The setting sun cast its glow, and the autumn wind danced through the forest.
In the Great Qian Dynasty, outside Tianshui City, Tianshui Prefecture.
A figure in white robes darted through the mountains and landed on a cliff dyed red by the setting sun.
The white-robed figure was a handsome young man, about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a warm smile on his face.
"Brother Jianqiu, you've come!"
A girl in a yellow dress stood gracefully on the cliff. Seeing the young man in white, a sweet smile appeared on her exquisite and beautiful face.
Looking at the sweet smile of the girl in the yellow dress, Chu Jianqiu's heart was filled with happiness. He reached out and touched the girl's dark hair, saying with doting affection, "Yao'er, after today, the Three Yin Cold Poison in your body can be completely removed. When that time comes, you will become a genius girl admired by all!"
"Really?" the girl in the yellow dress said in surprise, her watery eyes rippling with autumn waves.
Chu Jianqiu's heart stirred. He gently took the girl in yellow into his arms and said with a smile, "Of course it's true. When have I ever lied to you?"
With the beauty in his arms, Chu Jianqiu felt happy at this moment. Although he had paid a great price, he now felt that all the sacrifices were worth it.
Chu Jianqiu was the young master of the Chu family, one of the four major families in Tianshui City. From a young age, he had been exceptionally talented, with incredibly strong cultivation talent, and was an unparalleled genius in Tianshui City.
At the age of fourteen, he broke through to the True Qi Realm. Soon after, he awakened a mid-grade Earth-level bloodline, which shocked the entire Tianshui Prefecture at the time.
But since then, a very puzzling thing happened, because after that, for the past three years, Chu Jianqiu's cultivation had not made any progress at all.
Chu Jianqiu began to be questioned and ridiculed by countless people, falling from the altar of a highly anticipated genius.
Chu Jianqiu just smiled at all of this and didn't pay any attention to it, because he knew very well why his cultivation hadn't improved.
That was because for the past three years, he had been using his own natal essence blood to treat the girl in yellow's illness.
The girl in yellow was Liu Tianyao, the precious daughter of the head of the Liu family, one of the four major families in Tianshui City.
Even though the Liu family was one of the four major families in Tianshui City, they were helpless against the cold poison in Liu Tianyao's body, because it was the cold poison produced by awakening the Mysterious-grade middle-rank Three Yin Meridian. There was only one thing in the world that could solve it, and that was the natal essence blood of a martial artist who had awakened the Nine Yang Bloodline.
And Chu Jianqiu happened to have awakened the Nine Yang Bloodline, and it was even a mid-grade Earth-level Nine Yang Bloodline.
The bloodlines awakened by martial artists in the world are divided into four levels: Yellow, Mysterious, Earth, and Heaven. Each level is further divided into lower, middle, upper, and supreme grades.
With Chu Jianqiu's awakened mid-grade Earth-level Nine Yang Bloodline, he could naturally cure Liu Tianyao's cold poison, but a martial artist's essence blood is the essence of a martial artist's body, and losing essence blood is extremely damaging to a martial artist.
But for the sake of the woman he loved, Chu Jianqiu did not hesitate to force out his own essence blood.
Liu Tianyao obtained Chu Jianqiu's essence blood, and the cold poison was gradually removed, while Chu Jianqiu's price was that his cultivation had not improved in the past three years.
"After your illness is cured, I will immediately propose marriage to Uncle Liu and marry you. A month later will be the Xuanjian Sect's recruitment competition. When that time comes, we will join the Xuanjian Sect together and become a carefree couple of immortals," Chu Jianqiu's eyes sparkled, filled with longing for the future.
Two red clouds floated on Liu Tianyao's face. She nodded shyly and murmured in a low voice, "I'll do whatever Brother Jianqiu says. It's just that these three years have been hard on Brother Jianqiu!"
Chu Jianqiu reached out and gently scratched Liu Tianyao's delicate nose, scolding playfully, "Why are you still being so polite with me? You deserve a spanking!"
The two snuggled together for a long time. Chu Jianqiu helped Liu Tianyao up from his arms and said softly, "It's getting late. Come, I'll remove the last trace of cold poison for you now."
