Chapter 102

Then look for another opportunity, and when your bodies are invaded by violent spiritual energy, unable to freely use your Yuan power, I will deal you a fatal blow.

Madam doesn't know any of this, and even now she still doesn't know anything about the Profound Heaven Dao Sect...

Moreover, that day I heard the Saint Son say in the cultivation chamber that he wanted to turn Madam into a medicine person, send her to the Ye family as a trade, exchanging the Star Pavilion's cultivation method, the Star Battle Body Technique; and although the Profound Heaven Dao Sect acts ruthlessly and domineeringly, it values love and righteousness, and would never stand by and watch Madam jump into a fire pit.

With Ye Xuan having Madam as his weakness, and having seized your Martial Emperor expert's inheritance, you and Sect Master Su will inevitably be wary of each other; then the marquis will be able to ally with the forces behind Ye Xuan...

The Guest Elder wished he could erase the vicious image of Liu Liyan from his mind, and naturally dared not mention it in front of Su Chen; he tells all he knows, hiding nothing, but begs for death.

The son-in-law of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, far away in the Azure Dragon Holy Land, is truly impressive.

Not only does he covet the Profound Heaven Dao Sect's sect-protection technique, but he also plots to imprison the elder sister and send her to Ye Xuan as a hostage.

Even over these years,

All the kindness shown to the elder sister was actually to exploit her physique, and they even went madly insane trying to refine her into a medicine person.

That hypocritical Saint Son just wants to squeeze the last bit of use-value out of the elder sister, so he can cultivate with that slender-waisted, curvy-hipped furnace cauldron!

"If even a single word of what you say is false, I will make you wish for life but unable to die, and beg for death but unable to die." Heibao was frightened, his heart trembling.

"Young Master Su, I swear I have not spoken a single false word; everything I say is true."

"These Saint Sons appear courteous to Madam on the surface, but in reality they have already shifted their affections, preparing no fewer than ten furnace cauldrons to aid his cultivation; when his cultivation hits a bottleneck and he needs to change techniques, he is certain the Profound Heaven Dao Sect cannot defeat Ye Xuan, so he hopes to use Madam to draw closer to Ye Xuan."

The Guest Elder wished he could rip out his own heart to prove that everything he said is true.

Su Chen's face was extremely gloomy, and his aura rose steadily all over his body.

Azure, Dragon, Saint, Son!

Back then, because he fawned over Lin Jianran, his elder sister, in anger she left the sect to travel; at that time, the gentle and refined Azure Dragon Saint Son took advantage, using sweet words to deceive her, and became her dao companion.

The Profound Heaven Dao Sect has never agreed to this marriage.

Although the other party is a holy land of Zhongzhou, they never truly got to know each other.

Su Chen had also advised her, but whenever he advised his elder sister, it was Lin Jianran who came to speak.

For those three years, in order to obtain the system's reward, he focused all his thoughts on Lin Jianran; before receiving the reward issued by the system, he had nothing but empty words.

Any explanation sounded pale and powerless.

In the end, the elder sister still, out of spite, married far away to the Azure Dragon Holy Land.

"Back when the elder sister became dao companions with that Azure Dragon Saint Son, nine parts were due to his shameless pursuit of Lin Jianran, and the remaining part was just the Saint Son's sweet talk."

"As long as I don't leave Lin Jianran for a day, she won't return to the sect for a day."

"Thus, for a full three years, she never returned to the Profound Heaven Dao Sect."

His thoughts reaching this point, Su Chen suddenly lifted his head: "Heigou——"

Heigou knelt respectfully on one knee: "I will obey the Young Master's orders."

"You, immediately take the disciples to the Azure Dragon Holy Land to gather intelligence."

"Also, send a voice transmission via jade slip to Heilong, ordering him to guard the spatial teleportation gate leading to Qianyuan City, and make sure to intercept the elder sister."

