My Immortal Wife

Azure Phoenix City.

Behind Yuelai Inn, in the vast grasslands.

At the site of the wedding feast from ten days ago, a new Bamboo Platform had been built, ten times larger than the old one.

A gigantic, ferocious beast, the most evil and legendary creature in the East Floating District, lay on the platform—

the Void Kun.

Compared to the Void Kun's immense size, Azure Phoenix City and Yuelai Inn had both become Lilliputian, their skies blocked out by its colossal body.

Thousands of Immortal Commoners circled the Bamboo Platform, like ants gazing up at an elephant.

After measuring it carefully, they found that the legendary beast was sixteen zhang and eight chi long, nine zhang and two chi tall, and five zhang and eight chi wide.

Standing beneath the Kun's belly, the visual impact was even more overwhelming than its cultivation level. It was as if this were no Immortal Sect beast, but a divine beast, leaving people with the surreal feeling that they were in a dream.

The onlookers could not calm down for a long time. It was only when the sun was high in the sky that the crowd gradually began to murmur.

"I never thought I'd live to see this evil beast killed."

"For more than a thousand years, how many innocent Immortal Commoners have been devoured by this beast!"

"Too bad that evil roc had already become an immortal. Now that it's dead, it's turned to dust. He got off easy."

"First Sect Master Liu's constitution was unraveled, and now this fiend has been killed. Who would have thought we'd witness the end of two legends with our own eyes!"

"One person was behind both of these things. Just what kind of immortal is Elder Lu?"

"Let me tell you, Elder Lu cooked Kun meat right inside the Kun's belly!"

"That's a way to cook it?"

"I heard that every registered Immortal Commoner in Azure Phoenix City can go to the inn and claim a free pound of Kun meat each day, until the Giant Kun is all eaten."

"Thanks to Elder Lu, life in our Bamboo Spring Sect has finally gotten better."

"If Elder Lu hadn't taken us in, we'd have died at the hands of those rogue immortals."

"Elder Lu and the Sect Master are a match made in heaven. I hope Elder Lu lives in Azure Phoenix City forever!"

Inside the Kun's belly.

The faint, swirling blue flames had been put out. The Kun meat Lu Ya had roasted was enough to last a while, and the rest had been temporarily sealed with a Freshness Preservation Formation.

Ning Zhongzi sliced the raw meat from a distance, preparing to send it to the inn so Yuan Zhou could cook it another way.

Lu Ya had said that not every guest liked barbecue; some preferred hot pot.

Wine Fox Immortal had brought the entire City Guard into the Kun's belly for intensive meat-eating training.

Poverty had left her without a change of clothes. Once her coarse robe was ruined, she could only switch to a green robe like Ning Zhongzi's—which was a little too big for her petite frame.

Her clothes hung loosely, and she wasn't even wearing underwear. She also liked to leave her collar wide open.

As a result, the Beast Immortals had their minds entirely on the meat...the Kun meat.

Muyu Feifei led the charge, her mouth ravenous and her tongue nimble. She ate and cried at the same time, now wild with joy, now overcome with grief. Her face kept twisting between a human face and a tiger's.

"This damned beast! How many people did you kill? I'll eat your flesh, drink your blood, smash your bones, and suck out your marrow!"

"So many people died in your jaws. I'll avenge them! Awooo!"

"The Immortal Court wasn't lying to children. The Void Kun really is delicious!"

The other Beast Immortals, however, stood stiffly, not daring to touch the meat.

Although the Kun meat smelled delicious, eating beast meat felt like eating their own kind—even eating themselves.

That was the righteous doctrine Golden Peng had always drilled into them—

Beast Immortals eating meat was tantamount to slaughtering their own kind. Eating people was the proper way!

They didn't dare, nor could they bear, to eat people, so they had always eaten vegetables. Now they held down their craving for meat and stared blankly.

"This is Immortal Sect Kun meat that Elder Lu and I cooked together. We've converted its Immortal Sect Immortal Spirit into its original form. No matter your cultivation, eating it will greatly benefit your practice."

Wine Fox Immortal spoke with complete certainty.

She had already eaten her fill. Now she lifted her wine gourd and gulped Immortal Nectar, the clear Immortal Beer juice spilling from her lips and running down her fair neck into her loose green robe.

After finishing a gourd, she saw that everyone was still frozen, afraid to eat, and immediately got angry.

"What are you all standing around for? As members of the City Guard, improving your cultivation is the foundation of protecting the city. If you don't eat meat now, you'll be the ones eaten later."

Those were Lu Ya's words.

Seeing that no one seemed convinced, she added:

"Beast Immortals turn to dust when they're killed, but legend says there's a forbidden technique where they're cooked alive, eaten, and only then turned to dust. It's cruel to the extreme. Want to give it a try?"

"..."

Their faces stiffened as the image formed in their minds.

They trembled in fear, their faces pale.

They could only nervously tear off pieces of Kun meat and slowly put them in their mouths.

"This..."

Their beastly eyes suddenly went blank.

Streams of warmth rose from their Immortal Platforms and qi seas, sending out ripples that spread and grew into a tsunami in the blink of an eye, pounding at the foundations and inner walls of their Immortal Platforms...

