"Even if you beg me to have little schemes, I wouldn't."
"Staying in the sect is nowhere near as good as staying by your side."
"Every day my name is written in the Journal and I receive plane blessings—it's better than ten or fifteen days of bitter cultivation."
"Just recently, my sword intent has been growing continuously under the plane blessings, and my soul realm has been advancing too."
"Even if there are no other benefits in the future, just maintaining this plane blessing means Spirit Realm, Heaven Realm, and even the legendary Di Realm souls are beckoning to me. I can't bear to lose it."
Yun Yun inwardly grumbled. Even if Xiao Ting begged her to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, she wouldn't agree, let alone have any schemes.
But as the Sect Leader of the Misty Cloud Sect and a Dou Emperor powerhouse, she definitely wouldn't behave too obediently after returning.
If she was too obedient, wouldn't Xiao Ting become suspicious?
Actually, she didn't need to go back to arrange anything. Before cooperating with Cai Lin to act, she had already made preparations.
For at least the next half year, as long as no emergencies required the Sect Leader's personal handling, everything could proceed smoothly.
Her faction's Punishment Elder, working with the Elder Council, would handle sect affairs.
"I didn't expect you to consider this level. This Sect Leader thanks you," Yun Yun cupped her fists and thanked him solemnly. "Rest assured—since you've considered things for this Sect Leader, I won't do anything unnecessary."
"It's fine even if you do," Xiao Ting said, interlacing his fingers and resting his chin on them as he looked Yun Yun up and down. "As long as you're not afraid of regretting it later."
Yun Yun felt that Xiao Ting at this moment was extremely punchable and her hands itched.
Her eyes flashed and she smiled. "You said you wanted this Sect Leader to be a teacher for the Xiao Family members."
"These past days I've taught so many people, but I still haven't taught you. You're at Dou Spirit cultivation now too—want to spar?"
"Are you sure?" Xiao Ting asked with an amused look.
"This Sect Leader is naturally sure," Yun Yun thought to herself—this was a perfectly legitimate chance to beat him up.
"As you wish." Xiao Ting didn't refuse. He also wanted to know roughly where his strength stood.
…
"Cough cough!"
Fifteen minutes later, looking at Yun Yun pressed beneath him with a slightly flushed face, Xiao Ting felt a little awkward. "I said I didn't do it on purpose. Do you believe me?"
At the beginning of the spar, things had been normal. He had used several well-mastered mid- and high-level Profound Tier Dou Techniques, handling them with ease and excellent coordination.
Yun Yun had initially maintained a lofty expert demeanor, but as they fought she realized she couldn't even break his defense. Her own techniques weren't as smooth as his, and she grew impatient. In the end she even used moves like Wind's Extreme Meteor Kill and Setting Sun Radiance.
Faced with that, he got serious and used the Earth Tier low-level Dou Technique in coordination with the Eight Trigrams Lightning-Chasing Step.
Thunder countered wind. Yun Yun's speed couldn't match his, and she was struck in the abdomen by his palm.
Thunder coursed through her entire body. Yun Yun's body went numb and she fell into his arms.
This woman couldn't accept losing. She opened her mouth to bite his shoulder, so he firmly pinned her to the ground.
"Hurry up and let go of me!" Yun Yun said in shame and anger.
The thunder Xiao Ting had sent through her body left a strange impulse in her lower abdomen.
Not only that, her entire body had become extremely sensitive. Even though Xiao Ting was just sitting on her normally while holding her hands, it felt like forceful pressing and friction.
"Fine, but don't mess around. Otherwise I won't be polite. I don't have the strength to be polite with a Dou Emperor powerhouse anyway."
Xiao Ting warned Yun Yun, slowly released her hands, and stood up.
Yun Yun got up with her legs clamped together, glared at him fiercely, then turned and left.
Xiao Ting could see that her neck and ear tips were red, as if she were drunk.
"Your own body is sensitive—why blame me?" Xiao Ting felt very innocent.
