The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple

Chapter 1256 - 375: Wait, Why Did It Turn Into Reverse Dual Cultivation?

She had to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and take it in one go to break through to Spirit Slash Realm Perfection!Zhou Qing watched this scene with aggrieved eyes, feeling like he had suffered a huge loss.

But looking at Shen Hanyi, who was right in front of him, her cheeks at this moment were flushed, and the Blood Phoenix mark between her brows made her even more enchanting. He actually stared blankly for a moment.

"So she’s this pretty..." Zhou Qing muttered to himself.

In reality, Shen Hanyi was always cold as ice.

But ever since learning about the Shen Family’s situation from Shen Yunzhou, and the reason she was poisoned this time, Zhou Qing finally understood that this aloofness was nothing but her protective shell.

Yet inside the Divine Ruins Celestial Palace, it was as if she had taken off all her armor, and she was talking a lot more than usual.

Especially...

Thinking of what had happened not long ago when the two of them got swept up in passion, Zhou Qing felt a heat rise in his chest.

At that time, Shen Hanyi’s eyes were flowing with charm, her red lips slightly parted, completely different from her usual self...

Speaking of which, how did something like that suddenly happen?

"Could this be the Blood Phoenix Race’s Heart-Bond Pact?" Zhou Qing mumbled, fumbling to tie his belt.

"Back then, at the end of that blood-red Scroll, it did seem to record that when one side is on the verge of death, and the Blood Phoenix of both sides manifests as Yin and Yang, it will activate some kind of ancient contract..."

"But it shouldn’t be like this!" Zhou Qing scratched his head.

The next moment, he suddenly felt the Spiritual Power in his meridians begin to circulate on its own. A strand of unfamiliar, extremely Yin Spiritual Power slithered through his body like a Spiritual Snake.

This Spiritual Power seemed weak, yet carried a bone-chilling cold. Wherever it passed, crystal-like frost patterns appeared on his meridians, forming a stark contrast with the blazing Power of the Blood Phoenix in his body.

"This is..." Zhou Qing looked inward into his sea of consciousness and was shocked to find that the four Dao Flowers were slowly rotating under the nourishment of this Spiritual Power.

Their colors were actually more solid and full than before.

And a mysterious, indescribable insight surged into his mind, just like when he broke through to Fourth-level Array Master back then, touching the threshold of the Spirit Severing Realm...

Zhou Qing suddenly looked toward Shen Hanyi, who was in the midst of breaking through, and instantly understood.

"Looks like I got some benefits out of this too..."

Not caring about his disheveled clothes, he immediately sat cross-legged. As his hands quickly formed profound Dharma Seals, the same four-colored halo as Shen Hanyi’s emerged around him.

Their auras actually blended perfectly once again at this moment, forming a Yin and Yang circulation...

Two days later!

"Boom—"

The entire Cave Mansion suddenly trembled violently, and the Four-Color Restriction runes carved into the rock walls cracked inch by inch.

Shen Hanyi’s three thousand strands of Silver Hair fluttered without wind, and the Blood Phoenix mark between her brows suddenly burst out with a blinding bloody light, transforming into a lifelike crimson phoenix that soared into the sky.

"Li—"

The phoenix cry echoed through the Ninth Heaven, and all the Spiritual Qi in the entire Wuxiang Mountain range was instantly drawn into a vacuum.

With the Cave Mansion as the center, a terrifying Spiritual Power hurricane formed within a thousand-zhang radius. Countless ancient trees were uprooted and ground into dust in the storm.

Zhou Qing had just awakened from meditation and was stunned speechless by the sight before him.

Shen Hanyi floated quietly at the center of the storm. She clearly made no extra movements, yet gave off a suffocating feeling as if one were facing the vast heavens and earth.

The space within three zhang around her twisted continuously, even bending the light itself.

"So this is... the pressure of Spirit Slash Realm Perfection?" Zhou Qing’s Adam’s apple bobbed as cold sweat soaked his back.

What made him even more uneasy was how Shen Hanyi, after her breakthrough, would deal with him, this "chief culprit."

"Congratulations, Sister, congratulations, Sister!"

At the moment the Restriction shattered, Shen Yunzhou rushed in with a fawning smile, but abruptly skidded to a stop when he saw the look in Shen Hanyi’s eyes.

Shen Hanyi’s gaze shifted slightly, and she suddenly sensed something, looking toward the sky.

A cold light flashed in her eyes. With a light wave of her jade-like hand, the void suddenly tore open, revealing a pitch-black crack. "You really don’t know when to quit. In that case, old and new debts will be settled together today!"

She suddenly turned her head to look at Shen Yunzhou, and that icy gaze made him feel as if he’d fallen into an ice cave. "If you dare utter even half a word, I’ll tear your mouth off."

Before her voice had even fallen, Shen Yunzhou had already clamped his hands over his mouth, his face deathly pale as he shook his head repeatedly.

When her gaze shifted to Zhou Qing, a trace of unfathomable complexity flashed in her eyes.

Zhou Qing had just opened his mouth to speak when he felt an invisible force sweep him into the spatial crack.

The scene before his eyes twisted in an instant, and only the piercing screech of space tearing remained in his ears.

In the span of a single breath—

"Crack!"

Above the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, the most bustling place in the Imperial City’s Inner City, the clear sky suddenly split open, revealing a pitch-black crack three zhang long.

The edges of the crack flickered with unstable spatial turbulence as two figures tumbled out like ragged sacks.

"Boom!"

Amid the deafening crash of shattered tiles, Zhou Qing and Shen Yunzhou smashed straight through the three-layered glazed dome, crashing heavily onto the Eight Immortals Table in the main hall amid a rain of crystal shards.

In an instant, the agarwood table worth a thousand gold shattered, soup splashing everywhere.

Several guests in luxurious robes were splattered with oil and broth, yet they all stood there dumbfounded.

Everyone on the top floor fell into an eerie silence, all eyes locked on the two who had suddenly fallen from the sky.

"Master Zhou?!" An elderly man in a brocade robe was the first to cry out, instantly stirring a commotion throughout the hall.

"It really is Master Zhou!"

"My heavens, I’m not dreaming, am I..."

"Master Zhou, do you still remember me? I’m Zhang Geng!"

...

Zhou Qing hurriedly wiped the vegetable leaves off his face, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles under everyone’s burning gaze.

Without another word, he turned and bolted for the door.

"Pah!" Shen Yunzhou spat out the ivory chopstick in his mouth. Not bothering to straighten his messy clothes, he took off in a run. "Zhou, you bastard! Stop right there! Make yourself clear!"

The two of them dashed out of the Drunken Immortal Pavilion one after another, leaving behind a scene of utter chaos and a hall full of guests staring in shock.