Not long after Tang Yu descended the mountain and left the Sect of the Maidens.
Chunhua, who had been looking for the cat everywhere without success, came back from outside furious; just when she was going to check if the cat had returned, she discovered a storage ring on her headboard.
She saw that it was a storage ring she had never seen before.
She approached it, opened it, and was greatly startled.
Five hundred high-grade spirit stones nearly blinded her with their brightness.
To her, those spirit stones represented an astronomical figure, at least enough to not worry about the lack of resources until reaching the Golden Core stage.
Unconsciously, she glanced around nervously, then checked the storage ring again.
She found a sheet of paper.
She saw that the words "repaying the favor" and the imprint of a cat's paw were written on it.
Chunhua came to her senses and nearly fainted.
Repaying the favor?
Wasn't that guy just an ordinary cat?
Realizing she had been completely fooled, Chunhua covered her face, not knowing how she'd have the face to see her fellow disciples again.
That damned cat, it surely had the soul of a scoundrel inside!
After a while of lamenting, Chunhua thought for a moment and decided to keep this a secret.
Otherwise, if it got out, she'd surely be the first to get beaten!
While walking down the path, he sneezed.
Tang Yu rubbed his nose, knowing that Senior Sister Chunhua was probably missing him.
"The hot springs of my Hehuan Sect are nothing compared to those of the Sect of the Maidens."
Sighing with emotion, Tang Yu's head filled with pale images of those hot springs—truly the kind of scenery men loved most.
He took out a flying treasure, and just as he was preparing to return to the Hehuan Sect—
He hadn't walked far when the sky suddenly darkened, and immediately the whole world was plunged into darkness.
Even with a pig's brain, Tang Yu knew he had surely been marked by an expert.
"Are you there? Have you eaten?"
Sitting on his flying treasure, he raised his voice and shouted.
The other party didn't respond, which made Tang Yu realize the attacker was a man.
If it were a woman, she probably would have replied with something like "I'm going to bathe" or "I already went to sleep."
"I am. I haven't eaten, but before I kill you I want to ask you something."
A figure manifested in the darkness; it was none other than Xiao Juele, whom Fang Meiyun had secretly asked to assassinate Tang Yu.
After the incident at the Sect of the Maidens, Fang Meiyun contacted him, and he investigated the matter using his own mystical skills.
Thanks to his exclusive secret technique, he ended up suspecting the cat, but what he didn't expect was that the true big target was Tang Yu.
"Venerable, that's not fair, is it? Last time you said that if I ever had trouble in your area, I could use your name, and now you come to kill me?"
Tang Yu complained with a resigned smile.
"If you weren't Tang Yu, everything could be discussed. But since you are… for Meiyun, I'm willing to give it all."
Xiao Juele smiled coldly and asked, "If I destroy your split soul and kill your body, will your Hehuan Sect take revenge against the Sect of the Maidens or Meiyun?"
"I'm about to die and you think I'll tell you that?"
"Don't they say that a dying man's words are sincere?"
"They also say that saving a life is more meritorious than building a nine-story pagoda, so if you let me go, that counts as accumulated merit."
"Wasn't it a seven-story pagoda?"
"My life is a bit more valuable, you know that."
Tang Yu laughed mischievously.
Xiao Juele also smiled slightly, and raised his hand intending to use a technique to extract Tang Yu's split soul and damage him from there using his secret art.
"Don't do it, you could die."
Just as Xiao Juele was about to act, Tang Yu smiled and warned him.
Suddenly sensing danger, Xiao Juele stopped his action at once, and looked coldly at Tang Yu while murmuring: "Your sect's ancestor is insane? He dared to place a split soul of his in you?"
A split soul from an old monster at the peak of the Integration Realm.
If he activated his secret technique to summon the main body, it would arrive in just a few breaths.
But that also meant that old monster would have to take a great personal risk.
If someone dared attack that split soul, the outcome was easy to imagine.
"Of course! If I had a descendant as promising as me, I'd do the same."
Tang Yu rolled his eyes and said: "Venerable, sit down and let's talk properly. There's no point in you and me ending up fighting. We might even cooperate."
"Cooperate how?"
Xiao Juele became alert. He had already investigated a few things about Tang Yu, and knew this guy was incredibly cunning and good at setting traps.
