"Really, Qingxian Ge? Are we almost there?"
Yan Shubing grew excited. She really wanted to know what could possibly be more precious than tens of thousands of Qi and Blood Pills.
"Almost. We'll take the path on the right!"
Ye Qingxian put away the Parchment Map, then led Yan Shubing down a narrow path to the right, his eyes burning with anticipation.
At the end of the path stood a sealed stone door.
Following the instructions on the map, Ye Qingxian drew a cut across his palm and pressed his hand against the door.
An immense wave of energy stirred beyond it. Then the heavy stone door slowly opened, leaving a gap just wide enough for one person to pass through.
"Let's go!"
Ye Qingxian swept through the doorway with Yan Shubing, dragging the seven Leng Family martial artists in after him.
An ancient Stone Hall appeared before them. Seven Sky-Supporting Pillars held it aloft, their surfaces covered in mysterious runes.
The interior, by contrast, was simple and bare. In the very center stood a raised Stone Platform, positioned precisely between the seven pillars.
"Qingxian Ge, didn't you say there was something here more precious than tens of thousands of Qi and Blood Pills?" Yan Shubing asked, puzzled. She could see the entire hall at a glance. Where was this supposed treasure?
"Don't rush. This thing isn't easy to find." Ye Qingxian's eyes gleamed with excitement.
Only he knew that Secret Realm Number Thirteen wasn't a secret realm at all. It was a gigantic Altar!
He'd learned this from the map. After drugging the eight Leng Family martial artists, he'd left one behind, disguised as his own corpse to mislead Zhu Ping'an, and brought the other seven here to serve as sacrifices.
Ye Qingxian stepped forward and tied the seven Leng Family martial artists to the pillars, one to each.
Then he went to the Stone Platform in the middle and sprinkled his blood across it.
"Shubing, hurry. Sprinkle your blood on it too!" Ye Qingxian urged.
Yan Shubing hesitated, but somewhere deep inside, a voice urged her to trust Ye Qingxian. She stepped forward and sprinkled her blood over the platform as well.
Bathed in their blood, the Stone Platform seemed to come alive, brimming with vitality.
At the same time, the seven pillars stirred to life. The seven Leng Family martial artists bound to them contorted in agony.
Their bodies slowly melted away, until they vanished completely, as if the pillars had swallowed them bit by bit.
Once the seven martial artists had been devoured, a mass of radiant light, brimming with powerful energy, gathered above the platform.
"Hahahaha! It worked!" Ye Qingxian laughed wildly with excitement.
Yan Shubing was thrilled too. She could clearly feel the terrifying energy contained in the Light Orb before them. If she could absorb it, her strength would surely soar!
Ye Qingxian leapt onto the Stone Platform and sat cross-legged. He reached out and clutched the Light Orb tightly. It seemed to have a life of its own; the moment he caught it, it began struggling desperately.
"Shubing, hurry! We have to absorb the Light Orb's energy together through the union of yin and yang!"
Ye Qingxian urged her on. According to the map, after sacrificing seven living offerings, all they had to do was join together on the Stone Platform to absorb the energy completely.
"U-union of yin and yang?" Yan Shubing's eyes widened. "Here?"
Though she and Ye Qingxian had secretly tasted forbidden fruit long ago, she wasn't bold enough to be so uninhibited in a place like this.
Besides, she remembered that Ye Qingxian had Star Disease... Even on the way here, he hadn't stopped scratching his inner thighs.
"All right! We can't let this drag on. Hurry up!"
Before Yan Shubing could refuse, Ye Qingxian pressed her down onto the Altar, then set about his task with wild abandon.
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At first, Yan Shubing had resisted fiercely, crying out for him to stop. But once she got into it, she even began to cooperate willingly.
As the two of them worked together, the Light Orb, which had resisted them so fiercely, began to tremble. Cracks spread across it, and energy poured through the fissures, streaming into their bodies.
The energy was extraordinarily mysterious, as if it were reshaping their bodies from within. An intensely pleasurable feeling welled up inside them.
Having tasted the sweetness of it, Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing went another round, throwing themselves into it even more passionately as they tried to absorb the Light Orb completely.
Just then, Zhu Ping'an, carrying a huge sack of Qi and Blood Pills, followed Ye Qingxian's distinctive scent all the way to the stone door. When he glimpsed the scene on the Altar through the crack, he was struck dumb.
Seriously, were these two that desperate? Getting a room wasn't even expensive. Did they really have to go at it in a place like this?
"What is it? Is there something good in there?"
Leng Tianjiao asked from behind him. Zhu Ping'an had reacted the same way when he saw a wall covered in Qi and Blood Pills. Could there be another treasure worth tens of thousands of pills?
"Um... it is something good. See for yourself." Zhu Ping'an shifted aside with an odd expression, making room for Leng Tianjiao.
Curious, Leng Tianjiao peered inside. She took one look, then immediately turned away, her face turning red to the tips of her ears.
The only sounds in the quiet passage were their heavy breathing and Yan Shubing's cries.
"Are those two Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing?" Leng Tianjiao felt herself burning all over.
"Yes!" Zhu Ping'an had his face pressed to the crack in the door, staring motionlessly inside.
"You're still watching? You men really are a bunch of lust-crazed beasts!" Leng Tianjiao spat.
"What are you talking about? I don't have time to watch those two go at it! Stare too long and you'll get a stye. When I was a kid, I saw two dogs doing this and tried to break them up with rocks!"
Zhu Ping'an rolled his eyes as he explained.
"Look at the Light Orb on the Stone Platform! It feels like something extraordinary. Could those two have come here to do the deed just for that Light Orb?"
Zhu Ping'an voiced his guess. After all, it couldn't really be that Ye Qingxian and Yan Shubing had been overcome with passion and wanted to connect with another person right there, could it?
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