Inside the cave abode, heat waves surged violently.
Dugu Luoxue, who was in the midst of her ditative practice, slowly opened her eyes and furrowed her brows at the sight of Jiang Shouzhong standing motionless in front of the stone wall.
She, being the owner of a Daoist School, acutely sensed that sothing was amiss with him.
Dugu Luoxue walked up to Jiang Shouzhong, only to see a fla burning in his eyes, his pupils seemingly cracked open from being scorched by fierce fire, resembling a spiderweb of fissures.
"This is... soul shattering!"
Dugu Luoxue’s pupils abruptly contracted.
Realizing that Jiang Shouzhong was on the verge of soul dispersal, Dugu Luoxue quickly bit her fingertip, squeezed out a drop of fresh blood, and gently pressed it onto the man’s forehead.
"Luoxue’s Return to Heart."
The woman closed her eyes and released her Yuan Qi.
In an instant, her consciousness arrived within her own Daoist School.
The sky rged with the earth into a vast expanse of white vastness, boundless, with snowflakes gently falling like fine silver dust sprinkled by fairies, laying a blanket of pure white on the ground.
Dugu Luoxue’s Daoist School, forever so immaculately pure.
The woman gracefully raised her hand, her fingers fluttered like fish swimming through water, weaving mystical Dharma Seals in mid-air.
The snowflakes that had been leisurely drifting down suddenly, as if summoned, sped up, converging into swirling silver storms that surrounded her.
She was determined to forcefully pull Jiang Shouzhong from his Daoist School into hers.
"Break!"
"Stabilize!"
Dugu Luoxue’s jade fingers touched the void.
A ring of flying snow spun rapidly, gradually forming an oval-shaped gateway in space.
The next mont, Jiang Shouzhong’s body was pulled out.
But before Dugu Luoxue could heave a sigh of relief, a scorching wave of fire burst out from Jiang Shouzhong’s body.
The intense heat surged violently, unstoppable, swallowing up the surrounding jade snow in an instant, turning it into wisps of blue smoke that dissipated into nothingness.
The originally clear sky gradually stained with a fiery red.
Sheets of burning clouds rolled in, like raging ocean waves, turning half of the sky crimson.
"Not good!"
Dugu Luoxue’s expression changed drastically, and she hurriedly ford hand seals to purify.
A Daoist School is the resting place of the Dao Heart.
Once contaminated with the aura of another’s Daoist School, it is like planting a Heart Demon at the bottom of one’s heart.
This is sothing that cultivators absolutely cannot allow.
...
anwhile, in the second-generation master’s Daoist School at Huoyun Mountain.
As the skeletal ancestor, who was refining Jiang Shouzhong’s bones, discovered his flesh dissolving away, he let out a surprised exclamation, followed by a laugh:
"What a pure and icy jade Daoist School you have. Since you desire to save this lad, this old man will lend a hand. It’s perfect, to help this youngster burn away all delusions and purify the filth. Make his heart as clear as a mirror, able to reflect the true heart, and practice his fists well."
The ancestor lifted his only remaining bone arm, the ten fingers of which he knitted together, clenched into a fist, and then threw a punch.
Scarlet flas swept forth.
This punch directly sent all the delusions, desires, and mixed thoughts within Jiang Shouzhong’s body, along with his flesh, into Dugu Luoxue’s Daoist School.
Leaving only the skeleton behind, to continue burning and refining.
...
"Pfft—"
Dugu Luoxue spewed out a mouthful of blood, tumbling backward through the air.
With her long hair dancing wildly, the woman steadied herself.
Looking up, she saw the sky completely overtaken by fiery red waves of fla, lting every snowflake. The once clean and refreshing world seed to have turned into a realm within a furnace.
Jiang Shouzhong’s flesh, devoid of its skeleton, was curled up on the ground, panting heavily.
"Dao... not Dao."
Dugu Luoxue was montarily lost in a daze before forming her Dharma Seal again.
But before she could purify herself anew, the scene around her abruptly changed.
She found herself in an exquisitely beautiful pavilion.
Candles flickered dimly, and red gauze curtains fluttered gently, the air filled with a faint fragrance... Everything seed so seductively ambiguous.
This was Jiang Yi’s boudoir.
As on that night, Dugu Luoxue lay on the ground, her clothes disheveled, her bellyband half-lifted.
Under the candlelight, she appeared even more hazy and magnificent.
Jiang Yi slowly bent over her, her carmine lips curled with a seductive charm, and whispered in her ear,
"How can you abstain? Humans are born with desires; to be born is to be subrged."
Dugu Luoxue closed her eyes, silently reciting the Abstinence ditation Skill.
When she opened her eyes again, she found herself and Jiang Yi had switched positions; she was lying on top of Jiang Yi, but then Jiang Yi transford into Jiang Shouzhong.
The man’s intense aura was like opium poppies, inexplicably srizing her.
A mirror appeared before her.
In the mirror, she no longer had her usual plain purity and coldness but flushed cheeks and eyes full of confusion.
She looked like a fox spirit tempting a man.
Is this ?
Dugu Luoxue’s breathing quickened.
Is this my true nature?
Strangely enough, the woman felt a sowhat inexplicable and unarticulated excitent.
There was a rebellious fla burning within her, as if it wanted to rip her from the shell of her false and contrived facade to dissect and release her true self.
She looked down at Jiang Shouzhong beneath her, her jade hand gently caressing his cheek.
An intangible yet fiery emotion was unraveling her rationality.
Dugu Luoxue slowly leaned down.
Her red lips drew ever closer to his.
But at this critical mont of near-fall, a snowflake suddenly fluttered down from the sky and landed on the back of Dugu Luoxue’s hand, infusing a trace of coolness.
The woman’s eyes instantly regained clarity.
Dugu Luoxue bit her lip fiercely and rolled off the man.
The scene changed again.
She lay on the cold floor, gasping for air, each breath as if hot flas were coursing through her body, threatening to burn her to ashes.
Dugu Luoxue’s face was flush with color, and a thin layer of sweat coated her lips.
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