Chapter 480 - 479: Junior Sister’s Schemes Run Deep

Chapter 480: Chapter 479: Junior Sister’s Schemes Run Deep

Chapter 479: Junior Sister’s Schemes Run Deep

Under normal circumstances, simply discovering a hidden space wouldn’t be of much use.

You could see it but not touch it, ultimately, it would still amount to nothing.

Moreover, Luo Wusheng hadn’t intended to drag the girls around him into this matter in the first place.

At least for now, he felt it wasn’t the right time...

He had no idea how much strength the hidden boss could actually bring to bear this time, but he could guess the intent clearly enough: the other side was coming for a crushing, one-sided fight. The earlier Delusion Attachment already possessed the might of Divine Transformation—now, even if their true combat power wasn’t fully realized, they would certainly have many special methods, the kind that far surpassed the Divine Transformation realm.

Even his main body, in its current state, wouldn’t think of confronting them head-on.

As long as he could create even an instant’s opening, his main body could slip away and revive.

Luo Wusheng had thought that once he explained all this, the girls would be reassured and simply wait for things to unfold.

However...

"When I was once trapped in dire straits, it was you who helped me resolve the Netherkin chaos incident. And now that you’re in danger, you want me to stand by and do nothing?"

The Empress flicked her sleeve sharply.

"If that’s the case, how could I still have the face to sit upon the throne of this Immortal Nation?"

"Or is it that you think... there is nothing I can do?"

Luo Wusheng, currently in a state of pure spiritual light, was completely dumbfounded.

How did the conversation end up going this way? This was nothing like what he’d imagined!

"Uh... well... um..."

He had no idea what to say. The girls around him all wore expressions similar to the Empress’s. Even if they truly couldn’t accomplish anything, they would still try every method available to them.

The Empress had clearly anticipated his reaction. She lifted her chin proudly.

"Putting everything else aside, if I can pull your main body out of that space, would that be of help to you?"

This time, Luo Wusheng was genuinely stunned.

"Something like that... is it actually possible?"

If it were, he really would like to avoid using his main body’s backup plans on the enemy’s turf. There were far too many uncontrollable variables. That transparent space was extremely special, dragging his main body out of it would be anything but easy.

"In the past, perhaps not. But now..."

The Empress lightly flipped her hand, and several spatial cracks actually formed with that casual motion.

"The effects of the Sound of the Great Dao were even better than expected. I gained a great deal of insight into the Dao of Space from it. With that, and since the space has already revealed itself, as long as its spatial barrier can be weakened for even an instant, combined with the divine might of the Human Emperor Sword, it should be possible."

"Ah! If it’s just about weakening the spatial barrier a bit, I can help!"

Lu Yuliu raised her hand first.

With the Sword Ancestor’s wooden sword—whose nature was to cut through anything—she really could accomplish something that others would find impossibly difficult. It was just that her cultivation was still low, so what she could do was limited.

Luo Wusheng pondered for a moment.

"That may be so, but Your Majesty’s current condition..."

The Empress’s spiritual energy had yet to recover, and she seemed to be suppressing some kind of backlash within her body. This was obvious even to the two little girls who were only at the Foundation Establishment realm.

In such a state, fully driving the Dao of Space was clearly impossible.

"I have a secret technique that can directly bestow one person’s spiritual energy state onto another." Bai Xiaoyao suddenly spoke.

"There’s no loss from transferring spiritual energy, no need for refinement, and no aftereffects, as long as the total amount of spiritual energy the two possess is roughly equal. But it can only be used one-to-one, and only for a single strike... hmm, my senior brother also knows this secret technique."

As soon as Luo Wusheng heard the first sentence, he recalled exactly which secret technique his junior sister was referring to.

It was one of the techniques the Demon Sect Master had previously transmitted through Bai Xiaoyao’s Holy Maiden Token. Each of those secret techniques was astonishingly effective and could even be used to cross realms.

The only problem was that no matter what, Luo Wusheng just couldn’t learn it.

Or rather, he felt that he had clearly learned it, but no matter what posture or method he used to cast it, the result was always failure.

At this point, Luo Wusheng didn’t think too deeply about it and simply admitted, "That method does exist."

