How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!

"Rules are under others' control, what can be done futilely?" A trace of voice from Saintess Qian Ling reached Lin Xiaosu's ear.

Indeed, this is the inevitable result of rules being under others' control.

No matter how outstanding you are, others have already set the major policies.

No matter how well you perform, others can still make conclusions against their conscience...

What can you do to them?

In the painting, Hu Ji lightly smiled, "Young Master Su, Miss Ling, would you two be willing to visit my mountain peak for a cup of tea?"

Lin Xiaosu and Saintess Qian Ling exchanged a glance, "It would be our honor!"

"Please!" With a step from Hu Ji, the boat in the painting seemed to transform from illusion to reality, appearing beneath their feet.

The two boarded the boat and departed, as the boat sank into the painting and vanished into nothingness...

In Qingqiu, the lights were vibrant and the drinks were colorful.

The guests and hosts were all enjoying themselves.

The shadow of this episode for Lin Xiaosu seemed to quietly dissipate amidst the merriment of host and guests.

However, it only seemed that way.

At least for one person, the Seventh Princess, who was not as delighted. She attempted several times to storm into Gui Hall, claiming she wanted to flip the table and pluck every hair off the Great Elder...

However, her third sister was comparatively calm, and she knew very clearly that she couldn't pluck the Great Elder's hair even if he let her.

She couldn't flip the table even if she wanted to.

Most importantly, she herself acknowledged the alliance between the clan and Heart Pavilion.

This was the clan's grand plan.

How could it be swayed by impulsive whims?

If you like good-looking men, you can still secretly find someone else after marriage.

If your husband bothers you, didn't you study the poisons of Qingqiu? Killing or crippling someone is hardly a big deal...

Therefore, she patiently caught the Seventh Princess, whispered these fundamental truths in her ear, offering her sister a thorough lesson, during which she shared a great deal of personal insights and experiences, making the lesson quite lively...

Meanwhile, Lin Xiaosu and Saintess Qian Ling sat on the boat in the painting, following the water depicted, speeding towards a painted building: the North Tower.

This was not a real boat, nor a real water, nor a real building.

This was just an array.

Similar to a transmission array.

Without the speed or magic of a transmission array, this leisurely transmission further highlighted her profound array path foundation.

The water ahead reached the shore, curling up, seemingly like water flow, but actually was light flow.

The two were delivered ashore, and the small boat disappeared behind them, seemingly returning to the painting.

In front of them was a building.

The building's appearance was exactly like that of the North Tower in the painting, but the background was vastly different.

Above the building, dark clouds like ink.

Beneath the building, pure white.

Black above and white below, so peculiar.

The black without a hint of color, the white without a hint of color, even more peculiar.

Saintess Qian Ling's heart raced as a thread of voice reached Lin Xiaosu's ear, "Yin Yang Law! This elder indeed has studied the Yin Yang Law."

She said 'indeed' because Li Chengnian wrote a poem which includes a line "Yin Yang atop observation," upon hearing this line, she thought Li Chengnian must have delved deep into this painted person, his poem perhaps not composed merely in the time of burning incense.

Now it has been confirmed.

This painted person Hu Ji is cultivating the Yin Yang Law.

"In your view, what is the level of accomplishment?" Lin Xiaosu sent the voice back.

"Look at the position where black and white intertwine, the Yin Yang Grid has already emerged," Saintess Qian Ling said. "Yin Yang Law, ultimately aims for integration, when heaven and earth no longer distinguish between black and white, fully becoming a Yin Yang Grid, she would have touched the State of 'Holding'."

State of "Holding"!

She had already touched the threshold of the State of "Holding"!

Lin Xiaosu was secretly shocked.

This was merely an elder in Qingqiu, and an elder uninvolved in clan matters, the Great Elder did not particularly respect her either, yet she was only one step away from this legendary realm of State of "Holding".

The depth of Qingqiu's foundation was evident.

Is there a way to bring her onto his own wrecked boat?

If possible, that would truly be very imaginative...

These were the thoughts turning in his mind.

Simultaneously, another thought was turning.

Yin Yang intertwined,

Yang as the white line, Yin as the black line.

Yin Yang intertwined, becoming countless grids...

In the Desolate Ancient Realm, it's actually this intertwining method?

Why is this so different from the basic theory of Yin Yang philosophy?

In the ancient culture of Daxia, Yin Yang intertwining doesn't form countless Yin Yang grids, but transforms into a Tai Chi Yin Yang Fish.

It seems also necessary to acknowledge, the Yin Yang Grid can intertwine, but in the process of intertwining, the contact between the two forces is limited contact, mutually restraining, mutually diminishing.

But after transforming into Yin Yang Fish, the two forces form their own domains yet mutually replenish, Tao Realm more aligns with the Yin Yang philosophy of everlasting...

His heart thumped.

Could it be that the yin-yang philosophy from my world is more advanced than that of this place?

Lin Xiaosu stepped to the edge of the tower, taking a step forward.

This step seemed like just a simple step of a stair.

However, with a shift of light and shadow before his eyes, he and Saintess Qian Ling were directly at the top of the building.

On the rooftop, there was a tea table.

In front of the tea table sat a person as if from a painting.

If the information wasn't lying, the person before them had bid farewell to her sister three thousand years ago at the North Tower, even though she was just in the bloom of youth back then, she should now be three thousand years old.

However, her lips were red, her teeth white, her elegance like an orchid, and her head of black hair showed no signs of the ravages of time.

