Clear sunlight draped over the mountain peaks, and the chirping of cicadas echoed across the hills, blending with the pristine sky.
The mountain mist drifted down along the green cliffs, merging into the mountain streams of the valley.
This was a spiritual valley, surrounded by green mountains on three sides and opening to the wild on the fourth. Sunlight bathed the valley floor, and the wind was infused with the fragrance of various medicinal herbs.
A glistening white stream flowed slowly along the rocky beach like a piece of soft silk, with spiritual energy swirling over the water's surface.
By the stream on the mountainside stood a small pavilion with green tiles. Medicinal tassels hung from its eaves, and several jade bottles lay scattered across a stone table.
On a stone stool inside the pavilion sat a woman in a jade-green immortal gown.
Her figure was slender and graceful, and her skin was as white as jade.
A mountain breeze blew past, rustling the hem of her gown and revealing a glimpse of her slender calves.
The skin on her calves was delicate, with faint blue veins visible, tracing all the way down to her ankles.
Her petite feet, carrying a sweet orchid fragrance, were clad in a pair of jade-green shoes embroidered with delicate silver flowers.
As her toes lightly tapped the stone ground, the scent drifted from the edges of her shoes, carried far away by the mountain wind.
On the stone table, a silver needle was held between her slender fingers, breathing in wood-attribute spiritual light.
She inserted the silver needle into a peculiar herb. Seeing it instantly corrode and turn black, she tilted her head and nodded in satisfaction.
She then squeezed out all the toxic juice from the herb, letting it drip into a jade cup, though it was unclear whether she was concocting a poison or a medicine.
She was a holy maiden who cultivated both medicine and poison. Taking life or granting vitality was but a matter of a single thought in the palm of her hand.
Right then, a low hum of spiritual runes rippled above Spring-Return Valley. Jade-green spiritual light rose and gathered from all directions, instantly condensing into a sky-screen that completely covered the entire valley.
Then, with a sharp crack, a small spiderweb-like crack immediately spread across a section of the sky-screen.
She looked up with her amber eyes and sighed softly. She had lost count of how many times it had broken over the past five hundred years.
It was all because of that bastard Zhang Mingyuan, who had broken her sacred ground's sect-protecting array, causing it to malfunction from time to time even now.
“Sigh, looks like I have no choice but to find Little Ling again...”
Her brows drooped, yet her beautiful lips curled into a faint smile.
She pulled out a spiritual jade with a peach blossom stuck on its back. With a gentle swipe of her fingertip, she unlocked the screen restriction.
She then opened 《Secrets of the Immortal Sects》 and scrolled to a contact named “True Lord's Snap of Annihilation.”
Her fingers danced swiftly across the spiritual jade's screen. Each tap was like a graceful butterfly fluttering among flowers.
【Yama's Healing Touch: Little Ling, the sect-protecting array is malfunctioning again. This Valley Master is giving you a chance to associate with the peerless, miracle-working Medical Sage. Hurry over!】
In front of the spiritual jade screen, a pair of lively eyes stared at the chat box.
After a brief moment, the words “The other party is typing...” appeared at the top of the chat window.
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Tsk.】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Show-off.】
Seeing these two messages, those lively eyes, which usually resembled spring waters, suddenly darkened.
It was as if a dreadful poison was brewing within them—a black venom capable of easily killing a Mahayana Stage cultivator.
【Yama's Healing Touch: Last time, I put a little specialty from my Spring-Return Valley into your purple clay teapot.】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: ??!!】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Calculating the time, it should be about to take effect!】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Holy crap, Lumian! What the heck did you put in there??? Are you insane?】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Nothing much. Just this Valley Master's specially made Stomach-Cleansing Spirit-Purging Powder. Without the antidote, you won't be able to hold your bowels and will be having diarrhea for ten days to half a month!】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Who told you to say my hands smelled of medicine before? This is this Valley Master's punishment for you!】
It took quite a while before there was a reply from the other side.
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Tsk.】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: You're bluffing.】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Back when we were at Old Zhang's place, that was almost a hundred years ago. And now you're telling me it's about to take effect?】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: How come this Seat didn't know there was such a miraculous medicine in this world that could delay its onset for so long?】
Seeing this message, one of the petite hands holding the spiritual jade clenched into a small, pink fist.
Combined with the white steam puffing from her cheeks, she looked exactly like a raging steam dragon.
Her black hair whipped wildly in the pavilion as her fingers tapped the spiritual jade screen again, fast as lightning.
【Yama's Healing Touch: This Valley Master is bluffing?】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Let me ask you, do you often feel spiritual energy rampaging in your abdomen, circulating through your large and small intestines before escaping from below, and you can't hold it back at all?】
The other side was clearly stunned for a moment.
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Holy crap, Lumian, are you insane? You actually drugged me!】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: No wonder I've been farting constantly for the past hundred years! It was you, you poisonous woman!】
Seeing the words “poisonous woman,” the girl in the jade-green gown instantly bristled. Her finger speed could no longer be described as fast as lightning.
【Yama's Healing Touch: Me, a poisonous woman?】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Fine, fine, fine!】
【Yama's Healing Touch: You're finished, Little Ling.】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Doesn't your Taixu Sacred Ground love planting all kinds of tea trees? One of these days, I'll brew a batch of Spirit-Withering Hundred-Miasma Powder and dump it into the spiritual spring at the source of your tea gardens, poisoning all hundred thousand acres of your tea trees to death!】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: !!!!】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Not a poisonous woman, but a goddess of the Nine Heavens!】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Just now, this humble one spoke without thinking and was blind. My tea gardens are still young. I hope the goddess will not lower herself to their level...】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Humph.】
【Yama's Healing Touch: A mere Little Ling dares to fight with this Valley Master?】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Yes, yes, yes. A mere humble me, indeed beneath you.】
【Yama's Healing Touch: Humph, at least you know your place... In a word, are you coming or not?】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Three...】
【True Lord's Snap of Annihilation: Two...】
【Yama's Healing Touch: What do you mean? Answer this Valley Master!】
The girl in the jade-green gown was puffed up with anger. Her fists and her puffed-up cheeks looked like soft, pink little buns, framed by the shadows of the bamboo forest.
Right at that moment, a ripple of space fluctuated above the pavilion on the mountainside, and a figure in pristine white robes stepped out.
His steps were leisurely and composed, his bearing elegant and infinitely dashing.
He calmly uttered a single word, which echoed through the mountains:
“One.”
Only then did the girl in the jade-green gown realize that this “mere Little Ling” was actually counting down.
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