Falling Cloud Sect, Cold Moon Peak.
Piercingly cold astral winds howled outside the cliff, yet a suppressed undercurrent eerily permeated the grand hall.
Gu Yang stepped over the high threshold, his deep black eyes sweeping across the empty hall without a ripple of emotion.
On the cold jade bed.
Shen Qingyue was still wearing that magnificent palace dress with gold patterns on a white background.
After being cleansed by the Great Sun True Fire and nourished by the Extreme Yin Spirit Lake, her beautiful, originally paper-pale skin now revealed a breathtaking, lustrous glow.
Even just sitting there quietly, the cold aloofness and lofty majesty belonging to a Golden Core stage grand cultivator made one dare not look at her directly.
However.
When her gaze crossed Gu Yang and landed on the gray figure following closely behind him.
Shen Qingyue's clear, autumn-water eyes, usually as placid as an ancient well or a freezing pool, suddenly shrank.
Zhao Yuelian stopped half a step behind Gu Yang, bowing her head deeply.
The coarse gray outer sect servant robe she wore could not hide her ripe, voluptuous curves at all.
Instead, due to the tightness of the fabric, her slender waist and astonishing curves were fully accentuated.
What suffocated Shen Qingyue the most.
Was the faint spiritual power fluctuation emitting from this woman, which made even her heart pound with fear!
Late Core Formation stage, Great Circle of Perfection!
Shen Qingyue gripped her cuffs, her voice so cold it could almost drop ice shards.
A Core Formation Great Circle... sword attendant?
Gu Yang did not turn his head; the corner of his gray clothes fluttered slightly in the draft.
Zhao Yuelian, however, acutely caught the hint of jealousy in the depths of Shen Qingyue's eyes.
As a Supreme Elder of the Joyous Union Sect who had struggled for hundreds of years in a cannibalistic demonic lair, when it came to manipulating human hearts, an icy snow lotus like Shen Qingyue who had always cultivated in a greenhouse was absolutely no match for her.
Thud.
Zhao Yuelian's knees gave way, and she knelt extremely humbly on the freezing jade bricks.
This servant Zhao Yuelian greets Elder Shen.
Her cold, breathtakingly beautiful face carried a perfectly measured look of trepidation and docility.
Her voice was bone-meltingly charming, yet it revealed absolute submission.
This servant, with her frail willow-like appearance, was graced by the Young Master's favor to be kept by his side as a vicious watchdog. I would absolutely never dare to overstep my bounds in front of the Elder.
Shen Qingyue's breath suddenly hitched.
Veins throbbed violently on her smooth forehead.
The humbler the other party acted, and the more she kept saying servant and Young Master, the more it felt like poisoned needles fiercely piercing into Shen Qingyue's pride.
A peerless female cultivator with a cultivation base higher than her own was willingly kneeling at her disciple's feet, calling herself a servant!
How was this paying respects?
This was clearly an extremely subtle flaunting to her, showing off Gu Yang's absolute, bone-deep control over her!
What an obedient... watchdog.
Shen Qingyue's full chest heaved slightly.
Gu Yang watched this silent confrontation.
Knowing this woman's tsundere nature well, he leveled his hands and took out an ice-blue jade box wrapped in heavy restrictions from his storage ring.
Gu Yang took a step forward and extremely respectfully presented the jade box onto the cold jade desk in front of Shen Qingyue.
Please quell your anger, Master.
He lowered his head slightly, his deep voice carrying a perfect trace of reverence, giving this iceberg elder plenty of face and an easy way out.
This is a spoil of war that your disciple accidentally intercepted in a perilous secret realm near the Holy Heaven City some time ago. I specifically brought it back to honor you, Master.
Gu Yang's fingertips spat out a faint spiritual light. With a click, the array patterns on the surface of the jade box dissipated like water ripples, and the lid slowly popped open.
System Prompt: Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Yin Jade Pillow: Produced beneath ten thousand fathoms of ice in the Extreme North Ice Plains, taking ten thousand years to form.
System Prompt: Efficacy: Sleeping on it year-round can nourish the divine soul. Especially for female cultivators practicing Yin-cold attribute cultivation methods, it has the miraculous effects of preserving youth and purifying Yin essence.
An extremely pure, freezing aura that even carried a trace of cold, sweet fragrance instantly filled the entire hall.
Gu Yang looked directly into Shen Qingyue's slightly widened autumn-water eyes and spoke to her in a steady tone.
This item is called the Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Yin Jade Pillow.
Your disciple has investigated it. Sleeping on it year-round can constantly nourish the divine soul. For someone like Master, who possesses the Nine Yin Physique, it has the miraculous effects of preserving youth and purifying Yin essence.
