If Leng Ruyu just wanted to get rid of Su Xiyue, she clearly didn’t need to go to all this trouble.

She injured Su Xiyue.

It was really because she took into account that Su Xiyue would use her trump card, then escape.

She had factored all of this in.

But now, everything had turned to bubbles!

The only variable was that Qi Refining Fourth Layer junior cultivator.

"Damn it!"

The little demoness clenched her teeth, her words brimming with fire.

This was all for Qin Yu!

Maybe even in his dreams, Qin Yu didn’t expect that now he’d been deeply resented by the Demon Sect’s Sect Leader.

After wrestling with it for a while, Leng Ruyu finally gave up.

Time to leave!

Actually, she didn’t need to wait for the news to reach Cyan Mountain Sect, because in this Hundred Sword Sect move against Cyan Mountain Sect, more than just Saintess Su Xiyue had left Cyan Mountain.

Su Xiyue was just the first to arrive, that’s all.

"You’d better not fall into my hands, otherwise..."

A hundred times, a hundred times!

No!

Ten thousand times!

Only then could she relieve the hatred in her heart.

Leng Ruyu actually guessed, that junior cultivator was probably a local of Lin Xian City.

But, with all this happening, and escaping with great difficulty, would he still go back to Lin Xian City?!

Obviously not.

The Yunlan Domain had twelve Loose Cultivator Cities after all.

With a Fourth Layer Qi Refining cultivation, among loose cultivators, that really wasn’t so low.

...

Thanks to the array, whatever happened in that cramped space couldn’t be heard outside at all.

Not one bit!

They couldn’t hear a thing!

If not for this array, in this hastily-dug cramped space, they could never have hidden it from Demon Sect’s Sect Leader Leng Ruyu.

[Emotion Point from Su Xiyue +1]

Once everything calmed down, Qin Yu’s eyes, almost involuntarily, landed on Fairy Xiyue.

Seeing Fairy Xiyue’s breathing finally even out, he suddenly froze.

Shit!

He seemed to have forgotten something most important.

He didn’t know if it was because he’d just thought of some terrifying consequence, or something else just as special...

A cold sweat oozed all over Qin Yu’s body.

He was still too impulsive!

Impulse is a devil!

Right now Qin Yu couldn’t have agreed more, coming to a more thorough understanding of that phrase!

"Or else..."

"Run for it?!"

Qin Yu’s first instinct was to pull on his pants and run.

While this fairy hadn’t fully recovered yet, quietly slipping away might still give him a shot at life.

This wasn’t because he was heartless and shallow, but because he knew full well there was a gap between the two of them too vast to bridge.

Su Xiyue was recognized as Yunlan Domain’s First Fairy and the Saintess of Cyan Mountain, her brilliance shining, almost out of reach.

Just gazing upon her once was already an extravagant wish.

Let alone the fact he had just done something this... excessive!

That pristine snow lotus blooming on the glacier, he’d just plucked it.

If he didn’t run now, if he waited till Fairy Xiyue woke, probably by then, his little life would be hanging by a thread.

Just as Qin Yu was about to slip away...

"Mm?"

Su Xiyue suddenly opened her eyes, and the two instantly locked gazes.

In that cramped space, time seemed to freeze, the air grew heavy and sticky, their eyes met, weaving together a scene both awkward and subtly charged. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

"Fairy, you’re awake..."

Qin Yu was mortified, totally at a loss for what to say.

There just wasn’t any room for excuses here!

"You... what are you doing?"

Su Xiyue seemed not to have fully come to her senses yet.

But, quickly.

She realized it.

This guy!

Actually dared... to press on top of her?!

How bold could he be!

In Su Xiyue’s autumn-water eyes, a frosty glint flashed sharply, and on reflex she tried to shove Qin Yu off her.

Clearly.

The always-half-unconscious fairy had forgotten where they were now.

This pit was so tiny, barely enough for the two of them to lie on their sides—no extra space at all.

Add to that, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here was nearly non-existent, her meridians inside all empty, her dantian barren—she couldn’t gather even a wisp of spiritual power.

So, when she managed to push Qin Yu just a bit, he promptly slumped right back down.

"Ugh..."

"Ah..."

In the next instant, Qin Yu and Su Xiyue made sounds, almost at the same time but different in tone.

"You!..."

Su Xiyue’s face was icy as frost; even not fully conscious, the chill in her air seemed able to freeze the very air. She finally, at last, realized.

Then, a surge of indescribable shock and humiliation washed over her like a tide.

Her pure and unspoiled self...

Had actually been sullied by this little loose cultivator at Qi Refining Fourth Layer?!

[Su Xiyue Romantic Point: -20 (Deep grudge)]

Fury!

Shame!

Unbelievable!

For the moment, she simply couldn’t accept this cruel reality.

Almost on instinct, Su Xiyue tried to summon her immense spiritual power, determined to grind this shameless defiler to dust, to relieve her hatred.

"Fairy, please let me explain!"

Qin Yu’s complexion was pale as paper. From that beautiful pair of eyes in front of him, he sensed a deadly, undisguised killing intent, chilling him to the core.

He knew all too well, before Yunlan Domain’s First Fairy, he was as insignificant as dust. Even a filthy thought was an unforgivable sin.

Let alone he’d actually gone ahead and...

Committed this crime!

Su Xiyue was unmoved.

In her heart, only one thought remained—erase this stain before her, defend the sanctity that brooked no defilement.

"Ugh—!"

But just as she gave rise to the intent to kill, pain like knives slashed all through her body and inside her meridians, making her let out a stifled groan unbidden.

The once radiant visage instantly lost all color; like a winter flower, pallid and fragile, a trace of crimson blooming at the corner of her lips.

In that moment.

Fragments of memory, like motes of dust scattered by wind, slowly gathered in her mind, sketching out scenes both blurry and real.

She was already at her limit back then!

She had but to accept Qin Yu’s suggestion, let him carry her into the water, and together they’d hidden here.

After that, it seemed some strange things happened...

But it was all a blur.

Not very clear.

But it made Su Xiyue realize something.

Yet.

Soon, a foreign sensation had her uncomfortable, because inside her body, there seemed to be something wholly out of place with her cold Immortal Spirit Body...

A hot spot.

She, the esteemed Saintess of the Immortal Sect, worshipped since childhood, pure and untarnished—yet a mere loose cultivator dared to...

Still dared defile her?!

An inexpressible anger and humiliation tangled in her heart.

"Fairy..."

Qin Yu tried to defend himself as much as he could.

Honestly, it wasn’t entirely his fault either.

He was just an ordinary guy; facing a fairy so peerlessly beautiful and out of this world, if he felt nothing at all...

Now that would be what’s called abnormal?!

"You!... You still dare to argue!"

Su Xiyue’s brows knitted tight, her beautiful eyes blazing with fury; shame and fury together almost making her faint.

But right in the middle of her raging emotions, a strange feeling quietly arose in her heart...

As her spiritual power was completely drained, that troublesome Black Qi had lost all suppression, logically about to spiral out of control.

But, contrary to all reason...

Not only did it not riot, it had even dissipated quite a bit.

At the same time, she sensed a subtle heat flowing through her body, easing the pain whenever it passed an injury.

Most crucially... the Black Qi at those wounds, in her perception, simply turned to blue smoke and vanished!