Chapter 162 Inspecting the Formation

The subsequent Seven Peaks Martial Competition was simply a crushing victory for Purple Bamboo Peak without any suspense.

After witnessing Su Ye's terrifying ability to kill in seconds, no one dared to challenge him again.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wanyin, Lin Qingzhu, and Qin Yurou also shone brilliantly in the subsequent drawing of lots.

Jiang Wanyin's Top-grade Fire Spirit Root combined with her Scarlet Flame Long Whip sent several inner sect geniuses from Blazing Fire Peak fleeing in panic.

Lin Qingzhu's icy Sword Intent amazed the entire audience; with just three strikes, she defeated a long-renowned Sword Cultivator from Hidden Sword Peak.

Even Qin Yurou, who usually appeared the most fragile, used her bizarre Poison Pills and Medicine Cauldron to knock out two Golden Core Stage opponents.

After a century of silence, Purple Bamboo Peak finally reached the top today with an invincible posture!

...

Night fell, and the stars dotted the sky.

The first day of the Primordial Origin Holy Land's Seven Peaks Martial Competition finally came to a close.

The purple jade spirit boat streaked across the sky and landed steadily in front of Purple Bamboo Peak's mountain gate.

"Senior Brother, why don't you come to my room tonight? Wanyin just obtained a Dual Cultivation Technique a few days ago... ah no, it's a healing technique, and I want to ask Senior Brother for some guidance."

As soon as they got off the flying boat, Jiang Wanyin impatiently pressed against him, hinting with eyes as soft as silk.

"Vixen! Senior Brother exhausted so much today; he should rest well!" Lin Qingzhu interrupted coldly, but her gaze turned incredibly gentle when she looked at Su Ye. "Senior Brother, I've prepared some Ice Heart Lotus Seed Soup to calm your mind and Qi. I'll bring it to your room later."

"I want to go too! I want to go and make the bed for Senior Brother!" Qin Yurou jumped up and down in anxiety.

Seeing his three Junior Sisters about to argue again, Su Ye rubbed his temples and said with feigned seriousness, "In today's competition, although you won, there are still many flaws in your Moves."

"Tonight, all of you return to your respective Immortal Caves for secluded reflection. No one is allowed to disturb me!"

Once the Senior Brother's authority was displayed, the three women immediately wilted.

"Oh... understood, Senior Brother."

Watching the three women walk back to their Immortal Caves, looking back every few steps, Su Ye finally let out a long sigh of relief.

He turned his head and looked toward the mist-shrouded Immortal Cave at the highest point of Purple Bamboo Peak, a flicker of heat flashing in his eyes.

Revered Master, your Disciple has come to pay his dues.

...

At the summit of Purple Bamboo Peak, Moon Embracing Cave Mansion.

There were no lamps lit inside the Immortal Cave; only a few fist-sized Night-Luminescent Pearls emitted a soft glow.

Leng Yueli had shed her complex and majestic purple-gold robes from the day, wearing only a white silk undergarment as thin as a cicada's wing, leaning lazily on the cold jade bed.

Her exquisite and translucent body was faintly visible beneath the semi-transparent silk, her long, straight legs crossed, exuding a fatal temptation.

But at this moment, the beautiful face of this Tribulation Transcendence Stage Great Power was filled with resentment and irritability.

"That heartless Rebellious Disciple, forgetting his Revered Master once he has Junior Sisters..."

Leng Yueli unconsciously twirled a strand of her black hair with her jade-like fingers, muttering softly.

At the thought of Su Ye being held in the arms of those three little vixens during the day, she felt a tightness in her chest and wished she could tear her pillow apart.

"Who is Revered Master calling heartless?"

A voice tinged with playfulness suddenly rang out within the Immortal Cave.

Leng Yueli's delicate body trembled as she abruptly sat up.

A ripple appeared in the Immortal Cave's barrier, and Su Ye, dressed in thin white clothes with his signature wicked smile, walked in slowly.

