Chapter Thirty: Subjugating the Demon King

  Jiang Nan still vividly remembered the last time he took a petal of Golden Lotus, when he swallowed one petal, the enormous medicinal power that burst out in an instant almost ignited his clothes, blasting all 108,000 pores on his body, and fresh blood sprayed out from his pores like a bloody mist!

  If the explosive power of the medicine exceeds what his body can withstand, Jiang Nan will absolutely be burned to death, die from explosion, and turn into ashes!

  "The Sheli Ling Dan is not that easy to consume, I've exhausted my true energy, so for now, I'll recover my cultivation, with the true energy suppressing the medicinal properties, it will reduce a few points of danger."

  Jiang Nan gathered up the spiritual medicine in Dan Fang, and immediately left the alchemy room. As he walked outside, he saw that the sky was dark and unclear, with only a white glow visible in the east, like the belly of a fish.

  "Good grief, it took me a whole night of refining to finally succeed with these three Sacred Pills!"

  He returned home without stopping to rest and immediately began to urge the Xuanfeng Scripture, using the sun's energy stored in the morning sun to fill his cultivation.

  It has to be said that exhausting one's cultivation and then starting over from scratch indeed helps with the growth of one's cultivation. Jiang Nan felt that his true energy was circulating at a faster speed than before, and it was even more effortless. Moreover, as time passed, his cultivation continued to improve steadily.

  Now he has broken through the shackles of refining his body, opened up all the bone membranes, and achieved the realm of refining his energy. It's just that since he has only recently cultivated this realm, it is still a bit unstable.

  Now he refines the elixir and then comes back to cultivate, which is equivalent to solidifying his unstable realm.

  "Jiang Xue sister said that cultivating is like refining elixirs, this sentence is indeed correct."

  In the south of the river, he felt a sense of emotion in his heart. His cultivation advanced one step further, and his understanding of this sentence deepened. Cultivation is like refining elixirs, requiring constant caution to eliminate every impurity within the body, making one's true energy, physique, and spirit as pure as possible. Then, integrate true energy, physique, and spirit into a unified medicinal power, allowing oneself to become like a perfect, crystal-clear, flawless spiritual elixir!

  "I wonder if Jiang Xue has found the spiritual medicine she went out to search for?" thought Jiang Nan.

  In the distant Xiao Luan Gorge, a woman in white clothes stepped lightly on the surface of the great river that flowed through the deep valley between the two banks. She moved forward slowly and steadily, as if she were a fairy from heaven, her white clothes fluttering in the wind. The turbulent waters of the river became calm and peaceful at her feet, without even a ripple disturbing the surface.

  Before long, a ancient and vigorous pine tree on the steep cliff of the left bank came into her view. This ancient pine grew out from the cliff, lush and thriving, stretching horizontally above the river, like a natural floating bridge.

  On the crown of the ancient pine tree, there was a bird's nest built with pine branches. In the nest, a middle-aged man with a hawk nose and a stern face sat upright, swallowing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

  This middle-aged man wore a Taoist robe, but his head was completely bald, without a single hair, neither monk nor Taoist, very strange.

  The snowflakes drifted gently down, their pace quickening, treading on air as if on solid ground, and made straight for the bird's nest.

  The Taoist in the bird's nest suddenly opened his eyes, with a sharp gaze like electricity, and fell on this woman who was like an elf. He suddenly spoke out, his voice shrill, like a hawk: "Recently, I've heard that there is a little girl who has been touring the rivers and lakes, plundering and looting the spiritual objects collected by the demon king of the five lakes and four seas. Even the old lion of Black Wind Valley was robbed by this little girl, and had his Lingjihua stolen. This little girl must be you!"

  Jiang Xue stopped in his tracks, standing quietly opposite the ancient pine bird's nest, looking at the Taoist in the nest with a calm expression. He said calmly: "I'm not robbing you, but taking it. Shenying Demon King, the Huoling fruit in your bird's nest is also a kind of spiritual medicine that I need. If you offer me the Huoling fruit yourself, I will owe you one favor and when I achieve something in the future, I will return to you something many times better than the Huoling fruit. If you don't offer it to me, then I have no choice but to take it myself."

