Does Your Life, Liu Yun, Really Cost That Much?

"You little bitch, you're utterly laughable."

Chu Tian looked at Liu Yun, his eyes filled with bone-deep frost and a faint killing intent. "Our Sacred Heaven Sect rules over millions of miles of land. The inner sect alone has over a million disciples, with countless experts among them. Why should the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit go to a worthless cripple with no cultivation and no achievements? Just because she once saved your life? Does your life, Liu Yun, really cost that much? Are you worthy?"

"Chu Tian, have you gone mad? What nonsense are you spouting?" Liu Yun's pretty face flushed red as she shrieked. She simply could not believe 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 simp. He said indifferently, "Xing Nu, come out."

The moment his words fell, space twisted.

A young woman appeared, her face veiled in snowy white gauze. She wore a pale yellow maid's outfit, her figure graceful and alluring. Half-kneeling before Chu Tian, she said, "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 as a death warrior raised by the Chu Family. She was utterly loyal to the Chu Family and had been Chu Tian's personal maid since he was young.

When Chu Tian's mind had yet to mature and he had no ability to protect himself, she had remained by his side to guard him.

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

Sun, moon, stars, constellations; heaven, earth, vastness, wilderness—these were the highest-ranking codenames among the Chu Family's death warriors.

The moment Xing Nu came of age, she ranked third among the Chu Family's death warriors, where experts and prodigies gathered like clouds. She had been granted the codename "Xing" ahead of time, which showed just how extraordinary her talent was.

"Hold out your hand."

Chu Tian placed the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit into Xing Nu's palm, helped her to her feet, and said, "Cultivate diligently. One day, there will surely be a place for you among the Sacred Heaven Sect's upper ranks."

In the original storyline, after he fell into the demonic path, the only one who followed him unto death from beginning to end was Xing Nu—or rather, Ugly Nu, as she would later be called.

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

At the time, Chu Tian was in seclusion at a critical juncture in his breakthrough, so he sent Xing Nu to carry out the rescue.

She had clearly already rescued Liu Yun, yet Liu Yun stubbornly insisted on bringing Ye Fan with her. As a result, Xing Nu was entangled by the hellish blazing flames within the forbidden zone. Her entire body was burned to charcoal, her beauty utterly destroyed. She looked like a vicious ghost, horrifying to behold.

From then on, she was called Ugly Nu.

After Chu Tian fell into the demonic path and escaped from the Sacred Heaven Sect, he was hunted by sects across the entire Hengtian Continent. With no path to heaven and no door into the earth, it was Ugly Nu who burned her Primordial Spirit to open the passage connecting the Hengtian Continent to the lands beyond, allowing the Great Vengeance Demon Lord to escape alive.

After burning her Primordial Spirit, she was also pierced through the head by Liu Yun's sword in the final second of her life, dying amid Liu Yun's rage.

"Young Master, how could this servant possibly be worthy of accepting such a Divine Medicine? I would rather die than accept it." Visible panic appeared in Xing Nu's beautiful eyes. She thought Chu Tian was using this opportunity to drive her away.

She had stayed at Chu Tian's side and personally watched him sneak into the Divine Medicine Garden to 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 remaining at the Young Master's side. Time and again, she had spoken ill of her before him.

Even though Xing Nu had never said a bad word about the future Young Mistress and had kept her secrets, the Young Master had already become displeased with her.

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

"This Young Master is rewarding it to you. Take it."

With his sharp perception, Chu Tian immediately understood Xing Nu's worries. He raised his head and spoke to the seemingly empty sky, "This Young Master is the sect's appointed Holy Son. According to sect rules, I may receive two Sacred Vein Flower Fruits upon reaching adulthood. Deduct this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit from that quota."

The Sacred Vein Flower belonged to the sect. Though it was precious, it was not as though the Chu Family could not produce Divine Medicine of the same grade. There was no need to damage the reputations of the Chu Family and his father, the Heavenly King Emperor, over something so trivial.

In the original storyline, Chu Tian had caused all sorts of chaos for Liu Yun's sake, offending far too many people and ruining the reputations of the Heavenly King Emperor and the Chu Family.

Ye Fan acted with lawless abandon, cursing at 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 Ye Fan's place, he could do it too.

And it was precisely because of this.

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

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

Because before the Chu Family collapsed, it had already reached the point where friends and relatives alike had abandoned it. The experts within the family had either died or betrayed them.

Now that Chu Tian had been reborn, he naturally would not gamble his own reputation for such petty gains.

As a godfather, he understood what mattered more and what mattered less.

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

To undermine the Heavenly King Emperor's authority and damage the Chu Family's reputation over such a tiny amount of resources would absolutely be a case of throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.

"The Little Holy Son is so generous."

The sect's patrolling disciples and experts hidden amid the surrounding clouds all sucked in a breath of cold air.

As they looked at the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit in Xing Nu's hands, an indescribable mixture of envy, jealousy, and resentment rose within them.

It was the fruit of a supreme Divine Medicine.

It possessed endless wondrous uses. If placed on the continent, even Heavenly God experts would fight until their heads cracked for it.

And Chu Tian's explanation—

gave them an indescribable yet immensely comfortable feeling.

It was as though they had been placed on the same level as Chu Tian.

The Little Holy Son clearly had an enormous background. Even if he had taken this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit for himself, no one would have dared say anything.

Yet he had explained it to everyone, saying that he had taken it from his own quota and had not wantonly seized sect property.

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

"Young Master, this servant, this servant..." Though Xing Nu wore a veil, it was still clear that her face had flushed red. Tears filled her starry eyes as she held the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit, her entire body trembling faintly. In the end, she could only heavily kowtow to the ground.

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

"Congratulations, Host. You have changed Xing Nu's fate. Reward: 500 Destiny Points." The system's gentle, pleasant prompt sounded by Chu Tian's ear at the same time.

Chu Tian froze for a moment.

That worked too?

It seemed that suppressing Sons of Destiny was not the only way to obtain Destiny Points. It was simply that one gained fewer Destiny Points this way than by suppressing a Son of Destiny.

In the original storyline, although Xing Nu had protected him closely, his attitude toward her had always been lukewarm. Naturally, she had never received the Chu Family's attention.

Rewarding her with this Sacred Vein Flower Fruit was, in effect, an acknowledgment that Xing Nu was one of his own. That was what truly mattered. From then on, her status within the Chu Family would rise with the tide, and she would receive all manner of resource support. Her fate had been completely changed.

"You lowly maid, that is my Divine Medicine! You think you're worthy of taking it?"

Liu Yun's voice was shrill and brimming with fury. She rushed over, snatched away the black box, and kicked Xing Nu in the back, sending the kneeling Xing Nu tumbling to the ground.

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

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

It was not that Xing Nu could not react in time. Even if her talent was inferior to Liu Yun's, the gap was not great, and their difference in age and cultivation realm was right there. She simply did not dare dodge or resist.

After all, their statuses were worlds apart.

Liu Yun was Chu Tian's fiancée. Their childhood betrothal had been arranged from the moment she was born. Who in the Hengtian Continent did not know it?