A Marriage Proposal? A Promise to My Future Wife!

"Cough, cough."

Ye Changfeng couldn't help but choke on his breath.

Looking at the girl's pitiful, wronged little gaze, his entire heart was about to melt.

Naiqi was just too adorable~

Ye Changfeng reached out, pulled the girl into his arms, and hugged her comfortingly.

"Hmph!"

Lu Xueqi let out a soft snort.

Snuggled in Ye Changfeng's arms, the more she thought about it, the more wronged she felt.

Ye Changfeng really was...

How could he be so bad?

Always knowing how to torment her...

And, and making her use her hand for that.

Lu Xueqi glared at Ye Changfeng with a puffed-up face.

Her pretty cheeks were slightly flushed, and though there was some annoyance in her heart, there wasn't much resistance.

After all...

Ye Changfeng was her future husband.

She couldn't give herself to him right now.

That was because their relationship wasn't yet proper and justified—even if everyone in the world knew they were a pair.

But, They still lacked a marriage contract.

At the very least, he had to formally propose first.

As the saying goes—

By the parents' command, through the matchmaker's words!

Only after going through these steps could they be proper and justified.

"Then..."

"Then I'll just hold it in from now on."

Ye Changfeng was truly a wicked man.

He knew full well that his little wife Xueqi cared about him, yet he deliberately said this now.

And sure enough?

The moment Lu Xueqi heard this, She immediately furrowed her brows slightly and said, "Will... will holding it in be bad for your cultivation?"

She had just seen Ye Changfeng's state.

He simply couldn't calm down.

If he held it in...

She had no idea when he'd be able to settle his mind and cultivate properly.

"It might be."

Ye Changfeng said with a straight face.

Hearing this, Lu Xueqi quickly shook her head: "Then you'd better not hold it in."

"If I don't hold it in, what do I do?"

Ye Changfeng lowered his head and leaned close to Lu Xueqi's ear.

The Cold and Aloof Girl's pretty face flushed slightly. She thought to herself, since this had happened once before, it might happen a second time in the future, and she might as well do it for the sake of Ye Changfeng's cultivation...

Her cheeks were rosy red, and her voice was barely audible as she said, "You, you come find me, and I, I'll help you with that..."

"Really?!"

Ye Changfeng blinked.

"Hmm..."

Lu Xueqi turned her head to look elsewhere.

Seeing this, Ye Changfeng didn't even know what to say.

Where in the world could he find a little wife who would rather wrong herself just to think of him?

He gently embraced the girl.

Then, softly whispering by her ear:

"Xueqi."

"Hmm?"

Lu Xueqi lifted her gaze slightly.

She saw the tender affection in Ye Changfeng's eyes and heard his gentle voice:

"Once I break through to the Supreme Purity Realm."

"I'll go find Martial Aunt Shuiyue to propose to you."

"Ah?"

The girl was stunned for a moment.

Proposal...

How distant had that word once been for her?

Who would have thought it was now so close at hand?

She was still an untouched maiden...

No...

Lu Xueqi subconsciously fidgeted with her right hand—she seemed to no longer be pure...

Of course.

Now was not the time to think about that.

The girl's pretty face flushed red. Upon hearing Ye Changfeng's words, her heart couldn't help but race, pounding wildly. She stood frozen in place, like a statue...

Clearly.

The impact of his words was overwhelming.

Now.

Ye Changfeng was already at the Peak of Shangqing.

Breaking through to the Supreme Purity Realm would take him at most two or three years.

That meant...

In two or three years, he would go to her master to propose.

The cold and aloof girl lowered her gaze slightly.

A rosy cloud gradually crept onto her cheeks, until finally, even her slender neck flushed red.

"Wh-whatever you want..."

The girl's voice was soft and tender, barely audible.

Hearing this.

Ye Changfeng felt a surge of joy.

He didn't continue teasing his little wife, knowing that if he pushed further, she wouldn't be able to handle it...

