You don't want your secret to be revealed by others, right?

Lin Yue contemplated silently.

Over the past three years, he had uncovered many secrets, including the locations of various outposts where Eternal Night Mountain recruited people. The Summer Stay Inn was one such outpost for recruiting by Eternal Night Mountain. This time, he deliberately left a flaw there to let Eternal Night Mountain know that he had made a move.

After all...

In recent years, the once dormant Eternal Night Mountain had suddenly become active. Not only did Eternal Night Mountain begin recruiting people, but it also started capturing Xiahong Patrol Envoys and Ancestor Hall's agents.

Although they were merely captured alive and not subjected to any wrongdoing, with Duanmu Yan, whose destiny was unpredictable, capturing them, then letting Duanmu Yan do the killing, the cause-effect chain was severed, making it difficult even to investigate.

He made a move just to make Eternal Night Mountain restrain itself a bit. For three years, the demon clan had been searching for him. Within this organization, inclined toward the demon clan, many members helped in the search, but since he had hidden intentionally, they naturally couldn't find him.

As long as Eternal Night Mountain understood that he would strike, in the effort to find him, it would naturally reduce its outposts, concentrate its defenses, and make it easier to wait patiently and catch him.

This was also a form of constraint.

"It's time to leave."

Lin Yue moved and returned to the room on the second floor. He had set up a barrier when he left, and with the inn's own barrier protection, no matter what commotion occurred outside, the room remained unaffected.

The mortal woman's master that he had hypnotized with his divine thought was still in a deep sleep.

"Let's change places first."

Lin Yue casually waved his sleeve, and an invisible force instantly swept up the young woman. He then employed a tunneling technique containing the Sun Chasing Path and directly took her through and away.

Soon after.

The two arrived in a desolate wilderness several hundred li away, entering an abandoned dilapidated temple. Inside the temple, there were traces of campfires left by travelers passing through.

"This should do."

Lin Yue casually waved his sleeve, setting down the woman, then took out the Mask of All Beings and pressed it against his face.

With a surge of intense heat, his form began to change drastically, and soon he transformed into the appearance of a seven-year-old child.

He wasn't a pervert nor had any peculiar habits.

This was merely his way of refining his Dao Heart.

The seven-year-old child was named Li Wangsheng, a child from Li Family Village in Zuodu County, Cangzhou.

However, a few months prior, this child had already died.

Before the child's death, he learned of its wishes or rather its obsession, and then used the Mask of All Beings to transform into its likeness, living on in its stead, attempting to fulfill its obsession.

—The Mask of All Beings would retain some emotions and intentions of the transformed subject.

This way, he could better experience others' wishes and obsessions.

In the past three years, he had already experienced five different lives — one of an ambitious person despite being poor, a deeply tormented individual, an idealist...

Each life and obsession offered him new insights.

These people were carefully selected by him for this purpose.

This child named Li Wangsheng was also chosen after his investigation.

He just didn't expect to encounter this woman coincidentally.

"Huh..."

Lin Yue shrunk down into the form of a child, rubbed his cheeks, and squatted to observe the young woman.

The semi-divine artifact 'Flying Spirit Chasing Sun' that he had acquired in the Temple of Thousand Gods was still only preliminarily recognized as his, showcasing only its most basic abilities.

To achieve deeper recognition and unleash the true powers of this semi-divine artifact required obtaining its will's acknowledgment.

The condition was to find someone chosen by Flying Spirit Chasing Sun and help them overcome their destiny.

The person chosen by Flying Spirit Chasing Sun was one doomed to a tragic fate.

Especially this young woman, possessing the extremely pure bloodline of the Xiahong clan, she was at least the granddaughter or great-granddaughter of a prince.

Such a pure bloodline left astray suggested that she perfectly aligned with the descendants of the deceased Ninth Prince from years ago.

The surviving remnants of the Prince Lin Mansion were undoubtedly a significant concern.

"A meet of fate, the governing deity is isolated..."

Lin Yue observed the young woman, pondering, "Innately unlucky, likely influenced by the Prince Lin, I suppose..."

It wasn't clear how the Prince Lin died.

