Mo Fan’s words surprised Yue Liu greatly. After a moment of silence, she suddenly laughed and said, “It is not impossible for you to enter the Tianlu Sacred Land, but you must give me a satisfactory reason, or rather, a satisfactory price!”
As soon as these words came out, Mo Fan immediately touched his nose. This reminded him of the time on the sea when he had deliberately teased this woman into raising the price.
“As expected, women all hold grudges!”
Mo Fan felt helpless in his heart, but soon he grinned and said, “Does your husband have to be so hesitant when asking you to do something?”
“You… do not talk nonsense!”
Yue Liu became annoyed upon hearing this.
“What, have you so quickly forgotten the promise you made on the ship?”
“You are the saintess of the Sun Moon Holy Sect! Do you have to take back the spit you have thrown out?”
Mo Fan sneered, looking at Yue Liu with a face full of contempt.
“You… bastard!!”
Yue Liu was furious, but her cheeks flushed slightly. For a moment, she did not know what to say, her heart in turmoil.
“No matter how much of a bastard I am, I am still your husband!”
Mo Fan winked at her, wearing an expression of someone who feared nothing, which made Yue Liu grind her teeth in anger. He specialised in having thick skin!
“You are so weak right now. Do you want your husband to help replenish you?”
“You… what are you going to do?”
“I have long heard that the techniques of the Sun Moon Holy Sect are complementary and the best method for dual cultivation. If I dual cultivate with you now, it will definitely heal your injuries, and perhaps even allow your cultivation to advance further!”
“Mo Fan, you bastard!”
“Wrong, you should call me husband!”
Mo Fan spoke seriously, then prepared to remove his clothes, which frightened Yue Liu into curling up her body. She quickly shouted, “I… I agree!”
“Hmm? You agree to dual cultivate with me?”
“No, no, who wants to dual cultivate with you? I agree to arrange for you to enter the Tianlu Sacred Land!”
Yue Liu hurriedly shouted.
“Really?”
“Of course it is true!”
The saintess gritted her teeth, looking at Mo Fan with hatred.
“Alright then. Although a moment of spring night is worth a thousand gold, this cave dwelling is indeed a bit rudimentary. There is no sense of ceremony. In that case, let us postpone the dual cultivation until later!”
Mo Fan spoke with regret, yet he felt rather strange in his heart.
That should not be the case.
Why would this woman be afraid of dual cultivation?
Is she not the saintess of the Sun Moon Holy Sect?
Yue Chan, in order to become saintess, had messed around with who knows how many demonic cultivators. Why is this woman so different?
Could she be playing hard to get?
Or does she not like men?
Mo Fan thought maliciously in his heart.
Seeing that Mo Fan made no further excessive moves, Yue Liu breathed a sigh of relief. Then she said gravely to Mo Fan, “Entering Tianlu is not difficult, but my sect has rules. To use the sect’s resources, one must be a core disciple!”
“So you must first join my sect, otherwise there is no way I can help you.”
Upon hearing this, Mo Fan immediately frowned, saying with disbelief, “As the saintess of the Sun Moon Holy Sect, you have no authority to send me into the Tianlu Sacred Land?”
“The holy sect is not as simple as you imagine. Although I am the saintess, in many matters I still have to follow the rules.”
Yue Liu snorted coldly and said, “If it were other second or third grade forces, I could find a way to get you in, but the Tianlu Sacred Land is different. As a transcendent force, it is not so easy to infiltrate.”
“Although my Sun Moon Holy Sect has pieces placed there, they are pieces planted over decades or even centuries. They cannot be used lightly, because once discovered, it would mean decades or centuries of my sect’s efforts are ruined in an instant!”
“This consequence is unbearable!”
“Let alone transcendent forces, even those first grade forces are not so easy to infiltrate. With Nascent Soul cultivators presiding, a single carelessness could lead to exposure, and the losses would outweigh the gains.”
“So long ago, the sect leader made a rule that to enter these sects, one must be a core disciple or even a personal disciple, and also accept tasks assigned by the sect!”
“So troublesome?”
Mo Fan frowned, but in his heart he began to believe Yue Liu’s words.
Although he had once obtained Yue Chan’s memories, there was no relevant information in them. The reason was that Yue Chan had only recently become saintess and had not participated in matters concerning the sect’s spies. Most of what she did involved tasks related to secret realms.
However, without rules there is no order. For the Sun Moon Holy Sect to reach its current position as one of the three giants of the demonic path, it must not be simple. In Mo Fan’s view, having some rules was perfectly normal.
Thinking of this, his eyes flashed as he asked, “Then if I want to go to the Tianlu Sacred Land, will the holy sect have means to control me?”
This was the issue he cared about most.
“You are quite clever!”
A trace of surprise flashed in Yue Liu’s eyes, but soon she sneered, “Since you want to use my holy sect’s resources to achieve your goals, you naturally have to pay some price for it. Otherwise, how could my sect trust you?”
Mo Fan fell silent, weighing the pros and cons in his heart.
Without doubt, he now had two choices before him. One was to join the Sun Moon Holy Sect, become a core disciple with Yue Liu’s help, accept the sect’s control, and then enter the Tianlu Sacred Land.
The other was to leave now and join the Tianlu Sacred Land by some other means on his own. Although this choice seemed safer, there was no guarantee the Sun Moon Holy Sect would not interfere, especially since he possessed the “Sun Heaven Scripture”, the sect’s foundational technique.
Another point was that Mo Fan did not know if he could join the Tianlu Sacred Land himself. After all, the Tianlu Sacred Land specialised in spiritual force. If he were screened by some powerhouse using spiritual force, problems might arise.
As Mo Fan pondered, Yue Liu sneered, “Do not delusionally think you can infiltrate the Tianlu Sacred Land on your own. For other transcendent forces, perhaps you really would have some chance, but the Tianlu Sacred Land is different.”
“The elders of the Tianlu Sacred Land have almost all cultivated the “Tianlu Derived Spirit Technique”. Their spiritual force is stronger than you can imagine.”
“Every time they select disciples for the sect, those old fellows, in order to prevent spies from other sects infiltrating, conduct multiple assessments. So far, no sect’s spy has ever been known to successfully infiltrate the Tianlu Sacred Land!”
“Then how do you send your spies in?” Mo Fan asked with a frown.
“Spies do not necessarily have to be our own people. As long as there are sufficient benefits, sometimes enemies can also become pieces, right?” Yue Liu smiled faintly.
Her words undoubtedly blocked Mo Fan’s second choice, but he still asked unwillingly, “If I kidnapped an elder of the Tianlu Sacred Land, could I use soul searching to find the “Tianlu Derived Spirit Technique” they cultivate?”
“You are thinking too naively. The Tianlu Derived Spirit Technique is one of the three foundational arts of the Tianlu Sacred Land. How could it be so easily obtained?”
“In major sects, foundational arts are protected. All cultivators who practise them have restrictions placed in the relevant memories by powerhouses.”
“Unless the person tells you willingly, if someone dares to forcibly search the soul, it will immediately trigger the restriction, causing memory loss or even direct death!”
“Of course, even if you luckily succeed in soul searching, you will find the technique obtained is incomplete and of little significance!”
“In order to break into the major righteous forces, my sect has tried who knows how many methods over the years, so just give up on that idea!”
