The stubborn master

Lin Qianxue narrowed her eyes like a cat that had its fur stroked smooth.

On the other side, Lin Waner looked at the chicken leg in her bowl, her heart filled with immense sweetness.

Although Senior Brother had stewed the chicken, if Revered Master found out about this, she would surely be thunderously furious.

But... this was also for our sake!

To nourish our bodies, Senior Brother even dared to kill Revered Master's pet.

What does this show?

It shows that in Senior Brother's heart, we are much more important than Revered Master!

"Waner, don't daze off."

Seeing that Lin Waner wasn't using her chopsticks, Su Ye picked up a piece of chicken breast and brought it directly to her lips.

"Ah—"

Lin Waner subconsciously opened her cherry-like mouth.

The soft, juicy chicken meat melted in her mouth, the rich medicinal fragrance and meat aroma performing a perfect Fusion.

"Mmm!"

Lin Waner's eyes suddenly widened.

This was not just delicious; it was also a great tonic!

She felt her Golden Core Realm, which she had just achieved a Breakthrough in, actually beginning to stabilize rapidly under the nourishment of this spiritual energy.

Even the Golden Core within her Dantian became more rounded and lustrous.

"Senior Brother, this is too delicious!"

Lin Waner no longer held back and began to eat in small but rapid bites.

For a moment.

Within the Tingxue Courtyard, only the sounds of swallowing food and the occasional sigh of satisfaction remained.

Su Ye sat to the side, watching his two Junior Sisters feasting heartily, his eyes filled with doting affection.

This is the joy of the cultivation-sim genre.

Feeding two potential future world-destroying Demonesses until they become two gluttonous little kittens.

This sense of accomplishment is top-notch.

However... Su Ye's gaze glanced toward the bottom of the pot.

There was still a small half-pot of soup left, along with some chicken necks, chicken feet, and the most essential part—the chicken butt.

*Cough, cough.*

Su Ye gave a light cough and stood up.

"Eat slowly, there's still some minced meat in the pot if it's not enough."

"I'll take the remaining soup to Revered Master."

Hearing the word "Revered Master," both Junior Sisters paused their eating simultaneously.

Lin Waner looked up, a drop of golden soup still clinging to the corner of her mouth, her eyes somewhat complicated.

"Senior Brother is going to the Cold Jade Palace?"

"Yeah."

Su Ye nodded, his expression becoming somewhat "heavy."

"Revered Master has been in seclusion to expel poison for three hundred years. Although her cultivation is heaven-defying and she has long since achieved fasting."

"But this time the poison's onset was fierce, and her constitution is likely quite weak."

"As her eldest Disciple, since I've made this nourishing spiritual soup, I naturally cannot forget Revered Master's portion."

These words were spoken with such righteous indignation and were so touching.

If Lin Waner hadn't known that this chicken was raised by Revered Master, she might have been moved to tears.

Stewing Revered Master's pet into soup and then going to show filial piety to Revered Master?

Senior Brother's move is simply... too wicked.

But what should I do if I like it so much?

"Senior Brother is truly filial."

Lin Qianxue added faintly from the side, unclear if it was praise or irony.

"Alright, remember to wash the bowls after you finish eating."

"Also, Light Snow, don't forget to practice the Nine Heavens Profound Frost Sword Formation; I'll check your progress tonight."

After Su Ye finished speaking, he took out an exquisite food box from his storage ring.

He poured the remaining soup from the bottom of the pot, along with those "leftovers," all at once into a white jade soup tureen.

He specifically placed that plump chicken butt in the most prominent position.

He closed the lid.

He picked up the food box.

"I'm off."

Su Ye waved his hand coolly, turned around, and walked out of the Tingxue Courtyard.

Watching Su Ye's departing figure, Lin Waner and Lin Qianxue glanced at each other.

The smell of gunpowder from competing for favor in the air seemed to have faded quite a bit.

After all... they were eating meat.

What Revered Master was eating, however, were bones and a butt.

This is called the difference between close and distant... At the top of Purple Bamboo Peak.

Clouds and mist swirled, and a biting cold wind howled.

This was one of the coldest places in the entire Taichu Holy Land.

Unlike the Snow Sword Peak, which was covered in snow year-round, the cold here was a gloomy chill that seeped into the bones.

Because there was a Cold Jade Palace here.

It was carved from a single piece of ten-thousand-year cold jade marrow, making it an excellent place for cultivating Lunar-type Cultivation Techniques.

But at this moment.

A light purple barrier enveloped the outside of this magnificent palace.

That was a Formation set up by Su Ye.

Named the "Dragon-Locking Phoenix-Trapping Formation," it was a Saint-rank Formation he had obtained from the System's check-in.

Not to mention the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, even if a Half-Saint came, they wouldn't be able to blast it open anytime soon.

Carrying the food box and humming a little tune, Su Ye stepped up the white jade stairs one by one.

The surrounding cold wind blew against him, yet it felt like a spring breeze brushing against his face.

