159: Chapter 159 The System's Punishment! The Shock of the Empress of Destiny!

Spirit Realm, a secret room in the Xingyan Immortal Sect.

Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, stared fixedly at the blurry yet impactful images on the xingyan fate plate, completely dumbfounded.

"This... this... how scandalous! Simply scandalous!"

While Xia Xuanji's mouth frantically condemned the "absurd" behavior of Chu Lingyue and her Disciple, her beautiful eyes, which held the stars, were wide open, for fear of missing even the slightest detail.

Meanwhile, tens of millions of miles away in the Southwest Wilderness, inside the Hehuan Sect.

Wang Yang, who was currently immersed in the experience of "teaching his Disciples how to cultivate immortality," was completely unaware of the outside prying.

But deep in his mind, the usually tsundere System had already sensed everything.

[Ding...] The System's pleasant female voice did not ring in Wang Yang's mind this time, but was instead a "ding" meant solely for the System itself.

For the first time, the System carried a trace of extremely human-like belly-blackness and cunning, chuckling darkly:

"Want to peek? Then I'll be merciful and let you have a few looks. Hehe, does it look good? Once you're done... don't be envious!"

Just as the System intentionally released a bit of its shielding to let Xia Xuanji "feast her eyes."

In the phantom images projected by the xingyan fate plate, Jiang Yutang, who had just finished an intense interaction, suddenly erupted with an extremely powerful fluctuation of Spiritual Qi!

Immediately after, Jiang Yutang's voice, so excited it was almost incoherent, came from the image:

"Ma... Sister Lingyue! I... I've broken through to the eighth level of the Body Integration Stage! This is too miraculous!"

Jiang Yutang had almost let "Revered Master" slip out just now, but fortunately, she reacted quickly and changed her address at the last second.

Yet, her cold and beautiful face was now filled with unbelievable ecstasy.

One must know that after reaching the Void Refinement Stage, even a Breakthrough of a single minor level often requires hundreds or thousands of years of bitter cultivation and a massive Opportunity!

And yet, she had broken through without any obstacles just by attending a "remedial cultivation class" with her "Revered Master"?!

While Jiang Yutang was in shock, the voice of Chu Lingyue's Clone, charming to the bone and even carrying a hint of pride, came from the image:

"Heehee, Sister Yutang, feels good, doesn't it? Now you know Big Sister didn't lie to you. It's still early, let's do it a few more times~"

"Joining the Hehuan Sect is definitely not a loss! Big Sister felt like an old friend the moment she met you, so how could she lie to you!"

Hearing this extremely bold dialogue, Xia Xuanji in the secret room felt her mouth go dry, her worldview once again suffering a violent impact.

However, before she could carefully process the information.

*Crack—!!!*

An extremely crisp cracking sound, one that made Xia Xuanji's scalp tingle, suddenly rang out in the secret room!

"What?!" Xia Xuanji looked down abruptly and discovered to her absolute horror that a deep crack had appeared without warning on the xingyan fate plate before her—a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure of which few could be found in the entire Spirit Realm!

Along with the appearance of the crack, the phantom projected on the fate plate instantly dissipated. Xia Xuanji herself was struck by an extremely overbearing backlash of invisible Law; she let out a muffled groan as a trace of purple-gold blood seeped from the corner of her mouth.

This was, naturally, the System's punishment for her daring to "watch the show for free"!

But how could Xia Xuanji know anything about a System? Clutching her chest, her eyes filled with shock and wariness, she stared at the cracked fate plate through gritted teeth.

"What a domineering backlash! To be able to forcibly crack this Empress's Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure from tens of millions of miles away?!"

Xia Xuanji's mind raced, and she immediately arrived at an "extremely logical" conclusion:

"Chu Lingyue! It must be that damn bitch Chu Lingyue who discovered this Empress was spying on her!

But... how did she become so strong?! To even be able to shatter a Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure from a distance?!"

After the shock passed, Xia Xuanji wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, the conversation between Jiang Yutang and Chu Lingyue from just before the fate plate's image shattered replayed in her mind.

"I've broken through to the eighth level of the Body Integration Stage! This is too miraculous!"

"Feels good, right? It's still early, let's do it a few more times..."

*Boom!*

Xia Xuanji's pupils shrank suddenly, as if she had caught onto an extremely critical blind spot!

"Jiang Yutang is at the seventh level of the Late Stage of Body Integration! To think that just one... interaction? And she directly broke through a level of cultivation cultivation!"

Xia Xuanji's breathing instantly became rapid, and an extremely fanatical and incredible light ignited in her beautiful eyes.

"This is simply impossible! Even the highest-grade Rank Nine Immortal Pill in the Spirit Realm couldn't have such an immediate and terrifying effect! Unless..."

A term that only existed in the ancient legends of the Spirit Realm suddenly popped into Xia Xuanji's mind!

"Could it be... could that man whose face I couldn't even see clearly be some legendary [Dual Cultivation Saintly Physique]?!"

But then, Xia Xuanji frowned and shook her head abruptly, overturning her own guess:

"No, that's not right! What kind of Dual Cultivation Saintly Physique could have such exaggerated effects? To even be able to instantly pierce through the Bottleneck of the Late Stage of Body Integration? That's simply impossible!"

"Could it be that damn bitch Chu Lingyue obtained some peerless evil technique for harvesting Yang to supplement Yin?!"

Xia Xuanji gasped, but then carefully recalled the glimpse she caught before the fate plate's image shattered. "That's also not right... although I couldn't see that man's face, his vital energy was as powerful as a dragon, and he was full of spirit.

Even when facing both Chu Lingyue and her Disciple at the same time, he was incredibly vigorous, not at all looking like he had been harvested or drained dry!"

Xia Xuanji took a deep breath and cast her gaze toward the now-dimmed xingyan fate plate, the fire of intense curiosity and gossip burning in the depths of her eyes.

"I just heard them mentioning something about the [Hehuan Sect]..." Xia Xuanji narrowed her beautiful eyes. "I need to investigate thoroughly to find out exactly what this Hehuan Sect is, and what the secret is behind Chu Lingyue and her Disciple's rapid increase in strength!"

At this moment, Empress Yanming, Xia Xuanji, could no longer sit still!"}],