"Senior Song, your dazzling presence and heroic bearing have made your name known to everyone on Dragon Pool Mountain."
Su Lianxue's red lips parted slightly, her breath fragrant as orchids, her voice soft and lilting.
"I have admired you for a long time and came especially to pay my respects."
She tilted her slender, jade-like neck slightly upward to look at Song Yan, her eyes shimmering. "If I have disturbed you, please do not hold it against me, Senior."
"..."
An inexplicable heat stirred in his heart. Song Yan grew alert, his gaze turning more cautious.
A charm technique...?
Song Yan had occasionally heard the name of the Heavenly Jade Palace.
Like the Purple Sun Sect, it was a small sect near the towering behemoth that was the Dongyuan Sect.
Years ago, when Song Yan first attended the Spirit Source Marsh Night Market, a female cultivator from the Heavenly Jade Palace had been present at the trading gathering Ke Huai organized.
Who knew how many such small sects, half allies and half dependents, surrounded the Dongyuan Sect's gates?
Of them all, however, the Heavenly Jade Palace stirred the most discussion among the disciples.
That was because almost all its disciples were incomparably beautiful female cultivators.
Most also practiced cultivation methods with charming effects.
These cultivation methods could not be lumped together with charm techniques in the traditional sense.
The cultivators of this world sought longevity, but what they desired in their hearts differed.
Power, lust, freedom...
And quite a few female cultivators sought longevity primarily to preserve their beauty forever.
Once certain cultivation methods were mastered, the brows, eyes, flesh, and bones naturally acquired a bewitching allure.
Even without deliberately using any charming arts, their every gesture could enchant male cultivators-and even other women.
He simply did not know what