148: A feast for the eyes! The Holy Maiden of the Joyous Union is smitten!

It was a face so vivid and alluring it could lead one to depravity.

Her seductive bone structure was innate, her stunning beauty breathtaking.

A pair of fox-like eyes shimmered with life, their gaze rippling with spring waves that could drown a man's very soul.

She wore the iconic pink palace attire of the Hehuan Sect, yet its style was far more luxurious and intricate than that of ordinary Disciples. Beneath the sheer gauze lay curves so exquisite they could make heaven and earth lose their color.

This woman's beauty was actually not the slightest bit inferior to Ling Qingzhu or Liu Ruyan.

Ling Qingzhu was a sacred lotus atop an ice-sealed mountain peak, holy and unapproachable.

Liu Ruyan was a demonic flower blooming in a crimson abyss, bewitching and lethally dangerous.

But the one before him was like the most exquisite, most enticing peony, wantonly blooming its beauty in the sea of mortal desires—as if she was born to receive the admiration, obsession, and worship of all males.

[Holy crap! A walking human-shaped hormone bomb! Top-tier, peerless beauty!]

Su Chen's heart let out the most primal exclamation of awe.

[This face, this figure, this aura... are the Hehuan Sect's recruitment standards this fiercely competitive? Does even an ordinary female Disciple look like this? If they formed a group and debuted, how would female cultivators from other Sects even survive!]

He instinctively assumed she was just an ordinary Disciple of the Hehuan Sect.

In his view, how could a femme fatale of this caliber be wandering alone in a mixed and chaotic night market?

And the beauty Su Chen had mentally stamped as peerless was none other than the current Saintess of the Hehuan Sect, Hua Yingxue.

At this moment, a tempestuous storm was raging within Hua Yingxue's heart.

Today, she had originally come out to 'observe the scene' with her Junior Sister, Mei Xinnu, while also scouting for suitable 'Cauldron' candidates in preparation for the upcoming demon codex.

But she never expected to encounter, in such a filthy place, a man who made her Dao Heart tremble violently.

He was too handsome!

This was beyond description by words like 'dashing' or 'handsome.'

That face seemed like a perfect work of art, gathering the essence of heaven and earth, meticulously carved by gods and demons themselves.

Especially against the backdrop of the surrounding motley crew of grotesque and bizarre demonic cultivators, he was like an entire mountain of diamonds dumped into a garbage heap!

So dazzling that even she, the 'Lifetime Honorary President of the Face-Lover Association,' felt her breath catch and her mind go blank.

[Heavens! What divine beauty is this! My Hehuan Sect has scoured the world for handsome men, but those so-called 'top-grade Cauldrons' are like roadside dirt compared to him, the bright moon in the sky!]

Hua Yingxue felt as if an invisible hand had gripped her heart, making it beat wildly.

A current named 'destiny' instantly coursed through her entire body.

The cultivation method she practiced, the 'Only I Am Passionate Dao,' had long ago honed her heart to be as still as water. She could pass through a sea of flowers without a single leaf touching her. Men were merely scenery and tools on her path to the Great Dao.

Yet today, for the first time, a boulder massive enough to trigger a tsunami had been dropped into her tranquil Dao Heart lake.

She wanted to possess him!

Not for cultivation, not for a Cauldron, not for any benefit.

It was the most simple, most primal, insane possessiveness of a terminal face-lover upon seeing a peerless treasure—the desire to claim it for herself and admire it day and night!

Once this thought took root, it spread like wildfire, instantly burning away all her reason.

"Senior Sister, Senior Sister? What's wrong with you?"

Beside her, Mei Xinnu, following her Senior Sister's almost blazing gaze, also saw that white-clad figure standing in front of the skewer stall.

"Huh? Isn't that the handsome guy from this afternoon?" Mei Xinnu whispered in surprise.

After being scared off by Su Chen's two maidservants this afternoon, she had come back and complained to her Senior Sister for a long time, saying she had encountered a Peerless Grade handsome guy, but unfortunately, he was accompanied by two fierce-looking bodyguards.

Hua Yingxue had mocked her for being useless at the time.

Now, she understood.

In the face of absolute visual impact, any pretense of reserve is a blasphemy against aesthetics!

"Xin Nu."

Hua Yingxue took a deep breath. A previously unseen burning light ignited in her soul-snatching fox eyes—the focus and greed of a hunter locking onto a top-tier prey.

"Senior Sister is here!" Mei Xinnu was startled by her Senior Sister's demeanor.

"Today, your Senior Sister will personally give you a lesson," Hua Yingxue's voice carried an unshakable determination. "Let you see what it truly means, 'When Heaven bestows and you do not take, you will suffer the consequences instead'!"

After saying this, she gave Mei Xinnu no time to react.

She adjusted her collar, ensuring every curve was flawless.

She checked her makeup in a nearby stall selling Water Mirrors, making sure the seductive glint in the corner of her eye was just right—alluring, yet not cheap.

Then, she took a step forward.

Her steps swayed with grace, each one seeming to land on the heartbeat drumbeats of the surrounding demonic cultivators, eliciting a wave of heavy, suppressed breaths.

She passed through the noisy crowd, ignoring all the greedy gazes directed at her, and walked straight up to Su Chen.

Only a sizzling skewer stall stood between them.

Su Chen was just about to pay when he suddenly felt the light before him dim and an intoxicatingly subtle fragrance drift into his nostrils.

He looked up and met those eloquent fox eyes once more.

[Oh damn, she really is coming for me?]

Alarm bells rang wildly in Su Chen's mind.

[No way, officer? I just came out to buy a midnight snack, how did I trigger a plot event again? Can my damn, unrestrainable charm cause traffic jams even in the demon Realm?]

[Calm down! Su Chen! You need to calm down! You are a principled follower of the Way of the Turtle! Beauty is a bone-scraping blade, a stumbling block on the path of cultivation! Stay steady, don't get carried away! The woman before you is dangerous!]

Su Chen frantically recited mental cleansing mantras to himself, yet his face maintained a lazy, harmless expression.

Hua Yingxue looked at that handsome face so close at hand, and her heart beat even faster.

Her red lips parted slightly, her voice soft as a feather, seduction seeping into the bone: "Young Master, isn't it lonely, having a midnight snack all by yourself?"

Her voice wasn't loud, yet it seemed imbued with magic, precisely scratching the heartstrings of all the demonic cultivators nearby.

"How about... letting This humble servant keep you company?"

Boom!

The surrounding demonic cultivators instantly erupted!

"Heavens! It's the Hehuan Sect's Saintess, Hua Yingxue!"

"She actually initiated a conversation with a man? Am I seeing things? Who is this kid!"

"What kind of dog-shit luck is that! To be noticed by Saintess Hua, isn't that like saving ten thousand years of struggle!"

Jealous, envious, resentful gazes, sharp as tangible blades, shot towards Su Chen in unison.

Su Chen was momentarily stunned by this commotion.

[Saintess? The Hehuan Sect's Saintess?]

[Well, no wonder she looks so top-tier; she's upper management.]

[But... this pickup line is way too cliché, right? What's the difference from those opening lines at bars back on Earth? Has the Hehuan Sect's training curriculum not been updated all these years? Lacking core competitiveness!]

Su Chen mentally critiqued, conducting a professional business evaluation.

But looking at that flawlessly beautiful face from every angle before him, he felt he could 'grudgingly' chat with her for a bit.

After all, rejecting a beauty is something that invites heavenly punishment.

He cleared his throat, revealing a smile he thought was very amiable, preparing to use his unique 'Su-style chat method' to handle this sudden 'romantic encounter'.