Seeing Zhang Zongnian’s face, which was full of the expression that he owed her far too much, Lin Xue shook her head and said,
“Brother, you shouldn’t say that. You saved my life. No matter how much I do, it wouldn’t be enough to repay that debt of gratitude.”
She felt that her energy had recovered somewhat, so she stood up and reached out, using her demon power to pull her clothes into her hand.
Then, she turned slightly and began dressing with light, quick movements.
Her skin was whiter than snow and as smooth as jade.
Her hair cascaded down like a waterfall, half-veiling her delicate, unclad body, making her look like a flawless piece of art.
Her slender waist and plump, long legs traced a perfect, alluring curve that could make anyone’s blood race.
Zhang Zongnian’s heart fluttered, and he didn’t dare look any longer.
He stood up, turned his head away, and hurriedly grabbed his own clothes to pull them on.
However, his clothes had been shredded by Yang Zhen and could no longer cover his body.
When he had left Xixia Mountain yesterday, he had been in such a rush that he hadn’t brought any other garments. He only had this single set of robes.
Looking at the rags on his body, he couldn’t help but feel a bit troubled.
Lin Xue was right there, yet he was practically naked. It was far too embarrassing.
While Zhang Zongnian was worrying, a new set of clothes was handed to him.
Lin Xue’s soft, melodic voice rang in his ear, “See if these fit.”
Lin Xue had several sets of men’s clothing in her Storage Space.
They were all new clothes that Yu Changfeng had prepared for his new body after Soul Possession.
However, Lin Xue had ended up with a Female Body after her Transformation, so these clothes had gone unused.
She had kept them in her Storage Space all this time.
Seeing Zhang Zongnian’s distress over his clothing, she simply took a set out and handed it to him.
Zhang Zongnian didn’t dare to meet Lin Xue’s eyes.
He lowered his head as he took the clothes, turned his back, and stripped off his rags as quickly as possible.
He hurriedly pulled on the new outfit.
Exposing his body in front of Lin Xue made him feel incredibly self-conscious.
Watching his stiff and panicked behavior, Lin Xue found it a bit amusing.
After what had happened between them, she had also felt very shy and her cheeks were burning when facing him.
However, she hadn’t expected Zhang Zongnian to be several times more bashful than she was.
It was as if their genders had been swapped.
Because Zhang Zongnian was in such a rush, he actually lost his balance while putting on his pants and nearly fell over.
Seeing his frantic and clumsy state, Lin Xue couldn’t hold it in and almost laughed out loud.
She quickly covered her small mouth and coughed a few times to hide it, hoping to avoid making Zhang Zongnian feel even more awkward.
After tidying himself up, Zhang Zongnian finally finished dressing and turned around.
Looking at Lin Xue standing prettily before him, he still found it hard to believe what had happened.
Everything that had just occurred felt like a dream.
Lin Xue had saved him using such an intimate method.
From this day forward, he, Zhang Zongnian, was a real man.
Facing Lin Xue, although he felt bashful, his heart was overflowing with happiness and joy.
But when he saw the thin, faint demon aura surrounding Lin Xue, the guilt welled up in his heart again.
“Sister, your cultivation…”
He had now recovered to the late Core Condensation Stage.
His serpent core had turned into a crystal the size of a goose egg, and it was extremely solid, containing only a small amount of impurities.
His demon power was incredibly formidable and flowed through his meridians with extreme smoothness.
He no longer felt the sensation that the power would backfire at any moment, nor the knife-like pain throughout his body.
But this demon power had all been given to him by Lin Xue.
Lin Xue had transferred almost her entire cultivation to him.
She had now regressed into a Lesser Demon.
He had just experienced how painful it was to fall from being strong to being weak.
He didn’t want Lin Xue to experience that same suffering.
Lin Xue looked down at her body and said indifferently, “It’s nothing, Brother. Don’t worry about it. With the Beast Refinement Codex, I can recover this cultivation very quickly.”
Moreover, she had another realm of power.
Lin Xue moved her serpent core out of her Essence Core and began to absorb the surrounding Spiritual Power.
Zhang Zongnian didn’t know that she was actually already a Jindan Cultivator.
Last night, while returning to Xixia Mountain with Hong Yanzhi and Hua Yingying, Lin Xue had been bored while sitting on the clouds.
She had opened her System Panel and upgraded all the techniques and skills she could.
With over 1,000,000 Experience Points, she had more than enough to spend freely.
She had synthesized several Crystal Stones and fully supplemented the Changsheng Jue up to the Spirit Transformation Chapter.
At the same time, she had confirmed her suspicion regarding the Bottleneck.
As long as her identity as a demon reached a certain realm, the cultivation techniques of human cultivators of the same realm would have no Bottlenecks.
She could use Experience Points to level them up directly.
Therefore, with her body as a Jiedan Demon King, she could ignore the Bottlenecks and raise the Changsheng Jue straight to the Golden Core Stage.
After spending tens of thousands of Experience Points, she had simultaneously held the identities of both a Jindan Cultivator and a Jiedan Demon King by last night.
Now, she had simply transferred her demon cultivation to Zhang Zongnian, but her realm as a Jindan Cultivator remained.
With a body that possessed the strength of a Jindan Cultivator, she could easily use the Beast Refinement Codex to replenish her demon body’s cultivation.
As Zhang Zongnian watched Lin Xue’s cultivation steadily rise until it reached the realm of a Jindan Cultivator, with dense Spiritual Power swirling around her, he was left dumbfounded.
A single thought entered his mind: ‘A monster!’
Two months ago, Lin Xue had only been a Lesser Demon who had just transformed.
Facing Yang Yuhai’s Fuyao Wang, she could only surrender without any power to resist, requiring outside help to be saved.
Two months later, she had grown into a powerhouse of the Demonic Beast race and even possessed the cultivation of a Jindan Cultivator at the same time.
Zhang Zongnian felt his worldview being shattered into pieces once again.
……
Seeing that Zhang Zongnian had fully recovered, Lin Xue planned to take him back to Xixia Mountain.
Hong Yanzhi and Lang Buping were still waiting in the mountains, and she didn’t want to worry them for too long.
The two of them walked out of the dense forest together.
Outside, Yang Zhen’s corpse still lay on the ground, baking under the fierce sun.
Looking at Yang Zhen’s body, Zhang Zongnian couldn’t help but feel a surge of emotion.
Two months ago, this Ancestor in Foundation Establishment of the Yang family had been like an immovable mountain in his heart, weighing heavily on him.
Two months later, that mountain had been personally toppled by him with Lin Xue’s help.
And he had grown from a minor Constable at Refining Qi Level 3 to a Grand Demon comparable to a cultivator at the late Foundation Establishment stage.
Fate was truly fickle. It was hard to say how things would turn out.
If it were in the past, Zhang Zongnian would never have believed even if he were beaten to death that he could one day reach such heights.
Lin Xue reached out and used Spiritual Power to pull the Storage Pouch at Yang Zhen’s waist toward her.
With a slight exertion of force, she broke the Restriction on the pouch.
There wasn’t much stored in Yang Zhen’s Storage Pouch.
The only useful items were one red Foundation-building Pill, some low and mid-grade Barrier-breaking Pills, and a few high-grade Barrier-breaking Pills.
After discussing it, Lin Xue and Zhang Zongnian decided to give these pills to an old friend.
After all, they owed that old friend a great deal. Giving him these pills would serve as a form of compensation.
The two of them turned into two streaks of light and flew toward Stone Plate Town.