15: Master, please wait for me!

When she asked this question, the unconscious urgency and trembling in her voice instantly gave Ma Dehong a lifeline!

So that's it! She still doesn't know about Su Lin's return!

"Reporting... reporting to Demon Venerable Lord!"

Ma Dehong dared not conceal anything.

"Supreme Being Su has returned! He's in Qingyao Sect! It's just... it's just that his cultivation has greatly fallen, and he is now only at the Golden Core Stage Realm!

This lowly one was severely injured by his Seventh Disciple, Mu Qingxue!"

As he spoke, he exaggeratedly described how Mu Qingxue protected Su Lin, how she didn't hesitate to turn against the Sect Elders, and how she went on a killing spree.

His original intention was to provoke Luo Ximei's jealousy, making her feel that her Revered Master favored her Seventh Junior Sister, thereby shifting her anger to Qingyao Sect, and perhaps he could find a glimmer of hope for survival.

However, after Luo Ximei heard his words, the expression on her face became somewhat strange.

She showed no jealousy, nor anger.

Only in her eyes, a surge of ecstasy flashed first, then transformed into overflowing possessiveness and excitement.

"Revered Master... has returned?"

"His cultivation... fallen to the Golden Core Stage?"

"And... the first one he sought was Little Seven?"

"Hehehe... Excellent... This is truly excellent!"

"Little Seven, that ice-faced girl, has the most uninteresting personality. How would she know how to take care of Revered Master?"

"Revered Master has lost all his cultivation now; he must be very lonely and insecure... He truly needs a thoughtful person to accompany him day and night..."

Ma Dehong looked at her infatuated expression, and alarm bells rang in his heart, a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

He finally realized what a foolish mistake he had made.

The possessiveness these female disciple had for their Revered Master was not a normal emotion at all!

It was a twisted, deeply ingrained obsession!

"Well then, thank you for bringing me this good news."

Luo Ximei's gaze fell back on Ma Dehong, "As a reward, I will grant you the most comfortable death."

"No... Demon Venerable Lord! You promised to spare my life!" Ma Dehong shrieked in terror.

"Yes, I did."

Luo Ximei tilted her head, "I lied to you."

Before her words finished, two pink, eerie lights suddenly shot from her hand, instantly embedding themselves into Ma Dehong's glabella.

He felt his Divine Soul plunge into an illusion composed of endless tenderness and bliss.

"For... for Demon Venerable Lord... I offer everything..."

He mutteredfoolishly as his Physical Body began to shrivel at a visible speed.

Luo Ximei turned around, looking towards the distant direction of Qingyao Sect.

"Revered Master, you must wait for me..."

"This time, this Disciple will not let anyone take you away from me again."

Inside the Immortal Cave, Su Lin waited quietly.

He sensed that the cold and fierce killing intent outside, after a brief release, receded like a tide, eventually returning to nothingness.

All this happened within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.

He sighed softly in his heart; a hundred years had indeed changed too much.

The once timid Little Seven had now become a titan who could kill as she pleased and annihilate powerful enemies with a flick of her finger.

Just then, he sensed a familiar aura arriving outside the Immortal Cave.

Mu Qingxue had returned... In front of the Immortal Cave's stone door, Mu Qingxue's figure quietly appeared.

She paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and forcibly suppressed the surging Qi and blood from the recent slaughter.

She raised her hand to tidy the strands of hair by her temples, carefully retracting all the murderous Qi that could freeze a Divine Soul, and her eyes, which were crimson with anger, returned to their clear state.

Only after all this was done did the expression unique to her in front of Su Lin reappear on her face.

Revered Master was still waiting for her inside.

The flies outside had been dealt with; now, no one would disturb them anymore.

A surge of warmth filled her heart, and she was about to raise her hand to open the Restriction on the stone door, but just then.

"Little Seven, hogging Revered Master all to yourself isn't being a good child, you know."

A woman's voice, bone-deep lazy yet filled with endless charm, resonated softly behind her without warning.

Mu Qingxue's body suddenly stiffened!

"How did she get here!!!"

She whirled around, her sharp gaze like two icy swords, piercing behind her.

Not far away, under a peach tree, a seductive and alluring beautiful figure leaned against the tree trunk, looking at her with captivating eyes.

The person who arrived was none other than her Fifth Senior Sister—Luo Ximei—whom she hadn't seen in decades and who was now the Demon Path Supreme Being!

"Luo Ximei!" Mu Qingxue's voice was squeezed out from between her teeth, "Since when did my Qingyao Sect become a place for a Demonic Path fiend like you to enter and exit as you please?"

She deliberately emphasized the words "Demonic Path fiend" to draw a clear line and gain the upper hand.

"Oh my, why speak so formally?"

Luo Ximei giggled, completely ignoring the hostility in her words, and strode towards her with graceful steps.

"Revered Master has returned, so as an Elder sister, I naturally rushed here to visit him immediately."

She stopped in front of Mu Qingxue, slightly taller than her, and looked down at her a little, sniffing lightly with her nose, then dramatically furrowed her brows.

"Tsk tsk, what a strong smell of blood.

Little Seven, Revered Master has just returned, his Divine Soul is unstable, and his cultivation is low. How could you make such a big commotion outside his door, filling the air with blood Qi? What if it disturbs Revered Master? That would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

These words, with three parts concern and seven parts provocation, were like a soft needle, precisely pricking the most sensitive spot in Mu Qingxue's heart.

Her greatest fear was leaving any bad impression on Revered Master.

Mu Qingxue's face instantly paled a few shades, and she subconsciously retorted, "I... I was cleaning up those disrespectful scoundrels who dared to offend Revered Master!"

"Is that so?" Luo Ximei covered her lips and chuckled softly, "Or was it that someone didn't guard their home well, let flies in, ruined a good thing, and then became enraged and went on a killing spree?"

With every word she spoke, she took a step forward, and the invisible pressure emanating from her actually made Mu Qingxue involuntarily take a step back.

Just then, the aura around Luo Ximei subtly released and retracted without warning.

It was a terrifying pressure far more profound than the Void Refining Stage, and more attuned to the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!

Although it lasted only an instant, it struck Mu Qingxue like a lightning bolt, freezing her in place!

Her pupils suddenly contracted, her face drained of color, and she exclaimed in a lost voice, "Body Integration Stage?! You... you've actually broken through to the Body Integration Stage?!"

This discovery shook her more profoundly than any verbal provocation from Luo Ximei just now!

For a hundred years, she had considered herself a peerless genius, diligent in cultivation, always leading her other Junior Sisters, and was the undisputed first to break through to the Void Refining Stage.

But she never expected that her Fifth Senior Sister had quietly surpassed her.

"Shh—" Luo Ximei placed a jade finger to her lips, "Lower your voice, don't scare Revered Master inside."

She walked past the stunned Mu Qingxue, directly to the Immortal Cave's stone door, as if it were her own home.

"Revered Master," she didn't touch the Restriction, but softly called out to the stone door, "This Disciple, Ximei, has come to see you."