Chapter 2235: Chapter 2235: My Skills Have Always Been Excellent
Perhaps it was due to the seal in her body, Le Yao’s lips felt a bit cold, but their softness left a deep impression on Ye Haochuan.
After a quick peck, Le Yao swiftly pulled away, her pretty face already flushed like an apple, not daring to look Ye Haochuan directly in the eye.
Ye Haochuan licked his lips, still savoring the moment, and kept his promise by taking out a talisman and crushing it.
This talisman was a small formation connected to another formation on Le Yao’s body. Once it shattered, a layer of the seal on Le Yao immediately broke.
Le Yao felt her whole body relax, her body finally able to move, and she could speak.
But that was all.
This talisman was handed over to Ye Haochuan by Qiao’er, capable of removing the first seal, allowing Le Yao to move like an ordinary woman. Otherwise, she’d be like a doll, and the buyer would surely suffer a loss.
However, her cultivation was certainly still sealed by a deeper seal.
The Gu Family perhaps really just wanted to recover some funds, hence not killing Le Yao outright for the auction, but they definitely wouldn’t give Le Yao another chance to trouble the Gu Family.
"Ye Haochuan, I’m going to kill you!" The first thing Le Yao shouted as soon as she regained her freedom was to strike at Ye Haochuan in anger.
Ye Haochuan quickly sidestepped, easily avoiding her, and said with a grin, "Hey, I successfully saved you, and this is how you repay me?"
"You bastard, you saved me, but you took so many liberties with me... I... I was touched all over by you. How can I marry someone now?" Le Yao shouted, outraged.
"Come on, I bought you. Do you still want to marry someone else?" Ye Haochuan said indignantly.
"At worst, I’ll pay you back that billion later. Dare to say one more word about buying, and I’ll..." Le Yao raised her fist, looking fierce.
"Or what? Kill me?" Ye Haochuan said mischievously.
"I..." Le Yao’s face suddenly turned somber, her anger overshadowed by a sense of melancholy.
Seeing this, Ye Haochuan softened his attitude a bit and asked, "Tell me, how have you been these two years? How did you end up a prisoner? Also, your cultivation improved really fast, didn’t it?"
"What cultivation improvement? It was just restored!"
Le Yao snorted: "I was originally at True Immortal Mid-Stage cultivation. It was only because some of my cultivation was forcibly sealed back then that I ended up with someone like you."
Damn it, what do you mean by ending up with someone like me? Am I that bad?
Ye Haochuan thought grudgingly, but knowing that Le Yao was just venting with words, he didn’t mind and asked, "Looks like this has to do with the Gu Family. Speaking of which, although I knew back then that the Gu Family was powerful, I didn’t expect them to be this strong. Thinking back, I really was fearless out of ignorance!"
"What’s wrong? Regretting it now?" Le Yao laughed.
"I do regret it, but not because of the Gu Family’s strength, rather because some people didn’t keep their promises. The agreed reward was not given in the end!" Ye Haochuan said, looking frustrated.
Le Yao blushed and said, "If you can truly help me kill those people, I will definitely give you that reward!"
"That’s good news. Tell me, who are they?" Ye Haochuan smiled.
"Everyone in the Gu Family!" Le Yao gritted her teeth.
"I knew it!" Ye Haochuan said, unsurprised, as he had suspected it all along. "Looks like you went to assassinate them, but failed and got caught. What deep grudge do you have with the Gu Family that you’d take such a risk?"
Le Yao hesitated for a moment, then decided to recount her story.
Her full name was actually Sikong Yueyao.
The Sikong Family was once on par with the Gu Family. The two families originally got along peacefully, but 200 years ago, the Gu Family suddenly allied with a noble clan from Heavenly World Mansion and launched a sneak attack on the Sikong Family. Caught off guard, the Sikong Family was slaughtered, and only Sikong Yueyao escaped.
Under the Gu Family’s pursuit, Le Yao was forced to seal her cultivation and hide in the Lower Realm to heal.
When Ye Haochuan first encountered her, it was right after she had finished healing and was preparing to return to take revenge on the Gu Family.
Ye Haochuan suddenly remembered that when he emerged from that treasure trove, he arrived at a mansion with a "Sikong Mansion" plaque, which was likely Le Yao’s old home.
He wondered if she knew about the existence of the "Manual of Returning to the Origin of Wondrous Flowers" cultivation technique within that treasure.
"It’s all my fault for being too impatient. If I had waited until my sealed cultivation returned and then cultivated patiently for a while, I would have been able to destroy the Gu Family in one fell swoop!" Le Yao said angrily.
"Don’t be discouraged. There’s still a chance! Your cultivation is only sealed, not gone!" Ye Haochuan encouraged.
Le Yao smiled wryly and said, "Do you think the Gu Family ancestor’s seal is that easy to break? The seal is a signature skill of the Gu Family, not as simple as you think."
"A seal is just a type of formation. At least I am an Array Master; with careful study, I can definitely break this seal!" Ye Haochuan said confidently.
"You’re an Array Master?" Le Yao asked in surprise.
Ye Haochuan nodded proudly.
Le Yao showed a hint of hope on her face and grabbed Ye Haochuan’s arm, "Then what are we waiting for? Let’s do this quickly!"
"Don’t rush. At least get a bed; doing this on the floor isn’t very sanitary," Ye Haochuan said with a playful grin.
Le Yao’s face changed, and she said angrily, "Bastard, what’s in your head? I meant to help me break the seal, not..."
"Not what?"
Ye Haochuan made a mocking face and said, "I think you misunderstood. The seal is in your body, so naturally, I need to give you a thorough examination. Isn’t it best to do that on a bed?"
"Is that really what you were thinking?" Le Yao asked incredulously.
"What else could it be? You think I’d get intimate with you? Please, I’m someone who values my purity. Even if you offered yourself, I might not accept," Ye Haochuan said with a righteous look.
"Go away, if you really value purity, why did you just..." Le Yao said, getting angrier, finally glaring hard at Ye Haochuan.
"Fine, let’s get down to business!" Ye Haochuan shrugged, taking a bed out from his ring.
"Who are you, someone who even keeps a bed in your ring?"
"Some things need to be prepared in advance, so you’re not caught off guard when the time comes."
"And you say you’re not a perv, thinking about such things all the time."
"What are you thinking? I’m a Medicinal Cultivator, the bed is for the patient’s comfort, okay?"
"Who’d believe you!"
"Believe it or not! What are you waiting for, hurry up and lie down!"
"You... be gentle!"
"Don’t worry, I’m always very skilled..."