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

Pei Yunji drew his sword, its cold tip pointing directly at the blood-red token projection.

His other hand, however, obediently hung down at his side.

He allowed Jiang Yining's Soul-Devouring Vine to firmly grip his wrist bone without struggling at all.

"If you want the position of young master, then come and take it yourself. Using the ancestral ley lines to deal with a mere Qi Condensation Realm cultivator, you have utterly disgraced the Pei family."

"Since you are so stubborn, I will first take back the ancestral blood of the young master, and then let you watch with your own eyes as the divine tree in her body returns to the ancestral hall."

The ancestral fire within the blood token surged into Pei Yunji's chest along the nine dark silver lock lines.

The silver leaf pierced through the lotus's seal, and the petiole directly plunged into Jiang Yining's dantian.

She braced herself against the medicine bed, the blood gushing from her throat falling onto the Three Sources Array Diagram.

Two purple-gold ancestral roots were pulled away from the heart by the silver leaves, and the broken ends of the roots instantly lost their vitality.

"Ning'er, look at me. Entrust your heart meridian to Buddha Lotus; you just need to focus on protecting the Divine Tree!"

Fan Chenxin's palm landed on her left shoulder, and the dark golden lotus light protected the outer layer of her heart meridian.

All the breath of Buddha remained outside the old seal, and no silver leaf was sent in.

Lou Xiaotian grabbed her wrist from the other side, and the fine green wood threads turned towards the crack in her Qi Sea.

He precisely filled the two holes left by Zugen after he left with the aoki.

"I will guard the Qi Sea. Don't swallow my Green Wood. Just use it to cushion the wound. When the Ancestral Root returns, I will take it back myself."

The ancestral seal on Pei Yunji's chest was also drawing his blood.

Three of the nine silver threads had already penetrated the Blood Order, causing the Nirvana aura to drop by one level.

He raised his longsword and pressed it against his heart without hesitation, the blade parting the black collar of his robe.

On his pale chest, the dark silver ancestral seals, crisscrossing and overlapping, were clearly visible.

"Once the ancestral seal is severed, Silver Leaf will lose her bridge. We must first protect her two ancestral roots."

The Soul-Devouring Vine immediately tightened its grip, forcefully tearing the blade of his sword from his heart.

Jiang Yining swallowed the blood that tasted sweet and metallic in her throat, a resolute glint flashing in her cold eyes.

Her fingertips were still rapidly moving across the three-source array diagram.

"Who gave you permission to pay 30% of the foundation? I've already found a way to turn the tables."

"If the Ancestral Root leaves for even half a moment longer, half of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree will wither. You don't have time to slowly modify the formation."

"Greenwood can fake roots, Buddha Lotus can fake heart veins, and Ancestral Blood is responsible for deceiving the Blood Token."

Jiang Yining raised her blood-stained hand and pressed the three forces back into the array diagram.

"I will then use the Devouring Law to switch the inner and outer array eyes."

"Since Pei Henian wants to seize the root through the ancestral hall, we will send him two fake ones and let the ancestral array treat him as the true host of the divine tree."

The sound of armor moving came from outside the ancestral gate, and Pei Zheng stopped in front of the threshold with his guards.

He watched as the ancestral fire drew blood from Pei Yunji's chest, and then looked at Jiang Yining's purple-gold ancestral root as it left her heart meridian.

The long sword dropped half a foot from his hand, yet it still blocked the center of the ancestral gate.

"Young Master, once you sever the ancestral seal, you will no longer be the heir of the Pei family."

"Then I will not be the heir."

Pei Yunji did not turn around; his longsword sliced ​​across the ancestral seal on his chest.

The two outermost dark silver lock lines snapped, and ancestral blood flowed down the hem of the garment into the floor tiles of the medicine room.

Before the third sword wound could land, the Soul-Devouring Vine had already climbed up his arm, firmly binding his right wrist, which was holding the sword, to his chest.

The cool touch of the vines tightened his muscles, and he subconsciously turned his head.

Jiang Yining wiped the blood from her lips, her other hand still pressing on the Three Source Array Diagram.

The flickering, yellowish flame of the medicine illuminated a striking crimson stain on her pale face.