"You... how did you get in? I clearly set up the Nine Dragons Sky-Locking Formation at the entrance!" Leng Yueli's beautiful eyes widened as she hurriedly pulled a thin quilt to cover her chest.

"Did Revered Master forget? You told me the core of this Formation yourself while you were in my arms last night."

Su Ye walked to the bedside and looked down at Leng Yueli, his gaze so hot it seemed capable of melting her.

"You... you Rebellious Disciple! You're becoming more and more insolent!"

Leng Yueli felt her whole body go soft under his gaze. The decisive majesty she displayed before tens of thousands during the day had vanished; at this moment, she was like a little wife caught red-handed by her husband.

Su Ye didn't speak; he simply reached out and pulled her, quilt and all, into his arms.

"Let go of me... go find your precious Junior Sisters. Why come to an old woman like me!"

Leng Yueli struggled symbolically, her tone dripping with jealousy.

"Old woman? Revered Master is the number one beauty in the Eastern Wasteland. If others knew the dignified Peak Master of Purple Bamboo Peak was jealous in my arms, the entire cultivation world would probably go crazy."

Su Ye chuckled and lowered his head to gently bite her translucent earlobe.

"Mmm..."

Leng Yueli let out a soft cry, her body instantly turning as soft as spring water.

Her cultivation at the Ninth Heaven of Tribulation Crossing Realm seemed like a mere decoration before Su Ye; she couldn't muster even a shred of strength to resist.

"Yeer... stop it. If Qing Zhu and the others find out you're not in your room, they'll definitely become suspicious."

Leng Yueli suppressed the ripples in her heart, her pretty face as red as a ripe apple.

Although they already shared a husband-and-wife relationship and she had been "devoured" in various ways by this Rebellious Disciple several times, the reserve and shame she felt as a Revered Master lingered.

If her Disciples knew that their revered Revered Master was actually moaning under their Senior Brother every night...

Heavens! She wouldn't be able to show her face for the rest of her life!

"So what if they find out?" Su Ye toyed with Leng Yueli's loose hair nonchalantly. "At worst, I'll announce to the whole world that Leng Yueli is Su Ye's woman."

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Leng Yueli grew anxious and quickly reached out to cover Su Ye's mouth, her beautiful eyes shimmering with moisture. "You... if you dare to speak of it, I... I'll really kill you!"

Seeing her cute, "fierce on the outside but weak on the inside" appearance, Su Ye's heart fluttered.

He moved her hand away and lowered his head to capture those two luscious red lips.

"Mmm!"

Leng Yueli's eyes widened. Feeling Su Ye's domineering and fiery aura, her mind instantly went blank.

After a long time, their lips parted.

Leng Yueli leaned against Su Ye's chest, panting, her eyes dazed and an alluring tear hanging from the corner of her eye.

"Revered Master, are you still angry with me?" Su Ye leaned close to her ear, his voice deep and husky.

"You... you're a bully..." Leng Yueli bit her lower lip, her voice soft and sweet like a kitten's.

"Then tonight, your Disciple will bully Revered Master properly."

With a wave of Su Ye's hand, the Night-Luminescent Pearls in the Immortal Cave were instantly extinguished, and the heavy curtains slowly fell.

"Wait... Yeer... be gentle... mmm..."

The rustling of clothes sliding off, accompanied by suppressed and bashful murmurs, quietly echoed in the enclosed Immortal Cave.

The spring scenery within the garden could not be contained.

This night was destined to be another long and charming one.

Meanwhile, in the three Immortal Caves halfway down the mountain, Jiang Wanyin, Lin Qingzhu, and Qin Yurou were each clutching their pillows, tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep, their minds filled with their Senior Brother's peerlessly handsome face.

They had no idea that the Senior Brother they longed for was currently galloping to his heart's content on the bed of the Revered Master they most revered.

A night of passion, the waves of the quilt turning red.

