163: Chapter 163 I'll spank you when I get back!

"You... you shut up!"

Inside the Supreme Divine Hall, Empress Xuanhuang Chu Lingyue, who was already on the verge of a breakdown, was pushed over the edge by Jiang Yutang's comment about her "crying out randomly"!

Her exquisite Face was so flushed it looked like it might bleed. Enduring the waves of numbness and Dual Cultivation power crashing through her like a tsunami, the true self of Chu Lingyue gritted her teeth and violently swept her sleeve.

Hum—!

An ice-blue light cage, radiating the Laws of the Peak Mahayana Stage, rose out of thin air, instantly trapping the bewildered Jiang Yutang inside!

This Restriction not only cut off Divine Sense and sound but even completely blocked all sight; the person inside couldn't see or hear anything happening outside.

Having done all this, Chu Lingyue's true self finally couldn't hold on any longer. With a "thud," she collapsed onto the creation jade lotus, biting her lip hard with tears of humiliation and shame in her eyes. She began to slowly endure and digest that overbearing "Dual Cultivation power" alone...

...

Trapped inside the Restriction, Jiang Yutang looked at the hazy curtain of light and rolled her eyes in utter exasperation.

"Sister Lingyue really is something. Why act like that?"

Jiang Yutang sat down cross-legged, looking a bit huffy, and muttered under her breath:

"We're all people of the same bedroom. Which part of your body haven't I seen over these past ten days? And yet you still won't let me watch!"

However, with nothing to do inside the light cage, Jiang Yutang's heated brain slowly began to cool down as time passed.

"Eh? Wait... something's not right!"

Recalling the scene of her Revered Master's true self collapsing onto the jade seat just now, a sharp flash of insight suddenly crossed Jiang Yutang's mind.

"The Sister Lingyue at the Hehuan Sect and the Revered Master's true self outside just now... there really does seem to be a slight difference!"

Stroking her chin, Jiang Yutang used the rich experience she had accumulated from the "intensive lessons" over the past ten days to conduct a highly professional analysis:

"Although the two of them are identical in appearance, personality, and even the Ice Phoenix Dao Rhyme they radiate, the physical temperament coming from their very bones is completely different!"

"The Sister Lingyue at the Hehuan Sect has a spring-like look in her eyes and a fully ripened figure. At a glance, she has the aura of a 'married woman' who has been through many battles and has been thoroughly nourished by Revered Master!"

"But the Revered Master's true self who was in heat outside just now... although her reaction was huge, her tense legs, tight shoulders, and that look of utter shame and anger in her eyes clearly show a very awkward, even somewhat resistant 'virgin's appearance'!"

Jiang Yutang slapped her thigh in realization: "The way they look when they're aroused is completely different!"

"Oh! It seems I misjudged before!"

A light of wisdom flickered in Jiang Yutang's cool eyes:

"So, the Sister Lingyue staying at the Hehuan Sect really is just an identical Clone created by Revered Master!"

But immediately after, Jiang Yutang's logic formed a perfect closed loop:

"However, since the Revered Master's true self outside knows the names of First Mistress Qingcheng and Sister Qingge so clearly... what does that mean?

It means that everything that Clone did, saw, and felt was actually under the absolute control of the true self just now!"

"How nice! Sending a Clone to the Hehuan Sect to throw itself at Master while she hides in the Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace to enjoy it. Now that I've exposed her to her Face, she’s too obsessed with her Face to admit it to me, and even put me in solitary confinement!"

The more Jiang Yutang thought about it, the more she felt she had grasped the truth, and she even let out a resentful snort:

"Humph! You tsundere former Revered Master! Just you wait! When I get back to the Hehuan Sect, I'll definitely tell my new Revered Master about this during our evening lessons. I'll have the new Revered Master give your Clone's butt a good spanking and see if your true self still acts so tsundere!"

This ultimate unfilial disciple of the Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace had already planned out everything for the high-and-mighty Empress in her heart.

...

Outside the Supreme Divine Hall, time trickled by.

After a full hour, in the Hehuan Sect millions of miles away, Grandmaster Wang's "emergency intensive lesson" during the day finally came to an end.

Phew—

On the creation jade lotus, Empress Xuanhuang Chu Lingyue exhaled a long breath of hot, turbid air.

She smoothed out her messy skirt and used her profound cultivation to forcibly suppress the unnatural flush on her Face.

When she looked up again, her peerlessly beautiful Face had returned to its usual high-and-mighty, ice-cold, and majestic state.

However, if one looked closely, they could still find a trace of extreme exhaustion and madness hidden deep in her eyes.

"Disperse!" With a wave of her jade hand, Chu Lingyue removed the ice-blue light cage in the center of the hall.

Seeing her Personal Disciple come out and stare at her with an extremely strange "I've seen through you" look, the Face of Chu Lingyue's true self instantly turned black.

The cabbage she had nurtured for thousands of years hadn't just proactively let a pig root it; now she was even teaming up with that pig to drag her, the one who grew the cabbage, into the mud!

Seeing Jiang Yutang open her small mouth as if she were about to say something shocking like "sisters" again, Chu Lingyue's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly took the initiative!

"Shut up! I don't want to hear any of your rebellious remarks right now!"

Chu Lingyue's true self glared at Jiang Yutang, her Mahayana Stage pressure bearing down unceremoniously as she ordered in a tone that brooked no argument:

"Now, immediately! Right now! Starting from when you took the [Heaven-Searching Spirit Mouse] to the Southwest Wilderness to find the xuantian spirit treasure, the encounter with that man named Wang Yang, and everything that happened in that Hehuan Sect..."

"Tell me everything, word for word, in detail!"

"If you hide even a single word, I will punish you with a hundred years of solitary confinement today!"

Facing her Revered Master's murderous gaze and terrifying pressure, Jiang Yutang shrunk her neck.

Although she was still secretly complaining about her former Revered Master being "stubborn" in her heart, she obediently shut her mouth on the surface.

"Yes... Sis... Revered Master." Jiang Yutang knelt obediently below the dais, cleared her throat, and began to recount the magical experiences of the past ten days from the beginning.

"That day, I took the Heaven-Searching Spirit Mouse and followed the aura of the xuantian spirit treasure all the way to an extremely desolate region in the Southwest Wilderness. That place is where the Hehuan Sect is located..."

"I originally wanted to kindly warn them that a Mahayana Stage old monster was coming to steal the treasure, but... but in the main hall, I saw 'Sister Lingyue' who looked exactly like Revered Master, and I even heard her call Sect Master Wang 'Husband'..."

Without adding any embellishments, Jiang Yutang told everything exactly as it happened: how she became a disciple, how she obtained the Divine-Grade Cultivation Technique, and how Dual Cultivation was practiced in the Hehuan Sect.

As Jiang Yutang spoke, the expression on Empress Xuanhuang Chu Lingyue's originally ice-cold Face, as she sat on the jade seat, began to turn darker and darker...