Chapter 622 - Telling Her the Truth
"Okay, so I understand what you want me to do for the most part. However, I still have a question." Wang Shuren said. "What kind of partners are you specifically looking for? Young ladies? Beautiful faces? Slim bodies? Mature women? Any requirements?"
"I am glad that you asked," he nodded his head before he continued to speak, "They must be at the sixth level Profound Spirit Realm at the very least, or my Yang Qi will be too potent for them to absorb."
"As for their appearance and body type, I am not picky when it comes to my partners, so I don't really care for that."
"Then when do you need their assistance? A week from now? A month from now?"
"Exactly one year from now," he said.
"I understand." Wang Shuren nodded her head.
"Then I will be leaving now." Su Yang said before flying away on the flying ship.
Once Su Yang left the Burning Lotus Sect, Wang Shuren rested for a few hours before looking for the Sect Master, Huo Yuanjia.
"What's the matter, Elder Wang?" Huo Yuanjia asked her after seeing her face.
She nodded and said, "I need you to summon all of the female disciples that are above the sixth level Profound Spirit Realm."
"Just the female disciples? Is there a particular reason why you need the female disciples?" Huo Yuanjia looked at her with raised eyebrows, clearly puzzled by her intentions.
"I just have a few words for them," she casually said.
"Well, I don't mind. When do you need them?" Huo Yuanjia nodded, as he couldn't possibly refuse her request no matter what her reasons were.
"In an hour at the resting area in the Outer Court."
"I will immediately notify the disciple."
"Thank you." Wang Shuren said.
"I should be thanking you for your service, Elder Wang. The Burning Lotus Sect is flourishing because of your pills and reputation." Huo Yuanjia said.
"Don't thank me for doing what's only natural." Wang Shuren said to him before calmly leaving the room.
Once Wang Shuren was gone, Huo Yuanjia retrieved a jade slip that could communicate with every disciple in the sect and cleared his throat before speaking to it with a clear voice, "All female disciples with a cultivation base of sixth level Profound Spirit Realm and above gather at the Resting Area in the Outer Sect within an hour. Elder Wang has something important to reveal."
An hour later, over 1,000 female disciples gathered in the meeting place, looking like a garden of flowers.
"What do you think we're doing here?" The disciples spoke with each other while they waited for Wang Shuren to make her appearance.
"Who knows. Maybe she's giving out pills again."
"By why would she need only female disciples?"
"Maybe it's a pill that only works for females?"
A few minutes later, Wang Shuren approached the place with a calm expression on her face.
"Disciple greets Elder Wang!"
"Greetings, Elder Wang!"
The disciples there immediately bowed to her respectfully after noticing her presence.
Wang Shuren nodded her head at them before standing on a higher platform and stared at the disciples below her with a serious gaze.
When the disciples saw this, they swallowed nervously.
"Ahem!"
After clearing her throat, Wang Shuren began to speak, "Thank you all for coming here on such short notice."
"Although this might sound weird to some of you, perhaps even outrageous, but I am here to make an announcement on behalf of Su Yang from the Profound Blossom Sect."
The disciples were dumbfounded after hearing Wang Shuren's words.
"Su Yang? The number one genius who reached the Heavenly Spirit Realm at 17 years old?"
"What kind of business would someone like him have with us?"
As the disciples mumbled to each other, Wang Shuren continued to speak, "Su Yang is currently looking for female cultivators who are willing to cultivate with him."
"Eh? Am I hearing things correctly? Su Yang is looking for partners to cultivate with?" The disciples looked at Wang Shuren with wide eyes filled with disbelief.
Wang Shuren nodded and continued, "If you are willing to cultivate with him, head to the Profound Blossom Sect exactly one year from now. However, you must be above the sixth level Profound Spirit Realm to participate. Furthermore, if you cultivate with him, your cultivation base will greatly benefit from his Yang Qi, as he will be consuming a valuable treasure that will turn it into a treasure."
"By Yang Qi, do you mean… his white stuff?" One of the disciples suddenly asked in a bashful manner.
"Yes, his s.p.e.r.m." Wang Shuren said without hesitation.
After a few minutes of uproar and conversations between the disciples, one of them asked, "Are there any other requirements? What about the type of women he's looking for?"
Hearing her question, Wang Shuren shook her head and said, "Su Yang said that he doesn't mind one's appearance or body figure as long as you are willing to cultivate with him."
The average-looking disciples there immediately brightened after hearing Wang Shuren's words.
Wang Shuren then proceeded to answer any questions the disciples may have for her.
Meanwhile, at the Heavenly Swan Sect, Su Yang knocked on Bai Lihua's door.
"Master, thank you for coming here," Bai Lihua opened the door a few moments later and greeted him.
"I see that you've recovered from the incident." Su Yang said to her in a teasing voice after he entered the house.
"...It's all thanks to your effort that I am even alive." Bai Lihua said with an embarrassed smile on her face.
"Anyway, before we start your lecture today, I have something important to tell you," said Su Yang as he entered her room.
"What is it, Master?" Bai Lihua looked at him with anticipation.
"Ahem…" After clearing his throat, Su Yang spoke, "I might have told you a small lie regarding my identity."
"A lie…?" Bai Lihua raised her eyebrows with an ominous feeling in her guts.
Su Yang reached for the mask on his face and removed it, revealing his face to her. However, unlike previously, his face was not disguised.
"..."
Bai Lihua's eyes widened slightly after seeing Su Yang's handsome face, but she did not say anything even after many moments had passed.
"I didn't think you would actually believe me when I said that I only looked like Su Yang so I rolled with it." Su Yang said with an awkward smile on his face.
"Haaa…" Bai Lihua closed her eyes and released a long sigh.
A few moments later, she spoke in a calm voice, "It's not that I believed you; it's more like I wanted to believe you. I already had a feeling that you were lying about your identity because of what Su Yin said on the day she first met you."
"Oh? Can you elaborate on that a little more?" Su Yang asked her with his interest intrigued.
"Only a true idiot would believe that you are not Su Yang even though your appearance had grown more mature, and I acted like an idiot because I did not want to admit to myself that I had fallen for you, Su Yang."
"..."
Su Yang was slightly surprised by her honesty, as he didn't expect Bai Lihua to tell him the truth about her feelings.
"I know I have said that I would never fall for someone like you, but alas…" Bai Lihua sighed.
Of course, Su Yang remained calm even after hearing her words, as this is not his first time hearing that sentence.
"Why did you decide to tell me about your real identity? It would've been better if you kept it a secret forever so that I won't feel as guilty for liking you." Bai Lihua suddenly asked him.
"You would've learned the truth sooner or later, so I figured that I might as well tell you now before you get too comfortable with my alias," he said.
"After all, it'll be much harder to accept the truth the longer I keep it hidden from you."
"I see…" Bai Lihua mumbled.
"Now that you know the truth, do you still want to learn Alchemy under me?" he asked her a moment later. "I won't blame you even if you decide to leave."
Bai Lihua silently stared at him for a good minute before speaking, "I am already too invested into alchemy to give up. And it does not matter who you are— as long as you can teach me alchemy, I won't have any reason to leave."
"Unless you are going to tell me that you've also faked your skills in alchemy next?" Bai Lihua looked at him with narrowed eyes.
"Hahaha… If I didn't have any real ability, why would I even accept disciples? Just to let the world eventually find out that I am a fake Alchemist?" Su Yang spoke as he laughed.
"Don't worry, my skills are the real deal. If you study under me, I can guarantee you that you'll become one of the best Alchemists in this world."
Bai Lihua nodded and said, "Once again, please take care of me, Master."
"You can call me Su Yang when we are alone," he said to her. "I want you to be comfortable around me."
"It's already too late for that, Su Yang." Bai Lihua said with a bittersweet smile.
"Don't worry, that will go away once we start being around each other more," he showed her a confident smile on his handsome face.
"..."
"By the way, can you continue using your other appearance even though I already know your real identity? I would rather be lectured by someone older than me even if it's just the appearance," she asked him sometime later.
"Whatever makes you comfortable," he nodded before changing his appearance with an Appearance Reforming Pill.
Chapter 623 - Lecturing Bai Lihua
After consuming an Appearance Reforming Pill and changing his face to the mature Su Yang, he said to Bai Lihua, "Now that you have recovered, and since you have already learned how to concoct pills by yourself, I am going to skip the basics and focus on your alchemy skills. Therefore, I am going to watch you concoct pills and see what you need to improve on."
"Once you have reached an acceptable level in pill concocting, I will begin teaching you the more advanced techniques."
"I understand." Bai Lihua nodded.
Sometime later, Bai Lihua brought Su Yang to another building that was recently renovated just so she could concoct pills there without bothering the other disciples and vice versa.
After the preparations, Bai Lihua sat before the cauldron and began concocting an Elementary-grade pill, the Minor Spirit Refreshment Pill.
"..."
Su Yang stared at Bai Lihua with a sharp gaze and watched her every movement while she concocted the pills, even remaining silent when he spotted mistakes.
One hour… two hours… three hours…
Eight long hours have passed since Bai Lihua began concocting the Elementary-grade pill yet she showed no signs of finishing the pill any time soon. Of course, this did not mean Bai Lihua had no talent in alchemy. In fact, it was quite the opposite, as the average Alchemists in this world usually require over 12 hours to concoct the lowest grade pills with some even taking an entire day.
After another hour of effort, Bai Lihua finally retrieved her alchemy flames and opened the cauldron a moment later, taking out a grey colored pill from within.
"What do you think, Su Yang?" she asked him with a slightly proud expression on her face.
However, Su Yang merely glanced at the pill before speaking in a nonchalant voice, "How can you act so proud after producing that rubbish?"
