Chapter 54

Qin Kelan was already slumped on the ground, her eyes filled with despair.

In Bai Chen's eyes, she had once been a proud woman.

At any time, her gaze was always filled with arrogance.

But when everything she possessed was easily erased by Yin Jueqing, she found herself so weak and powerless.

Faced with Yin Jueqing's cruelty and treachery, everything she had was so easily shattered.

Negotiating with a tiger for its skin, this was Qin Kelan's fate.

She had underestimated Yin Jueqing's ambition and overestimated herself.

Her fellow disciples were slaughtered, and even her younger brother was not protected.

Bai Chen glanced at Qin Kelan, who suddenly turned her head and returned his gaze with a look devoid of emotion.

"Don't look at me with those fake eyes!"

Hate was the only emotion Qin Kelan could feel at the moment—hate for Yin Jueqing, hate for Bai Chen, hate for everything.

"Put away your pride; we're both in the same boat now," Bai Chen said coldly.

Yin Jueqing, enjoying the victor's pleasure, sat in the main seat: "Throw them into the insect tomb and have someone watch them. If they are willing to hand over the secret manual and the elixirs, I will let them die quickly."

Soon, Bai Chen understood what the insect tomb was. It was a dungeon infested with various venomous insects, with bones scattered everywhere, and insects constantly crawling in and out.

Qin Kelan no longer had time to maintain her cold and noble demeanor; countless wriggling insects were crawling around her.

She huddled in the corner, sobbing, her voice filled with despair and unwillingness.

Even Bai Chen, with his thick nerves, felt his scalp tingle at the sight.

Not to mention three days, it would probably take less than a day for the two of them to be gnawed to the bone by these insects.

Suddenly, Qin Kelan let out a scream; a black centipede had crawled out from under the thatch where she was sitting.

She jumped and darted around, but there was no clean spot in the insect tomb.

They had fallen into a nest of insects, with constant rustling sounds and the stench of decaying corpses, completely challenging their nerves.

"Come to me," Bai Chen said, unable to bear it any longer. If he let Qin Kelan continue to act this way, he would never find peace.

Qin Kelan looked at Bai Chen, clearly showing disgust and hatred: "What do you want to do?"

Bai Chen sneered: "Even if you want to do something now, I don't have the leisure for it."

With that, Bai Chen sat cross-legged on the ground, and a scorching aura began to emanate from his body. The venomous insects that had been closing in on him immediately retreated and crawled toward Qin Kelan.

These venomous insects, which lived in the dark, naturally feared light and heat.

Bai Chen hadn't studied the habits of insects, but he knew this much.

Qin Kelan saw that Bai Chen was ignoring her, and the venomous insects were beginning to gather around her.

After hesitation and struggle, reason finally overcame hatred.

Qin Kelan moved slightly closer to Bai Chen, but her eyes still carried a trace of resentment.

"Don't think I will be grateful for this."

Bai Chen glanced at Qin Kelan, unusually refraining from mocking her.

In the dark and damp insect tomb, Bai Chen's body emitted a warm heat, and there was a strange sense of reliability.

Qin Kelan's heart calmed down a bit, and she was no longer as panicked and at a loss as before.

The insect tomb was like a large and deep underground passage, occasionally a cold wind would blow from the depths, but the further in you looked, the darker it became.

After an unknown amount of time, Bai Chen suddenly felt a more intense internal disturbance.

"Finally, it's starting to take effect?"

Through inner vision, Bai Chen saw three grain-sized venomous insects, which had emerged from somewhere, now residing in his dantian, beginning to devour his true qi.

Each time these three venomous insects devoured a bit, they grew a bit, and soon they were the size of a finger.

Moreover, the speed at which they devoured increased, and Bai Chen watched as his true qi rapidly decreased.

The pain began to spread throughout his body, indescribable.

Bai Chen tried to force out the venomous insects with his true qi, but these insects were adept at devouring true qi, making such actions futile.

At this moment, Qin Kelan's insect poison also began to take effect, but she lacked Bai Chen's endurance.

Heart-wrenching screams echoed in the darkness, and Qin Kelan curled up next to Bai Chen, her face pale.

Her trembling body and disheveled hair no longer had the grace of a favored daughter.

Qin Kelan's true qi cultivation was not as deep as Bai Chen's, and when the venomous insects devoured the true qi in her dantian, they began to devour her internal organs.

The pain was unimaginable, and even Bai Chen's face was pale, and he was drenched in cold sweat.

"Damn..." Bai Chen groaned, the pain was almost driving him mad.

It was even more intense than the Seven Flowers Burial, and the incessant, hysterical screams of Qin Kelan added to his torment.

Finally, the venomous insects devoured all of Bai Chen's true qi, completely ruining his cultivation...

The venomous insects began to devour Bai Chen's internal organs, starting with the dantian. At this moment, Bai Chen finally understood the pain Qin Kelan had endured.

Every nerve felt like a taut string, and the three venomous insects, now the thickness of a thumb, had already turned Bai Chen's dantian upside down.

But at the same time, a murderous aura began to form in his dantian, more intense than ever before.

