Yang Lingtian's voice carried a sobbing note as he put on an expression full of fear and pleading.
"Whatever the method is, as long as it can keep me alive, I'm willing to try. I'll do anything."
His frantic, grasping-at-straws appearance made Liu Ruyan even more pleased with herself.
The fish had taken the bait.
Liu Ruyan looked at the despair in Yang Lingtian's eyes and sneered inwardly, but her face still wore that Saintess-like expression of compassion for all under heaven.
She lightly bit her moist, pearly teeth, and two intoxicating blushes quietly bloomed across her exquisite cheeks.
Her voice lowered considerably as well, carrying a trace of indescribable shyness and hesitation.
"This method... this method goes against the harmony of Heaven, and besides... besides, it requires the two of us to... be intimate..."
When she reached this point, her voice became as soft as a mosquito's buzz, as though she found it difficult to say.
"It... it requires us to practice Yin Yang Dual Cultivation and help you forcibly break through your current realm."
"Only if your strength rises tremendously once more, becoming that of an unparalleled prodigy the sect cannot afford to ignore—"
"Even one it needs to rely on and win over—will you have any chance of finding a sliver of Life Force beneath the Sect Master's thunderous wrath."
"Do... do you agree?"
Liu Ruyan slightly lowered her lovely head, her long eyelashes trembling softly.
That infinitely bashful appearance was enough to make any man's heart waver.
Yet beneath that seemingly bashful face lurked a cold killing intent that would devour anyone in its path, along with undisguised greed.
In her eyes, Yang Lingtian was already meat on her chopping block, entirely at her mercy.
As long as she practiced dual cultivation with him and drained