National Fortune Jade! (Please Follow)

For a moment, the pain made Su Yueli's entire body tremble, cold sweat instantly soaking through her clothes.

Yet the agony did not make her faint. Instead, it left her exceptionally clear-headed.

It worked... it really worked!

Su Yueli gritted her pearly teeth. Even as blood streamed from her bitten red lips, she stubbornly refused to make a single sound.

Wave after wave of pain assaulted her. She simply closed her eyes and forcibly mobilized the qi and blood within her body, locking horns with that violent primordial energy.

At that moment, images from the past kept flashing through her mind.

Her tragically slain parents, her master Lu Chen lying in a pool of blood, and Shen Qing'an from Fengling City, who always loved to nag.

She bore a towering, sea-deep blood feud, and... she still had not investigated Shen Huai'an properly.

"Shen Huai'an..."

Su Yueli was still unsure whether Master Lu Chen had truly died because of him. She had to uncover the truth!

If she could not even endure the fresh blood of a First Realm demonic beast now, what right did she have to speak of immortality or revenge?!

Become stronger! She had to become stronger!

Half an hour, an hour, two hours...

Only after enduring for more than two full hours did the burning sensation within her body gradually subside.

Su Yueli slowly opened her eyes and let out a long breath.

At that moment, her entire body felt weak and sore, but the qi and blood within her had grown by a full twenty percent. Her Sixth Realm foundation had become exceptionally solid.

She rose to her feet and looked toward the enormous Blood-Eyed Wolf corpse.

"In this forbidden land, every part of a demonic beast is treasure."

Su Yueli took out the porcelain vessels she had previously collected from her Storage Pouch and gathered the demonic blood remaining on the giant wolf's body.

Then she dragged the corpse back to the shattered stone plaza.

Using the Shadow Fist Blade, she began skinning and carving the meat. She built a bonfire and roasted the wolf meat until it sizzled with fat.

Drinking fresh blood directly was unbearably painful, but demonic beast meat containing faint energy could likewise nourish a martial artist's qi and blood once cooked and eaten.

Su Yueli chewed the somewhat dry wolf meat, then tore off the wine gourd at her waist and took a sip.

"Cough..."

The bitter liquid slid down her throat.

This was ordinary beer she had filled up in the outer city before leaving five years ago.

It had sat for five years in these ruins, where refrigeration was impossible. Its taste had long since changed, becoming intensely bitter.

Even if it had not changed, unchilled beer would still have been bitter.

Su Yueli looked at the gourd in her hand, slightly lost in thought.

She wondered how Tie Tu and Ling'er were doing now, and whether Lin Ye had made it back to Lingshui City alive...

She shook her head and laughed at herself, forcibly suppressing those tangled thoughts.

She could barely protect herself now. Thinking about such things was entirely superfluous.

After eating the last piece of wolf meat and feeling warm energy rise in her stomach once again, Su Yueli immediately assumed a stance and began practicing her punches in the night, using it to accelerate absorption.

"..."

Flowing time was quick to cast people aside; in the blink of an eye, another three years of cold and heat had passed.

Within the ruins of a palace in the inner region, a Late First Realm demonic beast had barely let out a mournful cry before a streak of azure lightning pierced its throat.

Su Yueli withdrew the Shadow Fist Blade, skillfully drained the beast's essence blood, and tossed it into her Storage Pouch.

Her gaze was colder now than it had been three years ago, and a terrifying killing aura radiated from her body—one forged through clawing and crawling amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

Three years of relentless hunting had made her intimately familiar with the habits of First Realm demonic beasts, while her methods of killing had grown ever more practiced.

Boom!

Su Yueli stamped her foot, and a powerful surge of qi and blood exploded outward, blasting the surrounding rubble into pieces.

Seventh Realm!

After absorbing flesh and blood for three years, she had finally shattered her shackles and successfully entered the ranks of Seventh Realm Martial Dao practitioners!

"Phew..."

Su Yueli clenched her fist and felt the strength within her body multiply severalfold, leaving her somewhat emotional.

"I have to say, with resources like demonic beast flesh and blood supporting me, advancing in Martial Dao is truly fast."

