45: Chapter 45 Ye Fan Desecrated the Holy Maiden?

Zhuge Yue carried the moon shadow cloud soul spear and drifted slowly down from the sky. Her sleeves fluttered, and her cold, aloof face showed no ripples of having just experienced a life-or-death battle, as if she had merely brushed away a fallen leaf.

Li Guidai immediately put on a fawning smile and scurried up to her, acting like a sycophant as he began to knead Zhuge Yue's shoulders and arms, his tone flattering:

"My wife, you've worked hard! Are you tired? Are your arms sore? Come, come, quickly taste this lemon spirit tea I just chilled with ice-element magic; it's refreshing and relieves fatigue! For rough and tiring work like fighting and killing, just let your husband handle it next time. Don't tire out my precious wife!"

Zhuge Yue took the cup of spirit tea, which was swirling with cold mist and the fresh scent of lemons, and shot him an annoyed glance. That look clearly said:

"Who was it that was watching the show, eating melon seeds, and commenting so happily just a moment ago?" But when she lowered her head to take a sip of the sweet, sour, and icy tea, a hint of warmth involuntarily rippled through the depths of her eyes.

She set down the teacup, her voice returning to its usual gentleness, as if it hadn't been her who just stabbed a Golden Core late-stage cultivator to death with a single spear thrust: "That person coveted me first and provoked me later. Furthermore, he spoke filthy words, so he brought this upon himself. Husband, you need not take it to heart."

This interaction, where the two of them acted so nonchalant after killing someone and even showed affection on the spot, made the scalps of all the secret observers tingle, their backs drenched in cold sweat!

Killing the Meiliu Sect Master was just like swatting a buzzing mosquito, and then turning around to drink tea, rub shoulders, and show affection!

This couple—one was a mental pollutant, the other a physical exorcist—and they were actually so affectionate! They absolutely could not be provoked!

A few days later, on the third floor of Yuegui Pavilion—Deep Cloud Abode!

Li Guidai crossed his legs and slumped without any decorum on a grand armchair covered in soft snow mink fur. In his hand, he toyed with the Meiliu Sect Master's token he had looted from Xu Mang, rolling it like walnuts, and let out a cunning chuckle:

"Yueer, look, this Meiliu Sect is, at any rate, a sect with status and a large estate. Now that their sect master is gone, they are a dragon without a head, and things below must be in a complete mess! As a helpful neighbor, shouldn't we, the Li Family, carry forward the fine tradition of helping others and go help them manage their assets and soothe their disciples? Lest they go astray!"

Zhuge Yue walked over carrying a plate of spirit fruits and gently draped a moon-white robe with flowing cloud patterns over his shoulders, advising him softly:

"Husband, our family has just been established, our foundation is still shallow, and a tall tree catches the wind. While annexing the Meiliu Sect is good, I fear it will arouse the wariness of other surrounding sects. Moreover, we don't understand the internal situation of the Meiliu Sect yet! We still need to be cautious and prioritize increasing our cultivation first."

Upon hearing this, Li Guidai abruptly sat up straight and slapped his thigh: "That's right! Wife, you are right! I'm only in the Golden Core stage! What am I posturing for? I actually thought I was invincible! With just this bit of cultivation, running to someone else's sect headquarters to show off—isn't that just serving myself up on a platter?" He instantly sobered up from his inflated state.

But the next second, his eyes rolled, and he revealed his usual lecherous smile, pulling Zhuge Yue into his arms: "Wife! Since external expansion is risky, then we shall focus on improving our internal strength first! Come, come, a spring night... ah no, a moment of cultivation is worth a thousand pieces of gold! Your husband feels that my Ancient Kidney Physique has improved again. Let's engage in dual cultivation; perhaps we can directly charge toward the Golden Core mid-stage!"

Zhuge Yue's pretty face instantly flushed red, both shy and annoyed, and she pushed him away: "You! You get serious! I am still in the pregnancy period! The medical cultivator said that I need to rest quietly for the first three months! Stay away from me!"