"The Azure Dragon Saint Son plots to use my elder sister to exchange for the Star Battle Body Technique, but we'll see if he has the fate for it. This matter concerning my elder sister has always been my parents' heartache, and now it's time to find out."

"Heibao, quickly gather the disciples; it's been three years, and I will immediately go fetch my elder sister back to Yunhai City."

Su Chen was very clear about jade slip voice transmissions.

Once intercepted or hidden, the contents inside cannot be known by others.

Likewise,

The Azure Dragon Saint Son had already begun secret plots dozens of days ago, sending Su Yao to the Ye family in Qianyuan City as a hostage; now no one knows exactly how things stand.

To prevent the jade slip voice transmission from being intercepted, Su Chen must make thorough preparations.

On one side, he sends people to the Azure Dragon Holy Land in Zhongzhou to gather intelligence; on the other, he has Heilong intercept in Qianyuan City.

Soon!

The news that Su Chen would leave Yunhai City spread among the thousands of disciples.

"Nearly three hundred Martial Kings, prepare to assemble!"

"One hundred Martial Emperors, assemble; the Young Master must prepare to leave the city."

This news not only reached the ears of the many disciples, but also reached the ears of Liu Liyan, who was sitting on a stone bench.

Liu Liyan rested her cheeks on her hands; the ground was a blanket of white snow. She wore a black long dress engraved with a golden phoenix, her skin smooth and white, her silver hair falling to her waist, resembling a celestial maiden descending to the mortal world.

Originally, it was a lovely scene.

Suddenly, it froze in an instant.

The words "the Young Master must leave the city" made Liu Liyan's calm and anticipation shatter violently, like a stone suddenly dropped into a still lake.

"What did you say?" Qingxia's heart leapt to her throat at that moment.

She hastily grabbed a disciple's hand, asking for confirmation: "You said the Young Master must go out of the city?"

"Did he say where he was going?"

That disciple shook his head repeatedly, tossed out two words, and quickly left: "I don't know."

I don't know……

Is he going to Qianyuan City?

Is he going to abduct a bride?

Is it for…… Lin Jianran?

"Master." Qingxia only felt a vague panic in her heart, and she instinctively turned her head to look at Liu Liyan's complexion.

Liu Liyan sat there, dazed and spiritless; in an instant her blood-red eyes turned gray, all pigment drained from them, and as she held her pointed, snow-white chin, her hand trembled uncontrollably—she seemed…… as if she were about to be crushed like a paper doll.

Qingxia had never seen such a person before, nor such an expression.

She is clearly as tranquil as still water, not crying or making a fuss, and she didn't reveal even a hint of sorrow.

But you only need to take one look.

Then you feel she is shattered beyond repair.

"Master, are you all right?"

Qingxia's eyes were red-rimmed; she worriedly crouched down, wanting to give this lost‑soul master a bit of real comfort, but the words stuck in her throat and she didn't know how to say: "Master, if you feel awful, just cry it out; don't hold it in and hurt yourself."

Liu Liyan's unfocused gaze stared ahead, shaking her head: "No, not painful."

"But you don't look like someone who's fine."

She said: "I feel like I've lost my sixth sense."

Her words fell.

Liu Liyan didn't shed a single tear.

Qingxia, on the other hand, felt heartbroken.

As she looked, tears streamed down uncontrollably; Qingxia crouched on the ground, gazing closely at Liu Liyan before her—this was the first time she dared to get this close—and she said: "Master, don't, don't be like this—I find it painful to watch… don't torment yourself!"

"Young Master Su, since you miss Lin Jianran so much, even though you know it's a trap set by Ye Xuan, you still jump into the fire pit without hesitation."

"Fine, then let him go! Ignore him, stop liking him, okay?"

"Qingxia will help you find someone better; if we can't find one in Cloud Sea City, we'll search the entire Eastern Wasteland, and if we still can't find one there, we'll search the whole Central Plains—okay?"

Liu Liyan still shook her head, expressionless: "No."