The next day.
Xiao Jian opened his eyes.
Seeing that the person beside him had vanished, he felt a sense of loss in his heart.
“Has she left?
That is for the best.”
He exited the cave and went to the riverside, cupping water in his hands to wash his face.
But just as he crouched down, a sword rested against his collar.
Looking at the reflection in the water, a graceful figure stood behind him, holding the sword with its blade resting against his neck.
Xiao Jian suddenly smiled.
“I thought you were going to leave without saying goodbye.”
The sword did not move.
“How could that be?
I still need to fulfill your wish of dying under the peony flower.”
Pushing the sword away gently with his left hand, Xiao Jian put on a cheeky expression.
“Could you really bear to do it?”
She returned the sword to its sheath.
She had already changed back into her own clothes, and the hairpin on her head was once again tightly fastened in her hair.
Yun Yun was helpless against this guy.
She glanced at him and fell silent.
Xiao Jian looked at Yun Yun and said, “You are even more beautiful now.”
Yun Yun still did not speak.
She should have left directly, or killed him before leaving.
But when this guy gently pushed her sword away, she knew that she would never be able to kill this guy in this lifetime.
*Perhaps I should never see him again.* She changed the subject.
“Do me a favor.”
Xiao Jian naturally would not refuse.
“What do you need me to do?”
“The purple spirit crystal is usually kept inside the cave of the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
Last time, I intended to sneak in, but I was discovered.
I will lure the Amethyst Winged Lion King away.
As for you, I would like to ask you to enter the cave of the Amethyst Winged Lion King and help me find the purple spirit crystal.”
“No problem!” Xiao Jian nodded.
Yun Yun acknowledged him and took out a purple crystal, handing it to Xiao Jian.
“Take this crystal.
It will heat up when it gets close to the purple spirit crystal.
You can find it by following the intensity of the heat.”
“Alright!” Xiao Jian accepted the purple crystal.
“Then let’s go!” After saying this, Yun Yun condensed her wings with Qi.
Just as they were about to set off, she saw Xiao Jian open his arms.
He was preparing to copy Xiao Yan.
That night, when he used the Purple Cloud Wings, Yun Yun had already fallen asleep, so she did not know he could fly.
“What is wrong?
It is so far.
You don’t expect me to run there, do you?
If I encounter any third-tier or fourth-tier demonic beast on the way, I will be done for.
If that happens, won’t your plan be ruined as well?”
“Sigh!” She let out a soft sigh.
This guy.
In the air, Xiao Jian held Yun Yun’s waist tightly, almost pressing against her.
This made Yun Yun blush uncontrollably.
“Are you trying to fall off?”
Xiao Jian shook his head frantically.
“No, no, no!
I am just holding on so tightly because I don’t want to fall.
Don’t misunderstand!”
Yun Yun was speechless and could only let him do as he pleased.
The two landed not far from the cave of the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Xiao Jian reluctantly let go.
Yun Yun glared at him and said, “It is starting.
Be serious!”
Xiao Jian also straightened his expression.
“Don’t worry.
You be careful!”
Yun Yun also replied, “Mm.
You be careful too.”
The two exchanged a glance, a tacit understanding between them.
Yun Yun soared into the sky, while Xiao Jian quietly headed toward the cave of the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
“Human woman, you actually dare to appear again.
Today, I will definitely take your life to avenge the destruction of my horn!”
Yun Yun did not waste any more words.
Last time, she was alone and only tried to trade peacefully after her infiltration failed, but this time her goal was to stall it, so she naturally had nothing more to say.
She swung her sword down, and a cyan sword light struck at the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
The Amethyst Winged Lion King was not polite either.
It rushed out of the cave, and the two streaks of light, one cyan and one purple, began to clash in the sky again.
Seeing that the Amethyst Winged Lion King had been lured away, Xiao Jian immediately rushed toward the cave.
The high-tier magical beasts near the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s cave had already been mostly dealt with by Yun Yun’s sword strike, leaving only two or three trembling in fear.
They had no time to pay attention to Xiao Jian, and with his speed, he entered the cave very smoothly.
