All of the protagonist's Daoist partners are mine!

“This is the Great Sun Immortal Sect. If I break the restrictions placed by Yan Lingyun, she will definitely sense it. Will you still be alive then?” Xing Moxie put down the food: “In short, just stay here as a plaything for a couple of days. A big shot like her will soon forget about you.”

Where are you going?

"What? You want me to stay the night?"

"Who cares about you!" Yan Lingyun continued to bury her head under the covers.

She wasn't so afraid of the bad guy in front of her anymore. The previous times had been too dark, but now, in bright light, she actually found him quite handsome.

……

Xing Moxie walked outside and met Xiao Linglong, who was waiting.

Xiao Linglong smiled comically: "The progress bar for the strategy is almost full, isn't it?"

"Huh? You know so much about this?"

"Nonsense, how could someone who's been through this not understand?" Xiao Linglong rolled her eyes at him, annoyed.

"Faced with a great demon like you, if you compromise even once, your life is over. I think the day when she and I become sisters is not far off."

"Then you two should get to know each other as soon as possible." Xing Moxie gently lifted Xiao Linglong's hair: "I have things to do tonight, so you go and make things right for her."

Xiao Linglong's eyes widened: "You're interested in that? I'm not into lesbians. If you want to see, go outside and find two professionals to perform for you."

"No, this matter can only be done by you. Consider it opening a new world for you, listen to me."

Seeing the demon speak in such a gentle tone, yet with such unyielding words, Xiao Linglong knew that Jiao Ji was also part of the demon's plan.

"Okay, you'll have to make it up to me later."

"Hehe, I'll give you a chance later. Besides, once you've tried it, you might unexpectedly like the feeling?"

After Xiao Linglong entered the room, Xia Lingxue's voice, full of twists and turns, could be heard from inside.

"It's you?! Um, what brings you here, Immortal Linglong... Wait, please have some self-respect! What do you want? Don't come any closer! No, I'm not that kind of person..."

……

The scene shifts to the secret meeting room prepared by Yan Lingyun.

"So, after that demon found out you brought a woman back, he forcibly took her?"

Yan Lingyun frowned after listening to Lu Renjia's complaints.

Besides Xing Moxie, the rest of the people in the conference room were the same three: Yan Lingyun, An Suxin, and Zhu Heming standing in the corner.

"Wouldn't our plan to intercept her subordinates also be exposed?" Yan Lingyun feigned concern.

She had actually anticipated this long ago, knowing that after bestowing that woman upon "Lu Renjia," Xiao Linglong, that devil, would definitely react.

Her purpose in taking such a risk was to test "Lu Renjia" one last time and see how the boy would handle the matter.

It has to be said that Yan Lingyun's cunning is terrifyingly deep.

Unfortunately, there's always someone better. When she agreed to spare Xia Lingxue's life, the cunning Xing Moxie saw through her intentions and decided to turn the tables on her.

Chapter 132: 49 The Holy Son of Xuantian was ostracized (mistakenly)?

"I told her that chasing after the winner of the Azure Dragon Cauldron was due to your own arbitrary decision, Senior Sister Yan, and that you happened to run into the mysterious person who came to intercept it." Xing Moxie fabricated without changing his expression: "That woman from the Dragon King Palace had already fainted at the time, so I believe she couldn't get any useful information out of her."

"Mm." Yan Lingyun nodded.

This explanation is watertight, and at first glance it certainly seems like they're trying to deal with the devil.

But Yan Lingyun was still uneasy and turned to the blindfolded Stargazing Saintess for verification.

An Suxin sensed the gaze: "Don't worry, Saintess Yan, there's no fluctuation in fate, everything is still going according to plan."

Hearing her say that, Yan Lingyun tentatively admitted that "Lu Renjia" had passed her final test.

"In that case, let's get down to business." Yan Lingyun spread out the route map for transporting the Demon Halberd on the table: "I've selected a few ambush locations. Take a look and see where the demon will make his move."

An Suxin casually pointed at the map: "I can sense that a choice has already been made in the dark. The demon will most likely make his move here."

An Suxin frowned when she saw the spot she was pointing to.

It is very close to an abandoned training ground of the Great Sun Immortal Sect. Because of its complex terrain and natural maze-like formations, it was previously chosen as a site for some secret experiments.

But the place had been abandoned before she took over as saintess, and no one had been in or out for many years. Yan Lingyun couldn't say she was familiar with the place.

"Saintess An, are you sure?"

"Does Saintess Yan not trust my divination?"

"Of course not," Yan Lingyun quickly denied.

If even the divinations of the Stargazing Saintess are not worth believing, then who in this world can be trusted?

"I understand. I'll find some time tomorrow to scout the location and set up the formation. We only have one chance to ambush the demon, so to avoid being disturbed, I'll make arrangements to disperse any bystanders in the vicinity that night and ensure no one knows about our operation."

