"I'm not dead?"
Inside the room, a handsome young man suddenly opened his eyes.
"Hahaha... I, the Demon Emperor Asura, have actually been reborn? Azure Lotus, just you wait! I'll never let you off!"
The young man was ecstatic, yet his eyes brimmed with hatred.
He had been the peerless Demon Emperor Asura of the immortal realm. To break through his bottleneck and ascend to the divine realm, he had gathered countless heavenly treasures and supreme immortal herbs, refining them into a Nine-Turn Nirvana Divine Pill!
On the day the pill was completed, the woman he loved most, the Azure Lotus Immortal Emperor, had suddenly struck to kill. Not only had she stolen the Nine-Turn Nirvana Divine Pill, she had also shattered his soul.
A wisp of his remnant soul had escaped to the lower realm and possessed this young man named Ning Chuan.
"Ning Chuan, depart in peace! Being possessed by me is a blessing you earned through nine lifetimes of cultivation!"
The Demon Emperor Asura sneered.
He believed that, given just a few hundred years, he would surely fight his way back to the immortal realm and settle the score with that bitch, the Azure Lotus Immortal Emperor.
The Demon Emperor Asura had already occupied Ning Chuan's body. Once he completely devoured his soul, the possession would be complete.
The Demon Emperor Asura's remnant soul instantly lunged at the illusory soul within Ning Chuan's sea of consciousness, seeking to devour it.
"No!!! You... you're not from this world? Who exactly are you... I refuse to accept this..."
Suddenly, the Demon Emperor Asura roared in utter terror. His remnant soul could not devour Ning Chuan's soul at all. Instead, a strange light struck him, instantly blasting him apart into a brilliant shower of light that merged with Ning Chuan's soul.
"That scared me to death. I'm a transmigrator, and I nearly got possessed by the Demon Emperor Asura?"
Ning Chuan opened his eyes, still shaken.
He had been a university student on Earth. While helping an elderly woman cross the street, he had been killed by a dump truck that ran a red light, then transmigrated to this world.
Flame Dragon City, Great Xia Kingdom, True Martial Continent.
He was a live-in son-in-law of the Shen lineage.
Ning Chuan had originally belonged to the Ning lineage of Jade Capital City in the Great Xia Kingdom and possessed exceptional Martial Dao talent. But three years earlier, villains had crippled his cultivation, severed every meridian in his body, and destroyed his Martial Dao foundation. The Ning lineage had then sent him to the Shen lineage to become their live-in son-in-law.
Ning Chuan had only transmigrated a few days ago. He had never expected to nearly fall victim to the Demon Emperor Asura's possession.
Looks like someone reborn still can't beat a transmigrator!
Ning Chuan grumbled inwardly.
Demon Emperor Asura, you were a mighty figure in the immortal realm, yet your own wife betrayed you. Clearly, you were a failure at life and not too bright, either. Even if you cultivated your way back, the Azure Lotus Immortal Emperor would still toy with you until you died!
Ning Chuan thought to himself.
Now that he had fused with the Demon Emperor Asura's remnant soul, he had also gained all his memories, legacies, and experience. It was like wisdom being poured straight into his head, allowing him to understand the whole chain of events.
Poor Demon Emperor Asura. He had spent ten thousand years refining the Nine-Turn Nirvana Divine Pill, only to sew a wedding gown for the Azure Lotus Immortal Emperor to wear.
Every meridian in my body is shattered. Perhaps the Demon Emperor Asura had a solution?
A thought stirred in Ning Chuan's mind, and he immediately began searching the merged memories.
The Demon Emperor Asura had not only been a peerless demon emperor, but also a grandmaster of Pill Dao, hailed as the greatest alchemist in the immortal realm. Otherwise, he could never have refined the Nine-Turn Nirvana Divine Pill.
Before long, Ning Chuan found a pill formula.
The Five-Element Marrow-Cleansing Pill!
Once refined, it could restore every meridian in the body, cleanse the essence and marrow, and transform a person from the inside out, allowing them to cultivate again.
