A Bright Turn After the Willow-Shaded Path (Second Update! Please Subscribe!)

Pei Ling froze, then quickly realized what was happening. Frowning deeply, he said, "Fellow Daoist Qiao, you've been afflicted by the [Great Evolution Curse of Inner Demons]..."

As he spoke, Pei Ling unhesitatingly reached back and wrapped an arm around Qiao Ciguang's slender waist.

A female cultivator's waist might look slender after years of cultivation, narrow enough to fit in one hand, but it was supple and strong. Through the thin fabric, he could feel the warmth and softness of her skin.

His lips tried to dissuade her, but his hands showed no such restraint.

Qiao Ciguang let out a delicate gasp, then said, her voice trembling slightly, "I'm... perfectly clearheaded!"

Clearly, Qiao Ciguang was anything but clearheaded!

But he had little experience with the ways of the world and had been tricked by her...

At that thought, Pei Ling immediately stopped hesitating and reached beneath her robes...

Xiwu Academy.

A path hemmed in by lush flowers and willows.

Yan Minghua looked wary, releasing her senses fully as she searched every inch for traces of Pei Ling.

Yet she found nothing in the courtyard.

She hurried toward the next place.

The moment she left, the entire courtyard changed in an instant from its clear, familiar appearance into a chaotic scene of bizarre colors and surreal shapes.

A chill aura lingered, as if breathing silently.

Yan Minghua, now some distance away, seemed to sense something and turned to look. The instant she did, the courtyard returned to normal, as though nothing had happened.

A question stirred in Yan Minghua's mind. Why had the "strangeness" in this academy suddenly become so mild?

Not only had the rule that caused people to lose their memories disappeared, but the Headmaster, the students, and even the thunderstorms in the sky were gone.

As she