Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

Chapter 332 Saintess Haori: I've accepted my fate!

Several beams of shield light flashed past.

Two cultivators at the Void Refinement stage are currently leading several cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage towards the Hao Ri Sect's protective formation.

Every so often, these disciples had to inject spiritual energy into the great formation.

Although the struggles between sects will not actually take place at the sect gates.

But lately, the Demon Spirit Sect has become very arrogant.

We still need to be cautious...

However, there is no need to worry about the consumption of spiritual energy.

After all, the spiritual energy here is not as great as that in the lower realms.

The spiritual power of the Haori Sect is comparable to that of the entire Xuanhuang Continent.

If cultivators from the lower realms were allowed to cultivate here...

They might even make more progress than cultivators from the upper realms.

Take Wang Mang for example. Back then, in the lower realm, it was a barren place like Qingzhou.

With such cultivation now, if one were to reach the Upper Realm...

The promotion speed will probably be even faster.

Therefore, many of the truly powerful beings in the spirit world ascended to the upper realm ten thousand years ago.

And those powerful beings even have cultivation levels far exceeding the Mahayana stage.

The entrance to the cave was entwined by two ancient jade vines.

Apart from that junior brother, no other disciple in the sect dared to step into this place.

Deep within the cave...

Lin Zhiya curled up her delicate little feet and sat on the soft jade by the pool.

Tears streamed down my face uncontrollably.

She herself found it funny.

The Holy Maiden of the Haori Sect, who has been praised for thousands of years, has never been so humiliated.

She held a necklace between her fingertips.

Han Yue personally performed the procedure for her three years ago.

It's certainly not some good antique or rare gem.

Yet this dignified saintess was always treated like a treasure.

With a flick of his wrist...

The jade bell fell into the pool.

Those feelings from those years, and how I secretly took care of my junior brother when he had a fever.

He secretly delivered his cultivation resources to his junior brother's residence.

The junior brother's every smile and frown.

It's as if it's constantly dissipating with the ripples...

"Fate plays tricks on us..."

A soft sigh.

As a saintess, she has already thought it through.

She married for the sake of her sect.

She married that cultivator from the lower realm named Su Chen to become his Daoist partner.

Recalling the way he looked when they first met at Luoyun Sect, his roguish air and those eyes that seemed to look down on everyone.

In the mountains and forests of Qingzhou, he could shut himself up with just a few words.

He doesn't look like a proper monk at all.

He is not someone who knows how to cherish women.

He is clearly a deep-thinking and ruthless character.

Rumor has it that this person already has several Daoist partners, all of whom have been thoroughly trained to be obedient.

If I marry into that family, I'm afraid I'll inevitably be treated like a vessel, subjected to all sorts of abuse.

In the spirit world, there is Zhizhi, my former best friend.

She married a roguish monk.

She suffered all kinds of humiliation and abuse.

His own fate will likely be no better.

As a saintess with exceptional beauty, she'll likely be easy prey for Su Chen...

Looking at her own small, delicate feet and petite body.

In the future, Su Chen will inevitably enjoy nightly pleasures...

Thinking about this, I actually felt a sense of resignation.

But what can be done about it?

The world of cultivation is inherently cruel.

This trip to the mortal realm broadened her horizons.

I witnessed firsthand how those sects in the lower realms rose and fell, only to rise again.

He personally exchanged blows with Su Chen and was at a disadvantage.

They were completely ignored by powerful figures like Li Changfeng, who didn't even bother to give them a second glance.

Back at the sect, the Supreme Elder's cold expression shattered her last shred of hope.

She then realized that she had been far too naive before.

Spoiled by the sect, he became arrogant and ignorant.

Suddenly, footsteps could be heard outside the cave.

The footsteps were neither too light nor too heavy, and the rhythm was one she knew all too well.

Over the years, she had heard that footstep sound a thousand times.

It was no stranger.

It was Han Yue.

The footsteps were not yet close.

"Junior Brother."

Lin Zhiya turned her face away.

"Let's go back."

Saying this was obviously meant to give this junior brother the cold shoulder.

His steps faltered...

"Senior sister."

Han Yue's voice came through the gate of the mansion.

"What...what's wrong with you?"

Both Han and Yue were dumbfounded.

Many years have passed, even when Lin Zhiya was seriously injured and accidentally wandered into this place.

She would gently invite me in for a chat.

now...

"Let's not see each other again from now on."

"No disciple in the sect is allowed to disturb this Holy Maiden's cultivation in this cave."

This is a perfectly normal statement.

But the words spoken to Han Yue were quite harsh.

After all, they treated this junior brother as someone else.

"Am I like the other disciples?"

A moment of silence fell outside the mansion gates...

"Senior sister, don't you know how I feel about you?"

Hehe, everyone in the clan knows about the feelings between the two.

At this point, saying this seems a bit inadequate.

"So what if I know?"

"For the sake of the sect's future, we can no longer be so naive."

"Now, I am engaged."

This sentence is like a blunt knife.

The aura outside the mansion gate instantly became chaotic.

Lin Zhiya could even imagine what Han Yue's expression must be like at that moment.

That was a face she had been looking at for three years.

He is gentle, refined, and always has a scholarly air about him.

The senior brothers and sisters in the sect all joked that the two of them were a match made in heaven.

Unfortunately.

Things in this world are never up to us.

"Senior sister has returned from her trip to the mortal realm."

"Is it really... that he's fallen for the disciple of the Third Supreme Elder, Li Changfeng?"

"Is that person... is that person really better than me?"

If you don't truly like someone, why would you keep asking such a childish question?

Men only ever show their childish side in front of the people they love.

Unfortunately, this one sentence completely shattered that refined and scholarly image...

Lin Zhiya did not answer.

I was afraid that if I opened my mouth, my forced composure would crumble.

Okay?

That question really stumped her.

She looked down on cultivators from the lower realms, and she also looked down on Su Chen when they first fought.

But Su Chen broke his own Yin-Yang Silver Ring.

To say that Su Chen is rude would be an exaggeration.

In short, it's not the refined type I like.

It's not good.

In terms of appearance, he is indeed handsome.

In terms of cultivation and talent, someone at the early stage of the Void Refinement realm is indeed worthy of her status as a saintess.

But the key point is not these.

That day at Luoyun Sect, she witnessed Su Chen actually being able to bargain with a powerful figure like Li Changfeng, who was at the Mahayana stage.

A person who can inspire such fear and favor in a Mahayana cultivator.

How deep must one's thoughts be, how ruthless must one's methods be?

Compared to Su Chen, I am indeed inferior.

It really was just an infant in swaddling clothes...

If he were in Su Chen's position, he would have long since become a pawn to be played with by those high-level cultivators.

Therefore, she felt that Su Chen was indeed very strong, and definitely not a naive character.

Let's take a look at Han Yue.

A prodigy, pampered and cherished by the sect.

From childhood to adulthood, I have never suffered the slightest injustice.

So naive.

The two are worlds apart, like heaven and earth.

"Senior Sister!"