It’s just that this dress happened to be a gift from junior brother, which only proves our aesthetic tastes are aligned, both finding this dress beautiful. Nothing special about it.
Sure enough, he seemed to treat her somewhat differently.
Pleading with him like this would make him take action…
Calling this ‘selling charm’? What are you talking about? I merely put on a pretty dress and came to discuss the Demonic Extermination Conference with my junior brother.
It’s just that this dress happened to be a gift from junior brother, which only proves our aesthetic tastes are aligned, both finding this dress beautiful. Nothing special about it.
“However, Senior Sister, if I help you… will you… reward me a little?”
“…?”
Talking conditions, are we?
You, with your honest-looking face, claim to like me, but when I ask you to do something, you still want to discuss conditions! I knew there were no good guys among you demonic sect people!
Qi Xiao’s smile became somewhat strained. “May I ask… how does Junior Brother intend for Senior Sister to… reward you?”
“Isn’t that something I shouldn’t have to consider? I’m not negotiating terms with Senior Sister. Senior Sister showed me kindness. Even without a reward, if Senior Sister asks me to do something, would I not do it? Am I that kind of thick-skinned person? I merely asked because my admiration for Senior Sister momentarily became hard to restrain. If Senior Sister is unwilling, I naturally won’t force it.”
Damn you. Have you been taking lessons from some demonic sect green tea enchantress or something? Why do your words carry such a heavy green tea flavor? I thought I was being quite green tea just now, but you’re even better.
Truly meeting my match.
And you want me to consider it myself…
This was actually a very crafty negotiation tactic.
The party who makes the first offer essentially reveals their mental price point—especially in Qi Xiao’s situation. How was she supposed to “reward” this junior brother?
It depended on what value Qi Xiao herself placed on the favor she was asking.
If she offered too low, junior brother might be unwilling to trade. If she offered too high, she would suffer a loss. So, what she offered would necessarily be the “lowest price” within the range she thought junior brother would accept, which she would then use as a starting point for negotiation. Junior brother could then just push it higher.
Of course, this wasn’t a business transaction; we’re talking about a “reward” here.
Qi Xiao knew giving junior brother magical treasures or the like was meaningless. He harbored those kinds of thoughts towards her…
So, the possible “reward” she could give…
Qi Xiao took two steps closer to Li Wangyan. She stared at him, then stood on her tiptoes, pressing her lips lightly against his cheek.
“Like this… is it okay?”
Her face was somewhat flushed. Doing such a thing wasn’t easy at all. Counting her past and present life, this was already quite excessive. She had absolutely no experience.
Li Wangyan instinctively touched the spot on his cheek where he had been kissed, then licked his lips. “Senior Sister, this… doesn’t seem very satisfactory…”
This scoundrel! Of course, he wouldn’t be satisfied until he ‘ate’ me, would he? But she, Qi Xiao, wasn’t fallen to that degree yet. If this scoundrel proposed that kind of request, then she’d better just…
“Mmph?!”
A Golden Core cultivator, dignified and lofty, was actually kissed by a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator because her mind was momentarily chaotic?
Even if it was just a peck! Even if it was just for a moment!
“You…!”
“That’s enough! Senior Sister, trust me. Regarding this Demonic Extermination Conference, Senior Sister won’t face any problems.”
“…You’d better remember your promise!”
Qi Xiao left the place, somewhat displeased.
After she left, Li Wangyan collapsed and sat limply in his cave abode.
A phantom figure emerged from his ring. “Look at you! You didn’t shy away when you were diligently ‘plowing the fields’ on her master! How come one little kiss from her, and you’re falling apart? Are you even worthy of being my master?”
“Stop your nonsense! Senior Sister is different from them!” Li Wangyan grumbled. “Besides, if it weren’t for you, this evil Immortal Artifact, how would I have become so wretched? You are the one who led me astray and harmed me miserably!”
“Hah?” The phantom figure almost couldn’t hold back. “You say I harmed you miserably? Then when your Eldest and Second Senior Brothers return, don’t put them in the Mystic Maiden Mirror! Don’t lay hands on them!”
“That won’t do. That’s part of the revenge.”
The phantom figure gave Li Wangyan a thumbs-up. “Alright. I guess I found the right master. Even within the demonic sects, people with skin as thick as yours aren’t common. I see you truly have the bearing of someone who can achieve immortality. You can even say such things! What can I do? I’ll just comply with you!”
“Alas! Evil is not my true nature; great love resides in my heart,” Li Wangyan sighed emotionally. “Who would have thought that you, as my Immortal Artifact, also cannot understand my thoughts? Truly disappointing. Senior Sister can understand! I actually placed Master, Eldest and Second Senior Brothers in the Mystic Maiden Mirror out of love for them!”
“If you weren’t my master, I’d definitely kill you to carry out justice on behalf of heaven.”
* * * *
When she was kissed, Qi Xiao felt very confused. But after returning to her cave abode, she calmed down and felt she had things under control.
So that’s it! Junior Brother is only that level of a guy!
What does a kiss like that even mean?
Are we three-year-old children?
