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Three days later, the young man arrived on time at the appointed place with Lan Xi.

However, Lan Xi did not come.

He waited there for a full three days until finally, the Green Snake that had had three drops of essence extracted returned.

"Silly boy, you actually believed what Her Highness Lan Xi said. She’s not coming. You might as well let me eat you and restore my three hundred years of cultivation," the Green Snake opened its gaping mouth, and its petite body suddenly expanded over ten meters.

The young man retreated in fear, drawing the longsword from his hand, and engaged in battle with the snake.

After just a few moves, the young man was sent flying by the Green Snake’s Divine Dragon Tail Whip.

His body slammed heavily against an ancient tree nearby, and moments later, he fell to the ground and vomited several mouthfuls of fresh blood.

"Kid, you dare to steal the Dew Grass that I’ve set my sights on and still wish to live! I am a Green Snake with ten thousand years of cultivation," the Green Snake slithered its enormous body, slowly approaching the young man.

The young man’s face turned deathly pale. He could have escaped; with spatial teleportation, even the Green Snake with its high cultivation couldn’t catch him.

But he had promised to wait there for Lan Xi.

Last time, she saved his life; he couldn’t break his word.

A trace of coldness flashed in the young man’s eyes; he plunged his sword into the soil, bracing himself as he shook and struggled to his feet.

His lonely silhouette stood proud and cold as an iceberg, his sword qi flashed, and he spoke with a defiant tone, "No matter how many years of cultivation you have, it won’t be easy to eat me. "

A terrifyingly fierce aura suddenly burst forth from the young man’s body; without hesitation, he charged forward with his sword.

The Green Snake was shocked and didn’t dare to let its guard down; its body expanded another ten meters, and a fierce battle between the man and the snake ensued. Surrounding trees were reduced to dust, and the gravel whirled about; in an instant, rumbling sounds came from the foot of Mount Taibai.

The sound alarmed Immortal Taibai and his disciples on Mount Taibai.

Immortal Taibai himself went to assess the situation. By the time he arrived at the scene, the Green Snake was on its last breath, and the young man was also covered in injuries and poisoned once more with another lethal toxin from the Green Snake.

Upon examining the young man’s body, Immortal Taibai was shocked to find he was merely an ordinary human.

An ordinary human, not only able to reach the Immortal Realm but also capable of inflicting serious harm on a Green Snake with ten thousand years of cultivation, nearly causing its death. This kind of strength was enough to embarrass many immortals.

"What is your name?" Immortal Taibai asked the severely injured young man.

"Shaoqing!" Although the young man’s face was turning green, he mustered the last of his breath to reply.

"This is my Taibai Hall’s territory, what are you doing here?

" Immortal Taibai wanted to save him, but the poison of the Green Snake had penetrated his internal organs. Unless he went to seek an Immortal Pill from the God of Fate, it was clear that there wouldn’t be enough time, and the young man could not be saved.

"I am waiting for Her Highness Lan Xi!" the young man vaguely heard the Green Snake mention that the girl was called Her Highness Lan Xi.

Upon hearing this, Immortal Taibai’s expression deepened.

He did not think that this young man actually knew the young mistress. Without further hesitation, he ordered the Taibai Hall’s disciples to place the young man on a crane and hurry to the Goddess Palace.

At that time, the Goddess Palace was hosting a distinguished guest.

The Celestial Emperor visited with the Crown Prince in tow, and Lan Yan, Lan Xi’s mother, commanded everyone in the Goddess Palace to greet them.

They not only welcomed them grandly but also held a banquet, where thousands of people from the Goddess Palace celebrated together.

Even though Lan Xi was anxious about her appointment, she could not leave, and with everyone from the Goddess Palace unable to go out, she could not send anyone to send a message. Although only half a day had passed in the Goddess Palace, many days had already passed elsewhere.

When Taibai Hall’s disciples arrived at the Goddess Palace with the young man, the banquet was reaching its climax.

Lan Yan saw the young man brought into the hall and asked with a puzzled look, "May I ask, who is this?"

"He said he is here to find Her Highness Lan Xi," replied the disciple from Taibai Hall respectfully.

As soon as Lan Xi saw the young man being carried in, she ran up to him excitedly.

When she saw the young man covered in blood, his blue robe already torn and tattered.

The young man’s handsome face was now a ghastly shade of blue-black, obviously poisoned with the toxin attacking his heart.