As soon as Xiao Jian entered the cave, two passages appeared before him.
He entered from the right passage.
He had read the original work; the purple spirit crystal was here, and there was also a baby Amethyst Winged Lion King inside.
It was at the peak of the third tier, and with his current strength, he estimated he could not defeat it.
So, he decided to “leech” off Xiao Yan’s wisdom once more.
He naturally had Purple Smoke Fruit; such fruits that attracted demonic beasts were not hard to find.
Moreover, besides the Purple Smoke Fruit, he also had a second-tier medicinal pill specifically used to drug demonic beasts.
Don’t be curious about why; alchemists basically all had several methods to deal with demonic beasts.
If Yao Lao had wanted to help Xiao Yan back then, he would have had plenty of such pills.
Stuffing the medicinal pill into the Purple Smoke Fruit and injecting some other substances that attracted demonic beasts inside, Xiao Jian then quietly walked inside.
Inside the cave, a baby Amethyst Winged Lion King was sleeping soundly when it suddenly smelled a very fragrant scent.
It had never smelled anything so fragrant before.
It walked over to the fruit and sniffed it.
It was indeed it.
A voice in the depths of its heart told it not to eat it, but its instinct told it that this thing was very fragrant.
After hesitating, instinct won out.
It swallowed the fruit in one gulp.
After a while, it suddenly felt drowsy, its eyelids fell uncontrollably, and then it collapsed onto the ground and fell asleep.
Xiao Jian, crouching in the shadows, smiled triumphantly.
“Little guy, if I can handle things that even a fourth-tier demonic beast can be taken down by, what would I be doing if I couldn’t handle you?”
Without delay, Xiao Jian walked straight to the spot where the baby Amethyst Winged Lion King had been lying.
He tapped around, and after only two or three taps, he found a hidden compartment.
He opened the hidden compartment.
He put the purple spirit crystal into his storage ring and also put the other few crystals into the storage ring.
He was not Xiao Yan; he did not believe that a dignified sixth-tier demonic beast would only have this little bit of wealth.
He tapped around quietly again and discovered three more hidden compartments.
Opening the first hidden compartment, it was filled with demonic beast cores.
The levels were not low; they were all above third tier, and there was even one fifth-tier core.
Opening the second hidden compartment: “Star Moon Grass!
Fire Cloud Fruit!” Xiao Jian was stunned.
Star Moon Grass, a very rare medicinal herb, had a very special effect: it enhanced soul power.
This was extremely precious to an alchemist.
Directly enhancing soul power—what was the difference between that and directly enhancing one’s alchemy?
One must know that a person’s soul power is fixed and can only possibly increase when one advances in rank, so there is no need to say how precious this medicinal herb that can directly enhance soul power is.
As for that Fire Cloud Fruit, its effect was not bad either.
For someone cultivating a fire-attribute cultivation technique, it could purify their Qi and enhance their affinity for flames.
If these two medicinal herbs appeared on the market, one could not get them without millions of gold coins, and they were rare and hard to find.
Opening the third hidden compartment, there was nothing much in this one, just some storage rings, presumably from people the Amethyst Winged Lion King had killed in the past.
It seemed it also knew that these storage rings contained precious items.
After putting everything away, Xiao Jian smiled and hurried toward the other side.
The main thing was that he didn’t know when the Amethyst Winged Lion King would return.
If he were caught, he would undoubtedly die; even a Dou Ling experience card would be useless.
One only had to look at the demonic beasts outside to know.
The gap in strength between a Dou Huang and a Dou Ling was not small at all.
With previous experience, Xiao Jian naturally would not be like Xiao Yan and let the accompanying purple crystal source go to waste.
Carefully using the purple spirit crystal to tap open a small hole, he took out a jade bottle.
He forgot how many bottles Xiao Yan had filled, but in any case, he filled a full twelve bottles and half of another.
After packing up all the accompanying purple crystal source, Xiao Jian quickly slipped out.
