Chu Fan looked at the three pills and frowned.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“A peak-grade alchemist and blacksmith, demonic qi, and most importantly, the Tianshu Tripod.”
Jun Lin smiled.
“Others might not be able to tell, but did you really think I wouldn’t know?”
“Just say it. What are your conditions?”
“Straight to the point. I like that about you.”
Jun Lin smiled slightly and tucked the three pills into her robe.
“Starting today, you will not only be our sect’s Law Enforcement Elder, but you will also serve as the Alchemy Hall Elder and the Forging Hall Elder. Furthermore, you must teach the sect’s disciples as a Teaching Elder.”
“What!?”
“Why are you in such a hurry? I’m not finished yet.”
Jun Lin continued, “I will help you cover up the death of Baili Muyao, but a fire cannot be wrapped in paper forever. If the Baili family and the Scorpion Palace fail to trace it back to you, then all is well. But if they do…”
“If they do?”
“Then you’d better pray for yourself. I will definitely hand you over. I have no intention of making enemies of those two powers. I wouldn’t be able to survive even if I had ten lives.”
“What kind of tyrannical terms are these!? Is this even reasonable!?”
“If you think it’s unreasonable, I can go ahead and notify those two families right now.”
“Wait, wait, wait!”
Chu Fan let out a long sigh.
After considering it repeatedly, he nodded helplessly.
“Fine… I promise you…”
“Wonderful!”
Jun Lin smiled and patted Chu Fan’s shoulder, nearly knocking him over.
“Whoa, what’s wrong with you? Weren’t you going back and forth with me in a fight just yesterday? Why are you so frail today?”
“I don’t know…”
Suddenly, Jun Lin’s eyes darted around.
She nudged Chu Fan’s waist with her elbow and gave him a wicked grin.
“Oh—could it be that you overindulged yourself in lust?”
“Huh?”
“Oh, it’s only natural. It’s human nature, after all. Your three disciples are all so… radiant and alluring, after all.”
“Get out!”
“Hmph, stop pretending to be so noble.”
Jun Lin rolled her eyes at him, turned to the door, and looked back to remind him, “Remember what you promised me. Show up for class on time at noon!”
“Fine.”
Chu Fan stretched and walked over to the bed to fold the quilt.
‘Hmm? What’s this?’
Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a red stain on the bedsheet.
He reached out to wipe it and brought it to his nose.
A pungent, metallic scent of rust drifted over.
‘Blood? Was I injured yesterday?’
Chu Fan inspected his body.
Although he felt exhausted, he couldn’t find a single place that looked like it had bled.
‘Never mind.’
Chu Fan decided not to think too much about it.
He finished tidying the bed and headed out.
…..
On the Mystic Sky Sect’s outer disciple square, dozens of people stood waiting for the Teaching Elder to arrive and deliver a lecture.
However, even though Chen Qianchi and Su Xiaotang had been standing there for a long time, there was still no sign of Shen Yuying.
“Hey, have you seen Eldest Senior Sister?” Chen Qianchi whispered.
Su Xiaotang shook her head.
“Heh, how strange. She’s usually the most punctual person. Why today…”
Halfway through her sentence, Chen Qianchi caught a whiff of a bothersome fox-like scent.
She turned around and, sure enough, it was Shen Yuying.
She maintained her usual posture, hands folded over her lower abdomen, walking gracefully with a smile on her face.
Every move she made was infinitely elegant.
Combined with her unparalleled beauty and figure, she had countless male disciples practically drooling on the floor.
“Whoa! Who… who is that!? How can she be even more beautiful than the Holy Maiden!?”
“I really don’t want to admit it, but I’m feeling something, brother.”
“The Holy Maiden looks so haggard today. She even has dark circles under her eyes. She really can’t compete!”
The male disciples were buzzing with discussion, but almost all the comments favored Shen Yuying.
At this moment, Chu Lingshuang sat alone in a corner.
With obvious dark circles, dull eyes, and cracked lips, she truly could no longer be compared to Shen Yuying.
Even Chen Qianchi, who had spent the most time with Shen Yuying besides Chu Fan, noticed that Shen Yuying wasn’t just as beautiful as usual today.
