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Liu Si Xing was sitting on the bed and contemplating Hun Lian's words.
She was for sure going to die in the next 4 years, and this was the first time anyone had any success in not only subduing her poisonous tumour, but also giving her a hope of new life.
She was an ambitious person and naturally wanted to become the best cultivator, eclipsing the entire Rizedonia Empire with one hand, but she was also a relatively conservative lady who didn't like to mingle with boys no matter what.
For her, a woman must only ever let her husband touch her and here, Hun Lian wanted to not only touch her, but also touch her intimate area while her cultivation is sealed.
It was not an easy decision to take; but the prospect of being cured of a lifetime's worth of pain was nudging her to accept his treatment.
'Just where did he even learn to cure it? It is unheard of.'
She had millions of questions swirling around in her head while she was trying to make a decision.
'Should I just marry him? That way he would have every right to touch me...
No, It would be impossible. My father will not only strongly disagree but also torture him for the secrets of my cure, and by the looks he gave me when I threatened him today, he doesn't fear death.'
While Liu Si Xing was thinking of what to do and what not to do,
Hun Lian was walking along a river in the nearby jungle, trying to learn the 'Thuum'.
'So I need a soul to unlock a Thuum. The more powerful souls I absorb, the more advance Thuums would be unlocked.
I would also need to upgrade a Thuum at least twice before it can show its true powers.
But I have never killed a human being before, and I doubt I would learn any by sacrificing a chicken.
I need to acclimatise myself to murder. The morality of my previous world doesn't work here.'
As he mused over his predicament, he reached the outskirts of a Crystal mine owned by the Xiao Family.
The reason was simple.
He needed at a large amount of anything to smelt in a furnace and he had absolutely nothing that much except for gold, silver or bronze coins.
Hun Lian first wanted to try smelting stone, instead of his wealth and hence he decided to sneak near this mine, where thousands upon thousands of stones of different sizes were mined out.
Most of the labourers were working inside the mines, and a couple of people who were outside were asleep in some shade near the entrance to escape the intense heat from 2 suns in the sky at noon.
'Let's do this'
Hun Lian crazily started to pick up stones and throw them into the [Ether Furnace].
No matter the size, he was completely tunnel visioning stones and using his both hands to throw stones in the [Ether Furnace].
At this moment, if any of the workers sees Hun Lian, The Young Master of one of the richest families of Neverkeep, picking up stones and making them disappear, they would not know what to think.
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Looking at the message from the system, Hun Lian's mouth twitched
'The quality and rarity of the item are also dependent on how many items it would require to smelt…Well, no time to waste.'
Hun Lian completely immersed himself in stone-picking and boulder-breaking, and soon, 5 hours passed like this and the evening came. People started to come out of the mine and as they noticed the outside, they were stunned.
"Yo What the f#ck! What the hell happened here?" Screamed the person who was guarding the mine after waking up.
"Xiao Yan, what do you mean by f#ck? What does it mean? Your vocabulary is rather weird."
"Never mind that. But what happened here? Where did all the stones, boulders and pebbles go? They were here just this morning!"
"Yes. This is indeed surprising; The entire area looks like it was licked clean by someone. Maybe the Patriarch had sent someone from the family to clean it? After all, those cultivators can do anything, right?"
"Hmm, That does make sense. After all, the collective weight of those boulders was over 2-3 metric tonnes."
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As the labourers were discussing this astonishing incident, Hun Lian was sitting besides a lake and recovering his Qi.
[11087 different pieces of stones smelted. 0.1% Critical Forging Multiplier received.
Five Nine Legendary Rock.
One Rock in hand can dominate the entire world, able to ignore all defensive capabilities. One hit on the head will 100% guarantee knockout for one minute, can repeatedly be used, not effective on other parts of the body.
This is a violation of equivalent forging, a legendary weapon that should be impossible to craft.]
'Isn't this from that novel…?'
Hun Lian was ecstatic and confused at the same time.
He summoned the said rock and it was a shiny grey-coloured marble slab the size of his palm.
