Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

The images of memory shattered and reassembled once again.

This time, the surrounding scenery transformed into a vast expanse of white snow.

It seems that after Jiang Yining escaped, she collapsed in the snowstorm due to exhaustion.

The cold wind howled.

It's snowing heavily.

Dressed in thin clothes, Xiao Jiang Yining huddled in the snowdrift, her whole body turning purple from the cold, her eyelashes covered in frost.

She had no strength left.

The thunder and fire within my body are burning, while the wind and snow rage outside.

Beset by internal and external troubles.

Life was cut off.

Gu Qinghan controlled his consciousness and slowly descended to her side.

Even knowing it was fake, a memory, he still felt that bone-chilling cold.

"mother……"

The little girl in the snow moved her lips slightly and let out an extremely faint call.

Her voice trembled, filled with endless despair and longing.

"I want to go home..."

boom!

These four simple words struck Gu Qinghan's heart like a heavy hammer.

That is, in this very instant.

The scene before him overlapped with the most terrifying moment from the depths of his memory.

That was a thousand years ago.

It was also a night with heavy snowfall.

As a child, he was regarded as an unlucky child by his family and was driven to an ice cave in the back mountain with his mother to fend for themselves.

To protect him, his mother wrapped her only cotton coat around his body.

But she herself grew colder and harder little by little on that snowy night.

No matter how much he cried and how much he rubbed her face with his little hands, his mother did not open her eyes again.

That cry of "Mother" became his nightmare for thousands of years.

"Don't be afraid."

Gu Qinghan suddenly spoke.

His voice was hoarse, with a tremor he himself didn't even realize.

He knew perfectly well that he was in someone else's mind, but he still reached out his hand involuntarily.

The divine hand belonging only to a Dao Inquiry Realm expert gently covered Xiao Jiang Yining's head.

hum-

An extremely gentle and warm soul force flowed out from his palm.

He did not investigate any further secrets.

They didn't delve any deeper into her pain.

He simply wanted to offer a little warmth to this little girl who looked so much like him within this illusory memory.

Even if it's just self-deception.

Even if this is just to make up for his own regrets from back then.

"Go to sleep."

Gu Qinghan murmured softly.

"A good night's sleep will do the trick."

With his comforting words, the little girl who had been shivering in the wind and snow miraculously calmed down.

Her eyes, filled with fear and wariness, slowly closed.

A faint smile even appeared at the corner of his mouth.

It felt as if I could truly feel that belated warmth.

The real world.

Top floor of the Tower of Dan, top-secret laboratory.

"call--"

Gu Qinghan suddenly opened her eyes.

Those pale gray eyes were bloodshot, but the coldness and killing intent they once held were long gone.

He was panting heavily, his forehead covered in cold sweat.

It felt like we had just gone through a life-or-death battle.

Under the body.

Jiang Yining is still in a coma.

But a tear slid down her pale cheek and landed on Gu Qinghan's hand.

Scalding hot.

Burning hot.

Gu Qinghan looked at the teardrop, her fingers trembling slightly.

He slowly raised his hand, somewhat stiffly, and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

His movements were clumsy, yet he was extremely careful.

"So...we're the same kind of people."

Gu Qinghan muttered to himself.

His voice carried an unprecedented weariness and relief.

He had always thought that Jiang Yining was a scheming and mysterious vixen.

Unexpectedly, beneath this seemingly tough, even somewhat cunning exterior, lay a soul riddled with wounds.

In order to survive, he turned himself into a monster.

This madness.

This is ruthless.

How similar is this to how he tested poisons on himself to cultivate a body capable of handling all poisons in order to avenge himself?

"I've received your secret."

Gu Qinghan rolled off Jiang Yining.

He didn't take the opportunity to do anything; instead, he very gentlemanly helped her straighten her slightly disheveled clothes.

He stood up and walked to the window.

Looking at the rolling sea of ​​clouds outside the window, his eyes became extremely deep.

Since we are the same type of people.

Then there's no need to expose it.

In this cannibalistic Canglan Realm, two monsters who both crawled out of hell might... really be able to keep each other company.

