Beyond the formation, heaven and earth returned to calm.
The spatial rifts left behind by Guang Chengzi and the others as they fled in disarray slowly closed under the self-repair of the laws of heaven and earth.
The sea breeze remained, and so did the waves.
It was as though the battle that had been enough to overturn a Grand Unity Golden Immortal's understanding had never happened.
Yet within the formation, the atmosphere was even stranger than before.
In Lin Feng's arms, Bi Xiao's body remained rigid, while her stunningly beautiful face was so hot it could practically fry an egg.
She could clearly feel her entire body enveloped by an intense, domineering masculine aura. That steady, powerful heartbeat still struck against the lake of her heart, beat after beat like a heavy hammer, stirring ripples she had never experienced before.
It's over.
I'll never be able to face anyone again.
A dignified fairy of the Interception Sect had actually been held in a man's arms for so long after meeting him for the first time. And... and she had not even broken free right away!
Bi Xiao bit down hard on her lower lip, wishing she could immediately use an earth escape technique and burrow straight into the deepest ley lines beneath Three Immortal Islands, never to emerge again.
Just as shame and indignation nearly drove her to death, to the point that her Dao heart was about to burn away, the large hand around her waist finally released her.
An inexplicable sense of loss and a feeling of immense relief surged into her heart at once, leaving Bi Xiao's thoughts even more muddled.
Lin Feng let go of Bi Xiao without paying any attention to her cheeks, which were nearly dripping blood. He merely swept his gaze over her from head to toe.
That look was not like he was admiring a peerless fairy. It was more like he was inspecting a tool that had just been repaired.
"Sit cross-legged."
Lin Feng's tone was calm, yet it carried an unquestionable command.
Bi Xiao instinctively wanted to retort, "Why should I?" But the words reached her lips before she forcibly swallowed them.
She recalled the supreme formation he had deployed with a wave of his hand, as well as the terrifying sight of him effortlessly devouring even a replica of a Saint's magic treasure.
Reason told her that before this man, her little pride and cultivation were simply not worth mentioning.
In the end, Bi Xiao could only sit cross-legged where she was, full of grievance and unwillingness. She watched her nose, her nose watched her heart, and tried her best not to think about that embarrassing experience just now.
Seeing this, Qiong Xiao revealed an expression that said, "Just as expected," and looked at Lin Feng with even greater admiration.
Master was still Master. No matter how fiery a woman was, she still had to obediently listen before him.
Bi Xiao had barely settled down and had not yet calmed her thoughts when she felt two warm hands, carrying an irresistible force, gently press against her smooth, fair back.
Boom!
Bi Xiao's body shuddered violently. Her cheeks, which had only just cooled a little, immediately burst into flames again.
Her back!
That was a fairy's back!
Other than when bathing and changing clothes, even she herself rarely touched it. Yet now... now a man's palms were... pressed entirely against it!
"You..."
Both ashamed and furious, Bi Xiao's magical power instantly erupted. She instinctively tried to struggle to her feet and blast away the audacious lecher behind her.
However, before she could make a move, an incomparably pure and vast life energy surged into her body through those two palms like the Nine Heavens Milky Way pouring down in reverse!
That energy was too immense, too warm, too... gentle.
It held not the slightest aggression. Instead, it was like the most merciful spring rain, silently flowing through her limbs, bones, and extraordinary meridians.
The faint resistance Bi Xiao had just summoned was as insignificant as an ant before that abyssal, sea-like energy. It was instantly washed away without a trace.
She could only widen her beautiful phoenix eyes and blankly, passively accept everything.
What... what kind of power was this?
Bi Xiao's mind went blank.
She could clearly "see" the hidden injuries left within her body by the earlier battle, injuries even she had not noticed, being repaired and smoothed away at a visible rate beneath the cleansing flow of that life energy.
Her meridians were being widened and reinforced.
Her immortal body was being cleansed and reshaped.
Her primordial spirit felt as if it were soaking in the finest primordial chaos hot spring. Every thought became lucid and refreshed, while the many Great Dao Laws she had previously been unable to comprehend due to insufficient cultivation now appeared in her mind as clearly as patterns in her palm.
Most unbelievable of all, the foundation of her Dao, which Guang Chengzi had just injured with the replica Fan Tian Seal, was not only fully restored but had become even more stable and solid than before!
