Qin Wuyou had far too many questions and curiosities about the Bronze Giant Gate and the mysterious woman.
Yet after his words fell, silence reigned behind the Bronze Giant Gate.
The mysterious woman's voice did not come again.
Qin Wuyou did not give up. He continued bowing persistently.
"Your junior, Qin Wuyou, has come expressly to pay his respects, Senior."
As he bowed again and again, a woman's sigh finally came from behind the Bronze Giant Gate.
"Qin Wuyou, have you come to fulfill our agreement?"
The moment he heard the mysterious woman's voice again, Qin Wuyou was wild with excitement.
At the same time, streaks of dazzling golden light appeared across the Bronze Giant Gate before him.
Beneath the oppressive force of that light, fear and trembling gripped the depths of Qin Wuyou's soul.
What terrifying power! Even when I faced the Emperor-to-be ancestor, I never felt an aura this powerful!
Could the mysterious senior behind the Bronze Giant Gate be a Great Emperor?
Qin Wuyou secretly drew a deep breath, utterly shaken.
That light alone carried a presence more terrifying than an Emperor-to-be's.
He could not help suspecting that the mysterious senior behind the Bronze Giant Gate might be a Great Emperor!
Facing someone who might stand at the level of a Great Emperor, Qin Wuyou dared harbor no ulterior motives. He hurriedly replied in excitement,
"Senior, even if my body were crushed and my bones ground to dust, I could never repay you for saving my life."
"If you have any commands, Senior, whether ten, a hundred, or a thousand, I would gladly spill my blood and brains upon the ground to fulfill them!"
Hearing Qin Wuyou's reply, neither servile nor arrogant, the mysterious woman's voice remained cold enough to keep others a thousand miles away.
"Qin Wuyou, you need not feel grateful to me. To put it plainly, this is merely a transaction between us."
"We agreed on ten conditions, so ten it shall be. I will not take advantage of you!"
"Listen carefully. My first condition is that you reach the saint king realm within one year!"
"If you cannot do it, I will personally send you into samsara on the day our agreement expires."
The mysterious woman's icy voice held boundless majesty, sending a tremor through Qin Wuyou's heart.
Reach the saint king realm within one year?
How? How could that be possible?
Qin Wuyou was dumbfounded.
Even his former self could not have reached the saint king realm within a year.
Let alone his current self!
He no longer even had a dantian. Forget cultivating—merely surviving another three to five years would be an unexpected blessing.
Reaching the saint king realm within a year was nothing but a fantasy to him.
"What? Do you lack confidence?"
The mysterious woman's voice remained icy.
Qin Wuyou gave a bitter smile and had no choice but to answer honestly,
"Senior, I have no dantian now. Even cultivating is a problem. How could I possibly reach the saint king realm within a year?"
"I truly cannot fulfill this requirement. Please choose another condition, Senior. Perhaps I could still repay a little of your kindness before I die."
After he finished speaking, the voice behind the Bronze Giant Gate did not immediately respond.
His surroundings sank into silence.
In that silence, Qin Wuyou could not help feeling uneasy.
Is Senior angry?
Qin Wuyou smiled bitterly to himself and had no choice but to speak first,
"If you believe I am completely useless, Senior, I would have no complaints even if you killed me right now!"
"Even if I possessed your body, you would have no complaints?"
The mysterious woman's voice sounded again.
"None whatsoever!"
Qin Wuyou answered firmly.
The mysterious woman had given him this chance at rebirth in the first place. Being able to return and confront that shameless pair to their faces had already left him deeply satisfied.
So Qin Wuyou meant every word.
Even if the mysterious woman possessed his body, he would have no complaints whatsoever.
This time, the voice behind the Bronze Giant Gate fell silent for even longer.
Only after a full forty or fifty breaths did the mysterious woman's voice come again,
"Rest assured. This body of yours is beneath my notice."
Hearing her words, Qin Wuyou quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Though he was not afraid of being possessed,
he still wanted to take revenge with his own hands before that happened!
Lin Fan!
Lin Qingxue!
The Lin Lineage!
They were all his targets!
After his rebirth, his first wish was to make them repay their blood debts in blood!
"Qin Wuyou, none of these concerns of yours pose a problem for me."
"Until you fulfill your agreement with me, I will not let you die so easily."
The mysterious woman's voice came again, domineering and cold.
Yet it also brought Qin Wuyou a trace of warmth.
"Senior, I..."
Before Qin Wuyou could continue, the golden light upon the Bronze Giant Gate suddenly enveloped his soul.
At once, a mysterious power washed over his soul.
Shrouded in that golden power, his soul underwent a fundamental transformation, as though shedding its old form.
Just a few breaths later, when the golden light withdrew from his soul, Qin Wuyou's feeble soul form radiated a powerful aura.
This is... soul restoration! Senior actually helped strengthen my soul power!
Feeling the changes in his soul, Qin Wuyou was too excited for words.
Because of his rebirth, his soul had become far weaker than before, falling below even an ordinary person's level.
But enveloped by that golden light, his soul power had increased several hundredfold, returning to its level before his rebirth.
Moreover, the moment he felt his soul grow stronger, Qin Wuyou noticed changes in his physical body!
At the site of his dantian in particular, a brilliant mass of golden light hovered, releasing waves of powerful yet gentle energy.
Nourished by that golden power, a completely new dantian actually began growing in the empty space where his old one had been!
Dantian Regeneration!
Feeling the astonishing changes brought by that mass of golden light, Qin Wuyou was utterly stunned!
Restoring his soul would, at most, make him somewhat stronger.
It could not change the fact that he was unable to cultivate.
But this dantian regeneration could put him back on the path of cultivation!
It would change his entire life!
Watching the steadily growing golden dantian, Qin Wuyou clenched his fists in tension, unaware even as his nails dug deep into his palms.
His gaze and thoughts were entirely consumed by the changes in his abdomen.
Under his expectant, anxious gaze, that mass of golden light was completely absorbed into his body.
And as the golden light dissipated, an egg-sized golden dantian finally emerged in its complete form.
Feeling the powerful energy from that golden dantian, Qin Wuyou was so excited that even his breathing stopped!
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