Chapter 46

Chapter 46

The bright moon hung high, and a gentle breeze rustled.

Perhaps it was because of the weird things Huo Wuyan said yesterday, or because the memories of his recent heat period were too terrifying and left a deep impression on her.

Lu Yuanyin had another dream, which was rare for her.

In that dream, she and Huo Wuyan had actually become husband and wife.

After the marriage, Huo Wuyan acted totally different, clinging to her all day with insatiable desire. At first, she took the opportunity to secretly absorb his essence, and her cultivation grew rapidly, making her radiant and glowing.

But before she could get excited, after just a few more days, she couldn't take it anymore.

Even in a dream, Lu Yuanyin felt so exhausted she felt like she was dying, about to die from overindulgence.

After being pressed against a tree and thoroughly devoured by Huo Wuyan once again, the dream version of her finally couldn't take it and packed her bags to flee in the middle of the night. Before Lu Yuanyin could even sigh in relief, she found Huo Wuyan chasing after her with a cold face.

She fled, he chased; she couldn't escape even if she had wings.

To Lu Yuanyin's dismay, she was eventually caught by Huo Wuyan. He locked her to the bed with thin silver chains and went at her again...

He grabbed her chin from behind and kissed her, while he kept moving below, and asked coldly, "Still running?" His voice was husky, carrying the heavy, heart-stopping desire she knew well.

She could only sob and cry, her slender fingers gripping the brocade quilt tightly, the silver chains on her wrists jingling...

The scene abruptly ended there, and Lu Yuanyin woke with a start. She stared blankly at the huge night pearl on the bed canopy, nearly fainting from fright. She nervously wiped the sweat from her forehead, her gaze shifting to look blankly at the soft brocade quilt.

As if remembering something, she quickly kicked the quilt farther away, a trace of disgust on her face. That dream was too terrifying, and she felt it seemed to imply something. Just thinking about it gave her the creeps.

Lu Yuanyin hugged her knees for a while to calm down. It was all Huo Wuyan's fault for always talking nonsense and saying strange, shameless things! That's why she had these messed-up dreams. She cursed out every ancestor Huo Wuyan ever had in her heart before she felt a bit better.

It was still dark outside. Lu Yuanyin gently pushed open the window. The entire inn was shrouded in night. Outside, there was complete silence, just the night wind rustling through the branches, the fallen leaves rustling.

Behind the inn, however, was a winding river, surrounded by tall sal trees. The tree shadows swayed, and the dark places seemed to hide countless ghosts, making everything extra creepy. Lu Yuanyin closed the window, blocking out the outside view.

She lay on the bed hugging the brocade quilt, staring blankly at the draped bed curtains. Having rested all these days, she was now wide awake.

Lu Yuanyin simply sat up and began to meditate. She swallowed two spiritual pills and slowly circulated her spiritual energy. Soon, she noticed something unusual. Although her talent was decent in the past, she was by no means a dazzling prodigy.

Moreover, she had just lost a great deal of vitality a few days ago because of the two eggs. She had expected that this time cultivation would be obstructed, extremely difficult, or even cause her cultivation to regress.

However, during cultivation, she found her condition was better than ever. She could even feel every wisp of spiritual energy quietly entering her body, then quickly merging into her meridians. It was as if there was an invisible barrier inside her, firmly locking that spiritual energy within.

Gentle spiritual energy flowed slowly through her body, moistening her dry meridians. Throughout the process, not a bit of spiritual energy leaked out. She felt as if she were soaking in warm, soothing water, with abundant spiritual energy flowing over her, and all her past fatigue vanished in an instant.

It wasn't until a sharp rooster's crow came from outside the window that Lu Yuanyin woke with a start.

She slowly opened her eyes and found that her spiritual energy had rapidly filled up, and she was on the verge of a breakthrough. This short half-hour almost equaled several days of her usual hard cultivation.

