The heart-stirring assassination left Ning Xie, Mu Xi, and Lan Suo with a sense of being unable to resist even if they were to fight to the death.
But when Su Yi made his move, it ended abruptly like a small farce!
"Perhaps this is the true embodiment of invincibility!"
Ning Xie and the others couldn't help but think as they looked at Su Yi's slender and lean figure.
With a flick, he could heavily injure Wang Tu.
With a palm, he could crush He Lianhai.
Even Liao Yunliu, as powerful as the Hidden Dragon Sword Sect, was captured and restrained like a fly, unable to struggle free.
How terrifying were these methods?
It was as if the innate Martial Ancestors in this world, whether they came from the secular world or from forces like the Hidden Dragon Sword Sect, were no longer qualified to be enemies of Su Yi!
The Vajra Demon-Sealing Formation fell silent.
"How are your injuries?"
Su Yi walked towards Ning Xie and asked in a soft voice.
"I'm fine, just superficial wounds."
Ning Xie smiled lightly and replied.
Lan Suo took out a small jade bottle and said, "Ning sister, this is the Frosty Skin Powder, specifically for treating external injuries, and it won't leave any scars. Please remove your clothes, and I'll help you apply it."
"Uh..."
Ning Xie blushed, not sure what came to her mind.
Lan Suo was momentarily stunned, as if she also remembered something, and her cheeks flushed as she hurriedly said, "Let's find a place where no one is around."
With that, they turned and left together.
"As cultivators, it's inevitable to get injured. Is there a need to be so shy about applying medicine to the wounds? Really."
Mu Xi shook his head and chuckled.
Su Yi glanced at him and said, "Go and sort out the spoils."
In the past, Mu Xi would definitely have felt uncomfortable and asked why.
However, after being ordered by Su Yi to "pick up the sword" during their previous encounter at the Bloodthorn Demon Mountain, he had become accustomed to such orders. He was even a little pleased in his heart because the fact that Su Yi didn't treat him as an outsider meant that he regarded Mu Xi as one of his own.
So he happily went to work.
Meanwhile, Su Yi sat cross-legged on the ground and took out the Purple Que Cauldron.
Although there had been some disturbances during the pill refining process before, it hadn't resulted in major chaos. Only less than twenty percent of the pills were wasted.
Su Yi tapped the Purple Que Cauldron with his hand, and a pill shot out, spinning and radiating colorful lights.
Upon closer inspection, the pill was round and presented a jade-like translucent bluish-green color, surrounded by mist and radiance. It had nine tiny apertures on its surface, from which faint sounds of dragon roars and tiger roars could be heard. It was extremely mystical.
The Nine Apertures Dragon-Tiger Pill!
One of the "Four Great Elemental Pill" mastered by the Alchemy Sect, the number one pill refining sect in the Great Wilderness.
It was also the first-class spiritual pill used for foundation building when martial cultivators embarked on the path of elemental cultivation, renowned throughout the world.
The value of just one pill was equivalent to hundreds of top-grade spiritual stones!
And it was extremely difficult to obtain in the Great Wilderness Nine Prefectures.
Because this pill had always been controlled by the Alchemy Sect and rarely circulated outside.
A thrilling assassination attempt left Ning Sihe, Mu Xi, and Lan Suo with a sense of impending doom, even willing to risk their lives to stop it.
However, when Su Yi took action, it ended up like a small farce, hastily coming to an end.
"Perhaps this is the true style of invincibility!"
Ning Sihe and the others couldn't help but think as they looked at Su Yi's tall and slender figure.
A flick of his sleeve could severely injure Wang Tu.
A palm strike could even kill Helian Hai.
Even the formidable Liao Yunliu of the Hidden Dragon Sword Sect was captured and immobilized like a fly, struggling in vain.
Such methods were terrifying, to say the least.
It was as if the innate Martial Ancestors in this world, whether from secular forces or cultivation powers like the Hidden Dragon Sword Sect, were no longer qualified to be enemies of Su Yi!
The Forbidden Demon Array of the Brahma Heaven fell silent.
"How are your injuries?"
Su Yi walked towards Ning Sihe and asked softly.
"I'm fine, just some superficial wounds."
Ning Sihe smiled lightly and replied.
Lan Suo took out a small jade bottle and said, "Ning Sister, this is the Frosty Skin Powder, specially used to treat external injuries without leaving scars. Take off your clothes, and I'll help you apply it."
"Uh..."
Ning Sihe blushed, seemingly reminded of something.
Lan Suo hesitated for a moment, also recalling something, and her cheeks turned slightly red as she hurriedly said, "Let's find a place with no one around."
With that, they turned and left together.
"As cultivators, it's inevitable to get injured. Is it necessary to be so shy about applying medicine to wounds? Really."
