Chapter 644 - 313: Tempting Bait to Catch a Big Fish (Part 4)

The message Li An delivered was about the location of Lady Yi’s tomb.

A small sea region within the Seventh-class Sea Region!

No exact location was given yet, but it was enough for the Gong Clan to gather their forces there first...

The precise location... still needed some time to be revealed to them, serving as a fuse to ignite everything!

...

"Xiaoli, how have these Immortal Elixirs been growing lately?"

On this day, Yi Yuan returned after several years of disappearance. He asked with a smile, and Li An took him for a tour around the medicinal fields. When he saw several Blood and Flesh Melting Furnace Skills growing well, he was quite surprised.

Only twenty years had passed, yet the leaves of these Immortal Herbs had developed quite a few blood-colored Immortal Spots!

These blood-colored Immortal Spots were the medicinal properties of the Blood and Flesh Melting Furnace Skill.

It’s important to know that Profound Immortal Herbs generally take at least three hundred years to mature, and developing blood-colored Immortal Spots would take about eighty to one hundred thirty years at least.

But Li An had significantly shortened this time.

"The younger generation used a lot of Blood Food, including a Profound Immortal-level pig."

Li An explained softly.

Yi Yuan suddenly understood, but he still patted Li An’s shoulder and said, "Even though the resources were abundant, being able to cultivate them shows your talent in this path!"

"Indeed!"

In reality, Li An wasn’t wrong. He was able to significantly shorten the growth time of the Immortal Elixirs mainly because he had an endless supply of Immortal corpses as soil.

Coupled with his Blood and Flesh Melting Furnace Skill refinement, it was extraordinary.

Although he wanted to cultivate these Immortal Elixirs quickly, he didn’t want to expose his Shennong Skill; otherwise, the result would be even better.

"Uncle Yuan, are you not busy lately?" Li An asked.

"Haha, a bit better now..."

Li An immediately bowed and said, "Uncle Yuan, I want to become your apprentice and learn the way of planting medicines from you!"

Yi Yuan was taken aback; to tell the truth, he liked Li An very much. To him, Li An was a good person, knew how to advance and retreat, aware of etiquette, sincere, and serious, truly the best successor.

However, Li An might not be able to hold his ground within the clan. If this matter fails, Li An might be silently killed...

But then he thought, since his current task was to keep an eye on Li An, what’s the harm in being his master first? Whether Li An lives or dies later has nothing to do with him.

"Alright! Since you have this desire, I’ll fulfill it for you!"

He smiled and stroked his beard.

Li An was immediately very excited and said, "Master, please take a seat!"

He hurriedly went to prepare Spirit Tea and offered it to Yi Yuan.

"There’s no need for these formalities..." Yi Yuan said with a smile.

However, Li An was very sincere and insisted, "Once a teacher, always a father. The apprentice must present tea."

He said this as he handed it to Yi Yuan, and Yi Yuan took it and drank the tea.

Immediately, Li An followed him here to learn herb cultivation, and the two appeared very much like a teacher and student. Yi Yuan taught selflessly and diligently, while Li An learned wholeheartedly and earnestly.

But they both had hidden motives, fully aware of each other’s intentions.

Yi Yuan’s purpose was... to watch over Li An!

Clearly, at the critical moment, Yi Lingwei wanted to keep Li An in hand, and this was also a kind of "soft confinement."

First, it was to prevent Li An from causing trouble; what if Lady Yi had other arrangements for Li An? That would ruin her plans.

Secondly, Li An could be used as a hostage; if anything happened, he could be used to contact Lady Yi or something.

For her, Li An was insignificant, but after all, he was Lady Yi’s confidant, so she couldn’t treat him too harshly, lest Lady Yi later blame her, so letting someone familiar with Li An like Yi Yuan handle it naturally meant Li An wouldn’t resist.

She did things with Lady Yi’s style, with not a drop of water leaking out.

And so they learned for seven days.

The eighth day.

Boom!

On this day, terrifying news finally came from the outside world－－

For several consecutive days, the heroes of Bian Province had been attempting to use the power of the Eleven Heavens to completely destroy the Heavenly Dao of the Spirit Realm, causing constant fluctuations, the Great Dao trembling, and this day, the scene was even more astonishing.

The entire Bian Province could see the direction of the Spirit Realm, countless rules manifesting and then shattering, a vast amount of rosy clouds erupting from the sky, the foundational constructs of the world collapsing, and the origin of the world seemed to be on the verge of total destruction...

Within a stone house in Mangya Mountain, disturbed by these terrifying happenings, Yi Yuan, who was giving a lesson, paused.

There was a trace of joy and longing on his old face as he said, "Hahaha... The Spirit Realm is broken, broken, and our Yi Clan now has many excellent lands for raising pigs. My good apprentice, you must learn well, perhaps the land on the other side of the Spirit Realm may be entrusted to you in the future, then you’ll truly have the means to live and settle down..."

He looked at Li An but found no trace of joy on Li An’s face, instead, he was looking at him with an extremely calm expression and a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth.

Yi Yuan couldn’t help but feel a little suspicious. He had seen many of Li An’s smiles: flattering, enthusiastic, sincere... But today, Li An’s smile was so strange, it was clearly a...

Smile for the dead!

"Something’s wrong..."

He suddenly sensed something, his throat tightened, as if being coiled by a poisonous snake!

...

Good night

Hope I catch a big fish soon.