Great Fortune, Pill Formation

Outside the Spring Return Valley's protective mountain array, the rain poured down in torrents, and fierce bolts of lightning struck straight from the sky. Occasionally, a tall tree would be hit by lightning, and writhing electrical snakes would snake and jump along its trunk, bursting into dazzling flames and shattering the wood to pieces. Large chunks of burning wood flew from the trunks, erupting into the air like a giant firework in the downpour, countless sparks trailing brilliant fiery paths through the rain as they shot out in all directions.

Lightning, the command of heaven, pure yang and supremely strong, containing infinite fiery power.

Lin Xiao stood on a bare, bald mountain peak, on a reclining ox stone several feet high, quietly watching the lightning bolts continuously strike down, fully displaying the majesty and boundless, vast power of heaven and earth. With every lightning bolt that streaked across the sky with boundless heat and infinite power, Lin Xiao felt the Pure Fire True Essence within his body surge and pulsate. It was as if his true essence was also being drawn by the external lightning, transforming from a dormant insect into an active state. With each massive roar, his dantian churned like a tide, making it ache faintly.

A night of lightning was a great taboo for ordinary cultivators. The chaotic power of heaven and earth's lightning would cause their true qi to flow erratically, leading nine out of ten to qi deviation.

However, for Lin Xiao, who possessed a pure fire nature, days of thunderous skies were precisely the best opportunity for him to break through. Fire and lightning, by their nature, had commonalities. The external lightning stimulated Lin Xiao's internal true essence, making it even more lively, like a vigorous flame sweeping through Lin Xiao's body. Especially by observing the might of heaven and earth's lightning, he could also comprehend some wondrous changes—for instance, how to unleash a more powerful Palm Lightning.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xiao suddenly sat down cross-legged on the reclining ox stone. He held a fist-sized, polished, and gleaming high-grade fire-attribute Spirit Stone in his arms, a reward he had received after winning the sect's grand competition. High-grade fire-attribute Spirit Stones contained powerful fire-attribute spiritual energy. Lin Xiao used a secret technique to draw out the spiritual energy within, and a continuous, extremely thick warmth immediately surged from the Spirit Stone, merging into Lin Xiao's body. The fire power within Lin Xiao's body surged, and wisps of heat constantly diffused outwards from his body. The heavy rain hadn't even approached him before it was vaporized by the heat, and a circle of steam enveloped Lin Xiao's body, creating a hazy mist within a radius of several yards.

A circle of soft red light emanated from the Spirit Stone. The red light, like a living creature, twisted and covered Lin Xiao's body, wrapping him entirely within it.

Dozens of yards away, a figure flashed. Daoist Danling, Daoist Danyu, and several other elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao emerged from the rain curtain. Daoist Danling looked at Lin Xiao with great admiration, nodding and praising, "Good child, to be able to comprehend true fire transformations amidst the thunderous skies, truly a good child. However, how did Junior Brother Dan Fu and Junior Sister Dan Xia teach him? Practicing outside the protective mountain array without any defensive formations?" His tone shifted, and Daoist Danling suddenly laughed, "Why don't I take Lin Xiao as my disciple? What do you elders think?"

Daoist Danyu and the other elders looked up at the same time, gazing at the lightning bolts streaking across the sky. Daoist Danyu sighed deeply, "Indeed, a rare sight! In our Spring Return Valley, we haven't seen lightning for many years!"

Daoist Danling's expression changed, and he said coldly, "Brother, I said, what do you think about taking Lin Xiao as a disciple?"

The old Daoists cast sideways glances at Daoist Danling. Daoist Danyu lowered his head and said slowly, "That depends on how many treasures Brother can offer to make Junior Sister Dan Xia happy."

Daoist Danling was stunned. He slapped his forehead and muttered, "She cheated and got the Hundred Treasures Rainbow Robe this time, what other treasures does she want? Haven't you seen that none of our fellow disciples dared to contend with her, and deliberately instructed their disciples not to refine too many good pills? Otherwise, there are quite a few skilled individuals among the outer disciples, how could they only refine a few mediocre pills?"

