“Nngh…”
“Hm…”
Bai Yuhan’s face was flushed, her swan-like beautiful neck tilted upward slightly. Her full, rosy lips were slightly puckered, the plump peaks of her lips as delicate and alluring as rose petals, rendered even more captivating beneath the veil of white gauze over her face.
Under Ying Qianqian’s massage, her voluptuous body trembled and quivered. Her gourd-shaped figure, shining with a moist luster, seemed to ripple in wave after wave.
Instinctively, she wanted to resist, but she feared she would fail to control her strength and inadvertently injure Ying Qianqian and Ye Luqing, who were only at the Golden Core stage.
“Shizun toils so hard for our peak day after day. As her disciples, we’ve long wished to help Shizun relieve her burdens.” Ye Luqing leaned in close to Bai Yuhan’s ear, her voice dripping with temptation.
“Today, we simply wish to help Shizun relax her body. We hope Shizun won’t find it distasteful.”
It was as if deliberately, her little tongue would graze Bai Yuhan’s earlobe every few words she spoke.
“Ugh… you child…”
Looking at Ye Luqing, whose temperament bore a slight resemblance to Feng Linyi’s, Bai Yuhan’s body gradually went limp.
Feeling Bai Yuhan’s body cease its resistance, Ye Luqing nodded with satisfaction. She then stepped back and watched the scene of her junior sister Ying Qianqian massaging their Shizun.
As expected of Little Ying. With those skillful hands of hers, even a Dao Integration Realm Dao Venerable couldn’t hold out.
Now this is what you call a taboo massage (leans back).
After a full ke of time, Ying Qianqian finally stopped her hands.
“Senior Sister, is this enough?” Ying Qianqian asked quietly.
Watching Bai Yuhan retreat into the inner room to change her slightly damp gauze robe, Ye Luqing nodded.
Sect Master Feng Linyi had been in seclusion for quite some time now. As her underground dao companion, Bai Yuhan naturally hadn’t entered the Erotic Space in a long while.
Bai Yuhan resided alone at the summit of Azure Sky Peak and held the noble status of a Dao Integration Realm Dao Venerable, so she was naturally very reserved.
At a time like this, it was perfectly natural for her Direct Disciples to come and “slightly” help relieve their Shizun’s accumulated minor fatigue, right?
What’s that? You say they’re insubordinate disciples offending their master? I don’t recall any offending happening. It was just a simple massage.
What’s that? You ask why the massage caused so much sweat?
It’s special effects. I added special effects.
After changing into a fresh set of clothes, Bai Yuhan came back out and sat down across from Ye Luqing and Ying Qianqian once more. The way she looked at them had become rather odd.
These two junior disciples of her Azure Sky Peak… why were they developing more and more in that unseemly direction of Feng Linyi’s?
After pondering for a moment, Bai Yuhan sighed and produced a purple scroll, unfurling it before the two of them.
Ye Luqing and Ying Qianqian cast their gazes upon the array diagram, their eyes immediately flickering with profound and cryptic runes.
“This Yin-Yang Meridian Array was originally intended to be passed on to you once you reached the Nascent Soul stage.”
“When I was breaking through to the Void Comprehension stage, I happened upon a sudden inspiration and created this array suite, perfectly suited for two-person use.”
“When this array is activated, it can link the two of you together. Whether true qi, spiritual power, or even your innermost thoughts—all can be transmitted through the array.”
“The power of this array suite falls short of a ‘grand array,’ so once you’ve mastered it, you can engrave its runes into the formation artifacts you carry in advance, ensuring it can be activated at any time.”
With this array, Ye Luqing, as the main attacker, could enhance her offensive capabilities, and Ying Qianqian, responsible for support, would also have much greater self-preservation.
If their synergy was seamless, they could even achieve instantaneous transfer of true qi and spiritual power, creating a localized two-on-one effect.
Gazing at the array diagram swirling with violet and blue light, Ye Luqing soon became completely engrossed.
“It’s beautiful…”
As if she had an innate affinity for spell arrays, Ye Luqing found it momentarily difficult to look away.
These arcane and inscrutable arrays were even more fascinating to her than the anime waifus back on Earth.
“Could this be because of the original host’s talent for arrays? Or is it due to some other reason within myself?” she mused inwardly.
It wasn’t just the allure that arrays held for her. Ye Luqing had also noticed that her speed at deploying arrays was much faster than that of other array cultivators.
