The Empress Dowager, after all, left with a flushed face.
However, before leaving, the trustworthy Empress Dowager fulfilled her promise.
… …
After Empress Dowager Pei Yuhan left, bundled up tightly, Zhou Fan could no longer suppress the Nine Yang Power within his body.
He quickly walked to a seemingly deserted corner in the courtyard and, with a great deal of fiery energy, spoke to the “air.”
“You’ve been peeking for an hour; shouldn’t you have seen enough?”
After he finished speaking, there was no response in the courtyard.
Zhou Fan sensed the “empty” courtyard and no longer insisted on searching.
He just looked up at the sky and noticed that the moon tonight was a little different.
It seemed much pinker than usual; how strange.
Zhou Fan, focused on practicing martial arts, no longer thought about it. He pulled out a Magical Artifact long spear from his Storage Pouch and began practicing his self-created spear technique in the empty courtyard.
One spear, two spears, spears like a Dragon.
Three spears, four spears, every spear a headshot.
It must be said that after acquiring the Nine Yang Body and the Extreme Overlord Body, Zhou Fan’s talent in mundane martial arts was unmatched in ancient and modern times.
He casually thrust out hundreds of spears, creating streaks of white marks in the Void Realm.
Then, Zhou Fan innovated further, changing his angle and direction, thrusting out thousands of spears fiercely.
He directly dismembered the thin Spiritual Qi in the mundane world, turning them into one of the five First-Rate elements flowing in the empty courtyard.
“This spear technique shall be called the Azure Sea Tide Spear.”
After completing his practice with a comfortable body and mind, Zhou Fan looked at the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi stirred by the Azure Sea Tide Spear under the moonlight, and his fiery energy instantly dissipated by more than half.
He looked up at the incomparably bright, large, and round moon, and his heart stirred, recalling the ancient texts he had memorized.
Some lines seemed to go like this:
“Undressing to sleep, moonlight entering the door, rising happily to walk.”
“Thinking there was no one to share joy with, I went to Luoyun Temple to find Little Transparent.”
“Transparent was also not asleep; we walked together in the courtyard.”
“The courtyard was like clear water, filled with accumulated water; water algae and duckweed intertwined, which were actually the shadows of bamboo and cypress.”
“When is there no moon? Where are there no bamboo and cypress?”
“But there are few wonderful people like the two of us.”
After reciting the ancient text, Zhou Fan put away his long spear and walked out of the courtyard.
He just happened to encounter Shen Yufu, who was jogging at night.
“Fu Fu Jie, what a coincidence, why are you here?”
Shen Yufu’s hair was disheveled, her pretty face flushed and delicate, clearly exhausted from running, which was why she was panting now.
“Naughty younger brother, don’t you know how tiring it is to run at night?”
Although Shen Yufu’s tone was fierce, coupled with her current weak expression, her words instantly lost all their lethality.
Zhou Fan looked at the over-exercised Shen Yufu, not only unfazed but even a little amused.
He reached out and rubbed Shen Xianzi’s moist, pretty face, a look of confusion on his face as he said, “What does Shen Xianzi mean? This monk has been practicing spear techniques in his own courtyard just now. I don’t think I’ve had any interaction with Benefactor Shen.”
“Hmph, stinky younger brother, still pretending.”
“I found a very difficult math problem when I was doing exercises today. Can you solve it?”
Shen Yufu said, taking out a draft paper and expanding a linear equation on it. After the equation was expanded, it revealed a hidden depth.
“Hiss~ What kind of problem is this? I’ve never seen this type of problem before.”
Shen Yufu looked at her naughty younger brother, who was completely engrossed by the new problem, and smiled triumphantly, “This problem is a new exercise from this month. I haven’t seen anything similar before either.”
“How about it? Zhou Fan, can you solve it?”
“I’ll try.”
… …
Peaceful and harmonious days passed quickly; in the blink of an eye, twenty days had gone by.
