Lin Yuan said without turning his head, "A few nights ago, a Man in Black wielding a giant hammer Spirit sneakily broke into the Heaven Dou Royal Academy."
"That person actually harbored ill intentions toward my sister."
Lin Yuan's tone suddenly turned cold. "As a result, he was caught on the spot by my teacher, had one arm severed by a spear, and fled like a stray dog."
Hearing 'giant hammer Spirit' and'severed one arm,' Tang Yuehua felt as if she had been struck by lightning; her legs went weak, and she nearly collapsed to the ground.
Lin Yuan sneered. "According to my teacher, that black-robed man used the supreme secret techniques passed down in your Clear Sky Sect."
"Something called Ring Explosion, and the Great Sumeru Hammer."
Lin Yuan slowly turned his head, looking at Tang Yuehua, and said word by word, "If I'm not mistaken, that wretched dog is likely your second brother, Tang Hao, right?"
After saying this, Lin Yuan ignored Tang Yuehua and strode away on his own.
Meanwhile, Xue Qinghe, who had maintained the poise of the Crown Prince throughout, gave Tang Yuehua a meaningful look.
Qian Renxue chuckled and said in a tone only the two of them could understand, "Pavilion Master Tang, Lin Yuan is openly making you choose one of two options."
"Whether to choose your one-armed second brother or the olive branch he's extended, you should make your choice carefully."
With that, Qian Renxue flicked her sleeves and quickly followed him out.
They left the oppressive atmosphere of the Moon Pavilion.
Qian Renxue soon caught up with Lin Yuan, and the two walked side by side on the bustling streets of Heaven Dou City.
After holding it in for a long time, Qian Renxue finally couldn't help herself.
She nudged Lin Yuan gently with her elbow and teased in a low voice, "You little brat, do you really have a way to help Tang Yuehua break through that damned Spirit shackle?"
Qian Renxue shifted the topic, her beautiful eyes flashing with a cunning light. "But... that price you mentioned earlier, it couldn't be..."
Qian Renxue's voice trailed off intentionally, her gaze becoming extremely bold.
She even subconsciously looked down, glancing at Lin Yuan's 'place,' and then couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"You little kid, your body hasn't even reached adulthood, yet your head is filled with those kinds of things all day!"
Qian Renxue gave him an exasperated look. "Besides, you already have so many peerless beauties around you."
"You actually have designs on an old auntie like Tang Yuehua? Your tastes are way too heavy!"
Indeed, in the eyes of a peerless Genius in her prime like Qian Renxue...
Although Tang Yuehua was very well-maintained, her skin still supple and her charm remaining...
Her actual age was right there. To Qian Renxue, Tang Yuehua was definitely in the 'old auntie' category.
The age gap between Lin Yuan and Tang Yuehua was not just large; it was practically a generational gap.
Thus, Qian Renxue could not understand Lin Yuan's perverse interest at all.
But to Lin Yuan, what did an age gap matter?
He only cared about whether the other person was good-looking, if her figure was hot enough, and if her temperament was unique enough.
Like that High Priestess Posey far away on Sea God Island—her actual age was even much older than Tang Yuehua's; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her an Old Ancestor.
But one couldn't deny that she was extremely beautiful!
Moreover, she was an extremely rare white-haired beauty with a noble, inviolable aura, and her chest was even more vast and surging like the waves.
Facing such a top-tier woman, which man would care about her age?
As long as she was pretty and juicy enough, it was fine!
As the sound of Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue's footsteps gradually faded, the large private room returned to a deathly silence.
Tang Yuehua slumped onto the red sandalwood chair, her originally dignified and elegant face now appearing incredibly pale.
Her chest heaved violently, her internal struggle like a churning sea, and her expression shifted constantly.
Placed before her was a massive problem comparable to a life-or-death decision.
Should she stand on Tang Hao's side?
Or should she choose to compromise and stand on Lin Yuan's side?
This was a life-threatening question.
If she chose to stand on Tang Hao's side, would the guaranteed rewards she obtained from the diary system be directly revoked or even disappear?
Tang Yuehua was not stupid; on the contrary, as the master of the Moon Pavilion, her mind was extremely sharp and exquisite.
Judging from Lin Yuan's current performance and the diary's content, Lin Yuan likely didn't know she had obtained a diary instance.
But that didn't mean she could act recklessly.
She couldn't help but ponder deeply: what exactly was the reason this mysterious System distributed diary instances to this group of women with specific identities?
In truth, anyone with a bit of life experience could guess a few parts of the true intent as long as they calmed down and scrutinized it carefully.
Combined with those crude words in Lin Yuan's diary and his evaluations of various beauties...
Tang Yuehua estimated that the System likely wanted to help Lin Yuan more smoothly nurture and establish his harem team.
The System did not use forceful means to compel these diary instance owners to do anything.
It was constantly and subtly using various irresistible benefits to continuously increase their favorability toward Lin Yuan.
This was the most brilliant open scheme; this was the conclusion Tang Yuehua had reached after thinking it over by herself these past few days.
And most fatally, within those inviolable diary rules, there was one written very clearly.
All instance owners were absolutely forbidden from harming Lin Yuan through any form or means.
If she chose to stand on Tang Hao's side now...
And Tang Hao was clearly a potential enemy of Lin Yuan, it meant she would be indirectly harming Lin Yuan.
Once she crossed that bottom line, she would inevitably face severe punishment from the System.
She would be ruthlessly disqualified from the Binding and lose the diary instance permanently!
Even more terrifyingly, she would lose all memories regarding the diary and might even have the hard-won cultivation increases revoked!
At the thought of this, Tang Yuehua couldn't help but feel a chill all over.
She had been trapped by the ninth-level spirit power shackle for decades, enduring mockery in secret.
Now that a miracle had finally arrived and she could finally Cultivate like a normal Spirit Master...
Was she really going to give up this hard-won hope for a vague, even taboo, emotion?
She was truly unwilling, ten thousand times unwilling!
But recalling Lin Yuan's aggressive gaze and words just now...
Today was her first formal meeting with Lin Yuan, yet he had so bluntly proposed such an obvious hint regarding her body.
This made a noble lady who had always stood high above feel extremely humiliated, making it impossible for her to decide for a moment.
After a long time.
Within the empty private room, Tang Yuehua's long sigh echoed.
"Forget it, there's no use thinking about this now; I can't make a rational judgment."
Tang Yuehua thought to herself that since her cultivation had already broken through to level ten, the immediate priority was to obtain a spirit ring.
She decided to return to the Clear Sky Sect first.
Firstly, she could find out if Tang Hao had returned to the Sect after being injured, and secondly, it was for her own cultivation.
Regardless, she would first have the Sect Elders hunt the most suitable Spirit Beast for her to serve as her first spirit ring.
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