Only three seconds? He's already the Lord of All Realms, so it doesn't matter.

Last night, Li Laosi did not return home all night, and his wife Peilan was alone at home, feeling uneasy.

So she sneaked to the lakeside behind the mountain and saw Lao Si and Chen Hong diving into the lake.

Perrin wondered what the two of them were doing.

She observed from the side, knowing best what her fourth son's swimming ability was, but staring at the lake, she saw that the two of them hadn't come up yet.

Just as he was about to cry for help, he saw two people holding a precious pearl leap out of the water.

The radiance emanating from that precious pearl would stir a strange feeling in anyone who saw it.

So during the day, Pei Lan was heartbroken by the excuse Li Lao Si gave her. She never imagined that the two people who shared a bed would be hiding such a big thing from each other.

After dinner in the evening, Li Laosi hurriedly went out again, and Peilan knew he had gone to the Chen family.

She followed Li Laosi out the door, heading towards the town...

Upon arriving in town, Pei Lan went straight to the ancestral hall in the town center. Upon entering, she found the place where the religious ceremony was being held and said:

"I'm going to sue! Someone is hoarding a secret treasure!"

Upon hearing this, the two black-clad guardians in the ancestral hall immediately came to question him in detail.

Perrin, having already come to regard Li Laosi as a heartless man, no longer concealed anything from him and revealed everything.

……

Inside the Chen family courtyard in Shuitian Village.

Just as Li Laosi was beginning to make progress, he suddenly sneezed. "Who wants to harm me?"

Looking at his suspicious expression, Chen Hong didn't know what to say, so he started testing his own strength after the breakthrough.

He stood in the courtyard, a faint golden flame gathering in his palm. The flame grew brighter and brighter, eventually distorting space slightly.

Li Laosi was curious and reached out to touch it, but the heat of the flame burned him so much that he cried out.

"Phew! What is this thing?"

"Spiritual energy transforming into flames, a spell taught by Master Xianliu."

After saying that, Chen Hong clasped his open palms together, and the light and flames were concentrated in his palms. Then he threw them forcefully towards the wall, and the blue flames formed from spiritual energy instantly ignited, scorching the haystacks by the wall.

"It's done!"

Chen Qinghe, standing nearby, followed suit, using the method of transforming spiritual energy into flames, the temperature of which was almost identical to that of a real fire.

Seeing the father and son, Li Laosi was extremely anxious. He knelt down before the willow tree and pleaded:

"My lord! I'd like to learn this method too..."

Ye Xuan looked at Li Laosi. He had no problem learning, but with his current cultivation level, even with good comprehension, he could probably only condense a flame of 30 to 40 degrees.

He told Li Laosi, "Both father and son have mastered it; just ask them for advice."

Li Laosi kowtowed and thanked them again. Compared to the Chen family father and son, he knew better who he should really thank.

In this respect, Li Laosi is quite talented, but when it comes to the path of cultivation, his talent is somewhat lacking.

After studying for about half an hour, he still hadn't mastered even the most basic skill of circulating spiritual energy within his body.

Although it was a rather gruesome sight, Ye Xuan did not offer any guidance. As the saying goes, "Auspicious destiny leads you to the door, but cultivation is up to you..."

He remained quietly in the courtyard, continuing to observe what was happening around him.

As its cultivation level broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, "The Immortal Willow of Immortality" also entered a new phase, giving it a feeling of being reborn.

His perception extends to the heavens, already covering the entire paddy field village. Using the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to move around in circles is no longer a problem.

He adjusted his perception to the town, and images appeared in his mind—

In the dead of night, the town was almost deserted, every candle in every house was extinguished, and the silence was terrifying.

Only in the town center, from the direction of the so-called ancestral hall, came a commotion.

Two figures clad in black cloaks darted swiftly through the streets and alleys. Ye Xuan probed their bodies with his senses and was able to roughly assess their strength.

One is at the seventh level of Qi Refining, and the other is at the peak of Qi Refining.

In a small town with almost no cultivators, including the surrounding villages, these two could easily run rampant with their cultivation levels.

Seeing the two men in black rushing towards Shuitian Village, Ye Xuan was not surprised. Instead, he bypassed them and used his senses to probe into the ancestral hall.

The familiar setting, with a red cloth still placed on the offering table.

Gazing at the tall immortal stone statue, it was a pity that his time in the Realm of Immortality was very short, and he had only met one immortal, the Immortal Willow of Immortality.

Aside from sensing a fluctuation of spiritual energy within the stone statue in front of him, Ye Xuan didn't seem to notice anything special about it.

He imbued his senses into the stone statue, "solid."

However, the material inside the statue is quite different from the ordinary granite on the outside; it seems to be a special stone that can store spiritual energy.

Ye Xuan explored for a while longer, but still didn't find anything...

"It seems we can only catch a clue when the ceremony begins."

Without any ceremony, it is just an ordinary stone statue, perhaps with some differences in the materials used inside.

With his senses and consciousness returning to themselves, Ye Xuan told the three of them about the two men in black coming to the Chen family.

Chen Hong was shocked upon hearing this. "We've been exposed?"

He carefully reviewed his actions over the past few days. He had been cautious and careful, so how could he have been exposed? And so quickly, almost as soon as they broke through!

There's a mole...

Chen Hong turned his head and stared intently at Li Laosi, who was so frightened that he hurriedly tried to explain:

"I didn't do it, Brother Chen! I also have a celestial seed within me; we're in the same boat!"

Li Laosi seemed to realize that his words were inappropriate and changed his tune:

"No, no, I didn't do it..."

Chen Hong couldn't guess the reason either, so he could only consider how the group could get through their current predicament.

He said to Li Laosi and Chen Qinghe, "There will likely only be one battle left!"

He took an iron axe and a bow and arrow from inside the house and instructed Jin Yan and her son to hide in the inner room.

He kept the bow for himself, gave the iron axe to Chen Qinghe, and as for Li Laosi, he took the spear, unsure if he could be of any help with his current cultivation level.

After a brief discussion, the three of them hid in various corners of the Chen family compound, waiting for the enemy to come to them...

Before long, under the dim moonlight, two men in black stepped across the paddy fields and arrived at the Chen family's gate.

One of them reached out to knock on the door, but was immediately interrupted, "What are you doing? Just barge in!"

The black-clad man, a cultivator at the peak of his cultivation, acted with unparalleled ruthlessness. He kicked open the wooden door of the Chen family's residence and shouted inside:

"The Chen family is hiding a secret treasure; their crime deserves death!"

He spoke with righteous indignation, but in the world of cultivation, any opportunity and treasure is meant for those who are destined to receive it, so how can there be any talk of sin?

Of course, it's not wrong for those who are destined to receive it or for those who are capable to seize it.

Chen Hong and Li Laosi crouched in a corner, experiencing for the first time what it meant to be—

Every husband is not guilty, and he is guilty of his crime.

Seeing that no one responded to the Chen family, one of them kicked open the door, while the other searched the yard.

"Big brother, look!"

"Does this willow tree seem to possess a spiritual energy?"