Seeing that the day of his promised battle with Sister Mengli was approaching, Zhou Fan bade farewell to the four people at Luoyun Temple, then used the Sword Control Technique to swiftly head towards Bright Moon Cliff outside Linfeng City.
Half a day later, the golden crow set in the west, and the moonlight grew stronger.
Zhou Fan arrived at the top of Bright Moon Cliff and swept his Divine Sense across the entire cliff, but did not find the Desire Demon Mengxue.
Since the agreed-upon Hai Shi (9-11 PM) had not yet arrived, Zhou Fan was not in a hurry.
He stood quietly with his hands behind his back, regulating his Magical Power.
At the same time, he released his Divine Sense, constantly monitoring the every move of all kinds of creatures on Bright Moon Cliff.
Time quietly passed. As soon as Hai Shi arrived, Zhou Fan noticed a four-eyed roe deer with a powerful aura and majestic appearance walking quickly towards the top of Bright Moon Cliff.
“Are you the Human Race who forcibly enslaved my younger sister?”
On the top of Bright Moon Cliff, Mengxue looked at the hateful Human Race in white, still with her back to him, her voice cold.
“I did it. What are you going to do about it?”
Zhou Fan did not turn around, his tone calm.
“Heh, Human Race, I hope you can still be so confident when I cripple your cultivation later.”
“I won’t cripple your cultivation; I’ll just reunite you two sisters.”
“Lowly Human Race are truly disgusting.”
Mengxue’s previous experiences in the human world had always been smooth sailing, and she had never seen anyone dare to act so arrogant in front of her.
She immediately stopped speaking, drawing on the power of the moonlight to cover her entire body, and crashed towards Zhou Fan like a stream of light.
Zhou Fan’s Divine Sense covered the entire area. As Mengxue was about to hit him, he effortlessly shifted sideways to avoid her.
At the same time, he activated the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to cast the Divine Travel Technique, attaching it to his body. Zhou Fan’s already top-tier Physical Body speed in the mundane world surged again.
He leisurely dodged Mengxue’s full-force moonlight impact.
Zhou Fan then attached the Vajra Technique to his Physical Body, and immediately charged at the horrified Mengxue with a pair of iron fists.
Feeling the incredibly fierce punch wind coming towards her, Mengxue wanted to dodge, but found that she couldn’t escape with her Physical Body speed.
In desperation, Mengxue had no choice but to temporarily ignore the intense pain in her body and laboriously use her Mental Energy to stir up Zhou Fan’s deepest desires, attempting to dismantle Zhou Fan’s fighting will from within.
However, Zhou Fan was now cultivating both Dao and Physical Body, and his Foundation was incredibly solid under the System’s perfect guidance.
Even though Mengxue was an ancient exotic species—the Desire Demon clan—whose Mental Energy far surpassed other Yao Race of the same realm, her Mental Energy was at most comparable to Zhou Fan’s.
Therefore, Mengxue was unable to shake Zhou Fan’s iron-hard will in a short period of time.
And what made Mengxue’s mentality completely collapse was that she actually sensed the aura unique to her younger sister, Mengli, within Zhou Fan’s body.
This aura of the Desire Source from her younger sister was so rich and docile that Mengxue could tell with her hooves that this Desire Source was willingly lent to this man by her younger sister, and this man had used it for a long time.
Each Desire Demon can only condense one Desire Source in their lifetime; its preciousness is comparable to the Golden Core of a Human Race Core Formation Stage Cultivator.
Mengxue herself had never borrowed her younger sister Mengli’s Desire Source, yet this lowly Human Race had carried it with him for so long.
Why was this happening?
The more Mengxue thought about it, the angrier she became, but anger was useless; her Physical Body was still being ravaged by this man.
Under the dual breakdown of mind and body, Mengxue couldn’t hold on anymore.
“Human Race, stop hitting me. I surrender.”
“Consider this round your win. I’ll spare your life; you can go.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Fan’s fists paused, then struck even faster and harder.
“I even thought you, as the elder sister, had some brains before this.”
“Now it seems you’re not even as good as my Mengli.”