Eating? Why Did You Stop? Keep Going!

As the chanting began, Qi Lingguang and the others gradually became stiff.

Compared to their master, the Golden Core Celestial Venerable, this senior sister's stiffening effect came much more slowly. But the secret chamber was long and narrow, and the chanting echoed endlessly within it. After some time, their bodies still became rigid and difficult to move.

Core Branches sprouted from their shoulders and navels, almost exactly as they had during the Golden Core Celestial Venerable's personal examination.

Even Wang Qian, who had connections, was now stiff all over. Only after swallowing a green pill did he slowly return to normal.

Clearly, the chanting exerted an extremely strong suppressive effect on them.

But Gu Qingfeng was an exception. He had long shed his "ingredient" nature, and his body was utterly beyond its control.

Still, he followed their example, making himself appear as stiff as Qi Lingguang and the others while Core Branches and Golden Cores emerged from his body as well.

When the chanting ended, Senior Sister Zhang Yao watched them with a playful expression.

She lowered her head and carefully examined the Core Branch protruding from the navel of Shen Yun, the female disciple beside Gu Qingfeng. Then she licked the Golden Core on it.

That lick raised goosebumps all over Shen Yun's body.

All of it fell into Zhang Yao's eyes.

Her gaze turned sharp as she demanded, "Junior Sister Shen, what are you resisting? Does my licking you disgust you?"

Shen Yun hurriedly explained, "Senior Sister, no."

"No? I hate hypocrites most of all. Your cheap mouth may be able to lie, but your body cannot."

At that moment, Zhang Yao's tone was practically as though the Golden Core Celestial Venerable had possessed her, as she relentlessly mocked and lectured Shen Yun.

Suddenly, she stopped and bit down on the Golden Core atop Shen Yun's Core Branch.

Shen Yun's whole body tensed as she let out a miserable cry.

"Senior Sister, Senior Sister, spare me!"

"Spare me!"

Zhang Yao seemed not to hear her pleas at all. She bit off nearly half of Shen Yun's Golden Core, golden juice flowing from the corners of her mouth.

At the sight, even Zhang Qian, who had come to help, wore a shocked expression.

Many people knew that Senior Sister Zhang Yao secretly ate her fellow disciples' Golden Cores. But she usually only took a tiny bite, no worse than breaking the skin. Biting off half a Golden Core was unheard of.

The instant the Golden Core entered her mouth, Zhang Yao began chanting an incantation just like the Golden Core Celestial Venerable.

The sound had no syllables, no intonation. It brought forth ethereal immortal mist that curled around her, making her seem as though she might float away into the heavens.

Soon, she licked the golden juice from her lips and looked at everyone with excitement. "Have you all been spreading rumors that I'm Master Golden Core Celestial Venerable's daughter?"

"Hahahaha, why can't you guess a little more boldly?"

"Today, I'll tell you. I'm not only your senior sister, but also your master's wife! Sometimes, I really am his daughter too."

With that, she laughed.

A very seductive laugh.

The words stunned even Gu Qingfeng, who had been poised and ready all along.

Fuck, they played this wild?

This woman was as short as the Golden Core Celestial Venerable. They had always thought a daughter took after her father. Who would have imagined it was a dwarf falling for another dwarf?

Presumably, it was precisely her height that had caught the Golden Core Celestial Venerable's eye.

After all, adult women of such height were already rare, and beautiful ones were rarer still.

Before long, Senior Sister Zhang Yao turned to Qi Lingguang again.

With a crisp slap, she suddenly struck Qi Lingguang across the face, disgust written all over her expression. "You pretend to be kind and weak every day. Plenty of people must like a bitch like you, right?"

In this secret chamber, this senior sister—already usually eccentric—appeared even more frenzied and violent.

Beside her, Wang Qian fanned the flames. "Little mother, these things probably all want to climb the ranks through Master."

At the words "climb the ranks," Zhang Yao's gaze became even more savage, immediately locking onto Gu Qingfeng.

"Gu Qingfeng, just that slick tongue of yours, spouting nonsense about the Buddha attaining enlightenment, is enough for this senior sister to examine you properly!"

As she spoke, she grabbed the Core Branch at Gu Qingfeng's navel and stroked it. "During the previous two examinations, your Core Branch was thin and small. Now it has grown thick and sturdy. Your talent is clearly not bad. What a pity your mouth is far too slippery."

"Junior Sister Shen acted cheap and disobedient, so I ate half her Golden Core. Tell me, how should I punish a slick-tongued, foul-mouthed thing like you?"

As she spoke, her grip on Gu Qingfeng's Core Branch tightened.

Gu Qingfeng was tense for a moment, yet excited as well.

With a serious expression, he said, "Senior Sister, you can't punish me more severely than Senior Sister Shen. Are you going to eat an entire one?"

"Hahahaha..."

"You guessed right, little cutie. This master's wife loves eating the cores of slippery-tongued fellows like you most. After eating them, even my tongue becomes more flexible."

Senior Sister Zhang Yao said excitedly.

Wang Qian chimed in mockingly, "Little mother, I've long found that slick mouth of his an eyesore. What baby sprouting teeth, what Buddha attaining enlightenment—he makes it sound as though he's the only one who has ever studied! And Master actually falls for that nonsense."

Gu Qingfeng hurriedly put on a flustered look. "No, Master's wife, you can't. You aren't Master. Your cultivation is too shallow. Eating one whole core is too much—I'm afraid you won't be able to digest it."

At that, Zhang Yao's expression became even darker and more terrifying. Her eyes turned vicious. "My cultivation is too shallow? I can't digest it?"

Qi Lingguang and the others were all frightened, because everyone knew that this senior sister and master's wife was petty. Anyone who offended her would meet a miserable end.

All they could do was endure humiliation and submit, trying their best not to provoke her. But Gu Qingfeng's words had clearly carried a belittling edge. Hadn't he struck directly at her reverse scale?

For a moment, everyone thought Gu Qingfeng was finished, that he was about to suffer terribly!

Qi Lingguang, the junior sister with peach-blossom eyes, had a swollen face as she anxiously tried to defend Gu Qingfeng. But she stopped herself in the next instant.

Because she knew that at a time like this, any extra movement might further provoke this madwoman's petty temper.

Yet this foolish act, which looked to others like an invitation to suffering, was exactly what Gu Qingfeng wanted!

Watching Zhang Yao like this, Gu Qingfeng secretly rejoiced. Got her! She's furious!

Sure enough, Zhang Yao clenched his Core Branch even tighter and said angrily, "I'll make you see whether this master's wife can digest your lousy core or not!"

As she spoke, she licked and toyed with Gu Qingfeng's Golden Core, then suddenly bit down, truly intending to bite it off in one mouthful!

But in the next instant, Zhang Yao's expression changed.

She was startled!

Her teeth were startled, sending a burst of cracking pain through her.

His Golden Core was actually like gold and stone.

How was that possible!

She had already used the upper volume of the Yi-Wood Golden Core Feeding Formula to turn them to wood. Their Golden Cores should have been little different from fruit on a tree—how could his be so hard?

She sensed that something was wrong and instinctively tried to pull away. But at that moment, Gu Qingfeng, who should have been stiff and unable to move, suddenly pressed down on her head. With a considerate expression, he said, "Master's wife, eat. Why did you stop eating? Is your appetite bad? Keep going!"

At that moment, he suddenly exerted force with both hands, golden light bursting from his body as though a sun had abruptly risen within the secret chamber!

"Mmmpgh!"

Almost at the same time, Master's Wife Zhang Yao let out a miserable sound.