Father was dead...
But I, Lin Qingran, absolutely could not die here!
Her powerful will to survive made her force down the fear in her heart and speak.
"This jade bracelet... Su Chenxiao gave it to me!"
Su Jingheng's brows drew tightly together.
He stared at Lin Qingran's face for quite a while.
"..."
The Immortal Jade their mother had given him was bound to his younger brother.
Unless his younger brother personally gave it away, not even a Supreme Realm expert could remove it!
Could this woman truly have some sort of relationship with his younger brother?
Before he could think further, Su Yaohuang's startled cry suddenly came from afar.
"Big Brother! Little Brother looks so strange! Look, what's wrong with him?!"
Su Jingheng's expression changed, and he hurriedly looked over.
"Little Brother?!"
"What did you say happened to Little Brother?!"
Lin Qingran, meanwhile, let out a breath of relief.
Like someone who had just escaped drowning, she knelt on the ground and greedily gulped down the air reeking of blood and stench.
Elsewhere.
Su Chenxiao, cradled in Su Yaohuang's arms, wore a pained expression, cold sweat continuously streaming down his forehead.
Su Yaohuang looked anxious as she urgently said to Su Jingheng.
"I already gave Little Brother an Azure Emperor Pill just now. The Azure Emperor Pill can heal all injuries, so why does Little Brother still look so pained?!"
Ding...
Innate Chaos God, Innate God-Demon Body fusion progress: 90%...
95%...97%...100%!
Fusion complete!
Boom!
As Su Chenxiao fused the two divine bodies, an astonishing aura suddenly erupted from within him!
Ancient, mysterious Chaos Qi, mingled with the power of Gods and Devils, gradually spread outward...
Su Jingheng's face grew solemn.
"Demonic God Qi... But why is there another special aura on Little Brother's body, one I have never seen before?"
Even he had never witnessed something like the fusion of constitutions. He could only say in a low voice.
"Father and Mother will arrive soon. Stay here and look after Little Brother first."
"That woman seems to have some connection to Little Brother. Little Brother is in poor condition now; we'll discuss it after he wakes up!"
Su Yaohuang nodded.
She glanced at the still-shaken Lin Qingran in the distance. Naturally, she had also noticed that Little Brother's Immortal Jade was on the other woman.
Hearing the unusual meaning in his words, Su Yaohuang turned back and stared directly at Su Jingheng.
"Big Brother, what are you going to do?"
A dense killing intent flashed through Su Jingheng's deep eyes, the gloom in his heart still impossible to dispel.
He said coldly.
"Kill."
As soon as he spoke, Su Jingheng transformed into a crimson streak of light and vanished from the place.
Su Yaohuang said nothing more. She understood that only blood could lessen the fury in her elder brother's heart at this moment!
Su Yaohuang looked down at the pained Su Chenxiao in her arms, her beautiful eyes filled with heartache and sorrow.
The Fire Phoenix Mark between her brows flickered. Strands of blazing scarlet natal divine flame leaped out and wrapped around Su Chenxiao, shielding him from all disturbance.
"Little Brother, don't be afraid. Father and Mother will be here soon...
"We're taking you home now..."
Once Su Jingheng left, that terrifying pressure abruptly vanished.
Only then did the surviving people have a chance to catch their breath.
It was as though Lin Qingran's Divine Soul had been pulled from her body, and she collapsed limply where she was.
With one thought, heaven; with one thought, hell. Just a moment ago, she had still been immersed in the joy of becoming a disciple of the Tianqi Dao Sect...
The next moment, a man and woman who called themselves Su Chenxiao's kin descended from the heavens like deities...
Even the Tianqi Dao Sect's Supreme Elder, an Enlightenment Realm existence whom she regarded as supreme, had been wiped out in a single strike.
Everything, everything felt like a dream.
She looked at Su Yaohuang, the breathtakingly beautiful, noble, and proud peerless woman not far away.
The blood and severed remains all around told her that everything here was real, as though she had entered another lifetime.
Lin Qingran's hair was disheveled, and she sat slumped on the ground in a daze.
