The next morning, Su Qi got up, got dressed, and prepared to head back.

Jiang Zuo naturally woke up too. He sat up in bed, clutching his waist and putting on a pained expression. (Don’t get the wrong idea—it was from Su Qi pinching him.)

However, with Jiang Zuo’s pain tolerance, it was nothing. He was just putting on an act, hoping Su Qi would go easy on him.

’She’s such a handful,’

Just then, Su Qi, who was still not fully dressed, suddenly leaned in close to Jiang Zuo. Hmm, it was an incredibly tempting sight.

But Jiang Zuo remained calm and asked, "What is it now?"

Su Qi asked out of the blue, "Am I pretty?"

Jiang Zuo answered without hesitation, "You are."

Su Qi said, "I meant my hair. It’s a total mess, how can it be pretty? You’re just placating me."

Jiang Zuo: "..."

Jiang Zuo had Su Qi sit down, then helped her comb her hair and retied her hairband.

Then he said calmly, "Now it’s pretty."

"You’re not looking at my face or my body, just my hair. Is it because I’m not as pretty as my hair?"

She was clearly just trying to pick a fight. Jiang Zuo refused to take the bait.

When she didn’t get a response, Su Qi turned to him again and asked, "Am I pretty?"

Jiang Zuo: "..."

After a moment’s hesitation, Jiang Zuo finally nodded. "You are."

Su Qi stood up and finished getting dressed.

Then, she looked at Jiang Zuo and said, "Remember to report in next time. Otherwise, I won’t have your children."

"..."

Jiang Zuo nodded solemnly.

Only then did Su Qi leave, satisfied. She had probably been stewing all night.

But this business of "reporting in" was a hard habit for Jiang Zuo to form. The only solution was to prevent any incidents from happening in the first place.

For him, if he couldn’t change his ways, he would just cut off the problem at its source.

Fortunately, when it came to any of Su Qi’s own habits he wasn’t used to, his body would cooperate and adapt quickly.

Not long after Su Qi left the small house, Jiang Zuo got up as well. He needed to make another trip to see Chi Xue Child.

Soon, Jiang Zuo arrived at Blade Master Hai Bian’s room again. When he got there, he saw Liuyue Xue was still treating Blade Master Hai Bian.

Mo Yan was asleep, slumped beside Liuyue Xue. Chi Xue Child was dozing by the window, his Red Sword placed on the windowsill next to him.

The Red Sword was sentient; it would issue a warning if any abnormal energy fluctuations appeared.

Demon Cultivator Mo Yan and Chi Xue Child were fine, but Liuyue Xue’s eyes were open, her face haggard with exhaustion.

Blade Master Hai Bian was in the same state as before.

Jiang Zuo’s arrival naturally startled Liuyue Xue. The moment she saw him, she asked, "Fellow Daoist, can I stop now?"

Jiang Zuo nodded. "You can."

To Liuyue Xue, his voice was like the music of the heavens. Without a second thought, she stopped the treatment and collapsed onto Demon Cultivator Mo Yan to sleep.

’I really should have come with my sect,’ she thought. ’These people are all terrible to work with.’

At that moment, Chi Xue Child also woke up. Demon Cultivator Mo Yan, however, did not. The method she had used yesterday was mentally taxing.

She had fainted, not fallen asleep.

"Fellow Daoist Po Xiao, are you here to treat Fellow Daoist Blade Master Hai Bian?" Chi Xue Child asked, picking up his sword and approaching Jiang Zuo.

Jiang Zuo nodded. He tapped Blade Master Hai Bian’s chest a few times, and then his Innate Two Qi began to circulate along the edges of the wound.

The wound was tainted with a poison unique to the Heart-piercing Snake, and it was this poison that had been blocking the healing.

Devouring such things was the Innate Two Qi’s specialty.

However, in a way, this poison had its benefits. Just as it could block healing, it could also block all other poisons.

The previously administered Life-Protecting Elixir, combined with Liuyue Xue’s non-stop healing all night, had essentially negated the side effect of blocking treatment.

