Right now, the personas of all three Junior Sisters are completely off! I can only pin my hopes on the goddess on Fairy Cliff, the one whose beauty is considered the absolute pinnacle!
After calming his mind, Lin Xiao decided to steer the plot back on track. Adopting the familiar posture of an antagonist, he sneered, "Second Junior Sister, stop beating around the bush. Let me tell you the truth! I came to the Alchemy Tower today to get a pill. As for what I'm going to do with it, humph! It's none of your business!"
His words were almost like delivering his head on a platter! If Guo Yourong had any sense, she would at least suspect something, right?
However, what he never expected was that this usually frosty Second Junior Sister, holding a purplish-black pill in her cupped hands, smiled charmingly, revealing faint dimples. "Eldest Senior Brother, are you looking for this? The Seven Absolute Pill? Hmm?"
Damn it! How did she know?
Lin Xiao was completely dumbfounded! But he was indeed a professional antagonist actor! After a quick thought, he made the most beneficial decision!
"Humph! Give it to me!"
With a menacing look, he snatched the Seven Absolute Pill from Guo Yourong's hand, then pushed open the door and left.
With such abnormal behavior, this girl has to suspect me now, right? Yes, she definitely will! Lin Xiao thought.
「...」
"Wow! My Eldest Senior Brother is so adorable! How come I never noticed before?"
"Sigh! I must have been blind!"
Watching her Eldest Senior Brother's hasty, flustered departure, Guo Yourong's beautiful eyes sparkled, her young heart practically bursting with joy!
"But speaking of which, Eldest Senior Brother, Little Rong already had Elder Gu refine this Seven Absolute Pill further. Its toxicity is now ten times stronger than before. I guarantee that after Ye Chen takes it, his heart will be destroyed, his soul extinguished, his life forfeit! He will die utterly, body and soul, never to enter reincarnation!"
A hint of almost frenzied excitement flashed across Guo Yourong's strikingly beautiful face!
「...」
「At the summit of Divine Phoenix Peak, Fairy Cliff.」
"Disciple pays his respects to Master!"
After returning the pill to his room, Lin Xiao went to Xiao Hongling's wooden house and knelt respectfully before it.
To be honest, in the years since he transmigrated, he hadn't seen this beautiful Master of his very often. At this moment, he felt an uncharacteristic nervousness in his heart.
It was known that in the original novel, Xiao Hongling, despite being the junior of the other four Chairmen in terms of seniority, her unparalleled talent and fiercely domineering personality compelled even Sect Leader True Master Ziyun to show her considerable deference!
"Aha, my good disciple, you... you're here..."
"Quick... come in quickly!"
A slurred female voice, punctuated by hiccups, came from the wooden house.
Is she drinking again? Lin Xiao's heart tightened.
It was well known that Xiao Hongling's disposition was a complete mismatch for her world-stunning beauty! She had a bold and unrestrained personality, a love for drinking, and a penchant for righting wrongs she encountered. She would often descend the mountain to roam the mortal world, sometimes not returning for a year or even half a year at a time. She had casually rescued Second Junior Sister Guo Yourong during her travels in the Great Zhou Empire.
Setting aside her gender and appearance, Xiao Hongling's persona was practically the template for a great hero in martial arts novels! This had made Xiao Hongling the undisputed favorite female lead among readers when the harem novel "Emperor" was being serialized!
"Hmm? Why are you just standing there? Aren't you... going to listen to your Master anymore?"
"Hmph, if you don't come in, your Master... will be unhappy! Stupid disciple!"
Xiao Hongling's voice came from the wooden house again.
Lin Xiao wasn't sure if he was overthinking it, but he couldn't shake the feeling that her tone carried... a hint of feminine... coquetry?
Damn, a two-hundred-year-old woman acting coquettish... that's just too terrifying.
Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and pushed the door open.
He looked around. He saw a woman as beautiful as a painting, her features exquisite, her black hair cascading like a waterfall as she lay languidly on a Cold Jade Bed. Looking down, beneath the hem of her white gauze skirt, a pair of full yet slender, beautiful legs were elegantly crossed. As she wore no shoes or socks, her nimble, exquisitely beautiful, snow-white bare feet were fully visible.
It could be said that if she weren't holding a wine jug in one hand, slightly marring her image, she would seem like a humanoid sculpture of the finest jade!
Lin Xiao didn't consider himself a loser who couldn't walk straight at the sight of a beautiful woman. His three Junior Sisters were all peerless beauties, but compared to Xiao Hongling, they always lacked a certain je ne sais quoi.
Lin Xiao bowed. "Disciple pays his respects to Master!"
"Hah, Master hasn't seen you for quite a while. Come closer, let Master have a good look at you."
While Xiao Hongling drank her wine, her phoenix eyes roamed over Lin Xiao.
The next moment, her eyes narrowed slightly, her expression finally taking on a hint of seriousness. "Hmm? In just three months, you've... broken through to Foundation Establishment?"
"Not only that... your Endowment and Spiritual Root have also undergone a metamorphosis."
Lin Xiao's heart jolted. Indeed, nothing could be hidden from this number one immortal beauty of the Cultivation World. And this matter was truly difficult to explain!
Xiao Hongling knew his aptitude like the back of her hand. Given his cultivation progress, without eighty to a hundred years, he couldn't possibly enter the Innate realm!
"Disciple... um, encountered a stroke of immortal fortune," Lin Xiao said, steeling himself, "But please forgive Disciple, Master... Disciple cannot reveal the identity of that esteemed expert."
"Oh? Such a thing actually happened?" A playful smile touched Xiao Hongling's stunning lips. "Well, if that's true, it's quite reasonable. After all, you are my, Xiao Hongling's, disciple. It's only natural for you to be favored by the Heavenly Dao's fortune!"
"Haha, Master is right," Lin Xiao hastily agreed.
"By the way, you've met that Princely Heir of Prince Beichuan, Ye Chen, haven't you?" Xiao Hongling continued to drink her wine, casually tossing out this question.
"Hmm?" Hearing this, Lin Xiao's heart pounded violently! How could his beautiful Master know about Ye Chen in advance!? This plot has gone completely off the rails!
"Never mind, let's not talk about that for now." Xiao Hongling looked up at her eldest disciple, handsome as a painting. Her already stunningly beautiful face, flushed a delicate crimson from the wine, appeared even more enchantingly bewitching.
"Come play with Master, my good disciple~" Her voice, joyful and alluringly soft, rang out.
The next moment, Xiao Hongling's gaze turned abruptly cold. She shot out a snow-white, delicate hand and grabbed Lin Xiao's hand! In her other hand, a treasured sword, shimmering with a purple aura, suddenly materialized!
In a flash, Lin Xiao felt the world spin around him. The surrounding scenery receded rapidly, as if he were in a spacetime tunnel!
By the time he came to his senses, a mountain breeze was brushing his face. He found himself standing at the edge of a precipice!
"Master? Master, what are you planning to do?" Lin Xiao's heart clenched. He looked around frantically, but his beautiful Master was nowhere to be seen!
There was no response.
After a long moment, dark clouds gathered in the Nine Heavens above. Amidst rolling thunder, a cold, dignified female voice resonated:
"Disciple! Quickly, duel with your Master!"