Luo Sheng Zhenjun flipped his palm, and a milky white porcelain bottle appeared out of thin air in his hand. "This is the Ugly Face Pill. Taking it will change one's appearance, making one extremely ugly. Even one's own parents would not recognize him. Rather than ruining Feng Xie Zhenjun's face, why not use this Ugly Face Pill to see if that Demon Ancestor Ji Gui can still recognize his master? Wouldn't that be interesting?"

"I have seen many heartless and ungrateful men among the righteous cultivators. I wonder if demonic cultivators are the same? If the Demon Ancestor Ji Gui had decisively abandoned the ugly Feng Xie Zhenjun upon seeing him, I think Feng Xie Zhenjun wouldn't have been so foolish as to devote his heart to that demon again—"

With a mocking laugh, True Monarch Luo Sheng looked at the crowd with a smile: "What do you fellow Daoists think?"

After a brief silence, True Lord Xie glanced at Bi Xie discreetly and said, "We will follow True Lord Luo Sheng's advice."

Bi Xie had no choice but to be fed the Ugly Face Pill.

After a short while, the surprised, disdainful, or disgusted looks from the assembled cultivators told Bi Xie that the Ugly Face Pill had taken effect.

She just wasn't sure just how ugly she was.

She glanced at Wuzhan Zhenjun.

The man blushed, quickly lowered his head, and then, as if afraid she would overthink, raised his head again, his dark, clear eyes staring straight at her, as if to say that no matter what she looked like, he wouldn't mind or dislike her.

She glanced at the Setting Sun True Lord.

The True Lord of the Setting Sun swallowed hard, his expression unreadable. Meeting Bi Xie's questioning gaze, he coughed lightly and looked away, saying in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoists, are you satisfied now? In three days, Demon Ancestor Ji Gui will come to fetch the bride. Do you intend to face this battle unprepared?"

There were many high-level cultivators inside the stone chamber. Bi Xie's spiritual power was currently locked, so he dared not communicate with Ru Hua, fearing that these cultivators would discover him.

Maintaining her aloof and jade-like persona, she coldly watched the cultivators leave one after another.

The gray-white barrier closed again and was reinforced with several layers.

Bi Xie touched his face and hurriedly asked Ru Hua, "Ru Hua, am I really that ugly now? So ugly that even my parents wouldn't recognize me?"

Ru Hua, looking constipated, exclaimed, "It's more than just ugly! Host, can't you feel the bumps on your face? These bumps are all black, like... poop. This is a smelly face... Ugh, I can't stand it anymore, it's disgusting..."

Bi Xie: "..."

She touched the bumps that Ru Hua had mentioned on her face, scratched them with her fingernail until the skin broke, and a stench immediately hit her, making her almost vomit.

"Ugh... Ruhua, it stinks..."

Ru Hua: "I told you not to pick at it. Even if you pick off all these black bumps, your face still won't be Feng Xie's face. You used to be so beautiful that it outraged both gods and men, but now you're so ugly it's shocking."

Bi Xie pinched his nose, held his breath for a while, and waited for the stench to dissipate before saying in a muffled voice, "Don't talk nonsense. Didn't you want me to abandon my integrity for the big boss? Do you think the big boss could kiss my face? Could he really do it?"

Ru Hua: "...The big boss will kick you away!"

Bi Xie: "...ruthless."

Ever since picking at a black bump and being stabbed all day, Bi Xie has never dared to touch those black bumps on his face again.

She asked Ru Hua for a mirror, but Ru Hua refused, saying she was afraid she would look so ugly that she would die.

Let's snatch the bamboo shoots!

She's probably taken all the bamboo shoots from the mountain!

However, it wasn't long before Bi Xie saw her "face" in the bronze mirror. She only glanced at it before she dared not look again.

I'm afraid I'll scare myself into having a heart attack.

At this moment, Bi Xie was wearing a bright red wedding dress, with a crimson double peacock embroidered cloud and gold tassel brocade over it. Her usually unadorned black hair was styled into a flying fairy cloud bun, with a phoenix hairpin inserted in the bun. With a slight sway, the phoenix wings fluttered, as if it was about to spread its wings and fly high.

From behind, she is indeed a beautiful woman, the object of every gentleman's affections.

However... only Bi Xie knew just how... horribly disfigured that face truly was.

"Ruhua, I hope Ji Gui won't recognize me," Bi Xie whispered.

Hearing the sadness in her voice, Ru Hua quickly comforted her, "Oh, don't worry, the big boss will definitely recognize you. Have you seen 'Flirting Scholar'? I think your situation is a bit similar. The big boss is much more powerful than Tang Bohu, he'll definitely recognize you, relax, relax~"

Bi Xie touched the twin lotus pattern on the fiery red wedding dress: "I know he can recognize me, but I'm afraid that seeing my ugly face will leave him with psychological trauma."

"You don't understand. Girls like to present their best side to the men they love. In our world, girls would wash their hair and put on makeup before going out on a date, dressing themselves up like delicate little piggies. But look at me—"

"Hey, don't stop me, let me cry for a while."

Ru Hua: "...I didn't mean to stop you..."

Bi Xie snorted with a dark face: "Do you still want those 7 happiness points?"

Ru Hua's expression immediately changed, and she said with a grin, "Oh my, host, haven't you heard the saying, 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'? Even if you're a pile of poop, you're still a fragrant pile of poop in the eyes of the big boss~"

Bi Xie's face darkened even more: "Please swallow the second half of your sentence, and I'll pretend I only heard the first half."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bi Xie stood up warily, put the bright red veil over his head, and sat upright in front of the bronze mirror.

Although she had emerged from the Fire Poison Cave, her spiritual power remained locked, and the sensitivity of her five senses had decreased considerably.

But the group that came was large and numbered at least a dozen people. They didn't try to hide their presence, and the sound of their footsteps reached her ears.

Soon, Bi Xie was led out by a group of female cultivators from the Qinghua Sect.

She was forced into a sedan chair.

Quietly lifting a corner of the bright red veil, Bi Xie heard a female cultivator ask, "Have the other sedan chairs been properly arranged?"

Another female cultivator replied, "Reporting to Senior Sister, everything has been arranged."

The female cultivator who had spoken earlier nodded and instructed, "You stay here and watch over things. I'll go and report to Master."

Immediately following was the sound of departing footsteps.

Just as Bi Xie was about to lift the carriage curtain to assess her current situation, a sword stopped him before he could even reach out. The cold scabbard touched the back of her hand through the curtain, and a cool voice came in, "True Lord Feng Xie, please behave yourself."

The voice sounded familiar, and after thinking for a moment, Bi Xie remembered who she was.

Fairy Chenxi.

Bi Xie felt inexplicably embarrassed when she thought that Wu Zhan might have agreed to become a Daoist couple with Fairy Chenxi in order to protect her, but then broke his promise and went back on his word.

So he stopped observing his surroundings and asked Ru Hua, "Ru Hua, has the big boss arrived yet?"

"They're here! They're here!"

The image of Ru Hua's exclamation echoed in my mind: "My goodness!"

"Wow, this is too much! Did the big boss bring all the most beautiful and vibrant flowers from the entire Floating Light Continent? A riot of colors, stretching for miles! And there are even celestial birds! My goodness, they're Azure Phoenixes and Fire Phoenixes! Azure Phoenixes and Fire Phoenixes!!!"