A Point-Winning Question

Hearing the warm voice, tinged with laughter...

Bright Rabbit looked up through her tear-blurred eyes and saw a man standing before her with a smile on his face.

Wasn't he the mysterious lord who spent every day meditating and cultivating atop the mountain?

"M-My lord?"

Bright Rabbit's voice trembled. Looking at the figure before her, she could no longer hold back her tears.

My lord had really come to save her.

He had really come!

"It's me."

Li Xuan nodded cheerfully. "Don't cry. It's all right now."

Bright Rabbit obediently nodded and stood beside Li Xuan.

The four pursuers abruptly stopped in their tracks. They narrowed their eyes slightly and examined Li Xuan warily.

But after just one look, their expressions changed, becoming both incredulous and utterly disdainful.

They all scoffed at once.

"So you're that so-called lord?"

"Ha, hahaha! My heavens, a lord!? A lord with the cultivation of a True Immortal?"

"You scared me. I thought some big shot would show up, but it's just a True Immortal. Hahaha!"

"Little boy, did you just transform? Too bad you'll be dying with this woman today!"

Without the protection of the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform, Li Xuan's cultivation was easy for them to see through at a glance.

He was merely a True Immortal of the third level.

But they had forgotten that Primordial Beings could only transform into human form after reaching the Mystic Immortal Realm. True Immortals couldn't transform...

And yet the person standing before them was a humanoid cultivator, just like them!

"Impudent!"

Li Xuan listened with an impassive expression, neither agreeing nor objecting.

Bright Rabbit, however, wiped away her tears and shouted at the four with more bluster than courage, "How dare you speak to my lord like that!? Get down on your knees and beg for mercy! My lord may yet spare your lives!"

"This is truly laughable."

"A mere True Immortal..."

"Beg for mercy? Heh."

"Let's kill them."

The four saw this and looked even more disdainful. After muttering among themselves, they said grimly in unison, "Today, you and your so-called lord will become our food!"

With that, all four of them moved at once, lunging to kill Li Xuan and Moon Rabbit.

"My lord..."

Moon Rabbit was, after all, afraid of the four. They had been chasing her all this way.

She had also watched them kill many of her beast friends, and the sight had left a deep shadow in her heart.

Now, seeing them charge toward her, their imposing auras brimming with killing intent, she didn't run only because she trusted Li Xuan.

Even so, she couldn't help raising her little hand and clutching the hem of Li Xuan's robe, her face full of fear.

But then a hand patted her tightly clenched fist.

At the same time, a voice tinged with laughter reached her ears.

"This is no fun. I was hoping to show off, and you just charged in? Couldn't you at least talk a little longer?"

Moon Rabbit raised her head at the sound and looked at Li Xuan.

Before her eyes, her lord casually lifted a hand and waved it toward the four beings of the Scaled Tribe.

Then he turned to her with a kindly smile and said, "Let's go back."

When she looked again at the four beings of the Scaled Tribe...

They had disappeared...

"M-My lord..."

Moon Rabbit's voice trembled violently.

She had known her lord was powerful.

But she hadn't expected him to be this powerful!

With a wave of his hand, four Mystic Immortal Level 10 beings...

Had been reduced to ashes?

"Let's go back."

Li Xuan smiled calmly, radiating the air of a peerless expert.

With his other hand, he quietly put away the Qiankun Diagram.

Then, with his hands behind his back, he strode off toward the mountain.

Hmph. So what if I'm a True Immortal?

How dare they look down on me?

I've got a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Qiankun Diagram. Do you?

Muttering to himself, Li Xuan headed back up the mountain.

Bright Rabbit followed behind him like a newlywed bride. The shock on her face gradually faded, replaced by boundless admiration.

"Ding."

"Choice System activated."

"Choice one: Take Bright Rabbit as your wife or concubine. Completion reward: one thousand years' worth of cultivation experience, one Great Luo Creation Pill, and three times cultivation speed for ten thousand years."

"Choice two: Never take Bright Rabbit as your wife or concubine. Completion reward: ten thousand years' worth of cultivation experience, one Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, and five times cultivation speed for ten thousand years."

As he flew back, Li Xuan heard the Choice System's voice in his ear once more.

This choice left him completely stunned.

"What is this? You're asking me to choose this?"

He turned his head to look at Bright Rabbit, his eyes thoughtful.

Bright Rabbit blushed under Li Xuan's gaze. She blinked her big eyes, then lowered her head without saying a word.

She was certainly beautiful. With her rabbit ears standing upright, she looked even more alluring and adorable.

Who could resist a cute, beautiful rabbit woman who had transformed into human form?

So Li Xuan immediately selected choice two.

"But the thing is, I never even thought about taking her as my wife. What are you thinking, System? This is a freebie..."

Li Xuan smiled kindly at Bright Rabbit, then turned away and silently muttered to himself, rolling his eyes.

"Choice completed: Never take Bright Rabbit as your wife or concubine. Reward received: ten thousand years' worth of cultivation experience, one Nine Revolutions Golden Pill, and five times cultivation speed for ten thousand years."

As the voice sounded in his ear, Li Xuan felt a wave of warmth slowly rise within his body.

With ten thousand years' worth of cultivation added to him, his cultivation instantly advanced from the third level of the True Immortal Realm to the seventh.

At the same time, a bean-sized pill, gleaming with a faint golden light and giving off a fragrant aroma, appeared before him.

The Nine Revolutions Golden Pill!

This was a treasure. The Supreme Pure Morality Heavenly Venerate—Laozi himself—hadn't even been born yet.

That meant his Nine Revolutions Golden Pill was one of a kind in all the world!

The effects of the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill went without saying.

Bringing the dead back to life and restoring flesh to bare bones were trivial matters.

Even if a Grand Unity Golden Immortal suffered a fatal injury, swallowing one Nine Revolutions Golden Pill could restore them to full health on the spot.

Li Xuan hadn't yet cultivated to the Mystic Immortal Realm, so he couldn't use the Subtle Mustard Seed Divine Ability.

So he could only tuck the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill safely against his body, beaming with delight.

Next came the blessing of five times cultivation speed.

The fivefold boost felt quite wondrous. To Li Xuan, the spiritual energy around him immediately seemed more than twice as dense.

At the same time, he could absorb spiritual energy much faster than before.

Most importantly, he felt that he had become smarter!

His understanding of the Profound Creation Marvelous Art had deepened a little!

Yes! This was what an improvement in innate aptitude felt like!

After taking a deep breath and testing the change, Li Xuan and Moon Rabbit had already returned to the Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array.

"My lord is mighty!"

"My lord is mighty!"

"My lord is mighty!!"

First came an excited shout.

Then a wave of cheers, filled with excitement and reverence, swept across the entire mountain.

All the beings who hadn't yet transformed lay prostrate on the ground, looking at Li Xuan with awe and admiration as they shouted.