Feeling the vast spiritual energy inside her, a flicker of excitement passed through Lu Yuanyin's eyes. Without a moment's hesitation, recalling the amazing feeling just now, she closed her eyes again and continued to cultivate.

She had previously been deliberately suppressing her cultivation, forcing herself to stay at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage without breaking through. But now, sensing the astonishingly abundant spiritual energy inside her, she hesitated only for a moment before directly circulating her spiritual energy.

Countless streams of spiritual energy slowly gathered in her dantian. The originally gentle and calm spiritual energy gradually became turbulent. They roamed through her meridians according to her will, fiercely attacking the blocked channels.

Intense, jaw-clenching pain came from inside her body. Lu Yuanyin gritted her teeth, and a film of cold sweat appeared on her smooth forehead. However, she did not pause for a moment but continued to control that stream of spiritual energy as it crazily rushed through her meridians, the pain intensifying.

Lu Yuanyin's vision went dark. She bit her lip hard, and a strong taste of blood quickly spread in her mouth. Just as she was trembling in pain, a tight string inside her snapped in an instant.

Vast spiritual energy surged into her dantian like a tidal wave. The energy slowly converged, spiritual light flashed, and then transformed into a small pearl, spinning nonstop in her dantian.

The Golden Core was formed!

Lu Yuanyin's eyes lit up. Feeling the abundant spiritual energy inside her, she clenched her fist fiercely. She felt so energetic that she could knock out a bull with one punch!

Lu Yuanyin's eyes brightened. As she was thinking about finding a place to test herself, she noticed that the communication jade token on the shelf was flashing nonstop. She then remembered that she had forgotten to reply to Senior Sister Huang these days, so she quickly picked up the token.

But she found it was a message from Tong Lanyi.

"Let's meet, Lu Yuanyin."

Lu Yuanyin raised an eyebrow in surprise. If Tong Lanyi hadn't popped up out of nowhere, she would have almost forgotten about this person. But she couldn't understand—Tong Lanyi had always had it out for her, and Lu Yuanyin had even secretly tried to kill her. Their relationship was strained. What did she want?

Lu Yuanyin looked at the jade token in her hand thoughtfully. Back when they came out of that secret realm, after Tong Lanyi set her up, she had never shown her face again.

At that time, she was confined at the Cliff of Reflection and punished by having her spiritual root dug out. Given Tong Lanyi's usual nature, she would definitely take the opportunity to kick her when she was down.

However, Tong Lanyi did the opposite of what she usually does and did not come to cause trouble.

Lu Yuanyin frowned slightly, staring fixedly at the jade token. She felt there was something weird in a way she couldn't put her finger on about Tong Lanyi. She couldn't fathom her intentions. As she was pondering Tong Lanyi's purpose, the communication jade token flickered with a faint light again.

"I have evidence that can prove you didn't kill those sect disciples back then. If you want the truth to come out, come meet me at the foot of Chongyao Mountain immediately!"

"I'll wait for you here. If you're late, I'm not waiting!"

Seeing this, Lu Yuanyin couldn't help but sneer. Almost everyone in the sect could guess that Tong Jinyu and the others weren't killed by her. But so what? They simply didn't care about the truth.

And she didn't care whether those people believed her or not.

Now she had long left that damn place and would never go back. She would have to be out of her mind to care about what those people thought.

After thinking it over, Lu Yuanyin sent a message to Tong Lanyi: "Wait for me there. I'll be right there."

Whether it was because she usually seemed too easy to bully or because she looked too foolish, Tong Lanyi didn't suspect a thing.

The other side immediately replied: "Then hurry up! My time is very precious! If you're late, don't blame me!" Even through the jade token, Lu Yuanyin could feel her smugness and arrogance, the same tone as always.

No need to think—it was obvious she was up to no good.

"Okay, I'll be there soon!" Lu Yuanyin sneered, answering all meek and mild. After closing Tong Lanyi's page, she immediately went to the nearby Rogue Cultivator Alliance and hired several well-known fighters at a high price.

