"You!" Liu Ruoxi was both ashamed and furious.
She was ashamed because Ye Xuan had seen her naked. She was furious because he actually had the audacity to say he wasn’t interested in her body.
"Damn it, is he completely impotent?" she fumed inwardly. "Even I find my own body perfect, yet Ye Xuan has absolutely no interest?
"What a bastard! I have to kill him. I definitely will!"
Liu Ruoxi quickly threw on her undergarments, slipped into her dress, and fled Ye Xuan’s room.
Ye Xuan didn’t stop her. Instead, he ordered, "Go fetch some water and wash my feet."
Liu Ruoxi whipped around, her eyes brimming with killing intent as she glared at him. If looks could kill, Ye Xuan would have died countless times over.
After glaring at him for a moment, she turned on her heel and left without a single word of protest. Before long, she actually returned carrying a basin of hot water. Thick steam billowed from the water, making it obvious that the temperature was quite high.
Ye Xuan didn’t mind. This level of heat might scald an ordinary person, but it would hardly affect a Cultivator like him.
"Take off my shoes!" Ye Xuan ordered coldly.
Liu Ruoxi gritted her teeth but complied. She seemed much more obedient now, no longer arguing against his commands. Perhaps she knew that defiance and resistance were futile.
Ye Xuan’s feet were somewhat calloused. Touching them gave her a strange sensation.
This was Liu Ruoxi’s first time washing someone else’s feet. Her heart was filled with anger and grievance, but for some inexplicable reason, a weird feeling lingered within her.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
Over these three days, after consolidating his cultivation, Ye Xuan utilized the remaining Super Spirit Pills to successfully break through to the 7th Layer. To advance from the sixth to the 7th Layer, he consumed a staggering eight hundred and ten top-grade Super Spirit Pills.
With this, all one thousand and eighty top-grade Super Spirit Pills were completely depleted. Inside his body, a seventh Great River Vein had formed.
Additionally, over the past three days, Ye Xuan found all sorts of excuses to make things difficult for Liu Ruoxi and humiliate her. Washing his face and feet, and undressing him were merely the basics; he even made her bathe him. He truly seemed to treat her like a lowly servant.
Surprisingly, Liu Ruoxi didn’t complain. Instead, she followed his every instruction. She realized that as long as she complied, Ye Xuan wouldn’t make things overly difficult for her, nor did he try to force himself on her.
It seemed just as he had said—he really had no interest in her body!
Of course, Liu Ruoxi wasn’t willingly submitting to servitude. She simply couldn’t escape Ye Xuan’s grasp for the time being.
"Humiliate me to your heart’s content, Ye Xuan," she thought. "I, Liu Ruoxi, swear to the heavens that I will kill you in this lifetime!"
On this day, a luxurious Beast Vehicle rolled out of Dapeng City.
Trailing behind it was an extended version of a Beast Vehicle, transporting the Night Moon Tree. The Night Moon Tree was being moved out of Dapeng City with its roots and soil fully intact.
Gongsun Xin personally escorted the convoy, providing martial protection. Gongsun Qingyue also rode alongside them on horseback. While Gongsun Qingyue’s cultivation might not be high, his status in the Gongsun Family was quite significant, as he possessed an innate talent for cultivating Spirit Medicine Ancient Trees. Otherwise, the Night Moon Tree and the Five-Colored Flower would never have been planted in his courtyard.
Aside from the two of them, there were also one hundred Golden Armor Guards. It was truly a grand procession.
Once the convoy left the city, Ye Xuan ordered the driver to halt his Beast Vehicle.
"Xuan’Er, why did you have the carriage stop?" Gongsun Yanran’s confused voice rang out.
"I noticed an acquaintance on our way out," Ye Xuan replied calmly. "I’m going to catch up with him."
"An acquaintance?" Gongsun Yanran was puzzled. Everyone in the convoy belonged to the Gongsun Family. Did Ye Xuan know someone here?
