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Xiao Yueluo choked on the water, struggling to surface.
Instinctively, she turned to shield Su Qingyan in her arms.
“If you can’t get clean, then stay in there for the rest of your lives.”
Bai Yue clasped her hands behind her back, tossing out this cold remark.
Then, without sparing them another glance, she turned, flicked her sleeve, and strode out without looking back.
***
Top cabin.
After confirming that the array outside the door was fully activated and not a single wisp of aura could leak out, Bai Yue leaned against the door panel and let out a long, weary sigh.
Her icy, aloof villainess facade instantly crumbled.
She practically lunged toward the spacious, plush couch covered in premium snow-silk, burying her face in the soft brocade quilt.
Rolling.
Squirming.
Bai Yue writhed on the bed like a worm.
“That scared me… that little white-haired girl with her ‘death before dishonor’ attitude—I thought she was about to do something crazy.”
“This really is an 18+ cultivation game world.
The thought processes of these Heaven’s Chosen Maidens are just insane.
They’re always ready to strip down and sacrifice themselves at the drop of a hat—no honor in battle at all!”
She rolled her eyes and couldn’t help but complain: “If this were modern times, that’d be textbook entrapment!
Do they really think I’m that desperate kind of perverted villain?”
She had nearly—just barely—lost the carefully cultivated image of a cold, malicious villainess.
But then…
Bai Yue raised her right hand, holding it in mid-air.
Her gaze slid down her sleeve, settling on her thumb and index finger.
Almost unconsciously, she rubbed the two fingers together.
Between her fingertips, there seemed to linger a strange sensation.
Smooth.
Cool.
With a hint of a girl’s delicate, impossibly soft tenderness.
“Not gonna lie…” Bai Yue pursed her lips and muttered under her breath, “her skin was pretty smooth.”
The moment the words left her mouth, she jerked her hand away as if burned, shaking it vigorously to purge those messy, inappropriate CG images from her mind.
“What am I thinking?!
Get a grip!”
Bai Yue patted her own cheeks.
Right now, she was a villainess supporting character who would eventually be ground to dust by the heroines once they grew powerful.
She had no time for such thoughts!
Surviving was her only goal.
***
Meanwhile.
Lower deck, Spirit Spring Chamber.
Steam rose in thick, white billows.
Xiao Yueluo stared blankly at the shattered jade door, completely bewildered.
She left?
That crazy woman… just walked away?
Not only did she not continue humiliating them, she didn’t even leave a single harsh word.
When things are out of the ordinary, there must be a catch.
What kind of scheme was she plotting by throwing them into this water?!
After becoming a cripple, she had seen too much of the cruelty and cunning in the cultivation world.
This water was a strange milky white, and several unfamiliar pale golden petals floated on the surface, emitting a cloyingly sweet fragrance.
Could it be…
Was it drugged?!
A colorless, odorless aphrodisiac?
Or some kind of poison that could control a cultivator’s mind?!
“Qingyan, get out!
There’s definitely something wrong with this water!”
Xiao Yueluo frantically grabbed Su Qingyan’s arm, trying to drag her to shore.
“Yueluo… wait…”
Su Qingyan stumbled as she was pulled, slipping and falling into the water.
But she didn’t struggle to get out.
Instead, she stood dazed in the waist-deep water, staring blankly at her own hands.
“Can you feel it?”
“Feel what?”
Xiao Yueluo was taken aback.
“This water…” Su Qingyan cupped a handful of the milky liquid, her voice trembling slightly, “it’s so warm…”
Only then did Xiao Yueluo belatedly look down at the water submerging her body.
She had been so furious at Bai Yue earlier, her entire focus on that pervert, that she had completely overlooked the changes in her own body.
Now that she was calmer, she realized—her broken meridians were actually being repaired.
How was this possible?!
“This… this is…”
Having once been the top prodigy of Qinghe City, Xiao Yueluo’s knowledge far surpassed Su Qingyan’s.
She stared fixedly at the petals floating on the surface, exuding astonishing spiritual energy, and at the golden threads continuously merging into her body.
Her pupils contracted violently, and she was utterly dumbfounded.
“Spiritual Marrow Liquid?!
And… the scent of Bodhi Flower?!”
Xiao Yueluo stood in the water like a wooden statue, her mind a complete blank.
This was no cheap aphrodisiac!
This was a sacred cleansing and marrow-refining elixir that, even in the cultivation world, would make countless people fight bloody battles—even annihilate entire families—just to get their hands on it!
Soak in this pool for a few hours, and not even her shattered meridians would be a problem.
Even a mortal born with severed channels could rebuild their foundation and be reborn!
That venomous woman who had forced Qingyan into slavery…
Had given them something this precious… as bathwater?!
A whole pool of it!
There had to be at least five drops of Spiritual Marrow Liquid in here!
Was she insane?!
Or was the whole world insane?!
What was she after?!
“Yueluo, your complexion looks much better.”
Su Qingyan moved closer, joyfully touching Xiao Yueluo’s no-longer-pale cheek and speaking softly.
“She… doesn’t seem as bad as you said.”
“No!”
Xiao Yueluo suddenly grabbed Su Qingyan’s wrist.
“In the cultivation world, there’s no such thing as a free gift!
The most expensive things are always the ones that cost nothing.”
She knew the value of Spiritual Marrow Liquid better than anyone.
“Then what do we do now?”
Startled by Xiao Yueluo’s outburst, the joy in Su Qingyan’s eyes vanished, replaced by deep apprehension.
“I don’t know.”
Xiao Yueluo shook her head, a flicker of confusion in her eyes.
“She’s dangerous.
But since she doesn’t want us dead, that means we’re useful to her!”
She clenched her fists, feeling the renewed vitality surging through her body.
“Whatever she’s after, since she’s given me a second chance, I won’t waste it!”
“Qingyan, sit down!”
Xiao Yueluo commanded in a low, firm voice.
“Focus your mind and follow my breathing.
We cannot waste this pool—it’s our only capital for survival!”
Though frightened, Su Qingyan had always obeyed Xiao Yueluo without question.
She bit her lower lip, sat down obediently across from her, and closed her eyes.
Inside the spirit spring chamber, only the sound of their steady breathing and the gentle ripple of water remained.
***
[Ding—!]
In the top cabin.
Bai Yue had just turned over, ready to grab a spiritual fruit to munch on, when a crisp electronic chime suddenly rang out in her mind without warning.
[Detected emotional fluctuations in key characters.]
[Ding!
Xiao Yueluo’s favorability toward the host has increased by 5.
Current favorability: -80 (Bitter Hatred)]
[Ding!
Su Qingyan’s favorability toward the host has increased by 10.
Current favorability: -55 (Extreme Fear)]
[Ding!
Su Qingyan’s favorability toward the host has decreased by 5.
Current favorability: -60 (Extreme Fear)]
“What the—?”
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