This scene startled Li Dong slightly, his heart racing. Unable to bear it any longer, he looked away, only to suddenly hear Xue Tang let out a soft, delicate cry.
"Ah~"
He turned his head, only managing to see her slender toes recoil as if electrocuted, and Luo Ming seemingly lifting his head…
After Luo Ming stood up and left, Li Dong saw him looking at him defiantly, even licking his lips smugly.
This long-forgotten memory suddenly resurfaced, bringing with it a strange, inexplicable thrill.
For some reason, the thought of the Luo family's possible involvement filled him with surprise.
Furthermore, after regaining his memories, he had tried to use the backdoor access account that Zhi Ran had granted him to investigate her whereabouts.
Although, due to Zhi Ran's high level of secrecy, he could only learn that she had visited Shen City once, shortly after he lost his memory.
He learned that Zhi Ran had come to Shen City under the guise of an academic exchange on future implants, and the Luo family was a leader in this field. Therefore, there was a high probability that Zhi Ran's disappearance was related to the Luo family.
Therefore, the Luo family became the most crucial clue. Whether it was Xu Pengxuan or Zhi Ran, he had to go to the Luo family.
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Rewinding to a short time ago.
Inside the Changsheng Temple, Jiang Hua, dressed in a Taoist robe, sat upright on a futon, toying with an exquisite wooden sculpture of a nude woman. Though made of wood, it possessed a lustrous, jade-like sheen, radiating an alluring vitality, almost as if alive.
Upon closer inspection, one would notice a striking resemblance between the sculpture's features and Xue Tang's—not in the facial features, but in the pure, untainted aura of a lotus rising from the mud.
Moreover, if Yu Tang were present, she would recognize this nude sculpture as almost identical to the "Buddha statue" Jiang Hua had given her.
This was no coincidence; the two sculptures were inherently connected.
It contained Xue Tang's virgin blood, imbued with her pure yin energy, almost a "substitute doll" for her.
However, it wasn't a voodoo doll, and therefore wouldn't affect the person in question.
Furthermore, it wasn't just one person involved; besides Xue Tang, there was also the semen of someone with a pure yang constitution, obtained through Yu Tang's body.
While the statue has no direct effect on the woman, it does affect the man—creating a strange connection between them.
Specifically, the man can see the true circumstances of the woman's loss of virginity through a "dream."
In this dream, nothing can be done; it's much like a nightmare, yet the memory is far clearer than the dream itself, vividly etched into his mind.
At the same time, it amplifies the man's feelings of helplessness, bitterness, and unbearable pain, exerting a psychological influence.
However, the conditions for this spell are extremely demanding, as the prerequisite is that both parties must be in love. If the man has multiple lovers, he can also see the loss of virginity of his other lovers.
This was originally a spell created by a wise man from ancient times, a man who played the field. According to the ancient book, it was used to test true love.
Jiang Hua merely scoffed at this, inwardly disdainful, but finding it incredibly useful, and already proving effective:
Whenever the wooden carving in his hand lit up, it meant the man was being influenced by it… the brighter the light, the stronger the influence.
The wooden carving lit up for a while, then suddenly returned to normal. Jiang Hua wasn't annoyed; nothing can be accomplished overnight.
After a while, Jiang Hua suddenly looked up and realized that the old servant's aura had just vanished.
Seemingly to guard against him, the old servant deliberately lingered at the temple entrance for a while before leaving, warning him not to take advantage of the situation.
However, the old servant probably didn't know that he was quite patient.
He was waiting for the seeds he had sown to slowly take root and sprout, then ripen and fall. Just like the statue in his hand, which he had been planning for years.
And Jiang Yingji and Luo Xuetang, those two young girls, had also planted seeds using his specially made "sandalwood penis."
He wouldn't be foolish enough to act rashly at this time. After all, even though he was close to achieving mastery in alchemy, he was still wary of Jiang Yingji's ability to manipulate spirits in a direct confrontation.
The living dead who usually roamed Yingluo Manor were all ancient cultivators who had once reached the Core Formation, Core Completion, or even the "True One" realm. He could defeat one or two, but if they swarmed him, he would only be able to flee in disarray.
The risks and rewards were disproportionate. On the other hand, if the plan succeeded… Thinking of his great-grandson's flawless, fair body, the old monster couldn't help but lick his lips slightly.
His eyes seemed to gleam with a wolfish light, his once ethereal and otherworldly appearance replaced by the lustful greed of a hungry wolf.
For so many years, he had treated the Jiang family like a private garden, personally deflowering every woman in the family and absorbing their primordial yin.
Like ancient cultivators seeking immortality, the women of the Jiang family were essentially "tonics" to him. The difference was that while others sought to comprehend the universe and absorb spiritual energy, he practiced dual cultivation, absorbing primordial yin.
Even his own daughter was deflowered by him personally, leaving not a single drop of her essence for an "outsider."
But in truth, to him, all the other women, including his own daughter, were not much different; only Jiang Yingji was different.
It wasn't because she was the most beautiful flower in the garden of the "Jiang Family," but rather because, after all the painstaking cultivation, just when she was finally ready to be picked, she was plucked by an outsider.
His decades of hard work went down the drain!
The appearance of the Yin Body in the Jiang Family wasn't accidental; it was the result of Jiang Hua's decades-long plan to cultivate the Yin Body.
Decades ago, when testing his daughter's aptitude, he discovered that her Yin essence seemed exceptionally abundant, very close to the legendary "Yin Body."
That faint trace of "fatherly love" immediately transformed into the greed of a hungry wolf.
Finally, one night, he sneaked into his daughter's room and kissed her from head to toe.
As day approached, he raised his lips, tinged with a hint of crystalline moisture, his eyes gleaming like a wolf's.