When he had given Cai Lin electrotherapy, the latter had even praised him as amazing.
This Yun Yun was probably a salamander or something.
"Let's go. I'll give you the new script while we're at it."
Xiao Ting shook his head lightly, returned to the guest room, poured himself a cup of the now-cold tea, and began writing in his Journal.
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[About having Yun Yun pretend to be my personal maidservant and accompany me to Jia Nan Academy…]
[She couldn't out-argue me and has quite the temper. She challenged me to a spar under the guise of instructing Xiao Family members. I knew she wanted to take the chance to beat me up and embarrass me, but I also wanted to test my combat strength, so I went along with it.]
[The result was beyond both her and my expectations. At the same six-star Dou Spirit level, this former Dou Emperor Misty Cloud Sect Leader was completely no match for me.]
[I also discovered her weakness—she's afraid of lightning. If she doesn't behave in the future, I can use thunder to discipline her.]
…
The moment Yun Yun returned to her own courtyard, her footsteps paused. Her delicate body trembled slightly from both shame and anger.
He knew she hated being electrocuted, yet he still planned to use thunder to discipline her. Xiao Ting's heart was truly detestable!
…
[I suggested she return to the Misty Cloud Sect once to handle trivial matters.]
[Before I gain the strength to be unafraid of the Misty Cloud Sect and Protector Wu, it's necessary to placate her.]
[At that time, I'll have Cai Lin accompany her the entire way to prevent any small actions.]
…
The girls: You can rest assured on this.
…
[It doesn't actually matter if Yun Yun doesn't return to the Misty Cloud Sect. If anything happens, Yun Leng will go find Yun Shan.]
[Yun Shan only broke through to Dou Ancestor with help from Hall of Souls Protector Wu, but he doesn't know the other party secretly tampered with him.]
[There is a hidden move left by Protector Wu in his soul. Once he is no longer useful, his soul will be devoured to increase the protector's own strength—not a single bit wasted.]
[Moreover, the hidden move left in Yun Shan's soul will affect his personality. The originally clear-cultivating, half-playful old man who disliked handling worldly affairs and let Yun Yun take over as a hands-off leader the moment she broke through to Dou King will become ambitious, greedy, eccentric in behavior, murderous, and insidious.]
[Only an ambitious person can be better utilized and tempted by profit.]
[And that's exactly what happened. After breaking through to Dou Ancestor, Yun Shan kept it hidden and didn't tell his beloved disciple Yun Yun. Instead, he contacted the sect's hawk faction elder Yun Leng and selected a group of Misty Cloud Sect elders to nurture, preparing to expand the sect.]
[As a result, all those elders also became food for Protector Wu.]
[Back then, Yun Po Tian died at the hands of people from the Hall of Souls.]
[In the end, the Misty Cloud Sect was also destroyed by the Hall of Souls.]
[If not for Yun Yun's talent—later going to the Central Plains' Flower Sect to obtain opportunities and become a Dou Venerate, then having Nalan Yanran return to the Jia Ma Empire to rebuild the Misty Cloud Sect—it would probably have been completely wiped out!]
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"Crack!"
In her agitation, Yun Yun slapped the room's door into pieces with one palm.
The confusion in her heart was finally answered. Why had the clear-cultivating, worldly-averse Yun Shan suddenly become ambitious? Now she finally had the answer.
It was all because of the Hall of Souls. That Protector Wu had changed her teacher's personality, turning him into a tool, and had even turned the Misty Cloud Sect into a tool.
From the very beginning, they had planned to discard him once he was used up and turn everyone in the Misty Cloud Sect into resources.
Only she had left with Nalan Yanran. Although she had broken through to Dou Venerate, she had also changed her allegiance.
After some thought, Yun Yun sent a private message to Queen Medusa.
[Yun Yun]: Sister Cai Lin, I have a new script.
Cai Lin: "..."
You have a new script again.
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