“Now that True Qi has fused into my body, I no longer need to be restricted by physical limitations."

Li Cheng Yi gently moved his limbs, feeling the powerful talent within Ouyang Qing's body. A faint smile appeared on his face.

"Now, it's time for the next step."

*Chi!*

In an instant, he vanished from the spot.

The Shadow Substitute would lose all cultivation of the original True Qi; this was the reason he had been holding back.

But now...

All constraints were gone.

Inside Qu Ling City.

In the Ouyang family's Pure Yang Tower, the family head, Ouyang Tong, stood on the ninth floor, gazing at the distant cityscape filled with fortresses.

Across from the Pure Yang Tower was the slave market. It was a gathering place for slaves of all races captured from various regions. Merchants seeking wholesale purchases and representatives of major clans from different places, leading large teams, constantly went in and out.

Hired martial artists also gathered in groups, waiting to be employed.

"Yuanji, has Qing'er returned?" He turned around, looking at his younger brother, Ouyang Yuanji, who was entering.

He and Ouyang Yuanji were the core strength of the Ouyang family.

Both were Rongyin martial artists (Martial Artists who have merged with their spirit marks). Judging martial arts alone, their individual cultivation realms were different. True strength depended on the depth of their blood essence and their ranking on the Fengtian (Sealing Heaven) List.

In this generation's Fengtian List, one ranked fifty-seventh, and the other sixty-second.

Even within Qu Ling City, they were among the top twenty experts.

This established the Ouyang family's considerable power and status in the city.

"Isn't Qing'er supposed to be engaged today?" Ouyang Yuanji replied. "She took people out of the city again."

"I've told her that the realm only represents a stage. Although the martial stage can determine strength, the purity of our blood essence and bloodline is the core. Using external forces like this might be counterproductive in the future." Ouyang Tong frowned.

Ouyang Yuanji was about to reply when someone suddenly appeared behind him and reported respectfully.

"Family Head, Second Master, Second Miss Qing has returned. However, the Miss said she had some insights and went to the family martial library first. She'll pay her respects to you two later."

"It's fine; strength is important." Ouyang Tong's brow eased slightly. "What about the boy she's supposed to be engaged to?"

"He wasn't seen returning with her," the servant replied.

As soon as these words were spoken, Ouyang Tong and Ouyang Yuanji immediately understood what had happened. He was probably gone again.

"Nonsense...!" Ouyang Tong frowned.

"Forget it. She's our only superior bloodline. As long as she wants to improve her strength, we can take care of these small matters," Ouyang Yuanji advised.

On the other side.

The sixth floor of the Pure Yang Tower, the family martial library.

Ouyang Qing pushed open the door and waved for the Ouyang family servant behind her to leave.

"Don't disturb me unless it's important."

"Yes."

The door closed.

She looked at the shelves filled with numerous secret manuals, a look of joy on her face.

Among them were not only the Scarlet Blaze Flame Art, a family-inherited blood essence martial art, but also several other blood essence martial arts they had acquired through cunning and force.

Besides these, there were rows of neatly arranged True Qi martial arts.

Li Cheng Yi stepped forward and picked up a blood essence martial art called *Azure Wing Blood Condensation*. He frowned after flipping through only a few pages.

The martial arts here were actually blood essence martial arts developed based on the Ouyang family's bloodline.

His heart sank. He quickly flipped through the other blood essence martial arts, and sure enough, they were all the same.

These martial arts had all been modified and could only be cultivated if one possessed the Ouyang family's bloodline.

"While excavating the bloodline imprinting ability, one must slowly cultivate the second imprinting the principles of these martial arts are all the same..."

It seemed that True Qi martial arts were more valuable than blood essence martial arts. After all, this was the core method that could create something from nothing and completely condense an imprint.

Immediately, Li Cheng Yi turned his attention to the True Qi martial arts.

To his disappointment, the True Qi martial arts here also had a problem: they lacked the matching medicinal recipes.

Therefore, he could only memorize the martial arts.

After spending less than half an hour memorizing everything of value, Li Cheng Yi left the martial library.

Then, following Ouyang Qing's memories, he headed toward the family treasure vault.

When he reached the third underground level, two guards blocked his way at the entrance to the treasure vault.

"Second Miss Qing, this is the family treasure vault. Only the family head and elders may enter!"

"I am the future family head. The family head is my father. I will be able to enter the treasure vault sooner or later. How dare you stop me!?"

Li Cheng Yi imitated Ouyang Qing's expression, walked straight to the treasure vault door, and pushed it open forcefully.

The two guards wanted to stop her, but they didn't dare to touch her.

They could only watch as Ouyang Qing entered the treasure vault openly.

Inside the door was another short corridor, leading to a lower gate further inside.

The silver-white lower gate was made of an unknown material. Its surface was engraved with a huge, six-winged, flame-covered panther.

It was clearly the Ouyang family's bloodline entity.

Li Cheng Yi walked to the door, bit his fingertip, and dabbed blood on the door.

*Buzz...*

Immediately, the door slowly lifted upward.

This was the qualification of a direct family bloodline.

She was about to step through the door.

"Sister, you can't go in. It's against the rules." A somewhat familiar male voice came from behind.

Li Cheng Yi turned around and looked at the back.

The speaker was a tall young man wearing a blue and white jacket. The young man's eyes and eyebrows were five parts similar to Ouyang Qing, obviously the two were siblings.

"Ouyang Shenyan. What, are you going to stop me too?" Li Cheng Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "My martial arts have improved greatly, and I have gained some insights. I need some special natural treasures to break through my cultivation. I don't need any gold or silver. Are you going to stop me from that as well?"

"I..." The young man was Ouyang Shenyan, whom Li Cheng Yi had met on the street before.