Daoist Danyu snorted coldly and glared at Daoist Danling, "The Hundred Treasures Rainbow Robe, that's clearly a magic robe for women! Brother, if you offer that as a prize, how could we possibly contend for it?"

"Uh? Really? That's a woman's magic robe?" Daoist Danling was silent for a moment, then coughed softly, "This, this was an accident. Hmm, we can't let this child Lin Xiao just stay in the wilderness to cultivate, can we? Hmm, Junior Brother Danyu, take out that set of 'Wind Fire Banner Gate' you obtained last time and set it up for Lin Xiao."

Daoist Danyu suddenly took a step back, glaring angrily at Daoist Danling, "Brother, don't you also have a 'Mustard Seed Horizon Map' treasured away? Why aren't you taking that out?"

Daoist Danling's eyes bulged, and he said fiercely, "I am the senior brother! You are the junior brother! I am the sect leader, you are an elder under the sect leader! The 'Wind Fire Banner Gate,' are you going to take it out or not? If you don't take it out, the thousand-year-old 'Dragon Saliva Fruit' on the Ice Volcano in the far north will mature in another year and seven months. You can take your disciples and guard the Ice Volcano!"

Daoist Danyu quickly took out a dozen or so palm-sized green and red banners from his sleeve. He glared angrily at Daoist Danling and muttered, "You're the sect leader, I won't argue with you!"

The other elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao stood by with their hands behind their backs, looking leisurely and carefree, pointing and chattering at a large tree that had just been shattered by heavenly lightning. "Indeed, a rare sight, a rare sight! Our protective mountain array keeps out the heavenly lightning and the snow, so we haven't seen such a magnificent spectacle for a long time, have we?"

Daoist Danyu cast an extremely resentful glance at his fellow disciples, but they all pretended not to see his dejected gaze.

Daoist Danling grabbed the Wind Fire Banner Gate, exhaled a breath of true qi onto it, and the small banners instantly transformed into green and red qi, flying out and forming a peculiar array diagram around Lin Xiao. The array diagram drew power from heaven and earth. The south of the array diagram took the form of a Vermillion Bird, while a green dragon formed of spiritual energy occupied the other three directions. The green dragon belonged to wood, and wood generated wind; the Vermillion Bird drew fire, and the fire power vibrated. Wind and fire converged, and a ten-foot-high wave of green and red wind and fire surged upwards. The phantom images of the ten-foot-long green dragon and Vermillion Bird, formed by spiritual energy, circled for a while before slowly retracting into the array diagram.

The array diagram's light converged, and the one hundred and eight banners disappeared into thin air, but a formation had thoroughly protected Lin Xiao.

Daoist Danling looked at Lin Xiao with satisfaction and nodded, "Excellent, with this formation protecting him, there's no need to fear beasts and strange creatures. Junior Brother Dan Fu and Junior Sister Dan Xia are truly muddled. It seems they haven't even explained basic cultivation common sense to this child. Hmm, yet the three disciples with the best aptitude in our sect were all given to them." The elders simultaneously cast strange, somewhat disdainful glances at Daoist Danling. Who exactly was muddled? Who was it that gave Hua Feng'er, Yao'er, and Lin Xiao to Dan Fusheng and Dan Xia?

"Heh!" Daoist Danling sighed emotionally, "Two years, eighth level of the True Fire Art! In the sect's grand competition, he actually refined Universe Grade Pill Poison! This little fellow!"

The elders also glanced at Lin Xiao a few times, and like Daoist Danling, they all shook their heads and turned to leave.

It was at this moment that the anomaly occurred. A massive bolt of lightning, spanning tens of thousands of miles across the void, suddenly swept across the sky. At the far horizon where heaven and earth met, a dazzling ball of light suddenly appeared. Daoist Danling and the others, with their profound cultivation, vaguely sensed a trace of ferocious aura churning from that extreme distance. Daoist Danling exclaimed, "Heavenly Lightning to Slay Demons? What kind of demonic creature could cause such a massive change in heaven and earth? This, this—" The enormous heavenly lightning swept through the void, and large chunks of lightning-fire debris rained down with crackling sounds, filling the sky with dazzling purple lightning and fire.