"R-Rubbish?!" Bai Lihua's eyes widened with shock, as she didn't expect him to respond in such a rude manner.
"If that is not rubbish, I don't know what is. Even a starving dog wouldn't even dare to eat that pill if you fed it." Su Yang said.
"You don't have to be so rude…" she said with a frown.
"Rude? I am merely telling you the truth. A pill that cannot be consumed is no different from trash that cannot be recycled. If that is not rubbish then what is?" Su Yang shook his head before continuing, "I am here to lecture you, not to praise your failures. If you want positive feedback, you should make something worthy of praises."
"..."
Although Bai Lihua disliked his attitude, she could not refute his words.
'You're even stricter than me when it comes to lecturing our disciples,' she sighed inwardly.
"Anyway, you can toss that trash to the side. I am now going to tell you everything you did wrong or could have done better so listen up."
Su Yang proceeded to explain to her every mistake she made from the moment she sat down till the moment she retrieved the pill from the cauldron. Once Bai Lihua realized her mistakes, Su Yang began telling her how she can improve or fix her mistakes.
Many minutes later, Su Yang said to her, "Go ahead and concoct another Minor Spirit Refreshment Pill."
Bai Lihua nodded with a serious expression before facing the cauldron once again.
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Seven hours later, Bai Lihua stared at the white pill in her hands with a bewildered expression on her face. Not only did it take less time for her to concoct this pill but it was also much easier. Furthermore, compared to the low-quality pill she concocted previously, this pill was near the medium-quality.
'How is this possible? I only followed Su Yang's instructions, even screwing up a few times during the process, yet the pill still came out almost medium-quality?' Bai Lihua doubted her own eyes, as her improvements were simply too fast, even jaw-dropping.
She looked at Su Yang, who was calmly standing there with a casual expression.
"If you continue to listen to my lectures, you'll only improve faster," he said after seeing the expression on her face.
Bai Lihua nodded in a dazed manner.
"Get some rest. We'll continue tomorrow morning after you've freshened up."
When she saw that Su Yang was leaving, Bai Lihua quickly shouted, "Wait!"
"What's the matter?" he turned around and asked.
"..."
After a moment of silence, she asked him with a serious expression, "Are you… are you not going to respond to my feelings?"
Hearing her question, Su Yang showed a slight smile on his face and said, "I will give you an answer once you've improved enough."
"W-What?! That's not fair!" she quickly said.
However, Su Yang did not respond and left the room shortly later, leaving Bai Lihua speechless.
'Is he really going to leave me hanging?! I don't even know why I like him!' Bai Lihua sighed inwardly before cleaning herself and going to bed, instantly falling asleep due to her exhaustion.
The following morning, Su Yang appeared before her again.
"I am now going to tell you your mistakes from yesterday." Su Yang wasted no time beginning the lecture.
Once the lecture ended, Bai Lihua began concocting the Minor Spirit Refreshment Pill.
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Six hours later, Bai Lihua opened the lid to the cauldron and retrieved the pill from inside.
"A medium-quality pill! I have successfully concocted a medium-quality pill!" Bai Lihua was ecstatic at this moment. To think she would be able to concoct medium-quality pills after just spending a single day with Su Yang. What will happen if she received lectures from him for an entire year? What kind of progress would she make?
"What are you, a child? Don't be too quick to celebrate. It's only medium-quality, not to mention the pill itself is only Elementary-grade." Su Yang shook his head at her.
"You're right. I shouldn't be too happy about this." Bai Lihua did not refute his words, even agreeing with him.
She then stared at him in silence, clearly waiting for his lectures to begin.
"Although your techniques have improved compared to yesterday, there were still many mistakes in your flame control and other things." Su Yang said before giving her more pointers.
Sometime later, Bai Lihua began concocting pills again.
The two of them would continue this routine for the next few days until Bai Lihua could concoct high-quality Minor Spirit Refreshment Pills consistently.
"I didn't think I would ever become an Alchemist, much less concoct high-quality pills, as it has never even crossed my mind before," she spoke with a profound gaze as she stared at the white pill sitting on her palm. Compared to just a few days ago, the results were like night and day.
"Now that I can concoct Elementary-grade pills with great results constantly, do I move onto Profound-grade pills now?" she asked him a few moments later.
"You think you'd mastered Elementary-grade pills just because you can concoct the same pill over and over again with good results? You can start working on Profound-grade pills once you can concoct over ten different types of Elementary-grade pills with similar results."
"Ten different pill recipes? Where am I going to get such recipes? I only have one recipe on me, the Minor Spirit Refreshment Pill, and they don't sell pill recipes just anywhere." Bai Lihua said to him.
"Who do you think you are talking to?"
Su Yang suddenly waved his sleeves, causing over one hundred small scrolls to pile on the floor.
"T-These are…" Bai Lihua looked at the pile before her and swallowed nervously.
"They are all pill recipes for Elementary-grade pills. I want you to be able to concoct at least half of these consistently at the high-quality."
"Half?!" Bai Lihua's jaw dropped upon hearing his words. How long would that take? Months? Years?
"You are underestimating your talents, Bai Lihua." Su Yang suddenly said to her.
"W-What do you mean by that?"
"Not everybody can learn to concoct pills by themselves and be able to concoct high-quality pills only a week later. Although I am helping you, your recent improvements are mostly due to your own talents."
"Su Yang…" Bai Lihua could feel her face heating up facing his intensive stares. This is her first time getting his compliments after many days of straight insults and strictness from him.
"If it's you, you will be able to master these pills in no time." Su Yang said in a reassuring voice.
After a moment of silence, Bai Lihua looked at him with a resolute expression and said, "If I master all of these pill recipes, will you give me an answer?"
"I will," he nodded.
"It's a promise then."
"I will also come by here once a week to see your progress. If you need anything, you know where to find me."
"Thank you, Su Yang…" she said with a gentle smile on her face.
"Don't even mention it."
"Then if you need anything from me, just let me know."
"A favor, huh? I actually have one," he suddenly said.
"What do you need from me?"
"Well, it's like this…"
Su Yang proceeded to explain his situation with the Hellfire Seeds to her and how he needed partners for the aftermath, dumbfounding Bai Lihua who definitely did not expect this kind of favor, even regretting giving him such an offer in the first place.
"Let me get this right. You want me, the Sect Master, to help you recruit cultivation partners within my own sect?" Bai Lihua asked him afterward.
"That's right." Su Yang nodded with a straight face, leaving her speechless.
Chapter 624 - Cannot Wait to Cultivate
"You...You are truly the most shameless person I have ever come across…" Bai Lihua said to him with a speechless face.
"If I wasn't shameless, I wouldn't be a successful Dual Cultivator," he chuckled at her words.
"I can't believe you are really asking me to do this…" Bai Lihua rubbed her temples while sighing.
"If it's too much for you, you can just ignore it. After all, I am only asking you for a favor," he said to her with a calm expression.
"..."
After a moment of silence, she said, "While it may be quite a ridiculous favor that you're asking, I still need to thank you for helping me for the last few days, so I will help you out with this recruitment."
"Thank you," said Su Yang.
"You should leave before I change my mind," she quickly said to him.
Su Yang nodded and flew away on the flying ship.
"Haaaa…"
Bai Lihua released a long sigh afterward, mumbling to herself in a low voice, "How can you ask me to help you look for women to sleep with when you still haven't answered my feelings? Why didn't you ask me to help you instead?"
After standing there for a few minutes with a dazed expression on her pretty face, Bai Lihua summoned every disciple above the sixth level Profound Spirit Realm within the sect, and because the Heavenly Swan Sect only consisted of female disciples, more than a third of the entire sect gathered before Bai Lihua sometime later.
Bai Lihua looked at the thousands of disciples standing before her with a perplexed face, thinking to herself that her reputation would definitely take a hit for what she's about to do.
Most of the disciples within the Heavenly Swan Sect were innocent maidens that have never had a relationship with a man before, much less have s.e.x, so the odds of them giving their first time to a stranger they have never met before was slim to none.
"Thank you all for gathering here. I have a special announcement for all of you today, and I would normally never say something like this, but I owe this person a great favor, so I will be announcing this on his behalf."
After taking a deep breath, she began speaking in an awkward and stiff voice, "Due to circ.u.mstances, Sect Master of the Profound Blossom Sect and Heavenly Spirit Realm expert, Su Yang, is currently looking for female partners above the sixth level Profound Spirit Realm to cultivate with."
"What did you just say?!"
A shocked cry resounded immediately after Bai Lihua ended her sentence, causing the people there to turn their head and look at her.
"Su Yin…" Bai Lihua showed a bitter smile after seeing her face.
"Did Elder Brother really say that?!" she asked him a moment later.
Bai Lihua nodded and said, "Su Yang will be consuming a very powerful treasure, and he will need many partners to relieve himself afterward, hence why he's looking for partners. He also said that if you cultivate with him, your cultivation base will improve because of the energy from the treasure."
"Do you have any questions?" she asked them afterward.
"Sect Master, what do you mean by cultivating with him?" One innocent young lady asked.
"..."
Bai Lihua cleared her throat before responding with her face slightly red, "It means you are going to have s.e.x with him."
"Have s.e.x?!"
The innocent disciples there immediately went into an uproar. None of them could have ever imagined that their sect master would ask them to have s.e.x with a man out of her own will, especially when she usually expresses the opposite sentiment!
And the disciples began mumbling to each other.
"Su Yang… he is the handsome young man at the Regional Tournament, right?"
"Yes, and he's known as the number one genius."
"I have actually been thinking about him ever since I witnessed his prowess at the Regional Tournament. I didn't think that I would be able to embrace someone like him!"
