Chapter 63

After his anxious emotions were suppressed, Ye Xuan calmed down.

He single-mindedly pursued the Dao, taking the master of the Star Pavilion as his teacher, merely to become stronger.

Marrying into the Great Yu Dynasty was also merely for the Xu Nian Technique.

In that place of hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Zhongzhou, he was merely considered a heaven's pride, and Zhongzhou also has a Heaven's Pride List.

This list is exposed once every thirty years.

Each time someone makes it onto this list, the heaven's pride must not be over thirty years old.

Moreover, those who make the list, as long as they do not fall, will without exception become a major power in the future.

His goal is to be number one on the Heaven's Pride List!

He aims to become a Martial God of an era, so in his eyes anything of value can be utilized.

If Su Chen had not revealed his strength, he might still be thinking about how to get his hands on Liu Liyan, who possesses the Bodhi Holy Body, but now the urgent matter is the supreme inheritance on Su Chen's body.

If he obtains the inheritance of a Martial God Realm expert, when the Heaven's Pride List descends, he will surely be able to top the list.

Thinking and thinking, even his blood began to boil, his eyes narrowed as he said, "Su Changfeng?"

"Cloud Sea City happens to be near the Myriad Demon Mountain Range; recently beast tides have frequently erupted, spirit explosions have surged, without enough spirit stones to set up a Spirit Gathering Array, he and those three thousand cultivators would all be dead ends."

"The entire Eastern Wasteland belongs to this young master; Su Changfeng, Su Chen, and the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect—can they resist a hundred thousand great demons? Even if they escape Qianyuan City, lacking sufficient cultivation, what can they do?"

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Ye Xuan gave the order, sending five thousand cultivators to encircle and kill Su Chen in the Myriad Demon Mountain Range.

He commanded Ye Han to feed the troops and sharpen the horses, guarding every spatial teleportation array in Cloud Sea City.

He blocked the Myriad Treasure Pavilion from selling spirit stones to any faction in Cloud Sea City, wanting these people to be unable to set up a Spirit Gathering Array, ultimately being burst alive by the violent spiritual energy of the outside world.

By the time Su Chen brought the comatose sect leader and met up with his second sister and the others, it was already deep night.

"Little brother!!"

Only when she saw Su Chen's figure did Second Sister Su Lingxue's hanging heart finally drop; excitedly she grabbed his hand and said, "The talismans you gave us are truly too powerful—even a Martial Ancestor Realm expert cannot withstand them."

"Have we really left that damned Qianyuan City? It feels so unreal……"

Su Chen lightly smiled, placing his hand on Su Lingxue's slender shoulder, glanced around, frowned and said, "Liyan? Have Black Dragon and the others come out?"

"They're here, young master."

Following the sound's source, Su Chen's divine sense stirred, sensing two people, one of whom had a woman leaning on her shoulder.

The woman's body was being propped up by a blanket.

Su Chen withdrew his divine sense; at the moment he perceived this scene, his brain stalled for half a second.

He pointed at that bundle and asked, "Liyan? What is this?"

"Young master, the Holy Maiden is inside."

Su Chen: "?"

"What did you do to her?" Su Chen's heart jumped to his throat upon hearing that.

He immediately took over the blanket.

"Um, we weren't afraid of the Holy Maiden; we just didn't want to follow you to Cloud Sea City and be scolded. I and Hei Gou know that, worried about alarming the Purple Yang Sect elders, we used a bit of phantom god incense."

"Young master, rest assured; we know the proper dosage, but since the Holy Maiden is at Martial Ancestor Realm, fearing too little wouldn't work, we added a bit more—rest assured, according to her cultivation, she'll wake up soon."

Seeing Hei Long's expression of "men don't need to say more," Su Chen roughly understood the reason.

When I was in the sect, I told them when going to the Purple Yang Sect not to let everyone know, and to keep a low profile.

But it seems these two misunderstood.

They thought Liu Liyan was unwilling to go with me to Cloud Sea City, so they tried to carry her over.

Su Chen gave Hei Long a complex glance, lightly swept over the person in the blanket, and opened it: "Not Liyan, who are you?"

Then he lifted the blanket and pointed his finger at the woman's brow.

With his hand he removed the mask that isolated probing.

The woman immediately woke up.

Isn't this Liu Liyan's personal maid, A Luo?

"This, this……" Madam Su and Second Sister Su Lingxue stepped over, faces showing shock.

Hei Long and Hei Gou, after clearly seeing the woman's face, were also dumbfounded.

The two stood there dazed.

Fortunately, maid A Luo reacted in time, her gaze meeting Su Chen's, and she suddenly came to her senses: "Su, Su Young Sect Master? How are you here?"

"That's what I should be asking you," Su Chen's face turned cold as he questioned, "Why is the person who appeared here not Liyan?"

"Ye Xuan imprisoned the sect leader in the Black Water Heavenly Prison and ordered the extermination of the entire Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect; I led the sect's disciples in escape, while having Hei Long and Hei Gou take Liyan out of the city—we did bring someone, but it turned out to be you."

"You'd better tell me the whole story, exactly what's going on."

Hei Long was frightened to the point of his liver and gallbladder splitting, and hurriedly explained the cause in the fewest words possible.

It was this maid sleeping in Liu Liyan's room, and Hei Long, worried about seeing something he shouldn't, therefore took both her and the blanket out of the city.

But,

yet the person was not Liu Liyan……

"So why is the person who appeared in Liyan's room you, and where did Liyan go—speak!"

Facing Su Chen's sharp gaze, A Luo was frightened until her face turned pale, daring not to hide anything, and laid out the whole story: "It was the Holy Maiden; she gave me a talisman that isolates aura and can also transform into her likeness, saying she wanted me to substitute for her within the Purple Yang Sect."

"The Holy Maiden hasn't been in the sect for the past half month."

"She also worried that the sect leader would find out, so she had me use the mask to disguise myself as her."

"She also said to avoid going out if possible, because my voice is easy to expose, so I just had to stay dazed in the room; I had originally planned to pull the covers over my head and sleep, but as soon as I woke up I found myself here."

A black line appeared on Su Chen's forehead.

Most importantly, he often isn't at the sect for half a month—where would he go?

"Where is Liyan?"

"I don't know; the Holy Maiden never tells us servant girls about her affairs, but this afternoon I seemed to see her sneak back, yet by evening she was gone."

Su Chen: "..." Well now, his fiancée has run away.

"Young Master, why don't we go back to the Purple Yang Sect and bring back the Holy Maiden Liu?" Heilong, pursing his lips, felt immense guilt.

If it weren't for his carelessness, this accident wouldn't have happened.

Su Chen's eyes half-closed, going back alone: "We'll leave first; Liyan is at Martial Sect realm, and besides, Ye Xuan harbors no killing intent toward her—you all go with my mother and my second sister first."

"Young Master, we still have Thunderfire Talismans; even against Ye Xuan, we have no fear!"

"This time Ye Xuan has made preparations; he won't let us succeed easily."

"Besides, even if we have these things, your cultivation still limits their power to some extent; if the opponent's cultivation is high enough, we fear something unexpected might happen."

Su Chen could never just leave Liyan alone; after attaining the Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus, he clearly sensed that Liyan also possessed some kind of constitution.

Moreover, right under his nose, her cultivation reached the Martial Sect realm; Ye Xuan and the Sixth Prince of the Great Yu seemed eager to act on her, likely because her constitution is a kind of Furnace Cauldron Constitution that can enhance another's cultivation.