Mu Xi shook his head and laughed.
Su Yi glanced at him and said, "You go and sort out the spoils."
In the past, Mu Xi would have felt uncomfortable and questioned why he should do it.
But after experiencing being ordered around by Su Yi to "pick up the sword" at the Bloodthorn Demon Mountain, he had become accustomed to such tasks.
In fact, he was even a little happy inside. Su Yi's lack of formality meant that he treated Mu Xi as one of his own.
Therefore, he happily went to work.
Su Yi sat cross-legged on the ground and took out the Purple Qi Cauldron.
Despite the interference during alchemy, it ultimately didn't cause major trouble, with only less than twenty percent of the medicinal herbs wasted.
Su Yi tapped the Purple Qi Cauldron with his hand, and a pill flew out, spinning and emitting colorful lights.
Upon closer inspection, the pill was round, aquamarine in color, translucent like jade, surrounded by mist and radiance. It had nine small orifices on its surface, from which faint sounds of dragons and tigers could be heard, making it extremely extraordinary.
The Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pill!
One of the "Four Great Elemental Dao Pills" controlled by the Danqing Sect, the number one pill sect in the vast land of the Great Wilderness.
It was also the first-rate spiritual pill used to build foundations on the path of cultivation, renowned throughout the world.
The value of just one pill was equivalent to hundreds of fourth-grade spiritual stones!
And it was almost impossible to buy it in the Great Wilderness, as it had been controlled by the Danqing Sect and rarely circulated outside.
In his previous life, Su Yi had also visited the Danqing Sect to study the path of alchemy and had seen the seventy-two secret alchemy scrolls preserved by the sect.
He had even had a discussion with the sect's patriarch, "Medicine Emperor Shu Changsheng," on the way of alchemy, so it was natural for him to know how to refine the Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pill.
"If it weren't for borrowing the Brahma Heaven Forbidden Demon Array this time, with my current cultivation level, I would never have been able to refine such a top-grade elemental spiritual pill..."
Su Yi carefully examined the Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pill, his eyes filled with satisfaction.
This alchemy process had consumed nearly eighty percent of the precious materials he possessed, but in the end, he had harvested forty-eight Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pills.
It was worth every bit of it.
Before long, Ning Sihe, Lan Suo, and Mu Xi returned one after another.
Ning Sihe had changed into a clean and neat dress, her complexion rosy, and her energy greatly restored.
Mu Xi carried a batch of spoils, including more than thirty types of spiritual herbs, over three hundred spiritual stones of various grades, and some miscellaneous spiritual materials and jade talismans.
Su Yi glanced over and said, "Give me the fourth-grade spiritual stones, and you can divide the rest among yourselves."
Mu Xi complied.
Ning Sihe and Lan Suo didn't refuse or act politely either.
In the end, Su Yi obtained more than fifty fourth-grade spiritual stones and two extremely rare fifth-grade spiritual stones!
Mu Xi and the others were also quite satisfied. The spoils that Su Yi looked down upon were of great value to them.
For example, the Qianyuan Umbrella ended up in Ning Sihe's hands.
After dividing the spoils, Su Yi took out the Purple Qi Cauldron and gave each person twelve Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pills.
This surprised and even alarmed Ning Sihe and the others. The value of these pills was simply too high!
Even in the Dazhou realm, let alone ordinary warriors, even the likes of terrestrial immortals would go crazy for them. They were undoubtedly considered priceless treasures!
And now, Su Yi had given each of them a whopping twelve pills. This was no longer a pleasant surprise but a shock.
"Friend, these pills are too valuable. Each of us taking one would be enough. The rest..."
Ning Sihe was about to decline, but Su Yi waved his hand to interrupt her, saying, "Since we acted together, it's only fair to share these treasures. Besides, these are just a few pills, hardly worth mentioning."
Seeing this, Ning Sihe and the others exchanged glances and then put away the pills.
"This is what true wealth and generosity look like..."
Lan Suo couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
Compared to the Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pills, the treasures she possessed were utterly insignificant.
Su Yi was also quite satisfied with their trip to the Ba Sa Yao Mountain.
They had gained three major achievements: taming a drop of true dragon blood, refining a furnace of Nine Orifice Dragon-Tiger Pills, and assimilating the Brahma Heaven Forbidden Demon Array.
"Let's go, let's leave this place."
Su Yi stood up.
Immediately, the group retraced their steps and headed back.
Before leaving, just like at the Bloodthorn Demon Mountain, Su Yi activated the Brahma Heaven Forbidden Demon Array to completely seal off the underground world.
For at least three years, it would be impossible for foreign cultivators to cross the spatial barrier and enter this realm.
...
Golden Willow City.
In a restaurant.
