Cabaça Refinadora do Céu

Wu Dynasty, Shengjing.

The gates of the Xu family were alive with excitement, the crowd surging like waves.

Word had spread: Xu Que, the young master of the family, had mistakenly entered the Deadland of Celestial Extinction. When he was found, his limbs had been crushed, his dantian and martial veins destroyed, his Divine Martial Bone extracted. His cultivation was lost, and he had been poisoned by the chilling Firebane toxin. The entire city was shaken, lamenting the fall of a peerless prodigy.

He had been carried home three days ago and had yet to awaken in the Xu family's medical pavilion.

“Ah, the Deadland of Celestial Extinction—a place where even immortals cannot find a grave.”

“To return alive from such a place is already a miracle. He truly deserves the title of number one prodigy of the martial youth.”

“Look, his fiancée, Zhu Yanran, has come to break off their engagement.”

“Firebane is one of the ten deadliest poisons; it is certain death. No wonder Zhu Yanran wants to end the betrothal.”

“I heard she has caught the eye of the seventh son of the Duanmu family, climbing to greater heights. Truly, beauty is fate.”

“If you ask me, she's just a shameless woman.”

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Within the Xu family medical pavilion, Xu Que, though gravely injured, found his spirit wandering in a mysterious violet gourd space.

Three days prior, he had been chased by a mysterious master, stumbling into the Deadland of Celestial Extinction. His Divine Martial Bone was taken, his cultivation destroyed, and his soul