The Lesser Controller of Fate let out a string of frantic cries, trying to raise the alarm and alert Xuan Nu to co and finish off Long Tianji.
Unfortunately, no matter how much she scread, her voice was confined within the room, unable to escape.
The Lesser Controller of Fate's heart sank. This is bad!
Disregarding her nudity, she leaped from the bathtub, intending to dash out the door. However, in Lin Tang's eyes, her speed was far, far too slow. It was so slow that he had enough ti to leisurely admire her from head to toe, and then from toe to head again.
CRACK!
Lin Tang delivered a chop to her neck.
The Lesser Controller of Fate's eyes bulged as she glared at him. A few seconds later, her head tilted, her eyes rolled back into her head, and she fainted.
A short while later, Ning Yuexi cautiously slipped inside. She found Lin Tang in his true form, sitting brazenly with his legs crossed, perusing the ancient books the Lesser Controller of Fate had laid out on the table. anwhile, the Lesser Controller of Fate was still sprawled on the ground, butt-naked and glistening with bathwater.
"Hey, how could you!" Ning Yuexi was on the verge of losing her mind. She scrambled to find a blanket and cover the Lesser Controller of Fate with it.
Lin Tang curled his lip. "It's not like I haven't seen her before. Besides, she's flat as a board; there's nothing to look at."
"You—" Ning Yuexi was at a loss for words.
After wrapping the Lesser Controller of Fate tightly, she carried her to the bed and began to fret. "When Ruoruo wakes up, she'll definitely guess that I was the traitor who let you in... How am I supposed to explain it to her?"
"Isn't that simple? Just kill her now to silence her. Go on, strangle her. You have my full support!" Lin Tang suggested with a grin.
"Can you stop giving such terrible advice?" Ning Yuexi was exasperated. She couldn't stop herself from lunging at him, wanting to tear his mouth off his face.
But isn't this just like throwing a at bun at a dog? A lost cause.
In an instant, he caught her wrists, and she stumbled right into his embrace.
"Let go of ! I don't want to be this close to your avatar!" Ning Yuexi squird uncomfortably.
"Oh? Does that an you wouldn't mind being close to my real body? Looks like you missed , too!" Lin Tang laughed heartily. "Relax, this is my real body right now."
"Have you gone mad?!" Ning Yuexi grew anxious again. "If your real body is caught, you're completely finished! If it were your avatar, at least you'd have an escape route... You need to run, now! This is not a place where you can act so recklessly."
"Seeing how much you care for , I'd have no regrets even if I were to die here." Lin Tang pouted and smacked a kiss on her lips.
Mmm, still as sweet and delicious as ever.
"Let go of ! Even if this is your real body, I can't get used to being this close!" Ning Yuexi struggled fiercely.
She wasn't lying; she truly couldn't adjust so quickly. The few tis she had been intimate with Lin Tang, she had either been completely lost in a haze of passion with no mory of what happened, or it had been pitch-black, preventing them from seeing each other. From the mont she discovered Long Tianji was Lin Tang to now, with his real face this close and this affectionate in broad daylight... Ning Yuexi felt goosebumps erupt all over her skin.
But the one thing she truly couldn't get over was this. "Didn't you say you wanted to sever all ties with ? What is this supposed to be now?" she asked resentfully, her nose tingling.
Lin Tang's hands, which had been roaming over her body, paused at her words.
"At the ti, I thought you were about to be possessed, didn't I? If that happened, you wouldn't be you anymore. You'd be Xuan Nu. If I didn't break ties, was I supposed to pretend she was you and practice Dual Cultivation with her? Pfft! As if she's worthy!" he feigned disgust, acting as if the very thought repulsed him.
Ning Yuexi was speechless.
n and their lying tongues. She wasn't about to forgive Lin Tang's ruthlessness so easily.
She forcefully broke free and straightened her clothes, creating distance between them. "Alright, you said you ca especially to see . You've seen , so you can really go now. If you don't, when the Goddess wakes up, you'll..."
"I'm more worried she *won't* wake up!" Lin Tang replied, brazenly laying out his entire plan.
When she learned that he had "found" a heaven-defying treasure like the Tanlong Incense and possessed such a rapid cultivation thod, she was once again stunned.
"No wonder your cultivation is progressing so fast..." For a mont, Ning Yuexi's heart couldn't help but pound with excitent.
