Hearing this, Xiao Bai smiled.
My Charm Arts couldn't possibly surpass yours?
Your Charm Arts are merely Charm Arts. Mine are the Karma Heavenly Dao—the father of every Charm Art under heaven!
That was what Xiao Bai thought, but his body refused to obey him.
That cool, aloof face suddenly revealed a trace of seduction. She smiled radiantly, her beauty shimmering beyond compare.
Like fish sinking and geese falling, capable of toppling kingdoms and cities.
What straight man could withstand such temptation?
How did a fox like her manage to be cold without being frigid, alluring without being vulgar?
How iron-willed did one have to be to greet a woman like this with the righteous fist?
Xiao Bai stared himself drunk on beauty, forgetting that the grass and stones beneath his feet had loosened. With one misstep, he tumbled down the mountain!
He fell into the snowy mist.
Ah—
Xiao Bai panicked and hurriedly took out the Talisman Spell Sword from the Modifier's Item Bar.
But under the double assault of gravitational acceleration and his fear of heights, he could not steady himself. After struggling for a long while, he still failed to get stable.
He could only use all manner of nimble, shifting poses to barely glide and slow his descent, spinning out of control, until at last...
He fell into a woman's soft, warm embrace.
Xiao Bai barely regained his senses.
This was too embarrassing! His straight-man dignity would never permit him to be carried in a princess hold by a woman.
But his face would not listen to him.
This soft and vast, springy sensation... Xiao Bai knew without opening his eyes that the elder had come to save him.
A clear, gentle female voice fell into his ears like snow grains.
"What are you doing?"
Xiao Bai slowly opened his eyes.
The woman's clear face was as aloof as ever, and the shimmering light in her eyes had long since cooled.
Having ended up in such a miserable state, Xiao Bai knew that mastering sword flight was imperative, so he took the opportunity to explain:
"This disciple was practicing sword flight."
Yu Hu glanced at the spiritual energy consumption of the talisman on the sword body, where the spell seals flowed. She found Xiao Bai's sword flight so unpracticed that he could be said to have no foundation at all; it did not seem like an act.
Yet his attainment in the Butcher's Sword Technique was so high that he could defeat Mu Yun—something even she could hardly achieve.
"You should not be this miserable."
She said coldly.
Xiao Bai explained:
"It is only because that Onmyoji is good at stirring up trouble but poor at teaching swords. If Elder personally taught me, this disciple's sword flight would be smoother than driving."
"Driving?"
Yu Hu's fine brows furrowed slightly as she took note of every unusual word Xiao Bai uttered.
Those unusual words might well be the key to unlocking the secrets of his identity and physique.
Xiao Bai shamelessly buried his face in his wife's embrace and explained indistinctly:
"Driving means operating a carriage. This disciple once worked as a carriage driver in the mortal world, and my driving skills were decent."
Yu Hu lightly shook her cloudlike head, forcefully suppressing the strange sensation in her body. A flush spread across her face as she changed the subject:
"The Onmyoji taught you sword flight, and you stumble about. If I teach you sword flight, you can master it. What logic is that?"
Xiao Bai suddenly raised his head and spoke with utmost seriousness:
"This is called husband and wife of one heart; together, they can cut through gold."
Yu Hu sighed.
Though she knew it was half true and half false, hearing it from Xiao Bai's mouth always made her inexplicably comfortable.
"I have already promised the Sect Leader that the Partner Recognition Ceremony and sect tour will be held in ten days. If you merely learn sword flight, I fear it will be difficult for you to pass this trial."
She neither agreed nor refused, nor did she explain. Instead, she opened another topic—from the elder's conversation with Mu Yun earlier, Xiao Bai had already figured out her way of speaking.
As for the Partner Recognition Ceremony, there were still ten days. With his progress of a thousand miles a day, it should not be too much of a problem.
It seemed the elder also wanted to help him level up.
"Then what should I do?"
Xiao Bai asked weakly.
Yu Hu said:
"You must reach Qi Refining within ten days, proving that your physique is extraordinary and your talent exceptional."
Qi Refining in ten days?
Xiao Bai thought that if he truly could manage ten days, then Qi Refining was not impossible!
So he said with a solemn expression:
"With my talent, if I wish to reach Qi Refining in ten days, it will not be enough to have skill in sword flight. I must also have skill in Wife Riding, with daily Dual Rest supplemented by pills to fill my stomach. Then I may succeed."
Yu Hu froze, thinking, How could you say something like that with such a straight face?
"Daily Dual Rest far exceeds my treatment plan... Are you trying to take advantage of me, or do you truly think you can reach Qi Refining in ten days?"
"Both."
Xiao Bai chose to have it all.
Once again, Yu Hu did not agree immediately. She changed the subject again.
"Have you seen Mu Yun?"
Xiao Bai nodded from within her soft, warm embrace.
"I have."
Yu Hu asked:
"What do you think of her?"
Xiao Bai froze, sensing that the atmosphere was off.
"What do you mean, what do I think?"
Yu Hu asked:
"Was there anything suspicious about her?"
Damn, this Demoness was still testing me!
Faced with this death-question before him, Xiao Bai did not dare reveal that he knew Mu Yun was of the Devil Race.
After thinking for a moment, he said:
"There is nothing suspicious about Senior Sister Mu Yun, is there? Although her temper is somewhat bad, she is rather cute. I quite like her."
At some point, Yu Hu's cool, aloof features began to darken, becoming more bewitching—and more sinister.
Xiao Bai was still rubbing his face against her chest as he continued to himself:
"Especially those slender, straight little legs, wrapped in Bamboo Membrane White Silk. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Come to think of it, the white silk is the most suspicious thing, isn't it? This is the Cultivation World."
Yu Hu's face turned black as ink.
Dark clouds blanketed the sky above, and an enormous Nine-tailed Black Shadow swayed endlessly within them.
Xiao Bai became a blind man who had found the key point.
"That's right! Other than Senior Sister Mu Yun, I have never seen another fairy wear stockings. Could it be that she is afraid of the cold?"
Yu Hu let go with both hands.
Xiao Bai plummeted from the sky.
Ah—
This time, he was finished—the sword was still in the Demoness's hands!
Without his sword, Xiao Bai had no means of saving himself. Hanging upside down as he fell, he thought for a moment before finally discovering where the problem lay.
The elder was actually a jealous jar!
He had avoided the death-question from one direction, only to deliver himself to death from another.
Falling through the clouds and mist, Xiao Bai saw himself hurtling toward the mountain's jagged cliff face...
So be it. He would transmigrate again.
Just as he was about to be smashed to pieces, a gust of demonic wind suddenly blew sideways, sweeping him into a tree.
Xiao Bai hung himself from the southeast branch, sweat pouring straight down like a rushing waterfall. In his heart, he let out a long sigh of relief.
Thinking back to just now, amid the spinning sky and turning earth, he had vaguely glimpsed a flash of snow-white fox tail...
Sure enough, his wife still loved him!
Yet he had never imagined that his principal wife, the dignified Pill Elder of the Snow Flame Sect, a centenarian, would get jealous like a young girl.
Even if Senior Sister Mu Yun was a Demoness, she was still your disciple!
Who got jealous even over her own disciple?
Xiao Bai could not help worrying. After transmigrating, would he still have to repeat the game's disaster of a harem catching fire?
No, he had to persist in growing stronger. He would never retreat!
What did this little hardship count for?
The harem had to be opened!
Xiao Bai said so.
Not even Uncle Ye could stop him.
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