"Sit here."
The woman slowly raised her hand, and a gentle wave of spiritual energy swept over it. The roots of the tree began to wriggle and eventually transformed into two wooden seats.
Yun Si Ning and Xiao Jiu didn't hesitate at all and sat down directly.
After all, given the strength this woman demonstrated, wiping out the two of them would be as easy as a thought.
When facing a big shot of this caliber, being wary becomes meaningless.
The woman in black stockings smoothed her skirt and sat down again under the big tree.
My name is Panxi.
The woman introduced herself.
"Panxi, your sister's name is very beautiful."
Yun Si Ning smiled sweetly.
"It sounds nice..."
Panxi lowered her head, her eyes filled with unreadable thoughts.
"The falling flowers are full of affection, but the flowing water is heartless. I long for the stream to come, but all I feel is the sorrow of parting."
Ah, this...
Yun Si Ning was speechless for a moment. She was praising your name for sounding nice, so why are you feeling so worried again?
"I do not know your names."
"Oh, my name is Xiao Ning, and her name is Xiao Jiu."
Yun Si Ning quickly introduced.
Before Yun Si Ning could speak, Pan Xi asked first.
"Xiao Ning, there's something I don't understand. Could you please tell me?"
"Sister, just ask. We'll answer whatever we know."
"Just now I glanced at you briefly and only noticed the lustful aura on your hands."
"But upon closer inspection now, it seems that this desire does not belong to you."
"What do you mean by that, sister?"
"The desire energy in your palms is pure, but it's too weak, and it's not integrated with your soul. It doesn't seem like something you cultivated yourself; it's more like..."
Panxi paused for a moment, but Yun Sining asked anxiously.
"Like what?"
"It's like you've come into contact with something related to desire, like a spiritual artifact containing desire."
A magical artifact imbued with desire...
Yun Si Ning pondered, carefully recalling the magical artifacts she had encountered in the past few days.
When I was cultivating at Jianping Mountain, I did encounter quite a few, but those were all ordinary cultivation items and nothing special.
Not long after my senior sister left, I was captured by that Spider-Man, no, Spider Demon. Could it be that I came into contact with her in the Spider Cave?
That's not right. What kind of magical artifacts could there be in a place like that? There are only spider demons and spider monsters, not even a Pigsy.
Could it be Xiao Jiu's bracelet? But I've never touched it before.
What exactly is it...?
At this point, Panxi added.
"Besides some magical artifacts, the personal items of certain powerful figures in the Desire Sect may also have this effect."
"It is normal for those things to be tainted by some pure lustful energy after being around powerful beings of the Desire Gate for a long time."
Upon hearing this, Yun Sining's mind went blank; she remembered!
It's that ancient scroll, Si Yiqi's ancient scroll!
Seeing her expression, Panxi smiled.
"Have you made a guess?"
“That’s right. I once touched a senior’s handwritten letter. Perhaps that’s what my sister was talking about, something tainted with lust.”
"May I carry this letter with me, senior?"
Yun Sining shook her head.
"Those books are all with my senior sister."
Thinking of Qingyu, Yun Sining quickly asked.
"Sister, won't prolonged contact with those things during spiritual practice cause any harm to the body?"
Panxi flicked her hair and said calmly.
"If it is just the handwriting of a powerful being, the residual desire energy on it will not have any adverse effects on cultivators. At most, it will just leave some residue on the surface of your body, like you have."
"Phew, that's good."
Yun Si Ning was finally relieved.
It doesn't seem to be something like nuclear radiation; although it can linger for a long time, it's not that harmful.
Speaking of which, this Si Yiqi is truly remarkable. That ancient scroll has been preserved for thousands of years, yet it still retains such a distinct aura!
In her mind, Yun Si Ning had already categorized Si Yi Qi as an S-level big shot.
"So, it seems you're quite concerned about the person carrying the powerful handwritten letter?"
Seeing through her thoughts, Panxi asked.
"Could it be the illusion you just saw..."
"Hey, sister, let's get down to business first."
Yun Si Ning quickly interrupted.
No way!
Maru, she can actually see what I just saw!!
Xiao Jiu tilted her head in surprise to look at her, somewhat bewildered.
"Um, um, sister, could you tell me about this 'lustful energy,' 'lustful gate,' and that Grand Steward?"
Actually, these are the things that Yun Si Ning is truly interested in.
"You really don't know?"
"I truly do not know."
Panxi looked the two of them up and down again, her expression strange.
"Your clothing seems somewhat different from that of our dynasty. Could you be barbarians from foreign lands?"
ah??
These are just ordinary, proper clothes, okay? How did they turn us into barbarians?
You, wearing black and white stockings, have the nerve to talk about us like that!
However, Yun Si Ning thought for a moment that since they couldn't explain their origins in time, it wouldn't be a problem to say that they were barbarians from another region.
So she nodded.
"You can understand it that way, sister, since we're not locals anyway."
"Um……"
Panxi pondered for a long time.
"The so-called desire is a new system of cultivation proposed thousands of years ago, which is completely different from the original path."
"After the Great Ancestor opened up the realm, the cultivation systems of all realms were originally of the same origin, but in the end, they all boiled down to two words: abstaining from desires."
"Duan Yu?"
"It means to sever desires."
Oh, this abstinence...
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