Collecting thunderous baleful intent, strange insects laying eggs; [Quasi-Third Tier] Pill Dao, all main ingredients gathered (ten thousand words-monthly votes requested)

[Perching Moon Island], inside the guest room of the cave abode.

The fierce flashes of lightning were gone, and the anguished howls and cries of pain had ceased. Everything grew quiet.

Only Lin Changheng remained standing sternly, while Deng Changsheng knelt and kowtowed, his entire body drenched in sweat as though he had just been fished out of a pool.

"Mm."

Lin Changheng calmly accepted Deng Changsheng's kneeling thanks, making no attempt to step aside or immediately help him up.

Five breaths passed like this. Just as Deng Changsheng began to lose his strength and could barely hold on, Lin Changheng withdrew his gaze with a faint change of expression and finally moved.

"Whoosh..."

A gentle current of magical power swept over, helping Deng Changsheng up and laying him flat. Then Lin Changheng spoke mildly, his tone confident and assured: "Rest for two days first. You may freely use whatever healing supplies you have. Before long, you will be walking without difficulty and restored to full strength."

"Yes, my lord!"

Deng Changsheng readily obeyed.

Nodding, Lin Changheng turned to leave, but his previously calm gaze abruptly sharpened and grew cold.

While extracting the lightning to save him, Lin Changheng had not recklessly sent magical power probing through the other man's body, but contact had been unavoidable.

Moreover, the thunderous baleful intent was fierce. At the instant the last of it was forcibly extracted, although Deng Changsheng had guarded his mind tightly, Lin Changheng still sensed a trace of an unusual soul aura.

It did not belong to Deng Changsheng and appeared to have leaked from the direction of his sea of consciousness.

Lin Changheng was exceptionally sensitive to this. After all, he had previously experienced a false core demon cultivator's attempt to possess him, and the connection immediately came to