She lifted the curtain and peeked outside. By now, Ye Xuan had walked to the front of the transport procession.
"Ye Xuan, what’s wrong?" Gongsun Xin asked, frowning.
Ye Xuan didn’t answer. Instead, he looked at Gongsun Qingyue. More accurately, he looked at the lackey standing behind Gongsun Qingyue. Pointing at the man’s face, a mocking smile tugged at the corner of Ye Xuan’s mouth.
"We meet again."
At those words, the man’s expression drastically changed. He hurriedly dropped to his knees and called out, "Young Master Ye Xuan..."
Ye Xuan maintained his smile as he glanced at Gongsun Qingyue. "Second Uncle, this man is your subordinate, right?"
Gongsun Qingyue nodded. "His name is Yun Kong. Why do you ask?"
"Second Uncle, I’ll just be direct, then. I want his life!"
"I want his life." Ye Xuan’s voice echoed through the surroundings, cold and merciless.
He had always been someone who exacted revenge for every grudge and repaid every slight. He certainly hadn’t forgotten that this man named Yun Kong had nearly killed him and Tang Long—all simply because they happened to be in his way!
"Young Master Ye Xuan... you..." Yun Kong immediately panicked.
Gongsun Qingyue furrowed his brow slightly and spoke up again. "Ye Xuan, I know he was the one who found you and brought you back to the Gongsun Family, but he was acting on my orders. Are you trying to kill him just because of that?"
Ye Xuan shook his head. "I am not that narrow-minded. I want his life simply because he tried to kill me back then. Had my reflexes not been fast enough, I would already be dead."
"Oh? Did such a thing happen?"
"Master, I’ve been wronged! I went to Zhang Family Main Town that day, and on my way out, I saw someone blocking the road. I just casually threw out an attack, but I had absolutely no idea it was Young Master Ye Xuan at the time!" Yun Kong cried out, remaining on his knees as he begged for mercy.
Ye Xuan, however, responded indifferently. "As a powerful Cultivator of the Demon Spirit Realm, launching a casual attack in a One-Star Main Town means you fully intended to kill me, doesn’t it? I, Ye Xuan, will never show mercy to anyone who attempts to kill me or my loved ones."
Ye Xuan’s words seemed directed at Yun Kong, but they also sounded like a thinly veiled warning to Liu Ruoxi.
"Ye Xuan, this might just be a misunderstanding. No matter what, he is my man. Besides, if he hadn’t found you, you wouldn’t have reunited with my little sister so soon, right? From that perspective, he has made a contribution," Gongsun Qingyue spoke up once more. Although Yun Kong was just a subordinate, as the saying goes, before you beat a dog, you must look at its master.
Ye Xuan nodded. "Second Uncle, you do have a point. It is indeed because of him that I was able to reunite with my mother so soon. I am a man who distinguishes clearly between reward and punishment. Considering he technically helped me, I can spare his life. However, I want his right hand! That day, he used that exact hand to attack me."
"Ye Xuan, must you really do this? Can’t you give me face?" Gongsun Qingyue’s expression turned frigid.
"Face?" Ye Xuan laughed, his tone turning icy. "I only call you Second Uncle out of respect for my mother. But Gongsun Qingyue, you should know very well that there is no affection between us. On the contrary, you sent me into the Forbidden Area to die in place of your own children. The fact that I don’t harbor any resentment toward you already shows my open-mindedness, since you are, after all, my mother’s biological brother. But please, don’t overestimate your place in my heart. Here, your face means absolutely nothing to me."
"You!" Ye Xuan’s words turned Gongsun Qingyue’s face livid. In front of so many people, this brat really wasn’t giving him an ounce of respect.
"I absolutely forbid you from touching him today! What are you going to..."
Before Gongsun Qingyue could finish his sentence, Gongsun Xin, who had remained silent all this time, suddenly made a move.
He made a squeezing motion in the air.
"AHHH!" Yun Kong suddenly let out a bloodcurdling, agonizing shriek.