76: Chapter 76 Breaking Through the Heart Demon of the Ruthless Seed, Ice Heart Turns into Tenderness

"Clang!" A sound, extremely crisp yet permeated with endless desolation and despair, suddenly rang out throughout the entire Tianyin Pass.

Qiu Dieyi did not even draw the long sword at her waist; her slender sword finger, white as jade and seemingly untouched by the Mortal World, gently slashed through the Void Realm.

The first form of the Lihen Heaven Sword Technique—Regret Not Meeting Before Taking Vows!

As her fingertip moved, the Void Realm in front of her seemed like a fragile piece of silk, forcibly torn open to reveal a pitch-black fissure.

A greyish-white sword light, devoid of any brilliant color, carried only a sorrow, regret, and despair so thick it could not be dissolved.

It instantly crossed the distance of a hundred zhang, pointing directly at Ye Xiu's glabella.

This sword light was too fast, and too bizarre.

It did not slash the Physical Body, but rather the seven emotions and six desires of a person; it was the most fragile part of a Cultivator's Dao Heart!

Before the sword light arrived, that terrifying Concept had already enveloped the entire area.

Standing behind Ye Xiu, Yu Yuan Chuyu and Long Jiaonan instantly felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

In Yu Yuan Chuyu's mind, the day her nation fell and her family was destroyed uncontrollably surfaced.

The back of her brother as he left resolutely appeared, and sorrow welled up, causing two lines of tears to instantly slide down the corners of her eyes.

As for Long Jiaonan, she saw the scene where she had been raised as a boy since childhood.

The images of suffering endless torment and ridicule within the dark Dragon Control Sect caused a sense of despair, a desire to commit suicide for release, to tightly choke her throat.

This was the terror of a Divine Bridge Realm master-level powerhouse!

Before the sword touched the body, the heart had already died!

"Ye Xiu… hurry and dodge…"

Yu Yuan Chuyu bit the tip of her tongue with all her might, wanting to cry out a warning, but discovered she didn't even have the strength to open her mouth.

However, facing this lethal sword strike sufficient to make countless experts in the world feel dejected, Ye Xiu, who bore the brunt of it, only lazily lifted his eyelids.

"Playing with emotions?"

Ye Xiu sneered, and from his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes, two clusters of blinding crimson-gold flames suddenly erupted.

"Qiu Dieyi, you are underestimating my newly forged Dragon Transformation Golden Body!"

"The Dao that I, Ye Xiu, Cultivate is to follow one's heart, to wake up wielding the power of the world, and to fall asleep on the lap of a beauty!"

"Your sorrow and parting grief, as a lonely person, is… completely useless to me!"

The moment his words fell, Ye Xiu abruptly pulled the stopper from his wine gourd and tilted his head back to gulp down a large mouthful of strong liquor.

"Pfft!"

A mist of wine was sprayed out, instantly transforming in mid-air into a clawing and baring-fanged purple-gold fire dragon!

That was the Pure Yang True Fire, fused with the Imperial Purple Qi and the True Dragon's essence blood!

"Roar—!"

The purple-gold fire dragon let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar, carrying the dominance of extreme rigidity and extreme Yang, burning away all falsehoods.

It crashed headlong and shattered that greyish-white sword light of despair!

"Crack! Crack!"

The desolate Concept that had originally enveloped Tianyin Pass, like glass struck by an iron hammer, instantly shattered into pieces.

"What?!"

On Qiu Dieyi's ice-mountain face, which had remained frozen for ten thousand years, a trace of shock finally appeared.

Her Lihen Sword Intent, of which she was so proud, had actually been broken by the other party's mouthful of wine vapor?

Furthermore, that scorching Yang Qi rushing towards her face actually caused her Taiyin Profound Ice True Qi, which she had Cultivated for a hundred years, to produce an instinctive tremor!

"Palace Master, your sword is too cold, too bitter. Why not let this Young Master warm your body for you?"

Just in that half-breath moment when Qiu Dieyi was slightly distracted, Ye Xiu's slightly teasing voice actually rang out directly beside her ear!

Too fast!

With his Dragon Transformation Golden Body at Major Achievement, Ye Xiu's Physical Body speed had already transcended the common logic of space.

When Qiu Dieyi reacted, Ye Xiu's tall and upright body, like a burning volcano, had already pressed tightly against her front.

The distance between the two of them was not even half a foot!

"How dare you?!"

Qiu Dieyi was both shocked and furious; as the dignified Palace Master of Liqing, when had she ever been approached this closely by a man in a hundred years?

She instinctively brought her two fingers together, her fingertips condensing a chilling Sword Qi capable of piercing mysterious iron, and stabbed viciously towards Ye Xiu's heart.

But the next second, a large hand, burning hot like an iron pincer, extremely accurately clamped onto her wrist in mid-air.

"Hiss—"

Qiu Dieyi gasped.