One of the disciples suddenly raised her hand and asked Bai Lihua, "Sect Master, what else do we get out of cultivating with Su Yang?"
"I don't know, as he'd only mentioned about improving one's cultivation base with his Yang Qi," she responded.
"Do you think he'll let us conceive his child if we helped him?" Another disciple suddenly asked, shocking Bai Lihua with such an absurd question.
"Y-You'll have to ask Su Yang that…" she said after a moment of silence.
"It would be nice if he allowed us to conceive his child. After all, his children will definitely be talented," said another disciple.
In the cultivation world, female Cultivators usually choose their partner with the men's talent in mind before their appearance, as they would rather have a talented child that might achieve great things in their life than a good-looking child who has only mediocre talent or simply no talent at all.
"Now everyone and their mother will have a taste of my beloved Elder Brother…" Su Yin sighed loudly.
When Bai Lihua noticed that there were a lot of disciples who appeared excited after hearing her announcement, she began doubting herself.
'Perhaps Su Yang is actually more popular with the females than I'd initially thought?' she pondered inwardly as half of the female disciples there chatted with each other with blissful and anticipated expressions on their faces.
"Sect Master, when does Su Yang need us to cultivate with him?" One of the disciples there suddenly asked her.
"He said it'll mostly depend on his situation, but it should happen one year from now if not sooner…" she quickly responded.
"One year from now, huh? I cannot wait to have s.e.x with Su Yang! Hopefully, he'll let me bear his child, too!" One of the disciples said with a vulgar expression on her face, dumbfounding Bai Lihua who had no idea that her disciples were actually this perverted all along, even feeling a little bit dispirited by the unexpected outcome.
Chapter 625 - Leaving It to Fate
After returning to the Profound Blossom Sect, Su Yang continued his daily routine of training the Profound Blossom Sect disciples and lecturing Bai Lihua and Wang Shuren once a week.
A few weeks later, Liu Lanzhi knocked on his door and said to him, "We have received an official letter from the Xie Family, inviting the Sect Masters and three disciples to their household for dinner and our rewards from the Regional Tournament."
"About time," said Su Yang with a calm expression. "When do we have to arrive?"
"The letter did not give us an exact date, only telling us to go whenever we feel that we are ready," she replied while looking at the letter.
"So they're telling us to go as soon as possible, huh."
"When do you want to go?" he asked her a moment later.
"I can leave within an hour," she quickly said.
"Then we shall leave in an hour," he nodded.
"What about the three disciples that we are supposed to bring? This is mostly for the Celestial Pond, but we still haven't decided on who we should pick." Liu Lanzhi said.
"Hmmm… then we can simply decide now. Summon all of the disciples in the sect."
"Okay." Liu Lanzhi then pulled out her jade slip and spoke to every disciple in the sect, "I want every disciple to stop whatever you are doing now and head to the gathering area as soon as possible. The Sect Masters have an important matter to discuss with all of you."
Fifteen minutes later, Su Yang and Liu Lanzhi stood before a thousand disciples in the gathering area— both new and old.
"Ahem. This is regarding one of the rewards from our victory in the Regional Tournament— the Celestial Pond." Liu Lanzhi said to them.
"The Celestial Pond is a mythical cultivation spot that can improve one's cultivation speed by 100 times if they cultivated there, and we have been given the privilege by the Xie Family to send three disciples to train in that place for seven days, meaning your cultivation will improve as though you'd cultivated for two years, or 700 days to be exact."
The disciples expressed shock and excitement upon learning about the Celestial Pond, as it was essentially giving them two years of time for free! A peerless treasure and a massive opportunity for any Cultivator!
"However, as you'd heard, we are allowed to bring only three disciples with us, and that is the reason we have gathered all of you here today, as we will be deciding here and now which three disciples we will bring with us."
Liu Lanzhi then continued, "Before we start, if you do not wish to cultivate in the Celestial Pond, please step aside now."
The disciples looked at each other. Who in their right mind would give away this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity willingly and without anything in return?!
A few moments later, all of the Legacy Disciples and Sect Elders began walking out of the crowd and stood at the side, dumbfounding the new disciples.
"Who needs the Celestial Pond when we already have Su Yang? His Yang Qi definitely won't lose to some Celestial Pond." One of the Legacy Disciple mumbled in a low voice that was heard by many people there.
Indeed, Su Yang was able to help them reach the True Spirit Realm from the Elementary Spirit Realm in less than a year, which usually requires many years of effort. Although his Yang Qi might not be as effective as the Celestial Pond, they are able to absorb his Yang Qi on a daily basis while the Celestial Pond can only be used once every 100 years.
A few moments later, more disciples could be seen walking to the side, and they were the Junior Disciples.
"There's no point for us to go there since we cannot cultivate until we are mature," said one of the Junior Disciples.
"Is there anyone else who does not wish to go?" Liu Lanzhi asked them later.
When no more disciples stepped out of the crowd even after waiting for a few moments, Liu Lanzhi said, "Then I will let Sect Master Su take things from here."
Once Liu Lanzhi stepped back, Su Yang stepped forward and said to the disciples, "Because we don't have much time, I will make this process quick and simple."
"I have hidden three ordinary rocks with my name written on it around the sect, and the first three to find it will be allowed to cultivate in the Celestial Pond."
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The entire place was dead silent, as they were dumbfounded speechless by his eccentric method.
Seeing the funny expressions on the disciples' faces, Su Yang continued to speak in a calm voice, "Do you believe in the existence of fate? Some people believe that no matter what you decide to do in your life, there will be events in your life that have already been predetermined by fate and cannot be avoided no matter what you do. Therefore, let's see which of you are fated to find the rock and cultivate in the Celestial Pond."
"And because I don't want this to take all day, I have limited the places where I can hide the rock. Firstly, it will not be in any living quarters or any building that cannot be accessed without special permission. Second, all three rocks are hidden within the Outer Court so you don't have to search the entire sect. And finally, it will not be in places where you cannot reach without the assistance of techniques or treasures."
After explaining the rules to the disciple, Su Yang said to them with a smile on his face, "You all have exactly two hours to bring me the rocks. If nobody can find it by then, I will simply act as though none of you were fated to cultivate in the Celestial Pond. And in the case less than three people find the rocks, I will only bring the ones who found the rocks. Good luck. Your time starts now."
Chapter 626 - Do You Think the Sect Master Is Only Playing With Us?
Immediately after Su Yang ended his sentence, the disciples started running around the entire Outer Court in search of the three rocks hidden by Su Yang that could potentially change their life forever.
"I cannot believe you would use this kind of method to pick whoever gets to cultivate in the Celestial Pond. I will never get used to being shocked by you at this rate." Liu Lanzhi said with a bittersweet smile on her face.
"Life is not always about choices, as there are moments where you can only rely on fate," Su Yang responded with a calm expression.
"Anyway, you have two hours to get ready for our journey to the Xie Family. I will stay here." Su Yang then said to her.
"Un. I will leave it to you," she nodded before leaving him alone.
Once Liu Lanzhi was gone, Su Yang sat down and began to cultivate in silence. Meanwhile, the disciples that refused to participate returned to their own business, allowing the other disciples more room to run around.
The cafeteria, the library, any open areas, in-between the cracks on the floor— the disciples searched every nook and cranny their eyes gazed upon in the Outer Court. However, even after 30 minutes of searching, none of the disciples have returned to Su Yang with the rock in their hands.
The disciples even began to wonder if Su Yang really hid the rocks in the first place.
"Do you think the Sect Master is only playing with us, and he doesn't want anybody to cultivate in the Celestial Pond?" One of the disciples asked the others.
"Why would he do that? That makes no sense," said another disciple.
"Yes, but the Sect Master's entire existence doesn't make sense, so…"
While the group of disciples was chatting with each other, someone suddenly shouted in an excited voice, "I found it! I found one!"
"What?!"
The disciples around this person immediately turned their heads to look at the lucky disciple who'd managed to find the first rock.
"Where did you find it, Junior Sister Chen?" The disciples quickly surrounded her and bombarded her with questions.
"How could you possibly find it here? I had searched through this spot over a dozen times and I didn't find anything!" One of the disciples exclaimed, voicing his doubts.
"It's true! It was right here!" Disciple Chen said as she pointed at the floor right beside her.
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The other disciples looked at her with frowns on their faces.
"Are you making fun of us, Junior Sister? If the rock was laying out in the open on the floor, why didn't the other disciples see it when they searched this place before you? Even someone visually impaired wouldn't miss it!"
"That's right! I walked through this exact spot just a minute ago and I didn't see the rock on the floor!"
Faced with so many doubtful gazes, the female disciple could only show a puzzled expression on her face, as she had no reason to lie to them.
"I am not lying! I really found it here! If you don't believe me, then don't! I am going to the Sect Master right now!" Disciple Chen said before she pushed the crowd away and ran to Su Yang.
The other disciples decided to follow her to see whether she really found the real rock or was only faking it.
"Sect Master! I found one of the rocks!" Disciple Chen ran up to him with her hand waving in the air.
Hearing her voice, Su Yang opened his eyes to see a cute young lady standing before him with an ordinary-looking rock on her palms.
Su Yang took the rock off her hands and looked at the word 'Su' engraved onto it.
"Where did you find this?" he asked her with a mysterious smile on his face.
"Right outside the Cafeteria, Sect Master…" she said with a nervous face, as she was worried that he might not believe her because of what the other disciples had said to her.
"I see… Okay, you pass." Su Yang said to her a moment later, dumbfound her and the other disciples.
"W-What is going on, Sect Master?! How come we didn't see any rock at where she found it when we searched?! This doesn't make any sense!" One of the disciples there decided to ask him.
