Treat you

The moment the vines appeared, they rose high, like a whip controlled by someone, lashing towards Long Chen's face.

Long Chen snorted coldly, "Your illness is too severe. Fine, let me treat you once."

After speaking, Long Chen slowly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he let out a sharp shout, like a spring thunderclap startling the heavens.

"Pill Flame"

Boom!

Terrifying flames rose up, swallowing the area for several zhang around, the intense high temperature scorching the sky.

"Ah!"

As the flames appeared, a scream erupted from Lu Chuan's mouth, the shrill sound making one's hair stand on end.

Everyone from the Medical Hall had their expressions change drastically. Their eyes were filled with terror as they looked at Long Chen, who was heavily wrapped in flames, and some could not help but take a few steps back.

Towards fire, they felt fear from the bottom of their hearts; it was their natural enemy, their nemesis.

Tang Waner suddenly stretched out her jade hand, directly cutting off those vines along the outer edge of the flames, and only then did Lu Chuan's screaming stop.

Tang Waner knew that those vines were formed from Lu Chuan's Origin, but they were different from her wind blades.

Those vines were connected to Lu Chuan's mind and shared his Soul, which was why he could manipulate the vines so flexibly.

However, when the vines were attacked, their minds would also be implicated. Wood Cultivators were not a combat profession, but a support profession; their strength lay in their pure life force, which could quickly heal people's injuries.

Therefore, although Lu Chuan was a Senior Brother, he could not be compared to those combat-profession experts at the Tendon Transformation Realm.

But this Lu Chuan happened to think that even if his combat strength wasn't strong, suppressing these newly entered rookies wouldn't be a problem, and the result ended up like this.

Because he had bound them too tightly before, twisting them together like a braid, when Long Chen's flames rose, he was actually unable to retract his vines.

Being attacked by flames was no different from flames scorching one's Soul; that kind of pain was simply not something a person could endure.

If Tang Waner hadn't cut those vines, Lu Chuan would still be suffering the pain of his Soul burning. If it went on for too long, his Soul would suffer great damage. Tang Waner didn't want Long Chen to offend someone too deeply.

"Boom!"

The flames on Long Chen's body vanished. He flicked his hands outward, and the vines that had been tightly wrapped around his body had already been burned into charcoal, crumbling all over the ground.

Shaking his body, Long Chen smiled at the shocked Qi Yue, "Thank you for coming, Young Miss Qi Yue, to heal us. How about you come inside, sit, and have some tea?"

"Oh, no need. We still have to go back to report. We will disturb you again when there is an opportunity. Goodbye." After Qi Yue finished speaking, she took everyone and left.

As for that Lu Chuan, his face was as pale as paper, and his eyes were somewhat unfocused; that was because of the damage to his Soul.

"Brat, you just wait for me."

Lu Chuan gritted his teeth as he greeted Long Chen, then followed the others down the mountain. However, he no longer had the arrogance he had when he arrived, and he looked quite like a stray dog.

"Boss, you are too cool!"

Guo Ran walked up, gave Long Chen a thumbs up, and said, "However, Boss, why do I feel like you're a bit of a troublemaker? Everywhere you go, there's someone who doesn't like the look of you."

Tang Waner laughed, "I feel the same way."

Seeing everyone looking at him with strange expressions under the continuous reminders from Guo Ran and Tang Waner made Long Chen feel very unnatural.

"That… nothing else is going on. Everyone, disperse. According to the Elder's instructions, we have three days of rest time."

"After three days, everyone remember to go to the Branch Courtyard square to report. At that time, there is no need to assemble; you can just go by yourselves. If you can't sit still, you can also wander around nearby, just be careful not to get lost."

After Long Chen dismissed everyone, only Tang Waner and Qing Yu remained. Qing Yu looked at Long Chen and said with some worry, "Long Chen, if you continue like this, I'm afraid it will be disadvantageous for your future. Sometimes, enduring it might not be a bad thing."

Qing Yu was worried that with Long Chen's fearless nature, sooner or later he would hit a wall; after all, there were so many experts in the Branch Courtyard.

"Sister Qing Yu, I know. Next time I encounter such a thing, I will definitely endure it," Long Chen promised with a smile, but in his heart, he thought: If I can't endure it, then don't blame me.

Long Chen also wanted to be low-key and hoped to Cultivate quietly, but there were always so many hot-headed fools who didn't know life from death and came to cause him trouble.

Sometimes he also wanted to just endure it, but in his mind, there was another will that resolutely refused to allow him to suffer any loss.

Sometimes Long Chen wondered if he had a split personality. Was it that he had undergone Fusion with the Pill Emperor's memories, or had the Pill Emperor's Soul taken over this body?

Ever since he started to Cultivate the Nine Star Hegemon Body Art, that will had become increasingly intense. It was a will that pressed forward with indomitable spirit, never looking back even in death.

Therefore, in the situation just now, Long Chen could have completely dodged a few times, or revealed his Pill Flame to scare Lu Chuan away.

But for some reason, he chose the most direct way to slap his face to solve it, and after solving it, he even felt a secret thrill, which left him unable to laugh or cry.

"Waner, you should learn from Long Chen. Look at his attitude; when he does something wrong, he dares to admit it."

