[Stop!]

  Li Wei hurriedly wrote these words using the aral tablet, gritting his teeth.

  He uood now. Li Yaoqing had pnned from the beginning to use her lifespan to activate the Heaven's Wrath Wood and Pnt Divi teique aralize the toxicity of the Ninth-Grade Revolving Azure Pool!

  Seeing these words before her, for the first time in her life, Li Yaoqing disobeyed the aor's and.

  Her smile bloomed radiantly like the flowers of this day. Despite her u appearance, her beauty was such that it could dispel all pain and bring life to barren nds.

  "Heehee, Aor, it's alright."

  "I'm still young, and I already sehe level of the Heaven's Wrath Wood and Pnt Divi and the Immortal Fetus. With my breakthrough, I'll have a tri-spiritual root! My cultivation speed is also increasing, and with the Immortal Fetus, ing pills won't harm my body."

  "They..."

  "...are my beloved family."

  Li Yaoqing didn't explicitly say it.

  But if Li Wei were to put it bluntly, "What beloved family, my foot!"

  This was the first time Li Yaoqing had evehese three little rascals!

  Li Kuangren's talent was ultimately quite low. Even if the family devoted all their resources to cultivating him, in the grand petition of young talents twenty years ter, he might not be a match for his oppos. The future was filled with uainty.

  Therefore, Li Yaoqing had always been this kind of person, smiling foolishly like she was now, saying that everything would be alright. Even as a child, she distanced herself from others, uhe other children who pyed together. She was aloaking care of everything in the spiritual herb garden.

  While other children were pying with kittens and puppies, she was already dragging corpses to the Blood Spirit Fruit Tree and draining their blood.

  She was only supposed to gather intelligen the Thunderfire Cave, but she ended up staying there for decades. All the good things she found were sent bae. The most valuable treasure she possessed was a mid-grade Spirit on gourd used for st medial herbs.

  Li Wei gritted his teeth and typed furiously on the keyboard.

  But as he typed, he pressed the delete key.

  Li Yaoqing, with her fingers f hand seals for a teique, smiled, her eyes curving downwards like crest moons. Although her appearance was ordinary, her smile was incredibly beautiful.

  "Aor, please allow this child to be willful just this once."

  Li Wei khat he probably couldn't persuade her, just like how she would always fet his advients ter.

  It was as if she was saying, "Just let me be willful this once," and then she would do it agaiime.

  If it were any other desdant saying this, Li Wei would sider giving them a beating. But with Li Yaoqing saying it...

  "Sigh."

  Li Wei let out a long sigh. "Yaoqing..." he murmured.

  He wao say something, but the words caught in his throat, and he didn't know how to express them. He wanted Li Yaoqing to think more about herself, but he khat his words would likely fall on deaf ears.

  At that moment, on the s, Li Yaoqing was surrounded by flowers. Perhaps in the eyes of others, she was the u Deadly Pharmacist, the Holy Maiden of Herbs and Wood enveloped in withered vines. But in Li Wei's eyes, Li Yaoqing was the child he most wao proted cherish.

  Time passed slowly.

  [Your desdant Li Yaoqing is ing her lifespan...]

  [Your desdant Li Yaoqing...]

  [...is ing her lifespan...]

  Two months ter...

  For the first time, she wore thick clothes, c her body, and put on gloves and a theatrical mask with a smiling face.

  The cave entrance, which she had sealed with vines, opened.

  The vines and flowers were no longer visible in the och-bck cave. They were withering away like her life, just as she, once vibrant and full of life, was now hidden within the earth.

  The Ninth-Grade Revolving Azure Pool, once a boiling cauldron of strange colors, had transformed into clear water. The three children opeheir eyes and saw Li Yaoqing sitting on a branch of a withered tree, just as before, but noearing even more ethereal.

  [Your desdants, Li Kuangren, Li Kuanghua, and Li Kuangtu, after soaking in the Ninth-Grade Revolving Azure Pool, have all broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining!]

  [Their spirit root values have beely enhanced!]

  [Within the Ninth-Grade Revolving Azure Pool, their bodies were repeatedly destroyed and repaired, making their meridians, dantian energy reservoir, and physique even more resilient. Acquired Trait: Gift of the Heaven's Wrath Wood and Pnt Divi.]

  [Possessing stronger recovery abilities, bat power increased by 20%, cultivation speed increased by 15%, poisoance greatly enhanced, healing and recovery speed increased.]

  "Sed Great-grandmother's potion is so powerful! Even more powerful than the Heavenly Pond of Azure Phoenix Mountain!"

  "My spirit root has improved! Sed Great-grandmother, look! I've broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining! My meridians and dantian are so much rger than before!"

  "Sed Great-grandmother, why are you wearing a mask?"

  The three children gazed at Li Yaoqing oree branch. The pain had subsided, and their memories lingered on their first enter with her.

  However, this time, Li Yaoqing wasn't pyfully swinging her legs like she did during their first meeting, nor was she teasing them. Her quiet demeanor made them inexplicably unfortable, as if they were deeply ied to their Sed Great-grandmother.

  After their initial joy, they didn't dare to speak loudly, only quietly staring at their Sed Great-grandmother.

  "It's good that you have all broken through," she said softly.

  Li Yaoqing forced a chuckle from behind her mask. "Go on, children," she said, "yreat-grandfather is waiting for you. Ahat couple, don't e funting their lovey-dovey affe in front of me. At their age, it's i."

  "And Yunbing," she tinued, "wheurns, have yrandpa Yunbing help me mahe forces here. Ahe Demon Lord that I'm going to attempt a breakthrough."

  The three children didn't dare disobey. "Yes, Sed Great-grandmother," they replied.

  After the childre, Li Yaoqing still didn't remove her mask.

  She held the aral tablet and sat down cross-legged.

  It was as if she had dohing at all, just as she was now sealing the entrao the cave once again, standing in a dark er, her body, which she had just straightened with difficulty, hunched over.

  Like a wounded cat, silently lig its wounds.

  The Thunderfire Cave hadn't tainted her with demoniature. She was like the most beautiful flower in the world.

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