Ye Fan's eyes turned instantly blood-red, but he could still hear Qing Lian's cold, mocking laughter.

"Hahaha, Ye Fan, oh Ye Fan, you and your master are both so foolish. He thought I would help him complete your cultivation and fulfill your union with Zhao Jun. But he didn't know that today I would kill you, and I would do it in front of Zhao Jun." Qing Lian said with maniacal laughter, "I will destroy her before your eyes, and destroy you before hers!"

Qing Lian tossed two pills in front of Yuan Mo and Cheng He. The two trembled as they picked up the pills and swallowed them.

A surge of red suddenly appeared on their bodies, and warmth returned to their veins, allowing them to stand.

"What are you waiting for? Your lovely Junior Sister Yun Zhao is in there, and she has no ability to resist now."

"Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master." Yuan Mo and Cheng He showed sycophantic smiles on their faces as they dragged their somewhat debilitated bodies, moving closer to Li Zhaojun.

Qing Lian laughed arrogantly: "This is the Li Zhaojun you love so much. After today, she will be nothing but a wanton slut any man can have. These are just her first two men. She will have many more, and any man who wishes to touch her will have the right to trample her at will..."

Faced with the two men rushing at her, Li Zhaojun cried out, "Master, why must you do this?"

"Without this, how would you cut off feelings and forget righteousness? Your obsession with emotions surpasses the essence of cultivation. Only by trampling your dignity completely will you understand that worldly emotions are utterly insignificant. This is to help you, not to harm you!" Qing Lian's face showed an expression of madness and extreme obstinacy, her voice piercingly sharp as she shrieked.

"In this world, only cultivation and strength mean anything! Without cultivation, without power, you deserve to be ridden by thousands!"

Li Zhaojun cried out, "Master, I don't want this kind of help..."

"It's not up to you." Qing Lian, now entirely twisted in her mind, shouted, "What are you waiting for? Hurry, do it now, whether one at a time or together. Today, I will control all the spiritual energy in her body and give her to you for a month. Don't you have many ways to torment women? No matter how many people you find and how you torment her, even if her dignity is less than a prostitute's, that is her deserved fate!"

Yuan Mo laughed loudly: "Master is truly considerate. We just happen to lack female cultivators like Junior Sister Yun Zhao as cauldrons. Haha."

Li Zhaojun fell into complete despair, frantically trying to use the spiritual energy in her body to break free from the Qiankun Lock. But the Qiankun Lock could absorb all spiritual energy, and eventually, under the exhaustion of strength, both body and mind suffered a double blow, and she fainted.

Ye Fan's face gradually turned hideously terrifying, with blood-red hatred in his eyes.

Even if he hated Qing Lian before, it was merely hatred for taking away Li Zhaojun, not the utmost animosity.

But now, he deemed Qing Lian an insatiable demon that devoured people whole.

"Ah——"

Ye Fan suddenly erupted with a skyward roar, recklessly activating the spiritual power in his body, intending to use the last desperate secret technique of the "Nine Yang Divine Skill"—the Sun Burning Technique, to break through the confinement.

Once the Sun Burning Technique is executed, it will unleash tenfold power, but afterward, the practitioner will inevitably die, with no exceptions!

Even so, what of it?!

Even if he had to die a thousand times, ten thousand times, he would never allow Li Zhaojun to be defiled!

At this moment, the brass mirror stored in the storage bracelet seemed to sense something. It suddenly shot out from the bracelet and illuminated Ye Fan. On the yellow mirror surface, a shadow appeared, his Golden Core.

The Golden Core within the copper mirror, as if possessing intelligence, suddenly refracted a bizarre brilliance. A primordial spiritual energy shot out from the mirror, using Ye Fan's body's eight extraordinary meridians as the source, creating primordial spiritual energy.

The Golden Core was the source of his body's spiritual energy, but now he was generating primordial spiritual energy from various parts of his body, starting as trickling streams, gathering into rivers, and finally becoming a vast ocean.

The shadow of the Golden Core in the copper mirror replaced the original function of the Golden Core, creating a second source.

Ye Fan's body gradually surged with a fiery power, nearly boiling in the heat.

And his Golden Core, still full of cracks, seemed to be breaking from within, and his Nascent Soul was about to emerge at this moment.

