In a delicately decorated bedroom, an old man with white hair and wrinkles all over his face lay on the bed, groaning from time to time, his eyes full of sorrow.

  Three young men, resembling the old man in appearance, were surrounding him. However, they were currently disputing over a few fields and had not noticed that the old man lying on the bed was already at his last gasp.

  When Qin Lingyun entered the bedroom, her eyes saw this scene. She dispersed her hidden body technique and slowly appeared in the bedroom. The three people who were arguing stopped their quarrel.

  The biggest one changed his face and shouted: "Who is it? Actually breaking into the inner house of Li's mansion, don't you want to live?"

  Another voice said: "A Fu, A Wang, catch this woman and lock her up."

  Qin Lingyun did not use the Yuanmu Lingyin technique to change her appearance, she was just staring at the old man on the bed with a cold expression, but in the old man's eyes, which were originally filled with inexplicable sadness, a hint of surprise slowly emerged, and in an instant, the surprise grew bigger, every wrinkle on his brow was filled with joy.

  The old man struggled to get up, but couldn't get up. At this time, two strong men like wolves and tigers rushed towards Qin Lingyun.

  Qin Lingyun's icy true yuan force rotated, and the two men immediately felt a massive force colliding with their chests. The two were knocked flying, heavily crashing to the ground, with blood seeping from the corners of their mouths, while their throats choked, unable to speak.

  Seeing that woman's body didn't move, the two sturdy men were seriously injured and fell to the ground. The three young people remained expressionless, and for a while, they didn't dare shout again easily.

  At this time, Qin Lingyun finally spoke up and said: "Li Shuangjiang, it's been many years since we last met, I didn't expect you to end up in such a state."

  Qin Lingyun saw Li Shuangjiang's narrow and long eyes, as if she suddenly understood the thick sadness in Li Shuangjiang's eyes. Her three sons, who had been pampered by her, were now fighting for family property without regard for their father's impending death. And his wives, one by one, did not know where to hide, after a lifetime of hard work, there was not even one person who truly cared for him.

  Li Shuangjiang knew he had done many evil things, but after becoming Qin Lingyun's servant more than a decade ago, he changed his ways and did good deeds, such as repairing roads and bridges. However, heaven still didn't bless him, and in just over a decade, his robust body mysteriously declined rapidly. Now, it has even come to the point where his family is scattered.

  Qin Lingyun thought to herself: "The law of heaven is a cycle of cause and effect. Li Shuangjiang's actions in the past have led to his current situation, if he hadn't offended me, he wouldn't have been possessed by the puppet spirit technique, and his body wouldn't be ruined. If he had educated his children properly, they wouldn't have ended up like this today. None of these things would change for any other reason. Without finding the true cause, it's impossible to change the resulting effect."

  "But Li Shuangjiang used to be my servant, and today he will also change his fate because of me. This is also a cause-and-effect relationship. There are cause-and-effect relationships within cause-and-effect relationships. No one knows what impact today's events will have on the future."

  In front of Qin Lingyun, many invisible threads seemed to appear, connecting the long river of fate. The dense and complex threads traversed ancient and modern times, but these invisible threads flashed in a mysterious form that Qin Lingyun couldn't understand, only to quickly disappear again.

  Because Li Shuangjiang's fate touched Qin Lingyun's Taoist heart, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of the great Tao of heaven and earth, cause and effect, life and death, reincarnation, although it was only a faint thread, her Taoist heart changed rapidly, becoming more and more condensed.

  "I suppose you don't want these people around either, so I'll get rid of them."

  Qin Lingyun's cold and clear words echoed in the room, followed by her pointing with her finger, a surge of icy true yuan energy like a pair of invisible giant hands

  The others were picked up one by one and thrown out of the door, and they were knocked unconscious at the same time.

  With a finger seal, an entire house was enveloped in a defensive formation outside, and no one could enter.

  After doing all this, Qin Lingyun flipped her hand and poured out a pill from a jade bottle. This pill was to slow down aging and greatly improve the physical body, which had many effects on both ordinary people and cultivators. Qin Lingyun found it in the storage bag of a cultivator she had killed, and now it was just right for Li Shuangjiang to use.

  Li Shuangjiang was already so weak that he could only open his eyes, and his body couldn't move at all. Qin Lingyun walked forward and pressed the elixir of longevity into his mouth.

  The crimson elixir melted into a liquid as soon as it entered Li Shuangjiang's mouth, and then a series of sounds like firecrackers rang out. Li Shuangjiang's joints crackled and popped, and his body expelled large amounts of impurities from its pores under the improvement of the Longevity Elixir.

  An hour later, Li Shuangjiang's face had turned rosy, and although his face was still old and worn, the vitality had returned to his body.

  With great difficulty, Li Shuangjiang struggled to sit up and immediately kowtowed to Qin Lingyun. This strong man was overcome with emotion at this moment, tears streaming down his face: "Master, you've finally returned..."

  Qin Lingyun was still expressionless, her palm patted on Li Shuangjiang's headtop, the icy spiritual power quickly passed through his head into his body, after circulating once, a hint of unusual light flashed in Qin Lingyun's eyes.

  In Li Shuangjiang's body, apart from the mark of the Puppet Spirit Technique, something that she never thought could be found was discovered - a Hidden Spirit Root.

