I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

The outer robe slipped to the ground with a soft thud. The hall was deathly silent, save for the faint glow emanating from the runes on the walls.

Leng Yue stood in front of him, watching him take off his clothes, as if she were looking at a stone or a medicinal herb, without any emotion.

Li Hanshan sneered inwardly.

This woman's indifference wasn't feigned; it came from her very core. In her eyes, everything in the world was simply divided into useful and useless; useful things were used, and useless things were discarded. The Pure Yang Sacred Body was useful to her, so she came to harvest it; as for whether the person being harvested would die, she didn't care at all.

But this is for the best.

The more indifferent a person is, the more likely they are to overlook details at crucial moments.

Someone like Leng Yue, accustomed to crushing everything with absolute strength and disdaining scheming, ironically gave Li Hanshan the opportunity to scheme against her.

"Lie down," Leng Yue said calmly.

Li Hanshan lay down on the cold ground as instructed. The floor of the main hall was paved with an unknown type of stone, which was icy cold to the touch, and one could feel the chill even through their robes.

Leng Yue squatted down beside him, her slender fingers gently touching his dantian.

A cool spiritual energy flowed from her fingertips into his body, slowly traveling along his meridians.

Li Hanshan could sense that her spiritual power was extremely unique; it was neither of the icy nor the fire attribute, but rather an extremely pure spatial force. Wherever that power passed, even the spiritual power within her meridians was compressed and slightly deformed, as if it would be torn apart at any moment.

"Don't resist." Leng Yue's voice remained calm. "Relax your meridians and let my spiritual energy enter your dantian."

Li Hanshan closed his eyes, firmly locking the immortal-grade golden core in his dantian, leaving only a portion of pure yang energy circulating in his meridians. He had cultivated his breath concealment technique to its peak, and the cultivation level he displayed at this moment was only at the Foundation Establishment stage; the aura of the golden core was completely hidden by him.

But achieving this is not easy—to completely conceal the golden core without arousing her suspicion, he must precisely control the direction of every strand of spiritual energy; the slightest carelessness would expose him.

Leng Yue's spiritual power circulated through his body, seemingly satisfied with the pure yang energy in his meridians. She withdrew her fingers, stood up, and with a gentle wave of her hand, her silver-white dress slid to the ground, revealing a body as beautiful as a jade sculpture.

Her skin was so fair it was almost translucent, gleaming faintly in the cold light of the pearl. Unlike Qin Muyue's alluring and fiery figure, Leng Yue's physique was more slender, with smooth and graceful lines, like a drawn sword.

She looked down at Li Hanshan, her silver-gray eyes still devoid of any emotion. Then she leaned down and pressed her cold lips against his.

A stream of pure spiritual energy flowed into her mouth, traveling down Li Hanshan's meridians and directly into his dantian. This power was incredibly domineering; wherever it passed, even pure yang energy was forcibly drawn into her body.

Li Hanshan groaned, feeling the pure Yang energy in his dantian, along with his spiritual energy, pouring out uncontrollably like a flood bursting its banks.

This woman wasn't interested in dual cultivation at all; she wanted to plunder directly!

Her method of absorbing spiritual energy was completely different from Qin Muyue's. Instead of using sexual intercourse to draw in pure yang energy, she directly used spatial power to forcibly pull his spiritual energy out of his body! This was no longer absorbing spiritual energy; it was outright robbery!

No wonder Qin Muyue said she never sought out someone for dual cultivation within the sect. With such methods, the men she had taken from would probably not even leave behind a corpse.

Li Hanshan endured the tearing force of the spatial energy on his meridians, allowing his spiritual power to continue flowing out without any resistance. He was waiting, waiting for the moment when Leng Yue would completely lower her guard.

As Leng Yue sensed the pure Yang energy surging from Li Hanshan's body, a faint ripple finally appeared in her silver-gray eyes.

She had been stuck at the third level of the Golden Core stage for several years, unable to break through, precisely because she lacked sufficiently pure Yang energy. Qin Muyue's improved cultivation made her aware of Li Hanshan's presence. She surmised that Li Hanshan must be hiding some secret, which was why Qin Muyue valued him so much.

She tried it herself today, and it was indeed so. This pure yang energy was even purer than she had imagined. If she could absorb it all, breaking through to the fourth or even fifth level of the Golden Core stage would not be impossible.

She closed her eyes, pushing her spatial power to its limit, and relentlessly plundered the spiritual energy within Li Hanshan's body. The bottleneck in her dantian began to loosen under the impact of this pure yang energy, and her aura rose steadily, getting closer and closer to the fourth level of the Golden Core stage.

Right now.

Li Hanshan suddenly opened his eyes. The immense spiritual power of the Immortal-grade Golden Core surged out of his dantian like a volcanic eruption, instantly crushing all the spatial power that Leng Yue had transferred into his body. Leng Yue's pupils shrank sharply, and she tried to withdraw her spiritual power, but it was too late.

Li Hanshan's arms gripped her waist like iron clamps, and with a flip, he pinned her beneath him.

"You're a Golden Core cultivator?!" Leng Yue's voice trembled for the first time. Her spatial power was firmly suppressed within her dantian by Li Hanshan's spiritual power, and she couldn't mobilize even a trace of it. She tried to activate the restrictions in the hall, but Li Hanshan's Golden Core level divine sense had already sealed off the entire hall, and her divine sense couldn't penetrate it at all. Only at this moment did she realize that the old man she regarded as a furnace was actually far stronger than her.

"Holy Maiden, please forgive me." Li Hanshan's voice was calm, but his movements did not falter in the slightest. A genuine look of surprise finally appeared in Leng Yue's silver-gray eyes, but it was quickly replaced by a chilling killing intent.

She opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but Li Hanshan lowered his head and sealed her lips with his.