Chu Mengyao and Chu Hong fled in panic, completely terrified.
Until the very last moment, they could not believe what had happened today.
The others in the grand hall also departed one after another.
At the same time, the looks they directed at Su Qianyu completely changed, shifting from initial pity to something deeply bizarre.
"I've lived a long time, but I've truly never seen anything like this!"
Some marveled in disbelief, while others gloated, already preparing to watch a good show.
Until everyone had left.
Su Longyuan finally looked at Su Qianyu. "You handled that rather well. I was just looking for an excuse to take the Chu Family down a peg. Did they really think they could act lawlessly just because they caught the eye of a Heavenly Sword Sect elder?"
Su Qianyu raised his head slightly.
"Father, actually I was being entirely..."
"Being entirely what?" Before Su Qianyu could finish, Su Longyuan immediately stood up and glared at him.
"Are you seriously starving?"
He walked right up to Su Qianyu.
"If you really can't hold back, go take a stroll through the Pleasure Pavilion to blow off some steam, and I'll just turn a blind eye."
"Even though Chu Yanran is the number one beauty in the Tianwu Dynasty, she is more than a decade older than me! More than a decade older than me, do you hear me?!!"
"What, are you trying to make your own father address you by some weird title?" Su Longyuan was so furious his mustache bristled and his face turned crimson.
Su Qianyu scratched his head. "Well, that won't be necessary. When the time comes, the two of us can just handle our own respective titles."
Hearing this, Su Longyuan almost failed to keep himself from slapping him across the face, then looked solemnly at Su Qianyu.
"You're not actually serious, are you?"
He had assumed Su Qianyu's words earlier were merely meant to salvage the dignity he had lost by being publicly rejected in marriage, but now it seemed the fellow was not joking at all.
This unfilial son!
"Of course I'm serious."
Su Qianyu nodded heavily.
If he wanted to rapidly improve his cultivation and talent, he had to obtain the pristine yin of that Chu Family ancestor.
Therefore, he had to marry Chu Yanran!
Su Longyuan gritted his teeth in anger, then sighed. "Even with my command, Chu Yanran won't necessarily submit without a fight."
Chu Yanran's strength was by no means inferior to his own, and now that Chu Mengyao had also gained the favor of an elder from the Heavenly Sword Sect, the Chu Family was gradually slipping out of his control.
Even if Chu Yanran defied his orders, there was nothing he could do about it. As for his threat earlier to execute the nine familial clans of the Chu Family, that was purely said to scare them.
In the current situation, he genuinely did not dare to move against the Chu Family; if he angered the Heavenly Sword Sect, the entire Tianwu Dynasty would be finished.
"I have my own ways of dealing with that."
...
Back in his chambers.
Su Qianyu immediately sensed the changes within his body, and soon discovered a dazzling cluster of golden light in his dantian.
"It really is as I thought. My rebirth is definitely connected to this light cluster!" Su Qianyu's eyes lit up.
In his previous life, the Supreme Remnant had appeared, causing a massive commotion throughout the Northern Spirit Domain.
Yet at the time, he was merely an ordinary disciple of the Heavenly Sword Sect, forced to linger at the periphery of the remnant with no chance of entering.
Unexpectedly, however,
a streak of light moving at ultimate speed suddenly shot out from the depths of the Supreme Remnant, plunging directly into his body.
And this exact scene had been witnessed by Lin Han and Chu Mengyao, the personal disciples of the Heavenly Sword Sect's Deputy Sect Master, who demanded that Su Qianyu hand the item over.
Naturally, Su Qianyu refused, whereupon Chu Mengyao and Lin Han directly attacked and brutally executed him.
To this day, Su Qianyu still vividly remembered the infinitely contemptuous smiles on the faces of Chu Mengyao and Lin Han.
This hatred was irreconcilable!
"Let me see what this truly is."
Su Qianyu took a deep breath, then projected his divine sense into the golden light cluster, whereupon a beam of golden light shot straight into his mind.
"Yin-Yang... Chaos Formula?"
The next second, Su Qianyu felt a wave of dizziness wash over him, his head splitting with pain.