Su Yi and the others, who had just returned from the depths of the Ba Sa Yao Mountain, ordered a table full of delicious food and chatted while eating.
After satisfying their hunger and thirst, Su Yi took out a blank jade talisman and engraved a secret technique in it using his divine sense as the pen.
Now that he possessed "Divine Sense," it was not difficult for him to leave a secret technique in a jade talisman.
Before long, he handed the jade talisman to Ning Sihe and said, "Friend Ning, this contains a secret technique for cultivating the soul called 'Little Thousand Mechanical Manipulation.' Although it's not extremely powerful, it should be helpful to you in the future when you break through and enter the Yuan Foundation realm."
Ning Sihe was momentarily stunned and subconsciously said, "Friend... could it be that you have noticed the bottleneck in my current cultivation?"
Su Yi nodded. "I can roughly sense it."
While they were in the underground world beneath the Nine-story Pagoda, Su Yi had noticed that Ning Sihe's soul was extremely sensitive and powerful, and there was a seal inside her body that contained a mysterious and obscure power.
Coupled with their previous battles together, Su Yi was well aware that Ning Sihe had encountered a troublesome bottleneck.
This bottleneck was related to her soul.
"Thank you for your guidance, friend!"
Taking a deep breath, Ning Sihe solemnly accepted the jade talisman.
When she sensed the profoundness of the "Little Thousand Mechanical Manipulation" technique in the jade talisman, her whole being froze, and waves of astonishment and shock surged in her heart. Even her delicate and fair fingertips trembled slightly.
With her discerning eyes, she immediately judged that this was a top-tier soul cultivation technique!
It was far from ordinary, as Su Yi had described.
"Friend, I..."
After a long time, Ning Sihe took a deep breath, about to say something, but Su Yi smiled and interrupted, "There's no need to thank me if you're grateful."
Ning Sihe was taken aback and then readily said, "Alright!"
After some thought, Su Yi engraved another cultivation technique in a jade talisman and handed it to Mu Xi, saying, "The power of the Qianyuan Blood Jade Pendant has laid a solid foundation for your cultivation, especially in terms of physical strength, which has been tempered quite well. However, the cultivation techniques you have mastered are too ordinary, which greatly affects your progress."
"This is a technique called 'Profound Yang Scripture,' passed down from the Daoist sect. It will greatly assist you in tempering your physical body and refining the blood of true spirits. Take it."
Mu Xi, who had been somewhat envious of Ning Sihe, couldn't believe his eyes and stammered, "There's... there's something for me too?"
"Don't want it?" Su Yi asked.
Mu Xi, as if being electrified, quickly reached out with both hands to receive it, his face beaming with joy. "How could I miss out on such a great opportunity!"
He was extremely excited and couldn't hide his happiness.
Seeing this, Lansa couldn't help but say, "Master Su, what about me?"
"You?" Su Yi casually replied, "You don't lack any cultivation techniques. What you lack is the tempering of your state of mind. Once you can abandon the habit of relying on external things, your cultivation will progress by leaps and bounds."
Lansa immediately felt distressed and pouted, "That's so difficult... If I don't want those treasures, the elders at home definitely won't agree!"
Everyone: "..."
After chatting for a while, Su Yi decided to set off and leave.
"Let's part ways here."
Su Yi spoke as the group walked out of the restaurant.
After passing through the Ba Sa Yao Mountain, they would enter the territory of Bai Prefecture, and after that, they would reach the imperial capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Yu Jing City.
"Are you really going alone, friend?"
Ning Sihe couldn't help but ask.
Earlier, she and Mu Xi had expressed their desire to travel with Su Yi, but they were rejected by him.
"The grudges between the Su family and me should be resolved by myself."
Su Yi said and waved his hand, "Farewell."
With that, he floated away.
Lansa was stunned. "He... He left so decisively and swiftly, didn't he?"
"Su is naturally of such temperament," Ning Sihe said softly, watching Su Yi's gradually fading figure. "Let's go as well."
Whether it was her or Mu Xi, they both understood that after this journey to the Ba Sa Yao Mountain, Su Yi truly treated them as his own people.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have given them each a marvelous technique as a parting gift.
It should be noted that for cultivators, the bestowal of an inheritance held a different significance and weight!
One day later.
On the ninth day of the first month of spring, in the morning.
Alongside a spacious official road in the territory of Bai Prefecture, there was a simple tea shack set up for travelers to rest and have food and drink.
Su Yi casually sat on a worn-out stool, sipping the wild tea freshly picked by the tea shack owner in the early morning.
"Big brother, do you want some dates?"
A little girl, about five or six years old, with her hair braided into two little buns, approached and spoke in a sweet and milky voice. She opened her small, tender hand, revealing a green jujube.