For Cultivators, Spiritual Energy—an abundant supply of it—was an irresistible lure. Even the wealthiest household eventually runs out of grain. While the Yaochi Heavenly Palace had a deep foundation and was fabulously wealthy, it still couldn't support her voracious daily absorption of Spiritual Energy. After an indulgent initial supply of Spirit Crystals, she was left to gather it little by little on her own. Sotis, while Xuan Nu slept, an unconscious breath from the goddess would siphon away more than half the Spiritual Energy Ning Yuexi had painstakingly accumulated. And who could she possibly complain to?
For these reasons, when Lin Tang generously invited her to join him... the words "no way" simply wouldn't co out.
"Fortune favors the bold! Fine, let's do this together!" Ning Yuexi declared through gritted teeth.
"Excellent! I love your decisive spirit!" Lin Tang laughed heartily once more.
He was about to take out the Tanlong Incense then and there, but Ning Yuexi had a more suitable location in mind. She asked Lin Tang to place another binding on the Lesser Controller of Fate to prevent her from waking up too soon and interfering with their grand undertaking.
Afterward, she led him straight toward the deepest core of the Heavenly Palace.
"You absolutely must not make any unnecessary noise. Xuan Nu's divine statue is in the very next room..."
"Is that so?" Lin Tang's eyes flashed. A few days ago, in a fit of rage, he had destroyed the statues of nurous deities. He knew that specific statues were critically important to them.
However, Xuan Nu was indeed different from ordinary deities. Lin Tang's Dharma body, which couldn't be possessed, could act with impunity against the incarnations of other gods. But against Xuan Nu, the two of them together stood no chance.
"Has Xuan Nu ever told you the specific difference between Her and other deities?"
"Well, no... She just had the Greater Controller of Fate explain that there are good and bad Cultivators. Not all of them use evil Cultivation Techniques; there are also righteous cultivators with righteous techniques."
"I see!" Lin Tang had posed a similar question to the Lord of Gluttony, but Little Gluttony had been profoundly reticent, refusing to elaborate.
Once their preparations were complete, the Tanlong Incense was lit again. Blue smoke curled upwards, wafting toward the rafters before vanishing from sight. Drifting ethereally, it easily penetrated the spatial rifts, crossing an unknown distance into another space. It brushed over the surface of one dinsion after another, leaving no trace.
This continued until... Lin Tang recognized the spatial coordinates left by Mu Ping'an.
"This is it! Break it open!"
BOOM!!
An invisible fissure was forcibly corroded and torn apart.
Imdiately, like a dam bursting its gates, the once-calm Spiritual Energy within the fissure began to boil, gushing out in a torrential flood. It surged directly into the space where Lin Tang and Ning Yuexi were waiting.
"It's here! Get ready! Absorb like crazy! Take it all, take it ferociously!"
In an instant, Lin Tang frantically activated the Supre True Dragon Technique. Dragon roars echoed as draconic phantoms materialized around him, their massive maws gaping wide. He was like a man who had thirsted in the desert for seven days and nights, suddenly plunging into an oasis lake.
Ning Yuexi refused to be outdone. Though her cultivation base was far lower than Lin Tang's, her Luli Pure Body played a decisive role. Like a vast ocean that accepts a hundred rivers, it was grandly inclusive. As long as it was Spiritual Energy, she devoured it continuously without a second thought, regardless of its properties.
Their voracious and unrestrained consumption caused the eruption of Spiritual Energy to grow even more violent. Strange phenona appeared in the skies above the Yaochi Heavenly Palace, and the entire space began to tremble and hum.
The Greater Controller of Fate and the others were all astonished. What's going on? Could the Goddess Xuan Nu be awakening on Her own, without being summoned? Could Her true body be returning soon?
Just as they were growing excited and preparing to welco Her...
「In another space.」
A consciousness faintly stirred...
"You lowly thief... daring to steal my Spiritual Energy... So, it's you!!" With a sweeping divine gaze, She instantly locked onto Lin Tang's aura and flew into a rage.
At the sa ti, Lin Tang was also furious. "Damn that Mu Ping'an, what a massive liar! Didn't he say the Demon Spirit Ancestor backing him wouldn't wake up so easily? We've only been absorbing Spiritual Energy for a few minutes! How did She wake up already?"
What a compulsive liar of a brother-in-law. Punching him to death earlier was definitely the right move...
Lin Tang had originally planned to absorb energy for at least ten days, maybe even half a month. Now, he could only watch as the Demon Spirit Ancestor gathered Her will, combined it with Spiritual Energy, and forcefully condensed it all into a colossal, sky-blotting hand. The hand viciously tore the spatial fissure wider and ca crashing down toward him.
Lin Tang had no choice but to halt his absorption. He grabbed Ning Yuexi and dashed toward Xuan Nu's statue in the next room. "Xuan Nu, save us!!"
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