As Ye Hao completed the refinement of the pill and successfully used the Pill Lightning to achieve a breakthrough,
it also marked that Gu He, known as the Pill King, had completely lost any hope of victory.
Gu He stared at Ye Hao in disbelief, unable to react for a long time. After a while, he suddenly felt a fishy sweetness surge up his throat.
Pfft!
A mouthful of blood sprayed out.
Then he fell backward onto the ground, lifeless.
A generation's Pill King ended up meeting such a fate.
Who could have imagined it?
Just as everyone was gradually dispersing,
Yun Yun appeared.
Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, Yun Yun walked straight to Medusa.
With a cold expression she said, "Medusa, you stupid snake, why didn't you stop him earlier? What if he failed to withstand it? That kind of terrifying Pill Lightning, and you actually let him face it alone?"
Yun Yun had been held back by Yun Shan, who questioned her for quite some time, which delayed her.
Thinking about it now still made her feel a lingering fear.
"Yun Yun, do you really think this Queen does not dare to attack you?"
Medusa crossed her arms and looked at Yun Yun calmly.
At the tips of her jade fingers, a brilliant cluster of Dou Qi light flickered.
"So you want to fight? Fine! I will accompany you to the end!"
Yun Yun clenched her jade hand, and a long sword instantly appeared.
The two faced each other like needle against wheat.
Ye Hao stepped forward, standing between them, and interrupted, "I say… are you two pretending I do not exist?"
"Ye Hao, do you know that what you did just now was extremely dangerous? I do not want to lose you. I do not want to experience that pain of life and death separation again, do you understand?"
Yun Yun looked up at Ye Hao, her voice carrying a faint sob.
Then she leaned into Ye Hao's arms.
Her hands wrapped tightly around his waist.
Ye Hao heard Yun Yun's quiet crying beside his ear.
He lowered his head to look at the beauty in his arms.
Her delicate body trembled slightly.
"Sorry for making you worry. But I cherish my life very much. I would never do something like seeking death."
"If you dare do something like that again in the future, I… I will bite you to death!"
As she spoke, Yun Yun actually opened her mouth and bit Ye Hao.
The two flirted and teased each other, completely forgetting that Medusa was standing right beside them.
This made her extremely irritated.
"Bastard! Yun Yun, you dare hug my man right in front of this Queen? Are you courting death?"
Medusa raised her sword and was about to slash at Yun Yun.
Ye Hao turned his body and conveniently wrapped an arm around Medusa's slender waist.
A pair of wings suddenly shot out from his back.
His figure soared into the air and flew toward the Miteer Auction House.
"Old Jia… if I am not mistaken just now… that woman was Yun Yun, right? Yun Yun, the Sect Master of the Yunlan Sect?"
Fa Ma asked blankly.
"And the one who came with Ye Hao… was called Me… Medusa?"
Jia Xing Tian did not answer directly and instead asked in return.
Cold sweat poured down from his forehead and back.
"I think… I think so."
Fa Ma nodded stiffly.
He had not yet recovered from the shock just now.
Upon hearing this, Jia Xing Tian immediately flew away from the Alchemist Association and rushed toward the imperial palace.
Fa Ma: "??"
...
Miteer Auction House, Heaven Character Room Number One.
The moment they entered the room,
a flash of green light appeared.
A long sword glowing with a strange light shot past Ye Hao and slashed toward Queen Medusa.
Medusa's figure disappeared. When she reappeared, she had already snatched the sword from Yun Yun's hand.
She reversed the blade and pressed it against Yun Yun's snow-white neck.
The sword only needed to move forward a few more millimeters to cut open Yun Yun's delicate skin.
"Yun Yun, you keep challenging this Queen's bottom line again and again. Do you think that because I spared you twice, I am someone softhearted?"
Medusa said coldly.
Yun Yun gritted her teeth.
"Medusa, after you sent me away that day, you know very well what you did!"
It was only one night.
And the result?
This snake had actually seized the opportunity first!
"In war, deception is never disliked. Is that not what you humans always say?"
Medusa spoke indifferently. After all, she had succeeded and enjoyed the result.
"You…"
Yun Yun's full chest rose and fell violently as her eyes locked onto Queen Medusa.
Her expression looked as if she wanted to devour her.
The more Yun Yun behaved like this, the wider Medusa's smile became.
And the more proud Medusa looked, the worse Yun Yun felt.
It formed a perfect vicious cycle.
Clang!
Ye Hao flicked his finger and knocked the long sword from Medusa's hand.
Duang…
The sword flew straight up and embedded itself into the ceiling.
The two women simultaneously turned their bodies away, refusing to look at each other.
Yun Yun could not forgive Medusa for sneak attacking and killing Ye Hao.
As for Medusa, she had been beaten by Ye Hao multiple times before finally being completely conquered by him.
For Ye Hao's sake, she originally did not want to become enemies with Yun Yun. Unfortunately, Yun Yun kept provoking her.
Thus the two continued targeting each other like this.
Just then,
Ya Fei walked over carrying a pot of wine.
The moment she stepped into the room,
she felt the atmosphere was extremely tense, as if she had entered a land of freezing cold, making her delicate body shiver.
