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

Yan Lie didn't waste any words; he simply slapped his broad palm hard on the animal skin pouch at his waist.

A dim light flashed.

Lie Yuan, clad in tattered, dark red light armor, crashed onto the black earth with a thud. Her eyes were closed, her face deathly pale, and she remained in a deep coma.

"This woman's bloodline was already at its critical point, just one step away from the Demon Ancestor level." Yan Lie looked down at Lie Yuan, a cruel calculation flashing in his eyes. "It would take too long to find someone to cultivate her from scratch. It would be better to wait until this kid pushes her bloodline to the level of the Progenitor..."

Yan Lie clenched his fist, his knuckles cracking: "I will throw this woman directly into the Myriad Spirits Blood Array and refine her alive! I will strip her of her ancestral essence, thereby breaking through the shackles and advancing to the Dao Integration Realm!"

"Once I formally ascend to the position of Demon Ancestor and become the true ruler of this world, won't it be a matter of simply asking how many people I want to cultivate my bloodline?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Hua's eyes flashed even brighter with a fierce light, and she couldn't help but clap her hands in praise: "Father is indeed far-sighted! This method of using someone else's resources to achieve one's own goals is brilliant!"

She turned around, tore open the black spirit beast bag in her hand, and shook it violently with the opening facing down.

A cloud of black mist carrying a human figure rolled to the ground.

Lin Yuan's hands were bound by invisible magical power, and he rolled twice on the ground before barely managing to steady himself. He cooperated perfectly, pretending to have just woken up, coughed twice, and slowly got up.

But he didn't shout or tremble like a typical prisoner. Instead, he casually glanced around at his surroundings.

"There's no spiritual energy, and no demonic energy either." Lin Yuan quietly took a deep breath of the murky air, pondering to himself, "The soil lacks vitality, and the laws of the heavens are incomplete. This is clearly an extremely primitive space that has never been developed."

Then, his gaze subtly fell on Yan Lie, who was not far away.

This burly man exuded a fierce aura, his blood surging like a dragon, standing there like an iron tower.

Lin Yuan had been tormented by Ye Jia, a true Dao Integration Realm Demon Ancestor, for a whole month. Ye Jia's aura was absolutely overwhelming to him.

In contrast, Yan Lie, though exuding an aura of power, was completely unable to resonate with this world.

"This old guy is at most at the peak of the Integration stage, a far cry from the true Dao Integration stage."

Unless Ye Jia personally attends, with his vast amount of attribute points, he should be able to achieve the same level of strength. If things really come to a head and everyone pulls out all the stops, it's hard to say who will kill whom.

But for now, we have to keep playing it safe. We need to figure out the situation first.

"Lin Yuan, behave yourself!"

Seeing that this human pretty boy was surprisingly calm, Yan Hua felt a strange sense of displeasure. She left a blur and instantly approached Lin Yuan. She raised her one arm, her index finger pressed together like a knife, and precisely pressed it between Lin Yuan's eyebrows.

The fingertip pierced the skin.

A wisp of pure black-red demonic energy, like a venomous snake, burrowed into the wound and rapidly condensed into a twisted and complex dark red rune under the skin between Lin Yuan's eyebrows, faintly exuding the fluctuations of devouring divine souls.

Having done all this, Yan Hua withdrew her hand, proudly raised her chin, and looked at him with disdain as if he were an ant: "This is the Soul Refining Blood Seal of my Holy Clan. From now on, put away your thoughts."

"With a mere thought, this mark will detonate instantly, blasting your soul and spirit into a rain of light. You'd better not even entertain the thought of escaping." Yan Hua stepped aside and pointed behind her. "This is my father's private territory. As long as you're in this area, even if you burrow into the earth's core, you won't be able to escape!"

Lin Yuan touched the slightly warm mark between his eyebrows, and his eye twitched slightly.

They did manage to get inside.

But this damn Soul Refining Blood Seal, if he adds his cultivation level, he can easily refine it.

But his face immediately revealed just the right amount of fear and dejection.

"Young lady, don't worry," Lin Yuan sighed, shrugged, and spoke with a resigned, detached air. "I'm just a Qi cultivator in the early stages of the Nascent Soul realm. Where can I run in this godforsaken place?"

He took half a step forward, his gaze passing over Yan Hua and looking at Yan Lie behind him, switching into "working class" mode with remarkable ease.

"Besides, working for the Demon Ancestor is the same as working for you. As long as you don't kill me, we can talk." Lin Yuan pointed to the rough mud beneath his feet, frowning slightly. "But you two bosses, if you want the horse to run, you have to feed it, right? My physical body is very weak, and there's not even a trace of spiritual energy here. You have to arrange a place for me to stay, shelter from the wind and rain, and also take care of the problems caused by the depletion of my cultivation, right?"

This confident and assertive bargaining left Yan Hua completely stunned.

Is this human kid a simpleton? He's been kidnapped and instead of begging for mercy, he's starting to demand treatment?

Yan Lie snorted coldly, quite satisfied with Lin Yuan's sensibility: "You're a smart kid. As long as you cooperate obediently, I certainly won't treat you unfairly."

"This space is vast, and apart from some low-level reptiles that haven't developed intelligence, there are no other living creatures." Yan Lie turned to Yan Hua and instructed, "You're in charge of this woman. Find a high mountain and let her dig her own cave to settle down."

Yan Lie stepped forward, his powerful aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator locking onto Lin Yuan like a tidal wave. His voice was deafening: "Three months! I'm only giving you three months! Within three months, you must push Lie Yuan's bloodline to the threshold of the Demon Ancestor!"

……

"boom!"

Ye Jia, her dark purple demonic robe fluttering in the wind, stood suspended in mid-air above the ruins. Her exquisitely beautiful face showed no anger, but rather a chilling calm.

Yanlie.

What a wonderful younger brother.

Ye Jia slowly extended her right hand, in which lay a shattered fragment of a protective blood jade, which Yan Hua had left behind when she fled.

"What two idiots, so incredibly self-important!"

"You really think that by taking Lin Yuan away you can lock yourself away and enjoy this bounty of nature? But... that kid Lin Yuan has the Myriad Manifestations Star Compass!"

Within Ye Jia's own Dao Integration Domain, since the laws of heaven and earth were completely under her absolute control, Lin Yuan naturally had no use for his skills. With just a thought from Ye Jia, the surrounding space would become as solid as a rock.

But once they escape the suppression of her laws and reach the outer realms...

"You're stuffing a wolf in sheep's clothing into your own sheepfold." Ye Jia sneered, her chest heaving slightly. "Yan Lie, you truly have no sense of mortality."

Lin Yuan is as slippery as an eel, full of cunning. Once he realizes that the spatial suppression on his body has been lifted, with the power of the Star Compass, Yan Lie and his daughter, with their meager skills, would be sold out and would have to count the money for him!

People will definitely not stay.

It's only a matter of time before Lin Yuan escapes.