Chapter 649: Chapter 649: The Priestess’s Charms (25)

Space twisted more severely, and Ye Shuliang saw several people appear abruptly.

The white priest robe slowly unfolded, his visage overturning all living beings, his sanctified air made the surrounding scenery pale in comparison.

He was indeed of celestial bone and immortal’s grace.

Surprised, Ye Shuliang looked that way, “Priest Lord!” Why had he suddenly come to the Ye Family?

But in an instant, Ye Shuliang had a strategy in mind.

“Priest Lord, this woman is a Dark Magician; the massacre in Maoling City was her doing.”

Ye Shuliang and the original host had pushed her to be the culprit of the Maoling City massacre.

However, the difference was, in the plot Ye Shuliang said this to the public, but this time it was to the Temple Priest.

Chuzheng looked back, Lingji stood with hands behind his back two meters away from her, his unfocused gaze falling into the void.

Light shone upon him, casting a layer of warm light around him.

The Good Person Card looked really good.

“Family Head Ye,” his thin lips parted slightly, his voice light and faint, as if it were the sound of the immortals from the edge of the sky, “Dark Magicians haven’t appeared for many years, how can you be sure she is one?”

Ye Shuliang’s eyebrows furrowed.

This statement… something seemed off?

Ye Shuliang didn’t understand at the moment, but he couldn’t afford to think slowly.

“Priest Lord, you are a Light Series Magician, very sensitive to Dark Magic, and if you look at her, you will know whether what I say is true or false.”

Lingji symbolically glanced towards Chuzheng and said slowly, “I do not feel any Dark Magic on her body. Could Family Head Ye have made a mistake?”

Lingji’s tone was light, but anyone could hear the decisiveness in his voice.

Ye Shuliang: “!!”

How could there be a mistake?

This person was one he had cultivated himself; the Dark Magic on her…

No! How could the Dark Magic on her not be perceptible anymore?

Shocked by this realization, Ye Shuliang looked at Chuzheng in a startled and peculiar manner.

Chuzheng looked back at him calmly, her clear and indifferent appearance like that of Her Royal Highness the Queen, confident of victory.

Lingji continued, “Family Head Ye, if there’s nothing else, I will take her away now.”

The discrepancy Ye Shuliang felt was now confirmed.

The Priest Lord had come to the Ye Family… for her?

A nameless unease rose in Ye Shuliang’s heart, and he asked, “May I ask, Priest Lord, what is your relation with… her?”

“Family Head Ye, this is not for you to inquire about,” Jiu Qu reminded from the side.

Yet Ye Shuliang pointed to the Gale Leopards in the courtyard, “She brought these Demonic Beasts, harmed so many of my people, Priest Lord, don’t I deserve an explanation?”

Lingji glanced at the surrounding Gale Leopards, also somewhat puzzled, wondering how she had brought these beasts in.

He sighed inwardly and said slowly, “The Temple will handle this matter. Does Family Head Ye have any objections?”

The Temple… could he oppose the Temple?

Ye Shuliang could not.

Ye Shuliang suppressed his feelings, “No.”

Lingji nodded, stepped forward to pull Chuzheng up from the chair, and comforted her quietly, “It’s alright now, come back with me.”

Chuzheng: “!!”

No!

Who said I was leaving?

Which of your eyes saw that I was the one in trouble?

In the blink of an eye, only the Ye Family members lying on the ground remained in the courtyard.

Ye Shuliang’s eyes, as if poisoned, fixated deadly on the chair Chuzheng had sat upon.

What exactly is going on… How did she survive? How could the Dark Magic in her body disappear?

Ye Shuliang did not believe Chuzheng could conceal her Dark Element so completely that none was left, for even Ye Shuliang could not achieve such a feat.

However, Chuzheng had not just hidden it; she had used Yin Xian to block it out.

Ordinary people rely on perception.

So, they could not perceive it at all.

Lingji discovered it because he could “see.” Chuzheng made a small adjustment, and Lingji could no longer see it.

But as the beneficiary of her Good Person Card, Chuzheng granted him such a privilege.

In but a blink, Chuzheng found herself standing in the main hall of Qingfeng Hall.

“Chuzheng, are you okay?” Young Master Fu Yu rushed over, his face full of worry, “You scared me to death.”

Chuzheng glanced at him, “Did you tell him?”

Fu Yu, confused by Chuzheng’s gaze, wondered if he had done something wrong. If he didn’t tell the Priest Lord, who would have rescued you? I was afraid something would happen to you, so why are you angry at me!

Lingji: “You all leave first.”

“Master, these Gale Leopards…” Jiu Qu, looking at the Gale Leopards that had already begun to wander around the hall, was at a loss.

“Take them down and settle them in first.”

Jiu Qu, having no choice, led the Gale Leopards out, and while at it, dragged a somewhat aggrieved Fu Yu out of the main hall, closing the doors behind them.

The hall suddenly fell silent.

The two stood face to face, Chuzheng looking intently at him, while Lingji, though blind, might feel her gaze.

He pursed his lips, “Why provoke the Ye Family?”

Instead of answering, Chuzheng retorted, “Don’t you want to ask me if what he said is true or false?”

Lingji was silent for a moment, his tone unusually serious, “Since I’m with you, I must believe in you, and protect you.”

Lingji knew very well, deep down, that the incidents in Maoling City couldn’t be unrelated to her.

There was her essence there.

But what could he do now other than provide her cover?

Chuzheng reverted to the previous question, “It’s not that I provoked the Ye Family, it’s the Ye Family that offended me.”

It is not gentlemanly to not avenge a wrong.

Furthermore, that bastard Ye Shuliang even threw her into the Pit of Ten Thousand!

Did he ever think about the mental shadows she’d have from waking up to such a grisly scene?

“How did the Ye Family offend you?” Lingji’s brow furrowed slightly.

“Didn’t Fu Yu tell you?” Those trivial matters needn’t be mentioned to the Good Person Card.

Lingji heard the evasion in Chuzheng’s response.

But if she doesn’t want to say, he couldn’t force her.

Lingji, holding Chuzheng’s shoulders, admonished, “The waters of the Ye Family are deep. Promise me, don’t provoke the Ye Family rashly again.”

Lingji was particularly serious, and Chuzheng swallowed the retort ‘why should I?’.

“Okay.” She won’t provoke them in front of you, that is.

Lingji pulled her into his embrace, “As long as I’m here, I won’t let anyone hurt you.”

You better protect yourself first.

Chuzheng’s snark was silenced by Lingji’s kiss, or else there would have been another car crash scene.

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Leaning against Lingji, he traced his fingertips over the corner of her mouth, reluctantly kissed her, “How did you get the Gale Leopards in here?”

“With money.”

The bastard said it right, money can make the devil turn the millstones.

“…” Lingji fell silent, then continued asking, “I heard you even hit the Emperor’s Eldest Princess?”

She really dares to hit anyone.

Remembering he had been hit as well, Lingji had even more mixed feelings.

She indeed dares to hit anyone.

“…”

Is Fu Yu an idiot?

Why would he mention such things!

Chuzheng, unable to muster any righteous indignation, shifted her gaze to Lingji and lunged at him.

Her lunge was sudden, and Lingji, caught off balance, fell to the ground with her.

The intricate Priest Robe unfolded in layers around them.

Chuzheng, atop him and before he could speak, sealed his lips with a kiss, entwining and deepening it.