"Like I'd said from the beginning. Your fate will determine whether you are destined to find the rock or not. I don't know how else to explain it to you." Su Yang shrugged his shoulders, leaving the disciples speechless.
However, it was not as though they could argue with him, the Sect Master. Thus, they swallowed their anger and returned to looking for the remaining two rocks.
"Are you curious, or should I say puzzled why only you'd found the rock when the others couldn't?" Su Yang asked her after the other disciples left.
"Yes, Sect Master," she quickly nodded her head in response.
"The rock was in plain sight when I found it, but the other disciples did not believe me," she explained to him.
"That's because I had hidden the rocks inside a concealment formation that would reveal itself at random times for only a brief moment, and you'd happened to see it when that happened. Like I'd said, it was pure coincidence that you found it… It was fate." Su Yang explained to her with a smile on his face.
"A concealment formation? No wonder why the other disciples didn't see it…" Disciple Chen sighed in relief after realizing the truth.
"Anyway, you have a little over an hour to prepare for the journey," Su Yang said to her a moment later. "Come back here once you're done with your preparations."
"Yes, Sect Master!" The disciple bowed to him before running back to her home to prepare for the journey.
Once Disciple Chen left the scene, Su Yang closed his eyes again and returned to cultivating in silence.
Meanwhile, the other disciples continued to search for the rocks like rats squeezing into every nook and cranny in search of food.
Chapter 627 - Visiting the Xie Family
An entire hour has passed since Su Yang made the disciples run around the sect looking for rocks that were hidden inside concealment formations that could only be found by chance.
"Sect Master, I have found one of the rocks!" Another disciple approached him a few minutes after the hour mark.
"Let me see the rock," said Su Yang as he looked at the young lady with a graceful appearance before him.
The disciple nodded and handed him the rock.
Once he saw his name on the rock, he nodded and said, "You have an hour to prepare for the journey. Come back here afterward."
"Yes, Sect Master!" The disciple nodded before leaving the scene.
"One left, huh…" Su Yang mumbled to himself before closing his eyes again, silently waiting for the last disciple to appear.
However, nobody else approached him even after 30 minutes of waiting.
"How is the search going? How many disciples have found the rocks?" Liu Lanzhi asked him after returning to his side sometime later.
"Two," he calmly responded.
"Only two? And how much time do they have left?"
"A little less than ten minutes," he said.
After a moment of silence, Liu Lanzhi asked him, "Are you really going to bring only those who found the rock to the Xie Family? It would be a waste to not use all three spots."
"Don't worry, there won't be any empty spots even if the last rock is not found," he said to her with a calm face.
"Who do you plan on bringing?" she asked him with interest.
"Someone who could take full advantage of the Celestial Pond," he casually responded.
"What? If there's someone like that, why are you doing this?" Now Liu Lanzhi was puzzled by his actions.
"Although it will greatly benefit her, she doesn't really need it, and it'll be like feeding a fat pig with even more food."
'I still don't get it...' Liu Lanzhi shook her head inwardly.
Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and nobody else approached Su Yang with the last rock during this time.
"All of you can stop searching for the last rock now," Su Yang took out a communication jade slip and said to the disciples. "Two hours have passed, and it seems that only two of you were destined to cultivate in the Celestial Pond. It's unfortunate, but the cultivation world requires more luck than you think."
When the disciples that did not find the rocks heard Su Yang's words, they all sighed with dispirited expressions on their faces before returning home with a defeated feeling surrounding them.
Meanwhile, the two female disciples that found the rock returned to Su Yang's side with blissful expressions on their faces.
'They're both female disciples?' Liu Lanzhi raised her eyebrows after seeing these two beauties, and she wondered if Su Yang had purposefully rigged the event just so these two could cultivate in the Celestial Pond. However, after thinking about Su Yang's character, it was unlikely that he would do something like this, so Liu Lanzhi decided to think of it as pure coincidence.
"Are the two of you ready to leave?" Su Yang asked the two disciples.
"Yes, Sect Master!" They both nodded.
The disciple with the cute and pretty face belonged to the dual cultivation division whilst the other disciple with the graceful atmosphere belonged to the normal cultivation division.
"Then let's head to the Xie Family." Su Yang then tossed the flying boat into the air and jumped onto it.
"What are you waiting for? Get on the boat," he said to them when they remained standing there with dumbfounded expressions on their faces, as this is their first time riding on a flying treasure.
A few moments later, once they were on the flying boat, Su Yang said to them, "Hang on to me."
The disciples nodded their heads and grabbed his robes whilst Liu Lanzhi directly embraced him with one of her arms.
Once they were prepared, Su Yang commanded the flying boat to soar towards Snowfall City.
"Ahhhhhhhh!"
The disciples screamed at the top of their lungs when they experienced the flying boat's ridiculous speed, their expressions filled with fear, and they immediately went to tightly embrace Su Yang's body.
As for Liu Lanzhi, although she didn't scream like the disciples, she also embraced Su Yang with all of her strength, fearing that she might accidentally fall from the flying boat.
A few horrifying minutes later, the flying boat stopped moving once they reached the Xie Family's household.
"You can let go now," Su Yang said to the three ladies that did not realize they had reached their destination and continued embracing him like three koalas on a tree.
"W-We're here already?" Liu Lanzhi looked beneath them with wide eyes filled with shock.
"Yes, so you can stop squeezing me to death now," he said with a smile on his face.
"O-Oh… I'm sorry…" Liu Lanzhi quickly released her death grip on him.
The disciples also apologized to him afterward.
"Let's descend," he said to them sometime later.
Meanwhile, inside the Xie Family's household, Lord Xie was silently cultivating inside his room when a loud voice resounded in the room, startling him awake.
"Wake up! Su Yang is here!" Xie Wang's voice boomed.
"F-Father?! What do you mean he's already here? We sent the letter not long ago!" Lord Xie shouted in an annoyed voice.
"Did I stutter or something? Hurry up and greet them! I will be there shortly!" Xie Wang's voice resounded again, sounding even more annoyed than Lord Xie.
"Y-Yes, Father…" Hearing his father's angry voice, Lord Xie had no choice but to stop his cultivation to greet Su Yang.
Sometime later, Lord Xie opened the front door to see Liu Lanzhi and two other young ladies with her. However, Su Yang was not there with them.
"Where's Su Yang?" he asked them.
"Liu Lanzhi greets His Majesty!" she hastily bowed to him, as she did not expect him to appear so suddenly.
"Su Yang had to return to the sect to bring our third disciple here and should return here shortly," she then said to him.
628 Xie Family"s Apology
"I see… Anyway, come inside." Lord Xie opened the door wide and welcomed them inside with a warm smile on his face.
"Thank you, Your Majesty…"
"Please, just call me Senior Xie when you are here. I was the one who invited you here for dinner, after all." Lord Xie said to them.
"..."
Liu Lanzhi and the disciples were speechless, as they would've never imagined that the day would come where they could address the ruler of the Eastern Continent so casually! It was truly a dream-like miracle!
Sometime later, as Lord Xie led them into the building, Xie Xingfang could be seen running towards them from the end of the hall with an excited expression on her face.
"Welcome to our humble home, Su—"
However, the excitement on her face instantly disappeared when she didn't see Su Yang amongst them.
"Where's Su Yang? Did he not come here with you?" she asked them with a slightly dazed face.
"Greetings, Your Highness. Su Yang came here with us, but he had to return to the Profound Blossom Sect to pick up the last member…" Liu Lanzhi bowed to her.
"You can just call me Xing'er like everyone else in this place, Senior Liu."
"I don't dare…" Liu Lanzhi quickly shook her head.
"It's fine, really. In fact, I still haven't expressed my gratitude to you for the hospitality at the Profound Blossom Sect." Xie Xingfang then gracefully bowed towards her and spoke in a clear tone, "Thank you, for letting my grandfather and I stay at the Profound Blossom Sect. It was a lifesaver… literally."
"You are exaggerating…" Liu Lanzhi showed a humble yet stiff smile on her face, as it simply felt very weird for the Xie Family to be treating her as though they were friends when they've barely interacted with each other.
"Father, allow me to show the guests their room." Xie Xingfang said to him.
"Go ahead. I will have the servants prepare some tea for you." He nodded before walking away.
"Come with me," Xie Xingfang said to the three of them afterward.
Sometime later, they entered a luxurious room that was filled with so many shiny decorations that it'd briefly blinded their vision.
"Um… Your Highness, although this is not even close to being enough to fully express my gratitude to the Xie Family for inviting us over, I hope you may find some use for it…" Liu Lanzhi suddenly retrieved a storage pouch from her storage ring and offered it to Xie Xingfang.
However, Xie Xingfang merely stared at the storage pouch with a silent gaze.
A few seconds later, she shook her head and spoke, "I cannot accept that, Senior Liu."
"Eh? Why not?" Liu Lanzhi looked at her with wide eyes. Even if they didn't need it, one would normally accept the gift as a gesture of respect and acceptance.
"Because I also have a small gift for you." Xie Xingfang also retrieved a storage pouch from her robes and showed it to Liu Lanzhi.
"The Xie Family hasn't done anything worthy of your gift. In fact, we have been doing the opposite by causing trouble for the Profound Blossom Sect constantly…" Xie Xingfang suddenly lowered her head and apologized to her, "On behalf of the Xie Family, I am sorry for everything that has happened. If only we were more involved with the outside world, perhaps the Million Snakes Sect would've never bothered you..."
"Please, raise your head, Your Highness!" Liu Lanzhi panicked when Xie Xingfang lowered her head, as her actions were akin to lowering her own status. Luckily for them, they were inside a private room and only two other people saw it. If Xie Xingfang had lowered her head in public, it would've definitely caused a commotion.
