Chapter 28: To Accept or Not to Accept?

Ye Qingyi tried circulating her spiritual energy once.

Visibly, after one major cycle, the qi inside her body had condensed several times over.

If before, the quality of her qi had already vaguely surpassed early Golden Core stage, after running this technique once, her qi quality could almost rival a late Golden Core cultivator.

The only gap was in quantity.

“So strong?!”

Ye Qingyi’s eyes widened.

What kind of divine technique is this?

Could she really obtain something like this without paying any price?

Is this the so-called “the bigger the waves, the more expensive the fish”?

Ye Chu remained silent in her sea of consciousness for a long time.

Then he said: “I knew you were a good person, but I didn’t expect you to be this good.”

“It seems I still don’t understand you deeply enough.”

Ye Qingyi was startled: “I feel like there’s a hidden meaning in your words.”

“What hidden meaning? It’s the Taiyi Sacred Sect’s founding technique.”

Ye Chu’s tone was complicated.

“Back then, someone scattered it like it was worthless. So many people wanted to learn it but couldn’t. You mastered it in twenty breaths.”

“You’re a genius, beautiful girl!”

“Praising me like that will make me shy…”

Ye Qingyi scratched her head bashfully.

Just then—

The restriction at the entrance of the cave dwelling was triggered.

Ye Qingyi calmly withdrew her qi, stood up, and walked to the door.

The cave entrance was covered in blood, and the stench of gore hit her nose, so strong it was nauseating.

But upon closer inspection, it was just paint, not real human blood at all.

Unnoticed, a young girl with red hair and crimson eyes appeared.

She wore a rose-colored long dress with pale gold cloud patterns embroidered on the hem, fluttering without wind.

Normally, a full set of rose and gold on an ordinary girl would look somewhat tacky.

But on her, the combination seemed perfectly natural.

Her skin, as if bathed in milk, looked alluring under that ambiguous color.

The girl before them seemed born for this.

She raised her hand and cleared away those unpleasant foreign objects.

Woman’s intuition made Ye Qingyi subconsciously take half a step back.

“Ye Chu, you’re finally awake?”

“Don’t worry, I’ll help you find your body and free your soul.”

Sure enough, Ye Qingyi’s intuition was right.

Another person here for Ye Chu, her words brimming with the joy of reunion after a long separation.

Ye Qingyi: “And which ignorant young girl are you now who’s been deceived of her feelings?”

In the sea of consciousness, Ye Chu was also stunned.

“Who is this?”

Ye Chu’s tone carried some confusion.

“I don’t know her.”

Ye Qingyi asked in her mind: “Are you sure?”

“Sure.”

Ye Chu’s voice was unequivocal.

“I don’t forget people I’ve met. I really haven’t seen this one.”

“Then how should I answer?”

Ye Qingyi asked again.

“Just say she must have mistaken you for someone else.”

Ye Qingyi looked at the joy in the young girl’s eyes and suddenly found it hard to speak.

The girl was still waiting for an answer.

Her reddish-gold pupils reflected Ye Qingyi’s figure, her gaze so intense it seemed to burn through her.

“Ye Chu.”

The girl asked again, “Why aren’t you talking?”

Ye Qingyi took a deep breath, looked at the girl, and said, “You’ve mistaken me for someone else.”

The girl didn’t move, but the color in her pupils gradually faded…

“I’m not Ye Chu.”

Ye Qingyi repeated, “Did you mistake me for someone else?”

The girl tilted her head, her gaze still fixed on the inside of Ye Qingyi’s body.

She was thinking.

‘Either Ye Chu lost his memory.’

‘Or Ye Chu is still the same as before, seeing how cute I am and deliberately teasing me.’

‘Or maybe Ye Chu really is like what Father said—a playboy who deceives naive girls’ feelings. Since I caught him with another woman, he’s pretending not to know me on purpose.’

…

Ye Chu looked at the expression on the young girl’s face, and his heart nearly broke.

As a gentleman, he couldn’t allow a beautiful girl to be sad for him, but he repeatedly checked his memory—they truly had never met.

Yet her reaction didn’t seem like she was lying.

In the cultivation world, there were many ways to change one’s appearance.

Perhaps this girl really was an old acquaintance?

No, if she had completely changed her appearance, of course he couldn’t recognize her!

Why don’t you just say who you are!

But if she was like Mu Qingge… then an old acquaintance would quickly turn into a disaster… A blessing is not a blessing, a disaster cannot be avoided.

In any case, first find out who she is!

Ye Chu: “Ye Qingyi, ask her name.”

Ye Qingyi: “Oh, right.”

Ye Qingyi waved her hand in front of the girl to get her attention.

“Miss, may I ask who you are?”

Qin Xiwu snapped back to reality.

‘Oh no… I can’t tell dreams from reality anymore.’

‘I was sealed for ten thousand years, and during that time I kept dreaming about Ye Chu. Now that I’ve just been awakened and saw him again, I thought I was still in a dream.’

‘In the dream, Ye Chu and I came to know and love each other, spending countless years together.’

‘In reality, I was just one of the many mortals he saved ten thousand years ago.’

‘It’s normal that Ye Chu doesn’t remember me. Besides, later my father, to put me on the path of cultivation, didn’t hesitate to slay a phoenix to activate my thin phoenix bloodline. Because of that, I changed drastically. It’s understandable that Ye Chu doesn’t recognize me.’

‘It’s fine. Just like in the dream, I’ll get to know him again with a new identity and appearance. When our relationship develops to the right point, I’ll casually reveal that we once crossed paths… Or maybe directly mention the life-saving grace? Plus, with the identity of an old acquaintance’s daughter, won’t that make it easier to win Ye Chu over?’

“Then, let me introduce myself.”

“My name is Qin Xiwu. I am Qin Ye’s long-lost daughter.”

“Before my father found me, I was just a mortal. I was once saved by a powerful Body Cultivator who walked the path of chivalry.”

“With that, can you perhaps have a little impression of me?”

Upon hearing this, Ye Chu fully activated his soul power, piercing through layers of defenses to probe the young girl calling herself Qin Xiwu.

The result made him suck in a cold breath.

He thought, ‘I’m screwed.’

There really was the bloodline aura of Qin Ye and the aura of a phoenix bloodline…

In his past life, he had heard that old rascal Qin Ye had found his long-lost biological daughter and doted on her immensely.

For her sake, he even had Ye Chu help slay a reckless pure-blood phoenix to activate her bloodline.

Identity confirmed.

She was indeed Qin Ye’s daughter.

That meant he really had saved her before?!

‘I’m dead, I’m dead, I’m dead!’

Judging from her attitude just now, because of that life-saving grace, this little girl is totally harboring a secret crush on him!

Accept or not?

Acceptance is definitely out of the question.

Not only is her generation lower, but he has a family and business—how can he go back?

If he doesn’t accept, how can he politely decline?

If he mishandles this, Qin Ye will turn hostile and come after him.

In his current state, how could he possibly withstand that?!