Inside his room, Yang Ze was busy meditating with his eyes closed. Now that he didn't need to think about which item to visualise and could use anything that he desired, the difficulty has reduced drastically.

The first thing he did was visualise a stone, and under the effect of enlightenment, he did it in less than one minute.

"Holy." Looking at the stone in his hand that looked no different from the one at the corner of the room, Yang Ze couldn't help but click his tongue. No matter how many times he did it, he always found it fascinating.

He then grabbed the quilt beside it before beginning to visualise it. He just wanted to visualise one hundred mortal objects and complete his first ring so that he could increase his mental energy and use the enlightenment for an extended period of time.

And just when he was about to close his eyes and visualise another object, he heard someone knocking on the door.

*Knock...knock...knock...

"Huh!? Is it Cang Yue?" She was the only one he could think of that would come at this time, but why would she knock instead of directly barging in?

"When did she get this polite?" Yang Ze couldn't help but shake his head with a smile as he jumped out of his bed before opening the door.

"Took you long eno..." Yang Ze's sentence got stuck halfway when he saw the person standing in front of him.

"Xiao Ruolan!?" Yang Ze couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise. What was this woman thinking coming at this hour of the day?

"Are you going to invite me or not?" Xiao Ruolan asked in a soft voice as her eyes wandered around Yang Ze's room.

"Please." Yang Ze immediately moved back a bit, inviting Xiao Ruolan into his room. Although he didn't know what she wanted, he was more than willing to share a conversation with her.

"Umm..." Entering his room, Xiao Ruolan merely looked around for a while before placing her soft buttocks on his bed and sitting there comfortably.

"....."

"....."

The two of them sat there in silence for a while when Xiao Ruolan spoke first.

"I found something of yours."

Before Yang Ze could even understand what she meant by that, he saw Xiao Ruolan raising her palm in front of him, upon which a small butterfly was lying, its life and death unknown.

"It's the spiritwing." Yang Ze couldn't help but jump in surprise. From the day he came back from the ruins with Cang Yue, this spiritwing had been missing. And now that he finally found it, how could he stay calm? In an instant, he reached out to it, wanting to hold it in his hands, but midway, he stopped.

What if he accidentally injures it? From the looks of it, the spiritwing was already injured. What if its injuries worsened?

Looking at Yang Ze's reaction, Xiao Ruolan merely let out a gentle smile as she carefully placed the spiritwing in his hand.

"Take care of it."

"I will." Yang Ze didn't need her to tell him this. Cang Yue was only able to save him with the help of this spiritwing. Without it, it was hard to say whether Yang Ze would have been alive or not. He owes this spiritwing as much as he owed Cang Yue.

The spiritwing seemed to sense Yang Ze's presence as it tried to flap its wings to show its affection, but couldn't move.

Yang Ze, on the other hand, could finally feel the extremely weak connection he had with the Spiritwing from their contract. He knew that if he didn't do something, this spiritwing was going to die.

"Where did you find it?" Yang Ze finally focused back on Xiao Ruolan. He had tried searching for it using the faint connection from the contract, but couldn't. He only knew that the spiritwing was still alive... he had zero clue about its condition.

"Found it lying in the backyard." Xiao Ruolan replied in a flat tone.

"Thank you." Yang Ze didn't doubt her. He merely thanked her from the bottom of his heart before gently placing the spiritwing on the table. Looking at the butterfly that has lost its usual lustre and liveliness, he couldn't help but feel a tinge of regret in his heart.

"What are you going to do with it?" Xiao Ruoaln couldn't help but ask. She wanted to know if he had any way of healing it or not. If not, then perhaps she could help him out.

"I do have some ideas." Yang Ze thought for a long time before giving a reply. He didn't have any healing skills, and trying to get a healing skill from others' talents was rarer than finding a phoenix in this cultivation world.

In that case, the only thing he could think of was to advance the spiritwing... He wanted to evolve it.

For others, it might be an impossible task, but for Yang Ze, who had the All-seeing eyes, it was extremely simple. He just needed to find the suitable materials and then follow the steps that would show up on the evolution route.

The only problem was finding suitable materials. But he had a plan in mind to acquire them.

"Do you need any help?" Xiao Ruolan asked again. She was sure that Yang Ze would definitely ask for her advice or even help. After all, he doesn't have any experience with the cultivation world, but to her surprise, Yang Ze shook his head with a smile.

Had it before, Yang Ze would have definitely agreed with her. But now, with his strength at the 1st Vein Expansion, coupled with his doubts about Xiao Ruolan, he wanted to venture alone.

"I am going to head out by myself for a while." There was nothing to hide from her. Earlier, they might have been worried about his safety because they didn't know his true strength, and might have been worried about him running away.

But now... With his current strength, which put him at the very top even in the major cities, they didn't have to worry about him facing life-threatening situations.

As for him running away... With his current relationship with Cang Yue, how could he run away by himself?

Even Yang Ze gave up his idea of running away after his relationship with Cang Yue improved. Currently, she was the most important person in his heart. In his mind, she was his only family and source of warmth in this cold world.

