Chapter 385
The female disciple spoke earnestly.
"There's no need to mention something so widely known."
She glanced around and lowered her voice. "How should I put it? She has a very cold personality. Not only has she severed her own emotions and desires, but she also requires all disciples of Gui Gong to maintain a state of purity. You need to be careful about matters of romance."
"Absolutely forbidden?" Qin Yuzhi frowned.
"It’s absolutely forbidden to let the Palace Master find out."
"Got it."
Qin Yuzhi began to understand.
Severing emotions and desires is a common human experience; who among ordinary people can truly cut off their feelings?
Thus, within Gui Gong, many disciples were secretly engaging in romantic affairs, commonly referred to as "stealing love."
Fortunately, the Palace Master spent her days in the cold moonlight, indifferent to worldly matters, wholly devoted to pursuing the pinnacle of the Dao.
In summary:
Supreme power, devoid of emotions.
"Has the influence of the Yuan Huang Ancestor God affected her this deeply already?"
Qin Yuzhi murmured to herself.
Legend has it that the Nine-Colored Yuan Huang, upon returning from the heavenly realm, established a method of supreme emotional detachment, imitating the Dao, to ensure absolute fairness in handling matters of the nine heavens and ten lands.
If little Bing'er truly becomes like this...
Perhaps the moment she ascends will coincide with that day of return!
To have such dreams now indicates she has already been significantly influenced.
At that moment, the female disciple spoke again:
"Junior Sister, I've told you so much; now you have to help me with something."
"What do you need?" Qin Yuzhi asked.
"The little junior brother accidentally wandered into the Palace Master's chamber and was caught by an elder. He’s been punished to face the wall at the Shu Ling Cliff, and it’s freezing there. Can you bring him some food?"
"Who’s the little junior brother?"
Qin Yuzhi took the food box, puzzled.
"Li Mo. He’s the only male disciple in our Gui Gong, and he’s as gentle as jade, always ready to help others. Many female disciples want to have secret affairs with him, but unfortunately, I’m not interested in men."
"Huh???"
Qin Yuzhi's mind went blank for the third time.
Little Bing'er is the Palace Master.
And that guy is the little junior brother?
Isn’t that a master-disciple relationship?
What on earth is going on?!
It’s a pity she hadn’t read "The Overbearing Empress Loves Me." If she had, she wouldn’t be so lost right now.
Holding the food box, Qin Yuzhi hurried toward Shu Ling Cliff, but as she approached, she sensed something was off.
It seemed someone had arrived before her.
She quickly muted her presence in the dream and observed from the shadows.
Through the jade-colored branches, she saw two figures standing before the cliff.
"You’re here."
The little Li classmate in her dream still looked like a youth, seemingly unchanged from the outside world.
"You knew I was coming?"
Little Bing'er—no, she should now be called Big Bing Tuzi.
Ying Bing had fully matured, her figure breathtaking, her long legs giving Qin Yuzhi the illusion that they reached her waist.
Yet her cold, divine aura remained unchanged, with a mix of chill and allure in her eyes that was simply striking.
What was she doing here?
Isn’t she the Palace Master of Gui Gong now?
Big Bing Tuzi frowned, seemingly scolding:
"I told you not to sneak into the palace. Now that you’ve been caught by an elder, how can I explain it to others if I don’t punish you?"
Qin Yuzhi seemed to understand.
Oh, so she values this disciple enough to come and reprimand him?
It was a bit strange, but it didn’t seem unacceptable.
But Li Mo’s next words left her frozen in place.
Li Mo: "But sister, I really miss you."
"?"
Qin Yuzhi leaned back slightly. What was he talking about?
Is it appropriate to speak to the Empress of the Phoenix like that?
If Ying Bing had been influenced by the Path of Emotionless, wasn’t that courting death?
However...
Big Bing Tuzi lowered her gaze, her frosty jade-like face seemingly blushing:
"I miss you too."
"??"
Qin Yuzhi felt her scalp tingle. What on earth were they saying?
Is this how the Empress speaks to her disciple?
Is this what it means to be influenced by the Path of Emotionless?
"You let your hair down; let me style it for you."
"Okay."
So, under the bright sun, the Empress of the Phoenix and her little disciple, Big Bing Tuzi, sat on her stinky little brother's lap.
"Is it done?"
"Don’t move around; I’m afraid that soon my hardest part won’t be my mouth."
