Chapter 331: Is This Boy Really a Nascent Soul True Lord’s Descendant?

Under the night sky, in a desolate wilderness.

“Bang!”

Lu Ping’an emerged from the ground with the help of the Hundred Mile Escape Talisman and looked around.

After a quick assessment, he took out an antidote pill from his Storage Bag, swallowed it, and dashed into the nearby dense forest.

Although the Hundred Mile Escape Talisman is named as such, it actually only covers about ten to twenty miles.

It was enough to shake off his pursuers, but this group was clearly prepared and could have other tracking methods.

So, he had to find a safe place to expel the poison and heal.

“Shhh! Shhh!!”

Even though the poison caused a gradual numbness and burning sensation in his body, Lu Ping’an still ran swiftly.

Like a cheetah, he sprinted, leaving a trail in the air, tearing a long wave of air, making the quiet forest echo with the sound of rushing water.

“Roar! Roar!”

“Screech! Screech!”

The commotion from Lu Ping’an startled the birds and beasts in the forest.

But even if tigers or leopards appeared in front of him, they were either knocked away by his charge or blown apart with a casual strike.

“Shhh! Shhh!!”

After running for about a hundred miles, Lu Ping’an saw a cliff in front of him.

He immediately summoned his Flying Sword, used it as a vehicle, and continued running through the forest below for a long time.

Feeling the poison spreading inside him, affecting him, he finally stopped, found a spot, and began to expel the poison and heal.

“Whoosh!”

At the same time, a cloud of black energy burst out.

It was Xiao’an, the ghost slave from the Wooden Carving in his arms.

Xiao’an looked at Lu Ping’an with concern in his dark eyes.

“Xiao’an, I’ll need you to keep watch,” Lu Ping’an said with a grin.

His face was pale and exhausted, with sweat beads on his forehead, showing significant depletion.

Xiao’an nodded, his pale and delicate face showing a serious expression as he floated beside Lu Ping’an, watching the surroundings.

Lu Ping’an took another antidote pill and sat down, operating the “Purple Yang True Scripture” to expel the poison and heal.

After a long time.

“What kind of poison is this? It’s so persistent, like a bone-attached maggot,” Lu Ping’an frowned, realizing the poison was not simple, hard to expel like a stubborn parasite.

As he operated his technique, the poison even eroded his spiritual power, accelerating its spread.

He didn’t know that this poison was the unique poison of Madam Qi, the Corpse Soul Fragrance.

When ordinary Qi Refining cultivators are poisoned, their bodies soon become stiff and numb, and then their flesh withers and decays.

Moreover, during this process, the poison uses the cultivator’s spiritual power as nourishment, continuously spreading and expanding.

Lu Ping’an, due to his peak Martial Dao and the third layer of the Hundred Refined Body Technique, hadn’t been affected so far.

Even after a battle and running a hundred miles, he only started feeling the poison gradually affecting him.

Such a situation was truly astounding.

“Hundred Refined Body Technique!”

With a serious expression, Lu Ping’an operated the Hundred Refined Body Technique, circulating his blood and making his body glow with a divine light as he tried to expel the poison.

Realizing that the poison was difficult to expel, he remembered that his Hundred Refined Body Technique had a toxin resistance effect, making ordinary poisons ineffective against him.

He immediately tried to refine the spreading poison with the Hundred Refined Body Technique.

“Indeed!”

Moments later, Lu Ping’an’s eyes showed a hint of joy.

However, refining the poison made his body stiff and weak, requiring some time to recover.

“If I refine all the poison, I might be weak for several days.”

“But I can’t delay expelling this poison any longer.”

After a moment of thought, Lu Ping’an didn’t hesitate and operated the Hundred Refined Body Technique with full force to refine the poison.

Time passed bit by bit.

The sky gradually brightened with the first light of dawn.

Lu Ping’an opened his eyes and said to Xiao’an, “Xiao’an, come back.”

Ghosts like Xiao’an couldn’t appear in the sunlight, or their souls would become unstable.

So during the day, he always kept Xiao’an inside the Wooden Carving.

“I’m fine.”

Seeing the concern on Xiao’an’s face, he said with a carefree smile.

Hearing this, Xiao’an turned into a cloud of black energy and returned to the Wooden Carving.

“Ugh, my whole body is sore and stiff. This feeling is really unpleasant.”

Lu Ping’an looked up at the sky, stretched lazily, and muttered to himself, “They shouldn’t be chasing me anymore.”

Although Qi Refining cultivators have many tracking methods,

it’s difficult to track someone more than a hundred miles away.

And the chances of them finding him after he ran a hundred miles non-stop were minimal.

Moreover, these people were rogue cultivators who couldn’t survive in the immortal world, so even if they had some methods, they wouldn’t be too formidable.

“If I had fought quickly and decisively back then, they probably wouldn’t have been my match.”

