"Saintess, with you fully dressed like that, it's quite hard for this Master to get any work done!"
Wanxuan Mountain, Immortal Maiden Sect.
Inside an ancient, elegantly furnished bedchamber, Luo Changqing reclined casually in a chair in a jade-white sleeping robe, casting a playful gaze right across from him.
A peerless beauty lay slumped upon the bed. Her breathtaking, impeccably sculpted face was framed by a pair of exquisite eyes filled with shame and fury.
Her long red dress was somewhat revealing, leaving her voluptuous figure on full display, while her tender, snowy-white skin looked as though a gentle squeeze would make water drip from it.
Tsk, tsk...
Of course, the primary reason he had agreed to step in was still the massive pile of Spirit Stones and the batch of exceedingly rare spiritual elixirs promised by the Divine Sword Sect!
"You hold the esteemed position of the Immortal Maiden Sect Master, and you are the sole Ninth-Grade Saint Physician in the entire Xuanwu Continent. How can your moral character be so utterly despicable?"
Su Yanran lay on the bed. The lethal poison left her body completely devoid of strength, making even speech somewhat breathless. "I—I would rather die than submit to you!"
"Saintess Su, my service fees are calculated by the second. If you wish to waste time, there is nothing this Master can do about it," Luo Changqing said with an utterly harmless smile, his gaze scanning her delicate frame without the slightest restraint. "One second costs ten thousand Spirit Stones!"
"You!"
Su Yanran's pretty face flushed red with anger. Realizing that Luo Changqing was eyeing her like a ravenous wolf, she felt an extreme sense of humiliation.
As the proud Saintess of the Divine Sword Sect, she was a top-tier cultivation prodigy across the entire Xuanwu Continent. When had she ever suffered such insults?
A year ago, she was ambushed by powerful members of the Demon Race. Although she narrowly escaped with her life, she contracted an incurable poison!
The Divine Sword Sect had invited countless divine doctors to intervene, but none could detoxify her. Left with no choice, they had to pay a tremendous price to request the intervention of the legendary physician from the Immortal Maiden Sect!
Yet the meeting place turned out to be the bedchamber of this young physician!
That alone was bad enough, but the man had even made her lie on the bed and strip off all her clothes, under the righteous pretext that everything was for the sake of medical treatment!
This legendary Immortal Maiden Sect was probably nothing more than a den of unmitigated liars!
"I won't be treated!"
Trembling with rage, Su Yanran planted her delicate feet firmly on the floor and started walking toward the door, her face a mask of shame and fury.
When had she, Su Yanran, ever endured such mistreatment?
"Your demonic poison has already penetrated your internal organs and viscera. This Master is your final chance at survival," Luo Changqing didn't even bother to look, giving a lazy yawn as he spoke at his leisure. "Right now, you can no longer channel your Spiritual Power, can you? In less than a month's time, you are bound to bleed from your seven orifices and rot away until you die. Tsk, tsk, I suppose no woman in this world would willingly accept that kind of death!"
"Hmph, what does it matter even if I die?"
A wave of shock rippled through Su Yanran's heart. How could this man know her condition down to such fine details?
Yet she maintained an outward expression of indifference, let out a cold laugh, pushed the door open, and stepped forward with a resolute expression on her lovely face.
"It is rather interesting, though. The famed Saintess of the Divine Sword Sect dying in a state that will surely make her the ugliest woman in the Xuanwu Continent—it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say her infamy will last for ten thousand years!"
Swish!
The delicate foot Su Yanran had just stepped outside the threshold froze in mid-air.
With her back to Luo Changqing, her near-perfect face was filled with humiliation, resentment, and a profound sense of helplessness.
"Clang!"
Finally, Su Yanran suddenly reached out with her slender hand, shut the door, walked back to Luo Changqing with a face like frost, and unfastened the sash at her waist.
Rustle!
The red dress drifted down, revealing a boundless expanse of white as she stood slender and upright before Luo Changqing.
"I ask Sect Master Luo to take action and cure this humble one's affliction!"
Su Yanran spoke with icy calmness. "If you can truly cure me, I, Su Yanran, will acknowledge you as my honored master from this day forward. But if you cannot, I, Su Yanran, swear that I will be irreconcilable with you for the rest of my life!"
