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

"Keep your blood on yourself first. If this Silver Leaf only recognizes the blood of the Pei family's ancestors, continuing to use blood to maintain the formation will be like drinking poison to quench thirst."

No sooner had Jiang Yining finished speaking than a crisp sound of green wood roots snapping came from outside the medicine room.

The tightly closed stone door was pried open by a piece of the Overlord Spear, and Lou Xiaotian stepped through the broken array patterns and entered.

He strode into the inner room, bloodstains from the backlash of the earth veins still visible on his shoulder, and his complexion was worse than when he left.

His gaze, however, was like a vine, fixed intently on Jiang Yining.

Give me your hand. I won't ask about your clothes or those two marks. Your fingertips are already cold.

Jiang Yining glanced at him and extended her right hand, which was chafed by the chains.

Lou Xiaotian knelt down on one knee in front of the medicine bed, holding her fingers with both hands as if they were fragile treasures.

In the dim light of the fire in the medicine room, she slightly raised her slender swan neck.

Her eyes held a clear, unwavering gaze, yet this very sight caused a sharp, aching pain in his heart.

He carefully divided Qingmu's blood and qi into dozens of warm streams, gently nourishing her damaged meridians.

"How much of your essence did you burn? You dared to say you only used roots to seal the gate when you were transmitting your voice just now."

"Not much was burned. The eastern ley line already recognizes the Lou family's greenwood. I was just passing through."

Lou Xiaotian responded in a low voice, his tone full of indulgence.

"If we really want to settle accounts, we can do it slowly with the blood crystals after we get out."

"Every time you lecture me about not burning my life essence, you're willing to risk your life to test the formation when you're injured."

Although Lou Xiaotian was refuting, the countless green tree roots still avoided the silver fire.

The roots wrapped around the stone pillars surrounding the medicine room, completely isolating it from the outside air.

Fan Chenxin sat on the other side of the medicine bed, the wound on the Buddha bone in his palm still not closed.

Upon hearing this, he raised his eyes, a dark glint flashing across his deep golden pupils.

"Her right main meridian has just closed, so Aoki can only use the Hand Jueyin Meridian."

"It must not pass over the waist and abdomen, and it must not touch the center of the lotus seal."

"If I can't even tell which of her meridians is injured, then the ten years of nurturing the green trees in the herb garden will have been in vain."

Lou Xiaotian refused to back down verbally, but the power in his palm obediently changed its course.

He didn't dare approach even a single strand of green wood near the dark gold lotus pattern on her waist.

Jiang Yining withdrew her hand, which had been warmed up.

She naturally lifted the sash of her outer robe half an inch, concealing the intricate gold and silver patterns at her waist.

"The silver leaf comes from the Dual Meridian Returning to Origin Lock. Pei Yunji's ancestral blood is responsible for suppressing it, while Fan Chenxin uses Buddhist bones to seal the outer layer. That's how it is."

"Did he hold you, or touch your dantian (lower abdomen)?"

After asking the question, Lou Xiaotian lowered his eyes and began to break down the green wood qi and blood into even smaller pieces.

He carefully filled in the lacerations on her wrist, his tone still gentle.

"You don't have to answer. I just want to know where to avoid so that the three forces don't fight again."

"When the blood pool was connected, he put his arm around my waist, and the ancestral blood also traveled through the crack in my dantian for three cycles."

Jiang Yining's voice was cold and clear, revealing nothing.

"I bit his shoulder to draw blood, that's all."

Lou Xiaotian paused for a moment with the green wood silk in his hand, then quickly continued forward.

His other hand, hidden in his sleeve, had crumpled the tassel of his gun into a tangled mess.

"Understood. The life-saving contact doesn't count as a past grievance. I'll ask myself what I want to ask after you've recovered."

"Do you still want to leave a green wood mark on me?"

"think."

Lou Xiaotian answered decisively, and when he looked up at her, his reddened eyes were filled with undisguised longing and grievance.

"But if you don't allow it, I won't stay. The essence of green wood can replenish the meridians, and it can also be used only for things within the meridians."

Jiang Yining straightened the clothes that had slipped off her right shoulder.

Her slender fingertips casually pointed to the gold and silver junction at her waist, exuding a sense of control befitting a superior.

"You are only allowed to fill the gap between the Buddha's seal and the silver leaf, but you are not allowed to form a leaf imprint or leave any tooth marks."

"Furthermore, you must not take advantage of the faction's rejection of the ancestral blood to compete for a position."

"You even guessed what shape I wanted to keep. How much dignity do I have left in front of you?"

Lou Xiaotian chuckled softly, a smile tinged with a hint of indulgent satisfaction.

The blue light in his palm was as thick as a head, and thirty-six strands of green wood qi and blood obediently bypassed her dantian.

The scent of green wood quietly filled the cracks along the outer edge of the silver leaves.

Pei Yunji leaned upright against the medicine shelf, two knife wounds on his shoulder still oozing bright red blood.

