Lu Yue had seen him reveal his physical prowess previously and even going toe to toe with Mid Foundation Realm experts.
But she was different. She wasn’t just an ordinary Mid Foundation Realm expert that had formed her fifth Divine Platform. Her power at this moment could even rival someone who had formed their eighth, allowing her to battle someone in the Late Foundation Realm.
But Li Shen casual flicked almost knocked her sword out of her hand, which meant its raw force was as strong as a blow from someone in the Late Foundation Realm at the very least.
It wasn’t like there weren’t Fleshly Body cultivators at that level in their generation, but until now Li Shen was known as a useless prince. To see him with such power was subverting the weak impression she had of him previously.
She had intended to overpower him and make him agree to this marriage alliance but now she realize it wasn’t so easy.
But she wasn’t going to give up, she had to force this prince into submission.
It wasn’t because she was afraid of dying. In fact, her father hadn’t told the Emperor everything during the negotiations.
Baring a child could perhaps reduce the time her disease took her life, but there was another surefire method, and that was if her cultivation was abolished.
The Yin and Yang energies that were siphoning away her lifespan would simply stop growing if she stopped cultivating.
But she refused to give up her cultivation. How could she when she was nowhere near accomplishing her goal?
She would rather make the decision of having a child with this shameless prince than give up the chance to cultivate. And if he refused she would force him to.
That was the mindset she came here with and she was going to go through with it.
Lu Yue’s shocked expression quickly turned serious.
“No matter, I’ll make you submit.”
Hearing that, Li Shen’s expression turned strange.
This entire situation was a one big wtf moment.
“Submit to what exactly?"
"I was only joking before but you do realize what you’re suggesting? Even I know from just hearing it that you’re only option isn’t limited to this one. I’m not exactly sure why you need to have a child with someone with a strong soul, but I’m sure it’s the option that has the least likely chance to work.”
“Why go through all of this?”
‘Where did that sad emotion I felt go? Was it not because she didn’t want to go through with the engagement, but rather because she had no choice but to choose this option?’
Li Shen was starting to realize that this was what someone at the end of their rope looked like. It was almost similar to Fei Yin's mindset but was sorta different. This was her being backed into a corner with nowhere to go.
Telling her he won’t help her had probably pushed her further into that wall.
“Are you going to agree to the marriage alliance?”
Lu Yue didn’t answer him and instead ask a question of her own.
“… Alright look, maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Put down the sword and let’s just talk about this, okay?”
“There is nothing to talk about, if you won’t agree then I’ll force you to somehow.”
Lu Yue's aura burst from her body and Li Shen frowned.
He felt that something was wrong.
Around Lu Yue, a red aura rose before mixing together with the blue from before.
“Yin and Yang essence.”
Li Shen mumbled at the sight of these two energies. But his eyes immediately narrowed when he saw blood seeping from the corner of Lu Yue’s lips.
“I knew I sense something weird! You're using the Yin and Yang essence that's sucking away your life force. Stop! Are you crazy?! It’s going to kill you at this rate!!”
Li Shen had called her crazy before but this time he actually meant it. She was basically committing suicide, what would he do if she died right now?
Forget about it being almost similar to Fei Yin's situation, it was practically the same!
“You-”
“Do you agree to the marriage proposal or not?!!”
Li Shen's face darkened at that.
She wasn't powering up to attack him as he thought, she was actually threatening to take her own life if he didn’t agree. If that happened the Lu Clan would undoubtedly find fault with his Li Clan for her death.
“You crazy girl, you're completely crazy. Crazy is the only word to describe you right now. Fine! I agree to give you my seed!”
Even in this moment Li Shen was trying to crack jokes.
Lu Yue frowned at his words but she still said.
“Swear a blood oath.”
Li Shen’s face immediately stiffened.
Seeing his unwillingness, Lu Yue gritted her teeth and the aura around her began to swirl violently, kicking up wind everywhere in the lake garden.
Even the bodyguard could no longer sit back and watch.
Thinking for a moment, he turned around in an attempt to leave.
Lu Yue was planning on killing herself but perhaps the people from the Profound Sword Sect could stop her.
However, his hair suddenly stand on end and he swiftly turned around to see a red and blue colored Sword Qi flying toward him.
Pushing his palm forwards he attempted to shatter the attack. In which he did quite easily, however, two small streams of hot and cold energies entered his palm. His face immediately went pale before he stumbled back.
He tried to drive out these two energies but as soon as his Spiritual Qi came into contact with them, his Spiritual Qi began to disperse.
Frightened, Li Wen quickly drop to the ground and got into a meditative position to focus on suppressing these strange energies.
