Although Lin Juan was beautiful, she was indeed a rare, stunning beauty.
But.
Wang Yan already had that sort of relationship with Fairy Purple Smoke, the greatest beauty of the Purple Flame Sect, whom some busybodies even called the greatest beauty in the Cloud Nation. Naturally, he would not simply accept a woman he barely knew as his Dual Cultivation Partner.
Besides.
The sisters Zhang Qiulin and Zhang Qiulang were also exceptionally rare beauties, and there were two of them. One glance at Lin Juan was enough to tell that she was an exceedingly proud female cultivator.
Although Wang Yan was not the sort to be utterly unreasonable, neither was he someone who would swallow his grievances and wrong himself just to accommodate others.
It did explain why Lin Juan had taken the initiative to greet him aboard the Flying Boat that day. She had probably known about this all along, yet had deliberately acted mysterious.
As for Lin Xia, or even higher-ranking cultivators, standing behind Lin Juan, Wang Yan had nothing to fear. This sort of thing required mutual willingness. If they were forced together, the effects of dual cultivation would only suffer, and naturally, nothing good could come of it.
Presumably, Venerable Gray Three had agreed somewhat reluctantly himself. Otherwise, he would not have agreed so readily to stop pressuring Wang Yan. It might also have been thanks to the Purple Jade Spirit Pill.
Wang Yan had specifically asked the Purple Mountain Medicine Sage to help refine that Purple Jade Spirit Pill. Venerable Gray Three had indeed treated him quite well, and as his disciple, he naturally could not stand by and watch his master die.
Sometimes, Wang Yan did not understand himself either. He could be cruel to his enemies to a certain degree, yet toward some