  The Daoist in the bird's nest was actually the Divine Eagle Demon King, a vulture that had cultivated into a demon in Xiaolang Gorge. Upon hearing this, he burst out laughing and ridiculed: "You're kidding me! This Fire Spirit Fruit is my foundation for cultivation. Back when I hadn't yet cultivated into a demon, I was muddled and confused, but after eating one Fire Spirit Fruit, I opened up my spiritual intelligence and cultivated to my current realm! You say that if you achieve something in the future, you'll return me something even better? Who believes in such empty and fanciful things? Why don't you hand over all the spiritual medicines you've plundered from others, and when I achieve something in the future, I'll return them to you?"

  Jiang Xue was taken aback and lost his smile, shaking his head: "What a clever and quick-witted little bird, unfortunately I kindly offered you a good opportunity, but you are stubborn and refuse it yourself."

  The Divine Eagle Demon King was enraged, suddenly rising to his feet and pouncing on Jiang Xue. He shouted: "We demons have always believed that the strong are revered and the winners are kings! If you can defeat me, I will naturally hand over the Fire Spirit Fruit. But if you cannot defeat me, then don't think about leaving, become my mountain-conquering wife!"

  Jiang Xue stood still, facing the pouncing Godly Eagle Demon King with indifference.

  "You're just a novice, your cultivation is lacking. You've only just formed the Divine Wheel and achieved the Divine Ability, but I'm already a powerful being who has opened up all five Divine Wheels and cultivated the Five Great Divine Abilities!"

  The Divine Eagle Demon King swooped down, and the Yangtze River suddenly rose with a loud whoosh, erecting a wall of water dozens of feet high, pressing down on Jiang Xue!

  Suddenly, a water lily flower bloomed on the surface of the water wall, growing bigger and bigger, pressing down the water wall, crashing into the river with a loud noise. The water lily flower floated in the middle of the river, not moving at all, and the river water did not wash it away.

  The Divine Vulture Demon King saw that she easily broke through his own divine powers, let out a shrill cry, transformed into a huge bald vulture, with wings spanning tens of meters, flapping its wings to fly over, a pair of sharp claws gleaming with cold light, reaching out to grab Jiang Xue!

  The Divine Eagle Demon King's eyes lit up, and without thinking twice, it pecked at the rotting flesh in Jiang Xue's hand.

  "Mischievous."

  Jiang Xue smiled lightly and pointed at his brow, the Divine Bird Demon King let out a loud cry, spat out blood from his beak, flapped his wings and flew away, angrily shouting: "You little wench, you won with cunning and deceit, I don't accept it, I'll come back another day to settle this score!"

  "Divine Eagle Demon King, you don't have to leave after all, just obediently serve as my mount."

  Jiang Xue pointed and recreated him, stepped on the lotus step, and in the next moment he was already stepping on the back of the Divine Bird Demon King. The Divine Bird Demon King was furious, shouting loudly, and suddenly rushed towards the mountain cliff with a fierce headbutt, determined to kill himself rather than be someone else's mount.

  Wow!

  Jiang Xue stretched out his hand and pointed, the mountain cliff suddenly became extremely soft, the Divine Eagle Demon King crashed into it as if crashing into a huge block of tofu, trapped in the rocks unable to move.

  The divine pigeon struggled hard but could not get out, and cried out in a shrill voice: "Master, your magical powers are vast, I admire you, let me out, and I will follow you!"

  Jiang Xue smiled and released him, saying: "Don't worry, Demon King. I'm just temporarily using you as a substitute. In three years, you'll be free. However, within these three years, you must protect my brother's safety."

  The demon king of the divine eagle let out a sigh of relief and secretly thought: "This woman is formidable, I am not her match. Fortunately, I only need to be her mount for three years, it's not particularly humiliating..."

