“Shizun, this… this is proper dual cultivation…”
Upon hearing that Bu Lingxuan was going to bathe, Chen Yuyang quickly emphasized in a low voice, afraid that the woman would misunderstand.
Tai Lingxuan turned around and threw a small, reproachful glance at the young man.
“What, you have some ideas about your master? I’m just a bit sweaty. Even if we weren’t dual cultivating, I’d still need to wash.”
Chen Yuyang couldn’t refute that, but inwardly he couldn’t help grumbling.
‘It was you, Shizun, who started it…’
The boy said no more and sat quietly on the edge of the bed.
Tai Lingxuan turned and walked behind the screen at the inner side of the room.
Rustle.
From behind the screen came the sound of fabric and clothes sliding off.
Chen Yuyang sat there, feeling somewhat uncomfortable.
He thought about saying he hadn’t left yet, but seeing that Shizun seemed completely unconcerned, he felt that if he spoke up, it would only make him seem improper.
So he just stayed put.
The screen was semi-transparent, with slightly hollowed-out patterns.
Behind it, a graceful silhouette was faintly visible, curves rising and falling.
Chen Yuyang felt his throat go dry.
He could clearly feel a certain urge stirring in his heart.
In his past hundred reincarnations, he had never touched women, never cared about such things.
But now… after all, he had tasted the marrow and knew its sweetness.
Taking a quiet, deep breath, Chen Yuyang silently recited his mental cultivation method, pushing those distracting thoughts aside, and began focusing on other matters.
Soon, a plan that might be safer for him began to take shape in his mind.
Splash… splash…
Behind the screen, the sound of water rippled.
The water in the bath was being stirred deliberately.
Naked and sitting in the warm water, Tai Lingxuan peeked through the gaps in the screen at the young man outside.
Seeing that he was just sitting there, not looking her way, she couldn’t help feeling annoyed.
‘This boy is a total block of wood! I deliberately pretended not to realize he was still in the room, even made some noise on purpose… and he doesn’t react at all.’
‘When will he act more like… a real man?’
Tai Lingxuan continued muttering in her mind.
‘Even if he were a bit lecherous or bold, I wouldn’t blame him… that’s only human nature. But you’re so proper like this—how am I supposed to make you slip up?’
After a while, Chen Yuyang came out of his thoughts.
Bu Lingxuan, clad in a thin white gauze robe, walked slowly out from behind the screen.
The fabric was extremely thin, her jade-like skin half-visible, red plum blossoms against the snow.
Chen Yuyang pretended not to notice her exposed charms and looked up seriously.
“Shizun, can we begin?”
Tai Lingxuan cursed him as a ‘block of wood’ again in her heart, but on the surface she looked unconcerned, as if everything was perfectly normal.
Walking to the bedside, the woman sat cross-legged and nodded at Chen Yuyang.
“Begin, Yuyang. Just circulate your energy. Leave the rest to me.”
Chen Yuyang closed his eyes as instructed.
The Primordial Art began to circulate within him, and his aura gradually rose.
Feeling this, Tai Lingxuan was secretly startled.
‘Such a strong aura!’
‘Is this really just a Golden Core Grand Completion?’
‘Even an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator’s aura probably isn’t as vigorous as Yuyang’s right now!’
‘Has this child deliberately stayed at the Golden Core stage for so long, just waiting for a moment of thick accumulation and thin release?’
Marveling inwardly, Tai Lingxuan dared not be negligent.
She quickly raised her hands, and the Hehuan Jue began to circulate as well.
One ice, one fire; one yin, one yang.
Their spiritual power naturally merged between them, forming a cycle.
Soon, Tai Lingxuan immersed herself in the sensation of spiritual power merging, temporarily forgetting her earlier lustful thoughts.
What surprised her even more was that her own cultivation level was also greatly benefiting from this process.
Time passed quietly—one hour, two hours…
Sweat gradually soaked through Tai Lingxuan’s thin gauze robe, clinging tightly to her full figure, outlining her curves even more clearly.
Chen Yuyang was also drenched in sweat, blue veins faintly visible on his forehead.
Although he was merging spiritual power with Tai Lingxuan, he had been working hard to suppress his realm—until he could suppress it no longer.
The next moment, Chen Yuyang’s eyes snapped open.
His pitch-black pupils had turned pure gold.
The young man’s aura instantly skyrocketed countless times.
Startled, Tai Lingxuan stared at the young man before her.
He was about to break through!
And this commotion was far greater than she had anticipated!
Chen Yuyang glanced down at Tai Lingxuan, feeling the surging spiritual power inside him, and said, “Shizun, I’ll be right back.”
Before the words had faded, the young man’s figure vanished from the room.
