154: There's a traitor! Ichor Essence.

When the Dragon said that it wasn't a wound, Li Yan's eye twitched a few times.

However, his strong psychological resilience and thick skin allowed Li Yan to ignore it.

"The Physical Body is merely a shell. I am of the Human Race, and you are of the Dragon Clan. What is there to be conflicted about?"

After a few casual words to brush it off, Li Yan was eager to return to the Blood Servant Sect and didn't say much more to the Dragon.

The next moment, Li Yan's Soul gradually dissipated, vanishing into thin air in the depths of the East Sea.

Only the Dragon remained, staring at the spot where Li Yan had disappeared.

Although somewhat annoyed, upon seeing Li Yan disappear, the Dragon instinctively blurted out,

"Wait!"

But the Human Race Cultivator didn't give her a chance to say more before he had already vanished without a trace.

It wasn't until Li Yan disappeared that a complex emotion arose in the Dragon's heart.

When that Human Race Little Bean came just now, there was some liveliness, but when he was gone...

This deep sea cold pond once again returned to silence, and an endless sense of loneliness surged into her heart.

"He left?"

"He left so quickly?"

The Dragon stared at the spot where Li Yan had disappeared, letting out a sigh.

"That Human Race ant just now entered my body without my permission."

"But after his commotion, the blood impurities inside me were indeed cleaned out."

Using her Divine Sense to scan her vast, thousand-mile-long Dragon body, she found that all the toxins within her had been completely absorbed by Li Yan.

However, the poison within the Dragon Core was still overflowing.

Li Yan had cleared most of the toxins in that short while, but the Dragon Core was still oozing green liquid.

If this continued, in a few decades or a century, the Dragon would rot again, and the recently recovered wounds would still fester with the passage of time.

It wasn't until Li Yan had been gone for some time that the Dragon fell into self-doubt.

"I've always disliked Human Race Cultivators, but he didn't harbor any ill intentions towards me."

"Was my attitude just now... did it scare him away?"

The Dragon narrowed her eyes, falling into deep thought: "Was I too fierce?"

"If... if he comes again, I'll forgive him."

This proud female Dragon recalled her attitude towards that Human Race Little Bean just now.

When Li Yan was present, she always looked down on him with a condescending gaze.

However, now that Li Yan had left, and the deep sea cold pond had fallen back into deathly silence, the Dragon began to miss him.

Time passed by second by second, and the Dragon impatiently flicked her tail, stirring up deep-sea whirlpools and taking out her frustration on passing sea fish.

Her Dragon tail whipped up a vortex, spinning a deep-sea giant whale like a brush, and the Dragon began to regret it at this moment.

"Why isn't he back yet?"

"Did that Human Race ant really run away because I was fierce?"

"Annoying, so annoying!"

A muffled Dragon roar echoed throughout the deep sea, and the female Dragon stared resentfully at the spot where Li Yan had disappeared.

...

...

On the other side, inside the Forget Dust Hall of the Blood Servant Sect in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

The System detected someone with ill intentions approaching Li Yan's Physical Body.

Li Yan hurriedly withdrew his Soul to see who it was!

When Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes, he found that standing in front of him was none other than Yan Poshan's daughter, Yan Qingqing!

Yan Qingqing was holding a bottle of Spirit Liquid and approaching Li Yan.

What's going on?

How could the System identify Yan Qingqing as a thief?

No...

The Side Effect System couldn't be wrong, so Yan Qingqing must have a problem?

Li Yan's eyes gleamed with a cold light as he stared intently at the approaching Yan Qingqing.

"What are you doing?"

Facing Li Yan's chilling question, Yan Qingqing shivered.

"Ah? I..."

Seeing that Li Yan looked very angry, Yan Qingqing hurriedly explained.

"Saint, I am adding Spirit Liquid to your golden-patterned lotus platform."

"This Spirit Liquid can speed up your Cultivation, Saint, I... I..."

"Did this Young Miss disturb your Cultivation, Saint? This Young Miss did not intend to, please forgive me, Saint."

Yan Qingqing was so scared that she knelt on the ground, lowering her head to admit her mistake.

She thought she had disturbed Li Yan's Cultivation and ruined the Saint's good deed.

Seeing Yan Qingqing's self-reproachful appearance, Li Yan frowned.

"Who gave you this Spirit Liquid?"

It seems the one who wants to harm him, Li Yan, is not Yan Qingqing, but someone else!

On the White Jade Capital, that One-Eyed Old Man wanted Li Yan to Ascend as soon as possible, to turn into an Immortal Pill as soon as possible.

Now, every time Li Yan achieved a Breakthrough in his Cultivation, it was equivalent to a death countdown starting.

Someone giving him Spirit Liquid to aid his Cultivation must be an informant planted in the Lower Realm by the White Jade Capital.

Facing the question, Yan Qingqing answered truthfully: "Replying to the Saint, it was Sixth Elder Xu Mo of the Tianshu Hall in Cloud City."

"Xu Mo?"

Recalling carefully, Li Yan remembered this person.

Xu Mo!

He was the one who brought him out of Cloud City, and then Li Yan was ambushed by Corpse Cultivators halfway.

This Sixth Elder Xu Mo, turns out he was an inside traitor! He didn't expect this Sixth Elder to be a lackey of the White Jade Capital.

Li Yan's gaze towards Yan Qingqing slowly softened a little.

"Qingqing."

"I'll accept this Spirit Liquid. Later, help me thank Elder Xu."

Yan Qingqing let out a long sigh of relief, a smile in her pure eyes.

"Okay, Saint, I will convey your words."

"Oh, by the way, Qingqing, please act as my Protector. Unless there's an urgent matter, don't let anyone disturb my Cultivation."

"I'm currently at a critical stage of Breakthrough, understand?"

Upon hearing that Li Yan chose her to be his Protector, Yan Qingqing's heart warmed.

Her father, Yan Poshan, had said that only Cultivators who trusted each other would allow the other party to be their Protector.

It seems the Saint has already considered her one of his own.

"Mm! Saint, go ahead and Cultivate, leave it to me with confidence."

This Young Miss Yan, who had rarely left the Sect since childhood and was raised within it, was coaxed by Li Yan's few words into beaming with joy, willingly guarding the entrance of Forget Dust Hall.

When Yan Qingqing came out, the traitor Elder Xu smiled and greeted her.

"Young Sect Master, how is the Saint?"

Facing outsiders, Yan Qingqing held her head high and said, "The Saint asked me to tell you that he really likes the Spirit Liquid you sent."

"Now is a critical period for the Saint's Breakthrough, so no one is allowed to disturb him unless there's an emergency."

The traitor Elder Xu, hearing that Li Yan had accepted his Spirit Liquid, nodded repeatedly with a smile.

"Understood! Understood!"

"The Saint's Breakthrough and Ascension are just around the corner, hehehe."

Xu Mo secretly chuckled to himself. Li Yan, this cultivation Genius, a rare find in ten thousand years, had already been reserved by the important figures above.

To the Immortals of the White Jade Capital, Li Yan was a top-grade Spirit Medicine, an important Materials for refining Immortal Pills.

And he, Xu Mo, was the 'Pill Guardian', specifically assigned to watch Li Yan.

He secretly muttered to himself: "If Li Yan can successfully Ascend to the White Jade Capital, then I, this old man, can go to the White Jade Capital and be a small pawn."

Xu Mo understood that Human Race Cultivators were livestock kept in cages.

If he wanted to survive, he could only betray his own kind and become a loyal dog of the White Jade Capital.