?
Chen Mo had a puzzled look on his face.
This conversation sounded quite off!
He only meant to mentor Ling Ningzhi a little, how did it end up with him becoming the Ling family’s son-in-law?
"Mr. Ling..."
"I’m feeling a bit tired, so I won’t keep you any longer. Zhi’er, see the guest out."
Ling Ningzhi came up to Chen Mo, her pretty face slightly flushed, "Mr. Chen, let’s go."
"..."
Chen Mo, still in a daze, followed her out of the small courtyard, feeling as if he had been set up by the old man...
...
After they left, the courtyard returned to silence.
Ling Yishan leaned back in his lounge chair, swaying leisurely, seeming quite pleased.
Yuan Junfeng frowned slightly, asking in a low voice, "Elder Ling, considering this is a lifelong matter for Ning Zhi, isn’t this too hasty?"
Ling Yishan shook his head, saying, "Twenty years old, peak Fifth-Level Martial Artist, Alchemy Master level, soul power fluctuation even stronger than a Fourth Rank Soul Cultivator, with an excellent mindset... If we don’t seize such a Heavenly Pride, we might miss this chance!"
"Now the winds of change are roaring across Jiu Zhou, undergoing a transformation unseen in a millennium. No one can stop this world-altering momentum, not even Tianshu Pavilion."
"Chen Mo is blessed with destiny, and if Zhi’er follows him, at least she won’t be crushed by the great trend, for I can’t protect her for much longer..."
Hearing the final sentence, Yuan Junfeng was startled, "Elder Ling, your health..."
Ling Yishan waved his hand, "Don’t worry, I’m not dying anytime soon."
Yuan Junfeng’s voice was somewhat low, "If the Creation Golden Pill can be refined, it would rebuild your Dao Foundation and give you a second life..."
"Is it that easy?" Ling Yishan said blandly, "It’s not just that immortal materials are rare; even if you gather all the materials, who can refine the pill?"
The Creation Golden Pill has not appeared for nearly a thousand years.
According to the pill recipe, to refine this pill, one must use the world as the furnace, yin and yang as the fuel, Heavenly Thunder as the fire, and utilize the changes of the twenty-four solar terms... Who has such formidable means? Probably not even Ji Hongxiu can manage that!
"Everything is predestined, if not for worrying about Zhi’er, I would have long grown tired of this drawn-out existence."
"The road of the Alchemy Dao has its limits; do not bargain with Yan Luo for more lifetime..."
Ling Yishan sighed softly.
He lifted his hand to gently stroke the cracked bark of the locust tree, where a faint bluish luminescence appeared between the patterns, illuminating the vermilion chains coiled among the branches.
The iron chain plunged deep into the treetop, ending in a bronze oracle disk, which faintly displayed eight mottled characters: Eternal Guard of the Underworld, Command the Afterlife.
Creak—
The chains swayed, emitting a light sound.
Ling Yishan’s face grew slightly pale, his brows furrowed, as if enduring something with great effort.
It wasn’t until a quarter of an hour later that his expression returned to normal, his clothes soaked with sweat, and he leaned against the chair as if completely drained, his face appearing more lined with wrinkles, his eyes filled with deep exhaustion.
The gleam on the tree trunk faded, and the chains and oracle disk retreated back into the shadows.
"To break through the barrier, one must pay a price."

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