The hearts of the disciples beneath had already been poisoned by their sect leader. A cultivation sect stained with the sins of worldly slaughter had lost its original intent. From then on, the martial path was long and the return impossible.
Ren Yuanhao used the 'Star Absorbing Great Method' to seize Mo Qiancheng's true qi, while simultaneously using wind element air currents to compress the air around him. This not only caused the true qi that was madly surging into his body to be absorbed by Ren Yuanhao, but also rendered it completely immobile, leaving Mo Qiancheng to watch helplessly.
He glared in fury, yet couldn't devise any way to alter the flow of his true qi. It was as if Ren Yuanhao's palm was a colossal black hole. Even more terrifying was the 'copy' ability plundered from Xiao Chong, which possessed a fatal characteristic.
The higher the level of a skill, the more that after copying it once, one had to erase the previous copied skill to copy another.
In other words, 'Instant', which might have helped him escape danger, had been foolishly overwritten by Ren Yuanhao's 'Drunken Heart Gazing Moon Steps'!
"Good, you wretched brat, just keep absorbing. I want to see if your dantian can withstand such a vast amount of true qi."
Mo Qiancheng gritted his teeth. He didn't believe Ren Yuanhao could endure so much true qi. After all, in the cultivation world, the size of the Golden Lotus (which was essentially the dantian) determined the amount of true qi it could store. Many cultivators, due to the shallowness of their Golden Lotus's storage capacity, were unable to break through to higher realms.
Of course, another, more significant reason was the scarcity of spiritual energy in heaven and earth.
Conversely, Ren Yuanhao was precisely such a super-large water barrel!
"No need to worry about me. You think your true qi is already sufficiently vigorous and vast? I'm sorry, but to me, it's merely a drop in the ocean!"
As soon as Ren Yuanhao finished speaking, the devouring power of the 'Star Absorbing Great Method' became even more exaggerated. In this state, Ren Yuanhao himself could not sustain it for such a long time. It was worth noting that the coexistence and use of an ability and a cultivation technique had an inseparable relationship with the practitioner's true qi, internal energy, and mental focus.
"You, what kind of monster are you!"
"My surname is Ren, I live in the countryside, and I have two mu and three fen of land. So I'm not a monster, but I can defeat you."
After saying this, Ren Yuanhao suddenly slapped out. The true qi within his body moved according to his will, sending the withered Mo Qiancheng crashing against the original wood, producing a sharp creaking sound.
He had intended to throw the black blade by his side, to return the favor with his own method. But upon reflection, Mo Qiancheng's true qi had already been completely seized by him, and his Golden Lotus was shattering into pieces under the绞杀 of the wind element air currents. Even if he hadn't consumed the 'Death-in-a-Day Pill', he would henceforth be reduced to an ordinary person, with no hope of ever condensing a Golden Lotus.
"Why not just kill me!"
"The moment I saw you, you were already a dead man."
Ren Yuanhao stumbled out several steps and felt dizzy. The light rain landed on his face, chilling him to the bone and his heart weary. Finally, he tilted his head back and collapsed.
...
After an unknown period of time, Ren Yuanhao's eyelids were pried open by a long-lost ray of sunlight.
The first sensation was a pervasive numbness throughout his body.
He couldn't move, and even the things his eyes saw were blurred with multiple images.
Fortunately, his ears could still hear the chirping of birds, and his nostrils could perceive the refreshing scent of sandalwood.
He closed his eyes for a moment, and after they felt less dry, he opened them again.
What greeted his eyes was a clean and tidy room. The furnishings in the room were no different from the rental apartment of Shen Lan Ni and the other two girls previously.
Taking a sniff, he could detect a faint, sweet aroma of fish soup.
He mused that if even Yang Lingxue could cook such fragrant fish soup, he must have been lying there for a very, very long time.
Just then, Yang Lingxue and Ji Fu walked in.
Of course, they weren't empty-handed; each was carrying a bowl of soup.
Neither of them noticed that Ren Yuanhao's eyes were open.
"Hey, Old Squirrel Granny, your fish soup is poison. This little lecher definitely ate your soup, which is why he's been unconscious for more than half a month."
Ji Fu's guess was reasonable, as she herself had tried it and nearly suffocated from the fishy smell.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't think I'll be polite just because you're the young lady of the Ji family. And you better change that 'little lecher' thing quickly, it's my exclusive."
Yang Lingxue said this, but her expression wasn't happy at all.
The moment she thought of the battle in the Chi Xiao Sect, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
That battle was like a nightmare. She had initially thought she would never find a compatible man to spend the rest of her life with, nor would she ever be infatuated with a man.
Until she met Ren Yuanhao. This man had slowly captured her soul. Every action he took tugged at her heart. Sometimes, she even wished that she was the one who was injured.
That battle also made her fully understand what kind of woman was qualified to stay by Ren Yuanhao's side.
During this period, she had almost daily followed Shen Lan Ni and Ye Lan in practicing the most basic combat skills, as well as internal martial arts.
At the same time, she continuously acquired cooking skills from television, skills she had previously despised the most.
In just over half a month, perhaps due to her complete awakening as a foodie, she discovered she had an absolute talent for cooking!
Initially, even the mongrel dog (yes, the dog whose soul Oriental Jing had once swapped with) would show an expression of extreme disgust and blatant disdain for the dishes she made.
At that time, in Ji Fu's words, it was 'dark cuisine'. If one ate it and didn't end up in the hospital, it proved astonishing physical fitness.
Later, the mongrel dog, gradually wasting away in the struggle of 'refusing to eat', finally compromised one gloomy dusk and deigned to eat what Yang Lingxue made. After that, Shen Lan Ni and Ye Lan also began to praise her cooking.
Therefore, Yang Lingxue had absolute confidence in her culinary skills. The two women seemed lost in their own thoughts, completely oblivious to the fact that Ren Yuanhao had woken up. When Ren Yuanhao even squeezed out the word 'thirsty' from his throat, the two exchanged a glance, then nervously scanned the ceiling before finally their gazes fell on Ren Yuanhao.
"You little lecher, you're finally awake!"
Seeing Ji Fu about to rush into his arms, Yang Lingxue immediately coughed. However, Ji Fu was too lazy to care about propriety and immediately embraced Ren Yuanhao.
—Damn it, you two living people, listen to a patient's voice for once! My throat feels like it's glued with arsenic. If you're going to poison me like Wu Da Lang, at least add a little more water, okay?
Upon being embraced like that, Ren Yuanhao happily squeezed out an 'uh' from his throat, almost his soul leaving his body to ascend to immortality.