A Seventy-Two-Year-Old Old Virgin

Yun Yao moved closer and nudged him with her foot, but found that he did not stir at all, so she could only do it herself and pull his head out.

Aside from a bit of dirt stuck to his face, there was not even any sign of a serious bump or scrape left behind.

Yun Yao touched his forehead and sensed carefully, then her eyes suddenly snapped open. "Water Element Body? When did this guy cultivate a physique?"

Her physique was very special, both close to the fire attribute and not repelled by the water attribute, so at the level of bodily perception, she was very sensitive to water elements.

The Water Element Body among the Five Elements Body could nourish the flesh and divine soul, and when combined with the Wood Element Body's powerful regenerative ability, it could almost make a cultivator's recovery ability rival that of a Demon Beast.

Water benefited all things and yet remained still, dwelling in places people loathed, close to the Dao.

Yun Yao quietly watched the changes on the surface of his body, and what surprised her even more was that the surrounding spiritual qi was actually flowing toward his body of its own accord.

It seeped through his skin and entered the circulation throughout his body, slowly repairing the faint scratches on his skin.

"His cultivation has also reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer... his improvement speed is a bit too fast."

Qi Refining First Layer took half a month at the fastest, and a month or more at the longest.

Even when she had first stepped over the threshold of immortal cultivation back then, going from a Qi Refining novice to successfully reaching Foundation Establishment had taken her more than a year.

That speed was already enough to rank in the top five in Green Pavilion Sect.

Even Eldest Senior Sister and Second Senior Sister had not been faster than her.

Lin Heng, this oddball, had clearly been trash without even a spiritual root when he first arrived, yet in the blink of an eye, only one month had passed and he was already at Qi Refining Fourth Layer?

He had even somehow produced a Water Element Body.

Adding in strange things like being able to hear inner thoughts and foretell the future, Yun Yao even suspected that he was Heaven's Favorite.

Commonly known as: a person favored by Heavenly Dao.

Whoosh!

After a long while, Lin Heng recovered his senses from his crashed state. One hand covered his still slightly aching chest, while the other braced against the ground. He shifted twice before leaning against the tree.

Wait a second!

After muttering that, he immediately reached downward, and only after touching the authority that had been frightened limp did he finally let out a breath.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness, little bull is still here."

Standing diagonally behind him, Yun Yao saw this scene, and her beautiful eyes furrowed slightly, filled with disdain.

"You slept for quite a long time. If we don't leave, the Auction will start!"

"The Auction..." Lin Heng came back to himself and immediately got up to follow her. "Senior Sister, wait for me."

Yun Yao had stopped but had not yet turned around when she saw Lin Heng's foot slip, followed by him charging forward and crashing into her from behind. His two hands, as if by tacit agreement, clasped beneath her chest.

"Aiya, sorry, Senior Sister, my foot slipped."

Perhaps it was a stress response, but without another word, Yun Yao threw Lin Heng over her shoulder, sending him sprawling flat on his back with all four limbs in the air.

Yun Yao looked at him coldly. "A foot slip is a foot slip, but your hands just had to be so dishonest, huh?"

"Come on! Senior Sister, since we couldn't become sisters, didn't you agree to become Dao companions?"

"When did I agree to become your Dao companion?"

"You said you wanted me to take responsibility. I've only heard of parents taking responsibility for children, and husbands taking responsibility for wives. It can't be referring to fatherly love, right!"

"Tsk! Looks to me like you still haven't been beaten enough!" Yun Yao ground her teeth and rubbed her fists.

Lin Heng pulled back several meters in one step. "Don't, Senior Sister. This counts as domestic violence... according to the law, you'd have to eat prison food."

"Hmph." Yun Yao snorted coldly, no longer paying him any attention as she turned and left.

Lin Heng silently followed again, only this time he deliberately kept some distance.

But that distance was enough for her to hear Lin Heng's mental activity.

Tsk, tsk! I thought I was about to have a Dao companion. That was honestly a bit self-indulgent.

But putting myself in her shoes, following me is still better than following Ye Tian, right? If nothing else... at least she won't be sold off to the Flower Pavilion and have the latter half of her life ruined...

Lin Heng did not consider himself any upright gentleman, but he was not so beastly as to send his own Dao companion out to become public transport.

"Lin Heng." As they walked, Yun Yao suddenly stopped and turned around. "When there's no one outside, I don't care how you address me, but in the sect, especially in front of Master and the other Senior Sisters, if you dare say anything about the relationship between you and me, be careful I don't beat you to death."

Once these words came out, it was equivalent to tacitly admitting that the two of them had become Dao companions.

