Chapter Forty-Six: All Meridians Severed

  Only then did Nan Gongqi shout: "Stop!"

  Nangong Jin saw her and hesitated for a moment, looking at Nangong Qiu for his opinion.

  "Nangong Qi, do you know your crime?" Nangong Qiu asked with narrowed eyes.

  "Old Master Qiu, it's been twenty years since I left the Thunder Empire. Can't the Nan Gong family still not fulfill our promise?" Nan Gong Qi spoke with tears already welling up in her eyes.

  "Make amends? Ever since you ruined the engagement with the Ji Le Sect, provoking the young master of the Ji Le Sect, our Nan Gong family has been suppressed by the Ji Le Sect. Since then, the power of the Nan Gong family has declined day by day. Now we're going to take you back and restore the dignity of the Nan Gong family." Nan Gong Qiu said sternly.

  "What if I don't go back?" Nan Gong Qi asked in response.

  "Hmph, then let's destroy the Ye family and take you back!" Nangong Qiu said with a sinister grin, stroking his beard.

  Nangong Qi's heart suddenly became fearful, she wasn't afraid of death herself, but she was afraid of implicating the entire Ye family. Seeing Ye Zhenwu and Ye Xuan spitting blood, her heart began to waver. Nangong Qi walked towards them, looking at Ye Xuan's pale face with a pained expression, a tear involuntarily rolled down. She turned to Ye Zhenwu and said: "Zhenwu, take good care of Xuan'er, promise me!"

  Ye Xuan's heart suddenly tightened uncontrollably the moment he saw Nan Gong Qi shed tears, and he also wanted to speak up, but his body's pain left him without even the strength to open his mouth.

  At this time, Ye Zhenwu endured his physical pain and said to Nan Gongqi: "Qi, don't go back with them!"

  Nangong Qi shook her head and stood up, saying to Nangong Qiu: "Elder Qiu, I'll go back with you, please spare the Ye family!"

  Nangong Qiu glanced at the Ye family with disdain and said, "The Ye family is indeed a group of useless people. Forget it, as long as you agree to follow us back, I'll spare the Ye family!"

  Saying this in front of so many cultivators in Xihuo City, it's no wonder that the Ye family lost face in Xihuo City. Ye Wen's face turned pale at this moment, and just then, Ye Xuan, who was lying on the ground, suddenly gained some unknown power and said: "One day, I, Ye Xuan, will trample your Nangong family!"

  Nangong Jin, who was standing beside him, said, "You're being presumptuous with just this bit of strength!"

  As soon as the words were spoken, a hand was raised and a cold icy force emerged. At this time, the white-robed woman who had come with Nan Gong Jiu and Nan Gong Jin, and had not spoken until now, pulled on Nan Gong Jin's arm and said: "Jin brother, let it go, besides, Elder Chu has already said to spare them!"

  Nangong Jin furrowed his brow, let out a cold snort as he gazed at Ye Xuan and said: "Yu Ting, you really are too soft-hearted! Keeping this trash around will only waste the energy of heaven and earth!"

  At this time, Nangong Qiu said: "Jin'er, let's go!"

  Nangong Jin glared at Ye Xuan, who was lying on the ground, and a faint, imperceptible smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. He stretched out his hand, and the Bagua Golden Platform immediately emerged, finally transforming into a five-meter diameter size, floating above the ground.

  Nan Gong Qi walked step by step towards the Bagua Golden Stage, at this time Ye Zhenwu's eyes were wide open, his hands grasped into the stone slab on the ground, and his fingernails quickly turned bright red. In the end, he stared blankly as she stepped onto the Bagua Golden Stage, but didn't have the strength to stop her.

  Then, Nangong Qiu and several others also walked onto the Golden Platform. With a wave of Nangong Jin's large hand, the Eight Trigrams Golden Platform made a "hong" sound as it left the ground, shooting up into the sky like an arrow leaving its bowstring, accompanied by the dusk, before gradually disappearing from everyone's line of sight. At this moment, Ye Xuan felt his consciousness becoming increasingly blurry, and finally slowly closed his eyes.

