The room was silent, and the dim spiritual lamp was about to go out.
Perhaps because of the sense of security in Ye Anping's arms, or because his body temperature was slightly higher than usual due to his injuries, Feng Yu Die, who was resting on his left shoulder, curled up, closed her eyes, and fell asleep unknowingly.
From time to time, she would mutter in her sleep and rub her cheek against Ye Anping's neck. "Young Master Ye... roasted chicken..."
Ye Anping slept lightly for a while. Then, he opened his eyes slowly and turned his head slightly to the left, seeing Feng Yu Die with a sweet smile on her face.
"Quiet as a virgin, swift as a fool*." This was not a description he gave Feng Yu Die out of thin air.
The slightly messy silver hair, coupled with her delicate face, was extremely beautiful, like a pure white snow lotus in the night, making people want to protect and pamper her.
Ye Anping found himself thinking about a question:
—Was it a bad thing for him to accept Feng Yu Die?
Since he married his sister, Feng Yu Die has said "I like you" countless times.
This silly girl didn't have any schemes or shrewdness in her heart. Moreover, the words she said in front of her master's tombstone didn't sound like a compromise or a lie.
Since Feng Yu Die said so, it meant she really liked him.
Ye Anping stared at her sleeping face for a long time.
It seemed that because of his breath, Feng Yu Die squinted her eyes slightly, and suddenly tightened her grasp on his arm a little as if she was afraid that this gust of wind would blow her Young Master Ye away.
"Huh..."
Ye Anping exhaled lightly and inexplicably felt that this girl was a little cute now...
Anyway, he now had to support his sister, Yunluo, Longling, Yiyi, and Xuanji.
One more person was not a big deal...
As for Gu Mingxin's words...
Thinking of this, Ye Anping tilted his head to look to his right again. However, the moment he turned his head, his heart, which had just calmed down, suddenly tightened again.
Gu Mingxin stared with her round red eyes at him without blinking.
"..."
Seeing that Ye Anping finally turned his head to look at her, Gu Mingxin leaned into Ye Anping's ear and whispered, "Can't sleep?"
"Why are you staring at me?"
"You don't want to practice dual cultivation with me, and you don't allow me to look at you? Woo—"
He felt her teeth slightly nibbling his earlobe.
Following her whisper, Ye Anping's entire body suddenly trembled and felt numb. Before he could come to his senses, he felt a small, icy hand touching his abdomen and slowly moving downward.
"..."
"Ye Anping, you are so bad~ How did you play with my hand before?"
Gu Mingxin smiled coquettishly when she said this, but what followed seemed to be beyond her expectations, and she raised her eyebrows slightly. "So big..."
Ye Anping was about to say something, but he stopped and closed his mouth again.
"In the past, I always heard the female cultivators of the Heavenly Demon Sect talking about it and they wanted it to be big..."
Ye Anping interrupted hurriedly. "Can we change the subject?"
"Well... Isn't flirting like this?"
"Sister Gu, I pushed you into a corner like that in the past, don't you hate me?"
"I hated you~ But who doesn't like a strong and good-looking partner?" Gu Mingxin smirked slightly. "I have always wanted to find a man who is stronger than me, but unfortunately, I haven't met one in so many decades..."
"..."
"Ye Anping, you're the first person who can push me to such a state."
Gu Mingxin licked her lips, as if seeing delicious food, then closed her eyes again and concentrated on feeling the things her palm touched.
Ye Anping's face was expressionless. He only felt a strange spiritual energy that he had never felt before, spreading from bottom to top, all over his body.
Whether it was Pei Lianxue or Xiao Yunluo, their spiritual yin energy was mostly like a clear spring. After entering his meridians, Ye Anping felt like a stream of cool but not cold water flowing through his body.
However, the spiritual energy that now flowed into his meridians was like boiling blood. Not only did it not relieve the restless yang energy, but it seemed to make it surge, causing him to breathe a little faster.
"Huh..."
At this time, it was unknown what kind of beautiful dream Feng Yu Die had, and she rubbed against his cheek sweetly again. "Master Ye, hehehe..."
"..."
Ye Anping turned his head to look at Feng Yu Die, but when he looked back at Gu Mingxin, he saw her slowly let go, move her right hand out of the quilt, bring her index finger at her lips, and lick it with her tongue, tasting it carefully. "Hmm, it tastes weird..."
"Where did you learn this?"
"It's everywhere in the Heavenly Demon Sect. I haven't done it, but I've seen it."
Ye Anping was silent for a moment. Thinking that the sooner he recovered, the sooner they could leave, he didn't say anything and just sighed instead. "Be gentle."
"Hmm~"
Then, Ye Anping relaxed again, closed his eyes, and silently endured this mixed feeling that he couldn't express in words...
... ...
Unknowingly, daylight broke and the light rain outside the cave stopped.
However, Gu Mingxin looked down on her as if she were a child. "Heh..."
Feng Yu Die ignored her and tentatively reached out to hold Ye Anping's hand. Seeing that he didn't resist her, she was even happier. With a spring in her steps, she pulled him toward another room in the cave mansion, found a place to sit down, and started combing her hair on her back.
Ye Anping shrugged helplessly. He took out a comb from the storage bag, walked behind her, and gently combed her thick silver hair like he used to do for his sister.
