The spiritual energy here… it's so abundant!

Outside, a First Tier Lower Grade Spirit Plant worth ten Spirit Stones can be seen everywhere here.

Lin Qiongyu had never been to such a sect place. Such a place is always an unattainable existence for Loose Cultivators.

"Miss Lin… take care!"

Granny Li shook her head after sending Lin Qiongyu off, then turned and left.

The world is difficult; she understood female cultivators like Lin Qiongyu who want to sell themselves.

But understanding is one thing. Seeing the once energetic neighbor now come to entice Chen Ye, Granny Li couldn't help but sigh.

"Thank you, thank you, Granny Li."

The black-clad girl's heart was pounding. She bowed deeply to the old woman, then placed her hand on the door handle and took a deep breath.

Lin Qiongyu, you can do it!

She cheered herself on, feeling a tiny bit of self-satisfaction.

Men… are all the same.

She visited late at night, and since Chen Ye did not refuse, it was enough to show the filthy thoughts in his heart!

Thinking of this, Lin Qiongyu couldn't help but sigh.

Unexpectedly, in her heart, Senior Chen who was indifferent to women, in the end, was just an ordinary man.

However, this just proves her charm!

Lin Qiongyu composed herself.

She opened the door, expecting a scene she didn't anticipate.

Chen Ye was indeed in the courtyard, but he was not alone.

He was holding a little girl with silver hair in his arms.

The little girl was quite mischievous, squinting her eyes, tugging on her master's beard intermittently.

"Miss Lin, to visit so late, for what purpose?" Chen Ye's voice was as calm as water, betraying no emotion.

Lin Qiongyu's heart skipped a beat.

All the words she had prepared were now stuck in her throat.

No matter how thick-skinned she was, she couldn't brazenly seduce her master in front of a girl!

Besides, she actually could be considered thin-skinned… otherwise, with her beauty, how had she ended up like this?

Even more embarrassing was that Qing Jun in Chen Ye's arms was looking at her with innocent eyes, asking crisply, "Sister Qiongyu, your clothes are so strange. Why wear a hat so late? Aren't you hot?"

"I…"

Lin Qiongyu felt her face burning painfully.

She took a deep breath and slowly untied the black cloak.

"Stop!"

Chen Ye shouted sternly, his gaze already catching a glimpse of exposed skin.

Instantly, the Flying Light Sword obtained from Ji Yueze turned into a streak of light, halting Lin Qiongyu's actions.

Does Lin Qiongyu have an exhibitionist tendency?

Don't lead his little disciple astray…

Lin Qiongyu, frightened by the chilling Flying Sword suspended in front of her cloak's ties, turned pale and instinctively stepped back half a step.

What does this mean?

She looked up to see Chen Ye's gaze devoid of any lust, instead cold to the extreme.

The courage and self-satisfaction she had just mustered was instantly shattered.

She thought… she thought this man, like all others she had seen, couldn't resist her face and figure.

But she was wrong.

Terribly wrong.

"Miss Lin, have self-respect."

Chen Ye summoned back the Flying Light Sword, frowning,

"My disciple is still here. If you have something troubling you, just say it. If you intend any misconduct… then please leave."

"I... I didn't..."

The black-clad girl's eyes reddened instantly.

She bit her lip hard, preventing the tears of humiliation from falling.

What does this man mean? Letting her enter the valley yet speaking such righteous words...

"Didn't?"

Chen Ye shook his head, further explaining,

"I let you into the valley at Qing Jun's request. You took care of her in the past, and Qing Jun… is still young and innocent, so she wanted to see you."

"Qing Jun?"

Lin Qiongyu was stunned; she hadn't thought that Chen Ye had allowed her entry for his disciple!

From the start, she had misunderstood!

Like a conceited clown…

"Master, has Sister Qiongyu encountered some trouble?" Qing Jun in Chen Ye's arms looked at Lin Qiongyu's nearly crying appearance, seemingly unwilling to tug at Chen Ye's clothing.

Actually, she didn't pay attention to others' joys or sorrows, but her master said she was a kind child!

Even if she were wicked, she had to act kind—and moreover, her master seemed to prefer when Qing Jun acted kind. For her master, she very rarely bullied Yuanyuan lately!

Chen Ye sighed, retracting the Flying Light Sword:

"Speak, what on earth happened?"

With his current status and position, helping Lin Qiongyu would be a trivial effort, but he feared this woman would become demanding without end.

Lin Qiongyu looked at him, then at the little girl in his arms, and finally, the tense string in her heart snapped with a "pa" sound.

She could no longer hold back, squatting down, burying her face deep in her knees, with stifled sobs emanating from beneath the large black robe.

She recounted her experiences of recent days, her parents' plight, her sister's serious illness, and the coercion of the Zhang family's three sisters, intermittently, revealing them all.

Chen Ye listened expressionlessly.

Where in the world is there no suffering?

And Lin Qiongyu's rhetoric… was almost the same as someone with a gambling father, a sick mother, and a school-attending younger brother.

Emphasizing how difficult things were, hence doing certain things was not by choice.

Therefore, Chen Ye was non-committal, even suspecting she was deliberately lying, "Oh? I thought it was something else… Do you think I, Chen Ye, am a kind-hearted person?"

The black-clad girl bit her lip, taking off the hood from her head.

That tender and pretty face, under the cold moonlight, appeared somewhat pale, but thereby added a touch of vulnerability that invoked pity.

She barely managed to pull out what she considered her most seductive smile for Chen Ye, her voice trembling lightly, deliberately husky:

"Steward Chen… this girl… has nowhere else to turn."

"As long as the Steward is willing to help me, this girl… is willing to do anything."

She said this, almost exhausting all her strength.

Admittedly, when faced with a woman so tender and pretty, adopting such an inviting pose, speaking such suggestive words, Chen Ye indeed felt somewhat moved.

Especially those eyes, like autumn waters, at this moment, glistening as they looked at him, as if a nod from him could gain everything she had.

However, before he could respond.

"Cling—!"

A sharp sword cry suddenly sounded outside the courtyard!

Immediately, a figure in sky blue, carrying undisguised anger, like an arrow leaving the string, landed in the courtyard instantly!

It was Li Qiuyun!

At this moment, her pretty face showed fury; her sharp eyes fixated on Lin Qiongyu, with the longsword in her hand trembling slightly.

Just now, she was practicing swordsmanship on the open ground in the valley and happened to see Granny Li leading a suspicious black-robed person towards Chen Ye's courtyard.

She grew suspicious in her heart and quietly followed, only to unexpectedly witness such… shameless scene!

She stepped forward, protecting Chen Ye behind her, pointing her longsword at Lin Qiongyu, shouting sharply:

"Lin Qiongyu! Coming so ghostly dress at midnight to see Uncle Chen, what are your intentions?!"

Lin Qiongyu looked at the unexpected situation before her, feeling rather bewildered.

Looking again at Li Qiuyun in the sect disciple uniform, along with her Qi Cultivation Late Period cultivation, any last bit of confidence in her completely shattered.

Yes...

At this moment, it seems she has no capital left in front of Chen Ye?

"Li… Fairy Li, you misunderstood."

Lin Qiongyu subconsciously wanted to pull the large cloak tight again, her voice humble.

"Misunderstood?"

Li Qiuyun, however, was relentless, and she moved her longsword forward, its tip nearly pressing against Lin Qiongyu's snow-white neck,

"I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears. What misunderstanding is there? You shameless enchantress, don't try to seduce Uncle Chen here!"

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