How could he leave her alone?

"Oh!?" Xiao Ruolan wasn't expecting him to give such an answer. She merely nodded in understanding before clapping suddenly as if she remembered why she came here.

"I almost forgot..." She gazed at Yang Ze with a smile.

"Cang Yue wanted to announce her relationship with you to the world."

"Twenty-six days later, she his going to hold a banquet and marry you."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"HUUUUUUH!?" Yang Ze almost jumped up in surprise. What the hell was she even talking about? For a moment, his brain almost stopped working.

"Don't think too much." Xiao Ruolan just shook her head. "Cang Yue is as crazy as ever."

"Just don't forget to come; otherwise, she is gonna drag you here by herself."

Although Yang Ze was bewildered, he still nodded instinctively before suddenly asking Xiao Ruolan.

"Wait.. where is she? I want to talk to her." Even though he had no problem getting married to Cang Yue, at least she could have informed him by herself instead of sending a message through Xiao Ruolan.

He found it incredibly strange that Cang Yue would deliver such news to him through Xiao Ruolan.

"Well, she is incredibly busy." Xiao Ruolan spoke in a flat tone. "As one of the Grand Elders of the Sword Sect, she has so many things she needs to take care of."

"Actually, she wanted to come here personally and tell you about it, but on her way back, the Sect master personally took her to handle some matters."

"I... I see." Even though Yang Ze found it strange, he didn't think too much about it. Even though he loved Cang Yue, he couldn't deny the fact that she was an unpredictable woman. One moment, she would think about something and the next moment she would do something else.

It was hard to make sense of what she thought or did.

"So..." With a smile, Xiao Ruolan patted his shoulders. "Don't forget to come back."

"I know..." Ignoring her teasing smile, Yang Ze shook his head with a bitter laugh. "I will be back in less than twenty days."

"....." Xiao Ruolan merely smiled as she took one last look at him and the room before heading out, leaving behind a nervous Yang Ze, who was now panicking after hearing Cang Yue's marriage proposal.

Things were just moving way too fast... not that he had anything to complain about.

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On the other side, Xiao Ruolan headed back to her room before closing the door and looking at the naked Cang Yue, who was tied up with an expressionless face.

"How is it?"

Her question merely caused Cang Yue to scoff.

"What do you mean by marriage? And do you truly intend to let me marry him before I go into that trial once again?"

By now, Cang Yue had accepted the fact that there was no escape from the trial. She had to go there under any condition. Even though she didn't know what was going to happen, it was at least better than dying outside. At least she could struggle there and find a way out.

Just now, Xiao Ruolan purposefully used her internal energy to transmit the conversation between herself and Yang Ze.

After hearing everything that she just said, Cang Yue couldn't understand how her mind worked or what she was thinking.

"Do you want me to marry him?" After not receiving any response from Xiao Ruolan, Cang Yue asked again.

She didn't have any problem with marrying Yang Ze; on the contrary, she had been thinking about it for a long time. But she didn't want to ruin it because of any haste. She wanted to plan everything personally. She wanted to make sure that everything was perfect.

And now Xiao Ruolan was forcing her to advance it... Her planning had to wait.

It was at this moment that Xiao Ruolan finally raised her head as she looked at Xiao Ruolan with a mocking smile before opening her lips to speak.

"YOU!?"

Xiao Ruolan laughed as she had heard the funniest joke.

"If not me, then who?" Cang Yue was already beginning to lose her temper. It was one thing to tie her up naked like this, but this whore was even planning to ruin their relationship. It was something that Cang Yue couldn't tolerate.

She could already guess what Xiao Ruolan wanted to do.

She would put on a show for a fake marriage and, when it's time, would just say that Cang Yue had left for some place and make any other vile excuse to ruin her relationship with Yang Ze.

Xiao Ruolan looked at her with a smile. She could directly see through Cang Yue and knew what the other party was thinking.

"ME."

"Huh!?" Xiao Ruolan's words made Cang Yue raise an eyebrow, but before she even had time to reply, she saw something that made her drop her jaw in surprise as her heart almost leapt out of her throat.

Xiao Ruolan, who was standing in front of her, merely placed her hand on her face before rubbing it gently.

And under Cang Yue's gaze, which was filled with disbelief, Xiao Ruolan's face began to change, as well as her body and clothes.

And in less than ten breaths, Xiao Ruolan's figure had completely disappeared from its initial position.

Gone was the usual expressionless and cold face that never changed under any circumstances.

Instead, what was standing in front of Cang Yue was the figure of a woman who just looked like her.

The same face, the same body structure, the same expression and the same large breasts... If she didn't know any better, Cang Yue would have thought that she was standing in front of a mirror.

The more Cang Yue looked at Xiao Ruolan in front of her, the more her scalp tingled. She could already see what Xiao Ruolan would do in the future.

And sure enough, Xiao Ruolan's next words made her fear come true.

"Like I said..." Even Xiao Ruolan's voice had changed to Cang Yue's as she muttered with an eerie smile upon her face.

"Cang Yue is going to marry Yang Ze twenty-five days later..."

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