This swift and unparalleled pure yang heavenly lightning almost shattered all the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Even the Spring Return Valley's protective mountain array could not isolate the massive disturbance to spiritual energy caused by this heavenly lightning. Countless disciples within Spring Return Valley who were practicing suddenly felt the spiritual energy around them become chaotic. Various kinds of chaotic spiritual energy surged in and out of their bodies in a disorderly fashion. Hundreds of disciples who couldn't control their internal qi immediately vomited blood and collapsed, all suffering no minor internal injuries.

Lin Xiao was even more disturbed. That bolt of lightning had almost passed directly overhead. The deafening roar shook his heart, and he almost lost control of his breath. Fortunately, he had the miraculous Lotus Seed to replenish his foundation, making his mind incredibly stable. He forcefully controlled the flow of true essence within his body. However, as the lightning streaked across the sky, the surrounding spiritual energy became as chaotic as hundreds of tornadoes sweeping through, causing the Pure Fire True Essence within his body to churn erratically, flowing uncontrollably towards his meridians.

Gasp, Lin Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood, streaks of crimson flames mixed in the blood. He opened his eyes in horror and saw the tail of the giant heavenly lightning sweep past his head. A piece of lightning-fire debris the size of a water vat was hurtling down towards him. Lin Xiao watched the piece of debris, completely enveloped in purple thunder heavenly fire, get closer and closer, and he screamed in terror, "My life is over!"

A gust of wind suddenly rose from the ground. A ten-foot-long green dragon, enveloped in over ten feet of wind force, shot up into the sky. A soft cry was heard as a Vermillion Bird, eight feet tall, brought up dozens of feet of crimson true fire and also soared upwards. The wind dragon and fire bird circled in the air, condensing into a ten-foot-thick stream of green and red energy, which, with an astonishing sound of wind and fire, rushed towards the piece of lightning-fire debris.

Daoist Danling and the others turned sharply. They were startled to see the piece of lightning-fire debris entangled with purple heavenly lightning hurtling towards Lin Xiao, and they cried out in alarm, "Not good!" The old Daoists simultaneously waved their large sleeves. Without time to chant incantations or perform rituals, they relied on a breath of pure true essence to whirl their sleeves like windmills, stirring up a plate-like gale that swept towards the piece of lightning-fire debris. Buzz, the combined effort of the elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao unleashed an invisible and colorless gale that leveled the ground by a full three inches, surging towards the sky with countless specks of dust.

The green dragon and Vermillion Bird, transformed from the Wind Fire Banner Gate, met the piece of lightning-fire debris first. With a loud bang, the inherently violent and unstable lightning-fire debris exploded into a sky full of sparks. Each spark was like an arrow shot from a powerful crossbow, whistling down towards the ground, only to be met by the sleeve winds that Daoist Danling and the others had unleashed.

Huala, with a deafening roar, hundreds of purple sparks, like scattered fireflies, flew chaotically into the sky. By chance, a spark about the size of a mung bean managed to slip through a tiny gap in the sleeve winds of Daoist Danling and the others, sticking precisely to Lin Xiao's palm. Chila, like pork skin frying in boiling oil, Lin Xiao's left hand immediately turned purple-red. A purple fiery power that made Lin Xiao's soul tremble surged into his body.

Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire, this was the purest yang and most ferocious flame in heaven and earth. It was naturally generated by heaven and earth only when there were demons and monsters in the human realm that were not tolerated by heaven and earth, to slay them. This mung bean-sized cluster of heavenly fire stuck to Lin Xiao's palm contained enough fiery power to burn a mountain to ashes.