"Well……"

Just then.

A soft groan came from the glass platform behind them.

Jiang Yining woke up.

Actually, she had been awake for a while.

She regained consciousness the instant Gu Qinghan's consciousness withdrew.

But she had to pretend.

Pretend to have just woken up from that "painful memory" and appear emotionally traumatized.

"Lord Tower Master..."

Jiang Yining struggled to sit up, her eyes still unfocused, filled with confusion and fear.

"What...did you see?"

Her voice trembled, and she instinctively hugged herself tightly, as if trying her best to hide those unbearable past experiences.

Gu Qinghan turned around.

Backlit, Jiang Yining couldn't see his expression.

It seemed that the once unapproachable figure now appeared less sharp and more... human.

"I didn't see anything."

Gu Qinghan spoke calmly.

lie.

Moreover, it's the kind of lying that happens without batting an eye.

He walked to the glass platform and looked down at Jiang Yining.

They didn't mention the "Dream Stone" again, nor did they ask about the secret of "thunder and wood coexistence".

He simply pulled a token from his sleeve.

It's purple-gold in color.

It is engraved with an ancient-style character "丹".

This is the highest-level guest elder's token of the Pill Tower. Seeing the token is like seeing the tower master, and it can even mobilize half of the Pill Tower's resources.

"Take it."

Gu Qinghan casually tossed the token into Jiang Yining's arms.

"From today onwards, you will be my Danta's specially appointed pharmacology consultant."

"what?"

Jiang Yining caught the token, looking completely bewildered.

This script is wrong.

According to her plan, Gu Qinghan should be able to dispel his doubts after seeing the "tragedy," or he should give her some benefits to keep her quiet.

But what kind of operation is it to directly give it to an elder like Dangdang?

That's incredibly extravagant!

"Isn't it a medicine attendant?" Jiang Yining asked tentatively.

"That was for Zhao Wudu to see."

Gu Qinghan snorted coldly.

"How could someone like me, Gu Qinghan, be merely a servant?"

His people?

Why does that sound so awkward?

Before Jiang Yining could even process what was happening, Gu Qinghan tossed her another storage ring.

"Here are ten million mid-grade star essence stones, and the medicinal herbs you requested."

"In addition, I have ordered the top floor of the Dan Tower to be sealed off."

Gu Qinghan turned around, his back to Jiang Yining, his voice regaining its usual coldness, but with an added hint of subtle protectiveness.

"No one can take you away until your 'wounds' have healed."

"Even if a Protoss envoy comes, it won't work."

Done.

He strode towards the door.

"Get some rest. Starting tomorrow, I have a new topic to discuss with you."

"Since your body can balance the toxicity by consuming it, let's try... to see if we can consume the poison and refine a real antidote."

boom!

The door closed again.

Jiang Yining held the heavy purple-gold token in her hand, as well as the storage ring filled with a huge sum of money.

A triumphant smile slowly crept onto his lips.

"Tsk."

"As expected, no matter what kind of man he is."

"As long as there is a story, there is a weakness."

She jumped off the glass platform and stretched her muscles, which were fine.

Soul?

That was an illusion woven by the Divine Tree of Ten Thousand Spirits.

But Gu Qinghan had indeed been genuinely moved just now, and even expended a lot of his soul power to "appease" her.

"What a... adorable fool."

Jiang Yining tossed the token in her hand.

That's good now.

With this identity, even if the Protoss really came to search, she would have the greatest protection.

and……

She touched her lower abdomen.

Just now, the moment Gu Qinghan's divine sense invaded, the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree seemed to sense something and secretly stole a wisp of extremely pure "Inquiry Law" from his soul.

That's the enlightenment of the Heavenly Dao from a Dao Inquiry Realm expert!

Although it was only a trace.

But for her, who is now in the Mahayana stage, it is simply the key to unlocking a new world.

"I've made a fortune!"

Jiang Yining smiled like a fox that had just stolen some fish.

"Gu Qinghan, now that you're on my pirate ship, don't even think about getting off."