Chapter 74

Chen Dasheng was taken aback, looking at Li Chunyang who smiled silently, and said in surprise, "Brother, he can't be serious, can he?"

Li Chunyang patted Chen Dasheng on the shoulder and sighed, "Brother, your injuries haven't fully healed yet, but I have to ask for your help again."

Chen Dasheng's eyes widened, and he suddenly burst out laughing, "Ha ha, I never thought that I, Chen Dasheng, would actually have an iron armor suit! If Brother gives the order, just command me, I dare not refuse!"

Li Chunyang nodded and said, "We'll discuss this matter in detail later."

He turned his head and stared at Li Yunxiao, his eyes glowing green as if he were looking at a treasure trove, and chuckled a few times.

Li Yunxiao felt a bit uneasy under his gaze and asked warily, "What are you looking at?"

Li Chunyang said with satisfaction, "You really are a second-level alchemist, I truly believe it now!"

Suddenly, his tone changed, revealing a greedy look as he squinted his eyes and smiled, "As a second-level alchemist, you must have some good things, right? The pill that Ji Meng took to instantly break through to the Martial Lord realm, I was really fooled by you at first, but now I think you must have made it yourself, right? What was that Qian Niao Pill you gave Ji Meng? I'm your grandfather, so my treatment can't be lower than Ji Meng's."

It turned out he was here to extort!

Li Yunxiao smiled bitterly, "What good things do I have?"

Li Chunyang's face immediately darkened, and he scolded, "No good things? Where is the Li family's treasury? Give me an explanation!" He was so angry that he puffed out his cheeks and glared, "Heaven! Our Li family's accumulation over a hundred years has been emptied by you! Even if it were emptied, the treasury should still be there! Heaven, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it! Are you so poor that you even moved the cave?"

"This..."

Li Yunxiao broke out in a cold sweat. He hadn't planned to tell anyone about the World God Stele. Seeing Li Chunyang's predatory gaze, he finally took out a bottle of pills and handed it over, "This is the Qian Niao Pill, a pill that stimulates human potential through toxicity. After taking it, the body will feel extremely uncomfortable, but once the effects wear off, there will be no problems, and it won't leave any side effects."

The Qian Niao Pill's effect on him was weakening, so it wasn't very useful to keep it, and he generously handed it over.

"A potential-stimulating pill with no side effects?" Li Chunyang was overjoyed, took it, and put it in his pocket, continuing to stare at Li Yunxiao with squinted eyes.

"Damn! You're not going to keep squeezing me, are you? People usually give things to their juniors."

"Where is the treasury? Where is the cave?"

"This is a bottle of Yulin Pill, which can clear the mind and dispel distractions during cultivation, breaking through all mental barriers!"

"What? A pill that can dispel mental barriers?"

Li Chunyang quickly snatched it, unscrewed the cap, and sniffed it, then incredulously put it in his pocket. In cultivation, the most feared thing is mental barriers. If one cannot dispel distractions and remain true to oneself, cultivation can be harmful rather than beneficial, let alone improve one's realm.

Such pills are never available on the market; no one would sell them.

After extorting two bottles of pills, Li Chunyang stopped. After all, Li Yunxiao was his grandson, and he couldn't drain him completely; there would be plenty of opportunities in the future. Li Yunxiao shuddered at his pig-like gaze.

Li Chunyang suddenly chuckled, "All the guests are here, let's go out." His divine sense covered the entire Li family estate, and nothing escaped his notice.

Xiao Qingwang, Luo Yunshang, Jia Rong, and Ji Meng were already arranged in the meeting hall by Li Baifeng, with various teas and pastries laid out.

When Li Chunyang and Chen Dasheng walked in, Xiao Qingwang's pupils constricted, and he suddenly stood up, staring at them in shock, "You're Chen Dasheng? Li kid, you've advanced to the Martial King realm?"

Luo Yunshang wasn't familiar with Chen Dasheng, so she didn't have much emotional fluctuation, but when she heard that Li Chunyang had advanced to the Martial King realm, her eyes showed shock.

Chen Dasheng looked melancholy, as if reminiscing, and smiled bitterly, "King Qing, we haven't seen each other for five years."

Xiao Qingwang stared at him for a while and said solemnly, "Back then, you were infected with the extreme cold virus and were supposed to be dead, right?"

Chen Dasheng shook his head and smiled bitterly. After Li Chunyang helped him sit down, he sighed and explained the whole story.

Xiao Qingwang was furious, "Li kid, why didn't you come to me back then? If this was really the emperor's doing, I would never have stood by and done nothing!"

Li Chunyang sighed, "Back then, you were also severely injured, and your own condition was a problem. At that time, I had just advanced to the Martial Lord realm and didn't have the strength to handle this matter, so I had to hide Dasheng."

