The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

Jiang Xinghai stepped into the Qiao Family’s estate and locked the main gate behind him.

Before him, about seventeen or eighteen members of the Qiao Family were staring at him.

"You, what do you think you’re doing?"

"Who are you? Why have you trespassed into our Qiao Family estate!"

"Don’t you know the price for showing up here uninvited?!"

Seeing Jiang Xinghai’s domineering entrance and how he’d cut down the guards on his way in, the family members who practiced Raising Gu were filled with murderous intent.

"Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is that I’m here to send you to your graves!"

Jiang Xinghai glanced at the Qiao Family guards still charging toward him, and dozens of silver needles flashed from his hand once more.

He wasn’t about to give these people a chance to use their Gu Technique.

Then, before the family members in the distance could react, he vanished.

"He’s so fast!"

"He started killing the moment he walked through the door! Damn him!"

"I’ll kill him!" An elder immediately began forming a Dharma Seal with his hands, and a flame-red insect suddenly crawled out from the nape of his neck.

WHOOSH!

The flame-red Poisonous Insect then shot toward Jiang Xinghai like an arrow loosed from a bow.

Jiang Xinghai’s gaze swept over it. With a wave of his hand, a blast of energy resembling a sword’s glint materialized and sliced directly into the incoming flame-red Poisonous Insect.

The Poisonous Insect thrashed for a moment under the force of the attack, then went limp. It could barely even squirm before it shriveled up and dissolved into a pool of blood.

"What! My Fire... COUGH COUGH COUGH COUGH..."

The elder watched, wide-eyed, as the Poisonous Insect he had spent years raising was slain. He couldn’t help but cough up a mouthful of blood.

He had a blood connection with the Poisonous Insect. Its death was akin to severing half his own life!

’It seems I overestimated you.’

Jiang Xinghai hadn’t expected the first Qiao Family elder to be so pathetically weak.

The sputtering elder pointed at Jiang Xinghai, babbling incoherently, "You... you... you..."

"’You’ what? Just die."

Jiang Xinghai was decisive. His figure flickered once more.

As he sped past the elder, a spray of blood erupted from the old man’s back.

’Even the Creation Realm isn’t enough!’

Jiang Xinghai sneered, his eyes sweeping over the dozen or so remaining Qiao Family members. "Your Gu-raising Qiao Family might not have many people, but your strength isn’t bad. To think there are five of you at the Creation Realm. Come on, attack me together."

"You goddamn bastard!"

"Get him! Let’s attack together and kill him!"

The Qiao Family members knew they had the advantage in numbers. They were certain a combined attack would annihilate him.

They each prepared to unleash their Gu Techniques, roaring furiously.

His arrogance was infuriating.

Barging into the Qiao Family estate and killing without a word... who could tolerate such a thing?

But for all their shouting, none of them attacked. Instead, their eyes were all fixed on an elder seated in a Grandmaster’s Chair.

This elder was Qiao Zhongli, the younger brother of the Qiao Family Patriarch, Qiao Zhongkui.

While Qiao Zhongkui was in seclusion, Qiao Zhongli was in charge of the family’s affairs.

"Young friend, who are you? How dare you barge into our home. Are you unaware of the reputation of our Gu-raising Qiao Family? When we join forces, not even a master of the Celestial Destiny Realm can escape unscathed. Aren’t you afraid?" Qiao Zhongli’s tone was grave, his eyes sharp as a hawk’s.

It seemed he recognized that Jiang Xinghai’s body was perfect for Raising Gu, and his eyes lit up with a fervent glow.

"If I dared to come here, I’m obviously not afraid of your numbers!"

Jiang Xinghai sneered. He remained motionless, but his pupils contracted. ’This old fox’s gaze is unusual,’ he thought. ’It seems he’s seen the secret of my cultivation level.’

"You’ve got a big mouth, young man! But our Gu-raising Qiao Family is beyond your imagination. Give me your name, and I might just spare your life." Qiao Zhongli rose slowly. Though his tone was even, anyone could hear the underlying threat.

"The Gu-raising Qiao Family? Don’t make me laugh! All your practice of Raising Gu does is accumulate negative karma. How does that make you any different from Evil Cultivators? Since I’ve come, I’m not afraid to be your enemy!" Jiang Xinghai roared with laughter, his eyes flashing with a cold light.

"You cowardly rat! You don’t even dare state your name, yet you have the audacity to charge into the Qiao Family estate all by yourself? You’ve got some nerve!"

"Our Gu-raising Qiao Family has many masters in its ranks. Even if you’re exceptionally talented and powerful, you won’t necessarily be able to walk out of here alive!" Qiao Zhongli was now furious; he was, after all, an expert at the early stage of the Celestial Destiny Realm.

In his eyes, Jiang Xinghai was, at best, a mere junior. "In that case, you will remain here today and become my Gu Slave!" Qiao Zhongli had made his decision.

"Become your Gu Slave? You old fool, keep dreaming. Now that I’ve set foot in the Qiao Family estate, you’re all going to die. Enough talk. Is everyone from your family here?" As he spoke, Jiang Xinghai extended his Divine Sense.

He could easily perceive everything within a fifty-meter radius.

The rear courtyard!

’In the rear courtyard... there are over a hundred auras at the Venerable Realm or higher!’

’But among them, there’s one whose aura is close to mine... maybe even stronger!’

’And besides that one, the other hundred-plus auras are unnervingly still...’

’Could they be the Gu Slaves the Qiao Family has raised?’

’If that’s the case, then the Qiao Family’s strength is nothing to scoff at!’