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  Eastern Wastend, Great Xia Kingdom.

  It was noon, and the sun bzed fiercely.

  Within the Mixed Heaven Dao Academy, Feng held an octagonal bck sandalwood box as he sprinted along the path toward Mirror Lake.

  "This birthday gift will definitely surprise Xue Ning. She’ll never expect it to tain a Foundatioablishment Pill."

  In the distance, a young girl in a white dress stood outside the woods by the ke. Her sweet ale appearance made Feng qui his pace.

  "Xue Ning, today is your birthday. I’ve prepared something for you…"

  Feng wore a set of faded gray cloth clothes, his short hair slightly messy, reag just past his ears. His handsome face bore traces of bruises, and he was drenched i, looking somewhat disheveled. Yet, his expression was filled with genuine joy as he handed over the octagonal bck sandalwood box.

  " Feng!" The girl interrupted him without even gng at the box. Her cold and unfamiliar to Feng stunned.

  "Six years have passed, and you’re only at the third level of Body Refi. Meanwhile, I’ve reached the peak of the sixth level and am about to break through to the seventh. In a month, I’ll definitely pass the examination and bee a disciple of the Mixed Heave. From then on, I’ll soar to great heights, while you’re just a worm crawling on the ground. Do you think you’re worthy of me?"

  "And this trash jade pendant? Who knows where you picked it up, yet you cim it’s a family heirloom. Here, take it back. From now on, we have ionship. You and I are destio live in different worlds—I’ll be in the heavens, while you’ll remain in the dirt."

  The more she spoke, the more disgusted she became. She pulled out a bck crest-shaped jade pendant and hurled it at Feng. Her once sweet and pure faow twisted into an expression of cold indifference.

  The pendant struck Feng’s face before boung off and nding in the fallen leaves beh the tree.

  The pain on his faapped Feng out of his daze.

  He stared at the girl’s still beautiful but now id heartless face, feeling an unpreted sense of unfamiliarity. For six years, he had given her all his Body Refi Pills to help her cultivate better, only for it to bee the reason she looked down on him.

  A wave of dizziness hit him, and Feng stumbled backward, his back hitting the tree trunk. The octagonal sandalwood box he had been clutg tightly fell from his hand and rolled into the pile of leaves.

  After staring at Yang Xue Ning for a few moments, Feng regained his posure.

  "Why? You’ve always aimed to join the Mixed Heave. I gave you all my Body Refi Pills. I spent a month as your sparring partaking hits just to earn enough silver to buy you a Foundatioablishment Pill to help you break through to the seventh level of Body Refi. You said you liked the pendant my mother left me, so I gave it to you without hesitation. I’ve willingly given you everything. Tell me… what more could I have done?" Feng stepped forward, his voice low and压抑.

  His eyes were filled with grief and anger, emotions Yang Xue Ning had never seen before. She felt a pang of guilt and instinctively averted her gaze, no response.

  "Because you’re a waste. Since you’re a waste, how could you possibly deserve a beautiful woman like Xue Ning?"

  A mog voice suddenly rang out. A young man in dark green martial attire, with a sword strapped to his back, emerged from behind the tree o Yang Xue Ning. He casually draped his arm around her waist, his hand roaming freely as he looked at Feng with a mix and disdain.

  "Who are you?"

  Seeing such btant behavior, even Feng, as naive as he was, uood what was happening. He demanded an answer, his voice sharp.

  " Feng, listen well. This is Ye Yunqi, one of the top ten stro Body Refi cultivators in the academy, ranked fourth," Yang Xue Ning said, leaning into the young man in dark green. Her eyes sparkled with pride, as if this glory beloo her.

  "Yunqi is oeen, but he’s already at the peak of the eighth level of Body Refi. He’s also the young master of the Ye family, the foremost family i Xia." Yang Xue Ning raised her haughtily, her gaze toward Feng growing even more ptuous. "In terms of family background, talent, ah, what do you have to pare with Yunqi? Your mother, who ran off with someone else? You’re nothing but a plete waste, a motherless bastard."

  "You bitch!"

  The st shred of Feng’s rationality shattered. He lunged forward, his palm striking out in a furious sp aimed at Yang Xue Ning.

  "Scram!"

  Ye Yunqi kicked out, and Feng was sent flying backward several meters, crashing into the base of a tree. He gred at Yang Xue Ning and Ye Yunqi, his eyes filled with rage.

  "Fine… fihirty years east of the river, thirty years west. The humiliation I suffer today, I will repay tenfold iure."

  Feng struggled to his feet, his voice harsh as he shouted at the two.

  "How ughable!" Yang Xue Ning sneered, her face full of disdain. " Feng, stop daydreaming. Someone like you will never amount to anything. Accept your fate. Out of sideration for our shared ins in Lingshan City, kneel and kowtow three times, and I’ll ask Yunqi to spare you…"

  "Kowtow to your mother, you bitch… you dog…" Feng cursed furiously.

  "You’re asking for death!"

  A cold shout apahe sound of rushing wind. Feng caught a glimpse of a dark green figure charging toward him. He tried to dodge and block, but he was too sloowerful force struck his forehead, making him feel as if his head had exploded. His eardrums ruptured, and one of his eyes seemed to burst. His body was sent flying, crashing into the tree. Intense pain wracked his entire body, and he couldn’t hold back a mouthful of blood that sprayed onto his hand.

  Lying at the base of the tree, half of Feng’s head went numb, and his sciousness began to fade.

  "A waste who overestimates himself!" Ye Yunqi’s voice, filled with utter pt, seemed to drift in from a distant horizon.

  "Yunqi, if this waste dies, will the academy punish you?" Yang Xue Ning’s voice, tinged with unease, followed.

  "No matter. He’s just an ant. If he dies, he dies. I’m sure the academy knows what’s important." Ye Yunqi sneered, his cold words sending a chill through Feng’s body. "Let’s go. Today is yhteenth birthday. I’ve prepared a Grand Foundatioablishment Pill, uo my Ye family. It will allow you to break through to the seventh level of Body Refi in a short time and solidify your foundation. Then, you join me in taking the Mixed Heave’s examination."

  "Yunqi, you’re so good to me." Yang Xue Ning’s voice was filled with delight.

  "Then how will you repay me?" Ye Yunqi raised an eyebrow, his tone suggestive.

  "You’re so bad." Yang Xue Ning’s face flushed red, her eyes brimming with affe.

  "There’s more where that came from… hahaha…" Ye Yunqi immediately scooped Yang Xue Ning into his arms, his ughter eg as it drifted into Feng’s ears, growing fainter as they walked away.

  Feng’s blurred vision fixed owo figures rapidly disappearing into the distaruggling, he reached out with his blood-stained hand and grabbed the bck crest-shaped jade pendant lying in the fallen leaves.

  Suddenly, an ued ge occurred. The pendant, like a dry sponge, absorbed all the blood on his hand aed a dense bck light. In an instant, it shot toward Feng’s forehead. Ye Yunqi and Yang Xue Ning, already far away, notiothing.

  Fe as if his head had been struck by lightning. His visio dark, and his sciousness seemed to be dragged into an endless abyss.

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