Chapter 120: Connection

He is using me to exchange cultivation techniques to improve his future cultivation.

I was blind; I actually believed this hypocrite. Only today, after all these years, did I understand his character.

Xiao Lian blames me for being useless, unable to protect you. My cultivation, after being infused with medicinal potency, cannot be easily used. If I don't do this, not only will I be forcibly imprisoned, but you will also die at his hands. My death doesn't matter, but Xiao Chen, he is the bloodline of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect—what should we do about him?

Xiao Chen is still waiting for me to save him! What have I been doing these past two years? Actually...

Su Yao gently stroked Xiao Lian's face, where the bloodstains had already congealed.

Xiao Lian grabbed Su Yao's sleeve, nodded, then shook her head.

The pain of a torn tongue; for someone with high cultivation, severed limbs can regenerate, but Xiao Lian's cultivation is low; to recover she would need heavenly treasures, and moreover Su Yao should not use her cultivation, having already missed the best time for treatment.

Xiao Lian's face was deathly pale, yet even so she remained conscious, trembling as she lifted her eyes, trying to gesture to Su Yao.

She was framed.

Azure Dragon Holy Son intends to harm you.

Madam

Waa...

You just need to know.

Xiao Lian's bloody tears mixed with the congealed blood, and then she collapsed, barely alive.

"Xiao Lian, take this hemostatic pill……You must survive……" Su Yao looked at the maid's miserable state, her heart aching as if cut by a knife; the little remaining affection she had for the Azure Dragon Holy Son turned completely into boundless anger and hatred.

Xiao Lian, straining, opened a slit of her eyes to show a response.

Her gaze seemed to be saying,

Madam, if you are speaking of the Young Sect Master, then go rescue him with peace of mind; Xiao Lian will not be a burden to you.

"Yes, no, up……"

"If it weren't for the medicinal potency accumulated in my body that cannot be refined, limiting my cultivation, I would gladly cut him down with a single sword, but I cannot; before, I was too impulsive, not knowing restraint, which is why I had a big falling out with Xiao Chen."

"Now he is suffering in Qianyuan City; only I can save him; sorry, Xiao Lian……"

After Su Yao vented her grief, she quickly regained composure.

She gritted her silver teeth, glanced outward, and her eyes overflowed with towering anger.

Azure! Dragon! Holy! Son!

If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!

You have been pretending all these years, appearing deeply devoted and faithful unto death, while secretly cultivating the Union Joy Technique, mingling with sword attendants; the two years of marital affection actually couldn't withstand a single cultivation technique.

Su Yao sucked in several breaths of cold air, took a long time to steady her emotions, then took out the Black Jade Bone-Healing Ointment to simply treat Xiao Lian.

Finally, Xiao Lian was lifted onto the bed.

Su Yao took all the spirit stones from her storage ring, arranged them into a simple Spirit Gathering Array, and finally felt the medicinal potency surging through her meridians.

"It's no big deal—if successful, I will attain the Taiyin Dao Body; if failed, my cultivation and meridians will be completely destroyed, leaving no further progress in this life."

"Su Yao should cut ties if she ought to; otherwise she will bring chaos upon herself."

"He wants to wait until I achieve the Taiyin Dao Body, then seize my original yin to boost his own cultivation higher."

"Such beastly conduct—my Taiyin Dao Body would be better off forcibly refining the medicinal potency; even if these medicinal liquids were wasted on a dog, they would not be cheap for that beast."

"Xiao Chen is still waiting for you; don't hesitate, don't waver—whether the Taiyin Dao Body succeeds or not is unimportant, and the Hundred Medicines Body isn't worth clinging to either."

"I have no attachment, I have no attachment……"

She had always been the Saintess of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, arrogant and haughty from childhood; unable to tolerate Lin Yanran, she toyed with her own brother's feelings, then directly disregarded her family's opposition, stormed into the Lin Manor, and fiercely slapped Lin Yanran.

Moreover, even when the sect's relatives did not support the blessing, she wagered her own happiness just to spite them.

Now——

The sect suffered a calamity.

Her younger brother was imprisoned.

She was deceived by her husband.

The maid was injured.

She must firm her Dao heart, embrace a resolve to die, and cannot remain indecisive.

Continuing to nurture this physique will only fulfill the Azure Dragon Holy Son's intention.

Moreover, this will become a limitation, and will become the greatest obstacle to her rescuing her younger brother.

Su Yao had actually long sensed that the Azure Dragon Holy Son, over these years, had been seemingly asking her to return home because he was interested in her sect's Sect-Sealing Technique.

But each time she politely refused.

Because the Sect-Sealing Technique is the foundation of the Profound Heaven Dao Sect.

Now that there's nothing to gain from the Profound Heaven Dao Sect, he wants to use himself to exchange cultivation techniques with Ye Xuan—no way.

"Even if I lack this special physique, even if there is a risk of my meridians being destroyed and my cultivation lost, none of that compares to saving my younger brother."

"If this physique is gone, at worst I would kill myself with a sword, and would certainly not implicate the sect or my father."

"Just like that……"

A flash of resolve flickered in Su Yao's eyes as she trembled and pressed her lips together.

It has long been said that in the Eastern Wasteland there exists an extremely terrifying force, the Breaking Army Hall.

As long as the compensation is sufficient, they can be hired to assassinate anyone.

Besides the spirit stones she uses for cultivation, the storage ring on her other hand also holds many more, fully prepared; if any accident occurs during the refinement of the medicinal potency, she would then use all the spirit stones to……

The Azure Dragon Holy Son stabbed her in the back, unwilling to save Xiao Chen; then she would go, sparing no effort, even if it cost everything, she would also rescue Xiao Chen from the Heavenly Prison.

"Bang!"

Su Yao began to calm her mind, sitting cross-legged.

She began to forcibly reverse her qi circulation, reversing the spiritual energy throughout her body, and began to refine the medicinal potency in her meridians.

Zizi!

Primordial power and medicinal power intertwine, competing against each other; as one wanes the other waxes, the primordial power becomes ever weaker.

In an instant,

A feeling of heart-rending agony spread throughout the body,

The meridians as thin as a pinky finger suffered minute damage, primordial power leaked out, like a deflated balloon gradually shriveling.

Su Yao didn't even frown, she shouted weakly toward the outside: "Someone, come quickly..."

"Bang!"

"Madam!"

"Madam!! You quickly go call the Holy Son, Madam's primordial power is disordered and running wild, the medicinal power is dissipating... hurry!"

Su Yao, in great distress, shouted anxiously at the guards outside: "Quickly prepare the palanquin, find the medicine master, I need to see the medicine master now."

The guards, flustered, shouted outward: "Quickly find the three-headed flood dragon, prepare the palanquin, send the lady to the city to find the medicine master."

Upon hearing this news, the Azure Dragon Holy Son's expression changed drastically; he could not believe such a coincidence.

Yet he clearly knew what kind of person Su Yao was, how much she valued her constitution; she would never joke about her cultivation, likely she truly wanted to take a risky move, worried that the Holy Land disciples he brought might not be a match.

Wanting to force a breakthrough, "Prepare quickly, prepare the palanquin, this Holy Son will personally escort her; one careless mistake and the meridians will be utterly destroyed, which would cut off the path of cultivation."

If Su Yao were to truly die, then his Stellar Battle Body Technique could not be obtained.

Moreover, the immense medicinal power within her body, as well as the primordial yin, could aid his transformation.