In the past, without resources, she had spent five years outside Great Li Imperial City just to barely grind her way into the Sixth Realm.

Now that she had First Realm demonic beasts as experience packs, crossing into the Seventh Realm had taken only three short years.

"Spending money really is awesome." Su Yueli could not help making the remark.

This also made her fully understand why the Martial Dao realms of those young scions from the Imperial City's great clans were so terrifyingly high despite their age.

They ate spirit medicine and beast blood every meal. That was simply not on the same level as her former practice of burying her head and training bitterly.

However, over these three years, she had nearly slaughtered every First Realm demonic beast throughout the outer and inner regions, leaving not even a single hair behind.

If she wanted to keep acquiring resources, she could only set her sights on the final trump card.

Su Yueli turned her head toward the core region at the center of the ruins, shrouded in dense black mist.

She had always listed that place as forbidden ground.

But now that she had broken through to the Seventh Realm, along with her master-level fist technique and the Upper-Grade Earth Tier Shadow Fist Blade, she intended to try her luck in the core region.

Wealth and honor were sought amid danger. If she always remained in her comfort zone, her Martial Dao would only stagnate.

Without another word, Su Yueli slung her pack over her back. Her figure flickered, and she plunged into the black mist of the core region.

Yet unexpectedly, she encountered none of the terrifying high-level demonic beasts she had imagined along the way.

After passing through layer upon layer of mist, the scene before her suddenly opened up.

There were no grand palaces here, only an unending stretch of tombstones.

Su Yueli raised an eyebrow. This seemed to be the ancestral burial ground of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom from a thousand years ago.

She then walked up to the nearest stone stele and swept away the dust with her qi and blood for a look.

Ancient writing was carved upon it: Tomb of the Sixth Monarch of Azure Cloud Kingdom.

Refusing to believe it, she went to inspect several more nearby.

Tenth Monarch, Thirteenth Monarch...

This truly was the royal mausoleum of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom.

Su Yueli walked all the way to the deepest part of the graveyard.

There stood a black mausoleum several times larger than all the other tombs.

Large words had been carved into its tombstone with blade and axe: Tomb of the Last Emperor of Azure Cloud Kingdom.

And beneath that enormous tombstone lay a crystalline azure jade stone.

Beneath the jade stone, there also seemed to be a page of ancient silk made from some special material.

Su Yueli stepped forward and surveyed her surroundings. Only after confirming there were no puppet mechanisms or formation fluctuations did she pull out the page of silk.

By the faint light, she carefully made out the writing upon it.

"I am the ruler of a fallen kingdom, unwilling in my heart... The Great Li Iron Cavalry trampled my rivers and mountains and destroyed my state. I knew I was powerless to turn the tide. Before my death, I specially sealed eighty percent of the remaining national fortune of the Azure Cloud Ancient Kingdom within this National Fortune Jade!"

"I hope that a fated person of later generations may obtain it, be blessed with national fortune, revive my Azure Cloud, and restore my kingdom's mandate!"

After reading the silk document, Su Yueli raised an eyebrow, greatly surprised.

How had the great immortal cultivators of the Great Li Dynasty a thousand years ago failed to discover something so valuable, something that could change one's fate and contained a nation's fortune?

But upon further thought, she felt somewhat relieved.

To immortal cultivators standing high above, the so-called fortune of a mortal nation was likely like the yellow and white metals of the mortal world—useless trash in their eyes.

They could not even be bothered to spare it a glance. They might even have believed that becoming tainted by mortal karma would damage their Dao hearts.

But a thousand years had passed. Did this thing still truly work?

Su Yueli stared at the azure jade stone emitting a faint glow, countless thoughts turning in her mind.

No matter what, since she had stumbled upon it, this opportunity belonged to her.

In this immortal world where human lives were as cheap as grass, she needed every scrap of power she could seize.

"I have no interest in reviving Azure Cloud, but since you left behind this power, lend it to me."

Su Yueli's gaze hardened. She directly extended her right hand and seized the jade stone.

Then a thread of pure Seventh Realm martial artist qi and blood poured in through her palm, attempting to activate this ancient kingdom's jade stone that had slumbered for a thousand years.

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