Su Yuexian

Su Yuexi's exquisite face was so flushed it looked like it could bleed as she watched Sikong Jing's bewildered expression.

Of course, she wouldn't admit her guess that they were about to consummate their marriage in broad daylight. Instead, she stammered, "Then, then turn around."

Sikong Jing froze, only then realizing this was no longer the army, and the person before him was not a hardened soldier, but his wife.

A peerless beauty whose appearance had been restored.

With that thought, he finally turned around with a sullen face, listening to the sound of clothes falling to the floor.

Sikong Jing's heart also began to race, a feeling he had never experienced before.

After a long while, Su Yuexi's dry voice finally came, "Jing Gege, I'm done. Can you... without turning around?"

Before she could finish, Sikong Jing instinctively turned around and was dumbfounded!

His heart pounded wildly!

It had never beaten so intensely, not even on his first battlefield.

Su Yuexi before him was too beautiful, like a masterpiece of divine craftsmanship.

After an unknown amount of time, Sikong Jing rasped, "Actually, you didn't have to take everything off."

"Ah..."

In the next moment, Su Yuexi's scream echoed through the room.

A quarter of an hour later, in Su Yuexi's room.

Su Yuexi sat cross-legged in a thin nightgown, with Sikong Jing also sitting cross-legged behind her.

He placed his hands on his wife's back, channeling his true qi into her body, guiding the dormant martial dao seed that had been silent for ten years.

Buzz!

After an unknown amount of time, the martial dao seed within Su Yuexi was ignited, and a thread of true qi flowed through her meridians.

The true qi grew stronger!

Another quarter of an hour passed, and Sikong Jing spoke again, "Yuexi, your talent is even greater than I imagined. If you let your true qi roam freely now, you could at least reach the third level of the Bright Realm."

"But not yet. You don't have a suitable cultivation technique, so you must first suppress your true qi to the first level of the Bright Realm."

"For now, stay in the room and suppress it. I will go get you a cultivation technique."

With that, Sikong Jing stood up and left Su Yuexi's room, then walked out of the Su Mansion.

Cultivation techniques were extremely important for martial artists. The more powerful the technique, the stronger a martial artist could be at the same level.

Just like Sikong Jing's Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art, it was a terrifying existence that could shatter heaven and earth.

Even if one's opponent was a whole major realm higher, one could still possess unparalleled combat power!

However, cultivation techniques also had the issue of suitability. It was clear that Su Yuexi, lacking the Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, could not cultivate the Emperor-Slaying Prison-Breaking Art. Moreover, as a woman, it was best for her to cultivate a technique suited for females.

Sikong Jing already had a plan in mind and had formulated a cultivation strategy for Su Yuexi.

After leaving the Su Mansion, he headed in the direction of the Heaven Martial Pavilion.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, he brushed past a Black-Clad Woman on the street not far from the entrance of the Su Mansion.

His footsteps paused slightly, and Sikong Jing looked back at the woman's tall and cold figure, thinking to himself, "Peak Human Realm."

He hadn't paid attention to her appearance just now; he only knew she was very young.

"It seems Yunye City is not as weak as I thought. I cannot afford to slack off in Yuexi's growth," Sikong Jing mused. A young cultivator at the Peak Human Realm was unexpected.

After all, his father-in-law, Su Zhenglong, was considered a Heavenly Pride of Yunye City ten years ago when he was at the seventh level of the Human Realm.

And Su Xuefeng, even at the Human Realm, could secure his position as the head of one of the four great families. The sudden appearance of such a young cultivator at the Peak Human Realm naturally made Sikong Jing vigilant.

Of course, the Black-Clad Woman might just be passing by.

Shaking his head, Sikong Jing stopped thinking about it and strode towards the Heaven Martial Pavilion.

Unbeknownst to Sikong Jing, as he walked away, the Black-Clad Woman also glanced back. Her appearance was not bad, but a hideous scar marred her face.

It made her look exceptionally wild.

Dressed entirely in black, she exuded a cold and dark aura, as if warning people to stay away.

"Such terrifying battle intent, such terrifying killing intent. This man must have killed many people."

Although the Black-Clad Woman's voice was pleasant, it carried a sense of oppression, like that from a dark hall, making people feel suffocated.

"Why does he give off this feeling when he's only at the ninth level of the Bright Realm?"

"He came out of the Su Mansion. Does the Su Clan have guests like this?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the Black-Clad Woman stopped at the entrance of the Su Mansion, her gaze fixed, and then the corner of her mouth curled slightly.

"Su Zhenglong, are you dead yet?"

As she spoke, the scar on her face seemed to grow more ferocious.

Suddenly, she vanished from her spot.

When she reappeared, she was already outside the courtyard of Su Yuexi's family, her arrival unnoticed by anyone.

She slipped inside like a phantom, landing first outside Su Yuexi's room.

Her gaze pierced through the window, falling upon Su Yuexi, who was currently in the midst of cultivation with her eyes tightly shut.

After a long while, the Black-Clad Woman raised her hand and gently stroked the hideous scar on the girl's face, the corners of her mouth curling up as she whispered, "Little sister, you are truly beautiful."

With that, she turned and left.

She arrived at the entrance of the main hall just as a figure came rushing out—it was Mei Xiaofang.

Scrambling and stumbling, she cried out at the top of her lungs, "Doctor Sun, my husband is vomiting blood again!"

The Black-Clad Woman stared at the retreating figure until it vanished, her lips trembling slightly as she murmured, "Mother, you have grown thin."

Once she finished speaking, she flashed into the main hall and slipped into Su Zhenglong's room, where a pool of blood on the floor and the sight of Su Zhenglong on the bed, his face deathly pale and his breathing shallow, greeted her.

The Black-Clad Woman gritted her teeth hard, walking over step by step, her eyes locked onto Su Zhenglong.

"So, you aren't dead yet?"

Intense hatred radiated from the Black-Clad Woman's eyes as she slowly sat on the edge of the bed, a mocking smile gradually spreading across her face. "But it seems you aren't far from death. How wonderful..."

As she spoke, her face twisted, filled with extreme madness.

"Su Zhenglong, do you know how I have spent these past ten years?"

"You don't know. You only know how to dote on your youngest daughter. Even after suffering such grievous injuries, you still went out to find the antidote for the Crimson Spider Poison for her. Do you have any idea how jealous I am?"

"Why could you be so cruel to me, yet so doting toward my little sister?"

Her voice was squeezed out from between her teeth.

The Black-Clad Woman was none other than Su Yuexian, who had been taken away by the Noble Young Master ten years ago.

In her eyes, Su Yuexi's restored appearance was naturally the result of the antidote Su Zhenglong had risked his life to obtain. She knew very well how difficult it was to acquire the antidote for the Crimson Spider Poison, yet Su Zhenglong had managed to secure it despite his severe injuries.

After sitting for an unknown amount of time, Su Yuexian stood up and mocked, "Forget it, you're dying soon anyway."

"I was just passing by to see how miserable you were, and now I have seen it."

With that, Su Yuexian turned around...

The next instant, Su Zhenglong, who had been unconscious behind her, let out a groan and vomited another mouthful of blood.

For a fleeting moment, Su Yuexian's shoulders trembled.

She spun around abruptly, pulled a medicinal pill from her waistband, and stared at Su Zhenglong. "I don't want you to die too easily."

With that, she flicked the pill into Su Zhenglong's mouth.

In the next instant, Su Yuexian vanished.