263: Gongsun Xing

Chapter 262 has been updated with 4000 words.

Thank you all for following along for so long.

However, this book is now flagged for infringement again. It didn't pass the first review, so it will probably be taken down... After writing for so long, there's really nothing I can do qaqa.

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He glanced at the terrified female Cultivator beside him and said indifferently, “This matter has nothing to do with you.”

With that, he took out another jade bottle and tossed it over.

“These Medicinal Pills are for you. Go back and Cultivate properly. Your body is too weak.”

As his voice faded, his figure had already vanished from the spot.

Only the female Cultivator remained, standing dumbfounded in the air, clutching the jade bottle in her hand, feeling the astonishing Spiritual Qi emanating from within. Her pretty face flushed crimson in an instant...

When Lin Feng's figure reappeared, he was already above a deserted sea.

With a wave of his single hand, five golden lights flew out from his sleeve, expanding against the wind. They transformed into five human-shaped Puppets, each three zhang tall, entirely golden, and exuding the terrifying aura of the Late Nascent Soul Stage.

“Go, search this sea area for traces of Azure Spirit Sect Cultivators.”

As he gave the order, the five Puppets transformed into five golden streaks of light, shooting off in different directions with alarming speed, disappearing into the horizon in an instant.

With the evasion speed of a Late Nascent Soul Stage Puppet, searching this sea area was merely a matter of time.

Sure enough, not long after, one of the Puppets made a discovery.

On a desolate small island, a young girl in a light green dress and a young Cultivator were supporting a weak middle-aged man, fleeing for their lives.

Behind them, a Yao Beast, shaped like a giant crocodile with two wings on its back, was in hot pursuit, spewing foul Yao wind from its gaping maw. Each attack left the three in a sorry state.

“Xing’er! You go! Don’t mind us!” The young Cultivator shielded the girl behind him, conjuring a broken shield to desperately block the Yao Beast's attacks, shouting anxiously.

“No! If we go, we go together!” The girl’s face was filled with stubbornness and despair.

Just as the Yao Beast's giant tail swept over, about to smash the three into meat paste.

At this critical moment, a golden light descended from the sky.

“Pfft!”

With a soft sound, the enormous head of the powerful Yao Beast, which seemed invincible to the three, instantly exploded. Its massive body crashed to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The girl, still shaken, looked up blankly at the golden figure hovering in mid-air, who had saved her life. Her heart was still pounding.

She composed herself, quickly pulled the young man beside her, took a few steps forward, and bowed deeply to the Puppet.

“Junior Gongsun Xing thanks Senior for saving her life!”

A red light flashed in the Puppet's emotionless electronic eyes, and a cold voice emanated from it: “You are merely at the Qi Refining stage. How dare you travel through this sea?”

The girl evidently did not realize that the “Senior” before her was a Puppet, assuming it was a reclusive master. She quickly recounted the entire story truthfully.

“Reporting to Senior, my Azure Spirit Sect suffered a great calamity, the Sect was destroyed, and my father is severely injured. Junior... Junior truly had no choice but to venture out to sea, hoping to find a life-saving Spirit Medicine for my father.”

As she spoke, the girl seemed to have made some decision. She glanced at her unconscious father behind her, then suddenly gritted her teeth, her knees buckling as she knelt on the ground, kowtowing heavily to the Puppet.

“I implore Senior to lend a helping hand and save my father’s life! This humble girl... this humble girl is willing to be a slave, for all generations, to repay Senior’s great kindness!”

A red light flashed in the Puppet's emotionless electronic eyes, and a cold voice emanated from it: “Since that is the case, this venerable one can give you this opportunity.”

As soon as the words fell, a palm-sized Storage Pouch flew out from the Puppet's hand, lightly landing in front of Gongsun Xing.

“The Medicinal Pills inside are enough to cure your father’s injuries. Go, and settle things with your Sect.”

Gongsun Xing tremblingly clasped the Storage Pouch tightly in her palm, as if holding onto her last straw of hope. She looked up, her eyes blurred with tears, and kowtowed heavily to the golden figure, her forehead colliding with the hard reef with a dull thud.

“Thank you, Senior, for your generosity! Thank you, Senior!”

She kowtowed three times in quick succession before scrambling to her feet, turning and running desperately towards the young Cultivator and her father.

“Senior Brother! Junior Martial Uncle! Father is saved!”

She shoved the Storage Pouch into the young Cultivator’s hand and quickly recounted what had happened.

Upon hearing this, the young Cultivator's face instantly turned pale. He grabbed Gongsun Xing's arm and shouted excitedly, “Xing’er, are you crazy! To be a slave? How could you make such a decision! We'll find another way!”

