Chapter 1707 — Another Earth-Rank Expert
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Earlier, when Yu Shuixing had seen Chen Yuxuan ** Yu Feng, he had assumed the man merely wanted to vent his fury and had no intention of taking his life. After all, to kill Yu Feng first, one need only stamp on his head and the matter would be settled. So though Yu Shuixing was enraged, he was not overly worried — at least Yu Feng's life was not in danger, and while the green hills remain, there is no fear of running out of firewood; a day for revenge would always come.
But who could have imagined Chen Yuxuan would suddenly do such a thing! What he did not know was that Chen Yuxuan was simply repaying a man in his own coin — back then, Chen Yuxuan himself had been kicked out a window in just this way, only not from such a height.
"Wah yah yah yah yah yah! You little wretches seek death!" Yu Shuixing flew into a total rage. He had never thought Chen Yuxuan would hunt them down to the last. But had he ever stopped to think that back then, he too had wanted Yu Feng to wipe them out root and branch?
Yu Shuixing's eyes went bloodshot. He cast a grief-stricken, furious glance at the shattered window. He knew his son Yu Feng could not possibly survive this time — falling from such a height without true qi to shield him meant certain death!
Yu Shuixing drew a deep breath and swiftly pulled a pill from his breast, tossing it into his mouth. In an instant, the true qi around his whole body surged violently, and from the peak of the late Mystic Rank he shot straight up to the early Earth Rank!
"What! Early Earth Rank?" Chen Kuanglan, Song Xiangwen, and Wu Gonggao were all struck dumb. Never had they seen such a bizarre thing — with a single pill, Yu Shuixing had gone from the peak of the late Mystic Rank straight to the early Earth Rank!
"Hahahaha, you didn't expect that, did you? Since you have killed my son, then everyone present today — every family involved in this — not one of you shall leave alive!" Yu Shuixing seemed to have gone mad, laughing wildly at the sky. "The Chen family, the Song family, the Wu family, the Liu family — all of you, accompany my son in death!"
This was Yu Shuixing's final card, his ultimate weapon! It was a pill that could instantly boost one's strength and potential, but at the cost of burning away one's lifespan — a ** pill refined by the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect. Yu Shuixing had obtained it from the Hidden Yu family, and in the Hidden Yu family no one would ever take such a pill that damaged one's own cultivation, so giving one to Yu Shuixing cost them nothing.
One had to understand that this pill had side effects. An ordinary person who took it could instantly become a Yellow Rank expert; a Yellow Rank expert who took it could become a Mystic Rank expert, and so on. But the price paid was enormous: for an ordinary person to become a Yellow Rank expert cost five years of lifespan, and for a Yellow Rank expert to become a Mystic Rank expert cost ten years! And for a Mystic Rank expert to become an Earth Rank expert, the cost was no less than thirty years of lifespan!
So long as one had not stepped into the Heaven Rank, a ** cultivator's lifespan was still much the same as an ordinary person's — perhaps a little longer, but not by much. Thus, thirty years of lifespan was nothing short of fatal!
How many years are there in a whole human life? A single pill took away thirty of them — and how many thirty-year spans does a person get in all?
And because it was an overdraft of the body's vitality, ordinary people could at least bear it, but a ** cultivator who took it would, once the pill's effect faded, actually drop in rank — depending on how much had been overdrawn, by as much as from the Mystic Rank down to the early Yellow Rank!
With side effects so severe, how could anyone in the Hidden Yu family possibly take it themselves?