On the journey from Mount Taihua to Cloud Province, Luo Jianqing listened to Li Xiuchen’s quiet complaints.Luo Jianqing’s hearing was excellent, every word of Li Xiuchen’s complaints fell into his ears. Initially, it was just about complaining about how unlucky he always was. Later, he started to analyze with some intelligence: “Why do I always run into trouble? When I went to the Northern Dipper Ruins, I didn’t get anything. Then, at the Ten Thousand Beasts Ridge, I saw that pill, but suddenly passed out. When I woke up, I was already at the foot of the mountain, and the pill was gone.”Li Xiuchen’s ability to think this way already surprised Luo Jianqing greatly. In Luo Jianqing’s mind, he still remembered eight years ago when he first met Li Xiuchen, the other party was basically a brainless fool. Now, being able to think back, it was already a qualitative breakthrough.However, being able to realize something was wrong was already Li Xiuchen’s limit; he couldn’t figure out why all of this was happening.When they arrived at Cloud Province, it was dusk.The Xuantian Continent is divided into one mountain, thirty-six provinces, eight major dangerous areas, and sixteen barren lands.The one mountain refers to Mount Taihua, located in the center of the entire continent. As for the thirty-six provinces, they are where the human race collectively resides. As for the eight major dangerous areas, Luo Jianqing had once fled to one of them in his past life, the far north, and was eventually found by his second senior brother and sixth senior brother. And the icy wasteland where Mo Qiu grew up is one of the sixteen barren lands.Cloud Province is not particularly wealthy or powerful among the thirty-six provinces; it is just a medium-sized province. The terrain is flat, with no dangerous areas, and none of the four sects, eight major aristocratic families, or sixteen sects have developed here. Only numerous small sects grow freely on this land.If we must talk about what’s special about Cloud Province, it’s that it borders the Demonic Palace.The Demonic Palace is the most unique place in the human territory. It doesn’t belong to the thirty-six provinces; it’s the paradise for demonic cultivators.Everyone knows that unless it’s during the inter-tribal wars, demonic cultivators and other cultivators are sworn enemies. But since the appearance of the Demon Ancestor, this formidable figure established the Demonic Palace, once leading demonic cultivators to seize territories of three provinces. It was only when the elder from Mount Taihua, the then Peak Master of Yuxiao Peak, intervened that the war was halted.Since then, demonic cultivators have had a safe haven—the Demonic Palace.This event has been forgotten by many for over three thousand years. Luo Jianqing remembers it because the elder who intervened was his own sect ancestor, Master Xuanling.Although super-quality aptitude is said to appear only once every thousand years, it’s not guaranteed. Master Xuanling’s teacher was not of super-quality aptitude; he waited for three thousand years to find one. Fortunately, Master Xuanling only waited three hundred years to find Luo Jianqing.Luo Jianqing knows that righteous cultivators claim it was their ancestor who repelled the Demon Ancestor. But the truth is quite the opposite. When Luo Jianqing was young, Master Xuanling once told him, “The Demon Ancestor is someone to be feared; he defeated your ancestor.”At that time, Master Xuanling had already reached the Nascent Soul stage. His ability to evaluate a cultivator of the later stage of Grand Completion like that was enough to show how formidable the Demon Ancestor was.It’s widely known that the Demon Ancestor killed countless people in his lifetime, and his cultivation path was paved with the blood of countless individuals. He was a complete demon, but this didn’t diminish his legend because the Demon Ancestor had a low-grade aptitude.The extent of how terrible a low-grade aptitude is can be seen from the fact that among the Seven Sons of Mount Taihua, even the one with the poorest aptitude, Zuo Yunmo, has a superior-grade aptitude. The other five all have supreme-grade aptitudes, and Luo Jianqing himself has a super-quality aptitude.Yet, despite being a demonic cultivator who theoretically should never break through the Nascent Soul stage, the Demon Ancestor became the Demon Ancestor.Upon setting foot in Cloud Province, Luo Jianqing thought of all this. Although he hadn’t seen the Demon Ancestor, he knew quite a bit about him. And this time, Luo Jianqing already knew why Li Xiuchen had come to Cloud Province.In “Seeking Immortality II,” it’s stated that Li Xiuchen is here to take his third harem.She’s a cold-blooded and ruthless girl, dressed in black. Her clothes don’t show any blood when splattered. She always strikes suddenly while smiling gently, without using any weapons, just bare-handedly taking out her opponent’s heart. Looking at the bloody, still-beating heart, the beautiful girl still smiles, but she’s as terrifying as a demon.She’s the disciple of the Demon Ancestor, the witch Yunxiang of the Demonic Palace.Once in Cloud Province, Luo Jianqing naturally concealed his aura. After some thought, he took out a silver mask from his storage ring and put