Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

Chapter 375 362: Lin Qianyan Slaps Lu Ruoxi, the Senior Sister's Realization and Remorse

"Who broke in!"

Lu Ruoxi's pupils contracted, her long eyelashes trembling like a startled butterfly's wings.

She instinctively gripped the edge of the brocade quilt and yanked it over, tightly bundling up the naked Pei Yuhang.

Sensing the bone-chilling hostility from the adjacent room, Lu Ruoxi furrowed her brow as a glint of sharp killing intent flashed in her eyes.

She lifted her fingertips, and a Jade Token fell into her palm. As the one in charge of the Array's Jade Token, she was about to activate the inescapable trap set within the building when—

VMM!!

The golden light of the first layer of the Imprisonment Array had just begun to glow, but the hostile presence had already vanished without a trace.

'Such incredible speed... Their Cultivation is higher than mine. A Void Refining Cultivator... How can that be?'

Lu Ruoxi murmured to herself. Her full lips had turned pale, and fine beads of sweat trickled from her smooth forehead, running down her delicate jawline.

She couldn't believe a powerful Cultivator would dare offend her—a highly respected Elder of the Dan Yun Pavilion.

'Who was it? What do they want?'

'Are they here to steal Elixirs? Or to force me to perform Alchemy!'

Lu Ruoxi's normally smiling, almond-shaped eyes were now ice-cold as she warily scanned every corner of the room.

Her hand slowly crept toward the inside of her dress. A Talisman Paper was hidden there; lighting it would send a warning to the Great Cultivators of the Dan Yun Pavilion.

She, Lu Ruoxi, was not without backing. The Pavilion Master of the Dan Yun Pavilion, a Mahayana Realm Female Cultivator named Fu Haixia, was grooming her as a successor.

'Once Pavilion Master Fu arrives, let's see how arrogant the person who dared to offend me can be—'

'Huh? Where's the Talisman Paper that was inside my dress?'

Lu Ruoxi's fingers touched the inside of her dress, but she felt nothing.

Sensing something, she snapped her head around.

There stood a Cold Fairy, her white robes purer than snow, standing silently beside the naked Pei Yuhang. Her delicate, jade-like hands were personally draping an outer robe over him.

Her movements were as gentle as Moonlight skimming the surface of water, yet her fingertips trembled slightly when they brushed against the shocking cluster of hickeys on the unconscious Pei Yuhang's neck.

"I'm sorry, Brother Pei. It's Qianqian... I came too late."

"Lin Qianyan! You are the Jade Pool Saintess. What do you think you're doing, trespassing in the private residence of a Dao Sect Alchemy Elder!"

Lu Ruoxi snapped. Her heart went cold when she saw the Talisman Paper between Lin Qianyan's fingers, but she forced herself to stand her ground.

"What do *I* want to do? The question is, Elder Lu, what were *you* trying to do?"

"What was I trying to do?"

Lin Qianyan slowly raised her gaze. The tenderness in her eyes from tying Pei Yuhang's robe had yet to fade, but it instantly turned to frost the moment she looked at Lu Ruoxi.

"You're the one who should be answering that question, Elder Lu."

"You are Pei Yuhang and Ye Liyuan's Senior Sister, yet you exploited their trust to do something so depraved. And you have the audacity to question me?"

Lu Ruoxi swallowed but still feigned composure. "I don't understand what you're talking about."

"Saintess Lin, please answer my question first. Why did you trespass here?"

Lin Qianyan scoffed. She found the self-righteous woman before her laughably hypocritical.

She tilted her head slightly, her gaze sweeping contemptuously over Lu Ruoxi's feigned innocent face. Her red lips parted.

"Lu Ruoxi, I have no interest in playing games with you."

She slowly raised her hand. A faintly glowing Memory Stone materialized in her palm.

"I've recorded everything that just happened—with a Memory Stone and a Sound Recording Stone. I haven't missed a thing. Your excuses are useless now."

Watching Lu Ruoxi's face grow paler, Lin Qianyan's gaze grew even colder and sharper. Her voice was as soft as a whisper, but every word cut like a knife, delivering a verdict:

"I will make sure Brother Pei knows the whole truth."

"And as for you, you vile, hypocritical woman—don't even think of getting near him again!"

