When I stopped licking, the lady panicked.

The sudden attack caught Yun Zhenting off guard. The guard pierced Yun Zhenting's clothes with his sword. Although Yun Zhenting dodged in time, his shoulder was still cut by the blade.

The blood quickly stained Yun Zhenting's clothes red.

Yun Zhenting was furious. He roared and unleashed a palm strike.

The powerful true energy shattered the guards' armor completely, and even shattered one wall of the room.

thump!

The guard was blasted out of the room and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The surrounding guards quickly surrounded him and took him into custody.

Lin Xuan used the guards' eyes to watch Yun Zhenting emerge from the broken stone wall.

He stood with his hands behind his back, his hair and robes fluttering even without wind, looking extremely angry.

"You dare to assassinate me? Do you want to rebel?" Yun Zhenting roared.

The guard sneered and said, "I'm not rebelling, I just have something important to report."

"How dare you spout such nonsense!"

Yun Zhenting slammed his fist down, smashing it through the guard's chest.

Lin Xuan quickly separated his consciousness and returned to his physical body.

As Lin Xuan regained consciousness, he suddenly sat up, his forehead and back covered in cold sweat.

If one uses mind control to project their consciousness, then they can also feel the pain that the other person is experiencing.

Lin Xuan clutched his chest, still shaken, and said, "I never expected that old man's cultivation level would far exceed the Earth Profound Realm."

In terms of cultivation level, Yun Zhenting was a whole level ahead of Lin Xuan. Therefore, even if Lin Xuan's combat experience could make up for the lack of cultivation level, he still could not compete with Yun Zhenting.

Therefore, if Lin Xuan defeats Yun Zhenting's son on the day of the martial arts tournament, Yun Zhenting will definitely take action.

At that time, even if Lin Xuan doesn't die, he will be crippled.

The best course of action now is to improve one's cultivation level and bridge this gap.

Only in this way can Lin Xuan have the strength to fight Yun Zhenting.

Without further hesitation, Lin Xuan immediately returned to the Lin residence.

Inside the Yun residence, the guard who had been controlled by Lin Xuan had been hung up by Yun Zhenting.

"City...City Lord, I really don't know what happened," the guard said.

Yun Zhenting's eyes were icy as he said, "Don't know? Then I'll let you think about it carefully."

With a wave of his hand, the guard was plunged upside down into the water vat.

A moment later, the guard was pulled out again.

"Do you remember now?" Yun Zhenting asked.

The guard choked, coughing up blood as he sobbed, "Lord, I really don't know anything..."

"Flood again!" Yun Zhenting roared.

The guards were submerged in the water tank again.

Just then, the butler rushed back, saying in a panic, "Master, the Shadow Gang... has been wiped out."

"What?" Yun Zhenting was taken aback.

"When I arrived, the Shadow Gang had already been engulfed in flames, and there wasn't a single survivor," the butler said.

Yun Zhenting narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, "It seems that the Lin family has made their move."

"But it's good that they're dead. No one will know about our business anymore, saving us the trouble of silencing them."

"It's a pity that we can't find out Lin Xuan's background. We can only send Xi Yue to investigate."

The butler nodded in agreement.

At this moment, someone asked, "Lord, should we pull him up? He seems a bit dead."

Yun Zhenting then remembered that the guard was still submerged in the vat, and quickly ordered his men to pull him out.

Unfortunately, he had already drowned.

……

It was late at night.

Luo Qingxue lay on the bed, looking at Xiao Zhan sleeping with his back to her, and suddenly felt a surge of heat in her heart.

She gently reached out and placed her hand on Xiao Zhan's waist, then slowly moved it forward.

Xiao Zhan suddenly trembled, slapped Luo Qingxue's hand away, and said, "Go to sleep."

Luo Qingxue pursed her lips, looking somewhat aggrieved, and sat up, saying, "Your Highness, I am your wife..."

Xiao Zhan remained silent.

Luo Qingxue felt extremely wronged. She clearly had a great figure, a beautiful face, talent, and status, yet Xiao Zhan treated her with disdain.

She didn't understand why Xiao Zhan wouldn't touch her.

With such a graceful figure and striking features, and in the prime of her life, she is like a beautiful, blooming flower. It would be such a pity to leave her unpicked and let her wither away!

Such a beauty was clearly within Xiao Zhan's grasp, yet he disdained to even glance at her.

Luo Qingxue didn't understand, she didn't understand where she lost, and she didn't understand what was so good about Yun Xiyue.

"Your Highness, if you refuse to touch me, I... I will never speak to you again," Luo Qingxue said.

This was the first time she had spoken so frankly.

Because she was truly fed up with this life of living like a widow.

She's a woman! How could she bear the loneliness?

She could tolerate the physical heat and the lack of a man's tenderness, but she truly couldn't bear the absence of emotional and spiritual connection.

She could tolerate the itching because she had never experienced anything like it before and therefore didn't know the pleasure it brought.

She truly couldn't accept the lack of emotional communication and affection between husband and wife.

Luo Qingxue disregarded her pride and expressed her demands to Xiao Zhan.

She needs love, she needs caresses, she needs so much more...

Xiao Zhan's response was only two words: "Go to sleep."

Luo Qingxue couldn't take it anymore. She dressed and got out of bed, saying, "Your Highness, if you truly don't care about me, then I will never come back!"

Xiao Zhan turned over and went back to sleep.

Luo Qingxue's eyes reddened, she stomped her foot, and stormed out.

She walked alone in the courtyard, sat under a tree in solitude and loneliness, and looked at her peerless face reflected in the pond.

Luo Qingxue looked at herself with self-pity and stroked her cheek. She smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Luo Qingxue, you are naturally beautiful and learned, but you have ended up living a life of loneliness. You once thought you could endure loneliness, but when loneliness came, you were the first one who couldn't bear it."

"You are clearly well-educated and reasonable, clearly gentle and refined, clearly not a promiscuous person, yet this marriage has forced you into becoming a wanton woman yearning to be loved. It's truly laughable..."

She sighed, looked up at the falling flowers and sparse starry sky, and suddenly thought of the strong back of the man she had seen at Minghun Spring that day.

His strong, powerful arms, his deep, magnetic voice, and his firm, bright eyes suddenly made Luo Qingxue, who was feeling lonely, feel hot all over and sweat profusely.

"Lin Xuan, why do you keep appearing in my mind? If you didn't appear, I wouldn't have become like this!"

Luo Qingxue shifted the blame to Lin Xuan.

She believes that if Lin Xuan hadn't "seduced" her, if Lin Xuan hadn't met her, she would never have become so eager for men.

Yes, that's right, it's all Lin Xuan's fault!

Since it's Lin Xuan's fault, then Lin Xuan should take responsibility for me!

Luo Qingxue pursed her lips. After several internal struggles, she finally made up her mind to go to the Lin residence to find Lin Xuan.