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Ye Chen waved his hand, putting the remaining Grade 2 Spirit Replenishing Pills into his storage bag and then into his pocket.

He turned and glanced out the window; the courtyard was deserted, not a soul in sight...

"Looks like this woman isn't coming tonight..."

It was already late at night; Liu Ruyan had never come this late before...

Ye Chen immediately put away the pills on the table, walked back to the bed, sat cross-legged, and placed the five hundred refined Grade 6 Spirit Replenishing Pills in front of him...

"call..."

"Hopefully, I can break through..."

"Perhaps by the time that woman comes next time, I will already be at the Golden Core stage..."

"That way I can go find Qing'er without any problems..."

......

A determined glint flashed in his eyes, filled with a burning desire to break through to a higher realm...

He immediately picked up a pill, put it in his mouth and swallowed it, then closed his eyes and began circulating his internal energy...

The room fell silent, with occasional gusts of wind emanating from the energy of the spirits.

Inside a grand hall atop the main peak of the Qingyun Sect's inner sect...

A beautiful jade plaque placed on an altar suddenly shattered...

"Clatter!"

With a crisp sound, the jade pendant shattered into countless small pieces...

Hearing the commotion, the supervisor rushed over, and his expression changed drastically upon seeing the shattered jade tablet on the table...

"Oh no...something terrible has happened!"

Not long after...

The steward hurried to the main hall.

"Reporting to the Lord..."

"Jiang... Jiang Peak Master's jade tablet is broken!"

Ji Rushan, who was meditating, slowly opened his eyes. His expression remained unchanged; he wasn't overly surprised by the news, only letting out a helpless sigh...

"What was bound to happen has finally happened... Junior Brother Jiang couldn't escape this calamity after all..."

When Jiang Changyi went missing last night, Ji Rushan joined forces with a group of powerful sect members to search for his whereabouts, even activating the sect's protective formation in the process...

As a result, Jiang Changyi was not found; the hidden powerhouse within the sect broke through the formation and left, the sect's protective formation was destroyed, and even Jiang Changyi suffered a backlash and was injured...

Under these circumstances, Ji Rushan had already concluded that Jiang Changyi was doomed, since no one could save him...

"Disappeared last night... vanished today, could it really have been the work of the Joyful Union Sect?"

"They tortured Junior Brother Jiang for a whole day and night until he died?"

Ji Rushan muttered to himself with a complicated expression, a guess flashing through his mind...

Yesterday, an elder from a sect also raised this conjecture.

As a righteous sect, the Qingyun Sect has always been at odds with the Hehuan Sect, engaging in a major battle every few decades. Many evil cultivators have also died at the hands of Jiang Changyi, and the two sides harbor a deep-seated hatred...

It's not impossible that a powerful member of the Hehuan Sect assassinated Jiang Changyi...

The more Ji Rushan thought about it, the more likely it seemed, and a fierce glint flashed in his cloudy eyes...

"If they truly are from the Joyful Union Sect, I will never let them go..."

"Those despicable vixens, you just wait!"

He shouted coldly, a plan immediately forming in his mind...

He looked up at the manager in front of him and said calmly.

"Go down..."

"yes..."

The steward respectfully replied, then turned and left...

As he walked out of the main hall and turned a corner into a secluded spot, a hint of doubt flashed across his face...

"Could it really have been done by those elders in the sect?"

"Long Xingyu and Jiang Changyi are both dead; this great battle seems unavoidable..."

"We must get the message back as soon as possible..."

......

He muttered a few words to himself, then took out a paper crane, raised his hand, and made a hand seal...

A surge of spiritual energy flowed into the paper crane, and the next second it flapped its wings and took flight, disappearing into the endless night...

On Qingyu Peak, one of the eighteen peaks of the outer sect of Qingyun Sect...

In a cave...

Meng Fan lay weakly on the bed, his face as white as paper, his breath faint, as if he were about to die at any moment...

He was covered in wounds and had suffered a backlash from the Bloodthirsty Pill; his body was in extreme discomfort...

After two days of recuperation, his internal injuries were finally suppressed.

Two beautiful maids were attending to him, their movements extremely careful. Even the slightest touch caused Meng Fan to cry out in pain...

"Xu Xiao...you bastard, I'll never forgive you..."

"Once I'm healed, I'm going to kill you..."

"You bastard! How dare you, an outer disciple, injure me? You're courting death..."

"I'm going to tell my dad to kill you..."

......

Meng Fan's roar filled the room and could be clearly heard in the courtyard...

At this moment, he was using all his strength to curse Ye Chen, and the hatred in his heart had reached its peak...

He even wanted to tear Ye Chen to pieces...

"Splash..."

A servant rushed into the room and knelt down with a thud in front of the bed...

"Young master, something terrible has happened!"

He said anxiously and hurriedly.

The angry shouting stopped abruptly...

Meng Fan turned his head slightly, glanced at him, and said with displeasure.

"What's the rush?"

"Is the sky falling down?"

Upon hearing this, the servant said with a mournful face.

"Young master, the master has fallen..."

"What did you say?!"

Upon hearing this, Meng Fan instantly exploded. He tried to get up, but the pain made him lie back down. He stared wide-eyed at the servant in front of him, gritting his teeth as he spoke.

"What nonsense are you spouting!"

"My father is a Nascent Soul stage expert, who can kill him?"

"Believe it or not, I'll rip your tongue out!"

......

This was no joke. Meng Fan knew the other party wouldn't speak carelessly, but deep down he was unwilling to believe such a thing could happen...

Meeting Meng Fan's fiery gaze, the servant hurriedly explained.

"It's absolutely true... Master's natal jade tablet in the sect is broken..."

"The sect has already sent word back to the Jiang family ancestral home about this matter..."

Hearing the servant say this, Meng Fan's last glimmer of hope vanished...

The shattering of one's birth year jade pendant signifies the death of that person...

"How is that possible..."

"How could this happen..."

Meng Fan lay limp on the bed, staring blankly upwards, his mind a complete void...

At this moment, the sky truly collapsed!

Jiang Changyi is his backer; he's hoping to enter the inner sect as a personal disciple and eventually return to the Jiang family as the young patriarch...

And so Jiang Changyi perished...

As an illegitimate child, he had undoubtedly lost all his support. The Jiang family even wanted to get rid of him so they could completely seize the family fortune...

"It's over..."

Despair instantly gripped his heart...

Jiang Changyi has fallen. Now, not only is there no one to help him seek revenge on Ye Chen, but he himself is also in danger...