Chapter 1381: Calamity Befalls Cangyun
Su Linger pushed open the door. On the wide bed, Xiao Lingxi clutched the corner of the blanket, immersed in deep disappointment… Beside her lay the undergarments that Yun Che had torn apart.
When she saw Su Linger, her body shrank back a little under the covers… but she showed no other reaction, only her gaze growing even dimmer.
"Sister Lingxi." Su Linger sat down on the edge of the bed, looking at Xiao Lingxi's half-exposed jade-like body. A deep sense of amazement and admiration flashed in her eyes. The curves exposed from beneath the covers were utterly perfect, and her skin was like smooth, flawless porcelain jade, stirring even Su Linger with a strong urge to reach out and touch.
She believed that any man confronted with such a perfect body would transform into a beast that had lost his mind.
Let alone Yun Che…
Su Linger's words still did not provoke much reaction from Xiao Lingxi. She lowered her head even deeper toward her knees, then suddenly spoke softly: "Linger… toward me… does he only have… familial affection?"
Su Linger did not ask why she had said that. Instead, she replied without any hesitation: "No one has the right to answer that question, because you are the only one who can feel it most truly and directly. Whether his feelings for you lean more toward familial affection or romantic love, you should know better than anyone."
Xiao Lingxi: "…"
"I only know that every time he looks at you, his eyes are filled with such warmth and cherishing… as if he wishes he could give you every beautiful thing in the entire world."
Su Linger's words gradually replaced the gloom in Xiao Lingxi's eyes with a hazy light. She slowly raised her head: "But then… why did he…"
She could not finish the sentence, but Su Linger understood what she meant. She smiled softly, brought her lips close to Xiao Lingxi's ear, and whispered a few words.
"Ah?" Xiao Lingxi gave a soft cry, her lips parting wide.
"That's the reason." Su Linger lightly covered her own lips with her hand. "Brother Yun Che doesn't not want you, and it's definitely not because of you. It's because of himself."
"But… but…" Xiao Lingxi's face flushed crimson, unbearably lovely.
"Do you know why this happens?" Su Linger explained with a smile: "This kind of situation in a man only occurs when he is too nervous. In other words, it's not that he doesn't want you, but rather that he cherishes you too much—or wants you too much—so he gets overly anxious at that moment… You have no idea how frustrated he was when he ran out just now. He even said he had no face to see you anymore, hehe."
When it came to matters between men and women, Xiao Lingxi was a blank slate, but Su Linger was highly skilled in medical arts. Naturally, Xiao Lingxi did not doubt her words at all. Her gloom and disappointment instantly vanished, replaced entirely by a flush of shyness. She pulled the covers over her face and let out a muffled whimper: "Wuwu… you're laughing at me again…"
Seeing Xiao Lingxi returning to normal, Su Linger breathed a small sigh of relief. Then she lifted the corner of the blanket and crawled in herself, her hands wandering over Xiao Lingxi's smooth jade-like body: "If you really want Brother Yun Che to devour you, you need to learn to be a little more proactive… Want me to teach you?"
Xiao Lingxi let out a series of startled cries, but she did not object. Instead, she replied with an extremely tiny "Mm…"
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The next day, Yun Che woke up very early, feeling refreshed and full of vigor.
He pulled Xiao Lingxi along and went boating on the most beautiful Shuixian Lake in the Huan Yao Realm. Even Feng Xian'er was ordered not to come within ten li. That entire day, the whole Shuixian Lake belonged only to the two of them.
The lake water rippled gently, the small boat drifted slowly, and Xiao Lingxi nestled in Yun Che's arms, not wanting to leave for even a moment… not wanting to leave for her entire life.
Evening clouds painted the sky, and as night fell, they returned to the Xiao Sect. Yun Che held Xiao Lingxi possessively in his arms. Her beautiful eyes were closed, and the rosy clouds on her snowy face were even more enchanting than the sunset glow.
He laid her down on the soft bed, letting himself undo her clothes, caress and defile her perfect body, and then…
Before long, the tightly shut door opened again, and Yun Che walked out alone. He sat down on a rock in the courtyard, his face as black as if smeared with coal ash.
Those two days were not an accident, and certainly not the end—it was only the beginning!
At first, he attributed the reason to something being off about the place. After all, the Xiao Sect was where they had grown up together, and it held special feelings for them. So he brazenly took Xiao Lingxi to many different places… the Yun Family, the mountaintop, the lakeside, the imperial palace bedchamber… and even went to the Bing Yun Fairy Palace in the end…
But no matter how affectionate they were beforehand, even if the flames of desire burned so fiercely that his blood vessels nearly burst… the moment it came to the final act, he would immediately wilt.
It was like that every single time.
And it only happened with Xiao Lingxi. With anyone else, there was absolutely no such issue.
To solve this problem, Su Linger even came up with a rather terrible idea… secretly dosing Yun Che with an aphrodisiac—a very potent one at that.
With the medicinal force acting on his body, even if there were some mental obstacle, it would be ignored.
Under the explosive effect of the medicine, Yun Che instantly became a beast lost in the flames… However, to Su Linger's utter astonishment, after spending most of the day struggling with Xiao Lingxi, Yun Che still suddenly went completely limp at the critical moment!
In the end, it was Su Linger herself who got roped in, and she ended up being so thoroughly ravaged that she had to walk carefully for many days afterward.
After that, Su Linger came up with an even worse idea… She and Xiao Lingxi faced Yun Che together on the same bed.
The result: With Su Linger, he was perfectly normal. The moment he turned to Xiao Lingxi, he instantly shriveled.