A "whoosh" sound of intense burning came from within Lin Xiao's body. His Pure Fire True Essence encountered that speck of heavenly fire, like a pool of oil meeting a spark, and spontaneously ignited. Purple-red flames erupted from Lin Xiao's body. His clothes were burned to nothing, and all his hair turned into a wisp of smoke. Lin Xiao felt his body becoming light and as if it would float away, as if in just an instant, after his Pure Fire True Essence was completely incinerated, his body would also turn into a wisp of smoke and dissipate.

"Ah—" Lin Xiao let out a roar of unwillingness! Two foot-long beams of light shot out from his eyes. All his potential erupted at this moment.

Viscous like oil, surging like an endless great river, colorful spiritual energy rolled out from every part of Lin Xiao's body, joyfully meeting the surging purple heavenly fire. The strange spiritual energy contained within the miraculous Lotus Seed nourished Lin Xiao's body. Where the heavenly fire destroyed, they repaired; where the heavenly fire destroyed again, they repaired again. Destruction and rebirth achieved a perfect balance within Lin Xiao's body.

Boundless pain and endless comfort, two diametrically opposed sensations flooded Lin Xiao's mind. The intense pain almost made Lin Xiao faint, but the incomparable comfort and pleasure almost made Lin Xiao groan. The two completely different feelings stimulated Lin Xiao's mind simultaneously, causing his mind to grow continuously.

Vaguely, a wondrous pattern appeared before Lin Xiao's eyes: a black fish and a white fish, connected head to tail, slowly rotating in the void. Profound and unfathomable, its subtle trajectory made Lin Xiao feel an urge to weep with emotion. The intense pain and the pleasure seemed to allow Lin Xiao to gain enlightenment in an instant, yet it also seemed as if he had gained nothing.

His physical body continuously strengthened through these cycles of destruction and rebirth. Lin Xiao's dantian, meridians, and major acupoints gradually became tougher and wider. His bones, muscles, and meridians faintly emitted a soft glow. Heavenly fire tempering the body—this was a coveted opportunity for those ancient powerful beings on the verge of ascension. However, without extremely high cultivation, it was impossible to withstand the invasion of heavenly fire. Even a Golden Immortal would turn you into a puddle of paste. Only Lin Xiao, by the good fortune of receiving half of the strange Lotus Seed from Yao'er, was able to rely on that infinitely wondrous spiritual energy to endure this great opportunity and calamity of heavenly fire tempering the body.

However, just as he was immersed in that marvelous and unprecedented pattern, vaguely sensing that this pattern had an extraordinary origin and seemed to encompass all the mysteries of heaven and earth, Lin Xiao was suddenly overcome by an extreme hunger, a hunger so intense that he felt like grabbing a handful of stones and stuffing them into his stomach. His slowly growing mind suddenly stirred, and Lin Xiao woke up from that ineffably wonderful state. The hazy, indistinct pattern before his eyes suddenly disappeared, and Lin Xiao cried out in alarm, "So hungry!"

Heavenly fire tempering the body consumed a massive amount of energy, and the sparse spiritual energy in the world at this time was simply not enough to sustain Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao felt his body shrinking bit by bit, as if he were transforming from a youth into an infant. In his horror, Lin Xiao was inspired. He suddenly took out all the Spirit Stones he had been rewarded with from his bracelet and, opening his mouth, inhaled deeply towards the Spirit Stones according to the secret method of the Great Luo Pill Dao.

A stream of purple fiery energy spewed from Lin Xiao's mouth, grasping the Spirit Stones like a large hand. In just three to five breaths, all the fire-attribute spiritual energy within the Spirit Stones was absorbed by Lin Xiao's body. This predatory absorption method stunned Daoist Danling and the other elders, nearly making them cry out in shock.

The massive amount of fire-attribute spiritual energy that entered his body was immediately transformed by the purple-red heavenly fire. Streams of viscous purple-red true essence filled Lin Xiao's dantian, continuously rotating rapidly along the same mysterious trajectory as the black and white dual fish. Within the vortex of true essence, faint wisps of purple lightning and fire could be seen flickering. The vortex spun faster and faster, and gradually, the purple heavenly fire and the colorful spiritual energy were slowly drawn into the vortex.

