An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

The indestructible crystal alms bowl suddenly lost its luster.

Immediately afterwards, with a whoosh, the red killing intent pierced through the bottom of the alms bowl, its momentum undiminished, and stabbed into the transparent brow of the Glass Yaksha!

"No--!"

The glass yaksha demon let out a shrill scream, and the killing intent raged wildly within its body.

Its perfect body made of glass, along with the hundreds of assembled organs inside its belly, shattered instantly like broken glass, turning into dust everywhere!

One-hit kill!

Their bodies were completely destroyed!

With the death of the glass yaksha.

With a few crisp clinking sounds, three items fell to the ground.

A pure, Grade A mystical crystal.

Also, two A-grade artifacts dropped from the strange creature: the Vajra Pestle and the Crystal Purification Bowl!

Lu Xueyao's eyes lit up, and she immediately stepped forward to pick up the spoils.

The system provides an introduction to these two strange items. The function of the Vajra Pestle is relatively simple: as long as you hit any supernatural being of rank A or below with it, you can ignore the opponent's defense, interrupt its supernatural logic, and cause it to freeze for at least 1 minute.

The Crystal Pure Bowl is a defensive magical artifact.

In battle, whether it's physical damage, various bizarre curses, or even the inevitable rules of killing, everything is subject to these challenges.

It can forcibly absorb anything blocked by a bowl, and can even transfer this fatal rule to the enemy intact.

Of course, as a price to pay, each time this A-grade strange item is used, the user will suffer varying degrees of backlash from the strange power.

But for Lu Xueyao, who possesses the Nine Netherworld Water that can remove negative status effects at any time with full health, this side effect is practically useless!

"Keep these two items safe; they'll come in very handy in a critical moment."

Lu Li gave instructions.

"Hmm!" Lu Xueyao put the item into her storage ring, just then.

Her gaze was suddenly drawn to the white bone lotus platform in the center of the hall, where the glass yaksha had previously sat cross-legged.

In the very center of that stark white lotus platform, a human finger bone, radiating a faint blood-red glow, was conspicuously enshrined!

For some reason, when Lu Xueyao first saw the finger bone, her heart began to pound uncontrollably.

A sense of familiarity and excitement, a feeling of being connected by blood, instantly surged through my entire body.

Meanwhile, in his mind's eye, Lu Li's double pupils flashed with a strange light the moment he saw the severed finger bone.

"It's here...!"

Lu Li thought to himself, back then, when he was trapped in this Medicine Master's Glazed Palace and was being used as a human medicine to be refined, the guardian guarding him had his little finger bone cut off while he was still alive, to test the maturity of his medicinal properties.

Later, when he destroyed the Yellow Springs Demon Sect, he searched the sect's treasury to find his finger bone, but he was never able to do so.

Unexpectedly, after thousands of years, this finger bone was treated as a sacred object and enshrined in this bizarre copy created by the system.

As if possessed, Lu Xueyao stepped forward, extended her trembling fingertips, and gently touched the finger bone.

"Buzz—!"

Just like when I touched the fish-dragon jade pendant in the mine before.

This finger bone, containing Lu Li's essence and obsession from back then, once again generated a light screen projection the moment it came into contact with Lu Xueyao, who shared the same bloodline!

The light screen slowly unfolded, clearly revealing the interior of the Medicine Master's Glazed Palace.

In the very center of the image is a huge bronze medicine cauldron.

Beneath the medicine cauldron burned a raging, eerie green demonic fire. When Lu Xueyao saw the scene inside the medicine cauldron...

She was struck dumb, covered her mouth tightly, and tears streamed down her face.

Soaking in the scalding medicinal liquid was a gaunt figure whose collarbone had been pierced by several black iron chains!

It was none other than Lu Li, who had inherited the Blood Nerve!

At this moment, his skin was almost completely scalded by the boiling medicinal liquid, and because he was forcibly fed various insidious demonic pills every day, a layer of deformed black scales had even grown on his left arm.

The images on the light screen were projected rapidly, like a slideshow.

Day after day, year after year, Lu Li was imprisoned in the medicine cauldron like a medicine slave, enduring the pain of ten thousand insects gnawing at his heart and raging fire burning his body every day.

One day, a protector wearing a crystal robe walked in.

He walked expressionlessly to the medicine cauldron and took out a boning knife.

Without using any anesthesia, he roughly grabbed Lu Li's left hand, and with a swift stroke, severed Lu Li's left little finger at the root, shaving off that piece of finger bone!

The ten fingers are connected to the heart! Fresh blood instantly stained the medicine.

While enduring excruciating pain that could break even a tough man, Lu Li, immersed in the medicinal cauldron, gritted his teeth and didn't utter a single scream.

His bloodshot eyes held only restraint and madness.

Seeing this, the billions of viewers in the Dragon Kingdom's live broadcast room were completely impressed by Lu Li's will.

"That's too cruel..."

"Is this even a human being able to endure this kind of pain? I would have bitten my tongue and killed myself long ago!"

"I thought his ordeal in the mine was bad enough, but it turned out to be just the beginning... How much suffering did he endure in this cannibalistic world!"

Countless viewers were moved to tears, and their admiration for Lu Li reached its peak.

In their minds, the name Yellow Spring Demon Sect was now synonymous with beasts, and the scene on the screen shifted again.

After two long years of inhuman torture, the door was slowly pushed open on this day.

A true disciple walked up to the medicine cauldron and looked at Lu Li, whose breath was weak and who seemed to be dying at any moment. A fanaticism and greed burst out in his cold eyes.

"Hahaha... Two years! This human body, containing both extraordinary poison and miraculous wonders, has finally matured!"

This true disciple, named Nangong Ming, licked his lips excitedly: "As long as I disembowel him and refine his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, which are fused with demonic medicine, I, Nangong Ming, will surely break through my cultivation realm and become the number one true disciple of the Yellow Springs Demonic Sect!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Nangong Ming raised a sharp blade, ready to personally carry out this harvest. However, just as the blade was about to pierce Lu Li's chest!

A sudden change has occurred!

"boom."

Lu Li, who was originally immersed in the medicine cauldron, was barely breathing.

Those eyes, which had been tightly closed for two whole years, suddenly opened!

Two beams of blood-red light, almost tangible, burst forth from his eyes!

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying surge of blood energy, like a raging torrent, erupted wildly from his deformed and broken body!

"What?" Nangong Ming's expression changed drastically, and he was shocked. It turned out that the miserable and near-death experience of the past two years was all a perfect disguise by Lu Li!