it on his face.Luo Jianqing followed behind Li Xiuchen, watching him enter an inn. This time, Luo Jianqing wasn’t in a hurry; he walked down another street and stayed in another inn.Cloud Province, being close to the Demonic Palace, often has cultivators walking around the city to maintain order. The common people have long been accustomed to these cultivators. Cultivators come in all sorts of peculiar characters, so Luo Jianqing wearing a mask didn’t attract any attention.In the city, the city lord is at least at the Core Formation stage, and Cloud Province also has three medium-sized sects with decent strength. Here, Luo Jianqing didn’t dare to be too reckless. He calmly took his room token and entered his room, then began to meditate and cultivate.Three days later, a petite girl in black walked past Luo Jianqing’s inn with great arrogance. With each step she took, the silver bells on her body jingled. Along the way, the clear sound of the bells kept ringing, forming a cheerful melody.Although some people found it annoying, when they saw the girl’s cultivation level, they dared not to make a fuss.Golden Core stage!Such a young girl actually has the cultivation of the Golden Core stage! She must have a powerful background and must not be provoked!Luo Jianqing stood at the window on the second floor of the inn, overlooking the willfully beautiful girl. He watched her walk down the street and enter the inn where Li Xiuchen was staying. Watching this scene, Luo Jianqing didn’t have any other thoughts; he just smiled and curled his lips.Cloud Province is so vast, with more than a thousand inns. The “Seeking Immortality II” didn’t specify which inn it was, yet Yunxiang still went to the one where Li Xiuchen stayed. It seems the heavens truly favor Li Xiuchen.Without delay, Luo Jianqing left his room and went to the inn where Li Xiuchen was staying.Luo Jianqing walked directly into the adjacent tailor shop. The shopkeeper immediately welcomed him warmly, but Luo Jianqing said with a faint smile, “I’d like to stay here.” As he spoke, Luo Jianqing took out a gold ingot.So, Luo Jianqing stayed at the tailor shop next to the inn.With such proximity, Luo Jianqing wasn’t worried about others sensing his spiritual awareness. He quietly sent his spiritual awareness to the neighboring inn, and after searching around, he found that the cultivator with the highest cultivation level in the inn was an early Nascent Soul stage elder, while Li Xiuchen, surprisingly, was only at the early Foundation Establishment stage.Li Xiuchen stayed in Room No. 1 on the ground floor, while Yunxiang stayed in Room No. 1 above him.With only one floor between them, Li Xiuchen occasionally cultivated while most of the time either taking a bath or wandering outside. Naturally, he didn’t know that Yunxiang had already arrived at his upper level and set up a barrier around his room.This barrier was quite powerful; even Luo Jianqing with his strong spiritual awareness couldn’t break it, but he knew what Yunxiang was up to.According to the book, Yunxiang obtained a demonic treasure from a river outside Cloud Province. This treasure collected the resentment of the heavens and the earth. If she could resolve the resentment within it, it would become a top-grade magic treasure!Hiding in plain sight, Yunxiang was very confident in her barrier. It was a treasure bestowed upon her by the Demon Ancestor. She dared to guarantee that cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage couldn’t pierce through this barrier, so she intended to refine this treasure directly in Cloud Province.Meanwhile, Li Xiuchen practiced sporadically, asking for a bathtub from the inn every now and then. On the floor above him, Yunxiang carefully laid down the final formation of the barrier. In the neighboring tailor shop, Luo Jianqing automatically operated the “Nine Heavens Stealing Record,” constantly comprehending the laws of the world and seizing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.When Yunxiang took out the Soul Calling Banner from her storage pouch, Luojianqing suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards the direction of the inn.Though he couldn’t sense the Soul Calling Banner, he could feel a surge of intense resentment. It almost took on a tangible form, relentlessly assaulting Yunxiang’s barrier. Perhaps due to the overwhelming resentment, there was a strange change, and Luojianqing unexpectedly observed the scene inside Yunxiang’s room.He saw a charming and beautiful girl in black standing within the barrier. Confronting the rampant resentment, she taunted, “Do you really think you can break through my Demon Sealing Formation with just your meager strength? If you stop now, I won’t erase your consciousness. But if you persist, you will perish!”This domineering and disrespectful demeanor somehow seemed familiar to Luojianqing. He suddenly recalled the blood-red figure of Moqiu, then shook his head lightly, muttering to himself, “Yunxiang is just like Moqiu, so arrogant and self-centered. Perhaps this is how all demonic cultivators are?”Upon hearing Yunxiang’s words, the resentment finally turned its attention towards her.Yunxiang lifted her delicate chin, eyeing the resentment with disdain. The surging black