Chapter 253: Target—Primordial Heaven-Mending Pill
Yun Baiyu immediately took out a jade pendant.
Yun Suxin had many accessories and changed them daily without repetition, making it too simple to find a personal item.
Chen Huaian received the pendant and brought out the Yang Soul Mirror, hanging the pendant on it. However, the mirror did not display Yun Suxin's condition.
This certainly didn't mean Yun Suxin was dead—the Yang Soul Mirror could reflect even corpses turned to ashes.
Chen Huaian returned the pendant and said to the panicked Yun Baiyu, "Don't worry, this pendant isn't personal enough. Give me something more intimate, it must be extremely close to her body. Her own hair or blood would also suffice."
Yun Baiyu rummaged through his storage bag for a while before blushing and producing a pair of undergarments, stammering, "Senior, will this do? Suxin has reached Foundation Establishment, she doesn't shed hair..."
Chen Huaian gave it a casual glance.
Just as he was about to grab it,
"Master, let your disciple assist you."
Li Qingran's sweet, soft voice sounded beside him.
Chen Huaian turned to see his little apprentice had arrived next to him.
That burning gaze he'd felt earlier undoubtedly belonged to her.
"Ahem, good." Chen Huaian nodded with feigned solemnity.
The Yang Soul Mirror activated again.
Yun Suxin's figure appeared in the mirror.
Yun Baiyu gasped at the sight of his daughter, tears immediately streaming down his face. Yun Suxin's condition looked terrible—her figure emaciated, complexion like gold paper, and breathing faint.
She appeared to be suspended in midair in a spread-eagle position, head drooping, still unconscious.
Chen Huaian keenly observed obvious frostbite on Yun Suxin's exposed skin.
Cultivators feared neither heat nor cold.
If frostbite appeared, it could only mean Yun Suxin had become like an ordinary mortal, having lost the spiritual energy that protected her from temperature extremes.
In other words, she'd been crippled.
"Senior, do you know where my daughter is now?" Yun Baiyu asked tearfully, instinctively grabbing Chen Huaian's sleeve. Li Qingran merely glanced at this but said nothing.
"This venerable one shall calculate it."
Chen Huaian flickered and re-entered the Cangyun Realm.
Heaven's calculations couldn't be performed in a minor world.
[This is your first Heaven's Calculation today—free of charge.]
[Calculation failed. The target's heavenly secrets are concealed. Your Luck Loss Layers number 987, making it impossible to forcibly discern heavenly secrets. Please increase your strength or reduce Luck Loss Layers to -17563.]
Chen Huaian: "..."
Bullshit!
Judging from the golden vertical pupil's direction,
Yun Suxin wasn't at the Jade Pool Holy Land, but rather at the Burning Purity Holy Land to the west. Perhaps she'd initially been at Jade Pool but was transferred to Burning Purity for some reason.
Maybe Jade Pool and Burning Purity were having some sort of loot division meeting.
The situation was basically clear.
Chen Huaian felt a spying sensation from the horizon. Unfazed, he simply flipped the bird in that direction before tearing through the void back to the minor world.
...
"The Sword Pavilion's Ancestor is indeed here!"
Amidst the clouds, Jade Condensation Real Person narrowed her eyes.
She'd come to confirm the situation after receiving reports from subordinates.
Expecting her to fight the Sword Pavilion Ancestor? Impossible.
The Sword Pavilion Ancestor was at least at the Fifth Stage of Void Fusion Realm, while she was only at the Fourth. A hundred Fourth Stage cultivators would still be sending themselves to death—the saying "each Void Fusion stage is a world apart" wasn't a joke.
But confirming his location meant they could awaken Sixth or even Ninth Stage elders from seclusion to kill the Sword Pavilion Ancestor.
"What was that gesture the Sword Pavilion Ancestor made just now? Did he detect me?" Jade Condensation frowned. Her concealment skills were superb—she shouldn't have been noticed so easily.
Yet that gesture inexplicably irritated her.
Now that the Sword Pavilion Ancestor had returned to his minor world,
she could set up a large-scale trapping array right here!
Jade Condensation stroked the vine bell at her waist, lips curling into a cold smile.
Arrays were the only method for Void Fusion Realm cultivators to cross realms against higher-stage opponents—provided one was willing to invest materials in the formation core. And their Jade Pool Holy Land was never lacking in resources or materials.
...
When Chen Huaian returned to the minor world, he found Sunset Peak surrounded by people. Puzzled, he approached and saw the unconscious Lingxi Valley Master Yun Baiyu—having fainted from excessive grief and internal injuries.
Though several Lingxi Valley disciples were medical cultivators, their skills paled compared to their Valley Master's, leaving them helplessly anxious.
Fortunately, Medicine Garden's Elder Liu was already examining Yun Baiyu.
"How is she?"
The crowd parted upon seeing the Ancestor's arrival.
Elder Liu raised his head, bushy white eyebrows knitting together as he sighed:
"Her dantian is shattered, life force severed... Unimaginable that the Lingxi Valley Master would be riddled with internal injuries. The Valley rarely engages in combat—where would she find so many fights?
With her dantian broken, internal injuries become irreparable.
What should have been a long lifespan has been exhausted by these injuries.
Her condition is beyond saving—treating the injuries would only address symptoms, not the root. Only restoring her dantian could help."
"The Valley Master often took the Young Mistress to Jade Pool Holy Land years ago. After returning severely injured once, she never went again," said a red-eyed Lingxi Valley disciple.
"After that, the Valley Master frequently entered seclusion, emerging visibly weaker each time. Could these injuries have come from Jade Pool's people?"
"That Jade Pool Holy Land is utterly inhuman!" a Sword Pavilion disciple spat angrily.
"Exactly! Three of our direct disciples were crippled by Jade Pool's witches! They remain comatose, and our senior sister is still trapped there!"
Hearing this, the Sword Pavilion disciples burned with righteous fury, itching to draw swords and charge to Jade Pool to rescue their senior sister and avenge their senior brothers.
"Doubtless Jade Pool's doing," Chen Huaian said darkly, his anger thickening the surrounding air:
"Restoring the dantian requires Primordial Heaven-Mending Pills—needed not just by Yun Baiyu, but also our three Sword Pavilion direct disciples.
Elder Liu, Elder Li, and Lingxi Valley disciples—do any of you know where to find more Primordial Heaven-Mending Pills?"
He'd already tried Heaven's Calculation, with awkward results.
The game could only provide one ordinary-grade Primordial Heaven-Mending Pill—the last remaining in stock.
Moreover, it was placed in a koi prize pool requiring expensive draws.
Price aside, one pill wasn't enough.
"This..." Elder Liu grimaced.
Though well-traveled—having once belonged to True Martial Holy Land—even there Primordial Heaven-Mending Pills were rare. He only knew Jade Pool had been collecting them everywhere—perhaps they still had some.
But surely the Ancestor couldn't just storm Jade Pool...
A Holy Land with Great Ascension Stage guardians...
"Senior."
A cool voice sounded behind the crowd.
People turned with mixed expressions—
because the girl carried faint demonic energy.
As righteous cultivators, they naturally prejudged demonic practitioners.
Had she not been saved by the Ancestor, Sword Pavilion disciples might have already drawn swords.
Mo Shumei bowed to Chen Huaian. Facing that authoritative gaze, despite mental preparation, she still felt chills down her spine, forcing composure as she said:
"This junior was once sent to a Jade Pool outpost when they were aggressively collecting Primordial Heaven-Mending Pills. I may have useful information about this..."