Voyeurism

The night was as dark as ink, and the galaxy hung upside down.

Two streaks of light pierced the tranquility above the Taichu Holy Land, landing silently halfway up Purple Bamboo Peak like two falling meteors.

This was one of the Thirty-six Inner Peaks, where the Spiritual Qi was so dense it formed a mist that drifted with the wind.

Purple Jade Bamboos covering the mountain swayed gently in the night breeze, making a rustling sound like a lover's whisper.

The moment she landed, Ye Linglong stumbled, her body swaying slightly.

Having just made a Breakthrough to the Golden Core Stage and Awakening a Saint-rank Physique, the Spiritual Qi in her body was still in a state of excited restlessness and had not yet fully calmed down.

A strong hand timely supported her lower back.

"Careful."

Su Ye's voice was warm and mellow, carrying a reassuring heat.

Ye Linglong's body suddenly stiffened like a startled rabbit, and her pretty face, which had just faded from a blush, flared up again.

As soon as she felt the temperature of that hand, shameful scenes from the Lava Cave uncontrollably surfaced in her mind.

That sensation of skin-to-skin contact... and her Senior Brother's burning gaze... "I... I'm fine!"

Ye Linglong stammered, hurriedly breaking free from Su Ye's support.

She tightened the oversized robe she was wearing, which originally belonged to Su Ye; its hem dragged on the ground, making her look both comical and somewhat pitiful.

"Senior Brother, I... I'll go back to my room first to consolidate my Realm!"

After saying that, she didn't dare look Su Ye in the eye at all, turning into a red afterimage as she dashed toward her own courtyard.

Her departing figure looked like she was fleeing in panic no matter how one viewed it.

Su Ye looked in the direction she disappeared, a playful arc curling at the corners of his mouth.

He raised his hand and sniffed it lightly at the tip of his nose.

A faint fragrance seemed to remain on his fingertips; it was the unique scent of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire Physique, scorching and fragrant.

"This girl will need some training in the future."

Su Ye let out a light chuckle, stood with his hands behind his back, and turned to look at the silent Purple Bamboo Peak.

As one of the Thirty-six Inner Peaks of the Taichu Holy Land, Purple Bamboo Peak had always been sparsely populated.

His Revered Master, Yun Yuzhen, had a cold personality and preferred quiet over activity, which resulted in the vast Purple Bamboo Peak rarely seeing even a chore-doing Outer Sect Disciple, aside from a few Personal Disciples.

Normally, except for the Disciples from the Handyman Department who came periodically to sweep fallen leaves, it was as quiet as a hidden paradise.

However, Su Ye liked this quietness very much.

Because only in silence was it convenient for him to do things like "betraying his Revered Master" or "caring for his Junior Sisters."

He set off, stepping through the moonlight along the small path paved with bluestone, walking toward his own Immortal Cave.

The night breeze was slightly cool, dispersing the residual heat of the Earth Fire on his body.

The Nascent Soul inside him trembled slightly, and the Supreme Bone emitted a soft golden light; with every step he took, the surrounding Spiritual Qi seemed to be pulled by something, joyfully surging into his body.

The Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art was operating on its own at all times.

This was the overbearing nature of the combination of the Supreme Bone and the Demonic Technique—he grew stronger even while eating and drinking.

Soon, a familiar and exquisite courtyard appeared at the end of his vision.

That was his residence and one of the few nodes on Purple Bamboo Peak where the Spiritual Qi was most concentrated.

Only.

Just as Su Ye was about to approach the courtyard gate, his footsteps suddenly paused.

His star-like eyes narrowed slightly, a hint of strangeness flashing in their depths.

Outside his tightly closed Immortal Cave door, a sneaky, petite figure was crouching there.

The figure wore a light blue Flowing Cloud Gauze Dress, her posture graceful and her waist so slender it seemed it might break with a single snap.

At this moment, she was sticking her pert little bottom out, pressing her ear against the crack in the door, seemingly trying hard to eavesdrop on the movement inside.

This posture... was truly not very elegant.

But on her, it exuded an indescribable, naive charm.

