At eighty, the Holy Sect's enchanting woman aided in achieving longevity.

Zongmen Market, Tianxiang Restaurant.

As the most luxurious den of extravagance within a hundred miles of the Hehuan Sect, this place is a gathering place for countless wealthy and noble demonic cultivators year-round.

Inside the luxurious private room by the window, a table laden with delicacies, the rich aroma of the dishes filling the air.

Ji Ruxue sat upright at the head of the table, still maintaining a cold and aloof demeanor that kept strangers at bay.

However, her jade-like hands somewhat awkwardly pushed a plate of Heavenly Cicada Bamboo Shoots, worth several hundred spirit stones, towards Chen Changsheng.

"Eat more. This Holy Maiden doesn't want to bring a emaciated, starving good-for-nothing to cultivate with, which would only make me lose face."

Chen Changsheng looked at the stubborn but soft-hearted Holy Maiden of the Demonic Sect in front of him and chuckled inwardly.

He knew perfectly well that this girl had brought him out to replenish his body with high-grade spiritual food because she saw that he had been "overworked" last night and had been threatened by Li Tianhai today.

"Thank you, Madam... no, thank you for your kindness, Your Highness."

Chen Changsheng readily complied, picked up his jade chopsticks and began to eat heartily. He even casually placed a piece of nourishing spiritual meat on Ji Ruxue's plate, his movements as natural as those of an ordinary married couple.

Ji Ruxue's delicate body stiffened slightly as she looked at the spirit meat in the bowl, a hint of panic flashing in her beautiful eyes.

But for some inexplicable reason, she didn't refuse; she simply lowered her head and took a small bite.

Step, step, step.

In this tranquil and tender moment, a series of heavy footsteps, carrying the scent of blood, shattered the peace of the private room.

Immediately afterwards, the carved door of the private room was shattered by a violent gust of wind!

With a sullen face, Li Tianhai strode in, surrounded by two late-stage Foundation Establishment experts.

When he saw the two people chatting and laughing at the table, their intimacy subtly evident.

Li Tianhai's hands, hidden in his sleeves, clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white, and the jealousy in his eyes almost set the entire restaurant ablaze!

"Junior Sister Ruxue, you're really in high spirits."

Li Tianhai twitched the corners of his mouth, forcing out a chilling fake smile.

He plopped down at the next table, his venomous eyes locking onto Chen Changsheng:

"I, the young master, grew up in the sect since childhood, and I truly had no idea that a mere servant sword attendant who pours tea and water would be qualified to dine at the same table as Her Highness the Holy Maiden?"

Ji Ruxue lowered her long eyelashes, took a sip of spiritual tea, and completely ignored Li Tianhai.

This blatant disregard caused Li Tianhai's rage to completely spiral out of control.

Very well! For the sake of a lowly ant, you dare to humiliate this young master like this!

"Hehe, Chen Changsheng, is that right?"

A venomous glint flashed in Li Tianhai's eyes. Suddenly, he picked up a glass of Blood Demon Liquor from the table and seemingly generously handed it to Chen Changsheng:

"Now that you've become Junior Sister Ruxue's favorite, this young master will have to take good care of you. Here, this cup of wine is for you!"

Before he could finish speaking, Li Tianhai suddenly tightened his grip on the wine glass!

boom!

He poured his domineering demonic power, a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, into the seemingly calm wine glass!

A nearly transparent, extremely insidious blood-fiend energy transformed into an invisible steel needle, accompanied by a piercing sound of air being torn apart, heading straight for Chen Changsheng's dantian!

This move was both subtle and ruthless. Li Tianhai had made up his mind that even if he couldn't kill Chen Changsheng in public now, he would completely shatter the boy's dantian and turn him into a complete cripple!

Chen Changsheng's pupils contracted slightly.

Relying on his Pure Yang Body's ability to sense danger, he keenly detected a wisp of deadly, insidious energy.

But he remained seated as still as a mountain, not only not dodging, but instead a playful sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.

Because he knew that he didn't have to be the one to slap the other person today.

"Li Tianhai, you're asking for death!"

Before that wisp of bloodthirsty energy could even get within three feet of Chen Changsheng, a cold shout rang out in the restaurant like a thunderclap from a clear sky!

"Buzz!!!"

The tranquil void twisted eerily, and an old figure in a gray robe materialized out of thin air in front of Chen Changsheng like a ghost.