"You cannot blame yourself for what happened between the Profound Blossom Sect and the Million Snakes Sect, as they are the ones who are at fault!" Liu Lanzhi then said to her.
"No, it is exactly because my family had nothing to do with the Million Snakes Sect that allowed them to go on a rampage. We should've intervened when we first heard about it, but we did not do anything, giving them the impression that we approve of their actions," said Xie Xingfang.
And she continued, "Although this offering will not bring back the disciples who left the sect or change what had happened and erase the pain you'd felt, I hope that you could accept it, or I will not be able to sleep peacefully again."
"..."
Liu Lanzhi was rendered speechless by Xie Xingfang's genuine sincerity.
A few moments later, Liu Lanzhi eventually nodded her head and accepted Xie Xingfang's storage pouch.
"Thank you very much, Your Highness." Liu Lanzhi bowed to her afterward.
"No, I should be the one thanking you, Senior Liu, so... Thank you." Xie Xingfang responded with her own bow. "And please call me Xing'er."
"..."
Meanwhile, the two disciples in the same room felt extremely out of place, almost like two beggars who'd accidentally walked into a fancy meeting.
"Anyway, you ladies can use this room as you please while we wait for Su Yang to return," Xie Xingfang said to them sometime later. "The tea should also be here soon."
"Thank you, Your… Xing'er…" Liu Lanzhi said in a stiff voice.
"You'll get used to it," Xie Xingfang smiled at her before leaving the room shortly later.
"Haaa… that was nerve-wracking…" Liu Lanzhi sat on the large couch behind her with an exhausted face, completely ignoring the two disciples in the room.
"Are you okay, Sect Master?" Disciple Chen asked her a moment later.
"Yes, it's just that I have never spoken with the Xie Family for so long at once. Hell, this is my first time actually speaking with them so casually! It just feels so weird!" she sighed.
The disciples silently nodded their heads, and they understood her feelings even though they didn't have to speak with the Xie Family.
'Su Yang, please come back soon… I don't think I will be able to handle the Xie Family by myself!' Liu Lanzhi cried inwardly.
629 The Most Talented Disciple in the Profound Blossom Sec
After dropping Liu Lanzhi and the disciples off at the Xie Family's front door, Su Yang returned to the Profound Blossom Sect to look for a certain disciple.
Once he descended from the sky and landed in front of a building that was not too far away from the Yin Yang Pavilion, he knocked on the door.
A few moments later, the door opened, and a cute little girl appeared before him.
"Master." Yan Yan greeted him with a bow.
"How have you been doing with your cultivation, Yan Yan?" he asked her with a friendly smile.
"Very good, Master. I reached the seventh level Earth Spirit Realm just yesterday, and my understanding of the cultivation technique is also improving every day."
"That's good to hear. Anyway, I am here for one thing." Su Yang then looked at her with a serious gaze and spoke, "I want you to cultivate in the Celestial Pond. With your divine body, you'll definitely breakthrough to the Heavenly Spirit Realm by the time you come out in seven days."
"Celestial Pond?" Yan Yan looked at him with a puzzled face.
"Oh, right. You weren't there when I explained it. The Celestial Pond is a treasure that will improve your cultivation speed by 100 times if you cultivate inside, and you can only do so once every 100 years. It's not something you can do every day."
"Master wants me to cultivate there?" she asked him.
"That's right. It'll only be for seven days, and I'll be there with you."
"Okay." Seeing no reason to refuse, Yan Yan nodded her head.
"Good. Come with me."
Su Yang then carried Yan Yan onto the flying boat and flew back to Snowfall City.
"!!!"
Just like most people during their first ride on the flying boat, Yan Yan feared for her life and immediately hugged Su Yang with her entire body.
A few minutes later, they arrived at the Xie Family's household.
"Welcome to our home, Su Yang." Xie Wang said to him before he could even leave the flying boat.
Su Yang nodded and said, "Are the others inside?"
"Yes. They are all waiting for you inside."
Xie Wang then noticed the little hugging Su Yang's legs.
His eyes widened when he realized that she was at the seventh level Earth Spirit Realm.
"Is this young girl the genius with that divine body that only recently joined the Profound Blossom Sect? I thought she was only at the fifth level Earth Spirit Realm…" Xie Wang asked Su Yang.
"Yes, she was." Su Yang said with a smile on his face.
"Then you are telling me that she actually managed to raise two whole levels in just a few weeks? What kind of monstrous talent does she have?" Xie Wang spoke with an envious gaze.
If the Xie Family had a genius like her, their power would immensely increase.
"Master is a good teacher." Yan Yan said to Xie Wang with a calm face.
"Hoh? You can look at me in the eyes without trembling? That too is quite rare, especially since you are still so young," Xie Wang nodded with approval. Because of his Sovereign Spirit Realm cultivation base, he would naturally emit a suppressing aura, and it was not something people with a weak mind or low cultivation can withstand, hence why he rarely appears in public.
"Anyway, let's continue our conversation inside with some tea. It's the Xie Family's turn to show you our hospitality." Xie Wang said to them before leading them inside and where Liu Lanzhi and the others were waiting.
"Su Yang! You are finally here!" Liu Lanzhi nearly burst out crying after seeing his face, as she was at her limit from dealing with the Xie Family.
"Su Yang, welcome to our humble home again." Xie Xingfang placed her tea down and stood up to bow to him elegantly.
Su Yang nodded and said, "Thank you for having us."
Sometime later, once they were all settled down with some tea in their hands, Xie Xingfang said while looking at Yan Yan with wide eyes, "She's already at the seventh level Earth Spirit Realm? If I recall correctly, she was only at the fifth level during the entrance exam not long ago…"
"Yes, she's quite the talented one, after all." Su Yang said with a smile.
"So you were thinking about Disciple Yan this entire time, huh…" Liu Lanzhi finally understood Su Yang's words from before. Yan Yan is, without doubt, the most talented disciple in Profound Blossom Sect's history, not including Su Yang, as he was basically cheating with his Immortal background. If anyone should cultivate in the Celestial Pond, it should be Yan Yan.
"Do you plan on making her cultivate in the Celestial Pond? I cannot imagine how much her cultivation will grow afterward…" Xie Xingfang spoke in a slightly nervous tone.
If Yan Yan could already cultivate 100 times faster than even the top geniuses of this world, what will happen once she cultivates in the Celestial Pond? It would not shock them at all even if she enters the Heavenly Spirit Realm afterward.
"I also cannot wait for the results," Xie Wang nodded as he looked at Yan Yan with fascination, as he has never seen anyone like her before.
"What about you, Su Yang? I'd expected you to cultivate in the Celestial Pond, too. Why are you giving it up?" Xie Wang suddenly asked him.
Hearing his question, Su Yang spoke with a calm smile on his face, "Because my disciples take priority over me, and as a Dual Cultivator, the Celestial Pond will only benefit me if I had a partner with me."
"..."
The room instantly turned silent as the people there imagined Su Yang cultivating with the others inside the Celestial Pond, staining the holy water with his bodily liquid…
Seeing the awkward atmosphere in the room, Su Yang spoke, "Anyway, ignoring my situation, let's talk about Xing'er's conditions. How has your body been fairing lately? Do you feel any pain in your body yet?"
630 Starting to Feel the Symptoms
Hearing Su Yang's question, a worried expression appeared on Xie Xingfang's face, and she spoke in a low voice, "As much as I want to say that everything is perfectly fine, I think my body is finally starting to feel the effects of the poison."
"Can you explain it in more detail?" Su Yang asked her.
Xie Xingfang nodded and said, "It started a few days after I returned home from the Profound Blossom Sect, and although it was not noticeable at first, I can feel my body temperature getting slightly warmer every day."
"Let me see your hands." Su Yang placed his tea down and walked to her.
Xie Xingfang offered her hand to him a few moments later.
"Hmm…" Su Yang closed his eyes as he inspected her body with his spiritual sense.
"What's wrong, Su Yang? Is it something serious?" Lord Xie asked him after seeing the frown on his face.
"No… Not yet." Su Yang shook his head.
"What do you mean by that?" Xie Wang asked him with an anxious expression on his face.
"It's nothing serious now, but she is starting to feel the symptoms, and it will only continue to worsen from this point. Furthermore, she's experiencing the symptoms a little earlier than I'd expected. If this continues, she might have less time than we thought."
The entire room turned silent after hearing Su Yang's words.
A few moments later, Liu Lanzhi spoke in a puzzled voice, "Umm… What is happening? Are you sick or something, Xing'er?"
Xie Xingfang turned to look at Su Yang, who nodded his head.
Seeing his approval, Xie Xingfang explained the situation to her.
"Due to my ignorance, I'd poisoned myself during my training, and I will die if it's not cured soon…"
"What?! You'll die?! It's that serious?!" Liu Lanzhi exclaimed in shock, as did the other disciples.
"What about a cure? Do you know how to cure it?" she quickly asked.
Xie Xingfang nodded and said, "Yes, we know how to cure it, and we even have the prescription for it. However, we do not have the ingredients for the cure yet, as we are still waiting for two of them…"
"Speaking of the ingredients… The Devil Blood Ginseng should be mature now, so we can harvest it." Su Yang suddenly said.
"Really? Then what are we waiting for?!" Lord Xie immediately said.
However, Su Yang shook his head and said, "I can get the Devil Blood Ginseng at any time, but even if we have it, we cannot cure her without the other ingredient— the Purple Qilin's blood."
He then looked at Xie Wang and asked him, "Do you have the ingredients ready for the poison-immunity pill I spoke about before?"
"..."
Xie Wang remained silent with a dispirited expression on his face, causing Su Yang to frown, "You don't have the ingredients?"
