"Liu Tianyao, you are truly cruel!"
With a pained roar, Chu Jianqiu awoke from a nightmare, his face still filled with deep pain and resentment.
As his consciousness cleared, tearing pain surged from every part of his body, causing him to nearly convulse.
Chu Jianqiu desperately wished that everything that had happened that night was just a nightmare, that upon waking, everything would return to its original, beautiful course.
But the pain radiating from every part of his body made him realize with chilling clarity that this was not a dream, but a cruel and unforgiving reality.
Liu Tianyao had betrayed him, colluding with others to steal the bloodline he had awakened!
Chu Jianqiu clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot, a towering rage rising in his chest. He would make Liu Tianyao and Ouyang Yuan pay this debt.
"Young Master, you're finally awake! You scared me to death!" A clear, crisp voice came from the side, filled with worry.
Chu Jianqiu raised his head, and a delicate and lovely face came into view.
"Ruhua, how long have I been unconscious?"
Seeing his personal maidservant, Chu Jianqiu felt a little relieved, and his tense nerves relaxed slightly.
"It's been a day and a night since Miss Liu brought you back!"
"Liu Tianyao brought me back?" Chu Jianqiu couldn't help but be taken aback. Could that woman be so kind?
"Miss Liu handed Young Master over to the Great Elder, saying that you had suffered a cultivation deviation, your dantian had been destroyed, and your meridians were broken. She told the Great Elder to take good care of you!" Ruhua nodded repeatedly, but her voice was filled with anger and indignation.
Chu Jianqiu felt a chill in his heart and hurriedly focused his mind inward. Upon inspection, Chu Jianqiu felt his whole body turn ice-cold.
Not only had his awakened bloodline and cultivation been stolen, but his dantian had also been destroyed, and all the meridians in his body were broken. He had been completely reduced to a cripple.
This result almost drove Chu Jianqiu mad. So the woman wasn't acting out of the goodness of her heart; she wanted him to suffer a fate worse than death!
What a truly vicious heart!
Chu Jianqiu's heart was filled with towering hatred.
Having his awakened bloodline and cultivation stolen still allowed for the possibility of re-cultivation. Before he had awakened his bloodline, he could still cultivate very quickly.
But having his dantian destroyed meant he had been completely reduced to a cripple.
"Ruhua, you can leave now," Chu Jianqiu forced himself to calm down and said quietly.
"Yes, Young Master!" Although Ruhua was worried, she still obeyed and left, leaving Chu Jianqiu alone in the room.
Chu Jianqiu felt an endless unwillingness in his heart, unwilling to give up. He sat up cross-legged and circulated his cultivation technique, trying to re-condense his spiritual energy.
But his shattered dantian couldn't hold onto even a trace of spiritual energy.
Chu Jianqiu tried again and again, but it was all in vain.
Chu Jianqiu gritted his teeth and continued to circulate his cultivation technique, never giving up.
If he were to become an ordinary person from now on, he might as well be dead.
As long as he had this life, he would never give up.
Pain accompanied by indomitable sweat soaked through his clothes, but countless failures never wavered his firm will.
"Dang, dang, dang…"
Chu Jianqiu had lost count of how many times he had failed. When he was in so much pain that he was almost numb, a vast and ancient voice suddenly echoed in his mind, like the sound of a great bell.
"Indomitable will opens the Divine Tower. Establish after destruction, refine Supreme Blood. Heavenly Emperor Divine Art, proof of Primordial Dao!"
The vast and mighty voice shook Chu Jianqiu's mind, and at the same time, a powerful suction force tore at Chu Jianqiu's soul.
Chu Jianqiu felt a sharp pain in his soul and arrived in an unfamiliar space.
The space was vast and boundless!
In the center of the space stood a towering black tower, its body exuding an ancient aura, as if it had accumulated endless time.
Chu Jianqiu looked at this scene in shock. The scene before him had completely exceeded his understanding.
Chu Jianqiu's mind ached again, and a massive amount of information flooded into his mind.
Chaos Supreme Tower!
Chaos Heavenly Emperor Divine Art!
…
The massive amount of information almost burst Chu Jianqiu's mind.
Before Chu Jianqiu could digest the shocking information, the tall and majestic black tower suddenly "hummed", and countless golden lights radiated from the tower body, pouring into Chu Jianqiu's body.
As the golden lights poured in, Chu Jianqiu's shattered dantian began to heal, and his broken meridians also began to reconnect.
The amazing changes in his body caused Chu Jianqiu's soul to withdraw from that space.
After a stick of incense's worth of time, Chu Jianqiu's shattered dantian had completely healed, and his broken meridians had also been reconnected.
Chu Jianqiu felt ecstatic and was so excited that he almost shed tears.
Only after losing something and regaining it did he realize the preciousness of what he once had!
Chu Jianqiu carefully examined his body. The re-healed dantian was even larger than before, and his meridians were countless times tougher.
However, this was far from over.
"Chaos Heavenly Emperor Divine Art, refine Chaos Supreme Bloodline!"
"Chaos Heavenly Emperor Divine Art, refine Chaos Supreme Bloodline!"
…
The majestic voice echoed in Chu Jianqiu's mind again.
The profound and difficult technique emerged in Chu Jianqiu's mind.
Chaos Supreme Bloodline!
Chu Jianqiu's heart trembled violently.
Supreme Bloodline!
This had completely exceeded Chu Jianqiu's scope of understanding.
In Chu Jianqiu's understanding, the bloodlines awakened by martial artists were divided into four levels: Yellow, Profound, Earth, and Heaven. He had never heard of a Supreme-grade bloodline.
Earth-grade bloodlines were already rare, even in the Great Qian Dynasty. As for Heaven-grade bloodlines, no one in the entire Great Qian Dynasty knew if they existed.