The domineering aura emanating from those cold, aloof eyes inexplicably ignited the long-dormant Nirvana Ancestral Blood within Pei Yunji.

"I have said that we should only control the ancestral hall and not allow the destruction of the foundation of Nirvana."

Her voice was slightly hoarse, and her eyes revealed absolute control.

"If you don't understand, I'll have the vines carry your sword for you."

"The nine ancestral lines are connected to the ancestral hall. If any one line is left unconnected, Pei Henian can continue to draw upon its power."

"Then change their direction, cut off the end that connects to you, and send the end that connects to the ancestral hall to Pei Henian."

Pei Yunji looked at the array diagram on the medicine bed, his Adam's apple bobbing almost imperceptibly.

The two ancestral roots that had been removed were three inches away from Jiang Yining's heart meridian, and their withered yellow color was spreading upwards along the ends of the roots.

"You want his projection to bear the ancestral seal for me, but the ancestral hall recognizes the bloodline of the young master of the Pei family. His elders' ancestral bloodline cannot deceive the inner fire core."

"Therefore, you need to send a wisp of the young master's ancestral blood into the silver leaf, and then the divine tree will switch the array core."

She lightly tapped the array diagram with her fingertips, her movements calm and unhurried.

"The only price should be losing your right to inherit, not your cultivation level."

The lotus light in Fan Chenxin's palm was pressed against the outer edge of Jiang Yining's heart meridian, and his breath was filled with the pure woody fragrance of her body.

He looked down at her, the dark golden light reflecting off her snow-white skin.

That commanding presence was like a soft feather, gently brushing against his disciplined Buddhist heart.

He followed instructions and divided the Buddha's breath into nine petals, each corresponding to one of the remaining seven lock lines of the ancestral seal.

"Give me the array diagram, and the Buddha Lotus can temporarily seal the empty space in her heart meridian."

His voice was deep and hoarse, carrying a suppressed longing.

"But I can only hold on for ten breaths. If I exceed ten breaths, Silver Leaf will come to swallow the Buddha's bone again."

Lou Xiaotian placed the green wood qi and blood below Jiang Yining's dantian and held her cold hand in his palm.

The cool touch made his fingertips curl slightly. He lingered on the skin of her wrist with longing, a dark turmoil churning in his eyes.

He tried his best to restrain himself, preventing the source from crossing his wrist.

"I can replicate two ancestral roots, but their aura cannot be concealed from the ancestral hall. They need a divine tree to wrap them with a layer of its own wood energy."

"That's enough."

Jiang Yining divided the array diagram on the medicine bed into three parts, and the tip of the purple-gold vine lifted up the Buddha's light and green wood.

The vines then wrapped around Pei Yunji's ancestral blood that had fallen to the ground.

The three array diagrams were pressed into the palms of the three people respectively, and the direction and location of the roots were clearly displayed.

"The Brahma Heart Guards the Heart Meridian, forbidding the pursuit of the Silver Leaf."

"Lou Xiaotian's root must not be filled with his own original core."

"Pei Yunji only severed the control line of the ancestral hall."

"What are you responsible for?"

Fan Chenxin looked at her wrist, which was bleeding again, and moved the lotus light in his palm to the first empty vein according to the array diagram.

"My job is to send Pei Henian into the root-seizing formation he set up himself, and to retrieve what was swallowed up by the ancestral hall in the past six days."

Pei Henian's projection stood in the center of the ancestral fire, and the blood token in his hand spun again.

Four dark silver chains rose from the floor of the medicine room.

"A mere Qi Sea cultivator at the Condensation Realm dares to presume to devour the Ancestral Hall."

"Pei Yunji, if you don't hand over the person, I will refine you all into the Returning Origin Array."

Pei Yunji tore open the collar of his clothes, which had been ripped open by the sword, revealing his cold, hard chest.

He probed directly into the outer layer of the ancestral seal with his fingertips and pulled out the two broken silver threads.

"You want to take away my ancestral bloodline, I'll personally deliver it to you."

Dark silver blood flowed along the silver lines into the silver leaves, instantly making Pei Henian's projection several times clearer.

The ancestral hall's fire core also sent more power to the medicine room.

Jiang Yining had been waiting for this moment, when the roots of the Myriad Spirits Divine Tree stretched out from the outer edge of her Qi Sea.