Forced to become a pure and innocent female pharmacist in order to cultivate immortality.

Ye Liuyun had long realized that she had made a fatal mistake, but she couldn't explain it to Lin Qingyou.

Moreover, this is not the time to think about this problem; she absolutely cannot let Lin Aoxue catch her.

If she catches me, I'll definitely be dragged down the mountain, and then Lin Aoxue will discover my identity problem—that would be utter nonsense.

As long as she can pass the test, there's nothing to worry about. Even if Lin Aoxue discovers her identity, she won't care.

However, as the two climbed higher and higher, their speed gradually slowed down, because the steps seemed to have a gravity, and their bodies became heavier and heavier.

Mount Fuyun is nearly 9,000 meters high. Even if there are steps, it would be very difficult to climb them. Not to mention, these steps must have been enchanted.

Three hours later, it was noon, and Ye Liuyun and Lin Aoxue were already halfway up the mountain.

These two are exceptionally fit; they took the lead and left almost everyone else participating in the assessment behind.

"Huff...huff...huff, damn it, my body is getting heavier and heavier," Ye Liuyun muttered, panting heavily.

She was drenched in sweat, but she kept glancing at Lin Aoxue, who was following closely behind her.

She and Lin Aoxue were less than three zhang apart.

"Ye Liuyun, stop running away and come back with me!" Lin Aoxue called out with difficulty.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun let out a heavy sigh.

"There's no going back," Ye Liuyun replied.

Lin Aoxue was furious when she heard this.

"Damn it, Ye Liuyun, what's wrong with you? We just asked you to come to our house. Although you're nominally a live-in son-in-law, we're actually sending you to become the next head of the family, not to be a live-in son-in-law." Lin Aoxue thought Ye Liuyun was running away because of the live-in son-in-law thing.

In fact, she had told her family that if Ye Liuyun disagreed, it was fine; they could just let one of their children take the surname Ye.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun immediately responded.

"Aoxue, really, I have my reasons," Ye Liuyun said helplessly.

But how could Lin Aoxue give up just because of Ye Liuyun's words?

This was a thought she had held onto for two lifetimes, and it was perfectly justified in this one as well. Ever since her consciousness returned, she had known that she would marry Ye Liuyun when she grew up, and she truly loved Ye Liuyun and was willing to do so.

However, she didn't know why, but after Ye Liuyun was reborn, he seemed to be very resistant to this matter, and was particularly averse to arranged marriages.

"Do you have a problem with my past life, or do you think I'm not pretty enough in this life?" Lin Aoxue's emotions began to get out of control.

Ye Liuyun rolled his eyes.

"This has nothing to do with whether you're good-looking or not," Ye Liuyun said, both amused and exasperated.

Lin Aoxue grew angrier as she listened, and her pace gradually quickened as she slowly closed the distance between herself and Ye Liuyun.

"Kid, your little darling is secretly speeding up," Lin Qingyou reminded Ye Liuyun.

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun quickly glanced behind her and, sure enough, Lin Aoxue was now less than two zhang away from her.

"You, you actually sped up while talking to me, how insidious!" Ye Liuyun glared at Lin Aoxue, then sped up again.

Seeing that her tricks had been exposed, Lin Aoxue could only angrily accelerate again.

For Ye Liuyun, this meant that he was being chased by a fierce tiger and dared not stop for even a moment.

"Damn it, you old hag, I've reached the Spirit Stream Realm, so why is my stamina still inferior to Lin Aoxue's?" Ye Liuyun was very puzzled.

But the next sentence stunned Ye Liuyun.

“Because this girl is also at the Spirit Stream Realm, and she has a special physique, while you are just a mortal,” Lin Qingyou said.

"Huh? She started cultivating a long time ago, how could that be? When did that happen? I had no idea." Ye Liuyun was confused.

Lin Qingyou shook her head.

Chapter 6 Frank and Frank

“I’m not going to keep an eye on her all the time, but I remember several years ago, a cultivator entered your Qixia Town. I guess it was this person who discovered Lin Aoxue’s extraordinary physique and taught her cultivation methods,” Lin Qingyou said after thinking for a moment.

Lin Qingyou didn't think much of it at the time, after all, it wasn't unusual for cultivators to enter a secular town.

"Ah! I miscalculated. It seems I'm doomed. What do you think her reaction would be if she knew I'd turned into a woman?" Ye Liuyun said, both amused and exasperated.