When he gradually regained his clarity, he was shocked to discover that a cultivation technique named the *Yin-Yang Chaos Formula* had appeared in his mind.
After carefully examining the technique, Su Qianyu's expression suddenly turned bizarre.
"Although this technique is only of the Huang Grade Lower Tier, the miraculous part is that its rank and cultivation can be elevated through dual cultivation with women."
"Moreover, the higher the cultivation and the stronger the physique of the dual-cultivation partner, the greater the boost, to the point where elevating this technique to the legendary Heaven Grade is not entirely out of the question."
To put it simply, the more you do it, the stronger you get!
This completely subverted his original understanding.
One had to know that the cultivation techniques on the Profound Spirit Continent were divided from high to low into four major grades: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Huang, with each major grade further subdivided into four minor ranks: Premium, Superior, Medium, and Inferior.
The higher the grade of a technique, the faster the speed at which it absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven and earth, and the higher the cultivator's talent and potential.
Taking the entire Tianwu Dynasty as a whole, the highest-grade technique available was merely of the Huang Grade Premium.
Even after joining the Heavenly Sword Sect in his previous life, Su Qianyu had only managed to acquire a Profound Grade Medium Tier technique.
"What an incredible treasure!"
A sharp gleam flashed in Su Qianyu's eyes.
Without the slightest hesitation, he directly crippled the technique he was currently practicing and switched to the *Yin-Yang Chaos Formula*.
In an instant, Su Qianyu's cultivation plummeted from the True Profound Realm First Layer, reducing him to an ordinary mortal.
Yet he believed that with this technique,
once he obtained Chu Yanran's pristine yin, his physique and cultivation would undoubtedly undergo a tremendous transformation.
...
The next day.
The Chu Family Estate.
"Simply intolerable!"
"Utterly intolerable!"
"A wet-behind-the-ears brat actually dares to covet our ancestor?"
Chu Hong's expression had remained gloomy since yesterday, looking exceptionally unsightly.
"That Su Qianyu is truly a toad lusting after a swan's meat!" Chu Mengyao also said with a face full of indignation.
She then raised her head to look at the alluring woman standing before her, a flash of awe and jealousy crossing her eyes.
That person was none other than the current ancestor of the Chu Family, Chu Yanran.
Although Chu Yanran was already over a hundred years old, she appeared to be barely in her early twenties.
Her figure was tall and voluptuous, her skin as smooth and flawless as jade, and her features exquisitely delicate. Her entire being radiated a mature charm, resembling a perfectly ripe peach that made one yearn to hold her in their arms and take a fierce bite.
Even Chu Mengyao, who was in the prime of her youth, suffered a comprehensive defeat when standing in comparison, bearing no basis for rivalry whatsoever.
"How could that wet-behind-the-ears brat dare?"
After listening to Chu Hong and Chu Mengyao recount the events of yesterday, Chu Yanran was so angry she nearly gritted her teeth to pieces, a look of fury surfacing on her cold face.
In all her years of life, the number of people who coveted her was countless, and she had long since grown accustomed to it.
Yet she never imagined she would be targeted by a punk barely in his early twenties.
This truly caught her somewhat off guard.
"Ancestor need not pay him any mind. Mengyao has already caught the eye of Elder Zhao from the Heavenly Sword Sect and will be able to enter the sect to cultivate in half a month. Su Longyuan would never dare to act rashly."
Chu Hong spoke from the side.
Although Su Longyuan had flexed his authority yesterday, he believed that unless Su Longyuan wanted to drag everyone down in mutual destruction, he could not possibly actually move against them.
Just at that moment, however,
the sound of gongs and drums drifted over, and a Chu Family servant came running hastily to report.
"Family head, this is terrible! The Ninth Prince has arrived, and he's brought a wedding procession with him!"
Hearing this, Chu Hong and Chu Mengyao instantly flew into a rage. "That punk actually dares to come?!"
Chu Yanran was also somewhat surprised, then slowly rose to her feet.
"Then let's go out and take a look, and see if he's truly eaten the courage of a bear and a leopard!"