Many children, many blessings; a stunningly beautiful wife is given to you right from the start.

The fragrance was cool, yet it possessed an inexplicable, fatal allure.

The alluring curves beneath the tight black clothes almost touched Lin Mo's chest.

"What are you looking for? I'll take it myself!"

Lin Mo gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his neck, trying to make a final struggle.

The masked woman ignored him.

She reached out her fair hand and slipped it directly inside Lin Mo's clothes.

The hand slid down his chest, the temperature emanating from its fingertips even colder than the surrounding rocks.

Lin Mo's muscles tensed up instantly.

He, the mighty Emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty and a powerful figure in the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, was now being forcibly searched by a woman who pinned him against the wall!

The woman's movements were quick, yet extremely meticulous.

She groped her way from Lin Mo's chest down to his waist.

Lin Mo could clearly feel each swipe of her fingertips.

That interplay of coldness and softness was amplified infinitely in the dark, silent cave.

"Have you touched enough?"

Lin Mo sneered.

"A powerful cultivator at the Integration Stage, coming all this way down to the mortal realm just to take advantage of a man like me? Is that all the ambition you have?"

The masked woman continued her actions.

Her hand reached into the hidden pocket at Lin Mo's waist.

Lin Mo's hidden pocket contained a lot of things he usually kept as spares:

There were more than a dozen bottles of top-grade Qi-replenishing pills, several high-level defensive talismans, and some miscellaneous magical treasures looted from the Xuan Tian Sect's spirit ship.

The woman grabbed the items, didn't even glance at them, and casually threw them on the ground like trash.

The bottles and jars shattered, and the pills spilled all over the ground.

She continued to explore Lin Mo's body.

Lin Mo frowned.

She didn't want top-grade elixirs or magical treasures from the upper realm.

So what is she looking for after going to all this trouble to tie herself up in this godforsaken place?

Suddenly, the woman's hand stopped.

Her fingertips touched a cold, hard object.

The object was placed against Lin Mo's chest.

The masked woman pinched the object between two fingers and pulled hard.

With a "whoosh",

She pulled a jet-black jade pendant, emitting a faint, eerie glow, from Lin Mo's arms.

Lin Mo was stunned when he saw the jade pendant.

This is what Luo Xue left for him.

Before Luo Xue forcibly opened the interdimensional passage and returned to the Canglan Realm, she gave him this jade pendant.

He said that if he went to the upper realm in the future, this jade pendant could grant him one wish.

Lin Mo kept it close to his body, intending to use it as a token when he went to the Upper Realm to find Luo Xue.

This woman went to great lengths to kidnap him from the capital just for this jade pendant?

The masked woman stared at the black jade pendant in her hand, frozen in place.

The oppressive feeling that was originally suffocating, like an ancient iceberg, suddenly fluctuated violently at this moment.

The temperature inside the cave stopped dropping, and even the runes on her body that emitted a faint blue light flickered violently a few times.

She gripped the jade pendant tightly, her knuckles turning a ghastly white from the excessive force.

Lin Mo keenly noticed her change.

This woman recognizes this jade pendant.

Moreover, this jade pendant was extremely important to her.

The masked woman suddenly turned around and didn't look at Lin Mo again.

Instead, he gripped the jade pendant tightly and hurried deeper into the cave.

The ghostly, silent footsteps that were once so distinct have vanished.

Her leather boots made a rapid and disorderly "clattering" sound on the wet and slippery bluestone slabs.

The sound was particularly abrupt in the deathly silent cave, revealing an undisguised panic and anxiety.

Lin Mo leaned against the rock wall and let out a long breath.

As the masked woman left, the blue rune chains binding him dimmed considerably.

Although the chaotic true essence in the dantian was still tightly sealed, the feeling of constraint on the physical body was greatly reduced.

He stretched his aching shoulders and looked at the dark passage where the woman had disappeared.

"This jade pendant belongs to Luo Xue. What does this woman want with it...?"

A thought flashed through Lin Mo's mind.

What is the relationship between this woman and Luo Xue?

Enemy?

Still friends?

Lin Mo stayed close to the rock wall, tiptoed, and followed the passage inside.

He wanted to see what this woman was up to.

The passage was long, and the further you went in, the colder and more damp the air became.

On the rock walls on both sides, some traces of artificial carving began to appear, and several luminous pearls that emitted a faint light were also embedded.

After walking about a hundred steps, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

This is a very large interior room.

In the center of the inner room, a spirit-gathering array was set up.

The patterns of the formation were inscribed with some kind of red blood, and at this moment they were emitting an extremely faint blood-red light.

At the core of the Spirit Gathering Array, there was a bed of ten-thousand-year-old mystic ice.

The masked woman was standing in front of the Xuanbing bed, with her back to Lin Mo.

Her shoulders were trembling slightly.

Lin Mo hid at the entrance of the passage, peeking out half of his body and looking towards the Xuanbing Bed.

Lin Mo's pupils contracted sharply after just one glance.

On the ice bed, a person was lying.

His white hair was disheveled and covered half of the ice bed.

Her once porcelain-white skin now had a deathly gray tinge, and the rise and fall of her chest was almost imperceptible.

Luo Xue!?

How did she end up here?

Moreover, her current condition is a hundred times worse than when Lin Mo rescued her and brought her back to the palace.

Lin Mo's gaze shifted downwards.

Luo Xue had a three-finger-wide wound on her chest.

There was no bleeding from the wound because the surrounding flesh had completely died and turned black.

An aura of desolation spread from the wound, devouring the remaining life force within Luo Xue's body.

The ice bed and the spirit-gathering array could only barely keep her alive until the very end.

The flame of life is about to be extinguished completely.

"What happened?"

Lin Mo couldn't help but walk out of the passageway.

He strode to the Xuanbing bed, looked at the dying Luo Xue, and felt an uncontrollable surge of confusion rising within him.

The masked woman did not turn around, nor did she stop Lin Mo from approaching.

She just stared intently at Luo Xue, clutching the black jade pendant tightly in her hand.

"Who did it?"

Lin Mo strode out of the passageway, his brows furrowing as he looked at Luo Xue, who was lying on the ice bed, barely alive.

The masked woman had no time to pay him any attention.

She strode to the ice bed, her hands, which were originally as steady as Mount Tai and capable of instantly killing a half-step Void Refinement cultivator, were now trembling like leaves.

She carefully placed the black jade pendant, which emitted a faint glow, gently on the blackened, fatal wound on Luo Xue's chest.

A miracle happened.

The moment the jade pendant touched the wound, it suddenly burst out with a blinding red light.

The red light seemed to have a life of its own, transforming into countless fine blood threads that frantically drilled into Luo Xue's body along her necrotic meridians.

The deathly aura that was frantically devouring Luo Xue's life force was forcibly suppressed and sealed by this red light.

Luo Xue's almost imperceptible breathing finally stabilized a little, barely managing to hold on to her last breath.

On the ice bed, Luo Xue's long eyelashes trembled slightly.