Lin Xiao suddenly opened his eyes and screamed, "Help! I'm so hungry, I'm going to starve to death!"

Daoist Danling, Daoist Danyu, and the other elders exchanged glances. Daoist Danling's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance, and he cried out to the heavens with immense pain, "Fine, this humble one will ruin his fortune today and see what kind of monster this child can become if he can endure heavenly fire tempering the body without dying!"

He tapped his storage bracelet on his wrist and took out a full one hundred high-grade Spirit Stones of various attributes, five hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones, and one thousand low-grade Spirit Stones. He gritted his teeth and snorted coldly, "Hungry? Let's see how big your appetite is, child! Hungry, are you? Uncle-Master will grant your wish! Hmm!"

With a flick of his hand, sixteen hundred Spirit Stones flew towards Lin Xiao like a tide. Daoist Danyu shouted, "Brother, these are the Spirit Stones prepared for opening the mountain gates to recruit new disciples!"

Daoist Danling roared fiercely, "The number of disciples to be recruited for the new mountain gate opening will be halved! I will naturally explain this matter to Senior Uncle-Zhu and the others."

The sixteen hundred Spirit Stones flew around Lin Xiao, completely enveloping him. Lin Xiao instinctively opened his mouth, spewing out a stream of purple fiery energy that wrapped around the sixteen hundred Spirit Stones. Streams of colorful light flew out from the Spirit Stones, pouring into Lin Xiao's body.

Lin Xiao's body trembled violently, his muscles sinking inward, instantly reducing him to a skeletal figure. Immediately after, his flesh bulged outward, returning him to his original appearance.

After this transformation occurred nine times, Lin Xiao suddenly roared at the sky, "I'm swelling, I'm going to explode! Sect Leader Uncle, my dantian is going to explode!"

With a roar, Lin Xiao's cry shattered the surrounding rocks, and a wave of white qi swept outwards. Daoist Danyu and the other elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao turned deathly pale, exclaiming in unison, "Heavens above, 'True Form Nine Transformations'! He's about to form a Golden Core!"

Daoist Danling hopped around, howling, "Dan Fusheng~~ Danxia~~ Did you teach this brat how to form a core?"

With a crack, Daoist Danling slapped himself hard across the face. He cursed in pain, "I'm being foolish! Lin Xiao has only been cultivating for two years, how could he possibly have learned the incantations for forming a core? Esteemed junior brothers, quickly! Lin Xiao's mental cultivation is insufficient. If he forms a core now, inner demons are bound to arise. Quickly prepare a large quantity of Spirit Cleansing Pills, Spirit Calming Pills, Spirit Gathering Pills, Spirit Nurturing Pills, Spirit Transformation Pills, and Spirit Returning Pills! Even if we have to stuff him with pills, I, this Daoist... I will personally create an eighteen-year-old Golden Core expert today!"

"Hoo hoo! Imagine the prestige if I, this Daoist, were to go out with an eighteen-year-old Golden Core expert! The face of our Great Luo Pill Dao... hehehehe!" Daoist Danling suddenly let out a sinister laugh filled with unknown meaning!

The fluctuation of spiritual energy Lin Xiao had triggered was too intense. With a series of swish sounds from all directions, elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao, clad in light purple or purple robes, arrived on their swords. These elders had also heard Daoist Danling's command. Without a word, they produced numerous medicine bottles from their storage bracelets and rings.

The Great Luo Pill Dao's offensive techniques were extremely poor, their sword-riding mental cultivation was extremely poor, and their methods for refining magical treasures were extremely poor. However, they certainly had plenty of pills!

In just a few breaths, various pills beneficial for resisting inner demons, healing the mind, nurturing the spirit, and strengthening mental cultivation were piled into a small mountain before Daoist Danling. With such a vast number of pills, let alone Lin Xiao's existing cultivation foundation, even an ordinary person completely ignorant of cultivation, upon consuming these thousands of pills, could successfully resist the inner demons that attack during Golden Core formation.

