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

As soon as Feng Liuyun tightened his grip on the folding fan, crimson Nirvana True Fire overflowed through his fingers, scorching the already damaged floor tiles of the side hall until they turned black and cracked.

"Gu Qinghan, you, the number one divine doctor who spouts nothing but benevolence and morality, can be even more ruthless than us demons when it comes to using your strength."

Feng Liuyun smiled provocatively, and with a flick of her wrist, a blazing fire dragon rolled up the curtain, directly approaching Gu Qinghan's snow-white robe without a single wrinkle.

Gu Qinghan didn't even look at the oncoming flames. He only moved his cracked, broken sword forward half an inch, and the chilling sword intent suppressed the fire, freezing all the surrounding ruins into ice shards.

He came to save people, not to fight a mad dog for a woman.

Even amidst the tense chaos, his white robes remained impeccably clean. Gu Qinghan focused his fiercest sword intent on the two men on the periphery who were trying to get closer, while silently erecting an impenetrable protective light barrier with his pure and gentle Yang True Essence on the side of Jiang Yining's back.

"If you're going to fight, go outside and tear down the last roof in this backyard where you can stand, so that the whole town of Bitter Sea can see how the dignified young master of the Phoenix Clan and the half-saint ghost king throw a tantrum in the street."

Gu Qinghan's voice was devoid of any impatience; all that could be heard was the hum of the longsword as it crushed the crimson flames that rushed toward him.

"Stop pretending to be a big shot."

Yu Luofeng's black robes fluttered, and the extremely dense, yin ghostly energy had somehow seeped into the entire frost, silently transforming into sharp black claws that tried to seize the life-giving locks that flowed between Gu Qinghan's defensive sword moves.

Three top-tier forces, enough to destroy half of Abandoned Star Island, clashed wildly in this small room, causing the plaster to peel off the walls.

The only exception was the small couch, whose corner was protected by Gu Qinghan and Feng Liuyun's original spiritual power. It was neither scorched by the high temperature nor corroded by the extremely yin ghost mist when it was suspended in mid-air.

They were all trying to seize the position closer to her, yet they were also extremely cautious in every detail of their actions, afraid that even the slightest leak of their residual power would injure the woman who had just survived the poisonous fire.

Jiang Yining leaned against the edge of the couch, watching the absurd scene before her, a scene of earth-shattering chaos yet also one of restraint, and understood it all perfectly.

What she wanted was not a bunch of big shots who smashed up her house and then lined up to her to claim credit and complain about their grievances. Once these high-ranking people got carried away and went crazy, a few words wouldn't be enough to quell their arrogance.

Jiang Yining didn't even bother to lift her eyelids. She directly calmed her mind and reversed the original vein that had just been bound together by the pure Mahayana Buddhist vow power.

The chaotic and turbulent vitality crashed against her newly healed and weakened meridians like a wild horse, and the excruciating pain that tore at her internal organs caused her face to suddenly lose its color, leaving only a pale and lifeless pallor.

She didn't utter a cry of pain; instead, she leaned forward slightly, following the surge of blood flowing through her veins.

A large mouthful of dark, almost black, stagnant blood gushed out from her two bloodless lips, dripping onto her tattered, smoky blue dress.

"Cough..." Jiang Yining gripped the hard bed frame with one hand, her whole body so limp that she felt like she couldn't even hold up the corner of the blanket, and she fell straight off the bed.

The terrifying killing intent that had been locked in a life-or-death struggle in the air vanished instantly in the face of that faint, barely audible sound of blood.

Gu Qinghan abruptly stopped halfway as he reached to pull the broken sword, ignoring the dull pain surging in his chest from the backlash of his cultivation technique, and stepped directly over the ice shards scattered on the ground.

Before the other two people could even touch a corner of her clothes, Gu Qinghan had already firmly pulled that swaying little body into her arms, which carried a faint medicinal scent.

"Qinghan..." Jiang Yining didn't even have the strength to look up at him. Her eyelids were half-closed as she gasped for breath, following the sound of the long, slender fingers wiping the foul-smelling black blood from the corner of her mouth. "Did you have your fun?"

"When have I ever laid a hand on you?"

Gu Qinghan gently brushed the back of his slender hand across her chin, delicately wiping away the black and red stain along her neck. The warmth emanating from his fingertips no longer carried any of the sharpness of swordsmanship, only the comforting gentleness of his unreserved nature.