He watched quietly as she methodically established rules for the other two men.

That cold elegance and absolute clarity inexplicably stirred the ancestral blood dormant within him.

He raised his hand and placed the remaining Meridian Repairing Pills on the stone table.

"After Aoki entered, Silver Leaf did not reject it, which means that it only pursues the complete source that can supply the ancestral array."

Jiang Yining looked up at his chest.

Each time the silver leaf lit up, a thin line would appear on the dark silver ancestral pattern below his robe.

"Give me your hand. I want a wisp of ancestral blood that hasn't entered the Silver Leaf. I don't need to touch your wound."

Pei Yunji cut his fingertip and held the blood droplet above her palm, preventing it from directly touching her skin.

"You want to use the three origins to re-deduce the structure of the silver leaf. If the ancestral blood enters the divine tree, it will once again trigger the resonance of the two meridians."

"So the array is only drawn on the outside, not inside my meridians."

Jiang Yining gave the order decisively.

"Fan Chenxin and Lou Xiaotian each took a wisp of the ownerless remnant breath and severed the connection with their original bodies."

Fan Chenxin peeled a bit of Buddhist light from the black knife.

Lou Xiaotian also drew out a wisp of green energy from the broken vine root.

The three forces landed steadily on the bluestone medicine bed.

Jiang Yining used her fingertips to guide the outline of the silver leaf with the dark silver ancestral blood.

Dark gold Buddhist breath formed a barrier around the passageway, while ancient green wood filled the space between them.

The three forces were mutually exclusive, yet the silver leaves on the medicine bed turned on their own.

The leaf stalk passed over Jiang Yining's position and pointed directly at Pei Yunji's chest.

"We were wrong after all. We always thought that the Silver Leaf itself was the core of the formation."

Jiang Yining frowned slightly.

"It can only be considered as one of the meridians that was sent into my dantian."

Jiang Yining pushed her fingertips forward along the dark silver bloodline.

When the bloodline touched three inches away from Pei Yunji's chest, a circle of Pei family ancestral patterns lit up on the floor of the medicine room.

"The real control over Silver Leaf lies within your Young Master's Ancestral Seal."

"The ancestral hall can use your bloodline as a bridge to bypass the Buddha Lotus and continue to seize the sacred tree."

Pei Yunji lowered his eyes to look at the ancestral mark that had appeared on his chest.

Beneath the fabric, nine dark silver threads extended from the chest towards the outside of the medicine room.

"The young master's ancestral seal was imprinted on his foundation of Nirvana from childhood, and he must use it to identify himself every time he enters the ancestral hall."

Pei Yunji's tone was icy.

"The fact that Pei Henian can move it means that the Fire Pivot has already fallen into his hands."

"Is it possible to seal the ancestral seal without severing your connection with the ancestral hall?"

"It can't be sealed off. The ancestral hall has three thousand years of earth veins, and Silver Leaf can draw power from the ancestral seal every time it revives."

"Unless I sever these nine ancestral threads myself."

Lou Xiaotian looked up at Pei Yunji, while Qingmu Xisi was still guarding the outer edge of Jiang Yining's meridians.

"What will happen after you cut ties? Don't brush her off with 'it's okay,' she won't buy it."

"The Ancestral Seal is connected to the Nirvana Foundation. If all nine paths are severed, I will lose 30% of my cultivation, and the Ancestral Hall will no longer recognize my status as the young master."

Fan Chenxin placed the black knife horizontally in front of her knees, her fingertips touching the back of the blade.

He didn't touch the three forces of deduction, his voice low.

"There is another way. If you dare to destroy your foundation in front of her, she will tie you up first."

He's right.

Jiang Yining raised her finger and hooked out a Soul-Devouring Vine, which first wrapped around Pei Yunji's wrist holding the sword.

"If you choose to sever the ancestral seal, you must do so according to my array diagram."

"Sever control over the ancestral hall, but do not allow the very foundation of your own Nirvana to be destroyed as well."

The dark silver bloodline on the medicine bed suddenly burst into flames.

Pei Yunji's nine ancestral markings lit up one by one, and a blood-red token projection fell above the stone chamber.

Pei Henian's figure stood in the center of the projection, with layers of ancestral fire behind him, his aged face turning bluish in the silver light.

"Pei Yunji, you let the host of the Divine Tree go, destroyed the Returning Origin Spirit-Stripping Array, and led outsiders into the Ancestral Hall."

"Today you still dare to use the blood of the young master's ancestors to cover up your tracking, your crime is unforgivable."

"Pei Henian, you forged the Three Seals Blood Order and illegally activated the ancestral hall fire pivot. You are not qualified to judge me."

"The right to protect the Pei family has always been in the hands of those who can do so."

The old man's voice was sinister.

"You're being led around by an outsider, even letting her predict the ancestral seal. What right do you have to inherit the Pei family's legacy?"