Facing Shen Youling's questioning gaze, Lin Tang retorted, "Does that matter?"
"It's very important to !" Shen Youling said seriously.
"Hey, why so serious? Don't worry about these details..."
"So you are Long Tianji?"
"What Long Tianji? Wait, you're saying I'm him? That I can defeat Xiao Xuanye? You've got to be kidding. I'm so young, how could I possibly be his opponent?" Lin Tang pointed to his own face, adopting an extrely modest posture.
He was unwilling to admit his identity. On one hand, he found it amusing. On the other, he didn't want to be further restricted by Shen Youling's stubbornness. Using the identity of Long Tianji, he could wield his power without restraint, hitting whover he pleased. That's what I call satisfying!
Once Shen Youling knew he was Long Tianji, she would definitely criticize him for breaking his promise and forbid him from fighting again.
"Young..." Shen Youling's expression turned bitter. "I'm just afraid your real identity is that of a middle-aged man, and this young face is just a disguise."
"PFFT—" Lin Tang nearly burst out laughing. "Shen Youling, your imagination is running wild! Co on, feel my face. Is it a human-skin mask? Is there any makeup on it?"
He grabbed her hand, guiding it to his own face to pinch and squeeze. "See? Look at this flawless, tender skin. Does this look like sothing a middle-aged man would have?"
"BLECH—" Lee Encai, who had run over to see what was happening, pretended to retch.
Shen Youling almost lost her composure as well. She turned her head aside and said, "Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I really feel that you're very similar to Long Tianji! Especially when I get close, there's that strange feeling. It's sothing I've never felt from anyone else."
Lin Tang frowned slightly. He hadn't expected his masterful disguise technique to have a flaw she could detect! Is this the power of a couple's bond?
"Perhaps this Senior Long, like us, also has a special physique. This world is so big and there are so many people; you don't think we're the only unique ones, do you? There are bound to be others with special constitutions. When such people et, it's possible to feel so kind of resonance," he conjectured.
"Is that so?" Shen Youling was sowhat convinced.
"So, back to the original question, how did you drive the car away?"
Lin Tang was speechless.
Eventually, he managed to bluff his way through. Shen Youling couldn't imagine how skilled a supre expert's fine control could be. Lin Tang had never formally learned to drive, but he had watched others do it. As long as he had seen it, he could imitate it. By perfectly mimicking their driving procedures, he easily made the car feel like it was a plane, moving with the speed of lightning. His reaction ti was just too fast.
"It's not that I can't drive, I'm just lazy."
SNAP.
Lin Tang shut the car door and shrugged smugly.
"Alright, I guess I misunderstood you," Shen Youling said, also breathing a sigh of relief. If Lin Tang really were a middle-aged or an old man in disguise, she would have absolutely jumped into a lake and ended it all.
In truth, if she had just opened the trunk of the car, she would have seen the large pile of congratulatory gifts Lin Tang had collected. That was another flaw, but she had overlooked it.
「That night.」
They made do, resting in the car. Lin Tang's suggestion to engage in Dual Cultivation was also rejected. Bored and with nothing else to do, he could only ditate.
In the middle of the night, when Shen Youling was sound asleep, he took out the Detox Pearl to study it. He tried moving it closer to Shen Youling's cheek. And then... the black mark on her face began to fade as quickly as lting spring snow. The effect of the Detox Pearl was indeed instantaneous.
But the fleshy, pink scar it left behind looked even more grotesque and bizarre. It was even worse than the black mark!
Left with no choice, Lin Tang had to find a way to restore the black mark to prevent her from having an emotional breakdown when she woke up.
The Millennial Yellow Ginseng Ointnt was most likely taken by Mu Jiuzhou. I have to find a way to snatch it back! If I can't get my hands on it, I'll have to wait until I break through to the Golden Core Stage before I can restore her face! Lin Tang mulled it over.
He could actually "make" a new face for Shen Youling to wear. But... wouldn't that expose my skill in disguise?
Lin Tang fumbled around again and found the Water Spirit Crystal. Now, he was only lacking the final ingredient, the Gold Spirit Marrow, to refine the Five Spirit Pill! Once he consud the Five Spirit Pill, he could instantly break through to the late Foundation Establishnt Stage.
「The Jiangbei Posthouse.」
The lights were blazing. Although all the doctors were exhausted, not a single one dared to sleep. They were all on edge. They didn't dare to hold any opinions against Xiao Xuanye; they could only secretly curse the obscure Long Tianji. Go ahead and rob him, fine. But why did you have to injure Boss Xiao? Or... why not just kill him outright and be done with it?
Thanks to the airplane's efficiency, the top dical team from the capital had arrived. They also brought an extrely precious, life-saving holy dicine: the Heart-Protecting Pill.
Upon consumption, although it didn't improve Xiao Xuanye's injuries, it forcefully stabilized his vital signs. Unfortunately, their repeated resuscitation attempts still had no effect, though it did wake him for a brief mont.
As soon as Xiao Xuanye woke up and learned of his condition, he imdiately gave a serious order to his adjutant. "Bring over the Cultivation Technique I practice, the Cloud Flipping and Rain Covering Technique, at once. Long Tianji will co to collect it tomorrow at noon. If that manual isn't ready, who knows if he'll go on a killing spree?!"
"He's going to show up again? Good, very good!" Guo Jufeng from the Iron Blood Camp strode in.
"General Guo?!"
"This is great! With you here, we don't have to worry about petty thieves taking advantage of the situation!"