She quickly withdrew the small foot she had just stepped into the room.
"Sorry, I… I came at the wrong time."
Ya Fei was about to leave.
Ye Hao grabbed her hand.
"No, you came at the perfect time. Let's go next door and have a few drinks."
Yun Yun and Medusa's gazes simultaneously turned toward Ya Fei.
It startled her.
However, with Ye Hao beside her, she was not afraid.
Instead she said, "But… Yun Yun Sister and Medusa Sister will not be unhappy, right?"
"They will not. They will come over later to pour wine for us."
Ye Hao turned around and pulled Ya Fei toward the door.
Yun Yun's fists clenched with cracking sounds, but when she thought that it was not Medusa, she felt a little better.
But Medusa could not tolerate it.
Yun Yun was at least a Dou Emperor.
But you, Ya Fei, are only a Dou Practitioner.
What right do you have to snatch a man right under her nose?
She immediately chased after them.
…
Soon,
the news that Pill King Gu He had lost to Ye Hao in an alchemy contest and died from anger spread throughout the Jia Ma Empire.
Not long after, it reached Mo City.
"I heard something big happened in the Jia Ma Holy City. Have you heard?"
"What big event? You mean the alchemy competition between Gu He and someone named Ye Hao?"
"Yes. I received reliable information. Pill King Gu He lost. And… he died from anger!"
"What?! How is that possible? I heard that Ye Hao is only in his teens. How could he defeat the Pill King?"
"I do not know. But the news has already spread everywhere."
…
The two chatted while walking into a shop named Ancient Map.
"Boss, I want to buy a desert…"
Before he could finish speaking, the man suddenly felt a figure appear in front of him.
"What you just said, is it true?!"
An old man asked with extreme excitement.
The two nodded and immediately told him everything they knew.
After hearing it, the old man froze for a moment.
Then he burst into excited laughter.
He looked like someone who casually bought a lottery ticket and, when he was completely broke, suddenly found out it had won the grand prize.
"Boss… the map… are you still selling the map?"
"Not selling it. But this shop can be given to you!"
The old man laughed loudly, went back, took some things from a drawer, and then disappeared from the two men's sight.
The two stood inside the shop, looking at each other.
They had only come to buy a map.
How did they suddenly become the ones selling maps?
…
At the same time,
Yunlan Sect.
Since Nalan Yanran learned that her teacher Yun Yun was also helping Ye Hao,
she had completely changed her previously depressed state.
Like someone who had taken stimulants, she trained frantically in the courtyard.
Her entire body was soaked with sweat.
Her long hair stuck to her fair and full skin because of the sweat.
Even so, she did not feel tired of it at all.
Just then,
knock knock knock…
The courtyard gate was knocked.
Nalan Yanran was forced to stop her training.
She ran quickly to open the door.
"Teacher, why are you knocking today?"
Nalan Yanran said with a smile as she opened the door.
But the person standing outside was not Yun Yun.
It was a rather handsome young man.
However, the young man looked extremely haggard.
His hair was messy, and there were heavy dark circles under his eyes.
He looked like someone who had not slept for ten or fifteen days.
"Liu Ling? Why are you here?"
"Yanran."
"Did something happen?"
"M… my teacher died."
"What?!"
Nalan Yanran's eyes widened.
"You… you must be joking. How is that possible? Who did it? Why did you not tell my teacher and ask her to capture that murderer?"
If Gu He was gone,
who would refine pills for her in the future to help increase her strength?
Hearing this,
Liu Ling gave a miserable smile and shook his head.
"It is useless… useless…"
"Could it be that person is stronger than my teacher?"
Nalan Yanran asked in shock.
Liu Ling said, "That person is about equal to your teacher. And their relationship is not ordinary. No, it cannot be called not ordinary. It is extremely intimate."
"Ah!"
"I never expected that Sect Master Yun Yun would actually… treat my teacher like this for the sake of that brat. I… I truly feel that my teacher died unjustly!"
Liu Ling clenched his fists.
He hated that his own strength was too weak to avenge his teacher.
"Actually, I came today to say farewell to you. Now that my teacher is dead, I also plan to leave the Yunlan Sect."
"Before leaving, could you… could you let me hug you?"
Liu Ling opened his arms as if to embrace Nalan Yanran.
Nalan Yanran refused.
"Sorry, that is not possible. I only belong to Brother Ye Hao. From now on, only my Brother Ye Hao can hug me whenever he wants."
Except for Ye Hao, if anyone else touched her, either she would die or they would die.
Liu Ling lowered his arms in disappointment.
He had thought he could take this opportunity to get closer to the goddess.
But he was still rejected.
After walking a few steps away,
Liu Ling suddenly turned back.
"Yanran, you just said you only belong to Ye Hao?"
Nalan Yanran nodded.
"What about it?"
Liu Ling shook his head.
He only revealed a meaningful smile and did not explain, then turned and left.
"Hey, Liu Ling, what exactly do you mean?"
"You will naturally know in the future."
"Acting mysterious. So strange!"
After complaining, Nalan Yanran returned to continue her training.
She was looking forward to the day she would meet Ye Hao again,
just to see the stunned expression on his face.
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