Li Guidai immediately became a drama queen, pretending to wail in grievance: "Wife! You weren't like this before! How come after you broke through to the Golden Core and awakened that whatever immortal physique, you feel like a different person? You're so cold to me! Your husband's heart hurts so much!"

Watching his shameless behavior, Zhuge Yue was both annoyed and amused. She sighed helplessly, a trace of imperceptible confusion and coldness flashing across her expression, and said in a low voice: "I don't know either... After awakening the immortal physique, it seems... there are some vague memory fragments in my mind. They feel... very strange, yet very familiar... My temperament might indeed have been affected a little."

Li Guidai's wailing stopped abruptly, and he blinked in bewilderment: "Ah? Memory fragments? Why does this flavor feel a bit familiar... It wouldn't be some big shot reincarnated, would it? No way, right? Could my wife also be a female classmate with a backstory?"

"Wife, you mustn't learn those tropes! We are in a power fantasy novel, not a tragic protagonist genre!"

Just as Li Guidai was pondering his wife's changes, outside Ganlu Town, a travel-worn figure quietly appeared.

His clothes were somewhat damaged, and his face bore the fatigue of a long journey, but his eyes were still as bright as stars, flashing with an unyielding and determined light. It was none other than Ye Fan, whom he hadn't seen in a long time!

His face bore unconcealable fatigue, but those eyes remained as bright and firm as stars.

He looked from afar at the magnificent Yuegui Pavilion and muttered to himself, his tone carrying a trace of guilt and determination: "Brother Li, I'm sorry! I've caused too much trouble this time, and those crazy women from the Yaoguang Sacred Land are chasing me too tightly. I can only borrow this 'treasure land' of yours that has just made a name for itself to divert their attention! If you can hold on... I, Ye Fan, swear that in the future, I will definitely compensate you a hundredfold!"

After speaking, he no longer hesitated. His figure flashed, and like a ghost, he disappeared from the spot, leaving behind in the air only a few extremely obscure traces of spiritual power that carried the unique aura of the Yaoguang Sacred Land, pointing directly toward Yuegui Pavilion!

After doing all this, he truly turned around and fled in another direction. He was shifting the blame, intending to make the pursuers mistakenly believe he had hidden in Li Guidai's territory!

If Li Guidai could hear Ye Fan's inner thoughts right now, he would absolutely jump up and curse, then without hesitation, grab his parents and foster sister, drive his Lamborghini, and run away! What kind of surprise was this? This was a shock!

Meanwhile, in the distant Central Region, inside a majestic immortal mountain palace shrouded in clouds and mist.

A woman wearing the attire of a core disciple of the Yaoguang Sacred Land, with a beautiful face but shrouded in an unmelting layer of frost, was sternly questioning the few disciples kneeling and trembling on the ground below: "Trash! A bunch of trash! You can't even keep an eye on one person! Where on earth did that lecher Ye Fan hide? He dared... he actually dared to desecrate the Saintess! This hatred is irreconcilable! Even if I have to dig three feet into the ground, I will drag him out!"

One disciple gathered the courage to reply in a trembling voice: "Senior Sister Leng... there... there is intelligence saying that the last direction Ye Fan appeared in seems to be... a small place in the Eastern Region called Ganlu Town. It is said that there is a newly risen family there recently that caused quite a stir, and its patriarch, Li Guidai, even triggered a significant natural phenomenon when breaking through to the Golden Core stage..."

"Ganlu Town? Li Family?" The woman called Senior Sister Leng had a cold light flash in her eyes, like ten-thousand-year black ice: "I don't care if he is some Li or Zhang family! Anyone who dares to harbor that thief Ye Fan is an enemy of our Yaoguang Sacred Land! Pass down the order: immediately dispatch a team of elite disciples to Ganlu Town in the Eastern Region to investigate carefully! If you discover Ye Fan's tracks, or if the Li Family is involved with him..."

Her voice paused, full of murderous intent: "Kill them without mercy!"