145: Chapter 145 These jade feet are so clean and beautiful

Inside the Sect Main Hall.

The binding force dissipated, and Yu Linglong stumbled a step before steadying herself. Her face was slightly pale, and her aura was a bit disordered; clearly, the Law suppression from earlier had caused her blood and Qi to surge.

She looked at Ling Hao, who sat high in the main seat with a calm and rippleless expression, then at Yu Lingshuang, who snuggled by his side and looked at her with concern and a hint of helplessness. Her heart felt like a tipped-over spice jar—a complex mix of emotions that was hard to describe.

Ling Hao's gaze fell once more upon her exquisite jade feet, the corners of his lips curling into a faint, knowing smile as he broke the silence within the hall:

"Your tongue is quite poisonous, but..."

He paused, his gaze lingering for a moment, his tone ambiguous. "These jade feet of yours are quite clean and beautiful."

Yu Linglong's toes curled slightly out of instinct, her shell-like toes painted with crimson nail polish flickering in and out of sight beneath her moon-white skirt. A flicker of unnatural blush crossed her charming face, only to be immediately covered by a cold mask as she forced herself to look away with feigned composure.

Hearing this, Yu Lingshuang couldn't help but recall the embarrassing scene of him playing with her soaked black and white stockings that night. She couldn't resist reaching out secretly to give the soft flesh at Ling Hao's waist a light pinch, her beautiful eyes glaring at him reproachfully.

'You! You even dare to tease my Senior Sister!'

She coughed lightly, forcibly suppressing the bashfulness in her heart, and looked at Yu Linglong, her tone returning to its usual coldness:

"Senior Sister, let's set the matters between us aside for now. Tell me quickly, after the Golden Crow Holy Land attacked, how is Revered Master and the others? Where are they now?"

This was what she wanted to know most right now.

Yu Linglong took a deep breath, suppressing the strange sensation stirred by Ling Hao's words, and said solemnly:

"Don't worry, Revered Master is fine. That day, after she teleported you and some other Elders and Disciples away, Revered Master fought while retreating. Risking damage to her Origin, she forcibly activated her Grotto-Heaven, pulling me and some Core Disciples inside."

"However, living beings cannot survive long within a Grotto-Heaven. After we escaped from Fusang Province, we found a hidden valley within the territory of the Wutong Divine Dynasty in the northeast of Cangwu Province. There, we rebuilt the Sect, temporarily naming it the 'Hundred Flowers Sect'."

Yu Linglong raised her wrist,

"After settling down, Revered Master had me take this bracelet and follow its guidance to find you..."

Learning that her Revered Master and some of her fellow Disciples were still alive, Yu Lingshuang's tense heart finally relaxed, and a hint of moisture welled up in the depths of her icy eyes.

Yu Linglong's charming peach-blossom eyes gazed at Yu Lingshuang:

"Now, it's your turn to tell me. After the teleportation, what did you encounter, Junior Sister? How did you end up here? And..."

Her gaze swept between Ling Hao and Yu Lingshuang, filled with inquiry. "The two of you..."

She paused, her unspoken words pointing to Yu Lingshuang's vanished Geckomark and her unusual intimacy with Ling Hao.

"...What exactly is going on with all of this?"

Yu Linglong had to figure out what her Junior Sister had gone through, especially how she could be so close to a man!

A flash of embarrassment crossed Yu Lingshuang's cold face before she regained her composure and said succinctly:

"Not long after leaving the teleportation space, I was pursued by two Elders from the Golden Crow Holy Land all the way to this Qing State."

"I ended up in a mutual defeat with the two of them, but I was poisoned by Spirit-Erosion Powder. My cultivation was almost entirely depleted, and I landed on Tianyuan Mountain."

"Fortunately..."

Yu Lingshuang shot a quick glance at the smiling Ling Hao,

"Fortunately, the Sect Master saved me, so I agreed to stay as the Deputy Sect Master. With his help, my injuries have fully healed, and my Realm has steadily recovered to the first level of Body Integration."