But she did not want to announce their identities, and it was not because she felt Lin Heng was unpresentable.

With Lin Heng's current cultivation speed, calling him a genius would not be excessive.

The main reasons were:

First, she did not want to invite too much criticism.

Although Green Pavilion Sect did not forbid fellow disciples from forming Dao companion relationships, the Elders of each peak often gave warnings, precisely because they feared romantic affairs would cause disciples to neglect cultivation.

Second, she was afraid of disappointing Master. Meng Yutong had once said that before her physique was fully developed, she had to preserve her pure body.

After all, Lin Heng was the Sect Leader's son. With this layer of identity, it was inevitable the matter would spread like wildfire.

The last reason was also the most important: she was afraid that if Ye Tian knew the two of them were Dao companions, he would harm Lin Heng.

Through all sorts of signs, it was not hard to see that Ye Tian held a great deal of hostility toward Lin Heng.

On top of that, Ye Tian was sinister from the bottom of his heart. In order to obtain her, he had not hesitated to use Lin Heng's hand to drug her.

She was not afraid of anything herself; she was only afraid Ye Tian would make a move against Lin Heng in the dark.

Lin Heng was overjoyed and eagerly sidled up in front of her. "No problem. Isn't it just being secret underground Dao companions? Doing what Dao companions should do in private? I think that's pretty exciting."

This proposal made him both surprised and delighted. Hiding the relationship could help him avoid a lot of trouble.

Ye Tian had long since regarded Fairy Cloud Peak's five Senior Sisters and Master as a reserve harem group. If he learned that Yun Yao had already been taken by someone...

Wouldn't he come at him for revenge like a mad dog?

And thinking again of Sun Hao's bitter plotline, that brat Ye Tian also had a particular fondness for married women...

If he learned that Yun Yao had become someone else's Dao companion, with the married-woman buff added on, the consequences were simply unimaginable.

Lin Heng absolutely would not allow this sort of thing to happen.

How did Boss Cao put it again?

Better I cuckold all under heaven than let all under heaven cuckold me.

The two of them shared an unspoken vigilance toward Ye Tian.

"What should Dao companions do?" Yun Yao asked.

"Do you even need to ask? Kisses, hugs, and lifting you high are definitely necessary. Whether there's something to do or not, there should also be a little negative-distance cuddling."

"When festivals come around, or when birthdays arrive, we should also have a bit of ceremony and give little surprises."

"In another two months, it'll be my twenty-third birthday. As my Dao companion, you only need to treat yourself as the nighttime gift. When your birthday comes, I'll be the nighttime gift for you to use," Lin Heng said with a grin.

Yun Yao seemed not to hear the implication behind nighttime gift. She nodded blankly, then fell into thought and said, "I haven't celebrated my birthday in a long time. Time really passes quickly. Counting the days... in about another half year, I should be seventy-two."

"What!? Seventy-two?"

Hearing this number, Lin Heng was dumbfounded on the spot.

Calculating according to the two zodiac cycles between parents and children, if he was twenty-three, his mother would be forty-seven, and his grandmother would be seventy-one.

Good grief, among ordinary people, this age was enough to be his grandmother.

A seventy-two-year-old old virgin!

The phrase old virgin nearly broke Yun Yao's defenses. She immediately reached out and grabbed his ear, gnashing her teeth as she said, "What are you so surprised about?"

"I'm a Golden Core Realm cultivator. My lifespan can reach up to five hundred years, five times your lifespan. When you become withered bones after a hundred years, this old lady will still be in the prime of her youth!"

"And you still dare look down on me for being old!"

"Cough, cough, cough!" Lin Heng choked on her words. It seemed that was indeed the case.

With the length of lifespan sitting right there, he could not measure it by an ordinary person's standards.

"Lin Heng."

"Mm."

"Tell me what opportunities you've encountered recently. I'm very curious how your cultivation reached Qi Refining Fourth Layer in such a short time. When you were carrying out the mission in Golden Horse City, you were only Qi Refining Third Layer, right?"

"Of course, if you don't want to say it, you don't have to."

Yun Yao was simply expressing curiosity.

"Opportunities?" Lin Heng lowered his eyes slightly and looked at her side profile, then smiled faintly. "There have been far too many opportunities, but the greatest opportunity still lies with you, Senior Sister."

"Me? Why do you say that?"

"Because of that time when we Dual Cultivated nonstop from morning to night, then to morning again." Lin Heng raised his brows. "Otherwise, how could my cultivation possibly have improved so quickly? It's not like I'm some genius."