Chu Tian, I Hate You

"Young Madam, this servant knows her crime, this servant knows her crime..." Xing Nu scrambled to her feet and kowtowed violently in apology.

Smack!

At that moment, Chu Tian raised his hand and delivered a vicious slap across Liu Yun's twisted little face, sending her flying over a hundred meters. She smashed into a three-meter-tall boulder and shattered it to pieces.

For that instant, even the air seemed to stop flowing. Everyone was horrified.

The sect members hiding among the clouds gaped, their pupils contracting sharply. They wished they could turn around and leave at once.

This was not a scene they were qualified to witness.

One was a Little Holy Son; the other was the future young madam of the Chu Family, an Innate Dao Body whose future achievements were boundless.

Everything they had witnessed today would become dirt on them once Chu Tian and Liu Yun stood at the pinnacle of the sect—or even the continent.

They wouldn't be silenced, would they?!

Besides, the Little Holy Son had always treated Liu Yun extremely well. If not utterly obedient to her every word, then he had at least indulged her in everything. Why had he suddenly slapped Liu Yun over a mere maidservant?

If word got out, how could Liu Yun ever face anyone again?

The black box containing the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit flew from her hand. Chu Tian caught it, then helped Xing Nu to her feet and placed it back in her palm.

"Xing Nu, remember this: you belong to this young master. From now on, aside from this young master, the Master, and the Madam, no one is qualified to make you kneel, much less strike you."

Only after calmly giving the order did Chu Tian turn toward Liu Yun. A flash of ruthless, icy coldness that utterly did not match his childish appearance flickered through his eyes.

The sect members in the clouds could not help rubbing their eyes. For some reason, they felt as though the Little Holy Son had become an entirely different person.

Cold, merciless, domineering, ruthless, majestic—he made people too afraid to meet his gaze.

Had such an aura appeared on a supreme powerhouse tempered by countless trials and battles, or on the Vice Sect Master, they would not have found it strange.

But the Little Holy Son was only eight years old this year.

"Chu Tian, you bastard! You actually hit me for the sake of this lowly maid! Don't come looking for me again! I never want to speak to you again!" Liu Yun climbed from the rubble, one side of her face swollen, blood streaming continuously down it. Her eyes held a venomous hatred wholly unfitting for her age.

As an Innate Dao Body, although she was inferior to Chu Tian, the gap was not that great. Naturally, that slap would not kill her.

Yet she still seemed not to understand the gravity of the matter.

"You should count yourself fortunate that you are still of some use to me. I only used one percent of my strength. Otherwise, your head would already have exploded."

Chu Tian walked over, his expression calm. "Tell me. Who told you that the Sacred Vein Flower Fruit in the Divine Medicine Garden had ripened, that it could help Ye Fan clear his meridians, and had you come to me to take it?"

The Sacred Vein Flower Fruit was a supreme Divine Medicine of the sect. Its ripening was one of the sect's highest secrets, known only to a handful of people.

In his memories, even the original owner of this body had never learned of it.

Yet Liu Yun, a little girl, had somehow found out. That truly was strange.

Chu Tian had a keen nose for such things. He always felt there was more to this matter.

A flicker of panic crossed Liu Yun's eyes. She immediately lowered her head, not daring to meet Chu Tian's gaze, and hurriedly said, "I found out myself. I only wanted to repay Ye Fan for saving my life.

"As my fiancé, not only do you not want to repay him with me, you even suspect and slander me.

"Chu Tian, I hate you!" Liu Yun shouted.

With that, Liu Yun turned to leave quickly.

But in the next moment, a shadow enveloped Liu Yun. Chu Tian had blocked her path. He looked down at her from less than a fist's distance away, his icy, domineering eyes seeming as though they would swallow her whole.

Liu Yun's petite body began trembling violently. It was as though she had fallen into an ice cave, all color draining from her face.

"Tell me. Who was it?"

His voice boomed beside Liu Yun's ears like thunder.

Boom!

