14: Chapter 14 Like teacher, like student

Purple Bamboo Peak.

Inside the elegant main hall of Purple Bamboo Peak, the morning light filtered through the carved window lattices, spilling onto the polished floor and casting mottled bamboo shadows.

The air was filled with the faint, fresh scent of bamboo leaves, adding a touch of immortal aura. The furnishings in the hall were simple and ancient, and the woman on the central jade throne was the most dazzling focus of this world.

Just as Chen Zilong was gazing at that exquisite figure, his mind wandering slightly, his master Liu Mei's cold yet slightly lazy voice broke the silence of the hall:

“Long'er, Master was quite exhausted last night. Come over and rub Master's shoulders.”

She tilted her head slightly, her long eyelashes casting faint shadows on her fair cheeks, and the corners of her lips seemed to curl into an almost imperceptible arc.

Hearing Liu Mei's words, Chen Zilong's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately snapped back to reality as an indescribable sense of strangeness quietly arose.

How...?

It seemed like there was also a faint, lingering hint of ambiguity mixed in?

However, Chen Zilong didn't dare to overthink it and quickly responded:

“Yes, Master.”

He composed himself and strode to the side of the large jade throne behind Liu Mei.

Liu Mei sat with dignity, her figure graceful and exquisite, her curves strikingly undulating.

Standing behind her at this moment, Chen Zilong undoubtedly had an excellent 'view'.

Although his massaging fingers pressed onto Liu Mei's rounded shoulders, kneading with moderate force,

His gaze was drawn like a magnet, involuntarily and almost sticking to that deep and charming cleavage made even more profound by her upright posture.

Those peaks towered into the clouds, and the 'abyss' between them seemed to contain endless attraction.

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you...

Hmm, they really are so big...

“Evil”!

As a top powerhouse in the Integration Stage, how sharp was Liu Mei's perception? Chen Zilong's burning gaze naturally did not escape her notice.

However, there was not the slightest ripple on her peerlessly beautiful face; she seemed completely unaware, maintaining her indifferent expression.

Not only that, she seemed to inadvertently and very slightly straighten her already upright back, making the proud curves in front even fuller and more prominent, as if to make it easier for him to 'observe' more clearly.

Just as Chen Zilong felt he was about to be sucked in by that deep 'gaze', an extremely important, thunder-like thought suddenly struck his mind—

That was...

His master Liu Mei, she seemed...

Not wearing any underwear!

This discovery made Chen Zilong feel as if he had been struck by lightning!

He suddenly came to his senses, his Adam's apple rolling with difficulty as a clear gulping sound came from his throat.

Heavens!

On the surface, Master Liu Mei was pure and noble, cold and elegant, but in private...

She was actually so...

Open?!

Isn't this...

A huge windfall delivered to his doorstep?!

No wonder... no wonder last night's feeling... was so soul-stirring and bone-melting!

As expected, like teacher, like disciple...

No, wait!

Chen Zilong suddenly froze, even his massaging movements unconsciously stopped, his fingertips could even feel the amazing elasticity and warmth of the skin beneath the thin fabric.

The woman who spent the beautiful night with him last night...

Was not Ye Xishui!

Ye Xishui had clearly shown that the chastity mark on her arm was still there.

Then...

Who was the person last night?!

Chen Zilong's pupils contracted sharply in an instant, as if he had seen the most terrifying thing in the world!

He stood there like a wooden chicken, and with great disbelief, he very slowly lowered his head to look at his hands.

These hands were now shaking violently and uncontrollably.

Last night's blood-pumping, extreme softness that felt like flying into the clouds, that touch that was numbing to the bone...

And the plump, supple touch he felt from his fingertips now, transmitted through the clothes...

Were exactly the same!!!!!

When this shocking and outrageous thought appeared clearly in his mind, Chen Zilong only felt a huge fear instantly seize his heart.

His legs went weak, and he almost collapsed directly onto the white jade bed!

In this moment of mental shock and bone-chilling coldness, Liu Mei seemed to feel the abnormality behind her.