Seeing this, Li Shen was surprised and he stared at Lu Yue with apprehension.
Lu Yue turned back to him and said.
“Go on, swear a blood oath.”
Looking at Lu Yue, Li Shen’s eyes held an indistinguishable flame.
‘Fuck, she’s actually serious.’
Letting out a sigh he then said while shrugging.
“Fine, I guess I could marry you, why not?”
Holding up one of his hands and placing the other on his chest, Li Shen made an exaggerated show out of it as he yelled.
“I swear to the heavens I’ll accept you as my crazy wife!”
However, he smiled bitterly in his heart.
To think he would be in this ridiculous situation where someone would force him to take them as his wife.
“There, I agreed to marry you. So stop this already, it’s not funny to play with your life like this.”
Li Shen turned to walk away, but Lu Yue suddenly stop him.
“Wait!!”
“That blood oath is wrong. Swear you would help me not just agree to the marriage alliance.”
‘Dammit!’
Li Shen cursed internally.
Lu Yue saw Li Shen stop in his tracks, but a split second later his body suddenly disappeared.
“You-!!”
Lu Yue turned to her right to see Li Shen appear next to her.
He went to grab her hand but she tried to retreat while yelling.
“Don’t come near me!!”
Li Shen ignored her and quickly approached her grabbing her hand.
“You idiot!! I said to not come near me!!”
Seeing Li Shen holding her arm Lu Yue's face turned into a panicked expression.
Meanwhile, as Li Shen grabbed her arm, he felt cold and hot energy enter his hand in waves.
His entire right sleeve suddenly burst into searing hot flames, but at the same time, he felt a frigid coldness.
He let go of Lu Yue’s hand and took a step back. Staring at his hand covered in this blue-reddish flame hre saw that it was slowly moving up to his forearm.
‘This is-’
Li Shen paused before a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
“I’m sorry I didn’t mean for this to happen. I’m so sorry.”
Snapping out of his momentary daze, Li Shen turned to see Lu Yue trembling with a hand over her mouth.
She was staring at his still burning arm with tears in her eyes.
Li Shen tilted his head with a frown.
“What’s with your reaction?”
Lu Yue fell to her knees devastated by her actions and began to sob uncontrollably.
“I never meant to hurt anyone, but because of this curse, I can’t even touch my family for fear I might lose control and pass it on to them. Y-you’re arm, the fire is going to spread from it until it eventually consumes your body to burn your flesh and freeze your bones, nothing can stop it now. I’m sorry, I only wanted you to agree to help me, I-I didn’t think-no.”
Unable to hold back her tears, Lu Yue buried her face in her hands and sobbed. She was unwilling to watch another person be killed by her curse once again.
Li Shen hearing that, looked away from Lu Yue to stare at his arm.
It was true, even his Heavenly Physique and Spiritual Physique that the Chaos Qi itself improved felt as if they were being destroyed.
Li Shen also tried using his Divine Will which was partially as strong as a Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator's, but he had to immediately retrieve it or else it would have been consume.
He was shocked by this flames lethality, however, he wasn’t that worried.
Before the fire could spread anymore, Li Shen secretly circulated his Time Qi toward his arm.
The damage to his meridians as well as his bones and flesh slowly heal, or rather, reverted back to how they were before.
As for the fire, he wrapped his Time Qi around his arm and it slowly began to shrink before it was completely gone.
However, it wasn’t as easy as it sounds. The fire was extremely terrifying, and coupled that with using his Time Qi on his two powerful physiques, the task proved itself to be strain on his current abilities. It was only possible because the fire large and hadn’t cause that much damage to his arm.
Feeling the amount of Time Qi he had to use it was almost 2/3 of what was in his dantian.
‘Well, there goes months' worth of Time Qi.’
After, Li Shen lifted his hand up in front of Lu Yue while saying.
“Look, I’m fine, so there’s no need to cry okay?”
He also scratched his cheek with his finger rather awkwardly.
Seeing Lu Yue cry over injuring him caused his impression of her being a crazy lunatic to change slightly.
“What?”
Hearing Li Shen voice, Lu Yue couldn’t understand what was going on.
She didn’t know why she was still hearing him.
‘Did he die and become a ghost? Oh god.’
Lu Yue was filled with even more remorse. Because of her, Li Shen had died and was now a wondering spirit.
However, as she looked up expecting to see Li Shen's disembodied soul, she ended up seeing him in the flesh standing in front of her. He was even presenting his arm that her curse had covered before, which made her become completely dumbfounded.
With wide eyes Lu Yue asked with stutter.
“Y-you, how are you still alive?"
"Are you a ghost?”
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