Peacock Breaks the Formation

Now, in Heart Refining Cave, Peacock and Ren Xiaoyao had long since become familiar after countless intimate encounters. Having endured innumerable trials, Peacock knew that Ren Xiaoyao was merely her heart demon, an image conjured within Heart Refining Cave, not real. At first, she had retained some reserve, but as time passed, she could no longer be bothered with such things. Moreover, she recalled Abbess Jingfan's earlier instructions: within Heart Refining Cave, one had to follow one's true heart and let nature take its course before there was hope of breaking the formation. Thus, she no longer held back. In any case, it was all her own wishful thinking, and no one would know. Perhaps she might even find a sliver of opportunity within it!

At that moment, Peacock was whispering sweet nothings with Ren Xiaoyao, speaking of private matters. From time to time, she also probed indirectly about cultivation methods, opportunities, and the like. Suddenly, Ren Xiaoyao, who had been holding Peacock, vanished in a flash of light!

"Ah? Could it be that I succeeded in refining my heart? That I broke the formation?" Peacock was overjoyed, yet the starlight filling her vision and her body floating casually in midair told her that she was still within the illusion formation!

"What is going on? I didn't kill Ren Xiaoyao, so why did he disappear?"

Just as Peacock was bewildered, she saw Zhang Xiaohua poke his head out from not far away, craning his neck and looking all around as though searching for something!

Peacock smiled and drifted forward, wrapping her arms around Zhang Xiaohua's neck. "Husband, where did you run off to? I was asking you something!"

This Zhang Xiaohua was the genuine article. He had just attained a great realization within the illusion formation. He had not killed