"Tsk, tsk, you're not a burden~ I don't want you risking your life~"
Yun Qing could not resist transmitting his voice to Yun Huang beside him. "This kid's got game. Those lines are classics!"
The other figure standing with his hands behind his back knitted his brows even tighter. "I have never engaged in such... spying on others' intimate affairs. Such conduct is beneath my dignity!" He placed particular emphasis on "beneath my dignity."
Yun Qing gave him a look that said, Brother Huang, you don't understand the fun in this, then turned his full attention back to the young couple at an impasse in the grove.
Watching Yun Li struggle painfully before her, Yun Yao suddenly drew a deep breath. She raised the jade book she had been clutching all along and began reciting an ancient, obscure incantation.
The book blossomed with gentle white light. Its pages turned without a breeze, and archaic runes drifted out, swiftly forming an intricately structured ring of light before her.
The ring slowly revolved. Though seemingly fragile, it radiated a solidity that suggested "no art could breach it," as though it could shut out every harm and intrusion.
"This is..." Yun Li froze, staring at the strange formation woven from countless silver runes before him.
Maintaining the technique, Yun Yao's forehead beaded with fine sweat, but her eyes remained clear and resolute. "Brother Li, try attacking me with your strongest strike."
Yun Li hesitated, but seeing her determined gaze, he went along with her wishes. He clenched his right fist, and the fierce, baleful Immortal Power of the peak King Sealing realm erupted!
"Yikes, you're actually attacking her? How did a blockhead like you ever get a cultivation partner?" Yun Qing could not resist whispering to Yun Huang again.
Still concealed as he