Su Ye was in no hurry to speak; instead, he restrained his entire aura and floated over silently like a ghost.

As the distance closed, with the help of the moonlight, Su Ye saw the person's side profile clearly.

It was a face as delicate as a porcelain doll, her skin so fair it was almost transparent, glowing with a faint luminescence under the moonlight.

But at this moment, that small face was filled with conflict and grievance.

As she listened, she also whispered something to herself.

"Strange..."

"How is there no sound at all?"

"Did he use a soundproofing barrier?"

The girl's voice was soft and sweet, like the spring rain of Jiangnan in March or a glutinous rice ball that melted in the mouth, making one's bones feel weak just hearing it.

"That's not right either..."

The girl straightened up, rubbed her somewhat aching neck, and her delicate eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"I've been waiting for four hours; how come there's still no movement from Senior Brother?"

"Could it be... he's already asleep?"

"But, but I encountered a Bottleneck in my Cultivation today, and my chest feels stuffy. I'm waiting for Senior Brother to help clear my Meridians..."

The more the girl spoke, the more aggrieved she became, and a layer of mist gradually welled up in those watery big eyes.

She raised her foot and kicked the bluestone slab lightly, as if venting her anger.

"Bad Senior Brother, stinky Senior Brother!"

"He must have gone to find Fifth Junior Sister in secret again!"

"Hmph, what's so good about that ice-face Light Snow? She's stiff and cold. How can she be as soft as Waner..."

She lowered her head and looked at her own breasts, which, although not as voluminous as Ye Linglong's, were still of a decent size and beautifully curved, and she puffed them out somewhat indignantly.

"Clearly, I've grown up too..."

Standing three steps behind her, Su Ye almost couldn't help but laugh out loud listening to these vinegar-filled mutterings.

This girl.

Was none other than the Third Junior Sister of Purple Bamboo Peak, Lin Waner.

Saint-rank Water Spiritual Root, Primal Water Body.

Just like the name of her Physique, this girl was entirely made of water.

She had a weak personality, was extremely lacking in a sense of security, and was particularly clingy.

Moreover, she was extremely prone to jealousy.

On Purple Bamboo Peak, aside from her Revered Master Yun Yuzhen, whose absolute authority she didn't dare challenge, the other sisters—even the Second Senior Sister Ji Ziyue who was always out gaining experience—were her imaginary rivals.

Especially Fifth Junior Sister Lin Qianxue.

Because Lin Qianxue had a Supreme Grade Ice Spirit Root and a cold personality, yet was naturally beautiful and hailed as the number one ice mountain beauty of the Taichu Holy Land, her popularity outside was extremely high.

This gave Lin Waner a deep sense of crisis, fearing that her Senior Brother would be snatched away by that "ice block."

"Ahem."

Su Ye finally couldn't bear to watch her wallowing in self-pity anymore, so he balled his hand into a fist and coughed lightly by his lips.

"Eek—!!!"

This light cough, in the silent night, was no different from a clap of thunder.

Lin Waner was so startled that she jumped up like a kitten that had its tail stepped on.

She turned around in a panic, but her footsteps became messy; her left foot tripped over her right, and her body fell straight backward.

"Ah..."

The expected pain did not come.

She felt herself fall into a broad, warm embrace.

That familiar, crisp scent instantly enveloped her.

Su Ye wrapped one arm around her slender waist and used the other hand to flick her pert nose.

"Not sleeping in the middle of the night, what kind of thief are you being, crouching at my door?"

Su Ye looked down at the startled girl in his arms and asked with a half-smile.

Lin Waner stared blankly at the handsome face so close at hand.

Sword-like eyebrows, star-like eyes, and well-defined features.

In those deep eyes, the starry sky was reflected, as was her own panicked little face.

"Se... Senior Brother?!"

Lin Waner's eyes widened instantly, her face full of disbelief.

She subconsciously looked back at the tightly closed Immortal Cave door, then at Su Ye who had appeared from behind her, her brain unable to process things for a moment.

"You... why are you outside?"

"Then what I was listening to just now..."

Realizing that all her embarrassing mutterings from just now might have been heard, Lin Waner's face turned completely red in a flash, even her earlobes becoming a tempting pink.

