After a while, Shangguan Yaoyao was still conscious, and her spellcasting remained unaffected. Jiang Lin’s heart instantly sank by half. As expected of the Emperor Fox Bloodline—paired with top-tier charm techniques, she could actually ignore the number one aphrodisiac poison of ancient times.
He had originally planned to take advantage of her falling victim to the poison, tie her up, and use her to threaten Xiao Dong into lifting the blood sacrifice on the Nine Heavens Teleportation Shuttle. Now, it seemed he had miscalculated.
Not dwelling on it, Jiang Lin continued acting and said, “Shangguan Yaoyao, give me back the Ten Thousand Desires Strange Poison Core, or I won’t spare Xiao Dong!”
The words “Ten Thousand Desires Strange Poison Core” made Shangguan Yaoyao freeze. Ten Thousand Desires Poison Core? Wasn’t that the source core of the family’s supreme immortal technique, Heavenly Charm Art? For generations, no one had mastered the technique because this poison core was missing. Now, the heavens had favored her! Her eyes lit up with excitement, and without thinking, she kissed the multicolored crystal core, making Jiang Lin’s heart skip a beat. This woman really dared!
Seeing that Shangguan Yaoyao not only showed no signs of poisoning or weakening, but instead looked even more energetic, Jiang Lin knew he had just thrown a meat bun to a dog—never to see it again.
“Jiang Lin, this crystal core is mine now. I have great use for it!”
“Impossible, that’s mine!” Jiang Lin retorted immediately.
“Look at the situation. Do you think you have the right to bargain?” she said coldly. “Soon, my protector will notice I’m missing. You won’t escape, and when that happens, not even the Jiang family will be able to protect you!”
Jiang Lin tried to threaten her into giving the poison core back. That thing could raise his true qi to Emperor-grade quality.
Seeing that he wouldn’t let go, Shangguan Yaoyao gritted her teeth and directly swallowed the crystal core. “Now, even if the Jiang family comes, they can’t do anything to me! You wouldn’t go so far as to make a life-and-death feud with the Shangguan family over a crystal core, right? So now, what can you do to me…”
Before she could finish, her gaze turned hazy, and she began pulling at her clothes. She had underestimated the number one aphrodisiac poison of ancient times. To dare swallow it directly—in all history, she was the first. The Heavenly Charm Art required a special method to draw it into the body.
“What’s this? Why is it suddenly so hot?” she murmured. The next moment, her mind froze, and she lost control.
“Damn, you’re bold!” Jiang Lin exclaimed, but he couldn’t feel happy. She didn’t go weak or lose strength—her power was soaring instead. She had already broken through the Nascent Soul Realm, stepping directly into the Spirit Severing Realm!
“Hey, hey, big sister, don’t scare me. You were fine just now!” Jiang Lin frantically tugged at his restraining chains. “Don’t come over, let’s talk about this! You can go find your lover! Hey, not like this! Don’t do this, just let me go, okay?” His voice grew anxious.
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. If he could control her, he’d take advantage without hesitation. But tied up like this—when she came to her senses, wouldn’t she slice him into a thousand pieces? And what’s this about them being the ones who started it? Never try reasoning with a protagonist couple—they only see from their own perspective.
Soon, the situation spiraled completely out of control.
A day and night later.
“I… am going to kill you!” Tears streamed down Shangguan Yaoyao’s face as she pressed a longsword to Jiang Lin’s neck.
What? Classic female lead thinking… Jiang Lin closed his eyes, focusing on regaining his strength. Did she have any idea what he had just endured over the past day and night? She had true qi to replenish her stamina. He, unable to use any, had to endure it all. Fortunately, he had just obtained the Pure Yang Sacred Body, his foundation was solid, and he could hold out.
“Hmph, if my ninth-grade Pure Yang Nascent Soul can’t be formed, so be it. I’ll just die—my cultivation path is ruined!” Jiang Lin’s eyes gleamed viciously as he continued acting, retreating to advance, playing on her mind. He wouldn’t yield unless he was truly at death’s door.
Shangguan Yaoyao’s wrist trembled. What? He wanted to form a ninth-grade Pure Yang Nascent Soul? Hadn’t he played with countless women since young? Wasn’t he long past being pure? How could he form such a supreme yang nascent soul?
But suddenly, she felt waves of rich yang energy nourishing her body, directly raising her cultivation to mid-stage Spirit Severing Realm.
I… actually broke through again?! Such dense yang energy? He’s truly pure? And this… was the nourishment of the Pure Yang Sacred Body?! Impossible!
