The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

Chen Dong shot through the skies of Jiangzhou like a headless fly.

At that moment, Li Wang noticed the glowing inscription on Chen Dong's left hand. "Papa, what's wrong with your hand?"

Hearing this, Chen Dong stopped and descended into a deserted mountain forest.

'Fleeing is no solution. If I don't deal with this inscription on my hand, Lord You will find me sooner or later.'

Chen Dong steeled his heart. The True Qi in his right hand coalesced, forming a blade of qi that he was about to bring down on his left arm.

Just as the True Qi tore through his clothes and pierced the skin of his left arm, the space around them froze, and Chen Dong found himself unable to move an inch.

A black fissure tore open not far from Chen Dong and Li Wang. Lord You's voice drifted faintly from within: "What do you think you're doing!?"

Chen Dong's heart clenched in despair. 'I've been found after all!'

Immediately, bluish-purple lightning crackled around his body. A trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth. As if something had shattered, the spatial lock broke apart, and Chen Dong instantly channeled a bluish-purple aura.

The Asura Dao pillar of light in his Sea of Consciousness dimmed instantly as he roared, "Annihilate!"

A purple Thunder Sword materialized from the void in an instant. Together, they transformed into a bolt of Divine Thunder, striking toward the black fissure!

"To think you could break my control. But with just this meager strength, you dare to strike at me?"

Lord You stepped through the fissure and caught the Divine Thunder with a single hand. The purple Thunder Sword reappeared within the lightning, and with a flick of his wrist, he flung Chen Dong away, sending him crashing into the ground and creating a deep crater.

The Corpse Dove hopped onto the edge of the crater and sneered, "A punk like you dares to attack Lord You? You're overestimating your own strength, you don't know what's good for you, and you've got a death wish!"

At that moment, Xiaoli Wang's small body floated into midair, positioning herself in front of Chen Dong. She roared fiercely, "You're not allowed to hit my papa!" Her long hair whipped about, and a faint sword-shaped mark flickered between her brows.

"Papa?" Lord You's perpetually calm face faltered. His profound eyes seemed to want to see straight through Li Wang.

He reached out his right hand as if wanting to touch Li Wang, and called out gently, tentatively, "Ming!"

"Go away!" Li Wang roared with childish ferocity.

Lord You slowly lowered his right hand and closed his eyes. A breath later, he spoke to the Corpse Dove in a cold voice, "Let's go."

Hearing this, the Corpse Dove leaped into the air. Its crimson eyes were filled with confusion as it flapped its wings erratically, squawking, "My Lord, Lord Ming is right here in front of us! Why are we leaving? We went through so much, tried every possible means to find Lord Ming, and now we're just going to leave?"

"Silence!"

With a casual wave of his hand, Lord You summoned another black fissure.

"We have found Ming. There is no need to continue spreading the Black Feathers." The voice came from Lord You's retreating figure.

The Corpse Dove scrambled to follow. "This humble one understands... but... but, we're just leaving like this? This can't be right!..."

The man and the bird vanished into the slowly closing black fissure.

Li Wang's body fell from the sky. Looking as if she had just survived a catastrophe, she quickly ran to Chen Dong's side. "Papa, that man was so strong! Li Wang couldn't beat him. We would have been in big trouble if he hadn't left!"

Chen Dong choked up two mouthfuls of blood, his unfocused eyes filled with bitter frustration.

"You protected me again."

"What are you talking about, Papa? You're spitting up so much blood. Are you going to die?"

Chen Dong forced himself to sit up and shook his head. "No."

Li Wang nibbled on her finger and said indignantly, "If only Li Wang were a little stronger, I wouldn't have let Papa get hurt!"

Chen Dong quickly wiped the blood from his mouth and pulled Li Wang into a tight hug. "There's no need. In this life, let me be the one to become strong!" His tone was unshakably firm.

"Papa, you're squishing me!" Li Wang pushed Chen Dong away with all her might. She turned up her little nose and said disdainfully, "You're not even as strong as me right now!"

Chen Dong's eyebrow twitched. He placed a hand on Li Wang's wrist to probe her condition.

He saw that Li Wang's Dantian was a chaotic mass, with a single Profound Pill sitting at its center.

Chen Dong's eyes flew wide. 'What the hell?'

"A Pro... Profound Pill!"

'Li Wang actually broke through to the Profound Pill Realm! But what about her Celestial Tribulation? She's reached the Profound Pill Realm while still sealed, so what Realm will she be in when the seal is broken?'

'She broke through to the Profound Pill Realm before the Spirit Tide has even arrived?'

'And why did Lord You leave? Why was he looking for 'Ming'? Isn't she Li Wang? So why is she suddenly 'Ming'?'

'What in the world is going on?'

Countless questions flooded Chen Dong's mind. The Floating Mountain in his Sea of Consciousness, the mysterious Six Paths Technique... there were too many unanswered mysteries.

Chen Dong first focused his gaze on the black inscription in the palm of his left hand. It was still there. He pinched the bridge of his nose and asked softly, "You weren't this powerful last time. Now you have a Profound Pill. How did you do it?"

Li Wang grinned smugly. "Eat and sleep, sleep and eat, eat and sleep, and here I am. Amazing, right?"

Chen Dong pondered this for a moment and came to a rough understanding. Li Wang's true Realm, once unsealed, was likely even higher than he had imagined. There was already a trace of Spiritual Qi in the world now, and even if Li Wang didn't actively cultivate, that Spiritual Qi would naturally be drawn to her at all times.

As for the five children from the Illusory Sect, their bodies had probably been cleansed by the dense Spiritual Qi surrounding Li Wang, unlocking their own hidden talents.

'To be able to comprehend the five elements without even cultivating... It seems she's not far off from possessing what the ancient texts call a Celestial Spirit Root.'