Chapter Thirty-Nine: Coercion

  What a mess! It's Han Dongyu, I didn't expect him to come back so soon? Xia Chen's face changed.

  It's too late to go out again, and the inner garden gate has already been pushed open. Xia Chen hastily retreated back into the alchemy room, now only hoping that Han Dongyu won't enter the alchemy room, and waiting for an opportunity to act.

  But as feared, Han Dongyu's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and he was actually heading straight for the alchemy room.

  Xia Chen secretly called out in distress, this alchemy room was spacious and vast, but it was also extremely open, with no place to hide.

  He was also resourceful in an emergency, his eyes scanned the room and saw a row of cauldrons placed in the center of the stone chamber. He quickly walked to the largest one, lifted the lid, then jumped inside.

  The lid of the cauldron had just been covered when Han Dongyu walked in.

  Xia Chen held his breath and stopped breathing, starting to hold his breath, while using his true energy to suppress his pulse and heartbeat to a barely perceptible level.

  The cultivator of the Divine Path has an extremely strong cultivation base. His five senses are extremely sensitive, beyond imagination. Even the slightest unusual sound can be detected.

  Han Dongyu walked a few laps in the alchemy room, suddenly muttering to himself: "It seems that it's indeed just rumors, how can there be any traces of demonic beasts near this Zhengxuan Mountain Range? However, if I don't go out and take a look, I won't be able to rest assured."

  Of course there are monsters, you just haven't found them yet. Xia Chen thought.

  He was in the tripod furnace, only to hear Han Dongyu walk to the stone table, open the drawer, and it seemed that he took out the damaged book volume, put it in his hand and flipped through it. For half a moment, there was no movement, presumably looking at something.

  Suddenly, Han Dongyu walked towards the cauldron where he was hiding and slapped his palm on the lid of the cauldron, saying in a low voice: "Xia Chen".

  Xia Chen's soul was frightened out of her body in an instant, and cold sweat poured down her face. She really couldn't understand how Han Dongyu had discovered her.

  Han Dongyu said, "You can't imagine it, but one day this tripod furnace will be prepared for you. I'm also fortunate to have met you, the ancient yuan saint body. I'll cultivate you well and let you reach the tenth level of post-heaven as soon as possible, fulfilling my wish."

  It was his monologue again just now.

  Xia Chen felt like his soul was about to fly away, his body didn't move an inch, and the expression on his face was stiff and numb. He thought to himself, "Damn it, Han Dongyu, I almost jumped out and fought you to death... Don't scare people like that..."

  Han Dongyu muttered a few more words to himself, then stuffed the tattered scroll back into the drawer and left.

  Xia Chen's soul was still unsettled, and she didn't dare to move until she confirmed that Han Dongyu had left. Only then did she carefully lift the lid of the cauldron and jump out.

  He patted his chest, and Han Dong-yu's previous muttering was even more shocking than a sharp arrow piercing the heart. Fortunately, no unusual sound came out, otherwise he would have been done for.

  What did he mean by that? Was this large cauldron prepared for me? Was I going to be refined like a dan medicine? Xia Chen thought, and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

  He didn't dare think more about it now, and leaving the medicine garden was urgent.

  Fortunately, Han Dongyu had already left the inner garden. Xia Chen walked near the gate, listened carefully for a moment, and confirmed that no one was there before climbing over the wall to exit.

  A moment later, Xia Chen returned to his own room, and the hanging heart finally put down.

  This trip of sneaking into the inner courtyard was simply thrilling, but fortunately it ended perfectly and I even got a very precious ancient alchemy book. I don't know where Han Dongyu got this broken book from, and he just casually put it in his drawer.

  Xia Chen took out the tattered book from the storage space and studied it carefully. The formula for the precious elixir recorded on it was very detailed, and contained a lot of profound knowledge about alchemy.

  If it were in the past, Xia Chen would naturally be like reading a heavenly book, but after being pointed out by the mysterious woman, Xia Chen's eyesight has been greatly improved, and these treasure pills and prescriptions, as well as the information and knowledge passed on to him by the mysterious woman, have inspired each other, making it easier to understand.

  Just a few hours later, Xia Chen had digested a lot of profound elixir information and felt that he had made great progress.

  He originally had a 50% grasp of refining the demon beast's inner dan, but after digesting this knowledge, his grasp increased to over 70%.

  Put away the tattered book, Xia Chen had already made up his mind. It was not suitable to delay, and he would go to the back mountain tomorrow to refine the demon pill. After taking it, he could start cultivating the first layer of the Great Golden Body.

  After a while, Xia Chen left the medicine garden and headed back to his own courtyard. It had been several days since he last went there, so it was time to see how those guys were doing with their cultivation.

  Thinking of Chen Lie, Sun Li and Fang Qiu, Xia Chen's mouth corners couldn't help but curve into a faint smile. Being with Han Dongyu was exhausting, always trying to outdo each other. Only when he was with these few brothers did he feel true warmth.

  During this period, under his guidance, the cultivation of Chen Lie and the other two also made rapid progress. There were signs of a breakthrough to the second heaven. Moreover, Xia Chen had countless foundation pills, so he wouldn't be stingy, scattering them in large quantities, making it difficult not to improve their cultivation.

  Ever since a month ago, Zhuo Bu Fan and Fang Zi Qing planned to overthrow Xia Chen in secret, the three of them have been through thick and thin with Xia Chen, and their bond has grown even stronger, their cohesion is unparalleled!