Otherwise, how could Fang Meiyun, the dignified leader of the Sect of the Maidens, have ended up separated from her sect?
"You can rest assured if you work with me. Brother Meng became my good brother after cooperating with me."
Tang Yu took out the flying sword Meng Zihao had given him and smiled: "In a sense, you're all the same. Fang Meiyun was nothing but a tool for your cultivation."
Xiao Juele narrowed his eyes without saying a word.
"Back then, your feelings for Fang Meiyun were sincere. Not managing to sleep with her left you with a thorn in your side, to the point that you distanced yourself. From your perspective, you believed that, to her, her vital energy was more important than you."
"For cultivators, the most dangerous thing is to have a disturbed heart, especially at your level. That kind of obsession must have made your advancement to the Integration Realm very difficult, right?"
After hearing these words from Tang Yu,
Xiao Juele nodded silently.
He never would've imagined that that small obsession from the past, with time and cultivation, would grow stronger and stronger, eventually becoming his inner demon during his level advancement.
If not for his special cultivation technique, he would have inevitably gone mad and died from deviation.
For a cultivator, the higher the level, the more important the state of heart.
Cultivating is cultivating the heart!
"If I'm not mistaken, senior, your method for breaking free from this was to sever the ties of emotion, get her first to dispel the obsession, and then kill your wife to attain the Dao, right?"
Tang Yu asked.
Xiao Juele closed his eyes and replied with a faint "hmm." He finally understood why this person, with such little time in cultivation, had reached such a level so quickly.
Besides accumulating his level with money,
his understanding of the Great Dao far surpassed that of others!
A talent worthy of an Immortal Emperor.
"Then it's simple. You don't need to fight me, our goals are the same. Come with me to the Hehuan Sect, and I'll help you…"
Tang Yu let out a chuckle, gestured with his hand, and started chatting with Xiao Juele.
After half an hour had passed,
the darkness around them vanished. A man and a cat were standing on a flying treasure, on their way back to the Hehuan Sect.
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Fairy Mountain.
Fang Meiyun stood halfway up the mountain, using divine powers to reshape the peak.
The disciples and elders who had left the Sect of the Maidens with her were also helping enthusiastically.
This mountain overflowed with spiritual energy. Fang Meiyun had bought it for six hundred high-grade spirit stones.
They all worked happily, their faces full of excitement.
They were convinced this was a new beginning. They wanted to follow their leader to create a miracle, a force capable of rivaling the seven great sects.
Just as Fang Meiyun was busy setting up a large spiritual gathering formation,
Xiao Juele, who had disappeared for a time, tore through space and appeared beside her.
"Juele…"
Seeing him return, Fang Meiyun was about to greet him, but her gaze fell on the treasure Xiao Juele was holding.
It was a golden hourglass the size of a finger, through which black sand slowly flowed. At the bottom of the hourglass was a semi-transparent soul.
That soul had a vacant look, and its face was exactly that of the hated Tang Yu.
"I found an opportunity to steal a portion of his soul in his dream and trap it in this Prison Sand. Do you want to kill him directly or refine him inside the hourglass?"
Xiao Juele handed the hourglass to Fang Meiyun and asked in a gentle tone.
"Refine him. Killing him like that would be too easy for him. I want to turn him into my puppet, make him lose everything and never be reborn!"
Said Fang Meiyun through gritted teeth, with hatred.
Killing that bastard so easily was too merciful.
With a thought, the Prison Sand shrank even more, and she hung it on her bracelet as an ornament.
This way, seeing him every day being refined little by little made her heart feel incredibly satisfied!
"Meiyun~"
Xiao Juele hugged her by the waist and leaned close to her ear to whisper: "I've fulfilled what I promised. Shouldn't you also…"
"I…"
Xiao Juele's warm breath tickled Fang Meiyun's ear, and blushing slightly, she replied: "Give me a few more days, okay? I need to prepare myself mentally."
"Just a few days?"
"Just a few days. I won't lie to you this time. Believe me, silly."
Fang Meiyun placed her index finger on Xiao Juele's lips and said: "From now on, I'm yours. Don't rush."
"With all these years and your beard already white, how could I not be in a hurry?"
Saying that, Xiao Juele received a punch from Fang Meiyun.
After punching him, Fang Meiyun let out a small whimper and flew off, leaving behind: "I'm not going to listen to you!"
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