"Where is what I asked for?" He Jinqiu asked, stroking the correct gold coin.
The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Don't worry, we won't break our promise to you for what you earned with your principles. The box contains the two vials of medicine that were lost from the laboratory."
He Jinqiu ignored him and instead took out a small gold bar and melted it into the correct gold coin.
"My debt has been repaid."
Soon, the image on the front of the correct coin changed to two intertwined ears of wheat, proving that the other party was telling the truth and the potion was inside.
He looked up at the other party and said, "I have experienced the Black Knights' way of doing things. They use what rightfully belongs to me to make a deal with me."
The middle-aged man laughed and said, "Serve us from now on, and you'll understand what the Black Knights mean on this continent. They can give you everything you could never have imagined before: female slaves, money, power."
He Jinqiu laughed and said, "If I wanted these things, I would have gotten them long ago. Now, let's settle our score. You made me betray the people who fought alongside me. For that alone, I deserve to die a hundred times over. I'll collect some interest from you today, and one day I'll send all the Black Knights down to join you."
The middle-aged man's expression hardened: "Do you know the consequences of making enemies of the Black Knights?"
He Jinqiu countered, "You're probably just a henchman in the Black Knights, right? Let me ask you a question first: Do you possess the power of a demigod, or rather, did you bring any demigods with you?"
The middle-aged man was taken aback: "A demigod?"
“If you hadn’t brought a demigod, you would all be dead today,” He Jinqiu said with a smile.
The next moment!
Suddenly, from certain corners of the building, the Jade Heart Sword, which had been hidden long ago, flew out and began to slaughter all the armed personnel in the entire building.
One after another, jade swords pierced through his neck, and blood splattered all over the ground like water from a water gun.
First floor, second floor, third floor...
The Black Knights' hidden forces in the royal city had made thorough preparations for this transaction, but all of that seemed insignificant in the face of the Azure Jade Heart Sword.
He Jinqiu looked at the middle-aged man in front of her and asked with a smile, "What gives you a sense of security?"
While he stood on the rooftop chatting and laughing, blood was already flowing like a river inside the building below.
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes slightly: "Do you think you can leave the Central Royal City alive?"
After pondering for a moment, He Jinqiu said seriously, "I know you must have further plans to target me. I'm not sure if I can escape them, but my fate is still uncertain. However, I have already written your fate for you."
As soon as he finished speaking, nine jade swords pierced through the glass of the building and hovered on the rooftop.
Nine jade swords surrounded the middle-aged man, blocking all his routes.
“You can’t escape,” the middle-aged man said.
"So what?" He Jinqiu said calmly.
In an instant, nine jade heart swords pierced through the middle-aged man's body.
He saw vehicles speeding towards him on the ground, and the nine jade swords beside him were pieced together to form a longer and wider sword.
He Jinqiu lightly leaped onto the Azure Jade Heart Sword and stood firm, soaring into the sky with an upright posture, as if riding a sword in the wind.
Return to One.
This is the Nine Swords Return to One from the Hu Family's Green Jade Heart Sword lineage.
Within this tradition, there are two most powerful methods. The first is 'Return to Oneness,' which allows cultivators to ride the wind and control their swords, traveling a thousand miles in a single day.
The second is the 'Noon' in the demigod realm, which requires twelve jade heart swords to complete. The heart swords can weave a real sword net, which can destroy everything within an 800-meter radius.
In the Hu family tradition, cultivating the ninth Heart Sword means stepping into the threshold of demigodhood, and cultivating the twelfth means officially stepping into demigodhood.
The Heart Sword is too difficult to cultivate. Only after entering Rank A can one slowly begin to hone the first Heart Sword. Even Li Changqing has only just cultivated the third Heart Sword.
It is so difficult that no one has seen the Nine Swords Return to One for a very long time.
Not to mention 'noon'.
At this moment, He Jinqiu rode his sword through the steel forest, easily passing through solemn and desolate buildings, appearing like an immortal.
But he flew all the way up into the sky, covering a distance of 600 kilometers before slowly landing on the ground.
The moment he landed, Mr. He vomited a mouthful of blood, and he felt dizzy and almost fainted.
He originally wanted to wait a little longer and return to the Eastern Continent to receive the injection, but it seems he won't have that opportunity now.
"There's no time left," he said with a smile, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Mr. He slumped to the ground, carefully opened the black box, and looked inside at the two gray vials of medicine.
He took out a syringe, aimed it at his chest, and injected the entire dose into his body.
In an instant, he felt his internal organs gradually burning, and the gray medicine was like a mass of molten lava flowing back and forth through his blood vessels.
Cells in the body divide repeatedly, and then suddenly break through the cell membrane and fuse together.
Those cancer cells suddenly became more vigorous than ever before. Like a virus, they constantly invaded normal cells, divided into new cells, and fused together to form new cells.
Cancer cells originate from gene mutations in the human body. Every minute and every second, everyone's body may undergo gene mutations, but some people can repair these gene mutations while others cannot.
Therefore, many genetic warriors die of cancer in their later years.
After a person gets cancer, the cancer cells grow wildly, relentlessly draining the host's body to survive.