Hearing the words purifying Yin essence, Shen Qingyue felt that the newly stabilized Golden Core in her dantian let out a comfortable hum under the nourishment of this cold energy.
A treasure like this, specifically for Yin-cold physiques, could absolutely not be found even if one turned the entire Falling Cloud Sect's treasury upside down!
A highly complex and intense fluctuation instantly flashed through Shen Qingyue's cold eyes.
He... specifically snatched this for her in a perilous secret realm?
And even constantly kept her physique and needs in mind?
A touch of crimson quietly crept up Shen Qingyue's cold, white earlobes.
It is just a dead object.
Shen Qingyue abruptly turned her head away, not daring to look into Gu Yang's deep eyes. Her tone was still as stiff as a block of ice.
Do not think that this little favor can offset your frivolity of bringing a woman of dubious background back to the peak.
However, her jade-like hands, tightly gripping the edge of the jade box to the point where her slender nails were almost digging into the jade's texture, betrayed the joy in her heart at this moment.
...
He did not point out Shen Qingyue's awkwardness, but instead cast his gaze extremely stealthily upon Zhao Yuelian, who was kneeling on the ground.
On the system panel, the progress bar stuck at 32 percent looked particularly glaring.
He had to use stronger medicine.
The ancient illusion array, Lesser Formless Illusion Array, silently descended between the two of them!
In Shen Qingyue's line of sight.
The foxy sword attendant originally kneeling on the ground suddenly trembled all over, as if unable to withstand the pressure from her, the legitimate elder.
She kowtowed in trepidation.
Then, the woman humbly hunched her body and tactfully retreated to the dark corner at the outermost edge of the hall, turning her back to them like a dead stone statue.
Shen Qingyue's tense back finally relaxed a tiny, imperceptible bit.
At least this demonic woman knows her place.
An extremely secret delight of defeating a potential threat rose in her heart as her fingertips gently stroked the cold texture of the jade box.
However.
In the real space less than three feet away from Shen Qingyue!
Gu Yang had not retreated half a step at all. His body, scorching hot like a furnace, pressed directly closer.
His large hand, bearing thin, rough calluses, was like iron tongs as it extremely roughly grabbed Zhao Yuelian's burning wrist!
Mmph!
Zhao Yuelian's pupils contracted sharply. Her entire body was pulled directly toward that broad chest by an irresistible, massive force.
Gu Yang slipped one hand inside that coarse gray servant robe.
Young Master... do not...
Zhao Yuelian's clear autumn-water eyes instantly widened to their limits, and a fine layer of fragrant sweat suddenly beaded on the tip of her nose.
Shen Qingyue was sitting on the cold jade bed less than three feet away!
She could even clearly hear Shen Qingyue's extremely faint, soothing breathing as she admired the extreme cold jade pillow!
...
Ding! Detected that the target has generated feelings of extreme shame and immorality.
[ 'Nine Yin Creation Dao Seed' condensation progress: 33%... 38%... 42%! ]
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uld barely embark on the path to immortality. Just as he was on the verge of death, his golden finger awakened. No matter whether it was poison, drained blood and vital energy, diminished lifespan, or any other physical debuff caused by paying a price—once midnight passed, everything would be refreshed. From then on, whenever someone asked what kind of person Chu Ran was, the answer was simple: Forbidden arts that other cultivators dared not learn? Chu Ran would learn them. Prices that even demonic cultivators dared not pay? Chu Ran would pay them. Lifespan that even righteous cultivators dared not burn? Chu Ran would burn it. All the blood essence in his body? Take it. Want both his hands and feet? He would cut them off and send them to you. You say he’s finished? He wasn’t built to sit idle. You think he’s gone mad? No—he was simply waiting for midnight. From that day onward, Chu Ran would respect neither Heaven nor Earth, bow to neither gods nor ghosts. He had only one wish: For midnight to arrive a little sooner.
ions, keeping it grounded and realistic】 After quitting his job, office worker Su Yang accidentally binds with the "Enjoy Life System." As the name suggests, simply by indulging in life's pleasures, he can earn random rewards from the system—no need to spend money on beautiful women or grovel before anyone. Just enjoy, and the money follows, making it all about effortless fun. The system comes with a scanning feature, allowing him to establish a favorability bond with women rated 85 points or above. Every 20-point increase in favorability unlocks additional rewards. After suffering through over twenty years of hardship, Su Yang trembles with excitement, his dull eyes suddenly gleaming with newfound hope. "Enjoy life? How hard could that be?"
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
