What does my ancestor's pregnancy have to do with me, a mere servant?

Push off with your feet.

"Bang!"

The hard rock beneath his feet shattered.

The physical strength of a mid-stage Transcendent Realm cultivator erupted without reservation. The powerful blood and qi accumulated by the Hundred Refinements of Mortal Bones Technique surged and roared within his body.

His body tore through the air, creating a series of sharp sonic booms.

It looks like a humanoid Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Chu Mingyue soared straight into the air.

The distance is rapidly closing.

Chu Mingyue finally saw who it was.

After a moment of confusion, the face of a young male cultivator was reflected in her pupils.

He was fair-skinned and handsome, tall and slender, with a gentle demeanor like a scholar from a noble family.

However—the foundation-building stage.

An ant.

How dare an ant, who isn't even worthy of touching her, launch a close-range attack on her, a royal prodigy at the late stage of the Golden Core realm?

This is not courage.

This is an insult.

"court death!"

Chu Mingyue gritted her teeth and roared angrily.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

The ironclad rule that the Golden Core stage cultivators crush the Foundation Establishment stage cultivators has remained unchanged throughout the ages in the cultivation world.

She swung her right arm in a wide arc.

The long whip in his hand, covered in barbs and still carrying the remnants of crimson flames, tore through the air. The tip of the whip exploded with a crackling sound, carrying a scorching gale, and lashed fiercely at Lin Yuan's face.

Extremely fast speed. Extremely tricky angle.

In Chu Mingyue's judgment, this lash would turn even a Foundation Establishment cultivator into a pile of mangled flesh on the spot.

Lin Yuan's speed did not decrease but increased.

He suddenly reached out with his left hand.

His five fingers precisely caught the whip that was being pulled out.

The whip slammed heavily into his palm with a "snap".

The barbs pierced the skin.

Crimson flames scorched his palm.

The remaining magical power on the whip surged through the whip and violently impacted the meridians in his arm.

pain.

A mid-stage Transcendental Body is comparable to a mid-to-high-grade magic weapon, but it's not truly made of iron. Although the barbs didn't pierce deeply, and the flames couldn't burn through it, the excruciating burning pain still spread from the palm throughout the entire arm.

Given Chu Mingyue's current state of magical power, the whip she hastily drew was not even enough to reach the defensive limit of a mid-stage Transcendental body.

His five fingers clenched, gripping the whip tightly.

An irresistible brute force traveled along the long whip.

Chu Mingyue felt a weight in her hand.

He was pulled away by an extremely brute force.

She suddenly staggered.

Using the pulling force, Lin Yuan's speed increased dramatically, and he instantly closed in on Chu Mingyue.

The distance between the two people was compressed from three zhang to one chi, and then from one chi to almost touching.

So close that you can see your own reflection in the other person's eyes.

So close that you can feel the warm breath exhaled as the other person's chest rises and falls.

Lin Yuan formed his right hand into a claw.

He grabbed Chu Mingyue's long, fair neck.

Upon touching it, you'll find an unexpectedly warm and smooth texture.

My skin felt smooth and cool.

It's probably because the poison has entered the body.

Bring your five fingers together.

The terrifying finger power of a mid-stage Transcendent Realm cultivator erupted without reservation.

Chu Mingyue had no chance to struggle. Her neck bones made a teeth-grinding "crunching" sound.

A tremendous force traveled from her neck to her entire body, and her limbs convulsed uncontrollably for a moment.

Lin Yuan exerted force with his arm, pressing her down and thrusting her backward.

"Bang!"

A dull, thud that made one's chest tighten.

Lin Yuan slammed Chu Mingyue hard against the thick rock wall behind him.

The entire mountainside trembled violently. Spiderweb-like cracks spread and expanded in all directions from the point of impact. Large chunks of rock fell from overhead.

The excruciating pain in her spine made her vision go black in waves.

If it weren't for the last layer of defense remaining in her crimson armor, that impact would have been enough to shatter half of her spine.

Even so, the impact still penetrated her armor and spread throughout her internal organs.

My head was spinning.

