The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

After Chu Xiu concealed himself inside the Jade Pavilion using the Void Soaring Escape Technique, which allowed him to disappear into the void undetected, Lin Chongyang's carriage arrived in front of the Jade Pavilion in less than a moment.

Without Lin Chongyang needing to say anything more, Lin Meng carried his master on his shoulder and quickly entered the shop and went upstairs to the vicinity of Room No. 1.

The shopkeeper, seeing that the visitor was the young master of the Lin family, knew the purpose of his visit and instructed his staff not to obstruct or approach him, but only to secretly observe him from a distance.

"Are you hungry?"

Lin Meng scratched his head: "I'm hungry."

Lin Chongyang chuckled and whispered, "Order some food for yourselves and wait for me in the main hall. If anyone tries to approach and you can't stop them, just kill them."

After saying this, Lin Chongyang leaped down from Lin Meng's shoulder, which was about nine feet high, and landed steadily, showing no signs of being a person with a broken leg.

Chu Xiu's divine sense was constantly monitoring Lin Chongyang's every move, and upon seeing this scene, he couldn't help but smile knowingly.

It's really just an act!

Lin Chongyang's actions startled Lin Meng: "Master, is your leg alright?"

Lin Chongyang chuckled and patted the back of his hand. "It's nothing, I was just pretending."

Lin Meng nodded, turned around and went downstairs, quite decisively.

Lin Meng didn't understand what Lin Chongyang wanted to do, but he never asked.

All he knew was that Lin Chongyang was his only master.

All he needs to do is listen to his savior and do his job diligently.

Lin Chongyang was very satisfied with Lin Meng's self-awareness. He waved his hand and used the "Hidden Universe in Sleeves" technique, and a small flag flew out from his sleeve and stuck straight into the floor.

Immediately afterwards, an array rapidly expanded, enveloping the entire Emperor's Room No. 1 and shielding the area within tens of meters of Xiaoqi from external sight and sound.

"The formation contained within this small flag is remarkably similar to my technique of concealing one's aura..."

Chu Xiu flashed and arrived inside the formation just as Lin Chongyang's formation completely enveloped an area of ​​several dozen meters in radius.

He did not choose to continue observing with his divine sense outside the formation. After all, he had only been in the Heavenly Continent for a short time and did not know whether the level of the spells studied by the cultivators of the Heavenly Continent was higher than that of the lower realm, even for minor spells such as shielding sight and hearing.

If the situation is the same as Chu Xiu's fears, then Lin Chongyang, as the caster, will know of Chu Xiu's presence the moment Chu Xiu's divine sense touches the array.

Chu Xiu felt that he had not yet obtained any leverage over Lin Chongyang, and he absolutely could not let his information leak out.

After fully activating the array that blocked sight and sound, Lin Chongyang quickly walked to the door of Emperor Number One's room.

He knocked on the door twice, then stopped what he was doing and waited for a response.

Take a breath.

Two breaths passed, and there was still no movement inside the room.

Three breaths later, a powerful burst of energy suddenly erupted from the room, directly blowing the door off.

The next moment, Lin Chongyang, whose eyes were blinded by the dust, vaguely saw a beautiful figure appear before him.

Immediately afterwards, a fist enveloped in light blue energy struck his face directly, as swift as lightning.

Once he regained his senses, Lin Chongyang simply dodged to the right, avoiding this straightforward and deadly attack.

He quickly reached out, grabbed the other person's wrist, pulled it towards his body, and then kicked the other person's left leg back lightly.

The other person lost their balance and stumbled into his arms.

But the opponent quickly adjusted his stance, using the momentum of the fall to quickly approach and turn to the left. His right hand, which was being grabbed, gripped Lin Chongyang's arm, and he bent down, ready to deliver an over-the-shoulder throw.

Startled by this scene, Lin Chongyang quickly crouched down to steady himself, reached out and wrapped his arms around the other person's slender waist, and spoke up to warn him:

"Stop, stop, stop! Miss Chu, it's me!"

Chu Xuanling was startled by the sound, then stopped what she was doing, frowned and turned her head to scold, "Lin Chongyang, are you sick? We agreed to knock four times."

"I thought your plan had been exposed and someone else from the Lin family had come!"

Lin Chongyang looked down at Chu Xuanling, who was nestled in his arms, and chuckled softly, just like a cat with its fur standing on end.

"Screw you! I can smash your head in one punch!"

Chu Xuanling glared at her friend, then raised her heel and stepped on his toes.

Lin Chongyang released her grip in pain, and she broke free from his embrace. She turned around, crossed her arms, and frowned at the smirking boy in front of her, her anger flaring.

"Don't make jokes like that again. This isn't Blue Star, and I'm not the Chu Xuanling who only knew fancy moves anymore!"

Blue Star?

Chu Xiu was taken aback upon hearing this, his eyes showing surprise and doubt.

He wasn't sure if the Blue Star that this Miss Chu Xuanling spoke of was actually the hometown he longed for day and night...

After all, from the perspective of the celestial continent, it is also a blue star in the lower realm.

"Could these two be from the same hometown as me...?"

Chu Xiu used his Qi Observation Technique to take in the cultivation levels of the two individuals.

"One is at the first level of the Shattering Void Realm, and the other is at the first level of the Transcending Truth Realm..."

Chu Xiu pondered.

Both of them have a bone age of sixteen.

At only sixteen years old, Sui Xu and Du Zhen are geniuses that are far beyond the reach of cultivators in the lower realms, compared to Chu Xiu, whose bone age is nearly thirty.

Are all the talents of the prodigies of the Heavenly Continent so astonishing...?