"Well, This is indeed surprising, but I don't think I will receive this Critical Forging Multiplier many times. That is quite rare!"
Hun Lian put the Five Nine Legendary Rock in his [Inventory], as anything of more value would definitely be better off in there. He knows that now he has changed the canon by starting of 3 years early, and don't know who might come to trouble him in the future and maybe steal his Spatial Ring.
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As the evening was approaching, Hun Lian reached the Hun family compound and arrived at the guest courtyard of Liu Si Xing, which was eerily silent as Hun Lian had prohibited the slaves and servants from approaching her courtyard.
Standing outside the gate, Hun Lian knocked and waited.
"Come Inside"
The same chilly voice came from inside devoid of any emotions.
Hun Lian smiled a little and pushed open the gate, after which he turned around and locked the door from the inside.
Approaching towards the bed, Hun Lian saw Liu Si Xing put down a Jade Talisman on the side table and looked up towards him.
"Has Miss Liu Si Xing made up her mind?"
Hun Lian's words seemed genuine without malice, but only he knew what was actually brewing inside of his mind.
"I am the sole heiress of the Liu Family, one of the seven founding families of Rizedonia, and ardent supporters of Empress Rizedonia's legacy.
I am also the only seed disciple of the famed Array Immortal Zhan Min.
My reason for telling you all this is that I want to make it clear that I am not someone you or your family can offend.
Any random elder from my family can completely destroy your bloodline, without any repercussions.
Also, I have sent my Master a message, that if I am not back in the sect in the next 40 days, then that means that I need help.
Hun Lian, If that happens, even the Emperor of Rizedonia cannot save you."
Liu Si Xing said each word with utmost seriousness and observed Hun Lian very carefully.
She was surprised to see that Hun Lian had no reaction to this news.
He just kept smiling at her, and after staring at her for a minute, he walked beside her bedside table and picked up the Jade Talisman.
"A Relay Talisman…." Said Hun Lian as he picked up the said Talisman and poured his Qi into it.
Liu Si Xing's eyes widened in shock as she looked at Hun Lian who then placed the Talisman back where he picked it up from and said
"Now my Qi is stored there. I believe now I really can't run away from anyone if you or your family decides to pursue me, isn't it?"
"How…how do you know about a Relay Talisman!?"
"Miss Liu Si Xing, I can diagnose your condition with one look, I can cure something which was declared to be incurable by several high-ranking Masters.
So do you really think that me knowing about Relay Talisman is surprising?
Now then, We don't have much time now, do we? Let's start."
Liu Si Xing just kept staring at Hun Lian, who gestured towards her clothes.
A pinkish shade covered her face under her veil and she avoided his gaze, too embarrassed to do anything.
"Just let me lock away your dantian. Don't resist"
Hun Lian approached Liu Si Xing, who was sitting on the bed with her head down.
He slowly stretched his hands and touched her naval, following which he sent his Qi which was not met by any resistance and as soon as he reached her Qi Channels, he immediately blocked them.
Liu Si Xing suddenly felt all her strength drain from her body, but she didn't react.
If one would see carefully at her hand, they would see that she had clenched her fists so tight that her nails were stabbing her palms and blood was coming out of her fists.
She had thought about Hun Lian's treatment the entire day; She thought that she had nothing to lose as she was a dead woman walking, but she still felt disgusted by a foreign touch on her body.
At one moment, she thought that she should just stop this treatment and accept death, but as she saw Hun Lian removing her veil, a very complicated feeling arose in her heart and she closed her eyes.
Hun Lian had to use all his willpower to tear his eyes away from Liu Si Xing.
She was breathtakingly beautiful, and he finally understood why the dog Author had killed off her character in the original novel.
Her face was symmetrically radiant, expressive and harmonious. Someone of her figure and face was already overshadowing many women introduced further in the novel, and her potential strength could've made the novel boring because of her godly talent.
Hun Lian then undid her robes and then immediately after that, her brassiere.