Liu Tianyao nodded obediently and sat cross-legged on a stone by the cliff as she was told.
Chu Jianqiu closed his eyes to regulate his breathing, and his true qi circulated. The bloodline in his body flowed rapidly with the operation of the mental method. Chu Jianqiu's body trembled slightly, and beads of sweat as big as beans dripped from his forehead. His teeth were clenched tightly, obviously enduring great pain.
After half an hour, a drop of incomparably pure blood appeared on Chu Jianqiu's fingertip. This drop of blood contained incomparably pure energy.
Chu Jianqiu slowly placed the drop of essence blood containing the purest Yang energy between Liu Tianyao's eyebrows, and Liu Tianyao's eyebrows absorbed the essence blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Chu Jianqiu breathed a sigh of relief, took a few steps back, his face pale, and his clothes were completely soaked, almost collapsing on the ground.
After half an hour, Liu Tianyao slowly opened her eyes, stood up from the stone, and a powerful icy aura burst out from her body.
Seeing this scene, Chu Jianqiu finally put down the big stone in his heart and said with heartfelt joy, "You finally succeeded!"
"Yes, I finally succeeded!" Liu Tianyao opened her red lips slightly and said slowly, but her voice was like ten thousand years of cold ice, without any warmth.
Although Chu Jianqiu felt a little strange, he didn't think much of it. He only thought that Liu Tianyao had suddenly mastered the Three Yin Meridian and was affected by the bloodline, so her temperament had changed for a while.
"So, you can die!"
However, when the next sentence came out of Liu Tianyao's mouth, the smile on Chu Jianqiu's face instantly froze.
Chu Jianqiu couldn't believe his ears a little. He forced a smile and said, "Yao'er, what did you just say?" He hoped that this was just Liu Tianyao joking with him.
"I said, you can die!" Liu Tianyao said coldly, her voice without any emotion, her eyes cold and indifferent, looking down at him condescendingly, where was there any of the usual gentle and tender appearance?
Chu Jianqiu stared at Liu Tianyao for a long time, and finally confirmed that Liu Tianyao was not joking. The last bit of luck in his heart was completely shattered.
Looking at Liu Tianyao, who seemed like a completely different person, Chu Jianqiu felt a chill run through his body, as if he had fallen into an ice cave. His heart ached as if it were being torn apart, a pain a thousand times greater than the torment he had just endured when forcing out his essence blood.
"Why?" Because of the extreme pain in his heart, Chu Jianqiu appeared unusually calm. He looked into Liu Tianyao's eyes and asked earnestly.
"How could a lowly commoner like you be worthy of my noble bloodline? If it weren't for healing my illness, why would I deign to approach you! In these past three years, how many times have you offended me? Even being hacked to pieces a thousand times wouldn't be enough to quell the hatred in my heart," Liu Tianyao said indifferently, her eyes filled with coldness, contempt, and disdain.
"So, all of this was just a conspiracy! My three years of ceaselessly offering you my essence blood was worthless in your eyes!" Chu Jianqiu's heart was filled with bitterness, pain, resentment, disappointment, and anger, all converging in his chest.
"That's right, all of this was just a conspiracy. Otherwise, how would you have willingly depleted your own essence blood to heal me!" Liu Tianyao sneered.
Chu Jianqiu looked at the completely unfamiliar girl before him, reached out to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said with a miserable smile, "Even if you want me dead, so what if you completely control the Three Yin Severed Meridians? So what if my vitality is greatly damaged now? Can you kill me!"
Even though his three years of cultivation had not been stored, his True Qi Realm cultivation was still not something that Liu Tianyao, a Body Tempering Fifth Stage martial artist, could contend with.
"What if you add me?" A cold voice came from the nearby mountain forest.
Chu Jianqiu's heart trembled. He turned his head and saw a young man in purple robes walking slowly out of the mountain forest, his brow filled with arrogance and coldness.
The second son of the Tianshui Prefect, Ouyang Yuan!
Chu Jianqiu instantly recognized the newcomer.