Looking at the jade bracelet on her right hand, Lin Qingran murmured softly.
"What exactly... what exactly did I miss..."
Just as she was lost in melancholy.
Su Yaohuang had somehow arrived before Lin Qingran.
Her breathtakingly beautiful face was filled with frost, devoid of even a trace of emotion. Like a Divine Maiden standing high above, she looked down upon Lin Qingran.
That gaze seemed as though it would see through every part of her.
"You said that the Immortal Jade in your hand was personally given to you by my Little Brother?"
Lin Qingran slowly raised her head.
Her heart jolted.
At such close range, she felt Su Yaohuang's flawless perfection even more keenly.
Compared to her, the other woman's noble and aloof bearing seemed inborn, while she herself was merely a counterfeit forcing herself to imitate it.
Lin Qingran felt even more inferior for a moment and did not dare meet the other woman's gaze.
She could only lower her head in shame and say quietly.
"I... I didn't lie to you..."
"It's true."
Su Yaohuang lifted a jade-like finger, and the Storage Ring in Lin Qingran's hand floated out of control.
Buzz.
With merely a thought, she effortlessly broke the restrictions within the Storage Ring.
As one treasure after another floated out.
Seeing those treasures that belonged to Little Brother, Su Yaohuang's delicate brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
Among them were no shortage of life-saving supreme treasures that she and her elder brother had given Little Brother.
If Little Brother had possessed even one of them, he would not have ended up in such a state today.
Su Yaohuang's gaze was suddenly drawn to a jade bottle.
From that jade bottle, she sensed the aura of Little Brother's Innate God-Demon Body.
"Pop."
The bottle's stopper opened, and pearl-white pills floated out one after another.
Su Yaohuang's beautiful eyes narrowed as she looked furiously at the head-lowered Lin Qingran.
"These are pills refined from Little Brother's God-Demon essence blood?!"
Upon discovering this, even Su Yaohuang, who had always been mild-tempered, became somewhat enraged.
"Little Brother actually went this far for you?"
That terrifying aura made Lin Qingran tremble all over.
"I don't know. I truly don't know."
Su Yaohuang could no longer endure it. Raising her jade-like hand, she fiercely slapped Lin Qingran across the cheek!
Slap!
She had used no power at all. It was merely an ordinary slap, yet incomparably crisp.
"Wretched maid!"
Lin Qingran was stunned.
A handprint swiftly appeared on her snow-white cheek.
Overwhelming humiliation surged forth like a tide.
Yet before this noble woman, untouched by worldly dust, she could not summon even a shred of resistance in her heart.
Su Yaohuang seized her chin. Her brilliant phoenix eyes stared unblinkingly at Lin Qingran, brimming with killing intent.
"Do you know that even quasi-emperors would covet these treasures!"
"Without Little Brother's permission, they could never have appeared in your possession."
"I don't know what relationship you have with Little Brother."
"But after Little Brother treated you so well, when he faced calamity, you merely stood by and watched?"
She felt it was not worth it for Little Brother!
Why had such an ordinary-looking, terribly untalented woman from the lower realm made the son of the Imperial Clan Su Family's patriarch—her and her elder brother's blood-related younger brother—so obsessed?!
Feeling Su Yaohuang's undisguised killing intent.
Lin Qingran's entire body turned icy cold, and the fear in her heart intensified. She could not utter a single word.
"I... I..."
Su Yaohuang grabbed Lin Qingran by the hair and directly threw her to the ground.
With eyes cold to the extreme, she said.
"Now you know how to play the little white rabbit?"
"Wretched maid! Let me tell you: if anything happens to Little Brother, every living being in your Cangshi Realm will be buried alongside him!"
Imperial Clan... Su Family?
This name, which she had never heard before, appeared in Lin Qingran's world for the first time.
Lin Qingran had never imagined that Su Chenxiao came from the myriad heavens she had longed for in her dreams, and that he possessed such a terrifying background!
She did not dare say another word, afraid that the other party, who knew the cause of everything, would kill her.
At the same time, she still clung to a last sliver of luck, and even...
Secret delight?
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