After being demoted, my 300,000-strong army trampled the imperial city!

Amidst the awe-inspiring gazes of countless people, Chen Futu ignored the trembling Lin family members and, with a wave of his hand, absorbed the Lin family's exposed inventory and the treasures plundered from Lan Pavilion, which vanished without a trace.

"That's... spatial manipulation?"

"Hiss! He has an Emperor-level expert behind him..."

At this moment, all the saints quietly concealed their auras, and the city lord returned to his residence immediately, instructing everyone not to go out.

Everyone knows what spatial treasures mean; they are either the true emperor or a descendant of the emperor's bloodline.

The power of an emperor is not to be trifled with; his abilities are beyond comprehension and cannot be explained.

The Chenfu Pagoda now appears both intimidating and mysterious to the people of Taiping City.

Who could have imagined that this annulment of the engagement would have such a shocking twist in the end? What about the Holy King? What about destroying the Lan Pavilion?

Before an Emperor-level expert, any foundation is a joke; it can be crushed into dust with a single thought.

In short, the Lin family is finished tonight.

Chen Futu returned to Ling Xue's side. Ling Xue stared blankly at the majestic eyes under the golden mask, then knelt down with a thud, "Thank you for saving me, Senior."

"Go, kill the Lin family."

Chen Futu's words left no room for argument.

Ling Xue sheathed her sword without hesitation and then leaped to the Lin family's residence.

The Lin family members were like lambs to the slaughter, and no one dared to resist. Even the Lin family head, who was a Martial Emperor, knelt on the ground, trembling with fear, and completely lost the will to resist. He could only sit and wait for his death.

Ling Xue showed no mercy, slaughtering the entire Lin family without leaving a single one alive, and then set fire to everything the Lin family owned.

In the end, Chen Futu grabbed Ling Xue and left Taiping City, and no one dared to pursue them.

It wasn't until the next day that people in the city dared to go out. They saw the Lin family's house littered with corpses and ashes. The Lin family head and several elders had died the worst deaths, being chopped into pieces.

"From this day forward, no one in Taiping City shall provoke Miss Ling Xue!"

The Lord of Holy King City gave a death order: if anyone dares to provoke Ling Xue, don't blame him for showing no mercy.

In fact, he didn't need to tell them explicitly. Anyone with a bit of sense would have already instructed their family members. Some spoiled brats were even given special attention and beaten up without a word.

This was an undeserved disaster, but the elders in the family were doing it for their own good. Normally, it would be one thing if they went out and flirted with other women and bullied girls, but now, if they were to be so blind as to offend that young lady, their family would suffer the same fate as the Lin family.

In an abandoned farm outside Taiping City, Ling Xue recovered from her injuries overnight and finally knelt before Chen Futu, saying, "Please accept me as your disciple, senior."

She hasn't finished avenging herself, the Holy King isn't dead, and Lin Tian is still alive. She needs to become stronger.

Ding!

[Please complete the anecdote: take the girl who broke off her engagement as your apprentice.]

The system was forcing them into this situation; since they already had one apprentice, one more wouldn't make a difference.

"Aren't you curious about my identity?" Chen Futu asked calmly, still wearing his mask.

Ling Xue shook her head and said, "This junior wouldn't dare."

"It doesn't matter, as long as you keep quiet about it."

Chen Futu removed his mask in front of her, and when his cold yet refined face was revealed, Ling Xue was completely stunned. "It's...it's you..."

"What, are you disappointed?"

"This junior dares not presume, but begs the senior to accept this junior as a disciple!"

Ling Xue kowtowed again.

She didn't care whether Qin Shao was young or old; all she knew now was that in this world, might makes right.

"Alright, from now on you will be my second disciple."

"Second disciple?"

Ling Xue was somewhat confused.

“That’s right. Your senior brother is my newly accepted disciple. He has a special bloodline and reached the Martial Master realm in just half a month. Because he killed his enemy and caused too much of a commotion, he was chased into Crimson Bone Ridge. But that kid won’t die so easily. Moreover, Crimson Bone Ridge is beneficial to him. When we meet again, his cultivation should have increased by several major realms.”

"Disciple understands."

Ling Xue was filled with shock.

She could tell that her senior brother was an extraordinary genius, and it was only a matter of time before he caught up with her, but she wouldn't fall behind either.

Ding!

[Congratulations, host, on completing the side quest. Rewards are now being distributed.]

Reward 1: Reincarnation Disc, Sacred Weapon of Grade 1.

Reward 2: The modified version of Qinglian Sword Song, "Great Qinglian Technique", Emperor-level.

Reward 3: Ten Taiyi Nourishing Spirit Pills, a high-grade elixir.

The reward has been distributed to the system space.

The Grand-Grade Azure Lotus Technique was specially prepared for Ling Xue, but before that, Chen Futu gave it to Bai Yujing first, because Long Luo also cultivated the Azure Lotus Sword Song, so it was a good opportunity to upgrade.

As for Ling Xue, Chen Futu first took out the blank stele and asked her to comprehend it, to see if there were any other suitable methods.

Ling Xue didn't waste any time. She sat cross-legged and began to comprehend the wordless stele. In just one day and two hours, she mastered several decent martial arts techniques. Later, Chen Futu Jiang gave her the Great Grade Azure Lotus Technique.

Upon learning that it was an Emperor-level cultivation technique, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak, and could only keep kowtowing to express her gratitude.

“From now on, I will cultivate diligently. I will also be going into seclusion for a while. We will not go to Taiping City for the time being. Let’s find a place to settle down.”

Chen Futu led Ling Xue to a tranquil lakeside and dismantled a palace from Baiyujing to place there.

Ling Xue was already numb to Chen Futu's miraculous skills, and the Baiyujing Palace was filled with rich true energy, which was very suitable for cultivation. She found a room and went to cultivate diligently.

The Taiyi Nourishing Spirit Pill is specifically designed for those practicing the Holy Path. Chen Futu himself began cultivating and refining it as soon as he obtained it.

Surprisingly, among the many treasures of Lan Pavilion, there was indeed a piece of meteorite iron, small in size but enough to use.

Chen Futu took out the complete puppet-making secret method and finally made the ancient saint puppet according to the procedure.

A gaunt old man with dark black eyes; the wound that Dian Wei had previously pierced had been healed.

Puppet taming lacks true qi; it relies solely on its powerful physique to fight.

Chen Futu tried to cut the old man with his sword, and sure enough, it didn't leave a single wound. On the contrary, Long Que almost slipped from his grasp.

"That's great. With this trump card, as long as I don't encounter any experts in the Emperor Realm, I can roam freely in the Northern Region."

Chen Futu was overjoyed and put the puppet into his system space.

The system space cannot store living things, but a puppet is ultimately a corpse and can be stored.

In other words, it can also be used when encountering trouble in other continents.

As time went by, Ling Xue would often go out to the village to buy ingredients to cook. Her cooking skills weren't very good, but with the seasonings Chen Futu gave her, the food she cooked wasn't too bad.

During this period, Ling Xue broke through to the Martial Venerable level, while Chen Futu refined the Taiyi Nourishing Spirit Pill and with the assistance of Bai Yujing's Sage Dojo, his main body reached the late stage of the Saintly Path, only one step away from the peak, and his avatar also reached the mid-stage level. He could fight against the Saint King even without opening his domain, but he still couldn't kill him instantly. If he used his domain, the Saint King would definitely be killed instantly and would have no chance to escape.

Besides these, the capital city was filled with joyous news: Qin Liangyu was about to give birth.