After fifteen years of cultivation, he finally reached the pinnacle of the first rank!

Chapter 182 Promotion
Murong Xiaoya remained expressionless, then slightly raised her hand, and the molten red iron from the melting iron chains on the cave floor transformed into a fiery python, crashing into the tightly closed stone door with a scorching wave of fire.

With a deafening roar, the stone gate was almost instantly blasted into dust, while the crimson molten iron serpent continued to surge through and penetrate the stone gate.

The intense firelight illuminated the space behind the door.

At this moment, Murong Xiaoya in the cave could see a cast iron rack suspended in mid-air by iron chains, its body covered with dark red rust, and a person was locked up on the rack.

This person was none other than Murong Xiaoya's elder brother.

Her elder brother had been punished by Murong Hong and imprisoned in the dungeon for committing a serious crime, and they hadn't seen each other for several years. She never expected to see him again here.

Murong Xiaoya transformed into a streak of flame and instantly appeared before the execution rack, her gaze fixed on the person before her.

The opponent was covered in wounds, with swollen, wriggling growths under his skin. Sometimes they would slither up to his throat like a spider the size of a fist, and other times they would crawl under his flesh like centipedes.

Murong Xiaoya could clearly sense that there were dozens of powerful, exotic martial arts true energies on the other party's body at the same time, constantly surging and crashing within his body.

Under the onslaught of this true energy, the opponent's skin almost completely cracked, revealing patches of bluish-purple fascia.

Ivory-colored bone spurs had also pierced through the flesh of his limbs, with chunks of blood and marrow already congealed at the tips, making him look almost inhuman at first glance.

Murong Xiaoya frowned slightly, and with a casual reach, she snatched and discarded the iron stone that had been stuffed into her elder brother's mouth.

The next moment, the entire secret room was filled with the other party's heart-wrenching screams of pain.

"...Please...kill me...kill me..."

After Murong Xiaoya's elder brother was able to speak, he seemed to sense that someone had arrived. He was being tortured and screaming incessantly, while at the same time desperately begging for death in agony.

"I am Xiaoya, why are you here, big brother?"

Murong Xiaoya looked at the scene before her, but only asked in a cold voice.

At this moment, her entire body was enveloped in crimson flames, and her face swayed uncertainly in the rising heat.

Upon hearing this, the other party's screams immediately became extremely rapid:

"Xiaoya? It's you...it really is you..."

"I've finally... I've finally waited for this... Quickly... kill me..."

The body, which was bound to the rack and looked like a human, suddenly began to shake violently, as if a force had suddenly arisen from nowhere.

Although the noise was minimal, it was clear that the other party had given it their all.

Murong Xiaoya remained silent, because she could tell that every word her elder brother said was true, and that he genuinely desired her to kill him.

At this moment, Murong Xiaoya was enveloped in flames and suspended in mid-air. The molten gold vortex in her eyes subsided and disappeared, but her aura remained extremely imposing.

"Tell me everything that happened. What is your relationship with your second uncle?"

Upon hearing this, Murong Xiaoya's elder brother gritted his teeth, enduring the pain of being ravaged by the internal energy within his body, and suddenly burst into laughter:
"Second Uncle... he's an absolute devil..."

As he laughed, his expression turned ferocious, revealing boundless resentment.
"He said he would teach me unparalleled martial arts... and let me escape my father's imprisonment... but in reality, he was using me as a furnace..."

"He kept collecting the cultivation of martial arts masters... pouring it all into my body... he even took the cultivation of the two ancestors..."

“He made me endure these incompatible true energies every day… making my life worse than death… and all of this… was for you, Xiaoya…” At this point, Murong Xiaoya’s older brother suddenly stopped, as if he wanted to look at his little sister, but he couldn’t.

He remained silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke:

"I... am the gift your second uncle prepared for you..."

After saying that, he suddenly laughed again. This laughter contained anger, jealousy, pain, resentment, and even more so, deep despair!
Upon hearing this, Murong Xiaoya remained silent, simply gazing calmly at the maniacally laughing man and asking:
"why?"

Murong Xiaoya's elder brother's laughter stopped abruptly, and he said in a pained voice:

"My second uncle said... all the martial arts cultivation within me... belongs to you..."

"Only by absorbing the martial arts cultivation within me... can you accomplish what you want to do..."

"However... I'm very curious... what exactly do you want to do..."

Upon hearing this, Murong Xiaoya remained silent for a moment. Her previously expressionless face began to change slightly, and she slowly spoke:

"The Murong family is gone."

Upon hearing this, Murong Xiaoya's elder brother, who was about to let out a painful scream, suddenly stopped, and then he shouted:

"Murong Hong is stubborn... I knew the Murong family would be destroyed by him sooner or later... I only killed a few people to practice..."

However, before he could finish speaking, he felt his heart suddenly clench into a fist, and at the same time, he heard Murong Xiaoya's indifferent voice:
"Brother, your sins are grave, I will help you to be absolved."

"Also, Second Uncle, I've already killed him."

As soon as he finished speaking, his heart shattered into a cloud of blood mist, and the pain that had been surging through his body rapidly receded into the distance...

At this moment, he seemed truly liberated, only managing to utter one last sentence:

"Watch out... Second Uncle..."

The next moment, the blood mist transformed into a wisp of essence blood, floating in the air and flowing towards Murong Xiaoya's heart.

Unlike when he killed Murong Fu, the dozens of martial arts true energy that were originally in Murong Xiaoya's elder brother's body were now rapidly flowing into Murong Xiaoya's heart through the link of her blood essence.

Upon seeing this, Murong Xiaoya's eyes darkened slightly, but she did not stop them, absorbing all the essence blood and martial arts cultivation.

In an instant, Murong Xiaoya's spine cracked repeatedly as powerful martial arts energy surged into her meridians and flesh, instantly tearing countless fissures in her body.

But soon, a dazzling crimson-gold light burst forth from her heart, instantly sweeping across her entire body. Blood-red patterns appeared at the cracks, continuously absorbing and integrating the terrifying martial arts true energy.

As all the martial arts energy continued to merge into Murong Xiaoya's body, her aura also rose rapidly.

Wisps of golden-red fire mist even seeped from its body, spreading and dispersing, directly scorching countless honeycomb holes into the stone walls of the secret chamber.

At the same time, the crimson-gold flames around her seemed to scorch the heavens and the earth, and then condensed into two lava wings about ten feet wide.

With just a slight flap of its wings, the entire cave around it could not withstand the shock of the wind and fire, and it shook violently, with gravel falling in a flurry.

After all the martial arts true energy was absorbed, Murong Xiaoya's aura had risen to an incredibly terrifying level.

(End of this chapter)