The spring wind blew gently over Red Flower Hill, carrying with it the fragrance of thousands of petals blooming among the rocky footpaths. It was here, in the place said to be the most beautiful in all of Yanfeng City, that a young man and woman ran with laughter filling every corner of the hill.The young man was astoundingly handsome. His jaw was sharp, his eyes pitch black like obsidian stone, and his smile was the most dangerous weapon he had ever possessed, though he himself never realized it. His name was Chu Jianqiu, a young cultivator who was once considered talented by not a few people in this city.Once.Beside him ran a girl in a pale blue dress fluttering like butterfly wings. Liu Tianyao. Her skin was white like jade, her lips naturally red, and her long black hair occasionally swept by the wind. Any man who had ever seen her would surely turn back for a second glance."Jianqiu! Don't run so fast!" she called out while laughing, her voice clear like silver bells.Chu Jia

In the real world, his body lay on damp moss with breaths growing weaker.But here, before a tower that stood like something that had been waiting since a time long forgotten, he could feel that this was not the dream of a dying man.This was real.'My dantian is destroyed. My meridians are in chaos. Not a single cultivator in this world could rise from such a condition. But if this tower can...'He lifted his head, gazing at the peak of the tower that vanished into the clouds."I accept."When he opened his eyes in the real world, night had already fallen at the bottom of the ravine.The sky up there was only a small piece, far away, like a narrow gap between two towering stone walls. Stars were visible from there, cold and indifferent.Chu Jianqiu lay on the moss and did not move for the first few minutes, only making sure that every part of his body was still connected to his consciousness. Then he closed his eyes again, not to sleep, but to enter that tower through his mind realm.

That night, after Ru Hua had applied a compress to her still slightly swollen cheek and brought a simple dinner that he ate without much conversation, Chu Jianqiu sat cross-legged in his room, closed his eyes, and entered the tower.The first door that had opened welcomed him with spiritual energy flowing abundantly. More abundant than the previous nights at the bottom of the ravine, perhaps because his physical condition was now better and his meridians were more open to absorb it.He trained throughout the night.Not training in the usual way, not repeating techniques or forcing qi through barriers with ordinary methods. Inside this tower there was something different, an understanding of qi that felt more fundamental than everything he had ever learned before. Like learning to read sentences after years of only memorizing letters.His physique responded faster than he expected.The meridians that last night had still been somewhat stiff began to flow more smoothly. His newly repair

The Wanwu Trading Company was a name known by almost every person in the Great Qian Dynasty. Not merely known, but respected, even feared. Its business spanned the entire empire without exception, with branches in every major prefecture. Within it was bought and sold everything concerning the cultivation world, from pills, ancestral weapons, martial techniques, to talismans and formations. If there was something of value in this martial arts world, it was almost certain that Wanwu was involved in it.And within the Wanwu complex lay the Lingfu Pavilion, the place where talisman masters sold their works and buyers came seeking their needs.Chu Jianqiu arrived at the pavilion with more than ten talismans he had finished drawing, folded neatly in a small pouch at his waist. His plan was simple, rent a small stall and sell those talismans directly to buyers.This choice was not without reason. He could have sold everything directly to the official counter of the Talisman Pavilion, but tha

Liu Gaoyang stared at the characters on the testing device with a gaze that grew more and more unstable by the second."This cannot be real!" His voice rose into a shout that echoed through every corner of the lobby. "There has to be some kind of trick behind this. Or the talisman testing device is malfunctioning today. How could trash with a shattered dantian like him possibly make a talisman like this?!"The silence that had been hanging over the room shattered, but not from laughter or comments from the crowd.A slap landed hard on Liu Gaoyang's cheek.Chang Gaochen stood with his hand still raised, his face flushed red, his rage boiling over until he failed to control the force channeled into that slap. Liu Gaoyang twisted, several of his teeth flying out along with a spray of blood, and his body collapsed to the floor before his eyes rolled back and he lost consciousness.Chang Gaochen drew a long, trembling breath.Five hundred Body Strengthening Pills was already painful enough