Cultivating Immortality Begins with Rejuvenation.

Chapter 177: It's so painful to keep it secret
His magic power exploded to the extreme, and the poison also quickly spread into his internal organs, but he still couldn't touch the corner of Li Ji'an's clothes.

Fu Hanxing's face turned increasingly darker.

This wasn't entirely due to anger, but also because poison had entered his heart meridians.

The poison has even spread throughout the face through the meridians and blood.

Faint blue-black poisonous lines covered his face, making it look even more hideous.

At the same time, his magical aura also declined rapidly.

After a moment, he had to gather his magic power, sit cross-legged on the spot, and suppress the poison.

Duanmu Qin had already quickly escaped from the main hall of the cave when it exploded, and used the jade pendant to activate the palace protection formation outside.

Now that things have come to this, they must not let the other party leave alive. Otherwise, facing the wrath of the Lieyang Sect, not only will they have no place to stay in the entire Tiancang Realm, but even their relatives and friends will be implicated.

As for the old formation master and his two disciples, they were harassed by monsters that had not yet appeared, and they were even more worried about being poisoned inexplicably. They used up all the antidote and anti-poison pills and amulets for self-defense, and even set up a second-level protective formation on the spot and hid inside.

"Bang!" Li Ji'an half of his body appeared from behind a stone house and shot a fire bomb at Fu Hanxing.

"Puff~" Fu Hanxing activated the shield and easily blocked it, but finally couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood mist.

The desperate pursuit just now had made his poison worse, and at this moment he already felt the great terror between life and death.

He glanced vaguely at the entrance leading out of the cave, feeling extremely regretful.

If you rush out as soon as you realize you're poisoned and then immediately return to the sect's headquarters, you won't have to worry.

However, he was ultimately distracted by the opportunities here and made a wrong decision.

At this time, he had already felt the poison invading his dantian, his magic power had seriously declined, and his internal organs had begun to fester.

Moreover, the palace protection formation was activated, completely cutting off his retreat.

"Ahem~ Fellow Daoist Li, I admit defeat. All opportunities here will be given to you."

Li Ji'an smiled slightly. "I am a heretic, with limited strength and low status. I am not worthy of being called a fellow Taoist, Master Fu."

After saying this, he unleashed another explosive flame slash.

"Pfft~"

"Fellow Daoist Li, I have been arrogant and rude to you before. I am willing to make amends. Please feel free to ask for anything you want." Fu Hanxing calmed down and tried not to get angry anymore.

Li Ji'an smiled and shook his head. "Master Fu's attitude at the moment frightens me. He endures humiliation and is able to bend and stretch. He must be a true master. I dare not keep him!"

Fu Hanxing's eyes narrowed instantly: "..."

"Friend Li, please forgive others when you can. Do you really have to do this to the extreme?"

Li Ji'an couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. "Haha~ This isn't my first day in the martial arts world, yet Master Fu's words really insult me."

"Hmph!" Knowing that Li Ji'an couldn't be fooled, Fu Hanxing snorted coldly: "Little thief, if I were you, I would be thinking about how to escape right now. We, the foundation-building disciples of our sect, all have soul lamps. My junior brother was killed by you through some unorthodox means, so his soul lamp must have been extinguished. The sect leader will definitely come to investigate!"

"Thank you, Mr. Fu, for the reminder." Li Ji'an smiled and sent a message to the underground.

Then, a frog head suddenly emerged from the ground.

Fu Hanxing's face suddenly changed color. He had no idea that there was a monster lurking around him.

"Quack~" Quack opened his mouth, as if mocking him, and then spat out a bloody man from his mouth.

It was Fu Hanxing’s junior fellow apprentice.

His body was covered in blood, his dantian was shattered, and there was no trace of magic power left, but there was still a faint breath of life left.

Li Ji'an's understanding of the sect has deepened significantly in recent years.

We pay special attention to some possible threats.

He already knew that inner disciples of the sect would leave soul lamps in the sect. Soul lamps were more advanced than the soul tablets left by families. In addition to being related to life and death, they could also sense general direction.

