CHAPTER 177: 177 - BREAKTHROUGH (02)

Qingxue left her cultivation cave, her beautiful, serene blue eyes closing instinctively in the intense daylight.

"Congratulations on your breakthrough, Master!" Qingyi appeared in front of Qingxue, admiring her beauty for a brief moment before taking her in his arms.

His right hand rested on her slender waist while his left went up to her long silver hair.

"Did you miss your disciple?" he asked.

Qingxue’s beautiful face blushed intensely, her usual coolness melting into Qingyi’s tight embrace.

Her mind ran through many possible answers, but in the end, she could only swallow her pride and raise her vision, her eyes meeting his.

"Yes, I missed you and... thank you for everything, husband..."

"Good," Qingyi smiled. "I missed you too." He slapped her ass, gripping the voluptuous flesh tightly.

"What do you say we do one last master and disciple practice before we leave for the Nine Peaks Basin?"

"Nghnn~~" Qingxue let out a pained moan before hesitantly nodding.

She was also curious to test her new power as a Burning Blood Realm expert and was eager to see how much Qingyi had improved.

They soon found themselves in the arena of her mansion.

It was clearly insufficient to withstand the power of both of them, but it would still do.

Two sharp whistles echoed as Qingxue’s blades slid against her scabbard, both seized by a powerful wind and sword Qi as the surrounding space shook.

Unlike the Iron Body Realm, which focused entirely on strengthening the body, the Burning Blood Realm concentrated on strengthening the meridians.

As such, Qingxue’s Qi was much more powerful than before.

It was far from enough for Qingyi to feel threatened, but enough for her to be confident that she could defeat hundreds of the previous version of herself in a single move.

Qingyi drew the heaven-defying thunder sword, his body filled with a thunderous aura and the ground beneath his feet cracking with the pressure.

A cherry leaf floated through the air and the moment it hit the ground between them, they both lunged forward.

A deafening bang exploded when the two blades met.

Qingxue’s wind Qi painted the world behind her green while Qingyi’s lightning Qi ripped through the air behind her, making it boil.

After a moment of struggle, Qingxue stepped back, feeling her arms tremble.

"You’ve reached the eighth stage of the Iron Body Realm?" she asked, shocked.

"Master has good senses." Qingyi smiled as he retracted his blade.

Hearing those words, Qingxue could only shake her head.

With that breakthrough, she believed she would finally be able to surpass Qingyi, but the gap between them had only grown even wider.

She really couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed with herself.

"You’re thinking too much." Qingyi said, grabbing Qingxue’s face gently.

"Your husband still has one more gift for you." Qingyi said, opening the system store and going to the lineages and constitution category.

He had 40.000 lust points to spend, enough at least for a rare constitution and lineage for his master.

After a few moments searching, he finally found what he wanted.

[Item: Storm Phoenix bloodline.

Description: A powerful bloodline of a mythical beast whose life was long ago taken over by a coalition of experts from the ancient era.

Grade: Rare

Price: 20,000]

[Item: Constitution of the Heart of the Four Winds

Description: A powerful constitution born of the four primordial winds. It used to be almost invincible even in the celestial heavens, but the ages have dissolved much of its power.

Rank: Rare

Price: 22,000]

"Master, do you trust me?" Qingyi asked.

When Qingxue nodded in confirmation, he grabbed her hands, leading her into the cultivation cave and pressing his hands against her delicate back.

"Be strong, master." Qingyi spoke before purchasing the constitution and bloodline, imbuing both into Qingxue’s body.

It was a long and painful process.

The confusion on Qingxue’s face turned into painful, muffled screams.

Sweat dripped down her pale skin as every fiber of her being seemed to be ripped apart and remade.

After long hours, the pain ceased and Qingxue’s body finally fell wearily onto Qingyi’s chest.

"Ugh... what have you done to me?" Qingxue asked, panting.

She could feel the difference in her body and smell the horrible odor of a body reconstruction, but she was simply unable to understand what Qingyi had done to her and why it was so powerful.

As she stood up, her body felt much lighter, as if it were floating in the air.

Her sensitivity to Qi had increased tremendously, as had the power of the wind Qi that ran through her meridians.

Studying her Dantian, she felt a new thread of Qi in her Qi Core.

It was strangely familiar, but still distant, like something that had never existed and was there all the time at the same time.

"Is that?" Her eyes widened as she ran out of her cave.

"Wait!" Qingyi hurried after her.

Stopping in front of the courtyard of her mansion, she accessed that Qi, pushing it towards her meridians.

A powerful aura ran through her body as her appearance changed.

Her blue eyes became even deeper, shining with a light of their own while ethereal feathers subtly appeared on parts of her body.

She had never felt anything like it, but she had read countless books on the subject and had seen the sect leader himself demonstrate it to her once.

Activating her movement technique, she took a step forward.

A bang echoed as her body broke through the sound barrier and covered a distance of hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye.

"Did you like my gift for you?" Qingyi asked, observing the trembling expression on the silver-haired beauty’s face.

With tears in her eyes, she deactivated her bloodline ability and threw herself into Qingyi’s arms.

"Thank you husband... thank you for everything..." she said.

Those were tears of happiness, running down her delicate face and staining Qingyi’s clothes.

"This small place is no longer suitable for us, love." Qingyi kissed her, her plump, rosy lips untouched by the dirt of the body reconstruction.

Parting his lips from Qingxue’s, he smiled at her. "Let’s take a shower, I’m pretty sure the sect leader wants to send us away as soon as possible, hahaha."