Once, Ning Yuexi had found practicing martial arts to be incredibly difficult. In truth, for her age, her skills were already quite impressive, with few among her peers who could surpass her. Still, she was no genius. Her true talent lay in dicine, but in that field, she was utterly crushed by Lin Tang. When it ca to martial arts, the chasm between them was even vaster.
It wasn't until she began to seriously engage with cultivation techniques that she truly understood… this was just too ridiculously hard! The difficulty of martial arts and dicine paled in comparison. The harder cultivation seed, the more it highlighted Lin Tang's astonishing ability. His progress was simply too fast. It was impossible not to be in awe.
Ning Yuexi's gaze upon Lin Tang was complex, filled with the deep admiration one held for a powerful genius. She found no reason to refuse his request. With a shy nod, she said, "You… co with !"
"Eh?" The Chief Fate Officer and Lesser Fate Officer were all stunned, watching the two walk away hand in hand toward Ning Yuexi's bedroom.
"What does 'aiding his cultivation' an? What are they going to do?"
"Are they going to do… *that*? The thing between a man and a woman? How can this be?! Stop!"
Many of the won were agitated, but it was the Lesser Fate Officer whose reaction was the most visceral of all. Make no mistake, it wasn't jealousy. It was sothing else entirely.
"Ning Yuexi, have you no sha?" the Lesser Fate Officer shouted. "You already promised to give your body to Goddess Xuan Nu so she could use it to confront the Underworld! Your illicit affair with Long Tianji before was bad enough. Now you're going to be with him again? How is the Goddess supposed to control your filthy body after this?"
SLAP!
From a distance, Lin Tang struck her across the face, sending her flying. A trickle of blood escaped the corner of her mouth.
"If you don't know how to talk, then shut up! No one will think you're a mute," Lin Tang said coldly. "And don't think you can act all high and mighty just because you had the fortune of sleeping with once. Do you really believe I won't kill you? Compared to my wife, what are you? What right do you have to insult her?"
The Lesser Fate Officer's face was defiant. "Kill then! I…"
"Ruoruo, stop it!" the Chief Fate Officer cried, rushing forward to cover her mouth before turning to Lin Tang with a humiliating apology. When you're under soone else's roof, you have to bow your head. Had they not all seen how Goddess Xuan Nu's attitude did a complete one-eighty after realizing she was powerless against Long Tianji, answering his every question? "King Long Tianji, Yuexi's body is truly special. Please, let her go. With your status, you can have any woman you want. You could find a substitute to vent your desires…"
"A substitute? Vent my desires?" Lin Tang scoffed, his expression a mix of contempt and bewildernt. "What do you take her for? A tool? Let say it again: she is my wife! What I do with my wife is a natural part of life, as righteous as anything! Are you people out of your minds? You act as if you were all sculpted from mud. Weren't you born because your parents did *that*? I'm pretty sure Goddess Xuan Nu had a husband once, so what's the big deal?"
The Chief Fate Officer and the others were speechless.
"I'm done wasting my ti on you," Lin Tang sneered, pointing a finger at the Chief Fate Officer's nose and making an obscene gesture. "One more word of nonsense, and I'll have my way with every young woman here! And you'll be first!"
"!!!" The Chief Fate Officer's face went white, her body trembling violently. The re thought of being pinned down and violated by Long Tianji terrified her, sapping the strength from her limbs until she could barely stand.
As silence fell over the crowd, Lin Tang strutted off, pulling a mortified, face-hiding Ning Yuexi along with him.
Once inside the room, he locked the door. He then retrieved several miscellaneous spiritual materials from his Storage Ring and began setting up a Formation.
"What are you doing?" Ning Yuexi asked, confused.
"A small Array to block prying eyes and alert to intruders," Lin Tang explained. "Once this is in place, I'll know imdiately if anyone tries to probe this room with their Divine Sense!"
"Er—" Ning Yuexi was taken aback. "Is that really necessary? No one else here is a cultivator, let alone soone with Divine Sense."
"You," Lin Tang said, playfully flicking her nose, "have you already forgotten about Goddess Xuan Nu? She's a cultivator, too, and her Divine Sense is much stronger than mine."
"Pfft!" Ning Yuexi burst out laughing before rolling her eyes at him. "You're overthinking things. Considering the Goddess's status, and the fact she's a woman, why would she use her Divine Sense to spy on us doing… that? And even if she accidentally saw sothing, it's not a big deal, is it?"
"You're both won, so it's fine if you see each other. But I'm a man! If she saw my body, I'd be at a huge disadvantage! No way, absolutely not! I will not allow my pristine body to be seen by any woman other than my wife."
Ning Yuexi's cheek twitched. She pressed her lips together, utterly at a loss for a coback. By the ti Lin Tang had finished his preparations, she still hadn't recovered. In the next mont, he pulled her onto the bed, and they tumbled into the sheets together.
"Ah, be gentle…" Ning Yuexi tensed up again.
Lin Tang was surprised. "Hey, this isn't our first ti. Why are you acting like this?"
"You—!" Ning Yuexi shot him an annoyed glare.
Is it really so strange? Of course my mindset has changed since then. And my body's reactions have changed along with it. He doesn't even get that… what a clueless man.
Lin Tang had been eagerly anticipating his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage for a very long ti. He was vibrating with impatience and had no ti to consider such subtleties.
"Darling, co on," he said, reverting to his original appearance. He mumbled indistinctly as he began to warm things up, "After this, you might even break through to the Foundation Establishnt Stage. At the very least, you'll reach the late Qi Refining stage!"
Ning Yuexi was astonished. "It can improve my cultivation too?"
