The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 1440 - 1452: Seeking Immortality (17)

Of course, this was only for Su Li; for the Tang Family, it remained opaque and confusing.

However, they could find inspiration from it and create fragrances suitable for the Mortal World. Even the Tang Family’s strongest fragrance has vaguely touched the initial form of spiritual incense, enough to be described as stunningly exquisite.

If the Tang Family had not perished, perhaps with prolonged research, someone from the Tang Family could truly enter the Dao through incense.

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With the support from the Tang Family’s storeroom, Su Li no longer needed to miserably use those incense powders to make Combined Fragrance. She extravagantly utilized dozens of precious herbs like ginseng and snow lotus to create a stick of incense.

The incense was a light pink color, the fragrance smoke romantic and beautiful. Forming an orchid finger sign, she held her breath. Su Li was enveloped in the incense smoke, not leaving her room for three days. Once all the pink smoke was absorbed into her body, the defects of her body were finally completely healed.

She faintly began to sense the stone bead again.

Upon stepping outside her room, Su Li no longer appeared frail, much less on the verge of collapsing.

Hearing the door open, Tang Xianxian, who had been squatting at the door, felt aggrieved and started to shed tears, "Ah Lee, you haven’t come out, I was so scared."

Seeing the glance Su Li cast, Tang Xianxian’s tears abruptly stopped, and she explained timidly, "I... I haven’t cried in a long time." 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

"....Uncle Deaf can testify to this."

Returning from the Underground Palace as his disguise as a deaf and mute old man, Uncle Deaf dutifully and faithfully stayed by the side.

"I’m sorry for worrying you, but my body is much better now."

Simple people have their advantages. In just a few days, the debilitating ailment that plagued her daughter for sixteen years rapidly improved. Tang Xianxian not only did not question it but completely accepted Su Li’s simple explanation without a hint of doubt, as if this was the most normal thing.

Tang Xianxian was overjoyed but... she didn’t cry. Instead, she dabbed at the corner of her moist eyes with a handkerchief, then cautiously glanced up at Su Li, patted her chest, turned around, and beamed with a silly grin.

Su Li turned her gaze away, unable to bear watching. Tang Xianxian wasn’t pathetically crying, but her current foolish and dazed appearance wasn’t much better, just a bit more pleasant to look at.

Being of the Xuanyin Body with the materials from the Underground Palace, Su Li’s incense refining skills improved by leaps and bounds.

Her appearance became increasingly notably delicate, and looking at her for a long time gave off an ethereal and fleeting feeling.

No wonder in the past, Ling Miao Wanderer could single-handedly stir up the entire Cultivation World, with three thousand Daoist Lords considering it fortunate to enter Lingmiao’s account.

Who knew that a practitioner of the Incense Dao could possess such unique attributes?

A month later, Uncle Deaf, after witnessing Su Li’s methods, confidently departed the Tang Family to visit several Great Families.

The young lady is truly a genius. If any of the old Tang Family had her abilities, the Tang Family wouldn’t have ended in such a state.

The young lady’s incense is ever-present, capable of killing or saving people without a trace. As long as she desires, no one can come near her.

Half a month later, news came that the current Family Head of Nangong Castle had his throat slit. According to the servants who saw it, it was the vengeance of the Tang Family’s restless spirits.

Nangong Castle was no small power, and the Family Head’s murder was no trivial matter.

Soon, the long-buried thirty-year-old legacy of the Tang family’s incense-making re-emerged in conversations.

The Tang family’s impressive incense-making techniques and the overnight doom of a hundred and three family members were again mentioned.

The world did not believe in vengeful spirits taking lives, only attributing it to human actions.

Especially among the greedy crowds, some fell into panic, while others were excited and thrilled.

Xilin Imperial City

The Family Heads of the Four Great Families gathered in a secret room to discuss countermeasures.

"After thirty years, there’s still a surviving Tang Family member who wasn’t slaughtered. For the other side to stay hidden for thirty years and now act so openly, there must be a plot... What do you think?"

The first to speak was the Zheng Family Master, a lean and elderly man.

"What do we think? What is there to think?" The Yu Family Master sneered: "Just a petty clown, nothing to be worried about."

"But this person must not be killed. If not for Old Man Xu being too rash and impetuous, leaving only a baby while killing off all the Tang Family, we wouldn’t have searched for thirty years without finding the Tang family’s immortal fate. Since this person is a slip through from thirty years ago, maybe we can start with him. Capture alive, must be captured alive."

Mentioned by the Yu Family Master, Old Man Xu had a temper akin to gunpowder, ready to explode at any second. He wished to get angry but had to admit some guilt, responding with a couple of grunt and hum responses out of displeasure.

The Family Head of the Yan Family stroked his beard and said, "Old Man Yu is right. We’re not young anymore. If we delay any longer, even if found, it will be useless."

Immortal fate, what a big temptation. Even those who wield the highest powers couldn’t help but be moved.

The life span of mere mortals is truly short-lived.

The older they get, the more they feel about the passage of life, the more scared they are.

Thirty years ago, when they were only middle-aged, they couldn’t resist ignoring their conscience for that faint hope, let alone now, nearing the end of their lives.

Now they are even more crazy than thirty years prior.

"Those Tang Family mother and daughter, why not bring them to the Imperial City? The Tang Family bloodline might come in handy..."

"I hear that girl married the Su Family’s boy."

"Ha, what lowly creatures all want a piece of the pie."

The four Family Heads were vehemently discussing, unaware that their own homes were already in chaos.

All the primary lines of the four families suddenly collapsed to the ground, falling into a deep sleep.

A bright red bloodstain appeared on the inside of their arms, extending toward their fingertips.

No matter what they tried, they couldn’t awaken them. Neither poison nor toxin, no one could understand why.

Only one discovered that the bloodstains on the inside of their arms were closely tied to their lives.

If the bloodstain was short and shallow, their complexion was just slightly better, as if just in a slumber. However, if the bloodstain was long and thick, their face turned golden, their breath faint, like they could die anytime.

Some guessed that when the bloodstain reached the fingertips, it would be time to die.

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"Master, something terrible has happened."

"Sir, it’s not good."

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The loyal servants of the four Family Heads all gathered together and collectively knocked on the secret room’s door.

The Family Heads, who were passionately discussing, immediately wore displeased expressions. However, the persistent and urgent knocking sparked a sense of unease in their hearts after their anger subsided.

When the door opened, their unease solidified. Trouble had indeed arisen within the family.

"It must be the Tang Family member who did this."

"You impudent wretch, this is intolerable...."

"Go, find him, I will tear him to pieces, daring to harm my descendants."