Just this instant of murderous aura caused Bai Chen's Xuan Hu Gong to react.

His true qi, which had been nearly depleted, immediately recovered to the third stage of the Postnatal realm just by neutralizing this murderous aura.

As the murderous aura continued to form and his true qi recovered, the venomous insects abandoned the dantian and began to devour the true qi again.

At the same time, Xuan Hu Gong began to repair the damaged dantian, and Bai Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief, but this process did not last long.

The speed at which the three venomous insects devoured was much faster than the speed at which Xuan Hu Gong neutralized the murderous aura and generated true qi. After a few cycles, Bai Chen felt the strain.

This forced him to find another solution. At this moment, Qin Kelan, with a scream, finally fainted.

Bai Chen's eyes lit up, and he pulled Qin Kelan up, placing his palm on her abdomen.

Qin Kelan's body trembled slightly, and she instinctively opened her eyes, her lips moving slightly: "No... don't..." before fainting again.

Bai Chen didn't care about such things and sent a thread of true qi into Qin Kelan's body.

At this moment, Qin Kelan's body was filled with the aura of death, and her entire body was invaded by the murderous aura.

Bai Chen was skeptical of Yin Jueqing's claim that they could last three days and three nights.

If this trend continued, they would probably be dead within a day.

Bai Chen directly drew the murderous aura from Qin Kelan's body into his own.

The large amount of murderous aura entering his body reduced Qin Kelan's pain.

However, the three venomous insects in Qin Kelan's body, sensing the change or the true qi from Bai Chen, actually crawled out through her mouth.

Seeing the three venomous insects at the corner of Qin Kelan's mouth, Bai Chen was horrified. One of the venomous insects even lightly jumped and landed on his face.

Bai Chen, in a panic, slapped the venomous insect to death.

The other two, sensing the interruption of the connection between Bai Chen and Qin Kelan, immediately tried to return to Qin Kelan's body.

Bai Chen, quick as a flash, slapped Qin Kelan's face hard.

Qin Kelan let out a cry, her teeth clenched, and a stream of green liquid mixed with saliva spewed from her mouth.

Qin Kelan suddenly woke up, looking at Bai Chen with surprise and suspicion, and noticing that Bai Chen's palm was still on her lower abdomen, her face turned red with embarrassment: "What... what are you doing?"

Qin Kelan tried to push Bai Chen away, but her arms were weak and fell onto Bai Chen's chest.

Feeling the scorching heat from Bai Chen's body, Qin Kelan felt a wave of panic and confusion.

"Don't move if you don't want to die!" Bai Chen shouted, his palm continuously absorbing the murderous aura from Qin Kelan.

Qin Kelan finally realized something was wrong; the three venomous insects in her body were gone.

Bai Chen's true qi was continuously entering her body, repairing her dantian.

Not only was her dantian being repaired, but her internal injuries were also healing, and her depleted true qi was slowly recovering.

Bai Chen's face was becoming increasingly pale, which left Qin Kelan's mind blank. She didn't understand why Bai Chen was doing this, willing to deplete his own true qi to save her life.

In fact, what Bai Chen needed was just the murderous aura in Qin Kelan's body. The fact that the three venomous insects were drawn out was an unexpected bonus, not something he had planned.

Saving Qin Kelan was also saving himself, so Bai Chen had no choice but to do this.

Qin Kelan, clenching her teeth, her eyes filled with hesitation and complexity: "Why are you doing this?"

"This is a sad story," Bai Chen said, forcing a smile.

This was just a joke, but to Qin Kelan, it had a different flavor.

Does he like me?

How could that be...

Otherwise, why would he risk his life to save me?

But when did this start?

Qin Kelan felt a wave of panic and confusion, her mind wandering.

Looking at his face, it was no longer so hateful.

Bai Chen didn't expect his nonsense to be so effective; Qin Kelan stopped struggling and began to cooperate with him.

She even began to use her recovered true qi to return it to Bai Chen.

Bai Chen felt Qin Kelan's true qi entering his body, but the three venomous insects in his body ignored it, which was strange. It seemed they were only interested in his true qi.

The three venomous insects in Qin Kelan's body had been the same. Was his true qi particularly delicious?

"You keep your true qi for healing yourself."

Bai Chen simply told Qin Kelan that her true qi was useless to him.

But Qin Kelan felt a slight sweetness in her heart. Was he concerned about her?

Bai Chen's 'gentleness' made Qin Kelan temporarily forget her hatred, and she looked at him with bright eyes.

With the support of the murderous aura from Qin Kelan's body, Bai Chen's Xuan Hu Gong began to function at an extraordinary level.

Although Bai Chen's true qi had decreased, Xuan Hu Gong, after continuous acceleration over the past few days, had reached an astonishing speed.

Minor injuries almost healed in a few breaths, and even serious injuries required little effort.

It was like a constantly evolving engine; the more fuel it received, the more powerful it became.

Even if the fuel decreased, the increased power would not weaken.

It would only continue to increase, increase, and increase!

Suddenly, Bai Chen felt a strange sensation in his yin meridian, as if someone had struck it hard, but he didn't feel any pain.

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