Infinite Professions from a Pearl Collector

But despite his inner doubts, Chen Ye’s face instantly flooded with ecstatic disbelief.

His hands trembled as he accepted the Elixir Pill, and his voice cracked with excitement.

"Thank you for your gift, My Lord! Thank you! I... I will go through fire and water for you, My Lord, and would not shrink from death!"

His acting was so convincing, especially his look of being overwhelmed with gratitude, that it made Li Qingyan think he was perhaps just some idiot who’d gotten lucky.

She nodded, satisfied, and waved her hand. "You are dismissed."

"Yes, yes!"

As if granted a great amnesty, Chen Ye scrambled to his feet. He clutched the Blood Qi Pill tightly in his palm and hurried away from the docks, all under the complicated gazes of the surrounding Sinful People.

The moment he returned to his own dilapidated wooden hut and shut the door, the ecstatic excitement on Chen Ye’s face vanished, replaced by an icy calm.

He opened his palm and looked at the Blood Qi Pill, his gaze dark and fathomless.

The Elixir Pill was real; the Qi and Blood Power it contained could not be faked.

Yet, the more genuine it was, the more it proved something was wrong.

’That madwoman, Li Qingyan, what on earth is she planning?’

Chen Ye couldn’t figure it out, but he knew this was far from over.

Sure enough, after night had completely fallen, a knock came at the door.

A Sinful Person in charge of delivering messages stood outside, shouting in a shrill voice, "Chen Ye, Lord Li commands you to go to her residence immediately to help tally the Spirit Pearls!"

’Here it comes!’

Chen Ye’s heart went cold.

As he saw it, this so-called task of helping tally Spirit Pearls was nothing but a pretext.

’This is absolutely a trap!’

"I understand. I’ll go right away."

Chen Ye replied calmly, his voice betraying no emotion.

The messenger hurried away.

Chen Ye closed the door, not a hint of panic in his demeanor.

He knew he couldn’t refuse. On the Blood Lotus Sect’s territory, the will of a Sinful Person was insignificant.

’Since I can’t avoid it, my only choice is to force my way through.’

He walked to his bed and took out a dagger, just over a foot long, from a hidden compartment.

It was the very same dagger he had used to kill Zhao Qiu.

The moment he gripped the dagger, a cold killing intent surged from deep within him.

He then slowly closed his eyes, immersing his Heart Spirit within his body.

In his Dantian, the Grandmaster’s Internal Force he’d brought back from the Martial Dao Realm lay dormant like a sleeping dragon. His surging Qi and Blood churned like a Furnace, radiating scorching Energy.

This power was so immense, it was far beyond what an ordinary person could imagine.

This was his greatest trump card.

Finally, with a thought, the Mirage Palace Actor Profession brand in his Sea of Consciousness glowed faintly.

An invisible wave radiated out from him.

After doing all this, Chen Ye hid the dagger in his sleeve, pushed open the door, and strode toward the most conspicuous residence by the docks.

The moonlight was like water, stretching his shadow long.

But the look in Chen Ye’s eyes was even colder than the moonlight....

...

Meanwhile, Li Qingyan’s residence was ablaze with light.

Clad in red, she reclined languidly on a soft couch. Her posture was indolent, yet she radiated an air of lofty authority.

When Chen Ye entered, he first bowed respectfully, then stood to the side with his hands lowered, continuing to play the part of a humble and terrified Sinful Person.

"Tally all those Spirit Pearls and sort them by grade," Li Qingyan ordered lazily, not even bothering to lift her eyelids.

"Yes."

Chen Ye acknowledged the order and immediately squatted down, beginning to sort the Spirit Pearls one by one.

Li Qingyan casually observed Chen Ye as he squatted on the floor. She found that the more she looked at him, the more pleasing he was to the eye—not just because of his looks, but because of his bearing.

Thus, her patience quickly ran out.

Li Qingyan suddenly sat up straight. "I have a Secret Technique that can purify the Spiritual Qi of the Spirit Pearls, but it requires your Yang Qi as a catalyst."

She looked down on Chen Ye, her tone leaving no room for argument.

"So now, go sit on the meditation cushion in the middle of the room and take off your shirt."

’Yang Qi?’

Chen Ye suddenly understood. He finally realized what this woman’s objective was.

’So after all that, she was after my body.’

A troubled and fearful expression appeared on his face as he stammered, "My Lord, this... this isn’t proper, is it...?"

"Insolent!"

A cold glint flashed in Li Qingyan’s eyes, and an immense force instantly pressed down on Chen Ye.

Chen Ye grunted, then his body was uncontrollably shoved by that force into the inner room, where he fell heavily into the center of a waiting Array.

"Before me, you have no right to say no!"

Li Qingyan sneered disdainfully, then formed a series of hand seals and forcefully activated the Secret Technique.

In an instant, the Array flared with brilliant light.

Chen Ye felt the scene before his eyes change. He was no longer in Li Qingyan’s room, but in a decadent, sensual realm.

Countless women with graceful figures and revealing clothes appeared out of thin air. They approached him with charming smiles and sultry eyes, swaying their alluring hips. They were trying to lure out his Essence Yang Qi using the most primal form of desire.

These were all Witches manifested by the Array and Li Qingyan’s Divine Thought.

For an ordinary man, this would be an absolutely irresistible temptation. The moment his Heart Spirit faltered, he would be sucked dry in an instant.

For Chen Ye, however....

Chen Ye sneered inwardly.

’Is that all?’

Never mind the fact that his Martial Dao Celestial Heart, attained as a Divine-Seeing Grandmaster, had long since forged his will to be as strong as Divine Iron.

Even before he transmigrated, all the girls in yoga pants on video apps had already completely desensitized him to this sort of thing.

But outside the Array, Li Qingyan knew none of this. She only saw Chen Ye sitting within the Array with a dazed look in his eyes and ragged breathing, and assumed he had already succumbed.

Seeing this, a satisfied smile appeared on Li Qingyan’s face as she stared greedily at Chen Ye.

’Such pure Yang Qi!’

She could feel that the masculine Qi and Blood within Chen Ye’s body was far more vigorous than she had imagined—it was practically a Furnace!

As long as she drained him dry, even if her damaged foundation couldn’t be fully restored, it would still improve greatly.

At this thought, she could no longer hold back. She extended a slender, jade-like hand, her five fingers forming a claw, and reached for the top of Chen Ye’s skull.

She was going to use this opportunity to completely seize the Essence Yang Qi from this Furnace Cauldron.

But just as her fingertips were about to touch the top of Chen Ye’s head...

A sudden change occurred!

The man who should have been hopelessly lost in the Illusion Realm suddenly became clear-eyed, looking at her with an icy gaze.

Li Qingyan’s heart leaped into her throat, and a sense of mortal danger instantly enveloped her!

Without a second thought, she tried to pull back and retreat.

But it was too late.

The next second, a hand shot out with incredible speed, precisely and forcefully clamping down on her long, pale neck!