Boom!!

The deafening thunder still seemed to echo in his ears, and Mu Cong came back to his senses.

The incoming searing pain caused me to cry out in agony.

Slowly opening his eyes, he realized he was lying in a small, dark, enclosed space.

A faint scent of medicine reached his nose.

What is this?

Mu tried to operate Xuan Qi -

A congenital martial artist can see even in darkness.

However, suddenly, a piercing pain shot through him.

All the meridians, as if being torn by scalding heat, felt like they could rupture at any moment.

"Ah—!"

Mu cried out in pain, falling to the ground. The intense agony drenched him in cold sweat.

What on earth happened?

Remember, you just achieved perfect harmony.

Friend, Palace Qian Xue came to find a forging elixir, helping her break through the first level of the Immortal Cultivation path - Forging.

Qian Xue accompanied him up Lei Ming Peak. As Xuan Qi circulated again and again, the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation descended.

Mu Mingming clearly remembered, having borne the brunt of eight bolts of heavenly lightning.

Just need to withstand the ninth heavenly tribulation and you can advance to the Forging Realm.

Immediately afterward, I felt a searing pain and fainted.

Could it be that the tribulation failed?

Mu Zheng was terrified, and suddenly a dazzling line of light appeared above him.

He squinted his eyes and, when he saw the beautiful face above him, exclaimed in surprise, "Qian Xue!"

However, Gong Qianxue did not greet her with a smile as usual, but looked down at her with disdain.

Mu Jue felt something was wrong and glanced around, only to realize that he was actually in a cauldron.

And the face of Gong Qianxue peered in from the hole above the pill furnace.

"Qian Xue, what's going on? Did I fail my tribulation, so you're trying to heal me?"

Gong Qianxue was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter: "Jun Mu, you're even dumber than a pig! You still think I'm doing this for your own good?"

"You, what do you mean by that?"

"What do you mean? Hehe, do you think I gave you the elixir to help you survive the tribulation? Fool, let me tell you the truth. The elixir can indeed help you survive the tribulation, but it contains a deadly poison. When you experience nine bolts of heavenly lightning and begin refining your soul, the poison will take effect."

"Stop playing around." Mu struggled to get up, his voice hoarse and urgent. "Qian Xue, I know you like to play pranks on me, this isn't real, right? You said I was your best friend, didn't you?"

"Best friend? You, a low-class nobody from a lesser country, deserve it?" Gong Qianxue sneered, "Do you think I went to all that trouble to use the best elixirs to help you reach the peak of the Innate realm? That's because there is a trace of immortal essence within you, and that essence can only be activated after experiencing nine heavenly tribulations. Hahahaha, just like you now, you are my perfect alchemy material."

“Alchemical materials?” Mu Hun felt a chill, as if his world had crumbled at that moment.

Since that incident, no one in the world is trusted anymore.

...but treated Gong Qianxue as his best friend and closest relative.

For Qianxue Gong, he learned to configure Xuan medicine and learn medicine.

For Gong Qianxue, he was willing to risk his life and death just to enter that place because there was something he wanted inside.

But now, Gong Qianxue tells me that it's all a lie!

Be good to yourself, just wanting to use your own things to refine medicine?!

At that moment, a gentle voice came from outside the cauldron.

"Junior sister, all the medicinal herbs have been prepared."

"Thank you, brother!" Gong Qianxue's voice immediately changed from sharp and sarcastic to excited.

Jun Mu then saw a face emerging from the hole at the top of the bronze cauldron. It was no longer Palace Qian Xue, but a young man.

Meet this man!

He is Gong Qianxue's senior brother at Tiandao Sect, Jian Feng. He is a genius alchemist.

Only seeing the swordsmanship, he threw the dark medicine in his hand into the alchemy furnace and glanced at it with a sneer of pity.

"Brother, will this alchemy session be like the one ten years ago when we refined the Immortal Embryo? The immortal energy was too abundant, causing an explosion in the furnace. In the end, I could only absorb and use one-tenth of a millionth of the immortal energy from the Immortal Embryo."

"Haha, don't worry, junior sister. With the experience from last time, this time I will definitely not fail again. Besides, it's just the mother of the immortal fetus, the immortal power she contains is still incomparable to the immortal fetus itself."

Listening to the two people's conversation, Mu Chong's pupils dilated little by little.

Divine fetus, ten years ago, mother...

No, it's not like that. A celestial embryo used for alchemy couldn't possibly be a child!

But a voice in my mind was frantically screaming —

That must be the child, whose child was refined by Gong Qianxue's elixir!

"Qian Xue!" Mu suddenly stood up from the alchemy furnace, struggling wildly as if possessed. "Qian Xue, where did you get that immortal fetus you spoke of?!"

Palace Qian Xue's venomous gaze swept across Jun Mu's flawlessly beautiful face, the hatred in her heart almost overflowing.

I don't understand why someone from such a low, inferior nation like him would be able to conceive a celestial fetus.

That celestial fetus was so powerful, it clearly showed what a supreme being the child's father must be.

Jun Mu, why?!

But, it's okay!

Anyway, since this celestial fetus has already been eaten, now even Jun Mu himself will become a stepping stone.

Gong Qiangxue let out a malicious smile, leaning close to Mu's ear and whispering, "Immortal fetus, of course it was taken from your womb ten years ago! Hehehe, that seven-month-old infant was still alive when I took him out of you! When I threw him into the alchemy furnace, he would still cry 'yi yi wa wa,' just like he was calling for his mother!"

Mu Daidi listened blankly, and in her ears rang the heart-wrenching cries of a child.

A piercing pain, searing through the bones and radiating from the heart to every meridian in the body.

The child, who was thought to have been killed by a relative, it turns out the real murderer is Gong Qianxue!

Then ignited was a bone-chilling, maddening hatred: "Palace Qianxue! Palace Qianxue!! I will kill you——! I will surely dismember you into ten thousand pieces!!"

"Just wait until I concoct the elixir and you swallow it. You'll become a once-in-a-millennium immortal spirit! If you want to kill me, try next life! Hahaha!"

The lid of the furnace was closed, and a roaring fire burned beneath it.

Palace Chi Xue looked expectantly at Jian Feng, "Senior brother, please!"

"Rest assured, Junior Sister," a flash of determination crossed Jian Feng's eyes. "I will definitely make your wish come true."

At that moment, a loud "bang" suddenly echoed from the alchemy furnace.

Gong Qiangxue let out a sharp cry, only feeling a searing pain as she was violently thrown away.

"Promise, as if hearing Mu's shrill and frantic cry: "Gong Qianxue, even if I become a ghost, I will never let you go!!"

The explosion was earth-shattering, the entire alchemy room trembling violently before collapsing completely.

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