After carefully stowing the two lingzhi mushrooms in his dimensional space, Hao Shuai left the stone cave and walked over to Qi Lingyun, who was glaring at him with wide eyes.
"What good does glaring at me do? It's not like I'll lose a chunk of flesh!" Hao Shuai said with a grin. "Besides, out here in the middle of nowhere, staring at me like that... aren't you afraid I might—"
Although Hao Shuai left his sentence unfinished, his tone and lecherous expression made his meaning perfectly clear.
Qi Lingyun was so startled that she immediately cried out, "You villain! You'd better not try anything, or my father and mother won't let you get away with it. Neither will the Emei Sect!"
"You only mentioned your father and mother. Why didn't you say whether you'd let me get away with it?" Hao Shuai chuckled, then casually pinched Qi Lingyun's delicate cheek.
"You..." Qi Lingyun was still an unmarried young woman, and no man had ever treated her so brazenly. She was instantly both embarrassed and furious, unable to get another word out.
"Someone's coming! More than one!" Hao Shuai suddenly interrupted her.
As soon as he spoke, three streaks of sword light descended from the sky, revealing four figures. They took up a triangular formation, surrounding Hao Shuai and Qi Lingyun in the middle.
Facing Hao Shuai was a beautiful, mature woman dressed in cloud-patterned robes and rosy garments, with an appearance somewhat like a Taoist nun. At her side was Qi Jincan, whom he had let go.
She had to be Xun Lanyin, Madam Miaoyi, wife of Qi Shuming and mother of Qi Lingyun and her siblings.
To the left stood a black-clad Taoist nun, holding a horsetail whisk in one hand. She looked no older than thirty, with