Becoming 'Good Sisters'

After Lin Heng had finished getting ready, he did not delay. As soon as he stepped out of the inn, the Middle-aged Man in a dark robe approached him.

"Greetings, Young Master. I am Liu Feng, sent by my young lady to receive you and escort you to the Auction."

"Your young lady did not come?"

"My young lady went to the Treasure Pavilion ahead of time. The Auction has strict limits on attendance, so the seating arrangements need to be handed over."

"Oh, I see!" Lin Heng nodded. "All right, then I'll trouble you to lead the way."

"This way, Young Master!"

After Lin Heng boarded the carriage, he heard the crack of a whip mixed with the neighing of horses, and the carriage quickly set off.

Good grief.

With one lash, the horse howled in pain.

Lin Heng curled his lip and looked outside through a gap in the curtain. On the day of the Auction Feast, the flow of people was far greater than in the previous days.

Even the carriages moving along the streets came in all manner of gaudy styles.

After entering the Treasure Pavilion, he followed Liu Feng straight upstairs toward the auction hall. They encountered quite a few cultivators along the way, their mingled auras a chaotic jumble.

"Young Master, please go upstairs. My young lady is already waiting in the chamber."

The two of them went directly to the third floor.

This floor had an overall corridor-style layout. From one end to the other, there were exactly ten chambers in a row.

Room No. 5. They pushed the door open and entered.

The chamber was elegantly decorated. The tables, chairs, and furnishings were all made of sandalwood, giving off a faint fragrance.

Incense burned inside the room, pale blue curls of smoke drifting upward and winding through the empty air. The whole atmosphere was peaceful and serene.

"Young Master Lin has arrived." Zhao Wanqing greeted him with a smile.

She wore an emerald-green gauze dress, with a fine white jade pendant hanging from her waist. Her entire person seemed like an immortal maiden cast down into the mortal world, far more pleasing to the eye than yesterday's plain dress.

"Thank you for the trouble."

Lin Heng replied, walked to her side, and gazed down below.

"There are quite a lot of people. No wonder the Treasure Pavilion had to set a limit on attendance. Even ordinary people wanted to join in the excitement. Even if this place were expanded another time over, it still could not hold so many people." He could not help sighing.

"Young Master, is there anything you wish to bid on at the Auction? I have some Auction Catalog details here, if you..."

"Auction Catalog?" Lin Heng turned around in surprise.

"Yes. The great and small families of Swallow Cloud City all have some business dealings with the Treasure Pavilion, so having some details is nothing unusual."

As she spoke, she motioned for the attendant beside her to present the Auction Catalog.

The catalog was bound very simply, with thin strings wrapped around both ends, leaving it curled and crumpled.

"Whoa!" Upon seeing the contents of the Auction Catalog, Lin Heng was truly startled. "Two hundred and thirty-seven auction items? You're not joking, are you?!"

That number left Lin Heng dumbfounded.

It was his first time seeing an Auction put up so many items. If each item took a quarter of an hour from opening bids to the final hammer fall, would not more than two hundred items drag on until the latter half of the night?

And a quarter of an hour was already too little. There were no fewer than several thousand people coming and going here. With the Dynasty's involvement as a selling point, how could those who came possibly be short of money?

If they truly encountered something valuable and fought over it, just wait and see!

There was plenty of time to test everyone's patience.

"Young Master, please do not be surprised. This Auction is the largest in scale in the past ten years. Looking across the history of the Thirteen Cities of the Western Continent, there may never have been such a grand spectacle."

"Moreover, this Auction will last a full two days. Each day will be divided into morning and afternoon sessions, with only two hours of rest in between. The truly good items will only appear at night."

Lin Heng frowned slightly after hearing this, inwardly sensing trouble.

He still had not seen hide nor hair of that brat Ye Tian. Who knew when he would appear to place a bid? That meant Lin Heng had to stay from beginning to end.

He had to keep an eye on every auction item.

So be it. Having a beauty by his side was not bad either!

Tsk tsk, by rights, Second Senior Sister should come too, shouldn't she?

Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Inside Room No. 10, diagonally opposite Lin Heng's chamber.

Crack!

The sound of a cup being crushed, along with a cold and inexplicable eerie atmosphere, gradually spread through the room.

Mu Liuxi looked at Yun Yao beside her and waved a hand before her eyes. "Xiao Yao, why are you reacting so strongly upon seeing Lin Heng?"

"How strange. How did Junior Brother Lin end up walking together with Young Lady Zhao after coming to Swallow Cloud City? Honestly, he does not even know to come visit me, his Senior Sister."

Mu Liuxi shook her head in puzzlement.

The two of them had arrived at the chamber early in the morning. In other words, from the moment Lin Heng stepped onto the first floor of the Treasure Pavilion, they had spotted him.

