My CEO Bai Fumei’s wife

The Golden Elixir shatters, and the Nascent Soul is born.

This process normally takes at least a hundred years, but the Heaven-Defying Pill compresses those hundred years into an instant.

A clear dragon roar came from Qin Yu's body. It was not a real dragon, but a spiritual energy resonance generated when the Nascent Soul was formed. A terrifying aura far exceeding that of the Golden Core stage erupted from his body, forcefully dispersing the fourth lightning tribulation.

Lei Ming was dumbfounded.

He watched in disbelief as the rogue cultivator, who was originally only in the late Foundation Establishment stage, completed the leap from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul under the baptism of four heaven-defying tribulation lightning bolts. The speed of that leap was simply unheard of.

"Impossible, how could you break through to the Nascent Soul stage so quickly?"

"I told you, you couldn't withstand a few bolts of lightning. Do you believe me now?"

Qin Yu emerged from the lightning, his body still bearing the dark red arcs of the Heaven-Defying Tribulation, but he was unharmed. The Purple Sun Divine Armor had blocked most of the damage for him, and he used the remaining damage to temper his newly formed Nascent Soul.

The fifth bolt of lightning was delayed because the pressure of the heavenly tribulation was reassessing its target. It sensed that Qin Yu's cultivation had exceeded the threshold it had originally set, and it needed to mobilize more power to complete the punishment.

This gap is exactly what Qin Yu needs.

Instead of waiting for Lei at Tingyuxuan, he dashed towards the eastern district of Tianshu City, where Meng Hanbing's private courtyard was located, and also where the golden soul that Zhuge Chuchu had locked onto with her Glazed Eyes was.

Lei Ming shouted from behind, "Don't run away, I haven't finished settling scores with you yet."

But his legs were weak. He never wanted to experience being struck by lightning again. Moreover, he could tell that Qin Yu was no longer the Foundation Establishment stage rogue cultivator he could easily manipulate.

Qin Yu's figure swept across the rooftops, trailing a red lightning tail behind him. It was the residual pressure of the Heaven-Defying Tribulation Lightning, attracting the attention of everyone in Tian Shu City like a moving target.

The fifth bolt of lightning finally struck, but Qin Yu had already run out of the Tingyuxuan area. The lightning bolt struck the spot where he had just been standing, leveling the three-story wooden building and turning more than a dozen surrounding shops into ruins.

But those shops were deserted long ago. Qin Yu had calculated the route, and he hadn't harmed a single innocent person during his entire tribulation.

Meng Hanbing's courtyard is located at the end of the third alley in the East District. It is surrounded by two layers of restrictions, and the Nascent Soul level defensive formation is sufficient to block any Golden Core stage cultivator's attack under normal circumstances.

But Qin Yu wasn't there to break the formation.

He stood above the courtyard, looked up at the red vortex of heavenly tribulation, and then raised his middle finger to the heavens.

The sixth and seventh bolts of lightning struck simultaneously.

Two thick, red lightning bolts crashed straight into Meng Hanbing's courtyard. The Nascent Soul level restriction couldn't even withstand a moment of the heaven-defying tribulation, shattering into specks of light like soap bubbles.

A scream came from the courtyard. Meng Hanbing rushed out of the ruins, her hair charred and her face covered in dust. Her disheveled appearance was completely different from that of the high and mighty Divine Dao Sect Master in Tian Shu City.

"Who is it? Who dares to set off lightning in my courtyard?"

Before she could figure out what was going on, Qin Yu had already landed, his feet on still smoking gravel, holding the Nine Dragons Sword in his hand, the blade crackling with dark red arcs of lightning from the Heaven-Defying Tribulation.

"Sect Master Meng, do you find this Qingfeng Sword easy to wield?"

Meng Hanbing's pupils suddenly contracted. She spent two thousand spirit crystals to buy that sword in order to lure the person behind the Qingfeng Sect. She didn't expect that instead of catching the fish, the person would come to her door.

"You are Blood Fiend."

"You got it right, but there's no reward." Qin Yu's gaze swept over the ruins in the courtyard and then landed on the collapsed hole in the center of the courtyard. Zhuge Chuchu said there was a space underground, where a person with a golden soul was imprisoned.

Meng Hanbing followed his gaze, and her expression turned even more unpleasant.

"Don't even think about it. I spent three hundred years finding that person, and no one can take him away."

"Three hundred years, you've been searching for someone for three hundred years."

"It's not about finding people, it's about finding reincarnated souls. In the entire Martial Emperor City, there are only two people whose souls are golden. One is Huang Lingtian, who has already been deposed, and the other is the one I imprisoned underground."

Qin Yu clenched his fist, the tip of the Nine Dragons Sword pointing at Meng Hanbing's throat.

"She is my wife."

"Your wife, oh, so you're the man bound to the Reincarnation Empress. No wonder your luck is so special; you've also been tainted by the aura of reincarnation."

Meng Hanbing laughed, a laugh that contained madness, calculation, and the desperate struggle of a cornered beast.

"You want to save her? Fine, but you should know that her soul has been suppressed by my Soul-Eating Worms for three whole months. If you forcibly take her away now, her soul will disintegrate on the spot, and then you'll be left with nothing but a corpse to live with."

Qin Yu's sword tip moved forward an inch, drawing a bloody line on Meng Hanbing's neck.

"Unseal the seal."

"Do you think I'm easily scared? If you kill me, she will die with me. The Soul-Eating Worm is bound to the host's soul. If I die, the worm will go berserk and devour her soul until there's nothing left."

This is a dead end. Meng Hanbing used herself as a bargaining chip to force Qin Yu to not dare to make a move.

But Qin Yu did not back down. His gaze went past Meng Hanbing's shoulder and toward the entrance of the cave.

"You're right, killing you will cause her soul to dissipate, but I didn't say I was going to kill you with a sword."

"If you don't use a sword, what else can you do..."

Before Meng Hanbing could finish speaking, the aftershocks of the seventh heaven-defying tribulation lightning finally landed in the courtyard, and the dark red arc of electricity burrowed into the underground space like a venomous snake.

The Soul-Eating Insect is an extremely yin and evil creature, while the Heaven-Defying Tribulation Lightning is an extremely yang and strong force. When the two meet, it's like water and fire clashing, instantly unleashing a violent surge of spiritual energy.

A sharp screech came from the cave, the scream of the Soul-Eating Insects before they were burned to death by lightning and fire. Only beings with divine souls could hear this sound; ordinary people could not sense it at all.

Meng Hanbing's face turned deathly pale instantly. She sensed that her Soul-Devouring Insects were being burned to ashes by an extremely yang power. The pain of the severed connection made her soul tremble.

"No, impossible. How could the heaven-defying tribulation lightning possibly drill into the ground?"

"Because I did it on purpose."

Qin Yu rushed towards the entrance of the cave, with the Nine Dragons Sword clearing the way, cutting through all the ruins and rubble. Behind him followed the eighth heaven-defying tribulation lightning, the last and strongest one.

The underground space was larger than Qin Yu had imagined; it was a secret chamber about ten zhang square, with sealing runes engraved on the walls. However, those runes had lost their effectiveness under the aftershocks of the heaven-defying tribulation lightning. (End of Chapter)