  However, as soon as Xia Chen walked into the courtyard, he was shocked to see Fang Qiu lying on the ground, his whole body covered in blood, and groaning in pain.

  As for Chen Lie and Sun Li, they were nowhere to be found.

  "Xia Chen..." Seeing Xia Chen come in, Fang Qiu's eyes suddenly showed a look of surprise.

  "What happened? Who beat you up like this? Where are Sun Li and Chen Lie?" Xia Chen asked in shock and anger, hastily helping Fang Qiu to his feet.

  A fierce anger rose in his heart, whoever it was, dared to bully his own brothers and sisters, that absolutely could not be forgiven.

  "Xia Chen, hurry up and save Sun Li and Chen Lie, they've been taken away!" Fang Qiu exclaimed, ignoring his own pain.

  "Who took her away?" Xia Chen's eyes flashed with a cold light.

  "They were two old disciples, don't know what kind of cultivation they have, but it's very powerful. They directly rushed in and said they wanted to find you, with dirty words in their mouths, very arrogant. We clashed with them, but soon we were all knocked down. Sun Li and Chen Lie were also taken away by force." Fang Qiu said with difficulty.

  Is he after me? Xia Chen's heart skipped a beat. Within the sect, those who had grudges against him were only a few people like Zhuo Bu Fan, but Zhuo Bu Fan and others were probably still lying in bed now, so who else could it be?

  He had calmed down by then and thought for a moment before asking: "Who are those two old disciples? Do you know them?"

  Sun Fang shook his head and said, "I don't know him, I've never seen him before. However, the two disciples who left just now dropped a message saying that if you want to find Sun Li and Chen Lie, go to the 84th courtyard in the third district of the Men's Sect!"

  "The third district eighty-four courtyard, I remembered." Xia Chen repeated a sentence, stood up, and took out a handful of dan medicine from his bosom and put it in Fang Qiu's hand. "This is yuanqi dan, you heal your wounds first, I'll go find Sun Li and Chen Lie!"

  With a whoosh, Xia Chen directly shot out of the door and sprinted towards the third courtyard.

  The killing intent in his heart was more intense than ever before. If Chen Lie and Sun Li were to be harmed because of him, Xia Chen would never forgive himself.

  After a while, Xia Chen arrived at the third district and immediately saw the eighty-fourth courtyard.

  With dragon-like strides and tiger-like steps, Xia Chui walked towards the courtyard with big steps.

  Suddenly, two expressionless disciples walked out of the courtyard and coldly shouted: "Who are you? Do you know what this place is? And dare to trespass at will?"

  "Is Sun Li and Chen Lie here?" Xia Chen asked coldly.

  The two disciples were taken aback for a moment, then exchanged a glance and suddenly burst out laughing: "You're that new disciple Xia Chen who's been making waves?"

  "But you guys told me to come here and find Sun Li and Chen Lie?" Xia Chen said calmly.

  "Ah, Third Brother! I thought you wouldn't dare to come. Unexpectedly, you still have some guts, not bad. It's just that we let our guard down and allowed you to come, you fool, do you know what crime you've committed..." The left-hand side disciple sneered.

  "Those new disciples were also knocked unconscious by you?" Xia Chen suddenly interrupted him.

  "What's it to you?" The disciple on the right raised his chin and sneered coldly, "I'm beating up exactly this kind of trash like you!"

  Bang!

  Xia Chen swiftly and mercilessly slapped a crisp and loud slap on the right cheek of that disciple, instantly sending him flying up, with a thud, heavily smashing onto the ground in the courtyard, motionless, and surprisingly fainted.

  Dozens of blood-splattered teeth fragments shot out of his mouth and landed directly outside the courtyard wall.

  "What the... damn it! You dare to hit us? Do you know who we are?" The left disciple was stunned for a moment, then reacted and shouted angrily.

  His entire body suddenly emitted a crackling sound like a whip, and a powerful aura burst out in an instant. It turned out to be the cultivation of the Fourth Layer of Refining Tendons, and his strength was not weak at all.

  "How dare you hit my brother? Die for me!" The left disciple took a step forward, his face ferocious, and heavily punched out a fist in front of Xia Chen.

  "I'm fighting you bunch of rascals!" Xia Chen smiled coldly and threw out a punch without hesitation.

  Bang!

  The two fists collided, and Xia Chen didn't move a single hair, but the disciple stumbled back several steps, his face suddenly turning pale, with a thread of blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

  One punch will decide victory or defeat.

  Although this disciple is also a postnatal fourth-order cultivator, he naturally can't be compared to Xia Chen.

  "Impossible!" The disciple's eyes revealed an expression of extreme shock, "You're just a new disciple, how can you be so strong? Have you already broken through to the fifth stage of acquired power?"

  "I don't have time for nonsense with you." Xia Chen stepped forward, "Hand over Sun Li and Chen Lie, or I'll cripple you!"

  "How dare you!" The disciple's face changed color. "Xia Chen, if you dare to move a single hair on me, my brother will make sure you die without a burial place."

  "Despicable!" Xia Chen said lightly, grabbing the disciple's chest and lifting him high up, ready to slam him heavily onto the ground.

  "You half-breed, dare you touch my brother? I'll kill both of you!" A voice full of murderous intent suddenly burst forth.

  Suddenly, three figures flashed out at the gate of the courtyard.

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