ince if no one could see her scar, could it still be called a scar"But I can," Xia Tian looked up at Zhao Yujie and said, "This scar is very strange. It seems like it was left by a gunshot wound."A tr...Chapter 1402: Why Aren't You Dead Yet

The next noon.

When Xia Tian and Leng Bingbing walked out of the Starry Sky Hotel, the hotel had already returned to its usual calm state, as if nothing had happened last night. However, when the hotel staff saw Xia Tian, they couldn't help but show a deep fear in their eyes; this seemingly ordinary man was now equated with the devil in their minds.

Although Xia Tian punished Xue Xiaodao last night who was actually the real devil, these people clearly found Xia Tian much more terrifying than Xue Xiaodao.

After seeing Xia Tian and Leng Bingbing leave, almost everyone sighed with relief as if they had finally gotten rid of a devil.

Xia Tian and Leng Bingbing had actually been awake for some time now; they even had lunch together. However, instead of going back to the Starlight Residential Area, they were heading to the Jiangnan Provincial Public Security Department.

While Leng Bingbing didn't plan on continuing with Xue Xiaodao's case, there were still a few simple formalities that needed to be handled. Xia Tian wasn’t just accompanying her out of obligation; Hu Hongguang had requested his help in interrogating Xie Aiguo. This matter was somewhat related to Xia Tian, so he planned on dealing with it at the same time.

Bingbing originally planned to return to Jianghai today, but Xia Tian asked her to stay a few more days because he intended to administer the miraculous fifth injection to her during these days. After she became a Golden Core expert too, it wouldn’t be an issue for her to go back.

As expected, Bingbing agreed readily. She was actually quite free now as one of the privileges of the Bingbing Special Task Force was being exempted from daily work. There wasn’t any urgent case to handle at this moment anyway; plus, she herself wanted to stay with Xia Tian for a few more days. Therefore, she decided to stay behind while instructing the other members of the Bingbing Special Task Force to return.

After arriving at the provincial department, Xia Tian and Bingbing met Hu Hongguang shortly afterwards. Although Hu was extremely busy now, he still personally received Xia Tian when the latter arrived.

Xia Tian didn’t stay for long though; instead of torturing Sai Aiguo like yesterday night, he quickly hypnotized the man before passing him over to Hu’s side for further interrogation. Since there were still some matters related to Bingbing that hadn’t been settled yet, Xia Tian returned to Star Ocean Estate. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to wait for Bingbing; rather, it was due to another task he needed to accomplish: refining medicine.

Whether it was Bingbing or Ye Mengying, their cultivation still had some shortcomings. Hence, he still needed to refine pills that could boost one’s cultivation first before they could receive the miraculous fifth injection. Though Jia Qingying was secretly protecting him now and there seemed to be no imminent danger, Xia Tian wasn’t willing to take any chances. He wanted to improve his own cultivation as soon as possible since he couldn’t rely solely on this demon woman for their safety.

After returning to the residence in Star Ocean Estate, Xia Tian only informed Liu Meng and Ye Mengying before locking himself up in the study to start refining pills.

An hour later when Bingbing returned, Xia Tian was still nowhere to be found.

By dinner time in the evening, Xia Tian was still nowhere to be found.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Liu Meng demanded that Xia Tian accompany her to sleep, but he was still absent.

It wasn't until early morning of the next day when four beautiful women woke up from their sleep that they discovered Xia Tian had fallen asleep on the sofa in the living room.

"Little rascal seems to be exhausted!" Liu Meng felt a bit heartbroken and carried Xia Tian into the bedroom; she did not reappear after that either.

It wasn't until noon when Xia Tian emerged with Liu Meng. He then took Duan Bingbing, Ye Mengying, and Su Beibei who had been waiting impatiently downstairs for a meal. By the time they returned from the Xiang cuisine restaurant outside their residential area, however, the restaurant's lunchtime service had already ended early due to the food being completely consumed; there was no choice but to temporarily purchase more ingredients in preparation for resuming operations later that evening.

Upon returning home, Xia Tian took out three glossy medicinal pills with a fragrant aroma and gave one each to Duan Bingbing, Ye Mengying, and Su Beibei. He intended to increase their martial arts levels all at once.

"Am I also supposed to take this" Su Beibei was rather puzzled; why did she need to consume these pills as well

"That's right, you're just a backup option," Xia Tian casually said.

"Hey, what do you mean Backup option You big lecher! I'm not going to be your backup option. I don't want to end up like my cousin姐 as your wife!" Su Beibei angrily said.

"Who asked you to be my wife" Xia Tian glared at Su Beibei, "I just wanted you to be a practice backup for me. If you don't want to take it, forget about it!"

"Beibei, listen to your husband. This is only going to benefit you and won't do you any harm," Ye Mengying softly said.