Seeing more and more helpers arriving, Daoist Danling became even more excited, jumping up and down and shouting, "This brat actually absorbed a trace of Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire and is suddenly attempting to form a Golden Core! His vital energy must be severely depleted. Prepare all sorts of pills for nourishing the body and strengthening the source! Hmph! Twenty years ago, the Origin Sect produced a disciple who formed a Golden Core at fifty-seven and has been showing off for twenty years. Now that our Great Luo Pill Dao has produced a disciple who formed a Golden Core at eighteen, won't we be able to boast for two thousand years?"

Daoist Danling laughed so hard his eyelashes seemed about to explode. He repeatedly ordered, "Remember! For the outside world, we will have a unified story: say that our Great Luo Pill Dao's pills are incredibly miraculous, and we forcefully used pills to fill Lin Xiao from an ordinary person to the Golden Core stage. Do you understand? This will be extremely beneficial for our Great Luo Pill Dao's future business! We absolutely cannot say he absorbed Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire to achieve this!"

Daoist Danling, with a keen sense for advertising, solemnly cautioned his fellow disciples. The elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao nodded frantically, naturally understanding the importance of this matter.

Seeing a golden radiance suddenly flash across Lin Xiao's face, Daoist Danling quickly shouted and forcefully imprinted a Golden Core formation incantation into Lin Xiao's sea of consciousness.

However, Lin Xiao didn't need this incantation at all. The vortex of purple true essence in his dantian was already naturally following the trajectory of the yin-yang fish he had just seen, automatically entering the process of forming a core.

A minuscule wisp of purple lightning appeared at the center of the true essence vortex. A massive amount of purple true essence was absorbed by this wisp of lightning, gradually condensing into a tiny, purple-gold Golden Core the size of a green bean. The Golden Core continuously drew in the surrounding purple true essence, its volume steadily expanding. Lin Xiao placed his hands on his dantian, the muscles in his face twitching. His entire body was enveloped in a foot-thick layer of purple fire. The surrounding spiritual energy was continuously drawn into his body. He gradually levitated, floating three feet above the ground.

Another flash of sword light appeared. Clad in a five-colored robe that shimmered like clouds and glowed like a rainbow, Danxia, who looked like a celestial maiden, arrived with Hua Feng'er, smiling. From a distance, Danxia smiled and said, "Sect Leader Senior Brother, what are you all doing here today?"

Landing lightly on the ground, Danxia was about to greet her fellow disciples when her eyes suddenly fell upon Lin Xiao, who was suspended in the air. Danxia's eyes widened, and a hoarse shriek escaped her throat: "Heavens! This little fellow, has he... has he formed a Golden Core? Wuwu, how can I still be his master's wife?"

Hua Feng'er's eyelids were also twitching. Her fingers trembled, and she suddenly muttered indignantly, "Heaven is unfair! Junior Brother is only in his teens, his skin is as tender and smooth as a young lady's! And he's already formed a Golden Core! Doesn't that mean his appearance will be maintained for hundreds of years? Oh, heavens! Forming a core should have been me, Hua Feng'er! Look at the wrinkles at the corners of my eyes!"

Rubbing the corners of her eyes with her fingertips with a hint of sadness, Hua Feng'er trembled and mumbled, "The Heavenly Dao is unfair. I, Hua Feng'er, have cultivated diligently for sixty years, and yet, wuwu, Master's Wife, I don't want to live anymore either~~~" She grabbed Danxia's arm and sobbed with great grievance.

With a whoosh, the purple flames around Lin Xiao suddenly surged up several feet high, the ferocious heat forcing even Daoist Danling to retreat three steps. If it were ordinary flames, these elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao wouldn't have cared. Hadn't they all been dealing with alchemical furnaces and fires for hundreds of years? They were already experienced enough with flames. However, the purple flames outside Lin Xiao's body were the unparalleled Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire, how could they dare to touch it lightly?

Although the vast majority of the Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire's power had been used to temper Lin Xiao's body, and only a faint trace of heavenly fire remained in Lin Xiao's Golden Core, heavenly fire was still heavenly fire. It was like a tiger; even a newborn tiger was still a tiger!

