The trees around them were exceptionally tall, their canopies interwoven so tightly that they blocked out the sunlight completely.
The air was filled with the smell of rotting leaves, occasionally pierced by the strange cries of unknown birds.
Ma Hongjun hurried closer, sucking in his stomach and trying to make his voice sound as gentle as possible.
"Um... fairy sister, where are we going?"
The female cultivator from the Covering Moon Sect stopped walking.
She turned around, her peach-blossom eyes carrying a teasing, almost-smiling look as she sized Ma Hongjun up from head to toe.
"My surname is Liu. Just call me Senior Sister Liu."
Senior Sister Liu's voice carried an innate charm.
She extended a pale finger and lightly tapped Ma Hongjun on the shoulder.
"What? Little Fatty Ma, are you scared?"
At the touch of those soft fingertips, Ma Hongjun felt half his body go numb, as though his bones had suddenly become several pounds lighter.
He hurriedly patted his chest and boasted, "Scared? There's no such word as 'scared' in Ma Hongjun's dictionary!"
"Senior Sister Liu, don't be fooled by how weak I look right now."
"My martial soul is a top-tier beast martial soul—the Evil Fire Phoenix!"
"Not only is my explosive power strong, but... but my endurance is especially good too. No matter what I'm doing, I can keep at it for a very long time!"
Ma Hongjun deliberately stressed the words "good endurance" and "what I'm doing," a suggestive look that any man would understand gleaming in his eyes as he stared fixedly at Senior Sister Liu's neckline.
Hearing such crude and blatant words, an almost imperceptible trace of mockery flashed through Senior Sister Liu's eyes.
In the Covering Moon Sect, she had seen countless male cultivators.
Idiots like this, whose minds contained nothing