"Wha…" Yang Ze looked at the message in front of him before rubbing his eyes, wondering if he was seeing things. But even after a while, when there were no changes on the screen, he couldn't help but stutter in confusion.

"Who… Who the hell is Jian Yu?" He was sure he didn't know anyone by that name. He found it somewhat familiar but couldn't recall where he had heard it.

"And what kind of ridiculous mission is it?" The more he saw the mission on the screen, the more he found himself at a loss and at the same time, a sense of dread appeared in his heart. In the future, he couldn't just go around sleeping with every woman every time a mission like this appears, could he?

Shaking his head, Yagn Ze threw away all those distracting thoughts and once again focused on the mission in front of him.

He walked out of his room and, after realising both Xiao Ruolan and Lin Yue were in their own respective rooms, just paced back and forth for a while.

"Should I wait for them?" He couldn't help but mutter under his breath, but looking at the countdown of three days under the mission panel that had already started, he couldn't help but clench his teeth and walk out of the house.

He kept on walking around till he found the first random person.

"Senior." Even though the woman making her way down the cliff was in the Pulse opening realm, Yang Ze still called out respectfully to her. "Can I ask you something?"

"...." The woman who seemed to be in her mid-twenties with an average appearance and an average figure couldn't help but frown in displeasure. It was clear that Yagn Ze's act of stopping her mid-way had annoyed her. But upon seeing his respectful gaze and his polite behaviour, she still nodded in response.

"Do you know who Jian Yu is?" Yang Ze was sure that he had heard this name many times after he left the Duality Sect. In his mind, the figure of that white masked woman flashed, who rescued him, along with Xiao Ruolan and Lin Yue, from the Duality Sect.

Although he didn't get the chance to view her personal panel due to the chaos at that time, that fleeting glimpse he caught before fainting was still enough to show her petite and curvy figure.

But before he could fantasise further, the woman's next words shattered his beautiful imagination.

"Eh! You are talking about the Sect leader?" The woman merely tilted her head in confusion, wondering why this man was asking such an obvious question. Everyone knew the name of the current Sword Sect Leader.

"Sect leader?" Yang Ze merely nodded in response before asking again.

"How does she look?"

As if sensing the inappropriate tone of his question, he immediately changed it.

"I mean, how would I recognise her if I ever saw her?"

Though the woman found his question a bit confusing, she still answered him.

"Eh. She is old… I mean, the best way to describe her appearance would be a ninety-year-old mortal woman."

Her very first words made Yang Ze shiver in fright, who immediately took a step back.

"Do you have any other questions?"

"...."

"...."

"Hello?" The woman asked again, this time with her voice raised in pitch. "DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?"

Yang Ze finally snapped back to reality as he shook his head in response. "Thank you."

The woman merely nodded in response before heading on her way, leaving behind the figure of Yang Ze, who was still at a loss, wondering about his next course of action.

"Should I…" The heaven-defying effects of the Clock of Time were already outrageous enough. And that was a thing crafted out of two random items that weren't even that precious.

He could only imagine what the newly merged talent would be like that was made out of so many blue talents.

Perhaps its effects would be even more outrageous than the Enlightenment and Persistence.

"Should I take a chance?" Thinking about rolling around on a bed with a grandma… Yang Ze's body shivered at the mere thought.

Although in this world of cultivation, one could live for thousands of years and have a beautiful, youthful appearance for a long time, it still didn't change the fact that he had to sleep with an old woman.

And he wasnt even sure whether the old woman would regain her youth. And not to mention that he would be exposing his physique to a complete stranger.

Yang Ze thought for a long time, calculating both benefits and dangers.

"Too risky." In the end, he let out a helpless sigh before shaking his head in response.

Although the allure of the golden skill was too great, he couldn't bring himself to sleep with any other woman when he already had Cang Yue. Not to mention the other woman was a ninety-year-old looking grandma.

"Guess I will have to keep the blue talents for now." With forced laughter, Yang Ze roamed around for a while. He didn't iummediately headed back to his room, but instead chose to talk to a few more people about their current sect leader, Jian Yu, and the more he listened, the firmer he became in his decision. Especially when he heard that she had taken seven husbands.

Just this sentence was enough to make him completely throw out any lingering ideas that he had about Jian Yu.

After wandering around aimlessly for two hours, Yang Ze finally made his way back to his house.

And the moment he entered his room, he was greeted by the sight of a busty woman in her late twenties sitting there with a stiff face and closed eyes.

"Ruolan?" Looking at her expressionless face and closed eyes, along with the dark robes she was wearing with a touch of violet, Yang Ze couldn't help but call out softly as his eyes stayed on her large breasts for a moment before focusing back on her face.

"You are back?" Opening her eyes, Xiao Ruolan merely nodded in response before reaching inside her robe and taking out a few cloth bags before placing them on the bed.

"These are?" Yang Ze couldn't help but walk towards Xiao Ruolan before standing right beside her.

"These are the things Cang Yue sent to you." Xiao Ruolan spoke as a matter of fact.

"You are at the peak of Foundation forging, right? Just a step away from Vein Expansion?"

"Mmm…" Yang Ze didn't correct her or tell her about the fact that he had already stepped into the Vein expansion realm and his veins had now turned golden.