"Of course! It's called Dual Cultivation because it helps both parties. This isn't so one-sided technique where I drain you for my own benefit. What do you take for, so kind of predator?" Lin Tang shot her a look before getting back to business.
"Hmph… You were a little… predator…" Ning Yuexi whispered, a mist of unshed tears blurring her vision.
I rember when he first abducted , how I lost my innocence to him in a daze out in the wilderness. The devastation and pain I felt when I ca to my senses… This bastard! He didn't even reveal his real identity and age back then. He just slipped away! It's too outrageous! If he had just shown this face, Lin Tang's face, and told his real age from the start… I might have been a little more understanding.
"Oh? Are you saying that when you first t as Lin Tang, you were already deeply captivated by my youthful, handso looks?" Lin Tang teased with a grin.
"Not at all! Stop being so narcissistic! I just thought your dical skills were decent and that you had so talent. That's all."
"Really? I don't believe you!"
"Believe it or not, I don't care!"
"Well, I'm going to pull you down right now! Turn over!"
"Hey, hey, wait! You can do it like this?"
As the saying goes, a spring night is precious. Mont after mont passed, dozens of them in total, yet the two remained hidden away in the room. This made the Chief Fate Officer, the Lesser Fate Officer, and the others increasingly restless.
"How can it be taking this long?"
"They must be faking it, right?"
"They must have finished long ago and fallen asleep. They won't be out until morning."
"We should probably get so sleep too…"
The won whispered among themselves, preparing to return to their own rooms.
Just then—
BOOM!!
A pillar of light erupted from the roof of Ning Yuexi's room and shot straight into the heavens, illuminating the entire palace. It was a dazzling, awe-inspiring sight that made everyone's hearts pound and their bodies tremble.
Simultaneously, a gale began to howl throughout the Yaochi Heavenly Palace, and clouds roiled in the sky. Previously, thanks to Lin Tang's shenanigans, a massive amount of Spiritual Energy from the realm of Mu Ping'an's Demon Spirit Ancestor had flooded into the palace. Now, an invisible force was pulling all of that lingering energy toward Ning Yuexi's room, where it was being devoured.
"What is this…" The crowd stared blankly, unable to comprehend what was happening.
"Can what they're doing in there really cause such a commotion?"
"That bastard Long Tianji! Is he putting up a false front to cause chaos and destroy this place?"
"Should we summon the Goddess again?"
"Mother, I'm so scared…"
Everyone was panicking. If the Yaochi Heavenly Palace collapsed, they would all perish. Who wouldn't be afraid?
It was the Chief Fate Officer, with her greater experience and insight, who saw the truth. After a mont of grim observation, she called out, "Everyone, calm down! This should be a celestial phenonon caused by Long Tianji's cultivation breakthrough, not a deliberate act of destruction. Disperse!"
"What? Long Tianji is breaking through again?" The Lesser Fate Officer was dumbfounded. She rembered Goddess Xuan Nu saying that he was already a Golden Core cultivator. In this day and age, reaching the Golden Core Stage in just a few decades was a miracle of miracles. And now… he was breaking through again?! Did that an his next step was the Nascent Soul Stage?
What kind of monster is he? I was no match for him when he was at the Golden Core Stage. Once he reaches the Nascent Soul Stage, what chance will I ever have for revenge? The Lesser Fate Officer fell into despair.
That night, no one could sleep peacefully. The Chief Fate Officer and Lesser Fate Officer didn't even return to their rooms. They remained in the main hall, their expressions grave as they stared at Ning Yuexi's room, though they couldn't make sense of anything they were seeing.
「The next morning.」
The pillar of light piercing the sky had not vanished. If anything, it had grown even more brilliant. By midday, there was still no change. By afternoon… it was still going.
"How long is this going to last?!"
"Can Ning Yuexi really take it?"
"Long Tianji isn't going to break her, is he? If he does, how will the Goddess control her body?"
After several hours of rest, Goddess Xuan Nu roused again, able to remain conscious for a short while. She didn't manifest herself, choosing instead to observe from the shadows. She saw that Lin Tang was at the critical juncture of his breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage and was absorbing a trendous amount of Spiritual Energy. She was deeply conflicted.
If I were to intervene now and sabotage him, there's a high probability I could kill him, even with the protection of his nation's providence! But there's also a chance I'd fail… After all, he still has that Body Outside Body. The enmity from obstructing one's cultivation path is irreconcilable. If he survives, he'll surely drop all pretense and wage an unending war, vowing to destroy the entire Yaochi Heavenly Palace. He would no longer care about the Underworld invasion, the return of the gods, or the greater good. Worse, if I make a move and drive him to madness, he might drag Ning Yuexi down with him in self-destruction. Then where would I find another physical body? But once Long Tianji reaches the Nascent Soul Stage and has it amplified by his nation's providence, his position will be unshakable. My hopes for revenge will be extinguished… On the other hand, if we can turn from enemies to allies, he would be a top-tier asset against the Underworld invasion. Our chances against the new gods from the stars would be much higher, too… Let it be. Things have already co to this. I shouldn't take any more risks. But I fear he'll only beco more audacious. He's already so insolent toward . In the future, will he be lording it over my head? How laughable. He actually set up a warning Array to prevent my Divine Sense from peeking… As if I, the great Goddess Xuan Nu, would stoop to spying on their sordid little affair. I can only imagine what he's done to Ning Yuexi… Damn it all. When I eventually take over Ning Yuexi's body, it will no longer be 'unblemished'… I might even passively inherit so of her mories of… doing *that* with him… How could I possibly accept such an experience, feeling it as if it were my own?!
Her hatred for Long Tianji intensified.
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