171: Chapter 171 The two are exhausted! Empress: Tang... Sister Tang!

The long night passed, and the sleeping quarters of the Hehuan Sect Revered Master's palace were filled with the air of spring.

Grandmaster Wang had been diligently and conscientiously "cultivating" all night long with Jiang Yutang and Chu Lingyue's Clone.

Meanwhile, in a nearby guest room, Empress Xuanhuang Chu Lingyue's real body, disguised as a maid, had been forced to endure the extremely violent "Dual Cultivation" power for the entire night.

Because of the extreme proximity, that surging, torrential power of Dual Cultivation was something even her Mahayana Stage cultivation could not suppress, and it had almost completely drowned her.

Throughout the latter half of the night, Chu Lingyue's real body felt limp and weak, drenched in sweat, unable to lift even a single finger, and lacking the strength to even open her mouth to explain; she could only bite down hard on her pillow, enduring the agony amidst wave after wave of tingling sensations.

Ye Liuli, who had been guarding the bedside the entire time, looked at her "good sister's" flushed face, burning skin, and trembling, delicate appearance, and could not help but find it amusing—how could she have become like this just after meeting Sect Master Wang?

"Sigh..." Ye Liuli gently wiped the sweat from "Xia Xuanji's" forehead and sighed with heartache: "Xuanji, you have always been stubborn since you were young. You are clearly lovesick for that Sect Master Wang to the point of Qi Deviation, yet you stubbornly refuse to admit it."

"Since you are already like this, for the sake of your happiness, and for the hundreds of thousands of people in our Liuguang City, I have no choice but to agree."

Hearing this incredibly outrageous self-delusion from Ye Liuli, the limp Chu Lingyue's real body was so angry she almost vomited blood.

"Which eye of yours saw me being lovesick?! I am being sanctioned remotely here!"

Unfortunately, she could not even speak a word of rebuttal at this moment; she could only close her eyes in extreme grievance, with tears of humiliation hanging from the corners of her eyes.

The next morning.

Inside the Hehuan Sect's main hall.

Grandmaster Wang, refreshed and glowing with health, brought along Jiang Yutang and Chu Lingyue's Clone, who were also nourished and glowing, their cultivation having progressed further, to receive the two "guests" from Liuguang City once again.

When Ye Liuli walked into the main hall with "maid Xia Xuanji," Wang Yang almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

He saw that Ye Liuli had two faint dark circles under her eyes, clearly having not slept well all night due to her maid's restlessness.

As for Chu Lingyue's real body following behind her, her steps were even more unsteady, and her expression was extremely strange; she looked as if her body had been completely hollowed out, showing a level of extreme fatigue and deep, resentful shame that made her look even more haggard than if she had fought a life-and-death battle for three days and three nights.

"Did you two rest well last night?" Wang Yang sat upright in the main seat and smiled, asking a question he already knew the answer to: "City Revered Master Ye, have you considered yesterday's proposal?"

Ye Liuli took a deep breath, stepped forward, and said very seriously: "Replying to Sect Master Wang, Xuanji... she is especially willing to marry you! Since this is the fate of us sisters, naturally, I do not object to becoming a Dao Companion with the Sect Master."

"However, at present, Liuguang City is still under the threat of that Void Refinement Stage demon lord. I wonder if the Sect Master could let Fairy Jiang return with us to help us resolve the crisis? Once the city is safe, we sisters will certainly keep our promise and marry into the Hehuan Sect in grand style!"

Hearing Ye Liuli's words, Chu Lingyue's real body, who was standing behind her, breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Finally, I can leave this terrifying demon's den!"

She had already calculated last night that as long as she could use the opportunity of returning with Jiang Yutang to resolve the siege to get back to Liuguang City and escape the range of this pervert Wang Yang's Hehuan Sect, she would immediately tear through space and run away!

As for being a chamber maid or getting married, to hell with all of that!

Wang Yang looked at the scheming Empress's real body below and nodded very generously: "That is, of course, no problem. It is merely an Early Stage demon lord. Tanger, you should accompany City Revered Master Ye on a trip."

"Yes, Revered Master Husband~" Jiang Yutang bowed very obediently.

Over these past ten days or so, she had also learned the form of address used by Lin Xiaowan and Xiao Yuhan very naturally.

Hearing this "Revered Master Husband," Chu Lingyue's real body's eyelids twitched violently again.

"Rebellious Disciple! You are simply a pervert! You have completely disgraced the Xuanhuang Heavenly Palace!"

However, before the Empress's real body could finish cursing in her heart, Jiang Yutang suddenly turned around and walked towards Ye Liuli and "Xia Xuanji" with great enthusiasm.

"Sister Ye, Sister Xuanji."

A very gentle smile bloomed on Jiang Yutang's cold, clear face as she took their hands and said: "Since the City Master has already agreed to marry Master, we will soon be family. Since everyone will be living in the Sect in the future, why call me Fairy Jiang so distantly? From now on, you should call me Sister!"

This was originally a very normal expression of closeness.

Hearing this, Ye Liuli immediately followed suit and bowed: "Liuli has met Sister Tanger."

However, when it came to "maid Xia Xuanji," the scene instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Chu Lingyue's real body froze in place, her beautiful eyes wide open, staring fixedly at this smiling Personal Disciple before her.

"Call you Sister?!"

"I am your Revered Master whom you have bowed to for thousands of years! You actually want me to call you Sister?!"

Chu Lingyue's real body felt her blood pressure skyrocket instantly; this absurd scene did not fit the script she had imagined at all!

If she, a dignified supreme expert of the Mahayana Stage, actually shouted out this word "Sister," then her Dao Heart for this entire lifetime would be completely shattered into dust!

Seeing that "Xia Xuanji" was frozen in place and refusing to speak, Ye Liuli became a little anxious.

This is Fairy Jiang of the Late Stage Body Integration, after all!

The other party is showing goodwill, so why are you, a little maid, standing there in a daze?

Ye Liuli, feeling that her companion was failing to live up to expectations, pinched Chu Lingyue's real body hard on the waist and urged her in a low voice: "Xuanji! What are you dazing for? Hurry up and call her Sister!"

"Hiss—!" Caught off guard, Chu Lingyue's real body gasped in pain as she was pinched on her ticklish spot.

She looked up and saw Ye Liuli's anxious eyes, and then saw Wang Yang's playful gaze from above, as if he had seen through everything.

"Forget it, forget it! If one does not endure small things, one will spoil the great plan!"

Chu Lingyue comforted herself in her heart with extreme humiliation: "Just let her take this verbal advantage! I will muddle through this hurdle, and when I return to Liuguang City, I will sneak away! From now on, I will never set foot in this Hehuan Sect again!"

After finishing her psychological preparation, this Xuanhuang Empress who shook the Spirit Realm lowered her noble head.

With red eyes and gritted teeth, she squeezed a few words out through her teeth with extreme reluctance and full of grievance:

"Xuanji... has met... Sister... Tanger..."