Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Wei Dongliu flicked his finger and shot an Elixir Bottle out from his sleeve.

The wooden stopper popped off, and the Elixir shot into Jiang the Witch's mouth like a bullet, but she held it in her mouth without moving—she was too weak to swallow.

Wei Dongliu pressed her philtrum once again, lifted it upward, and with another hand pressed on her throat, the Elixir naturally slid down from the base of her tongue.

After a while, Jiang Li An slowly regained consciousness, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Wei Dongliu pressed his right hand on her fragrant shoulder and expelled his True Yuan into her meridians. It rushed out from her acupoints, pushing out the silver needles all over her body along with blood and sweat onto the ground.

"Golden Core Realm? No, it seems much more robust and abundant than the True Yuan of a typical Golden Core Realm, yet it doesn't possess the aura of a Nascent Soul... What secret technique is being concealed?" Jiang Li An carefully felt the True Yuan within her body, weakly opened her eyes, and murmured:

"Wei, my friend, you've come..."

"Don't talk," Wei Dongliu said sternly, "I am healing your injuries."

"It's no use," Jiang Li An said with difficulty, "My injuries are not only in the flesh but also in the soul and Divine Sense..."

Wei Dongliu's expression turned grave as he quickly extended two fingers, aiming at her forehead.

Indeed, her Sea of Consciousness was also utterly devastated...

"What exactly happened?!" Wei Dongliu asked, frowning.

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But with the Sea of Consciousness destroyed... the fact that Jiang Li An hasn't turned into an idiot already shows she has endured quite a lot.

"Master... took me captive, threatening to refine me into a sacrifice for the Demon Head," Jiang Li An said miserably, trembling as she reached out, seemingly wanting to caress Wei Dongliu's cheek, "He wanted me to... betray you..."

"But... I didn't..." Her breathing suddenly became rapid, and blood spilled from her mouth and nose again, startling Wei Dongliu, who quickly continued to infuse her with True Yuan, trying to stabilize her condition.

"I promised you..." Jiang Li An seemed to use her last bit of strength, as if trying to squeeze out a comforting smile for him, but in the end she couldn't manage it, "I didn't..."

Her right hand, outstretched toward Wei Dongliu's face, also fell weakly.

"...betray."

Wei Dongliu caught her falling hand, feeling the heat inside had already dissipated.

Only sticky blood remained.

She was dead.

Wei Dongliu took a deep breath, feeling as though the entire chamber reeked of blood, so intense that it nearly suffocated him.

In the past few hours, while he was demonstrating his demonic might on the Tibetan Plateau, she had been trapped in this tiny sunless chamber, helplessly losing how many liters of blood? Enduring such inhuman torture?

How many times had she cried out for him, receiving no response, only to miserably watch her life ebb away?

What happened to the promised protection?

The formidable Demon Lord Wei, unable even to protect a woman by his side?

"Damn it!" Wei Dongliu suddenly stood up, with a backhand motion, he unleashed Myriad Avatar Absolute Immortal Sword, striking at the spot where Elder Colorful Moth once stood, gouging the ground several inches deep.

Unfortunately, since the earlier arrow was too powerful, Elder Colorful Moth's body had long disintegrated and there was no corpse to vent his anger upon.

The surging Demonic Qi rolled continuously inside him, making Wei Dongliu feel nauseous, an overwhelming sense of defeat flooding his heart, and for a moment, he even forgot to blame Ah Jing.

His face was as somber as dark water, his heart ashen, his soul seeming to be completely frozen and unable to transform.

The next second, it started surging again.

He turned and strode away.

Jiang Li An: ???????????

Wait, where are you going? Are you just going to leave my body here?

The Jiang Li An from just moments ago was feeling delighted at the intense negative emotions emanating from Wei Dongliu, but seeing him rage impotently for a moment and then turn to leave without a moment's hesitation left the Witch completely unable to accept it.

She even wondered if she had intentionally stirred up his negative emotions, only to end up stirring them a bit too much, causing Wei Dongliu to have a mental breakdown.

But seeing his steps so steady, he didn't seem hysterical at all!

Wei Dongliu left the cave and said in a deep voice,

"Ah Jing, I'm talking to you now."

"Transport me to the point in time before she was tortured to death, and then rescue her before Elder Cai E gets to her."

"Next, you create an illusion of her being tortured by Elder Cai E, to deceive my senses when I later enter the cave, making the final timeline match exactly with what just happened."

"This..." the Kunlun Mirror hesitated.

"This is not a request, this is a demand," Wei Dongliu said coldly. "If you still want my help in collecting Heaven-Mending Stone fragments."

The Kunlun Mirror immediately cursed inwardly. If I had known that Demon Head was deliberately manipulating and lengthening my negative emotions, making me feel regretful, guilty, self-reproaching, I wouldn't have stood by and watched!

Who knew I would be shooting myself in the foot!

"Guan Shui, don't be in such a hurry," she quickly comforted Wei Dongliu. "Is there a possibility that everything you just saw was fake? I mean, maybe the future me has already come ahead of time to save her, but after she woke up, she pretended to be about to die, just to tease and play a prank on you?"

"You?" Wei Dongliu was baffled, then realized what she meant, "Why didn't you remind me... you wanted to see me made a fool of along with her, didn't you? That's bold of you, you broken mirror!"

"Cough, cough cough." The Kunlun Mirror silently cursed the witch thousands of times, and in a contrived aggrieved tone said, "I was just joking with you, why are you so petty with a girl?"

"Go back now, flick her forehead and say 'stop pretending, I know you're not dead', and she won't be able to keep up the act!"

"Hmph, I'm taking note of this account!" Wei Dongliu did not hesitate and turned back into the cave.

In the cave chamber, two demon sisters were whispering slanderous words:

"Sister, I told you humans are unreliable, look how he just left your body here, too lazy even to bury it!"

"This despicable man, it's better to just let me eat him..."

With a pop! Li Hen's head exploded again.

She could only reconstitute her body and began crying out:

"Sister! It was Brother-in-law who betrayed you! Why kill me?"

"I've already said it." Jiang the Witch's smile was full, but now the smile on her face was no longer pleasant. It was instead filled with cold, sharp murderous intent, "Even if he is heartless and betrays me, only I can decide how to deal with him..."

Before she finished speaking, footsteps could be heard from outside.

The two Heavenly Demon sisters quickly burrowed into the ground, while Jiang Lian subconsciously resumed playing dead, feigning death.

Wei Dongliu approached her, lifted her chin with his left hand, flicked her forehead with his right finger, and said out loud,

"Li An, Li An! You're not dead, so why do you sleep on?"

Jiang Lian: !!!

She maintained her feigned death pose, trying to sense the emotions pouring out of him, but she couldn't find any trace of nervousness or sorrow, as if the intense negative emotions from before had been swept away.

He actually wasn't tricking me, but truly saw through my disguise?!

She sighed heavily in her mind, and with no choice, Jiang Lian had to reluctantly open her eyes and curiously asked,

"Fellow Daoist Wei, how were you so certain I wasn't dead?"

"The people by Wei Dongliu's side aren't so easily killed off," Wei Dongliu said with a light smile.

Jiang Lian was speechless, thinking if she weren't a Heavenly Demon, she would have been dead long before he arrived!

No, that's not right; Fellow Daoist Wei isn't someone who would put on airs. Could it be that he truly had a means to save me? But because I didn't actually die this time, I just didn't notice?

The Great Unrestrained Heavenly Demon became confused, intending to probe deeper into Wei Dongliu's heart, but found that his Sea of Consciousness was like a fortress made of copper walls and iron walls, impenetrable no matter what she tried.