Is Your Life, Liu Yun, Really That Precious?

"Little bitch, you're simply laughable to the extreme."

Chu Tian looked at Liu Yun, his eyes filled with bone-deep frost and a faint killing intent: "

My Sacred Heaven Sect rules over millions of miles of land. There are more than a million inner disciples alone, with countless powerful experts. Why should the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit be given to a useless person with no cultivation and no achievements whatsoever?

Just because she once saved your life?

Is your life, Liu Yun, really that precious?

Are you worthy?"

"Chu Tian, have you gone mad? What nonsense are you spouting?" Liu Yun's little face flushed red as she screamed. She simply could not believe that Chu Tian would say such things to her.

Chu Tian's expression was icy. He was not the original owner of this body, much less some simpering lapdog. He said indifferently, "Star Slave, come out."

As soon as he spoke, space twisted.

A young woman with a snow-white veil over her face, dressed in a pale yellow maidservant's robe and possessed of a graceful figure, appeared. She knelt on one knee before Chu Tian. "This servant is here. Please give your orders, Young Master."

She was an orphan adopted by the Heavenly King Emperor. Ten years older than Chu Tian, she had been trained from childhood. She was a death warrior raised by the Chu Family, utterly loyal to them, and Chu Tian's personal maid who had accompanied him since childhood.

When Chu Tian's mind had yet to mature and he lacked the ability to protect himself, she had also guarded him at his side.

These death warriors had no names of their own. They merely placed a codename before the character "slave."

Sun, moon, stars, constellations; heaven, earth, vastness, wilderness—these were the highest-tier codenames among the death warriors raised by the Chu Family.

The moment Star Slave came of age, she ranked third among the Chu Family's death warriors, where powerful experts and monstrous geniuses gathered like clouds. She had been granted the codename "Star" ahead of time; one could well imagine just how extraordinary her talent was.

"Raise your hand."

Chu Tian placed the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit into Star Slave's palm, helped her to her feet, and said:

"Cultivate diligently. In the future, there will surely be a place for you among the upper ranks of the Sacred Heaven Sect."

In the original plot, after he had fallen into the demonic path, the only one who had followed him to the death from beginning to end was Star Slave—or rather, Ugly Slave, as she would later be called.

About ten years later, Ye Fan became trapped in the Heavenly Fire Forbidden Zone, his fate unknown. Liu Yun ignored all attempts to stop her and charged into the Heavenly Fire Forbidden Zone to rescue him.

At the time, Chu Tian was in seclusion, at the crucial juncture of breaking through his realm, so he sent Star Slave to rescue her.

She had clearly already saved Liu Yun, but Liu Yun stubbornly insisted on bringing Ye Fan along as well. As a result, the hellish blazing fire within the forbidden zone wrapped around Star Slave's body, burning her whole body into charred blackness and destroying her appearance. She looked like an evil ghost, enough to make one's hair stand on end.

From then on, she was also called Ugly Slave.

After Chu Tian fell into the demonic path and escaped the Sacred Heaven Sect, he was hunted by sects across the entire Hengtian Continent, with no road to heaven and no gate into earth. It was also Ugly Slave who, at the cost of burning her Primordial Spirit, opened the passage between the Hengtian Continent and the lands beyond, allowing the Great Vengeance Demon Lord to escape alive.

After burning her Primordial Spirit, she was pierced through the head by Liu Yun's furious sword in the very last second of her life and perished.

"Young Master, how could this servant possibly be worthy of receiving such Divine Medicine? Even if I died, I would not dare accept it." Terror visibly appeared in Star Slave's beautiful eyes. She thought Chu Tian was taking this opportunity to drive her away.

She had stayed by Chu Tian's side and personally watched him sneak into the Divine Medicine Garden and pluck this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit.

This was a grave crime in the Sacred Heaven Sect. How could she dare accept it?

The future Young Mistress had always been dissatisfied with her constantly following the Young Master. Time and again, she had spoken ill of her before him.

Even though she had never spoken ill of the future Young Mistress and had kept her secrets, the Young Master had already become dissatisfied with her.

She had grown up in the Chu Family, and the old master had shown her immense kindness. If Chu Tian no longer wanted her, she could only repay that kindness with death.

"This is a reward from this Young Master. Take it."

With his discerning eyes, Chu Tian immediately understood Star Slave's worries. He raised his head at once and spoke toward the seemingly empty sky. "This Young Master is the sect's appointed Holy Son. According to sect rules, upon reaching adulthood, I may receive two Sacred Vein Flower Fruits.