She slowly turned her head, her peerlessly beautiful face that could overturn all living beings turning towards Chen Zilong.

A pair of bright eyes, clear as a cold pool but now carrying a hint of playful smile, accurately captured his panicked face.

Chen Zilong felt his scalp explode under Liu Mei's meaningful gaze!

A blast of cold air rushed from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, and his whole body's muscles were shaking and spasming uncontrollably.

It seemed... possibly... truly... he had...

Assaulted his master!!!!!

This kind of heaven-defying plot that only existed on the path of immortality for the protagonists of power-fantasy novels was actually happening so strangely to him, someone destined to be a cannon fodder villain in the original work?

This...

Is this really the treatment a villainous cannon fodder should have?!

According to the original work, Ye Wushuang, the child of destiny, was never actually able to stir Liu Mei's heart in the end!

Liu Mei's feelings for him were merely a faint, pure goodwill between master and disciple.

The original work did mention that Liu Mei seemed to be exceptionally different and exceptionally good to the 'original' Chen Zilong.

The explanation given in the book was: Chen Zilong's mother, Ji Fuyao, was Liu Mei's close best friend who was like a sister to her.

They had joined the Xuantian Sect's Purple Bamboo Peak together back then.

According to the book's setting, the position of the First Seat of Purple Bamboo Peak should have belonged to Chen Zilong's mother, Ji Fuyao.

But Ji Fuyao had no heart for it, and after marrying Chen Zilong's father Chen Xuan, she left the Xuantian Sect.

However, she was still a Guest Elder of Purple Bamboo Peak to this day.

Therefore, Liu Mei poured extraordinary affection into her best friend's only son, Chen Zilong.

No matter how arrogant the 'original' Chen Zilong was in the Xuantian Sect, or how he stood in opposition to Ye Wushuang,

Even if everyone in the Xuantian Sect vaguely stood on the side of the child of destiny Ye Wushuang, including Liu Mei's own two other carefully taught beloved disciples—Ye Xishui and Tu Shan Xiaoxiao,

Liu Mei always consistently and firmly stood behind Chen Zilong, protecting him and shielding him from the wind and rain.

Until Chen Zilong died, and Ye Wushuang fabricated a lie, telling Liu Mei that Chen Zilong had jumped off a cliff to commit suicide out of guilt.

Upon hearing the bad news, Liu Mei was heartbroken and rushed to the edge of that cliff, weeping loudly and inconsolably.

Afterward, her heart became like dead ashes, and she completely stopped managing any affairs of Purple Bamboo Peak, directly building a cottage near the cliff to live in seclusion, ignoring the world.

It was precisely because of her heartbreak and retirement that Purple Bamboo Peak was completely controlled by Ye Wushuang and Ye Xishui.

This paved the most solid foundation for Ye Wushuang to finally reach the position of the Holy Son of the Xuantian Sect.

No matter how hard Ye Wushuang tried to flirt with or please her afterward, the secluded Liu Mei's heart was like a pool of stagnant water, without half a ripple.

In the end, even Ye Wushuang had to give up on trying to win over this peerless beauty.

But later, when Liu Mei accidentally learned the truth!

That Ye Wushuang was the true culprit who killed Chen Zilong, and that her beloved disciples Ye Xishui and Tu Shan Xiaoxiao, whom she treated as her own, were actually accomplices, Liu Mei completely blackened!

After blackening, Liu Mei's cultivation, which had been stagnant for hundreds of years, actually erupted with terrifying combat power.

She had clearly neglected her cultivation during her seclusion, and her cultivation hadn't advanced an inch for hundreds of years, yet she still carried a long sword and transformed into an asura of revenge.

One person, one sword, she slaughtered until the Ye family disciples and the Qingqiu Fox Clan were terrified, and countless enemies' blood splattered the scene!

She didn't even spare the people of the Xuantian Sect.

From then on, Liu Mei completely parted ways with the Xuantian Sect.

