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In a high-end private club in Ling City, several elderly men with graying temples sat around a round table with an old monk dressed in plain robes, chatting and laughing.

"Master Gui Hai, that botanical garden is rather difficult to handle," said the elder in the main seat, setting down his wine glass with a look of distress on his face.

Gui Hai had visited Ling City a while ago, and at that time, he discovered the botanical garden set up with a Great Spirit Gathering Formation. It was then that he entertained the idea of claiming it as his own.

To be able to create such a massive Spirit Gathering Array in Ling City, one's identity must be extraordinary. After a few phone calls, Gui Hai had understood what was going on. To his surprise, the one who had set up such an immense array was Li Xiaoyao.

Li Xiaoyao from the Li Family of Xuan Country?

He's so young, yet he was able to set up such an immense Spirit Gathering Array?

It was unexpected, but Gui Hai did not take him seriously.

Just a minor cultivator, how much trouble could he cause?

He had already arranged for Yi Jie to kill him in the Human Realm. Naturally, the botanical garden would then become ownerless.

However, the necessary procedures still had to be followed. To claim such a vast botanical garden as his own, he would have to go through the local government.

Listening to the chief official of Lu Province, Gui Hai flipped his hand and took out a white jade porcelain bottle, gently placing it on the lazy Susan and pushing it over.

Seeing the white jade porcelain bottle, the chief official's face, flushed with wine, sobered up considerably. He grabbed the bottle and asked, "What's this?"

"Spirit Pills," said Gui Hai with a faint smile. "Taking them can extend one's life by ten or twenty years without issue."

This was a Spirit Pill capable of extending life. The chief official, somewhat excited, opened the stopper, and a rich, refreshing medicinal fragrance immediately wafted from the bottle.

The chief official had been making excuses, all to get something good out of Gui Hai. Now with the Spirit Pill in hand, he no longer beat around the bush, saying directly, "Master Gui Hai wishes to use the botanical garden to propagate Buddhist Law. I will naturally support you with all my might, but still..."

The chief official's eyes darted around before he continued, "If Li Xiaoyao returns..."

"He won't be returning," interjected Gui Hai flatly.

The chief official hesitated, sensing the intense murderous aura in Gui Hai's words. Fortunate to have a wealth of bureaucratic experience, he chuckled softly in response, "Master Gui Hai, my wife happens to be a Buddhist devotee. When Da Lin Temple relocates here, we must certainly come to hear your sermons."

Gui Hai smiled slightly and replied, "Certainly, certainly."

The two old foxes, having benefited each other, were smiling like cats that had stolen cream.

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Xiao Qing always acted swiftly. After receiving a few brief instructions from Li Xiaoyao, she transformed into a tiny green snake the length of a finger and burrowed into Li Xiaoyao's arms. She opened her small mouth and swallowed the Spirit Condensation emerald rhizome whole.

The robust and overwhelming soul power of the Spirit Condensation emerald caused Xiao Qing to quickly fall into a deep sleep, and her tiny serpentine body miraculously transformed into a beam of green light, merging into Li Xiaoyao's chest.

Li Xiaoyao was startled and hurriedly pulled open his clothes to look. To his amazement, there was a strange new tattoo of a green snake on his chest.

The tattoo was lifelike, as if it could come to life at any moment.

"This..."

Li Xiaoyao couldn't fathom why Xiao Qing would do this.

Although he felt nothing, the thought of Xiao Qing clinging to his chest still gave him an indescribable and unusual sensation.

After walking around the spot a few times to ensure Xiao Qing was deeply asleep, Li Xiaoyao left the graveyard.

This visit to the Human Realm, although brief, had found Li Xiaoyao walking the line between life and death multiple times.

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Through this ordeal, his state of mind underwent a tremendous change.

He had brushed past the grim reaper on the battlefield before, but it felt utterly different now.

Nowadays, he possessed the power to overturn an entire city, and he had never thought he would be killed. At the moment when death loomed over him, the fear in Li Xiaoyao's heart was unprecedented.

He was not willing to die just yet, for he had many things left undone.

At that moment, he understood why life was so precious.

"My goal is the stars and the sea," Li Xiaoyao stood outside the graveyard, looking at the setting sun and the colorful clouds on the horizon, he said something quite pretentious.

Upon returning to Medicine God Valley, Li Xiaoyao was somewhat eager to see Cheng Yiyi.

The fear that comes with hovering between life and death made one more nostalgic and reluctant to leave this world.

To put it crassly, I still have so many beautiful girls I haven't bedded yet.

In the council hall, Cheng Yiyi's eyes were somewhat red, these old guys really infuriated her.

"Li Xiaoyao sent me here to sell medicinal materials, and you guys have been obstructing me time and again. What exactly do you mean?" Out of desperation, Cheng Yiyi had no choice but to invoke Li Xiaoyao's name, attempting to make the elders agree to her request.

"Hmph!" An elder with half his mustache curled up said, "Miss Cheng, if Mr. Li conveyed this to us himself, we naturally would not have any objections, but the so-called orders from Mr. Li that you speak of, we have not heard ourselves. How can you expect us to believe you? Now that Medicine God Valley belongs to Mr. Li, if you deceive us and sell the medicinal materials cheaply, and Mr. Li finds out, who will bear the consequences?"

Cheng Yiyi said angrily, "I will bear them!"

"Can you bear them?" The group did not conceal their disdain for her.

In their eyes, Cheng Yiyi was nothing more than a pretty face.

In terms of cultivation level, any random disciple of Medicine God Valley was above her.

As for talent, there were plenty like her within Medicine God Valley.

Even though they knew Cheng Yiyi had an unusual relationship with Li Xiaoyao, it was precisely this kind of relationship that made them resistant to her.

You, a mere woman, what do you have? Relying on your relationship with Li Xiaoyao, you try to order us around. Do you think you're qualified?

Li Xiaoyao was still outside the council hall when he heard the arguing from inside and couldn't help frowning.

With a step, Li Xiaoyao appeared in the council hall.

Seeing Li Xiaoyao suddenly arrive, the group restrained their emotions and respectfully called out, "Mr. Li."

Cheng Yiyi turned her head to look, and upon seeing Li Xiaoyao, the grievance she had been suppressing erupted in an instant, transforming into tears that rolled down ceaselessly.

Seeing this, the elders inwardly cursed their luck.

A woman's tears are the most formidable weapon. No matter how tough a man is, he cannot withstand such an attack.

Cheng Yiyi just stood there, her delicate hand gently covering her red lips, trying not to cry out loud, but her continuously trembling shoulders made her look all the more sorrowful and pitiful.

"What's going on?" Li Xiaoyao asked with a frown.

Before the elders could speak, Cheng Yiyi choked out, "It's nothing."

Dropping these two quivering words, Cheng Yiyi hurried out of the council hall.