Furthermore, due to the unique positions of Room No. 5 and Room No. 10, with their angles offset, they could clearly see what was happening in Lin Heng's chamber, while Lin Heng could not see them.

That was assuming they did not draw the curtains. Once the curtains were drawn, naturally neither of them could see anything.

At that moment, Yun Yao watched the chatting and laughing man and woman on the other side, her teeth itching with hatred.

"You damned Lin Heng! Not only did you screw me and run off... you even hooked up with some rich young lady after coming to Swallow Cloud City!!"

"Beast! The moment you see a pretty girl, your face nearly blooms into a chrysanthemum!"

"Once the Auction ends, your day of death will arrive!!"

If she had not been afraid of Mu Liuxi noticing something strange, she would have rushed over and slapped Lin Heng right then.

What kind of nonsense was this!

After taking her down, he had not left behind a single explanation, then turned around and went off flirting with other women.

The more Yun Yao thought about it, the more stifled she felt. Her fists clenched tightly, and she ground her teeth.

"Xiao Yao?" Mu Liuxi tilted her head. Seeing no response from her, she reached out and nudged her again.

Only then did Yun Yao come back to her senses.

"Ah, it's nothing, Senior Sister! I simply have not seen Junior Brother Lin for too long and missed him terribly!"

"Hm? When did your relationship become so good? Did you not just go to Golden Horse City for a sect mission not long ago?"

Yun Yao took a deep breath. "He is a junior brother, after all. Maybe someday he can even become one of our 'good sisters.'"

Mu Liuxi's eyes rolled around in their sockets, clearly baffled.

Could it be that something involving sharing hardship and supporting one another had happened between them in Golden Horse City?

Otherwise, why would Yun Yao's opinion of Lin Heng have changed so drastically?

During the first few days after Lin Heng arrived at Fairy Cloud Peak, she had still loudly declared that she wanted to bully this cheap junior brother.

What she did not know was that by good sisters, Yun Yao meant

turning Lin Heng into a real 'sister.'

"Mm... all right. But Xiao Yao, I feel that your temper has been rather bad lately. Last night, Junior Brother Ye had only just arrived at Mu Manor when you gave him two slaps without a word or any reason."

"You scared Junior Brother Ye silly!"

That was right. Just last night, while Lin Heng was enjoying a married woman spa, Ye Tian arrived in Swallow Cloud City and had barely met Mu Liuxi when Yun Yao, standing nearby, beat him up.

One did the hitting, while the other shrank his head and endured it.

They were rather in sync—one hit, and the other made no sound.

"Pah! Neither of those two is any good." At the mention of this, Yun Yao became even more furious.

If Ye Tian had not deliberately used the Sunfall Pill to harm her, how could Lin Heng have picked up such a bargain for nothing?

Those two were completely birds of a feather flocking together. Compared to Lin Heng, Ye Tian was simply more vile.

After all, Lin Heng had not initially intended to touch her. It was only later that lust stirred in his heart... once his thoughts arose, his courage naturally followed.

But before Mu Liuxi, she absolutely could not mention the Sunfall Pill.

If she said it, it would confirm that she had taken the Sunfall Pill, which would also mean that someone had served as the antidote.

Ye Tian was not stupid. He would certainly realize that Lin Heng had secretly picked the peach.

If word of this got out, how could she ever face anyone again?

A dignified Golden Core Realm expert had given herself to a Qi Refining Realm rookie for nothing.

And she had done so while being treated as a Flower Pavilion girl.

Never mind what Lin Heng might do—the gossip and pointing fingers within the sect alone would drown her.

Humiliating, utterly humiliating!

Furthermore, the entire cause and course of this matter could be blamed on Ye Tian. As long as Ye Tian bit down and insisted that it had nothing to do with him, even Master would be unable to do anything to him.

On the contrary, Lin Heng might be accused of framing his Senior Sister.

The Sect Leader had yet to emerge from seclusion, so who would dare punish Lin Heng lightly?

In other words, once this matter was exposed,

Ye Tian and Lin Heng might not receive much punishment, while she would not only lose her virginity for nothing but also have to endure everyone else's gossip.

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The remaining soul of the Ancestral Dragon was shattered, its golden light scattering like a dying sun.

A profound, ancient roar echoed through the depths of the soul-sea as the mighty dragon finally dispersed into nothingness.

[System Notice: Host has successfully slain the Ancestral Dragon's remaining soul!]

[Obtained: Dragon Soul Source (Mythic) x1!]

[Obtained: Ancestral Dragon Bone (Divine-Grade Material) x1!]

[Obtained: Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon Blood (Immortal Grade) x1!]

[Obtained: Skill Fragment - True Dragon's Golden Body (1/3)!]