Leng Ruobing never dreamed that a mere few hours had passed since Chen Beiyuan's "severing ties" declaration.
Her world had undergone a complete upheaval.
All of the Leng Family's businesses had been targeted by various forces, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.
Several major families, with whom they had previously enjoyed good relations, had turned their backs on the Leng Family. Not only did they abruptly cancel their existing collaborations, but they also acted like vultures, demanding compensation for breach of contract.
Several young masters from the Leng Family, notorious for their arrogance, got into a fight in a bar over a girl. Over the years, they had become accustomed to flaunting their status, relying on the backing of the Donghua Chen Family, and believed no one dared to cross them. However, they were taught a harsh lesson when a young master from a first-rate family broke their legs on the spot.
Currently, these young masters with broken legs were still being held at the bar, waiting for the Leng Family's leader to come and bail them out.
Leng Aofeng, the head of the Leng Family and Leng Ruobing's father, a Sixth-Rank Battle King, was attacked by a "mysterious beast" on his way to rescue his family members. He was severely injured and passed out on the road. Fortunately, he was found by a kind-hearted person and sent to the hospital.
According to the kind-hearted people who were there, the fleeing "mysterious beast" had two arms, two legs, and a head, just like a person...
And after Leng Aofeng was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, the entire Leng Family lost its backbone and immediately descended into chaos, like ants on a hot pan.
The Leng Family, who had been strutting around Yanjing City, instantly became stray dogs.
Previously, this second-rate, bottom-tier Leng Family had been taking advantage of the Donghua Chen Family's reputation to gain benefits, causing many people to harbor resentment but not dare to speak out.
Even the powerful, distinguished families, who were more powerful than the Leng Family, would endure if they could, and try their best to endure if they couldn't.
In the entire Yanjing City, who didn't know that Leng Ruobing of the Leng Family was Chen Beiyuan's kept woman?
To move against the Leng Family was to easily offend Chen Beiyuan.
But after Chen Beiyuan publicly "cut ties" with Leng Ruobing, everything was different.
Those wealthy and influential families who had been wary before wouldn't be so polite now.
The Leng Family would have to cough up the same amount of "meat" they had consumed previously.
Besides, they would have to slowly carve their own flesh, dismantle their bones, gouge out their hearts, and dig out their livers to feed those "hungry wolves" who smelled the blood.
Just as Chen Beiyuan had said, at his current status, he didn't need to kill anyone personally. A single word, a single glance, and countless people eager to curry favor would do the job.
"Could it be... that I was really wrong?"
Leng Ruobing stood there, bewildered, looking at this world that had suddenly become unfamiliar. A sense of suffocation gradually enveloped her.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for changing the original fate line. With an overwhelming advantage, you have launched a dimensionality reduction attack, stripping the important supporting character "Elder Qiong" of his high-level position in the academy, causing the Son of Destiny "Lin Xiao" to be suspended from Donghua Academy, losing his greatest support, which has caused a severe impact on his mentality and significantly weakened the protagonist's luck of the Son of Destiny, Lin Xiao.] [Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a special reward: Enlightenment Pill] [Enlightenment Pill: A heaven and earth spirit pill containing Dao essence. Upon consumption, one will enter a "state of enlightenment," and their comprehension and learning ability will be enhanced a hundredfold, lasting for 48 hours.] [Ding, congratulations to the host for changing the original fate line, publicly severing ties with the female lead of destiny, "Leng Ruobing," and the Leng Family behind her, inflicting cruel punishment on the "leeches" that were parasitic on the Donghua Chen Family, and causing the female lead of destiny, "Leng Ruobing," to experience unprecedented mental shock, beginning to harbor feelings of regret and despair.] [Ding, congratulations to the host for obtaining a special reward: God Transformation Stone (soul-bound)] [God Transformation Stone (soul-bound): An ancient divine stone containing bizarre energy. Because this divine stone is already soul-bound to the host, others cannot use it. Once this divine stone is used, it can forcibly elevate one's cultivation by a major realm, lasting for half an hour. Afterwards, the user will fall into an extremely weakened state, and their cultivation will be temporarily sealed. Uses: Three times]
Chen Beiyuan, who was preparing to start refining the [Illusion Poison], suddenly paused his actions, his eyes, as deep as an abyss, suddenly flashed with a glimmer of light.
Although he had long anticipated the system prompts, he hadn't expected this system experience to be so rewarding!
His gaze instantly turned to the two special rewards in the system space.
[Enlightenment Pill]
[God Transformation Stone]
The former is a heaven and earth elixir that can temporarily enhance the user's comprehension by a hundred times, allowing them to enter a state of "enlightenment."
The latter is an ancient divine stone that can temporarily force the user's cultivation to jump up a major realm.
At this moment, his gaze was almost fixed on the ordinary-looking "stone" in the system space, as if it had been picked up from the roadside. Even the "pill" emitting a mysterious light next to it was ignored. He subconsciously murmured:
"There's actually such a divine item!"
"It can forcibly elevate one major realm: a Rank 5 Battle General becomes a Rank 6 Battle King, a Rank 6 Battle King becomes a Rank 7 Battle Emperor, a Rank 7 Battle Emperor becomes a Rank 8 Battle God, and a Rank 8 Battle God becomes Rank 9... Battle God!"
"Although there are some significant side effects, as well as a limited number of uses, in the face of that terrifying effect, those minor side effects are simply not worth mentioning."
Chen Beiyuan dared to say that the value of the God Transformation Stone was beyond description.
This level of divine artifact couldn't be compared to even an eighth-grade divine weapon.
This item could be said to be his greatest trump card at the moment.
Even the strongest trump card for a long time to come.
With this trump card in hand, as long as an eighth-grade Battle God didn't personally take action, he feared no one.
Even, when his cultivation increased, even an eighth-grade Battle God would no longer be a threat!
Flames of ambition ignited in Chen Beiyuan's eyes, as if he had already envisioned some future scenes:
"However, I still need to find a guardian beast, or perhaps a guardian puppet, to protect myself during the temporary sealing of my cultivation, to get through the weak period."
Even with Elder Chen, a Rank 7 Battle Emperor, as his protector,
Chen Beiyuan, ever cautious, instinctively planned to take extra precautions.
The situation that would force him to use the God Transformation Stone was undoubtedly fraught with danger. At that point, even Elder Chen might not be able to protect him.
In such a situation, a protective pet or a protective puppet would be useful.
With the Donghua Chen Family's influence, it wouldn't be difficult to find a protective puppet or pet.
However, a low cultivation level wouldn't do; it wouldn't be very helpful.
And a high cultivation level would be much harder to acquire.
"I'll have the family search for one first."
Chen Beiyuan knew very well that the Donghua Chen Family would do everything to provide for his needs.
His greatest return to the family was to break through to the rank of Eighth Grade Battle God as soon as possible, and to stabilize the family's fortune.
Nothing else mattered as much.
No matter the family's achievements, they were not as important as one Eighth Grade Battle God.
Suppressing the churning thoughts in his heart, Chen Beiyuan directly took out the Enlightenment Pill and swallowed it without hesitation.
This Enlightenment Pill could allow him to comprehend and master the Wordless Medical Scripture in the shortest amount of time, directly catching up to Lin Xiao, the protagonist, and his more than ten years of medical skills, even surpassing him.
"Truly, when the time is right, all things in the world will work together."