“There is no other way!” Gongsun Xing forcefully shook off his hand, tears streaming down her face, her voice filled with an undeniable resolve, “Senior Brother, this is the only hope to save Father! You take Junior Martial Uncle and the others and go find a place to live well, don’t ever come back!”

The previously silent middle-aged Junior Martial Uncle sighed, walked over and patted the young Cultivator’s shoulder, his eyes filled with helplessness and sorrow: “Let her go, this is her choice, and also the Sect Head’s fate.”

The young Cultivator looked at the resolute Gongsun Xing, then at the Medicinal Pills in the Storage Pouch that exuded astonishing Spiritual Qi. Finally, he closed his eyes in pain, two clear lines of tears rolling down his cheeks.

Ultimately, at Gongsun Xing’s urging, the two supported her unconscious father, piloting a dilapidated flying Magical Artifact, and disappeared into the sea and sky, looking back repeatedly.

Gongsun Xing stood rooted to the spot, until the light of their escape completely vanished. Only then did she wipe away her tears and turn to walk towards the Puppet.

But when she returned to the original spot, the tall golden figure had long since disappeared, leaving only the cold corpse of the giant crocodile Yao Beast and the blood-stained beach.

Her heart fluttered, and just as she was at a loss, a gentle yet magnetic male voice, without warning, echoed in her mind.

“Walk east, three hundred steps.”

This voice was completely different from the cold, mechanical voice of the Puppet earlier, filled with a reassuring power. Gongsun Xing did not hesitate, immediately walking eastward as instructed.

Three hundred steps away, on an unremarkable patch of sand, a circular array formed by countless runes glowed faintly.

“Step inside.”

The voice sounded again.

Gongsun Xing took a deep breath and stepped into the center of the array.

In an instant, dazzling white light engulfed her, and a dizzying sensation came over her. When she opened her eyes again, she was already inside a magnificent Immortal Cave, where Spiritual Qi was so dense it had materialized into misty fog.

Inside the Immortal Cave, exotic flowers and rare herbs grew everywhere, with jade stones for tables and Spirit wood for chairs. Every luminous pearl embedded in the walls emitted a soft glow, more dazzling than the most precious treasures in her Sect's treasury.

And in the center of the Immortal Cave, a slender figure in a black robe stood silently.

Gongsun Xing's heart skipped a beat. She cautiously took a few steps forward, tentatively calling out softly, “Se-Senior?”

The figure slowly turned around.

When she clearly saw that face, Gongsun Xing was completely stunned.

What a handsome face it was—sword-like brows and starry eyes, a high nose bridge, a faint smile playing on his lips, and deep eyes that seemed to penetrate one's heart. His ethereal demeanor made her momentarily forget to breathe.

“It's me.” Lin Feng looked at the adorable, petite girl before him and spoke with a smile, “What, doesn't it look like me?”

“Ah!” Gongsun Xing awoke as if from a dream, her pretty face instantly flushing to her ears. She hastily lowered her head, bowing awkwardly, “Gongsun Xing greets Senior! It's just... it's just that Xing’er didn't expect Senior... Senior to be so young...”

Her voice was as faint as a mosquito's buzz, her heart pounding wildly, completely daring not to meet Lin Feng's gaze.

“Hehe.” Lin Feng chuckled, feeling quite pleased, “Everything in this Immortal Cave, including the Spiritual Springs, Medicinal Pills, Cultivation Techniques, and Secret Manuals, you can use freely.”

Gongsun Xing suddenly looked up, her apricot eyes wide and round, gazing at the room full of treasures. She could hardly believe her ears. She... could use all of it? This was a blessed land that even a Nascent Soul Old Ancestor would dream of!

Lin Feng looked at her money-grubbing little expression, and the smile at the corner of his mouth deepened. He changed the subject, slowly saying, “However, since you've agreed to be my slave, you should know the duties a slave must fulfill, shouldn't you?”

Gongsun Xing's cheeks instantly burned hot. She nodded shyly.

“Tonight, I’ll be waiting for you in the bedchamber.”

Lin Feng left a meaningful remark, and his figure vanished into thin air amidst a spatial fluctuation.

Only Gongsun Xing remained, standing dazed, her face flushed and her heart pounding.

“The duties of a slave...” she murmured to herself, yet her heart was not as resistant as she had imagined. Instead, a strange sense of secret delight surged within her.

She had just turned eighteen, the age when a young girl's heart yearns for romance. She had originally thought she would be serving an ugly, eccentric old demon, and had already prepared for the worst.

“But I never expected... Senior to be such a young and handsome Immortal...”

Just thinking of Lin Feng's face and his smiling eyes, Gongsun Xing's heart fluttered.

