66: Chapter 66 A Kiss for a Breakthrough? Rumors Spread Like Wildfire, Jiang Chen Becomes the Tang Monk's Flesh That Can Ascend to Immortality After a Night's Sleep.

However, just as Saintess Peak was filled with pink bubbles and sickeningly sweet affection.

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Outside the main gate of Taichu Holy Land, within the shadows of the pitch-black wasteland, a massive storm capable of overturning the entire cultivation world's understanding was brewing.

Several shadowy figures in night-walking gear, their auras restrained to the extreme, were lying in a hidden mountain hollow.

They held various communication jade slips in their hands and were frantically sending out intelligence.

They were top-tier spies planted by various holy lands within Taichu Holy Land.

The earth-shattering phenomenon just now, the pink auspicious clouds filling the sky, and that giant phoenix burning with love, they had seen it all clearly.

But what shocked them the most were the details seen through the high-magnification "Heaven-Peering Mirror."

"The Saintess of Taichu has broken through! Half-step Void Refining!"

Bai Xiaosheng, the ace spy from the Heavenly Secret Pavilion, was recording on his jade slip with flying fingers, cold sweat streaming down his face.

"But the phenomenon is extremely strange! It's not the Heavenly Dao rewarding diligence, but a breakthrough through a tribulation of love!"

"A tribulation of love?"

Beside him, the Joyful Union Sect spy, Jade-Faced Fox, licked her red lips, her eyes flashing with professional sharpness.

"It might not be a tribulation; I see it as fate. Didn't you notice? In that phenomenon, besides the phoenix, there was an extremely dense Yang energy!"

"Yang energy?"

"That's right! That kind of Yang energy is pure, scorching, and carries a trace of the rules from another world!"

Jade-Faced Fox pulled an image-recording mirror from her bosom, replaying the footage she had secretly captured earlier.

In the footage, Jiang Chen was standing on the summit of Saintess Peak. Although he had no spiritual power fluctuations and was just a mortal, more than half of the violent spiritual energy overflowing when Ji Linglong broke through was automatically drilling into his body, then being absorbed and converted by that magical artifact called the "Dragon Skin Sachet," and finally fed back to Ji Linglong.

This formed a perfect closed loop of spiritual energy.

"Hiss—!"

Jade-Faced Fox gasped, her eyes becoming fanatical.

"How is this a mortal? This is clearly the legendary Innate Pure Yang Dao Body! And it's the kind of peerless furnace specifically used to assist female cultivators in breaking through! As long as one possesses him, even a pig could achieve the Dao!"

"Wrong!"

On the other side, the Great Xia Dynasty spy, Iron Eagle, shook his head and offered a different perspective.

"Look at his eyes. There's a foolishness amidst the clarity... oh no, it's wisdom. Facing the pressure of a Half-step Void Refining expert, he doesn't even change his expression, and even dares to reach out and pinch the Saintess's face! And the Saintess, instead of being angry, actually looks like she's enjoying it."

Iron Eagle pointed at the screen, his tone firm.

"If he were just a furnace, would he dare to be so arrogant? This is clearly an illegitimate son of the Heavenly Dao! He must be carrying some supreme treasure that can ignore realms and communicate directly with the Heavenly Dao! He is an omen of good fortune!"

Three spies, three different wild imaginings.

But there was only one core conclusion: that mortal man is a treasure!

And he is the kind of Tang Monk meat that grants immortality if eaten, and instant ascension if slept with!

"Must report this immediately!"

"If this person can be captured and brought back to the sect, my Joyful Union Sect will surely unify the Nine Provinces!"

"If this person can marry into the royal family, my Great Xia Dynasty will flourish for ten thousand generations!"

...

The news grew wings, and through various secret channels, it instantly spread to every corner of the Nine Provinces continent.

Moreover, in the process of spreading, the rumors underwent an irreversible and outrageous mutation.

First stop: The extreme north, Myriad Sword Tomb.