"Unfortunately, we are missing one ingredient from the list— the Four Element Roots." Xie Wang sighed. "I have looked everywhere for it, and there's a good chance that it doesn't exist in this world."
"Why do you look as though there's no hope left?" Su Yang suddenly said after seeing his pale face. "If it doesn't exist in the Eastern Continent, we can simply go to the Holy Central Continent to see whether they have it or not. If they don't, I will think of something else."
"A-Are you really going to the Holy Central Continent…?" Lord Xie asked him with disbelief.
He nodded and said, "I actually wanted to go earlier, but then I remembered that you also wanted to go, so I decided to wait for a little bit longer."
"..." Lord Xie was speechless. He didn't think Su Yang would actually keep his words, much less wait for him.
"So? Do you want to go or not?" Su Yang asked him a moment later.
"I-I-I do! I do!" Lord Xie nodded his head in a hasty manner.
"C-Can I also come, too?" Xie Wang asked him, looking like a child who was being left behind.
"Do as you please," said Su Yang.
"Thank you!" Xie Wang said to him with teary eyes.
"When can we go?" Lord Xie asked him.
"We can leave once they enter the Celestial Pond. That'll give us seven days."
"Good! The Celestial Pond will be open in three days!" Lord Xie said.
Su Yang nodded, then he looked at Xie Xingfang and spoke, "Don't tell me you are also entering the Celestial Pond?"
"Eh? I can't?" Xie Xingfang looked at him with wide eyes, as this was fairly sudden.
Even Lord Xie and Xie Wang looked at him with anxious expressions, even feeling a little impatient for his answer.
"Unless you want to worsen your condition, I wouldn't suggest it." Su Yang then said a moment later.
"..."
"..."
"..."
After a moment of silence, Xie Wang sighed loudly, "I knew something like this would happen…"
He slapped his forehead before rubbing his temples in a stressful manner.
"Is there anything we can do, Su Yang? Missing the Celestial Pond is no small matter…" Lord Xie asked him. Surely, there must be something they can do.
However, Su Yang shook his head and said, "If you don't mind worsening the poison in her body in exchange for some minor improvements in her cultivation and potentially making the cure pointless then you can do whatever you want. Don't say I didn't warn you, though."
"..."
The entire room turned speechless again.
"Su Yang is right, father. What use are 2 years of cultivation if I die from the poison two months later? While it definitely hurts that I cannot enter the Celestial Pond now, I can simply do it when it opens again the next time. And even if I have to wait 100 years, at least I will still be alive then."
Hearing her words, Lord Xie nodded his head and said, "I understand. You are right, Xing'er. I would rather have you alive and well even if you miss the Celestial Pond."
631 Offering Her Service as a Woman
"Now that Xing'er cannot enter the Celestial Pond, we have one open space." Lord Xie said
He then turned to look at Liu Lanzhi and continued to speak, "Since that's the case, would you like to cultivate in the Celestial Pond on her behalf, Sect Master Liu?"
"M-Me…?" Liu Lanzhi unconsciously pointed at herself with a dumbfounded expression on her face, clearly in disbelief.
Lord Xie nodded and said, "Well, you are the only one here that can enter, and it'll be too bothersome to find someone else at this point."
"T-Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity, Senior Xie!" Liu Lanzhi bowed to him afterward.
"Don't even mention it," he said with a smile on his face.
Sometime later, Xie Wang said, "I'm going to prepare for our journey to the Holy Central Continent."
"Me, too. I have a lot of work to do if I want to leave the Eastern Continent for a few days." Lord Xie said.
"I will let the servants arrange your rooms."
Su Yang nodded, and he said, "You can just arrange for three rooms, one for Disciple Ji and one for Yan Yan. I will stay in the same room with Liu Lanzhi and Disciple Chen, as they also have to prepare for the Celestial Pond."
"Huh? Why would they need any preparations for… Oh…" Lord Xie realized the meaning behind Su Yang's words midway through his sentence, making an awkward face afterward.
"Okay, three rooms then."
However, Disciple Ji suddenly said, "Your Majesty, just two rooms is fine! I will also sleep in the same room as the Sect Masters!"
"..." Lord Xie was speechless.
"Are you sure, Disciple Ji? The only reason we are staying in the same room is because we are dual cultivators, and you belong to the other division…" Liu Lanzhi said to her.
Disciple Ji nodded and said, "I am well aware of the implications, Sect Master Liu. Even though I am only an ordinary Cultivator, I would still like to offer my services to Sect Master Su as a woman who is attracted to him."
"..."
Lord Xie and Xie Xingfang could feel their jaws dropping after hearing the disciple's words, and even Liu Lanzhi couldn't help but admire her courage.
"If you say it like that, I can't say no," Su Yang said to her with a calm smile on his face.
"Thank you, Sect Master…"
"What about me?" Yan Yan suddenly spoke up. "I also want to sleep in the same room as Master."
However, Su Yang quickly said, "You… You are still too young, Yan Yan."
"Why does my age matter?" Yan Yan tilted her head in a puzzled manner.
"If you don't understand why we are sleeping together, then you are definitely too young to participate," Liu Lanzhi said to her.
"..."
Yan Yan was truly speechless. Aren't they just sleeping together? Why does it matter whether she's an adult or not?
"Um… If you don't want to sleep alone, you can sleep with me." Xie Xingfang suddenly suggested to her.
Yan Yan looked at Xie Xingfang with a nonchalant expression before shaking her head, "No, I want to sleep with Master."
"..."
Xie Xingfang felt as though her pride had just taken a hit when Yan Yan refused her invitation, especially since this is her first time inviting anyone to sleep with her in her own room. Even though Yan Yan is only a little girl, it still felt extremely awkward.
"I-I see…" Xie Xingfang could only respond with a stiff smile on her face.
"How about this, Yan Yan." Su Yang suddenly said to her, "You will sleep alone today, but we can sleep together tomorrow."
"..."
After a moment of pondering, Yan Yan nodded her head. Although she didn't like feeling left out, she also didn't want to become a disobedient disciple, so she could only endure it for today.
"Thank you, Yan Yan." Su Yang said to her.
Sometime later, Xie Xingfang said to Yan Yan, "Come with me. I'll show you to your room."
Once Xie Xingfang and Yan Yan left the room, a beautiful young female servant entered the room to lead Su Yang and the other girls to another room— one that had the largest and sturdiest bed in the entire building.
'I can't believe that I am actually going to cultivate in the Xie Family's household…' Liu Lanzhi could barely fathom the insane situation they were in.
As for the disciples, they were simply too excited about cultivating with Su Yang to think of anything else.
"If the esteemed guests need anything, this lowly one will be waiting outside." The servant said to them with her head lowered.
However, just as the servant turned around, Su Yang's voice resounded, "Do you want to join us?"
"...Excuse me?"
The servant turned around with a dumbfounded expression on her face, as did Liu Lanzhi and the other disciples.
"I can see your body fidgeting even now. If you want to join us, I don't mind. The more the merrier, after all." Su Yang said with a smile.
"B-But I cannot…"
"What's the matter? I thought you said to let you know if we need anything."
"While that's true, I don't dare to do that sort of thing in His Majesty's dwelling…" The servant showed him a bittersweet smile.
If Lord Xie learns of her scandalous actions when she's supposed to be doing her job, losing her job would be the least of her worries.
"You are still doing your job as a servant by 'serving' me. If Lord Xie or anyone has an issue with that, I'll give them a piece of my mind, so you don't need to worry about any punishment. I can promise you that."
"Really…? You are going to do that for me, a mere servant you've never met before?" She asked him.
Su Yang nodded and spoke with a charming smile on his face, "Your status is not relevant. I only see a beautiful woman who's surrounded by a lonely feeling, so I want to help you relieve that stress."
Hearing his words, the female servant blushed. One of the requirements for working as a servant for the Xie Family is that they must live in the same building to make it more convenient and efficient for their job. And while working for the Xie Family may be incredibly rewarding and even make one feel distinguished, it does make them feel lonely most of the time, as the servants would rarely have any free time for themselves, and even when they do get some free time, they would not have the energy to do anything else besides sleep.
After a moment of silence, the female servant finally nodded her head in a bashful manner.
"Come over here," Su Yang said to her.
The female servant then locked the door behind her before approaching the bed.
"This is my first time, Young Master..." The female servant trembled slightly when Su Yang loosened her robes.
"I will take the lead. Just follow the flow of my movements and enjoy the pleasure."
The female servant nodded before Su Yang laid her on the large bed.
A few moments later, the female servant began moaning with pleasure while the other girls on the bed watched with a passionate gaze.
632 A Painful Mistake
"Aaaaah~!"
"Mmmmm~!"
"Aaaah!"
The female servant moaned loudly as Su Yang skillfully pleasured her pink flower with his tongue, preparing it for penetration.
A few minutes later, when her cave was wet enough, Su Yang inserted his stiff rod into her body, spreading the cave wide open and tearing her insides apart.
"Ahhhh!"
The female servant nearly choked on her own saliva from shock when she felt something massive and hard shoved up her virgin cave, feeling as though someone had just shoved their arm up her hole.
"Are you okay?" Su Yang asked her in a gentle voice, feeling a tight yet soft sensation wrapped around his entire sword.
After taking a moment to recover, she nodded with a painful expression, "It hurts a little, but I am fine…"
"Then I will start moving now," said Su Yang, and he began moving his hips a few seconds later.
"Aaaah~!"
Although the female servant could only feel pain at first, after just a few thrusts, as though a miracle had happened, she could no longer feel any pain, only pleasure.
"Ooooh…"
"Aaaah~!"