Without the old man making any move, he merely waved his long sleeves, and a vast golden divine soul domain, as boundless as an ocean, suddenly descended.

That wisp of bloodthirsty energy, powerful enough to severely injure a Foundation Establishment cultivator, collapsed and disintegrated the moment it touched this domain, just like ice and snow melting away!

Major cultivation at the Golden Core stage!

A terrifying pressure instantly swept across the entire Tianxiang Restaurant.

The wandering cultivators and disciples eating around them were so frightened that they all knelt on the ground, trembling uncontrollably.

Li Tianhai's pupils constricted, and he stumbled back several steps, exclaiming in surprise as he looked at the gray-robed elder, "Elder Mo? You...you actually attacked this servant?"

Elder Mo, the previous generation's elder of the Punishment Hall of the Hehuan Sect, is now a Golden Core stage expert who has long since withdrawn from worldly affairs.

He was even personally appointed by the sect leader as the protector of the Holy Maiden Ji Ruxue!

"Li Tianhai, who do you think you are, daring to lay a hand on my people?"

Ji Ruxue suddenly stood up, her red dress fluttering without wind, and her usually cold and beautiful eyes now held an undisguised, chilling killing intent!

"Old Mo, slap him!"

"This old servant obeys."

The gray-robed Elder Mo lowered his head slightly, and the next moment his figure vanished from the spot.

So fast!

The two late-stage Foundation Establishment elders behind Li Tianhai changed their expressions drastically. They were about to fight to the death to protect their master, but they were pinned to the spot and unable to move by a terrifying Golden Core pressure.

"Smack!!!"

A crisp, resounding slap suddenly rang out, echoing throughout the entire restaurant.

Li Tianhai was sent flying like a cannonball, crashing violently into the hard obsidian wall of the restaurant.

Mouthfuls of blood mixed with broken teeth gushed out, and he collapsed in the middle of the street in a wretched state, like a dead dog.

"Hiss!"

The entire market street fell into a deathly silence in an instant.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

That's the young master of a sect!

The Holy Maiden actually ordered her protectors to break the young master's bones just for a mere attendant?!

"Well done, Your Highness is truly mighty."

Chen Changsheng sat to the side, picked up a cup of tea, took a sip, and spoke with a tone full of contentment.

This kind of life of being a kept woman, with a top-tier rich woman and a powerful strategist as your backers, feels so damn good!

Ji Ruxue turned around and glared at him fiercely.

But when she saw Chen Changsheng's unharmed and even slightly adoring gaze, her heart skipped a beat.

Some deliberately turned their heads away.

"Cough...Young Master, are you alright?"

The two late-stage Foundation Establishment level monsters, now free, tumbled and crawled downstairs.

They helped Li Tianhai, whose face was covered in blood and whose body was convulsing, to his feet.

At this moment, Li Tianhai no longer possessed his previous arrogance.

His clothes were torn apart by the violent force, his face was pale and weak, and the aura that he had been forcibly concealing with a secret technique was completely dissipated under this heavy blow.

In an instant, a dense, sinister, and depleted aura emanated from his body.

The demonic cultivators present were all shrewd and immediately saw through the deception.

This is clearly due to the forced cultivation of evil arts and the forced absorption of too many inferior female cultivators, resulting in a severe depletion of vital energy in the body, a weak foundation, and a short lifespan!

"Pfft."

Chen Changsheng stood up, walked to the broken windowsill, looked down at Li Tianhai below, and deliberately said in a mocking voice:

"Young Master, while pursuing cultivation progress is important, you must also be mindful of moderation. Judging from your unsteady gait and depleted qi and blood... tsk tsk, if you were to enter the Blood Demon Secret Realm, you probably wouldn't even be able to feed the low-level blood beasts there, would you?"

"You...you bastard...Pfft!"

Li Tianhai was already filled with shame and indignation, and now his hidden illness had been exposed in public by a follower he regarded as an ant.

His chest heaved violently, and he spat out another mouthful of blood, fainting from anger.

"Young Master! Young Master!"

The two old monsters turned pale with fright and dared not linger any longer. They lifted Li Tianhai up and transformed into a streak of bloody light, fleeing the market in a sorry state.

Looking in the direction Li Tianhai had left, the smile in Chen Changsheng's eyes vanished completely, replaced by a cold glint.