Once he said that, no one voiced any further doubts. The three girls who had just finished stating their positions all turned their gazes in the same direction in unison.

Ling Shuangxue was fuming inside.

When it came to helping her dao companion, there was no way she could stay out of it. If she hadn’t been busy thinking about which of her current methods would be the most effective, she would have already thrust her sword straight into the heavens.

Yet now, somehow, things had developed to the point where she felt like the only outsider.

At the same time her own disciple looked over pitifully, even calling out "Master" in a coaxing tone...

What kind of situation was this?!

One person messed up the hierarchy and called him "big brother," one truly was his junior sister, and one regarded him as a benefactor in this Netherkin chaos... but when all was said and done, shouldn’t she, his dao companion, be the closest of them all?

Ling Shuangxue’s emotions were tangled and complicated, but when it came to her lips, they ultimately condensed into just a short sentence.

"It does not matter. I will act."

Calm and composed, yet without losing any grandeur.

Little Yuli, who had achieved her goal, was utterly shocked... Seven characters again!

Could it be that Master had advanced from the Five-Character Realm to the Seven-Character Realm?

"Then it’s settled," Bai Xiaoyao said with a smiling clap of her hands.

Since Luo Wusheng had no objections, the others didn’t put on airs either and nodded together.

But then the little demoness leisurely added, "Oh right, there are some details about using the secret technique that I’d like to discuss with Senior Brother alone. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?"

There was a problem!

Almost everyone present wanted to cry that out at the same time.

The three girls all felt they had things they wanted to say to Luo Wusheng in private as well, so how did Bai Xiaoyao get to snatch the opportunity first? So what if she was his junior sister? Did being a junior sister mean she couldn’t have ulterior motives?

The Sword Fairy really wanted to know whether Luo Wusheng still had any other contact with her own master besides dealing with the Netherkin chaos—and to casually leak a trump card of hers that might help him... mm, that move should be quite useful.

Ling Shuangxue, meanwhile, felt like she was about to lose it. She needed to talk with her dao companion about how exactly they were going to straighten out this whole mess of mixed-up seniority.

As for the Empress, she wanted to probe something of her own.

However, Bai Xiaoyao’s reasoning was fairly solid. She was, after all, Luo Wusheng’s junior sister and someone of the younger generation.

The two older women, mindful of their status, couldn’t easily argue; the youngest one had even less combat strength...

And so, all the pressure fell squarely on Luo Wusheng.

He didn’t want to "talk privately" with his junior sister at a time like this either! Back in the Demon Moon space, even when he knew the little demoness was awake, he hadn’t exposed it and had just rambled on by himself, wasn’t that precisely because they were still in the sensitive period of [The One And Only Star-Moon Jade]?

He had thought that Bai Xiaoyao shared that unspoken understanding with him, but now it seemed...

Luo Wusheng desperately wanted to refuse, but then he saw his junior sister’s gaze drift—seemingly unintentionally—first to Little Yuli’s chest, then to the fingers of Ling Shuangxue chest.

If the Empress’s imperial robes didn’t usually hide the wearer womanly mountain peaks so well, one more chest gazing would have been added to the list.

"F-Fine...!"

Just two words, yet Luo Wusheng spoke them with the air of "a brave man who departs, never to return."

Then that tiny point of starlight trudged toward his junior sister’s brow.

For a point of spiritual light, conducting a private exchange was very simple—just enter the sea of consciousness.

During this process, Luo Wusheng secretly hoped that someone would call out for them to stop. Unfortunately, in everyone’s hesitation, the chance to intervene slipped away.

...

The moment he entered Bai Xiaoyao’s sea of consciousness, Luo Wusheng’s little spark of light shrank into a tight ball.

"Mmm~ Judging by how Senior Brother looks, could it be that you’re very afraid of being alone with Xiaoyao?"

A faint soul-voice echoed through the sea of consciousness.

"It shouldn’t be, right? After all, Xiaoyao isn’t some kind of demon or anything... is she?"

Luo Wusheng: "Ah, yes, yes, of course."

"Then why is it that Senior Brother refuses to take a look at Xiaoyao’s sea of consciousness? Could it be that, in this mere Foundation Establishment realm sea of consciousness, Senior Brother is afraid of being eaten?"