Supreme-grade bloodline, this was an unfamiliar term that Chu Jianqiu had never heard of.
Could this be the legendary Ancient Immortal Bloodline!
In ancient legends, it was rumored that above the Heaven-grade bloodline, there was an incomparably heaven-defying ancient bloodline. The power of this level of bloodline was beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Without exception, all martial artists who awakened this level of bloodline became great figures who shook the world.
Could this Chaos Supreme Bloodline be the legendary Ancient Immortal Bloodline!
Chu Jianqiu calmed the shock in his heart and began to cultivate according to the technique in his mind.
Although the Chaos Heavenly Emperor Divine Art was extremely profound, Chu Jianqiu's comprehension was already extremely high. Moreover, since it was directly poured into Chu Jianqiu's mind, this method of inheritance was originally much easier to understand than Chu Jianqiu slowly reading through cultivation technique books.
As the mental technique circulated, Chu Jianqiu felt a terrifying power slowly awakening deep within his bloodline. This power was like a dormant Primordial Dragon. Once fully awakened, it would have the power to destroy the heavens and the earth.
An hour later, the golden light pouring into Chu Jianqiu's body dissipated. Chu Jianqiu opened his eyes, clenched his fists, and felt the incomparably terrifying power lurking deep within his bloodline. The shock in his heart was beyond words. This was the power of the Supreme Bloodline.
The Chaos Heavenly Emperor Divine Art refined and absorbed the golden light that had poured into his body. At this time, his cultivation had also returned to the third level of Body Tempering.
"Bang!"
Before Chu Jianqiu could digest the shock brought about by this huge change, a loud noise interrupted his thoughts.
Chu Jianqiu came back to his senses from his contemplation and looked at the shattered door.
Several figures walked in arrogantly from outside the door. The leader was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.
"Chu Jianqiu, I heard that you suffered a cultivation deviation and became a cripple. I came here specifically to see you!" Chu He looked at the young man sitting cross-legged on the bed, condescendingly, with a thick sneer on the corner of his mouth.
Chu Jianqiu's eyes turned cold. He had expected this scene.
Three years ago, when his father left the family to find Chu Jianqiu's mother, whom he had never met, the Great Elder's faction began to covet the position of family head.
It was just that although his father had left the family, the prestige he had left behind still prevented the Great Elder's faction from acting rashly.
In addition, although his cultivation had not progressed in the past three years, the younger generation in the family still had few who could match him, and many elders in the family still supported him.
Now that his cultivation had been crippled, the Great Elder's faction would inevitably be ready to make a move.
When he heard Ruhua say that Liu Tianyao had handed him over to the Great Elder and told the Great Elder that he was already a cripple, Chu Jianqiu had already anticipated this scene.
"Since you are already a cripple, you are no longer the young master of the Chu family. You are no longer qualified to live in this mansion. I am here today to ask you to leave." Chu He sneered mockingly, while at the same time, he felt an unspeakable sense of triumph and pleasure in his heart. It was so satisfying to bully this once high and mighty young master.
"Get out!"
Faced with Chu He's humiliation, Chu Jianqiu coldly spat out a word.
Chu Jianqiu was unwilling to waste any more words on this kind of third-rate character. He was just a member of a collateral branch who was usually not worthy of being on the stage. Now that the Great Elder's faction had not yet acted, this jumping clown was jumping around happily.
"You dare to tell me to get out!"
The smile on Chu He's face instantly froze. This trash actually dared to tell him to get out.
"It seems that you haven't recognized reality yet, and you still think you are the high and mighty young master of the Chu family! Today, this young master will make you, this trash, wake up!"
Chu He said fiercely. As he spoke, he took a step forward and punched Chu Jianqiu.
A cripple with no cultivation dared to be so arrogant. Today, he would beat him until he knelt on the ground and called him grandpa.
Faced with Chu He's punch, Chu Jianqiu did not dodge or evade, and punched back.
"Boom!"
The two fists collided, and the air surged. Chu He was knocked back several steps by the punch.
Chu He was shocked. A trace of panic flashed in his eyes. Wasn't Chu Jianqiu's dantian shattered and his cultivation lost? What was going on now?
The eyes of the few people who had come with Chu He were also full of disbelief, and they also began to panic.
Originally, they thought that Chu Jianqiu was already a cripple, which was why they dared to come with Chu He. They were hoping to gain some merit and make an early impression on the Great Elder's faction, perhaps even entering the direct line in the future.
But if Chu Jianqiu hadn't lost his cultivation, their good days would be over.
If Chu Jianqiu had really become a cripple, naturally not many people would care. Even if some elders, remembering their past connection with Chu Jianqiu, wanted to punish them, the Great Elder would protect them. Presumably, those elders wouldn't make things too difficult for them for the sake of a cripple.
But the current situation had completely exceeded their expectations.
Chu Jianqiu got out of bed, landed lightly, took a step forward, and threw another punch.
This time, Chu Jianqiu didn't hold back. He wasn't magnanimous enough to ignore the humiliation of those who came to his door. He wanted to give these people a profound lesson.
Chu He gritted his teeth. Although he was caught off guard by the sudden change, judging from the aura Chu Jianqiu was emitting, he was only at the third level of Body Tempering. Although he wasn't a complete waste, it was a fact that his cultivation had greatly declined.
And since he was at the fourth level of Body Tempering, there was no need to be afraid of him.
Chu He's courage was renewed, and he threw a punch, colliding head-on with Chu Jianqiu.
"Bang!"
Chu He's body was sent flying, crashing into the wall, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Chu He was horrified, his eyes filled with disbelief. Was that really the strength of the third level of Body Tempering!