I don't want to be trained by my senior sister!

On Lu Mingxuan's side.

He led his entourage and, following the directions of the incomplete map, arrived at the most magnificent main hall.

The palace doors were tightly shut.

"This is it, the Xuanli Main Hall marked on the map!"

Lu Mingxuan took a deep breath, channeled his spiritual power, and slowly pushed open the heavy palace door.

The interior of the hall was dimly lit, with only a few rays of light filtering in from who-knows-where, barely illuminating the inside.

The main hall was extremely spacious, with dozens of cracked stone statues standing on both sides, silently watching the intruder.

At the far end of the main hall was a high platform, upon which sat only a dragon throne, entwined with dragon heads, glaring angrily down below.

On the dragon throne sat a skeleton draped in tattered fine clothes.

The skeleton remained seated, its empty eye sockets seemingly still gazing down upon the entire hall.

Even after ten thousand years of death, it still exudes a chilling majesty.

Just as everyone's attention was focused on the withered corpse of the emperor.

A massive mental fluctuation suddenly spread out from the skeleton.

Lu Mingxuan was the first to be hit; he felt everything go black before his eyes, and the surrounding scenery shattered instantly...

......

However, after only a short while in the illusion, everyone returned to the dimly lit hall.

They were all pale-faced, staring with lingering fear at the skeleton on the throne.

His eyes were filled with fear.

They looked at each other, both knowing that the other must have seen the same words as them...

A disciple spoke in a trembling voice, "Just now... just now they said they wanted to..."

"Shut up!" Lu Mingxuan shouted sharply. He himself was slightly out of breath, but his eyes quickly regained their composure.

He glanced around at his fellow disciples, who were still in shock, and knew that he must not panic at this moment.

But fear is like a plague.

A disciple whose cultivation level was only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage was not very resolute to begin with, and turned around and ran wildly out of the hall.

This run was like lighting a fuse.

The other disciples, who were already terrified, also began to look around nervously and shifted their feet slightly, as if they also wanted to escape from this place.

"court death!"

Lu Mingxuan's eyes flashed with a cold light! He would never allow the team to collapse under his nose, nor would he allow anyone to ruin his plans.

Swish!

A sharp, pale blue sword aura, arriving after the initial strike, grazed the neck of the fleeing disciple.

His running stopped abruptly, his head flying high into the air, blood splattering several feet away.

The headless corpse lunged forward a few more steps before collapsing limply to the ground.

Then came a deathly silence.

All the remaining disciples were stunned by this merciless sword strike.

Fortunately, the previously fluctuating public sentiment has stabilized.

They watched as Lu Mingxuan slowly sheathed his sword, his gentle, jade-like face expressionless...

"Let's see who dares to leave! Anyone who dares to sow discord again, regardless of the reason, will be executed on the spot without mercy!"

"If we can go out together, I will certainly not treat you all unfairly. I swear on my father Lu Qingsong that each of you will receive over a thousand spirit stones and can choose your own spirit weapon."

Under the combined pressure of death threats and enticements, the remaining disciples barely managed to suppress their fear...

......

At this time.

The perspective shifts back to the Phoenix Palace...

Ning Qian kept her head down and deliberately walked half a step ahead of Fang Xuan, but always maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

She doesn't dare to get too close to Fang Xuan now.

She felt that if he touched her even slightly, her whole body would tremble uncontrollably...

What should we do after what just happened...? What will my junior brother think of her?

Will he think she's a bad woman who's after his body...?

Her mind was a complete mess.

Especially when I recall the feeling of being pinned against the wall by Fang Xuan and kissed so deeply that I almost suffocated...

Her legs started to feel weak again, and her cheeks were burning.

It's all her fault... Junior brother is still young, he's only... he's only seventeen, and there are still three years until his coming-of-age ceremony.

He knew nothing and was helplessly under the influence of the aphrodisiac. Instead of helping him calm down and find an antidote, she did not do so immediately.

I'm still thinking about taking it a step further...

What a disgrace to being a senior sister!

......

Fang Xuan, who was following behind her, looked completely at ease.

However, his gaze would occasionally drift towards Ning Qian's reddened ear tips.

He never expected that his senior sister, who was usually as aloof as ice, would be so sensitive.

It melts at the slightest touch... If this continues...

He woke up a little too quickly, though; he thought there would be many more ways to play waiting to be explored...

It's a pity, a real pity.

He didn't see himself as a seventeen-year-old at all.

After all, he was already over twenty before he transmigrated, but when he transmigrated, the system changed his body to that of a seventeen-year-old based on his age.

He was only a sophomore in high school at the time, and he looked incredibly young.

However, in his eyes, Ning Qian, who was in her early twenties, was a few years younger than him in his previous life, which was the perfect time to... train and cultivate her.

......

With their own thoughts, the two silently explored the Phoenix Palace.

This palace truly lives up to its name, which includes the characters for "phoenix and luan bird." Although the interior furnishings are dusty and dilapidated, one can still vaguely discern their former exquisite beauty.

Its style is graceful and elegant, quite different from the solemnity of the halls outside.

After passing several ruins of screens, they arrived at what appeared to be a side hall or sleeping quarters. The discoveries here were truly eye-opening for the two.

Some uniquely shaped jade artifacts and gold ornaments were scattered on the ground, some with rather ambiguous shapes.

In the corner were several open jade boxes, which contained not pills, but some pinkish perfume residue.

The books on the shelf were askew, and the words on their covers were enough to make one blush and their heart race—"The Secret Essentials of Yin and Yang Harmony," "The Reversed Classic of the Phoenix and the Luan," "The Questions and Answers of the Plain Girl"...

Ning Qian blushed deeply, unsure where to look.

She forced herself to remain calm and quickly walked past the unsightly things, but out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of a half-open drawer.

Inside were several pills in good condition, and a thin jade slip.

Dual cultivation pills? And... dual cultivation techniques?

It's useful...it can be used...

While Fang Xuan was bending over to examine a strangely shaped massage device, she quickly scooped up the small bottle of pills and the jade slip and hid them in her sleeve.

After doing all this, she felt her face burning even hotter, and felt too guilty to turn around.

......

Fang Xuan could see it clearly, of course.

His senior sister secretly hid some erotic books, and since he was already at the Void Core Realm, he naturally wouldn't be unaware.

But he pretended not to notice anything, straightened up, and patted non-existent dust off his hands.

There doesn't seem to be anything particularly valuable, just some... uh, bedding?

No wonder it's where the imperial concubines lived.

Seeing that Fang Xuan hadn't noticed, Ning Qian secretly breathed a sigh of relief and quickly spoke, though her voice still sounded somewhat unnatural: "Um... this place isn't safe to stay in for long, shall we... shall we go look outside again?"

She needed to leave this place where the stolen goods were hidden as soon as possible.

"Okay," Fang Xuan replied.