"Mmmmm~"
The female servant moaned without restraint, feeling as though her entire body was on fire. However, the burning feeling was not painful in the slightest. It was, in fact, extremely pleasant and comfortable enough to make her beg him for more.
"More! Fuck me more, Young Master!" The female servant looked at him with an enchanted gaze and a lustful expression on her face.
A few minutes later, the female servant reached her climax and began twitching like a fish out of the water as her lower body gushed with a river of Yin Qi.
Once the servant calmed down, Su Yang removed his rod from her body, pulling out a slightly reddish meatstick that was dyed by the servant's virgin blood.
"Allow this lowly one to clean it for you, Young Master…"
The female servant managed to sit up despite her exhaustion, and she began licking Su Yang's meatstick clean a few moments later.
Once his sword was sparkling clean again, mostly due to it being coated in saliva, the female servant collapsed onto the bed with a fully satisfied expression on her face, looking as though she was in heaven.
"Hm? You didn't release your Yang Qi into her?" Liu Lanzhi asked him after noticing this fact.
"My Yang Qi would do more harm than good to her, who is not even a Cultivator." Su Yang shook his head.
"I see…"
Su Yang then looked at Disciple Ji and asked her, "Do you want to be next?"
Disciple Ji immediately nodded and crawled towards him on the bed.
"I will loosen you up first," said Su Yang once she was fully naked.
"Can I also please you simultaneously?" she suddenly asked him.
Su Yang nodded before laying his back on the bed whilst Disciple Ji climbed above him with her butt facing his face.
Once they were in the Yin Yang position that was also known as the 69 position, Disciple Ji began sucking on Su Yang's meatstick while he savored her pink slit with his large hands firmly gripped onto her soft and round buttocks.
A few minutes of slurping sounds later, Disciple Ji suddenly stopped sucking and spoke in a hasty voice, "I-It's coming out!"
"You can let it out," Su Yang responded with calmness.
"..."
While Disciple Ji wanted to ask if he was sure about it, she could not hold onto her climax any longer and released her Yin Qi, showering Su Yang's face with her holy water.
Su Yang closed his eyes and allowed her Yin Qi to rain on his face with a cool expression, looking like a heroic warrior in the rain after an intense battle.
"A-Are you okay, Su Yang…?" Disciple Ji asked him afterward with a worried face, afraid that she might have released too much Yin Qi.
"I am perfectly fine," he said as he combed his wet hair backward, even licking the Yin Qi that was around his lips in an erotic manner.
"Um… I think I am ready to take it," she said to him a moment later.
Su Yang nodded and said, "You can do whatever you want with it."
Hearing his words, Disciple Ji looked at the massive rod before her and swallowed in a nervous manner. Will it really fit inside her small hole?
After taking a moment to prepare herself, Disciple Ji turned around and squatted above his pelvis area with her cave's entrance touching the very tip of Su Yang's sword.
She then used one of her hands to spread apart her pink slit wide open to allow for an easier entrance. And because she'd just climaxed very recently, there was Yin Qi still leaking out of her hole, which dripped onto the rod that was right below her cave, making it look as though she was saucing up his meatstick before sticking it inside her lower mouth.
Even Liu Lanzhi couldn't help but swallow nervously after seeing Su Yang's tasty-looking meatstick.
A moment later, Disciple Ji began squatting even lower, until she could feel the hot and hard tip of Su Yang's rod touching the entrance to her cave.
"Haaa…"
And after taking a deep breath, Disciple Ji began inserting his rod even deeper into her hole.
However, because of her nervousness that was causing her legs to become shaky, Disciple Ji suddenly slipped and fell, accidentally shoving his entire rod into her cave in an instant.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
Disciple Ji shrieked in pain when she took Su Yang's entire shaft so suddenly and forcefully, feeling as though she'd just tore an enormous hole down there.
*Gasp*
Disciple Chen gasped in shock while Liu Lanzhi covered her mouth after witnessing this scene, and even Su Yang couldn't help but become startled by this unexpected event.
"Are you okay?" Su Yang asked her a moment later. He could only imagine the pain she was feeling at this moment.
"Y-Y-Yes…" Disciple Ji spoke in a suppressed voice with her jaw clenched tightly, clearly trying to hold back from crying out loud.
633 A Talented Squirter
"I...I am okay… I am really okay…" Disciple Ji spoke with teary eyes, looking as though she could cry at any moment.
'What a resilient young lady. I would've definitely cried my eyes out if I had to take a penis at that size so forcefully as a maiden who's never had any experience before.' Liu Lanzhi said to herself, praising Disciple Ji inwardly.
"Let me relieve some of the pain for you." Su Yang then poked her stomach with his index finger that was glowing with a warm light.
Very quickly, Disciple Ji could feel the pain below quickly subduing. However, while the pain was disappearing, the blood did not slow down and continued to flow from her cave.
"Do you want to stop here today?" Su Yang asked her a moment later.
"N-No!" She quickly shook her head before speaking, "I can handle this! It's just a little pain and blood! It'll eventually stop!"
Seeing the brave and stubborn expression on her graceful face, Su Yang nodded his head and said, "Then you can move at your own pace for now. Once you are feeling more comfortable, I will start moving."
"Okay."
Disciple Ji then inhaled and exhaled deeply a few times before she got back on her feet. Sometime later, she began moving her hips up and down, riding Su Yang's thick rod with stiff yet passionate movements.
Pap! Pap! Pap!
Su Yang could feel her soft buttocks slapping against his pelvis area every time she moved.
"Haaa… haaa… haaaaa…"
Disciple Ji moaned in a cute voice as she felt Su Yang's rod stimulating her inner wall with every stroke, causing her flower to drool with love nectar.
And many minutes later, when all of her pain was gone, Su Yang grabbed her by the hips and said, "I will take care of you from here."
Once Disciple Ji nodded her head, Su Yang pulled her body down while thrusting his hip forward.
"Aaaaaah~!"
Feeling Su Yang's rod reaching the deepest parts of her cave, Disciple Ji screamed in pleasure while her body trembled from bliss. It had taken Su Yang only a single movement to knock her soul into Heaven.
A moment later, Yin Qi flowed from Disciple Ji's cave like a waterfall.
"This is just the beginning," Su Yang said to her as he continued moving despite the fact that she was still climaxing.
"Aaaaaaaah~!"
Disciple Ji's cave squirted Yin Qi as though it was a broken dam, soaking the wall behind with sparkling liquid.
"W-What a talented squirter…" Liu Lanzhi mumbled in a dazed voice after seeing the way Disciple Ji stained the wall with her Yin Qi, and it helped her recall her first meeting with Su Yang during the Inner Court disciple assessment, where she experienced his divine techniques for the first time and squirted everywhere as the result.
"Oh, this is quite amazing…" Even Su Yang praised her squirting ability when she hasn't stopped squirting even many moments later, and it only made him want to test her limits even more.
Thus, he continued to thrust his hot rod into her body until she eventually exhausts her last drop of Yin Qi a few minutes later.
"You are quite impressive. It makes one wonder why you didn't become a dual cultivator instead." Su Yang said to her afterward.
However, Disciple Ji did not respond, as she was simply too exhausted.
"Here, let me reward you for enduring so much today…"
The sword in Disciple Ji's body suddenly began trembling, and a moment later, it released hundreds of millions of tiny warriors into her body. The tiny white warriors then rushed through the battlefield until it could no longer advance, filling every nook and cranny in Disciple Ji's cave.
"I feel… so full…" Disciple Ji mumbled with a dazed expression on her face.
Su Yang removed his plug from her hole a moment later, and the tiny white warriors could be seen falling from her cliff.
"Maybe we should train her as a dual cultivator instead," Liu Lanzhi spoke in a joking tone sometime later. "It'd be a waste if someone talented like her becomes a normal cultivator."
Su Yang smiled at her words and said, "Who knows, maybe she'll voluntarily become a dual cultivator after what she experienced today."
Sometime later, Su Yang turned his attention to the other disciple, Disciple Chen.
"I am going to fill your body to the brim with my Yang Qi so that you can cultivate in the Celestial Pond efficiently," he said to her.
"Please take care of me..." She nodded with an excited smile on her face, as her little sister has been feeling this hot and tingly sensation for a while now.
"Since you are already this wet, we won't need any foreplay, right?" he said to her after seeing that she was already drooling wet when she removed her clothes.
"Go ahead… Stick it inside me…" Disciple Chen laid on the bed with her legs spread wide open.
A moment later, Su Yang shoved his rod into her slippery cave with ease.
"Aaaaaah~!"
Disciple Chen moaned with passion, feeling as though she'd entered Heaven.
Many minutes later, Su Yang released his Yang Qi into her body, filling her cave until it began leaking from the entrance.
However, he did not immediately unplug his shaft from her hole and instead opened his storage ring to take out a piece of talisman.
"I am going to seal the Yang Qi inside you so that you can use it at the Celestial Pond. Don't remove it or cultivate it until then," he said to her.
"Won't I get pregnant if I don't cultivate the Yang Qi immediately?" Disciple Chen asked him with raised eyebrows, not that she minded conceiving his child.
"My Yang Qi is special. You'll be fine," he responded with confidence.
"I can vouch for his words," Liu Lanzhi suddenly said.
Su Yang then turned to look at her and said, "It's your turn now."
"About time," she nodded with a smile.
A moment later, Liu Lanzhi removed her clothes, and to Disciple Chen's surprise, there was already a seal on her body. How long have they been doing this? No wonder why Liu Lanzhi vouched for him.
634 Elite Sec
Once it was finally Liu Lanzhi's turn to cultivate with Su Yang, she removed her clothes and removed her seal a moment later, letting the Yang Qi that had been stored inside to leak down her thighs.
"There's only a little bit of your Yang Qi left inside," she said to him.
He nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will fill you to the brim later."
"But before I do that, let's remove the old Yang Qi."
Su Yang began massaging her body with one hand and fingering her wet cave with the other, letting her Yin Qin flush the Yang Qi out of her body.
A few minutes later, once Liu Lanzhi emptied out the Yang Qi from her body, Su Yang inserted his sword into her pink cave that was twitching from lust and desire.
"Aaaaaah~!"
Feeling a massive shaft brushing against her inner walls, Liu Lanzhi moaned loudly, and her body trembled from pleasure.
Pap! Pap! Pap!
Su Yang pounded Liu Lanzhi's body as though he was forging a masterpiece with his hammer, causing Liu Lanzhi to feel as though her entire body was on fire.
"Yes! Yes~! That is the spot! Do it harder! Fuck me harder, Su Yang!" Liu Lanzhi gazed at him with a lustful face, her gaze pleading for more.
Pap! Pap! Pap!
The large bed began to shake slightly when Su Yang increased his intensity, and Liu Lanzhi's voice also increased in volume and sharpness.
Many minutes of cultivation later, Su Yang released his Yang Qi into Liu Lanzhi's cave.
"Aaaaaaaah~! So hot~!"
Liu Lanzhi felt as though a volcano had erupted inside her stomach, yet it was not painful in the slightest but incredibly pleasant instead, and in just a few moments, her stomach was filled with Yang Qi.
Su Yang then retrieved a seal and swiftly sealed her cave entrance without letting even a single drop leak.
"Wow, this feels even fuller than usual." Liu Lanzhi said to him afterward.
"That's because I actually released more Yang Qi than usual, filling your stomach until it reached its limits," he said to her. "With the Celestial Pond speeding up your cultivation speed, you'll need more resources than normal."
"I see…" Liu Lanzhi nodded with an understanding face.
A few minutes later, Su Yang looked at Liu Lanzhi and Disciple Chen and said, "The two of you won't be able to continue because of the seal."
He then turned to look at Disciple Ji and the female servant, "What about you two? We can do as many sessions as you want."
"I want to do it again!" Disciple Ji spoke without hesitation.
"If… If possible, this servant would like to continue pleasing the Young Master," said the female servant with a bashful expression.
Su Yang nodded and said, "I will keep you both accompanied until you are satisfied."
Thus, Su Yang began another session with Disciple Ji and the female servant, and they would continue to cultivate until the girls reached their limits and collapsed from exhaustion.
Meanwhile, Liu Lanzhi and Disciple Chen watched with envy, and they regretted sealing their lower mouths so quickly.
Seeing this, Su Yang said to them with a smile on his face, "If you want to, we can remove your seals so we can cultivate more, and we will reseal them again at the end."
"You can do that?! Why didn't you say so in the beginning!" Liu Lanzhi wasted no time tearing her seal apart, letting the Yang Qi in her stomach to flow out like a waterfall.
Disciple Chen followed Liu Lanzhi and also removed her seal, and the three of them continued to cultivate until the following morning.
"Su Yang, are you awake?" Xie Xingfang's voice resounded outside early in the morning.
"Yes, I am awake. Give me a second to dress." Su Yang said to her.
Once he was fully dressed, Su Yang opened the door and asked her, "What's the matter?"
"Good morning, Su Yang. I was just wondering if you would like to eat breakfast with us." Xie Xingfang asked him.
"Breakfast, huh? Sure." He nodded.
"What about the others…?" she asked him with her body slightly fidgeting.
Su Yang looked at the girls sleeping soundly on the bed before speaking, "I don't think they'll be able to make it."
"I see… Although it's unfortunate, we still have dinner tonight," she said.
Sometime later, Xie Xingfang brought Su Yang to another room, where the Xie Family and Yan Yan was already present and sitting around the table that was filled to the brim with food emitting spiritual energy.
"This is quite the meal even for a family of your stature. Don't tell me you eat this every morning?" Su Yang spoke after seeing the spiritual food on the table.
"This is a special occasion. We normally don't even eat breakfast, much less one this extravagant." Lord Xie said to him.
"Hm? Why are you alone? What about the ladies?" Xie Wang asked him after noticing that the others were not with him.
"Let's just say they were up all night cultivating diligently." Su Yang responded with a calm smile on his face.
"..."
Xie Wang was rendered speechless by Su Yang's honesty. To think he'd be bold enough to have sex in someone else's house and even talk about it without any shame on his face!
"As expected of Dual Cultivators. You people are something else." Xie Wang shook his head inwardly.
"I'll take that as a compliment," said Su Yang as he took a seat at the table.
"Anyway, let's talk after we finish eating, or the food will get cold." Lord Xie spoke before reaching for the food.
An hour later, when everyone had satisfied stomachs, the servants began cleaning the table.
Once the table was cleaned, Lord Xie looked at Su Yang and spoke with a serious expression on his face, "I already know the answer to this question, but I still want to ask you about it regardless."
After a moment of silence, he continued, "Are you willing to accept the title of Elite Sect for the Profound Blossom Sect?"
635 Alliance With the Xie Family
The entire place turned silent after Lord Xie's question for Su Yang, and the Xie Family glared at him as though they wanted to eat him alive.
"If you already know the answer, why did you still bother asking?" Su Yang spoke a moment later with a calm expression on his face.
"Just in case you decide to exceed my expectations and surprise me, even if that chance might be almost nonexistent."
"I see…" Su Yang slowly nodded his head, and he responded a moment later in a clear voice, "I refuse."
A bitter smile appeared on Lord Xie's face after hearing his words. Even though he'd already expected this answer, it was still baffling to him that someone would actually refuse his offer. In fact, Su Yang is the first person to have ever refused his offer, setting a precedent.
"You probably already know the reason, but in case you don't…" Su Yang cleared his throat before continuing to speak, "By accepting your offer, the Profound Blossom Sect is essentially admitting to the world that we will lower ourselves before you— the Xie Family, becoming just another one of your 'forces' like the other Elite Sects, and I will not let the Profound Blossom Sect become lackeys for anyone."
"The Profound Blossom Sect will continue to grow, and it will eventually become one of if not the most powerful force in the entire world."
"..."
Lord Xie stared at Su Yang with a serious expression on his face, and he spoke, "What are your goals? Why do you want the Profound Blossom Sect to have so much power? What do you gain from that?"
"My goals? I don't really have one, nor do I expect to gain anything in return for my efforts. As for why I want the Profound Blossom Sect to have so much power… Isn't it the Sect Masters' responsibility to strengthen, expand, and make a name for their own Sect? Don't everyone want the best for their own Sect? I did not take the position of Sect Master just for show, and just like every Sect Master out there, I will be doing everything in my power to improve my Sect. Though, there is one difference between me and the others— I actually have the ability to make the Profound Blossom Sect stand at the top of this world, and that's exactly what I intend on doing."
After a moment of silence, Su Yang continued to speak, "There's no need for the scary faces. Even though the Profound Blossom Sect is destined to surpass the Xie Family in every way, you don't have to worry about us taking your family's position as ruler of the Eastern Continent."
"And I am supposed to just trust your words? How do I know that you won't do the complete opposite in the future?" Lord Xie asked him with a frown.
"You won't know." Su Yang shrugged. "However, it's not as though the Profound Blossom Sect does not already have what it takes to take over the entire world. If I cared about ruling the Eastern Continent, I would've done so long ago."
"..."
Lord Xie did not open his mouth again after Su Yang finished his last sentence. Although he was not there to witness Su Yang's prowess when he fought Patriarch Gold, he knew very well that Su Yang already had the capability to replace him because Xie Wang, his father, had long told him about Su Yang's real strength and that if he truly wanted to, Su Yang could easily destroy the Xie Family.
"Let's not get too heated up so quickly right after breakfast, you two." Xie Wang was the first to break the awkward silence, and he looked at Su Yang and said, "We already knew that you have the ability to rule the Eastern Continent even before I witnessed your fight with the expert from the Holy Central Continent. However, despite that, we trust you, or else we wouldn't be sitting here so peacefully."
Su Yang nodded and said, "As long as you don't cause trouble for my Profound Blossom Sect or stick your nose where it does not belong, we will also keep our hands to ourselves and only operate within our own territory. If you are still worried, I can sign a contract or even a peace treaty."
"..."
Xie Wang and Lord Xie exchanged gazes with each other. They actually liked Su Yang's idea to sign a peace treaty.
However, before they can even open their mouths, Xie Xingfang spoke first, "Instead of a peace treaty which makes it sound as though we were enemies at one point, why don't we form an Alliance with each other? Like how your Profound Blossom Sect formed an Alliance with the Burning Lotus Sect and the Heavenly Swan Sect. This way, the Profound Blossom Sect will neither be above or below us, and we will exist as equals."
"An Alliance, huh? I can also do that," Su Yang nodded.
"What do you think, Father? Grandfather? Are you willing to form an Alliance with Su Yang— the Profound Blossom Sect?" Xie Xingfang took control of the entire situation and asked them as though she was in charge.
"Y-Yes…" They both nodded simultaneously, seemingly dumbfounded by her actions.
"Then it's decided, Su Yang. Our Xie Family will gladly form an Alliance with your Profound Blossom Sect," she said to him with a smile on her face. "We will announce it to the public after you return to the Profound Blossom Sect, as it would be troublesome if we are bombarded with questions by the public when we are already busy enough with our plans for the next few days."
"That's fine," Su Yang calmly nodded.
Thus, the Profound Blossom Sect and the Xie Family formed an Alliance with each other, setting a precedent, as this is the first time in history the Xie Family has formed an alliance with another power, which will greatly shock the Eastern Continent once news begins to spread.