“The Profound Cloud Sect has never harbored idlers or trash.
Ye Xuan should be kicked out of the sect.”
“Agreed.”
“Pack your things and get lost.”
In the assembly hall, the Elders of the Profound Cloud Sect glared sharply at Ye Xuan, who stood in the center.
Ye Xuan ignored the sect Elders and instead turned to look at Meng Dieyi, the daughter of the Sect Leader.
She was the most beautiful woman within a thousand miles and Ye Xuan’s fiancée.
“Are you truly going to betray me?” Ye Xuan asked in a deep voice.
Meng Dieyi’s expression remained indifferent.
“I will always remember what you have done for me.
I will owe you for the rest of my life.
However, gratitude is not love.
I truly do not love you anymore.
Let us part on good terms.”
“Gratitude is not love.
Part on good terms.
Hahaha!” Ye Xuan laughed, not at Meng Dieyi, but at himself.
“Meng Dieyi, if I had known you were this hypocritical ten years ago, I never would have saved your life.” Ye Xuan’s voice finally wavered with emotion.
He glanced at the surrounding Elders before fixing his gaze back on Meng Dieyi.
“Ten years ago, you were afflicted by a bizarre poison and only had three days left to live!
You held my hand and said you couldn’t bear to leave this world because you were afraid that if you died, I would be left to suffer alone!
“Ten years ago, when you only had one day left and didn’t want to die, you knelt and begged me to use my bloodline and bones to cure your poison.
You swore that you would never leave me in this life, that we would rely on each other in life and death!
“Heh, I should have known that a woman’s sweet words are nothing but a devil’s lies.
Yet, I foolishly believed you.
“For ten years, day in and day out, I stayed by your side, using my bloodline and bones to cure your poison.
Now, the very first thing you do after recovering is to draw a line between us.
Is this how you repay me with your life?
Is this your promise to never leave me, to rely on each other in life and death?”
Ye Xuan clenched his fists, his knuckles letting out a loud CRACK.
For ten years, he had guarded Meng Dieyi, trading his present and future for this woman’s rebirth.
He never expected that once she was fully cured, she would abandon him.
And her excuse was actually that gratitude wasn’t love!
That was just a polite way of saying: you’re a good person, but sorry, we’re no longer a match.
“Ye Xuan, I am very grateful for your sacrifices, and from the bottom of my heart, I treat you as my benefactor, but—”
Meng Dieyi spoke again, but Ye Xuan interrupted her halfway.
“Don’t speak!
Right now, hearing your voice and seeing your face makes me feel sick!”
“Ye Xuan, watch your tongue!
Dieyi is the Saintess of our Profound Cloud Sect.
Mind your attitude!”
“If it weren’t for the fact that you have merits in treating her, I would smash your mouth to pieces right now!”
The Elders shouted coldly one after another.
“Saintess?” Ye Xuan laughed disdainfully.
Ten years ago, he was the Holy Son.
Meng Dieyi couldn’t even compare to his bloodline and bones.
She only achieved her current status because Ye Xuan had transferred his own bloodline and bones into her body.
Opposite him, Meng Dieyi shook her head slightly, her eyes as clear and cold as a tranquil lake.
She continued, “Ye Xuan, you are just an ordinary person now.
You and I belong to two entirely different worlds.
Do you understand?”
Ye Xuan felt a wave of desolation in his heart.
He thought, “Two different worlds?
Heh.
Don’t you just despise me for being useless now?”
“Ye Xuan, I really did want to be with you, but once the feelings are gone, they’re gone.
I can’t help it.
But rest assured, I will definitely protect you from now on.
I won’t let anyone hurt you or bully you, I swear.”
Ye Xuan couldn’t listen anymore and shouted coldly, “Enough, Meng Dieyi!
You are absolutely hypocritical!
No one in this world is hurting me—the only person hurting me is you.
From the sounds of it, the rumors about you marrying Shen Qingfeng aren’t baseless after all.”
Meng Dieyi paused slightly, seemingly surprised that Ye Xuan had heard about it.
“I…”
“It seems it’s true…
Then stop acting in front of me!
What do you mean ‘gratitude is not love’?
Why the fuck don’t you just come out and say that my current status and position are no longer worthy of you?!
Disgusting.
Absolutely fucking disgusting!
You’re just a bitch—”
Before Ye Xuan could finish his sentence, his body suddenly flew backward, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
A young man dressed in white had abruptly appeared and slapped him.
The young man had a handsome face with sword-like eyebrows and elegant hair.
“How dare you curse at my woman?
This slap is just a lesson!
If there is a next time, I will kill you!” Killing intent shot out from the young man’s eyes.
He was Shen Qingfeng.
“Qingfeng, why are you here?”
Upon seeing Shen Qingfeng, a smile instantly bloomed on Meng Dieyi’s cold face, like a spring breeze melting away the harsh winter.
Shen Qingfeng’s voice softened, and he smiled.
“I came to discuss the exact date for the marriage proposal with the Profound Cloud Sect.”
“Is that so…”
Meng Dieyi’s face flushed slightly as she took the initiative to loop her arm through Shen Qingfeng’s.
