“Cough, Shushu… this illusion is pretty elaborate. The man in front of you is incredibly handsome! Hehehe…”
The Hehuan Divine Tree, hiding in the sea of consciousness, stared blankly for a moment before bursting into laughter.
“Broad shoulders, a trim waist, eight-pack abs, handsome features—he’s exactly your type!”
“Ahem.” Yuan Shu coughed awkwardly. “That strand of divine sense that slipped into my sea of consciousness just now probably saw things it shouldn’t have.”
Yuan Shu had never expected Liye to be so ruthless. Since even the promise of wealth and ascension couldn’t tempt her, he had gone straight for a beauty trap!
As the Sect Master of the Acacia Sect, she had seen countless treasures and could remain unmoved by almost anything. The only exception was beauty…
Every beauty had a different face, a different chest, a different pattern to his abs. Each possessed a charm of his own, and no matter how long she looked, it was never enough!
The beauty pass was a trial Yuan Shu simply couldn’t overcome!
Yuan Shu reached up to stroke her chin, but her eyes had already fallen helplessly upon the handsome man’s face and body.
Especially those few less-than-public areas, which she swept over discreetly, clicking her tongue inwardly.
Liye must have sifted through every bit of useless material in her mind—both the things that belonged there and the things that didn’t—to create someone this exceptionally endowed!
As her thoughts ran wild, the beauty gently lifted the beaded curtain and approached in a veil of gauze.
A faint, sweet fragrance of condensed pearl fruit drifted into her nose. As the gauze slid over the beauty’s body, it slipped down along his firm, powerful muscles.
That broad, perfectly sculpted chest was suddenly displayed right before Yuan Shu’s eyes.
Soft, breathy moans echoed from every direction, overlapping one another and accompanied by faint pants.
“Hiss…”
Yuan Shu secretly drew in a breath. Just how much had Liye glimpsed inside her mind?
He had even created such a captivating atmosphere.
It was so… perfectly suited to her tastes!
Still, no matter how handsome the beauty was, he was ultimately only a construct of the illusion. He was far too different from a real person.
Yuan Shu was tempted, but she still felt that something was missing.
What was it?
Yuan Shu rubbed the hand that had just touched the beauty’s chest, her brows drawing together slightly.
With the Hehuan Divine Tree residing within her and the hidden power of the Acacia Sect in her body, she was exceptionally sensitive to a male cultivator’s primal yang essence.
Without a doubt, the beauty before her was gorgeous, but he lacked the primal yang essence that a normal person should possess.
The Hehuan Divine Tree had no interest in him, and consequently, the restless desire in Yuan Shu’s heart could not be soothed either.
She withdrew her hand from the beauty’s chest, leaned back, and propped her head up with one hand against the headboard. Looking at the beauty before her, she couldn’t help feeling troubled.
That fellow Liye was still as unreliable as ever when it came to constructing illusions. Why hadn’t he created the beauty’s primal yang essence as well?
It was infuriating to watch the flames rise without any way to put them out!
Why hadn’t he sent himself in?
Yuan Shu knitted her brows. The instant that thought arose, a sudden flash of inspiration made her freeze.
Wait. Send Liye in?
That… might actually work!
That fellow had a pure primal yang essence too!
Yuan Shu raised her eyes and narrowed them slightly as she looked at the man before her.
A pair of violet eyes seemed to be filled with water. Because she had withdrawn her hand, he pursed his lips in grievance, causing the moisture in his eyes to ripple faintly.
He looked especially pitiful, yet especially alluring.
Yuan Shu had been worrying about how to punish that bastard Liye.
He hated women, didn’t he?
He hated her, didn’t he?
What if she pulled Liye’s divine sense over and trapped him inside this illusion, forcing him into the body of this beautiful man and humiliating him in every possible way?
She wondered what kind of expression he would wear then!
At the thought, Yuan Shu’s eyes lit up, and an evil smile curled at the corners of her lips.
“Shushu, what are you doing with that Soul-Locking Ring?”
The Hehuan Divine Tree sensed the shift in Yuan Shu’s emotions but had no idea what had caused it.
After all, the beauty before them had neither primal yang essence nor a true physical body. He was no more attractive to it than he was to Yuan Shu.
He was merely pleasing to the eye.
But Yuan Shu quickly gave it an answer.
She placed several rather rare spirit stones around the illusion. Using her finger as a brush and spiritual energy as ink, she began setting up a formation.
This was a Spirit-Underworld Soul-Attraction Formation found only in the outer realms. The formation was neither complicated nor large.
Even though Yuan Shu had made little progress in formations, she could still control it with ease.
When the Hehuan Divine Tree saw the formation, the pupils on its trunk shrank, and its mouth fell wide open.
“Shushu, are you planning to…”
“Since he was the one who personally created this illusion, wouldn’t it be more fun if he entered the formation himself?”
Yuan Shu let out a mocking laugh. She formed a series of hand seals, and surging spiritual power poured into the formation. Crimson light immediately began to shine across it.
As its name suggested, the Spirit-Underworld Soul-Attraction Formation was used to draw in divine souls. If the Soul-Locking Ring was placed in the center of the formation, it could draw a designated soul inside and bind it firmly in place!
Before long, the Hehuan Divine Tree keenly sensed that Yuan Shu was using the illusion to channel the formation’s power toward Liye, who was hiding in the shadows.
At the same time, Liye—who had never seen such a formation before—continued constructing the illusion.
Inside Yuan Shu’s sea of consciousness, he had seen the figures of many handsome men.
He had also figured out why Yuan Shu had gotten together with Li Xie.
Li Xie was tall and strikingly handsome. Yuan Shu had probably chosen him for that very reason!
What Liye needed to do now was make Yuan Shu lose control inside the illusion and gain leverage over her!
If one handsome man wasn’t enough, then he would create two. If two weren’t enough, then three…
His thinking was simple. Since Yuan Shu liked handsome men, she might be able to resist the allure of the first one, but surely she wouldn’t be able to withstand the second.
Eventually, he would make her lose control!
As for the spirit stones and formation she was fiddling with, he assumed they were her method for breaking through the illusion.
Yet he couldn’t sense the slightest threat to the illusion from them, so he didn’t pay them any attention.
That was, until he sensed something strange. His divine soul seemed to be drifting toward the illusion, deliberately or otherwise.
Liye’s heart tightened. He hurriedly tried to pull his divine soul back.
Only then did he realize that his soul had begun refusing to obey him!
What was happening?
Liye’s expression changed dramatically. He tried several times to anchor his divine soul in place, but none of his attempts had much effect.
It seemed that something in the area where Yuan Shu was located was drawing his divine soul toward it!
At first, Liye was unwilling to abandon the second male phantom he had only half-finished.
But when he discovered that his divine soul was no longer under his control, he immediately gave up on constructing it and focused entirely on pulling his soul back.
Clearly, he had underestimated the power of the formation Yuan Shu was using.
With a sudden “slurp,” the instant his divine soul left his body, it was squeezed into another “body” by the formation, like jelly being pressed through a mold.
By the time he reacted, Yuan Shu’s delicate, seductive face had already appeared before him.
What?
Liye’s eyes abruptly widened.
A slender, fair hand suddenly rested against his chest.
It pressed down lightly, neither hard nor soft.
The unfamiliar sensation was accompanied by a strange, tingling numbness that made his entire body tense. Acting on instinct, he tried to move and swat away the hand on his chest.
But he suddenly discovered that he couldn’t move his hands or feet at all!
Worse still, his throat released a deep, magnetic moan that was completely beyond his control.