She seemed to have… gained a type of mature beauty?
While Shen Yuying had always possessed an intellectual charm, this was a different feeling.
The previous feeling was a result of her personality and conduct.
But today, Shen Yuying’s mature beauty felt like it was radiating naturally from the inside out—like that of a gentle, newlywed wife.
And why did she seem so happy?
Although Shen Yuying usually wore a smile twenty-four hours a day, that was an act.
Today, however, no matter how one looked at her smile, she was clearly in a good mood.
The corners of her mouth were even twitching!
“Hey, did something good happen? Why are you in such a great mood?”
Chen Qianchi asked curiously after Shen Yuying walked over to the two girls.
“I am not sure what you mean, Junior Sister. I am like this every day.”
“Bullshit. You’re smiling like a cat that swallowed a canary, and…” Chen Qianchi leaned in and sniffed Shen Yuying.
“There’s a musky scent on you. Did you go out and eat someone?”
“Hehe.”
Shen Yuying smiled without saying a word.
Suddenly, Chen Qianchi froze.
Her eyes widened, and her jaw nearly hit the ground.
“Shen… Shen Yuying!”
“Yes?”
Shen Yuying looked at her with a smile.
“You! You… where is your Cinnabar Mark!?”
Hearing this, Shen Yuying’s face turned redder than it had ever been.
She raised a hand to cover her lips and looked away shyly.
“Hey! Look at me!”
Shen Yuying still didn’t turn back.
In her panic, Chen Qianchi grabbed her arms and shook her.
“Say something! I’m asking you! Where is the Cinnabar Mark!? The one Master personally marked on you!”
As if remembering something beautiful, Shen Yuying couldn’t help but let out a giggle.
In Chen Qianchi’s eyes, that smile was like a vision of hell at the end of the world, and the laughter sounded like a funeral bell.
A possibility began to spread in her heart, but she didn’t want to think about it.
She didn’t want to consider it.
It was too cruel for her.
“Junior Sister, come here. I will tell you a secret.”
Shen Yuying beckoned her over.
Chen Qianchi leaned her head in, neither too fast nor too slow.
…
After the time it would take for one stick of incense to burn, Shen Yuying finished telling everything to Chen Qianchi.
The light completely vanished from Chen Qianchi’s eyes.
Her mouth hung open, and she even forgot how to breathe.
“Hehe,” Shen Yuying giggled again.
This laughter pulled Chen Qianchi back to reality.
Using every ounce of strength she had, she managed to ask one more thing: “How many… times…”
Shen Yuying slowly held up her index finger.
“How is that possible… I don’t believe you would be satisfied with just once…”
Shen Yuying bit her lip, as if trying to keep herself from smiling too obviously, and slowly curled her index finger.
“Nine… nine times!?”
“Mm…”
Shen Yuying nodded tremulously, feeling a surge of excitement just thinking about it.
Chen Qianchi panted heavily several times before asking once more, “Was it… inside… or outside…”
Shen Yuying didn’t speak.
She only looked down at her lower abdomen with a tender gaze and began to caress it.
Chen Qianchi’s jaw hit the floor completely.
She reached out and gripped Shen Yuying’s arms tightly, shaking her back and forth.
“You… what on earth were you thinking, you woman!? What if you actually have one! What if Master finds out! How do you plan to explain it to him!”
“If it comes to that, I will simply have to tell Master the truth,” Shen Yuying said with a smile.
“Tell… tell him the truth!?”
“As long as I tell the truth, given Master’s personality, I think Master… oh, I mean, I think my husband will not abandon us, mother and child. Hehe.”
The light vanished from Chen Qianchi’s eyes for good.
Her vision went black, her body stiffened, and she fell backward, landing squarely in Su Xiaotang’s arms.
Su Xiaotang caught her just in time, looking completely bewildered and terrified.
She reached out to check Chen Qianchi’s breathing, and her pupils gradually dilated.
“Eh? Eh!? She’s… she’s ded!? Second Senior Sister? Second Senior Sister!? Don’t be ded!!!”
…
When Chen Qianchi woke up again, she found herself lying in Chu Fan’s room.
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