Chapter 143: Temporary Pleasure in Abusing Wife (Fourth Update)

Lu Ye was amused by Shen Xitong.

Look at this spineless behavior.

Forget it, let this wretch take a bite.

Releasing his grip on Shen Xitong, she immediately opened her cherry-like mouth and bit down hard on Lu Ye's arm, leaving two neat rows of teeth marks.

"Feel better now?"

"Ding, so-so. I still want another bite!"

"I advise you not to push your luck!"

"Ding, if I don’t push my luck, can I still be Shen Xitong?"

"Watch my Great Capture Technique!"

"Ding, wuwuwu, you rotten host, I was wrong!"

After fooling around with Shen Xitong for a while, Lu Ye felt much more relaxed.

"By the way, how should we handle this Lunar Marrow Worm you deduced?" Lu Ye asked.

"Ding, at your current level, there’s only one method—use Bai Qiulan’s blood as a guide. The Lunar Marrow Worm will sense the chaotic Lunar Power and leave on its own without you needing to do anything."

Lu Ye suddenly understood.

So that’s how it is!

"Help me locate Bai Qiulan. I want to return her 'gift' to her!" Lu Ye said.

"Ding, this system does not have a people-finding function!"

"Nonsense! When you’re gossiping, you know exactly where everyone is and what they’re doing. Now you’re telling me you can’t find her location?"

"Ding, gossiping is gossiping, locating is locating. The two cannot be conflated!" Shen Xitong declared matter-of-factly.

Lu Ye shivered all over from the cold.

Though the Lunar Marrow Worm had yet to hatch, its level was simply too high. Just the egg alone made it unbearable for Lu Ye, a cultivator in the Tribulation Realm.

"Fine, I’ll find her myself!"

Lu Ye stood up.

But before he could step out the door, he paused again.

If he went out now and happened to run into the people from the Ancient Sect while Bai Qiulan and the others were on the verge of death, who would the Ancient Sect target—him or Bai Qiulan?

They’d definitely go for him!

Since they couldn’t defeat him, he’d end up wiping them all out in one move.

Wouldn’t that indirectly save Bai Qiulan and her group?

No, he couldn’t go!

"By the way, I'll contact Liu Changfeng. If Bai Qiulan and the others appear outside the sect, inform me immediately!"

Lu Ye took out a communication stone to contact Liu Changfeng.

"Sect Leader, if my master appears near the Great Dao Sect, notify me at once."

"Alright, no problem. Does the Great Dao Sect need to send help?"

"Of course not. Everyone has their own fate. When facing them, we must maintain the mindset of letting go of the savior complex and respecting others' destinies. Because once you intervene, you might alter someone else's fate. If they blame you for it, you’ll just have to bear it."

Lu Ye spoke from personal experience.

It was a lesson learned through bitter hardship.

"Fine, I’ll notify you as soon as they return."

"Good, thanks."

"Don’t mention it!"

After instructing Liu Changfeng, Lu Ye resumed his cultivation.

He was also pondering a question.

The Second Heaven had a higher ceiling than the First Heaven, and naturally, there were many more powerful figures.

If the First Heaven’s cultivation realms began with the Qi Gathering stage, they were: Qi Gathering, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Void Refining, Unity, Tribulation Crossing, and Great Ascension.

The Second Heaven, however, had three additional realms beyond the First Heaven.

Namely: Heaven, Earth, and Man.

Man referred to the True Human Realm.

Earth referred to the Earth Immortal Realm.

Heaven referred to the Heavenly God Realm.

Of course, the Second Heaven wasn’t limited to just these three realms—Great Ascension, Tribulation Crossing, Unity, and the like were also abundant.

Humans had one defining trait: they reproduced prolifically.

Take a powerhouse from the Third Heaven as an example. Through diligent efforts, he sired over three thousand children with his dao companions.

Over three thousand...

Though not all from the same dao companion, the higher one’s cultivation, the harder it was to conceive, and the longer the pregnancy lasted. From this, one could imagine just how hard that powerhouse worked.

Thus, descendants multiplied endlessly, so much so that even in the Second Heaven, Great Ascension cultivators were still formidable figures capable of founding sects.

There was no scenario where one ascended only to immediately become a lowly foot soldier.

He pondered: the Jiang family was so powerful, with more than one Heavenly God Realm expert, and they even possessed mighty relics left behind by the Jiang family’s main lineage after ascension.

Once he ascended, a great escape would be inevitable.

As for death—that wouldn’t happen.

If he had to flee from powerful enemies before rebirth and still had to flee after rebirth, wouldn’t that mean his rebirth was in vain?

Is there a way for me to possess the strength to wreak havoc and dominate the Second Heaven immediately after ascending?

It's worth a try.

Who knows? Maybe it’ll give Jiang Die a massive surprise.

Liu Changfeng was currently seated in the grand hall, with Ji Changming beside him.

"Old Ji, what do you think Lu Ye meant by those words?" Liu Changfeng stroked his beard and asked.

Ji Changming was also deep in thought.

During the previous Genius Tournament, he had already suspected that the Great Dao Sect had become something akin to the Joyous Union Sect—or perhaps even the Great Dao Joyous Union Sect.

"From what we can see now, Lu Ye keeps his distance from both Yue Hongling and Bai Qiulan, neither engaging with nor inquiring about them."

"Still, I’m quite worried they might play out some kind of scenario within the Great Dao Sect—like 'you chase, I flee,' 'I can’t escape even with wings,' 'abusing your wife feels great in the moment, but chasing her leads to a crematorium,' or other such melodramatic tropes."

"Huh?"

Liu Changfeng was taken aback.

He was a man devoted solely to cultivation and didn’t quite understand the references Ji Changming was making.

"What do you mean?"

"It’s the kind of thing often written in romance novels—when I loved you, you didn’t love me, but now that I don’t love you, you start desperately loving me."

"One runs, the other chases, back and forth, until they finally reconcile and live happily ever after."

"Sect Leader, you have no idea—those romance novels torture my heart yet also make me laugh until my stomach hurts."

"There was one book where the female protagonist formed her Golden Core inside her dantian, but the senior brother insisted she move it to her brain, claiming that forming it in the dantian might affect her future children..."

"Hahaha, it killed me!"

Liu Changfeng: "..."

Even though Ji Changming was older than him, how was he now living a happier life?

"So, even though Lu Ye appears cold-hearted now, if something really happened to Junior Sister Bai and the others, who knows how crazed he might become!"

"Besides, if Lu Ye truly didn’t care at all, he wouldn’t have bothered sending a message. The underlying meaning is clear—don’t lock Bai Qiulan and the others outside the sect. If they die before notifying him, it’d be too late."

"We don’t have to protect them—just follow the sect rules. If Great Dao Sect disciples return to the sect, any grudges or disputes should first be clarified before action is taken."

"We can’t just stand by and watch our own sect members die miserably at the gates of the Great Dao Sect. That would harm our reputation."

"Since Lu Ye said to respect others’ fates, he likely means we should proceed by the rules—no deliberate obstruction, no deliberate harm."

"If Lu Ye truly had grievances with them, he’d have already sought revenge. That’s the logic, right?"

Ji Changming laid out his analysis.

Liu Changfeng found it quite reasonable.

"Then it’s settled. If they return, everything will proceed according to sect regulations!"

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