Human cells are single-nucleated, while cancer cells are multinucleated or have atypical nuclei. Therefore, when they grow, they slowly accumulate to form tumors, which are incompatible with normal cells.
Now, all the cells in He Jinqiu's body are slowly fusing into a dual nucleus!
When all cells are different from normal cells, the abnormal becomes normal.
The problem is that this is different from what Ren Xiaosu described. Back then, all of Ren Xiaosu's cell nuclei turned into diamond-like single nuclei, not like He Jinqiu's!
He knelt on the ground, feeling the pain all over his body as if thousands of bullets and ants were tearing at him. He struggled to tear open his shirt and watched helplessly as a gray patch began to spread from the injection site on his chest.
Sweat dripped into the soil, and his will began to waver.
An ordinary person would probably have fainted by now, but He Jinqiu did not.
Strangely, while in pain, the body begins to secrete large amounts of endorphins to soothe the pain, creating a strange sensation of relief amidst the pain.
His spiritual will began to spread continuously, as if it were about to merge with the will of the world, but when the will of the world began to contact him, it actively rejected him.
It seems... that the will of the world also has its own choices.
In a daze, he seemed to have returned to the days when he joined the army.
The father remained silent in the room, while the mother tied a large red flower made of silk around his neck, preparing to send him off to join the army.
He Jinqiu was stunned for a moment: "Dad, Mom, I don't want to go."
The usually taciturn father's eyes widened suddenly: "You're saying you're not going now?"
After thinking for a long time, He Jinqiu said, "If I go, I might be betrayed, I might get cancer, or I might die."
The father glared at him angrily: "What nonsense are you spouting? There are no cowards in the He family who are afraid of death."
As he spoke, the father took out a rolling pin from the kitchen, repeatedly saying that he was going to break He Jinqiu's legs.
Her thoughts raced, and He Jinqiu seemed to be back on the dike where she was fighting floods, carrying a sack and following behind Zheng Yuandong.
He Jinqiu felt a lump in his throat and tentatively asked in a soft voice, "Squad leader?"
Zheng Yuandong, carrying a sack, didn't even turn his head: "What are you doing? Don't complain about being tired. There are no deserters in my second squad. Hold on, or you'll die in the flood."
He Jinqiu was taken aback: "Squad leader, do you regret joining the army?"
Zheng Yuandong laughed and cursed, "I regret it so much! If I had known I was going to be a squad leader for a bunch of good-for-nothing bastards like you, I would never have gotten on the armed forces department's vehicle!"
He Jinqiu was delighted. He followed Zheng Yuandong into the stormy night. All his comrades jumped into the raging torrent. They were all wearing red vests, their bodies covered in sunburn marks, their skin peeling off layer by layer.
In the floodwaters, someone shouted from afar, "Second Squad, where's the Second Squad? The dike has breached here, get over here now!"
Zheng Yuandong shouted, "Those in Class Two who aren't afraid of death, follow me!"
"Squad leader, we're out of sacks, we've blocked another spot!" He Jinqiu shouted.
"Why don't you use your body to block it?" Zheng Yuandong cursed.
He Jinqiu suddenly realized that the old squad leader had a bad temper and often swore.
The old squad leader from now on won't be like that, always wearing a Zhongshan suit and looking all high and mighty...
They spent the entire day, from morning till night, trying to block the floodwaters.
Until new troops replace them.
All the soldiers of the second squad dragged their tired bodies back. The villagers spontaneously came over to comfort them. Some people stuffed hot eggs into their soaked, cold, and dirty hands. The old village chief nearby said again and again that the soldiers had worked hard.
He Jinqiu tried to put the egg back: "Grandpa, we have rules."
Squad Leader Zheng stopped him: "Never mind, just take it and eat it."
Looking back now, I realize that my old squad leader was much more adaptable than I was.
He Jinqiu was in pain. In that era, his consciousness was like that of a clear-headed bystander, yet he was also experiencing everything firsthand.
Back in their dark green tents, they lay down on their cots without even taking off their shoes.
The snoring around her soon became deafening, but He Jinqiu couldn't fall asleep.
He suddenly asked, "Squad leader, do you regret coming here?"
Zheng Yuandong thought for a moment and said, "You son of a bitch, you're still not tired enough. You still have time to think about these messy things. If you have nothing to do, go out and run a 10-kilometer cross-country race. Come back and ask me again."
He Jinqiu: "?"
He laughed, a really big laugh. All the pain he had endured had become his most beautiful memories.
Those images began to crumble, leaving only the soil of the western continent before my eyes.
At this moment, He Jinqiu's entire body turned gray, and thin fangs grew out of the two tiger teeth in his mouth. His fingernails also grew two centimeters, making him look particularly ferocious.
exhausted.
I am more exhausted than ever before.
He lay on the ground, watching a floating airship approach overhead, its surface painted with the Black Knights' insignia.
Soon, someone descended the rappelling rope and wrapped He Jinqiu's wrists with a strange vine.
In just a moment, He Jinqiu felt that all the strength in her body had vanished.
These vines come from the Forbidden Forest, and even the Storm Duke was helpless when he was bound by them.
He Jinqiu was secured with a safety rope around his waist and quickly pulled into the airship. The fifth member of the Black Knights sneered and looked down at him lying on the floor: "Where do you think you can run to?"