resentment, as if feeling scorned, transformed into a dark mist and charged straight towards Yunxiang. Unfazed, Yunxiang retrieved a blood-red bell from her storage pouch. As she shook it, the resentment abruptly halted.”Scared now?” Yunxiang teased.The resentment trembled as if attempting to retaliate but dared not make a move.Yunxiang scoffed, “Are you really so weak and afraid? For ten years on the Mo Sha River, you took the lives of over a hundred people. Now you’re afraid to challenge me?”The resentment angrily pounded against the barrier.Yunxiang sneered, “You’re so ignorant of your own insignificance. Then perish!”With that, Yunxiang began shaking the bell vigorously. Though silent, ripples of unseen waves spread through the air, resembling ripples on water.The resentment, upon contact with these waves, screamed in agony, astonishing Luojianqing.”What kind of bell is that?” he wondered, amazed by its terrifying power, which made Yunxiang, a Golden Core stage cultivator, so formidable.The bell’s sound waves caused the resentment to writhe in pain, seemingly enduring cruel torture. Seeing this, Yunxiang chuckled softly, accelerating the bell’s frequency. Unexpectedly, the resentment let out a roar and madly charged towards her.Yunxiang’s eyes widened, her right hand forming a claw, and she swiftly slashed through the air, leaving behind a blood-red claw mark.The resentment was split in half by the claw mark but still surged towards Yunxiang.The two engaged in a fierce battle, with Yunxiang shaking the blood-red bell in her left hand while attacking with her right. Despite the continuous agonizing screams of the resentment, it relentlessly pursued Yunxiang, tearing her black clothing and revealing her fair shoulders and thighs.Witnessing this provocative scene, Luojianqing remained calm, knowing that soon Yunxiang would deliver the final blow to the resentment and exhaust herself, falling down to the next floor, right into Li Xiuchen’s bathtub.Yunxiang was barely dressed, while Li Xiuchen was not dressed at all!A young beauty falling from the sky and landing in your bathtub; how could Li Xiuchen not be shocked? As the story goes, he quickly lifted Yunxiang and placed her on the bed, but her lips accidentally brushed against something on his body.The book described it like this—”As he looked at the raggedly dressed, beautiful young woman, Li Xiuchen felt his blood rush downwards. The girl fell into the bathtub, her clothes soaked, outlining her voluptuous figure. Li Xiuchen silently repeated ‘don’t look,’ before lifting the girl out of the water. But as he emerged from the bathtub, something under him happened to touch the girl’s lips, and feeling the breath of that fragrance, Li Xiuchen couldn’t help but move, and the girl’s lips brushed against his body.”When Luojianqing reached this part, he felt nauseous, but he also knew that “Seeking Immortality” was always so vulgar and low. The book said that Li Xiuchen seemed to still have some humanity left. Even though he was intrigued by the unconscious beauty, he didn’t take advantage of Yunxiang. Instead, he shamelessly masturbated while staring at the nearly naked Yunxiang, splashing his essence onto her body.This time, even though Luojianqing had no fondness for demonic cultivators, he didn’t want to witness Li Xiuchen doing such disgusting things. Moreover, Yunxiang, unaware of what happened, believed Li Xiuchen was a good person because he saved her, so she gave him a way to contact her.However, Luojianqing couldn’t help but doubt, “Will Li Xiuchen really not take advantage of the unconscious Yunxiang?”No matter how he thought about it, Li Xiuchen didn’t seem like the type to resist temptation.At this moment, the fight on the second floor of the inn was nearing its end. Yunxiang’s clothes were torn to shreds by the resentment, and she was gasping heavily, her eyes narrowed with anger. Suddenly, she spat a mouthful of blood onto the blood-red bell.Instantly! The red light on the bell intensified, shaking even more violently.Seeing that the resentment was about to be dispersed, Yunxiang relaxed her guard. Immediately, Luojianqing took out the Frost Float Sword from his brow, intending to save Yunxiang. As expected, the resentment roared unwillingly, mustering its last bit of strength to launch an attack on Yunxiang.Luojianqing was about to step forward, but before he could leave the tailor shop, he saw a golden light piercing through the black mist.Luojianqing stopped in astonishment.Only to hear a gentle and soothing voice softly saying, “Amitabha, to dispel resentment and perform virtuous deeds is of the utmost merit. This Soul Calling Banner is too cruel. This monk will take it away and recite the ‘Lotus Sutra’ for ninety-nine days, hoping that the countless lost souls will soon be reborn.”Under the clear and bright azure sky, a young monk in a light-colored robe stood on Yunxiang’s windowsill, hands clasped together, calmly speaking. He took away the black Soul Calling Banner, his face serene with a faint smile, standing there as if floating on water, bringing a gentle breeze.Yunxiang stared at the monk in astonishment, while Luojianqing widened his eyes in surprise.This monk turned out to be in his seventies and in the Mid-Nascent Soul stage!