The Demon Emperor Asura's most powerful technique was the Asura Divine Art. If I restore all my meridians and cultivate it, perhaps I, too, can ascend to immortality and become a supreme immortal emperor?
Ning Chuan's eyes filled with anticipation.
Huh, wait! This is... the Chaos Gods and Devils Art?
Just then, Ning Chuan discovered another supreme divine art in the Demon Emperor Asura's memories, called the Chaos Gods and Devils Art!
The Demon Emperor Asura had found it in an ancient ruin. In his judgment, the Chaos Gods and Devils Art was a hundred times stronger than the Asura Divine Art.
However, to cultivate the Chaos Gods and Devils Art, one had to discard all existing cultivation and start anew.
My meridians are all shattered, and my cultivation has been crippled. Doesn't that make me perfectly suited to cultivating the Chaos Gods and Devils Art?
Ning Chuan's eyes shone with tremendous excitement.
A technique stronger than the Asura Divine Art-just how earth-shaking a supreme art was this Chaos Gods and Devils Art?
Once he refined the Five-Element Marrow-Cleansing Pill and restored all his meridians, he could cultivate the Chaos Gods and Devils Art!
Bang!
Just then, someone kicked the door open.
A pretty young girl in a blue-green dress stormed inside. The moment she saw Ning Chuan, her anger flared.
"Ning Chuan, you useless fool! You're still lying here sleeping in broad daylight? If you keep wallowing like this, someone will steal my sister away! I don't even know what she sees in you. It's bad enough that you can't cultivate in the Martial Dao, but you've lost all your spirit, too. Every day, you drown your sorrows in drink. You're a lump of mud that won't stick to a wall! My sister should never have married you!"
The girl in blue-green pointed at Ning Chuan and berated him furiously.
"Qingqing?"
A strange look appeared in Ning Chuan's eyes.
The girl in blue-green before him was the sister-in-law he had acquired through transmigration-Shen Qingqing, the younger sister of his wife, Shen Qianxun!
"What did you say? Someone's going to steal Qianxun away?"
Ning Chuan narrowed his eyes, a cold gleam flashing within them.
"Ning Chuan, you useless fool, you spineless coward, you ungrateful wretch! If it weren't for you, my sister would never have been threatened by Li Yunfei. This is all your fault..."
Shen Qingqing's eyes were red, filled with disappointment and fury.
"Stop scolding me for a moment and tell me what happened first."
Ning Chuan spoke with some helplessness.
He knew Shen Qingqing disliked him.
It was all because, after Ning Chuan's cultivation had been crippled three years ago, Shen Qianxun had insisted on bringing him into the Shen lineage as a live-in son-in-law and marrying a useless man like him.
Who was Shen Qianxun?
Flame Dragon City's greatest beauty, a Martial Dao prodigy, and a two-star alchemist. She was renowned throughout the Great Xia Kingdom, the perfect fairy in the hearts of countless young men.
She was also the head of the Shen lineage. Single-handedly, she had pulled them back from the brink of ruin and made them one of Flame Dragon City's three great lineages.
Yet who could have imagined that Shen Qianxun would insist on marrying a useless man like Ning Chuan?
Though Ning Chuan was a live-in son-in-law, the Shen lineage had never mistreated him. His food, clothing, and daily necessities were all the best available, as Shen Qianxun had instructed.
Of course, the original Ning Chuan had been unable to accept that he had become useless. He had spent every day lost in a drunken stupor, drinking himself into a sodden heap and willingly sinking into depravity.
"Ning Chuan, this is all your fault! My sister found a pill in an ancient text called the Meridian-Continuing Pill, which can restore every meridian in the body. But it's a three-star spirit pill, and my sister is only a two-star alchemist. She forced herself to refine it, causing fire poison to attack her heart and severely depleting her mental power. She's already fallen into a coma!"
Shen Qingqing spoke with reddened eyes.
"The Meridian-Continuing Pill? Qianxun did this for me?"
Ning Chuan froze for a moment.
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