Just a heads-up, I'm leaving tomorrow morning to attend the Qidian Annual Meeting in Zhuhai. It'll be about four or five days. During the conference, I'll try my best to update three chapters a day. If I don't manage it, please bear with me—being out of town, it's not always convenient to write. But I definitely won't skip any updates.
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In a state of panicked confusion, perhaps thinking who-knows-what, Bai Yunfeng suddenly screamed, "Yang Kai, I swear I won't let you off even as a ghost!"
"What's wrong with you!" Yang Kai was extremely annoyed.
"Heh heh..." Bai Yunfeng let out a bitter laugh, his voice sharp. "If you hadn't smashed through the floor, how would we have fallen down here and been caught by these spiders?"
"If I hadn't smashed through the floor, you'd have been killed by Guo Yuanming and his bunch long ago. Would you still be alive now?" Yang Kai sneered, knowing Bai Yunfeng was probably losing his mind.
"I'm from the Bai family! Would those pieces of trash dare kill me?" Bai Yunfeng roared. "As soon as I revealed my true identity, they'd just drag me back to the Bai family for a reward. Why would they hurt me?"
"You might not have to die, but if Miss Qiu and Miss Luo fell into their hands, heh, their purity would likely be compromised. I think they'd rather be trapped in spider webs than be caught by those people."
"What the hell does their purity have to do with me? I just want to live!" Bai Yunfeng blurted out angrily.
As soon as the words left his mouth, he seemed to realize he shouldn't have said such a thing and abruptly fell silent, sullenly not uttering another word.
"Bai Yunfeng... I didn't think you were like this." Luo Xiaoman's pained voice came through, laced with immense disappointment and disgust.
A woman's purity was sometimes even more important than her life. Back then, if she had really been captured alive by the warriors of the Cangyun Evil Land, Luo Xiaoman would have ended her own life before she could be violated.
Qiu Yimeng said lightly, "If a person doesn't look out for themselves, heaven and earth will destroy them. Xiaoman, don't mind it!"
Her voice was calm as an ancient well, betraying no joy, anger, or sorrow.
"Cowardly and afraid of death, the Bai family really are all spineless!" Luo Xiaoman mocked.
"I don't want to talk to you." Bai Yunfeng muttered, mumbling incoherently. He had now completely torn off the mask with the two women. Although they wouldn't necessarily turn their blades on each other, even if they managed to escape, they likely wouldn't stick together anymore.
Yang Kai and Shan Qingluo looked at each other, also speechless for a good while.
After a long silence, Yang Kai finally frowned. "If you want to leave, you can go now, right? That Spider Mother doesn't seem intent on keeping you."
Shan Qingluo slowly shook her head. "But it won't let you go."
Yang Kai's expression immediately became peculiar. He looked at her seriously, hesitated, and said, "Our friendship doesn't seem good enough for that. Just like Qiu Yimeng said, if a person doesn't look out for themselves..."
Shan Qingluo just looked at him, a smile playing on her lips.
"You can't be serious?" Yang Kai was slightly moved.
"I said it before, women of the Poison Widow lineage only give their heart to one man in their lifetime. Did you think I was lying?" Shan Qingluo sighed softly. "If you hadn't left your aura in my spiritual sea last time, I couldn't care less whether you live or die. You little brat, you're a rogue and a pervert—you should have been killed long ago to spare innocent girls. But it's come to this, what can I do?"
Unless Shan Qingluo didn't want her cultivation technique to reach perfection! The seed of passion had already taken root and sprouted in her heart; it was only a matter of time before it fully blossomed.
When the seed of passion was fully ripe, she would need to spend a night of passion with the man she loved.
Moreover, once a woman of the Poison Widow lineage fell in love, her feelings were far more deeply ingrained than those of other women.
Therefore, the women of this lineage were always incredibly tragic.
On one side was an undying love, and on the other was the perfection of the cultivation technique they practiced.
Even if she abandoned her cultivation for the sake of love, she couldn't resist the attraction and temptation between them.
Shan Qingluo's mother, Han Feiyan, had once unintentionally spent a night with her father. When she woke up, her beloved lay dead beside her, and she suffered for the rest of her life.
Yang Kai's expression was extremely grave. He stared deeply into Shan Qingluo's eyes, as if trying to penetrate her heart and gaze directly into the depths of her memories.
Shan Qingluo smiled faintly. Without any hesitation, she proactively lowered the defenses of her spiritual sea and said softly, "If you don't believe it, see for yourself!"
Yang Kai didn't hesitate either. His divine sense plunged directly into her spiritual sea.
It was a vast, boundless ocean, just as he had seen last time.
Above the ocean, Shan Qingluo's delicate figure stood against the wind, smiling as she watched Yang Kai's divine sense. She said softly, "Don't touch me. This is my spiritual soul. If you touch it, the consequences will be unimaginable."
"I know," Yang Kai replied solemnly.
If their spiritual souls merged, perhaps they could taste the ecstasy of a soul union, which was hundreds of times more wonderful than a physical union. But if their minds were unstable, they would lose themselves in the process and instantly become idiots.
Yang Kai was well aware of the stakes.
With a wave of her slender hand, Shan Qingluo sent beams of light into Yang Kai's divine sense.
Peering into the information contained within those beams, Yang Kai gained insight into all of this enchantress's emotional experiences and everything in her heart, with nothing held back or concealed.
He also saw the special constitution of her lineage and the dangers of the technique she cultivated, and realized what his own fate might be.
Scene after scene flashed before his eyes, as vivid as if he had experienced them himself.
After a long time, Yang Kai slowly withdrew from her spiritual sea.
Their gazes met, and Shan Qingluo giggled, "Now you believe me?"
Yang Kai nodded, his expression heavy. He never expected that the technique this enchantress cultivated was so special.
With a bitter smile, Yang Kai said, "Should I say I'm honored, or should I say I'm unlucky?"
It was true she had feelings for him, but it was also true that she might ultimately cost him his life.