Without even glancing at his two mortal enemies beside him, he calmly and professionally inserted two fingers into the three-inch area of ​​her wrist bone, gently transferring the most restrained wisp of pure Yang sword energy into her heart meridian.

"Your hidden injury wasn't from that battle just now. Release that chaotic energy, don't suffocate yourself."

He did not scold him. The more severe the blow and loss of control he faced, the more his inherent composure and decisiveness as the world's number one doctor became, demonstrating a reliability that no one else could replace.

Yu Luofeng and Feng Liuyun were also stunned into place by this series of coughs.

Ignoring the seven or eight holes burned in his red robe, Feng Liuyun knelt down and rummaged through his robes for the pill bottle, so anxious that he completely abandoned his usual aloof and superior demeanor as a demon lord.

"Sister Ning! I brought with me a powerful medicinal fruit from the demon realm to protect your heart; it's far more effective than this folk remedy. Hold it in your mouth for now!"

Yu Luofeng transformed into a long trail of black mist that coiled around the other end of the small couch. The dark, ghostly hand lifted her bare feet, which were exposed on the outside, and a continuous stream of coolness and vitality cooled the dark, black wound through the surging Yin fire in her vital point.

"We won't fight then, but you're just risking your life on these outsiders."

The tense life-or-death situation inside the room instantly transformed into a tender and affectionate one.

The more they humbled themselves to seize the right to speak about feeding medicine and handing out water, the more practical Jiang Yining's plans became.

"I don't like taking bitter pills, and I can protect my meridians."

Jiang Yining painstakingly found a soft and comfortable spot on Gu Qinghan's chest to land on, and then used the man's cool and refreshing breath to suppress a cough.

Her gaze swept over the faces of the three people below.

"Now that everyone's gathered in my room today, there's no need to scare me with that show of your ruthlessness, like you're always trying to kill anyone you see."

Jiang Yining raised her chin and used Gu Qinghan's hand to support her back. "The child has just fallen asleep in the backyard. If you want to keep causing trouble and wake him up, whoever does it can go back to their own place to live out the rest of their life."

"We don't want to send you away."

Yu Luofeng gently tucked her cold toes back under the covers, gritting her teeth as she faced the indifferent chill emanating from her.

"But this person... by keeping him by your bedside, whose heart is being comforted?"

"It's my skill to stay by her side."

Gu Qinghan glanced down at the head that was squeezing deep into his clothes. He even raised his hand to brush away the large, messy strands of hair that were covering her eyes and face, and patiently combed away the strands of hair behind her bright red ears.

"Dan Tower has hundreds of kinds of spiritual herbs that no one needs to taste for her a third time. If you want to stay on Abandoned Star Island as a guard, then it is your duty to guard the Pure Land and Remnant Dust at the main gate."

With the unwavering confidence of someone who has spent years looking down on ordinary people from the top of a tower, Gu Qinghan easily stripped Yu Luofeng and Feng Liuyun of most of their pride in this matter with just a few words.

Feng Liuyun still held two Heavenly Spirit Fruits in his palm, which were almost melted by his body heat. Seeing that she hadn't even glanced at him once from beginning to end, his unapproachable arrogance as a young master finally turned into a pitiful cry like a stray dog.

"Alright, alright, I'll accept that Gu Qinghan is the best doctor in the world. Sister Ning, I'll go guard the courtyard wall tonight."

"I will return tomorrow morning with the Yinhe Clam Elixir that I found at the deepest part of the Bitter Sea."

No matter how insidious and vicious Yu Luofeng was, he couldn't possibly cause trouble for this woman at this critical moment when her meridians were about to break. He could only hide the few strands of cold air that had rolled up his sleeves.

In the blink of an eye, the top predators who were about to smash the entire mountain to the ground, like two small beasts with their tails between their legs but unwilling to retreat, were all neatly cleared out to the outside of the door by this method of applying pressure through bloodshed.

Gu Qinghan's sharply defined, cold face showed no smugness at having repelled the enemy. Instead, he pressed down on her hand and pointed a finger precisely at her dantian, where she was still struggling to catch her breath. Although his voice was cold, his finger had lost all its sharpness.

"What a fine example of a tragic drama."

Gu Qinghan raised an eyebrow and touched the increasingly docile breath with the tip of her nose: "If you want to defend them again next time, just say so."