Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

Chapter 117 - 116: Yu Gu Nan Can't Wait to Train Peng Sword Immortal

Qing Yueqiu dazedly opened her eyes. The first thing she saw was the rosy-cheeked face of Ye Liyuan.

"Ah, Yueqiu, you're awake!"

"Mistress? Where's Master...?"

Qing Yueqiu blurted it out instinctively, then immediately regretted it.

'How could I mention wanting to see Master right in front of Mistress...'

In fact, Qing Yueqiu's worries were not unfounded. After seeing the disappointment in the silver-haired girl's eyes, Ye Liyuan, who had just been all smiles, immediately pouted.

"Yueqiu, don't tell me you're disappointed that it's your mistress taking care of you?"

"Of course not! Yueqiu would never think that way of you, Mistress..."

Feeling guilty and anxious, Qing Yueqiu propped herself up and tried her best to explain.

"Oh, dear, why are you so nervous, child... I was just teasing you. Don't reopen your wounds, or Ah Han will see and say I was bullying you."

Ye Liyuan gently helped Qing Yueqiu lie back down and stuck her tongue out playfully.

Looking at her mistress's youthful and vibrant appearance, Qing Yueqiu didn't quite dare to meet her gaze.

'After all... she and Master dual-cultivated for a whole night... Even though nothing substantial happened, and Master was just helping her recuperate, that kind of intimacy... it definitely crossed the line of a normal master-disciple relationship, right?'

As Qing Yueqiu watched her mistress's busy figure tidying up her torn and discarded clothes, she felt an inexplicable sense of guilt towards her.

Even though she didn't approve of the woman before her, believing she was holding Master back.

But looking at the facts, a disciple like her with "improper intentions" still felt she didn't deserve such care and concern.

Just then, a gentle and refined male voice sounded from outside, pulling at the heartstrings of the two beauties inside the room.

A look of joy instinctively appeared on Qing Yueqiu's face. She was about to call out "Master," but when she saw Ye Liyuan already walking out happily, she tactfully held her tongue.

'This is why I don't like being around Mistress. In front of her, I have to act like a "good little girl," and it's hard to show even a hint of my usual affection for Master...'

"Ah Han~ You're back! Yueqiu is awake now."

"Yueqiu's awake?"

"Look how happy you are. If Yueqiu wasn't your disciple, I'd be getting jealous."

"Ahem, Liyuan, you are my Dao Companion. My love for you will always be one of a kind!"

"Alright, alright, stop pledging your loyalty. Go on in and see your grand disciple."

On the bed, Qing Yueqiu listened intently to the conversation between her master and mistress.

After hearing her master's words of love, the crimson light in her eyes dimmed, and even her joy at the prospect of seeing him was washed away.

CREAK—

The door opened, and Pei Yuhang strode in. He casually shut the door behind him, keeping the wind and snow outside.

"Yueqiu, you're awake. Does your body feel strange in any way?"

"I'm fine, Master... And, I'm so sorry. I lost... I was too arrogant. I could only manage a difficult victory against Ji Xichan when she was suppressing her strength. When she used her full power, I was no match for her at all... I'm sorry."

"Yueqiu, your strength is already far greater than that of an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator."

"But I still didn't win the Sect tournament."

Qing Yueqiu lowered her head, not daring to meet Pei Yuhang's distinct black and white eyes.

She knew, of course, that her gentle master wouldn't blame her for this. But sometimes, his gentleness was harder for her to face than any reprimand.

"No, you won."

"?"

"Yueqiu, you heard me right. You beat Ji Xichan. She honored the bet and forfeited the match."

"You are the champion of this Sect tournament. I'm proud of you."

Pei Yuhang said, stroking the girl's silver hair as he joyfully shared the good news.

...

"Senior Sister, they sent over the prize for the Sect tournament champion! Is it in this Storage Ring?"

"Mhm."

"Can I see?"

"There's not much inside, just a few hundred thousand Spirit Stones. For rewards like Magical Treasures, you have to go to the Sect's Gold Storage Pavilion to collect them."

"My god, what do you mean, 'just' a few hundred thousand Spirit Stones?!"

Yu Xiaoyan shot her senior sister a look. If she didn't know her calm and unflappable nature, she would have thought the girl was actually showing off to her!

The perky young girl's eyes suddenly darted about before she wrapped her arms around her senior sister's arm with a wide grin.

"Senior Sister, you can't possibly use all these Spirit Stones, right?"

"How about you give your cutest junior sister fifty thousand Spirit Stones to help with my Cultivation~!"

Qing Yueqiu shook her head. "No."

"How about ten thousand Spirit Stones?"

"Still no."