"First level of Body Integration? How is that possible? Junior Sister, you clearly just..."

Yu Lingshuang glanced at Ling Hao. Seeing no objection from him, she continued, "Just now, I was borrowing the power of the Moonshadow Sect's Mountain-Protecting Array, which allowed me to temporarily channel a portion of Void Tempering power."

"Just by using the Protective Sect Array?"

Yu Linglong frowned, clearly skeptical. She had never heard of such a Heaven-Defying Formation.

Compared to that, Yu Linglong was more concerned about...

"Then, between you and him..."

"Senior Sister, there's no need for you to know the details so thoroughly."

Before Yu Linglong could finish, she was interrupted by Yu Lingshuang.

Looking at Yu Lingshuang's cold expression, Yu Linglong had no choice but to change the subject.

Her gaze turned toward Ling Hao:

"And what about him? He could easily suppress me and destroy that crimson evil thing. You can at least tell me his true Realm, can't you, Junior Sister?"

Ling Hao picked up his teacup, took a sip, and said in a flat tone, "Great Perfection of Undergoing Tribulation."

"Undergoing Tribulation... Great Perfection?!"

Even with Yu Linglong's shrewdness and broad experience, she couldn't help but gasp! For the first time, a look of clear shock appeared on her charming face.

One step further in this cultivation, and he would be at the Peak of the Three Provinces Realm!

She looked around this extraordinary hall and sensed the relatively barren Spiritual Qi environment of the surrounding Qing State, her tone full of confusion:

"Undergoing Tribulation Great Perfection... an eighth-rank Sect... actually taking root in such a... place devoid of Spiritual Qi?"

This did not align with her knowledge of site selection for high-ranking Sects.

Subconsciously, Yu Linglong's powerful Divine Sense instantly spread out, attempting to probe deeper into the Sect's secrets.

However, her Divine Sense had barely left her body by a few dozen feet—

An invisible will lightly brushed past.

Yu Linglong let out a muffled groan. Her extended Divine Sense was instantly bounced back as if it had struck an invisible barrier!

Her face turned pale as she looked at Ling Hao.

Ling Hao set down his teacup and looked at her with deep eyes, a faint smile playing on his lips.

"Rashly probing the Foundation of another's Sect is quite a rude behavior."

An eighth-rank power situated in such a barren land, and being at the Great Perfection of Undergoing Tribulation at such a young age.

Yu Linglong felt that the young Sect Master before her was shrouded in layers of mist, incredibly mysterious.

Then she looked at her Junior Sister snuggling beside him, her brow filled with dependence and obedience...

She gave a secret, bitter smile. 'Forget it, it's Junior Sister's choice... Even if I wanted to break them up, I can't beat either of these two people involved. What can I do?'

Yu Linglong tried her best to calm her mind, and her face once again wore that lazy, soul-stirring smile as she looked at Ling Hao:

"Sect Master Ling, since my Junior Sister has become yours and joined your Moonshadow Sect... why don't you count me in too?"

Ling Hao sat in the main seat, his gaze falling upon the smiling and beautiful Yu Linglong.

"System, consume points to check character information."

Instantly, a light blue light screen appeared before his eyes, visible only to him:

Name: Yu Linglong

Age: 1999

Spiritual Root: Heavenly Spiritual Root (Metal, Water)

Physique: Golden Lotus Dao Body

Cultivation: Ninth level of Body Integration

Favorability: 20 (Not in the Sect, so it is favorability.)

Looking at that "20" favorability, Ling Hao slowly shook his head:

"Sorry, you cannot enter my Moonshadow Sect."

The charming smile on Yu Linglong's face instantly froze, her delicate body tensing up.

Her charming peach-blossom eyes were filled with astonishment!

She, a grand powerhouse at the Peak of the ninth level of Body Integration, had taken the initiative to join, yet she was rejected so decisively?!