He possessed the Supreme Bone, and his blood Qi was like a Dragon; this bit of cold was nothing to him.

"Revered Master, oh Revered Master."

"It's been three hundred years."

Su Ye stood before the tightly closed cold jade doors, a trace of complicated light flashing in his eyes.

Thinking back to when he first transmigrated here, he was still a weak Mortal without even the strength to truss a chicken.

It was Yun Yuzhen who brought him back to the Taichu Holy Land and took him in as her eldest Disciple.

Although this woman was cold and aloof with a sharp tongue, frequently punishing him by making him chop bamboo on the back mountain.

But Su Ye knew in his heart.

If not for Yun Yuzhen's protection back then, he, as a piece of "Tang Monk meat" possessing the Supreme Bone, would have been eaten until not even the bone fragments remained.

It's just a pity.

The System's tasks are "outrageous" and "betraying one's Revered Master and ancestors."

Coupled with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art he cultivated, if he didn't find a Yin-Extreme Body for Dual Cultivation to harmonize it, his body would have exploded long ago.

Therefore... "Disciple is also doing this to survive, and for the future of our Purple Bamboo Peak."

Su Ye silently found an excuse for himself in his heart.

Then, he put on a smile as gentle as jade.

He raised his hand.

And knocked on the door.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The dull sound of knocking echoed on the silent mountaintop.

"Revered Master, your Disciple Su Ye has specifically come to pay his respects."

His voice was clear and extremely respectful.

He sounded nothing like a villain who had imprisoned his Revered Master... Inside the Cold Jade Palace.

It was vast and lonely.

Aside from a few ever-burning lamps emitting a faint glow, there were no other colors.

In the very center of the main hall.

On a massive cold jade bed sat a beautiful figure cross-legged.

A plain white palace dress outlined her breathtaking curves.

Her long black hair fell like a waterfall, veiling half of her face.

But even the half of her profile revealed was enough to make the heavens and earth lose their color and the sun and moon dim.

Yun Yuzhen.

The number one beauty of the Taichu Holy Land, the Peak Master of Purple Bamboo Peak, and a powerhouse of the Tribulation Crossing Realm, Tenth Heaven.

At this moment, her eyes were tightly closed, and a faint black Qi swirled around her.

That was "poison."

It was also the Seal Su Ye had forced upon her.

Her cultivation was suppressed to the Golden Core Stage, and even her Divine Sense could not extend beyond this palace.

Over these three hundred years.

She had been in this ice-cold palace, counting the days one by one.

Every so often, that Rebellious Disciple would come in to "help" her expel the poison.

That kind of humiliation, that kind of shame and indignation... made the high-and-mighty Yun Yuzhen wish she could slap that bastard to death.

But strangely... as time passed, she found that her hatred for that Rebellious Disciple seemed to be slowly changing.

Especially after each "poison expulsion," that feeling of knowing the taste made her face flush with shame every time in the dead of night.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The sound of knocking came.

Yun Yuzhen's eyelashes, like butterfly wings, trembled slightly.

She slowly opened her eyes.

They were a pair of eyes that seemed to contain ancient glaciers, so cold that one dared not look directly at them.

But if one looked closely, they would find a trace of hard-to-detect panic hidden deep within those eyes.

"He's here again..."

Yun Yuzhen's jade-like hand, resting on her knee, subconsciously gripped her skirt.

That Rebellious Disciple.

That bastard who betrayed his Revered Master and ancestors.

Nothing good ever happened when he came.

If he wasn't finding ways to humiliate her, he was... Thinking of the shameless scenes from last time, a faint blush appeared on Yun Yuzhen's perennially frozen iceberg-like face.

"Get out!"

Yun Yuzhen's vermillion lips parted slightly, spitting out a cold word.

Although her cultivation was sealed, the majesty of someone long in a high position remained.

If an ordinary Disciple heard this, they would likely have been scared into kneeling and begging for mercy.

But the person outside the door was Su Ye.

Creeeak—

The heavy cold jade doors were slowly pushed open.

Sunlight squeezed through the crack in the door, stretching that slender figure long and casting it onto the floor of the main hall.

Su Ye walked in against the light, carrying the food box.

On his face was that "gentle" smile that made Yun Yuzhen's teeth itch with hatred.

"Why must Revered Master be so angry?"

"Anger harms the body. If the poisonous Qi attacks the heart, your Disciple will be heartbroken."

As Su Ye spoke, he swaggered into the hall and closed the door behind him.

As the doors closed.

The hall fell into darkness once again.

Only Su Ye's bright eyes shone brilliantly in the dark.

"Rebellious Disciple."

Yun Yuzhen looked at him coldly, her chest heaving slightly.

"You still dare to come?"

"This Seat has not yet settled the score from last time with you."

"On the day This Seat breaks through the Seal, I will surely skin you alive and cast you into the Nine Nether Purgatory!"

