319: She clearly didn't refuse back then!

According to ancient records, if one can fully refine and absorb the mature spirit fetus of a Golden Core Stage "Spirit-Nurturing Treasure Physique," it is enough to save a Late Golden Core Stage Cultivator a hundred years of hard work, allowing them to directly Breakthrough to the Golden Core Perfection realm!

For a Great True Person who already stands at the Peak of Golden Core Perfection and is seeking an Opportunity for the Nascent Soul stage, this item is an even more priceless treasure!

Though it cannot directly help one shatter the core and form the soul, it can increase the success rate of condensing a Nascent Soul by ten percent out of thin air!

Do not look down on a mere ten percent; at the chasm of the Nascent Soul stage, any bit of help is extremely precious!

Its value simply cannot be measured with ordinary Spirit Stones or resources!

Faced with this "pie falling from the sky" Opportunity, Lu Ming, who always acted informally and believed that "treasures belong to the virtuous," naturally felt tempted.

Unfortunately, this "spirit fetus" was not yet fully mature.

It was limited to the Foundation Establishment level and could not fully display its mysterious effects.

But Lu Ming could not afford to spend time nurturing it; he could only take the benefits first.

So, he used some means and plucked it away.

Then he pulled up his pants and drifted away.

However, Lu Ming wasn't that much of a scumbag; he was quite decent and left a significant amount of resources for the female Cultivator as compensation.

Little did he know that this seemingly unremarkable small Family was an affiliate of the "Lancang Li Family," one of the Thirty-Six Blessed Lands of the Northern Border!

And the background of that female Cultivator with the Spirit-Nurturing Treasure Physique was even more incredible.

She was not an ordinary Family disciple, but a "Great Medicine" discovered decades ago by the Li Family's Golden Core Perfection Old Ancestor, Li Daoxuan, who had invested massive resources into carefully nurturing her to impact the Nascent Soul stage!

For this, Li Daoxuan had high hopes for her.

In a few more years, this woman would have been able to attempt Core Formation. At that time, the spirit fetus would be fully mature and could be harvested to contribute to his push for the Nascent Soul realm.

But they were overconfident. With the Lancang Li Family's fame in the Northern Border, they thought no one would dare to break ground on the Tai Sui's head. Thus, while there was a guard, it was not particularly strong.

Only one collateral branch Elder at the Early Golden Core Stage stayed in the Lin Family territory year-round, mainly responsible for preventing accidents with the "Precious Medicine" or her escaping on her own.

But they failed to account for the existence of a Cultivation World street loafer like Lu Ming.

He had no reverence for the Lancang Li Family and knew nothing of the intricate relationships involved.

Even if he had known, Lu Ming wouldn't have cared.

So he just bluntly snatched away Li Daoxuan's Nascent Soul Opportunity.

However, what Lu Ming didn't know was that deep within the Lin female Cultivator's "Primal Yin"...

Li Daoxuan had already planted an extremely hidden sensory Restriction!

As soon as he began his excavation here...

Li Daoxuan, far away in the Li Family ancestral land, immediately felt it and realized something was wrong.

By the time he reached the Lin Family territory at top speed, it was too late.

The "Great Medicine" he had nurtured for years had been plucked by a thief!

Li Daoxuan was so furious that his Three Corpse Gods were jumping with rage, and his Dao Heart almost faltered!

This was his Nascent Soul Opportunity, stolen like this!

This was an irreconcilable enmity of obstructing one's Dao!

This was why Li Daoxuan and his group were pursuing Lu Ming so relentlessly.

As for how they found Lu Ming...

It was his own carelessness, or perhaps arrogance.

He thought he had been clean and left no traces.

However, he overlooked one thing: the resources he left behind!

The Lancang Li Family was not good at divination, so Li Daoxuan personally brought heavy gifts to visit the "Tianji Zhuge Family," another of the Thirty-Six Blessed Lands famous for divination and deduction.

After paying a price, he invited an Elder of the Zhuge Family skilled in Karma tracking to use the Spirit Stones and Medicinal Pills Lu Ming left behind as a medium to forcibly lock onto Lu Ming's movements and Qi!

And this happened to hit Lu Ming's biggest weakness!

He had risen from that corner of the Southern Wilderness Region, and most of his experiences were straightforward combat.

He had very little contact with the mysterious and unpredictable Dao of Karma and Heavenly Secret deduction in the Cultivation World.

This led to a lack of awareness, and he had never encountered protective secret techniques to shroud heavenly secrets or disrupt Karma.

This time, he didn't think about it at all.

After all, she was just a Foundation Establishment minor Cultivator. Who would have expected someone to spare no expense to hire a Heavenly Secret clan to calculate this?

The result was that under the Zhuge Family's Karma tracking, Lu Ming's Qi was locked, and his whereabouts were exposed.

So, a furious Li Daoxuan personally led two Late Golden Core Stage Elders.

Following the guidance of Karma, they began this life-and-death pursuit across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers!

"What kind of mess is this!"

As Lu Ming fled, constantly using means to neutralize the endless sharp killing moves behind him, he sighed inwardly, feeling extremely depressed.

How was he to know that woman had such a background? He thought it was an ownerless Opportunity and took it.

Besides, she clearly didn't even refuse at the time!

The Li Family, a grand Blessed Land clan, is too overbearing; they're simply unreasonable!

Of course, he only thought this. He knew the enmity of obstructing one's Dao wasn't easily resolved.

And now, facing an enraged Golden Core Perfection and two Late Golden Core Stage Cultivators, any explanation was hollow.

In the Cultivation World, strength is respected. Truth is only on the edge of a sword, and reason is only within the attack range of a Magic Treasure.

But Lu Ming didn't plan to fight them to the death; there was no need.

Not to mention he couldn't beat Li Daoxuan alone, let alone with two Late Golden Core Stage Cultivators.

So Lu Ming decisively chose a strategic retreat, planning to find a chance for revenge once things settled down.

Anyway, with the golden book, he didn't need to show his face.

As he fled further, the terrain ahead began to change.

The lush forests ended abruptly, replaced by a vast, gray, lifeless, desolate land.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi in the air dropped sharply, and there was even a faint, strange fluctuation of rejection and dissolution of spiritual power.

This place was one of the Northern Border's dangerous lands, the Jiling Wasteland!

Legend has it that it wasn't originally like this, but a world-shaking battle involving Nascent Soul True Monarchs broke out here, shattering the earth's spiritual pulse. Earthly baleful Qi polluted the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, eventually forming this strange area where everything withers and magic is forbidden.

But as for the specifics, Lu Ming wasn't very clear; few in the Profound Spirit Domain were interested in such things.

Especially after discovering it was a wasteland with no resources, and that it was extremely difficult for Cultivators to recover magic power here, with technique power greatly reduced and movement severely restricted.

This place was particularly disliked by Cultivators. For those who relied on Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, this Spirit-less Land was no different from an abandoned garbage dump.