After a little more tenderness, the Guanyin Tower Master rose. As her magic power circulated, she changed into another set of magic-treasure palace robes and tidied her hair, once again becoming the dignified tower master.
She put the Pure Glazed Pearl back on. Buddhist light rippled faintly, and her bearing became cool and aloof again.
The Guanyin Tower Master gave him a long look, then turned and pushed open the chamber door. Without looking back, she transformed into a streak of rosy light and vanished into the deep night.
Silence returned to the chamber.
Bare-chested, Qing Chen closed his eyes and felt the qi and blood within him-the bout of combat just now had not tired him in the slightest. Instead, he felt even more invigorated.
With a slight surge of qi and blood throughout his body, every red mark on his skin vanished, as though they had never existed.
"Just as I thought..." Qing Chen opened his eyes, a bloody gleam flashing through them. "Only female cultivators in the Nascent Soul Realm can withstand my current strength."
He recalled his first experience with the Guanyin Tower Master in Qiongzhou over a century ago.
She had just taken a blow from Black Miasma then, leaving her physical body shaken. Under the pretext of healing her, he had actually half forced her and half gone with the flow, so she had not been very cooperative during their cultivation.
Now she had loosened up somewhat, but it still was not enough.
The Guanyin Tower Master's second sister Yinji, whom she had mentioned, suddenly flashed through Qing Chen's mind, along with the information about her.
"A figure like a temptress, seductive to her very bones. Her Profound Feminine Sun-Swallowing Art has reached perfection, and she is versed in every manner of dual cultivation...