"Heh, well said!"
Luo Changqing chuckled and struck without warning. In an instant, his palm blazed with a brilliant golden light, landing a solid strike directly against Su Yanran's chest!
"Bang!"
The moment his palm made contact with Su Yanran, the golden light clung to her limbs and bones, while the sheer force of the impact pushed her sliding backward across the floor for several meters!
An astonishing sight unfolded. The virulent purple poison that had previously run rampant inside Su Yanran's body was now pinned firmly in place by the golden light, and as she was driven backward, it was forcefully ripped out and suspended in mid-air!
"Snap!"
Luo Changqing snapped his fingers, and before Su Yanran's astonished eyes, the deep purple poison absorbed by the golden light instantly vanished into thin air.
She could clearly sense that the physical discomfort had vanished, and the lethal poison had been completely eradicated!
"Not a bad feel!"
Luo Changqing withdrew his hand, a playful smile surfacing on his face.
"Rustle!"
With a flick of Su Yanran's hand, the red dress on the floor leaped up and clothed her in an instant, restoring her to her usual cold, stunning Saintess appearance.
She offered Luo Changqing a light bow. "This humble one thanks Sect Master Luo for saving my life! The Divine Sword Sect promises that the payment will be delivered to the Immortal Maiden Sect within an hour!"
Even though she strongly suspected that, given his medical skills, taking off her clothes had been completely unnecessary!
Yet at the same time, a trace of dread lingered deep within her eyes.
The moment Luo Changqing had made his move just now, she actually felt the same overwhelming powerlessness one would feel standing at the edge of an abyss!
One had to know that as a proud Spirit King Realm expert, she was considered a peerless talent of the younger generation, yet right in front of Luo Changqing, she couldn't muster even a shred of fighting spirit!
Wanxuan Mountain stood firmly at the absolute center of the Xuanwu Continent, and the Immortal Maiden Sect was known as the absolute forbidden zone for humanity!
How could this Luo Changqing be so young, yet serve as the Master of the Immortal Maiden Sect? Not only was he the sole Ninth-Grade Saint Physician in the entire continent, but even his cultivation was this terrifying?
The isolated Immortal Maiden Sect was indeed worthy of its reputation as the top human faction on the continent...
"All right, all right, hurry off with you. The Immortal Maiden Sect is no place for outsiders!"
Luo Changqing waved his hand, casting a lingering glance at her rounded hips, unsatisfied longing making him somewhat irritable. "If it weren't for the fact that you have a decent set of looks, this Master wouldn't have bothered saving you!"
Su Yanran pressed her lips together, bowed once more, and finally turned to leave.
"Hum!"
A gentle breeze stirred as a slender figure in white appeared in the doorway, offering a slight bow to Luo Changqing. "Master, the three-year term has arrived. You may now descend the mountain!"
"Descend the mountain? I refuse! The Immortal Maiden Sect has three thousand delicate women who need protection. As their Master, how can I stand idly by?"
Hearing this, Luo Changqing curled his lips in utter reluctance.
Three years ago, for the sake of his fiancée, he had willingly entered this mysterious Immortal Maiden Sect to train for three years, only to accidentally become the closed-door disciple of three supreme female masters, leaving him far ahead of everyone else ever since!
In a mere year's time, Luo Changqing had mastered the heaven-defying abilities of all three female masters, becoming the undisputed top prodigy of the Immortal Maiden Sect!
Two years ago, the three female masters all quietly vanished without a word. Left with no alternative, Luo Changqing assumed the position of Sect Master. Under extreme duress and with the utmost reluctance, he took on the responsibility of looking after the three thousand fairy-like sisters within the sect, living every day in "agony"!
Now that the three-year term was up, he found himself somewhat reluctant to leave the mountain...
"Master, the three esteemed female masters gave their word: once the three-year term is up, if you refuse to descend the mountain, the Immortal Maiden Sect will be immediately disbanded, all female disciples will leave Wanxuan Mountain, and you will never be allowed to see them again for the rest of your life..."
At these words, Luo Changqing instantly flew into a rage!
"Fine, fine, fine! Descend the mountain it is! One day, I will still return!"