Xiao Qingwang was silent for a moment. In recent years, his influence had gradually declined. Although he still had the title of Martial King, his power was waning, and even the five teams of national guards were beyond his control. He looked at Chen Dasheng and then at Li Yunxiao, his eyes shining with a keen light, and asked directly, "Young Master Yun, have you found a way to heal injuries?"

Li Yunxiao nodded, "Yes, I've refined a pill called the Mystic Fire Pill, which can suppress the extreme cold toxicity, but its grade is too low, only second-level, so its effect is limited. To fully recover, it would require Master Luo's Yang energy to assist."

He played with the bottle in his hand, his eyes wandering, and said, "If I can completely cure Commander Xiao's injury, I hope Commander Xiao can do something for our Li family."

Xiao Qingwang was overjoyed, as a long-standing problem finally had a solution. But after hearing Li Yunxiao's words, he fell into deep thought and finally said, "I understand. When one receives a favor, one must repay it. I can unconditionally agree to three things for you, as long as they don't put me in too much difficulty."

"Good, three things are enough!" Li Yunxiao's eyes shone with determination, and he laughed, handing the bottle of Mystic Fire Pills to Xiao Qingwang with both hands.

Luo Yunshang didn't seem to care about these matters, but she was shocked and said, "You, you refined a second-level pill? How, how did you do it?"

Li Yunxiao didn't know how to explain, so he shrugged and said with a helpless look, "I don't know, I just accidentally refined it. Luck, luck."

After a brief moment of shock, Luo Yunshang returned to normal, her eyes showing a hint of curiosity, and she shook her head, "I see, you've been pretending all along, even fooling me. I used to worry about you a lot."

Li Yunxiao was touched. He knew that Luo Yunshang had genuinely cared for him in the past, but when he learned that her dream lover was his former self, he felt a strange sensation and found it awkward and unnatural to be around her. He sincerely said, "Thank you, Master Luo, for everything you've done for Yunxiao. This time, if you help Grandfather Chen and Commander Xiao recover from their internal injuries, our Li family will certainly provide a satisfactory reward."

Luo Yunshang shook her head, "Commander Xiao and Grandfather Chen are the pillars of the nation. Helping them is my duty. There's no need for a reward. If you ever have inspiration, don't forget to play the Guangling Scatter for me, I really want to hear it." Her expression was calm, but when she mentioned the "Guangling Scatter," her eyes showed a slight ripple.

Li Yunxiao's heart seemed to ripple with the same emotion, and he was startled, quickly looking away and bowing his head, "I will definitely play it for you."

His words were somewhat dejected, and Luo Yunshang, after a moment of surprise, nodded lightly and said nothing more.

After further discussion, they decided to stay at the Li family estate. Li Yunxiao entrusted Jia Rong with the treatment and gave him some instructions before going into seclusion.

The next morning, Li Chunyang went to court early to request the military order.

This was Li Yunxiao's first time entering the Li family's training room, which was much grander than the Jialan Academy's, but it lacked a gravity array. However, he had the Black Girl Great Sword, which provided ten times the gravity in its normal state.

According to his original estimate, he was cultivating the most advanced techniques and the most correct methods, and with these intensities, he should have advanced to the Martial Master realm long ago, even without any special opportunities. However, after absorbing Meng Bai's strange poison and the righteous energy cultivated by a hundred scholars over many years, he was still only at the Seven-Star Martial Warrior level.

This puzzled him greatly!

"Phew!"

Li Yunxiao took a deep breath, formed a hand seal, and focused his mind, sinking his divine sense into his dantian and the World God Stele.

After using the eye technique, the World God Stele seemed to have an unusual reaction, and the space within it allowed the Great Derivation Divine Technique to fully manifest, making him eager to unlock its potential.

His divine sense materialized within the World God Stele, forming his true self, standing quietly in the independent space.

"I've seen many hidden spaces in mystic weapons, all of which are simple spatial laws condensed into objects through arrays, but these spaces are all dead..."

Li Yunxiao muttered, looking at the floating clouds in the sky, the clear and bright sky, and sighed, "The space here is like a self-contained world, a secret realm, it seems... to be alive?"

He was one hundred percent sure that the refining technique of the World God Stele was far beyond his understanding!

"Throughout the entire Heavenly Martial Continent, the one who could refine something like the World God Stele..."

He frowned in deep thought, his eyes flashing with a keen light, and said solemnly, "Is absolutely unique!"

Li Yunxiao gently stepped on the ground, quietly sensing the spatial vibrations. He stared at his own body for a while and muttered, "To be able to materialize the divine sense without it dispersing, and to directly manifest the soul, the rules within the World God Stele seem different from the outside world."

He walked around freely, made a few movements, and his expression suddenly became strange.