Liu Si Xing trembled as she felt her bosom being grazed by Hun Lian's hand and her eyes turned misty.
The entire undressing was done very quickly without any spectacle and then Hun Lian pushed her shoulders gently towards the bed and Liu Si Xing slowly slept on the bed.
Looking at Liu Si Xing, who had never opened her eyes once during the undressing of her entire upper body which was bare naked now, Hun Lian's eyes turned soft and he climbed the bed and immediately started the treatment.
A sharp pain rose from Liu Si Xing's dantian as Hun Lian placed his one hand on her lower abdomen and sent his Qi into her body and started running it in a harmonic motion while he kept his other hand on her forehead and again sent his Qi in her and started doing the Reverse Harmonic motion.
Hun Lian was not a good person, and he wouldn't have risked his life like that for nothing. Although he knew that Liu Si Xing would be a great benefactor to him in future, but he wanted to get some benefits right now as well.
'Let's start the unlocking of your Truth Seeking Physique'
As he thought, His hands started travelling all over her upper torso, guiding his Qi inside her, and two streams of tears started to flow from her shut eyes.
For the entire night, which lasted for 12 hours, Hun Lian treated her.
Initially, Liu Si Xing did wanted to just stop this all, but suddenly she felt her constant pain subside.
A very relaxed feeling took over her mind as the poison in her veins was slowly being absorbed by Hun Lian.
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It was morning, and Hun Lian went back to his courtyard after covering her with a quilt and went straight to his bathroom.
"Rina. Come to the bathroom and help me bathe"
The entire night's arousal was then relinquished on the poor Rina.
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There was an uproar in the town.
The Yun Family's patriarch, which was a rival of the Hun family, had arrived at the Hun Family's compound with his entourage.
Many people looked in astonishment as it was public knowledge that all the three families had a constant cold war between them and they would keep troubling each other by either saturating each other's market, or sabotaging their trade routes.
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In the Hun family hall, all the elders were sitting at their respective seats while some core members were also present.
On the High platform, the patriarch of the Hun family looked at his guest for today with a frown.
"So Hun Tai, what do you say? How about we convert this friendship of ours into a familial bond?'
Hun Tai was examining his foe Yun Huang, the Patriarch of the Yun family, as he sipped at cold refreshment and smiled to him as if they were not wishing for each other's death just yesterday.
'Although this opportunist wants to save his family by doing this, but this could be beneficial to us as well. If the Hun family has the heiress of the Yun Family in a wedlock, they would have power over the Yun Family and then we could use the power of both our families to deal with the Xiao Family.'
Upon thinking of the benefits of this arranged marriage between his son Hun Lian and Yun Tong, Hun Tian said
"Yun Huang, you old monster. It's good to see you after such a long time."
Some things are not meant to be said, as both the patriarchs conversed with each other as if they were long-lost brothers.
The younger generation who were there were astonished to see such a scene.
Wasn't there friction between their families?
Still, they kept their enquiring mouths shut and let the elders talk with each other.
"Huang brother. The final decision rests with Lian'er only. Let me call him and you can ask him yourself."
"What? Lian'er has not gone to the Perpetuity Sect yet?"
"Not yet. He wanted to spend some time with the family before going, so he will go next month. Just wait a moment."
Soon, the message reached Hun Lian and he couldn't help but smile.
'Yun Tong is supposed to be the first heroine of this novel. Although not as talented or as beautiful as the other heroines initially, but when she discovers the secret of her mother's locket, she transcends to become a noble Phoenix!
Her mother left her after she turned 5 years old and ever since then, her only goal is to find her mother.'
Hun Lian was very familiar with this trope in novels and knew how much of a help she could be to him in the future.
He was wondering how he can come in contact with her now that he was leaving 3 years early and disturbed the plot where they meet coincidently.
Yun Tong gives the original Hun Lian a very important thing in future that he can't miss.
Hun Lian wore the traditional uniform of the Hun family which had a Purple Hawk crest, representing his position as the Young Master of the family; and walked towards the family hall with light steps.
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