She remembered back in her original world, as a child, she used to kiss people everywhere too. It was nothing worth fussing over.
So junior brother was actually that pure and innocent…
Recalling the state just now, she had been very flustered, and junior brother clearly was too. If he had been truly composed, he wouldn’t have let her leave so easily.
She originally thought there might be some impure relationship between her master and junior brother, but junior brother being so pure and innocent meant she had probably overthought things.
Her master’s issues must be her own.
If junior brother were experienced, how could he become panicked and at a loss just from a little kiss? A seasoned veteran of romance definitely wouldn’t act like that!
Though she had never actually met one.
But that didn’t hinder her imagination of what a veteran of romance would be like.
If just a kiss like that could get a firm hold on junior brother… then the future looked bright!
With this thought, her mood improved.
* * * *
Lin Wushuang had received his master’s message earlier. While approaching the sect, he also heard about the demonic sect attack and the planned Demonic Extermination Conference, urging him to return quickly.
He had no choice but to increase his travel speed again, which significantly consumed his spiritual power. But he knew he had to return as quickly as possible. It wasn’t that the sect couldn’t function without him, but he needed to make his stance clear.
He heard Jade Lotus True Dharma’s life and death were uncertain—that was an old opponent of his.
Personally, he had no particular emotional response about that, but the idea that “demonic sects should die” he strongly agreed with. After all, it was because of a demonic sect cultivator’s attack in his childhood that he lost everything.
That day’s scene gnawed at his heart day and night. He chose the Ruthless Sword Dao precisely to forget this pain within!
His hand involuntarily went to his chest.
He couldn’t miss this Demonic Extermination Conference. He absolutely had to participate.
“Who goes there?!”
He abruptly halted his flying sword, the sword dropping into his hand as he vigilantly looked around.
He realized he had already fallen into some kind of formation.
Someone set up an ambush formation against me just one day’s travel from the Heavenly Dao Sect?
A sense of unease arose in his heart.
He should have realized sooner. Since the demonic sects attacked Jade Lotus True Dharma, they naturally had reason to attack him as well. And now, with his master launching the Extermination Conference, it wasn’t strange for the enemy to want to eliminate him in advance…
He looked towards a specific spot and suddenly lashed out with his sword.
Sword energy fluctuated, severing all things. That location suddenly distorted.
“As expected of the Ruthless Sword Lin Wushuang! Your perception is indeed keen!”
An old man appeared opposite him, having previously used a formation to conceal his form.
“Golden Core perfection!”
Lin Wushuang assessed the other’s state and instead let out a sigh of relief.
“So it’s an old thing with no hope of breaking through, making one last desperate gamble!”
Within the righteous factions, there was no such term as “perfection” at the Golden Core stage.
Because once you reached late Golden Core, you were naturally “perfect.”
This term was actually used by demonic sect cultivators to boast about themselves—because of their special cultivation methods, some people, even using special methods to reach the Golden Core stage, could not comprehend “the truth of this world” due to their crooked and heretical paths. Thus, they could never achieve Nascent Soul, forever stuck at Golden Core.
Of course, the righteous factions also had those stuck at late Golden Core, but that was usually due to failing to find the opportunity for breakthrough.
However, a so-called “Golden Core perfection” was indeed stronger than an ordinary late Golden Core.
After all, a bunch of old things with no hope of breaking through would try every possible method to increase their combat power, hoping for a sudden “great opportunity” one day, the kind that could utterly transform a person.
Clearly, this old demon before him was here to gamble for the future, hoping to trade his head for a chance to break through to Nascent Soul. How laughable!
But since they had dispatched such an old demon, it clearly meant there were no other demonic path cultivators here.
Lin Wushuang’s expression was cold.
“Today, I shall exterminate demons and uphold the Dao!”
He was the Ruthless Sword Lin Wushuang, the number one in killing among Golden Core cultivators. Unmatched. Even a Golden Core perfection—so what?
Merely coming to deliver himself to death!
Crisscrossing sword qi burst forth around him, almost threatening to tear the very sky apart.
It collided heavily with the demonic cultivator’s Dao arts.
Half a day later.
The formation shattered. The master of the formation was dead.
Lin Wushuang remained robed in white, not a single wound to be found.
“What was that final technique of his? Why did it cause no harm, yet was impossible to block? Even using my Ruthless Sword Intent to slash, I couldn’t touch it. Instead, it attached itself to my divine sense… Could it be a body-snatching method? I must quickly report this to my master. The demonic sects’ scale of action this time is not small!”
After briefly reporting the events here to his master, Lin Wushuang once again set out on the path towards the sect. He believed his master would have a solution.
After all, in the end, it was just a Golden Core perfection. No matter how strange the technique, it was still just…
“Master, you say… it cannot be solved?”
“Not that it cannot be solved, just… not temporarily.”
True Master Dao Sword gave him the reply.
“You must give Master some time. This is clearly the work of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Master needs to study it, perhaps even discuss it with Heaven’s Law Peak’s True Master Prison Law to remove this thing. After all, it’s attached to your divine sense. Acting rashly might injure your divine sense.”
“Master judges wisely.”
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