, everything went smoothly.

However, on the fifth day, when Bai Yuan was about to add the 35th medicinal ingredient, the "Nine Yin Corpse Mushroom", a strange sound like a toad's hum suddenly came from the Qingmu Ding. Then, the mushroom cap, which should have been dark green, suddenly swelled to the size of a baby's head the moment it touched the spiritual liquid in the cauldron, and a distorted human face appeared on the surface.

"No, get back!"

Ji Tingxue reacted quickly, grabbed Ye Shuang'er's collar like lightning, and retreated three feet.

At the same time, a crimson mist burst out from the Qingmu Ding, and hundreds of translucent Gu insects soared into the sky. Each of these Gu insects had three pairs of compound eyes, and their tail stingers flashed a frightening blue.

Seeing this, Bai Yuan's expression was not surprised but delighted. He formed seals with his hands and quickly left an afterimage: "It's actually the pill tribulation!"

The so-called "elixir tribulation" refers to certain high-level elixirs. Because they possess heaven-shattering powers, the moment they are formed causes fluctuations in the energy of heaven and earth, triggering a special thunder tribulation. This thunder tribulation reduces the chances of success, but if successful, it increases the quality of the resulting elixir. Therefore, in the previous life of "Asking the Immortal," almost all players flocked to it.

now.

As Bai Yuan formed the hand seal, the Chixiao Sword that was originally inserted in the scabbard was unsheathed, but it did not cut towards the poisonous insect, but went straight into the ear of the tripod.

When the sword was three inches deep, a cluster of red flames ignited and surrounded the cauldron in an instant. Dense poisonous characters were swirling in the flames, and then a light curtain was formed, sealing the top of the medicine cauldron.

The shadow of the poisonous insect hit the light curtain, making a sharp scream.

At this moment, Ji Tingxue flicked her finger again, and a green tea leaf condensed from her fingertip and sank into the cauldron. The tea leaf immediately ignited upon contact with the fire, and from the rising smoke, a Buddhist chanting could be heard. The rioting poisonous insects froze at the sound, gradually dissolving into golden dust and drifting down.

"Thanks, Tingxue."

Bai Yuan thanked him without turning his head, then controlled the fire technique with his left hand continuously, and reached for the jade box in the corner of the courtyard with his right hand - which contained the "Red Blood Coral" that Jiang Rao had obtained from the Yeque Gate.

The coral, which was originally extremely cold in nature, was now boiling like magma. As soon as it entered the cauldron, it collided violently with the previous medicinal materials, and there was a sign that it would break through the light curtain of the cauldron.

Amidst Ye Shuang'er's exclamation, Bai Yuan pressed her fingers together on the body of the cauldron. As her spiritual power was infused into it, the light curtain above the Qingmu Cauldron suddenly turned blood-red, suppressing the turbulent air waves. The price she paid was that the green fire on her sleeves instantly burned half of her sleeves, but fortunately, it did not damage the inside.

The subsequent medicine refining process became even more dangerous.

But with Bai Yuan and Ji Tingxue watching over them, everything went basically smoothly.

When it came to the evening of the sixth day.

Bai Yuan put in the last medicinal ingredient, "Tianxing Teng". As the flames under the Qingmu Ding suddenly rose to nearly two meters high, the foul smell that had been lingering above the Ding gradually turned into the fragrance of the elixir, and the clear cry of a phoenix could be faintly heard from the Ding.

“It’s done!”

Chapter 100: Innate Gu Pattern (Reward plus 22~23)

The moment he heard the phoenix cry, Bai Yuan jumped up and moved the Chixiao sword that was stuck on the ear of the tripod.

As the light curtain above the Qingmu Ding dissipated.

Several blood-red thunderbolts passed through the barrier left by Ji Lingyun and appeared out of thin air above the cauldron. They fell down with crackling sounds, but when they touched the pills, they were all absorbed by it, tempered, and integrated into the existing medicinal power.

then.

Then she saw three or four round pills floating in the cauldron, and Bai Yuan waved her hand and attracted them, and they fell into her palm.

These pills are dark red in color, but their surface is wrapped with circles of fine gilded lines, which perfectly match the black Gu pattern lingering between Ye Shuang'er's eyebrows. They are obviously the [Gu Ling Blood Melting Pills] tailor-made for the "Gu Ling Poison Body"!

"Master?"

Ye Shuang'er immediately felt the connection between these pills and herself. She stared at them intently, glanced at Bai Yuan again, and an eager expression appeared on her face.

"take it."

Bai Yuan smiled and stuffed the pill into the little girl's hand. "You're lucky. You managed to refine the pill in one go. And because of the pill tribulation, the quality of this batch of pills is about 30% higher than originally expected... It's an unexpected surprise."

"These few [Blood Melting Pills] should be enough to help you refine your poisonous body."

"Prepare them first, then take them. Then, follow the technique I taught you before and circulate the spiritual energy within your body... Don't worry, Tingxue and I will be observing your internal condition and help you refine the medicinal power when necessary. However, your ultimate success depends on you."

This is the truth.

Although the mortality rate of refining the "Gu Ling Poison Body" is not as high as in "Blood Yuan Xin Yun Jue", it is not zero. In the previous life of "Asking the Immortal", a player once triggered the plot of Ye Shuang'er dying in the process of refining the poison body.

If Ye Shuang'er can't hold on, it will be useless for Bai Yuan and Ji Tingxue to help. They can't sacrifice themselves for her.

Considering the heartless nature of his own disciples...