  The snowflakes gently fell on the ancient pine, and in the nest of the divine eagle demon king, a fire spirit fruit was indeed growing, with only six or seven leaves, each leaf bearing a bright red fruit. However, three of the leaves' fruits had already been eaten by the divine eagle demon king.

  This Fire Spirit Fruit's roots were connected to the ancient pine, and as Jiang Xue pulled it out along with its roots, the ancient pine withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally snapping off with a loud crack and falling into the great river, where it was washed away by the current.

  "After all, robbing these demon kings is the fastest way to collect spiritual medicine. I'm just short of a few more spiritual medicines to refine the Broken Void Divine Pill..."

  Jiang Xue put away the Huo Ling fruit, her beautiful eyes blinking as she looked around, softly saying: "The next target, who will it be...?"

  In a magnificent palace in the Imperial City, a handsome man of about thirty years old sat upright and looked down at Mu Qin Nan and Lu Zhongxiang with an air of superiority. His appearance was somewhat similar to Su Huan's, with a dignified and elegant demeanor, clearly a person who had been in a high position for a long time, with great power and authority.

  This man was none other than Su Che, the second prince of Jianwu Country, who had traveled a long distance to arrive at Medicine King City.

  Mu Qin Nan and Lu Zhong Xiang were both trembling with fear, not even daring to take a deep breath.

  "Mu Qin Nan, Lu Zhong Xiang, is my fourth brother behaving himself at Yao Wang Fu recently?" Su Che asked calmly after taking a sip of his fragrant tea.

  "Fourth Prince has indeed been very well-behaved since arriving at the Medicine King's Manor, only that he has been in close contact with some aristocratic young masters. Moreover, Fourth Prince has recently been recruiting heroes on a large scale, even the remnants of the Central Plains from the Heavenly Punishment Land have also been recruited under his banner. That person is named Jiangnan, relying on Fourth Prince's support, and even we two were beaten..."

  "In other words, Fourth Brother has become a bit restless?"

  Su Che smiled slightly and muttered to himself, "I knew he wouldn't be content with staying out of the way. This 'weak and sickly' act, avoiding conflict, is just a small calculation to escape and advance on his own. Heh heh, Fourth Brother, I'm afraid you're also quite eager for the throne, aren't you?"

  He glanced at Mu Qin Nan and Lu Zhong Xiang, saying: "Since Fourth Brother is backing that Central Plains survivor, I'll back you two. Xiao General Manager, go with them to find Jiang Nan, kill him on the spot in Yao Wang Fu, let everyone in Yao Wang City know about this matter, I want to see if Fourth Brother dares to take his side!"

  Mu Qin Nan and Lu Zhong Xiang were overjoyed, and with a eunuch in brocade attire, they bowed and backed out of the imperial palace.

  Another old eunuch under Su Che's seat flashed a stern look in his turbid eyes and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, this matter is likely that these two were beaten up by someone, they are not opponents, dare not revenge, want to borrow your hand to deal with that person..."

  "I naturally know."

  Su Che raised his hand to stop him from continuing, and sneered: "They want to use my hands to get rid of their enemies. Can this small calculation deceive me? However, that Jiangnan must be killed. If I don't kill him, how can I warn the Fourth Master to behave himself? Besides, although Mu Qin Nan and Lu Zhongxiang are both incompetent, the Mu Wang Fu and Lu Hou Fu are two great powers that cannot be underestimated. Now that I am taking charge for these two, the two aristocratic families will thank me for saving face for them. With the friendship of these two great families, I am one step closer to the crown prince position!"

  The old eunuch was extremely impressed and bowed his head, saying: "Your Highness is wise, I am deeply impressed."

  Su Che smiled slightly and said slowly, "Compared to Lao Si and that Jiang Nan, I have more important things to do on this trip. Father Emperor is being unusually cautious this time, planning to come to Yao Wang City, and ordered me to come first to clean up the palace. Tian Bao, why do you think Father Emperor would suddenly come to Yao Wang Fu without any reason?"