Longevity: My Talents Are a Bit Abundant

Liu Yiyun’s eyes shifted as she changed the subject: "Master, it seems Liu Zhijie has sensed a breakthrough opportunity."

"Mm." Shen Xuan responded indifferently.

Liu Zhijie and Liu Zhicheng were the Liu Family members with the best body refining talent.

Under his guidance for three and a half years, they finally touched the threshold of breakthrough, which was quite common.

"Will Master assist him a little?"

Liu Yiyun probed tentatively.

"He is a member of the Liu Family, naturally the elders of the family will protect him."

Shen Xuan spoke calmly: "Moreover, if my observation is correct, once he prepares the secret medicine for breaking through, his chances of success are quite high."

"But..."

Liu Yiyun blinked: "Back then when Yiyun broke through, she didn’t use the secret medicine."

"So what?"

Shen Xuan glanced at her, his expression slightly sinking: "Are you planning to repay the money saved for the breakthrough secret medicine, along with the cost of the Spirit Water Whip, to me all at once?"

Liu Yiyun quickly waved her hands, putting on a pitiful look: "Disciple is so poor, really has no Spirit Stones. Master, please have mercy on this disciple..."

Unwilling to listen to her nonsense, Shen Xuan directly tossed over a Jade Scroll and a bulging Spirit Stone Bag.

"Go out. Within seven days, gather all the materials listed inside."

"Okay! Disciple will get to it right away!"

Liu Yiyun took the Jade Scroll and Spirit Stone Bag, gave a sly smile at Xiangcao, and then slipped out of the Cave Mansion.

The Cave Mansion returned to silence.

"Xiangcao, come with me."

"Yes, Master Guo."

Shen Xuan approached the Silver-Horned Celestial Horse, casually waved his sleeve, and Xiangcao felt her body lighten, already steadily seated on the horse’s back. Then, Shen Xuan’s fingertip gently emitted a Spiritual Light.

The Silver-Horned Celestial Horse’s form rippled like water and suddenly vanished. Shen Xuan’s form also simultaneously vanished from the spot.

Half an hour later.

Outside Cave Bright Mountain, an unusually remote and desolate peak.

The air twisted, and the figures of two people and a horse quietly emerged.

At this moment, Xiangcao has no more concealment, her aura fully unleashed.

Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer.

Actually one level higher than Lady Liu Yiyun herself.

Three years ago, Shen Xuan bestowed upon her a High-quality Creation Pill, raising her Lower Grade Water Spirit Root to Middle Grade.

Subsequently, using the Divine Soul Brand method, he taught her the [Divine Hidden Azure Water Formula].

Furthermore, he planted a strand of essence in her Dantian, condensing into the size of a soybean [Taichu True Water].

In just three years, her cultivation level swiftly advanced to this point.

From the start, Shen Xuan didn’t plan to fully emphasize nurturing Liu Yiyun.

The identity of the Liu Family direct heir destined her to never completely lean towards him.

Xiangcao was different.

She was merely a maid, yet her thoughts were keen and insightful.

The smarter one is, the harder it is to remain at the bottom.

The seed of ambition within her to stand out had quietly sprouted long ago.

Shen Xuan took out from his Storage Pouch a puppet barely half a foot long.

The entire object emitted a dark silver sheen, its lines smooth like a living eagle, precisely his final product, the culmination of years of effort and multiple iterations: [Puppet Divine Eagle].

"Try it."

Shen Xuan succinctly stated.

"Yes!"

Xiangcao held her breath and focused, channeling a weak strand of Divine Thought into the eagle’s core.

"Screech!"

A barely audible clear chirp as the Puppet Divine Eagle flapped its wings lightly, silently soaring into the sky, straight up several dozen meters.

It performed all sorts of incredible agile maneuvers in the air.

Diving suddenly as if hunting, spinning nimbly like a swimming fish, effortlessly transitioning, as fluid as a living creature.

Using Divine Thought at Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer to precisely control a Tier Two Puppet, proof of its mastery in "nimbleness" and "agility," had already reached the Transformation Realm.

Shen Xuan waved his hand.

Within a hundred-meter radius, blue beams of light shot skyward, instantly forming an invisible barrier that isolated sound and sight from inside and out.

"Fire the Thunder Spirit Pearl."

"As you command!"

Xiangcao focused her thoughts.

Only to see the miniature mechanism on the Puppet Divine Eagle’s back silently operate, as the dark gun barrel suddenly lit up, and azure lightning gathered and compressed swiftly at the muzzle.

The next moment.

"Whish! Whish! Whish!"

Several dragon-eye-sized Thunder Spirit Pearls consecutively shot out, marking a glaring trajectory, instantly hitting a millstone-sized blue rock a hundred steps away.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Lightning exploded with thunderous roars!

The hard mountain rock was disintegrated inch by inch in the violent lightning fire, turning into dust spreading across the sky, smoke and dust enveloping.