Chapter 11 She clearly didn't use any charm magic, but...
"Do you want to poison her, or do you want to poison me?"
Yan Ao was shocked and quickly explained, "Your Majesty, how could I dare to harm you! I just want to help you extract your primordial spirit as soon as possible."
Xiao Yezi followed behind Si Yao and saw that her clothes were still stained with blood.
He couldn't help but ask Yan Ao, "How did she get her injuries?"
Yan Ao then recounted the details of how the master and disciple overcame various challenges in Xingyunping and how they finally obtained the Purple Star Crystal.
Xiao Yezi's primordial spirit has not returned to its original position. His personality is like it has split into two forms. After switching between these two forms, neither can have the other's memories.
However, listening to Yan Ao's description and considering his own uninjured body, Xiao Yezi could understand how much Si Yao protected him when they crossed the cliff in Xingyunping.
After Yan Ao finished speaking, he added, "Your Excellency, this woman is actually quite good to you."
Xiao Yezi remained silent for a long time before Yan Ao withdrew.
The next day, Si Yao woke up with most of her injuries healed. She was wearing a crimson wide-sleeved dress and a red silk scarf tied in her hair. In the breeze, her fair face was adorned with bright red lips.
Xiao Yezi was already waiting in the courtyard when she woke up. Si Yao slowly walked over and sat on the stone bench.
"Disciple, today I will begin teaching you the martial arts."
Xiao Yezi looked up, intrigued. "What kind of cultivation technique will Master teach me?"
Seeing Xiao Yezi's indifferent gaze, Si Yao stroked her chin, flipped her right hand, and a red book appeared in her palm.
She smiled faintly and handed the item to Xiao Yezi, saying, "Look, all the male disciples of our Hehuan Sect cultivate this."
Xiao Yezi calmly took the book, and the three characters "Yu Yang Jing" on the cover caught her eye.
He remained unmoved, a hint of bewilderment in his eyes.
Si Yao pointed to the book, "Open it and take a look."
Without hesitation, Xiao Yezi randomly opened a page.
The text in the book is particularly explicit, detailing the various steps men take to enhance their yang energy and how they can engage in dual cultivation with women.
Xiao Yezi slammed the book shut, and a few traces of emotion finally surfaced in her eyes, which had been as calm as a lake.
"Hahaha."
Seeing his reaction, Si Yao laughed. "What's wrong? Does your disciple resist this cultivation technique? But since you've joined the Hehuan Sect, you should have been mentally prepared for this by now."
Xiao Yezi's chest heaved slightly as she tried to suppress her displeasure. "Master, is it true that the Hehuan Sect can only improve cultivation levels through dual cultivation between men and women?"
Si Yao frowned, leaned closer, and gently touched Xiao Yezi's forehead. "My dear disciple, you're right. Why do you look like you just found out about this today?"
Si Yao's soft palm gave Xiao Yezi an unusual sensation on his forehead, and he instinctively took a step back to avoid Si Yao's groping hand.
Then Si Yao sighed, "Heavens, you didn't just randomly join the Hehuan Sect without doing your research, did you?"
Before joining the Hehuan Sect, Xiao Yezi naturally knew how the people of the Hehuan Sect behaved. However, he simply couldn't bring himself to cultivate the Jade Yang Scripture now.
He had lived for three thousand years, and before meeting Si Yao, he had remained chaste for those three thousand years. If he were to have to cultivate with a woman in the future because of the Jade Yang Scripture, it would be even more unbearable than being humiliated!
Xiao Yezi clenched his fists tightly, his face turning as red as a braised shrimp in oil.
Si Yao smiled again, "If I had known this would happen, with your talent, you should have gone to the Wind Sword Sect to become a sword cultivator."
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yezi said, "Now that I've joined the Hehuan Sect, how can I possibly think about the Sword Sect?"
He came to the Hehuan Sect not for anything else, but solely to retrieve the primordial spirit.
However, now that Si Yao is forcing him to start practicing the "vulgar" Jade Yang Scripture, he simply cannot tolerate it any longer.
"Master," Xiao Yezi lowered his head, still trying to plead, "Isn't there any other way?"
Si Yao stood up, took the "Jade Yang Scripture" back from Xiao Yezi's hand, put her hands behind her back, lowered her body slightly, and stared straight at Xiao Yezi.
With a laugh as melodious as silver bells, she said, "Guess."
Xiao Yezi looked up and Si Yao's stunningly beautiful face, exuding a mature aura, came into his view. She hadn't used any charm magic, but her natural allure made him momentarily lose his composure.
Xiao Yezi took a deep breath, turned her head away from her, and said, "Master is keeping us in suspense."
He knew that most disciples of the Hehuan Sect would improve their cultivation through dual cultivation between men and women.
Before meeting him, Si Yao was an incompetent elder who had stopped at the Foundation Establishment stage. But after that one night of encounter, she stepped into the Golden Core stage.
Xiao Yezi suddenly wondered why she hadn't chosen to cultivate with other men before.
That naturally alluring face was so close, and the soft, shallow breaths seemed to gently caress his face.
Xiao Yezi asked abruptly, "Master, if you want to improve your cultivation in the future, will you also have to cultivate with other men?"
He didn't know why he asked that question.
For a fleeting moment, he actually cared about the answer.
Si Yao was slightly taken aback. What did she mean by "other men"?