In the ice-sealed sword domain, a messenger disciple knelt before the hall filled with piercing sword qi, his voice trembling: "Report! Urgent news from Taichu Holy Land! Saintess Ji Linglong has broken through to Half-step Void Refining! It is said it's because she ate a man!"

"Eat a person?"

The cold-faced imperial sister sitting high on the sword throne—Sword Head Dugu Xue, slowly opened her eyes.

Two frigid sword auras shot out, instantly freezing the air: "Are you saying that for the sake of power, she fell into the demonic path and practiced evil arts?"

"No... not eating flesh, it's... that."

The disciple's face turned red like a monkey's butt: "It is said that the man is a human-shaped immortal medicine; as long as one dual cultivates with him, they can ignore bottlenecks and directly comprehend the Great Dao! Ji Linglong just kissed him once, and broke through on the spot!"

"Break through with just a kiss?"

A crack finally appeared on Dugu Xue's ten-thousand-year iceberg face.

She had been stuck at the sword dao bottleneck for five hundred years. In order to break through, she had even gone to the extreme northern ice plains to slay three ice dragons, yet she still hadn't made an inch of progress.

Now they were telling her that kissing a man could solve it?

This was simply an insult to her five hundred years of bitter cultivation!

"Prepare my sword."

Dugu Xue stood up abruptly, the giant sword behind her emitting a longing hum, shattering the flying snow in the sky.

"I am going to Taichu Holy Land. If that man truly has such miraculous effects... I don't mind snatching him back to use as a whetstone. By the way, I'll ask him if he's willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of the Sword Dao."

Second stop: Central Province, Great Xia Dynasty.

Inside the magnificent Weiyang Palace, music and dance were in full swing.

The Empress Wu Mingyue, wearing a dragon robe and exuding overwhelming dominance, was lazily looking at the secret memorial in her hand, a playful smile curling at the corner of her lips.

"Illegitimate son of Heaven? Visitor from another world? A mortal who isn't afraid of death?"

The Empress's slender fingers rhythmically tapped the armrest of the dragon throne.

"A bit interesting. In my harem, the three thousand beauties are all mediocre, and those aristocratic youths only know how to kowtow when they see me; it's extremely boring. I'm just lacking someone exciting like this."

"Your Majesty."

The female official beside her said cautiously: "I heard that the Saintess of Taichu is very protective of her 'food,' and that man seems to have some strange methods. If we snatch him by force, I'm afraid it will cause a war between the two major powers..."

"What is there to fear?"

Wu Mingyue snorted coldly, her dominance fully displayed, dragon might surging.

"Under the vast sky, all is the King's land. Taichu Holy Land is also my subject! Pass the order down, prepare generous gifts! I will personally lead the expedition... oh no, pay a diplomatic visit to Taichu! I want to see just how much courage that man, who could make the ice-faced Ji Linglong move her mortal heart, actually has! If he pleases me, I shall appoint him as the 'Regent Prince'!"

Third stop: Southern Border, Joyful Union Sect.

From deep within the pink gauze curtains came bursts of giggles that made one's bones go soft.

"Hehehe..."

The Joyful Union Sect's saintess Su Daji looked at the intelligence in her hand, laughing until she trembled, tears almost coming out.

"That fake prude from Taichu, usually acting like a saint, actually fell in love? And found a mortal?"

She licked her red lips, her eyes flashing with a green light—the gaze of a hungry wolf seeing a tender little lamb.

"Mortals are great; mortals have delicate bodies and are the most obedient. Unlike those stinking cultivators, each one acting like they're the greatest, and full of high-minded principles."

"Someone come!"

Su Daji sat up from the soft couch and stretched, her perfect curves vaguely visible.

"Bring out my Bliss Treasure Ship! And bring along the 'Fairy Fall' and 'Smiling Half-Step Crazy' that our sect just developed! Since Ji Linglong doesn't know how to cherish him, then big sister will go to the trouble of helping her train this little man~ let him know what true happiness is!"

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