Chapter 157: The Final Conclusion

At first glance of this scene, Qin Chuan thought he was dreaming, because Lin Wanyu was currently stripped down to nothing more than her innermost undergarments.

"Ah!"

Clearly, Lin Wanyu had not expected Qin Chuan to regain consciousness so abruptly. Such "naked vulnerability" startled her into a sharp gasp, yet she showed no intention of dodging, instead gazing at Qin Chuan with a deeply complicated expression.

Qin Chuan was somewhat dumbfounded, utterly clueless as to what Lin Wanyu was driving at. Judging by the posture, it was clearly the rhythm of offering herself up, and the crucial point was that even after he woke up, she made no move to retreat. This was enough to prove that when she made the decision to sacrifice herself, it was the result of thorough deliberation.

"The Qi of the Nine Yangs, the Body of Profound Yin—isn't the harmonization of Yin and Yang the only way to become invincible under heaven?"

Immediately afterward, Qin Chuan heard these immensely shocking words from Lin Wanyu's lips.

As if seeing through the doubt and bewilderment in Qin Chuan's heart, Lin Wanyu explained without a trace of emotion in her voice, "Ever since that strange illness broke out, I've consulted all sorts of medical classics. Combined with the information I got from my dad, I could roughly figure out what our situation is."

"Then you previously..."

The words reached the tip of Qin Chuan's tongue, but he found himself unable to ask them. After all, he couldn't very well blurt out, "Didn't you refuse to sleep with me before?"

"Weren't you almost at death's door before? But let me make this clear upfront: I'm doing this purely to save you and repay a favor. Since you solved that huge problem for me earlier, don't read too much into it. Once this is over, we'll be quits," Lin Wanyu said expressionlessly.

Qin Chuan's lips twitched slightly, though he didn't bother to expose Lin Wanyu's high-sounding lie. Given her proud personality, if she hadn't developed feelings for a man and weren't willing to give herself to him of her own accord, how could she possibly sacrifice her chastity purely out of a sense of gratitude for a favor?

Besides, the so-called favor was originally exchanged as a condition for breaking off their engagement. Bringing it up now made no sense no matter how one looked at it.

Qin Chuan actually wanted to urge Lin Wanyu to reconsider, but his current condition was extremely critical, fraught with mortal danger at the slightest misstep, and certainly not something that could be treated conservatively.

As if seeing through Qin Chuan's truest thoughts, Lin Wanyu urged, "Can't you act like a man? I've delivered myself right to your doorstep and you're still dawdling, or is there something wrong with you in that department?"

"A joke! Just don't cry and beg for mercy in a moment." Qin Chuan naturally knew this was the lowest form of reverse psychology, but the situation was urgent and left no time for further talk. He pulled Lin Wanyu straight into his arms and went into battle with guns blazing.

This battle between the two was earth-shattering and ghost-weeping. After two rounds of engagement, Lin Wanyu was the first to fall short and surrender. Qin Chuan quickly taught her a cultivation technique to regulate her breath, and soon Lin Wanyu recovered her peak stamina, turning from defense to offense and engaging Qin Chuan once more.

Qin Chuan could feel the previously turbulent Qi of the Nine Yangs within his body being rapidly suppressed. As time went on, this suppression gradually turned into fusion, and those streams of Nine Yang Qi that had been stirring his meridians and disrupting his breath were rushing into his dantian as internal energy at a terrifying speed.

Simultaneously, Qin Chuan felt his cultivation realm increasing at an incredible rate, until Lin Wanyu let out a delicate cry and completely capitulated, whereupon the rate of his cultivation advancement finally began to level off.

Qin Chuan no longer had the luxury of enjoying the exquisite bliss of sharing cloud and rain; he rapidly circulated the internal arts within his body, doing his utmost to fuse the two opposing forces. Naturally, the speed of this fusion was extraordinarily swift.

After about two hours, Qin Chuan had seemingly entered a state of self-forgetfulness. A close observer would have noticed that his body was covered by layers of glowing energy circles at this moment, and his skin, which had previously been nearly flushed red, had returned to the normal hue of a human complexion.

Crucially, Qin Chuan felt that his strength had leaped through several realms consecutively. If he were to encounter the so-called Sword Saint Yagyu Hunjun again, Qin Chuan had no doubt that he would only need a single hand to execute him within three moves, and that without even using his full strength.

"With my current strength, even if several of my masters were to gang up, I'm afraid they wouldn't be a match for me!"

"Well... to be less precise, even if you added all those senior and junior martial brothers into the mix, they'd still be utterly thrashed by me."

At this thought, Qin Chuan felt his entire mood become immensely comfortable and carefree.

Looking at Lin Wanyu, who lay fast asleep beside him on the bed, Qin Chuan hadn't the heart to exhaust the beauty any further, yet his bodily instincts retained a very intense desire. He hurriedly chanted the Heart-Clearing Mantra to suppress the restlessness.

It wasn't until Lin Wanyu woke up again that Qin Chuan excused himself under the pretext that the Qi of the Nine Yangs in his body remained unstable and required continued dual cultivation for consolidation. Lin Wanyu, her face flushed red, agreed once more.

In truth, Qin Chuan wasn't entirely deceiving Lin Wanyu; the Qi of the Nine Yangs in his body was indeed not completely stabilized, but that was under the premise that he possessed a formidable martial arts foundation. Lin Wanyu, however, had no foundation whatsoever. Once the Profound Yin Qi was fully activated and failed to be completely consolidated, she could still face mortal danger. It was precisely to prevent such an outcome that Qin Chuan had spoken thus.

However, when the two united this time, Qin Chuan taught Lin Wanyu the circulation technique. Blessed by this special method, Lin Wanyu felt as though a current of vital energy was continuously revolving through her meridians, instantly restoring vitality to her exhausted body and filling her with an inexhaustible reservoir of strength.

Having successfully suppressed the Qi of the Nine Yangs, Qin Chuan went straight to find Chiba Tsunasugi. After successfully rescuing Wei Baochuan, he was in no hurry to return to China.

Instead, he helped Chiba Tsunasugi cultivate a group of elite suicide warriors while drastically boosting Chiba Kaori's strength, enabling her to stand out in the family grand tournament half a month later and become the Saintess of the Sakura Country's martial arts families.

The status of the Chiba family also rose with the tide, instantly becoming the number one noble clan among the martial arts families of the Sakura Country. Yet the master behind this top noble clan was none other than Qin Chuan.

Having settled these matters, Qin Chuan returned to China, for he had received the latest intelligence regarding the true culprits behind the destruction of the Qin family—the Shen family, the foremost hidden martial arts clan in China. Without the slightest hesitation, relying on his formidable strength, Qin Chuan directly wiped the Shen family off the map in China. The blood debt owed to the Qin family was finally avenged, lifting a thousand-pound burden from Qin Chuan's shoulders and fulfilling his greatest wish.

Through continued interaction in the days that followed, Lin Wanyu officially agreed to marry Qin Chuan as his wife. Under Qin Chuan's assistance, the Lin family also rose to become the premier great clan in China, and the two held a wedding of the century half a year later.

Three years later.

On a certain island.

Qin Chuan lay leisurely and contentedly on the sandy beach.

"Daddy!"

At that moment, a milky-voiced cry came from behind.

Qin Chuan turned his head to look and saw a toddler walking unsteadily toward him...