After taking a deep breath, Pei Ruyi forcefully suppressed the urge to leave.
For some reason, the Ye Luqing today seemed to carry a special charm. Her entire person felt different.
Just seeing the other’s face was enough to make her resolute Dao heart begin to waver.
“Junior Sister Ye, I’ve come to fulfill my agreement,” Pei Ruyi said, pretending to be calm.
Hearing this, Ye Luqing raised an eyebrow. How was it that just the day before yesterday, she had been calling her “Senior Sister Ye,” but now, after a single day, she’d been demoted to “Junior Sister”?
Seeming to sense Ye Luqing’s question, Pei Ruyi explained:
“I have already been accepted as a Direct Disciple by the Fifth Elder of Heavenly Sword Peak. There is no longer any distinction of status between the two of us…”
Originally, she had addressed Ye Luqing as “Senior Sister Ye.” One reason was that she hadn’t known Ye Luqing’s cultivation had fallen below her own, and the other was due to Ye Luqing’s status as a Direct Disciple.
Ye Luqing curled her lip. All this changing back and forth was such a hassle.
But whatever. Junior sister it is. In terms of seniority, Xiao Qingxuan also called her junior sister. Might as well get used to it early.
“It looks like I’ll have to hurry and break through to the Nascent Soul stage. I’d much rather hear you call me ‘Senior Sister.’” Ye Luqing looked at Pei Ruyi with a grin.
“I won’t give you that chance…” Pei Ruyi murmured, lowering her head.
“Pardon? What did you say?”
Ye Luqing squinted slightly, the corner of her lips curling into a playful smile. She bent down and craned her head up, leaning close to scrutinize the Pei Ruyi who was a full head taller than her.
“N-Nothing…”
Pei Ruyi gently turned her head away, her brow slightly knitted, as if deliberately avoiding Ye Luqing’s line of sight.
For some reason, Ye Luqing seemed very strange to her today.
Normally, she would have retorted neither humbly nor arrogantly, telling Ye Luqing she wouldn’t be given the chance to surpass her.
But today, though Ye Luqing’s expression was unserious, between her brows there lay an irrefutable authority, forcefully bending Pei Ruyi’s ramrod-straight Sword Heart, almost as if trying to completely dominate her entire being.
“Hmph…”
As if seeing through Pei Ruyi’s lack of confidence, Ye Luqing’s lips curved into a sly, triumphant smile.
She wasn’t entirely sure what Pei Ruyi was thinking, but it was probably the “Magnetic Charm” title taking effect.
In Pei Ruyi’s eyes, her own appearance and temperament had adaptively become the other’s ideal type.
In that case, she’d make good use of her to properly play the role of Xiao Qingxuan and repay the debt for the Profound Yellow Pill she’d consumed yesterday.
Six Desires Triggering Array, activate!
Using the Seven Emotions Branch as a formation artifact, Ye Luqing secretly activated the Six Desires Triggering Array she had just learned.
Back when she was waiting for Ying Qianqian to comprehend the Six Desires Triggering Array, she had already constructed the array’s rune circuits.
Now that the array runes had been engraved into the Seven Emotions Branch, she could activate the array and covertly stir the already-shaken spirit of Pei Ruyi.
With such a perfect opportunity, she wanted to test the combined effect of the “Magnetic Charm” title and the Six Desires Triggering Array.
In the next instant, she directly reached out and lightly tapped Pei Ruyi’s back. Then, slowly, she drew her hand down past the other’s waist and finally prodded that long-trained, tight lower abdomen.
“Nnh…”
As if the sensation of pleasure had been infinitely amplified, Pei Ruyi instinctively let out a delicate, alluring moan. Her body followed suit, trembling out of character.
The body she had honed through thousands of daily sword swings as a sword cultivator felt as though Ye Luqing had instantly found its weakness.
How could this be…
Pei Ruyi gasped in small breaths, her icy, aloof face gradually tinged with two flushed clouds.
It had only been a single day. Just what had happened to Ye Luqing?
She looked back. In just the time she had been lost in thought, Ye Luqing had already walked over to the courtyard gate and was now sizing her up with a smile playing in her eyes.
Even though there was no malice whatsoever in that gaze, Pei Ruyi felt as if her body had been seen through entirely, as if she held not a single secret before Ye Luqing.
“What are you standing around for? Hurry up and come in.”
“My very own… Se-nior Sis-ter Stool.”
Ye Luqing was in a good mood and quite satisfied with Pei Ruyi’s reaction.
