"Even without today's i, I wao find an opportunity to tell you!"

  The sword in Lin Hao's hand gleamed with a cold light.

  "You wretched woman, speak up!"

  Cui Qing'er felt a pang of sadness in her heart as Lin Hao showed nard for their past. Wasn't it said that feelings grow over time?

  Yet this man showed iment at all, which was truly hurtful.

  Her sorrowful demeanor did not move Lin Hao. Impatiently, he said, "You'd better speak quickly, or if my patience runs out, I'll cut you down!"

  Caught between a rod a hard pce... Cui Qing'er sighed deeply and said in a haunting voice, "What I wao tell you is that my approach to you indeed had ulterior motives.

  But initially, it wasn't to rescue the princess; it was to follow the Grand Elder's orders."

  The Grand Elder?!

  Lin Hao frowned. How could this involve the Grand Elder? He had no dealings with the Grand Elder, let alone offended him. Why would the other party send someoo approach him? What was the iion?

  Seeing the man's furrowed brow, Cui Qing'er knew she had piqued his curiosity, so she tio speak iail.

  "The Grand Elder wanted me to get close to you so that we could share an intimate enter!"

  An intimate enter?

  Lin Hao was even more fused. What was the Grand Elder pying at?

  However, he began to uand some things. Perhaps Li Qiushui's involvement with him was also orchestrated by the Grand Elder, and even Li Xunran...

  Cui Qing'er's subsequent words firmed Lin Hao's suspis. The Grand Elder wanted women to uionally bee involved with him, and if they were unwilling, they could find a cultivator of the same realm to substitute.

  Thus, Cui Qing'er had framed Li Qiushui, and she guessed that Li Qiushui might have received the same order.

  "Why did the Grand Elder want you ao be together?" Lin Hao asked coldly.

  "The Grand Elder said your physique is special, and without a female cultivator to practice with, your cultivation might nress!"

  "He also said you are a key figure secretly nurtured by the sect, so he arranged for female cultivators to throw themselves at you.

  But after so much tact, your physique is indeed special, yet I suspect the Grand Elder might have another purpose."

  Lin Hao uzzled. Did the Grand Elder go to such lengths just to help him cultivate?

  Especially, why do it secretly?

  Could it be that his cultivatiohod did not align with the righteous path of the sect?

  It seemed that was the only expnation.

  But why hide it from him? Why not be direct?

  Lin Hao couldn't figure it out, so he kept it in mind, pnning to iigate the matter when he had the ce.

  He didn't want to be unaware of being on a pirate ship...

  Cui Qing'er bit her lip and cautiously asked, "Lin Hao, I've told you the secret, I..."

  Lin Hao g the woman, memories of their battles together flooding his mind. To say there were no feelings after so long would be a lie.

  Moreover, as the woman said, she had never harmed him and had provided signifit help in his cultivation.

  He g the little fox again. For some reason, Lin Hao felt a strong affe for her, different from the other women he had been involved with, as if he had inexplicable feelings for her.

  He sighed inwardly and said in a cold tone, "You leave now. Without my permission, if you dare e here again, I won't spare you!"

  Cui Qing'er's eyebrows arched, and she let out a long breath.

  With Lin Hao present, she couldn't verse with her princess, so she silently bowed a.

  With only the two of them left, the little fox, who had been silent, finally spoke.

  "I will remember your kindness for sparing my subordinate."

  "No need, it was just a transa."

  "Yes, it was indeed a transa..."

  "No, I mearansa between you and me."

  What? The little fox's expression ged, and before she could react, she was embraced by the human.

  A day ter.

  The little fox curled up in the er, looking at the meditating man with a plex expression. She really wao cw his throat open.

  This guy was truly despicable!

  Repeatedly humiliating her, what did he take her for?

  After pleting a cycle of his cultivation teique, Lin Hao exhaled deeply, the spiritual liquid within him having formed a ke!

  He opened his starry eyes, looking at the little fox as if she were a rare treasure.

  Being with her... was worth a month of hard cultivation!

  This woman was simply a walking elixir!

  Lin Hao, sav the experience, approached the little fox once more...

  Meanwhile, Han Liyue, hearing the otion from the two, murmured, "This is truly sinful!"

  Before she could finish her ment, she sensed someoering the tower with a token, and it was a familiar face.

  The visitor moved swiftly through the cells, finally stopping in front of one.

  The bull demon inside, upon seeing the visitor, was shtehat its limbs went weak, kowtowing and begging for mercy.

  But it failed to stir any passion from the visitor, who soon fell into a dreamlike state.

  Human and fox... human and bull...

  Truly sinful!

  Yet in her heart, Han Liyue felt an indescribable impulse, worried that if she listened any longer, she might lose her posure, so she quickly sealed her senses.

  Lin Hao sensed someone sneaking into the prison, so he let the little fox go ao find the intruder.

  Ha, Shui Ling'er was here again, and she was dead set on the bull demon. Did she have some special i?

  "Senior Sister Shui, do you think this pce is a teahouse? ing and going so frequently!"

  Shui Lihough practig, had been keeping an eye oside ever sihe st i.

  In truth, she didn't want to e here, mainly because the guard's mouth was too sharp.

  But the monsters here greatly aided her charm teique cultivation, so she had no choice but to e.

  "Let me guess!"

  Lin Hao's gaze lingered on the woman's graceful figure.

  "Senior Sister, you e so often because you want to make a breakthrough before the inner sepetitiht?"

  He hit the nail on the head, and Shui Ling'er couldn't help but feel annoyed, but she didn't want tue, so she chose not to respond.

  Lin Hao, however, had no iion of letting her off, stepping forward and giving the bull demon a kiearly waking it up.

  "Tsk tsk tsk, it's been draio skin and bones, yet you won't let it go. Truly, the most venomous is a woman's heart!"

  Shui Ling'er's cultivation was at a critical point, and annoyed by Lin Hao's interference, she khe bull demon unscious.

  "Lin, are you deliberately causing trouble?"

  "Am I deliberately causing trouble?" Lin Hao's face turned cold, his tone icy as he said, "You trespass in the prison I'm responsible for, and you think you're in the right?"

  "Heh..."

  Shui Ling'er sneered coldly, grittieeth as she said, "You're here to atone, and you think you're important?"

  Boom!

  Spiritual energy erupted from the woman's palm, attag Lin Hao.

  Peerjun