After all.

She was still too shy.

Ye Changfeng took his little wife's hand and walked out of the meditation room together.

They headed toward another secret chamber, but on the way, they came across a corpse.

Ye Changfeng glanced at it.

This should be the founder of the Blood Refining Hall, the creator of the Blood Devouring Pearl...

The Black Heart Old Man.

Lu Xueqi lowered her gaze.

She glanced at the remains and then paid no further attention.

Anyone who died here was surely a demonic cult villain, not worth her concern...

Ye Changfeng didn't care either.

He and Lu Xueqi continued deeper inside.

Soon.

They arrived at another secret chamber.

This should be the true treasure vault of the Blood Refining Hall.

Rows of wooden shelves displayed all kinds of magical artifacts, in every shape imaginable—blades, swords, spears, and staves.

Unfortunately...

These magical artifacts had endured eight hundred years of decay.

They had long since become rusted and tarnished, their spiritual essence completely lost.

They had already turned into a pile of scrap metal.

Beyond that.

On the wooden cabinet sat many jade bottles.

Unsure whether they contained poison or something else.

Ye Changfeng did not personally touch them.

He waved his hand, releasing a wisp of Sword Intent, and abruptly shattered those small jade bottles. Inside, there was neither poison nor precious medicine—only...

a few remnants.

Clearly.

Even if there had been pills inside.

After eight hundred years of decay, they had now turned into nothingness.

"Shua!"

Ye Changfeng swept his gaze across.

He quickly spotted a small box on the wooden cabinet.

"Hmm?"

Lu Xueqi also noticed it.

Ye Changfeng had a rough idea of what lay inside. He directly waved his hand, slashing out a Sword Qi, knocking the small box off the cabinet, then cleaving it open midair.

"Boom!"

The next moment.

A dense cloud of poison gas spread out from within.

Lu Xueqi furrowed her brows slightly. She quickly pulled Ye Changfeng back.

"Shua!"

As the poison gas slowly dissipated.

Ye Changfeng and his companion finally stepped forward curiously.

"Jingle!"

There on the ground lay a small golden bell. The golden bell emitted a faint spiritual light, and a line of small characters was engraved on its inner wall, as if recounting the lifelong solitude of a lovelorn soul.

"The golden bell rings crisp, feeding on blood by mistake; a lifetime spent, by foolish love overtaken."

Ye Changfeng stepped forward.

He picked up the bell from the ground.

"This is..."

Lu Xueqi was somewhat curious.

Ye Changfeng explained, "This should be the Joyous Union Sect's sect-guarding treasure—the Joyous Union Bell!"

"Joyous Union Sect?"

Lu Xueqi furrowed her brows slightly.

Upon hearing that name, she lost all interest in the little bell.

But...

Lu Xueqi's eyes flickered faintly.

A person immediately came to mind—the one exposed on the Heavenly Curtain...

Jin Ping'er!

Ye Changfeng casually hung the Joyous Union Bell at his waist.

Just then.

Lu Xueqi cast a suspicious glance his way.

From the information exposed on the Heavenly Curtain, Ye Changfeng's relationship with Jin Ping'er was definitely not ordinary, but they hadn't even met yet...

"What's wrong?"

Ye Changfeng acted as if he hadn't noticed the doubt in his little wife's eyes.

"Nothing... it's nothing."

Lu Xueqi gently shook her head.

She had already made up her mind to keep a close watch on Ye Changfeng.

She couldn't let him go out and fool around with other women.

The Maiden pouted with a hint of grievance—after all, she had debased herself to help Ye Changfeng like that. If he still went out to flirt with other flowers and grasses, then...

Then she would strike him with the Divine Sword Controlling Thunder True Art!

At this thought.

Lu Xueqi glared at Ye Changfeng in a huff.

"Shing!"

The Tianya Divine Sword trembled faintly.

Ye Changfeng suddenly couldn't help but shiver.

How did it feel...

Like someone was targeting him!?