The only reason he had not died was that he was hanging on by his last breath.

Lan Xi quickly knelt down, holding the young man’s hand, and transferred her own Spiritual Energy into him. "What happened to you? Didn’t I tell you to wait for me?"

The young man looked at her, a faint smile appearing at the corner of his mouth, but the next second, he fainted away.

The disciples from Taibai Hall immediately explained to Lan Xi what they had seen.

After hearing this, Lan Xi looked at the young man’s now lifeless cheeks, and her heart clenched fiercely.

She quickly turned to Lan Yan, "Mother, what’s wrong with him? Why can’t my Spiritual Energy save him?"

"The Green Snake is a mythical beast of the Immortal Realm, its life essence venom is lethal to humans. Not even immortals can save him," Lan Yan sighed with regret.

"But he was bitten by the Green Snake before, and I used the Green Snake’s life essence to detoxify him once," Lan Xi refused to believe this could be true. If the young man died, she would be the instigator of the disaster.

If it wasn’t for her making him come back to wait for her, how could he have encountered the Green Snake?

If it wasn’t for her releasing that Green Snake back then, he would not have been targeted for vengeance.

"Silly girl, that was just the ordinary venom of the Green Snake. He fought the Green Snake fiercely, wounding it badly, and the Green Snake used its life-binding poison in retaliation. Even faced with such venom, immortals would lose a layer of skin, not to mention that he’s merely a mortal," Lan Yan could tell her daughter cared deeply for the young man, but what she said was the truth.

Even she couldn’t save him.

Lan Xi did not believe it; she grabbed the young man’s hand and kept channeling her Spiritual Energy into him.

Unfortunately, the young man’s body gradually started to turn black, and even his soul showed signs of dissipating.

She didn’t expect that a beast from the Immortal Realm could inflict such severe harm on a human.

At this moment, she had only one thought—he couldn’t die.

She remembered when she first saw him, his proud silhouette, his thin frame, wielding the seven-foot longsword with ease.

He was like a person from a painting, enigmatic and misty, compelling her to want to know more about him.

Seeing his beauty, she had intended to keep him by her side out of kindness, to Practice Techniques together.

But she never expected that because of meeting her, his life would be so fleeting.

"Lan Xi, he is already dead. He was just a mortal, you need not dwell on him," the Heavenly Emperor approached and patted her shoulder, trying to console her.

After all, there were so many mortals in the world, and many died every day. However, what he overlooked was how a mortal had come to be in the Immortal Realm in the first place.

Lan Xi bit her lip, looking at the young man before her, her tears nearly falling.

Suddenly, she remembered something.

While everyone’s attention shifted to the Heavenly Emperor, she suddenly took out a knife and cut her wrist.

Afterwards, she quickly cut the young man’s wrist and pressed her wound against his.

Immediately, her Divine Blood flowed into the young man’s body at an irreversible pace, while the Black Blood in his body was visibly receding.

By the time someone noticed what was happening, the young man’s complexion had already returned to a healthy color, while Lan Xi’s originally rosy cheeks were turning pale.

"What are you doing, Lan Xi?" Lan Yan, seeing this, couldn’t help but rage.

But Lan Xi did not stop her actions; she just looked up resolutely at her mother, "Mother, you’ve said that we gods are omnipotent.

How can it be that we cannot save even a mortal?

You also said that our hands can grant life to humans.

Our blood can allow them to share in immortality. I just don’t want him to die!"

"You!" Lan Yan thundered in anger.

Lan Xi sharing her lifeblood with a mortal to form a pact was simply unthinkable. Yet once the life-binding pact had begun, it couldn’t be stopped until the other party regained consciousness.

Despite her anger, she watched her daughter give half of her own fresh blood to a mortal.

Not until the young man’s cheeks regained their healthy glow did the life-binding pact come to an end.

The Heavenly Emperor, witnessing this, a flicker of jealousy and anger passed through his eyes.

To share life with a deity was a privilege countless deities wish for but never attain.

This mortal lad, what did he have that he could obtain such an honor not even deities could have?

If he had known it would end this way, he should have intervened earlier to preserve the lad’s soul for reincarnation. It was his fault for having seen Lan Xi favor a mortal and wanting him privately for himself; instinctively, he did not wish for the mortal to continue living.

Moreover, he had wanted his own son to form an alliance with Goddess Palace, so he had even less desire for Lan Xi to care about anyone else.