“To be a slave to such a person... doesn't seem like such a bad thing after all...”

With that thought, her shyness and unease instantly vanished, replaced by a surge of curiosity and anticipation. She took light steps, beginning to explore the magnificent Immortal Cave like a happy little bird, letting out a surprised gasp with each new treasure she discovered...

Night fell, dotted with stars.

Gongsun Xing bathed herself thoroughly in the Spiritual Qi-infused hot spring, every inch of her skin exuding the unique fragrance of a young girl.

She looked at her still-youthful yet already alluring face in the mirror, bit her lip, and took out a water-red silk bellyband from her Storage Pouch. Her mother had personally sewn it for her when she came of age, but now it was to be her attire to please her master.

She shed all her clothes, wearing only the small bellyband, which barely covered the budding softness of her chest. Large expanses of fair skin were exposed to the air, making her too shy to look at herself in the mirror.

She took a deep breath, braced herself, and then, with small, mincing steps and a crimson face, arrived at the entrance of Lin Feng's bedchamber.

“Senior... Xing’er... Xing’er is here.”

Lin Feng, who was meditating cross-legged on the stone bed, slowly opened his eyes and turned to see the petite yet bold figure at the doorway.

The girl was clad only in a red bellyband, with extremely short underpants below. A pair of slender, straight jade legs stood gracefully, her youthful body curves exuding a unique allure under the soft pearl light.

“Hehe, I didn't expect you, little girl, to be so bold.” Lin Feng couldn't help but chuckle.

He observed Gongsun Xing's somewhat green loli figure, thinking to himself that after getting used to the mature and curvaceous figures of Yao’er and Wen Qing, an occasional change of taste, a sampling of this unripe fruit, indeed had its own unique flavor.

A night of passion, boundless in its allure.

Lin Feng was now an experienced veteran. Facing such an innocent girl, he knew how to control his strength and be as gentle as possible.

Yet, even so, when the morning sun streamed into the Immortal Cave the next day, the girl on the stone bed was already overwhelmed, completely fainting amidst soft, charming whimpers. After all, their sizes were quite mismatched.

Lin Feng looked at the crisscrossing bruises on the small body beneath him, shaking his head with a trace of helplessness.

He carefully covered Gongsun Xing with a brocade quilt, casually leaving a Storage Pouch by the bedside, filled with Medicinal Pills and treasures for healing and enhancing cultivation. After a moment's thought, he summoned a Puppet at the Early Nascent Soul Stage from his Inner Universe and commanded it to guard the island.

Having done all this, Lin Feng took one last look at the sleeping girl on the bed, and with a flash of his figure, silently left the island.

Lin Feng's figure flickered, directly entering the Void Realm and into the vast, boundless Inner Universe.

At the center of the Inner Universe was a divine mountain, reaching into the clouds, which he had personally created. At the summit, Spiritual Qi was so dense it had materialized into colorful misty clouds, lingering without dissipating.

Lin Feng's figure appeared on the mountain peak platform. He casually sat down cross-legged, his eyes slowly closing.

In an instant, the entire Inner Universe fell silent.

The wind stopped, the clouds stood still, and even the birds and beasts seemed to be paused, all prostrating themselves on the ground, casting reverent gazes towards the divine mountain.

In a valley thousands of miles away, Wen Qing was practicing the Sword Qi technique Lin Feng had taught her. Each move and stance caused the heavens and earth to change color, and Sword Qi crisscrossed.

But at this moment, an indescribably vast heavenly might, without warning, enveloped the entire world!

The Spirit Sword in her hand let out a mournful hum, completely unable to be activated even a jot. The magical power within her body also seemed to be frozen, completely losing control.

“What... what is happening?”

Wen Qing's pretty face turned pale, and she looked up in horror.

She saw that above the firmament, winds and clouds swirled backwards, and the Spiritual Qi of the entire Inner Universe, as if summoned by some supreme power, transformed into visible torrents, madly converging towards the central divine mountain!

The sky was dyed a brilliant gold, auspicious clouds gathered out of thin air, with thousands of auspicious rays and ten thousand streaks of light.

“It’s Master! Master is making a Breakthrough!”

Wen Qing instantly realized, her clear, cold eyes filled with unparalleled shock and fanaticism.

She had once seen Six Paths Paragon attempt a Breakthrough to the Late Nascent Soul Stage. The celestial phenomena at that time, compared to the cataclysmic, world-recreating scene before her, were like the difference between a firefly and the bright moon!

“Is this... is this really a Soul Transformation Breakthrough?” she murmured to herself, feeling that her centuries-old Cultivation worldview had been completely overturned at this moment.