Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

"Amitabha Buddha."

Zhao Xin had already said so much.

There was no way Xu Lei could refuse now; that would be far too coy.

So he just chuckled. "I’m not as carefree as you, little girl!

In that case, I’ll listen to you, Xin’er.

I’ll start refining it now!

I’ll have to trouble you after this, Xin’er!"

Then, Xu Lei immediately began circulating his Magical Power to refine the Demon Core floating before him.

As the Demon Core’s energy was drawn into his body, Xu Lei instantly felt the blood and Qi in his body surge.

For a moment, his eyes even turned a little red.

He couldn’t help but gulp as he looked at Zhao Xin.

"It’s okay, Uncle Hui Chi!"

Zhao Xin, however, lifted a delicate, jade-like hand to brush back her long hair. She smiled sweetly. "Am I pretty?

Super beautiful, right!

You’ve been craving me for a long time, haven’t you?

Hmph hmph, you can’t hide it from me!"

Xu Lei naturally agreed.

"Lucky you!"

Zhao Xin rolled her beautiful eyes, then slowly lowered her head. "Hmph!"

In the blink of an eye, another year had passed.

Xu Lei was now eighty-three years old.

Of course, he still looked like he was in his forties.

It was just that the wrinkles on his face had increased ever so slightly.

But his overall figure was upright and his muscles were firm.

Combined with the Phoenix True Flame inside him, his body’s Essence Qi was replenished daily.

As a result, he actually looked more vigorous than an ordinary forty-year-old man.

For the past year, he and Zhao Xin had been constantly refining Demon Cores and practicing Cultivation in the temple.

Both of their strengths had improved considerably.

「That day.」

In the Cultivation Room, Xu Lei’s hand rested on Zhao Xin’s hair.

Half a Demon Core floated before him, spinning smoothly.

His Magical Power continuously drew energy from it.

The energy was absorbed into Xu Lei’s body.

It then passed through Xu Lei’s Great and Small Circulation and was refined several times by his Original Lotus Platform.

Finally, it was converted into pure energy.

Xu Lei then circulated this refined energy out of his body.

He continuously transferred it into Zhao Xin’s body through the back of her head.

He let it circulate through her meridians.

Meanwhile, Zhao Xin kept her head lowered, continuously chanting the Daoist Family’s Purifying Heart Spell in a muffled voice, "Ice cold for a thousand ages, all things are still, the heart..."

At the same time, she also circulated her own Magical Power to absorb this Demon Core energy that entered her body.

BUZZ.

Suddenly, a tremor of energy ran through Xu Lei’s body. He had advanced by another Small Realm.

Within his Origin, on the Bodhi Tree, another Peach Fruit had condensed.

’I’ve finally advanced another Small Realm,’ Xu Lei sighed to himself. ’It really wasn’t easy.’

’That’s only four of them now.’

’But I need to condense nine Peach Fruits to reach the next Great Realm!’

Another hour passed in the blink of an eye.

Xu Lei and Zhao Xin parted ways in front of the temple.

"You’ve worked hard this past year, Xin’er. I’ve troubled you," Xu Lei said.

"It’s nothing, Uncle Hui Chi," Zhao Xin replied. "Besides, you’re the one who did all the real work.

You were the one doing the heavy lifting.

I just moved my mouth a little.

What, you can’t bear to see me go?

But I have to leave.

The two of us are impossible, you know.

You still have to find your own Dao Companion.

And my martial aunt has already had her baby.

I should be heading back to the Daoist Temple."

Xu Lei watched Zhao Xin’s retreating figure, his heart filled with complicated feelings.

The young woman had indeed been very good to him.

And it seemed that familiarity had bred affection.

After all, sometimes you can’t control these things.

Over these years, her mouth had been as gentle as water. She was always willing, no matter the time or place.

Xu Lei himself didn’t understand what it was about him that had captured the young woman’s heart.

In the end, he could only attribute it to that worldly rule where the strong attract even more.

The more women a man possessed, the more other women seemed to desire him.

The world was just that strange.

’Perhaps, after the accumulation of several lifetimes, I really have become quite outstanding,’ Xu Lei thought.

In truth, at that moment, all Xu Lei had to do was tell Zhao Xin that he possessed the Phoenix True Flame.

That would be enough to win all of the young woman, to make her his completely.

But in the end, Xu Lei didn’t say a word.

’I’m being a bit selfish.’

But it couldn’t be helped.

Xu Lei had seen too many women.

Although Zhao Xin was beautiful and treated him well,

he wasn’t about to proactively reveal his secrets for her sake.

Because, deep in Xu Lei’s heart, Cultivation and longevity came first.

In his previous lives, he had performed Charitable Giving for so many children and married so many women, all for the sake of obtaining longevity and Power.

It was never simply for the pursuit of lust or love.

「After Zhao Xin left.」

Xu Lei continued his Cultivation.

Although he had already advanced to the Fourth Tier of Bodhisattva Fruit,

he didn’t slack off in the slightest.

「Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.」

To Xu Lei’s surprise, a carrier pigeon suddenly flew to his window that day.

Xu Lei took the letter and read it, his expression changing instantly.

’Those Enchantresses actually managed to trace me back?’

Xu Lei said in a cold voice, "I was just worrying about not having any Demon Cores for my Cultivation, and you deliver yourselves to my doorstep.

If you had stayed in the Eastern Wilderness Marsh, I might not have been able to do anything to you.

But now, you’re just asking to die."

That’s right. The letter said that the Enchantresses from all those years ago had reappeared.

For the past few years, the Enchantresses hadn’t been seen at all.

Of course, Xu Lei still had many people stationed across the land, searching for any trace of the Enchantresses.

And this time, the arrangements were even more covert.

He wasn’t directly using the Zhao Family’s manpower.

Instead, he had gathered some of society’s dregs.

He gave them some silver coins and had them open small shops all over the country.

They would help Xu Lei gather information and search for the Enchantresses.

It seemed that ever since their last defeat, the Enchantresses had become much, much more cautious.

Xu Lei was worried that one day, while the Zhao Family’s people were investigating their whereabouts,