She wished she could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

"What?"

Su Ye's hand around her waist tightened slightly, using a bit of force to bring her water-soft body even closer to himself.

Even through the clothes, he could feel the amazing elasticity and tenderness.

The Primal Water Body truly lived up to its reputation.

Holding her in his arms really felt like holding a mass of warm, soft water; it was hard to let go.

"Thought I was hiding someone inside?"

Su Ye lowered his head and leaned close to her ear, his warm breath fanning across her sensitive earlobe.

"Or rather... were you hoping I was hiding someone inside?"

"No... I wasn't!"

Lin Waner's body went limp, and she slumped entirely into Su Ye's embrace, her voice as thin as a mosquito's buzz, carrying a clear tremor.

"I... I just wanted to find Senior Brother..."

"Find me for what?"

Su Ye asked knowingly, his fingers seemingly inadvertently stroking the soft flesh at her waist.

"Is it that you want me to help you 'clear your Meridians' again?"

He deliberately emphasized the word "clear."

Lin Waner's body trembled even more violently.

She bit her lower lip, her watery big eyes full of shyness and desire, yet she stubbornly refused to admit it.

"That's... that's not it!"

"I... I encountered a problem with my Cultivation!"

"Yes! It's a Cultivation problem!"

As if to increase the credibility of her words, she nodded vigorously, the hairpins on her head swaying and making a crisp sound.

"Just now when I was circulating the Flowing Water Art, I felt the Spiritual Qi stagnate at the Shanzhong point, and no matter what, I couldn't push it through. It felt terrible..."

As she spoke, she even took Su Ye's other hand and pressed it against her heaving chest.

"If you don't believe me, Senior Brother, feel it. It's still beating so fast..."

A wave of softness and warmth came from his palm, accompanied by a rapid heartbeat.

Thump-thump.

Thump-thump.

Su Ye chuckled inwardly.

This girl didn't even know how to lie.

Stagnation at the Shanzhong point?

That was caused by the surge of blood and Qi from being startled just now.

However, since his Junior Sister had taken the initiative to "deliver herself to his door" for medical treatment, how could he, as the Senior Brother, refuse?Space

He didn't pull his hand back; instead, he took the opportunity to input a stream of gentle Spiritual Qi.

"Hmm, it is indeed beating very fast," Su Ye commented solemnly.

"It seems the condition is quite serious, Junior Sister Waner."

"Then... then what should I do?"

Lin Waner looked at him piteously, her body hanging on him as if she had no bones, her eyes hazy.

"Do I... do I need to go to Senior Brother's room and use that... that Dual Cultivation method to treat it?"

By the end, her voice was so small it was almost inaudible.

Looking at her "ready for the picking" appearance, the wicked fire in Su Ye's heart also began to stir.

Tonight in the Lava Cave, helping Ye Linglong awaken her Physique, he had watched for a long time but couldn't partake, so he was already suppressed with a belly full of fire.

Now this little vixen had taken the initiative to come to his door and tease him... did she really take him for a saint like Liu Xia Hui?

However.

Su Ye soon suppressed the agitation in his heart.

No.

There was still serious business to handle tonight.

Ye Linglong had just returned, and her state wasn't fully stable yet. Moreover, his Revered Master... probably sensed the movement in the back mountain.

If he were to "eat" Waner now, and his Revered Master suddenly came over, the scene would be hard to handle.

Especially when he thought of the Magic Treasure held by his prideful Revered Master, Su Ye felt his scalp tingle.

"We'll talk about the treatment later."

Su Ye took a deep breath, reluctantly withdrew his hand from that gentle land, and then reached out to give her pert buttocks a light slap.

Smack.

A crisp sound.

Accompanied by a wave-like tremor.

"Ah!"

Lin Waner cried out, covering her bottom and looking at him with a face flushed red, her eyes containing both shame and a hint of indiscernible excitement.

"Senior Brother! Why... why did you hit me!"

"To punish you for lying."

Su Ye released her, took half a step back, and resumed his persona as the strict Senior Brother, though the smile in the corners of his eyes couldn't be hidden.

