I am an incredibly handsome man, and my fiancée refuses to call off the engagement even at the cost

boom!

A mountain peak was shattered into pieces in the flames.

Suddenly, a clear, ringing bell rang out, and a giant silver bell appeared between heaven and earth. The moment the bell rang, silver ripples spread across the void and the earth, causing the space to tremble violently, as if heaven and earth were shaking violently.

Tan Yue coughed up blood and flew backward, crashing into a mountain peak.

Before he could even get up, a torrent of golden sword energy appeared in the sky, and 100,000 flying swords rained down on Tan Yue. Tan Yue coughed up blood as he activated his purple shield.

Boom boom boom—

After 100,000 flying swords were unleashed, a golden sword beam, hundreds of feet long, cleaved down from the sky. Tan Yue gritted his teeth, his entire body engulfed in purple flames, and a purple giant phantom appeared behind him. The giant was identical to Tan Yue, wielding a spear as it met the terrifying sword beam head-on.

boom!

The golden sword light shattered the purple giant phantom, and a tremendous roar shook the heavens and the earth. Storms swept in all directions, and the surrounding mountains shattered and collapsed.

Tan Yue suddenly coughed up blood; having taken a blow from the Heavenly Treasure, she was already at her last gasp.

Whoosh!

Gu Yan flashed forward and punched him, sending him flying. Then she chased after him and kicked him dozens of miles away. The sounds of thumping echoed incessantly as Gu Yan kicked Tan Yue around like a soccer ball until the old bastard was barely clinging to life.

Drip, drip, bright red blood dripped onto the ground.

In the desolate mountains ravaged by terrifying forces, a masked man in white held a burly middle-aged man in one hand. The middle-aged man was covered in wounds and blood, his clothes were tattered, and he was in a sorry state.

Almost all the bones in his body were broken, but his eyes showed no resignation; his gaze was filled with hatred, boundless resentment and anger.

"Go easy on him!"

Two beams of light flew in from afar, landing and transforming into a man and a woman.

It was Xiao Wanmei and Tan Shuo.

The mother and son approached and immediately knelt down, pleading with Gu Yan.

"Mr. Li Bai, please spare my husband!" Xiao Wanmei cried.

"Senior Li Bai, please spare my father! He was just momentarily blinded by anger. I'm willing to warm your bed, please don't mistreat him. He's proud and can't stand being humiliated," Tan Shuo kowtowed to Gu Yan, crying and pleading.

Gu Yan paused for a second, looked at Tan Shuo who was crying and sniffling, then glanced at Tan Yue who seemed to want to devour her alive, and said to Tan Shuo with a cold smile, "The old bastard is prettier than you."

Tan Shuo and Xiao Wanmei were stunned.

Tan Yue angrily retorted, "A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!"

Tan Yue took Gu Yan's words seriously. His spiritual energy surged, and he wanted to self-destruct rather than suffer Gu Yan's humiliation.

Gu Yan realized his intention and knocked him unconscious with a single palm strike. Then, with a flick of his long sleeve, a beam of light enveloped Tan Yue, shrinking her size and sealing her inside a bead, which he then stored in his sleeve.

Then Gu Yan turned around and transformed into a golden rainbow, disappearing into the sky.

"father!"

"Mr. Li Bai!"

Tan Shuo and Xiao Wanmei tried to chase after her, but Gu Yan was too fast; they couldn't catch up.

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Deep in the vast mountains, a simple cave dwelling has been newly carved out on the mountainside of a peak. Inside the cave dwelling are tables, chairs, shelves, and alchemy furnaces.

Three layers of formations were activated outside the cave, and the cave walls inside were covered with various talismans. Four chains extended from the void formation, binding a man's hands and feet. The man was still unconscious, his long hair was disheveled, and he looked to be in his thirties. Although he was somewhat old, he was quite handsome.

He was shirtless, and the wounds on his body were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When Tan Yue woke up, he found himself chained. He instinctively tried to break free, but found that he couldn't use his spiritual power.

Clang, clang, the chains rattled. He gritted his teeth and tried several more times, but his spiritual power still wouldn't obey him.

He glared angrily at Gu Yan, who was walking towards him. He had already assumed that Gu Yan was a wicked sorcerer who specialized in the art of sexual cultivation, and he truly believed that Gu Yan had imprisoned him here to use him as a furnace.

Gu Yan was still dressed in white, as white as snow, and wearing a mask.

At his feet were the hopping Snow Shadow Tiger cubs, which were pestering Gu Yan for his pills. Gu Yan had already fed them a whole plateful, so he ignored them.

"You're awake," Gu Yan said calmly.

"You bastard, kill me if you dare!" Tan Yue shouted angrily.

Tan Yue was born into a wealthy family and became famous at a young age. He dominated the Ruohe Empire for over a thousand years. Among the experts in the Ruohe Empire, apart from those few old monsters at the Spirit Emperor level, he was next in line. He was extremely arrogant and had never been a prisoner.

He would rather die than become someone else's furnace.

However, he couldn't use his spiritual power to self-destruct, so he could only glare fiercely at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan's anger had subsided. He calmly stared at Tan Yue, scanning his body dozens of times with his divine sense, and said, "I was wondering before that it was strange that you recovered so quickly after taking a direct hit from the Silver Spirit Bell. At that time, I thought you had taken some kind of elixir, but it turns out you have a special constitution."

The first time he fought Tan Yue, he seriously injured her. Just two days later, Tan Yue was back in full health and came knocking on his door again. At that time, Gu Yan assumed he had recovered using drugs. Now, however, he was focused on Tan Yue and hadn't taken any drugs; his injuries had miraculously healed rapidly on their own.

This guy actually has a high-speed self-healing ability.

High-speed self-healing is rarely seen even among high-level magical beasts and monsters.

Gu Yan was eager to know whether his constitution was innate or acquired.

If Tan Yuezhen really had some deep-seated hatred for him, or was some kind of heinous villain, Gu Yan would have dissected him long ago.

"Is your rapid self-healing ability something you were born with?" Gu Yan asked.

He asked the question very politely, but the person he was questioning hated him to the core and looked like he wanted to tear him apart, so he didn't answer.

"Fine, don't tell me then. I just want to know what effect your blood will have in medicine." After saying this, Gu Yan reached out and grabbed at Tan Yue in the air. A red light enveloped Tan Yue, who showed a pained expression. Thin strands of red blood trickled out from his pores and condensed into ten points of essence blood.

The ten drops of crimson blood essence floated in the air like blood diamonds. Gu Yan took out a small jade bottle that emitted a cold aura and put the ten drops of blood essence into it.

He glanced at Tan Yue, whose face had paled slightly, and a smile played on his lips beneath his mask. He turned and walked toward the alchemy furnace, where he used Tan Yue's blood essence to refine pills.

Gu Yan combined Tan Yue's essence blood with more than thirty kinds of medicinal herbs to refine the Blood Spirit Pill. After the Blood Spirit Pill was made, Gu Yan took one.

Hey, it's actually quite effective.

This medicine is useful for treating his injuries.

So Gu Yan consumed the entire batch of Blood Spirit Pills. After finishing them, she continued to extract Tan Yue's essence and blood, then refined pills, took medicine, and circulated her internal energy to digest the medicinal power.

Two months passed in this way. Gu Yan continued to extract Tan Yue's blood to refine Blood Spirit Pills until he developed a resistance to them. Gu Yan recovered his cultivation to the late stage of the Spirit King Realm by taking Blood Spirit Pills, but then he developed a resistance. Continuing to take them would no longer have any effect on the injuries to his primordial spirit, which he greatly regretted.