Su Ye had heard these harsh words no less than eight hundred times over the past three hundred years.

His ears were almost growing calluses.

He didn't care at all, instead walking even closer until he stopped three feet from the cold jade bed.

"Whether Revered Master wants to kill or skin me, your Disciple has no complaints."

Su Ye placed the food box on the table beside the bed and sighed.

"It's just that before Revered Master takes action, I'm afraid Revered Master will starve her body."

"Starve?"

Yun Yuzhen sneered, her eyes full of ridicule.

"This Seat has a Tribulation body and has long since absorbed the essence of the sun and moon. Why would I need mundane grains?"

"You Rebellious Disciple, do you want to use such inferior means to humiliate This Seat?"

"Humiliate?"

Su Ye shook his head, looking innocent.

"How would your Disciple dare?"

"Your Disciple simply caught a few wild chickens on the back mountain, thought the meat was delicious, and specifically brewed a pot of soup, thinking Revered Master might like it."

As he spoke.

Su Ye reached out and slowly uncovered the food box.

The moment the lid was lifted.

An aroma rich to the extreme, like a volcano that had been suppressed for a long time, instantly erupted!

Boom!

This aroma was overbearingly powerful, directly ignoring the cold within the Cold Jade Palace and rudely boring into Yun Yuzhen's nostrils.

That... Yun Yuzhen's originally cold expression instantly froze.

This smell?

Why is it so familiar?

This meat scent, carrying a faint fragrance of spiritual bamboo and mixed with Five Elements spiritual energy... this was clearly the Five Spirits Brocade Chickens she raised on the back mountain!

Those chickens were a rare species she had brought back from an ancient Secret Realm years ago.

She had raised them for three hundred years, unwilling to even pluck a single feather normally.

She was waiting for a day when she was in a good mood or to celebrate a successful Undergoing Tribulation before killing them to taste.

And yet... they were stewed by this Rebellious Disciple?!

"Su Ye!!!"

Yun Yuzhen's eyes snapped wide, fire practically spewing from her beautiful eyes.

"You... you actually dared to touch This Seat's chickens?!"

If looks could kill, Su Ye would have been cut into a thousand pieces by now.

"Oh, Revered Master, don't be so excited."

Su Ye smilingly took out the bowl of soup from the food box.

"Raising these chickens on the back mountain is also a waste of food."

"Your Disciple is helping Revered Master refine the essence and make the best use of everything."

"Come, Revered Master, drink it while it's hot."

"This is the 'Dragon-Phoenix Prosperity Soup' that your Disciple brewed for forty-nine minutes using eighty-one kinds of Spirit Medicine."

Su Ye scooped a spoonful of golden soup and deliberately swirled it.

That enticing color, that fragrant aroma.

At this moment, it reached its peak.

Although Yun Yuzhen claimed to be fasting and although she wished she could tear Su Ye apart.

However... her body was very honest.

One must know, her cultivation was sealed to the Golden Core Stage; although she didn't need to eat every meal like a Mortal, in these ten days, aside from the occasional fasting pill Su Ye sent, she truly hadn't eaten anything warm!

This kind of long-term abstinence made her defenses appear so fragile when faced with the impact of such top-tier deliciousness.

Especially since the Five Spirits Brocade Chicken was a spiritual creature of heaven and earth, it held a fatal attraction for cultivators.

Yun Yuzhen's throat bobbed uncontrollably.

She wanted to hold back.

She was the high-and-mighty Peak Revered Master, a powerhouse of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.

How could she lose face before this Rebellious Disciple for a single bite of food?

Absolutely not!

"Take it away!"

Yun Yuzhen turned her head away, forcing herself not to look at the bowl of soup.

"Even if This Seat starves to death or jumps down from here, I will not eat a single bite of your things!"

Her voice was resolute and forceful.

However.

The very next second after her words fell.

In this silent Cold Jade Palace, a highly discordant sound suddenly rang out.

Gurgle—

That sound was crisp and loud.

It came from Yun Yuzhen's flat and soft abdomen.

The air seemed to freeze at this moment.

The smile on Su Ye's face grew even more brilliant.

While Yun Yuzhen's originally ice-cold and elegant face was now rapidly being dyed with a layer of rosy clouds at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The red spread all the way to the tips of her ears.

It was over.

This time, she truly had no face left.

Her stomach... actually growled in front of this Rebellious Disciple?

"It seems..."

Su Ye held the bowl and leaned in slightly, his tone carrying a hint of mockery.

"Revered Master's stomach is much more honest than Revered Master's mouth."

"You..."

Yun Yuzhen turned her head and stared fixedly at Su Ye, overwhelmed with shame and indignation.

In those watery eyes, a layer of mist faintly rose.

She didn't look like a majestic Revered Master.

Instead, she looked like a little wife who had been wronged.

"Rebellious Disciple... I will kill you..."

Although she was still uttering harsh words, her gaze uncontrollably fell upon that bowl of soup.

It really... smells so good.