"What? The Yi, he, Chen Qiye, is refusing to break off the engagement? He, he still wants to protect Yanyue for all eternity?"
"Senior, did we hear wrong? Xiao Yanyue is a good-for-nothing right now. How could she possibly deserve to rejoin the Qingxuan Sect and marry Holy Son Qiye..."
Xiao Yanli's biological father, the Second Elder of the Xiao Family, froze stiff at that moment. He looked toward the giant of the Qingxuan Sect, rubbed his ears, and likewise could not believe what he had just heard!
"This is a letter from our Holy Son Qiye to you."
"These are three thousand spiritual herbs from the storage ring."
"These are top-tier cultivation techniques and secret arts specially prepared for you by our Holy Son Qiye. Niece Xiao Yanyue, please check them to see if there are any issues."
Without paying any attention to Xiao Yanyue and her father, the Qingxuan Sect giant had come this time solely to execute Chen Qiye's orders. Before the Second Elder of the Xiao Family could finish speaking, he directly released the contents of the storage ring into the main hall of the Xiao Family.
He also handed that letter directly into Xiao Yanyue's hands.
Xiao Yanyue and many others had not yet recovered their wits.
Boom!
As the Qingxuan Sect giant released the medicinal herbs from the storage ring into the main hall, all the senior figures of the Xiao Family suffered another terrifying shock!
"Are, are these all for Xiao Yanyue?"
"Is this a millennium Xuan ginseng? Does it even contain Dao rhyme?"
"This is the ice crystal grass of the Tianyuan Forbidden Zone, which can cleanse the marrow and wash the bones, as well as increase cultivation and potential?"
"This is dragon blood wood, which can be used to refine dragon blood pills... My goodness, there are even heavenly patterns flowing across this dragon blood wood..."
The crowd of the Xiao Family, including several Supreme Elders, looked at the mountain of spiritual herbs, their breathing instantly turning somewhat hurried.
The younger generation of the Xiao Family stared at the pile of medicinal herbs, which was even larger than the entire herb repository of the Xiao Family, their bodies freezing completely as they failed to recover their senses for a long time.
"Nine Heavens Stellar Art? Is, is this the world-shaking secret technique passed down directly from the Qinghe Cui Family five thousand years ago? This is a Heavenly-grade technique?"
"Ninefold Surge, this is the signature peerless technique used three years ago by a generation giant of the Zhongzhou Hong Family when he rampaged across eight thousand miles of Qinchuan! And there is also the God-Slaying Art..."
A Supreme Elder of the Xiao Family found his gaze immediately drawn away from the medicinal herbs and toward those five ancient cultivation manuals. His hand trembled; having cultivated for over a thousand years, his Dao heart almost shattered!
If spiritual herbs could help a cultivator achieve a heaven-defying rise in a short period, true world-shaking techniques and secret arts could genuinely lead a cultivator onto the path of a peerless prodigy.
These were even enough to allow a family to rise rapidly in a short span of time.
Their Xiao Family was merely a small family in a borderland region, and their strongest technique was only at the Xuan-grade. Yet among these five techniques and secret arts, even the lowest was at the Earth-grade, while the Nine Heavens Stellar Art was even at the Heavenly-grade!
"Yanyue, reading this letter is like seeing me in person."
"I, Chen Qiye, refuse to break off the engagement! You are my, Chen Qiye's, fiancée. You were in the past, you are now, and you will be even more so in the future!"
"There may be some gossip in the outside world, but I, Chen Qiye, swear to you with my Dao heart, you are the woman I will protect with my life..."
"No matter who dares to harm you by even a fraction, even if I, Chen Qiye, must carry the Tianyuan on my back, wage a bloody war against the Tianqi Imperial City on one side, and face the Great Emperor directly on the other, I will hack the person who hurt you into ashes of the Nine Nether!"
"I have also been searching for a way to help you recover. Once I attain the Saint Realm, I will surely exhaust all my effort and mobilize every resource at my disposal to reshape your dantian and meridians for you... I will surely make your future soar into the azure, defy the heavens to realize the Dao, and cleave the firmament with a single sword... I, Chen Qiye, will protect your eternal peace with my life!"
While the entire Xiao Family was plunged into wild shock, Xiao Yanyue's gaze was drawn to the contents of the letter amidst her astonishment.
The letter was very long!
Xiao Yanyue read it softly. Even though she had grown accustomed to the warmth and coldness of the world over the past ten years, and even though the Empress residing in her ring had awakened, as she looked at the letter from this man before her, her heart, sealed for ten years, still beat violently!
Most importantly, the line in the letter—stating that even if he, Chen Qiye, had to carry the Tianyuan on his back, wage a bloody war against the Tianqi Imperial City on one side, and face the Great Emperor directly on the other, he would still protect her eternal peace—made Xiao Yanyue's heart contract fiercely!
