"Your humble servant greets Lord Wu Yihai." The female Gu Immortal gracefully prostrated herself at Fang Yuan's feet.
She was dressed in a garment of white fur that covered only her chest and hips, revealing large expanses of snow-white skin. Her ears were shaped like a rabbit's, her pupils gleamed like rubies, her nose was small and delicate, and her features were exquisitely lovely. In terms of pure beauty alone, she was only a step below Shang Xinci and Feng Jinhuang.
At this moment, this female Immortal was kneeling on the ground, her forehead pressed against the floor. Her ample chest was compressed against the floorboards, deforming dramatically under the pressure. Her hips, meanwhile, were raised high in an inviting curve.
She was none other than the White Rabbit Maiden.
In her current state, she combined an air of innocence with wildness, cuteness laced with bashfulness. Her attitude was one of absolute reverence, and any man who laid eyes on her would likely feel a flame ignite in his heart — or lower — and desire to take this beauty into his arms and lavish her with affection.
Fang Yuan, however, felt a certain strangeness.
Not long ago, he had been in this very woman's presence, offering cultivation resources in exchange for intelligence about the world of Gu Immortals. Who could have imagined that now, at this moment, this lovely creature would be groveling at his feet, looking for all the world as though she were his for the taking?
"This is obviously a honey trap."
"That Wu An didn't hesitate to use alarmist tactics, claiming a key figure had vital information to report, all so this White Rabbit Maiden could be brought before me."
"Looks like all these days I've been leaving them hanging, these people have gotten desperate. They're resorting to this kind of trick."
"Pretty cliché, but honestly, it's effective enough."
Fang Yuan smiled faintly and rose leisurely from his seat, strolling at an unhurried pace to where the White Rabbit Maiden knelt.
The White Rabbit Maiden's forehead had not left the jade floor tiles once.
With Fang Yuan's keen eyesight, he could see that her entire body was trembling.
She was nervous.
Fang Yuan mused: he had interacted with the White Rabbit Maiden before, and with over five hundred years of cultivation experience, he could tell that this woman was genuinely an independent cultivator. He hadn't expected her to offer herself like this — this sort of thing was almost certainly a first for her.
Of course, Fang Yuan could have been mistaken, but there were very few people in all five regions capable of making him misjudge someone.
The White Rabbit Maiden really was nervous.
She was extremely nervous. Her entire body was trembling slightly, her heart pounding wildly.
Even though she understood that she needed to stay calm and follow the instructions Wu An had given her beforehand, she couldn't manage it.
Knowing is easy, doing is hard.
"So even a beauty trap isn't something you can just pull off whenever you feel like it," the White Rabbit Maiden sighed inwardly.
Beyond her nervousness, her heart was also filled with shame, anger, and sheer disbelief.
"I — I'm actually doing this? Why am I doing this? Seducing a strange man I've never even met!"
The White Rabbit Maiden felt that this was deeply wrong, entirely contrary to her nature.
Before all this, she had been nothing more than a pure independent cultivator, living free of worldly contention, cultivating happily. If someone had told her she would be doing something like this today, she would have declared that person her enemy!
"How did things end up like this?"
The White Rabbit Maiden thought back: she had always been well-liked, and one day, Wu An had approached her of his own accord, claiming he had a great fortune to offer her.
At the time, the White Rabbit Maiden had been wary. How could such a gift-from-the-heavens opportunity fall into her lap? She had suspected Wu An might be trying to scam her out of her wealth or worse.
But that wasn't what happened.
The White Rabbit Maiden ended up managing an Immortal Fortune business. She became a middleman, and both the demonic and righteous path Gu Immortals trusted her enough to participate.
Admittedly, business had been slow at first. But as word spread, more and more Gu Immortals began to see clearly what was happening, and soon they came flooding in, streams of people flowing like a river.
Every deal that was struck earned the White Rabbit Maiden a cut.
Before long, her accumulated wealth had reached a sum equal to everything she had earned over the preceding decades.
The White Rabbit Maiden was both shocked and elated.
Business was booming, and she felt her future growing brighter with each passing day.
Then the surprise came — suddenly, yet not suddenly at all.
Not suddenly, because the White Rabbit Maiden knew the full story behind the events. The Wu family's Eighth Transformation powerhouse Wu Duxiu had passed away, and her illegitimate son from the Eastern Sea, Wu Yihai, needed to return to the Southern Border. Various factions had moved to intercept and ambush him. But in the end, Wu Yihai had evaded the ambush, returned safely to the family, and officially become a member of the Southern Border's Gu Immortal community.
Suddenly, because the White Rabbit Maiden never could have imagined that an event of this magnitude — one that shook the entire Southern Border Gu Immortal world — would become entangled with her. It was as if Wu Yihai, who had seemed so distant and lofty, had suddenly descended from the heavens to become the dominant force in the Wu family's position within the super Gu formation.
The Immortal Fortune business was halted immediately.
Because this business could not see the light of day. It had originally been manipulated from the shadows by the Wu family's Seventh Transformation Gu Immortal.
Now that he had been reassigned, Wu Yihai had taken his place.
Wu An and the others were beneficiaries of this arrangement, but they lacked the authority to continue running the business on their own.
They simply didn't qualify.
And they certainly couldn't cut Fang Yuan out and carry on without him.