They felt that if they ate even a little more meat, they might advance a rank at any moment!

"So fragrant!"

The longer they'd held back, the fiercer the outburst!

No longer bothering with restraint, they buried their heads and wolfed down the meat, wishing they could shove their whole heads into it.

Even Muyu Feifei felt pressured by the sight and had to speed up her eating.

Wine Fox Immortal's little mouth hung open in disbelief.

"Don't go overboard! It's enough to eat your fill. Eating too much in a short time won't help."

Even Snake Baby, nestled in Black Sheep Matron's arms, was chewing on roasted fish liver, its chubby little face flushed.

Children all ate fish liver oil. There was nothing wrong with that.

Ning Zhongzi sliced meat nearby and covertly glanced at Snake Infant. Her gaze lingered on the colorful scales at its neck as suspicions gradually took shape in her mind.

But from Wine Fox Immortal's expression, she didn't seem to know the child's parentage.

Little did she know that Wine Fox Immortal was also watching her with interest.

"You're only a five-star Immortal Master. Why don't you eat meat?"

"I only eat vegetables."

"Could it be you're afraid that if you get fat, no one will want you?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Wine Fox Immortal took a sip of delicious Immortal Nectar, tugged at her collar, and let her gaze wander before saying meaningfully:

"Your problem isn't that you're fat."

Liu Xuanye's bedchamber, on the second floor of the Bamboo Cottage.

Beneath the Three Thousand Sword Formation, Liu Xuanye wore a sheer white robe and sat cross-legged, eyes closed in meditation.

Her dignified posture carried Sword Qi, yet a closer look revealed a figure as full and smooth as jade, rising and falling as if shaped by nature and carved by gods and spirits.

By comparison, Senior Sister Ning Zhongzi was too mature and curvaceous, with an air of stately elegance, as if from another generation. Wine Fox Immortal was petite and shapely, yet carried a swaggering, unkempt boldness.

Liu Xuanye was still the one who suited Lu Ya's tastes best.

Lu Ya sat opposite her, eating meat and drinking wine without a care, while enduring the sensation of Ten Thousand Swords Piercing the Heart. It was actually pretty stimulating.

He glanced at Liu Xuanye's lower abdomen again.

Only then did he realize that while other people cultivated to improve their cultivation, she cultivated to suppress hers.

The higher her cultivation, the harder it must be to control the power of the seals in her body. Her body would draw closer to that of a demoness, making her more likely to harm living beings. She would blame herself more and more, until her Dao heart lost control and everything spiraled out of control.

With her picturesque brows and eyes closed, Liu Xuanye knew Lu Ya was looking at her, and felt a little pleased.

"Why did you agree to dual cultivation with me this time?"

Lu Ya shook his head. How could he not know that Liu Xuanye wanted to dual cultivate with him precisely to borrow his strength, learn his approach, and use it to seal her own cultivation?

This woman had endured pain beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

For three thousand years, she had lived under pressure beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Even Lu Ya, with a heart of stone, felt a little sorry for her.

"You shouldn't suppress your cultivation. Then you wouldn't have to resort to a sneak attack just to kill Golden Peng."

"I thought you'd praise me. Even if it was a sneak attack, I still gave it everything I had to kill him with one sword."

"If you keep suppressing your cultivation, your body won't be able to take it."

Liu Xuanye said nothing more.

Lu Ya continued eating meat and drinking wine.

The appetizing aroma seriously disrupted Liu Xuanye's cultivation.

A long while later, she opened her picturesque eyes and fixed her clear, cold gaze on Lu Ya.

"Is Kun meat really that good?"

"Try some."

Liu Xuanye took the slice of Kun meat from Lu Ya. Without hesitation, she gently bit the spot he had just eaten.

"Mmm."

A soft sigh escaped her. A blush spread over her cool, landscape-painting face, as if a black-and-white painting had suddenly become a watercolor.

At the same time, a towering giant sword, laden with a sorrowful aura as if from the primordial wilderness, plunged straight down from above Lu Ya's head.

Lu Ya took a sip of wine and scratched his head.

"Is it good?"

Liu Xuanye's swordlike brows furrowed slightly. If she hadn't forcibly suppressed the turbulence in her qi sea just then, she might already have advanced several stars!

In all these years, her qi sea had never stirred so violently in such a short time.

After calming her qi sea, she said evenly:

"Kun meat isn't this delicious. It's good because you cooked it."

"Oh?"

Lu Ya paused slightly.

She'd noticed...

Looking at her qi sea again, if she hadn't deliberately held it back, she might already have advanced three stars!

What kind of monstrous talent was that?

Lu Ya had a feeling that the harder she repressed herself, the more likely she was to go on a rampage someday.

Better cherish the moment.

"I'm going to soak in the hot spring. I've been busy all morning, so I should rest for ten days or so."

Liu Xuanye:

"..."

At the same time.

Fan Ni, together with a horse immortal and an ox immortal from the City Guard, carried tens of thousands of portions of diced Kun meat and left the Bamboo Spring Sect aboard the Black Boat, heading swiftly toward East Floating City.

They had no idea what kind of sensation they were about to cause.