"Look at you, I say less than two sentences to you, and you start to retort. When will you ever grow up?" Qing Yu sighed and said with a worried face.

Tang Waner was furious seeing Long Chen putting on such an obedient appearance. Sister Qing Yu was completely fooled by this bastard, so she couldn't help but glare fiercely at Long Chen.

In the following time, Long Chen was dragged around by Tang Waner. Of course, the range was limited to this small mountain with a radius of a hundred miles.

Because it wasn't time to report yet, leaving here rashly might violate some unknown rules of the Branch Courtyard, which would be troublesome.

Not just Tang Waner, other Disciples also started wandering around. Everyone was full of curiosity about every blade of grass and tree here.

Tang Waner and Long Chen walked on a remote path. Looking at the strange flowers and exotic grasses around them, Tang Waner couldn't help but exclaim, "I didn't expect that after so many days of hardship, I finally entered the Xuantian Branch Courtyard. This is truly a fairyland on earth."

"Hehe, I'm not trying to pour cold water on you. They are hitting us with a slap first, then giving us a sweet date to eat. After giving the sweet date, it also means that the next slap is about to come soon, so we should be prepared," Long Chen laughed.

Tang Waner chuckled, like a flower blooming, indescribably beautiful, "Long Chen, I find that you don't look like a young person at all. Why do you speak in such an old-fashioned way?"

Long Chen sighed and said, "Perhaps it was being infected by that old ghost in the cave."

His current personality was entirely related to his experiences. He also felt that he hadn't even gone through puberty before he directly entered menopause.

With these companions in front of him who were of similar age, he actually didn't have any common language, and sometimes Long Chen felt very lonely in his heart.

Therefore, even when Long Chen was with Tang Waner and the others, he mostly just teased them and rarely expressed his own views, feeling that everyone's IQ was not on the same frequency.

"Now that you mention it, I remember. That powerful evil corpse kept saying you deceived him. What did you deceive him about? Why does he hate you so much?" Tang Waner asked curiously.

To be able to make an evil demon expert, who only had a Soul left, so furious, this Long Chen was too powerful. It really fit that saying, he could even anger a dead person back to life.

"Perhaps it is because I failed his deep affection," Long Chen said with a complex expression, as if he had fallen into deep, affectionate memories.

"Ugh, don't talk nonsense! You are too disgusting."

Tang Waner glared at Long Chen with a look of disgust. To be able to say such a disgusting topic, it made Tang Waner want to beat someone up.

"What are you thinking about? I meant that seeing my heaven-defying talent, rare in the heavens and hard to find on earth, he just wanted me to inherit his legacy." Long Chen said with a look of disdain.

Tang Waner was stunned, her pretty face slightly flushed, but she quickly recovered and said seriously, "Now that you put it that way, I actually believe you."

"Why is that?" Long Chen was dumbfounded.

"I feel that the things you do basically aren't serious, and everywhere reveals an evil air. That old ghost wanting to take you as a Disciple really found the right person," Tang Waner said, looking at Long Chen.

Long Chen looked at the playfulness in Tang Waner's beautiful eyes and immediately understood that she was mocking him for being unreliable in his actions.

Long Chen wanted to retort, but for a moment, he couldn't find the right words to express it. Could it be that I am really suitable to be an evil cultivator?

Seeing Long Chen staring at her blankly, actually rendered speechless by her question, Tang Waner couldn't help but giggle. It seemed that in all the time she had known Long Chen, this was the first time she had gained the upper hand verbally.

"Long Chen, do you know? Among the younger generation of our Tang Family, I have the highest status, so the grandfathers in the clan all doted on me very much. At that time, I was very willful and liked to be unreasonable…"

"You're just talking nonsense. You are still just as unreasonable now," Long Chen shook his head and said.

"Bad guy, don't interrupt me!"

Tang Waner angrily hit Long Chen, then continued, "But as I gradually grew up, I began to discover that they loved and doted on me so much, pouring too much effort into me, was actually because they hoped that one day I could revive the Ancestral Mark, Awakening the Bloodline, and revitalize the Tang Family."

From that time on, I felt great pressure. Without needing the Elders to remind me, I started to Cultivate diligently.

When I entered the Blood Condensation Realm, the Family deliberately arranged several 'assassinations' to force me into a desperate situation, hoping that I would revive the Ancestral Mark at a life-or-death moment.

Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. You must know that if it doesn't revive the first time you are in a life-or-death crisis, the probability of it reviving in the future becomes lower and lower.

And I have experienced it seven times, and it still hasn't revived. Although they all didn't say anything, I know they are very disappointed in their hearts, I…"

Speaking to this point, she could no longer continue. Tang Waner actually hugged Long Chen and started crying aggrievedly, which startled Long Chen.

Long Chen's body was tense, and he didn't dare to move at all. Feeling Tang Waner's near-perfect delicate body, a faint virgin fragrance wafted into his nose, and Long Chen felt like he was about to float away to immortality.

Tang Waner cried for a while, then suddenly realized what was happening. She hurriedly let go of Long Chen, turned her face away, and gently wiped away her tears. Her pretty face was already as red as an apple, and her heart was pounding like a little deer.