"As expected of Senior Sister Yan, she's incredibly meticulous in everything she does," Xing Moxie said with a smile.

Yan Lingyun wasn't buying his flattery: "Stop trying to fool me, don't forget what you promised me! Tell me the truth about how the demon escaped by possessing another's body now."

He took so many advantage of us today, all for this! As long as we can neutralize the devil's trump card, we won't fail this time.

Xing Moxie smiled slightly and said, "Actually, it's not a method that needs to be guarded against. The demon's body-snatching secret technique is a large array. As long as you are in the array, the demon can snatch your body without anyone noticing after he dies, and there will be no soul fluctuations, so it cannot be detected."

“Impossible.” Yan Lingyun immediately retorted, “There was no great formation in the Demon Palace at that time. We have checked it many times afterward.”

Xing Moxie shook his head: "It's not that it didn't exist, but that it disappeared. The demon himself was the most important part of the possession formation, and it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was the backbone. The formation was activated by the demon's death, and it also collapsed and disintegrated because of the demon's death. Afterwards, only some scattered and irregular broken formation diagrams remained. If someone doesn't know the mystery, even if they walk around the Demon Palace a dozen times, they still won't be able to see the mystery."

He wasn't just making things up; no one in the world understood the possession array set up in the Demon Palace better than him, so his explanation was quite convincing.

Yan Lingyun's array formation skills were extremely high. After Lu Renjia revealed the secret, and she recalled some details she had seen in the Caotian Demon Palace, she indeed sensed the existence of such a mysterious array.

Unfortunately, the self-destruct design of that formation was so ingenious that once the demon died, the formation collapsed. Even now, returning to the Demon Palace would not allow them to trace its origins and deduce the details of the possession formation.

"I swear on my Dao heart that this is absolutely true," Xing Moxie said solemnly.

Anyway, he wasn't lying.

The most important point, "the formation can only possess the person who killed him," is simply kept hidden and not explicitly stated; it is not a lie.

Yan Lingyun did not doubt him, because the existence of the possession array made her understand many things: "No wonder that demon wanted to fight us in the Caotian Demon Palace. Even if we eliminated his demon generals one by one, he would just sit deep in the Demon Palace and wait for us. It turns out that he was not stupid, but had a reason to do so."

Hearing this, Xing Moxie could only smile wryly.

He was like the Great Demon King in the Hero and Demon King game; even when the hero attacked him at his doorstep, he didn't budge an inch.

In classic obstacle course games, this is a well-established and conventional approach: the boss should be stationed at the end of the level and not allowed to go out casually.

But in the cruel world of cultivation, such practices don't apply. If you can gang up on someone, you won't fight one-on-one; if you can overwhelm them with strength, you won't engage in unfair confrontations. This is common sense among cultivators.

"So what we should be most wary of now is the demon setting up the possession array again?" Yan Lingyun suddenly realized. It seems we need to double our surveillance on that demon these next few days.

Xing Moxie shook his head: "That's a formation that can even fool the Heavenly Dao Sword. How can it be set up so easily? The rare and precious materials involved cannot be gathered in a short time. Even a demon couldn't do it."

Yan Lingyun's face twitched upon hearing this, and anger surged within her: "So, you're saying that I was taken advantage of by you, you bastard, because of this piece of information that I didn't even need to be wary of?!"

If the demon's possession technique can't be used, then why did she agree to the simulated couple's deal in the first place?

凸(艹皿艹 )

Xing Moxie feigned weakness and argued, "Senior Sister Yan, please calm down. How is this worthless? There's no need to be wary; isn't this matter itself valuable intelligence?"

"You!" Yan Lingyun knew he was right, but how could she give up after paying the price of her first kiss?

At this moment, An Suxin sat up straight curiously: "Cheap? What's cheap? Saintess Yan, between you and Junior Brother Lu..."

"!" Yan Lingyun then remembered that there were two other people listening nearby.

Although An Suxin and Zhu Heming are both trustworthy people who keep their mouths shut, how could she let others hear about this mess?

"N-nothing." Yan Lingyun said, her face flushed, and sat back down angrily.

An Suxin's curious question inadvertently helped Xing Moxie out of a predicament.

Looking at her haughty yet slightly shy demeanor, Xing Moxie thought of an old friend—indeed, the way this girl sulked was exactly like her mother.

Yan Lingyun then made detailed arrangements for the plan to hunt down the demon, and said that an unprecedented sealing formation would be set up that night to leave the demon nowhere to escape.

This operation was kept highly secret, and in order to save manpower, the task of controlling the array was given to the Stargazing Saintess, who had no combat ability.

To make the transportation operation seem more important, at Xing Moxie's insistence, Yan Lingyun also brought her most trusted attendant, Ge Niao, into the plan.