Yu Xiaoyan suddenly thought of a possibility. She clutched Qing Yueqiu's robes and said in disbelief, "You're not going to give all these Spirit Stones to Master, are you?!"

Qing Yueqiu nodded.

"Master's Cultivation is the highest priority. He needs these Spirit Stones the most."

"But Master already has a million Spirit Stones..."

"Those were from other women. These are from me. I hope Master won't accept Spirit Stones from other women anymore."

'As long as I, Yueqiu, am here to provide for you, that will be enough.'

Qing Yueqiu said this seriously, but she kept the last sentence hidden in her heart.

Hearing this, Yu Xiaoyan clenched her fists, furious at her sister's lack of fight.

"If you give all these Spirit Stones to Master, that fool of a master will definitely spend them on Mistress! Don't forget what an astronomical sum of Spirit Stones Master has spent on Mistress so far!

Are you really going to let Master spend all the Spirit Stones you worked so hard to earn on another woman?!"

At these words, Qing Yueqiu finally fell silent.

She didn't want Master to accept Spirit Stones from other Female Cultivators, so naturally, she found it hard to accept him giving her Spirit Stones to another woman...

But in a daze, Qing Yueqiu's thoughts drifted back to a few days ago, to her mistress's patient care as she lay in bed.

*Huuu*—

'Forget it. If Master wants to give them to Mistress, then so be it.'

Qing Yueqiu shook her head, not wanting to discuss the matter with her junior sister any further.

She closed her eyes and resumed her Cultivation, preparing to kick down the gates to the Nascent Soul realm in one fell swoop.

Seeing her senior sister's mind was made up, Yu Xiaoyan couldn't say anything more.

'Stupid cow of a senior sister. Sponsoring your love rival now, are you? Next, are you going to help Master and Mistress raise their kids? What if Mistress gets tired and Master tells you to come in and... push her from behind? You'd do that too?'

'...She's as stubborn as a mule, completely hopeless.'

Yu Xiaoyan shook her head and walked out of her senior sister's room, feeling helpless.

[Xiaoxiao, do you think your senior sister is a fool, so infatuated with Master that she's lost all reason?]

Yu Gu Nan's teasing voice echoed in her Heart Lake.

To this, Yu Xiaoyan added, "The one who loves Master most deeply is me! Senior Sister is just a simple-minded fool."

[Yes, yes, of course. Xiaoxiao is the one who loves Master the most~]

Hearing this, Yu Xiaoyan was a little puzzled. Why wasn't her "sister" in name only deliberately trying to annoy her this time?

'She's even agreeing with me?'

'Fine. Since she's sincerely wishing me and Master well, I won't call her a "lowly servant" anymore.'

「Night.」

Yu Xiaoyan's consciousness sank into her Heart Lake, and Yu Gu Nan took control of the body once more.

She stretched her lovely waist and let out a comfortable yawn.

"It feels so good to have a body."

"And a body that belongs only to me."

A smirk played on Yu Gu Nan's lips. She slowly undid the buttons on her chest, opening her lapels. In the Glazed Mirror across from the bed, a strange, shimmering Rune shaped like a thorny rose could be seen clearly on the inner side of her small Dao Fruit.

This was one of the results of Yu Gu Nan's arduous cultivation of the Dark Monarch's Seven Profound Scripture these past few days.

It was a Demon Seal that could make Xiaoxiao fall asleep unknowingly within the Heart Lake, unable to perceive the outside world. This meant that from now on, Yu Gu Nan could handle many things without Yu Xiaoyan's knowledge.

If necessary, she could even forcefully take control of the body from Yu Xiaoyan.

Thus, without Yu Xiaoyan's knowledge, she had already seized complete control of the body.

'What can you do? Who told my little sister to be so naive? She's no match for her big sister.'

Yu Gu Nan took out a Storage Ring her sister didn't know about. As she caressed it with her fingertips, she used her Divine Thought to look at the black, flimsy, silk lingerie-style dudou inside.

"Whose is this little thing, reeking of a Fox Spirit's allure? What a shame I couldn't see that woman's face clearly that day."

"Of course, I'm even more excited to see the look of panic in the eyes of that noble Sword Immortal when he sees these clothes."

"I wonder if he'll still have the face to speak to me with the airs of a master then, or if he'll still call me 'Gu Nan' like I'm a child."

"Ah~ The more I think about it, the more I look forward to the day I get to train the Pei Sword Immortal, hehe~~"

The bright white Moonlight shone through the window, illuminating the face of the young girl crouching on the bed.

The girl's face was flushed, her fingertip pressed to the tip of her tongue. She wore a morbidly suggestive smile, as if she could no longer wait to enjoy her "gourmet meal."