Su Linger was completely out of ideas—because this could no longer be explained by medical arts.
It was as if he had been cursed!
"Xiao Che, it doesn't matter."
After the countless failure, Yun Che sat glumly on the edge of the bed. Xiao Lingxi gently embraced him from behind and comforted him once again: "As long as I can be with you every day, that's all that matters."
Yun Che nodded, then turned around and hugged her. But… how could it not matter! It mattered a great deal!
What the hell is going on?!
Is it really some psychological obstacle I'm not aware of when it comes to Lingxi? It feels more like I've been hit with some weird curse!
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Time passed gradually. It had already been more than ten months since Yun Che had died and returned to Lan Ji Star.
In the vast Divine Realm, countless dazzling new stars appeared every year. Though the fall of a star would evoke sighs of regret, with more new stars rising, they would soon be forgotten.
But Yun Che's star, which had blazed up so suddenly, was truly too dazzling. Even though it had fallen, no one had forgotten it. After all, he had broken the history of the upper star realms monopolizing the Divine Martial Convention, and had attracted the Nine Heavens Calamity, which was enough to be recorded for ten thousand generations.
They did not know that Yun Che was still alive. However, he who still existed was no longer that star that had once illuminated the entire world. In the planet of his origin, he spent his days accompanying his parents and daughter, surrounded by beauties, living a life of comfort and luxury.
If someone from the Divine Realm saw him now, even if they knew Yun Che was not dead and even if they knew his name was Yun Che, they would absolutely never believe that he was the same person who had reached the summit of the Divine Martial Convention—the one who, even when critically wounded and on the verge of death on the Feng Shen Platform, refused to fall, with the bloody spirit, fighting will, and pride still intact. Not only was he devoid of profound force, but also, there was no trace left of the fierce determination, the stubbornness, and the arrogance that had once been so evident.
The profound beast disturbances in the Cang Feng Kingdom were growing increasingly severe. This month, even the profound beasts of the Ice Extreme Snow Domain were showing faint signs of abnormal activity. Beyond the Cang Feng Kingdom, other kingdoms to the east had also begun to experience similar situations, as had the Huan Yao Realm.
Yun Che occasionally learned of these things but never asked about them. The Tian Xuan Continent had Feng Xue'er, and the Huan Yao Realm had Xiao Yaohou. Although the profound beast disturbances were strange, they could easily be suppressed… Nowadays, he was merely a wandering playboy; these were not his concerns.
Lan Ji Star, another continent.
Cang Yun Continent.
This was the world of Yun Che's previous life. After he found Su Linger and brought her father and master, Yun Gu, to the Huan Yao Realm, he had never set foot here again.
And if he were to come to this continent now, he would surely be greatly shocked.
Because it had nearly turned into a world of disaster.
"Roar————"
"Howl————"
Everywhere, the furious roars and howls of profound beasts echoed, filled with extreme agitation. Explosions of profound force and the sounds of land being destroyed arose on all sides.
Not just in one place, not just in one region, but… the entire continent!
Humans and beast races—the two main races of the Cang Yun Continent. Humans had their territories; profound practitioners only attempted to enter profound beast territories when they needed training. Compared to humans, profound beasts had a stronger sense of territory, rarely leaving their domains, and would often attack and drive away humans who entered.
But this ancient rule of the Cang Yun Continent had completely collapsed.
In every region, every kingdom, whether the profound beasts were once gentle or violent, they all rushed out of their territories like madmen, attacking every living thing they saw. Even more terrifying, the powerful profound beasts that existed hidden deep within forbidden zones also emerged in full force, casting one horrifying calamity after another upon human lands.
Compared to the small-scale profound beast disturbances currently occurring in the Tian Xuan Continent and the Huan Yao Realm, the Cang Yun Continent had long been completely engulfed by disaster. Every day, countless living beings perished under the claws of the raging, maddened profound beasts. Every day, countless lands were devastated into ruins.
But no one had ever known why this disaster had erupted, nor when it would end.
On this day, a strange profound ark appeared in the sky above the Cang Yun Continent.
As the ark came to a halt, four figures appeared below it, their gazes sweeping across this chaotic continent.
The four were three men and one woman. The one standing farthest forward had a middle-aged face, calm and stern, and his body radiated a profound aura that this world could never comprehend.
The other three had youthful faces. The man on the left was tall and burly, with a fierce expression. The man on the right was the opposite, appearing somewhat thin, with a fair complexion, handsome yet tinged with a hint of androgynous softness. In his calm eyes, a chilling glint occasionally flickered.
The woman in the middle had a graceful figure, a peach-blossom-like face full of allure, and seemed extremely confident in her physique. Her clothing was very revealing, with her arms and collarbones exposed, and her two long, white, almost entirely bare thighs on display. Her constantly shifting eyes frequently flashed a seductive light that seemed innate.
"Oh my, this little planet looks absolutely wretched." The coquettish woman looked down, her soft, wispy voice tinged with pity.
"The profound beasts here seem extremely abnormal." The burly man said in a deep voice. With the divine profound power he possessed, even in a plane that could only be called "extremely low," his spiritual sense could easily reach very far. The wild, violent aura of those profound beasts was plainly evident. He looked up at the middle-aged man ahead: "Master, could it be…"
"Hmph!" The leading middle-aged man frowned deeply, his eyes dark. "Such a heavy demonic aura. It seems it was not a false alarm. This time, it looks like we have rendered a great service."
His words made the three young ones behind him tremble slightly, their eyes shining with unusual light.