The pressure caused her well-developed, majestic peaks to change shape.
The two murmured softly to each other for a few moments before Meng Dieyi finally remembered Ye Xuan.
“Qingfeng, Ye Xuan is my savior.
You’re not allowed to hit him again, or I’ll get mad!
Ye Xuan, are you alright?”
“Fake!
Absolutely fucking fake!” Ye Xuan thought.
He didn’t want to spare Meng Dieyi another glance.
Gritting his teeth, he stood up and turned around, intending to leave the Profound Cloud Sect.
If he wasn’t welcome here, he would find somewhere else to go.
“Ye Xuan, are you really leaving?
Then take this Jade Pendant with you.
It doesn’t suit me.” Meng Dieyi took off a Jade Pendant and threw it to Ye Xuan.
Ye Xuan caught the Jade Pendant, his face ashen.
This Jade Pendant was a token of love Ye Xuan had given to Meng Dieyi.
It had been passed down through the Ye Family for generations, meant only for the daughters-in-law of the Ye Family.
Back then, Meng Dieyi had begged him for the Jade Pendant, declaring that she wanted to be the Ye Family’s daughter-in-law in this lifetime.
She had promised that once she was capable enough to descend the mountain, she would immediately go home with Ye Xuan to meet her future parents-in-law.
Now, however, she claimed it didn’t suit her.
Holding the Jade Pendant, Ye Xuan wore it around his neck.
Without wasting another word, he left the Profound Cloud Sect.
He didn’t want to see Meng Dieyi’s hypocritical and disgusting face ever again.
Two hours later, at the peak of a mountain.
As long as he crossed this mountain, he would be out of the Profound Cloud Sect’s sphere of influence.
Suddenly, a man in white appeared in Ye Xuan’s line of sight.
Seeing this person, Ye Xuan frowned.
It was Shen Qingfeng!
Running into Shen Qingfeng at this time was definitely not a good thing.
“Are you here to kill me?”
“Congratulations, you guessed right.”
“Does she know?” The ‘she’ Ye Xuan referred to was naturally Meng Dieyi.
“Of course she does.
She’s the one who asked me to make a move quietly and take your life.
She knows better than anyone that if you live, she will owe someone for the rest of her life.
If you die, she owes no one.”
“What a vicious bitch!”
“I told you, if you curse my woman again, you’re dead.
Even the gods couldn’t save you.”
“Your woman?
Haha, she’s just used goods.
I got tired of playing with her a long time ago.
She’s already turned black!”
“What!
Didn’t she say you never touched her?
And what do you mean by black?”
Ye Xuan laughed coldly.
“A delicate pink bud turns black after being plucked and played with too many times!”
“You!
Do you think I’d believe your words?
Die!”
Shen Qingfeng flew into a rage.
A colossal tiger, roughly a thousand feet long, abruptly appeared above his head.
The fierce tiger was entirely gold and possessed three eyes.
It coiled in the air, seeming to prop up the sky and stand upon the earth.
Its terrifying oppressive aura sent sand and stones flying, draining the color from the world.
This was the Fierce Beast: the Three-Eyed Golden Tiger, the Beast Soul that Shen Qingfeng had awakened.
“To actually use the power of your Beast Soul…
you really want me dead.”
Ye Xuan’s face was filled with despair.
He hadn’t cultivated for ten years.
His potential and bones had been overdrawn from treating Meng Dieyi.
He was now nothing but a mere mortal; he was absolutely no match for Shen Qingfeng.
Shen Qingfeng merely waved his hand.
The fierce tiger spat a terrifying storm from its mouth.
The storm surged like a dragon, directly striking Ye Xuan’s heart.
Ye Xuan violently coughed up a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward for fifty meters, plummeting into the bottomless abyss adjacent to them.
Right at that moment, Meng Dieyi appeared behind Shen Qingfeng.
“Qingfeng, where is he?”
“I knocked him off the cliff.”
“Then…
is he dead?”
“My palm strike just now completely shattered his heart.
Even if he didn’t die immediately, he won’t survive for more than a minute.
Besides, falling from such a high cliff, his death is absolutely certain.”
“As long as his death is certain, that’s good.”
…
In mid-air, Ye Xuan felt his consciousness rapidly slipping away.
His heart was already shattered.
What made him despair the most was that his body was rapidly plummeting.
He thought, “Am I going to die?
I refuse to accept this.”
Death itself wasn’t frightening.
What was terrifying was the thought that Meng Dieyi would continue to live well, even acting sweet and affectionate with someone else.
How could he die like this?!
He had to live.
He absolutely had to live!
Perhaps because his obsession was too strong, right before Ye Xuan closed his eyes, his body emitted a brilliant light.
This light originated from the Jade Pendant he wore on his chest.
“To think that a descendant of mine, Ye Chen, has actually fallen to such a state.
But perhaps this is the will of heaven, that you have been reduced to a Mortal Body.
Even if you must restart your cultivation from scratch, the timing is perfect.
I can bestow upon you the Dragon Soul and completely awaken the True Dragon Bloodline within your body!”