86: Chapter 86 They even dared to lay a hand on Gu Qingyi?!

Xiao Bai suddenly became the darling of the whole Qingxin Palace.

To provide a better environment for Xiao Bai's growth,

Palace Master directly let Wang Ming and Xiao Bai move into the Forbidden Ground of Qingxin Palace, Qingxin Lake.

Aside from Palace Master, the only ones qualified to enter this place were Ouyang Yaoxi and Gu Qingyi.

As Wang Ming's personal maid, Fang Qingxue was naturally among them.

However, Palace Master gave a strict order that she could only stay at Qingxin Lake to attend to Wang Ming's daily needs and was not allowed to leave.

Wang Ming enjoyed a rare moment of leisure.

Every day, he would tease Xiao Bai and help Fang Qingxue remove her marks.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside an Immortal Cave for Disciples in Qingxin Palace,

Chen Ye slowly opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them.

"Finally... Foundation Establishment Great Perfection!"

After three months of day and night struggle, he had finally reached this stage.

"The Sunflower Manual truly lives up to its name as a divine technique!"

Chen Ye flicked his finger.

A silver needle shot out, leaving a small, clean hole right through the stone wall.

Light projected through the hole;

it had actually pierced through the entire stone wall!

"With the Sunflower Manual, I will have no rivals below the Core Formation stage!"

"Even against some Core Formation Realm Cultivators, I'll have the power to put up a fight!"

"Wang Ming, so what if you've reached Core Formation!"

"In terms of Realm, I am inferior to you, but if we were at the same level, you... would be no match for me!"

Chen Ye clenched his fists.

That peerless confidence from before had returned!

"He thinks he's all that again?!"

Inside the ring, Elder Ming was directly amused.

This reckless fool!

He really forgets the pain once the wound heals!

Just a tiny bit of progress, and he thinks he's standing tall?

These past few days, he had been spreading out his Divine Sense, keeping an eye on the movements within Qingxin Palace.

From Palace Master's mutterings to herself, he discovered a piece of news that shocked him.

Wang Ming had single-handedly wiped out the entire Xuantian Sect!

And that was even with the other side having a Nascent Soul Stage Old Ancestor overseeing things!

He just reached Core Formation!

To possess such combat power!

In his thousands of years of experience, there was only one person who could achieve such a feat!

And that person was one of the Peak powerhouses of the Ancient Desolate Continent today.

The Lord of Supreme Heaven!

Given this, how could Chen Ye even hope to compare himself to Wang Ming!

...

That night.

Inside Qingxin Palace, a certain female Disciple was bathing.

In a daze, a white light seemed to flash by.

"Who's there?"

The female Disciple instantly became alert, reaching out to grab the clothes she had prepared in advance.

She felt around, and her face suddenly turned ugly. "My bellyband!"

Similar scenes were constantly playing out within Qingxin Palace.

On Wang Ming's side.

"Let's stop here for today. Go back and rest first; we'll continue tomorrow."

Wang Ming patted Fang Qingxue, signaling that she could leave.

Although his body could endure a hundred battles without tiring,

his sense of novelty had already entered a "sage mode."

No matter how delicious something is, eating it constantly will eventually get boring.

You have to have a bite of something salty, then a bite of something sweet, then another bite of something salty...

That way, you can create a sweet-and-salty perpetual motion machine.

Women are the same.

"Then rest well, Young Master. I will come to serve you again tomorrow."

Fang Qingxue indeed couldn't take it anymore.

Wang Ming had the Golden Left Kidney buff, but she didn't.

She had to endure it all by herself.

Immediately, she limped out of the room, leaning against the wall.

Fortunately, she had prepared healing medicine in advance.

Otherwise, it would really take a day or two to recover.

Not long after Fang Qingxue left,

a silver light flashed.

The window moved slightly.

Wang Ming chuckled. "Stop hiding. I noticed you the moment you came back."

"Meow!"

A snowy white figure appeared in the room.

It was Xiao Bai.

After three months of growth, Xiao Bai had grown to the size of a cheetah.

Its fur was pure white, with only its ears showing a faint gray.

It looked somewhat similar to a Ragdoll cat.

"You haven't been back all night. Where did you go fooling around again?"

Wang Ming stroked the cat's head and scolded with a smile.

"Meow!!"

Xiao Bai let out a meow, appearing very excited.

Wang Ming noticed a cloth bundle on its back.

"What's this?"

It would have been fine if he hadn't asked, but as soon as he did, Xiao Bai became even more excited.

It lay on the ground, shaking its head and wagging its tail.

Wang Ming's nose twitched.

From that cloth bundle, he smelled a faint fragrance.

It was like the scent of a woman.

His fingers paused for a moment, but he didn't think much of it.

Over the past three months, Xiao Bai had always liked to bring back little things.

Hair ribbons dropped by female Disciples, branches, and even half a piece of embroidered cloth the day before yesterday.

He was already used to it.

At that moment, Xiao Bai suddenly arched its back and swept its tail.

It directly shook the cloth bundle off its back and shoved it under the bed.

"Why are you hiding it?"

Wang Ming chuckled and flicked his finger.

A Spirit Stone flew over with a "whoosh."

"Who cares about your junk?"

"Go eat your Spirit Stone."

Xiao Bai's eyes lit up instantly.

It caught it in one bite and began to crunch on it.

...

A few more days passed.

Within Qingxin Palace, an indescribable, eerie atmosphere quietly spread among the female Disciples.

Whenever night fell and the moon was dark and the wind high, some female Disciples' bellybands would mysteriously vanish.

At first, it was just a few isolated cases.

The victims were filled with shame and anger, but due to their pride, they didn't dare speak out.

After all, discussing such things in public was truly scandalous; if word got out, they feared being gossiped about or attracting countless strange looks.

"Maybe it was blown away by the wind..."

"Probably the clothesline wasn't tied tight..."

The female Disciples could only comfort themselves this way, but privately, they tightened their security. Some even stayed up all night setting traps, hoping to catch the shameless "flower-plucking thief."

However, trap after trap was set, yet the thief was like a ghost, coming and going without a trace.

The scope of the thefts only grew wider, spreading from Outer Sect Disciples to the inner Sect, and even some Elders' Personal Disciples were not spared.

All the female Cultivators in Qingxin Palace were in a state of panic, tightly closing their doors and windows at night for fear that the thief would sneak into their rooms.

But there was a limit to such endurance.

One morning.

A graceful figure angrily burst into Palace Master's secluded cultivation area.

It was Gu Qingyi.

This Eldest Senior Sister, who was usually gentle and dignified and remained calm even if Mount Tai collapsed before her, now had a face ashen with rage, her chest heaving violently, clearly pushed to the limit of her anger.

"Revered Master!"

Gu Qingyi's face was full of shame and indignation.

Palace Master was adjusting her breathing and was so startled by this shout that she almost had her Qi go astray.

She opened her eyes and looked at her eldest Disciple in surprise.

"Qingyi? What has caused you such alarm?"

"Alarm? Your Disciple is furious!"

Gu Qingyi gritted her teeth, her voice trembling. "Last night, while I was bathing and changing, I clearly placed my clothes within reach, but in the blink of an eye, they were gone!"

Hearing this, Palace Master's brows furrowed instantly.

As the head of the palace, she had naturally heard the rumors within the Sect long ago.

She had simply thought they were minor matters, and since the female Disciples were too shy to pursue them, she hadn't launched a large-scale investigation.

But she hadn't expected the thief to become so brazen!

To even dare to lay a hand on Gu Qingyi?!"