Upon hearing the voice, Wang Chongyang glanced at Shuimu Yinji and Lianxing and the other women beside him before turning his attention back to Chu Qinghe.

After a moment's thought, Wang Chongyang slowly said, "With your status and strength, I find it hard to guess what I could possibly have that would catch your eye."

Upon hearing this, Chu Qinghe laughed and said, "The Great Song Dynasty is already in a state of decay. It is rare to find someone like Master Wang who passed the imperial examination in his early years, abandoned literature to study martial arts, and still has the ambition to govern the world. Why should you belittle yourself?"

Chu Qinghe then said without further comment, “I can resolve the issues concerning Master Wang and Senior Lin, but in return, Master Wang must serve me and enter the imperial court for the next three years.”

Wang Chongyang narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Are you a member of the Song Dynasty's royal family?"

"Not bad!" Chu Qinghe nodded after a moment's thought.

Wang Chongyang shook his head and replied, "Since you have already used the word 'decadent' in your words, you must know that the Great Song Dynasty is now too weak to recover and is probably beyond saving."

Chu Qinghe chuckled and said, "There's no need for Master Wang to worry about what happens next; it's just a transaction."

Faced with Chu Qinghe's words, Wang Chongyang fell silent.

After a few breaths, Wang Chongyang finally spoke: "After joining the imperial court, what would you like me to do?"

Chu Qinghe bluntly stated, "After destruction comes construction. At that time, Master Wang will inevitably have his hands stained with blood, and his path forward will be strewn with bones."

However, Wang Chongyang showed no displeasure at what Chu Qinghe said; instead, a glint of light flashed in his eyes.

"Can what you say, young master, truly benefit the world?"

Chu Qinghe chuckled and said, "An official can only protect the one side he is in charge of. Whether he can truly serve the world is a question that Master Wang should ask himself, not mine."

Hearing Chu Qinghe's ambiguous response, Wang Chongyang slightly raised his face.

Seeing Wang Chongyang hesitate, Lin Chaoying suddenly spoke up, "We agree to your condition, young master."

Hearing Lin Chaoying's words, Wang Chongyang was taken aback and turned to look at her.

When his gaze fell on Lin Chaoying's face, Wang Chongyang's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Immediately, Wang Chongyang sighed, then cupped his hands and said, "If it can truly bring peace to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, this humble Taoist is willing to do his utmost."

Upon seeing this, Chu Qinghe chuckled inwardly.

Then he quickly raised his right hand.

The moment the true energy circulated, a special kind of energy enveloped Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying at the same time.

The two barely had a chance to react before being completely suppressed and unable to move by the concentrated energy emanating from Chu Qinghe.

The next moment, several bursts of energy erupted from Chu Qinghe's fingertips and rushed into the dantian of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying.

The moment the force landed on their dantian, both Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying instantly lost their sense of their own true energy, as Chu Qinghe had sealed their dantian with acupoint technique.

Once their inner energy was sealed, Chu Qinghe raised his right hand.

In an instant, true energy burst forth from Chu Qinghe's right hand, then spread and surged, continuously splitting apart, and finally condensing into a hundred long needles.

As the long needle, formed from condensed true energy, was condensed and shot out rapidly under Chu Qinghe's control, it landed on the acupoints of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying in the distance.

However, he was multitasking, treating both of them at the same time.

A few breaths later, after all the long needles formed from the condensation of true energy had landed on the acupoints or meridians of the two people, these long needles formed from the condensation of true energy began to vibrate continuously at a special frequency and then gradually penetrated into the bodies of the two people.

During the process, both Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying felt as if the discomfort they had experienced in their bodies had been magnified a hundredfold.

The intense pain caused both of them to furrow their brows instantly, but their true energy was sealed at this moment, and with Chu Qinghe's special energy suppressing them, their bodies were completely unable to move.

A few breaths later, after the long needles formed from the true energy within the two bodies had shrunk by nearly half, Chu Qinghe lightly raised his five fingers, and streams of finger energy quickly landed on Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying in this broken space.

During the process, both Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying's faces turned red at a visible speed.

A moment later, after the long needles that Chu Qinghe had condensed with his true energy had entered the two people's bodies through the acupoints, Chu Qinghe gently slapped the two people with his right palm. When a powerful force instantly emerged from the chest of the two people, both Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying opened their mouths and couldn't help but spit out blood.

Wang Chongyang, in particular, coughed up three mouthfuls of blood in succession, the blood of which was already somewhat black.

There were even some small, condensed black lumps among them.

But after spitting out those few mouthfuls of blood, both Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying felt inexplicably lighter.

A few breaths later, as Chu Qinghe once again condensed two long needles containing some medicinal powder and injected them into the bodies of the two people, Chu Qinghe finally released the restraints in their dantian and withdrew the true energy into their bodies.

After the seals on Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying's dantian were broken, their true energy instantly surged out from their lower and middle dantians and began to flow rapidly within their bodies.

During the process, the medicinal power in their bodies was quickly driven and refined by their true qi, which quickly calmed the faint stinging sensation in some parts of their bodies and meridians.

Upon realizing this, both of them subconsciously circulated their true energy to sense it, and indeed discovered the changes within themselves.

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