Because the healing was constant, the poison couldn’t form a complete barrier. Therefore, removing the poison now would allow Blade Master Hai Bian to develop a powerful poison resistance, turning what would have been a negative side effect into a net positive.

This, too, was a stroke of fortune.

After the Innate Two Qi finished devouring the poison, the healing energy that had built up in Blade Master Hai Bian’s body began to surge like a flood.

The fatal wound on his body began to recover at a rapid pace.

Then, a light began to radiate from Blade Master Hai Bian’s body. Not only did his injuries begin to heal, but the Golden Light around him also began to grow immense.

His skin looked as if it had been plated in gold.

"The Dharma Golden Body Technique... Is he a disciple of the Buddhist Sect?" Jiang Zuo asked Chi Xue Child.

Chi Xue Child shook his head. "It was likely a fortuitous encounter. Blade Master Hai Bian is definitely a Loose Cultivator. I’d heard he practices the Dharma Golden Body, but because it’s a Buddhist Sect Cultivation Technique, he rarely uses it.

"To think that, through this twist of fate, his Dharma Golden Body Technique would actually advance to the next level."

Jiang Zuo nodded. It seemed Blade Master Hai Bian hadn’t escaped by pure luck. The Dharma Golden Body was his greatest asset.

While Blade Master Hai Bian was recovering, Jiang Zuo asked Chi Xue Child, "What about that stone rod?"

Chi Xue Child immediately fumbled under the bed for a moment and pulled out a pitch-black stone rod.

Jiang Zuo: "..."

’What a... brilliant hiding spot,’

Jiang Zuo took the stone rod. In reality, it wasn’t a rod made of stone at all, but a wooden club unique to the Immortal Spirit Cave Mansion.

This club resembled stone but wasn’t stone, resembled jade but wasn’t jade. It had only one purpose: to beat a Heart-piercing Snake.

However, only the Inheritor knew the proper way to use it for that.

Therefore, this wooden club was of little use to anyone else.

But to the current Jiang Zuo, it had only one use: to be absorbed as a Five Elements Attribute.

He had previously named the club Heart-Piercing Wood, and this Heart-Piercing Wood was an extremely rare Wood Attribute Spirit Wood.

Its attribute content was higher than most Spirit Medicines and Spirit Woods.

Holding the Heart-Piercing Wood, Jiang Zuo said, "I’ll be taking this."

Chi Xue Child readily agreed. Not to mention that Jiang Zuo had saved Blade Master Hai Bian’s life.

There was also the matter of dividing the ’inheritance’. Last night, they had split all of Blade Master Hai Bian’s Spirit Stones. There was supposed to be a share for Jiang Zuo, but they had pocketed it anyway.

This stone rod was also part of the inheritance, so giving it to Jiang Zuo now was only fair.

After that, Jiang Zuo planned to leave. If he had time, he would go back and level up again.

When the time came, he wanted Blade Master Hai Bian to take him to the location of the Immortal Spirit Rift. Even if there was nothing specific to be gained there, he could still calculate the approximate location of the Immortal Spirit Spring.

After leaving Chi Xue Child’s place, Jiang Zuo walked back alone. But as he was walking, the street suddenly plunged into darkness.

It wasn’t just the street that went dark; the people and buildings vanished as well.

Jiang Zuo observed his surroundings. This attack was a bit sudden, even for him.

After another look around, Jiang Zuo spoke, "A Nightmare Space. No wonder."

Only an innocuous ambush like this could have bypassed his perception.

But it was precisely these kinds of innocuous ambushes that could sometimes be the most fatal.

But Jiang Zuo wasn’t flustered in the slightest. He calmly surveyed the area. He highly doubted that someone with this kind of Nightmare Ability would launch such an ambush against a mere Tier One Cultivator.

He had probably just gotten unlucky.

Jiang Zuo had only just appeared in the space when he saw a group of imps brandishing large blades charge toward him.

"KILL! It’s our turn! Whenever we show up, the opponent is guaranteed to be a pushover! Brothers, don’t hold back! Hack ’em to pieces! This is our carnival!"