Chapter 118: The Separation Contract

Lin Qiu had regained consciousness and could sense everything around him. Yet, he could not move a muscle—not even his eyelids. His bloodline and vital energy were sealed by a mysterious power.

Despair engulfed Lin Qiu completely.

What kind of cultivation level did this ancient monster possess? How could he be so overwhelmingly powerful?

“System, help me!” Lin Qiu roared inwardly.

He felt Bai Zhan’s bone-piercing killing intent, chilling his entire heart.

“No solution!” The system’s unchanging voice sounded. “Bai Zhan, Supreme Elder of the Bai Clan, cultivation level Ten Realm, bloodline elevated to the Eighth Realm.”

“Invincible throughout the entire world!”

Boom!

The system’s words struck Lin Qiu’s heart like a thunderbolt.

This terrifying young man was actually a Ten Realm expert.

Ten Realm!

That was the realm Lin Qiu had long dreamed of.

What kind of realm was this?

The system had explained it to him before.

At Ten Realm, one’s physical body could traverse the cosmos and fly through the universe.

With such cultivation, a full-force strike—just a few punches or kicks—could shatter an entire star.

He never imagined he would one day encounter such an old relic.

“Bai Jingjing... I’ve suffered a great loss!” Lin Qiu was on the verge of tears. He had only taken in a maid, yet never thought it would be his downfall.

He was a man blessed by the system, a favored son of heaven, the future savior of the world. Given time, he too could massacre at Ten Realm. But now?

His heart sank deeper and deeper, knowing he was doomed.

Yet in the next moment, his spirit trembled anew.

He recalled one thing: he and Bai Jingjing had a contract binding them.

If he died, Bai Jingjing would be buried with him.

Lin Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, even wanting to howl to the heavens.

He felt that fate had not abandoned him.

But the next moment, tears streamed down his face.

For Bai Zhan’s voice rang out: “Although a contract has been signed, it is not unbreakable.”

“Great-grandfather will today use the Peerless Secret Technique to dissolve the contract.”

“Dissolve?”

Lin Qiu’s heart pounded with fear.

“System, can a contract be dissolved after signing?”

“Yes, Host.”

“System, are you deceiving me?!” Lin Qiu was furious. “If the contract can be revoked, why bind my fate with that woman’s?”

The system was silent for a moment, then spoke words that made Lin Qiu both furious and despairing:

“All rights of explanation belong to this system!”

“That nonsense again!” Lin Qiu was nearly driven mad.

Every time the system wanted to shirk responsibility, it would throw out that phrase.

“Fate is against me,” Lin Qiu accepted his doom.

“But fine. If I die, I no longer have to endure that woman’s haughty face. I’ll be free.”

He comforted himself as he felt his body begin to float, a force pouring into him, weaving into countless threads that seeped into his bloodline and marrow.

“Hmm!”

Bai Zhan’s voice sounded, filled with surprise and suspicion.

“What kind of bloodline is this? It’s golden?”

“Why do I feel such fear, as if I am facing the sovereign of heaven and earth?”

Outside, Bai Zhan’s eyes widened in shock. His voice trembled, and even his legs uncontrollably trembled slightly.

“What bloodline is this? Why does it stir in me a desire to submit?”

Bai Zhan roared, his long hair swaying as if blown by an unseen wind, his face twisting into a ferocious snarl.

“Great-grandfather!” Bai Jingjing was startled, sensing the overwhelming aura pressing down, instinctively activating her defensive power.

“Hmm!”

Bai Zhan hesitated, withdrew his aura, and fixed his gaze intently on Bai Jingjing.

Then his eyes brightened slowly.

“This is the body of an immortal spirit. What is going on? You possess immortal spirit energy?”

Bai Zhan’s voice still trembled, as if witnessing something incredible.

Under this formidable aura, Bai Jingjing activated her defenses and stepped back three paces.

She let out a long breath, knowing Great-grandfather had only momentarily lost control. Had he intended harm, a mere flash of his aura would have utterly shattered this estate.

Even as a Seventh Realm expert, she would have exploded under such pressure.

Bai Jingjing nodded heavily, eyes showing a trace of strangeness as she looked at Lin Qiu floating in midair.

“Great-grandfather, the reason I became an immortal spirit and broke through to the Seventh Realm is because of this man.”

“I don’t know what he added to my food, but after eating it, I broke through and my demon body evolved.”

“He?”

Bai Zhan furrowed his brow, staring at Lin Qiu, his eyes flickering.

“To evolve the demon bloodline and possess a mysterious golden bloodline himself…”

Bai Zhan’s lips curled slowly, and his gaze grew increasingly fervent, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.

“Boy, blame your ill fate!”

Bai Zhan let out a strange chuckle and then formed hand seals.

In the void, black chains appeared.

“Chains of the laws, a symbol of Ten Realm?!”

Bai Jingjing gasped, then looked at Bai Zhan with infinite reverence.

For a Ten Realm master to appear in the city meant the ancient Dragon-binding Chains of the Primordial Age had failed to trap her Great-grandfather.

The law-chains Bai Zhan conjured pierced through every bone and limb of Lin Qiu, yet inflicted no injury to his flesh.

These chains seemed to enter another dimension.

Lin Qiu was horrified.

He discovered chains as thick as ox hair spreading through every inch of his skin cells and marrow.

At the same time, the contract marks within him began to loosen.

Not only the mark with Bai Jingjing but also the one with Xu Bing trembled rapidly.

Just then, the ox-hair-thick chains appeared at both contract marks, beginning to intertwine.

Within the chains was a mysterious corrosive power, eroding the surface of the contract marks.

Then the blood formed by the two contracts began to evaporate, coalescing into two ethereal figures.

One was Xu Bing, the other Bai Jingjing.

As soon as the two figures appeared, the chains wove together into a bridge.

Both marks automatically settled atop the bridge, racing forward.

Once their speed reached a peak, they broke through space and vanished into thin air.

Outside, the void twisted as the two marks reappeared.

Bai Zhan’s expression darkened upon seeing Xu Bing’s contract mark and he snorted coldly.

The chains in the void trembled, shattering Xu Bing’s mark into fragments which then disappeared.

With a wave of Bai Zhan’s right hand, Bai Jingjing’s spiritual trace vanished from her forehead...

Thus ended the bond.