When Liu Tianyao saw the young man in purple, the frost on her face melted like ice and snow, instantly replaced by a blooming smile. She happily ran over, took the young man's arm, and called out sweetly, "Second Young Master!"
Seeing this scene, Chu Jianqiu felt hatred, pain, and bitterness in his heart. He gritted his teeth and cursed inwardly, "Bitch!"
Chu Jianqiu forced himself to regain his composure, and his figure instantly darted towards the edge of the cliff.
Chu Jianqiu was very clear about Ouyang Yuan's strength. Even in his prime, he might not have been his opponent, let alone in such a terrible situation. If he wanted to live, the only way was to escape.
"Want to run? Too late!" Ouyang Yuan shouted coldly, his figure already in front of Chu Jianqiu. He struck out with his palm, hitting Chu Jianqiu's chest hard.
"Crack!"
Chu Jianqiu's body flew backward several feet, several ribs in his chest were broken, and blood spurted wildly from his mouth.
Chu Jianqiu was horrified. In the three years since he had last seen him, Ouyang Yuan had actually become a True Qi Realm Sixth Stage expert. Chu Jianqiu's heart sank into boundless despair. Falling into their hands, he was truly doomed this time.
Ouyang Yuan came to Chu Jianqiu and looked indifferently at Chu Jianqiu at his feet, saying coldly, "It's such a waste to have this bloodline in the body of a country bumpkin like you. Today, I will find a true master for it."
Saying that, he pressed a palm on Chu Jianqiu's chest.
In an instant, Chu Jianqiu only felt the Nine Yang Bloodline awakened within him frantically surge toward Ouyang Yuan's palm, and his cultivation also began to plummet.
Blood Transfer Demon Art!
Chu Jianqiu was horrified. Ouyang Yuan actually dared to practice such a forbidden secret technique.
"You pair of dogs, even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!" Chu Jianqiu hated to the extreme, and cursed frantically.
Half an hour passed, and Chu Jianqiu's awakened Earth Grade Middle Rank Bloodline and his cultivation had all been transferred to Ouyang Yuan. Chu Jianqiu was now on his last breath, and had truly become a cripple.
Feeling the Nine Yang Bloodline in his body, Ouyang Yuan burst into a triumphant wild laugh. The thing he had been planning for so long was finally in his hands.
Ouyang Yuan was originally an Earth Grade Middle Rank Bloodline martial artist, but he had awakened the Six Yang Bloodline, which was far less pure than the Nine Yang Bloodline. Now that he had absorbed Chu Jianqiu's Nine Yang Bloodline, his bloodline would be raised to a higher level.
"Merge!"
Ouyang Yuan shouted loudly, and the Six Yang Bloodline and the Nine Yang Bloodline in his body immediately began to merge. A quarter of an hour later, Ouyang Yuan's aura greatly increased. After the two bloodlines merged, it actually raised his bloodline to a higher level, reaching Earth Grade High Rank.
Ouyang Yuan looked at Liu Tianyao beside him, smiled slightly, and said, "Let's just give Chu Jianqiu's cultivation to you. Cultivate well, in a month, it will be the Xuanjian Sect's recruitment competition!"
Saying that, he pressed a palm on Liu Tianyao's back, and Liu Tianyao's cultivation began to skyrocket, finally stopping after advancing to Body Tempering Ninth Stage.
Liu Tianyao was overjoyed and smiled sweetly, "Thank you, Second Young Master!"
"What are you planning to do with this person?" Ouyang Yuan pointed to Chu Jianqiu, who was half-dead on the ground.
Liu Tianyao glanced at Chu Jianqiu on the ground, smiled sweetly, and said, "If we kill him directly, it would be too easy for him. Let him taste the feeling of falling from heaven to hell, wouldn't that be even better!" Saying that, she waved her palm and struck Chu Jianqiu's dantian.
Chu Jianqiu screamed, his eyes went black, and he immediately fainted.
At this time, dark clouds suddenly covered the sky, thunder rumbled, and lightning danced wildly in the sky.
Crack!
A bolt of lightning tore through the sky, striking Chu Jianqiu, who was unconscious on the ground.
In that dazzling light, a small black tower entered Chu Jianqiu's body along with the lightning.