Chapter 45: Don't Call Me Master Outside

The next morning, Lu Chen covered the still slightly flushed Su Qian with a blanket, got up alone, and went to the Hall of Killing Qi.

He had accumulated a great deal of demon beast blood, and the Myriad Beast Blood Refining Method from earlier could now be practiced.

Taking out several kinds of ordinary beast blood, he began his first refinement.

Soon, the room filled with a strong bloody odor; he drew out a large bottle of black python blood and swallowed it all at once.

"Using my body as the cauldron, Myriad Beast Blood Refining..."

As the black python blood entered his belly, Lu Chen immediately felt a surge of scorching energy moving within him.

Seeing this, he immediately drew out a portion of his own blood, mixed the two bloods, and refined them.

To his surprise, after refining that amount of beast blood together with his own blood, it yielded only a tiny drop of essence blood.

"At this rate of refinement, it seems essence blood cannot be used casually."

After obtaining the Myriad Beast Blood Refining Method, his daily routine gained another task.

Refining essence blood, performing blood sacrifice on the demonic sword, and nourishing the soul with the Wandering Soul Jade.

Thinking of this, he took out the Blood Spirit Sword, intending to use the freshly condensed essence blood to sacrifice the sword.

As the essence blood dyed the Blood Spirit Sword red, its blade suddenly trembled violently.

Immediately after, strange patterns suddenly crawled up the blade and quickly spread.

The sword, which had previously lost its luster, suddenly burst forth with a crimson light.

This sudden change surprised him somewhat, but he still immediately gripped the hilt tightly.

The next moment, he suddenly felt a powerful and utterly unfamiliar force emerge within the sword.

He instantly realized this was the sword demon he had never seen before.

That is, the demon creature born within the demonic artifact.

When ordinary demonic artifacts give birth to demon creatures, cultivators must exhaust all means to suppress and tame them.

Moreover, after a period of time they must repeat the same process to prevent the sword demon from backlashing against them.

But Lu Chen's sword demon is not quite the same.

Compared to a sword demon, it is more like the sword spirit spoken of by orthodox cultivators, which from birth will not betray its master.

As this power continually strengthened, Lu Chen, through the sword, seemed to see within a space a phantom of a naked woman gradually becoming more substantial.

"Sword demon, how can it be a woman?"

Although sword demons are born according to the owner's personality, Lu Chen truly did not expect it to be a woman.

"Looking at this, it seems because it has just been born and is still weak, it probably needs some time to fully mature."

Thinking this, he immediately activated the Myriad Beast Blood Refining Method again to refine some essence blood, and once more performed a blood sacrifice on the Blood Spirit Sword.

The next moment, the phantom became somewhat more substantial.

Lu Chen did not hastily pour all the essence blood refined from the beast blood into her as a blood sacrifice.

After all, essence blood represents strength; if he used it all at once, any mishap would be troublesome.

After putting away the Blood Spirit Sword, he left the Hall of Killing Qi, woke Su Qian who had been sleeping a while, and came again to the Ghost Market.

On his third visit to the Ghost Market, Lu Chen was already well acquainted with the route.

All the way to the deepest cave, he soon saw Chu Lian in the midst of pill refinement.

"As expected, she's still refining pills."

Lu Chen had long grown accustomed to this sight.

"If she weren't refining pills, that would truly be strange."

After patiently waiting at the cave entrance for a while, Chu Lian then noticed him and Su Qian.

"How did you come back so fast? Have you finished testing all the pills?"

"Mm." Lu Chen nodded in affirmation.

"And those pills, how effective are they?"

Chu Lian seemed not to notice the lingering flush on Su Qian's face, and directly asked Lu Chen.

"The effect is not bad, and there's hardly any toxicity."

Lu Chen gave a simple reply.

Upon hearing what he said, and recalling last night's events, Su Qian's face flushed again.

She didn't know why; perhaps it was due to the pills' effect, or perhaps due to the Pulling Technique's effect.

In short, Lu Chen made her unable to let go.

This time, Chu Lian finally noticed her expression.

Before, she had always regarded Su Qian as Lu Chen's master, or perhaps some senior uncle-master.

But now she discovered that their relationship seemed not so simple.

"There are still plenty left; with your ability, three days should be enough to finish testing them, right?" Chu Lian then produced many more pills that needed testing, saying, "After three days I must go to the Heaven Demon Sect to refine pills; if you can't finish them in three days, come find me at the Heaven Demon Sect."

"Heaven Demon Sect?!"

Upon hearing that name, Lu Chen's expression changed abruptly.

He hadn't expected Chu Lian to have any connection with the Heaven Demon Sect, and from what she said it seemed she had been invited there.

Indeed, a Pill Master capable of refining sixth-grade pills naturally possesses such qualifications and standing.

Lu Chen originally thought that after going to the Heaven Demon Sect he would soon be unable to see Chu Lian, but now it seems everything is fate.

"How come, are you actually a member of the Heaven Demon Sect?"

"No, but I too am about to go to the Heaven Demon Sect in a few days." Lu Chen spoke frankly.

Immediately afterward, he told her that he had been elected Holy Son of the Nine Abyss Sect and had obtained the qualification to go to the Heaven Demon Sect for further study.

"I see." Chu Lian, after all being a fellow demon sect disciple, had heard of the Heaven Demon Sect's procedures before.

I originally wanted to bring you to the Heavenly Demon Sect to test my medicine, but now it seems we've skipped that step.

However...

Chu Lian said, then suddenly paused and fell into a brief recollection.

Chu Lian sank into thought for a moment, seeming to ponder something.

Suddenly, she raised her head and looked at Lu Chen with a somewhat serious expression.

"If we go to the Heavenly Demon Sect, you can live with me."

"At that time, testing the medicine will be convenient."

"Live together?!" Upon hearing this, Su Qian instantly felt as if she'd eaten several vats of vinegar.

Originally, she felt a bit disappointed that, due to her special status, she couldn't accompany them to the Heavenly Demon Sect.

I never expected the other party to try to take advantage of the situation like this!

"No way! Absolutely not, the Master can only sleep with me!"

The next moment, she blurted out what was on her mind.

Lu Chen and Chu Lian heard what she said, and their expressions were quite priceless.

"Master? Those two actually have this kind of relationship? But... Lu Chen is only at the Elixir Formation Realm, right?"

"Or is there some other reason?"

"Forget it, I'm not really interested."

Chu Lian had barely mustered a little interest when it was suddenly interrupted by a wave of elixir qi.

"The pill is about to form!" She instantly lit up with joy and turned toward the pill furnace.

At that moment, Lu Chen walked up to Su Qian and secretly grabbed a handful from behind her.

Su Qian's face, which had just calmed, instantly flushed red again.

"Didn't I tell you not to call me Master outside?"

"Um... sorry, Master, I... whenever I think about how that woman has designs on you, I just..."

Su Qian's voice carried a hint of nervousness.

Compared to her earlier aloof elder demeanor, she has now completely changed into a different person.

Of course, all this is naturally thanks to Lu Chen's efforts.

"If you do this again next time, it won't stop at just this."

"Yes..."