"Hehe..."
Ye Anping couldn't help laughing. "What are you laughing at?"
"You are so nice to me today... Hehe~"
... ...
Inside Brilliance City.
The sky gradually brightened, and in the ruined city, disciples of the Ghost Spirit Sect patrolled on their swords everywhere. No one had anticipated such a sudden change. Under the demonic spirit and chaotic energy of Kong Xiangmo, half of the Brilliance City had been burned down in just a moment.
In the room at the top of Heavenly Pavilion, jade slips and scrolls were scattered everywhere. Kong Xiangmo, who was wearing the robe of the Ghost Spirit Sect's Elder, had his eyes sunken into his sockets, like an old man with half a foot in the ground.
When the Justice Division withdrew from the Eastern Wall, they left a ruin behind. The Ghost Spirit Sect had to spend a lot of spirit stones to rebuild those cities.
And now, the spirit stones and demonic treasures spent by them, have all gone to waste.
The rebuilt half of the Brilliance City had become a ruin again.
Moreover, according to the disciples' statistics, about two thousand people died in this incident, including several Nascent Soul-stage Elders.
However, the casualties and losses were nothing compared to the destruction of the Demonic Ghost Formation.
This mistake was enough for Seven Ghost Tomb to swallow him whole.
But Kong Xiangmo still had some hope.
Although the man named "Liang Liu" destroyed most of the Demonic Ghost Formation's core with the Nine Dragons Heavenly Seal, after all, this formation was set up by the Ghost Patriarch himself, and it was not a small formation that could be broken overnight.
He had just checked, and the Nine-phase Demonic Ghost Formation could still be repaired.
As long as he could repair the formation before the Western Region immortal cultivators invaded the city, even if he had made a mistake, considering he had been the Great Elder for a thousand years after all, the Ghost Patriarch would not punish him by death.
As for those dead and injured disciples, as long as he caught Gu Mingxin and sent her to Patriarch Yu Yan, he could also make up for his mistakes.
"There is still a chance... there is still a chance! My Kong family is not dead yet!!" Kong Xiangmo kept muttering.
The young servant who was sorting out the files in the room heard him and had an ominous feeling as if a disaster was about to happen.
Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the room.
Tap, tap, tap—
Kong Xiangmo was delighted. Before the Ghost Spirit Sect disciple entered, he opened the door with his spiritual energy and asked urgently, "Did you catch them?"
"Ah..."
The one who came in was a Foundation Building disciple. He looked at the ferocious face of his Elder and gulped. He knelt on one knee and answered with his hands cupped. "Reporting to the Elder, yesterday, twenty-seven disciples who went to the Eastern Region to search for Liang Liu and the others did not return. Something must have happened."
Kong Xiangmo did not think it was bad news, and he impatiently asked, "Where was that?!"
"At a canyon about three hundred miles east of the Eastern Great Wall."
"Okay! Okay, okay... I'll go there..."
Before he finished speaking, another burst of hurried footsteps came from outside, and another Ghost Spirit Sect disciple in the Foundation Building stage rushed in, sweating profusely.
"Reporting! Great Elder, nearly a hundred immortal flying boats were spotted about twelve hundred miles west of Brilliance City. The immortal boats display flags of many sects of the Western Region, including Black Star Sect."
"What..."
Kong Xiangmo's pupils shrank. He thought that the Black Star Sect would not take action so fast and he would have time to repair the formation. How could they come so quickly?
At this time, another disciple rushed in. "Reporting--! Tens of thousands of beasts are heading to Brilliance City from the southwest."
"Beasts... Beasts?!"
Hearing this news, Kong Xiangmo's pupils had shrunk to the size of a sesame seed, and even his breathing stopped. He couldn't stand firmly, and his body leaned on the table beside him, overturning the book scrolls and jade slips that the servant had just sorted out on the table.
Crash...
Just when the books fell on the wooden floor.
Thunderbolt—
A loud thunder exploded throughout the entire city.
Then, a confident voice shouted from outside the western wall of the city. "Kong, get your ass out here, it's time to die!!"
Hearing this voice, Kong Xiangmo froze for a moment, then quickly stood up and went to the side of the window, looking at the city's western wall. Through the Distant Vision technique, he could see an old man in a purple robe, with silver thunder as armor all over his body, standing above the yellow sand outside the city with his hands behind his back and several immortal cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage around him.
Kong Xiangmo recognized the man as Lei Wanjun, the Great Elder of the Black Star Sect, and he seemed to give up struggling. His hands fell down, and his pupils, which had shrunk into small dots, dilated again.
After a while, Kong Xiangmo glanced at the three Foundation Building disciples on his side and gritted his teeth to calm his trembling.
At least Immortal Matriarch didn't come, right?
She didn't come?!
Haha!! She didn't come!
Lei Wanjun, this stinky dragon breeder, is nothing to be afraid of!
"Uh hahaha...hahahaha...nothing to be afraid of!!! Ahahahaha..."
*The original idiom: "Be still like a virgin, move swiftly like a rabbit." It means that when the army is not in action, it is as quiet as an unmarried woman hiding in her chambers, and when it is in action, it is as agile as a rabbit escaping a trap. Source: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War-Nine Terrains".