Ye Yu ignored Ye Qingshuang's cry for help and instead sped up. His connection to the Autumn Water Sword was growing weaker and weaker; clearly, Qin Ruoxian was not in a good situation.
Seeing that Ye Yu had no intention of helping her at all, Ye Qingshuang gritted her teeth and took out several pills from her Ring of Holding, swallowing them.
At once, spiritual power surged endlessly from within her body, and she finally escaped the blood corpses. Yet Ye Qingshuang failed to notice wisps of blood-colored aura, invisible to the naked eye, seeping into her through her wounds, while those blood corpses continued to cling tightly to her trail.
By the time Ye Yu reached the vicinity of the Autumn Water Sword, he saw blood corpses strewn all over the ground, but Qin Ruoxian was nowhere to be seen.
Judging from the scene around him, a great battle had undoubtedly taken place.
Ye Yu stared grimly at the ground beneath his feet. His hands formed seals, Spiritual Seals rising around him as he prepared to trace Qin Ruoxian's whereabouts.
But at that moment, Ye Qingshuang came rushing toward him, with a dense swarm of blood corpses following behind her.
Ye Yu frowned at the sight, unwilling to be disturbed. He casually swung his sword and wiped out every one of the blood corpses.
Ye Qingshuang was in poor condition now. Wounds covered her body, blood flowed from them, and faint strands of blood qi coiled around them.
Ye Yu knew exactly what it was: Nine Nether Blood Qi!
With the blood corpses dealt with, Ye Qingshuang hurriedly took out several healing pills and swallowed them. Then she blankly watched Ye Yu, who hovered in midair wrapped in Spiritual Seals.
Remembering how Ye Yu had slain those blood corpses with a single strike just moments ago, she could not help but feel a chill run through her heart.
Ye Qingshuang was a disciple of Cangyun. Though she mainly cultivated alchemy, her cultivation was by no means weak—early Golden Core Stage.
Even when she had gone all out, aided by pills, she could only barely escape those blood corpses. Just how strong had Ye Yu become?
"Ye Yu, you actually dared to abandon me!" Ye Qingshuang said.
Ye Yu ignored Ye Qingshuang's accusation. The Spiritual Seals around him dispersed, and he shot off in one direction.
Ye Qingshuang stood stunned for quite a while before hurriedly chasing after him. Seeing Ye Yu's figure grow farther and farther away, she clenched her teeth, took out several more pills, and swallowed them. Only then did she barely catch up.
It was not until they arrived before a cave that Ye Yu finally stopped.
Looking at the densely packed blood corpses below—no fewer than a hundred of them—Ye Qingshuang's face turned pale, and she nearly turned around and fled.
"There are Nascent Soul Realm fluctuations among those things. Stop trying to show off and leave, now!"
Hearing Ye Qingshuang's words, Ye Yu merely glanced at her. "You can leave."
"After all these years, why are you still this sort of person who only knows how to show off! If it hadn't been for you showing off back then, would my mother have died?" Ye Qingshuang cried painfully.
At that, Ye Yu looked up at Ye Qingshuang.
That had been about two years ago. By then, Ye Qingshuang had already gone traveling with Cangyun, when her mother suddenly came down with a severe illness. Every alchemist in Great Flame had been helpless.
At the time, Ye Qingshuang was already a genuine alchemist. She immediately lit the furnace and refined a fourth-grade pill.
But Ye Yu stopped her. Others did not know, but Ye Yu, whose talent for alchemy was exceptional, saw that someone had tampered with the pill Ye Qingshuang had refined. Its medicinal properties had long since fallen into chaos.
It had the appearance of a pill, but inside, it had already become poison.
Yet Ye Qingshuang could not be bothered with Ye Yu. In her eyes, what did Ye Yu know? She had learned alchemy from the Cangyun Alchemist.
Ye Qingshuang, who simply did not believe Ye Yu, ultimately insisted on having her mother take that poison pill.
Her mother had already been at death's door. Within days of taking it, she died on the spot.
But Ye Qingshuang believed Ye Xuan's words and regarded Ye Yu as the chief culprit, claiming that he knew nothing about alchemy yet insisted on showing off, causing her mother to miss the best time to take the medicine.
"What are you looking at! Wasn't I speaking the truth? If you hadn't stopped me back then, how could Mother have died?" Seeing Ye Yu look at her, Ye Qingshuang gritted her teeth.
Watching Ye Qingshuang's hysterical state, Ye Yu could not be bothered to explain. In his previous life, he had already explained it countless times. He merely said flatly, "Think whatever you want."
Ye Yu drew the Purple Firmament Sword and looked at the blood corpses surging toward them from below. Blood light blazed around his body as the red pillar of light in his dantian began trembling madly.
An endless stream of blood-colored spiritual power poured into the Purple Firmament Sword.
In an instant, the Purple Firmament Sword shone brilliantly.
"Heaven Slaying Sword Drawing Technique!" Ye Yu shouted lowly. A blood-colored Sword Qi dozens of zhang long swept forth, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred blood corpses before him were separated from their heads.
Several Nascent Soul Realm blood corpses were cut down along with them.
"Good sword!" Ye Yu glanced at the Purple Firmament Sword in his hand and could not help sighing.
Only Ye Yu knew just how tyrannical that blood-colored spiritual power was. Ordinary Spirit Treasures simply could not withstand it. Yet when he had poured it into the Purple Firmament Sword just now, he had clearly felt that it was still nowhere near the sword's limit.
Putting away the Purple Firmament Sword, Ye Yu charged straight into the cave beneath his feet without another word.
Ye Qingshuang gritted her teeth and followed. Eldest Sister and Second Sister still needed Ye Yu to save them; she had to ensure Ye Yu's safety as much as possible.
Seeing Ye Qingshuang follow, Ye Yu ignored her. Finding Qin Ruoxian was what mattered now.
Before long, Ye Yu found Qin Ruoxian deep inside, her body covered in blood while she still gripped the Autumn Water Sword tightly in her hand.
"Her injuries are severe. I'm afraid she cannot hold on much longer. As long as you agree to return with me and save Eldest Sister and Second Sister, I have a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill refined by my master. I can give it to you," Ye Qingshuang said.
The Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill was a fifth-grade pill, an exceptionally rare sacred medicine for healing injuries.
Ye Yu raised his head and glanced at Ye Qingshuang. With a wave of his hand, over a thousand Spiritual Seals appeared and directly sealed the cave entrance, while Ye Qingshuang herself was restrained as well.
"Y-You... what are you trying to do?!" Ye Qingshuang's face turned pale, her entire body trembling. She assumed Ye Yu intended to kill her for her treasure. After all, Ye Yu had even poisoned Xiao Xuan over a stalk of Spiritual Medicine.
Ye Yu frowned and sealed her mouth as well. Then, right before her eyes, he took out a pitch-black alchemy furnace.
This guy was going to refine pills?! It was useless. Given Qin Ruoxian's injuries, nothing less than a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill could restore her!
A trace of mockery flashed through Ye Qingshuang's eyes as she quietly waited for Ye Yu to beg her.
But in the next moment, Ye Qingshuang's eyes abruptly widened.
With a wave of Ye Yu's hand, dozens of medicinal ingredients appeared densely around him. Immediately afterward, a milky-white flame surged from his dantian and instantly wrapped around those ingredients.
The temperature throughout the cave suddenly rose, while those ingredients transformed into medicinal liquid at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Ye Qingshuang was secretly shocked by those practiced movements.
Could this guy truly be an alchemist?!
Moreover, judging by his technique, it flowed like drifting clouds and running water!
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