"Aphrodisiac? How could I have been drugged?" Ye Zhan asked in bewilderment.
Jing Yulan replied impatiently, "If you don't even know how you were tricked, how would I?"
"But that alchemist said that although the Three Branches Nine Leaves Grass isn't a poison, if it's not neutralized within forty-eight hours, you'll explode and die. So... so..."
With Jing Yulan's words, if Ye Zhan still didn't understand, he would truly be a block of wood.
"Yulan, you've been wronged! Don't worry, your sacrifice won't be in vain. When I return to the Ye family, I'll propose to the Jing family!"
Ye Zhan pulled Jing Yulan into his arms, holding her tightly and speaking affectionately.
Jing Yulan looked content, pressing against Ye Zhan's chest and listening to his strong heartbeat. A sense of happiness spread through the room.
Suddenly, Ye Zhan released her and exclaimed excitedly, "I know! I know!"
His happiness interrupted, Jing Yulan couldn't help but feel a little annoyed. However, she still asked in confusion, "You know what?"
Ye Zhan grabbed Jing Yulan's shoulders, his excitement palpable. "I know how I was poisoned by the Three Branches Nine Leaves Grass!"
Jing Yulan blinked and asked, "How?"
Ye Zhan released Jing Yulan and clenched his fists, saying coldly, "It was Ping Le!"
"Ping Le? The great pervert who kidnapped me?" Jing Yulan exclaimed in shock.
Ye Zhan nodded. "He must have coated his bone fan with the Three Branches Nine Leaves Grass. Otherwise, there's no way I could have been poisoned." Su Dan Novel Network
"Are you so sure the problem lies with that bone fan?" Jing Yulan asked, puzzled.
She wondered why, if Ping Le wanted to drug him, he could have done so at any time and with any method. Why did Ye Zhan insist the issue was with the bone fan?
Ye Zhan nodded. "Throughout the entire fight, he must have tried to drug me more than once. But because my spiritual energy protected me, those substances couldn't get through. Only that bone fan, by piercing my body, allowed the powdered medicine to infiltrate my bloodstream. That's how I could have been poisoned!"
"That's why he had that strange expression before he died, and why he was so sure I would be buried with him! Because even if I didn't die then, the poison of the Three Branches Nine Leaves Grass would have made me explode!"
"However, man proposes, God disposes. What Ping Le didn't expect was that you would rush over at the critical moment, accidentally saving my life, discovering the poison of the Three Branches Nine Leaves Grass, and even sacrificing your purity for me."
"Yulan! Thank you! I, Ye Zhan, swear to the heavens that if I do not marry you in this life, I would rather live a life worse than death, alone until I grow old!"
A cultivator's oath is marked by the Heavenly Dao. If broken, it will surely come true and befall the cultivator.
Ye Zhan's deep affection and solemn vows immediately made Jing Yulan feel that her sacrifice was worthwhile.
"Ye Zhan, from the moment you saved me, both my person and my heart have belonged to you. Therefore, we don't need to say thank you. I'll be waiting for you to marry me!"
Jing Yulan's eyes sparkled with happiness. She could almost see happiness beckoning to her.
Three days later, the two embarked on their journey home.
Ye Zhan first escorted Jing Yulan back to the Jing family. He left all his spirit stones there, instructed the Jing family head to take good care of Jing Yulan, and repeatedly promised to propose to her as soon as possible.
The Jing family head, already aware that Ye Zhan was the sole heir of the Ye family, one of the four great families of the Battle Heaven Domain, was naturally pleased with this development and readily agreed to Ye Zhan's request.
Although Ye Zhan was reluctant to leave Jing Yulan, he had to give his beloved woman a proper status and officially bring her back to the Ye family.
After leaving the Jing family, Ye Zhan was eager to return home.
He had been away for two years, and it would be a lie to say he didn't miss home. Now, he had completed the family's trial and could return to inherit the position of family head.
At that time, the succession ceremony could be held concurrently with the wedding.
With dreams of their future life, Ye Zhan, filled with joy, returned to the Ye family without delay and informed his father, Ye Qianjue, about his relationship with Jing Yulan.
Ye Qianjue was an open-minded person and held no prejudices about social standing. Moreover, since Jing Yulan had saved his son, he had no reason to object.
Therefore, Ye Qianjue decided to pass on the position of family head to Ye Zhan as soon as possible, and then have Ye Zhan go to welcome Jing Yulan.
Everything was developing for the better, as if the heavens themselves were pitying this pair of lovers.
However, the moon waxes and wanes, and fortune can turn to misfortune.
On the third night after Ye Zhan left the Jing family, a large group of black-clad figures, all experts in the God King realm, arrived at the Jing family.
Without a word, they began a massacre of the Jing family members.
The Jing family head, knowing escape was impossible, used the chaos to send Jing Yulan away from the family, instructing her to find Ye Zhan.
Jing Yulan initially refused to leave, but thinking of Ye Zhan and the unavenged grievances of the Jing family, she gritted her teeth and left the Jing family in tears.
However, the black-clad figures had no intention of sparing anyone in the Jing family and had set up an ambush outside.
Jing Yulan, like a flower in a greenhouse, had little combat experience and was quickly surrounded by the ambushers.
Fortunately, the Jing family head had left her a few skilled guards.
These guards, under the pursuit and interception of the black-clad figures, desperately protected Jing Yulan as she fled.
However, in order to survive, they were forced to deviate from the planned route.
The original direction to the Ye family was west, but Jing Yulan's escape route led east.
Perhaps it was retribution for good deeds.
The black-clad figures had anticipated Jing Yulan seeking help from the Ye family and had thus set up numerous ambushes to the west.
To the east, however, the ambushes were relatively few.
Escorted by a few guards, Jing Yulan soon arrived at Crimson Blood City again and passed through it into the Crimson Source Blood Domain.
By the time the black-clad figures realized what was happening and pursued her, Jing Yulan was already deep within the Crimson Source Blood Domain.
The Crimson Source Blood Domain was the territory of the Ancient Blood Demon.
The Ancient Blood Demon had a rule at that time: humans in the God King realm were forbidden from entering the Crimson Source Blood Domain, as it would be considered a provocation.
Jing Yulan and her companions were only at the initial stage of the Great God realm, so they were not restricted by this rule.
The pursuing black-clad figures were not so lucky.
After paying a certain price, these black-clad figures could only dispatch individuals below the God King realm to continue pursuing Jing Yulan.