[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength":3,"chapter-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-30":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Subdue the Immortals with Strength",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2295332,4490,"Chapter 30: Lian'er's Hobby","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-30",30,"\u003Cp>You should have begged for mercy earlier—now it’s too late! You were already injured and shouldn’t have fought at all. Yet you insisted on showing off and challenging me. My hidden force is even stronger than my master’s.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So your little heart probably won’t last much longer! I’m truly sorry, but there’s nothing I can do now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But his expression of “regret” looked to Shi Yingdeng no different from the smile of a soul-reaping demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My father will find out and kill you to avenge me!” Shi Yingdeng, seeing no hope of survival, finally twisted his face into a snarl, glaring at Xia Daoming with hatred in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really are a scumbag—so eager for your father to join you in the underworld?” Xia Daoming smiled with narrowed eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Yingdeng froze, suddenly realizing Xia Daoming’s combat power was already on par with a Seventh-Rank Great Martial Master, while his father was only Sixth-Rank—and long past his prime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! No!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shi Yingdeng’s heart plunged instantly into an endless abyss, filled with terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But if you can raise a scumbag son like you, your father must be one too—he might as well go down early to join you, so he won’t harm any more decent people.” Xia Daoming sneered coldly, jabbing his toe into Shi Yingdeng’s caved-in chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ahh!” Shi Yingdeng let out a final scream, eyes bulging as he died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she had long known her master was extraordinary and beyond ordinary logic, Liu Qiaolian still stared in stunned silence, unable to recover from witnessing two Fifth-Rank Great Martial Masters so effortlessly slain by Xia Daoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Liu Qiaolian had said, Tie Shi Town’s lodging conditions were quite ordinary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire town had only one inn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guest room emitted a damp, moldy stench; the bedding looked dirty and disheveled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How could Liu Qiaolian let her master sleep in such a filthy room? Upon entering, she immediately began cleaning and tidying up herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Daoming told her not to bother—just pay extra and have the innkeeper send someone to clean it properly—but she thought they wouldn’t clean it well enough, so she insisted on doing it herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Liu Qiaolian, with her graceful, voluptuous figure and radiant beauty—who in his former world could have easily been a top model—busying herself around the room, replacing the sheets, Xia Daoming felt a flood of emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his past life, with his own pitiful condition, even if he groveled endlessly, she wouldn’t have spared him a second glance; if she ever did look at him differently, it would’ve been to make him a cuckold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in this life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No comparison—no comparison at all!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Daoming sighed inwardly, pulling a small vial from his robe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He uncorked it; inside lay a half-full vial of green liquid, releasing a fragrant aroma that refreshed the spirit and invigorated the mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This vial was taken from Lin Lu’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides this vial, both Lin Lu and Shi Yingdeng carried over ten thousand taels in cash—a surprising and delightful find for Xia Daoming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What exactly is this? Lin Lu kept it hidden in his robe—it must be precious. And Lin Lu didn’t feel like Wu Family Fortress’s chief steward Jing Xuan, whose vital energy was severely depleted. After taking my sudden full-force strike, he still managed to flee quickly.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lin Lu is past sixty, yet his vitality remains vigorous—could this green liquid be the reason?” Xia Daoming turned the vial in his fingers, sniffing slightly, his eyes filled with thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lian’er, come here.” Xia Daoming called out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, what do you require?” Liu Qiaolian approached, bowing slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you recognize this liquid?” Xia Daoming handed her the vial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiaolian stared at the vial, her delicate nose twitching slightly as she said with a hint of surprise: “The aroma is pleasant and invigorating, but I don’t know what it is.