  If it weren't for her cultivation having reached the foundation building period, and she also possessed a hidden spirit root, being extremely sensitive to hidden spirit roots, perhaps even another foundation building cultivator wouldn't necessarily be able to discover it.

  At first, her hidden spiritual root was a virtual immortal spiritual root, so it needed the power of Yu Huan Dan to open it up. However, this single hidden spiritual root didn't need Yu Huan Dan at all and could be opened as long as Qin Lingyun input some spiritual energy into it, causing the spiritual root to transform from hidden to visible naturally.

  Qin Lingyun dispelled the mark of the Puppet Spirit Technique, and without the burden of the Puppet Spirit Technique, Li Shuangjiang's body would no longer rapidly deteriorate. However, Qin Lingyun did not activate his spiritual root, and quietly withdrew his palm.

  "I've examined your body and the illness has been eliminated. You should be able to live for another 20 or 30 years without any problems."

  Li Shuangjiang knelt on the ground, a look of surprise on his face. Anyone would rather not die, and being able to live healthily is even better.

  "Thank you for your kindness, Master!" Li Shuangjiang said loudly.

  Qin Lingyun carefully observed his expression and felt that even if the puppet spirit technique was removed, Li Shuangjiang still had a deep-seated reverence and loyalty towards her. This was probably because the puppet spirit technique had been used for so long that it had naturally seeped into his heart.

  "Right now, I'm giving you two choices. The first one is that you can continue to enjoy your wealth and status, and we'll part ways from here on out. The second choice is to follow me in cultivating immortality and seeking the Tao, and from then on, no longer be infatuated with the mortal world."

  Li Shuangjiang was about to speak when Qin Lingyun said: "There's no need for you to make a decision immediately, I'll give you three days' time. I'll come again in three days."

  Qin Lingyun turned around and applied her stealth technique to herself, instantly disappearing from Li Shuangjiang's sight.

  Qin Lingyun's enemies are growing in number, including Qin Xiaoyun, Miao Yier and even the more powerful Huang Jitian. She needs help, and Li Shuangjiang, who possesses a spiritual root, can be of assistance. However, she cannot confirm Li Shuangjiang's loyalty, so she did not immediately open his spiritual root for him. Instead, she gave him three days' time.

  After leaving Li Shuangjiang's manor, Qin Lingyun flew all the way into the Luoxia Mountains, where the entire mountain range stretched continuously with steep and treacherous terrain. Therefore, Qin Lingyun planned to open up a secret cave within the Luoxia Mountains.

  Qin Lingyun descended into a nondescript gorge within the Luoxia mountain range.

  With a wave of her storage bag, seven blue long swords floated in front of her. This was a set of top-grade spiritual artifacts known as the Small Seven Star Swords, which could be arranged to form the Small Seven Star Killing Array. During the Foundation Building stage, its power was extremely strong and was one of Murong Henghai's most powerful techniques back then.

  Qin Lingyun's divine consciousness entered the Seven-Mouthed Long Sword, and soon it was refined. With her fingers pinching the sword incantation, the Seven-Mouthed Long Sword flew in the air, her divine consciousness was very strong, and she could manipulate this entire set of magical treasures.

  "It's not easy to form a small seven-star killing array, and it still requires a lot of practice."

  Qin Lingyun set foot in the valley, this valley was flat and unremarkable, but it was precisely because of a bamboo forest that Qin Lingyun had taken a liking to this place.

  Above the bamboo forest, a Five Elements Reversal Formation was set up, and then another simple illusion formation was laid out on the outside.

  Qin Lingyun used the Xiao Qixing Sword to open up a cave on the hard rock surface behind the bamboo forest, and then pressed down a stone gate. Because the Xiao Qixing Sword was extremely sharp, cutting through the rocks was like cutting tofu, so in less than half a day's time, the cave was already completed.

  Inside there is an alchemy room, a bedroom, and a practice room. The space is very large, the rocks here are very solid, and the opened cave is also very sturdy.

  "These three days first refine the treasure, and then go to the Li Mansion after three days."

  Inside Qin Lingyun's practice room, it was very large and empty, with only a few simple stone tables and stools.

  She took out all the magic treasures that could be refined, and the Small Seven Star Sword had already been refined. She only had this set of top-grade spiritual equipment, and a foundation-building cultivator using top-grade spiritual equipment could exert their full strength.

  What's left are some precious artifacts: the low-grade artifact Fire Butterfly Brocade, the high-grade artifact Transcendent Ice and Fire Gourd, the mid-grade artifact Soul-Capturing Square Cauldron, and a strange golden pellet with extremely powerful attack strength, but inside it is sealed with a talisman.

  With Qin Lingyun's current strength and knowledge, she couldn't see the origin of the talisman seal, so she could only treat it as an ordinary magic treasure for refinement.

  Qin Lingyun's fingers first pointed at the Hu Die silk, and her divine sense merged into it. A faint red glow appeared on the surface of the Hu Die silk, and soon a divine sense imprint was formed inside.

  Qin Lingyun's foundation-building period cultivation couldn't bring out the full strength of the treasure instrument, being able to bring out two or three tenths was already pretty good. Only a Dan-forming cultivator could bring out the full strength of the treasure instrument.

  However, even if only 20-30% of its power is unleashed, it's still much stronger than a top-grade spiritual artifact. But activating the treasure consumes too much spiritual energy, so it's usually not used unless necessary.

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