Smelled the scent of a supreme treasure!

[You replaced "Has Demonic Aura" with "Dragon Plays with Phoenix."]

[You replaced "Spider Senses" with "The Only True Prophet on the Scene."]

[You lived in Dongchi Town for a year.]

[Every day, you studied cultivation methods during the day and martial techniques at night. Life was very fulfilling.]

[Your External Cultivation has been replaced with the Chixin Sect's high-tier External Art Heart Flame Mysterious Technique.]

[Within the Chixin Sect, Heart Fire Technique was a Mid-tier External Art for ordinary disciples to cultivate, while Heart Flame Mysterious Technique was an enhanced version reserved for elite disciples, upper echelons, and those who had made outstanding contributions.]

[Like Heart Fire Technique, cultivating Heart Flame Mysterious Technique would also turn your hair red.]

[You had only just reached Entry Level, yet a lock of your bangs had already turned red.]

[As a high-tier cultivation method, Heart Flame Mysterious Technique not only increased the speed at which you cultivated Blood Qi, but also allowed you to burn Blood Qi in battle, granting all your attacks a fire special effect.]

[When circulating the technique, it also greatly increased your physical body's resistance to fire, high temperatures, burning, and similar damage.]

[Your Internal Cultivation has been replaced with the high-tier Internal Cultivation Pure Yang Spirit Guiding Mysterious Technique.]

[Your Spiritual Qi cultivation speed also increased by a fair amount.]

[Moreover, after cultivating this Internal Cultivation, the practitioner's Spiritual Qi would become rich with supremely firm and pure yang energy.]

[The whole person would become like a tiger, overflowing with yang energy—so much so that in the dead of winter, standing bare-chested in the snow would melt the ice and snow beneath them.]

[This also made it almost impossible for you to contract ordinary illnesses.]

[It imperceptibly prolonged your life and strengthened your body.]

[However, this Internal Cultivation also had a minor side effect.]

[Just like its positive effect—your yang energy was too heavy, so yin and yang had to be balanced. Otherwise, your entire body would grow restless.]

[Why else did you go around saving fallen maidens every day? There was a reason for it!]

[High-tier cultivation methods were even more obscure and profound. Studying them alone, it was already no easy feat to reach Entry Level in two books within a year.]

[The other two high-tier martial arts were still under study and had not yet reached Entry Level.]

[As for those Mid-tier cultivation methods, unless there was a compelling need, you figured you probably would not learn them for the rest of your life.]

[A person's energy was limited. Rather than picking up a whole pile of cultivation methods and merely reaching Entry Level, it was better to specialize in a few and raise their Proficiency.]

[Night fell.]

[After a day of dull cultivation, you were going to relax a little.]

[That was life—work and rest had to be balanced.]

[Now that your body was brimming with yang energy, once a day was a piece of cake.]

["Counting the days, it's almost time for Old Liu to obtain the Myriad Souls Banner..."]

[Suddenly, the tip of your nose twitched.]

["The scent of a supreme treasure!"]

[Compared to a treasure, fallen maidens had to move down the list!]

[Following the source of the scent, you tracked it down.]

["If the supreme treasure has not yet emerged, then naturally it will be mine. If it is on someone else, then I'll remember the time and place. Once I'm stronger, I'll take it in a newly opened simulation..."]

[You were cautious to the extreme.]

[Very soon, you arrived in the wilderness outside Dongchi Town.]

[The scent of the supreme treasure grew stronger and stronger.]

["Does its detection range extend this far? It truly deserves to be an Epic trait!"]

[Your heartbeat accelerated, and you gradually became excited.]

[Could it be the Myriad Souls Banner?]

[Dongchi Town was not far from Old Liu's hometown, Hongtong County.]

[Could it be that Old Liu had already obtained the Myriad Souls Banner and begun committing crimes everywhere?]

[Old Liu with the Myriad Souls Banner in hand was still quite formidable. You did not want to repeat the short-lived tragedy of your previous life.]

[If that was truly the case, then you could only cower for now and go earlier next time.]

[Following the scent for a while longer, you entered the mountain forest.]

[The scent was extremely rich now. The distance should be very close.]

["Mmm~~"]

[Suddenly, you faintly heard a moan.]

["Uh... could some fellow enthusiast be hunting in the wild?"]

[Good heavens, how exciting. Go take a look...]

[Forget it, forget it. The supreme treasure came first.]

[By sheer coincidence, the direction from which that pleasant sound came was the same as the source of the supreme treasure's scent.]

[Then you could only kill two birds with one stone.]

[After taking only a few steps, you saw two men in the forest ahead.]

[One was tall and thin, while the other was short and fat. Both wore light armor.]

[You stopped.]

["Looks like the supreme treasure is on these two. I can't act rashly. I'll remember the time and place, then come back next time..."]

[You heard their conversation.]

["Brother Gao, the princess has been poisoned by Love Flower Poison. What should we do? If it isn't cured tonight, her life will be in danger!"]

["Speaking of which, it's all your fault. How could you fail to keep watch over her?"]

["The princess is far too clever. I let her trick me again with one moment of carelessness! Stop talking about that—the antidote is what matters!"]

["To cure Love Flower Poison, only 'yang energy' can enter the body... Sigh! The two of us have watched the princess grow up and regard her as our own daughter. Even if it killed us, we could never do such a thing!"]

["There's a town nearby. I'll capture a man and bring him back!"]

["That is an option, but the princess is to be married off in a political alliance. If she loses her virginity, how are the two of us supposed to answer for it?"]

["At a time like this, isn't the princess's life the highest priority?!"]

["Fine. There just happens to be a man nearby. He isn't very old and is rather handsome, so it won't be treating the princess too unfairly."]

[You had already turned to leave, but hearing this left you stunned.]

["A man nearby? Don't tell me it's me?"]

[When you looked up, those two men were already five steps ahead of you.]

[The tall one chuckled. "That's right. I'm talking about you!"]

[The short one grabbed you and swept away like wind and lightning. In the blink of an eye, they had brought you into a cave.]

[So fast!]

[They were definitely experts, of a higher realm even than the Chixin Sect Ancestor!]

[Inside the cave, you saw a woman.]

[Her clothes were torn to rags. She lay on the ground, twisting restlessly, her face flushed scarlet as ambiguous sounds escaped her lips.]

[Although the woman looked somewhat disheveled at the moment, her beauty capable of toppling kingdoms and her devilishly fiery figure were still plain to see.]

[With a single glance, you were captivated.]

[It was absolutely not because you were lustful, but because she was simply too beautiful.]

[It was the kind of exaggerated beauty that no one could look away from!]

[The kind of beauty that could make an eighty-year-old paralyzed old man witness a medical miracle with just one look!]

[An ordinary family could never raise someone with such looks.]

[Who exactly was she?]