There is a lake in Jiangxi, and the Li family's courtyard is built by the water.

Every clear night, there are two starry skies in the sky and the earth, and the night is beautiful.

"So you want to cultivate the Nine Flame Veins?"

A woman lazily leaned on a soft couch, her thin veil outlined her graceful figure vividly.

Her skin was fair, her features delicate, and she looked like a pure young girl, but she used her charming eyes to size up the young man in front of her who was wearing a fiery red robe.

Ji Su suppressed the urge to pop the pimples on his face and said irritably, "Of course! If I don't cultivate the Nine Flame Veins, why would I come to you?"

"Goose, goose, goose, goose..."

Li Caitan covered her mouth and chuckled, "If you don't cultivate the Nine Flame Veins, then you won't come to me, right?"

Ji Su: "..."

He looked at the beautiful and charming woman in front of him, feeling a burning sensation in his lower abdomen, but he couldn't completely let go of his guard.

When a Li family woman turns sixteen, she will be arranged for marriage by the family, and at the latest, she will be married to her husband's family before the age of eighteen.

There have been few exceptions in hundreds of years.

Li Caitan in front of him is the only exception, already over twenty-five years old, but still single. Although she was banned from entering the Li family mansion for life, she had her own Li family courtyard.

Ji Su had heard of this name before, but only because Li Caitan was the only older sister of the current Crown Princess. He didn't know much about Li Caitan's character.

But just a month ago, he came into contact with a mysterious circle. In that circle, the seniors introduced Li Caitan to her in an indescribable scene, and since then, he couldn't control himself.

He was deeply trapped in the quagmire for seven days, living in a dream.

But one day, he suddenly woke up and forcibly pulled himself out!

Not because of anything else, but because he found that the essence of his true energy in his dantian seemed to have been stolen, and the instigator was Li Caitan, who had once trapped him.

This thing is the foundation of the Flame Kingdom's royal family. The Flame Kingdom itself is a small country, and the only family that the whole country can rely on is the royal family. They have been able to stand for hundreds of years in the situation where powerful forces surround them, relying on this profound and powerful fire true energy.

And this strand of essence true energy is the cornerstone of his future cultivation. Even if only less than one percent was stolen by Li Caitan, it made him extremely afraid, and he managed to break free with great determination.

But after leaving, he found that his body had undergone two changes.

One is that he has become more tolerant, at most just a few more pimples.

The second is that the bursting true energy in his body has become more docile, and it won't lose control when his emotions are stirred up.

Even the indescribable time has increased from three breaths to four breaths, although it is far from the ease of being with Li Caitan, it is already a great progress.

These two changes made him itch with excitement because his cultivation level had been unable to break through for a long time due to the difficulty of controlling his true energy. Li Caitan showed him hope, but at the same time, she made him extremely wary, so he never dared to come.

If he hadn't been forced into a corner by the situation, he wouldn't have taken the risk to come.

Ji Su gritted his teeth, "What kind of sorcery are you using?"

"Sorcery?"

Li Caitan chuckled, "You really have no knowledge. The Yin-Yang Family's Primordial True Energy is actually seen as sorcery by you?"

"Primordial True Energy!"

Ji Su was shocked. The Yin-Yang Family emphasizes the Yin-Yang Five Elements and originated from the Book of Changes. It was once regarded as a branch of Taoism and practiced the Yin-Yang Five Elements to the extreme. They could even use the Five Virtues Theory to deduce the national fortune and there were rumors that they could reverse the national fortune and revive a declining country.

So even though there have been few descendants of the Yin-Yang School, they can still be ranked among the top ten families, and their status is not weaker than the Confucian, Taoist, and Mohist schools.

And the Primordial True Energy is the most representative technique of the Yin-Yang School. It can gather thousands of true energies into one body, return to chaos, and after reaching the Great Perfection, it can evolve into any true energy, which is quite domineering.