The majestic spiritual power that should have been used for life-and-death combat was transformed into the most tender affection within the curtains of Moon Embracing Cave Mansion. (The Dual Cultivation plot is skipped here).

As the first light of dawn broke, the sea of clouds at Purple Bamboo Peak was dyed with a faint layer of crimson gold. Inside the Immortal Cave, the charming fragrance filling the room had not yet dissipated.

*Slap!*

A jade-like arm suddenly reached out from the brocade quilt and slapped Su Ye's chest with no deterrent force.

"Rebellious Disciple... get up and get out already!"

Leng Yueli buried half of her beautiful face in the pillow, her voice slightly husky, and even her exposed long swan-like neck was flushed with a lingering, intoxicating red.

The dignified Great Power of the Ninth Heaven of Tribulation Crossing Realm, the Peak Master of Purple Bamboo Peak of the Primordial Origin Holy Land whom countless Cultivators in the Eastern Wasteland worshipped, actually didn't want to Move even a single finger right now.

"Is Revered Master driving me away already? That's not what Revered Master said last night."

Su Ye propped his head up with one hand, admiring with great interest the tantalizing body faintly visible under the quilt, a wicked smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

"You still dare to mention it!"

Leng Yueli suddenly turned her head, her beautiful eyes misty, glaring at him with extreme shame and indignation.

This little brat, relying on the fact that he had broken the Nine Dragons Sky-Locking Formation, had forced her to call him by many embarrassing names last night!

"I warn you, what happened between us must absolutely, absolutely not be known by anyone!"

Leng Yueli forced her sore body to sit up. The quilt slipped, revealing a large expanse of snow-white skin and mottled red marks, scaring her into quickly clutching the quilt tight again.

"Especially Qing Zhu, Wanyin, and Yuruo! If the Disciples find out that I was... devoured by you, this Rebellious Disciple, I would rather self-detonate my Primordial Spirit!"

Seeing his Revered Master's cute, ashamed, and anxious appearance, Su Ye couldn't help but laugh out loud.

He leaned forward and, ignoring Leng Yueli's symbolic struggle, planted a heavy kiss on her smooth forehead.

"Rest assured, Revered Master, this is the biggest secret between us. However..."

Su Ye's tone shifted as he whispered against her translucent earlobe, "Tonight, your Disciple will come again to check how Revered Master's Formation is laid out."

"Get out—!"

Accompanied by Leng Yueli's ashamed and indignant cry, Su Ye laughed and turned into a streak of light, quietly slipping out from the back mountain of Moon Embracing Cave Mansion.

Leng Yueli leaned against the headboard, panting. Looking in the direction Su Ye had left, the frost-like disguise in her eyes completely melted, replaced by a hint of sweetness and obsession that she hadn't even noticed herself.

"This enemy of mine..."

...

Outside the Senior Brother's exclusive Immortal Cave on Purple Bamboo Peak.

As soon as Su Ye landed, before he could even tidy his slightly messy lapels, three sharp sounds of breaking through the air whistled toward him.

"Senior Brother! Where were you last night?!"

The three stunning beauties, Jiang Wanyin, Lin Qingzhu, and Qin Yurou, had already been guarding his Immortal Cave entrance like door gods.

A thick smell of gunpowder instantly filled the air.

Today, Jiang Wanyin wore a tight-fitting crimson outfit that perfectly outlined the proud curves tempered by her Top-grade Fire Spirit Root, and she held a pot of steaming Spiritual Meal in her hands.

"Senior Brother, Wanyin waited for you all night. Didn't you say you were going into secluded reflection? Why are you coming back from outside?" Her foxy eyes narrowed slightly, her gaze scanning Su Ye like a radar.

Lin Qingzhu, in a snow-white robe and looking as cold as an immortal, took a step forward, her delicate nose twitching slightly.

"Something's not right. There's a very faint scent of cold plum on Senior Brother's body."

Lin Qingzhu's hand was already pressed against her sword hilt, her gaze like ten-thousand-year-old profound ice. "On Purple Bamboo Peak, only... wait, is this the scent of High Grade Spirit Medicine?"

