Chapter 527: Who Do You Think You Can Touch?!
Chapter 527: Who Do You Think You Can Touch?!
At this moment, Wang Shouyi was clutching a talisman crackling with lightning.
Chen Huaian recognized it—the Spirit Invocation Talisman.
However, Hua Jin the True One had a firm grip on Wang Shouyi's hand holding the talisman, clearly unwilling to let him activate it.
Understandable—such talismans inevitably came with irreversible side effects.
After all, shortcuts always came with backlash.
"Senior, are you alright?" Wang Shouyi spotted Chen Huaian and relaxed slightly upon seeing him unharmed, then waved urgently. "Come here quickly!"
Chen Huaian glanced at Monk Faming before swiftly moving behind Hua Jin and Wang Shouyi.
"What's going on?"
"The Great Thunder Temple's people are here." Wang Shouyi glared venomously at Monk Faming. "When medicinal energy erupted from the Demon Sealing Pagoda earlier, these damned monks came to seize treasures. But we never obtained any divine pills! Her Eminence explained, yet they refused to believe it—Monk Faming even attacked her!"His heart ached as he looked at Hua Jin's pallid face, fury rising.
"Her Eminence was already injured—now her condition has worsened... Please, let me use the Spirit Invocation Talisman! Just watch how I'll deal with this damned monk!"
"No!" Hua Jin said weakly. "The Spirit Invocation Talisman is powerful, but overuse will let the deities strip away your will, turning you into their puppet. Avoid it unless absolutely necessary—discard it after we return. Relying on external forces is never the true path."
"But, Your Eminence—"
"No buts!" Hua Jin's stern tone softened abruptly. "Be good and listen to me."
Chen Huaian observed their interaction with amusement.
Back when Hua Jin first gave Wang Shouyi this talisman, she'd certainly never mentioned these drawbacks.
Now that Wang Shouyi's status had changed, she couldn't bear to let her little boyfriend use dangerous talismans~
And that "Be good~" tone? Tsk tsk~
The air practically reeked of possessiveness.
"Hua Jin the True One, we still haven't settled accounts regarding the Celestial Jade Marrow incident." Monk Faming pressed his palms together, his blade-sharp eyes glinting with false benevolence. "Now that Great Thunder Temple lacks its own Celestial Jade Marrow, you must hand over that divine pill today—or I won't be polite!"
"I told you, we obtained no divine pills. When the medicinal energy surged, you saw me recovering outside the Demon Sealing Pagoda—I never entered to search for anything!"
"Lies!" Monk Faming scoffed. "Your injuries clearly came from pill-searching! You'd already retrieved it by then—hand it over now!"
Monk Faming remained obstinate.
The medicinal energy had vanished just as he arrived at the pagoda.
With Hua Jin conveniently healing outside? Only a fool would believe that coincidence.
Seeing their escalating tension, Chen Huaian's eyes gleamed with calculation.
Without intervention, violence was inevitable.
Unless...
He suddenly approached Hua Jin, producing a small porcelain bottle under both her and Wang Shouyi's stunned gazes.
"Your Eminence, this pill I found inside the pagoda can instantly heal all injuries and restore you to peak condition."
Hua Jin stared blankly at the bottle. "You—"
Even through the porcelain, she recognized that distinctive medicinal aroma—identical to what she'd sensed earlier.
So Chen Huaian had obtained the divine pill all along!
"You'd just... give this to me?" Hua Jin couldn't comprehend it.
Why surrender such hard-won treasure when Monk Faming wasn't even targeting him?
"Your Eminence jests." Chen Huaian smiled gently. "As Kunlun Immortal Palace's member, shouldn't I prioritize you and our sect? Take it—you're our strongest combatant. If you fall, we're defenseless. Besides... there are three such pills."
These were low-grade Nine Sun Soul-Returning Pills crafted by the qilin—only effective for injury recovery, excluding foundational damage like ruined dantians.
While celestial-grade Great Recovery Pills could similarly heal physical wounds, these additionally mended spiritual trauma.
In Cangyun Realm, they'd be valuable but not divine.
Yet on Earth Star, before Hua Jin and Monk Faming?
Any pill instantly restoring True Essence, wounds, and spiritual damage qualified as genuine treasure.
Hua Jin's eyes shimmered with moved astonishment.
She'd never witnessed such selflessness—surrendering newfound treasure without hesitation.
"So the divine pill was here all along! Hand it over!"
Monk Faming's eyes burned crimson upon seeing the pill.
Without ceremony, Hua Jin crushed the bottle and swallowed the pill—no inspection, no hesitation.
Trust in Chen Huaian. Confidence in her own strength. Certainty from the medicinal aura.
The pill dissolved instantly, miraculous energy flooding her meridians.
Color returned to her face; her weakened aura surged anew.
"Damn it!" Monk Faming saw red, immediately striking at Chen Huaian.
Treasures never came singly—pills were always brewed in batches of three minimum.
Certain Chen Huaian held more, he attacked without hesitation.
The Buddhist palm strike didn't come horizontally—instead, a colossal golden hand materialized above them, radiant as the sun.
Blinding light filled the hall; any Ascender who looked up felt their eyes searing, as if staring would burn their retinas.
But closing their eyes meant blindness to the descending judgment!
Chen Huaian remained still, calmly watching Monk Faming as if the apocalyptic palm meant nothing.
Then—precisely as it descended—Hua Jin's eyes snapped open.
"How dare you!"
A clear shout. A crescent of azure sword light.
Screee—!
Like moonbeams piercing heaven, carrying boundless cold that neutralized the palm's scorching heat, icy springs extinguishing the sun.
The falling inferno shattered without resistance, bursting into dissipating sparks amid tearing fabric sounds.
Chen Huaian's vision blurred slightly—
Now a plain-robed figure stood protectively before him and Wang Shouyi: Hua Jin, shielding them like a mother hen.
Her glacial gaze locked onto the bald monk ten zhang away as she enunciated each word:
"Old Monk Faming, today I'd like to see—who exactly do you think you can touch?!"