But the fierce courage inherent in this Chu princess was pushed to the limit at this moment, and it erupted completely.

She is not afraid of death.

She began her training as a royal bodyguard at the age of twelve, killed her first person at eighteen, and experienced countless life-and-death battles over the next hundred years.

He was being choked and pinned against the wall by a Foundation Establishment cultivator—

This was even more unacceptable to her than death.

A mad, cold light flashed in her phoenix eyes.

She stared intently at Lin Yuan's face, which was so close to hers.

He suddenly opened his mouth.

"call out!"

A jet of black light shot out of her mouth at lightning speed.

It was a flying needle as thin as a cow's hair.

The black needle is less than an inch long, completely black, and coated with a potent venom extracted from the mother spider. Touching it causes numbness, and entering the bloodstream results in death.

This is a hidden weapon that Chu Mingyue has been nurturing with her essence and blood since childhood, concealed under her tongue.

At such an extreme distance, a sudden attack would be too much for even a top-grade late-stage Golden Core cultivator to react to.

The flying needle pierced the air.

It pointed directly at Lin Yuan's brow.

The two were less than half a foot apart.

The moment the flying needle struck the space between the eyebrows.

A layer of dark golden qi shield appeared on Lin Yuan's body without warning.

The Heavenly Stem Immovable Talisman.

It wasn't because he anticipated the flying needle.

It's because he never gambles on his opponent not having a backup plan in close combat.

"bite."

An extremely subtle, crisp sound.

It is crisp and melodious, like a fingernail lightly tapping porcelain.

The black flying needles shattered the moment they made contact with the dark gold aura shield.

The highly poisonous needle shattered into tiny, barely visible black powder particles, which drifted into the narrow space between the two people.

Chu Mingyue's phoenix eyes widened suddenly.

In those eyes filled with madness and murderous intent, all emotions froze in that instant.

Then, slowly, it turned into despair.

Lin Yuan looked down at her.

He was so close that he could almost count the number of Mingyue's eyelashes.

Even in this disheveled state, the Chu princess's resolute and sharp face still carried an unyielding pride.

Her phoenix eyes were bloodshot, her lips were red, and he was gripping her neck.

Despite being in such a sorry state, he still refused to close his eyes.

Get close and use your shield; be careful, or you might turn the tide of battle.

With fingers together, the edge of the palm is taut like a knife.

Start.

The knife fell.

The palm edge pressed heavily on the Tianzhu acupoint on the side of Chu Mingyue's neck.

The dull thud of flesh colliding.

Chu Mingyue's body stiffened abruptly.

Her phoenix eyes suddenly widened to their maximum size, and her pupils dilated sharply.

His lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to say something, or perhaps he wanted to curse.

The next instant, those phoenix eyes slowly lost focus.

……

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Mingyue regained consciousness.

The excruciating pain in the back of my neck felt like being pricked by needles.

She didn't open her eyes immediately, but instead forced herself to steady her breathing, maintaining the stiff posture she had when she was unconscious.

The divine consciousness quietly spread within the body.

The next instant, despair washed over me like ice water, spreading throughout my body.

Several major acupoints were sealed, and he couldn't muster any magical power.

Not only that, a chilling and eerie mark was forcibly implanted deep within her consciousness.

The mark resided on the soul.

Forbidden God Technique.

As long as the caster has a single thought, her soul will instantly shatter, and she will die.

Chu Mingyue felt as if her heart was being gripped tightly by an invisible hand. The suffocating sensation didn't come from her body, but from the depths of her soul.

The most dazzling jewel of the Chu royal family. The most promising young prodigy of the Chu royal family, destined to condense a Nascent Soul and reach the late-stage Golden Core realm.

now.

Life and death are in the hands of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

It was like a phoenix soaring in the heavens being choked by a mortal hunter.

Humiliation and rage churned in my chest.

She wanted to kill him outright. She wanted to tear that lowly demonic cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage to shreds.

But she held back abruptly.

Royal training allowed her to maintain a sliver of composure even in dire circumstances. Faced with overwhelming superiority, blind rage would only hasten death.