LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 44 – Bet
Before Lin Hao could smile, a woman appeared before him—it was none other than his master, Feng Cangyue.
His master wore a red dress, like a blazing sun illuminating the darkness, her skin smooth as jade...
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Thunder roared continuously.
The red-clad master licked her lips.
In the midst of darkness.
"You... you're pressing on me."
His master's voice was as cold as ice, calm and indifferent.
"......"
Hearing this, Lin Hao's eyes flashed with astonishment.
How am I pressing on my master? Clearly, I'm a hundred meters away from her.
Then Lin Hao noticed someone sitting next to his master.
It was clearly himself!
Me?
Lin Hao was dumbfounded.
How could there be another me, and entangled with my master? Isn't this betraying my master...
Is this really something I would do?
In the next moment.
Countless heavenly thunders, like thousands of serpents, struck his body!
The real pain in his body, along with the mental torment, made Lin Hao instinctively glance back,
And it was this glance that sent a chill from his tailbone straight to his head.
The scene before his eyes transformed again.
Amidst countless female cultivators, there was only one of him.
Those countless graceful figures, countless long legs, gathered together, yet there was not a hint of beauty.
Instead, it made Lin Hao's scalp tingle.
Especially when the myriad female cultivators smiled charmingly.
"......"
His mind went blank for a moment, and Lin Hao couldn't help but wonder, what's happening to me, what kind of illusion am I in?
He clearly knew he was under an illusion.
Yet he couldn't break free from his current predicament, the fear of the unknown exploded in Lin Hao's heart, and his body trembled involuntarily.
He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, stiff and unable to even lift a finger.
He could only watch helplessly as that "self" became the nourishment for the countless female cultivators.
The scene was extremely intense.
He saw that self visibly thin out, rapidly shriveling, and eventually becoming just a skin.
He was stunned for almost the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, then began to forcibly control his stiff body, trying to turn his head again to see if the scene would change once more.
"Don't move, you're blocking me."
The familiar tone made Lin Hao feel both fear and relief.
Master... Master is still here...
But in the next second, he heard the sound of a sword.
A scorching wave of fire rose behind him.
Buzz!
It sounded like a dragon's roar or a phoenix's cry.
A sword light like flames flashed through the darkness,
Boom!
A sky-covering wave of fiery sword energy engulfed the countless female cultivators, and also swallowed Lin Hao.
The pain in his flesh was unlike a dream.
Lin Hao was bewildered, what exactly was happening to him, just then, he heard a woman's giggle.
His body was no longer stiff, and he turned to look back, Shui Ling'er was looking at him with a smile in her eyes.
Her sky-blue dress was spotless, her feet white and tender as jade, stepping on the waves.
It was this woman's doing.
He had thought it might be the Grand Elder's doing, or perhaps Han Liyue, or even the little fox.
But he never expected it to be this woman before him.
Shui Ling'er walked on the waves, her gaze bright as she looked ahead.
"I didn't expect your dreams to be so varied."
"The first scene, outside the Scripture Repository of the inner sect, you were hung on a thousand-year-old locust tree, this is your inner fear, your fear of the sect's rules!"
"The second scene, you thought of a woman in red, you want to have her, it must be your obsession, the one you love but cannot have."
"The third scene, you died under your master's sword, it should be your worry that your desires will anger your master."
A strange look flashed in Lin Hao's eyes.
Shui Ling'er could know his fantasies, but not so accurately.
Fortunately, it was so.
Otherwise, if his inner thoughts were spread out, he feared his master would really cut him down with her sword.
Quick as lightning, he flashed behind the woman and grabbed her slender wrist.
"Since you're so good at analyzing, why don't you analyze what I want to do now?"
Feeling the man's gaze like a blade, Shui Ling'er's heart trembled slightly.
"Being killed three times in this dreamland, how can you still move?"
Lin Hao's gaze fell on the woman's exquisite face, he said calmly, "Because from the beginning to the end, I knew I was in an illusion, just playing along with you."
"No... impossible!"
Shui Ling'er widened her eyes, looking incredulous.
"Heh, nothing's impossible."
"You like using charm techniques so much, why don't we do something real, I guarantee it'll benefit you more than absorbing from monsters!"
"You..." Shui Ling'er struggled fiercely, but found she couldn't break free from the man's grip.
"Once is worth a thousand times, how about this deal?"
Lin Hao lowered his head slightly, whispering in the woman's ear.
The fiery breath made the woman's body a bit soft.
"Lin, what exactly do you want to do?"
"You're so beautiful, so alluring, naturally I want you to be my Dao Companion, and dual cultivate with you."
Hearing these words, the woman's face flushed with embarrassment.
"To be my Dao Companion, you must be a genius of the sect!"
"Genius, am I not?" Lin Hao asked puzzled, he was the number one in the outer sect.
Shui Ling'er had inquired about him.
Upon learning that he advanced from early Foundation Establishment to mid Foundation Establishment in just over a month, she was shocked by his cultivation speed, and after discovering he liked mingling with women,
She concluded he relied on dual cultivation techniques, so she came this time to extract the technique.
But he didn't fall for it, instead, she got caught.
"What kind of genius are you, at most you're a talent, a genius can rank in the inner sect, at least in the top hundred, and you're not late Foundation Establishment, can't be in the top hundred, and even if you are late stage, it requires some luck."
Lin Hao said calmly, "Then how about we make a bet?"
The woman frowned.
"What do you mean?"
"If I become one of the top hundred in the inner sect, you become my Dao Companion."
The woman's lips curled into a mocking smile.
This guy is really arrogant, even those at late Foundation Establishment don't dare claim they'll be in the top hundred of the sect, can you, at mid-stage, do it?
She felt she had the upper hand.
"If you fail, you must let me read your dual cultivation technique."