This Sacred Vein Flower Fruit will be deducted from that quota."

The Sacred Vein Flower was sect property. Moreover, though precious, the Chu Family could indeed produce Divine Medicine of the same grade. There was no need to damage the reputation of the Chu Family and his father, the Heavenly King Emperor, over such a trivial thing.

In the original plot, it was precisely because Chu Tian had blindly stirred up all kinds of trouble for Liu Yun's sake, offending far too many people and ruining the reputation of the Heavenly King Emperor and the Chu Family.

Ye Fan acted with utter lawlessness, challenging heaven and earth alike, doing whatever pleased him.

Under the pretext of repaying kindness, Liu Yun used the Chu Family's prestige to clean up Ye Fan's messes.

For a Son of Destiny like that, Chu Tian felt that if he were in his place, he could do it too.

And it was precisely because of this.

When the Liu Family falsely accused the Chu Family of rebellion, the Chu Family, which had been passed down for a million years—the dignified Founding Family that had operated within the Sacred Heaven Sect for a million years—collapsed with astonishing ease.

The Heavenly King Emperor was besieged, suppressed, and imprisoned, yet hardly any sect experts stepped forward to speak for him.

Because before the Chu Family fell, it had already reached the point where it was abandoned by all. The powerful experts within the Lineage had either died or betrayed it.

Having been reborn, Chu Tian naturally would not gamble away his reputation for such paltry gains.

As a godfather, he understood what was more important and what was less.

When people followed you, feelings were important, but the distribution of benefits was even more important.

To damage the authority of the Heavenly King Emperor and harm the Chu Family's reputation over a mere bit of resources was absolutely not worth the loss.

"The Little Holy Son is so generous."

The sect patrol disciples and experts concealed among the surrounding clouds all sucked in a cold breath.

As they looked at the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit in Star Slave's hands, they felt an indescribable mixture of envy, jealousy, and resentment.

The fruit of a supreme Divine Medicine.

It possessed endless wondrous uses. If placed on the continent, even Heavenly God experts would smash their heads bloody fighting over it.

And with Chu Tian's explanation.

An indescribable yet comforting feeling rose in their hearts.

It was as though they stood on the same level as Chu Tian.

The Little Holy Son clearly possessed an enormous backing. Even if he had claimed this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit, no one would have dared say anything.

Yet he had explained to everyone that he had taken it using his own quota and had not wantonly appropriated sect property.

The Little Holy Son was kind and approachable. He was truly a good person.

"Young Master, this servant, this servant..." Star Slave wore a veil, yet the flush on her face could still be clearly seen. Tears filled her starry eyes as she held the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit, her entire body trembling lightly. In the end, she could only bow heavily to the ground.

"This servant's life was saved by the old master. The Young Master has now shown me such immense kindness as well. How could this servant possibly be worthy? Even if I died ten thousand times, I would not know how to repay it."

"Congratulations, Host. You have changed Star Slave's fate and received 500 Destiny Points."

Chu Tian froze for a moment.

That worked too?

It seemed that suppressing the Son of Destiny was not the only way to obtain Destiny Points. It was merely that doing so yielded fewer Destiny Points than suppressing the Son of Destiny.

In the original plot, although Star Slave had protected him at close quarters, his attitude toward her had always been neither warm nor cold. Naturally, she had never received the Chu Family's attention.

Rewarding her with this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit was, in truth, a roundabout acknowledgment that Star Slave was one of his people. That was what truly mattered. From then on, her standing within the Chu Family would rise like the tide, and she would receive support from all kinds of resources. Her fate had been completely changed.

"Wretched maid, this is my Divine Medicine. Are you worthy of taking it?"

Liu Yun's voice was shrill and filled with fury. She rushed over in an instant, snatched away the black box, and kicked Star Slave in the back, sending the kneeling Star Slave sprawling to the ground.

She was furious, feeling as though something that belonged to her had been snatched away, leaving her deeply uncomfortable.

Moreover, she had intended to give this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit to Ye Fan. How could this wretched maid be worthy of taking it?

It was not that Star Slave had been unable to react. Even if her talent fell short of Liu Yun's, the gap was not great, and the difference in age and cultivation realm was right there. She simply did not dare dodge or resist.

After all, their statuses were there for all to see.

Liu Yun was Chu Tian's fiancée. Their betrothal had been arranged from the moment they were born; who on the Hengtian Continent did not know this?