Now, facing Ouyang Qing, he was not as arrogant and domineering as before. Instead, he looked embarrassed and did not dare to speak back when scolded.

"Don't bother me if you have nothing to do! Get lost!" Li Cheng Yi scolded, using Ouyang Qing's tone from his memories.

Ouyang Shenyan had no choice but to retreat.

Watching the other party retreat, Li Cheng Yi entered the door.

His eyes were instantly dazzled by the massive piles of gold and silver ingots.

Standing in front of him were boxes upon boxes of the Ouyang family's accumulated wealth.

In the rectangular space, countless boxes were stacked tightly, one on top of the other, neatly arranged and meticulous.

There was also a black shelf in the corner displaying strange treasures.

He quickly approached and scanned the items on the shelf one by one.

An unknown tortoise shell, a coral glowing with colorful fluorescence, a black mirror base, and the silver-white fur of an unknown animal.

There was a strange creature statue carved out of amethyst, a strange ruby ​​that seemed to contain black seawater inside, and a miniature mask made of gold, etc.

Li Cheng Yi grabbed some easy-to-carry items and stuffed them into his clothes.

But as he continued to scan, a strange thing quickly appeared before his eyes.

It was a fan-shaped shield with a colorful luster.

The bottom of the shield was sharp and translucent gray-white, and the top gradually became a mixture of colorful colors, somewhat deep.

The edges were also engraved with many patterns, as if they were natural patterns produced by the agitation of sea waves in layers.

'This...' Li Cheng Yi frowned and reached out to press on the shield.

The shield was nearly one and a half meters long and wide, and an egg thick, but strangely, it didn't weigh much when picked up.

'Wait... This thing... Could it be!?' Suddenly, Li Cheng Yi recalled the knowledge and memories he had gained about making imprint balls. Among them was a scene of contact with Mystical Dragon materials.

The Mystical Dragon was a giant dragon with colorful scales all over its body.

'Forget it, I'll take it first!' He immediately picked up the shield, walked around the treasure vault again, stuffed the most valuable-looking items into his clothes, and took a total of nine treasures before turning around and leaving the treasure vault.

Ouyang Shenyan was still waiting outside, looking at him expectantly.

"Didn't I tell you to get lost? Didn't you understand?!" Li Cheng Yi suddenly said.

Ouyang Shenyan's body trembled, and he took two steps back, wanting to say something.

Suddenly, a red light flashed before his eyes. He was horrified. Before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his chest.

*Boom!!*

In the huge collision, Ouyang Shenyan spat out blood and was sent flying by a palm strike, sticking to the stone wall behind him. The wall was paved with extremely hard special stone materials.

At this time, Li Cheng Yi compared it, and his full strength could reach 400 tons in the case of bare-handed explosion. This was the enhancement after the second imprint.

If combined with various superimposed strengthening and explosive means, he could instantly deliver a terrifying impact of nearly 5,000 tons.

At this time, a palm strike that shattered Ouyang Shenyan's chest bones was merely a casual blow for Li Cheng Yi.

Ouyang Shenyan was far inferior to the previous Town General Song Ju Dao, so he couldn't withstand such a palm strike. He vomited blood on the spot and fainted.

"What are you looking at! Whoever dares to report the news, I will cripple them!" Li Cheng Yi looked around and warned the Ouyang family servants around him.

Then, carrying all his treasures, he suddenly turned into a red shadow and rushed out of the treasure vault.

At this time, Ouyang Tong and the other two on the ninth floor were still chatting about the current business and situation in the city.

"Report! Second Miss took a few treasures from the treasure vault and left." A servant quickly reported.

Ouyang Tong nodded indifferently.

"Let her do as she pleases, it's just a small matter."

"She wasn't interested in these things before. It seems that she may have really had some insights and breakthroughs this time." Ouyang Yuanji smiled, stroking his beard.

"That's true." Ouyang Tong also smiled, "We tried to force her to take them before, but she didn't want them and even found it annoying. Now she finally knows to take them herself."

"Report!" Just as the first two servants left, a third servant rushed over and bowed to report.

"Second Miss packed her things and went out."

"It's good for her to go out and walk around. It's not good to stay at home all day." Ouyang Tong laughed.

"Second Miss also wrote a note saying..." The servant stammered, a little afraid to speak.

"What harsh words did she say? Just say it, we know her temper. We offended her a bit when we planned to send her to a political marriage before." Ouyang Yuanji said with a smile.

"It's because Second Miss said that her previous actions were too cruel, and she was suffering from conscience every day and night, so she doesn't plan to come back this time. She plans to do something meaningful and use her life to atone for the sins of those innocent souls who were killed by her, in the hopes that they have a good afterlife."

"Second Miss also said, let the Family Head forget about her and treat her as if he never had her as a daughter..."

Ouyang Tong's brothers were silent.

The smiles on their faces gradually disappeared...

What the hell was conscience reproach!

They knew Ouyang Qing's character. How could such a cruel and murderous neurotic daughter, who had killed no less than dozens of people, suddenly make a 180-degree turn and say that her conscience was being condemned??

*Bang!*

"Which way did she go!!?" Ouyang Tong suddenly roared and slapped the table beside him to pieces.

"I don't know... My subordinates have low strength..."

"Then what are you waiting for? Tell everyone to notify all the elders to go find her!!!" Ouyang Yuanji's eyes turned red, and he jumped up.

Ouyang Qing was the Ouyang family's treasure and future hope. If she ran away completely...

Then in the future...

"I told you to send her to a political marriage! Look, what have you spoiled her into!!?"

"It's my fault! This time, I'll send her to Tianlu Prefecture immediately after finding her!!"

(End of this chapter)