Boom…
In Lin Yue’s mind, an extremely blurry yet seductive image instantly appeared.
It was the “Cold Spirit Spring” behind Lingxiao Peak.
White mist swirled around the spring.
A stunning figure with a perfect back curve was soaking in the spring, back facing him.
Cold droplets slid down her swan-like slender neck and disappeared beneath the tantalizing water surface.
Lin Yue could clearly feel the trembling sensation of the water sliding over her skin, because that sensation was being transmitted one hundred percent into his nerves through the jade token!
Hiss Lin Yue drew in a sharp breath.
He swore he hadn’t meant to peep.
He was just, as a rigorous cultivator, testing the connection stability of the magical artifact.
Just as Lin Yue was immersed in this extremely bizarre “shared sensation,” Chu Wanning, in the spirit spring, suddenly stiffened.
She had originally been circulating the Bingxin Technique with her eyes closed.
Suddenly, she felt an extremely hot gaze, even tinged with roguishness, abruptly appear in her mind!
What’s worse, she actually felt her breath become heavier, her heart racing.
And, uncontrollably, Lin Yue’s punchable smiling face appeared in her mind!
“Bastard!”
Chu Wanning instantly understood what had happened.
Feeling utterly humiliated and furious, she slapped the water, and her whole body shot up like a startled white crane.
Her white bathrobe quickly wrapped around her perfect figure in midair.
“Lin! Yue!”
With a clear, cold shout, Chu Wanning burst through the window and charged into Lin Yue’s room.
The longsword in her hand was still dripping water, its tip pointing at Lin Yue’s throat.
Because she had just bathed, Chu Wanning’s jet-black hair was wet and loose on her shoulders.
Her stunning face blushed with shame and anger.
That eternal ice queen aura was completely shattered, replaced by a captivating beauty that made it hard to look away.
“S-Senior Sister, good evening.”
Lin Yue quickly raised his hands in surrender.
“In the dead of night, are you here for a bed check or to borrow soy sauce?”
“Just now… what did you sense?!” Chu Wanning clenched her silver teeth, her voice trembling.
Lin Yue blinked, wearing an extremely innocent expression.
“Sense what? I didn’t sense anything. I just suddenly felt a little cold and was about to add a blanket.”
“You’re lying!”
Chu Wanning was so angry that her hand holding the sword trembled.
“I clearly sensed your… that kind of…” That word, she was too ashamed to say.
It was that domineering and aggressive masculine aura belonging to Lin Yue.
“Senior Sister, this really isn’t my fault.”
Lin Yue pointed very aggrievedly at the jade token on his chest.
Chu Wanning looked at the glowing jade token and wished she could smash it with one sword stroke.
But she knew the token was bound to both their souls; breaking it would injure them both severely.
“You immediately, right now, seal off your spiritual sense!”
Chu Wanning took a deep breath, trying to calm her pounding heart.
“From now on, unless I’m in front of you, you are absolutely forbidden to sense the token’s movements!”
“Fine, fine, fine, I swear I’ll sleep with my eyes closed.”
Lin Yue nodded repeatedly.
‘No way, this woman was on the verge of exploding; talking back now would be suicide.’
Just as the two were locked in a stalemate, the atmosphere extremely ambiguous and dangerous, from outside the room suddenly came a long wine burp.
“Burp—”
“In the middle of the night, a lone man and a lone woman together in a room, and you’ve drawn your sword? Do young people nowadays flirt so violently?”
Chu Wanning was greatly alarmed and turned her head sharply.
“Master?!”
Mu Qingxue had appeared at the door at some point.
She still looked disheveled and tipsy.
Holding a gourd of wine, she leaned against the doorframe, watching the “disheveled” pair with interest.
Chu Wanning was only wearing a thin bathrobe, and Lin Yue was even worse, wearing only his undergarments, half-lying on the bed.
The scene looked exactly like they had been caught in bed together.
“Master, you misunderstand! We did nothing!”
Chu Wanning was so anxious her eyes turned red.
To outsiders, she was the aloof ice goddess, but before her master, she was just an inexperienced young girl.
“Aiya, I understand, I understand everything.”
Mu Qingxue waved her hand, smiling very suggestively.
“Back in the day, I also held a sword like this and forced that dead man to cook for me.”
Lin Yue rolled his eyes on the bed.
‘Big sister, how long are you going to keep imagining things?’
Mu Qingxue staggered in and suddenly reached out, grabbing Chu Wanning’s wrist.
Her eyes instantly became sharp.
“Wanning, your Bingxin Technique is in chaos.”
Mu Qingxue’s voice was no longer lazily drunken but carried a hint of severity.
“Extreme cold backlash; you almost went into a qi deviation in the spring just now, didn’t you?”
Chu Wanning’s face turned pale, and she lowered her head.
“This disciple is incompetent. Lately, I’ve been unsettled and unable to suppress the cold poison in my body.”
Mu Qingxue turned to look at Lin Yue.
“Kid, you caused this, didn’t you? Your domineering pure yang energy melted the ice heart she cultivated for ten years. You’ve committed a great sin.”
Lin Yue gave a bitter smile.
“Peak Master, I didn’t want this either. The jade token forcibly connected us; I’m a victim too, you know.”
“I don’t care if you’re a victim or not.”
Mu Qingxue snorted coldly and waved her hand.
“Since you melted her ice heart, you are responsible for forging it anew!”
“Huh? How do I forge it?”
Lin Yue was stunned.
“Go to the Ten-Thousand-Year Glacial Cave at the back mountain!”
Mu Qingxue gave the order with extreme dominance.
“You two go into seclusion! Use your pure yang fire with her extreme cold energy to completely fuse that chaotic spiritual power. Until it’s fused, neither of you will come out!”
Mu Qingxue was completely unreasonable; she swung her sleeve.
An irresistible Spirit Transformation stage spiritual power swept up Lin Yue and Chu Wanning.
With a bang, the two were thrown directly into the Glacial Cave in the back mountain, so cold it could freeze even souls.
As the heavy stone door slammed shut, Mu Qingxue’s triumphant laughter came from outside: “Young people these days are so thin-skinned. I can only help you this far.”
Inside the Glacial Cave, complete darkness, with only the faint blue glow from the ten-thousand-year-old ice on the walls.
The temperature here was extremely low; water froze instantly.
Even a Qi Condensation stage cultivator would be frozen into an ice sculpture after a few hours here.
“Ah-choo!”
Lin Yue was thrown to the ground, shivering from the cold.
He was only wearing a thin undergarment, feeling like a piece of fresh meat thrown into a freezer.
“S-Senior Sister… is that old woman crazy?”