It was like solving math problems. Other array cultivators had to slowly derive things from the fundamental formulas, while she could directly pull out the ultimate formula and use it.
Watching Ye Luqing and Ying Qianqian engrossed in comprehending the array diagram, Bai Yuhan let out an almost imperceptible sigh. Inwardly, she thought:
“Xiao-Qing once had the experience of being at the Nascent Soul stage. Comprehending this array diagram should be no problem for her.”
“There are still three days until the Grand Tournament. I wonder if Little Ying will be able to fully unleash the array’s power.”
In Bai Yuhan’s judgment, even if both of them could successfully comprehend the array and fully bring out the diagram’s power, they would at best make it to the top four.
If they were unlucky and ran into a seeded team of two peak Nascent Soul cultivators midway, they could very well be halted at the top eight.
As for winning the championship… even as their Shizun, she didn’t believe these two Direct Disciples of hers could pull it off.
“This year is still too much of a stretch,” Bai Yuhan thought to herself.
“By next year, once they’ve broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, we can revisit the matter of seizing the title.”
…………
Pei Ruyi slowly made her way up the foot of Azure Sky Peak.
The outer disciples watched her with gazes that were part confusion, part wariness, and part curiosity.
Most of them knew about the affair last night where Senior Sister Pei had been defeated by Senior Sister Ye. But the other party was still a Nascent Soul disciple from Heavenly Sword Peak, after all—not someone they, as mere outer disciples, could casually discuss.
Pei Ruyi seemed to pay no mind to their stares whatsoever. She walked up to one of the outer disciples.
“Excuse me, where is Junior Sister Ye Luqing’s residence?”
“Er, the Direct Disciples are all over by Emerald Water Lake…”
“Many thanks.”
Watching Pei Ruyi’s back as she continued ascending the mountain, the many outer disciples finally let out a collective breath of relief.
“What did Senior Sister Pei say to you just now?” one disciple asked, curiously stepping forward.
“She asked me where Senior Sister Ye lives.”
Hearing this, the surrounding disciples immediately crowded around.
“You told her?”
“What if she’s holding a grudge from yesterday’s loss and came to seek revenge on Senior Sister Ye?”
“Surely not. With Shizun keeping vigil over the summit, who would dare cause trouble inside the peak?”
While the disciples were all chirping away, Pei Ruyi had already walked far into the distance.
The higher she climbed, the more gazes fixed upon her from the peak. Among them, there was no lack of malice born from her challenge-match trespass the day before.
The closer she drew to where Ye Luqing was, the heavier her heart grew.
“So this is what it felt like for Ye Luqing when she would come to Heavenly Sword Peak…”
She rarely went to other peaks for personal errands. Seeking someone out to fulfill an agreement like this was a first for her.
Whenever some person came to their Heavenly Sword Peak clinging to Senior Sister Xiao, she would always put on a cold face that kept others at a thousand li distance.
Carrying this preconceived attitude, her treatment of Ye Luqing on Heavenly Sword Peak could be described as nothing less than terrible.
Now that their positions were swapped, she could finally feel the hardship Ye Luqing had endured all these years.
Even in the face of so much malice, she still came to Xiao Qingxuan’s side.
Pei Ruyi had also heard bits and pieces about Ye Luqing’s situation. Ever since enrolling, her eldest senior sister Bai He had been in seclusion charging for the Spirit Transformation stage, leaving no one to care for her. She could only live by herself in that small courtyard for Direct Disciples.
It was only under Shizun Bai Yuhan’s entrusting that she found Xiao Qingxuan, who had enrolled in the same cohort, and no longer wandered about all alone.
On Heavenly Sword Peak, aside from clinging to Senior Sister Xiao, Ye Luqing had never done anything improper. On the contrary, she was like an adorably well-behaved little animal.
“Have I perhaps been too harsh with her all this time…?” Pei Ruyi murmured softly.
But the sound of her voice had barely faded when she saw someone leisurely strolling over from the shores of Emerald Water Lake. It was none other than Ye Luqing, who had just come down the mountain after comprehending the array at the summit.
Ye Luqing walked up to her courtyard, and the moment she lifted her eyes, she spotted Pei Ruyi standing not far away. Her brows arched slightly, and the corner of her lips hooked into a teasing smile.
“Ah, Senior Sister Stool is here?”
Hearing this, the corner of Pei Ruyi’s eye couldn’t help but twitch. She instinctively felt like turning around and leaving.
As expected, she really, really hated Ye Luqing.
