Chapter 204: Granny Is a Bit Too Extreme

Manjusaka looked at Ye Chen with clear displeasure. According to her original plan, she wasn’t supposed to awaken for another ten years. By then, her soul would have condensed into a physical form, allowing her to freely walk this world.

But Ye Chen’s divine radiance had pierced through, blasting a hole in the array beneath the ruins, forcing her premature awakening and creating countless complications.

Ye Chen had ruined her plan. And she had personally witnessed how Ye Chen had toyed with the poor girl before her, coercing her into things she clearly hadn’t wanted. Coupled with the betrayal she’d suffered during her life, all of it compounded into a deep disdain toward Ye Chen.

After coldly snapping at him, she turned to Su Yuxuan.

“Even if you’ve reached the Golden Core stage and possess that heart, you’ll only be prolonging your life by a few decades at most. And even if you overcome your lifespan issue, the flaw of the Blood Spirit Root means you will never reach the Nascent Soul realm. The Great Dao will forever be out of reach. Come with me. I can resolve all of this for you. All I ask is that you help me collect the materials needed to forge a new body and refine it.”

Ye Chen stood off to the side, lips curling, tone dripping with sarcasm.

“Careful she doesn’t lead you into a dark alley and possess your body.”

Manjusaka sneered at his words.

“The act of possession, no matter how thoroughly prepared, is always flawed and forever severs one from the path of the Dao. Only you wild cultivators would stoop to such crude methods. Besides, a mere Blood Spirit Root wouldn’t even qualify to serve as my handmaiden when I was alive. Why would I covet such a body?”

Damn it—does your whole family know how arrogant you are? Wild cultivator?

Ye Chen felt this was the greatest humiliation he had ever suffered.

“Wow, Granny, you’re amazing! But… how come you’re just a soul now? Where’s your body? Oh, sorry—should I not have asked that?”

Manjusaka’s soul rippled violently. She seemed to tremble with rage. No longer bothering with Ye Chen, she turned back to Su Yuxuan.

“What will you choose?”

Su Yuxuan shook her head without hesitation.

“I choose to stay by Senior Brother’s side.”

Ye Chen’s lips curled into a grin.

“See? She’s not interested in you. Better come with me instead—I’m magnanimous enough to let bygones be bygones and help you gather materials to rebuild your body.”

What he didn’t say out loud was—Once she was fixed up, he’d give her away and try to trigger a critical hit for a more gentle, portable fairy elder sister.

Ye Chen’s words caused the ripples around Manjusaka’s soul to intensify. If she hadn’t just awakened and her strength wasn’t down to a mere fraction of what it once was. And if Ye Chen weren’t so monstrously talented, she really would’ve slapped this man to death on the spot.

Ignoring Ye Chen, Manjusaka spoke coldly, “And what if you do stay by his side? If you’re only touched by the gifts he gives you, then you’re nothing but a fool. He’s just lusting after your body. And the things he’s given you? Those are merely what he has no use for. The true treasures—he would never hand those over to you. Take me, for instance. You don’t even realize what kind of opportunity I represent—but he does. That’s why he approached me himself, hoping I’d stay by his side. Foolish girl, use your brain. Don’t get deceived and still think the one who tricked you is a good man.”

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Manjusaka’s tone was earnest, hoping to pull Su Yuxuan back from the brink.

But Su Yuxuan, without hesitation, defended Ye Chen: “Even if Senior Brother is lying to me, even if he’s only after my body, that just means he likes me. Otherwise, with so many other female cultivators out there, why isn’t he lying to them? Why isn’t he lusting after their bodies?”

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