If the Magnetic Charm title turned Pei Ruyi’s iron will into hardened wood, then the Six Desires Triggering Array continued to soften that wood into a rope that could be kneaded at will.
She was already looking forward to what effect it would have on Xiao Qingxuan.
“Guh!”
Hearing such an insulting address paired with Ye Luqing’s teasing smile, Pei Ruyi felt her heart clench, and she subconsciously tightened her legs.
She clearly should have been infuriated by it, yet her lower abdomen faintly trembled in restless agitation instead.
She lowered her head deeply. Her throat moved instinctively, and she spat out a sentence that was faint as a mosquito’s buzz, yet hinted at a subconscious admission of obedience taking root in her heart.
“Got it…”
…………
Watching Pei Ruyi, now dressed in Xiao Qingxuan’s clothes, Ye Luqing clicked her tongue in amazement.
This set of clothes was something she had bought from the Corruption Value Shop. The set had cost thirty points and even came with a complimentary Xiao Qingxuan signature body scent.
She had a feeling the System was some sort of perverted deviant, having filched it from Xiao Qingxuan herself at some unknown point in time.
Pei Ruyi sat in the chair, her hands folded uneasily in front of her. Her movements were also somewhat constrained and restless.
Wearing Senior Sister Xiao’s clothes, inhaling Senior Sister Xiao’s scent—it was as if her entire being was enveloped in Senior Sister Xiao’s embrace.
It should have been a comfortable experience, so why, in front of Ye Luqing, did she feel this strange sense of guilt?
“Why… why do you want me to wear Senior Sister Xiao’s clothes?”
“Just what are you planning on making me do…?”
Ye Luqing, smiling, walked up in front of Pei Ruyi and hooked her finger under that delicate, exquisite chin.
“If we’re going to seek thrills, we might as well follow through all the way.”
With that, she increased the power output of the Six Desires Triggering Array, making Pei Ruyi even more compliant to her will.
“Come now, look at me.”
Unable to disobey Ye Luqing’s command, Pei Ruyi shifted her gaze onto the other’s face and stared blankly into those amber-colored eyes.
“Let’s find out what the limit of the Six Desires Triggering Array is when used against a Nascent Soul cultivator…”
Having made her mental calculations, Ye Luqing proceeded to channel more true qi and spiritual power into the runes within the Seven Emotions Branch.
“Nnh…”
Pei Ruyi felt the golden light in Ye Luqing’s eyes blaze intensely, and then a strange floral scent rushed into her nasal cavity. Her brain instantly went hazy for a moment, as if it had been mashed into paste by something.
“Nngh…”
Even the most basic seven emotions and six desires became impossible to control. The harder she tried to maintain her cold, aloof, and modest image, the more her expression lost all composure.
Looking at the utterly infatuated, slack expression on Pei Ruyi’s face, Ye Luqing nodded with satisfaction.
“Good junior sister. Call me Senior Sister.”
“Senior Sister Ye…”
Sensing Pei Ruyi’s completely obedient attitude, Ye Luqing immediately grew bolder.
“Stick out your tongue.”
“Gluh…”
Pei Ruyi parted her cherry lips slightly and obediently extended her soft, fragrant little tongue.
If outsiders could see the usually aloof true disciple of Heavenly Sword Peak in this other, private state, who knows how many sword cultivator disciples’ fantasies would be shattered.
“They say all sword cultivators have a body forged of unyielding Sword Bone. So why is it that when it comes to Junior Sister Pei, she’s nothing but Charm Bone?”
Watching Pei Ruyi pant like a little dog, Ye Luqing couldn’t help but tease her.
“Haa— Haa—”
Since the previous command still hadn’t ended, Pei Ruyi maintained her tongue-out state, unable to utter even a single complete sentence.
At this moment, Pei Ruyi sat in the chair, leaning forward, her legs trembling slightly. Her plain white robes, soaked with fragrant sweat, had turned translucent and glistening.
This cold fairy of Heavenly Sword Peak, whose clear blue eyes were usually so pure, now had a gaze that was seductive and alluring. Her eyes were full of bewildered, ambiguous affection.
“She’s reached her limit,” Ye Luqing thought to herself.
If she continued to toy with Pei Ruyi’s emotions using the Six Desires Triggering Array, the other party’s sanity might very well collapse. That would be troublesome.
The supply of true qi ceased, and the Six Desires Triggering Array slowly came to a stop.
“If only I could train Xiao Qingxuan into this state…” she sighed inwardly.