Lin Qingyou shook her head.

"This is between you and her. Hiding won't help. Sooner or later, there will be an explanation. You're just unlucky to have run into such an unexpected thing. Of course, I have to admire you. You're the first alchemist in the world who can turn himself into a woman while making medicine. Haha." Lin Qingyou couldn't help but laugh when she thought about it.

This is indeed an astonishing thing.

"What are you laughing at? I'll be able to concoct a pill that turns you back into a man sooner or later. Just wait and see," Ye Liuyun said firmly.

Over the years, she has never forgotten to research the antidote, but there has been no progress at all. She always felt that something was wrong and suspected that Lin Qingyou had done something behind the scenes.

"Hey! Ye Liuyun, why does your voice sound a little strange? And your figure, is it really well disguised? Slim waist and full hips, not a single flaw." Lin Aoxue, who was following closely behind Ye Liuyun, stared intently at Ye Liuyun's back.

She felt that Ye Liuyun's back view didn't look like a man at all, but rather like a graceful woman. Her voice was the same, and she felt that her figure was even better than hers. She didn't know how Ye Liuyun did it.

Ye Liuyun's heart tightened upon hearing this.

As the two were bickering, it gradually got to afternoon, and the afternoon sun was incredibly hot. The two were now less than 500 meters away from the entrance of the Cloud Mist Sect.

All you can see around you now is a sea of ​​clouds; nothing else is visible.

The two of them are now moving at a snail's pace.

"Ye Liuyun, let's rest for a while. Stop running. I promise I won't chase you anymore." Lin Aoxue really couldn't walk anymore.

Ye Liuyun didn't believe Lin Aoxue's words and had no intention of stopping at all.

But at that moment, Lin Aoxue suddenly screamed. Her foot had suddenly slipped, and she fell backward.

"Eh? Aoxue." Upon hearing Lin Aoxue's exclamation, Ye Liuyun instinctively turned around and immediately reached out to grab Lin Aoxue.

Because the two were very close, Ye Liuyun reached out and grabbed Lin Aoxue's wrist, pulling her back.

"Kid, you've fallen for their trap." Lin Qingyou immediately warned Ye Liuyun as he turned to pull Lin Aoxue away.

Upon hearing the voice and seeing Lin Aoxue's sinister and smug gaze, Ye Liuyun knew he had fallen into a trap.

Lin Aoxue smiled smugly, then easily steadied herself and grabbed Ye Liuyun's wrist with her other hand.

"Hehe, I still managed to get my hands on you, Ye Liuyun. You said you had no feelings for me, but when you saw me in danger, you still came to my rescue first, didn't you?" Lin Aoxue said smugly.

"You? Shameless, despicable, let go." Ye Liuyun cursed himself inwardly for failing to control his instincts again.

But actually, it was just a habit. Although she was annoyed by Lin Aoxue's clinginess, their feelings for each other across two lifetimes could never be separated.

"I won't let you go. Come back with me," Lin Aoxue said resolutely.

The two then used their remaining strength to start a tug-of-war.

Ye Liuyun's lips twitched, then he plopped down on his seat, as did Lin Aoxue.

The two of them stopped, exhausted.

"It's so strange, why do you look so much prettier than usual today? Why does your face look so different from what I usually see?" Lin Aoxue asked Ye Liuyun, staring at him with a question in her eyes.

Ye Liuyun's face is clearly that of a woman, quite different from the face Lin Aoxue usually sees.

Ye Liuyun didn't want to keep it a secret any longer and decided to let Lin Aoxue know and back down, as she felt she couldn't keep it a secret forever.

"Ah! Aoxue, there's something I have to say today." Ye Liuyun took a deep breath and had no choice but to reveal the truth.

"What? Don't try anything funny." Lin Aoxue asked, puzzled.

"Just examine my body with your own hands and you'll know why I ran away," Ye Liuyun said, having given up all hope.

Lin Aoxue was taken aback when she heard this. She glanced around to make sure no one was around, then reached out and pinched Ye Liuyun's cheek.

"Really? It's not fake? This?" Lin Aoxue thought Ye Liuyun was in disguise, but after she pinched Ye Liuyun's face, she found that it was real.

At this moment, a bad premonition gripped Lin Aoxue's heart.

If her face was fine, she placed her hand directly on Ye Liuyun's chest, but as soon as she touched it, her hand recoiled as if she had been electrocuted.

