Kill the Chicken to Warn the Monkey

What came into Lin Xuan's view was a valley. At the same time, a burst of life energy carried fresh air straight toward him.

Lin Xuan looked up and saw that the valley was as gorgeous and captivating as if it had been illuminated by a rainbow.

The distant cliff walls were covered in deep-blue vines, making the entire rock face look as though it had been forged from gemstones that glimmered with seven-colored light.

The valley itself was not particularly large, yet all kinds of plants grew within it. Looking across it, there were so many colors that they were impossible to count.

All kinds of beautiful flowers competed in splendor, and all kinds of vegetation bore abundant fruit. Many plants even radiated treasure light of varying intensity. Even by sight alone, one could tell they were extraordinary.

Most astonishing of all was a lake surrounded by these plants.

The lake was clearly divided into two halves. One side was icy white, giving off a faint mist, while the other was fiery red, with the light above it slightly distorted.

Red and white, like two enormous pieces of jade embedded in the earth.

The rich life energy in the air filled every corner of the valley through their evaporation.

"Okay, this is the place." Lin Xuan looked at the yin-yang hotpot below, the corners of his mouth rising slightly as he muttered, "Twin-born from one spring, the two forces restrain each other—the Icefire Yin Yang Well. Tang San, no matter how well you hid it, it was useless. I'm a man with cheats."

"Sister Bing'er, let's head down first." Lin Xuan turned to the Ice Empress and spoke to her before stomping hard on the ground and taking the lead in jumping down.

Boom!

Lin Xuan landed heavily in the valley. The powerful impact produced a dull boom from the ground and sent a large cloud of dust flying.

The instant Lin Xuan's feet touched the ground, an abundance of heaven and earth energy, so dense it was nearly tangible, surged over him like a tide and instantly enveloped his entire body.

Lin Xuan focused his gaze and discovered all kinds of plants spread around him in countless forms, making the place seem like a paradise for vegetation.

"It really is an excellent place for refining medicine. If I refine pills here, the success rate can increase significantly." Feeling the incredibly dense heaven and earth energy around him, Lin Xuan clicked his tongue in amazement and could not help praising it aloud.

If Lin Xuan had previously only possessed a sixty percent chance of successfully refining the Transformation Pill, then he could now raise that confidence to seventy percent, or even eighty percent!

Not long after Lin Xuan jumped into the valley, the Ice Empress, Snow Empress, and Wang Qiu'er arrived one after another.

"This place... Husband, how did you find it?" Wang Qiu'er turned toward Lin Xuan, her red lips parting as she could not help asking.

"Yeah! Little Xuan! I feel this place is even better than the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Cave!" The Ice Empress looked at the various rare flowers and exotic herbs within the Icefire Yin Yang Well and could not help exclaiming in admiration.

"Who are you? How dare you trespass here? You truly have a death wish!" Just as Lin Xuan was about to say something, a clear female voice suddenly rang throughout the valley.

Lin Xuan and the others straightened slightly before looking in the direction from which the voice had come.

At the source of the voice stood a large pale-pink flower. It had no leaves, and its stem was nearly a zhang long. The blossom was enormous, with every petal as translucent and crystalline as crystal.

The pale-pink flower swayed gently with the mist, growing on the shore where the red and white spring waters met.

"Aromatic Silk Beauty?" Lin Xuan recognized the pale-pink flower at once. After all, the thing was far too distinctive.

"Who are we? I'm your father!" Lin Xuan shouted back.

"Oh, Father. So you're my father." Aromatic Silk Beauty replied instinctively.

"Eh? That's not right!" Aromatic Silk Beauty froze before realizing she had been tricked. She immediately roared, "Human with a death wish, being able to come here is your good fortune! But if you continue trying to provoke me, then don't blame me for being rude!"

"Sister Xue'er, kill it." Hearing Aromatic Silk Beauty's threat, Lin Xuan sneered disdainfully before turning to the Snow Empress.

"Fine." The Snow Empress gave a light nod, then looked coldly at Aromatic Silk Beauty and struck toward it from afar with her palm!

Emperor Palm! Great Cold, No Snow!

As the Snow Empress brought down her palm, a cold, stern shout escaped her red lips.

The next moment, an enormous icy palm dozens of zhang wide condensed above Aromatic Silk Beauty before crashing straight down!

"Ah! Don't! Don't kill me! We can talk this out! Aaaahhh!" Seeing the Snow Empress attack without another word, Aromatic Silk Beauty begged in terror.

Boom!

There was no suspense whatsoever. The Snow Empress's Emperor Palm smashed Aromatic Silk Beauty, along with its screams, into the ground. The instant the palm landed, the entire Icefire Yin Yang Well shook violently with a deep rumble.

Immediately, vast Soul Power fluctuations mixed with bone-piercing cold swept outward from the point where the Emperor Palm had struck, blasting numerous immortal herbs out of the soil within the Icefire Yin Yang Well and kicking up clouds of dust.

As the dust slowly dispersed, a huge pit had appeared where Aromatic Silk Beauty had once stood. The pit was shaped like a palm print. Aromatic Silk Beauty was gone, leaving only a crystalline pale-pink Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring floating quietly in the air.

Aromatic Silk Beauty had perished!

"Those who resist will die!" The Snow Empress slowly withdrew her jade-like hand. Her ice-blue eyes swept over the other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts within the Icefire Yin Yang Well as a cold shout left her slightly parted red lips.

"Can't see me... can't see me... I'm just a weed... I'm just a weed... I'm Blue Silver Grass, I'm Blue Silver Grass... I'm worthless grass... I'm worthless grass..."

Seeing Lin Xuan and the others attack at the slightest disagreement, the remaining immortal herbs all buried their heads deep in the soil, terrified that Lin Xuan and the others would turn their attention to them and leave them with the same fate as Aromatic Silk Beauty.

"Those who understand the times are the wise ones. I hope you can behave yourselves as well." A wicked glint flashed through Lin Xuan's purple-black eyes as he said calmly, "Otherwise, I can guarantee that you'll end up just like Aromatic Silk Beauty."

After seeing that the Snow Empress's execution of Aromatic Silk Beauty had achieved its intended intimidation, Lin Xuan grinned. He first stored the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone dropped by Aromatic Silk Beauty inside his Storage Ring, then turned his gaze toward the remaining immortal herbs.