"Yes, I know!"

Ling Changqing casually agreed as he let Tang Qiu Yao undress him.

"Oh, please. When do you ever know when to stop? If my Cultivation wasn't higher than yours, I almost wouldn't be able to take it!"

"Don't worry, we'll help you share the burden!"

The charming and radiant Qin Yun drew near, giggling softly. The other women then gathered around the Beautiful Jade Embroidery Couch.

Ling Qiyue placed a delicate hand on her waist and deftly unfastened the Jade Belt Hidden Button. Her magnificent robes slid to the floor layer by layer, revealing a peerless body that could topple nations.

"...Sister, this couch still feels a little small. We should have a bigger one custom-made in the future!"

The tall and stunning Ling Bingyun said softly to Ling Qiyue as she adjusted the butterfly knot on her panties.

Ling Qiyue replied with a shy pout, "This one was already specially custom-made. How much bigger could he possibly want it?"

This dragon-and-phoenix-carved Beautiful Jade Embroidery Couch had only recently been brought in. It was large enough for a dozen or so women to lie side-by-side for Dual Cultivation and "competitions" without feeling crowded.

Of course, if Ling Changqing's Female Army continued to expand, it was hard to say what would happen next.

After all, Xiao Meiniang, Yang Yunfei, and the other two were already eyeing him covetously. Perhaps it was time to plan for a rainy day?

"Sister, do we need to go change our clothes?"

Ling Yulu asked with a smile, her arms crossed. Her young husband just loved those indescribable, mortifyingly embarrassing outfits and props, and he always loved trying them on them. It was simply...

"It's fine. This is good enough!"

Ling Qiyue smiled. On the outside, all the women were dressed in a grand, dignified, and majestic manner, but their undergarments were mostly transparent, open in the front, or just a few strategically-placed straps that barely covered anything at all.

It was infuriating just thinking about it. Every time Ling Qiyue was in the Council Hall discussing important business with the Elders, that bastard Ling Changqing loved to hide under her unusually wide, magnificent skirts and do certain... indescribable things. He would always arouse her to the point where she could barely contain her passion, yet she had to struggle to maintain a majestic, noble, and inviolable demeanor so no one would notice anything was amiss.

Meanwhile, Ling Changqing and Meng Feiyu had already smoothly entered a deep state of enlightenment. The other women likewise shed all their clothes and gathered around to cultivate together...

...

The Haoyue Sect's fleet of Tianzhou Skyboats traveled tens of thousands of miles away before quietly coming to a stop. They then began to circle in the sky above the vast ocean.

Soon, Ma Deqing decided this distance wasn't enough to make the Ling Family's upper echelons lower their guard, so he once again ordered the fleet to travel another tens of thousands of miles away.

Six days later, the Sect Leader felt the time was right and ordered the fleet of Tianzhou Skyboats to travel day and night back to the Changqing Continent.

He had calculated the timing perfectly. The fleet of Tianzhou Skyboats would arrive in the outer seas of the Changqing Continent in the dead of night, which should be when the alertness of the Ling Family's on-duty Cultivators was at its lowest.

It couldn't be said that this strategic arrangement was wrong, only that it had absolutely no effect.

Under the vast, starry sky, a team of three thousand Cultivators quietly left the Tianzhou Skyboats. Riding their Flying Magical Artifacts, they silently charged straight for the family's main headquarters.

According to their plan, as long as they broke into the main headquarters before the Protective Array was fully activated and concentrated their superior forces to slaughter the Patriarch and the high-level Elders, they would secure victory.

However, the assault team had only made it halfway when their leader, Ma Deqing, was horrified to discover hundreds upon thousands of orbs of magical light shooting into the sky in the distance, illuminating the surroundings as brightly as day.

Immediately after, the Protective Array at the distant family headquarters erupted in a brilliant glow. A thick, pale-green curtain of light descended, and behind it, squad after squad of stern-faced family Cultivators stood in grim formation, ready for battle.

"...You shameless, despicable vermin! You actually dared to launch a sneak attack?"

Ling Qiyue's cold, imposing voice carried from a great distance.

"Sect Leader, what do we do?"

Beside Ma Deqing, a Pseudo Core master asked nervously.

What they had thought would be a surprise attack with victory assured and casualties controllable had now been seen through in advance, causing the Haoyue Sect's upper echelons to lose their composure.

Ma Deqing's face was taut. After rapidly weighing his options, he gritted his teeth and said:

"There's no time to worry about that! Everyone, charge with me! They don't have many Golden Core Powerhouses over there; they can't possibly stop us!"

