Do Secret Chambers Easily Turn People into Yanderes?

Boom!

A surge of pure soul power poured out of the Fortune Catalog and merged perfectly into Lu Yuan's Soul Origin.

In the span of a breath, he felt the entire world change. It seemed to become extraordinarily clear in an instant, and the movements of everything around him slowed.

His soul power spread out naturally, capturing every minute detail: the specks of dust floating in the air of the cave, the faint rustling of insects and ants crawling deep in the earth in the distance, and the sound of Yun Yun's heartbeat and breathing.

With his soul power fully released, he could now sense everything within a hundred zhang, like a three-dimensional radar.

"That felt good!"

Lu Yuan's soul power had already reached the Peak of the Early Mortal Realm. He could have broken through at any moment, yet he had been unable to take that step.

Now, two-tenths of Yun Yun's Middle Mortal Realm soul power had helped him forcefully take that step, raising his soul realm firmly into the Middle Mortal Realm. This was a realm that many fifth-tier and even sixth-tier alchemists had never attained.

And once that soul power had completely fused with his own, he felt a shackle in his eyes come undone.

Two golden lotuses immediately appeared in his pitch-black pupils, emitting a faint glow as they rotated.

Right on their heels, the outline of the third lotus, once indistinct and illusory, rapidly grew clearer. At last, it became completely solid, and the distinct lines of its petals came fully into view.

Three golden lotuses stood side by side in the depths of his pupils, turning slowly and emanating a serene, ancient pressure.

These were not the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. The Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils awakened in the descendants of the Snake-People Tribe and humans on the basis of the Heavenly Snake Great Emperor's bloodline, and their power of contract was only effective on snake-shaped Magical Beasts.

Lu Yuan's eyes were his own exclusive pair, derived from the combination of the strange power left by a Dou Di in the Heavenly Snake Great Emperor Bloodline, which he had devoured and fused into his own bloodline, and the original power he had obtained from the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and fused into himself.

"Golden lotuses, a pure space?"

"Then I'll call them the Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils."

With the appearance of the third flower, Lu Yuan sensed that a special space exclusive to him had also emerged within his pupils.

The space exclusive to the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could hold contracted snake-shaped Magical Beasts and absorb their cultivation for its owner's use.

His Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils could also hold all kinds of contracted Magical Beasts and absorb their cultivation for his own use.

"Not bad, not bad, really not bad!"

Although he had not obtained the two-tenths of a Three-Star Dou Emperor's cultivation that he wanted most,

he had obtained the even rarer soul power. This draw could be considered a gold-grade reward.

Lu Yuan breathed out softly and turned to look at Yun Yun, who lay on the blanket with her eyes closed. Her breathing was steady and long; she had already fallen asleep.

For helping this woman, he had already received a generous reward from the Fortune Catalog alone.

There are still seven days. I can keep up prolonged, close contact.

Intermediate Copy is definitely within reach. I just don't know if I can rack up enough for Advanced Copy.

As long as even one copy was cultivation, his strength could soar.

Over the next few days, Lu Yuan and Yun Yun spent their days and nights together.

On the morning of the second day, Yun Yun finally regained some of her mobility. Although she still could not use Dou Qi, she could at least slowly sit up against the cave wall and eat and drink by herself.

What relieved Yun Yun most was that she could take care of her bodily needs herself and no longer needed Lu Yuan's help.

But she still could not avoid having him change her dressings. Her wounds were spread across her chest and beneath her ribs; doing it herself would not only tug at the wounds, but she could not see them either.

Whenever he changed her dressings, Yun Yun kept her eyes closed and her face expressionless, but the blush at the roots of her ears never faded.

Every time Lu Yuan helped, his movements were clean and efficient. He took no liberties he should not, like a true gentleman.

By the third day, Yun Yun's mobility had returned to the level of an ordinary person's, though she still could not use the Dou Qi in her body.

Not only could she walk back and forth inside the cave, she could also apply medicine to most of her wounds herself. Clearly, the medicinal pill she had taken back then was indeed remarkably effective.

Lu Yuan paid no attention to any of that, however. There was only one thing he cared about.

Ever since Yun Yun had proposed, "Marry me," that day, only for him to refuse, the woman had not brought up the subject again.

But Lu Yuan's soul power had now soared, and his senses were extremely sharp. Occasionally, he caught Yun Yun looking at him with something more in her gaze, and he always felt as though she were plotting something.

She can't be thinking of forcibly carrying me back to the Misty Cloud Sect to be her bandit husband once her strength recovers, can she? Lu Yuan thought in amusement.

Time passed in this atmosphere until the fourth day. The roars of Magical Beasts in the area grew less and less frequent. It seemed that, having found nothing in the first three days, the Amethyst Winged Lion King had given up.

After finishing breakfast with Yun Yun, Lu Yuan said, "Sister Yun Zhi, aside from your cultivation, your body has more or less recovered. I'd like to leave first."

"No!" Yun Yun's gaze sharpened, and she looked at Lu Yuan with an anxious expression. "I haven't repaid you yet, and what if a Magical Beast finds this place?"

"I can't use Dou Qi right now. I can deal with an ordinary Tier 1 Magical Beast, but if a Tier 2 Magical Beast wanders in here, I won't be able to handle it."

"For my reward, just give me any medicinal pill or Dou Technique." Lu Yuan made it clear he was not greedy, remaining exceptionally restrained and calm. "You don't need to worry about Magical Beasts finding this place, either."

"I had the Earth Nether Rock Turtle leave scent marks all around this cave. Magical Beasts below the fourth order wouldn't dare block the way, and a Fourth-Order Magical Beast wouldn't come here for no reason;"

"As for Fifth-Order and Sixth-Order Magical Beasts, it's fine if they don't find this place. If they do, my being here won't change anything."

"No!" Yun Yun stood up anxiously. "If I'm here alone, with no one to talk to, I'll be all alone and helpless, unable to do anything. How can you bear to leave me?"

"Sister Yun Zhi, I'll be honest with you." Lu Yuan rolled his shoulders and stood up. "I'm still afraid that once your cultivation recovers, you might kill me to silence me. After all, I've seen the humiliating side of a lofty Dou Huang expert like you."

"Since my being here or not makes no difference to your survival, for the sake of my own safety, I'd like to leave first."

Yun Yun had not expected Lu Yuan to be considering that. She immediately said, "I told you I wouldn't kill you, and I certainly wouldn't lie to you. You can rest completely assured. At most, I'd just carry you off by force, uh..."

Yun Yun's face instantly turned as red as if she were drunk, and her body swayed.

Perhaps it was because she had no cultivation, or perhaps Lu Yuan's place in her heart had changed.

In her haste, she had spoken what was on her mind.

"Carry me off by force?" Lu Yuan hugged himself tightly and took a step back. "You really are plotting something improper against me. Then I have to go."

"You dare!" Yun Yun's gaze turned cold. She stepped forward, throwing caution to the wind. "The monk can run, but the temple can't. If you dare leave, aren't you afraid I'll go looking for trouble with the Lu Clan?"

"Lu Yuan, I advise you to behave. Otherwise, even if you escape now, if I catch you in the future, I'll definitely punish you."

Damn it.

Lu Yuan wanted to curse.

Why did he feel like Yun Yun was on her way to becoming a yandere?

Although it did not quite count as repaying kindness with enmity, he did not want to be the one on the bottom every time in the future.