Chapter 665: Chen Nan's Hatred

Chen Nan was impatient.

He wished he could recover right now, then cultivate to become an immortal by tomorrow, and head to the Immortal World to find Yuxin.

"Hmm, give me your hand."

"Okay, okay!"

Chen Nan hurriedly placed his hand on the table.

Yin Qi put on a show of taking his pulse, frowning from time to time and appearing to ponder, which left Chen Nan feeling incredibly anxious, terrified that Yin Qi might say something about being unable to help.

After a long while, Yin Qi finally withdrew his hand and said solemnly: "There is nothing wrong with your body. If we use the process of elimination, then the only thing that could be problematic is your True Qi."

"My True Qi?"

Chen Nan was puzzled, and he asked directly: "Then how should it be treated?"

"Disperse your cultivation!"

Yin Qi said: "As the saying goes, there is no breaking without establishing, and one must break before one can establish. To put it bluntly, you are only at the First Order mid-stage; even if you disperse your cultivation, it will only take a year or two to rebuild it."

Upon hearing this, Chen Nan's expression shifted constantly.

Dispersing cultivation—it was easy to say.

But who could easily make such a decision?

Yet, by dispersing his cultivation, perhaps there was still a chance to recover.

But if he didn't, then there really was no chance at all.

After struggling for a long time, Chen Nan gritted his teeth and said: "Fine, I will disperse my cultivation. Brother Yin, I ask that you protect me."

He was also a decisive person; once he said he would do it, he did.

Without waiting for Yin Qi to respond, he sat cross-legged on the ground and, gritting his teeth, began to disperse his cultivation.

As his cultivation flowed away, Chen Nan suddenly discovered that a long-lost feeling was slowly rising in his heart.

His six senses became increasingly sharp, and the Spiritual Sense he had lost after the age of sixteen seemed to return to its rightful place, coming back to him once more; Chen Nan was so excited he wanted to shout.

He had once been hailed as a martial arts genius, and he had also been pointed at behind his back; the root of it all was that he had lost his innate Spiritual Sense at the age of sixteen.

The four years from sixteen to twenty were a nightmare he would never forget.

No matter how hard he tried, his martial arts cultivation could not advance an inch, and the mockery and sarcasm came at him from all sides; the Heavenly Pride had been struck down from a fragrant paradise of flowers into an endless, dark Hell.

"Yin Qi was right!"

Without realizing it, Chen Nan was already covered in tears.

His heart, which had already gone silent, was once again filled with high spirits.

As his Spiritual Sense returned, Chen Nan naturally looked inward at the circulation of True Qi within his meridians; he saw his golden True Qi becoming increasingly thin, and then he discovered a trace of an anomaly in his own True Qi.

Within the brilliant, golden, and pure True Qi, there was actually a trace of plain, pale yellow.

"This... what is going on? How could there be plain, pale yellow True Qi?"

Chen Nan's heart was filled with confusion.

The Nameless Cultivation Method passed down in his family would never produce such inexplicable True Qi.

Observing carefully, he discovered that although the pale yellow True Qi was minimal, it was distributed throughout his hundred meridians. If his internal True Qi hadn't been getting thinner at this moment, it would have been impossible to discover this peculiar, plain, pale yellow True Qi.

"Could it be her..."

A chill ran through Chen Nan's heart, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his body.

The peculiar, plain, pale yellow True Qi stirred up his distant memories; those past, those vanished, those eternal... bits and pieces from ten thousand years ago flashed through his mind one by one.

Once, before Yuxin, he had secretly loved a woman, and that was Dantai Xuan.

She was a woman like a riddle, like a comet streaking across the sky, illuminating the entire Immortal Fantasy Continent; she combined beauty and wisdom, and at first sight, he had immediately been awestruck, as if she were a celestial being.

They discussed the profound and the Dao, sparred in martial arts, and spent a wonderful time together.

Although he was infatuated with her in his heart, he dared not say it out loud.

Later, she left.

Later, he discovered that his martial arts were regressing.

This pale yellow True Qi—he had once seen Dantai Xuan use it; the color was pale yellow, plain and unadorned, and its power was very small.

Out of curiosity, he had once asked her what use this kind of cultivation method had.

"This is an ancient, wondrous art; no matter how heaven-defying your power is, if you do not experience it yourself, it is difficult to understand its wonders."