Chen Qiye! What kind of man is he, really?!
A flush of red appeared on Xiao Yanyue's pale, peerless face, and the oppression she had accumulated in her heart for ten years suddenly wanted to pour out.
No matter how she was humiliated, mocked, and fell from a genius, nobody knew how she had spent those ten years!
She, Xiao Yanyue, also had her pride. For ten years, despite enduring heavy humiliation, she had never truly bowed her head or genuinely admired anyone around her. Yet now, deep within her heart, a towering figure had abruptly appeared!
"Refusing to break off the engagement? Protecting her eternal peace? Medicinal herbs, cultivation techniques?"
Inside Xiao Yanyue's ring, that generation of the Desolate Ancient Empress, Shentu, was also momentarily stunned. In her prime, she naturally wouldn't have given such things a second glance.
Yet now, looking at the contents of the letter, her expression of a ten-thousand-year unchanging iceberg softened somewhat, and she paused slightly.
In this treacherous Eastern Wasteland, is there truly such a deeply affectionate and righteous man?
"This Chen Qiye... these medicinal herbs..." Inside the ring, the divine soul of Empress Shentu softened slightly.
"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"
"You came carrying a coffin; you were supposed to come and kill Xiao Yanyue! Otherwise, why did you bring a coffin?!"
"You, are you planning to first let her reach the peak, and then plunge her into hell in the most cruel way? Are you going to kill her in the most cruel way, you..."
In the main hall, Xiao Yanli, who had endured and anticipated this for ten years, found it utterly impossible to accept the shocking scene before her.
At that moment, she abruptly stood up with a ferocious expression. Staring directly at the giant of the Qingxuan Sect, she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Clang!"
"The coffin I carry is the Tianxuan Coffin. Cultivating inside this coffin before reaching the Heavenly Dao Realm can increase cultivation speed by half. It is a supreme treasure of our Tianxuan Sect, and our Holy Son Qiye asked me to deliver it to aid Niece Yanyue in her cultivation."
Before Xiao Yanli could finish speaking, the giant of the Qingxuan Sect interrupted her once again!
The Qingxuan Sect giant spoke word by word, and almost every single word struck Xiao Yanli like a heavy hammer, pounding fiercely against the hearts of everyone in the Xiao Family as well!
"The Tianxuan Coffin, it is actually the Tianxuan Coffin?" The strongest Supreme Elder of the Xiao Family seemed to recognize the Tianxuan Coffin, and his expression changed drastically once again. The shock in the eyes of all the experts of the Xiao Family erupted to the absolute limit at that moment!
"Chen, Qiye..."
Inside the Xiao Family main hall, Xiao Yanyue's complexion flushed crimson!
...
Qingxuan Sect, Tongtian Peak!
"Xiao Family Third Elder is shocked, gaining Xiao Yanyue's gratitude, Heavenly Dao Value +8!"
"Xiao Family's Xiao Yanli is extremely shocked, gaining Xiao Yanyue's gratitude, Heavenly Dao Value +18!"
"Xiao Family Patriarch Xiao Ding is shocked, gaining Xiao Yanyue's gratitude, gaining a realm breakthrough... gaining a chance at a lucky draw..."
Listening to the continuous prompts ringing in his mind and the ever-increasing Dao fortune on his body, Chen Qiye slowly recovered from his shock.
It really is a system!
He, Chen Qiye, the destined supreme villain, actually has a system!
"Could my golden finger be gaining the favor of my fiancée, along with the shock she causes? And what is this Heavenly Dao Value used for?"
"Wait, shouldn't there be an instruction manual?"
Chen Qiye was puzzled. He didn't completely figure out how to use this system right away, but just as he was thinking, the aura on his body suddenly began to erupt once again!
"What?! Eldest Senior Brother, look quickly, Eldest Senior Brother seems to be having another breakthrough!"
"This is impossible. Eldest Senior Brother just advanced to the Peak Tianxuan Realm, and now he's going to break through again? Th-this, how is this possible? Is Eldest Senior Brother even human?"
"Bah, bah, bah! How is Eldest Senior Brother not human? In my dream yesterday, Eldest Senior Brother even married me! Eldest Senior Brother also said he wants to marry me with a ten-thousand-li red dowry procession!"
"Eldest Senior Brother... Eldest Senior Brother would like someone with your winter-melon figure?"
"I don't care! He married me in my dream, so Eldest Senior Brother has to take responsibility for me. Otherwise, I'm going to go to Master and accuse him of molesting me! This is molestation, he has to take responsibility, and I feel like I even have his seed in my belly!"
Up and down the Qingxuan Sect, another shockwave rippled through.
This time, even from within an ancient tomb ten thousand years old located in the deepest part of the Qingxuan Sect's back mountain, a gaze shot toward Chen Qiye!