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

Since he couldn't avoid it anyway, Shen Yifei simply sat down on a chair, took out a wine flask, and took a gulp.

The hatch was pushed open, and Lu Ya walked in. The two stared at each other for a while.

Shen Yifei, holding up the wine jug, grinned at Lu Ya, "Lu Ya... Sect Leader... Alliance Leader, would you like a sip?"

Lu Ya didn't speak, but stared at Shen Yifei for a few moments.

Shen Yifei felt uneasy under his gaze, but maintained his usual playful smile. "Sect Leader Lu, why are you looking at me like that? You...you're not interested in men, are you?"

Shen Yifei was going all out. Since he couldn't escape anyway, he might as well make some profit before he died!

Lu Ya watched for a while, and Shen Yifei felt as if countless insects were crawling all over his body. This tingling sensation even traveled along his meridians into his dantian!

The small vortex in his dantian did not rotate; it had no ability to resist in the face of absolute power.

Shen Yifei could feel that Lu Ya's divine sense was like a large net, completely covering him. If the small vortex turned even slightly, this net would tighten and grind him into mincemeat.

He cursed a thousand times in his heart, but still had a smile on his face, and his hand holding the wine pot didn't even tremble.

"Sect Leader Lu, if you're not going to drink it, I'll drink it myself. This wine is from your Golden Crow Sect, and it tastes really good."

Lu Ya ignored him, his eyes narrowed into slits as he stared at Shen Yifei's dantian for a full ten breaths.

Shen Yifei broke out in a sweat from the old man's gaze, feeling as if the old man's eyes had seen through all his secrets.

However, Lu Ya withdrew his divine sense, smiled slightly at Shen Yifei, and said softly, "As expected, Sect Master Shen, I apologize for any offense."

After saying that, Lu Ya turned and left the cabin.

Shen Yifei sat in the chair, holding the wine pot, and didn't react for a long time.

"What's going on? After all this time, it turns out he came up here to apologize to me!"

Liu Mengli said, "Is this old duck sick?"

The Demon of Love said, "Something's not right. The way he looked at you just now was strange."

"Something's not right. Could he actually have fallen for me? Oh my god, no wonder he's so indifferent to women!"

Outside the cabin door, Leng Rushuang stood on the deck, her face hidden behind a veil, but her hand was already on the hilt of her sword.

Lu Ya came out, glanced at her, and said, "Niece Leng, I apologize for disturbing you."

The eight Golden Crow Sect elders withdrew from the encirclement and followed behind Lu Ya.

Leng Rushuang was prepared to rush in as soon as there was any movement inside. She was going to risk everything today, not for anything else but for herself, and of course, for the man she cared about more and more!

However, when Lu Ya came out, nothing had happened!

She glanced back at the direction of the cabin, where Shen Yifei was peering out through the window crack, winking at her.

Leng Rushuang withdrew her gaze, her mind even more chaotic than before.

"What's going on?"

Ye Qianqiu stood at a distance and saw Lu Ya emerge from the flying boat and fly towards him. A smug look flashed across his face.

"Alliance Leader Lu, have you caught the person?"

Lu Ya flew up to him and shook his head. "There's no one in the cabin."

Ye Qianqiu's smile froze on his face. "What?"

"I said there was no one in the cabin," Lu Ya said calmly. "Master Ye, you've misunderstood."

Ye Qianqiu's expression changed, and the expressions of the four disciples behind him also changed.

"Impossible!" Ye Qianqiu waved his hand. "I detected that kid is in the cabin!"

Lu Ya glanced at him. "Master Ye, do you think I'm lying to you?"

Ye Qianqiu took a deep breath, suppressing his anger. "Alliance Leader Lu, that's not what I meant. It's just that that brat injured my son and crippled his... his..."

He couldn't continue. The thing that the little monster had bitten off Ye Wuhen couldn't grow back, even for an immortal. And so, the flames of Wanjian Manor were extinguished.