She briefly described Tong Lanyi's appearance and characteristics to those fighters and said directly, "Go beat her up. If she dies, I'll handle it."

The sun was blazing high in the sky, and the streets were bustling with people. Countless vendors were enthusiastically selling their goods.

Qing Nong looked enviously at the bustling crowd outside the window, then glanced at the mountain of jade slips beside him, nearly exhausted to the point of spitting blood. What made him even more frustrated was that while he was sweating over piles of jade slips, the old medical cultivator got to bathe the cubs and even carry them around the inn for a ride!

Qing Nong was green with envy!

Huo Wuyan was used to being a boss who left everything to him, leaving almost all the headache-causing stuff to Qing Nong. In the past two days, Qing Nong had read piles of jade slips, making him dizzy and nauseous.

However, with a glance at the tall male cultivator sitting by the window and that cold, expressionless face he found so annoying, he could only swallow his bitterness and flip through the jade slips in resignation to continue handling clan affairs...

The room was silent, except for the faint sound of pages turning. Huo Wuyan looked coldly at the ancient book in his hands. The bright sunlight fell softly on his face, but it couldn't chase away the chill in his expression. He frowned a little.

After a moment, a shadow guard silently entered the room. He respectfully bowed and then said in a low voice, "My lord, the Chongyao Sect Master met with several mysterious people last night."

"They still don't know where Chang Ye is."

Huo Wuyan said indifferently, "Keep following."

The shadow guard respectfully acknowledged and then transformed into a bird the size of a teacup, swiftly vanishing into the forest.

At that, Qing Nong quickly set down the jade slip he was holding and edged over reluctantly to Huo Wuyan's side. With an indignant expression, he said, "Those guys really never quit with their scheming..."

A heavy silence hung in the air. Noticing that Huo Wuyan had no intention of responding, he gave a dry cough and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you just kill them all?"

Given Huo Wuyan's usual vindictive nature, he would have directly slaughtered those people from the Chongyao Sect to eliminate any future trouble, instead of letting them prance around in front of him time and again.

This was truly out of character.

Qing Nong frowned and finally couldn't help asking, "Aren't you afraid they'll retaliate against Lu Yuanyin?" Those people couldn't deal with Huo Wuyan, but Lu Yuanyin was no match for them now. One slip-up and it could be a disaster.

Huo Wuyan paused in his actions. After a moment, he opened his eyes slightly, his crimson eyes coldly locked onto Qing Nong.

As Qing Nong watched uneasily, he suddenly said in a deep voice, "There's something weird about them."

Hearing this, Qing Nong's brow furrowed even tighter, sensing a growing difficulty. Even Huo Wuyan said there was something weird about them—this was going to be a real mess. Rubbing his aching forehead, he couldn't help complaining, "I'm so exhausted..."

He casually picked up an ancient book beside him, then froze as he saw the fancy, flowing characters on its cover: "The Overbearing Dragon Lord's Beloved Little Escapee Wife."

Qing Nong: "???"

He suspected he was so tired that his eyes were playing tricks on him. Not ready to accept it, he discreetly glanced at the other ancient books on the table, and among the pile, a few stood out glaringly:

"How to Raise a Cub," "What to Do When My Wife Loves Me Too Much?" "The Tao of Marriage," "The Evil Dragon and the Girl," "The Evil Dragon Youth's Fierce Love"...

Qing Nong: "???"

Looking at those bizarre books, he felt a strong urge to avert his eyes, finding them extremely cringe-worthy.

Qing Nong's expression turned somewhat indescribable. He subtly glanced at Huo Wuyan, who had his hair tied high, a cold expression, a distant look in his eyes, with a few strands of hair casually falling between his brows—looking mysterious and noble.

It was hard for him to link Huo Wuyan with that kind of trashy stuff, but seeing the clear signs that these books had been flipped through...

Qing Nong fell silent for a moment. He suspected that reading that stuff had fried Huo Wuyan's brain.

Author's note: N/A