Proud Sword Soaring Clouds

Chapter 335: Chapter 263: The Immensely Fortunate Ye Zi

However, both Song Mingyue and Ling Xiao believed that if they encountered enemies at the upcoming conference, it would likely escalate to a formal, one-on-one duel. Bringing Thirteenth Master and Fourteenth Master along would be useless in such a scenario. Given Ling Xiao’s current strength, a full-power strike could take down a Low-Tier Sword Emperor. Even if it couldn’t kill them, inflicting a serious wound would be no problem.

The main reason for going was to broaden their horizons and learn about the major hidden clans and sects, not to pick fights.

With Song Mingyue at his side, the other clans and sects would have to be wary. As Song Mingyue herself had said, unless it was a deep-seated blood feud, people rarely resorted to killing. If you decided to kill, you had to be certain you could annihilate their entire clan. Otherwise, leaving behind even a single survivor would mean sowing the seeds of future disaster!

Everyone raised among the hidden clans and sects understood this perfectly!

The night before he left, after Ling Xiao and Ye Zi finished their Soul Dual Cultivation, Ye Zi gazed at Ling Xiao with a dreamy look in her eyes. Blushing slightly, she said, "Are you leaving again tomorrow? How long will you be gone this time?"

Ling Xiao gently brushed his fingers across Ye Zi’s flawlessly smooth cheek. "This time, it’s hard to say," he said. "But don’t you worry. Once I’ve taken care of everything and Penzes New City is complete, I’ll take you all to travel the world. How does that sound?"

"Really?!" Ye Zi exclaimed in delight. "I haven’t been to many places, and I’ve always dreamed of traveling. Ling Xiao, you can’t go back on your word." As she spoke, she nestled into his embrace, wrapping her arms around his neck like a sweet, pleading little girl. Then, her voice dropped to a whisper. "Ling Xiao... tonight... how about we try a different kind of Dual Cultivation?"

Ling Xiao froze, his gaze fixed on her stunning face in the lamplight. Her eyes were squeezed shut beneath a fringe of long, neat lashes, her delicate brows were relaxed, and a deep blush colored her perfect, oval-shaped face. With her flawlessly straight nose, she was a breathtaking sight.

Ling Xiao couldn’t resist leaning down and pressing his lips to her tempting ones.

The lamp went dark, casting the room into a night of splendor, with the stars in the sky shining with incomparable brilliance. A soft moan broke the darkness, then all was quiet again.

Ye Zi’s body was exquisitely proportioned—add an inch and she’d be plump, take one away and she’d be too thin. Great swathes of her delicate skin glowed as white as snow in the moonlight filtering through the window.

Ling Xiao’s fingers traced over her body, marveling at its incredible delicacy. For a moment, he was so lost in the sensation that he nearly forgot about their cultivation.

Fortunately, he managed to focus his mind at the critical moment. He took her Virgin Primordial Yin, and a few crimson blossoms bloomed upon the sheets...

When he had been with Song Mingyue, their surroundings had been complex and perilous. They were in the middle of a crisis, and Ling Xiao himself had been severely injured. He’d had no energy to properly savor the experience of her first time.

This time was different. The night was seductive, Ye Zi was as gentle as water, and her heart belonged completely to Ling Xiao. The former little thief, now the primary hostess of the Lord’s Mansion, was fully and wholeheartedly giving herself to him.

Therefore, the benefits Ling Xiao received from Ye Zi were no less than what he had gained from his Dual Cultivation with Song Mingyue!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from all around the Lord’s Mansion began to surge madly toward Ye Zi’s room. It flowed into Ling Xiao through his Purple Mansion, traveled along his meridians into Ye Zi’s body, and began to violently expand her own meridians—effectively reforging her entire physical foundation!

It allowed Ye Zi, a woman whose physical aptitude for cultivation should have long been fixed due to her age, to receive an unbelievable, fundamental transformation!

Stream after stream of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi continuously cleansed Ye Zi’s meridians, flowing back and forth between the two of them. Ye Zi felt no pain. She forced herself to concentrate and operate the Dual Cultivation Technique. She could feel the blockages in her acupoints being effortlessly blasted open. At the same time, most of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi that had stretched her meridians so wide began to settle within her Dantian!

Ling Xiao used his Spiritual Power to sense every minute change within Ye Zi’s body and was ecstatic. ’Ye Zi... she truly has a Spirit Root! To think she could break through the Qi Cultivation Stage and achieve Foundation Establishment on her own in a single go!’

Just think, someone who could achieve Foundation Establishment on their own without a Foundation Establishment Pill... even in the vast Cultivation Realm, they would be considered a once-in-a-millennium genius!

With this discovery, the lustful thoughts in Ling Xiao’s mind faded away, replaced by a single-minded focus on guiding the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within Ye Zi’s body and carefully helping her consolidate her Foundation Establishment.

But even after her Foundation Establishment was complete, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi continued to pour in. Now, even Ling Xiao was getting shocked!

After all, for a Cultivator to achieve Foundation Establishment on their own was already a heavenly boon. He never expected the influx to continue even after it was complete. With this level of innate talent, Ling Xiao even suspected that Ye Zi might have claimed a share of the entire world’s fortune!

Or perhaps, he mused, this was some form of cosmic compensation for her. ’The real Ye Zi, the one she was meant to be, should have grown up like Song Mingyue in a hidden clan, living a carefree and happy life, attaining formidable strength at a young age.’

’She never should have suffered so much—torn from her parents as an infant, taken in by someone with ulterior motives. In her struggle to resist, she had become a so-called Golden Finger—which was a nice way of saying she was a common thief. Weak, uncivilized... How could a girl with such incredible spiritual aptitude, a girl who should have been a Princess, have been forced to endure all that?’

Ling Xiao’s heart surged with emotion. It was as if the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, being sentient itself, could sense his thoughts and began to roam through Ye Zi’s meridians with even greater gentleness. The Spiritual Qi within her body soon broke through to the Fusion Stage!

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