Recalling what had just happened, Chu Xuanling felt a wave of fear.

Having lived in this world where martial arts reign supreme for sixteen years, she learned the cruelty of being weak and then focused solely on mastering deadly techniques.

She has now advanced to the first level of the Transcendent Realm, and her strength far surpasses that of Lin Chongyang, who is only at the first level of the Shattered Void Realm.

If I had actually executed that over-the-shoulder throw when I was prepared to unleash my full power, I would have broken this idiot Lin Chongyang in half.

"I know." Ignoring Chu Xuanling's resistance, Lin Chongyang reached out and ruffled her hair, which earned him a glare from her.

He entered the room, and with a flick of his sleeve, his energy burst forth, sweeping away the scattered pieces of the door and all the dust outside the window, leaving nothing behind.

Chu Xuanling lightly held the hair tie in her lips, gracefully sat down, and only after fixing her hair did she ask:

"How is the situation developing? Has your Grand Elder taken the bait?"

Lin Chongyang nodded: "The Qi Stagnation Pill you gave me can indeed fake the state of stagnant magic power after the dantian is shattered. Even that old bastard couldn't tell the difference. It really works."

Hidden in the next room, Chu Xiu's eyes lit up. He had finally uncovered the secret between the two!

Lin Chongyang continued, "When you get back, be prepared. It seems the Lin family is going to use high-level martial arts to cause trouble at your home."

Do you know the true strength of your own martial arts practitioners?

Chu Xuanling chuckled, "As long as your Xiao Meng doesn't participate in the battle, my Chu family will have one more expert at the first level of the Transcendent Realm than the Lin family."

"Don't worry, as long as they dare to come tomorrow, even if your Supreme Elder, who is at the peak of the Transcendent Realm, comes in person, he will have to die in the South City!"

Lin Chongyang nodded upon hearing this, breathed a sigh of relief, and slumped into the soft chair.

Only in front of this close friend did he dare to relax his tense nerves.

As Lin Chongyang rubbed the cauldron-shaped mark between his eyebrows, he felt a surge of irritation.

This mark, ever since he was born, has been relentlessly absorbing his martial arts essence day and night.

As a result, his cultivation level plummeted overnight, even though he should have broken through to the True Transcendence Realm three years ago, and he stopped progressing after reaching the first level of Shattered Void.

The fire poison within his body was a consequence of the accumulation of impurities in his vital energy due to his inability to break through to a higher realm.

The dual erosion of the fire poison and the mark caused him immense suffering, both mentally and physically.

But in fact, his stagnation in cultivation was a great blessing in disguise.

Chu Xuanling leaned against the edge of the table, resting her chin on her hand, and looked at the unbearably agitated Lin Chongyang. She smiled and teased him:

"If you hadn't told me, no one would have guessed that the Lin family's number one genius was actually just a vessel to help their own Supreme Elder fuse with a special physique in order to break through the shackles of the Transcendent Realm and touch the threshold of the Reincarnation Realm!"

Special physique?

Furnace?

Chu Xiu had a thought and began to examine Lin Chongyang's body and physique.

Sure enough, something unusual was discovered.

As is well known, the Yin and Yang energies contained in the human body are originally one and the same, even for cultivators who defy the heavens.

As the saying goes, "When Yin and Yang are in balance, Qi and blood return to normal," Lin Chongyang's body actually contained another Yang Qi in addition to the original Yin and Yang Qi!

The name "Chongyang" actually originated from this.

Chu Xuanling smiled and said, "This Elder Lin has been stuck at the peak of the Transcendent Realm for over a hundred years. The reason for his stagnation is his innate special physique—the Yin Body."

"And you, Lin Chongyang, that extra yang energy within you is the key to her breaking free from her current predicament!"

After using his aura-gazing technique and his divine sense, Chu Xiu was able to clearly hear the conversation between the two, and even their telepathic communication and thoughts.

Chu Xuanling's teasing of Lin Chongyang had given Chu Xiu a general idea of ​​the secrets hidden within Lin Chongyang!

Previously, in Yao Zhong's tomb, Chu Xiu had already learned about the differences between cultivators from the Heavenly Continent and those from the Lower Realm through conversations with Senior Yao.

The lower realm lacks resources for tempering the physical body, so cultivators there mostly focus on cultivating magical power.

However, the situation is different for cultivators on the Heavenly Continent. This is because the Heavenly Continent is home to too many demons and monsters with powerful physical bodies. If cultivators do not exert all their efforts to improve their physical strength...

No matter how strong one's magic power is, it is no match for the assassination tactics of the Demon Realm Rakshasa clan, who are skilled in assassination.

Therefore, the foundation of cultivation for cultivators in the Heavenly Continent is the physical body, and they emphasize the balance of Yin and Yang, or even the more extreme path of extreme Yin and Yang.

Although those with Yin or Yang constitutions are blessed by heaven, they can walk on flat ground before reaching the Void Breaking Realm, which is called the Acquired Realm by cultivators of the Heavenly Continent.

However, due to the excessive amount of innate Yang and Yin constitution, the higher the cultivation level, the more one can feel the obstacles to cultivation brought about by this special constitution. Cultivating to the point of perfect truth is already the limit!

Only by replenishing the balance of Yin and Yang, or by fusing with the same constitution to achieve an extremely Yin or extremely Yang body, is it possible to make further progress.

The Chongyang Body that Lin Chongyang possesses is exactly what the Supreme Elder of the Lin Family needs!

"So this is your secret with the Lin family...?"

Chu Xiu smiled with satisfaction; this trip had truly been worthwhile.

With this leverage in hand, and by using other suitable means, we can definitely get the Lin family to hand over the right to use the teleportation array!