The Blissful Saint Son with a Green Hat

When Lu Chen returned to Waste-Pill Valley, dawn had already broken.

He began selecting Body-Tempering Pills.

He intended to use the Yin-Yang Cauldron to restore the Body-Tempering Pills and charge toward the Peak Copper Skin Realm.

Only once his body cultivation broke through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm would he truly possess the strength to protect himself.

Meanwhile, on a mountain ridge outside Hehuan Town.

"Miss, that person seemed to have appeared out of thin air. This subordinate found nothing at all."

A black-clad woman knelt on one knee before a white-clad woman whose back was turned toward her, speaking nervously.

"Oh, how interesting!"

The woman in white turned around. She was none other than the "Ru Hua" who had used the alias Qin Feiyan and been beaten into having panda eyes by Lu Chen.

Her features began changing rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, she transformed from "Ru Hua" into a "fairy!"

She was a fairy-like beauty, except for the pair of panda eyes on her face.

"I had heard that a Supreme Heavenly Spirit Root had appeared here, so I came to take a look. Who would have thought I would discover such an interesting person as well? This trip down the mountain for experience has finally yielded something."

The woman in white spoke calmly.

"Miss, your... your eyes..."

When the black-clad woman saw the panda eyes on the white-clad woman's face, she was instantly terrified.

Someone had actually dared to strike their young miss?

That was simply outrageously audacious.

"It's nothing. I accidentally bumped into something."

The woman in white waved a hand dismissively.

"You bumped into something?"

The black-clad woman clearly did not believe her.

Since her miss would not explain, she did not dare ask further.

"Miss, that Supreme Heavenly Spirit Root is currently in Hehuan Town. Why not bring them back to the sect right away? Your master will surely be overjoyed."

The black-clad woman said.

"Are you teaching me how to do things?"

The woman in white said coldly.

"I wouldn't dare!"

The black-clad woman was immediately filled with terror and sprawled flat on the ground.

"Send someone at once to investigate that mysterious alchemy master who appeared in Hehuan Town. Whether it is that person or the Supreme Heavenly Spirit Root, neither will escape the palm of my, Li Yunsheng's, hand."

The woman in white spoke indifferently.

A powerful aura surged forth from her body.

The black-clad woman lying on the ground immediately found it hard to breathe, as if a great mountain had suddenly pressed down upon her.

"Yes, Miss!"

She became even more terrified.

Her miss's cultivation had improved again.

Who else could compete with her miss for the position of holy maiden of the Grand Void Immortal Sect?

Yet Li Yunsheng did not know that she was destined to come up empty-handed that night.

Lu Chen was about to enter seclusion.

"Master is entering seclusion?"

Upon receiving the news, Liu Yan'er felt miserable.

She had just ordered someone to gather a set of spiritual herbs for refining the Nine-Turn Boundary-Breaking Pill, only to find that Lu Chen had entered seclusion.

At that moment, an unwelcome guest suddenly arrived at the House of Ten Thousand Beauties.

It was the Blissful Saint Son of the Blissful Sect, Zhou Tianqi.

"Your chastity mark..."

In the rear courtyard of the House of Ten Thousand Beauties, Zhou Tianqi was shocked to discover that the chastity mark on Liu Yan'er's arm had disappeared.

The disappearance of the chastity mark could only prove one thing.

Liu Yan'er had lost her virginity.

"Who was it? Who the hell was it..."

Zhou Tianqi interrogated Liu Yan'er.

"Who it was has nothing to do with you."

Liu Yan'er said disdainfully.

"Nothing to do with me? Do you know that every generation of saint sons and holy maidens in the Blissful Sect must become husband and wife before they can cultivate the sect's supreme art, the Blissful Canon? You fucking dared to put a green hat on me?"

Zhou Tianqi exploded with rage.

"You still have the nerve to talk about me? Do you think I don't know how wildly you play? Those two maidservants you brought with you are actually your lovers, aren't they? You can sneak around and feast in secret all you want, so why should I keep myself pure for you?"

Liu Yan'er sneered.

"You..."

Zhou Tianqi was beside himself with fury.

"I'm a man. What's wrong with having three wives and four concubines?"

Zhou Tianqi roared.

"Then I'm a woman. What's wrong with having three husbands and four male favorites?"

Liu Yan'er shot back directly.

"..."

Zhou Tianqi was so frustrated he nearly vomited blood.

"Fine, fine, fine. Keep talking tough. Let's see how you explain yourself to the sect leader and all the elders."

Zhou Tianqi flung his sleeves and stormed away.

"How I explain myself to the sect leader is my business. I won't trouble you, Blissful Saint Son, to worry over it."

Liu Yan'er called loudly after Zhou Tianqi's retreating figure.

"I'm fucking furious..."

Zhou Tianqi left the House of Ten Thousand Beauties directly, then found an inn in Hehuan Town and checked in.

He summoned one of his trusted subordinates.

"Investigate it for me. No matter who it is, anyone who dares touch my, Zhou Tianqi's, woman must die!"

Zhou Tianqi gritted his teeth.

This was the greatest humiliation of his life.

He, the dignified saint son of the Blissful Sect, had actually been made to wear a green hat.

If word got out, where would he put his face?

Lu Chen had no idea that he had provoked the Blissful Saint Son.

He picked out all the discarded Advanced Body-Tempering Pills stored in Waste Pill Repositories No. 18, No. 17, and No. 16.

Then he used the Yin-Yang Cauldron to restore those discarded pills.

Consuming one strand of Yin-Yang Essence could restore six discarded Advanced Body-Tempering Pills.

He directly consumed ten strands of Yin-Yang Essence and restored sixty discarded Body-Tempering Pills.

Before restoring the discarded pills, he had 546 strands of Yin-Yang Essence.

