"Sigh."
Luo Xiu let out a soft sigh, waved his hand listlessly, and turned to walk away.
"I'm indeed not soone girls like, but you really know how to kill the mood."
Luo Qingxian didn't mind, looking at Luo Xiu's back indifferently, "Just for tonight, I'll let you use the Heavenly Light Spirit Gathering Place, but after this, you are never allowed to set foot in my dormitory again."
Luo Xiu smiled, "I just said you kill the mood, and you actually took your faults to the extre."
"Fine, just one night. It's enough for ."
Luo Qingxian ignored him, let out a silent sigh, and turned to gaze at the night outside the window.
The news that "Bai Haoran stayed the night in the Saintess' Dormitory on his wedding night" would surely spread across the Lingtian Plateau tomorrow, causing a sensation.
Though the wedding was held simply, all eyes on the Lingtian Plateau were fixed on it.
Even though the groom was not here to consummate the marriage but just to use the Heavenly Light Spirit Gathering Place... who would believe that if it got out?
Thinking of this, Luo Qingxian felt a burst of frustration and confusion.
She recalled the night of the anomaly in the Evergreen Forest, and the sudden appearance of a man, bringing an aching pain in her heart.
"Surely… His Majesty would also hear of my marriage tonight, and the groom staying overnight in my dormitory, wouldn't he?"
"Your Majesty, where are you?"
…
In the Saintess' Dormitory.
Luo Xiu stopped beside a circular pool, thoughtfully gazing at the round platform protruding seven inches from the water in the center of the pool.
A beam of light from the transparent crystal do above fell precisely onto the platform, illuminating it entirely.
It was neither moonlight nor sunlight.
It was the Heavenly Light Spirit Gathering Place, a boundary between night and day.
Its area was smaller than Luo Xiu had imagined, at most the size of a single room.
Luo Xiu leaped lightly and landed directly on the platform.
The next mont, he felt spiritual energy from the heavens and the earth several tis denser than in the Evergreen Forest, and within the scope of the peculiar heavenly light, there was an indescribable aura of the Dao.
Imrsed within, Luo Xiu seed to enter a cosmic expanse, observing the myriad phenona, feeling greatly enlightened.
"Truly a treasure ground for cultivation."
Luo Xiu sighed inwardly and sat down cross-legged.
After leisurely adjusting his ntal and physical state to the optimum, Luo Xiu began to refine the Dao Jade.
Though it was his first practice, Luo Xiu was well-prepared.
"For the first Dao Jade, I'll try using the 'Heavenly Vermilion Sword of Ten Thousand Prisons'."
With that thought, Luo Xiu focused his mind and began to carefully perceive the Dao Marks of the "Heavenly Vermilion Sword of Ten Thousand Prisons," preparing to offer it to the Dao.
Previously, Zuo Qianhuang had explained to him—the so-called offering of Divine Skills to refine Dao Jade requires integrating the divine skills you've comprehended with heaven and earth, thereby clarifying the Dao Marks.
Finally, the clarified Dao Marks must be imprinted within one's complex ridian pathways, forming a world unto themselves.
Thus, the Dao Jade is ford!
Given Luo Xiu's talent, accomplishing this should be effortless, yet the challenge lay in imprinting the clarified Dao Marks upon his own ridians, forming a personal realm.
As the process began, Luo Xiu felt as if the entire great Dao of the cosmos was rejecting him, seemingly attempting to erase his existence.
Moreover, the sensation of having sothing forcibly inserted into his ridians caused him unbearable pain.
…
The cool night breeze brushed lightly, lifting Luo Qingxian's fragrant hair.
Having conceded her nightly use of the Heavenly Light Spirit Gathering Place to a profligate, Luo Qingxian was left to ditate quietly by the window sill.
In the silence, Luo Qingxian sensed sothing amiss, abruptly opened her eyes, and turned towards the platform a hundred ters away.
At this mont, Luo Xiu sat cross-legged on the platform, his body emitting a hazy aura, with strands of fiery twisted light swirling around him, appearing to be pathways linked to the Dao.
As soone familiar with the process, Luo Qingxian recognized at a glance that Luo Xiu was refining Dao Jade.
"This profligate's strength is terrifying; his cultivation realm must be unfathomable. So why is he refining Dao Jade?"
"Could it be he practices dual cultivation?"
At the thought, a trace of surprise flickered in Luo Qingxian's eyes.
Though the profligate was annoying, Luo Qingxian had to admit: this profligate was a once-in-a-lifeti genius of the Daoist path!
As Luo Qingxian pondered, ethereal celestial lodies echoed in the void, as the twisted light strands around Luo Xiu rapidly returned to his body, and the next mont, his whole being radiated brilliant Dao light.
"He succeeded!"
At this sight, Luo Qingxian's eyes brightened.
A palm-sized, fiery red sword-shaped Dao Jade quietly erged in the void behind Luo Xiu.
"To refine a Dao Jade in such a short ti—say what you will, this profligate truly has talent."
Luo Qingxian leaped down from the window sill, her white dress fluttering, appearing instantly by the pool with a flash.
Looking at Luo Xiu on the platform, she spoke with indifference, "Now that you've successfully refined the Dao Jade, it's ti for you to leave."
On the platform.
Luo Xiu, drenched in sweat, opened his eyes, gasped, and said, "Isn't the Holy Maiden... a bit too stingy? So eager to see go?"
Luo Qingxian, with an impatient expression, "What else do you want to do?"
Luo Xiu took a deep breath, suppressing his physical pain, and said, "I want to continue refining Dao Jade."
Upon hearing this, Luo Qingxian's beautiful eyes slightly trembled, looking at Luo Xiu with an expression akin to seeing an idiot.
