- "How did this body end up like this?"
An instant later, the memories and feelings of the original owner of the body began to appear in his head and merged with those of Yán Lian.
The former owner of the body was also called Yán Lian and she was a slave to the Xiao clan. She was sold to serve the son of the patriarch of the Hong clan and when she refused, she was chased by the guards of the Hong clan. She managed to flee, but ended up bleeding to death on the floor.
- "Heaven has rewarded me with an opportunity, so Tang Xié get ready, because I plan to charge you a hundred times more."
Yán Lian healed the external wounds that, thanks to her medical skills, were nothing, and when she observed the body's cultivation, she was surprised.
- "The internal channels are… destroyed!"
He looked at his memories and discovered that his internal channels had been damaged since his childhood and the meridians disappeared when attempting to cultivate.
At that moment she heard footsteps and the armor of the Hong clan guards, six men dressed in black armor appeared in front of her.
- "From the sixth to the ninth level of the refining stage," thought Yán Lian.
Thanks to the training of the masters of the Celestial Palace, Yán Lian's senses were more developed, he quickly turned on and attacked one of the guards, killing him with a sneak attack but the other guards sensed his presence and chased him.
During his life in the palace he was trained to defend himself, but he never used what he had learned and now he was confident enough to defeat all the guards except the one at the ninth level.
With all the guards killed on the ground, Yán Lian attacked the last one, but, even if he had the ability, his body was too weak at that moment and could not harm him, at that moment he looked around and saw a shiny gray grass.
- "That is… The Grass of the Shadow Wolf"
The shadow wolf herb is used to refine a poisonous weapon called "Lone Wolf Smoke" with it a person in the refining stage could kill someone in the early levels of the Profound Realm.
Yan Lian plucked the grass and crushed it with his hand until it turned into dust, the dust was more powerful than the weapon itself.
When the guard attacked Yán Lian, he dodged his attack and threw the dust in his face. A few seconds later, the guard began to suffocate and fell dead to the ground.
Yán Lian picked up the weapons and money they were carrying.
After finishing them off, Yán Lian was thinking about how he could fix his canals as he left the forest. He remembered that he had the "Emperor's Tome of the Holy Hand", which was the second gift that the Emperor gave him from his treasury. In it he found techniques to strengthen his body and heal his wounds, but he found nothing until he first looked at the last pages at the Emperor's request.
When he looked, he found an acupuncture technique to fix his canals, but he needed to get the needles and a series of third-quality herbs that were not difficult to find in the palace, but in this world they would be very valuable and the most complicated thing was that it was needed an innate ability, because it could break its own channels.
The path to return to the Xiao residence appeared in his mind, but he decided to go to the Jindao City Market to investigate what this world was like.
After two hours of walking, Yán Lian arrived at the entrance to the city. It was a huge white gate with two guards at the entrance.
Upon entering, the main street was full of stalls with people selling weapons, pills, armor and objects of all kinds. In a stall where they sold spiritual herbs, the most valuable was a second-quality air current lotus.
Further ahead were the pavilions, of treasures, pills and spiritual beasts. Upon entering the "Centennial Treasure Pavilion", hundreds of people were seen buying and placing orders with the forgers. At the moment when Yan Lian entered, a figure young male appeared, it was Xiao Zhen the son of the second elder who asked to offer her as a gift to the Hong clan went to her.
- "What are you doing here, slave?!" -Xiao Zhen shouted - "A slave cannot tarnish the name of the Centenary Treasure Pavilion."
Immediately after Xiao Zhen's words, a voice rang throughout the pavilion.
- "Who is causing trouble in my ward!?"