Only her eyes exuded an aura of detachment and transcendence.

"Greetings, Senior Hu!" Lin Xiaosu bowed.

Saintess Qian Ling also slightly bowed.

She felt quite awkward in this scenario.

She was from a million years ago, when she became famous, the ancestor of this small Fox Clan ancestor before her wouldn't even know where to play with mud, she truly wasn't accustomed to calling others senior.

But what could she do?

She had a little junior by her side, a fresh and tender human clan member, merely in his early twenties.

She reported herself as his senior sister... Forget it, let's just go along with this reduced seniority...

"Young Master Su, Miss Ling, please be seated!" Hu Ji lightly raised her hand in greeting.

"Thank you for the seat!" Lin Xiaosu and Saintess Qian Ling sat down.

"This is tea from the mountain at the back, I roasted and made it myself in my leisure." Hu Ji lightly tapped her finger on the table, and two cups of tea appeared out of thin air, gently landing before Lin Xiaosu and Qian Ling.

The elegance of the gesture was truly unparalleled.

"Thank you for the tea!" Lin Xiaosu slightly leaned forward.

His posture was also absolutely refined and elegant.

Saintess Qian Ling admired him immensely, he had put in so much effort to enter the Desolate Ancient Realm.

He had even grown his hair for months, and he was proficient in various etiquettes.

Even though he was clearly from the Otherworld, he showed no flaws regardless of how high-end the occasion was in this world.

"On Fenghua Road, you withstood the Array Power, your cultivation foundation is extraordinary; at Zuiyue Pavilion, your 'Tangduo Order', with its remarkable literary talent and unmatched artistic conception, deeply impressed me, this is not mere praise." Hu Ji said.

This was what she observed.

An expert's perspective was different from the common eye.

Others watched him traverse Fenghua Road for his posture, but she, through the phenomena, saw the essence.

Saintess Qian Ling said: "Senior recognizes his potential, could you change the elders of your noble family's perception?"

This could be a chance to overturn things amidst despair.

This senior had such high cultivation and notable identity, perhaps she could help overturn the situation.

However, Hu Ji lightly smiled and shook her head: "Currently in Qingqiu, people's hearts have turned strange, with such talent, why worry about not finding a wife? Why must you go against the current?"

Lin Xiaosu smiled: "Does senior think my coming to Qingqiu is merely to find a wife?"

"Oh?" Hu Ji slightly furrowed her eyebrows: "What other thoughts might Young Master have?"

"The founding ancestor of Qingqiu was once a powerful assistant to a generation of Human Emperors, renowned for justice everywhere, and today, amidst the chaos, someone hopes for Qingqiu to veer off onto a heretical path. I cannot bear to see Qingqiu fall into such a scheme, so I wish to disrupt the marriage alliance and eliminate the Heart Pavilion's demonic hands at the root."

Hu Ji slowly raised her head: "You say the Heart Pavilion... is unjust?"

"Heart Pavilion, an institution outside the Mental Path; Mental Path, a branch of unorthodox methods; unorthodox methods, held by the Six-Eared Left Holder, does senior know what kind of beings the Left Holder is?"

"Left Holder, exceptionally intelligent, akin to the human clan, and the Six-Eared Left Holder, a rare occurrence in the Heavenly Dao..." Hu Ji gazed at the sky, choosing her words carefully.

"Left Holder, practices unorthodox methods, is light on fairness and justice, all things in the universe, sects and clans, all living beings, are merely pawns in their eyes, Qingqiu associating with it is like seeking the skin of a tiger."

"Seeking the skin of a tiger? What do you mean?" Hu Ji asked.

Lin Xiaosu explained this phrase, unknown to this world: "People hope to obtain the tiger's pelt, as for the tiger? It desires human flesh!"

Hu Ji understood and after pondering for a long time said: "I understand Young Master Su's meaning, but I once swore a serious oath not to interfere in the affairs of my clan, the Heavenly Dao is cyclical, everything has cause and effect, if Qingqiu suffers because of this, it is its own retribution, for Young Master's warning, I offer a toast with tea instead of wine!"

What Lin Xiaosu said, no matter how persuasive, was of no use before her.

Because she did not concern herself with clan affairs.

If Qingqiu suffers because of this, it's their own doing.

Having spoken to this point, what else could be said?

In fact, from the information that she swore not to interfere in clan affairs, it seemed she had major conflicts with the current ruling people of Qingqiu. Most likely, whatever she said wouldn't be listened to.

Lin Xiaosu took a deep breath, lifted the tea cup, and took a big sip.

This cup of tea concluded the matter of the marriage proposal.

Hu Ji slightly lifted her gaze, with a faint smile: "Actually, I invited you over today for another important purpose."

"What purpose?" Lin Xiaosu's heart stirred.

Hu Ji said: "You forcibly endured the impact of the Array Power on Fenghua Road, the Yin Yang Power is not so easily dispelled, over time, it will certainly damage your Tao foundation, hence, I wish to eliminate this hidden danger for you."

Saintess Qian Ling's heart skipped a beat…

He suffered internal injuries from forcibly enduring the Array's impact, and she, as his senior sister, was unaware, neglecting to show concern, which was really inappropriate.

And Hu Ji before her, planning to eliminate this hidden danger for him, no matter how you look at it, this demonstrated sufficient goodwill.

Lin Xiaosu gently smiled: "Thank you for your kind intentions, senior, but there's no need!"