……

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

During these two days, because Xiao Linglong was being watched more closely by Yan Lingyun's people, Xing Moxie could only kill time with another little girl.

Of course, he also wanted to use the day's transaction as an excuse to have some fun with Yan Lingyun.

But couldn't Yan Lingyun just avoid her if she couldn't afford to offend her? She filled her schedule with work for the next two days, making her impossible to find anywhere. She didn't reappear until the evening of the third day, the day of the operation.

So Xia Lingxue has suffered these past two days, enduring countless torments from the evil demon with her mortal body whose cultivation was sealed.

On the first day, she was still thinking of trying to contact the spies that the Dragon King Palace had planted in the Great Sun Immortal Sect to call for help.

The next day, all she could think about was begging for mercy, hoping that the bastard would let her rest for a while.

Today, her mind is completely blank, and she can't even feel whether her body is twitching.

It's all thanks to Yan Lingyun's plan to act today; two days later, Xia Lingxue would have been dead.

into the night.

Xiao Fan was strolling in the courtyard when he ran into Ye Tian, ​​who had come out for some fresh air after finishing his cultivation.

"Senior Brother Xiao."

"Junior Brother Ye is still awake? Have you seen Brother Lu and Linglong?"

"I don't know, I was in seclusion until just now." Ye Tian scratched his head sheepishly.

After his sparring match with Zhu Heming that day, he gained some insights and has been in seclusion ever since.

After several days of cultivation, he vaguely felt that his foundation in the early stage of the Golden Core realm had been solidified. With a little more rare and precious materials, he could attempt to break through to the middle stage.

Xiao Fan naturally noticed his growth and patted him on the shoulder: "Junior Brother Ye, you are a person with great fortune. You've only been at the Great Sun Immortal Sect for a few days, and you've already made such great gains. But breakthroughs in cultivation cannot be rushed. Only by being more solid in one's cultivation can one go further."

Ye Tian originally wanted to break through to the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm as soon as possible so he could go back and please his aunt and put her mind at ease. But after hearing what the Holy Son said, his anxious heart calmed down.

"Senior Brother Xiao is right. I almost lost more than I gained by being penny-wise and pound-foolish."

"Hmm. But today is really strange. Brother Lu and Linglong are nowhere to be found, and Lingyun is also missing. Even Miss Shangguan can't be found."

Putting others aside, the Xuan Tian Saintess Shangguan Yinyu, who was traveling with them, has been visiting Xuantai Mountain every day for the past two days. Although she doesn't talk much, she never misses a social occasion.

Today, however, he disappeared starting in the afternoon. That's strange.

Xiao Fan always felt like he was being ostracized by everyone.

Hehehe, there was a really cool party today, everyone went, guess who wasn't invited? How does that feel?

"Probably not..." Xiao Fan shook his head. He didn't believe that Ling Yun and the others would go out for a beer without calling him.

Looking at Ye Tian's bewildered expression, Xiao Fan suddenly felt a sense of shared misfortune.

He put his arm around Ye Tian's shoulder: "Ha. Let's celebrate your enlightenment, Junior Brother Ye. Come on, I'll treat you to a drink."

"Oh!? How could I possibly accept this?" Ye Tian, ​​at the age when his reproductive desires were beginning to awaken, immediately misunderstood: "No wonder he's Senior Brother Xiao, he even has connections like that in the Great Sun Immortal Sect?"

"That kind of connection?" Xiao Fan was taken aback.

—Holy crap, does this kid think I'm taking him out to brothels?

It's hard to hold back.

But since he had already said it, and looking at his junior brother's bright, expectant eyes, Xiao Fan couldn't very well say that he was just inviting him for a regular drink.

—Sigh, if only Brother Lu were here at a time like this. On the path to adulthood, without Brother Lu, it's truly impossible to move forward.

Chapter 133: 50 Great Sun Saintesses

Yan Lingyun is known as a prodigy whose talent is second only to the previous generation. Although she was nominally a child prodigy brought back from outside by the core elders, she remained silent for many years under the secret education of the elders before finally appearing in the inner sect.

However, there have always been various speculations both inside and outside the sect regarding her true origins.

Yan Lingyun knew perfectly well that she was not an outsider at all; in fact, she had no memories of anything outside the sect during her childhood.

She lived within the Great Sun Immortal Sect from the very beginning, raised by several people whose identities were later revealed to be core disciples and elders of the sect. Those people had all vanished without a trace at some point.

From a young age, she was required to live in a courtyard that was sealed off by multiple layers of restrictions, unable to go out or learn about the outside world. She even heard the name of the Great Sun Immortal Sect from the person she respected most.

That person opened the path of cultivation for Yan Lingyun, taught her supreme methods, took care of her, and guided her... That person was Yan Lingyun's first and true master, the previous generation's Great Sun Saintess, Xuan Yuanrong.