Impregnation Attack

"I don't believe every inch of his body is impervious to blades and spears. Cut his back passage!"

Yu Ruyi no longer bore even a trace of her former enchanting charm. Her hair hung loose and wild, and she looked like a shrew. She clutched Hanyu's arms and rolled beneath him, making him press down on her as she exposed her broad back.

Though Hanyu very much wanted to savor the softness pressed against his chest, the little chrysanthemum behind him was in grave danger.

"You really are vicious!"

Hanyu glared at her through gritted teeth, then suddenly drove his head forward, smashing it brutally into the bridge of her nose.

Yu Ruyi released him with a cry of pain, clutching her nose and wailing. In that instant, Hanyu suddenly reached into his robes and tossed a pill straight into her mouth.

Qi Tiangao had already caught up. A butcher's knife flashing with cold light stabbed directly toward Hanyu's back passage.

A chill ran through Hanyu from head to toe. How could he dare test whether that spot was hard enough?

He could not test it, so he could only roll away. Qi Tiangao was stubborn as a mule—while Hanyu kept rolling across the ground, he attacked nothing but his back passage, ignoring even the wide-open target of his face.

"If you don't go check on your wife, she'll be gone before long."

Hanyu, filthy and dust-covered from rolling, suddenly shouted. Qi Tiangao turned to look and saw Yu Ruyi lying on her back, both hands covering her stomach in terror.

Taking advantage of his distraction, Hanyu hurriedly flipped over, sprang to his feet, and ran for his life.

Qi Tiangao radiated killing intent as he gritted his teeth and gave chase again.

"I'm not joking. Turn around and look again."

Hanyu pointed behind Qi Tiangao as he ran.

At that moment, Yu Ruyi cried out in pain as well. "Husband, I... my stomach hurts so much."

Qi Tiangao panicked and wanted to turn back, but Hanyu was about to escape again, and he could not help wanting to chase after him.

"Think it through yourself. If you don't care whether she lives or dies, with your conditions, you probably won't have any hope of marrying another wife for the rest of your life."

Hanyu shouted as he ran.

Qi Tiangao stopped with a dark expression. At last, he abandoned the pursuit and headed toward his wife instead.

Hanyu ran blindly, gasping so hard he could barely catch his breath, yet he did not dare stop for even a moment. Then came the clatter of hooves and the neighing of a horse. When he turned his head, he saw Yixian driving the same carriage from before toward him at full speed.

"Get up here! You can't run far on foot!"

Yixian began shouting from a distance as he drove the carriage over. Hanyu understood at once and dashed forward. As man and horse crossed paths, he leaped into the air...

Yu Ruyi stared at her stomach in horror, while Qi Tiangao beside her frowned deeply. "Why can't I tell what poison you've been struck by?"

"N-No... it isn't poison."

Yu Ruyi's face was deathly pale as she watched her round belly begin to stir.

"My stomach... there's something moving inside my stomach. It's kicking me!"

Qi Tiangao paced anxiously in circles beside her, yet he had no idea what to do.

An hour later.

Yu Ruyi's clothes were in disarray, only loosely pulled together, exposing great swaths of spring scenery by accident. Her expression was complicated as she held a baby wrapped in her chest cloth.

Qi Tiangao's face was ashen, his eyes bloodshot, and his fists clenched until they crackled.

He felt that he had been affronted. He had been cuckolded.

Consumed by vicious fury, he drew his butcher's knife and slashed it down savagely.

"Don't!"

Yu Ruyi let out a shrill scream and hurriedly threw herself in front of it, shielding the baby with her body...

Inside the carriage, Yixian kept driving the horses toward Yujin Prefecture. They had long since passed the mountain road; in the time it took an incense stick to burn, they would reach the city.

Having already made it this far, that wicked couple surely would not dare pursue them again. That would be no different from courting death.

Behind the curtain, Coconut sat curled up in a corner, silently wiping away tears. Clearly, the lingering fright had yet to fade. And it truly was terrifying—those husband and wife would turn people into livestock to sell at the drop of a hat.

Not only would they have to eat fodder, but no one knew when they might be slaughtered and divided up for food like animals.

Even Hanyu, a grown man, found it terrifying just thinking about it.

I wonder whether the child has been born yet.

Hanyu stroked his chin as he thought.

The pill he had put into Yu Ruyi's mouth earlier was naturally the Guanyin's Child-Giving Pill. What a sin—those two people who had wandered the world committing every evil would now have to start raising a child.

"Hanyu, which sect are you from?"

While driving, Yixian suddenly turned back and asked curiously.

"Me?"

"I'm just an ordinary person. I don't belong to any sect."

Hanyu pointed at himself and laughed.

Yixian looked him up and down suspiciously, then shook his head. "Impossible. With your ability to withstand blades and swords all over your body, even ordinary Body Cultivators aren't that outrageous. If it's inconvenient to say, forget it."

"It's not something I can't say. I really don't belong to any sect."

Hanyu said solemnly.

"Then you're a Rogue Cultivator?"

Suppose he was.

After all, he truly was a lone wanderer.

So Hanyu nodded. At once, Yixian's eyes lit up, and his mood became heated with excitement. He said enthusiastically, "Then would you be interested in joining my sect?"

"Your sect?"

Hanyu shot him a surprised glance. He had not expected someone so young to have already founded a sect.

Yet Yixian's explanation that followed left him not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

The so-called sect was merely an unregistered makeshift outfit, and its name had been chosen with equal carelessness.

It was called the "Rogue Cultivator Self-Strengthening Sect."

The name sounded utterly pathetic.

Still, the sect's guiding principle was rather unusual. The entire sect had no position of Sect Master; it was simply a group of Rogue Cultivators gathering into a sect to huddle together for warmth.

Could a sect like that really have members? Surely it was just him and that little girl wiping her tears away!

"There are some. Besides Coconut and me, there's also Mortal, Cousin, and Drifter."

Yixian scratched his head and laughed sheepishly. This sect really did have pitifully few people.

Listening to that string of names, Hanyu asked in utter confusion, "Not to be rude, but why are all your names stranger than the last?"

Yixian grinned and pointed at himself. "I was raised by a Daoist temple and had no name. Yixian is my Daoist name. Coconut and the others all picked nicknames. Everyone is used to calling each other that anyway."

"Will you join? The sect has no restrictions at all. It's just that if a member needs help, then if you're willing, you lend a hand. And if you run into trouble, you can ask the sect for help too."

It truly was a Rogue Cultivator Self-Strengthening Sect in name and reality—a place for people to huddle together for warmth.

Yixian kept looking at him with hopeful eyes. Hanyu thought for a moment, then hesitated. "But I have no fixed home. I can't stay in one place all the time."

"That's fine. Which person in the sect isn't running all over the world? We have no restrictions on that."

Yixian immediately broke into a smile upon hearing that.

"Then I'll join. It sounds pretty interesting."

A Command Token was placed in Hanyu's hand. He did not know what metal it was made from, but it felt slightly heavy in his palm and was covered in engraved runes. Yixian said it was essential for members.

"If you encounter danger, you can activate the Command Token. If there are any of our people within ten li, they'll receive the signal."

That astonished Hanyu greatly. Even Star Sect might not necessarily possess something like this.

"Cousin made it. He's amazing."

Yixian said with immense admiration.

It seemed this sect was not merely interesting. There appeared to be someone extraordinary within it.

"Hyah!"

Having pulled another person into the sect for no reason at all, Yixian was in high spirits. He raised the whip and brought it down hard.

The carriage raced into the city in a whirl of dust and wind...