With his Dou Master strength, Xiao Jian’s speed was naturally much faster than Xiao Yan’s back then, so he did not run into the Amethyst Winged Lion King head-on.
Just two or three minutes after Xiao Jian left the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s cave, a purple shadow flew into the cave.
At this time, Yun Yun also came to see Xiao Jian and flapped her wings to come to his side.
“Shall we leave first?”
She did not ask if he had obtained the purple spirit crystal first, but instead took Xiao Jian to evacuate.
Afterward, Xiao Jian, in mid-air, heard an angry roar.
“How dare you steal my treasures!
Damn humans, I will definitely not let you go!”
However, by this time Xiao Jian and Yun Yun had already left, so even if it wanted to pursue them, it could not find them.
It issued a search order and went back to check on its cub.
Although its cub appeared to only be drugged, humans were always treacherous.
What if something happened?
It only had this one son.
Returning to Xiao Jian’s cave, Yun Yun asked, “You aren’t hurt, are you?
Did you find the purple spirit crystal?”
Xiao Jian took out the purple spirit crystal and handed the purple spirit crystal and that purple crystal to Yun Yun, saying, “I am not hurt.”
Yun Yun took the crystals.
She said, “Thank you.”
Then she took out three scrolls.
She said, “This is the Profound Grade High-Rank cultivation technique ‘Wind Control Art’.
The one in the middle is the Profound Grade High-Rank Dou Technique ‘Extreme Wind Slash’, and the last scroll is the Profound Grade Mid-Rank Dou Technique ‘Explosive Step’.
‘Extreme Wind Slash’ and ‘Wind Control Art’ are a set.
Cultivate them well.
I see that your cultivation technique has no attribute, so switch to these as soon as possible.
They can give you some help.”
Xiao Jian did not refuse.
He accepted the scrolls and asked, “Are you leaving now?”
Yun Yun nodded and said, “Mm.
I have already been delayed here for quite some time.
Also, about what happened before…
forget it.”
Although she felt sad inside, she was, after all, a Dou Huang and the Sect Master of the Cloud Mist Sect.
They couldn’t be together.
“I cannot forget.” Xiao Jian shook his head.
Yun Yun almost thought she had misheard.
She said again, “It is impossible for us.
Do you know who I am?”
Xiao Jian smiled slightly.
“I know.
The Sect Master of the Cloud Mist Sect, right?
And you are not called Yun Zhi, but Yun Yun, right?”
Yun Yun was somewhat stunned.
She had always thought he didn’t know.
She didn’t expect that he had guessed it long ago.
“How did you know?”
Xiao Jian smiled again.
“It is easy to guess, isn’t it?
A Dou Huang, Wind-attribute Qi, and a surname of Yun.
Who else could it be but the Sect Master of the Cloud Mist Sect?”
“Then you…!”
Xiao Jian interrupted her.
“I know what you are going to say.
It is just the Cloud Mist Sect.
My cultivation will soon be the same as yours, or even surpass you.”
Yun Yun shook her head helplessly.
“I really don’t know where you get your confidence from.” Although she said that, in her heart, she was indeed a bit happier.
Xiao Jian did not say any more, but smiled and said, “Then you just wait.
Sooner or later, you will belong to me, and you can only belong to me.”
For a moment, Yun Yun was a bit unaccustomed to the person in front of her.
Was he really that little pervert?
However…
since he has so much confidence, what harm is there in me waiting for him.
“Then I will wait for you.”
After saying this, she quickly pecked Xiao Jian on the lips and then turned into a streak of light.
Xiao Jian watched the streak of light leave, touched his lips, and smiled with relief.
“Life is truly like a dream.
But I need to work even harder from now on.”
The departing Yun Yun also felt complex inside.
She found it hard to believe that she had actually fallen for this little man who was so much younger than her and whose cultivation was so much lower.
Originally, she had made up her mind to cut ties with him, but in the end, her heart was stirred by him again, and she did not know what to do.
Xiao Jian did not return to the cave, but instead walked toward Qingshan Town.
His injuries were mostly healed now, and he needed to go back to buy some more medicine and daily necessities.