Retreating now would be easy, but they would never get another chance. The situation within the Sect no longer allowed Ma Deqing the luxury of finding another suitable target.

Therefore, even if it meant paying a truly tragic price, Ma Deqing had to take down the Ling Family of the Changqing Continent now.

Only by doing so could he secure a sliver of hope for the Sect's survival.

"Yes! We are willing to die for the Sect!"

The surrounding Elders all voiced their resolve, their auras surging powerfully.

A moment later, the mighty assault team had charged right up to the Protective Array, encountering almost no resistance along the way.

Following Ma Deqing's command, hundreds upon thousands of high-powered Divine Techniques rained down, interspersed with attacks from various Magical Treasures, Spiritual Artifacts, Talismans, and Daoist Soldier Puppets.

A dense barrage of earth-shattering explosions erupted. Under this unprecedented assault, the thick light screen of the Grand Array twisted and distorted slightly, sending out wave after wave of ripples like water.

However, the upgraded and improved Grade Three High-rank Protective Array was not so easily breached. Even under ideal conditions, it would take several Golden Core Masters attacking together for many days to have any hope of breaking through.

Time was on the Ling Family's side. The longer this dragged on, the more disadvantageous the situation would become for the Haoyue Sect.

Ma Deqing understood this as well, but at this point, he had no path of retreat.

"Try the Grade Three Forbidden Breaking Talismans!"

Master Pangli said coldly.

Ma Deqing nodded slightly. The Vice Sect Leader then took out six Talismans from his Storage Magical Artifact. They shimmered with black and white light and emanated the powerful aura of the Power of Space.

Six Pseudo Core masters stepped forward, each taking a Talisman. They then simultaneously infused them with Magical Power to activate them.

A dozen or so breaths later, the six Breaking Seal Talismans, blazing with intense light, smashed into the Grand Array's light screen at the same time.

Six black-and-white clouds of light, each several dozen feet in diameter, exploded in unison. A thick layer of the Grand Array's light screen was silently shaved away.

In that instant, about twenty percent of the main headquarters' array Defense was annihilated, but it swiftly recovered amidst a flicker of light and shadow.

Moreover, compared to a moment ago, the thickness and resilience of the Grand Array's light screen had increased significantly. The Ling Family had clearly targeted this area and reinforced its Defense.

"Damn it, how is this Array so formidable?"

Ma Deqing's expression turned utterly foul as he cursed in frustration.

Under normal circumstances, this was not a Grand Array that a mere Golden Core power could afford. Its might was approaching that of a Rank Four Protective Array.

The Elders looked at each other in dismay. The value of six Grade Three Forbidden Breaking Talismans was no small sum.

For the Haoyue Sect in its heyday, such an expense would have been nothing, but now the Sect's reserves were nearly depleted.

From that brief test, Master Pangli came to a rough conclusion: perhaps if they simultaneously used several dozen more Grade Three High-rank Breaking Seal Talismans, they could breach the Grand Array?

But could the current Haoyue Sect even scrape together that many Grade Three High-rank Breaking Seal Talismans?

「Inside the Grand Array」

"...Four Golden Core Masters, plus four True Pill cultivators, and twelve Pseudo Core Cultivators. The Haoyue Sect still has some decent reserves left!"

Xue Qingtan, who was presiding over the Array's core, said with a smile.

Tang Qiu Yao frowned and said, "There's no problem with the plan, right? The Patriarch and our husband are really taking a risk this time!"

Xue Qingtan replied, "You don't need to worry about that. With our husband's Destiny suppressing them, the Haoyue Sect won't notice a thing."

Qin Yun said softly, "I'm just afraid the Haoyue Sect might still have some tricks up their sleeve. They were a Nascent Soul power, after all!"

Ling Xueyu said, "If they really had a trump card, they would have used it long ago. Why would they wait until now?"

"That's true!"

Tang Qiu Yao nodded.

At this moment, in the outer seas of the Changqing Continent, the fleet of Tianzhou Skyboats was still waiting quietly.

Ling Qiyue had already led the family's main elite forces to approach stealthily.

With her were Ling Changqing, Meng Feiyu, and Fu Yin Xue. In addition, Ling Qiyue had also brought twelve Third Grade Daoist Soldier Puppets and a set of Third Grade Array Breaking Banners.

With these assets, she was fully confident that she could deal with the Haoyue Sect's rearguard in a short amount of time and cut off their path of retreat.