“Where is that boy going?”
Tai Lingxuan sat up straight, puzzled, and couldn’t help snorting softly as she muttered, “Going off to consolidate his breakthrough by himself? Hmph, little brat. He uses me and then runs away…”
Before she finished, Tai Lingxuan couldn’t help but laugh.
‘Ah, forget it. That’s just his nature.’
On the other side, tens of thousands of miles away, in an uninhabited area, Chen Yuyang’s figure appeared.
Standing in midair, the young man no longer deliberately suppressed the wild spiritual power inside him.
Boom—!
In an instant, a huge spiritual power vortex formed around him, madly devouring the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy.
The sky changed color; dark clouds gathered.
Within the clouds, countless golden thunderbolts intertwined and flickered.
“A Nascent Soul breakthrough triggers the ‘Ten Thousand Dragons Paying Homage’ phenomenon?”
Feeling the overwhelming pressure descending from heaven and earth, Chen Yuyang murmured softly.
At the same time, patches of fine golden dragon scales began to appear on the surface of the boy’s body.
Behind him, a dragon tail emerged, swaying casually.
On his forehead, a pair of illusory dragon horns appeared, majestic and awe-inspiring.
Legend has it that there are two paths to ascension.
One is to forge one’s own laws, proving the Dao and ascending to the upper realm.
The other is to be tempered by the laws of heaven and earth, transforming into a dragon, gaining the recognition of this world, and naturally ascending.
Chen Yuyang didn’t know much about the latter path, nor did he care.
But he did know that this draconic state greatly boosted his combat power.
He set up no defensive formations, summoned no artifacts, and didn’t even plan to use his energy to defend himself.
Instead, he spread his arms, his face calm and composed, welcoming the countless true dragon shadows formed from thousands of lightning bolts and the laws of heaven and earth as they dove down from the clouds!
Hundreds of miles away, Qingshan Sect.
Sect Leader Zhang Qingshan was meditating cross-legged.
Suddenly, his expression changed drastically.
He raised his head sharply, his gaze fixed on the distant sky.
“Shizun, what’s wrong?”
A nearby disciple noticed his unusual behavior and quickly asked respectfully.
Zhang Qingshan didn’t answer.
He just frowned, stared intently in that direction, and speculated inwardly.
‘Such a terrifying pressure… Could it be some hidden Dacheng stage senior undergoing a tribulation?’
But just as Zhang Qingshan hesitated whether to risk going to investigate, that terrifying aura receded like a tide, vanishing without a trace.
“It’s gone?”
Zhang Qingshan was stunned.
“Over so quickly? Could it… have been my imagination?”
He concentrated his senses again, but the distance was calm, with no further anomalies.
Meanwhile, back in the Hehuan Sect, inside Tai Lingxuan’s room.
Chen Yuyang had used the Earth Shrinking Technique to return silently.
At that moment, Tai Lingxuan was by the window, having just removed her sweat-soaked robe, about to take another bath.
Hearing a slight noise behind her, she spun around and saw Chen Yuyang suddenly appear.
She was a bit surprised.
“You… you’re back so soon?”
When she sensed the already stable Nascent Soul aura on Chen Yuyang, Tai Lingxuan froze completely.
She even forgot to cover herself, standing there stark naked.
“You… you’ve already passed the tribulation?”
Tai Lingxuan asked incredulously.
Chen Yuyang nodded slightly.
His gaze fell on the woman, then quickly shifted away as he deliberately averted his eyes.
He said solemnly, “Thank you for your help, Shizun. I have successfully broken through to the Nascent Soul stage.”
Tai Lingxuan blinked, then looked at his deliberately turned-away profile and finally realized.
“Cough, how reckless… Ah, forget it. I won’t hold it against you.”
As she spoke, Tai Lingxuan bit her lip, lowered her voice, and asked hesitantly, “You… are you leaving again now?”
Chen Yuyang was silent for a moment.
He had originally planned to leave directly and reunite with Yun Lian and Yan Luo.
But seeing the disappointment and reluctance hidden in Tai Lingxuan’s face, he felt a needle prick his heart.
Thinking it over, it would be rather heartless to just leave after she had helped him.
So Chen Yuyang said, “Shizun, tonight… I’ll stay… but please don’t tell Shimei and the others that I came back.”
Chen Yuyang quickly added that last part specifically.
Mainly because he was afraid that if the junior sisters and senior sisters knew he was back, they would get too excited and cause a scene.
Hearing this, Tai Lingxuan cast a reproachful glance at Chen Yuyang and said with playful tone, “What, afraid of being caught by them? Speaking of which, they’ve been asking me all the time when you’d come back.”
“You must be tired from the breakthrough… Let’s rest together.”