The disciple's words seemed to have a hidden meaning.
Xiao Yezi immediately composed himself, afraid of giving himself away. Before Si Yao could reply, he said, "Master, please answer my previous question. Besides the Jade Yang Scripture, I have no other choice?"
Si Yao stopped teasing him, straightened up, and put the Jade Yang Scripture into her storage ring. "Of course there is a way. Didn't I say yesterday that I would teach you a technique suitable for the Soul Extinction Lamp?"
After saying that, she actually reached out and stroked Xiao Yezi's arm.
Xiao Yezi's brow twitched, and resistance flashed in her eyes. What exactly did this woman want to do?
Fortunately, Si Yao quickly stopped and said seriously, "Little Ye really has no cultivation foundation."
Si Yao, of course, couldn't see that Xiao Yezi had already hidden his true strength.
She stuffed all the pills she had obtained from the treasure vault yesterday into Xiao Yezi's hands, saying, "Right now, you should start with body tempering, and then begin Qi refining. These pills will all increase your cultivation speed."
Si Yao brought Xiao Yezi to Qingfeng Stream behind Chuixue Courtyard.
"The spiritual energy here is abundant; you can cultivate here on any day." After saying that, she taught her the methods of body tempering and qi refining very carefully.
Si Yao's earnest words lingered in his ears, but Xiao Yezi's gaze fell on the grass by the Qingfengjian pond.
He had a deep impression of that place.
Si Yao talked to herself for a long time, but did not receive a response from Xiao Yezi. She looked in the direction he was looking.
Suddenly, she remembered that night, the scene of Li Ye tormenting her in the bushes.
What happened that night feels like it was just yesterday.
Xiao Yezi had already come to her senses and nodded, saying, "This is indeed a good place."
These words made it seem as if Xiao Yezi had peeked into Si Yao's past, making her ears burn.
"Alright, you should focus on your cultivation now."
After Xiao Yezi began cultivating, Si Yao crossed the pond and went to the opposite hilltop to meditate with her eyes closed.
Upon discovering that Si Yao had entered a meditative state in the distance, Xiao Yezi, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes and summoned Yan Ao in his mind.
"Your Excellency, what are your orders?"
Xiao Yezi's gaze remained fixed on Si Yao in the distance. He transmitted his voice to Yan Ao, "How do you plan to poison her?"
Upon hearing this, Yan Ao was overjoyed, "Your Excellency has come to a realization?"
Xiao Yezi snorted coldly, "Judging from her behavior today, she will definitely be by my side every day from now on to urge me to cultivate. I only want to retrieve my primordial spirit and then go back to Chonglou Sect to settle accounts with Zhao Chu. Therefore, I don't have that much time to waste with her."
“Your Excellency is absolutely right,” Yan Ao echoed. “Right now, Your Excellency only needs to give the word, and I will take action myself.”
A hint of hesitation appeared in Xiao Yezi's eyes. Yan Ao sensed it and said, "I am afraid that this woman taking poison will harm Your Majesty's health, so tonight I will first try other less toxic medicines."
Yan Ao was naturally afraid. If a single poisoned pill killed Si Yao and his lord also perished, he wouldn't have enough lives to compensate for it.
If Si Yao takes poison, and the principle behind the attack is not related to the Venerable One's body, then Yan Ao's next step is to use a deadly poison to kill her.
After hearing this, Xiao Yezi, in order to get rid of Si Yao and extract her primordial spirit as soon as possible, had no better way at the moment, so he had no choice but to agree, "You can give it a try."
At night, incense burned in Si Yao's room, filling the room with its fragrance.
Si Yao sat at the table, resting her chin on her hand, flipping through ancient books and pondering how to teach Xiao Yezi to cultivate.
She thought of something and called out to the outside, "Xiao Yezi, come here for a moment."
Not long after, Xiao Yezi, dressed in white, appeared outside Siyao Gate. "Master."
Si Yao smiled and said, "Come in quickly."
Xiao Yezi sat opposite Si Yao. Si Yao picked up the book in her hand and was about to say something when she felt the scene in front of her begin to blur.
For a moment, it was as if the world was spinning.
She shook her head, looking at Xiao Yezi in front of her, "Apprentice, how come there are two of you..."
"Master, are you seeing things?"
Xiao Yezi's voice echoed in her ears, and Si Yao's mind seemed to be stuck. She sat motionless in her original position, but what appeared in front of her was Qingfeng Stream in the back mountain.
In the darkness, she meditated in Qingfeng Stream, only to encounter the man covered in wounds.
Si Yao panicked and cried out, "Li Ye... Li Ye..."
She saw the other person walking towards her, and before she could react, he had already picked her up around the waist.
In the Snowfall Courtyard, in the Elder's Hall, Si Yao's eyes were empty, but she kept repeating the name "Li Ye".
Sitting in front of her, Xiao Yezi's brow twitched, and a hint of panic flashed across his face.
He summoned Yan Ao with his mind and transmitted his voice, "Has she recognized me?"
Yan Ao said, "Your Excellency, this must be her hallucination."
"Hallucination?" Xiao Yezi frowned slightly. "What kind of poison did you use?"
Yan Ao: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I added half a dose of Bewitching Powder to the tea she just drank."
He added, "This stuff can drastically change a person's personality and also cause hallucinations."
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