Chapter 2063: Turning Hostile Threat

Li Xingrou has been rather irritable lately.

Murong Tian, having sensed the scent of a funding source breaking, is busy trying to remedy it, but the more he patches, the more problems arise; he is swamped daily, with no time to attend to Li Xingrou.

The Crown Prince of the Eastern Kingdom died, a monumental event that dealt a heavy blow to the kingdom's morale.

Ye Liuyun's army pressed the attack, already reaching the foot of Blood Cloud City, and the city was on the verge of falling.

Once Blood Cloud City fell, the Eastern hinterland would be fully exposed to the Death Legion.

Yet the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance's support has been slow to arrive.

Moreover, the Eastern Kingdom's high‑level experts have suffered severe losses, and now they can't hold back the Death Legion at all.

The Eastern Kingdom also pressures Li Xingrou, urging Murong Tian to persuade the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance to send reinforcements.

But Murong Tian has virtually no clout within the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance.

After several urgings, the two began to quarrel.

The kingdom's order to monitor the Bai Feng master–apprentice pair also fell onto Li Xingrou.

Yet Bai Feng and Zhang Minghui never leave the house each day, so she can't gather any useful information.

Moreover, the East Sea King, now desperate and scrambling for cures, has turned to forge good ties with the Profound Heaven Sect, urging Li Xingrou to betray, supply Murong Tian's intel, and help the Profound Heaven Sect deal with the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance.

If she proves useless to the kingdom, she may become a discarded pawn.

She already finds decisions difficult, and with Murong Tian now ignoring her, she feels a bit wavering inside.

She thinks Murong Tian used her to help the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance lead the Sect's disciples, then grew cold toward her.

Li Xingrou now can only feel better after taking the anti‑aging pill each day.

Upon hearing that Ye Liuyun is making all sorts of excuses to stall her, her irritated mood erupts and she flips instantly.

"Chen Feng, the anti‑aging pill isn't something only you can forge! I just think you're a decent person, so I'll give you a chance."

"Do you know that in this Profound Heaven Sect, without my backing, you can't take a single step?"

"I haven't held back on giving you Divine Crystals, have I?"

"If it's money you want, say so directly, don't beat around the bush! But if you keep shirking, then don't consider me your senior sister any more!"

Li Xingrou directly threatens Ye Liuyun.

【4】 She now has little patience; the soft way won't work, so she must go straight to the hard.

She also doesn't have much patience now; if the soft approach doesn't work, she'll go straight for the hard one.

"Senior sister, why did you turn hostile mid‑conversation?"

Ye Liuyun feigned surprise as he asked.

"Hmph! My attitude toward you is entirely up to you!"

Li Xingrou even laid out a script.

"Heh, seems the pills I forged for senior sister turned out wrong! Since you're taking this attitude toward me, be my guest! Qing Yan, see her off!"

Ye Liuyun didn't care about her theatrics and immediately sent people after her.

"You… fine, just wait for me!"

Li Xingrou uttered a harsh line and turned to leave.

After Qing Yan escorted her away, she returned, worried, and asked Ye Liuyun, "Master, might she bring people to cause trouble?"

Ye Liuyun laughed, "She won't be able to cause trouble for long! How many days' worth of the pill did you give her last time?"

"Five days left!"

Qing Yan replied.

Ye Liuyun just smiled, "In five days she'll still need to find someone to forge pills, and someone to deal with me—enough to keep her busy!"

Ye Liuyun also knows Murong Tian is busy vying with Jin Hui, Liu Xing and others for external resources, and can't spare attention for Li Xingrou.

Even if Murong Tian sends a few people to stir trouble, he doesn't mind.

If he doesn't want to act, he can simply stay indoors.

Anyway, after five days Li Xingrou will come to beg him.

Li Xingrou left Ye Liuyun's residence fuming, muttering, "It's just forging a pill, what's the big deal! Dare to challenge me, watch me kill you!"

She unwittingly walked toward Murong Tian's dwelling, but upon reaching the foot of the mountain she turned back.

"Even without Murong Tian, I can still handle Chen Feng!"

She, thinking of the recent spat with Murong Tian, decided to arrange her own people to deal with Ye Liuyun.

Li Xingrou returned home and ordered a maid to summon Li Jian and the other Holy Sons.

These Holy Sons would naturally come to save face for Murong Tian.

But the third and fourth Holy Sons, along with Li Jian, upon hearing the plan to deal with Chen Feng, immediately sent Transmission Voice messages to Ye Liuyun reporting the information.

Ye Liuyun asked Li Jian to inquire why Li Xingrou isn't targeting Murong Tian.

Li Jian, probing indirectly, sensed that Li Xingrou and Murong Tian seem to be angry.

Ye Liuyun became even less concerned about Li Xingrou.

"Let her be; whatever she wants to mess with, just cooperate with her."

Finally, Li Xingrou ordered everyone to help find a pill master, offering a high price for forging anti‑aging pills, and also sent some to stake out the Dan Hall entrance to ambush Ye Liuyun whenever he appears.

Li Jian, knowing Ye Liuyun, was dispatched as a lobbyist to win Ye Liuyun's change of heart.

Upon learning of Li Xingrou's tactics, Ye Liuyun simply smiled it off.

Under Li Xingrou's generous reward, indeed a pill master forged anti‑aging pills for her.

Although the pills look identical, after trying them she found that those forged by others had no effect when she took them.

Only the anti‑aging pills brewed by Ye Liuyun could steady her emotions.

She also feels she might be addicted, developing a dependence.

Ye Liuyun's anti‑aging pills are absolutely different from anyone else's single‑ingredient formula.

So, she had no choice but to let Li Jian go find Ye Liuyun again, spending a lot of money to buy Ye Liuyun's single prescription.

But Li Jian replied to her: "Chen Feng is a stubborn person; after I went there, he drove me out."

"You didn't say you would spend a lot of money to buy his single prescription?"

Li Xingrou frowned and asked.

"I did say that! But he said he basically lacks no money! I think using money this way definitely won't work— which alchemist lacks money?"

Li Jian replied.

"Get lost, get lost, get lost, useless trash!"

Li Xingrou impatiently drove Li Jian away.

She is now extremely agitated.

If I had known Ye Liuyun's this was a secret formula, I wouldn't have fallen out with Ye Liuyun.

She only has one Ye Liuyun-refined Youth-preserving Pill left.

If she still can't deal with Ye Liuyun, then after one day she will have no medicinal pills to take.

The people she sent to watch Ye Liuyun haven't seen Ye Liuyun come out these days.

They don't dare to barge into a place like the Dan Hall and cause trouble.

Even if she goes to find Liu Zimo and Xing Baiyu, Ye Liuyun still has a Seventh Realm ferocious beast guarding him, and they still can't capture Ye Liuyun.

So she currently has no way to deal with Ye Liuyun.

Li Xingrou racked her brains and suddenly thought of Fengchen.

"Yes, we can let Fengchen give it a try! Chen Feng and I have reached an impasse— isn't it perfect to let Fengchen take the stage!"

Thinking of this, she again sought out Fengchen, asking Fengchen to persuade Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun was cultivating; hearing Qing Yan's report that Fengchen had arrived, he immediately went out to deal with it.

"Chen Feng junior brother, I heard you recently provoked Li Xingrou?"

"Do you know or not, that Li Xingrou is none other than Murong Tian's woman?"

Fengchen still didn't know he had been seen through by Ye Liuyun; upon seeing Ye Liuyun, he pretended concern and started chatting with him.