No matter how scheming she was, she was still only an eight- or nine-year-old girl. Her willpower was far inferior to that of an adult.

In an instant, Liu Yun shuddered all over, her mind turning blank. She blurted out instinctively, "Ju'er told me."

But the instant the words left her mouth, Liu Yun came to her senses. Her entire body stiffened as she tried to explain, "No, it wasn't..."

But Chu Tian had already fallen into thought, ignoring her feeble excuses.

"Ju'er?"

Chu Tian muttered to himself as information about Ju'er surfaced automatically in his memories.

On Liu Yun's second birthday, the Liu Family had held a grand birthday banquet for her, inviting sect powerhouses and great clans.

This Ju'er was a maidservant specially trained by the Ye Family, similar to a death warrior raised by the Chu Family like Xing Nu. She had been given to Liu Yun as a birthday gift.

Of course, Ju'er had been specially trained for the purpose of being given away as a gift, so her talent was naturally nowhere near Xing Nu's.

The Ye Family was another Founding Family of the Sacred Heaven Sect. Together with the Chu Family Progenitors, they had established the Sacred Heaven Sect.

The current Sacred Heaven Sect Master, Ye Xiong, was the Ye Family Patriarch and a renowned Emperor Venerable-level powerhouse of the Hengtian Continent. Revered as the Heavenly Xiong Emperor, he and Chu Tian's father, Ye Tianwang—the current Vice Sect Master, the Heavenly King Emperor—were Sworn Brothers who had grown up together since childhood. They were known to the outside world as the Sacred Heaven Twin Heroes.

Two Emperor Venerables in one generation—the Sacred Heaven Sect's might shook the Hengtian Continent.

It was also through the combined efforts of the two that the Sacred Heaven Sect had been pushed to the summit of the Hengtian Continent. It ranked first among the current Top Sects of the Hengtian Continent, its might shaking the Myriad Worlds.

The Son of Destiny, Ye Fan, came from this Ye Family. However, he was a famously useless waste within the Ye Family. He had been born with Crippled Meridians, was not valued by the clan, and was looked down upon by everyone.

Ye Fan was even a Direct Descendant of the Ye Family and had to address the Sacred Heaven Sect Master as his eldest uncle.

Then there was the original plot: the Chu Family's reputation was utterly ruined, and they became despised by all. Liu Yun, an Innate Dao Body and the treasured daughter of the Liu Family, the future mistress of the Chu Family, had mysteriously fallen into the water—and just happened to be saved by that Ye Family waste.

It had laid the groundwork for the series of events that followed.

But were all of these things truly coincidences?

"Interesting. Truly interesting."

A depth utterly mismatched with his appearance filled Chu Tian's eyes. After muttering to himself, he looked down at Liu Yun and said coldly, "For the sake of so-called repaying a debt, you coerced your fiancé, a Holy Son, into stealing a supreme Divine Medicine Fruit from the sect. That is a grave crime worthy of exterminating an entire clan.

"Ye Fan relied on the debt of saving your life to threaten the fiancée of the sect's Holy Son into helping him steal a Divine Medicine Fruit. That is an even graver crime, worthy of being sliced into a thousand pieces.

"A wretch like you is unworthy of becoming the future mistress of my Chu Family, and even less worthy of being my fiancée.

"Liu Yun, this young master gives you two choices.

"First, this young master kills you personally, then exterminates your entire Liu Family.

"Second, your Liu Family personally captures Ye Fan, strips out his tendons and skin, and hangs him from the summit of the Sect Main Peak as a warning. This young master may, at my discretion, show leniency."

When his words fell, Chu Tian turned and led Xing Nu down the mountain. His icy voice echoed across the mountaintop. "Xing Nu, the supreme Divine Medicine Sacred Vein Flower is a sect secret of the highest order, yet it has now somehow been leaked. Immediately take the Law Enforcement Team to capture that lowly maid Ju'er and interrogate her severely. Find out whether there is another hidden truth behind this."

"As you command, Young Master."

Xing Nu and Chu Tian soon disappeared from the mountain peak.