But it has been a long time since the Yin-Yang School had a descendant in the world. At most, there were occasional rumors that the descendants of the Yin-Yang School were hiding in the deep mountains, jointly comprehending the Heavenly Dao with the descendants of the Taoist School.

How could Li Caitan master the Yin-Yang Family's true energy? Could it be that she is a descendant of the Yin-Yang School?

If this lineage could be invited to the Flame Kingdom, wouldn't it be able to change the decline of the Flame Kingdom?

Ji Su was excited and stared at her intently, "Are you a descendant of the Yin-Yang Family?"

Li Caitan coquettishly said, "Can't you just call me sister?"

Ji Su's excitement did not diminish, "Are you the sister of a descendant of the Yin-Yang Family?"

Li Caitan: "???"

She frowned slightly, a little annoyed, and waved her hand, "It's just that I accidentally learned this technique. Our Li family is a small and insignificant family. How could we have any relationship with the Yin-Yang Family?"

"So that's how it is!"

Ji Su was greatly disappointed. His gaze wandered for a while, and then returned to Li Caitan, "So you seduced me just to steal the essence of my true energy?"

Li Caitan snorted, "It's too harsh to say steal. I just saw you suffering from the mutation of true energy and wanted to help you control it, and by the way, collect a tenth of the essence!"

Ji Su's eyebrows jumped, "How did you know that my true energy mutated?"Li Caitan covered her mouth and laughed, "Not only do I know that your energy has mutated, but I also know that your cultivation was extremely smooth in your childhood. However, ever since you tried to break through the eleventh layer, you have been left far behind by your peers. It's because your energy became extremely yang and intense after the mutation, coupled with your vigorous heart fire, making it difficult to control. Moreover, you lived in an extremely oppressive environment in the Kingdom Li, with no outlet for your heart fire, which is why you became the current Three-Breath Duke..."

"Enough, enough!"

Ji Su hurriedly interrupted, his face unable to maintain composure.

Li Caitan licked her moist lips, "If you hadn't run away back then, although you would have lost 10% of your original energy, you could have completely mastered the mutated energy, and with the extremely yang and intense attributes, you would have surpassed your peers. If you had cultivated the Nine Flames Absolute Veins, it wouldn't be impossible to challenge the first-grade spirit womb, let alone the third-grade. It's a pity that you ran away..."

Ji Su's eyes sparkled as he listened, and he directly took off his robe, "What are we waiting for? Let's do it!"

"No need!"

However, Li Caitan had no intention of going along with him. Instead, she sat up straight, gathered her clothes, and covered a large area of her snowy skin with her disheveled thin skirt.

Ji Su became anxious, "Why?"

Li Caitan smiled lightly, "Sister has given up on lust!"

Ji Su choked, "When did you start giving up?"

"I don't remember, I think it was yesterday."

"..."

"You should go back and never come here again. After all, I am a woman, and it's not good for my reputation to be seen by others."

"You..."

Ji Su's teeth were almost crushed, "I'll give you half more of my energy source!"

Li Caitan squinted and smiled, then directly stood up and straddled him, "Let's begin!"

The sudden change caught Ji Su off guard.

"Didn't you say you gave up on lust?"

"The more I give up, the more lustful I become."

"Shouldn't we close the window? What if someone sees us?"

"Wouldn't that be even more exciting?"

"..."

Li Caitan's face was flushed, and she felt more and more that being with a young man allowed her to see many sights she had never seen before.

Sometimes it was the roof beams.

Sometimes it was the constantly shaking dressing table.

Sometimes it was the upside-down night sky.

She suddenly looked up, "Are you still releasing lanterns into the sky? You Flame Kingdom men are not all as unromantic as the legends say!"

Ji Su freed a hand that was supporting the table and wiped his sweat, "Lanterns? What lanterns?"

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"Huh?"

Li Caitan quickly sat up and looked out the window, just in time to see a sturdy figure jumping down from the wall.

Wu Dan excitedly ran over, "Caitan, I came to find you..."

The smile on his face froze.

(End of Chapter)