After being jilted by the saintess at the beginning, why is she crying?

The dark runes on the surface of the array plate swirled slightly, exuding an ancient and profound aura.

He aligned the array plate with the groove at the array's core, then turned to look at Honglian and said earnestly:

"Uncle-Master, take off your clothes."

Honglian was nervously observing the changes in the spiritual light at the core of the formation when she suddenly heard this sentence, and her whole body froze.

"what?"

She turned her head, staring wide-eyed at Lin Fengmian, her beautiful eyes filled with shock and embarrassment, her cheeks visibly flushed red.

"You... what time is it for you to still be thinking about these things?!"

Her voice trembled slightly, clearly indicating that she thought Lin Fengmian was still plotting something sinister in this critical moment.

Seeing this, Lin Fengmian quickly waved his hand and explained with a serious expression:

"No, Uncle-Master, what are you thinking!"

He pointed to the array plate in his hand, his tone urgent yet earnest: "Right now, relying solely on myself is not enough to activate this fourth-order array plate."

I need your spiritual power, the purest and most unreserved kind. Our cultivation methods share the same origin; only through spiritual resonance during dual cultivation can this array plate recognize its master and be fully activated!

Honglian was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, before finally realizing what he meant. She looked down at the array plate that exuded an ancient aura, then at Lin Fengmian's serious expression, feeling both embarrassed and amused.

"Can't you just explain yourself clearly in one go?"

She bit her lip, but the blush on her cheeks deepened.

However, she was, after all, a Nascent Soul cultivator who had cultivated for many years, and knew that this was not the time to be coy. She took a deep breath, said nothing more, and simply turned around gently, her back to Lin Fengmian.

The moon-white long dress slowly slid down her shoulders, revealing a smooth, jade-like back.

As the dress was removed, her slender waist, long neck, and delicate collarbone were revealed to the air, and her skin glowed with a faint warm hue under the dim light in the cave.

She turned her face slightly to the side, her ears turning so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

Lin Fengmian had no evil intentions. He quickly stepped forward, gently wrapped his arms around her waist from behind, and held the array plate up to their chests.

Spiritual energy began to flow between the two, their auras merging together, as if two rivers were flowing into the same channel.

The two immediately began to circulate their cultivation techniques, and under Lin Fengmian's guidance, their spiritual energy formed a complete cycle within their bodies.

A mysterious feeling enveloped the two of them—a state of perfect harmony that penetrated deeper into their souls than mere physical contact.

Lin Fengmian felt an incomparably pure spiritual energy, carrying a faint fragrance, surge from Honglian's body into his dantian, intertwining and merging with the pure yang energy within him. It was like a pair of invisible hands repeatedly purifying, compressing, and sublimating his spiritual energy.

He felt the connection between himself and the array plate deepening at a visible rate.

A moment later, Lin Fengmian felt the time was right. He suddenly opened his eyes, aligned the Yin-Yang Five Elements Wheel in his hand with the groove of the array eye, and abruptly activated all his spiritual power, roaring:

"Yin and Yang generate each other, the Five Elements circulate! Arise!"

As his voice fell, the palm-sized array plate suddenly burst forth with blinding light! It detached itself from Lin Fengmian's palm.

It spun and flew towards the center of the formation like a living thing, growing as it went with the wind. In the blink of an eye, it grew from the size of a palm to several feet in diameter, and then continued to expand, transforming into a huge light curtain that covered the entire sky!

Rumble—!

The entire world trembled.

The Yin and Yang energies rose from the center of the array plate like two giant dragons, one as white as day and the other as black as night. They intertwined and spiraled upwards, weaving together to form a huge Tai Chi pattern in the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the spiritual power of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—transformed into five pillars of light that pierced the heavens and the earth, and crashed down on the five main peaks of the Hehuan Sect in the five directions!

Golden light illuminated the world, green trees sprouted, water rippled, crimson flames surged, and yellow earth lay heavy—five rays of light intertwined.

It merged with the Yin-Yang Tai Chi, transforming into an extremely complex and profound array diagram, which slowly rotated above the sect, firmly protecting the thirty-seven peaks within it!

The array was like an invisible glass curtain.

The surface shimmers with the spiritual light of the five elements, and the patterns change every moment, as if containing the ultimate truths of heaven and earth.

The moment the light barrier took shape, all the noise, attacks, and sounds of battle from the outside world were shut out. The spells, talismans, and cannon fire that fell from the sky landed on the light barrier like raindrops falling into the sea, without even causing a ripple.

The inner world of the sect suddenly fell silent, as if it had become a separate pure land, completely different from the blood-red smoke of war.

At this moment, just as the original protective formation of the Hehuan Sect was about to collapse and its spiritual light was almost extinguished, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Zhou Tian Formation was finally fully formed!

Outside the light barrier, the disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect and Yinshan Palace were launching a frenzied attack, raining down spells and roaring cannons, seemingly on the verge of breaking through the formation.

Om-!

With a muffled hum, a new light screen quietly appeared. All attacks that landed on it were like mud sinking into the sea, without even making a sound.

"What's going on?!"

The Heavenly Demon Sect disciple at the forefront was the first to notice something was wrong. His full-force demonic palm print landed on the light screen and vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.

"What kind of formation is this?!"

The elder of the Heavenly Demon Sect roared in exasperation. He personally took action, and a highly condensed black light slammed into the light barrier, but it was still gently deflected without leaving even a crack.

Inside the Hehuan Sect, all the disciples who witnessed this scene were stunned at first, and then burst into thunderous cheers!

"We're saved! We're saved!"

"What kind of formation is this? It's amazing!"

"It's the Supreme Elder! It must be the Supreme Elder who set up this supreme formation!"

The disciples who had survived the ordeal looked excitedly towards the main peak, their eyes filled with tears and reverence. Those low-level servant disciples even knelt down, clasped their hands together, and murmured words of gratitude.

However, in the cavern unseen by anyone, Lin Fengmian's face turned deathly pale in an instant. His spiritual energy was drained completely in just a few breaths, as if swallowed whole by the array plate!

He felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, his legs went weak, and he fell backward, crashing right into Honglian's arms.

"Thump—"

He collapsed weakly into Honglian's soft embrace, his head resting on her chest, too exhausted to even lift his hand.

"Oh shit……"

His lips moved, his voice so weak it was almost inaudible: "This formation has truly drained me dry... there's not a trace of spiritual energy left..."