Moreover, some special soul lamps even have the magical ability to record the scene before death.

Fu Hanxing's pupils shrank suddenly and he was speechless for a moment.

He was just trying to trick Li Ji'an, and he knew even better that even if both of them died, the soul lamp could only sense the general direction.

By then, the elders of the sect would surely think that he had died in the ruins he was exploring.

After Li Ji'an launched a few more attacks, he sensed that Fu Hanxing's magical power was about to drop to the initial stage of foundation building.

At this point, the effects of the poison began to subside. After all, the Dantian, which had undergone the foundation-building transformation, still had some resistance.

However, its current magical power is estimated to be unable to exert even 20% of the power of the prototype of the magic weapon, so it no longer poses a threat.

Li Ji'an simply let Gua Gua accompany him.

Ignoring the sect's genius who was hiding in the corner and trying to detoxify himself while being tortured by Gua Gua, Li Ji'an came to the center of the hall.

Looking at the three masters and apprentices huddled in the formation, Li Ji'an smiled faintly: "Fellow Daoist, you are confused."

The old formation master showed a look of vigilance: "Why do you say that, fellow Daoist?"

From the moment the two of them accidentally broke in to when Fu Hanxing revealed his identity, the old formation master in the middle stage of foundation building had never looked directly at Li Ji'an, the alchemist in the early stage of foundation building.

Even after entering the hall, the old formation master, perhaps in order to win credit in front of Fu Hanxing, actually sent a voice message to remind them that once they entered this place, they would be protected by a formation, and the purple thunder would not be able to shake the formation that protected the hall.

However, after a series of shocking changes just now, he realized that he had underestimated this person.

"Fellow Daoist, were you forced to come here by this thief?" Li Ji'an asked with a smile.

The old formation master's eyes changed, and then he nodded frequently: "Indeed, this... this thief relied on his status as a true disciple of the upper sect to force me to come here."

The situation was now clear. Fu Hanxing, the sect's first true disciple who usually acted high and mighty and was envied and respected by countless casual cultivators, had fallen into the hands of this person.

"Well, if that's the case, fellow Daoist, don't you know what this thief is thinking? How could he let you get away with it?" Li Ji'an shook his head.

"This... How could I not know? It's just... I was forced to do this because of his tyranny. Fellow Daoist Li, everything that happened just now was controlled by this thief. I hope you will not hold it against me. I am willing to give up this opportunity." The old formation master suddenly felt hopeful.

Li Ji'an frowned slightly. "Why do you say that, fellow Daoist? Do you think I'm a tyrannical bandit? What we've been through today, don't we both feel like we're both wanderers in this world? Besides, we're both independent cultivators. How could an independent cultivator embarrass another independent cultivator?"

"Don't worry, this matter is over. We will go our separate ways. You just need to swear a great oath to your inner demon. However... Li and the fairy will take 80% of the opportunity. How about I only keep 20% for you?"

“…” The old formation master was stunned.

"Okay, okay, Fellow Daoist Li is right. Independent cultivators should not embarrass independent cultivators. That's a deal."

Li Ji'an bowed and said, "It's a deal! Let's break the restriction quickly."

The old formation master has reached the middle stage of foundation building, has formations to protect him, and is already on guard against poisons, so he has lost the possibility of launching a surprise attack.

At this moment, Duanmu Qin saw that the situation here had stabilized and slowly walked in.

But until this moment, the look in her eyes when she looked at Li Ji'an still felt unfamiliar.

A second-level poison is understandable, as alchemy and medicine are from the same origin, and medicine and poison have the same origin. Li Ji'an is often on good terms with Doctor Bai, so it is reasonable.

However, she carefully sorted out every detail of their acquaintance over the past ten years, but still could not find any clues about the second-level physical cultivator and the second-level demon beast.

She walked to Li Ji'an's side with seductive eyes.

He was a second-level physical cultivator. If she had known this earlier, after so many discussions, with her ancestral secret techniques, she would have been confident in helping him refine it to a higher level, while also significantly improving her own Qi and blood.

"It's a pity, it's a pity..."

"Li Lang, you've made me suffer so much!"

(End of this chapter)