However, before his death, it seemed he committed some grievous sins, severe enough to incur heavenly punishment.

Those burdened with sin would be shunned and detested by the heavens, facing misfortune in everything they do, and even affecting future generations.

It was common for the entire Prince Lin Mansion to be implicated, because of the prince's grave sin before his death.

According to what he knew, all the people from Prince Lin Mansion were executed; even those beyond the reach of the law would be ruthlessly eliminated by opposing forces.

That's the greatest difficulty.

"How to overcome destiny..."

Lin Yue looked at the young woman, deliberating, "If nothing unexpected happens, a mortal like her, being so unlucky, is destined to accomplish little and not live long..."

He put his hand on the woman's body to check, and verified that she seemed to possess the rare Nine Extremes Yang Body.

This Nine Extremes Yang Body was an extremely rare Innate Treasure Body, harboring Innate Nine Yang Qi.

Cultivating Supreme Yang Cultivation Method would unleash immensely impressive support from the Innate Nine Yang Qi, making it an excellent talent for cultivation.

But...

it was advantageous only if a male possessed this physique.

A male with Nine Extremes Yang Body was a genius cultivator.

But females, being of yin nature, with such a body, would be dead before thirty due to the conflict between yin and yang.

Cultivating would only hasten her death.

Fortunately, this woman had only practiced some basic martial arts and did not know any Qi Cultivation Method. Otherwise, invoking the Innate Nine Yang Qi could have caused her to self-immolate.

"Consequences of being shunned by heaven and earth..."

Lin Yue contemplated.

Under the influence of sin, the Nine Extremes Yang Body, which should have been passed down to a male descendant with the lin bloodline, instead manifested in a female, representing her being shunned by heaven and earth.

"To defeat destiny, the first step is to resolve the short lifespan caused by the Nine Extremes Yang Body."

Lin Yue observed the sleeping woman, considered for a while, and gradually formed an idea.

He flipped his hand and took out a black jade bottle from his storage space.

"Lucky for you."

Lin Yue chuckled, glancing at her, and poured out a drop of faintly golden black liquid from the bottle, emanating a faint chill that began to freeze the surrounding ground.

The drop of black liquid floated in the air, and with a gesture, it flew into the sleeping woman's lips.

Simultaneously, he gently stretched out his hand, channeling a pure Water Element Spiritual Power into the woman's body, swiftly spreading throughout her body, especially into her Spirit Veins.

"Her Spirit Veins are ample; I don't need to specially find Heaven and Earth Treasures for vein-opening."

Lin Yue nodded slightly, then controlled the immensely pure Water Spiritual Power to circulate within, gradually melting the yin power contained in that drop of black liquid.

The black liquid was the "Heaven Origin Shaoyin True Water."

To a Great Cultivator, it was an extremely rare treasure, valuable for understanding shaoyin aspects of principles and Dao.

He didn't care about this treasure.

However, the shaoyin power contained in the Heaven Origin Shaoyin True Water was too formidable for a mortal.

Had he not grasped the rudiments of the Water Phase Path, controlling it would have been difficult.

He then personally dissolved the spiritual power of Heaven Origin Shaoyin True Water, allowing it to fuse, little by little, with the Innate Nine Yang Qi within the woman's body, gradually sealing the extremely yang Nine Yang Qi.

To solve the Innate Nine Yang Qi issue simply required using pure yin treasures to completely dissipate the Nine Yang Qi.

Without the threat of Innate Nine Yang Qi, she could live like a normal person.

But this would also make her lose the wondrous nature of her Nine Extremes Yang Body, leaving her without talent.

Therefore, Lin Yue opted to use the Heaven Origin Shaoyin True Water, a treasure that transitions from extremity of yin to extremity of yang, to seal her Innate Nine Yang Qi. This way, not only would the Nine Yang Qi not vanish, but in the future, her cultivation would enable gradual harnessing of it, strengthening the Nine Yang Qi.

"I'm afraid a lot of Heaven Origin Shaoyin True Water will be consumed..."

Lin Yue was unfazed, taking out another drop, glancing at the sleeping woman with a sly smile. "Having such an encounter even in her dreams, quite the rarity..."