Ji Shengyao probably really thinks I'm some sex-starved ghost. To actually use a honey trap... if this cup of wine really only contains wine, then I'll be damned.
Wang Li narrowed her eyes: "Ji Shengyao, in the past, you always made excuses whenever I made a request. You would only comply under my threats and inducements. Now you're agreeing so easily; could it be you have a favor to ask?"
"Master, how can you say that? The Tianchi Holy Land has been slow to rescue me, and you've signed a cauldron contract with me. Even if I resist every time you make a request, isn't it useless anyway? Besides, even in the Tianchi Holy Land, where I enjoy the best resources of the younger generation as the Saintess, it's impossible to advance two levels in a single day. At this rate, won't I be stronger than my Master in less than half a year? How could I not be tempted?"
"So you've thought it through? After weighing your options, you feel staying with me suits you better, so you don't plan on returning to the Tianchi Holy Land?" Wang Li wasn't polite either, hooking a finger under Ji Shengyao's chin and making her submissively raise her pretty face.
Ji Shengyao's cheeks flushed, but she still said steadily: "Not entirely. After all, the Tianchi Holy Land raised me, and my Master and I share a deep familial bond. I just thought that resisting would only lead to more punishment, while being obedient allows for rapid cultivation. Although Master intends to harvest me clean at the end, if the Tianchi Holy Land can rescue me ahead of time, won't I have gained these cultivation levels for nothing?"
"Not bad, I like your honesty." Wang Li's hand, which was hooking her chin, gradually moved down, sliding against Ji Shengyao's neck.
Ji Shengyao's body trembled. A flash of shame and anger crossed her eyes, replaced by a fawning expression: "Then I thank Master for being able to understand me."
"Don't be happy too soon. I suspect you've put something in the wine. I'll let you drink first."
Ji Shengyao's body became somewhat stiff. She had long anticipated that Wang Li might make her drink first. This Soul-Confusing Powder only takes effect after a certain dosage. A small sip would still have medicinal effects, but it could be endured, and she could slowly disperse it by circulating the Heart-Clearing Incantation.
Thinking of this, to avoid suspicion, she brought the wine cup to her mouth and took a small sip.
Wang Li still narrowed her peach-blossom eyes, looking like a world-toppling beauty capable of enchanting all living beings: "I didn't see your throat move. Are you holding it in your mouth? Open your mouth and stick out your tongue. I want to see if you've drunk it all."
Hearing Wang Li's words, Ji Shengyao hurriedly swallowed the wine in her mouth: "It's just that I haven't had spirit wine in so long, I wanted to savor it."
"Open your mouth, stick out your tongue, and don't close it until I say so."
In a serious tone with a commanding air, Ji Shengyao knew she wouldn't gain the demoness's trust if she didn't comply: "Fine."
Her heart was already filled with shame and anger to the extreme. This isn't just to see if I finished the spirit wine, is it? This is another part of her daily training for me.
She just wants to see me make such a seductive expression to satisfy her hypocritical and lecherous mind!
Just you wait, demoness. I believe this will be the last time you command me!
"Master, is this okay?" Ji Shengyao gently opened her pink lips and, with a face red with embarrassment, slightly stuck out the tip of her tongue. Making such a shameless expression, she didn't even dare look in a mirror.
Since Wang Li hadn't given the order, Ji Shengyao didn't dare to close her mouth on her own.
Wang Li glanced into her mouth a few times: "Tsk tsk tsk, look at you now. Where do you look like a pure and noble Saintess? You're even more wanton than us Hehuan Demonesses. You're truly a good Materials for Dual Cultivation."
This expression was indeed sexy and seductive when done by a Hehuan Demoness, but when done by someone with a holy and pure face like the Tianchi Saintess, it gave an even stronger impact, leaving people even more shocked.
Ji Shengyao couldn't speak, but she was extremely embarrassed in her heart. Damned demoness, just wait until I catch you and see if I don't skin you alive. I'll let you be arrogant for now!
Looking at Ji Shengyao's face, which was as red as the morning glow, she gently patted it a few times and then nodded: "Not bad, you indeed drank it all..."
Just as she finished speaking, she heard the sound of someone kicking a door downstairs. Meng Yinglong appeared ostentatiously at the largest inn in the city, the one he had agreed upon with Lin Fan.
He took out a transmission jade pendant, only to see the message from last night: "Lin Fan, you piece of trash, what right do you have to talk to me like that? My young aunt must have been blind to become Dao Companions with that half-crippled father of yours!"
"Shut up! If your Meng Family hadn't stood by and watched, I wouldn't have lost my parents and become a wandering street urchin..."
"You're just trash. Why would our Meng Family want someone with a waste Spiritual Root like you? I thought you'd awakened a Physique after joining the Zhen Sect, but it turned out to be a flash in the pan. Trash is trash after all, never fit for the stage!"
"I don't want to discuss this with you. The most important thing now is to find that demoness and the Tianchi Saintess. Although I can track their Qi, I didn't leave any tracking Spells on them. I can only track their general location; they should be near the Cloud Smoke Tower, or quite possibly even inside it..."
After replying with this, no matter how Meng Yinglong sent transmissions, Lin Fan didn't reply at all.
Truly unreliable. I have to come here and look for them myself!
But at the thought of the Tianchi Saintess's exquisite face and her holy, immortal-like aura—none of the female cultivators he'd seen could even compare to her—he had long been infatuated with her. Even before she was born, there was a thread of connection between them, making him even more devoted.
At the thought of the goddess he admired being mistreated by that damn Hehuan Demoness, he felt a sharp pain in his heart, like a needle prick. He had to find the Saintess as soon as possible.
He went straight to the second floor and knocked on doors one by one. Because the second floor was usually where customers conducted their business, few people walked around, so it was very quiet.
After enduring many glares and curses, he gently knocked on the innermost room. After a while, the door was slowly opened a crack.
He saw a female cultivator wearing a red veil and a goose-yellow dress. Although he could only see her eyes and brows, they were charming and exquisite, not at all inferior to those of the Saintess.
Before this, Wang Li heard the knocking. Using her Divine Sense, she detected a sturdy young man whose dress and appearance closely resembled the Meng Yinglong from the game, especially the folding fan he held with the words "Yinglong" written on it.
This was the mini-boss at the end of the first stage. Logically, as a villain, he shouldn't be here at this time; it must be the so-called butterfly effect.
She raised her hand and gently patted Ji Shengyao's upturned backside twice: "Get down. Go kneel to the side and wait for your Master to return, then I'll properly discipline you."
Seeing Ji Shengyao lower her head in silence, she emphasized again: "Did you hear me?"
"I heard you, Master."