108: The bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish.

Danxia Valley, the Peak of the Main Peak!

The medicinal fragrance in the pill room had long been replaced by an extremely mellow masculine Aura. Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes from his Cultivation! At this moment, his cultivation had stabilized at the Mid-stage Spirit Transformation. As the human emperor divine kingdom ascended to the First Heaven, he felt a world-destroying power surging within him!

Beside him, Luo Shenyue was lying on her side on the cloud bed. A thin gauze robe was draped loosely over her snowy skin. Her former coldness was gone, replaced by a sense of languor and charm after being thoroughly nourished!

Under the irrigation of Lin Chen's Yang Qi, her Hundred Herbs Immortal Body had reached total Perfection. Her skin was as lustrous as the finest mutton-fat jade, with coldness and heat perfectly fused within her!

"Master," Luo Shenyue extended a slender jade arm and tightly hugged Lin Chen's robust waist, her cheek gently rubbing against his chest. "Your Aura is truly the most wonderful divine medicine in the world." Her voice was even sweeter than before, carrying a post-coital languor and satisfaction.

Lin Chen looked down at her. That stunning face, which had once made countless male cultivators keep their distance, was now blooming with ultimate submissiveness and desire for him alone!

"This is how the Hundred Herbs Immortal Body should be." Lin Chen planted a kiss on her forehead, his tone filled with an overbearing dominance that controlled everything. "You don't need to be cold; what you need is to bloom!"

Luo Shenyue's heart trembled, and the charm in her eyes intensified! Once, she was the high-and-mighty Pill Fairy; now, she was the most submissive herb garden in Lin Chen's arms!

"Master, all the resources of Danxia Valley have been inventoried, and we can use them at any time! The cultivation of your Yaoguang sisters and Tianjian sisters has also been buffed by the System, and their strength has skyrocketed! Additionally, that Black Lotus Demoness in the dungeon is still stubborn, but the Dao Companion Contract you planted has already made it impossible for her to resist; it's only a matter of time!" Luo Shenyue reported her work.

Lin Chen nodded with satisfaction, his gaze piercing through the pill room's Formation to look into the distance!

By now, he had completed his strategic alliance! The Fate Reverser Alliance provided martial force and intelligence (through Yaoguang and Tianjian), and Danxia Valley provided resources and supplies (through Luo Shenyue). His cultivation had also reached the Mid-stage Spirit Transformation! Next would be the formal counterattack!

Just as Lin Chen was pondering his next move, a strong floral fragrance suddenly penetrated the Restriction surrounding the main Peak and filled the pill room!

"Master, it's an envoy from the Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect!" Luo Shenyue immediately became alert. The Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect was the most mysterious of the three major powers in the Central Continent, primarily responsible for intelligence and diplomacy. Its members were all stunning female cultivators composed of various flower Essence Spirits!

Outside the pill room, a female cultivator in a pink gauze dress stood elegantly. She was drop-dead gorgeous with a graceful figure, and her Peak Nascent Soul Aura was perfectly restrained and hidden! Countless flower petals seemed to swirl around her, looking delicate and dripping with beauty, yet carrying a hint of heart-palpitating toxicity.

This was a Flower Demon; her beauty was an extreme, deliberate temptation!

"Come in!" Lin Chen's tone was calm. Luo Shenyue tidied her clothes and instantly regained her cold Pill Fairy persona.

The Flower Demon cultivator walked into the pill room, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes. She clearly hadn't expected Lin Chen to get along so harmoniously with Luo Shenyue!

She bowed slightly to Lin Chen with extreme elegance. "Envoy of the Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect, by order of the Hundred Flowers Palace Master, presents an invitation to Fellow Daoist Lin Chen, the Valley Master of Danxia Valley!"

Her slender jade hand held an invitation woven from natural petals, which emitted rich fluctuations of spiritual power, clearly no ordinary item!

"The Myriad Flowers Grand Ceremony? To discuss the matter of the Northern Border Devil Head Lin Chen?" Lin Chen took the invitation and scanned the contents, a cold smile appearing on his lips!

The invitation read: "In three days, all top powers of the Central Continent, including the Sky Patrol Hall, Danxia Valley, and other subordinate Sects, will gather at the Hundred Flowers Garden at the foot of the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace to discuss the grand plan to deal with the Northern Border Devil Head, Lin Chen!"

This invitation was openly inviting the representative of Danxia Valley, but secretly, it was aimed directly at Lin Chen!

