Beauty and the Bodyguard

What could he do if he couldn\'t get his hands on the Golden core?

"There." Lin Yi tossed a few golden cores to him-after all the tests he\'d done, Xin Yijie had gained his approval and was going to be entrusted with important tasks in the future, so giving him some pills to increase his strength was only natural. No matter what, an early golden core wasn\'t enough.

"This ... That ..." Xin Yijie was at a loss as his dream came true without any warning. It took him a long time to catch the Golden core and cry with gratitude."Many thanks, grand uncle-master!"

"No need. You deserve it. You can go and call for help." Lin Yi said.

"Who are you calling?" Xin Yijie was taken aback.

"Lu Ping \'an, of course. Now that they\'ve sent Bing Wuqing away as they wished, it\'s almost time for us to lay our cards on the table. That great elder\'s patience should be running out, right?" Lin Yi said faintly.

In the end, just as he finished speaking, people began to slowly walk towards ascending heaven cliff. One of them was Lu Pingan, carrying an unconscious Chen Dongcheng on his back. The old man walking in front of him was Grand Elder Chen Jiu.

Just as Lin Yi had expected, the Grand elder\'s patience had run out. In fact, even without Bing Wuqing\'s unexpected interlude, he was already prepared to have a showdown with Lin Yi. After all, Chen Dongcheng\'s current situation was not optimistic.

When a person\'s primordial spirit was drained, their body would naturally begin to shrink and even die a slow death. This was no exception even for powerful cultivators. Compared to ordinary people, it was nothing more than their physical vitality being stronger and they could last a little longer. There was no essential difference between them.

Today, Chen Dongcheng\'s physical body was on the verge of death. Even Chen Jiu was helpless in this unprecedented situation. Once Chen Dongcheng\'s physical body died, everything would be over. Even if his primordial spirit was still alive, he would only be a lonely ghost and was destined to not last long.

The key was, how could such a huge responsibility of the Chen family be handed over to a lonely ghost?

Without any greeting or words, Chen Jiu and Lu Pingan walked straight into the ascending heaven formation and placed the extremely weak Chen Dongcheng in front of Lin Yi. Their intentions were obvious.

Even though the Grand Elder was personally making a move, he didn\'t put on too much of a show. Other than Lu Pingan, he didn\'t bring any other disciples. After all, from his perspective, the fewer people who knew about his meeting with Lin Yi, the better it was for him.

"You should have a way to cure Dongcheng, right?" Chen Jiu sized Lin Yi up and down carefully. The two had been at each other\'s throats for a long time, but this was the first time they met. The young aura Lin Yi was displaying was far beyond his expectations. With one look, he was sure that this guy wasn\'t some ancient great uncle-master, he was a real young man!

"Of course." Lin Yi nodded.

"Then, let\'s start the treatment." Chen Jiu said bluntly.

"Oh? Don\'t tell me you\'re not going to negotiate with me?" Lin Yi raised a brow at the words, and Xin Yijie\'s lips twitched as well. Even if the other party was a high and mighty Grand Elder, he didn\'t think much of him as a tyrant anymore after all this time. He didn\'t even ask for the most basic of conditions to cure Chen Dongcheng-was he treating him like an idiot?

"What are your conditions?" Chen Jiu looked at Lin Yi with an unfathomable expression.

"Hehe, I don\'t need any conditions. Just give me my waist token, that\'s all." Lin Yi smiled faintly.

The answer wasn\'t surprising-with the ID, it was the same as getting the approval of the authorities, including the Grand Elder. Lin Yi was now the Grand uncle-master of the Taigu sect, and no one could question him anymore. It was only natural.

More importantly, with the ID, he could enter and exit the cliff freely. The sky in one step formation wouldn\'t be an obstacle anymore, and that was the best thing for Lin Yi.

If it were Lu Pingan, he would definitely use the excuse that sect leader Hong Zijun was not present to brush him off. However, Chen Jiu was standing right there. If a Grand Supreme elder were to use a mere sect leader as an excuse, no matter how reasonable it sounded, it would still be a disadvantage. If word got out, he would be laughed at.

"If you can cure Dongcheng, I\'ll give you an identity token." Chen Jiu\'s answer was straightforward. Although he was sure that Lin Yi wasn\'t a Taigu great uncle-master, it wasn\'t important compared to Chen Dongcheng\'s life.

"Alright," he said. Lin Yi\'s answer was quick.

Previously, they had made Lu Pingan and Xin Yijie their respective spokesmen to test each other, but after so long, they hadn\'t come to a conclusion at all. Now that the two of them had personally come forward, the negotiations were a matter of a few words.

The process of treating Chen Dongcheng was very simple. Release Chen Dongcheng\'s primordial spirit, which had been imprisoned in the Jade space, and let him return to his physical body. Everything would be fine.

However, Chen Dongcheng\'s physical body was too weak now. Even if his primordial spirit was intact, it would not be easy to recover in a short time. When his primordial spirit returned, he was still in a half-dead state. The only difference from before was that he had an indescribable temperament.

Lu Ping \'an didn\'t understand, but with Chen Jiu\'s eyesight, he could easily see the difference between the two. Before this, Chen Dongcheng was a piece of rotten wood that was constantly decaying. There was no cure for it, so he could only let it wither and die. But now, although it still looked like rotten wood, it was rejuvenated with a ray of vitality. After this, as long as he recuperated properly, he would be able to recover to normal in no time.

"Alright, it\'s your turn to fulfill your promise, Grand Elder." Lin Yi raised a brow.

"You\'re right. " Chen Jiu gave Lu Ping \'an a look, signaling for him to take the unconscious Chen Dongcheng away. After the two of them had walked out of the range of the heaven ascending in one step array, he slowly said,""Before that, I hope you can answer a question of mine honestly."

"Speak," he said. Lin Yi\'s face, on the other hand, didn\'t show any signs of change.

"Who are you?" Chen Jiu asked the question that he wanted to ask the most. At this moment, even Xin Yijie couldn\'t help but hold his breath. This had been the question that had been on his mind the entire time.