"?????"
Qin Yuzhi felt as if she had been struck by lightning. What were they talking about?!
Is this the kind of conversation that happens between an Empress and her disciple!?
They said they would sever emotional ties and forbid disciples from dating!
No wonder the disciples were sneaking around; it turns out this improper trend started from the very top!
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Chapter 425: Li Mo, Big Bing Tuzi Dreamed of Me
In the Qiu Shui Pavilion, Li Mo's room.
"Huh? Why is it itching again?"
Little Li classmate lay on the bed.
Even though his consciousness had sunk into a small world, his body instinctively scratched at his neck.
Meanwhile, in the dream...
Do you want to hear what you’re saying?
Oh, it seems there’s no need to listen anymore.
The Empress of the Phoenix, Ying Gongzhu, is certainly not one to just talk without action.
"!"
Qin Yuzhi had already been frozen, but the scene unfolding before her made her feel as if she were about to shatter into a million pieces.
She remembered a creature that resembled both human and demon, called a Night Ghost. They would embrace their prey, rendering them immobile, then lean on their shoulders to sink their fangs into their veins.
High-grade Night Ghosts could even resemble humans so closely that they were nearly indistinguishable, except for their aversion to sunlight.
It must be a Night Ghost, a high-grade one!
Otherwise, even in a dream, it would be hard to believe that the God Hammer Little Overlord would be so defenseless.
The Night Ghost is pretending to be the Palace Master and is eating people! Is anyone going to do something about it?!
(Slam)!
Bang—
The food box was thrown to the ground by Qin Yuzhi.
Ying Bing: "?"
She looked up at Qin Yuzhi, feeling somewhat unfamiliar. Clearly, there was no such disciple in Gui Gong.
She glanced at Li Mo, her little brother who was having a romantic affair with the domineering Palace Master.
Indeed.
How could there be male disciples in Gui Gong?
Bang—
The dream began to merge with reality, a ray of sunlight streaming in from outside, dispelling the dreamlike illusions into nothingness.
The frostbitten Gui Gong seemed to finally begin to thaw at that moment.
The light from Tianshan covered everything.
"Whoosh."
In the morning, Ying Bing awoke with a start. She hazily glanced outside and found the daylight so bright it was blinding.
She placed her hand on her forehead to shield herself from the relentless warmth, momentarily lost in thought.
What had she dreamed about last night?
Right, she had used the Huang Liang technique to guide her memories back to Gui Gong, back to the time when she was still the Empress of the Phoenix in her previous life.
But just before she fell asleep, the system had appeared out of nowhere.
And it played some images from Little Li's mind.
Those images were unforgettable!
They had naturally shattered the dream she had constructed for herself.
"So..."
Ying Bing stared blankly, recalling the scenes from her dream, her delicate, fair feet curled up together.
Was the scene she dreamed about from "The Overbearing Empress Loves Me"?
People don’t dream of things they haven’t seen.
But who could blame her? She had just seen Li Mo guiding Ouyang Lian’s illustrated book, and the places depicted in the book were strikingly similar to her memories of Gui Gong!
And, to top it off, Qin Yuzhi had seen it too.
Meanwhile, next door...
"The progress today is about the same as yesterday."
"Still five hundred and fifty shapes to go, or five extreme shapes, and the Qi Tian Dou Zhan Yi will reach a new level."
Little Li classmate yawned as he got up, rubbing his temples, still feeling fatigued.
His head was a bit dizzy, as if his spirit had been drained.
This was quite normal.
Staying up all night to level up by fighting bosses, sometimes having to die multiple times to defeat one, and then moving on to the next, left him feeling like he had just pulled an all-nighter.
"If this continues, when I observe the Nine Orifices of the Divine, I still won’t have enough power from all beings to challenge the Dao’s divine form."
Li Mo took out the Kongming Wanse Tower and calculated the progress of gathering power from all beings.
Currently, he was at over fourteen layers, still far from the thirty-six layers.
The main reason was that the speed of gathering power from all beings had been gradually slowing down.
After thinking for a while, Li Mo felt the reason was quite simple.
Faith needs to be maintained.
For example, in the flourishing Western Regions of Buddhism, the Buddha only exists in legends, but his temples are everywhere, with great monks spreading his teachings.
Yet our Heavenly Sovereign has only shown his spirit once, and since then, he has been in hiding.
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