Lin Qingxue, Repayment? Revenge! The Family's Millennia of Accumulation, I Want It All!

"Ten billion... and that only counts as getting past the beginner phase...?"

Lu Qingyun's mouth twitched as he struggled to accept this reality.

With his current strength, even without using the Blood Burn Secret Technique, he was already on the same level as the family elders.

One had to know that the elders of every great family were all prodigies of their respective eras, figures who had shone brilliantly in their own time.

Even the older generation was like this, let alone how far Lu Qingyun had surpassed his peers.

Yet even so, in the system's eyes, he had merely passed the beginner phase.

If that was the case...

The level corresponding to the system was likely far beyond Lu Qingyun's imagination, and the upper limit it could help him reach would also rise enormously!

This was a good thing—a very good thing!

"After the system upgrades, it'll surely gain new functions. But no matter what those functions are, they can't do without Energy Points!"

Thinking of this, Lu Qingyun felt no small amount of worry amid his delight.

However, after breaking through the Ten Billion Layer Blood Moving Secret Treasury, Lu Qingyun was not actually in any hurry to keep increasing his realm.

Now that he could live off the family elders, improving his cultivation was not all that important.

After all, surely no one could barge into the Lu Family, withstand the Nine Great Ancestors, and forcibly erase him, right?

If something like that really happened, they could just hand him over!

So cultivation could be pushed back for now.

The priority, naturally, was improving the efficiency with which he obtained Energy Points!

For example... the third layer of Gui Xu Yin!

On par with the Taotie Sacred Body!

It required a full one hundred billion Energy Points!

That number was astonishing. If used on his realm, it would be enough to directly double the number of layers in Lu Qingyun's Blood Moving Secret Treasury!

But this... only looked astonishing.

In reality, as long as resources were not lacking—

Lu Qingyun could now obtain at least four billion Energy Points every day!

In other words, he would not even need a month to save up the required Energy Points.

And if there was any extra income during that time, the speed could be even faster!

As for what extra income meant...

Yang Mei's voice rang out at just the right moment.

"Sequence, Lin Qingxue, Holy Maiden of the Alchemy Lin Family, requests an audience."

Lu Qingyun's eyes immediately lit up.

Just as he was nodding off, someone had brought him a pillow.

"Let her in."

Lu Qingyun gave the order, then casually asked in advance, "Oh, right. How much did she bring to repay me for saving her life?"

"Um..." Yang Mei hesitated. Recalling what she had just seen, she said cautiously, "Holy Maiden Lin looks... not to be in very good condition. She doesn't seem to be here to repay your kindness. Rather, she seems to be... seeking your help, Sequence."

"Hm!?"

Unable to believe it, Lu Qingyun directly activated the restrictions of Ling Jue Hall, causing the scene outside the hall to appear before him.

At the entrance to the great hall, Lin Qingxue, whom he had not seen for days, was not merely in poor condition—she was in an utterly dreadful state!!

Her azure glass-like gown was covered in charred black marks and dark red bloodstains. On the left side of her chest, the modest mound that had not been large to begin with was now completely caved in, a bloody hole piercing straight through her chest.

As though she sensed Lu Qingyun's gaze, a flicker of excitement appeared on Lin Qingxue's face.

Just as she was about to say something, the palace before her transformed in an instant from a grand and solemn building into a weapon of ultimate slaughter!

The restrictions activated, and a divine beam pierced through the other side of Lin Qingxue's chest in the blink of an eye, making it perfectly symmetrical.

The next moment, Lin Qingxue finally saw Lu Qingyun—but the first thing to make contact with her was Lu Qingyun's palm!

Lu Qingyun slapped Lin Qingxue to the ground, the movement exceptionally practiced.

If Ling Mu had been here, she would have delightedly discovered that beside the little pit she had made here years ago, there was now another one slightly larger than hers.

The barrage of attacks directly stunned Lin Qingxue, leaving her completely unable to speak.

Of course, it was also possible that Lu Qingyun had used too much force just now and snapped her throat in the process.

After all, he had not been putting on an act—he had genuinely been striking to kill!

He had been happily expecting that the good deed he had done before would finally pay off. He had even planned to make a token show of refusing before accepting several dozen bottles of precious Saint Grade Pills.

But what had he seen?

Someone gravely wounded, clearly being hunted down by enemies, had come to him seeking help!

I saved you out of kindness before. Forget anything else—at the very least, don't drag your enemies to my doorstep, right?

But you had to come looking for me with such fanfare.

You were straight-up using my name as a tiger's hide to save your own life, weren't you!

Lu Qingyun hadn't killed her outright not because he was kindhearted.

It was because a peculiar force within Lin Qingxue's body had been keeping her barely alive.

Otherwise, she would not even have lived long enough to see him—she would have died on the road!

With that force repairing her body, Lin Qingxue was unexpectedly able to speak, though her voice was extraordinarily hoarse, utterly devoid of the gentle lilt it had possessed when they first met.

"Lu Qingyun, help me. Only after I returned did I discover that a massive upheaval had struck the clan. My father died unexpectedly, and the collateral branch seized power. Had some elders who still cherished old ties not helped me, I likely would not have escaped alive either."

"Help you... why should I?"

Lu Qingyun's gaze remained calm as he gripped Lin Qingxue by the head and looked at her.

Someone hunted by her own family, with no value whatsoever and capable only of bringing trouble—why should he help her?

What, just because he helped someone once, he had to help them for the rest of his life!?

What kind of logic was that!

"Cough, cough!"

Lin Qingxue coughed up a mouthful of bloody fluid, not particularly surprised by Lu Qingyun's reaction.

From their brief encounter before, she had already been able to tell that Lu Qingyun was a man driven solely by profit.

Since she had dared to seek Lu Qingyun's help, she naturally had something to rely on!

"Everything the Lin Family has accumulated over countless generations is in my hands!"

Lu Qingyun glanced at Lin Qingxue's two hands and shook his head. "Nope."

What a joke—empty words proved nothing!

Just because you said it was in your hands, it was?

Someone who had been cast out by her family and left wandering for a hundred years—what right did she have to possess all of the Lin Family's accumulated wealth?

Were the branch that had seized power all useless fools?

When Lin Qingxue saw Lu Qingyun look directly at her hands before immediately denying it, her face darkened.

But thinking of how her only remaining hope now lay in relying on Lu Qingyun, she had no choice but to continue. "The Lin Family Treasury—only the head of the Lin Family has ever known its location and how to enter it. But my father died unexpectedly outside, so now I am the only one in this world who knows."

"Wait. If only the family head knew, then how do you know?"

Lu Qingyun was sharp, instantly catching the flaw in Lin Qingxue's words.

"Because I often went in to steal things when I was little..."

Lin Qingxue said expressionlessly.

Lu Qingyun nodded. Perfectly reasonable.

"If you help me reclaim the Lin Family, I can give you half of the treasury."

"Half? No. I want all of it."

"Fine."

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