Cloud Mist Sect, the peak of the back mountain. Clouds and mist swirled around, as if it were a fairyland.
Nalan Yanran sat cross-legged on a protruding boulder at the edge of the cliff, forming a hand seal to Cultivate. With each inhalation and exhalation, the rich energy of heaven and earth around her exuded wisps of faint, hazy green light that swirled around her body before being continuously absorbed into her body, refined, and used to nourish herself.
Beside the young girl, next to the boulder, stood a stunningly beautiful woman with a graceful figure.
The woman wore a tight-fitting golden robe trimmed with purple. Her three thousand strands of dark hair were coiled into a shape resembling a Phoenix crying out, faintly revealing an unhideable nobility. Her face was serene and beautiful, like a clear spring in a secluded mountain, making one feel awe due to her noble status while also unable to help but harbor some romantic thoughts.
Yun Yun gazed into the distance, her pretty face slightly flushed, a faint sorrow rising in her beautiful eyes, not knowing what she was thinking about.
When the last wisp of hazy energy current was absorbed into Nalan Yanran's body, she slowly opened her beautiful eyes. A faint green light flashed across her pupils, and then she stood up gracefully. A smile that could not be concealed appeared on her beautiful cheeks. She turned to look at Yun Yun. A gentle breeze blew against her face, her three thousand strands of dark hair dancing with the wind, and as her skirt swayed, it accentuated the perfect curves of the young girl's figure.
"Teacher, I have achieved a Breakthrough to Great Dou Master." Nalan Yanran lightly jumped off the boulder and stood beside Yun Yun, her tone mixed with unhideable excitement and thrill.
"Teacher?"
"Teacher?"
"Teacher, what are you thinking about?"
After being called three times, Nalan Yanran finally took hold of Yun Yun's jade-like hand, and the latter finally snapped back to reality: "Ah? Yanran, what is it?"
"Teacher, I have achieved a Breakthrough to Great Dou Master." Nalan Yanran pouted.
"Is that so! Yanran, you have made great progress in the past six months." Yun Yun gently touched Nalan Yanran's cheek and smiled.
"Hee hee." Yun Yun's intimacy caused Nalan Yanran's beautiful eyes to curve into two shallow crescents. She giggled: "This is all thanks to those Medicinal Pill that Teacher brought back from the Magical Beast Mountain Range last time; otherwise, this Disciple probably wouldn't have achieved a Breakthrough to Great Dou Master so quickly. Teacher, who gave you those Medicinal Pill? I asked Grandpa Gu He, and he said those Medicinal Pill are of extremely high quality, so much so that even he would find it difficult to refine them."
"This..." Xiao Se's young figure appeared in Yun Yun's mind. After a long while, she turned away, her pretty face mixed with a blush, and she slowly said: "A friend gave them to me."
"A friend?" Nalan Yanran smelled the scent of gossip. Her teacher's personality was of the aloof and proud kind; she had never heard of anyone being called a friend by her over the years. Looking at her teacher's current appearance as a woman in love, the result was not hard to guess.
"Teacher, could it be that you are in love?" Nalan Yanran stood in front of Yun Yun, took her jade-like hand, and said with a smile.
In love? Upon hearing these two words, the blush on Yun Yun's pretty face deepened, and eventually, even her snow-white neck was dyed with a pink hue. In her mind, she recalled everything that happened that day with Xiao Se in the valley of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and for a moment, she felt her heart rate accelerate and her face burning hot.
Yun Yun scolded coyly: "What nonsense are you spouting? Hurry up and go Cultivate. Don't think that just because you achieved a Breakthrough to Great Dou Master, you can relax. There is less than a year until the three-year agreement. That brat from the Xiao Family has a supreme expert as a teacher by his side, and his cultivation is at least at the Dou Master level right now. You are about to be surpassed. By then, our Cloud Mist Sect cannot afford to lose face like that."
After speaking, she turned around, spread her pale cyan wings, and with a flap of her wings, turned into a streak of light and disappeared into the horizon.
"Your face is so red, yet you say you aren't in love. If you don't want to say it, then don't, why be so fierce?" Nalan Yanran made a face, appearing completely unconcerned by this. In the past six months, after Yun Yun returned from the Magical Beast Mountain Range, she had undergone an earth-shattering change, no longer as cold and aloof as before.
She would often space out, gazing affectionately in the direction of the Magical Beast Mountain Range. When asked, she would always brush it off with a flushed face. Every once in a while, she would run to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
It would be a ghost if she wasn't in love.
However, who exactly could have captured the heart of her noble and beautiful Dou Huang teacher? This left Nalan Yanran completely puzzled.
On the other side, in the Snake-People Saint City, Die's evolution had reached the most critical moment. With the fall of the final thunderbolt, the huge body of Die's associated Soul, the Earth Underworld Python, turned into charcoal.
"Did it succeed?" Queen Medusa and Zhu Zhuqing held their breath, staring fixedly at the snake-shaped charcoal.
Xiao Se put away the Han Hai Bodyguard Cover and the Heavenly Flame, smiling: "It seems it was a success."
As his voice fell, the space where the small island was located abruptly surged with a circle of majestic energy ripples. The snake-shaped charcoal shattered, and a wisp of cyan, eerie light shot out from within.
"My sister has succeeded." Medusa's eyes lit up. Her figure flashed, ignoring the energy ripples, and in the blink of an eye, she arrived at the area where the black light was.
Just as she was about to reach out to touch it, the cyan, eerie light suddenly shone brightly, rippling out a circle of energy light film that repelled her.
Then, at a speed invisible to the naked eye, it moved away from Medusa and came to float and linger before Xiao Se and Zhu Zhuqing.
During this time, it wasn't that Medusa didn't have a chance to grab it, but she was afraid of accidentally hurting her sister, so she had no choice but to stop. She looked at Xiao Se with a face full of surprise and asked: "What is going on?"
"Although Die has successfully evolved, even with the help of my Medicinal Pill, her Soul is temporarily in a deep sleep due to weakness. What is before us now is the Ancient Heavenly Serpent, or rather, a mutated Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent. Both the Ancient Heavenly Serpent and the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python are ancient exotic beasts. The two have always been in a relationship of opposition and competition, so naturally, it is unwilling to get close to you." Xiao Se explained with a smile.
Under the gaze of his penetrating eyes, the dense, cyan, eerie light wrapped around a slender little snake that was only about two centimeters long. The little snake was translucent throughout, with a greenish color, as crystalline as jade. Its dark blue snake eyes faintly held an eerie feeling. Even more bizarrely, on its small head, there were eight small fleshy bumps, and upon closer inspection, one would discover that they were individual snake heads.
Logically speaking, this cyan snake with nine heads should be an extremely ferocious and terrifying existence, but there was no sense of discordance on this little snake. Its entire body revealed an air of elegance and nobility.
The cyan, eerie light gradually shrank and finally completely merged into the body of the little cyan snake. She blinked her dark blue pupils, lingering between Xiao Se and Zhu Zhuqing, seemingly weighing who it would be better to follow. After a moment, she slowly swam over to Zhu Zhuqing.
"Zhuqing, it seems this little one is more affectionate towards you." Xiao Se smiled wryly.
"Hmm." Zhu Zhuqing nodded. Not to mention that this little snake was the newly born associated Soul of Die, just looking at this cute appearance, it would be hard not to feel affection for it.
Seeing this, Medusa also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the Ancient Heavenly Serpent did not acknowledge Xiao Se as its master; otherwise, perhaps in the future, the sisters would have to serve the same husband.
(End of Chapter)
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