90: Chapter 90 The only cure is dual cultivation.

The courtyard was silent.

Only the wisps of cold air continuously emanating from the Mysterious Ice Jade Box served as a reminder of the passage of time.

Gu Yan looked at the ice beauty before him, who had buried her breathtakingly beautiful face almost into her knees. He felt both amused and forced to admire the System's supposedly "divinely accurate" database of melodramatic plots.

He did not press her further.

He knew that for someone as proud and noble as Leng Yuechan, a heaven-favored daughter, forcing her to say certain things aloud was harder than killing her.

He simply picked up the cup of spiritual tea in front of him, which had long since gone cold, and took a gentle sip.

He left the time—this silence, awkward yet filled with a certain strange sentiment—to her.

Leng Yuechan's heart was in chaos.

It was a tangled mess, like hemp that could neither be cut nor untangled.

In her mind, two voices were engaged in an unprecedented and intense battle!

One voice was sternly rebuking her, using the pride and reserve she held as the Saintess of the Yunlan Sect.

"Leng Yuechan! Have you lost your mind?!"

"You are the once-in-a-century Saintess of the Yunlan Sect! You are the future heir to the Sect Master! Purity and chastity are the principles you have upheld your entire life! How can you… how can you harbor such… shameless thoughts about a strange man you have only known for a few days?!"

"If your Dao foundation is destroyed, then so be it! At worst, you can start over! Even if you are reduced to a cripple, you must never… degenerate yourself and serve others with your beauty!"

The other voice, however, whispered in her ear with a tone full of temptation and unwillingness.

"But… are you truly willing to accept this?"

"You carry the expectations of your Revered Master and the future of the entire Sect! You still have a deep blood feud that has yet to be avenged! If you just become a cripple like this, who can you face?!"

"Besides…"

"He is different…"

The figure of that man uncontrollably surfaced in her mind.

In the valley, his peerless demeanor as he killed with a flick of his finger and severed calamity with a swing of his sword…

At the auction, his domineering and responsible nature as he spent thousands upon thousands, all just to ensure her path of Dao remained unobstructed…

In the courtyard, his tenderness and deep affection when he said, "Even if it costs me everything, it is worth it"…

All of this was like an irresistible, warm torrent that had long since washed over her heart, which had been frozen for so many years, leaving it… riddled with holes.

To give her chaste body to such a man—one who had strength, responsibility, righteousness, and more importantly… had been kind to her.

It seemed… it was not such an… unacceptable thing, was it?

Once this thought arose, it could no longer be suppressed!

It was like a vine growing wildly, instantly entangling her entire Soul!

In the end, the longing to return to the path of immortality, the obsession with revenge, and… that sentiment and trust toward the man before her, which she herself did not yet fully understand…

…overwhelmed… the so-called reserve of a Saintess.

She slowly raised her head.

Her pretty face, already red enough to drip blood from shyness, now seemed as if it were burning, scorching hot.

She dared not look into Gu Yan's eyes and could only fix her gaze on the teacup in front of him. In a voice so low it was almost inaudible, yet clear enough for Gu Yan to hear every single word, she arduously revealed the final secret—one that would change her life and the relationship between the two of them.

"...My Ice Dao Body has a shattered Origin, and Yin Qi is overflowing, like duckweed without roots."

"To mend it and reshape my Dao foundation…"

"It must…"

"It must utilize an external force of extreme Yang to be injected into my Qi Sea, to use Yang to transform Yin, and fire to refine ice, only then… can Yin and Yang be harmonized, and the Origin restored…"

By the time she said this, her voice was as thin as a mosquito's, almost impossible to hear.

But she still summoned the greatest courage of her life, closed her eyes, and with a tone bordering on self-abandonment, said the final and most crucial words.

"Simply… simply put…"

"It means… I need to find a powerful male Cultivator with a Cultivation Technique of extreme Yang…"

"To…"

"Dual… Dual Cultivation…"

When those last two words were arduously spat out from her scorching red lips.

Leng Yuechan seemed to have exhausted all her strength, and her whole body went limp, as if collapsing from exhaustion.

Her head was buried deeply between her knees, and she dared not raise it even an inch.

Her ears, usually white as jade, were now so red and translucent that they seemed ready to drip blood.

The courtyard fell into an even more extreme, deathly silence, filled with ambiguity and awkwardness.

Gu Yan's hand, holding the teacup, froze in mid-air.

He looked at the stunning woman before him, who was already so ashamed and furious that she wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

In his heart, a monstrous wave surged!

Although he had long guessed this answer.

But when he truly heard the words "Dual Cultivation" from the mouth of this high and mighty Saintess.

The impact was still… incomparable!

On the surface, however, he remained calm and composed.

On his handsome face, he even displayed a perfectly appropriate look of gravity and contemplation.

As if he hadn't just heard some salacious request, but was seriously analyzing the feasibility and risks of this "treatment plan."

This appearance of a righteous gentleman almost convinced even himself.

It was at this moment, when the atmosphere had frozen to the extreme.

In his mind.

That damned System, which had been playing dead from beginning to end.

Finally…

After hearing the two keywords that were enough to make its KPI explode.

In an unprecedented, extremely excited, and expletive-filled, raspy voice.

It screamed frantically!

"Holy sh*t!!!!!!!"

"Dual Cultivation!!!!!!!"

"Host! Did you hear that?! It's Dual Cultivation!"

"And it's an SSR-level top-tier Saintess actively requesting Dual Cultivation!"

"High-energy warning! High-energy warning! Detected an ultra-high value, ultra-high return rate, ultra-high… ahem, anyway, an ultra-high opportunity for 'spreading branches and leaves'!"

"Host! What are you still standing there for?!"

"Quick! Agree to her!"