Qin Yurou also had an expression as if she were about to cry, tugging at Su Ye's sleeve. "Senior Brother, did you go behind our backs to see some wild woman from another Peak? Yurou will go and poison her to death right now!"

Su Ye inwardly cried out that it was a close call.

The intuition of these three girls was too terrifying; it was practically more acute than the Divine Sense probe of someone at the Mahayana Stage! That cold plum fragrance—wasn't that exactly the body scent of their Revered Master, Leng Yueli?

"Nonsense!"

Su Ye's expression turned stern as he immediately assumed the authority of the head disciple. With a wave of his large sleeve, a majestic surge of Nascent Soul Stage spiritual power rippled outward.

"As the head disciple of Purple Bamboo Peak, I shoulder the heavy responsibility of revitalizing our Peak! Last night, seeing that the sword Moves of you three still had flaws, I specially went to the Sword Pond Forbidden Ground in the back mountain. Braving the Sword Qi gales, I deduced and improved your Cultivation Techniques!"

Su Ye frowned slightly, putting on a pained and heartbroken look. "That cold plum fragrance was merely picked up from the thousand-year-old ice plums by the Sword Pond. I worked my heart out with painstaking care, yet here you are making a scene for no reason. I am so disappointed in you!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire scene fell silent.

The three women were stunned at first, and then their pretty faces simultaneously filled with immense self-reproach and guilt.

"Se... Senior Brother, please don't be angry. It was Wanyin's fault; Wanyin misunderstood you."

Jiang Wanyin's eyes turned red with heartache as she hurriedly brought forward the Spiritual Meal in her hands. "This is the 'Golden Crow Qi-Supplementing Soup' that I spent the entire night brewing with Scarlet Flame Pill Fire. Drink a sip quickly to warm your body."

"Second Martial Sister! Senior Brother just spent the night being buffeted by gales, and you're giving him something so hot and dry? Do you want him to suffer Qi Deviation?"

Lin Qingzhu pushed Jiang Wanyin aside and brought out a bowl of spiritual congee emitting a startling chill from her storage ring. "Senior Brother, drink Qing Zhu's 'Ice Soul Snow Lotus Porridge.' This is best for stabilizing the Divine Soul!"

"Everyone get away! Deducing techniques is the most taxing on one's heart and blood; of course he should eat my 'Nine Revolutions Spring-Returning Pill'!"

Qin Yurou directly pulled out an Earth Rank Supreme Grade Medicinal Pill that radiated seven-colored light, trying to force it into Su Ye's mouth.

"That dry pill of yours is like a rock; Senior Brother won't be able to swallow it!"

"Your crappy soup is scalding hot! Do you want to burn Senior Brother's tongue?!"

Seeing his three Junior Sisters bickering in a heap again, even surreptitiously mobilizing their spiritual power, Su Ye felt a massive headache coming on.

"Enough! Bring them all in; I'll eat everything!"

Su Ye pushed down the hands of the three girls and strode into the Immortal Cave.

The three women glared at each other, snorted coldly, and like three peacocks competing in beauty, scrambled to follow him inside.

...

The sun rose high. At the Taichu Great Hall, it was the second day of the Seven Peaks Martial Competition.

Dong—!

The ancient sound of the Chaos Bell echoed through the clouds.

Countless Disciples, deacons, and Elders of the Primordial Origin Holy Land had already packed the competition square to the brim.

However, the moment the purple jade spirit boat of Purple Bamboo Peak arrived through the air, the originally noisy square instantly fell into a deathly, eerie silence.

Everyone's gaze focused simultaneously on the young man at the bow of the spirit boat, dressed in snow-white clothes and possessing peerless beauty.

Su Ye!

That terrifying Prodigy who, at the Peak of the Golden Core Stage yesterday, had instantly killed Zhao Wuji of the first level of the Nascent Soul Stage with a single finger!

