You remained chaste on your wedding night, do you really think this holy son is a simp?

The outer disciples' quarters were a dilapidated stone cave, and the rain outside was still pouring down.

Just when Lin Chen thought he was going to rot here like a dead dog for the rest of his life, the bronze ring on his left hand, which had been quiet all along, suddenly lit up.

Lin Chen was stunned for a moment, then stared intently at the ring, his eyes shining.

He trembled with excitement and quickly used all his strength to raise his left hand, holding the ring up to his eyes.

"Master? Is that you? Master! Are you finally waking up?!"

Lin Chen's voice was trembling with tears.

At this moment, he wasn't some protagonist about to make a comeback; he was just a child who had run home to find his parents, and he hurriedly mobilized the meager amount of spiritual energy in his body to pour into the ring.

"Come out, Master, hurry up and come out!"

He was frantically calling out to himself.

As spiritual energy was infused, the light on the ring grew brighter and brighter.

The light swirled in mid-air and coalesced into a human shape.

As the light and shadow faded, a beautiful woman appeared out of thin air in front of Lin Chen, hovering in mid-air.

Her figure was somewhat ethereal, clearly just a remnant soul, but this did not diminish her beauty in the slightest.

Even now, in its soul form, its noble aura clashes with the filthy stone cave.

What kind of life has he been living these past few days?

He was beaten by Gu Changyuan, disliked by the elders, and dragged into the mud by the servants.

That humiliation drove him almost insane.

Now, seeing his master, the person who had given him countless guidance and hope, his defenses completely crumbled.

Lin Chen looked at the woman in front of him, and tears streamed down his face.

He struggled to get up from the stone bed, ignoring the pain that aggravated his wounds.

While crying, Lin Chen poured out all the suffering he had endured over the past few days.

"Master! If you had woken up sooner, I wouldn't be in this state today!"

"You have no idea how hard my days have been!"

"That Gu Changyuan is utterly inhuman! He takes advantage of his status as a Holy Son and his high cultivation level to treat me like I'm not human!"

That hatred seeped from the very core of his being, emanating from his clenched teeth.

"He broke my bones, trampled me under his feet, and made me kneel at the entrance of the cave for three whole days! Three days!"

"I was like a dog, crawling in the mud, enduring all the humiliation!"

At this point, Lin Chen's eyes suddenly reddened, and he became increasingly agitated. His already pale face turned a deep purplish-red.

Her face was soaked with snot and tears, and she cried so hard that she looked like a pear blossom in the rain, her voice trembling as she spoke.

Those images replayed in my mind over and over again.

Gu Changyuan spat on his face.

And that haughty look in his eyes.

What he couldn't stand the most was his beloved woman, Qin Shuang, the senior sister he had sworn to protect.

Qin Shuang was standing right next to him, watching helplessly as he was trampled in the mud. Afterwards, she followed Gu Changyuan into the cave and threw him outside like trash.

For a man, this kind of blow is worse than death.

"Master, I hate it!"

"I wish I could rush up there right now and kill that Gu Changyuan!"

"I want to eat his flesh and drink his blood! I want him to kneel before me and taste the bitterness of being trampled on!"

Lin Chen gripped his hair, his nails digging deep into his flesh.

It roared hysterically, its voice echoing in the narrow stone cave, sounding particularly eerie.

The remnant soul of that beautiful woman quietly watched Lin Chen. She didn't speak, but just floated there with a complex expression.

The woman's lips twitched slightly, revealing a bitter smile, a smile that carried a hint of helplessness and an indescribable meaning.

In fact, she knew all of what Lin Chen was saying. Although she had been hiding in the ring and claimed to be asleep, she was aware of everything.

But in reality, she saw everything that happened outside clearly. She was awake when Lin Chen was knocked away by Gu Changyuan.

She saw Lin Chen being trampled underfoot, and even when Lin Chen was crawling in the mud.

But what could she do even if she saw it? She could only pretend to be dead, pretend that she was still asleep, pretend that she couldn't hear Lin Chen's inner cries for help. The woman looked at Lin Chen's expectant eyes and sighed in her heart.

Of course she wanted to help, after all, Lin Chen was the person she had chosen, and her hope for rebuilding her physical body.

Seeing her apprentice being bullied like this, she, as the master, felt ashamed.

In the past, during her prime, she could have crushed a junior like Gu Changyuan with a single finger.

They didn't even need to lift a finger; just announcing their name was enough to terrify that so-called Feathered Immortal Sect.

But that was in the past. What is she now?

To put it nicely, it's a remnant soul; to put it bluntly, it's a wandering ghost, so weak that a gust of wind could blow it away.

During this time, although she had been recuperating inside the ring, her recovery was extremely slow. It was already a great effort for her to be able to maintain her current form and come out to see Lin Chen.

As for Gu Changyuan, the woman's gaze seemed to pierce through the rock walls of the cave and look towards the towering mountain peak.

She knew very well that the young man was terrifying, not only because of his noble status as the Holy Son of the Feathered Immortal Sect, but more importantly because of his strength and talent.

The Ancient Sacred Body, that legendary physique, was an existence that suppressed an entire era, even in ancient times.

Moreover, she had clearly sensed these past few days that Gu Changyuan's aura was ridiculously powerful, unlike that of an ordinary early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

That aura, that pressure, even made her, a former powerful being, feel a slight tremor in her heart. With her current remnant soul, how could she possibly provoke Gu Changyuan?

That's a complete joke.

Even without the intervention of the Supreme Elder behind Gu Changyuan, Gu Changyuan himself would probably have the means to subdue her.

She didn't even want to think about the consequences if Gu Changyuan discovered her existence.

A remnant soul possessing ancient knowledge and secret techniques is an invaluable tonic for any cultivator.

Gu Changyuan would definitely capture her without hesitation, either refining her into a weapon spirit or devouring her to replenish her soul. In that case, she would truly be condemned to eternal damnation.

These past few days, no matter how badly Lin Chen was beaten or how loudly he screamed, he was still there.

She could only endure it.

They even had to actively cut off all contact with the outside world, hiding themselves deeper and deeper, for fear of revealing even the slightest trace of their presence and being detected by that monster, Gu Changyuan.

This is called assessing the situation and knowing that as long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood to burn.

Rather than rushing out to her death now, putting on some dramatic master-disciple relationship act, and then getting wiped out, she might as well hide in the ring and play dead while Lin Chen draws the fire.

Ignore what you see and hear, sleep soundly and make the most of your time to rest and recuperate.