Uh... I’m just a point of spiritual light. I don’t even have a shape. How can you tell whether I’m looking or not?

Luo Wusheng grumbled inwardly.

But in truth, he really hadn’t been looking. He was afraid that the moment he "opened his eyes," he’d see his junior sister’s consciousness projection wielding a ten-thousand-meter ship-cleaving blade and waving it at him...

After all, a sea of consciousness was, at its core, a space of awareness. As its owner, Bai Xiaoyao could, to a certain extent, freely manifest projections of various things within it.

At this moment, Luo Wusheng thought about it. Since he was already here, sticking his head out was one slash, pulling it back was also one slash—he might as well see how his junior sister planned to "welcome" this tiny bit of his spiritual light. It could even serve as a rehearsal for his main body, a way to test the waters. If his junior sister vented her anger by bullying the spiritual light a little and then calmed down, that would be even better.

So he began to sense his surroundings.

And then he immediately understood why his junior sister had been able to tell that he hadn’t "opened his eyes" just now.

Right in front of him was his junior sister’s pretty little face, but between her brows and eyes there was an extra hint of bewitching allure compared to before. Her small mouth was slightly open, pearly teeth lightly biting her lower lip, revealing adorable little tiger fangs.

She wore a loose white dress, the hem a bit short. If worn properly it wouldn’t look revealing at all, but it was deliberately disheveled, her shoulder and arm were completely exposed, and faintly, one could glimpse something even whiter, softer, tender, and bouncier beyond.

Yet what caused this tiny spark of Luo Wusheng’s spiritual light to experience actual emotional fluctuation, even swelling slightly in its starlike form, were the two things that had appeared on his junior sister’s head and behind her.

Animal ears. And an animal tail.

Not fox ears and a fox tail like his little pink fox back home, but a set of cat ears and a cat tail!

At that moment, the words "Senior Brother isn’t afraid of being eaten, is he?" were still echoing through the sea of consciousness. The girl before him even raised her small hand at just the right time, fingers slightly curled, striking an exaggeratedly "ferocious" pose.

Bai Xiaoyao hit Luo Wusheng straight in the face with lethal cuteness.

He suddenly wondered if he’d been overthinking things. His junior sister might have a fearsome reputation as a demoness to outsiders, but when it came to being his junior sister, she was actually quite well-behaved. Just look at how harmonious this scene was...

And then he heard a familiar voice come from behind him.

"Looks like Senior Brother is quite fond of this appearance, hm... Could it be that Senior Brother also has a girl among the Netherkin race?"

The point of starlight stiffly turned to look as another "Bai Xiaoyao" entered his field of vision from behind, then gently stroked the cat-girl version of Bai Xiaoyao on the head.

Staring at the two identical figures, Luo Wusheng lifted his gaze toward the heavens.

Junior Sister’s schemes run deep. I want to go back to the countryside.

Only then did he realize that his junior sister’s true consciousness projection was actually the one who had arrived later...

And faced with her new question, Luo Wusheng certainly wasn’t stupid enough to admit that he had a little fox back in the Netherland.

"...Junior Sister, where does such a statement come from? With your peerless beauty, no matter what form you take, anyone with normal inclinations would find it impossible to remain unmoved."

Bai Xiaoyao’s consciousness projection froze for a moment.

Seizing the opening, Luo Wusheng continued, "Putting that aside for now, Junior Sister, what exactly did you wish to discuss with me in private this time? If I remember correctly, you should be even more familiar with those secret techniques than I am."

His tone was utterly serious, as though his earlier guilt had never existed at all.

Bai Xiaoyao stared fixedly at that point of starlight in her sea of consciousness. Then, as if she had understood something, a faint smile curved at the corner of her projected lips.

"No need to rush, Senior Brother. We have plenty of time."

As she spoke, she smiled and sat down beside the starlight.

With a light snap of her fingers, the form of the sea of consciousness shifted, projecting the scene of the outside world.

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Cultivation Realm:

1, Qi Refining

2, Foundation Establishment

3, Golden Core

4, Nascent Soul

5, Divine Transformation (Formerly Known as Tribulation Crossing)

6, Tribulation Transcendence

7, Land Immortal

Note: Link to the character Illustration:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lkIcPnCxeyuyZA4Kkb621dPC05UvWjhD