375: Chapter 375 My Heart is in Turmoil

At the Lingyuan Empire palace banquet, the lights were dazzling, and the bustle remained as ever.

By the window of the great hall, the casual conversation between Su Yingxue and Fairy Suxin was gentle and steady.

On the surface, it was merely a simple discussion of the Dao, a peaceful moment in time.

Yet, while Fairy Suxin appeared to be looking at the guests in the hall, her mind had long since drifted to the moonlit corridor outside the palace.

She possessed the Tai Su Dustless Ice Jade Dao Body, and her six senses far surpassed those of ordinary titled King-level experts.

Even without using her Divine Thought, the rustling of the wind, the interweaving of auras, and the ripples of Divine Soul around her could not escape her perception.

That ambiguous entanglement under the corridor, hidden and silent to others, was as clear as if it were right before her eyes.

She could clearly perceive that the charm of Xuanyin, which dominated the battlefield and bewitched thousands, was now completely chaotic and unstable.

King Xuanyin, who was usually in full control and could manipulate others at will.

Her Divine Soul fluctuations were in disarray, her mind wavered, her Dao Heart was unstable, and she had completely lost her usual calm control.

Fairy Suxin's cold eyes glanced slightly, looking through the carved window towards the two overlapping figures in the corridor.

Moonlight paved the ground; the Ziyi was enchanting, the white-clad figure was upright. One enchantress and one youth, their auras intertwined in a romantic entanglement.

She saw it clearly.

King Xuanyin had cultivated the Charm Dao for thousands of years.

Using desire as a blade, and Soul and Divine Thought as threads.

She had played with human hearts in the palm of her hand, undefeated throughout her life, never once falling.

But tonight, she had encountered the only person who was not bewitched, and who could instead disorder her Dao Heart.

Lin Yun.

In the few short moments of interaction just now, it was not King Xuanyin trying to win over the youth; it was clearly the old fox being manipulated by the young eagle instead.

A faint trace of surprise flashed in Fairy Suxin's eyes, which then turned into a calm understanding.

Lin Yun's Soul and Divine Thought were Heaven-Defyingly resilient, his Heart-Nature as steady as a mountain, and his composure far surpassed that of veteran seventh or eighth-tier experts.

King Xuanyin's lifelong Charm Dao, which specialized in attacking the weaknesses of the human heart, was ineffective against Lin Yun.

She had even been countered by his direct and burning words, which disrupted her Dao Heart and caused her to truly develop worldly desires.

Such a scene, let alone being rare now, had never happened in her thousands of years of martial history.

"Fairy?"

Beside her, Su Yingxue keenly noticed Fairy Suxin's Divided Soul and called out softly and gently.

Fairy Suxin withdrew her gaze from the distance.

Her cold gaze fell back onto Su Yingxue, and she nodded slightly, explaining calmly:

"It is nothing, I just caught a glimpse of the romance in the corridor and felt a slight emotion."

This one sentence was understated, yet it had already pierced through all the ambiguity.

Su Yingxue's heart stirred, and a gentle, knowing smile curled at the corners of her lips.

She naturally knew her husband's capabilities.

Even though King Xuanyin was peerlessly enchanting and skilled at bewitchment.

Upon encountering a husband with Heaven-Defying composure who also knew how to counter-seduce and manipulate, she was destined to stumble.

Su Yingxue took the opportunity to speak softly, her tone sincere and clear, deliberately drawing their bond closer:

"King Xuanyin is peerless in her elegance and bewitches all living beings; ordinary people cannot withstand even a fraction of her charm."

"Only my husband has such a special Heart-Nature, unmoved by beauty, and instead always loves to tease and joke around."

She appeared to be self-deprecatingly joking, but in reality, she was quietly elevating Lin Yun while downplaying the sense of ambiguity, handling the situation perfectly.

Su Xin watched Su Yingxue before her quietly, the previous doubts resurfacing in her mind.

She was clearly a woman who had long been married and had given birth to many offspring.

Yet on her body, she still retained the complete and pure aura of Ice Skin and Jade Bones, her Yin origin undissipated, her immortal foundation undamaged.

This completely overturned the iron laws of ancient Physique.

Previously, she had assumed it was because she had been in seclusion for too long and her perception was wrong, but now, upon calm reflection, that jade-bone immortal aura was real and pure, definitely not an illusion.

A guess quietly sprouted in the depths of Fairy Suxin's heart:

Could it be that Lin Yun possessed some Heaven-Defying secret power that could reverse the rules of Physique and lock in an Innate Dao foundation?

Otherwise, there was no way to explain why Su Yingxue, who was married and had children, still had her jade bones preserved and her immortal aura enduring.

This youth's hidden cards were far more terrifying and unfathomable than what he had shown on the competition field.

...

Meanwhile, in the moonlit corridor outside the palace.

King Xuanyin was still standing in place, her heart pounding wildly and incessantly.

Her fingertips hanging by her sides trembled slightly, and a faint flush appeared on her cheeks.

Her Dao Heart, which had never been swayed by the outside world since she was young, was now in complete disarray.

She had seen countless Prodigies submit and countless experts bow their heads.

In front of her charm, everyone would lose their composure, lose control, and humbly try to please her.

Only Lin Yun.

Neither humble nor arrogant, neither panicked nor chaotic.

He saw through all her calculations and crushed all her charms.

He could even counter-seduce her step by step, holding her firmly in his grasp.

"You little fellow..."

King Xuanyin whispered, her tone no longer carrying the strength and playfulness of the past.

Instead, it carried a hint of shyness and panic that she herself had not even noticed.

She finally understood completely.

From the moment he first broke free from her charm on the competition field, she had already lost.

She wanted to win him over, wanted to bewitch him, wanted to subjugate him.

In the end, it was she who first disordered her heart, stirred her emotions, and sank her Soul.

Lin Yun watched her unprecedentedly flustered and distracted appearance, his eyes filled with a shallow smile, calm and indifferent.

He did not take the initiative to approach again, nor did he deliberately strike up a conversation, just standing there quietly.

Playing hard to get, leaving room for lingering aftertaste.

Since he had already made this bewitching King Xuanyin lose her heart, that was enough.

Being too eager would instead be inferior.

The evening breeze blew, causing her purple dress to flutter.

King Xuanyin took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing her restless mind, and raised her eyes to look at Lin Yun again, her eyes now filled with unprecedented seriousness and stubbornness.

"Lin Yun."

For the first time, she called out his full name seriously, no longer using "little fellow" to tease him.

"You won today's competition, and you also... disordered my heart."

"I once did not believe that romance could trap an immortal, but now I know that a mortal youth is the most capable of disturbing the Dao Heart."

With a soft sigh, she frankly admitted that she had completely fallen.

And by the window in the distance, Fairy Suxin heard every word of this whisper, and a faint ripple finally flashed through her cold eyes.

It seemed that the peerless King Xuanyin of ten thousand years had ultimately fallen into the hands of this forty-eight-year-old youth.

Tonight at the Lingyuan Empire banquet, the grandest event was never the victory celebration, but...

A bewitching master who could turn the world upside down had truly developed worldly desires.