481: Supporting the waist and retreating

The cold voice carved into this solidified space like a decree.

"I respectfully obey the Sect Head's decree!" Ying's voice remained indifferent and waveless.

His figure was like ice melting into water, fading and disappearing silently in place, leaving only two dim green lights on the celadon floor that immediately vanished.

The hall returned to silence.

Sect Head White Cloud Master sat upright with his eyes closed, supreme dao rhyme flowing ceaselessly around his body.

The scorching sun hung fiercely in the middle of the sky.

Yao Delong took a light breath of the clear, moist, and warm Spiritual Qi on Luoxia Peak, feeling as if his waist was still entangled by the numbing aftertaste left by the erosion of that extreme water essence.

Even with his currently reshaped Soul Transformation divine body and the surging blood energy refined by the Great Sun Body Forging Art, he actually felt a hint of unfamiliar—fatigue!

The blazing true energy hidden beneath Cang Yunyao's ice-soul jade bones... was actually more overbearing than a prehistoric Vicious Beast!

It was even superior to the Weak Water True Art she cultivated!

It seemed that every time he invoked that pure Profound Yin Origin, it was simultaneously tempering the sharpness of the blazing sun true energy within his body!

Yet, the tempering of the dao foundation brought about by this rotation of ice and fire and the fusion of extreme Realms... was unexpectedly violent and beyond imagination in its nourishment of his blazing sun flame dao foundation!

"Good Junior Brother..."

A soft call, seductive to the bone, yet carrying a hint of hoarse laziness after being ravaged by a storm, drifted out from the gap in the courtyard gate, where cold Restrictions flowed.

Cang Yunyao, wrapped in a translucent, mist-like ice silk gown, leaned against the door frame. Her dark hair, like a waterfall, was still stained with undried water vapor, and her phoenix eyes were blurry with rippling water light. On her half-exposed white jade shoulder, sliding down from the collar, red finger marks remained clearly visible.

She smiled like a prehistoric Vicious Beast that was satiated but still savoring the sweetness:

"Sister here... has profound weak water mysteries... and many unresolved 'subtle dao meanings'..."

She stretched out a tender, smooth arm, beckoned in the void, and drawled her voice very softly and long:

"Remember... to come often to contemplate, and deeply—explore—the—dao—methods—okay—"

Just with this oncoming lingering charm and implied invitation, Yao Delong's Escape Light stumbled!

The Yin and Yang wheel in his Sea of Consciousness, which had just calmed down, suddenly expanded with rays of light!

His scalp tingled slightly; how could he dare to turn back to be considerate?

He thought to himself, limited by the System rules, he could only farm the yin-yang value of one person per day!

If he were to be entangled by this tigress... he feared he would really be done for today!

He forcibly steadied his mind, leaving only a hurried voice transmission:

"'The Dao is mysterious and profound', broad and deep! Junior Brother... will come to receive instruction another day! Taking my leave first!"

Before his words faded, a ray of gold and green intertwined light, like a lightning strike, "shooed" and tore through the sky, piercing far back toward the direction of Luoxia Peak!

The speed was so fast that it dragged a long-lasting, scorching turbulent air wave behind it over Spirit Water Peak!

"Hmph... coward..."

Cang Yunyao leaned against the ice jade door, watching the direction in which the light escaped, her eyes carrying a hint of drunken satisfaction, a hint of triumphant possessive satisfaction, and deep within, hiding an unspeakable surprise... and deep anticipation!

Yao Delong just stepped onto the familiar blue rock on his peak.

Whoosh...!

A hazy, water-mist-like spiritual light suddenly shrouded the cold, small courtyard.

Spirit Water Peak Revered Master Liu Yue appeared silently beside Cang Yunyao.

Her eyes, originally as calm as distant mountain ice souls, changed drastically the moment they touched the aura circulating within her Disciple's courtyard!

Immediately, her gaze pierced into her beloved Disciple's body like lightning!

"Yao'er!"

Her voice carried a hint of uncontrollable suspicion and gravity.

"You... your weak water Origin is as stable as a rock, and your Divine Soul is as refined as ten-thousand-year black ice! It doesn't look like the fluctuations and tremors a new Soul Transformation cultivator should have at all! This..."

