That frivolous question hung suspended in the freezing air between them.
Zhang Mingyuan's smile did not fade.
He pressed forward another half-inch, his scorching breath almost igniting Su Jinxue's protective spiritual energy.
“The dignified Immortal Lord of Myriad Snow, the only Red Dust Immortal in the Xuanling Realm, actually has to resort to underhanded tricks like drugging me?”
His voice wasn't loud, but every word cut to the quick.
“I remember a little girl from the past who hated evil above all else. When she saw demonic cultivators using Aphrodisiac Powder to harm female cultivators, she chased them for thirty thousand miles with her sword and froze their entire sect into ice sculptures.”
“What is this?” Zhang Mingyuan tapped the empty air with his fingertip, as if tracing her currently rigid outline. “Has the dragon-slaying youth finally become the dragon, Su Jinxue?”
He emphasized those last three words heavily.
Su Jinxue's body trembled imperceptibly.
Waves of shock instantly surged within her red eyes, which were usually quiet and placid. He had hit the mark! He had seen right through her!
All her disguises, all her coldness, seemed to turn into a joke in front of this man.
An unnatural flush quickly spread from her snowy neck to the base of her ears, even making her earlobes look translucent.
She wanted to refute him, to scold him, to slap him into the Boundless Realm beyond the Heavens. But when the words reached her lips, she couldn't utter a single one.
She looked exactly like a child caught red-handed doing something bad, completely at a loss.
Seeing her like this, the last shred of vigilance in Zhang Mingyuan's heart dissolved.
It was just a mere drug.
No matter how formidable that woman Bai Lumian was, could she really refine a medicine capable of threatening a peak Mahayana Stage cultivator?
However, right at that moment.
A strange wave of heat exploded from the depths of his dantian without warning!
Something was wrong!
The smile on Zhang Mingyuan's face instantly froze.
This wave of heat was unimaginably domineering. It bypassed his meridians entirely, instead seeping directly into his limbs, bones, and soul!
He immediately mobilized the vast, sea-like spiritual energy within his body, attempting to surround and suppress this heat wave.
But in the next instant, something that made his scalp tingle happened!
His spiritual energy—his Mahayana Stage spiritual energy, which was powerful enough to move mountains, drain seas, and tear through the void—instantly melted and retreated like spring snow meeting a blazing sun the moment it touched that heat wave!
This was absolutely no ordinary drug!
This was... the power of laws!
The medicine's potency completely ignored the barriers of cultivation, acting directly on the most fundamental level of life, magnifying his instincts as a male creature by hundreds of millions of times!
“Dammit!” Zhang Mingyuan let out a terrified roar in his mind. “How has that brat Bai Lumian's refining skills gotten so terrifying?!”
He was finished.
This time, he had truly overplayed his hand.
Boom!
The dam of his sanity collapsed in an instant, and a torrential flood of desire swept through him.
The world before him seemed to lose all color, leaving only that exquisitely beautiful, snowy figure beneath the parasol tree.
Her delicate, upturned nose, her naturally crimson lips, her skin glowing with a sacred aura under the moonlight... Every single part of her seemed to issue a fatal invitation.
He could even clearly see her slender waist outlined beneath her plain white gown, along with her breathtaking curves.
She smelled so good...
That cold yet sweet fragrance was magnified a thousand times over in his perception, driving him into a frenzy to get closer, to possess her, and to completely meld her into his own body!
His breathing grew heavy, his eyes bloodshot, as he stared intently at her.
Su Jinxue was startled by his appearance and took a half-step back instinctively.
But immediately after, she realized what was happening.
It worked!
Bai Lumian's drug had taken effect!
Watching the man in front of her transform from an all-controlling hunter into a beast ruled by desire, the embarrassment of being exposed vanished instantly. In its place rose an unprecedented, slightly morbid sense of satisfaction!
This was exactly the effect she wanted!
She wanted to make him taste what it was like to be coerced while in a pathetic state!
Su Jinxue's flushed cheeks returned to their icy indifference, and a cold, victorious smile bloomed on her lips.
She raised her hand and made a light grasping motion in the empty air.
Hum—
Space shifted.
Zhang Mingyuan only felt his vision blur. The courtyard, the parasol tree, and the swirling snow vanished in an instant.
In the next moment, the two of them appeared inside a magnificent and spacious bedchamber.
This was the main bedchamber of the Myriad Snow Palace, her absolute domain.
The waves of heat inside Zhang Mingyuan surged higher and higher. Forcing himself to maintain his last shred of sanity, he stood firmly in place, his teeth grinding together with a sharp clatter.
Meanwhile, Su Jinxue merely watched him at her leisure, enjoying the sight of his painful struggle.
She slowly walked over to a carved jade desk and took out a stone from her storage treasure.
A Projection Stone.
She slowly channeled her spiritual energy into it, and the Projection Stone immediately emitted a soft, bright glow.
“Zhang Mingyuan,” Su Jinxue said, holding the glowing stone as she walked slowly up to him. She looked down at him, her red eyes filled with the thrill of revenge and cold playfulness.
“Now, it is my turn.”
“Beg me.”
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