The moment Ye Xiu gripped her wrist, a domineering and peerless Pure Yang True Qi surged from Ye Xiu's palm, mercilessly rushing into her Meridians!

Extreme cold met extreme heat!

If it were ordinary fire, Qiu Dieyi's Profound Ice True Qi could have extinguished it in an instant.

But this was the Pure Yang True Fire, fused with Dragon blood and Imperial Qi!

It was like an unreasonable and savage evil dragon, violently smashing open the ice layers in Qiu Dieyi's Meridians and driving straight in.

"Mm…"

From Qiu Dieyi's red lips, an extremely faint, somewhat soft and glutinous groan uncontrollably spilled out.

As soon as this sound left her lips, she herself felt so ashamed and angry she wanted to die.

How could this possibly be a sound she made?

"You… let go of me…"

Qiu Dieyi wanted to pull her wrist back, but discovered Ye Xiu's strength was shockingly great.

That Indestructible Golden Body of the Seven Dragon Transformations was simply not something she, a Cultivator who primarily Cultivated Sword Intent and Dao techniques, could contend with in close combat.

"Let go? Palace Master, your hand is as cold as an ice cube; how could I bear to?"

Ye Xiu not only did not let go, but instead took a step forward.

This step directly forced Qiu Dieyi back.

But behind Qiu Dieyi was the cold and hard black cliff wall of Tianyin Pass.

With a soft "bang," Qiu Dieyi's back pressed against the cliff, with nowhere left to retreat.

And Ye Xiu's other hand, extremely naturally yet full of aggression, wrapped around her waist and braced against the cliff wall beside her ear.

This was a standard "kabedon" that no woman could resist.

Only, the two parties involved in this kabedon were two supreme experts capable of influencing the national destiny of Yankang.

"Ye Xiu! You are courting death!"

Qiu Dieyi's eyes, which previously held no emotion, finally fluctuated violently at this moment.

Humiliation! Extreme humiliation!

She frantically urged the Divine Bridge Realm True Qi within her body, wanting to blast this audacious lecher away.

But she discovered with shock that as Ye Xiu leaned closer and closer, that intense, aggressive masculine aura, mixed with the scorching Pure Yang True Fire, had already completely enveloped her.

Her body, which had been cold all year round, actually began to uncontrollably go limp under the roasting of this heat wave.

The layer of deep blue flying snow that had originally covered her surroundings also turned into fine water droplets under the melting of the Pure Yang Qi.

These water droplets fell onto her snow-white, frost-like flowing cloud long dress, instantly wetting the thin fabric.

The white clothing clung to her skin, faintly revealing the snow-white, jade-like skin underneath, as well as the outline of her slender waist that could barely be grasped by a hand.

The aloof, high-and-mighty Ice Mountain Palace Master who had severed ties with the Mortal World.

At this moment in the wilderness, being pressed against a cliff wall by a man, her clothes half-wet and her dark hair disheveled.

If this scene were seen by those female Disciples of Liqing Palace, they would likely suffer Qi Deviation on the spot.

"Courting death? I actually think I am saving you."

Ye Xiu lowered his head, his gaze burning as he stared at Qiu Dieyi's perfect, flawless face that was mere inches away.

The tips of their noses were almost touching.

Ye Xiu could even clearly smell the cold, faint fragrance on Qiu Dieyi's body, similar to a snow lotus, which she had accompanied for years amidst ice and snow.

But within this faint fragrance, a trace of sweetness belonging to a mortal woman was gradually mixing in.

"Your Lihen Heaven Sword Cultivates the severance of emotion and love.

But do you know, if a person is heartless, how are they any different from the stones on this cliff wall?"

Ye Xiu's voice was low and magnetic, like a magic spell whispered into her ear.

He slowly lowered his head, leaning close to Qiu Dieyi's ear.

His scorching breath sprayed entirely onto her crystal-clear earlobe, which was now flushed with a layer of red.

"Qiu Dieyi, you dare not face the Mortal World because you are afraid.

You are afraid that once you develop feelings, you will become like an ordinary woman, anxious and worried, sinking into it."

"Your so-called Heartless Dao is nothing but a shell you use to cover up your inner fragility.

You have simply drawn a circle in your own heart, imprisoning yourself!"

"And in that prison, the only thing locked away is your own pitiful, lonely Soul that has never experienced the joys of being a woman!"

Boom—!

These words, like a thunderbolt from the Nine Heavens, directly struck Qiu Dieyi's mind!

"Imprisoning oneself… only I am in the prison…"

Qiu Dieyi's body stiffened abruptly, her pupils contracting violently.

In the original work, the State Preceptor Jiang Baigui used these words to completely shatter her Dao Heart.

And now, this heart-stabbing argument was spoken by Ye Xiu, the man who was mere inches away and constantly eroding her body with Pure Yang True Fire.

The lethality was exponentially increased!

"No… you are spouting nonsense…"

"I am the Palace Master of Liqing…"

"I Cultivate the Heavenly Dao…"