16: Chapter 16 A life-saving grace should be repaid with boundless gratitude; Si Youyou offers herself in gratitude.

"You slut, you actually colluded with an outsider!"

Just as Ye Xiu turned his gaze back to the great beauty before him.

A heart-rending roar came from within the wine gourd.

Li Tianxing was truly worthy of being the naive Sect Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

After being taken in, he had not been immediately melted down.

He was actually still able to rely on his own strength to resist.

"Shut up, it is not your turn to speak yet!"

Originally, only Ye Xiu and Si Youyou had been left in the room, gazing at one another.

Coupled with the first kiss from moments ago.

The atmosphere should have been ambiguous to the extreme.

Yet, unexpectedly, it was ruined by that raspy, duck-like voice.

Annoyed, Ye Xiu took out the wine gourd and shook it vigorously a dozen times.

Until the fellow inside fell silent.

"Huu!"

At that moment, a faint, lingering fragrance suddenly wafted over.

The weak Si Youyou had somehow already appeared before Ye Xiu.

"Little nemesis, stop shaking it..."

"If that dead ghost's soul is truly shaken apart, no one else in this world will know the final few incantations of the Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Scripture."

Si Youyou's voice was soft and languid, like a cat that had just woken up, carrying a lazy, nasal lilt.

She had somehow pressed herself against Ye Xiu, her lotus-like arms wrapping around his waist, her entire body nearly hanging from him.

Ye Xiu stiffened. At this moment, Si Youyou's red gauze was partially undone, her fragrant shoulders half-exposed.

It was a charm that seeped from her very bones, requiring no deliberate action.

A mere glance, a single breath, was enough to ignite the fire in a man's heart.

"Granny... no, sister."

Ye Xiu's Adam's apple bobbed as he forcibly circulated the Golden Lotus of the Bitter Sea within his body, attempting to suppress that heat.

"Um, Li Tianxing has already been suppressed, you can..."

"Shh."

A cool, slender jade finger gently pressed against Ye Xiu's lips.

Si Youyou lifted her head, her peach-blossom eyes glistening with mist, gazing at Ye Xiu from close range.

She stood on tiptoes, her warm breath brushing against Ye Xiu's ear, sending a tingling sensation through him.

"You saved this sister's life..."

"Sister has nothing of value to offer, save for this body, which is still somewhat presentable."

Her fingertips slid down from Ye Xiu's lips, tracing his chin, Adam's apple, and collarbone, before finally coming to rest over his heart, where she gently drew circles.

"Didn't you just say... that you wanted to cut open your heart for sister to see?"

"Now, sister is right here. How do you want to see it? Or... what do you want to do?"

Every word was like a tiny hook.

Ye Xiu felt as if he were being roasted over a fire.

As a normal man, faced with the world's greatest beauty throwing herself into his arms, to claim he wasn't tempted would make him a eunuch!

He instinctively reached out, wanting to wrap his arms around that breathtaking waist.

However, just as his palm was about to touch that warmth.

Si Youyou, like a slippery serpent-beauty, gave a gentle twist.

She skillfully avoided his "wolf claws," yet continued to brush against his arm in a tantalizing, elusive manner.

This sensation, like scratching an itch through a boot, was even more maddening than direct contact!

"Don't be so impatient..."

Si Youyou giggled, slowly circling Ye Xiu.

The red gauze danced about her, vaguely revealing the perfect curves that could cause a Saint to fall.

Sometimes she would brush her hair against Ye Xiu's neck, sometimes she would gently nip his earlobe with her pearly teeth, and other times she would press her entire body against his back, blowing hot breath into his ear.

"Ye-lang..."

This "Ye-lang" was uttered with a thousand lingering inflections.

Ye Xiu felt a rush of blood surge to his head, his breathing instantly becoming heavy.

Even with the protection of the Azure Emperor Scripture and the enhancement of the Drunken Immortal Tyrant Body.

At this moment, he felt his Dao Heart was teetering on the brink of collapse.

"Forget it!"

A fierce glint flashed in Ye Xiu's eyes. He spun around, grabbed Si Youyou by the wrist, and pushed her into the corner!

"Si Youyou, you are playing with fire!"

He lowered his head, preparing to kiss her domineeringly.

However, the expected evasion did not occur.

In fact, the moment his lips were about to touch hers, the amusement in Si Youyou's eyes suddenly transformed into a blazing flame.

"Fool..."

She suddenly reached out both hands.

No longer stroking gently, but with an irresistible force, she gripped the back of Ye Xiu's head.

Immediately after, she arched her slender neck, and those two burning red lips—

—pressed against his with a wilder, more urgent intensity than Ye Xiu's own!

"Mmph!"

Ye Xiu's pupils constricted.

This was not a kiss; it was a devouring!

It was a desire that had been suppressed for hundreds of years, the greed of a dying person for vitality, and the instinct of a woman to conquer a strong man.

"Boom!"

Ye Xiu's mind went blank; the Azure Emperor Scripture, his Dao Heart—everything was cast to the winds at that moment.

The woman in his arms was like molten magma, threatening to melt him, skin and bone, into her.

"Hold me tighter... Ye Xiu... hold me tighter!"

As their lips parted, Si Youyou gasped for breath.

Her peach-blossom eyes were already clouded with a hazy mist, and her voice was hoarse, carrying a command that bordered on a plea.

At the same time, the presence of the Great Nurturing Heavenly Demon Scripture only added to the ecstasy!

"Bang!"

The next moment, the two of them tumbled heavily onto the narrow wooden bed.

The scenes that followed are indescribable...

The wine gourd was kicked to the corner of the bed.

Li Tianxing inside seemed to sense the soul-crushing events unfolding outside; he crashed frantically against the walls of the gourd, letting out impotent roars.

The woman he had risked his life to obtain was now being... by this newcomer.

Who knows how much time passed in that blissful haze.

If not for the clamor in his ears, Ye Xiu would have had no desire to open his eyes.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

A rhythmic, urgent pounding on the door cracked through the beautiful morning dream like a bolt of lightning.

"Brother Ye! Granny! The sun is already high up!"

Qin Mu's energetic, booming voice came from outside the door.

Ye Xiu opened his eyes groggily.

"Mmm... this brat, he really knows how to pick his moments..."

Ye Xiu instinctively tightened his arms, wanting to linger in this warmth a little longer.

"Giggle, little nemesis, still reluctant to let go?"

The beauty in his arms fluttered her eyelashes, opening a pair of mist-filled peach-blossom eyes.

She first gave Ye Xiu a peck on the lips with a hint of infatuation.

Then, hearing Qin Mu raise his hand to pound on the door again, her eyes instantly cleared.

"Muer is still outside. If he were to see this sight..."

She stood barefoot by the bed, facing the morning light filtering through the window, her delicate body—enough to drive any man in the world mad—displayed without reservation before Ye Xiu's eyes.

She stretched, a motion that was incredibly languid and revealed every curve.

"Ye-lang, last night... I was very satisfied."

Si Youyou glanced back with a smile, a hundred charms blooming at once.

However, the next second, just as Ye Xiu was watching with his eyes nearly popping out of their sockets—

Hum—! A strange green light suddenly surged over Si Youyou's body.

Her body began to hunch and shrink rapidly.

Her jade-smooth skin instantly turned dry and sallow, covered in wrinkles like deep gullies.

Her waterfall of dark hair transformed in the blink of an eye into a messy, white bird's nest.

In the time it took to take a single breath.

That peerless, enchanting beauty had vanished.

In her place stood none other than—Granny Si, wearing coarse hemp clothes, carrying a tattered basket, and bearing a large hunchback!