Hearing Fang Yi speak as though it were only natural, Ling Qingzhu clenched her teeth and began to regret ever going looking for trouble with him.
That was how she had ended up being pestered by this fellow.
Admittedly, Fang Yi was remarkably handsome and elegant, like an immortal descended to the mortal world, with the air of a young Daoist prodigy.
When the Dao Sect had visited the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace for an exchange, she had noticed many of her senior sisters casting flirtatious glances at him.
But Ling Qingzhu knew what this fellow was really like: an arrogant maniac, a sex maniac, and a pervert.
What normal person made a habit of leaving marks on other people?
She could let the mark on her wrist go. Her strength had been lacking, and having it on her wrist could serve as a warning to herself.
A constant reminder to work hard at cultivation.
But now, for a Nirvana Heart, this fellow actually intended to leave a mark on her lower abdomen. Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"I don't want it anymore. I'll keep looking on my own!" Ling Qingzhu's beautiful eyes were frosty. If only she could beat this pervert right now.
She would have used the Azure Sky Lotus to chop him into eight pieces, grind him to a pulp, feed him to a dog, and then kill the dog.
Stew it into dog meat and eat it outright!
Only then could she vent the hatred in her heart.
As though venting her frustration, Ling Qingzhu hurled the Nirvana Heart in her hand at Fang Yi. That damned pervert!
Fang Yi caught the Nirvana Heart and said lightly, "Hmm, how about this? I won't put it on your lower abdomen. How about your lower back? That's not too private, is it? I won't have to touch your private parts when I leave it there, either."
Her lower back?
Ling Qingzhu's delicate brows furrowed slightly. If it was her lower back, that might not be unacceptable. Compared with her lower abdomen, there were only her buttocks below her lower back.
"Just my lower back?"
Ling Qingzhu was still angry at Fang Yi's earlier perversion, and her tone was somewhat cold, but she was already relenting a little.
After all, compared with her lower abdomen, her lower back really wasn't much of a problem... probably.
"Of course. I'm a man of my word."
Fang Yi smiled. Sure enough, Sage Lu was right: people had always liked to compromise. If you started by asking to leave a mark on her lower abdomen,
given Ling Qingzhu's temperament, she would certainly refuse.
But the lower back was a place that was private and yet not quite private, and the mark on her wrist had already laid the groundwork.
Ling Qingzhu certainly wouldn't object. Naturally, he wasn't doing this to tease her, but to investigate the Supreme Induction Art.
Of course, following the original story, all he really needed to do was follow Brother Dong's route.
But he didn't want to do that.
In his previous life, he had already felt that he didn't like that plotline. What had happened before was one thing, but now he had a chance.
There was no need for it at all. Of course, having a beauty offer herself to him was indeed gratifying, but it had to be voluntary.
"Fine... fine!"
Ling Qingzhu fell silent for a while, then held out her jade hand. "The Nirvana Heart."
Fang Yi casually tossed it into her hand. After catching the Nirvana Heart, Ling Qingzhu turned around and said, "With your Origin Energy, you should be able to leave the mark through my clothes, right?"
"Aren't you afraid I might make a mistake? What's wrong with taking it off for a moment? You still have an undergarment on, don't you?"
Fang Yi wore his usual smile, but in Ling Qingzhu's eyes, now that she had turned around, he looked so punchable.
Once she reached the Nirvana Realm, she would definitely give this fellow a thorough beating!
She refused to believe she couldn't. Once she reached the Nirvana Realm, that would be when she truly came into her own. This fellow's progress through the realms had started slowing down after he reached the Nirvana Realm.
He had surely exhausted his potential.
Hmph!
When the time came, she would leave a mark on him too, and see how he explained it to his wife!
"Come in!"
Fang Yi waved his sleeve and turned around as he spoke. Ling Qingzhu was clenching her teeth so hard they were nearly breaking. What did this fellow take her, the young palace mistress of the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace, for, speaking in that tone?
A bedwarmer?
But Ling Qingzhu could only follow obediently into the room. As the door shut behind them, the sound snapped her out of the muddle her mind had been in.
Had she been so bewitched? What if this fellow tried to use force?
Would she really have to lose her innocence to him?
"All right, take off your armor."
Fang Yi pointed at the bed in the room, motioning for Ling Qingzhu to sit on it. Ling Qingzhu came to her senses. She had already come this far.
If she gave up now, wouldn't she have wasted both her time and her emotions?
She stepped onto the bed, only to hear Fang Yi frown and say, "Wait, you're just going to step on it like that? You never wear shoes. Are your feet clean?"
"Clean, they're clean!!"
Ling Qingzhu could no longer maintain her cool, aloof demeanor. Ever since refining the Azure Sky Lotus, she had liked to ride it when she traveled and had never touched the dust of the mortal world.
She simply liked wearing boots.
How could her feet not be clean?
She then sat down cross-legged. The fragrance of a green lotus wafted toward her, and she couldn't help taking a breath. This fellow had rather good taste.
He even scented his room with flowers.
"Stop sniffing. That's where I sleep. That's all my scent."
Fang Yi raised an eyebrow. Could Ling Qingzhu be one of those aloof fairies who were cold on the outside but cloyingly sweet within?
That was a bit too much of a contrast. Still, a contrast wasn't bad either, at least when she showed that side only to you.
"You-who's sniffing? It stinks like a cesspit!"
"Then you're sitting in a cesspit. You have some peculiar tastes."
Fang Yi smiled faintly as he spoke. Ling Qingzhu was left speechless for a moment and stopped caring what he said.
She took off her outer dress, revealing the undergarment beneath. Of course, it only revealed her skin below her collarbones; after all, something too tight wasn't suitable under a dress.
Fang Yi, meanwhile, took a moment to admire Ling Qingzhu's graceful figure. It really was quite nice. Even through the loose undergarment, he could see her shapely curves.
Sensing his gaze, Ling Qingzhu silently recited the Supreme Induction Art. Just pretend a dog is looking at me. Just pretend a dog is looking at me!!
She lifted the undergarment over her lower back, revealing a waist as white as snow and slender enough to encircle with one hand. Feeling the cool air, Ling Qingzhu's pretty face beneath her veil turned scarlet.
"Hurry up! Are you a man or not? Why are you dawdling?"
Fang Yi took a good long look before touching his finger to her lower back. The warmth made Ling Qingzhu tremble all over. "Just leave the mark! Why are you touching me?"
"Don't move. Isn't that what I'm doing?"
The power of the five elements formed a mark and branded itself onto Ling Qingzhu's body. In fact, part of Fang Yi's spiritual power was contained within it.
Whenever Ling Qingzhu circulated the Supreme Induction Art afterward, this spiritual power would record it, until the next time they met.
Through the Spiritual Imprint, he would be able to obtain the Supreme Induction Art stored within it.
This was a method from the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture called Heart Demon Soul Capture, and it was also at the level of a Lesser Divine Ability.
Cultivated to the extreme, it could even directly seize a person's soul and search their memories.
Otherwise, why would it be called the Supreme Heart Demon Scripture?
"Done? Hurry up and undo what you put inside it!" Ling Qingzhu hurriedly lowered her undergarment and pulled up the dress that had fallen beneath her buttocks, speaking through gritted teeth.
That fellow!
"You can just refine it. I undid it when you threw it back to me."
With that, Fang Yi flashed out of the room, leaving her with a laugh. "Your waist is pretty fair, hahahaha!"
"Shameless scoundrel!!!"
Ling Qingzhu could no longer hold it in and shrieked.
Having met this fellow, she felt that the state of mind she had gained from ten years of cultivating the Supreme Induction Art was about to be smashed to pieces.