58: Chapter 58 Shui Mu Pavilion

Inside the sheer gauze curtains, flickering candlelight cast two entangled, hazy silhouettes.

Soft whimpers, mixed with heart-racing gasps, drifted intermittently from within the curtains.

A delicate, petite jade foot, wrapped in pure white silk stockings, pressed weakly against the sheer gauze netting.

The toes curled slightly, trembling helplessly in rhythm with the movements inside the tent.

"... Mmm... Revered Master, do you like your Disciple wearing these white silk stockings that much?"

Chi Wanhe's voice carried an inseparable sweetness and a hint of cunning panting, as if she were deliberately teasing.

The movements inside the tent seemed to pause for a moment, followed by a deeper response.

Accompanied by the rustling of fabric and a suppressed low groan, everything remained unspoken.

The faint light of early morning.

Just as Ling Hao walked out of Fuqu Courtyard, he saw a dark figure standing quietly at the courtyard gate.

She wore a long dark dress that outlined her voluptuous figure, her full breasts stretching the fabric high, while her waist appeared exceptionally slender.

Beneath the hem of the skirt, her straight, long legs were faintly visible.

The morning breeze blew, and a few stray strands of dark hair clung to her cool cheek, adding an unspeakable allure to her silent, cold, and beautiful temperament.

"Yu Qing?" Ling Hao was somewhat surprised. "Did you just get here?"

Du Yuqing nodded silently.

But Ling Hao keenly noticed that small dewdrops had clearly condensed on the shoulders of her dark dress and the tips of her hair.

This was clearly the mark of having stood there all night! In other words...

"Ahem..." Ling Hao cleared his throat, suppressing a hint of oddity in his heart. "Yu Qing, what brings you to find your Revered Master?"

Du Yuqing raised her calm eyes, her voice cold and clear: "Reporting to Revered Master, tempered by the battle with the Huoyan Sect, your Disciple's combat power can now rival the first level of Foundation Establishment."

"... Your Disciple wishes to return home to settle an old blood feud."

Hearing this, Ling Hao's expression also became serious.

He remembered very clearly. One of the important reasons Du Yuqing joined the Moonshadow Sect initially was for revenge.

For this, she did not hesitate to Cultivate the agonizing Pure World Glazed Body.

That enemy, "Shuimu Pavilion," was merely a small first-grade Sect with a maximum combat power of only Qi Refining Great Perfection, and it was even holed up within a hundred miles of the Moonshadow Sect's sphere of influence.

After the mountain-opening ceremony back then, a single word from Ling Hao could have wiped them out.

But Du Yuqing insisted on avenging herself, so Ling Hao let her be. "Good!" Ling Hao nodded. "However... Revered Master will go with you."

Hearing this, the corners of Du Yuqing's mouth lifted slightly.

... Shuimu Pavilion, inside a luxuriously decorated pavilion.

Sect Master Xiang Bisi was all smiles, drinking with a middle-aged Cultivator with a deep aura, Situ Xihua.

The two were sworn brothers, and the atmosphere was currently lively, with several young female Disciples serving wine tremblingly nearby.

One female Disciple's hand shook, and the wine spilled over the rim of the cup.

"Trash!" Xiang Bisi's face darkened, and he backhanded the female Disciple, sending her flying to crash heavily against a pillar, where she immediately passed out.

"What is the use of raising trash like you with Yellow-grade Spiritual Roots? You can't even pour wine well! Drag her out!"

He turned to Situ Xihua and said flatteringly: "Don't mind it, Big Brother. These female Cultivators only have this much use for serving people."

"Go, pick another one that's pleasing to the eye to accompany Big Brother in drinking!"

Another female Disciple who was pointed at showed resistance, her footsteps hesitant. "Hmm? You think I'm being too nice to you?"

A fierce glint flashed in Xiang Bisi's eyes, and he swung his palm again! Slap! The female Disciple screamed, covered her face, and fell to the ground, blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.

"Ungrateful thing! Drag her away too!"

Xiang Bisi waved his hand impatiently, as if shooing away flies. "Get out, get out, get out! All of you, get out!"

The remaining female Disciples were terrified, bowing their heads and retreating quickly, their eyes filled with fear and numbness.

When they were recruited into Shuimu Pavilion, they thought they had stepped onto the path of immortality, but who would have expected it to be a den of devils.

Let alone Cultivate resources, if they disobeyed slightly or were found Cultivating in private, the punishment was a severe beating at best, or death at worst.

After seeing everyone leave, Xiang Bisi turned to raise his glass to Situ Xihua, his tone full of flattery: "Big Brother! I really didn't expect that after you went missing for five years, you would return having reached the eighth level of Foundation Establishment! This cultivation base really makes this younger brother feel inadequate and full of admiration! Where have you been these years, Big Brother, to what immortal mountain or blessed land?"

Situ Xihua lifted his chin slightly, his face showing undisguised arrogance. He sipped his wine and said indifferently: "Tianhuo Sect."

"Tianhuo Sect?!" Xiang Bisi's eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "A fourth-grade major Sect! Big Brother truly has great fortune! Younger brother... younger brother is so envious!"

"If I were lucky enough to enter such a Sect, what would it matter if I abandoned this small first-grade Shuimu Pavilion?"

His words were full of longing, and then he sighed sourly: "It's a pity that the Moonshadow Sect is also a fourth-grade Sect, but they only recruit female Disciples. Otherwise, this younger brother might have had a chance..."

"Hmph!" Situ Xihua snorted disdainfully, interrupting him. "What bullshit Moonshadow Sect, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as my Tianhuo Sect? If you really want to, considering our brotherhood, since I am at least an Inner Sect Disciple in the Tianhuo Sect, it wouldn't be difficult for me to introduce you to join as an Outer Sect servant."

Upon hearing this, Xiang Bisi was overjoyed and so excited he almost jumped up: "Really?! Thank you, Big Brother! This younger brother will go pack up right now! I don't want to stay in this damned place for even a moment longer..."

Before he could finish speaking! "Report—!!!" A guard scrambled in, his face as pale as paper. "Sect Master! Big, big trouble! There's a woman... a very powerful woman! She... she's attacked the mountain gate!"

Xiang Bisi furrowed his brows and shouted sternly: "What are you panicking about! What about the Protective Sect Array? Why hasn't it been opened?!"

The guard said with a mournful face: "It... it's too late to open it, Sect Master! That woman... is too fast! She smashed the mountain gate stone pillar with one punch!"

Shuimu Pavilion's Protective Sect Array had mediocre power, and to save on the daily consumption of Spirit Stones, it was basically kept in a closed state unless a major enemy was imminent.

"Hmph! Where did this ignorant thing come from!" Xiang Bisi was furious and stood up abruptly. "Big Brother, sit for a moment while I go deal with this presumptuous person who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth."

He cast his gaze toward Situ Xihua. Situ Xihua calmly put down his wine glass, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes: "It's fine, it just so happens that I could use a little exercise."

His tone was grim. "Daring to come here and run wild, it's just the right time to let her see the power of the eighth level of Foundation Establishment!"