First, because he didn't have any explanation on how to explain this matter, and secondly, he still wanted to keep the fact that he had stepped into the Vein Expansion to himself. He didn't dare to imagine what would happen if Cang Yue or Lin Yue found out about his golden veins and how he got them after drinking Lin Meilin's 'milk'.

"Is she still not out of the seclusion?" Yang Ze wasn't polite about the things sent by Cang Yue. She was going to be his wife soon. What was there to think about?

"She is at a crucial moment in her cultivation." Xiao Ruolan spoke in a soft tone. "She will meet you on the day of marriage, but she did tell me to ask you about how you want the marriage ceremony to be held?"

"Do you want it grand? Or perhaps luxurious?"

"In that case, we need to invite as many people as possible, perhaps even people from the Duality Sect."

"NO." The moment Xiao Ruolan finished speaking, Yang Ze immediately shook his head in response.

"Let's keep it simple."

"Just the four of us will suffice."

Although this was perhaps the most important event of his life, Yang Ze wanted to keep it simple. He didn't want to have too many people around him, especially on such a big day.

"Only four?" Xiao Ruolan couldn't help but narrow her eyes as she gazed deeply at Yang Ze. She wasn't expecting him to hold such a small celebration. In her mind, since this was the marriage between the Saintess of the Duality sect, who was also one of the Grand Elders of the Duality Sect and Yang Ze, it should have been a grand event.

The thought that Yang Ze would only want two more people at his marriage… this thought never crossed her mind.

'This makes things difficult.' She couldnt help but mutter under her breath. She was already counting on a lot of people being there as a distraction who would overshadow her presence there, but now…

Although she was still confused as to where she was going to get an extra person, she didn't show it on her face. She merely nodded to Yang Ze.

"I will take care of it." Speaking softly, she stood up and was about to head out when she suddenly paused and asked once again.

"Is there anything else that you need?"

Yang Ze thought for a moment before asking one last time.

"Do you know who Jian Yu is?"

"I have heard that name a lot of times, but couldn't think of a person."

"That would be the current sect leader of the Sword Sect." Xiao Ruolan answered in a flat voice.

"Do you know how old she is or how she looks?" Yang Ze didn't stop there but kept on asking.

"Judging by the tone of the people here, she seems extraordinarily beautiful and full of valour."

"Huh!?" The moment he asked, Xiao Ruolan exclaimed in surprise as she glanced at the boy in front of her from top to bottom.

"Beautiful?" Her eyes narrowed into slits, almost making Yang Ze's heart jump up in fright, but when he saw her again, she had regained her previous cold and expressionless face, making him wonder whether he had been hallucinating before.

"Well, she is full of valour, but she certainly isn't beautiful." Xiao Ruolan's words were full of mockery as if she was laughing at such a ridiculous statement.

"She is just an old hag, almost at her deathbed. Full of wrinkles and a headful of white hair."

"It wouldn't be hard for her to scare people to death if she decided to wander around the mortal villages at night."

"...." Yang Ze's corner of lips twitched as he heard her. He couldnt help but wonder if she was purposefully insulting the sect leader. In the end, he just sat there in silence as Xiao Ruolan kept on insulting Jian Yu for the next ten or so minutes.

It was only then that she exhaled a mouthful of air in satisfaction before walking out of the room, leaving behind the figure of Yang Ze, who was quietly looking at the screen in front of him.

"Well…"

The merging this time was going to fail. There was no way for him to sleep with Jian Yu in the next three days, and even if there was, he wasn't going to do it. Especially when he is going to get married soon.

"Forget it."

In the end, he merely closed his eyes and entered the state of meditation.

The next three days passed without any incident.

Yang Ze didn't leave his room. He just sat there meditating, using his talent of Enlightenment to visualise more and more objects. By now, the number of objects he has managed to manifest is more than fifty. And his mental strength was almost four times what it had been during the Blue Faced tribe mission.

Now he could stay in the enlightenment state for almost half an hour, and it took only three hours to recover him completely.

This made his remaining progress even more outrageous than before.

Three days passed like this, and at the end of the third day, Yang Ze looked at the countdown, which finally hit 'zero'.

"Now what?" He didn't know whether failing the mission would increase the cooldown or not. At the moment, he could only hope that it didn't increase the cool-down.

Holding his breath, Yang Ze looked at the golden light in front of him that slowly began to dissipate and in less than ten breaths, it completely disappeared.

The first thing Yang Ze did was to check the cooldown, and after seeing that there were only four days left for the cooldown instead of seven, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

"A pit for the golden talent…" Clicking his tongue, Yang Ze could only imagine what the golden talent might have been when his eyes turned towards his personal panel.

"Huh!?" Yang Ze looked at his personal panel for a moment before rubbing his eyes, wondering if the golden light from before had damaged his sight.

But the more he looked, the faster his breathing got.

He even kept on rubbing his eyes till they turned, and if that wasn't enough, even pinched himself, hoping to wake up from this illusion.

But even after a while, when nothing changed, he couldn't help but point his fingers towards his personal panel and shout in a shaky voice full of disbelief.

"Where…" His voice trembled as he spoke further.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE MY BLUE TALENTS?"

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