Wang Yan, the Peak Revered Master of Blazing Fire Peak, stroked his red beard and whispered a reprimand to the Disciples behind him: "If you draw that Su Ye later, you're not even allowed on the stage—admit defeat immediately! Do you hear me!"

Zhao Wuji, an Elder of Hidden Sword Peak, had an even more solemn expression. "This boy's Sword Intent is unfathomable. He cannot be fought, cannot be fought..."

Under the gaze of ten thousand people, Su Ye remained calm. He walked off the spirit boat as if taking a stroll in a courtyard and sat in the head seat of the Purple Bamboo Peak section.

Immediately following that, a scene occurred that made countless male Cultivators in the crowd want to cough up blood.

"Senior Brother, the sun is a bit harsh. Wanyin will hold an umbrella for you."

The curvaceous Jiang Wanyin giggled as she leaned in, opening an Earth Rank Magical Artifact, the 'Heavenly Net Treasure Umbrella.' Her voluptuous body pressed against Su Ye's shoulder, seemingly by accident.

"Senior Brother, have a Purple Rhyme Spirit Grape. Qing Zhu has peeled it for you."

The ice beauty Lin Qingzhu knelt beside Su Ye, using those slender hands that normally held a sword to gently place a grape, its translucent skin removed, into Su Ye's mouth. Her gaze was so tender it almost seemed to drip with water.

"Senior Brother, I'll massage your legs! My massage technique is excellent!"

Qin Yurou, not wanting to be outdone, squatted at Su Ye's feet and used her chubby little hands to work tirelessly on his legs.

How was this participating in the brutal Seven Peaks Martial Competition?

This was clearly a mortal emperor traveling incognito, bringing three stunning concubines out for a spring outing!

"The heavens have no eyes! The heavens have no eyes!!!"

"Su Ye is simply the public enemy of our generation of Cultivators! I want to duel him! I want to... forget it, I can't beat him."

The sounds of the surrounding male Disciples' hearts breaking almost converged into a physical resentment that could pierce the clouds.

Right then, a terrifyingly immense pressure of extreme cold suddenly descended from the Nine Heavens!

On the high platform of the hall, the air instantly crystallized into frost.

Tens of thousands of Disciples across the field shivered in unison from the cold, not even daring to breathe loudly.

Leng Yueli, dressed in a purple-gold robe and wearing a jade crown, landed on the main seat of the high platform with a face covered in frost.

Her eyes, beautiful yet devoid of emotion, coldly swept over the crowd, finally fixing on the seats of Purple Bamboo Peak.

More accurately, they were fixed on Su Ye and the three female Disciples surrounding him.

On the surface, she was the heartless Fairy who awed the Eastern Desolation.

But in reality—

"Buzz!"

In Su Ye's Sea of Consciousness, Leng Yueli's extremely sour Divine Sense transmission instantly exploded.

"Yeer! Where are you putting your hands! That Jiang Wanyin is practically glued to you. Don't you know how to Move away?!"

Leng Yueli's voice echoed in Su Ye's mind with exasperation, carrying a thick sense of resentment.

"And that Lin Qingzhu! She's usually as cold as a block of ice, but she's certainly diligent when it comes to peeling grapes! You are not allowed to eat the things she feeds you!"

While enjoying the service of the three women, Su Ye leisurely sent back a wisp of Divine Sense.

"Is Revered Master jealous? My Junior Sisters are just showing their filial piety. I can't very well break their hearts, can I?"

"You... you bastard!"

On the high platform, Leng Yueli's jade hand beneath her wide sleeve tightly gripped the hem of her robe, her pretty face flushing slightly from extreme shame and indignation.

If it weren't for Mysterious Mechanism Master and the other Peak Revered Masters being right there, she really wanted to rush down now, split those three little vixens apart with one sword strike, and then drag Su Ye back to the Immortal Cave by his ears!