"Master Ye, I am also heartbroken about your son's situation," Lu Ya sighed. "But there is indeed no one in the cabin. If you don't believe me, go and search for him yourself. If anything unexpected happens, please don't come looking for me; I can't bear the responsibility."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, with eight elders following behind him, flying towards the Golden Crow Sect without looking back.

Ye Qianqiu stood in mid-air, looking at Lu Ya's departing figure and then at Leng Rushuang's departing flying boat, his face twitching uncontrollably.

Lu Ya's words were quite clear: Shen Yifei was on the ship, but something was protecting him! This thing was extremely terrifying, and even Lu Ya dared not provoke it!

Given Lu Ya's temperament, after being ridiculed by Shen Yifei at the Alliance Conference, Shen Yifei deserved to die a hundred times over.

However, Ye Wuhen could not suffer this humiliation without understanding why; he had to get to the bottom of this!

Ye Qianqiu chased after Lu Ya.

Lu Ya wasn't flying very fast; it seemed he was just waiting for him ahead.

When Ye Qianqiu caught up, his face was extremely pale.

He has been rampant in the cultivation world for so many years, when has he ever been tricked like this?

That icy woman Leng Rushuang dared to glare at him and lie, that old fox Lu Ya dared to play games with him, and a mere late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator dared to cripple his son's manhood.

These three things, each one is enough for him to remember for a lifetime.

"Alliance Leader Lu, please wait." Ye Qianqiu quickened his pace and walked alongside Lu Ya.

Lu Ya turned his head and glanced at him. "Is there anything else, Master Ye?"

Ye Qianqiu took a deep breath and swallowed the profanity that was about to come out. "Alliance Leader Lu, is there anyone in the cabin?"

Lu Ya did not answer and continued flying forward.

"Alliance Leader Lu, I've lived for so many years, I'm not so old and blind that I can't even see a person clearly." Ye Qianqiu's voice was very low. "That kid is in the cabin, my divine sense clearly detected him. If you hadn't discovered something, would you have left so easily?"

Lu Ya then stopped, hovering in mid-air, and turned to look at Ye Qianqiu.

"Master Ye, what do you want to say?"

"I want to know, what exactly did you discover that made the Golden Crow Sect Master abandon all pretense of dignity and leave so easily?"

Lu Ya was silent for a moment, then suddenly laughed, "Master Ye, I'm giving you face, but you don't appreciate it."

"Give me face?" Ye Qianqiu sneered. "My son was crippled, and you're telling me you're giving me face?"

"Master Ye, I am also heartbroken by your son's injuries. But think about it, what makes a mere late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator dare to defy me in front of all the sects in the world? What makes him dare to cripple your son? What makes him worthy of being protected by that icy woman, Leng Rushuang?"

Ye Qianqiu was taken aback.

"There's a problem here," Lu Ya said, emphasizing each word. "A big problem."

"What's the problem?"

Lu Ya looked around and told his entourage to leave first. Once no one was around, he said, "I just examined that boy and found demonic energy in his dantian."

Ye Qianqiu was startled. "Demonic energy?"

"He hid it extremely well; if I hadn't forcibly pressed my divine sense into his dantian, I wouldn't have been able to detect it at all." Lu Ya's eyes narrowed. "And have you seen his spirit beast?"

Ye Qianqiu thought for a moment, then shook his head. "I've never seen it, but I heard from those disciples that it can swallow thunderclouds and is so fast that even a beginner Mahayana cultivator can't react to it."

"That's not some kind of spirit beast." Lu Ya's tone suddenly became very serious. "That's a demonic beast. I've seen it in ancient books. That thing is called a Thunder-Swallowing Beast, the spirit pet of an ancient demon god, which specializes in devouring the thunder of heaven and earth for its own use. This thing has been extinct in the cultivation world for at least tens of thousands of years."

Ye Qianqiu's expression changed completely.

He knew very well what it meant for two things—magical beasts and demonic energy—to appear in one person at the same time.