"What were you muttering at the door just now?"

"What's this about me going to find the ice-face?"

Having her thoughts exposed, Lin Waner's face instantly fell, her mouth pouting enough to hang an oil bottle.

She twisted her fingers, looking down somewhat aggrievedly, her toes drawing circles on the ground.

"It was true though..."

"I searched the entire Purple Bamboo Peak. I didn't dare go to Revered Master's Cold Jade Palace, but I looked everywhere else and didn't see a trace of Senior Brother."

"It's so late, and Senior Brother wasn't in his Immortal Cave, so he must have gone down the mountain."

"Afew days ago, I heard that Fifth Junior Sister was practicing her sword over at Snow Sword Peak, and many male Disciples ran there to watch..."

The more Lin Waner spoke, the more sour she became, as if the air was filled with the smell of old vinegar.

"Senior Brother, did you go to see her too?"

"Hmph, I knew it. Junior Sister Shallow Snow has good talent, a Supreme Grade Ice Spirit Root, and an Innate Sword Heart. Senior Brother definitely likes her more..."

"Unlike me, with mediocre Aptitude, just a Saint-rank Water Spiritual Root. Aside from crying, I don't know how to do anything..."

Hearing this increasingly outrageous self-pity, Su Ye couldn't help but palm his forehead.

This girl's imagination—it would be a waste of talent if she didn't write storybooks.

Mediocre Aptitude with a Saint-rank Water Spiritual Root?

If those words got out, the Outer Sect Disciples of the seventy-two peaks would probably jump off a cliff in collective shame.

"Stop, stop, stop."

Su Ye hurriedly interrupted her performance.

If he let her continue, he would become a heartless man who abandoned his wife.

"Who told you I went to find Shallow Snow?"

Su Ye knocked her on the head in annoyance.

"You know Shallow Snow's personality. If I dared to disturb her sword practice in the middle of the night, wouldn't her Frost Chills the Nine Provinces be aimed directly at me?"

"Then... then where did you go, Senior Brother?"

Lin Waner covered her forehead, raised her tearful big eyes, and looked at him suspiciously.

"If you didn't go to find Fifth Junior Sister, then why did you come back from that direction?"

She extended a slender finger and pointed in the direction Su Ye had just flown from.

That was the back mountain.

Although it was usually sparsely populated, it was also a necessary path to other peaks.

Su Ye glanced in the direction of her finger, then withdrew his gaze, his expression becoming somewhat strange.

He was silent for a moment, seemingly considering how to speak.

This hesitant look, in Lin Waner's eyes, immediately became ironclad proof of a "guilty conscience."

"Aha! Senior Brother, you really are hiding something from me!"

Lin Waner instantly blew up, tears coming as soon as they were mentioned, swirling in her eyes.

"Waaa... Senior Brother doesn't love Waner anymore..."

"You must have gone out to hook up with some other little vixen..."

"Are the Junior Sisters of Purple Bamboo Peak not enough to satisfy you anymore..."

Seeing that this girl was about to start a flood of tears again, Su Ye sighed helplessly.

It seemed that without some heavy news, he wouldn't be able to suppress this vinegar jar.

"Alright, stop wailing."

Su Ye reached out and pinched her baby-fat cheeks, pulling slightly to stop her crying.

"I went to pick someone up."

"Pick someone up?"

Lin Waner blinked, tearstains still hanging on her eyelashes, looking completely dazed.

"Pick up who? Who else from our Purple Bamboo Peak is outside?"

Su Ye looked at her adorable, dazed appearance, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly into a mysterious smile.

"What do you think?"

"Aside from Second Junior Sister who is still out gaining experience in the Endless Sea, which little ancestor of our peak has been running wild outside?"

Hearing this, Lin Waner froze for a moment.

Then, as if she had remembered something, her expression changed slightly, her small mouth opening slightly as she wore a face as if she had seen a ghost.

"Sen... Senior Brother, you mean..."

"That's right."

Su Ye nodded, his gaze casting toward the courtyard not far away where the lights had just been lit, his tone leisurely:

"Your Fourth Junior Sister, Ye Linglong."

"She's back."