"We're all family, no need to be so polite. How are your injuries?"
"It's alright."
"I'll give you this Nascent Soul Pill to heal your injuries."
"Thank you, Senior Brother."
"Aren't you all going to sleep?" Ye Xiruo pushed open the door and came out. Her complexion was okay, but she kept yawning and her eyes were half closed, as if she could fall asleep at any moment.
"Brother Xiuqi, I'm so sorry, I fell asleep last night."
"It's alright, you can rest a little longer."
"I can't delay my cultivation." Ye Xiruo jumped onto the roof. The sun was about to rise, and the wisp of chaotic energy in the sky was about to undergo its third test. Ye Xiruo hurried to absorb that wisp of chaotic energy.
When she finished her cultivation and jumped down from the roof, she saw her seventh brother and eldest brother fighting. The two were merely exchanging moves from the murals; a battle between Nascent Soul cultivators, while not necessarily devastating, would certainly not destroy the surrounding buildings and plants.
Brother Xiu Qi's swordsmanship seems to have improved again. If it weren't for the profound skill of the eldest brother, he would probably have been defeated by now.
It seems that Brother Xiu Qi has received a very powerful inheritance. Ye Xiruo and Zishu watched from the side.
Zishu became more and more frustrated as the fight progressed. This guy was only sixteen years old! How could he have mastered so many sword techniques, and they were all extremely exquisite ones?
Zishu had no idea that Xiu Qiyu had been trapped in the inheritance space for a full hundred years, only that the flow of time in the inheritance space was different from that in the outside world.
Although Xiu Qiyu is currently only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, even if he is no match for those below the Divine Transformation realm, no one can stop him.
In just half an hour, Xiu Qiyu knocked Zishu's sword away, and Xiu Qiyu's sword was placed directly against Zishu's neck.
Zishu's forehead was covered in sweat, and his face was very pale. Before the fight, he never thought that he would lose. Could it be that sword cultivators are really invincible?
"Thank you for the concession."
"Give way my ass! I'm just not as good as him, and I accept my defeat."
"Senior Brother, Seventh Brother Xiu, your sparring session was truly spectacular."
"You must be happy now, your Seventh Brother Xiu is now all-powerful."
"Senior Brother, that's not right. Senior Brother, we are proud alchemists, unlike those brutes who only know how to fight and kill. Our hands are for refining pills, not for practicing swordsmanship. Senior Brother, you can use your eighth-grade pills to kill all the sword cultivators."
Xiu Qiyu's face darkened. If the Wan Jian Sect heard this, they would definitely draw their swords at him without a second thought. However, being killed by an eighth-grade pill would be quite a blessing!
"Little Leaf is right. I really can't do anything with these hands except practice swordsmanship."
Zishu's mood improved somewhat, but he was still very depressed: "I'm going to the Ancient Domain to train this time."
"Why are you in such a hurry, Senior Brother? Improving your alchemy skills through seclusion is the most important thing."
"Alchemy also requires a certain state of mind. Although my strength is sufficient now, my mental state is still lacking. Becoming a ninth-grade alchemist is still a long way off!"
Ye Xiruo didn't want to say another word. Was this really so discouraging? A sixteen-year-old near-ninth-grade alchemy master—there was no one like him in the entire Taiyan Continent.
After dinner, Zishu and Yingxun went to cultivate, while Ye Xiruo pulled Xiu Qiyu aside to interrogate Li Feier and Li Wen.
Li Feier aged considerably in just one day. Indeed, she was already in her thirties, a Golden Core cultivator. Now that she had lost her cultivation, it was natural that she couldn't maintain her youthful appearance. Coupled with the blow of being expelled from the family and causing the family to retreat from the world for two hundred years, her once proud eyes now held only a deathly stillness.
She didn't react much to Ye Xiruo's appearance.
"You bitch." If there's one person Li Feier hates the most, it's definitely Ye Xiruo.
All of this was caused by Ye Xiruo, and she wished she could devour Ye Xiruo whole.
“Miss Li, you’d better understand the situation. With my status, it would be incredibly easy for me to do anything to your Li family. I just want to ask you a few questions. If you answer them truthfully, I might spare your life.”
"Young Master Yingxun clearly promised to spare my Li family, so why are you going back on your word? Don't you care about your reputation at all?"
"That was Yingxun's decision on behalf of Medicine King Valley regarding your Li family, while my Pill King Palace has remained silent from beginning to end. If you still want to protect your Li family of several thousand people, you should know what to do."
"I've said everything I needed to say. Anyway, I'm living a life worse than death right now. Go ahead and kill me if you dare!"
"If you don't tell me, then I'll have to go to the Li family myself and give all those people in your family a good talking to. Since Miss Li dares to chase after me, she must have a powerful backer, or perhaps someone in your Li family has colluded with the demons, intending to stir up bloodshed on the continent."
"If you want to find fault, you can always find a reason. You are the young master, so naturally whatever you say goes."
"I never wrong an innocent person."
Li Wen's small nascent soul was also released, but he looked listless and his body was much weaker.
"Miss."
"Grandpa Wen, I'm so sorry." Li Feier burst into tears.
A tiny white flame, tinged with transparency, appeared at Xiu Qiyu's fingertip. As soon as the flame appeared, Li Wen's nascent soul trembled violently, seemingly terrified of it.
"This is the Ice Heart Flame. Under the influence of this strange fire, you know what it feels like." Xiu Qiyu's eerie voice, combined with the flickering Ice Heart Flame, created a scene reminiscent of a horror movie.
"In the eyes of the world, you two are both dead."
"Kill me, kill me."
"Are you in such a hurry to die? Is there some hidden reason?" Ye Xiruo touched Li Feier's no longer smooth and delicate skin with her fair hand and took out a huge mirror: "You can see what you look like now. Are you still the glamorous and dazzling eldest daughter of the Li family?"
"Aaaaaah! This can't be real! Aaaaaah!"
Ye Xiru clapped her hands: "You should thank Patriarch Li. If it weren't for him, you would be dead by now."
"Want to die? Not so easy." Xiu Qiyu grabbed Li Feier, pried open her mouth, and threw in two healing pills.
"By the way, I have plenty of pills, including the Youth Preservation Pill! It's up to you to choose." Ye Xiruo chuckled, but to Li Feier, that beautiful smile was like that of a devil.
Xiu Qiyu's Ice Heart Flame transformed into a thin, long line of fire, fiercely striking Li Wen's nascent soul.
Li Wen's nascent soul let out a miserable scream, its face contorted in agony. Xiu Qiyu, however, did not stop, relentlessly striking Li Wen's nascent soul with the Ice Heart Flame. With each strike, Li Wen's form faded a little, and it was believed that it wouldn't be long before Li Wen's nascent soul dissipated.
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