Clean and decisive.
Ruthless after getting what he wanted.
Pure, extreme egoism.
Gu Yang did not even want to say a single word of farewell. He turned around, ready to disappear into the thick mist of the back mountain.
Inside the Falling Snow Pavilion, there was a deathly silence.
Su Wanyin stared blankly at that gray back.
Her eye sockets slowly turned completely red.
A transaction?
She frantically chewed over these cold words in her heart. Not only did she not feel the slightest humiliation, but she instead felt as if her heart was being tightly squeezed by a scalding hand.
It hurt so much she could barely breathe.
Liar!
The Young Master clearly could have just walked away. Why did he deliberately stay behind to say such heartless words in front of her master?
He was drawing a clear line!
He knew he had provoked a monstrous disaster for the Dao One Sect, and he knew the Blood River Sect was about to face the frenzied revenge of the Eastern Region's righteous factions.
He was afraid the Joyous Sect would be implicated, and even more afraid that her broken body would be dragged into that deadly vortex of absolute certain death!
He would rather paint himself as a cold-blooded patron and degrade her to a cheap cultivation cauldron, just to forcefully sever this thread of affection and keep her fiercely protected in a safe realm!
He is so tsundere.
Even his heartlessness exudes a deep affection and arrogance that makes one's bones go soft!
Su Wanyin bit her lower lip fiercely, tears swirling in her eyes.
On the other side.
Zhao Yuelian sat blankly on the stone chair, her hands tightly gripping her snow-white fox fur cloak.
In her mind, it was as if ten thousand bolts of furious lightning had crashed down.
A transaction? Goods and money cleared?
The shock on her breathtakingly beautiful face grew thicker and thicker.
The Young Master... he is protecting me!
He deliberately used the word transaction to cover up everything that happened last night!
He attributed everything to the overflow and absorption of fortune energy, not mentioning a single word about the three of them being together!
He clearly held the absolute suppression of the Heart-Linked Gu, and he clearly could have used this scandal as the most fatal blackmail to easily trample her, a Late-stage Core Formation grand cultivator, underfoot and order her around like the lowliest slave!
But he did not!
He was even willing to bear the infamy of being heartless, just to preserve her last shred of dignity as a master in front of Wanyin!
What kind of condescending disdain was this? And what kind of flawless, calculating gentleness?
The more he acted like a ruthless passerby, the more Zhao Yuelian felt that her Dao Heart, which had been frozen for many years, was being slowly shattered and monopolized by him.
Salvation in the midst of despair was more fatal than any potent aphrodisiac.
To cover up the tsunami-like panic in her heart, Zhao Yuelian took a deep breath.
She tried hard to straighten her stiff back, feigning the majestic airs of a sect elder in an attempt to break this deadly silence.
Young Master Gu is right.
Zhao Yuelian's voice floated a little, carrying a trace of a tremor that even she did not notice.
Since it is a transaction, this seat naturally will not default on the debt. I wonder what plans the Young Master has next?
She paused, her eyes flusteredly avoiding Gu Yang's deep black eyes, looking instead at the bubbling spiritual spring on the stove.
If the spiritual energy in the Young Master's body is still unstable...
This seat's Lingshuang Peak is abundant in spiritual energy. You may stay a few more days to slowly... condition your body, and in the future...
As soon as the word condition left her mouth, Zhao Yuelian's brain exploded with a buzz.
She completely could not control her memories!
Just thinking of those words made the images of last night frantically assault her sanity.
A breathtaking flush instantly rose on her cool white cheeks, spreading all the way to her delicate earlobes.
Hearing that her master wanted to keep the guest, Su Wanyin's moist peach-blossom eyes instantly lit up astonishingly.
She nodded repeatedly, so excited that the jade pendants on her skirt hem let out a crisp clinking sound.
Yes, Young Master! You have just forged your Dao Platform, and your realm still needs to be stabilized!
Su Wanyin leaned half her body over the stone table, the intense, unreserved love almost overflowing from her eyes.
Master's Frost Incantation is best at suppressing violent spiritual energy.
Her cheeks were crimson, yet she showed a resolute determination, as if declaring some kind of sovereignty.
If you feel unwell again, Master and I can... help you together.
Cough, cough, cough!
Zhao Yuelian had just picked up her teacup to hide her embarrassment. Hearing this sentence, she directly choked on a mouthful of spiritual tea.
She coughed violently, coughing until a thin layer of watery light appeared at the corners of her eyes.
This rebellious disciple!
Does she know what kind of shameless words she is saying?!
If they did it again, she was afraid she would truly suffer qi deviation on the spot!
While covering her lips with a silk handkerchief, Zhao Yuelian used the corner of her eye to steal glances at Gu Yang with extreme panic and a trace of hidden anticipation.
She was terrified that this man would actually take the opportunity to agree.
Gu Yang quietly watched Su Wanyin, who was frantically patting her master's back, and Zhao Yuelian, who was coughing so hard her face turned red.
Not a single ripple appeared in the depths of his eyes.
He was doing something much more important right now—upgrading the system.
Ding! Detected that the host has enough Destiny Points. Would you like to consume 500 Destiny Points to upgrade the system to Lv4?
Upgrade!
Ding, consumed 500 Destiny Points.
Daily Intelligence System upgraded to Lv4!
Current Destiny Points: 100
Lv4: Slightly increases the probability of high-quality intelligence appearing. Unlocks the Intelligence Destiny Deduction function.
Destiny Deduction: The host can consume Destiny Points to conduct a deep trace of specified existing intelligence, unearthing hidden karma and future developments.
The first Destiny Deduction is free. Would you like to perform a Destiny Deduction? (Limited to Gold quality intelligence and below)
Deduction function?
It looks a bit stronger than the Intelligence Expansion function.
Then I will choose a Gold intelligence to test it out.
Gu Yang opened the system, flipped through the previous intelligence, and looked at them one by one.
Gold Intelligence: The previous generation Holy Maiden of the Joyous Sect, Zhao Yuelian, suffers from a strange illness called the Thousand Threads Soul-Entangling Syndrome...
...Eastern Gu Sect disciple Li Qingzhe retrieved the Heart-Linked Gu, accidentally curing her in the process. He obtained her true inheritance and her heart, ultimately becoming Dao Companions.
Deduce this intelligence.
Consuming the free privilege, performing Destiny Deduction...
Deduction successful!
The text on the light screen twisted and reorganized like water waves.
Lines of brand new dark gold text, carrying a heart-palpitating sense of secrecy, slowly emerged.
Deep Intelligence (Gold): What Zhao Yuelian suffers from is not a strange illness.
Her true background is a one-in-a-million physique in the cultivation world—the Nine Yin Profound Charm Physique.
The Thousand Threads Soul-Entangling is merely an origin shackle condensed by this physique for self-preservation.
If the owner of this physique experiences intense extreme emotions such as extreme shame, immorality, and despair while dual cultivating with someone possessing a supreme Yang physique.
Her body will gradually absorb extreme Yang power, condensing a high-level Foundation Establishment spiritual item—the Nine Yin Fortune Dao Seed.
Extracting and refining it can help the host's Great Sun True Fire complete its ultimate transformation and solidify the Dao Foundation.
Current condensation progress of the Nine Yin Fortune Dao Seed in Zhao Yuelian's body: 10%.
Note: Obtaining the Nine Yin Fortune Dao Seed will grant 100 Destiny Points.
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
