"Huh?"
Nangong Ye looked stunned. Although he felt Miss Ming Ji was already aboard their ship, having his master personally play matchmaker was clearly a different matter:
"Miss Ming Ji and Xie Jinhuan are indeed a good match, but Qingmo already..."
At this, Qixia True Person's heart stirred, and she added earnestly:
"The path to immortality is long, and Xie Jinhuan enjoys Heaven's favor. Having a few Dao Companions is only natural. Still, everything has its order of arrival. Since you would be bringing Miss Ming Ji into the fold, she would naturally have to call Qingmo her elder sister..."
Huh?
Seeing how open-minded his master was, seemingly unopposed to everyone boarding the same ship, Nangong Ye felt a fire kindle in his heart. He gritted his teeth and answered:
"I will certainly carry out your instructions, Master. There is also something I wish to confess to you. I ask that you punish me."
As he spoke, he knelt beside her.
Startled, Qixia True Person reached out to help him up, her expression grave:
"What did you do? Kill someone you shouldn't have? Who?"
The Daoist Sect's five precepts were "killing, theft, sexual misconduct, falsehood, and alcohol." But later generations had produced "alcohol-flavored beverages" such as Hero's Tears, making the last one difficult to define. Thus, it was largely left alone, with excessive drinking prohibited only on specific occasions.
As for sexual misconduct, it meant improper relations between men and women and indulging one's desires. Li Chimo had fallen afoul of this particular precept. The problem was not that he had women, but that he should not have kept them in secret.
"Killing living beings," meanwhile, was a major prohibition. Cultivators could kill to protect life, but murdering innocents was a grave crime in any sect. Back then, the Corpse