  Ye Zhenwu saw Ye Xuan faint and cried out: "Xuan'er! Xuan'er!"

  At this time, Ye Wen walked over and grabbed Ye Xuan's arm. Ye Wen's face became increasingly ugly, and Ye Zhenwu seemed to sense that something was wrong, asking: "Dad, is Xuan okay?"

  Yip Man suddenly lifted his head and gazed at the setting sun in the west, saying with extreme sorrow: "Is it true that Heaven really wants to forget my Yip family?"

  ……

  When Ye Xuan came to, it was already three days later. The gloomy weather, with a drizzle of rain, was especially chilly in the autumnal equinox season. A few muffled thunderclaps startled Ye Xuan awake, and he slowly opened his eyes, just like when he had first arrived in this world.

  It was only when he opened his eyes that he saw Ye Zhenwu, who was wearing a white robe. At this time, his dark eye circles were obvious, and it was clear that he had not closed his eyes for several days. When he saw Ye Xuan wake up, his face suddenly lit up with joy, and he said: "Xuan'er, you're awake!"

  Ye Xuan was just about to speak when he suddenly realized that he couldn't feel the presence of the mysterious energy. He stared at Ye Zhenwu with wide eyes and asked, "Father, why can't I feel the existence of the mysterious energy?"

  Ye Zhenwu's face, which had just shown a hint of joy, fell again when he heard Ye Xuan's words. Seeing his expression, Ye Xuan thought to himself that something was amiss and asked: "Has my mysterious gate disappeared again?"

  Ye Zhenwu shook his head and said, "Xuan'er, your Xuanmen is still there, but Nan Gongjin's Yin Xuan realm strength is too overbearing. Your grandfather and I were also seriously injured. Alas, your strength is only at the Star Xuan realm, and the wild wind force broke your meridians."

  "What? The meridian is severed?" Ye Xuan was shocked, knowing that the meridian was crucial for cultivators. If the meridian was severed, one couldn't mobilize the body's vital energy or absorb it. For him, who had just fought to enter the Ganluo Pool, this was like a bolt from the blue.

  "Isn't there a miraculous medicine to restore it?" Ye Xuan asked with hope.

  "There is indeed a spiritual elixir that can restore the damaged meridians, but it requires an alchemist of the Yin Xuan realm to refine it, and the difficulty of refining it is extremely high, so this spiritual elixir is very rare!" Ye Zhenwu said with disappointment and sorrow.

  Upon hearing this, Ye Xuan let out a bitter laugh and felt speechless. He suddenly thought of four words: "Fate plays tricks on people." At the same time, he also secretly thought of Nan Gong Jin, who had crippled his meridians, and remembered the words he said before leaving: "Keeping such trash around would only waste the energy of heaven and earth!"

  "Nangong Jin, you ruined my Ye family, took away my mother, and crippled my meridians. If I don't avenge this, I would have come to this world in vain!" Ye Xuan thought fiercely.

  Ye Wen was seriously injured and closed the door, Ye's genius meridian was broken, and soon this news spread throughout the streets of Xihuo City. The happiest one belonged to the Situ family, and when the Ye family suffered a heavy loss, they also took advantage of the fire to loot and robbed many businesses from the Ye family.

  This made several elders of the Ye family extremely angry, but now that Ye Xun was injured and closed off, they were fundamentally unable to contend with the Situ family. They could only swallow their anger and remain silent. As for Ye Xuan, because his meridians were all severed, he lost his qualification to enter the Ganluo Pool, and the quota once again fell on Situ Hao's head. For this reason, Dongfang Yan even went to find Dongfang Juelan, but Dongfang Juelan was also helpless. After all, when someone's meridians are all severed, their cultivation career is equivalent to being abandoned. Under pressure from consideration of the current situation, they could only give the quota to the Situ family.