Simultaneously, the copper mirror flew into Ye Fan's body.

"Hmm?" Qing Lian initially noticed the anomaly, but she refused to believe that someone whose Golden Core was damaged and could not maintain their cultivation could progress under such circumstances.

If Ye Fan leaped from the Golden Core Stage to the Nascent Soul Stage, then the previous damage to his Golden Core would be irrelevant.

"Boy, you seek death; I will cut your tendons and make you watch your loved one be humiliated!" Qing Lian brandished her magic sword to stab Ye Fan's Golden Core, intending to destroy it entirely and halt Ye Fan's cultivation permanently.

"Hoo!" Suddenly, a great blaze erupted from Ye Fan's body, like a devastating shockwave from a nuclear explosion, emanating from him as the center.

The long sword Qing Lian thrust hadn't touched Ye Fan's body, yet it was melted by the immense heat.

In shock, Qing Lian quickly retreated, attempting to block the power of the blazing shockwave with spiritual energy. But without the blessing of a magical treasure, she was driven into a corner, barely holding herself steady with the force of ten-thousand-year-old ice.

As for Yuan Mo and Cheng He, who lacked sufficient power, they were directly blasted away, colliding headfirst with the stone wall. As they landed, the flames enveloped them.

The flames dispersed from Ye Fan's body didn't spread far but swiftly retracted, spinning to form a vortex of fiery spiritual energy that drew the surrounding ice within, with Ye Fan becoming like a great furnace, melting and evaporating all the ice.

Yuan Mo and Cheng He, newly freed from the ice and poised for evil, suddenly found themselves from the icehouse into the furnace. Their body's spiritual energy was quickly evaporated by the blaze, and they could even smell the burning of their own hair, their bodies engulfed in flames, soon turning into black "charred men."

But they weren't dead, howling in the flames, their cries piercingly shrill.

On the contrary, Li Zhaojun, whose spiritual energy naturally harmonized with Ye Fan's, wasn't harmed by the flames. They even helped her re-gather the scattered spiritual energy within her body.

The Qiankun Lock binding her was also affected by the flames, quickly turning to ashes, and finally disappearing without a trace in the fire.

"You little brat, you're seeking death...! Puh!" Qing Lian spat out a mouthful of blood, needing the support of the wall to barely stand.

When Ye Fan opened his eyes, they were still the pure red of intense fire.

Under the subtle influence of the copper mirror, the fourth layer of Nine Yang Divine Skill was perfected, directly entering the fifth layer. His Nascent Soul emerged, but as a premature "infant," it was somewhat weak, greedily opening its mouth to draw in the spiritual energy around, but because the energy was too cold, the Nascent Soul spat it back out.

What entered was cold yin spiritual energy, but what was expelled was fiery flames.

This formidable spiritual power directly broke Qing Lian's Golden Core, melting it in an instant. As she fell to the ground due to injury, the spiritual energy in her body was wildly draining.

"Ye Fan, are you alright?"

Wu Ding was not confined within the ten-thousand-year-old ice as Qing Lian had assumed. With her cultivation having reached the Body Integration Realm, even if the ice obstructed her path, under the flame explosion that Ye Fan released, she broke the ice and appeared before Ye Fan.

When she saw everything before her, she immediately understood.

At this moment, Ye Fan seemed entirely exhausted, his body suddenly weak, needing Wu Ding's support to stand. He instructed, "Senior Sister, quickly help me check on Zhao Jun."

"Okay." Wu Ding, feeling much heartache, still supported Ye Fan over.

Seeing Li Zhaojun had simply fainted, her body unharmed, Ye Fan felt barely relieved.

"Senior Sister Wu Ding, I beg you to let me go. I will never again oppose Ye Fan and Zhao Jun..." Qing Lian, her cultivation completely destroyed, crawled and knelt at Ye Fan and Wu Ding's feet, continuously kowtowing and begging.

"Let you go? Hm!" Wu Ding glanced at the completely charred Yuan Mo and Cheng He, then sent out a stream of True Qi, sealing their sense of pain. Thus, even as they neared their deaths, they would feel nothing. "Weren't you looking for women? There's one right here, enjoy her well, let this be some solace before your ends!"

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