Lu Ping’an took out a piece of demonic beast meat from his Storage Bag, eating while replaying last night’s battle in his mind.

He knew that if he hadn’t hesitated and been caught off guard, he could have defeated them one by one.

“Sigh.”

He smiled helplessly but didn’t regret it, just took it as a lesson to be more cautious in the future.

After eating and drinking, he continued to operate his technique to expel the poison and heal.

He didn’t know how much time had passed.

“Roar!”

Lu Ping’an heard a roar, accompanied by a foul stench.

“It’s a demonic beast!”

Lu Ping’an’s eyes snapped open, realizing the danger.

He knew it wasn’t a wild beast, but a demonic beast.

In his current state of stiffness and weakness, he could handle ordinary wild beasts.

But a demonic beast might be dangerous.

“Leave!”

Without hesitation, Lu Ping’an sealed his pores, suppressed his aura, and quietly flew away.

After a long time, realizing he had left the demonic beast’s range, he let out a long breath and found a place to continue healing.

“Ribbit, ribbit!”

After a while, Lu Ping’an heard a noise and a clear, crisp female voice.

“Hmm!?”

Lu Ping’an immediately became alert.

How could there be someone here in the deep mountains with traces of demonic beasts?

And from the sound of the voice, it seemed to belong to a young girl, probably around ten years old.

So he immediately became cautious, held his breath, crouched down, and hid in the bushes, trying not to make a sound.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”

Soon, he saw a few-inch-long, pitch-black centipede moving like a fish through the sand, appearing in front of him.

When the centipede saw Lu Ping’an, it immediately emitted a faint, bloody aura.

“This is bad!”

Lu Ping’an immediately raised his hand to slap the centipede to death.

But to his surprise, the centipede was as hard as metal, and even bit his hand.

As soon as the pain started, Lu Ping’an’s body became stiff and weak, unable to move, and the suppressed Corpse Soul Fragrance inside him began to stir.

He realized that this centipede was no ordinary centipede but some kind of demonic insect!

“Ribbit, ribbit!”

Not far away, a fist-sized red frog heard the commotion and hopped over.

Seeing this, the black centipede darted into Lu Ping’an’s mouth.

Despite having seen many things, Lu Ping’an was still startled by this situation, his eyes filled with horror.

But what happened next was even more terrifying.

The red frog jumped onto his face and tried to crawl into his mouth as if chasing the black centipede.

This situation made Lu Ping’an’s stiff and weak body break out in goosebumps. He wanted to struggle but couldn’t move.

“Gulp, gulp!”

Instantly, a sharp pain came from his abdomen!

He immediately tried to operate his technique to force out the two poisonous creatures, but even his technique couldn’t operate.

“Little Ribbit!”

At this moment, a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing a light red dress, with curved eyebrows and a lively, cute appearance, came running over.

She looked at the red frog crawling into Lu Ping’an’s mouth and asked with a worried expression, “Big brother, are you okay?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Little Ribbit, come out quickly.”

The girl apologized to Lu Ping’an and continued calling out to the frog in his mouth.

But the red frog, now inside Lu Ping’an, didn’t respond at all and continued fighting the Ironback Centipede.

Faced with this situation, Lu Ping’an’s pale face turned purple-red, his body wracked with pain, and his consciousness grew dim, gradually fading.

“No, I can’t pass out!”

Lu Ping’an knew that in this situation, he absolutely couldn’t lose consciousness, so he continued to forcefully operate his technique.

But the pain in his body made his consciousness increasingly dim, as if he were falling into a black abyss.

“Buzz—”

At this moment, his body suddenly trembled, as if a faint starlight appeared before his eyes.

“Grandma! Grandma!”

The girl saw that Lu Ping’an seemed to be losing consciousness, and tears welled up in her eyes as she urgently shouted.

She took out a crystal stone from her hand and crushed it.

Soon, a rainbow light shot down from the sky and transformed into an old woman with white hair, a wrinkled face, but a vigorous spirit, holding a staff with a coiled snake.

The old woman looked at the girl with concern and asked, “Miss, what’s wrong?”

“Grandma, Little Ribbit was chasing an Ironback Centipede, but the centipede crawled into this big brother’s mouth, so Little Ribbit followed it in.”

The girl, full of anxiety, explained to the old woman as soon as she saw her.

“What!?”

The old woman turned to look at the semi-conscious Lu Ping’an, her eyes filled with killing intent.

“Grandma, please save him,” the girl pleaded, her eyes full of tears.

“Miss, the Manggu Red Frog is extremely poisonous. Once it enters the body, the person is doomed, let alone with an Ironback Centipede destroying his internal organs.”

“Besides, we’re out here to avoid drawing attention.”

The old woman’s killing intent faded, replaced by a loving expression as she spoke.

“But this big brother doesn’t look like a bad person,” the girl whispered, looking up.

“Miss, one cannot know the heart of another. This boy suddenly appeared here, and he’s a cultivator, which is suspicious.”

