The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple

Chapter 1266 - 377: Hmph, You Heartless and Unfaithful Woman!_4

Zhou Qing was just about to speak when she raised her index finger to her lips: "Shh—"She quickly formed seals with her hands, and a frosty air condensed into a sparkling Ice Lotus beneath her feet.

The lotus bloomed, its petals drifting to all corners of the room.

"Strange..." A moment later, Lu Yaoyao tilted her head in confusion.

"What’s going on?" Zhou Qing asked with his eyes.

"When I came at noon, I vaguely felt an Ice Lotus hidden somewhere in the room."

She whispered softly, "Though Sister Shen probably wouldn’t harm you, I can’t help but feel uneasy..."

Zhou Qing’s face changed suddenly, and he immediately expanded his Divine Sense to scan the entire room, but found nothing.

He frowned, then smiled wryly—indeed, with Shen Hanyi’s cleverness, how could she be so easily deceived by his few words of nonsense?

She must have left some contingency to investigate discreetly.

Fortunately, he had been cautious after she left, not exposing any clues about the "Number One" identity.

"Everyone is so cautious..." Zhou Qing shook his head and sighed.

It seemed she hadn’t obtained any useful information, so she withdrew the eavesdropping methods on her own.

He looked at Lu Yaoyao and said sincerely, "Thank you."

"Why thank me, maybe I’m just overthinking it." Lu Yaoyao blinked and suddenly changed the subject.

"Zhou, your Spirit Seal must be close to Sister Shen’s now, right? Except for the cultivation difference, you two really are quite a match~"

Zhou Qing made a move to flick her forehead, but his hand stopped midway in the air.

Recalling the scene she had conjured with her Realm, his heart softened.

He gently ruffled her hair instead, "Don’t talk nonsense. You should understand, we’re not really from the same world as her."

"Is it because of the Shen Family’s background?" Lu Yaoyao tilted her head, her silver hair falling over her shoulders, "You feel it’s a mismatch of social classes?"

Zhou Qing was silent for a moment, then lightly uttered, "Mm."

Lu Yaoyao sat on a vine chair nearby, swinging her legs as she said, "Strange, in my impression, Zhou has never been someone who gives up easily."

"Once you set your mind on something, nothing ever stops you."

Zhou Qing couldn’t help but laugh, "You talk as if you know me well."

"I originally..." Lu Yaoyao started to speak but swallowed her words, pouting, "Forget it, you wouldn’t understand even if I told you. I’m confused myself."

Almost simultaneously, none of them noticed an emaciated old man standing suspended in the night sky.

His sinister gaze pierced through the clouds, a twisted smile on his lips as he watched the scene below.

Like withered branches, his skeletal fingers toyed with a wisp of black gas that slithered like a viper.

"Looks like there’s an unexpected gain..." the old man’s hoarse voice drifted in the night wind.

"Since shaking off that Zhao kid and discovering Shen Yunzhou was here, I intended to capture him to threaten the Shen girl."

His murky eyes were fixed on the courtyard below, pausing on Lu Yaoyao’s silver hair, "Unexpectedly, she quietly took in a disciple here?"

"That silver hair, and the Ice Lotus just now..." A flash of insight lit up the old man’s eyes, "Clearly, it’s the ’Ice Purity Skills’ that the Shen girl has mastered!"

Then he gazed towards another wing. Through the lattice window, Shen Yunzhou could be seen hugging his dung beetle and sleeping soundly, his golden hair particularly striking in the moonlight.

"The Shen girl isn’t here..." The old man licked his cracked lips, and his black robe billowed without wind.

"A heaven-sent opportunity! As long as these two baits are thrown into that grand formation, given her nature, she’ll surely come to their rescue, and then..."

The old man let out a piercing cackle, and his figure suddenly turned into black smoke, sweeping directly towards Shen Yunzhou’s quarters below...