It was truly the first ti she'd encountered anyone daring to consecutively offer Divine Skills to refine Dao Jade!
Under normal circumstances, a cultivator could only refine one Dao Jade in two years. Forcing consecutive refinent, success notwithstanding, would result in adverse effects, with Dao energy inflicting irreversible damage on the body.
"Are you mad?"
Luo Xiu smiled calmly, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Didn't you say I could only use the Heavenly Light Spirit Gathering Place for one night? I must make the most of my ti."
Luo Qingxian's eyes filled with scorn, "You're overthinking it. I'm not worried about you; I'm just afraid you'd die here, leaving to handle your corpse."
At this, Luo Xiu rely chuckled, ceased speaking further, closed his eyes, and continued to offer the Divine Skills.
So-called "closing one's eyes without speaking" suggests nothing more.
He had long completed "Refine Self," and his physique was naturally strong enough to withstand the continuous refining pain brought by the Dao Jade.
Moreover, the Fortune-Forming Power would automatically repair the damage caused by the Dao aura to his body.
And this was the confidence that allowed him to dare continuous refining of Dao Jade!
For the second Dao Jade, he planned to sacrifice the "Space-splitting Divine Thunder."
However, as the sacrifice began, he only then realized it was much more difficult than refining the first one.
After about an hour.
A sudden surge of Dao light erupted on the round platform!
A lightning-shaped Dao Jade appeared in the void behind Luo Xiu.
Already returned to the windowsill, Luo Qingxian couldn't help but look shocked upon seeing this, "I didn't expect this profligate to actually succeed."
"But seeing his current state, he should be completely exhausted."
At this mont, Luo Xiu was lying powerlessly on the round platform, drenched in sweat, his face pale as snow, as if he had suffered a severe illness.
Indescribable pain spread throughout his body, inside and out. Even casually moving a finger would trigger piercing agony.
Moreover, he also paid the price.
His vision had been stripped away, his eyes rendered completely blind.
But he wasn't worried, for the Fortune-Forming Power was healing.
At the windowsill.
Luo Qingxian intended to find Luo Xiu and expel him from the dormitory. However, to her surprise, after a short rest, Luo Xiu climbed up again, sat cross-legged, and began refining the third Dao Jade.
"Crazy, truly crazy!"
"Ao Debiao, are you courting death?"
Luo Xiu weakly replied, "Don't worry, I know my limits."
"....."
Ti slipped away, second by second.
Four hours later, a sudden surge of Dao light enveloped Luo Xiu, and in the void behind him appeared an oddly shaped Dao Jade, precisely his "Primordial Yellow Springs Dance."
Luo Qingxian saw this and felt her scalp tingling.
To successively refine three Dao Jades and even succeed was nearly akin to a miracle!
"This profligate truly is sothing else."
But just as Luo Qingxian was silently marveling, Luo Xiu on the round platform suddenly spat a mouthful of blood skyward and then collapsed powerlessly.
Luo Qingxian's beautiful eyes slightly trembled, and she swiftly flew towards him.
"Ao Debiao, what's wrong with you?"
At that mont, Luo Xiu was unconscious, his breathing faint.
After checking him over, Luo Qingxian discovered that Luo Xiu was not in any life-threatening condition, having simply paid a significant price, and thus she was slightly relieved.
"I told you not to continually refine Dao Jade, and you wouldn't listen. Serves you right!"
She lifted Luo Xiu and flew him away from the platform, then tossed him onto a jade table, taking out an Elixir to feed him.
Looking at the jade table and seeing Luo Xiu in such a weak condition, at the rcy of others, a bold idea suddenly arose in Luo Qingxian's heart.
"Why not take this opportunity to forcibly invade his Spiritual Ocean, peep into his mories, and erase those concerning ?"
Thinking of the "White Tiger Fairy" in Luo Xiu's words, she was suddenly furious, and her thoughts beca firr.
"Ao Debiao, I'm sorry... but rest assured, I will only erase those unpleasant mories regarding . I won't peep into your privacy or harm you."
"....."
Ti passed slowly.
Luo Qingxian sat cross-legged, looking at Luo Xiu, lying flat in the Seven-Star Light Formation, his body marked with runes painted in vermillion. Her lips slightly pressed together, her heart hesitating.
The "Seven-Star Soul Ignition Formation" is a secret technique used to spy on and erase others' mories, even capable of altering them.
This is undoubtedly a secret technique that breaches ethics, generally used only against those with heinous cris.
But the situation had reached this point, Luo Qingxian had no retreat.
"Ao Debiao, don't worry; I won't harm you. I just wish to erase those unpleasant mories of ."
Luo Qingxian took a deep breath and closed her eyes, forcefully intruding her Divine Sense into Luo Xiu's Spiritual Ocean, traversing his mories.
Of course, she only specifically sought mories related to her in Luo Xiu's mind.
As for Luo Xiu's other mories, she directly overlooked them.
In those familiar scenes of mory, through Luo Xiu's perspective, she saw herself in various different contexts.
Ti slowly ticked by.
Suddenly, she trembled, falling back to a sit, staring at Luo Xiu in disbelief.
At that mont, her mind was flashing with scenes from the Ancient God Ruins at the Golden Roc Nest.
Tears silently stread down from the corners of her eyes.
"Your Majesty... he is actually His Majesty!"
"How can this be?"
"Turns out, you were by my side all along."
"Boom——!"
Just then, a loud noise echoed in her mind.
It was Luo Xiu's powerful Divine Soul autonomously resisting, dispersing her intruding Divine Sense.
Simultaneously, Luo Xiu, due to the intense pain in his brain, awakened and abruptly sat up.
"Luo Qingxian, what did you do to ?!"
"....."
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