From grievously wounded and on the verge of death, to fully recovered, to further advancement in cultivation—the entire process took only a few breaths!
What heaven-defying power of creation was this?
Even if Sect Master Tongtian himself had arrived, he likely could not have achieved something so inconceivable!
Bi Xiao was completely dumbfounded.
Feeling the endless warmth of the palms on her back and the earth-shattering changes within her body, the shock in her heart had long overwhelmed all her embarrassment and anger.
Her heart was in chaos.
A complete mess.
Who exactly was this man?
He possessed strength beyond imagination, treating Chan Sect Golden Immortals like pigs and dogs, crushing them at will.
He possessed unfathomable mastery of formations, able to deploy a Saint-level protective formation with a casual wave.
And now, he had displayed Supreme Power comparable to Grace of Rebirth.
Yet he... kept calling her third sister his maid.
Everything about this was like an enormous mystery, completely overturning and then reconstructing Bi Xiao's understanding.
She did not know how long had passed. Perhaps an hour, or perhaps only an instant.
When the endless stream of power at her back receded like the tide and those two warm hands left her, Bi Xiao suddenly jolted awake from that wondrous state.
She instinctively examined herself inwardly.
Boom!
An unprecedented feeling of strength filled her mind.
Her magical power was perfectly harmonized, her immortal body immaculate, and her primordial spirit radiant!
She felt that with a single thought, she could draw upon the power of heaven and earth ten times greater than before. With the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors in hand, she was even confident she could face that previously arrogant Guang Chengzi head-on!
Not only had all her injuries healed, but her cultivation even... faintly showed signs of breaking through to the late stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm!
Bi Xiao abruptly opened her eyes, her beautiful gaze filled with incredulous shock and wild delight.
She sharply turned around, intending to say something to that man—perhaps thanks, perhaps a question.
But before she could utter a single word, she saw that Lin Feng had already risen to his feet.
With his hands behind his back, he looked down at her seated on the ground. His gaze was indifferent, as if that earth-shaking healing just now had been nothing more than a trivial effort.
Bi Xiao's heart skipped a beat beneath his gaze. For some reason, she did not dare meet his eyes.
At that moment, Lin Feng's calm voice, carrying a trace of teasing, slowly rang out. Like a thunderbolt, it exploded in Bi Xiao's mind.
"Fairy Bi Xiao, you be my maid too."
Silence.
Deathly silence.
The shock and joy on Bi Xiao's face instantly froze.
Slowly, inch by inch, she lifted her head. Her beautiful phoenix eyes widened round, as though she wanted to see through the man before her.
She suspected she had misheard him.
She suspected that her sudden surge in cultivation had allowed an Inner Demon to invade, causing her to hallucinate.
What... had he said?
He wanted her... to be his maid too?
Boom!
An anger tens of thousands of times fiercer than when Guang Chengzi had humiliated her erupted like a volcano from Bi Xiao's heart and shot straight to the crown of her head!
The faint gratitude and strange feelings that had just arisen were obliterated by those words, leaving not even a trace behind!
Utter humiliation!
This was utterly and completely humiliating!
"You... dream... on!"
The three words were practically squeezed out one by one through Bi Xiao's clenched teeth.
She abruptly rose to her feet, moving so fast that she left a string of afterimages behind.
Buzz!
A flash of golden light appeared. The replica of the Primal Chaos Golden Cauldron—the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, a weapon dreaded by countless immortals and gods—was already in her hand, radiating chilling killing intent and boundless baleful aura!
Holding the Golden Flood Dragon Scissors, Bi Xiao's dark hair stirred without wind. Her phoenix eyes were wide as she glared furiously at Lin Feng.
The Grand Unity Golden Immortal magical power that had just surged to its peak erupted without reservation like raging waves, sweeping through the entire space within the formation!
"I, Bi Xiao, was born of heaven and earth and apprenticed to a Saint. I stand tall between heaven and earth—how could I ever become someone's servant!"
Her voice trembled slightly from extreme fury, yet it carried the unyielding resolve and fierce pride of preferring jade to shatter rather than remain whole.
"You saved me, and I acknowledge your favor! If the opportunity comes one day, I, Bi Xiao, will repay it a hundredfold! But if you think you can make me submit, make me your maid, you are dreaming!"
"First ask whether the scissors in my hand agree!"
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