"Greetings, General Guo!" the adjutant and the others saluted in unison. The doctors also bowed in fearful reverence.
The Iron Blood Camp was ranked second, even above the Dragon Cavalry Camp. Guo Jufeng was also known as Guo Changsheng, or "Guo the Ever-Victorious." As for who was stronger between him and Xiao Xuanye, it had never been tested in a true life-or-death battle, so it was hard to say.
Xiao Xuanye's martial arts followed a path of endurance and prolonged combat. His attacks were relentless, and he had great stamina. Once an opponent was caught in his rhythm, they could easily be worn down to death. Guo Jufeng, on the other hand, followed a path of fierce, explosive power, but he lacked Xiao Xuanye's staying power. In a fight between them, if Guo Jufeng exhausted his initial burst without defeating Xiao Xuanye, he would likely be in danger. But if Xiao Xuanye couldn't withstand the initial assault, he would be the one in peril.
"You're here," Xiao Xuanye said with a weak, bitter smile.
Guo Jufeng cut right to the chase. "Tell about your fight with this Long Tianji."
"Alright..."
After Xiao Xuanye finished his description, Guo Jufeng looked speechless. "Ah, Xiao, you were foolish. How could you just stand there and let him hit you? With your style, you should have avoided his initial onslaught and waited until his energy was spent. Then you could have won easily!"
He couldn't believe Xiao Xuanye would make such a basic mistake. Then again, it was understandable. Long Tianji was a complete unknown, after all. With thousands of people watching, how could a man of Xiao Xuanye's stature deign to dodge?
"It's not..." Xiao Xuanye wanted to explain that his opponent was simply too powerful. Whether he t him head-on or tried to evade the initial attack, he stood no chance. But before he could get the words out, he was overco by weakness and fainted again.
Because he never got to finish his sentence, Guo Jufeng didn't think Long Tianji was all that impressive. He had probably just caught Xiao Xuanye off guard. He must be like him, following the path of fierce power.
Let's see whose explosive power is stronger, mine or yours! Guo Jufeng thought with anticipation.
He glanced around and walked over to Chen Yuyan. "You must be the new daughter Old Xiao adopted? You can call Uncle Guo."
"Uh—" Chen Yuyan was flustered, stamring, "I... I-I'm not..."
"Hm?" Guo Jufeng paused. It wasn't his fault he was mistaken; Chen Yuyan was the only pretty young woman there. "Where is Old Xiao's daughter?"
"Reporting to General Guo, she was taken away by her ex-husband, Lin Tang," the adjutant said, his face flush with sha. Being repeatedly incapacitated by Lin Tang's drugs was a profound humiliation.
"Insolence!" Guo Jufeng roared. "Her father is gravely injured and unconscious, yet she isn't at his side to care for him? What kind of daughter is that? So unfilial! n, seize her and bring her back here to kneel at once!"
When he learned what Lin Tang had done, his fury mounted. "He actually used such a despicable thod as poison? A villain like that should be euthanized! Bring him here as well. If his dical skills have so effect on Old Xiao, then he will *only* be beaten with a hundred military cudgels! If he has no value whatsoever, execute him on the spot!"
"Yes, sir!"
His subordinates accepted the order and prepared to depart. Although Xiao Xuanye's adjutant warned that their target's poisoning thods were extraordinary and that ordinary gas masks wouldn't work, Guo Jufeng's n were unfazed. They had brought more advanced weaponry, capable of launching precision strikes from several hundred or even a thousand ters away. They could level a mountaintop. With such power, why would they fear so piece of trash whose martial arts had been crippled?
「By daybreak.」
Xiao Xuanye, who had been comatose, began to convulse again, vomiting blood. The amount was even more shocking than the night before.
"Quick, resuscitate him!"
"Are there any more Heart-Protecting Pills? Give him another one, quickly!"
"It's no use! The Heart-Protecting Pill can only be taken once every twenty-four hours! Taking more will only do more harm than good!"
"Then what do we do?"
Seeing his life hanging by a thread, neither the dical team from the capital nor Chen Shanchun's group had any solutions. The adjutant was so anxious he felt his head would explode.
Guo Jufeng's eyes also glinted with murderous intent. He swept his gaze over the doctors. "Since you are all useless, you can be buried with him!"
"Ah? No, please!"
"Spare us, spare our lives!"
The doctors fell to their knees in rows, kowtowing relentlessly.
Chen Yuyan was both terrified and indignant. It's not our fault! How can he be so tyrannical?
Chen Shanchun wore a look of utter despair. He watched as Guo Jufeng raised his fan-sized palm, about to strike them down. Where is the Pavilion Master? She couldn't be unwilling to co, could she...?
"Hold on!" a lodious voice, like a tinkling spring, suddenly rang out.
"Hm?" Guo Jufeng's eyebrows shot up.
At the doorway—though none knew for how long she'd been there—stood a veiled beauty. Dressed in ancient-style robes with long, flowing hair, she looked as if she had stepped through ti from a bygone era.
"Master!" Chen Yuyan cried out in joy, rushing toward her like a swallow returning to its nest.
Chen Shanchun also heaved a great sigh of relief. With a smile, he introduced her as the Pavilion Master of the Xuanhu dical Pavilion, whose dical skills were extraordinary and might have a solution.
"What?"
"The Pavilion Master of the mysterious and rarely seen Xuanhu dical Pavilion is actually a young, beautiful woman?"
"But... can her dical skills really be any good?"
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