She was all too familiar with that feel.

"This? Impossible? You—" Lin Aoxue's face grew increasingly stiff, and she even directly pulled open Ye Liuyun's collar to take a look.

But what she saw was something that shouldn't have happened to Ye Liuyun at all. Lin Aoxue was petrified.

"See that?" Ye Liuyun asked.

"Why are you like this? Ye Liuyun, how did your body become like this? It's impossible!" Lin Aoxue felt like the sky had fallen.

Ye Liuyun stopped hiding it and told Lin Aoxue about the accident that happened while he was refining medicine.

Lin Aoxue naturally knew that Ye Liuyun liked to tinker with all sorts of strange things. When she heard that Ye Liuyun's gender had changed due to the medicine entering his body, her emotions became even more uncontrollable.

"I told you a long time ago, stop holed up in your room fiddling with those bottles and jars all day, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what happened! You've ruined yourself by trying to concoct medicine. I should have thrown all those bottles and jars away!" Lin Aoxue roared angrily.

Judging from her expression, she seems to believe what Ye Liuyun said.

Just as Ye Liuyun said, his personality became unusually strange after that year.

"What's the use of saying all this now? Sigh! So, Aoxue, it's not that I don't want to marry you, it's just that I have no choice. Would my family agree to two women getting married? Of course not. Right? So I have no choice but to elope." Ye Liuyun felt that Lin Aoxue should be able to understand.

However, she underestimated Lin Aoxue's willpower.

Just as Ye Liuyun was about to get up and continue forward, she discovered that Lin Aoxue had not let go of her.

"What? Are you going to take me back?" Ye Liuyun asked suspiciously.

Lin Aoxue took a deep breath and then answered very seriously.

“Even if we can’t go back to get married, I still want to be with you. We can go to the Cloud Mist Sect together. That way, the moral codes of the secular world won’t be able to bind us.”

Lin Aoxue's words left Ye Liuyun speechless.

"Heavens, my little darling, do you still want to marry me in the cultivation world?" Ye Liuyun didn't know what to do.

She and Lin Aoxue seem to have always had a very special connection.

"People's liking isn't just about the physical body." Lin Aoxue remained steadfast in her belief.

Seeing Lin Aoxue's state, Ye Liuyun could do nothing about it; he knew he definitely couldn't go back.

If she went back and told her family, even if they could accept it, they would still raise her as their daughter, and the consequences were terrifying to her.

"Alright then, let's go. If this still doesn't convince you, I'm out of ideas. Just don't regret it later." Ye Liuyun chose to admit defeat.

The two stopped pulling and tugging at each other, and Lin Aoxue simply stayed by Ye Liuyun's side.

"Tch! Don't worry, I won't regret it. You'd better not become a virgin!" Lin Aoxue said something harsh as she walked.

These words almost made Ye Liuyun spit out a mouthful of blood.

"What are you talking about? Don't let my body look like this, I'm still a real man at heart. A female degenerate? Do I look like someone with a mental problem?" Ye Liuyun asked angrily.

These words made Lin Aoxue smile knowingly.

"I know, I know, you'll always be a man." Lin Aoxue grabbed Ye Liuyun's arm, her face full of smiles.

Chapter 7 Getting Started Together

These two are interesting. They can't be husband and wife, so are they going to be sisters?

Ye Liuyun couldn't quite understand what Lin Aoxue was thinking, but as long as the other party could accept reality, she didn't care.

Because of this, she had no choice. After three years, she had given up struggling and accepted reality.

I don't want to admit to myself that I'm a woman now, but it's pointless.

After resting for a while, the two continued their journey. They were not far from the mountain gate, and they were among the first to arrive at the entrance of the Yunxia Sect.

Upon arriving at their destination, Lin Aoxue and Ye Liuyun simultaneously collapsed onto the ground, leaning against each other in a very unladylike manner as they sat down.

They were really exhausted, considering that less than a third of the day's assessment time had already passed.

Ye Liuyun glanced at the majestic gate of the Yunxia Sect; she had achieved her goal.

"Aoxue, are you sure you don't want to go back? You're the only direct descendant of the Lin family. If you don't go back, your Lin family line will end." Ye Liuyun murmured, looking at the gate.

She was reminding Lin Aoxue that their Ye family had a backup Ye Suifeng, although he was only adopted, so it wouldn't have much of an impact.