Chapter 8: Yours for the Taking.

Liu Mei glanced at his terrified expression and rolled her eyes. "What are you thinking? Someone took the body away!"

Lin Fengmian was momentarily stunned. People are stealing business now?

But he quickly realized and hesitated, "Was it Junior Sister Xia?"

The corners of Liu Mei's lips curved slightly. "Yes, I didn't expect you to be getting close to Xia Yunxi."

"When she saw your so-called corpse, she looked like she wanted to cry but was too afraid to. It was quite amusing."

Lin Fengmian chuckled awkwardly. "Senior Sister, you've misunderstood. Junior Sister Xia has always been emotional. She'd be heartbroken even over an ant dying."

Liu Mei smiled meaningfully. "Junior Sister Xia is highly valued by the sect. Don't overestimate yourself, or else..."

"Thank you for the warning, Senior Sister. If there's nothing else, I'll be going now," Lin Fengmian respectfully replied.

Liu Mei waved him off. Watching his hurried departure, she couldn't help but laugh.

Interesting... What kind of end awaits those who fall in love in the Hehuan Sect?

Lin Fengmian hurried to the burial site at the back mountain but didn't see Xia Yunxi. A sudden thought struck him.

He circled around and headed to the hillside opposite, and sure enough, there he found the tearful Xia Yunxi.

So, you actually remembered my wish to be buried here.

Xia Yunxi, with tears streaming down her face, was burying the corpse with soil, occasionally wiping her eyes.

She choked, "Senior Brother Lin, rest in peace. Your feelings... I'll return them in the next life."

"The Senior Sisters said that people who die like this float off peacefully, without pain. I hope it's true. I'm sorry..."

Lin Fengmian quietly approached her from behind, unnoticed as she focused intently on burying the body.

"They lied to you. Dying like that is very painful..."

His voice floated from behind her, causing Xia Yunxi to spin around in shock. Upon seeing Lin Fengmian, she was first overjoyed, then her face turned pale.

She closed her eyes, squatting on the ground and trembling in fear. "Senior Brother Lin, why... why are you here?"

Lin Fengmian asked in surprise, "What, are you not happy to see me?"

Xia Yunxi, trembling like a quail, whimpered, "Happy... but I'm afraid of ghosts!"

It was only then that Lin Fengmian realized she had mistaken him for a ghost. He couldn't help but want to scare her a little.

"Yunxi, I died a terrible death..."

Xia Yunxi was almost crying, holding her head in fear. "Senior Brother, if you have any unfulfilled wishes, I can help you with them. Rest in peace..."

Seeing her like this, Lin Fengmian couldn't help but laugh. "I want to take you away..."

"But, Senior Brother, I don't want to die yet," Xia Yunxi said tearfully.

"Then how about you let me kiss you, and I'll leave?" Lin Fengmian joked.

"Really?" Xia Yunxi hesitated, but fear ultimately overcame everything.

Thinking of how this Senior Brother sacrificed himself to protect her, she gritted her teeth and agreed, "Okay."

She didn't dare open her eyes. Summoning her courage, she lifted her head and puckered her soft red lips, offering herself as if ready to be taken.

Lin Fengmian was a bit taken aback. He hadn't expected her to actually agree.

Looking at the stunning young girl with trembling eyelashes and her slightly parted cherry lips, he felt a stirring in his heart, and the desire within him became hard to suppress.

He reached out to hold Xia Yunxi's delicate shoulders, leaned forward, and kissed her deeply. The sensation was soft and tender, like jelly, leaving him craving more.

Xia Yunxi froze, her mind going blank. It wasn't until she was pushed down onto the grass, feeling a pair of hot hands roaming her body, that she snapped back to reality.

Wait a minute. Wasn't Senior Brother dead? Why are his hands so warm?

But a wave of heat surged through her, rendering her weak and unable to resist. Her legs involuntarily rubbed against each other.

Having practiced the Hongluan Art of the Hehuan Sect, Xia Yunxi was highly sensitive to matters of love and intimacy, even if she had never experienced them before.

As Lin Fengmian's hands moved to a place no one had ever touched, she let out a soft moan, her voice filled with irresistible allure.

The Lin Fengmian who had remained calm and composed in front of Liu Mei lost control completely, frantically tearing at her clothes.

He had only one thought in his mind — he must possess the girl before him.

Just then, Xia Yunxi's small hands grabbed his, her eyes hazy as she murmured, "Senior Brother, no, I haven't reached the Foundation Stage yet..."

"I don't care!" Lin Fengmian's eyes were red with lust, focused entirely on the two little 'bunnies' in front of him.

"No!" Xia Yunxi looked on the verge of tears, shaking her head. "Senior Brother, if you touch me, my master will definitely kill you."

Her words were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, instantly sobering Lin Fengmian. He realized that the girl before him was far more dangerous than Liu Mei.

With Liu Mei, he might still die a happy man, but with Xia Yunxi, it would be a fate worse than death.

Staring at the beauty before him and the tear-streaked face of Xia Yunxi, Lin Fengmian swallowed hard, his eyes lingering as if wanting to etch the scene into his memory.

Only then did he realize that the Evil Emperor Technique within him had been circulating, absorbing a large amount of spiritual energy from Xia Yunxi.

He quickly got up from her soft body and exclaimed in surprise, "Junior Sister, your spiritual energy..."

Xia Yunxi's dazed eyes gradually cleared as she noticed her cultivation level had dropped significantly.

"Huh? Why have I lost a level?"

Lin Fengmian then realized that she had fallen from the ninth level of Qi Refining to the eighth level and that he had unknowingly absorbed so much of her spiritual energy.

Feeling guilty, he said, "What's going on? How did I absorb your spiritual energy when we didn't even..."

Xia Yunxi was equally confused and couldn't make sense of it either.

Lin Fengmian slapped himself hard, turning his head away. "Junior Sister, I'm so sorry! This is all my fault! I inhaled some fragrance from Liu Mei earlier and lost control."

Xia Yunxi quickly sat up and, turning aside, hurriedly straightened her disheveled clothes to avoid further stimulating him.

"Senior Brother, it's not your fault. You inhaled the Enchantment Fragrance. Anyone who touches a woman after inhaling it would find it hard to control themselves, especially with someone like me..."

Her voice trailed off, eventually becoming a whisper, "I don't blame you... This might not even be a bad thing."

Lin Fengmian hadn't expected her to excuse him, but his mind was still fuzzy, filled with the images of what had just happened.

Trying to change the subject, he asked, "I've inhaled the Enchantment Fragrance before, and it didn't seem this overpowering."

"What you inhaled before was just a secondary scent. The true Enchantment Fragrance is released from a woman's mouth," Xia Yunxi explained.

Lin Fengmian recalled that Liu Mei had indeed blown a breath toward him earlier. So, that was the real Enchantment Fragrance.

That crazy woman Liu Mei must have been trying to kill him!

Anxious, he asked, "Is there a way to neutralize the Enchantment Fragrance?"

Xia Yunxi whispered, "Senior Brother, the only ways to dispel this poison are through dual cultivation or to endure it. It will resolve on its own after an hour."

"However, enduring it might cause damage to your body... such as losing the ability to perform intimate acts in the future, but that's no big deal."