Two days ago, in the thatched cottage.
After seeing Jiang Xuan’s defeated and pitiful appearance, Lan Xin’s heart burst with joy as she rushed forward to hug him tightly.
“Be good, relax a bit! You’re doing this to save her, so no need to feel burdened! A gem like you, such a good man, is truly rare in this world.”
Jiang Xuan hesitantly stammered, “I… if I follow your words, will you really save Xiao Yu?”
“Of course! Just satisfy my request, and I’ll step in to rescue her.”
As soon as Lan Xin finished speaking, a greedy smile crept onto her face as if she had just thought of something.
“Right in front of her, just make me happy. No problem, right?”
Jiang Xuan: “?????”
“Wait, Senior Lan Xin… what do you mean by that?”
“What? Are you having second thoughts? Right now, before we start, I can accept your change of heart!”
“Alright… since it’s Senior Lan Xin asking, I can’t refuse… I just hope you’ll keep your promise afterward…”
“Don’t worry, I wouldn’t act dishonestly with a poor guy like you.”
With Lan Xin’s assurance, Jiang Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But then, unexpectedly, she leaned in and seized his lips without any warning.
The somewhat awkward movement made Jiang Xuan feel as if he were suffocating.
Moments later, Lan Xin wore a pleased expression as she spoke, “Hehe, now you know how powerful I am, right? And there’s more where that came from…”
Jiang Xuan: “?????”
Quickly, Lan Xin unleashed her newly found ‘talents’ against Jiang Xuan.
But her clumsy efforts couldn’t even budge the defenses of the Great Sage Jiang Xuan.
It felt like facing a Boss every day only to suddenly encounter a weak mob, and this mob was even weaker than he had imagined.
Yet even knowing she was weak, Jiang Xuan still had to pretend to play along.
An hour later, Jiang Xuan cleverly pretended to collapse from exhaustion. However, what he got in return was Lan Xin’s mockery.
“So? Am I not way stronger than your partner?”
“Wow, didn’t expect you to give up so soon. If that’s the case, you haven’t satisfied me, so I won’t help her.”
“Hehe, truth is, I wasn’t planning to help you wake her up anyway, because… I want to claim you for myself…”
“Feeling hopeless? You worked so hard to please me, but in the end, you got nothing, and I get to bully you instead. Who told you to be such a weak human?”
“From now on, just be a good little *servant, and I’ll take good care of you…”
…….
Upon hearing Lan Xin’s words, Jiang Xuan’s expression darkened.
The seemingly weak Jiang Xuan suddenly reached out and grabbed both of Lan Xin’s horns.
In that moment, Lan Xin felt an overwhelming weakness engulf her.
“Wait… don’t touch my horns! There’s… there’s something we can discuss…”
“Discuss? Your deception has crossed my bottom line. Since you want satisfaction, I’ll help you with that…”
“Hold on, can you let go of my horns first? Honorable Sir, I was just joking about what I said earlier…”
“What? Weren’t you just being so proud? Could it be that these horns are your weakness?”
…….
Half a day later, Lan Xin’s gaze had lost all its sparkle.
“Little Xin Xin, can you really not hold on any longer? I haven’t even gotten serious yet.
How about this, monster clans can form master-servant contracts with human clans, right?
Just make a contract with me, serve me as your master, and I’ll let you go. How does that sound?
Only this way, I won’t have to worry about any revenge from you later on.”
“Fine… I’ll agree to your terms… as long as you let me go…”
“Sigh, I used to be a very reasonable person, it’s just… Little Xin Xin, you haven’t been obedient, so I had to resort to some special methods. You understand, right?”
“Yes… it’s all my fault… for offending the master…”
“Good! It seems you’ve accepted your new identity. Now, let’s seal the contract…”
Once the master-servant contract was sealed, Jiang Xuan felt that he could decide Lan Xin’s life or d*ath with just a thought.
At that moment, Jiang Xuan slowly released Lan Xin’s horns.
“Little Xin Xin, how do we solve my partner’s unconsciousness issue?”
“Well… Master… I can break this forbidden technique, but it will take two days…”
“Two days is too long! Isn’t there a faster way? I heard that using just a drop of your heart’s bl**d can also break this forbidden technique.
How about not making it hard for you? Just give me a hundred drops, and we’re good.”
Lan Xin: “????????”
“Master, that request is too absurd! A hundred drops of heart’s bl**d? I can’t possibly provide that! You might not know how precious the Qilin’s heart’s bl**d is.
Just one drop has the ability to bring someone back to life, and it can turn a useless human into a monstrous genius.
Let me put it this way: one drop of Qilin’s heart’s bl**d can fetch a sky-high price of a thousand billion top-tier spirit stones.”
“Oh? Sounds like a real treasure! Little Xin Xin, tell me, how much heart’s bl**d can you give me right now?
Think before you answer! This can be considered a compensation for the harm you did to me earlier.
If it doesn’t satisfy me, I’ll just have to continue making you… satisfy me.”
Lan Xin: “!!!!!!!!”
Hearing this, Lan Xin seemed to remember something, her body trembling slightly. She never imagined that as a mighty monster empress, she would accidentally end up in this situation.
In the end, she reluctantly spoke, “Ten… around ten drops…”
“Oh? Is that so? Then just give me eleven drops! The rest I’ll ask from you later, Little Xin Xin.”
After hearing Jiang Xuan’s request, Lan Xin’s face instantly turned pale, but with her current status, she couldn’t refuse.
Half an hour later, Jiang Xuan received eleven porcelain bottles filled with Qilin’s heart’s bl**d.
He saved one drop for Xia Xiao Yu and decided to try out the effects of the Qilin heart’s bl**d himself first.
With no experience whatsoever, he unceremoniously swallowed it all at once.
However, downing those ten drops of Qilin heart’s bl**d brought extreme pain to Jiang Xuan.
First was the surging spiritual power, leaving him to refine while suffering greatly.
On the other hand, thanks to the effects of the ten drops of heart’s bl**d, Jiang Xuan’s four top-tier spiritual roots merged with his residual spiritual root.
Eventually, they fused into a mysterious new spiritual root, and now, with just one spiritual root, Jiang Xuan’s cultivation speed increased over tenfold!
Such a terrifying rate of advancement led Jiang Xuan to suspect that there had been a qualitative change in the spiritual root within him.
Now, it seemed highly possible that his spiritual root quality was akin to that of the legendary divine roots from ancient times.
After half a day of refining and compressing, Jiang Xuan’s cultivation soared from the second level of Martial Warrior to the peak of the ninth level!
And this was after he had exhausted himself compressing it to the limit.
He planned to push it even further to break through the ultimate barrier of the Martial Warrior realm.
…
Bringing his thoughts back to the present, now that he had tamed Lan Xin, the Water Qilin, Jiang Xuan suddenly felt a surge of security.
If bad women ever tried to bully him, they must be at least stronger than Lan Xin!
Just as Jiang Xuan happily roasted some Azure Dragon meat, the barrier around the thatched cottage suddenly burst open.
In mid-air, a figure appeared out of nowhere.
When Jiang Xuan looked up and saw who had arrived, his pupils contracted slightly.
“Xuan, it’s been over a month since we last parted at the Jiang Mansion, yet I didn’t expect to see you here again.”