With his vital energy contained within his body, his height increased by an inch, and his appearance gaining a touch more resolve, Lin Xiao slowly stretched out his body and gently floated to the ground.

He opened his eyes blankly, glanced around, and gently shook his body. He felt completely pure and clear, as if not a single impurity remained, perfect like a piece of top-quality crystal. With a slight exertion of his qi, he felt a surge of true force coursing through his limbs and bones, reaching everywhere. The feeling of spiritual resonance and smoothness brought tears to Lin Xiao's eyes.

Daoist Danling stared blankly at the hundreds of medicine bottles before him and suddenly shrieked, "Lin Xiao, why weren't you disturbed by inner demons?"

Lin Xiao looked at Daoist Danling blankly and asked in surprise, "Sect Leader Uncle, what are inner demons?"

The elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao widened their eyes. They also looked at Lin Xiao in bewilderment, not understanding what was happening. Forming a core without the disturbance of inner demons defied common sense in the cultivation world!

Danxia snorted unhappily, "A bunch of senile old fools. What's emanating from Xiao'er, if I'm not mistaken, is Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire? Under Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire, even outer-realm demons are refined, let alone one's own inner demons! However, Xiao'er, why would Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire erupt from within you?"

Slap, Daoist Danling slapped his forehead again. He suddenly realized, "Ah, I was too flustered. Purple Thunder Heavenly Fire is the best at subduing demons, so minor inner demons are naturally no problem."

Having said this, Daoist Danling cast a somewhat worried glance in the direction of the distant lightning strikes and frowned, "What formidable demon has appeared over there to cause such a celestial anomaly? Junior Brother Danyu, quickly inform the Origin Sect and the major righteous sects, and request them to send experts to investigate thoroughly."

Daoist Danyu responded and hurriedly returned to Spring Return Valley.

Within a radius of thirty thousand li around Spring Return Valley was the traditional sphere of influence of the Great Luo Pill Dao. The area where the lightning had struck seemed to be over ten thousand li away. The sudden appearance of a powerful demonic creature on their territory, regardless of whether it had been annihilated by the heavenly lightning, was enough to make Daoist Danling extremely cautious.

Suddenly, Hua Feng'er said to Lin Xiao with a sinister tone, "Junior Brother, please put on some clothes. Even if your physique has improved, it's not very appropriate to be naked in front of your elders." After speaking, Hua Feng'er glanced at Lin Xiao with a mischievous look.

Lin Xiao suddenly came to his senses. With a yelp, he fumbled to retrieve spare clothes from his bracelet, but the bracelet on his left wrist had been refined by the heavenly fire, leaving only a residue stuck to his skin.

Danxia chuckled maliciously. She smiled at the disheveled Lin Xiao and said, "Xiao'er, Master's Wife has a set of women's daoist robes. You can wear them for now~~~ Oh my, this is incredible! I, Danxia, have gained a good disciple this time~~~ He's only cultivated for two years and has already formed a Golden Core, reaching the same cultivation level as Master's Wife! Tsk tsk, does this mean I'm very stupid for taking seventy years to form a Golden Core? It was truly a foolish endeavor, wasn't it?"

A set of light purple women's daoist robes appeared in Danxia's hand, gently dangling from her finger.

Lin Xiao pitifully squatted on the ground, hugging himself, looking at Daoist Danling and the other uncles and senior uncles like a dog begging for food. He dared not look at Danxia and Hua Feng'er, as these two women were clearly full of resentment and would surely torment him.

However, Daoist Danling was not very 'loyal'. He pretended not to see Lin Xiao's pleading gaze, patted his backside, and soared away on his cloud.

The other elders of the Great Luo Pill Dao also chuckled and flew away on their swords, none willing to lend Lin Xiao a spare daoist robe.

Lin Xiao looked resentfully at Danxia.

Danxia looked at Lin Xiao with a strange smile, her eyes darting around as she contemplated some wicked idea. (To be continued)