After making his rounds, Lin Ke finally returned to the guest room on Tortoise-Back Mountain and found Mu Ting and A Bang.
"How did it go?" Mu Ting opened her eyes. She had already removed her veil, and her orange pupils gazed at Lin Ke in the darkness.
Yet not a single desire stirred in Lin Ke as he faced her breathtakingly beautiful face, so she could not control him at all.
Their dual cultivation over the past few days had also roughly restored Mu Ting's strength to what it had been before she used the Yin-Yang Exchange Annihilation Art: great perfection of the middle Nascent Soul stage.
This terrifying cultivation speed also made Lin Ke fully understand why she could squander her cultivation so willfully.
At that moment, Mu Ting secretly mobilized her natal extreme cold spiritual qi, but no matter how hard she tried, she simply could not control Lin Ke.
Lin Ke merely smiled faintly. "Don't worry. Stop trying."
"That day, you lost your cultivation, while the Dragon Pearl Fire burned away my seven emotions and six desires, so you won't be able to control me."
Only then did Mu Ting stop exerting herself in secret and lower her eyes.
"So that's why... Let's get down to business."
Lin Ke immediately offered his analysis. "Judging by what I just learned, we might really be able to use this place to attempt a breakthrough to Fusion."
"What makes you say that?"
"First, the head of the Rong Household is hiding his strength and coveting the grand elder's position. That amounts to evidence of rebellion."
"And the grand elder's lineage, as the inheritors of all the body cultivators' teachings, has been harvesting the power of comprehension from everyone on the island. If the Rong Household wants to change that