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Never mind then.” Xia Daoming tucked the vial away, no longer pondering it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d ask Ji Wenyue when they returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Liu Qiaolian finally finished cleaning the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The room was now sparkling clean, the moldy odor gone, fresh and tidy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After tidying up, she quickly summoned the innboy to fill the wooden tub with water, then shut the door and attended to Xia Daoming’s bath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After washing away the dust, swallowing a few pills, Xia Daoming sat cross-legged on the bed, calmly practicing the Dragon-Snake Scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the room, Liu Qiaolian stared intently at Xia Daoming for a long while, then took a Green Lotus Energy Pill from her pouch, placed it in her mouth, and sat cross-legged to cultivate the Dragon-Snake Scripture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Green Lotus Energy Pill cost one hundred and fifty taels on the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, she could never have afforded to take one—but now she took one every ten or so days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was only because her cultivation base was low; taking them more frequently would overload her meridians and body. Otherwise, Xia Daoming would have made her take one daily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After about an hour and a half, Liu Qiaolian felt pain in her meridians, slowly opened her eyes, and ceased circulating her qi and strength, while Xia Daoming remained in deep meditation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Xia Daoming still meditating, Liu Qiaolian took a yellowed scroll from her nearby satchel, rose, and sat at the table beside the candlestand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She bent over the scroll, frowning at times, pondering at others, idly tracing patterns on the table with her fingers, then lifting her gaze to watch Xia Daoming—unconsciously, a blush crept across her lovely face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She didn’t know how long she had been reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Daoming opened his eyes and saw Liu Qiaolian again absorbed in the yellowed scroll—he smiled softly, then quietly rose from the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master, have you finished your practice? I’ll help you retire now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as soon as Xia Daoming’s foot touched the floor, Liu Qiaolian sensed it and immediately stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s already the third watch! I meditate long—you don’t have to wait for me. Just sleep first.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If Master hasn’t slept, how could I sleep first? Besides, reading doesn’t make me tired.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This scroll looks like demonic scribbles—I can’t even glance at it without my head spinning and my skull aching. You’ve flipped through it countless times—how can you still find it so fascinating?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know why, but this book is just so interesting. Too bad, when I tried making the arrays described here at home, nothing happened.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If only it were true—just plant a few array flags, and outsiders couldn’t see those inside, couldn’t break in, or if they did, they’d get lost in a maze and never escape… wouldn’t that be wonderful?” Liu Qiaolian gazed dreamily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah! No array could be that miraculous! Even if such a thing existed, it’d be divine art—how could a scroll picked up at a roadside market possibly contain it?” Xia Daoming dismissed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since living with Liu Qiaolian, Xia Daoming had often seen her engrossed in this yellowed scroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of curiosity, he’d taken a look—full of demonic scribbles, patterns resembling the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces from his former world, and obscure ancient texts on the subject.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the scroll’s age, he’d assumed it was an ancestral heirloom from the Liu family, studied it carefully—but his head ached, and to him, it remained chaotic, meaningless scribbles with no pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, he asked and learned the scroll was something Liu Qiaolian bought at a roadside stall in a northern market town during one of her trading trips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This left Xia Daoming both amused and exasperated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Liu Qiaolian was deeply fascinated, frequently taking it out to read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Daoming had long grown used to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But tonight, far from home, sharing a room, and seeing it was already the third watch, he couldn’t help saying a few more words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Master is right.” Liu Qiaolian nodded dejectedly, but carefully rolled up the scroll and placed it back in her satchel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her clearly downcast, Xia Daoming felt guilty and quickly smiled: “I was just joking—don’t take it to heart. Everyone has different interests. As long as you enjoy it, that’s all that matters.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you, Master,” Liu Qiaolian said, her mood lifting. She brushed her hair back and smiled sweetly at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s sleep now—if we don’t, dawn will be here soon.” Xia Daoming looked at Liu Qiaolian’s radiant face, his heart stirred slightly, and he pulled her into his arms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, the two slept together in the small inn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>PS: Please collect, follow, and keep up the likes—many comments and lots of likes recently, please keep it up, thank you very much! Another chapter at noon.\u003C\u002Fp>",1438,"2026-06-20T05:15:29.288Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6984dc7276ce95bf795bf63fc93d4f31b6bda91839de4db24ae2d96c807c2346","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-31","i-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-chapter-29",484,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-subdue-the-immortals-with-strength-cover.jpg"]