Originally, Su Beibei wanted to say something else, but after hearing what Ye Mengying had to say, she stopped arguing with Xia Tian. She wasn’t a fool, so naturally she understood that taking this medicine would definitely be beneficial for her.

A few minutes later, in the bedroom, Ye Mengying and Su Beibei all sat cross-legged on the floor. They had already swallowed the pill while Xia Tian swiftly inserted needles to help them absorb its power.

Xia Tian indeed didn’t really want to increase Su Beibei’s strength at first, but as he said before, she was just a backup option after all. Originally, according to his initial plan, he only needed to perform the Heaven-defying Fifth Needle for each of his wives once, and then he should be able to use the Heaven-defying Sixth Needle. However, Jī Qīngyǐng’s appearance threw off his plans.

During this period, he had already administered the Heaven-Defying Fifth Needle to quite a few of his wives, excluding his immortal sister Moon Qingya. The others included Liu Meng, Song Yumei Mei'er, Gu Hanchuang, Ye Yuemei, Ning Jie, Chu Yao, Sun Xinxin, and Xiao Moxing. After carefully counting, he realized that ten people had received the Heaven-Defying Fifth Needle from him. Following his administration of these needles, his cultivation level rose from early-stage Golden Core to late-stage Golden Core. However, all this additional power was sucked dry by Ji Qingying, leaving him back at an early-stage Golden Core cultivation level. This meant that those ten needle administrations were now ineffective for him. It implied that if he initially only needed to administer the Heaven-Defying Fifth Needle once to all his wives in order to use the Heaven-Defying Sixth Needle, he would now need to find another ten people to administer needles to.

Although this was just an estimation and not entirely accurate, Xia Tian was now certain that merely administering needles to those of his wives who were not yet at a Golden Core level wouldn't be enough to raise his own cultivation level to the point where he could use the Heaven-Defying Sixth Needle. This meant that he would definitely need to find more people to administer needles to.

Time was rather urgent now, and Xia Tian didn't have time to go looking for new pretty wives again. So, he decided to use those few individuals who weren’t his wives but had also gone through marrow cleansing by him as substitute candidates—or what could be called “backup” options. In fact, there were quite a number of such people: the little girl Shi Chun, Qiao Feng'er and Qiao Huang'er, Yi Xiaoyin, Ah Jiu, and here in Su Beibei. Xia Tian felt that this should suffice.

Without a doubt, due to Ji Qingying’s draining him dry, several Golden Core experts had been created in the world as compensation. So, it could be said that Ji Qingying was making significant contributions to the world.

Afeter helping the three women fully absorb the medicinal power of their pills, Xia Tian confirmed that both Leng Bingbing and Ye Mengying were capable of enduring the Heaven-Defying Fifth Needle. Without any delays, he proceeded to administer this needle to Ye Mengying.

The next morning, Ye Mengying smoothly became another Golden Core expert. After resting for an hour and having some food, Xia Tian continued administering the needle to Leng Bingbing. However, as she was pregnant, Xia Tian administered the needle with a bit more caution. As such, this administration took even longer than usual, but it still proceeded very smoothly. By the next morning, Leng Bingbing also ascended to Golden Core level, and throughout the entire process, he wasn’t disturbed at all.

Xia Tian, who had been busy day and night for several days, didn't get any rest because Liu Meng felt that he was very busy during these few days. She decided to reward him with her big buns. But she soon realized that it was too tiring for her alone to do so, so she dragged Ye Mengying and Leng Bingbing over to help. From then on, the act of rewarding turned into a celebration.

The following evening, in Yuenan City.

Moonlight fell by the lakeside, where a woman in tight black clothing stood quietly. With long legs and a slender waist, her prominent bust was both alluring and stunningly beautiful; however, the cold aura she exuded kept people at bay.

"Leggy girl, still checking out handsome guys" A lazy voice suddenly sounded from behind her. There were still men bold enough to approach her, not just approaching but also teasing her. And whether in another world or this one, only one person ever called her that way.

The stunning beauty in black was naturally Yuenumei. Without turning around, she knew it was Xia Tian who had come up behind her, the annoying little punk Xia Tian.

"Why haven't you died yet" Yuenumei asked coldly without taking her eyes off the sacred mountain far away.

"Leggy girl, isn’t it because I can’t bear to part with you" Xia Tian said with a smug grin.

Seeing Yuenumei again, Xia Tian felt as if he had traveled through another life. Although they hadn't been apart for too long in reality, the events that occurred during this time completely changed his mindset when he saw her once more.sking for trouble if he were to fight with Xia Tian!"Fat pig, why aren't you getting up yet What are you doing lying on the ground" At this moment, Xia Tian looked at Yu Junfei unhappily on the floor:...