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When Gu Changfeng walked into the Skyfire Sect, Chen Huan, who had been waiting for an opportunity, began her plan.
She was supposed to have led the disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall to guard against Gu Changfeng at the mountain gate.
Instead, with a black magic robe on and her long black hair tied up, she arrived at the sect’s South District with a cold expression.
According to the information she received, Jiang Chen should now be replacing the spirit stones here.
She walked over slowly, her whole body emitting a murderous aura.
Most of the sect disciples had already gone to the courtyard to watch the battle. There were not many disciples left elsewhere in the sect.
Along the way, Chen Huan had only seen a few disciples.
Soon, she arrived at the edge of the Ancient Cold Pond. There, she saw a tall man with a straight posture busy with the Fire Gathering Spiritual Array.
“I didn’t expect the Sun Grass to have such a miraculous effect.” Chen Huan was astonished. This was the first time she had seen Jiang Chen in over thirty years.
However, she did not expect this guy to look as if he had not aged at all. He still looked the same as before.
If the other party was a cultivator, she wouldn’t be this shocked.
After all, as long as one reached Dao Initiation, they could live to 150 years old, barring any illness or calamity.
If he were a Dao Initiation cultivator, he would still be in his prime.
If he reached the Divine Sea realm, his lifespan would double again.
However, Jiang Chen wasn’t known to be a cultivator. And the only reason it made sense for him to look so young right now was because he had eaten the Sun Grass.
Sun Grass was simply too rare, so much so that the Skyfire Sect did not know much about its effects.
She only knew that this item could give people an ordinary fire-resistant constitution.
However, in the recorded history, the effects of the Sun Grass did not seem to be so heaven-defying, to the point that it could maintain one’s youthful appearance.
When Chen Huan had first heard about Jiang Chen, she had only treated him as a laborer with a bit more luck and didn’t have any other thoughts about him.
However, it was only when Deacon Huang of the Labor Department reported Jiang Chen’s information to her recently that Chen Huan started to take him seriously.
After all, 30 years had passed.
The corrosion of 30 years of fire poison, even if one had consumed Sun Grass, was definitely not easy to withstand for an ordinary laborer.
But now, not only was Jiang Chen completely fine, he had not aged at all.
“This is good. He is indeed the right candidate.”
A smile appeared on Chen Huan’s frosty face.
She waited here.
Jiang Chen’s movements were very practiced. In just a few moments, he had completed the task of maintaining the spiritual array.
The more Chen Huan watched, the more impressed she became.
She could not help but feel a strong sense of possessiveness and even wanted to rush forward.
Quickly, Chen Huan activated her Heart Revolution Cleansing Art, and she finally managed to suppress her desire.
“To think that it has only been a few days, and it has already reached such a level. I really can’t afford to delay anymore!”
Chen Huan knew that she was still affected by the fire poison in her body. Otherwise, she would have been able to easily suppress her thoughts.
It seemed like she had to capture this guy no matter what.
Soon, Jiang Chen finished his work. He left the spiritual array and walked along a small path towards the north.
Chen Huan was standing not far away.
“Indeed, he’s coming this way…”
Jiang Chen had naturally noticed the other party long ago. After all, his cultivation level was slightly higher than Chen Huan’s, and the other party didn’t deliberately hide her tracks either.
Naturally, Jiang Chen already knew what she was planning.
It was nothing more than the same idea from 30 years ago, treating him as a “human furnace” to expel the fire poison.
If he had agreed 30 years ago, he would not have been able to live until now.
In the Skyfire Sect, countless disciples would experience berserking cultivation deviation every year. As for the fire poison corrosion, they would either go mad or die from it.
He was just a lowly laborer. If he had agreed to become the other party’s human furnace back then, he would probably not have lived for more than a few years.
But now, Jiang Chen could feel the intensity of the fire poison in the other party’s body. It was almost tangible.
In fact, it was even more serious than what he had seen a few days ago.
If this woman did not find a way to suppress or expel the fire poison within her body within a month, the fire poison would definitely erupt.
However, as long as she was unable to eliminate it completely in a single go, the fire poison would quickly regenerate.
The fire poison was like a maggot attached to the bone. In the Skyfire Sect, as long as a cultivator was not careful and caught it, life would turn into a nightmare.
The deeper the poison, the harder it was to recover.
For example, Chen Huan, despite her status and cultivation, had been tormented by the fire poison for decades.
At this point, she probably had no other choice but to try her best to get rid of it.
As usual, Jiang Chen didn’t act like anything other than an ordinary laborer. He slowly walked up to Chen Huan.
At this point, he suddenly felt a strange force attacking him.
“Bewitching Spell!”
It was an interesting spell that could easily confuse and control people with a much lower cultivation level. However, it was not very useful for people of the same, or even similar, cultivation level.
This spell was widely circulated in the cultivation world.
Moreover, many third-rate heretics or itinerant cultivators would use this art to run amok in the world. They would use it to serve themselves, bully others, or kidnap women.
Eventually, the Imperial Court joined forces with the Ten Major Sects to completely destroy this spell and prohibit it from spreading.
Because of this, the mortal world gradually calmed down.
Jiang Chen only found out about the origin of this spell from reading a book in the Firesmith Hall.
Who would have thought that Chen Huan would be able to learn this spell?
However, it was not impossible.
This magic spell was only forbidden from circulating in the ordinary world. It was also forbidden to be practiced among itinerant cultivators.
The Ten Major Sects were the ones who set the rules. Naturally, they would not restrict themselves.
With Jiang Chen’s current cultivation level, this spell naturally could not control him. In fact, as long as he wanted to, any counterattack he used would be able to mess with Chen Huan’s mind.
But in order to deal with this woman, he naturally would not do so.
Immediately, Jiang Chen calmed his mind and forcefully suppressed his instinctive counterattack.
All of his divine intent converged into the Authentic Solar Fire within his spirit sea, and his entire body appeared to be under the control of the Bewitching Spell.
“Alright, come with me now.”
Chen Huan looked at Jiang Chen in satisfaction before leading him out of the mountain gate.