"Interesting!" Lin Chen placed the invitation on the table and looked at the Flower Demon envoy. "The Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect's information is indeed well-informed; you already know what I've done in Danxia Valley so quickly?"

The Flower Demon envoy maintained a perfect smile, but a subtle trace of fear flashed in her eyes. "Fellow Daoist Lin must be joking. My Sect is merely issuing invitations according to the orders of the Sky Patrol Hall. As for your matters, Fellow Daoist Lin, they are just internal speculations of the Sect!"

Lin Chen sneered in his heart! The Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect specialized in intelligence; they surely knew about his Dual Cultivation with Luo Shenyue in the pill room! This was no discussion of a grand plan; it was clearly a Hongmen Banquet—a trap jointly set by the Sky Patrol Hall and the Hundred Flowers Immortal Sect!

They wanted to lure the snake out of its hole! They wanted to see if this man, who had risen from the Northern Border and made the female-dominated world of the Central Continent tremble, would dare to go to the Imperial City for this feast under the Empress's nose!

Just as Lin Chen was about to dismiss the Flower Demon envoy, suddenly—!

An invisible Divine Thought, containing the ultimate pressure of the Peak Soul Transformation stage, suddenly descended upon the main Peak of Danxia Valley!

This Divine Thought swept across the entire Central Continent Sacred Domain like ice and snow, instantly freezing the atmosphere in the pill room! Luo Shenyue and the Flower Demon envoy, two top female cultivators, were actually trembling all over with pale faces under this Divine Thought!

This absolute sense of suppression belonged to the top powerhouse of the Central Continent's female-dominated world—the Heaven-Patrolling Goddess!

"Lin Chen!"

The voice was bone-chillingly cold and devoid of emotion, yet it exploded directly in Lin Chen's Sea of Consciousness. "I have seen all your little tricks! Subjugating Danxia Valley? Quite a strategic alliance!"

"Unfortunately, in the face of absolute power, any schemes or tricks are a joke!"

The Heaven-Patrolling Goddess, who had been hiding behind the scenes, finally officially played her card!

"I am waiting for you at the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace! Come and attend this feast!" Her voice was full of arrogance. "If you win, the Central Continent is yours! If you lose, you and all your women will become sacrifices before Her Majesty the Empress!"

This was a duel of fate, a final ultimatum! She completely disdained using schemes and declared war directly with an open plot!

The human emperor seal inside Lin Chen's body suddenly heated up, and a majestic Pure Yang Qi dispersed the cold suppression of the Divine Thought! His Mid-stage Spirit Transformation cultivation actually showed signs of a new Breakthrough under this pressure!

He looked at the trembling Flower Demon envoy before him and said indifferently, "Go back and tell your Hundred Flowers Palace Master, and tell your Heaven-Patrolling Goddess!"

Lin Chen picked up the invitation woven from petals, and the Pure Yang Qi at his fingertips instantly scorched the edges of the invitation into a layer of golden light!

"A Hongmen Banquet? Very well!" His voice was filled with unparalleled confidence and dominance. "I'd like to see if it's your hundred flowers blooming together, or if I, Lin Chen, will claim the top beauty!"

The Flower Demon envoy was completely awed by Lin Chen's Aura. Under Lin Chen's aggressive gaze, she felt her Flower Demon Body, which she had cultivated for a thousand years, emit an instinctive desire identical to Luo Shenyue's! This shameful feeling made her almost unable to stand!

"Farewell!" The Flower Demon envoy bowed in a panic and fled from Danxia Valley in a sorry state!

Luo Shenyue tightly hugged Lin Chen's arm, her eyes full of fanaticism. "Master is mighty! The Heaven-Patrolling Goddess's cultivation is at the Peak of Soul Transformation. Setting a feast at the foot of the Divine Phoenix Heavenly Palace will surely have the support of Your Majesty the Empress's Laws! This battle is extremely dangerous!"

Lin Chen pulled her into his arms, his fingers gently stroking her chin. "Without danger, where would the harvest come from?"

His gaze was cold and resolute. "The Heaven-Patrolling Goddess is the best sacrifice! She is the Divine Phoenix Empress's most capable subordinate. As long as I take her down, my human emperor divine kingdom will ascend again, and this Central Continent Sacred Domain will completely change its surname!"

"Prepare for battle!" Lin Chen threw out the invitation, and the golden light exploded in the air, turning into a massive Teleportation Array leading to the Central Continent's Imperial City!

"In three days! We attend the feast!"