Unable to withstand his repeated questioning, Dantai Xuan had said this with profound meaning. Indeed.

If he hadn't experienced it himself, he wouldn't have known that it was this wisp of True Qi that could actually harm him, turning him from a Heavenly Pride into a piece of trash, mocked by others for four years, living a life worse than death.

"Dantai Xuan, why, why?"

Chen Nan gritted his teeth.

As much as he had loved her, that was how much he hated her now.

He had loved her so much, trusted her so much, yet she had schemed against him like this, heartless and unrighteous.

As the last wisp of his family's True Qi was extracted, the pale yellow True Qi seemed like duckweed without roots or water without a source; it also began to slowly dissipate, and soon it vanished completely.

Chen Nan opened his eyes, his gaze burning.

He stood up, bowed solemnly to Yin Qi, and said: "Many thanks, Brother Yin. I have found the cause, and I have recovered."

Yin Qi smiled gently: "It is good that you have recovered. With your talent, I believe you will soon be able to fully restore your cultivation, or even advance a step further."

Chen Nan laughed heartily: "Then I will take your kind words. Brother Yin, I will not nag you any longer; farewell."

Please... collect... the 6... 9... book....!

"I won't see you out."

Yin Qi nodded; he knew that Chen Nan was in a hurry to go back and cultivate.

………

The next day.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

Yin Qi was awakened by a series of knocks on the door.

"Yin Qi, Yin Qi, are you awake yet? My sister is here and wants to see you."

Chu Yu's voice came from outside the door.

Yin Qi sat cross-legged on the bed, opened his eyes, and replied, "Alright, wait a moment."

Creak.

Not long after, Yin Qi opened the door and saw two women standing outside.

One was naturally Chu Yu, and the other must be Chu Yue.

Chu Yue was dressed in flowing white clothes, her figure slender and gracefully curved; her lithe body was flawless.

Her jade-like face wore no makeup, with Phoenix eyes, a delicate nose, and cherry lips perfectly combined to outline the peerless beauty of a fair lady; with autumn water for her spirit and jade for her bones, Chu Yue's grace was worthy of the word perfect.

In particular, her temperament was ethereal; under the illumination of the rising sun, her entire person seemed to be coated in a faint golden radiance, as if she were a Fairy who had descended from the nine Heavens into the mortal world, and as her sleeves fluttered, it seemed as though she might ride the wind and leave at any moment.

Chu Yue was also a reincarnation of Qijue Tiannv.

It was just that she was a reincarnation of a remnant soul of Qijue Tiannv, while Chu Yu was a reincarnation of a complete soul.

In the original work, this woman was an absolutely rational person, with everything centered on the interests of the Chu Kingdom, and she would stop at nothing to achieve her goals.

She could treat you with every kindness, yet turn cold and heartless in the blink of an eye.

Politically speaking, she was a qualified Chang Gongzhu.

But as a friend, or even a lover, I fear there were not many people willing to provoke her.

Chu Yue smiled brightly, bowed gracefully, and said, "Greetings, Young Master Yin. This time, my little sister was able to return from the mountain safely, all thanks to the help of Young Master Yin."

Having received a magic message from the officials in the town, she had rushed over overnight out of concern for Chu Yu.

From Chu Yu, she had also learned about Yin Qi and Chen Nan.

She did not care about Chen Nan.

But she had kept Yin Qi in her heart, because according to Chu Yu's description, this person was at least an expert at the late Third Order stage; otherwise, it would have been impossible to severely injure the Third Prince of the Hundred Yue Kingdom and his group in a single move.

One must know that the Third Prince himself was a person at the late Second Order stage.

At Yin Qi's age, one could not find a single person at the late Third Order stage in the entire Chu Kingdom.

Naturally, she had to recruit such a young talent.

As for the matter of potentially having her body seen by Yin Qi, Chu Yu had not hidden it from her; although she felt somewhat displeased, she could temporarily suppress it for the sake of recruiting the other party.

Besides, Chu Yu was no longer young.

If Yin Qi could demonstrate sufficient value later on, it would not be impossible to marry Chu Yu to him.

Because with Yin Qi's potential, it was not impossible for him to achieve the Fifth Tier in the future.

A Fifth Tier powerhouse was enough to be a match for a Princess of the Chu Kingdom. (End of chapter)