The Master and His Wealthy Fiancée

Guo Lin sensed the danger, but he was too gravely injured to escape.

He watched as the terrifying, monstrous bird lunged toward him. There was a flash of black light, and Guo Lin was dead.

The Corpse Dove, seemingly unsatisfied, devoured Guo Lin's corpse in a single gulp and resumed its search for E Xuanfu.

The Zhao Family's ancestor was terrified. "Lord Niao, don't eat me!" he cried out in horror. "I haven't bathed in a hundred years! I'll taste awful!"

A short distance away, the Chen Family's ancestor was also trembling. 'If Chen Dong had such an unbelievably powerful ally,' he thought, 'why didn't he summon it sooner?'

As E Xuanfu's shadow drew closer, the ancestor shouted in a panic, "Chen Dong is one of the Chen Family! We're on the same side! Don't kill me!"

Luckily, Chen Dong was still within the lightning and couldn't hear him. Otherwise, he would have had to give his ancestor credit—that shameless flip-flopping was truly something to behold.

The Corpse Dove shot the old man a contemptuous glance and, sure enough, held back. Hidden in the ancestor's shadow, E Xuanfu also managed to catch his breath for a moment.

The Thunder Tribulation in the sky was nearing its end. The terrifying sphere of lightning that enveloped the two of them had swelled to the size of a mountain, radiating a light as blinding as the sun.

As if reaching a critical point, the sphere of lightning suddenly burst, sending out a blinding shockwave of light. The tribulation clouds above scattered, and the rain they had held back began to pour down in a deluge.

Tian Sisi and Chen Dong reappeared, looking as if they had been reborn. The very plane of their existence had undergone a tremendous leap.

Within Tian Sisi, her Profound Pill was perfectly formed and generating its own Dao Essence. She had forged a First-grade Profound Pill.

The Saint's Emblem on Chen Dong's brow had vanished, but his cultivation had leaped to Inner Realm Perfection. His True Qi had been tempered by the Thunder Tribulation and refined into pure Spiritual Power, and he had even forged a solid strand of Divine Sense in his sea of consciousness. Were it not for the absence of a Profound Pill in his body, his current state was nearly identical to the Profound Pill Realm.

This was precisely the rarest and most valuable aspect of his transformation. It meant he could reach an unprecedented peak in the Inner Realm, allowing him to pursue the boundless Extreme Realm when he eventually broke through to the Profound Pill Realm.

An opportunity like his was arguably unprecedented. Even back when Spiritual Qi was abundant, a Saint acknowledged by the Celestial Dao was a rarity that might appear only once in tens of thousands of years. Profound Pills were common, but Saints were not. Furthermore, those acknowledged Saints had already far surpassed the Inner Realm, making it impossible for them to piggyback on a First-Grade Pill Tribulation as he had. To them, the insights gained from a Pill Tribulation were less important than the Saint's Emblem itself.

A Saint at the Inner Realm was unheard of; such a thing had never happened before. You Neng had only suggested this method because for one acknowledged by the Celestial Dao, any plea made to the heavens would receive a response—especially one concerning the path of a Saint.

Meanwhile, E Xuanfu took advantage of the blinding flash, darting rapidly through the shadows. Tian Sisi's life or death no longer mattered to him; all he wanted now was to escape.

The Corpse Dove faltered for a moment, stunned by the brilliant light, but it quickly resumed the chase.

A cold voice rang out. "He's my prey!" Tian Sisi said, her tone leaving no room for argument.

E Xuanfu had tried to assassinate Tian Sisi time and again. He had nearly killed her during her breakthrough to the False Pill Realm, and he had relentlessly harassed her during this Pill Tribulation. Worst of all, he had even managed to injure Chen Dong multiple times.

Tian Sisi had been nursing this grudge for a long time. Now that her First-grade Pill was complete, she was desperate to unleash her pent-up fury.

At her words, the Corpse Dove halted and glanced quizzically toward Li Wang.

E Xuanfu, fleeing for his life, felt a surge of joy. 'If that monstrous bird isn't chasing me, I might just make it out alive!'

But unexpectedly, a sky-shattering slash of blade energy tore through the air toward him. He immediately hid within a shadow, but the blade energy ripped the shadow apart, exposing him. His eyes were filled with astonishment, yet he remained composed. He refused to believe Tian Sisi could possess such strength immediately after her Thunder Tribulation. He circulated all his True Qi, gathering it in his twin swords to block the incoming slash.

He clearly didn't understand the power of a First-grade Profound Pill, or he would never have even considered resisting.

This strike, fueled by Tian Sisi's rage, was something even a regular late-stage Profound Pill Realm expert couldn't have blocked, let alone a mere Inner Realm Peak cultivator like him.

The gap between the Profound Pill Realm and the Inner Realm was a qualitative leap, and the First-grade Profound Pill was the absolute pinnacle of that leap.

As the blade energy shattered his twin swords, terror finally gripped his heart. His eyes filled with bitter resentment. 'I'm the one who should be vying for supremacy!'

The blade energy carved a massive trench into the earth, and E Xuanfu was split in two.

But Tian Sisi, seemingly not yet satisfied, brandished her Miao Blade and began to hack his body to pieces. The image of him injuring Chen Dong flashed through her mind, and it seemed that this was the true source of her rage.

The Corpse Dove was completely stunned. Its beak opened and closed. "How am I supposed to eat this now!"

'A perfectly plump grub, now turned to mincemeat.'

The famished creature shook its head. 'Oh well, I guess this will have to do.' It opened its beak and inhaled, sucking all the pieces of E Xuanfu into its belly.

The ancestors of the Chen Family and the Zhao Family didn't dare run; they didn't even dare move. Drenched in cold sweat, they didn't even use their True Qi to ward off the torrential rain, simply letting it soak them.

When he felt several gazes fall upon him, the Chen Family's ancestor immediately begged for mercy. "Chen Dong, spare me for the sake of our shared ancestry!"

Chen Dong winced. The ancestor's words, while technically not wrong, were still infuriating. However, he had no intention of killing the two men. It wasn't just that he disliked killing; it was also because he had now touched upon the Profound Pill Realm. He had, in essence, transcended ordinary mortals. To kill those beneath the Profound Pill Realm would now bring about karmic sin.