# 1052
Chapter 1053: Eternal Life and Immortality
Upon hearing these words, Si Xiaonan's body trembled slightly.
She looked into Lin Qiye's sincere eyes, and warmth rose in her heart.
The first thing Lin Qiye said upon seeing her was "what exactly happened here," not "what have you done"—this proved from the depths of his heart that he didn't believe these things were her doing...
He trusted her.
Si Xiaonan's lips pressed together slightly, about to say something when a voice drifted into her ears.
"Seize the Kunlun treasure first, and if there's an opportunity, kill that boy."
Si Xiaonan's heart sank to the bottom.
Loki could see here.
In that flash of lightning, countless thoughts flashed through Si Xiaonan's mind as she quickly sorted out the current situation.
She didn't answer, only glancing complexly at Lin Qiye before picking up her sword and flying toward the two cauldron gourds deep within the alchemy hall!
Loki was nearby—this was no time for a reunion with Lin Qiye, and there were some things she absolutely could not say at this moment.
Loki wanted her to kill Lin Qiye, so she had to fight Lin Qiye. Once Lin Qiye learned the entire truth and chose not to stop her, or even actively helped her, then in Loki's eyes as the suspicious God of Trickery, her identity as a traitor would already be sealed.
In that case, whether or not she could bring back the Kunlun treasure, both she and Leng Xuan would be walking a dead end. Loki would never allow two traitors to live in this world.
Moreover, with Loki's power, he couldn't hold back the Queen Mother of the West's avatar for long. Once Loki was defeated, it would be even more impossible for her to take the Kunlun treasure from under the Queen Mother of the West's eyes. If she couldn't bring back the Kunlun treasure, she would lose her use value to Loki. Rather than letting Si Xiaonan and Leng Xuan fall into the hands of the Great Xia gods, he would certainly use the Soul Contract to directly destroy both of them first.
She had to leave this place with the Kunlun treasure before Loki was completely defeated—only then could she and Leng Xuan survive.
Of course... what the "Kunlun treasure" actually was would be up to her to decide.
A gleam of light flashed in Si Xiaonan's eyes.
When she saw Si Xiaonan not answer but instead turn and charge toward the two cauldron gourds deep within the alchemy hall, Lin Qiye's heart tightened.
He had to admit that at this moment, his trust in Si Xiaonan had wavered.
Just as Lin Qiye hesitated over whether to attack Si Xiaonan, the yellow-clad maid who had been unconscious struggled to open her eyes. Seeing Lin Qiye standing at the hall entrance, she grabbed him like a drowning person reaching for driftwood and shouted:
"Lin Immortal! Don't let her take the Eternal Immortality Pill! That's a precious treasure of Great Xia—it must never fall into the hands of foreign gods!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Qiye's spirit shook. He gritted his teeth and his figure vanished into the night.
【Night Flash】.
Regardless of whether he trusted Si Xiaonan, since this was a precious treasure of Great Xia, he absolutely could not stand by and watch Si Xiaonan take it.
Deep within the alchemy hall, Si Xiaonan's figure flew like a stream of light directly toward the black and white cauldron gourds suspended in the air. She reached out her hand, and a hint of hesitation flickered in her eyes.
Which of these two cauldron gourds contained the Eternal Immortality Pill?
Forget it—she'd take them both!
Just as Si Xiaonan's fingertips were about to touch the black gourd, a blade of light slashed out from nothingness, precisely cutting toward her outstretched hand. Her eyes narrowed, she pulled her hand back instantly and retreated half a step.
The blade light returned to its sheath as a figure draped in a deep crimson cloak stepped out from the night.
"Xiaonan, you can't take this."
Lin Qiye's right hand gripped the hilt of 【White Slash】 as he frowned and spoke.
Si Xiaonan stared into Lin Qiye's eyes, then gritted her teeth. A flash of black light appeared between her palms, and the next moment her figure transformed into a crow, flapping its wings and flying toward the hall's gate.
A black feather drifted to Lin Qiye's face. Just as he frowned at the crow flying out of the hall, he suddenly realized something and猛地 turned to look behind him.
At some point, Si Xiaonan's figure had already appeared beside the black cauldron gourd. She grabbed the gourd body, then swiftly flew toward the white gourd beside it!
Visual "Trickery"?
Lin Qiye thought of the black crow that had just flown out of the hall, and his heart grew heavy. He had almost forgotten—Si Xiaonan was the proxy of the God of Trickery.
Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Qiye drew the 【White Slash】 at his waist once more. However, this time he didn't slash toward Si Xiaonan's hand but directly used blade light that ignored space, tapping the bottom of the white cauldron gourd.
Ding—!
With a crisp sound, the white cauldron gourd was flicked by the blade light and shot into the sky.
Si Xiaonan's hand grasped at nothing.
She paused slightly, then looked up at the white cauldron gourd spinning in the sky and soared into the air!
But before she could fly far, a massive white bear burst out from the void, its powerful body directly slamming into Si Xiaonan. Its arms wrapped around her,死死地 locking her in place.
Si Xiaonan hadn't expected a white bear to leap out of the void. Caught off guard, she was embraced by the void white bear and directly fell toward the earth.
She gazed at the white cauldron gourd spinning in the sky. Streams of black light erupted from her body, urgently weaving a "Trickery."
At that moment, a deep crimson figure flew up into the sky in succession, steadily catching the falling white cauldron gourd.
This was the Kunlun treasure?
Lin Qiye held the white cauldron gourd and gave it a gentle shake. The entire person suddenly froze in place.
He looked down in astonishment at the cauldron gourd in his hand, opened the lid, and only then discovered that the cauldron gourd was completely empty—not a single pill inside.
This cauldron gourd was empty?
Lin Qiye's gaze followed the gourd's body downward and finally stopped at the bottom. His eyes narrowed slightly.
On the bottom of the white cauldron gourd, carved in cinnabar, were three ancient characters:
—Immortality Pill.
At the same time, the black light erupting from Si Xiaonan's body finally finished weaving.
Boom—!!
With a thunderous roar, the void white bear crashed into the ground, creating fine cracks across the floor of the alchemy hall. billowing dust rose everywhere, but Si Xiaonan's figure was nowhere to be seen.
The next moment, Si Xiaonan emerged, draped in black clothing, standing in midair.
Her left hand gripped a black cauldron gourd; her right hand, the white cauldron gourd.
Lin Qiye's eyes narrowed. He looked down at his own palm—the white cauldron gourd he had caught had somehow transferred into Si Xiaonan's hand.
Trickery that altered reality?
Lin Qiye's brow furrowed tightly.
The "Trickery" Si Xiaonan had just woven directly altered established facts. In the new history, she hadn't been knocked down by the void white bear, nor had she fallen—so she logically took the white cauldron gourd before Lin Qiye could.
The moment Si Xiaonan grasped the white cauldron gourd, she also froze.
"Empty?"
She noticed the weight difference between the black and white cauldron gourds. The black gourd was noticeably heavier than the white one, and when shaken, she could hear a pill rolling around inside with a rattling sound.
She lifted the bottom of the black cauldron gourd. Below it, also carved in cinnabar, were three large characters:
—Eternal Life Pill.