My System Is Three Thousand Years Early

"Beggars will be beggars, they simply can't be tamed, but this one has a special physique. I wonder if it could be used as some sort of tonic."

Zhu Xicheng muttered to himself, then waved a hand at the guards behind him.

"Chase after him, and bring him back."

The guards, confounded by the rapid sequence of events, snapped back to reality upon hearing Zhu Xicheng's order and hurriedly strode towards the direction Li Tongzhen had gone.

It took a bit longer this time.

But it wasn't long before

Li Tongzhen was caught and dragged out again.

After several such attempts,

even the resilient Li Tongzhen couldn't help but feel a bit of despair rising within him.

In the face of several burly men, tall and strong, he had hardly any strength to resist.

"Let's go, take him back."

"My lord, what about this girl?"

One of the guards asked.

Zhu Xicheng glanced at the grimy Qingqing, and at a single look, he lost interest, waving his hand dismissively as if to signal that she could be thrown away at random.

However, when he saw Qingqing's pale skin revealed as the tears streaming down her face wiped away the dirt,

for some reason,

Zhu Xicheng's heart pounded fiercely.

Zhu Xicheng frowned slightly, wondering why he suddenly found this girl so alluring.

He was indeed lustful,

but had no interest in someone as undeveloped as her.

This was strange.

If the beggar had an extraordinary physique with astonishing healing abilities, could it be that the girl had a special constitution as well???

Thinking thus, the keen instincts of a merchant kicked in.

"Take her back as well, clean her up, and see if she can be sold."

Having said this, Zhu Xicheng left, his arm around his noble companion.

He didn't bother to look back at Li Tongzhen and Qingqing.

To Zhu Xicheng, Li Tongzhen's special physique, if tamed, could serve as a watchful guard, but if not, he would merely be a tonic.

It was said that regularly consuming the blood of those with a unique constitution could improve one's own.

From conversations with nobles and famous families, Zhu Xicheng had learned of this method.

He himself didn't know if it would work, but having stumbled upon this opportunity, he decided to give it a try.

Zhu Xicheng's mood for continuing to the banquet of the Town-Nation Duke's Heir was disrupted by Li Tongzhen's interference, and he had lost much of his will to go on for drinks.

So he led his entourage back to his residence.

After a brief tidying up, Zhu Xicheng walked slowly into a secret chamber.

Within this chamber,

Li Tongzhen was tied to a wooden frame.

Zhu Xicheng, watching Li Tongzhen thrash and scream furiously, showed little emotion on his plump face, merely saying with a hint of regret:

"If only you had been compliant at the start, perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to bind you like this."

"But, it doesn't matter now."

As he spoke, Zhu Xicheng ignored Li Tongzhen's cries and took out a small knife,

slowly coating the blade with a mystery liquid.

Once applied, the blade shimmered with an eerie, purple-tinged luminescence.

Zhu Xicheng walked up to Li Tongzhen, holding the knife near his arm, and lightly slashed at the artery.

Flesh was cut, and

blood began to spurt out violently.

Upon its appearance, Zhu Xicheng immediately picked up a prepared small bowl and used it to catch the blood.

Next, he took out a jade stone and dropped it into the blood.

He watched intently for changes in the jade submerged in the blood.

But after a while,

the color of the jade remained unchanged.

Zhu Xicheng's brows furrowed, "Hmm? Perhaps this beggar's physique isn't as special as I thought? He's just hard to beat down, have I made a mistake?"

Zhu Xicheng continued to stare at the blood for a long time.

His mouth briefly twisted in disappointment.

"Damn it, all this for nothing; I might as well have killed you outright instead of going through the trouble of making you my sworn son, what a damn waste."

With that, Zhu Xicheng carelessly dumped the bowl of blood he was holding and then walked in front of Li Tongzhen, kicking him hard several times before striding out of the room to busy himself with something else.

The cut on Li Tongzhen's arm, where the knife had sliced through, was not healing due to the unknown liquid.

Blood continued to flow like water,

and with the heavy loss,

Li Tongzhen's consciousness began to blur.

Faint voices echoed beside him.

Those sounds were both incredibly familiar and strangely foreign.

"Husband, Zheng'er was born after three years in my womb, I won't let you do this."

"Zheng'er, why are you sitting on the wall?"

"Remember when you were just a lion's head meatball in your mother's belly? Now you've grown into a handsome young man with nose and eyes."

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Memories flickered in Li Tongzhen's mind, and the world around him seemed to warp.

But only for a moment.

Everything quickly returned to normal.

Unnoticed, the blood from the wound on Li Tongzhen's body started to change color.

From the initial bright red to golden.

Inside him, it was as if there was a golden current, flowing endlessly from a spring without a source, and coursing through his body.

In an instant, it chased away the countless shadows haunting Li Tongzhen's mind.

And brought him back to his true self.

The wound began to heal.

Meanwhile, the jade that had been soaked in Li Tongzhen's blood suddenly couldn't withstand the immense power anymore; it exploded without warning with a "bang".