Meanwhile, Fu Sanyuan sped forward with the Seven-Star Steps, moving at breathtaking speed as he rushed toward Yun Qing first!
"Eldest Young Master Yun-"
"Now that I've helped, it's time to collect my payment!"
He flashed forward like lightning, reaching straight for the Heavenly Demon Heart Crystal.
This is it, all right! Rarely had he felt so excited.
Just as his fingertips came within an inch of brushing that crystalline glow,
Yun Qing turned his hand over and smoothly drew the entire blood-red heart crystal back into his grasp, his movements elegant and unhurried.
Fu Sanyuan grabbed empty air. Unable to stop his momentum, he plunged headfirst into the void. He stumbled half a step, spun around, and jerked his head up to stare at Yun Qing, frozen in midair with disbelief written all over his face.
"You! Even you would go back on your word?!"
Fu Sanyuan's vision darkened. By that damned old Star Seer, I wasn't being gullible! Who could have imagined that Eldest Young Master Yun would welsh on a debt?!
Yun Qing looked at him, the corners of his lips lifting slightly, a hint of wicked amusement in his gentle eyes.
That look sent a chill through Fu Sanyuan's heart. His extraordinarily powerful spiritual senses gave him an extraordinarily bad feeling.
Yun Qing lowered his eyes and stroked the Heavenly Demon Blood Crystal Niu Niu had formed, his gaze tender and complicated.
Just as he had thought.
The instant the blood crystal entered his hand, the lingering contamination in his chest had quietly subsided a little.
The miraculous substance that could suppress Kanming Heavenly Burial's contamination was, of all things, the heart crystal formed by the most thoroughly contaminated race of all, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons, before their utter destruction.
Poison and medicine gave rise to