"Last night on the bed, you didn't say that! You clearly said... you clearly said you only loved me!" Leng Yueli's transmission carried a hint of a wronged sob.

Su Ye's heart softened. Knowing the timing was right, he immediately sent a comforting transmission: "Revered Master, don't worry. They are just Junior Sisters; how could they compare to you? Revered Master's supreme figure at the Tribulation Crossing Realm is the only true love in my heart."

"Bah! Vulgar! Shameless!"

Leng Yueli was so stirred by his blunt words that her heart fell into chaos, and she quickly cut off the Divine Sense transmission.

She sat on the high platform, struggling to maintain her cold and majestic image, but her long jade legs hidden under the purple-gold robe tightened unnaturally. Her mind was filled with the ridiculous and frantic scenes from last night.

"The second day of the competition, let the drawing of lots begin!"

A loud shout from the Deacon Elder finally broke the eerie atmosphere in the square.

In mid-air, countless jade plaques tumbled.

"First match: Jiang Wanyin of Purple Bamboo Peak vs. Sun Hao of Taiqing Peak!"

As soon as this was announced, the crowd erupted again.

Taiqing Peak!

Yesterday, Taiqing Peak's head disciple Zhao Wuji was crippled by Su Ye, and Elder Li Daoran was forced to kneel and vomit blood by Leng Yueli. Today, the two Peaks had actually clashed again!

Sun Hao, the second-ranked True Disciple of Taiqing Peak, at the fourth level of the Golden Core Stage!

"Senior Brother, Wanyin is going. I won't let you down!"

Jiang Wanyin stood up and threw an extremely coquettish wink at Su Ye.

The moment she turned around, the charm on her face instantly transformed into endless coldness and killing intent.

People from Taiqing Peak who dared to be disrespectful to Senior Brother all deserved to die!

On the stage, Sun Hao held a Profound Rank High Grade longsword, staring at Jiang Wanyin with a venomous gaze. "Vixen! Yesterday your Purple Bamboo Peak was arrogant and overbearing. Today, I, Sun Hao, shall seek justice for my Revered Master and Senior Brother Zhao!"

"With just a piece of trash like you?"

Jiang Wanyin sneered, and her Top-grade Fire Spirit Root erupted!

"Boom—!"

A pillar of crimson fire soared into the sky. In Jiang Wanyin's hand, a long whip burning with raging flames appeared out of thin air—an Earth Rank Low Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Scarlet Dragon Whip!

"Taiqing Sword Technique!" Sun Hao roared, merging his body with his sword to become a sharp beam of sword light aimed straight at Jiang Wanyin's face.

"Crack!"

A crisp explosion rang out.

Jiang Wanyin didn't even dodge. With a flick of her wrist, the Scarlet Dragon Whip, like a furious fire dragon, directly shattered Sun Hao's sword light and coiled tightly around his neck!

"Ugh—!" Sun Hao's eyes widened as he was hoisted into the air. The flames scorched his protective True Qi, making a piercing sizzling sound.

"Daring to be disrespectful to my Purple Bamboo Peak's Senior Brother—this is the consequence!"

Jiang Wanyin fiercely whipped the cord.

"Bang!" Sun Hao was slammed like a tattered sack against the Formation barrier of the stage, vomiting a mouthful of blood and instantly falling unconscious.

One Move!

Another instant kill with one Move!

The sounds of the crowd gasping in shock rose one after another.

"This... this Jiang Wanyin is only at the third level of the Golden Core Stage, yet she actually insta-killed Sun Hao at the fourth level?!"

"Are the Disciples of Purple Bamboo Peak all monsters?!"

Jiang Wanyin retracted her whip, not even sparing a glance at Sun Hao on the ground. She turned toward Su Ye's direction, and her face immediately switched to a delicate, pleasing smile.

"Senior Brother, did Wanyin fight well?"

Su Ye nodded slightly and gave an appreciative smile.

This smile, falling into Lin Qingzhu's eyes nearby, instantly knocked over her jar of jealousy.