Her gaze searched sharply for the source of the aura circulating ceaselessly around Cang Yunyao's body:

"What kind of Heaven And Earth Treasure did your family send you? To have such divine efficacy? Could it be that you found some hidden source essence of clear dew outside the Sect!?"

Cang Yunyao's heart skipped a beat!

How high was her Revered Master's cultivation and insight! Void Refining Realm, her water techniques were nearly divine! She even possessed the Legacy secret techniques of Spirit Water Peak!

The baptism brought about by the Yin-Yang Harmony triggering the rotation of creation, although mysterious in eliminating Impurities and solidifying the Origin, could ultimately not deceive the subtle sensing of water essence possessed by such an existence! Especially... the residue left here...

"M-Revered Master, please discern..."

She forcibly suppressed the turbulent waves in her heart, lowered her head and eyes, her pink face flushing (this time it was truly red), and her voice was barely audible: "It is indeed... a secret medicine that my family went to great lengths to find... it can... can cleanse soul injuries, melt and refine essence..."

She spoke haltingly, feeling very guilty herself.

Liu Yue's phoenix eyes flashed with sharp light! Her cold face showed neither joy nor anger.

That aura! Even though there was only a trace remaining! It clearly contained the same Origin, a more refined Origin mark, as the aura of Yao Delong from Luoxia Peak!

The connection in this...

Liu Yue's gaze swept lightly over Cang Yunyao's face, who was feigning shyness and panic but in reality didn't dare to make eye contact at all.

Forget it!

This was her Disciple's fortuitous encounter, and also the good fortune of Spirit Water Peak.

But involving that "wicked" boy, there was too much unspeakable Karma and fate entangled... Even Senior Brother Sect Head, who had already reached the Body Integration Realm, had not deeply investigated it... Why should she jump into the deep pool?

She was expressionless, light flowing from her fingertips, and five Medicinal Pills, the size of dragon eyes and surrounded by clear ice-water halos, floated quietly in a warm, greasy spirit jade bottle.

"This is the 'Kun Yuan Water Extreme Pill' that I requested for you from Senior Brother Dan, to assist you in further consolidating your foundation and purifying your cold abyss breath. The chores within the peak have been handed over to Hanshuang to handle for you for a period of time; just Cultivate quietly here to consolidate and improve your own strength."

"Thank you, Revered Master!"

Cang Yunyao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly accepted the jade bottle respectfully.

As the jade bottle entered her hand, a cold aura spread, exactly what she needed to consolidate at this moment.

Sunset Glow Hall.

Ethereal and cold. Deep in the vast hall, the celadon dao platform was shrouded in faint ice mist and smoke.

Leng Yuekui was still sitting on it in a moon-white, flowing cloud and crane-patterned dao dress, her posture as solitary and steep as ice hanging from a cold cliff.

But a faint, extremely obscure glimmer rising from the glazed brick floor below quietly reflected a trace of abnormality on the dao platform—those slender fingers, like white jade carvings, were unconsciously curling and stretching repeatedly, while she struggled to restrain them, clenching them back into her palm.

Annoying!

A trace of emotion, never perceived before, was hidden between her heroic, slightly furrowed brows.

Ever since she performed the secret method of transmitting power to Yao Delong several months ago, her Divine Soul intertwined with his, and their bodies cultivated together, her Realm after the Breakthrough had actually loosened again!

Several months of closed-door cultivation seemed as traceless as flowing water, but in reality, her cultivation had stagnated.

What was even more fatal was... when sitting alone, the supreme cultivation path opened because of the secret power of the guiding dance... and the lingering tactile sensation of entangling his body in the secret room and being melted through by the source light, always suddenly wrapped around her like poisonous weeds when her mind was silent!

It was clear that she only needed to form the real body bridge connection one more time, borrowing his wonderful guidance of different Origins, and it would be the work of a few easy closed-breath sessions, perhaps she could touch the edge of the invisible barrier of the Void Refinement Mid-stage!

If it really succeeded, it would save her decades or even centuries of suffering in the cold palace's desolation!

But...

Thinking of Yao Delong's angular face; and thinking of the day the Sect Head personally finalized... the Saintess engagement!

Leng Yuekui's knuckles suddenly curled, her aura felt a hint of indescribable anxiety, which she then forced down.

On that face, as cold as an iceberg, a crack of struggling Bloodline seemed to have opened.