The Hehuan Sect cultivates alchemy; my senior sister helps me refine alchemy throughout the world.

Bai Lu's body looked as if it had been struck by lightning.

She has lived for several hundred years, cultivating from a small green snake to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm. She has killed demons, consumed elixirs, and walked through countless bones in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to reach where she is today. No one has ever dared to stand close to her, let alone touch her in that way.

The heat surged from her lower abdomen, like someone had set off a volcano inside her. Lava flowed through her veins and into her limbs and bones. She gritted her teeth, trying to suppress it, but this time, she couldn't.

The embers accumulated over hundreds of years were all ignited by Shen Yifei with a single, gentle stir.

"What...what did you do to me?" Her voice trembled, her legs went weak, and she slid down the stone wall with her back against it.

Shen Yifei reached out and pulled her back around the waist. When his hand touched her lower back, the skin beneath his palm was burning hot.

"I didn't do anything." He looked down at her. "It's your own business, it has nothing to do with me."

Shen Yifei's words were utterly shameless.

Bai Lu raised her head, her clean eyes misty with tears, and her pupils burning like fire deep within.

She bit her lip, the flush on her face spreading to the base of her neck.

"Step back." She reached out and pushed his chest, but her hand couldn't get any strength into it.

"Miss Bai, something's not right with you." Shen Yifei's voice came from above, carrying a hint of amusement.

The two were pressed together, moonlight slanting in from the cave entrance, illuminating Bailu's back. Her pale blue dress was soaked with sweat, clinging to her skin, revealing the silver patterns beneath, extending from her shoulder blades to her waist.

Bai Lu nestled in Shen Yifei's arms, her hot breath spraying onto him.

"What...what did you do to me?" Her voice trembled.

"I didn't do anything," Shen Yifei said, looking down. "It's your own body that's trembling."

Bai Lu tried to push him away, pressing her hand against his chest, her fingertips digging into his clothes, but she couldn't muster any strength.

The cultivation level of the late Nascent Soul stage was like a stagnant pool. The spiritual energy in the dantian was scattered by the hot current and could not be mobilized no matter what.

Bai Lu was burning up.

The fire burned from the dantian to the limbs, from the limbs to the bones, and from the bones to every inch of skin and flesh.

Having lived for so many years, this was the first time she had known that so much fire was hidden inside her body. It was like thousands of venomous snakes that had been suppressed for hundreds of years, suddenly freed and rampaging through her body.

"Young master... please go away."

"You want me to leave now?" Shen Yifei tightened his arms around her, pulling her closer. "Are you sure?"

Bai Lu trembled slightly.

The fire within her had reached her throat, and her reason was melting away bit by bit, like snow being roasted by fire, collapsing from the edges.

She knew she should push the person in front of her away, retreat outside the cave, and lock the fire that had been suppressed for hundreds of years back in.

"You... take your hand away."

Shen Yifei removed his hand.

Bai Lu had just breathed a sigh of relief when Shen Yifei's hand was on her neck again.

Bai Lu felt as if her spine had been removed, and her whole body went limp.

Shen Yifei grabbed her waist with his other hand and pulled her back.

Bai Lu's neck broke out in a fine layer of goosebumps, which spread from her ears all the way down to her collar.

She was a woman who had never experienced love, and although her cultivation level was high, she was no match for a master of romance.

Shen Yifei felt the time was right and picked her up. Bai Lu instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck and hooked her legs around his waist. She didn't know why she did that.

He was still saying, "You...you put me down..."

Shen Yifei was unwilling to put her down. He carried her to the stone bed and laid her down.

Bai Lu's back fell onto the stone bed. She tried to prop herself up, but Shen Yifei had already climbed on top of her.

"Miss Bai, the fire inside you has been suppressed for hundreds of years. Today, let it burn out."

Bai Lu bit her lip and remained silent. She was trembling, from her shoulders to her waist. The heat had surged from her lower abdomen to every part of her body, like countless tiny snakes swimming in her veins.

Shen Yifei reached out and untied the tie at her collar. With her trembling, he stripped Bai Lu of all her clothes, and she didn't resist at all.

Bailu had long been accustomed to keeping everything outside.

Her demonic power, spiritual energy, and even her own nature were all locked away layer by layer in her dantian. So long that even she herself didn't know how to unlock them.

The power that had been suppressed in her dantian for hundreds of years formed an invisible shell around her body.

However, Shen Yifei has a way to gradually resolve this for her. He wants to remove the shackles that have bound Bailu for hundreds of years and let her unleash her true nature!

At this moment, the two of them didn't need to say a word.

Suddenly, the demonic energy emanating from Bai Lu surged straight into Shen Yi's meridians through his dantian!

That demonic aura was the serpentine nature that Bai Lu had suppressed for four hundred years. She had cultivated from a small green snake to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, accumulating it all in her dantian, like a volcano that had been sealed for four hundred years.

At this moment, the volcano erupted, and Shen Yifei felt his golden core frantically devouring this demonic energy.

As he devoured and refined the demonic energy, it was actually purified within his dantian!

Shen Yifei's spiritual energy and the purified demonic energy mixed together, exploded in his dantian, and surged throughout his body along his meridians.

Meanwhile, Bai Lu's demonic energy continued to surge in, and his dantian simply couldn't withstand the energy accumulated over hundreds of years.

Shen Yifei felt like his entire dantian was about to explode.

Countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the golden core, but it was rapidly reshaped in the scalding demonic energy. A powerful force surged from the dantian to the limbs and bones, the spiritual meridians expanded, and the divine sense surged.

Gradually, the demonic aura thinned out.

Shen Yifei absorbed all the essence that Bai Lu had accumulated over hundreds of years.

Shen Yifei took a deep breath, and the golden core in his dantian stopped rotating, hanging there quietly. Its blue and white luster was restrained and calm, much stronger than before.

Bai Lu opened her eyes. "You stole all four hundred years of my essence!"

Bai Lu raised her hand again, intending to hit Shen Yifei, but Shen Yifei grabbed her wrist and leaned down: "Miss Bai, your dantian is much cleaner now, isn't it? That shell is completely shattered, so your cultivation will be ten times faster than before. You won't lose out on this deal."