“You can rest assured, once I die, Xiao Dong won’t live either!” Jiang Lin said coldly. “Now that I’ve been missing for a whole day and night, the Jiang family has probably already captured Xiao Dong and is torturing him!”
At the mention of Xiao Dong, Shangguan Yaoyao completely panicked, the sword in her hand trembling.
Jiang Lin saw his chance and pressed on, “Go ahead, kill me! You’ve destroyed my cultivation path and humiliated my dignity—why? I had no grudges with you. Why did you have to open that box after I told you not to? You even swallowed it directly! I told you to go to your lover, but you insisted on clinging to me! Despicable woman, go on, stab me! I’ll drag Xiao Dong and the entire Shangguan family to the grave with me!”
Each cutting word pierced Shangguan Yaoyao’s heart.
Clang! The sword slipped from her hand, her face streaming with tears. Her cultivation heart reversed, blood trickled from her lips, and she collapsed unconscious.
Attack successful.
The surrounding space shook violently before collapsing, and the two appeared in Jiang Lin’s private courtyard. They had never left it at all—that’s why the Jiang family hadn’t come looking for him. Read the latest chapters at novelping(.)com.
Thud! Jiang Lin crashed heavily to the ground, the restriction in his body vanishing completely. Suddenly, a torrent of pure yin true essence surged through him, directly boosting him two minor levels—late-stage Nascent Soul Realm. His nascent soul phantom began solidifying, almost reaching great perfection.
This world was too bizarre. Just one day here, and he had been forcibly… by the number one female lead.
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for intercepting the number one female lead (Little villain, you’re so outrageous, no one could imagine you’d dare this!). Reward: Villain Points, divine-grade talent “Instant Comprehension.”]
[Instant Comprehension: A divine-grade talent allowing the Host to instantly possess heaven-defying comprehension. Any cultivation technique or martial art can be mastered completely after a single glance… Dear little villain, with this talent, you have the capital to become an even greater villain!]
[Ding! Instant Comprehension activated. All previously learned cultivation techniques and martial arts (Ancient Poison Scripture, Spirit Snake Movement, Soul-Reaping Heavenly Needles…) have been fully mastered, reaching supreme grandmaster (top-tier) level!]
[Ding! Congratulations to the Host for forming a bond with the number one female lead. Villain Fate-Severing Mission unlocked. From now on, each time you sever one of the protagonist’s romantic fortunes, your bloodline quality will increase by one grade (Progress: 0/10).]
[Ways to sever romantic fortunes: 1. Seize the romantic fortune from the woman (using special fortune techniques or artifacts, or by triggering related events). 2. Set up schemes to turn the romantic fortune into the protagonist’s doom! (Note: The woman must not die before the reward is obtained, or it will be considered a failure!)]
[Reminder: Due to this successful interception, the Heavenly Dao compensates by increasing the protagonist Xiao Dong’s cultivation to the Nascent Soul Realm!]
Feeling his mind become razor-sharp, filled with a vast ocean of martial knowledge and cultivation manuals, Jiang Lin was utterly stunned. This… was too heaven-defying! To think the immortal technique Ancient Poison Scripture was now fully mastered—that was something even thousand-year-old monsters might not achieve!
And then there was the insane Fate-Severing Mission—sever the protagonist’s romantic fortunes to improve his bloodline quality? If word got out, the entire great world would be shaken. Sever ten of Xiao Dong’s romantic fortunes, and he would directly become a forbidden bloodline!
What’s more, he already knew who the female leads were. He only needed to seize their romantic fortune or use them as pawns to become Xiao Dong’s doom to complete the mission. Even if they wouldn’t cooperate, he could use various means to force them.
If he could truly become a forbidden bloodline, then in the Battle of Immortal Fall, he would be guaranteed to kill Xiao Dong. Even the Heavenly Dao wouldn’t be able to stop him. This mission had handed him a clear path to survival.
“Intercepting the number one female lead means Xiao Dong should now be in the Nascent Soul Realm… Looks like I’ve profited no matter what. The Instant Comprehension talent alone is already worth it! But severing ten romantic fortunes in a row… the butterfly effect will completely erase my advantage of knowing the plot. And the longer I wait, the stronger Xiao Dong will become—too great a loss. Ah, there’s no perfect solution in this world! I’ll focus on raising my bloodline to divine-grade first…”
Looking down at the unconscious Shangguan Yaoyao, Jiang Lin smiled. “Though things didn’t go entirely according to plan, you still ended up in my hands. Looks like the Nine Heavens Teleportation Shuttle is mine too.”
The next moment, he released a thread of his natal poison essence into Shangguan Yaoyao’s body. With this, she would never escape his grasp again.