Upon seeing it, Huangfu Yi understood that it was the screen painted with large clusters of peonies. With purple sandalwood as its frame and cold jade as its hinge, the screen unfolded into twelve panels. The thousand-layered peonies bloomed, their shadows swaying like looming waves.

So that's it... go in...

Out of curiosity, Huangfu Yi tried circling behind the purple sandalwood peony screen. When he peeked his head out, he was momentarily bewildered again.

Before his eyes was no longer the treasure vault but the previous boudoir.

Wow, that's amazing...

"Moving pretty fast, but to make such a commotion, you indeed live up to being a Daoist emerging once in a thousand years."

Following the voice, Huangfu Yi looked over and saw the landlady lounging sideways on the couch with her legs crossed. After all, the treasure vault had plenty of clothes, so she had changed into a set of emerald-colored palace attire. Layers of silky fabric draped like clouds and mist, enveloping her snow-white, cabbage-like form...

"Who's a cabbage, hey!"

The landlady was furious.

Huangfu Yi scratched his head,

"Uh, my apologies... No, how come you can also hear what I'm saying in my heart?"

"Hmph, how skilled do you think you are? Without practicing the Primordial Spirit Technique, your heart is thundering away, who couldn't hear it?"

The landlady lifted her lettuce leaves—cough, cough—her skirt, and with a flick of her hand, she retrieved the hard disk and tossed it over.

"Here's the thing you wanted, now return to me what I want."

Since the shopkeeper had made it clear that this Taboo Observation Chapter was a lost sect token of Linglong Pavilion, a treasured inheritance, Huangfu Yi wasn't about to covet their riches. True to his promise, he tossed the stone tablet back.

The landlady caught the stone tablet in her hand, stroked the little green duck with her jade fingers, confirmed it was indeed a Concord Wingbird, and let out a sigh of relief. Quickly, she stuffed it into her lettuce leaves to hide it well.

"Good, you've completed the first task. Now that you have obtained the disk, do the agreements of the three tasks still stand?"

Huangfu Yi nodded,

"Go ahead."

So, without hesitation, the landlady knelt down,

"Daoist, true to your word, retrieving the sect leader's token for our Immortal Sect—your great kindness is immeasurable, and I am moved to tears.

I, Linglong, am the Artifact Spirit of this treasure vault. In the past, our sect was harmed by enemies, and the inheritance was severed.

I beg you to find our true inheritor to continue our sect's orthodox lineage!"

"I see..."

Huangfu Yi was curious,

"But isn't it said that whoever holds the Taboo Observation Chapter is the inheritor? Clearly, I retrieved the chapter, so how do you know I'm not your inheritor?"

Linglong, laying on the ground, lifted her head, shooting him a sideways glance with her beautiful eyes,

"Daoist, at your ripe age, yet your Primordial Yang remains intact; clearly, you're practicing the Superior Elixir Technique from that side, so how could you be an inheritor of our Immortal Sect?

Moreover, I see your Dao Foundation is solid, and your cultivation is complete. In at most ten years, you can form your elixir. Why waste your skills at this critical moment?

But if you wish, you can indeed join us, and I can give you a hand to shed your Primordial Yang, and then our Nine Heavens Daoist transmission can be yours."

"Why are you always fixated on my Primordial Yang... wait, Primordial Yang? Nine Heavens? Immortal Sect? Why do I seem to have heard of this somewhere before..."

Frowning deep in thought, suddenly, a light bulb went off for Huangfu Yi, and he was taken aback,

"So you are in league with that demoness from the Carefree Wind Tower?"

Linglong was taken aback, then overjoyed,

"What! The Wind Control Tower lineage hasn't been wiped out yet? That's great news! Please, young sir, take me to see the genuine inheritor of the Wind Control Tower!"

"Ah, this..."

Huangfu Yi found himself in a bind, realizing that affairs of the Immortal World indeed were fraught with countless hidden plots, endless calculations, entangled causes and effects, and ruthless retributions. Each time he thought he cleared a hurdle, another pit lay ahead, waiting to trap him. Recalling how he nearly became Elixir Residue in the hands of the Carefree Demoness, his reputation nearly ruined, he was reluctant to get entangled any further.

But before he could decline, Linglong pinched her orchid fingers and with a wave, the screen behind her flew into the air, reduced to a width of only three inches amidst a swirl of purple qi, resembling a pair of memorial scrolls, which floated into Huangfu Yi's hands.

"This treasure is called the Linglong Thousand Petal Screen, a projection of my being, a Nascent Soul First Grade treasure of immense rarity.

Unfold it and deceive the heavens, place it down and form an array; it can bewitch immortals and reduce them to wanderers, capable of mountain suppression and sea collection. It contains our Immortal Sect's true Daoist collection, countless Heavenly Materials and treasures, and Divine Skill Secret Manuals.

It's a pity you're not an inheritor of our Leisure Sect and unfamiliar with the Carefree Treasure Control Method, making it difficult to wield.—For now, it can only serve as storage treasure.

I ask you to take this projection of mine to the true inheritor of the Wind Control Tower, thus completing the second task."

"Hiss—Nascent Soul First..."

Shaken, Huangfu Yi's hand trembled, then he heard the system in his ear.

"Good-for-nothing."

Ah, a good-for-nothing, nothing to worry about, but the system is indeed strict...

Feeling something etched on the title page of the Linglong Thousand Petal Screen, Huangfu Yi focused his gaze, reading a poem that said,

"Crimson gauzes like fog, peonies bloom, Twelve towers of swirling clouds through phantoms loom; Jade nudges star gates, gems tremble in awe, The moon shines on the Purple Mansion, gold embryo to draw.

Three flowers ride a phoenix, dance an avian play, In mermaid palace, pearl spittle turns fragrance to spray; Thousand petals hold the dew, rosy clouds thus appear,—a Bygone shadow within painted screens treads the mundane sphere."

Huangfu Yi glanced,

"Could it be your sect's Qi Refining Method?"

Linglong was momentarily surprised,

"Daoist, your comprehension is remarkably high; indeed, this is our sect's True Dharma Heart Method, followed by the cultivation method.

If Daoist is interested, I can discuss and delve into it with you, purely seeking truth through Dao."

Suspecting that this might truly be derived from the Xuan Nu's Heavenly Book, Huangfu Yi, driven by curiosity, casually flipped through the Linglong Thousand Petal Screen... well, it clearly stems from the same line as the Carefree Wind Control, all about Dual Cultivation, filled with boudoir secret skills...

"Uh, best not. Youthful pride prevents me from controlling myself, making it inappropriate for me to practice this..."

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