The Ye family, the Xuantian Sect, and the Qingqiu Fox Clan were furious and joined forces to hunt down Liu Mei, who was only in the Integration Stage at the time.

In the end, it was Chen Zilong's mother, Ji Fuyao, who intervened in time to save the scarred and desperate Liu Mei and bring her back to the Chen family.

Upon returning to the Chen family, Liu Mei immediately knelt before Chen Xuan and Ji Fuyao.

With tears streaming down her face, she bitterly recounted her lack of oversight and her regret.

She swore a poisonous oath that in this life, she would personally kill Ye Xishui and Tu Shan Xiaoxiao, those two traitorous disciples who deceived their master and destroyed their ancestors, to avenge Zilong!

However, Chen Xuan and Ji Fuyao were sensible; they knew in their hearts that none of this was Liu Mei's fault.

On the contrary, Liu Mei had run around countless times for Chen Zilong, looking for evidence to try and clear his name.

The real culprit was Ye Wushuang!

As well as Ye Xishui and Tu Shan Xiaoxiao, who aided the tyrant!

Afterward, Liu Mei stayed with the Chen family.

She resumed the path of cultivation, carrying deep-seated hatred and a resolute oath, beginning her difficult journey on this blood-stained path of revenge.

Unfortunately, although Liu Mei was exceptionally talented, the hundreds of years of heartbreak and neglect had left her too far behind.

By the time Liu Mei broke through the Integration Stage and had just passed the first tribulation of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, Ye Wushuang had already broken through to the Mahayana Realm!

Ye Wushuang, who had just broken through to the Mahayana Realm, immediately gathered the vast forces of the Xuantian Sect, the Ye family, and the Qingqiu Fox Clan to boldly attack the Chen family, intending to completely annihilate this thorn in his side.

That battle was fought until the heavens collapsed and the earth split, and the sun and moon lost their light!

Inside and outside the Chen family's mountain gate, corpses were scattered everywhere, blood flowed like a river, and the scene was tragic beyond description.

But Liu Mei did not retreat in the slightest!

She fought side by side with the Chen family in blood, fighting to the death!

Until the end, in the vast Chen family, only Liu Mei and Ji Fuyao were left still fighting a bloody battle.

In a sense, the Chen family at this moment was already equivalent to being exterminated.

Ye Wushuang was triumphant, stating condescendingly:

As long as Liu Mei was willing to return to his side and be his woman, everything could be forgiven.

Ye Xishui and Tu Shan Xiaoxiao even stood by, using clever words to persuade Liu Mei to let go of her hatred and 'serve' the great Ye Wushuang with them.

Even more shamelessly, they actually demanded that Chen Zilong's mother, Ji Fuyao, also 'submit' together with them!

Faced with such humiliation, how could these two steadfast women bow their heads?!

Resolute flames burned in Liu Mei's eyes, and she did not hesitate to burn all of her own essence blood!

With a secret technique at the cost of her life, she erupted with a power that tore through the sky, actually managing to blow apart Ye Wushuang's physical body!

Finally, Liu Mei and Ji Fuyao smiled at each other, and with endless hatred and determination, they both chose to self-detonate their primordial spirits!

The destructive energy produced by the self-detonation of two powerhouses was like the arrival of doomsday, instantly sweeping across the entire battlefield!

The elite joint forces of the Ye family, the Qingqiu Fox Clan, and the Xuantian Sect suffered heavy losses and were severely weakened in this earth-shattering self-detonation!

This tragic counterattack also laid a key foreshadowing for the Xuantian Sect's later inability to resist when facing a large-scale invasion by the Demon Clan due to its loss of strength.

And Ye Wushuang, relying on his heaven-defying luck and the massive resources plundered from the Chen family, actually condensed a more powerful physical body on top of the ruins.

Finally, this child of destiny, who reached the top by stepping on countless corpses, built a terrifying tower a thousand meters high, made of countless human heads, on the ruins of the Chen family's former land.

To demonstrate his so-called 'unmatched divine might'.