The old woman said, still eyeing Lu Ping’an with killing intent.

“Hmm!”

At that moment, the starlight in Lu Ping’an’s consciousness grew brighter, causing him to groan as a surge of power flooded his body, regaining some clarity.

Immediately, the Hundred Refined Body Technique in his body began to operate automatically.

“Boom, boom, boom!”

As the Hundred Refined Body Technique operated on its own, the Magical Treasure he had refined into his body seemed to be stimulated, constantly releasing its essence, suppressing the centipede and the frog, and integrating the poison into Lu Ping’an’s body.

“Hmm, what’s going on!?”

The old woman was shocked to see Lu Ping’an still alive under these conditions, his aura gradually recovering, and a terrifying energy emanating from his body.

“Big brother, are you okay?” the girl called out, concerned for Lu Ping’an.

Then she turned to the old woman, pleading, “Grandma, please save him.”

“This… This is the aura of a Magical Treasure!? How could this boy have a Magical Treasure inside him?”

The old woman stared at Lu Ping’an, examining him closely, her eyes filled with disbelief.

She immediately placed her hand on Lu Ping’an’s shoulder to check his condition.

“This boy is only at the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining, so why does he have the aura of a Magical Treasure? Something’s not right, definitely not right!”

“But he doesn’t seem to be someone sent to track down the young miss.”

“Hmm? This boy’s body actually contains a sealed Magical Treasure!?”

The old woman continued inspecting Lu Ping’an.

When she saw the constant flow of Magical Treasure essence from Lu Ping’an’s chest, she realized that there was a sealed Magical Treasure inside him and was astonished, her heart in turmoil.

After all, this was a Magical Treasure!

Only Golden Core cultivators could wield a Magical Treasure!

Though this Magical Treasure was likely low-Tier, at most a lower-Tier Magical Treasure.

But sealing a Magical Treasure inside a Qi Refining cultivator was truly remarkable.

Such a method could only belong to a powerful cultivator!

“And this boy also has a Third-Tier Talisman inside him? Not only a Magical Treasure but also a Third-Tier Talisman!?”

“Could this boy be a descendant of a Nascent Soul True Lord!?”

The old woman noticed a Spirit Talisman in Lu Ping’an’s sea of consciousness, her mind in turmoil.

She didn’t know what kind of Spirit Talisman it was.

But judging by its appearance and aura, she could roughly identify it as a Third-Tier Spirit Talisman.

It was likely a Substitute Life Charm.

A Qi Refining cultivator at the Sixth Layer, with a sealed Magical Treasure and a Third-Tier Talisman inside him, was truly shocking.

The situation made her feel it was too tricky to handle, and she didn’t dare to kill Lu Ping’an.

After all, who knew what kind of background this person had?

Offending him would likely bring trouble.

She had brought the young miss to the mortal world of Jiang Kingdom to avoid disputes and didn’t want to get involved in any conflicts.

“The young miss is pure and innocent. When she returns to the clan in the future, she will definitely face many obstacles and troubles.”

“If this boy is indeed a descendant of a True Lord, or a lucky individual with great opportunities, forming a good relationship with him would be a good thing for the young miss.”

The old woman calculated in her mind, her killing intent gradually fading, and she said to the girl with affection, “Don’t worry, miss. I’ll save him now.”

As she spoke, she sent her power into Lu Ping’an’s body to extract the weakened centipede and the frog.

But when she saw the technique in Lu Ping’an’s body operating automatically, refining the Ironback Centipede and the Manggu Red Frog, she paused.

She could see that it was these two poisonous creatures that had stimulated Lu Ping’an’s body, causing his technique to operate automatically, nourishing his body with the essence of the Magical Treasure sealed within him.

If she removed the two poisonous creatures, this process would stop.

“Nourishing the body with a Magical Treasure… what a grand gesture.”

After a moment of thought, the old woman decided to let Lu Ping’an continue refining them.

After all, with his current cultivation level and these treasures, he was likely a direct disciple of some powerful cultivator, or even a True Lord.

Since that was the case, she decided to go along with it and give him a chance.

The Manggu Red Frog was her young miss’s pet. If Lu Ping’an refined it, it would be like he owed her young miss a favor.

“Miss, I see that the balance between Little Ribbit and the Ironback Centipede in his body is helping him increase his cultivation level.”

“If we interfere, it could kill him. But if we don’t, Little Ribbit will be refined.”

The old woman turned to the girl and said.

Her words were not only for her young miss but also for Lu Ping’an to hear.

“Ah.”

The girl felt conflicted and heartbroken upon hearing this.

She wanted to save Lu Ping’an but also pitied her pet.

But after a moment of hesitation, she chose to save Lu Ping’an.

Hearing this, the old woman couldn’t help but sigh, feeling that her young miss was still too kind-hearted.

Such a gentle nature—how could she survive in the world of immortal cultivation?