Lin Qianyan took a step forward. The powerful Spiritual Power of a Void Refining Cultivator surged from her, pressing down on the terrified Lu Ruoxi. Lu Ruoxi grunted, spat out a mouthful of blood, and her legs gave way, causing her to crumple to her knees like a kite with a snapped string.

"No... you can't do this!"

"How about we make a deal? Elixirs, resources, connections...

"Even though you're the revered Jade Pool Saintess, I am a powerful and influential Elder of the Dan Yun Pavilion. I can certainly help you in many ways!"

"Why do we have to be enemies?"

Lu Ruoxi said, breathing heavily. She clenched her fists and glanced at Pei Yuhang on the bed, a complicated emotion flickering in her eyes.

"I know you want Junior Brother Pei, too... Perhaps we can share him.

"You have no idea how many women are after him. You can't protect him by yourself—GAAH!!"

The Suppression from Lin Qianyan suddenly intensified, slamming Lu Ruoxi's body flat against the ground.

Lin Qianyan's expression was glacial. Her beautiful eyes held nothing but disgust as she looked at Lu Ruoxi.

"Is that how you see Brother Pei? As some kind of resource to be traded and used? You're disgusting."

"If it weren't for our positions and the currently sensitive relationship between the Dao Sect and the Jade Pool Sacred Land, I would kill you today, you shameless wench!"

Lin Qianyan snorted, then turned back to Pei Yuhang, ready to take him away from this wretched place.

"Stop—stop!!"

Fighting against Lin Qianyan's Suppression, Lu Ruoxi struggled to push herself up. The Jade Bricks beneath her feet cracked, and the bones in her delicate frame groaned in protest.

But Lu Ruoxi defiantly straightened her spine, forcing herself to meet Lin Qianyan's gaze.

"The Jade Pool Saintess, Lin Qianyan…" She snapped her head up. A trickle of blood escaped the corner of her mouth, but her eyes burned with a twisted madness.

"What right do you have to act so high and mighty?! To point fingers at me?!"

"You're just... a third wheel, interfering in the relationship between Pei Yuhang and his Dao Companion, Ye Liyuan!

"All I did was say aloud and act upon the dark thoughts you have in your own heart!"

"Why... Why do I have to be judged by you from on high, while you get to stand there... like some otherworldly Fairy with pristine white feathers?!"

"I might be no saint... but you're no better! We're both just a couple of worthless sluts!"

Lu Ruoxi roared like a cornered beast. Her eyes were bloodshot, and droplets of blood dripped from her mouth, blooming like garish red plum blossoms on the snow-white jade tiles.

SLAP—

With the crisp sound of a slap, Lu Ruoxi was sent flying.

Lin Qianyan took out a handkerchief and wiped her hand in disgust. Only after confirming that no trace of Lu Ruoxi's scent remained did she once again support the unconscious Pei Yuhang.

"Whether I, Lin Qianyan, am a good woman is for Brother Pei to judge."

"But regardless, my conscience is clear."

"But you will always be a wretched rat. What you've stolen doesn't belong to you, and you won't be able to keep it!"

Holding Pei Yuhang, Lin Qianyan unfurled a Teleportation Scroll, preparing to depart.

Her hair disheveled and vision blurry from the slap, Lu Ruoxi watched Lin Qianyan prepare to leave with Pei Yuhang. She reached out a hand, as helpless as a child.

"No... Don't... I'm begging you, don't tell him."

"I... I can't face him again."

Staring at Pei Yuhang's face, his eyes closed, Lu Ruoxi's mind drifted back in a daze to their first meeting a hundred years ago.

"Ruo Xi, your master has brought you a little junior brother. Don't you go bullying him!"

"A junior brother? I have a junior brother now! That's wonderful! Master, where is he? Hurry and let me see him!"

"So you're my junior brother?" she asked, then muttered, "You're quite handsome. What's your name?"

"Pei Yuhang."

"And what should you call me?"

"Senior Sister."

"Why don't you smile? You're so much younger than me, but you look like you carry the weight of the world on your shoulders."

"Because... my life wasn't very good before. Senior Sister, will you be nice to me?"

"Of course. Your Senior Sister is your family now. I'll always protect you..."

'I'm sorry, Junior Brother Pei.'

'Your Senior Sister was wrong.'

'But... there's no chance now, is there.'