Now, he had 536 remaining.

"Sixty Body-Tempering Pills. Even the worst are lower sixth-grade, while the best are upper fourth-grade. I refuse to believe that sixty Advanced Body-Tempering Pills still can't help me break through to the Peak Copper Skin Realm."

He had never imagined that one day he would eat such high-grade pills as though they were food.

The Sect Grand Tournament was the day after tomorrow.

After the Sect Grand Tournament, the Black Tortoise Sect would move to annex the Joyful Union Sect.

He had to raise his cultivation as quickly as possible in order to protect himself.

Of course, he would still participate in the Sect Grand Tournament.

At this time, every disciple in the Joyful Union Sect was nervously preparing for the Sect Grand Tournament.

No one had the time to pay attention to Lu Chen, the menial disciple guarding the Waste Pill Repository.

"Begin!"

Lu Chen sat cross-legged on the ground and began swallowing pills.

At this moment, within the Joyful Union Secret Realm of the Joyful Union Sect.

Jiang Yingyue sat cross-legged before an alchemy furnace.

She was not refining pills.

Her entire body was in an unfathomable, mysterious state.

She suddenly opened her eyes.

Two beams of light burst from her eyes like cold lightning.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around her gathered toward her like madness, actually forming an enormous vortex of spiritual energy above her head.

Jiang Yingyue's body was like a bottomless black hole, frantically devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within the Joyful Union Secret Realm.

This process continued for more than an hour.

"I never expected that I, Jiang Yingyue, would break through to the Peak Golden Core at such a time..."

Jiang Yingyue exhaled a breath of turbid air.

She sensed the vast new power within her body.

At this moment, she was incomparably calm.

She had finally gained insight from those two sage-like words Lu Chen had uttered while showing off, taking the step that had troubled her for years.

"Congratulations, Martial Aunt, on advancing to the Peak Golden Core..."

Ye Chenyu walked over.

She was envious.

If only she had been the one who attained enlightenment.

If she took another step forward, she would shatter her Golden Core and form a Nascent Soul, ascending to the heavens in a single step and becoming a Nascent Soul ancestor.

Unfortunately, in such a short time, she had failed to comprehend anything from the two sentences Jiang Yingyue had brought back.

"Have all the spiritual herbs for refining the Nascent Soul Pill been gathered?"

Jiang Yingyue looked at Ye Chenyu.

"They have been gathered, but only enough for one batch of pills..."

Ye Chenyu sighed.

Among the spiritual herbs needed to refine the Nascent Soul Pill, the main ingredient, Soul-Condensing Grass, was difficult to find. The other supplementary spiritual herbs were not hard to obtain.

Only the Soul-Condensing Grass needed to be at least a thousand years old for its medicinal efficacy to reach its best state.

"The Sect Grand Tournament is the day after tomorrow. After it is over, I will begin refining pills. Continue gathering spiritual herbs for the Nascent Soul Pill!"

As Jiang Yingyue spoke, she resumed cultivating to consolidate her cultivation.

"How is the matter of purchasing Foundation Establishment Pills progressing?"

Jiang Yingyue asked.

"Reporting to Martial Aunt, that mysterious master at the foot of the mountain has ordered Foundation Establishment Pills to be sold, but the price... is three thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones per pill..."

Ye Chenyu said solemnly.

"Buy them... Even if they cost five thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones each, we must buy them..."

Jiang Yingyue said through gritted teeth.

"There were five in total. I already bought them all!"

Ye Chenyu said.

Five pills cost fifteen thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones.

Those were High-Grade Spirit Stones.

The output of High-Grade Spirit Stones was very low.

The Joyful Union Sect possessed three spirit stone mines, and those fifteen thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones were equivalent to ten years of production from all three mines.

But compared to the survival of the sect, what did this amount of spirit stones matter?

"Well done!"

Jiang Yingyue nodded in satisfaction.

With this, they could use Foundation Establishment Pills to help inner sect disciples break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

If all went smoothly, they would at least possess the strength to protect themselves.

Yet Hehuan Town at the foot of the mountain had erupted into an uproar.

Everyone found it impossible to believe.

Someone had actually been willing to buy Foundation Establishment Pills priced at three thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones each.

Less than half a day after Zhao Hong put out five Foundation Establishment Pills, all five had been bought by a mysterious buyer.

Zhao Hong was utterly depressed.

He had never dreamed that Foundation Establishment Pills would be so sought after.

Had he known earlier, he would have priced them at five thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones each, perhaps even six or seven thousand.

Now that he carried fifteen thousand High-Grade Spirit Stones on him, he was nervous beyond measure, afraid of being robbed. He directly took up residence in the House of Ten Thousand Beauties instead of returning to his Divine Armory Pavilion.

That night, Li Yunsheng became Ru Hua once more and, under the alias Qin Feiyan, went to the House of Ten Thousand Beauties to seek out the mysterious master Lu Chen.

"He entered seclusion?"

Li Yunsheng was turned away.

At that moment, the House of Ten Thousand Beauties' main hall had long since become a complete mess.

Countless people who had come to seek pills from the mysterious master could no longer sit still.

"My master has merely entered seclusion... There is no need for anyone to be anxious, no need to be nervous..."

Zhao Hong shouted.

The clamorous hall immediately fell silent.

Meanwhile, some mysterious cultivators began appearing in Hehuan Town.

Experts from the Blissful Sect had also arrived near the Joyful Union Sect.

"Looks like the show is about to begin..."

Li Yunsheng smiled. She had truly come at just the right time.

"Liu Yan'er, do you know your crime?"

The unfathomable leader of the Blissful Sect suddenly arrived at the House of Ten Thousand Beauties.

Accompanying him was Zhou Tianqi, the Blissful Sect's holy son whom Lu Chen had cuckolded.