Undress! Golden Lotus Seal!

  "Ah Mei!"

  The man shouted and quickly walked up to their table, reaching out to grab Tang Xin, but she dodged him.

  "Sister, what's wrong with you? Don't you recognize your brother? Come back with me quickly, the people at home are anxiously searching for you."

  "Sister, is this person a relative of yours?" Tang Xin gave him a sideways glance, looking at Lin Yudie with a strange expression.

  Lin Yutiao gave Tang Xin a glance, frowned and stood up, looked the man up and down, and asked with disgust: "Who are you? What kind of relative are you acknowledging randomly? Get out!"

  "Scram! I'm not talking to you." He gave Lin Yudie a big push, and she was pushed aside. Fortunately, the girl next to her supported her, otherwise she would have fallen down. But this made Lin Yudie's temper flare up, and she scolded him: "You dare to push me? You're asking for death!" Her hand moved, wanting to draw out her sword, but was pressed down by several girls beside her.

  "Lín shī jiě, shī fu shuō guò bù néng rě shì." Several girls advised.

  "Ah Mei, let's go home." The man stretched out his hand again to grab Tang Xin, but Tang Xin dodged: "I don't know you."

  "Can't you hear? She doesn't know you, hurry up and leave! If you dare to recognize relatives again, I won't be polite!" Lin Yudi growled, warningly staring at the man.

  The man glared at them with a sweep of his eyes, stretched out his hand and pushed: "What do you think you're doing? Huh? Are you looking for trouble?" The man clearly had a provocative look on his face, but also seemed to be certain that they wouldn't dare to take action.

  "What's going on?" A hoarse voice with a stern tone came from upstairs, and Li Yuanchun, dressed in a gray robe with a veil covering her face, was standing at the staircase on the second floor, her cold eyes fixed on the crowd below.

  "Master, this person is deliberately causing trouble!"

  "Hmm?" A cold gaze with an air of majesty swept towards the man, and in just one glance, it made him feel a jump in his heart, as if an invisible weight had pressed down on him, making it hard for him to breathe. The pressure and aura that belonged to a Foundation Establishment cultivator was something that made him involuntarily want to retreat.

  "I, I've come to take my sister back home." He said with a stutter, sweating profusely, feeling the weight of the cold gaze upon him.

  "Which of you knows this man?" She looked at her dozen or so disciples and asked.

  "No." Everyone shook their heads, indicating they didn't know the person.

  "She, she is my sister." The man pointed at Tang Xin and said, still unwilling to give up, wanting to take her away.

  As soon as she heard this, Tang Xin immediately said: "Master, I don't know him."

  Li Yuqiu's eyes turned cold as she walked down the stairs: "Are you sure my apprentice is your sister?"

  The killing intent and pressure in her eyes made the man fearful, and he hastily retreated backwards, saying: "P-possibly I...I was mistaken." As he spoke, he quickly ran away.

  "Master, all the troubles were caused by her, she's just a magnet for trouble, even that third-rate man wants to take advantage of her." Lin Yudie glanced at Tang Xin with a hint of lingering anger on her face.

  Li Yuqiu withdrew her gaze, glanced at Tang Xin, and then walked to the table to sit down: "Alright, don't say any more, finish eating breakfast and hit the road!"

  This small commotion was calmed down with the appearance of Li Yuqiu, and the group finished their breakfast before continuing on their journey. It wasn't until the afternoon that Tang Xin arrived at the Green Yi Gate with them. Only then did she realize that among the thousands of disciples inside the gate, all were female except for Lin Yudie. Besides Lin Yudie, Li Yuqiu had three other senior disciples. The rules of the sect dictated that those with higher strength were respected, and therefore, every few months, there would be a competition to allow those with superior strength to enter the top ten ranks of disciples. Among the thousands of disciples in the Green Yi Gate, it was usually Li Yuqiu and these top ten disciples who took charge of teaching.

  In the Green Leaning Gate, only the top ten disciples can live alone in a courtyard. However, as soon as Tang Xin arrived, Li Wanqiu gave her one of her own courtyards, which was also the closest to hers. This made the other ten disciples feel uneasy, but they didn't dare ask about it.

  "Tang Xin, from now on you'll be living here. There's a medicinal field in the courtyard that I want you to take care of in your free time. As for your cultivation method, I'll personally instruct you." Li Yuqiu ordered, then turned to the other ten people and said: "In the future, unless it's necessary, try not to come over here. She needs to focus on her cultivation to catch up, I don't want her wasting time on trivial matters. Did everyone understand?"

  "Yes, Master." The crowd could only nod, and didn't dare to ask any questions.

  "Alright, everyone can leave! Tang Xin, come with me." She turned around and walked inside. As soon as she finished speaking, the other ten people exchanged a glance, hesitating for a moment.

  Tang Xin looked at the ten people staring at her with murderous gazes, smiled slightly, and then stepped inside. What was Li Yuqiu thinking, arranging for them to be so close to her? And not allowing anyone else to interact with her?

  "Lin Shimei, what's going on with Tang Xin? Why is Master so biased towards her?" a woman asked with furrowed eyebrows.

  "Really? Judging from her appearance, she shouldn't have cultivated yet, right? Why does Master value her so much? This courtyard has been empty for a long time, and that medicine field inside has very precious medicinal materials. Master usually doesn't let others touch it easily, but this time he let the newcomer move in and even let her take care of those spiritual medicines? What is Master thinking?"

  "A few of you sisters, don't say anything else. On this journey, Master made me follow her and protect her, I almost lost my life several times, Master is biased towards us and the dozen or so younger sisters who went out know it, but that's Master, we can't say anything. Moreover, Tang Xin is very sinister, being with her always ends in bad luck, you guys should stay away from her." Lin Yudie said, waving her hand as she walked away.

  "Are we just going to stand by and let her take advantage of everything?"

  "What else can't be done? The one protecting her is the master, do you dare to argue with the master? I don't dare to." Another person also said, as soon as his voice dropped, he turned and left.

  "Never mind! As long as she doesn't bother me, I won't bother to calculate with her. Anyway, we have a certain status in the door now, why bother to be at odds with her."

  Several people said goodbye and left one after another. The oldest woman gritted her teeth, hummed a sound and also followed to leave.

  "In the courtyard, Li Wanqiu pointed to that piece of medicinal field and said: 'This courtyard has never been inhabited by anyone because the spiritual energy here is the same as in my courtyard, with the most spiritual energy. So I planted spiritual medicine here, these spiritual medicines are very precious, you must take care of them carefully, water them morning and evening, and weed them.'"

  "Yes, Master." She had a special affection for Yao Tianqing, so she was overjoyed to be entrusted with the care of the spiritual medicine.

  Looking at the joyful expression on her face, Li Wanqiu's gaze also softened, and she took out a dan medicine from the spatial ring: "This is a Condensing Qi Pill, you eat it first! It will be of great help to your cultivation."

  She took over the small box, opened it and looked inside. It was a small red pill about the size of a thumb, which she picked up and smelled between her nose. A refreshing fragrance filled her nostrils, and from the faint scent of medicine, she recognized several fragrances that she had seen in the spiritual medicine shop. Knowing that she hadn't lied, she smiled and thanked Shuang Shuang: "Master is really good to me." Good is good, but maybe the purpose isn't pure!

  As soon as the Qigong Dan entered her abdomen, she felt a stream of energy slowly spreading throughout her body, somewhat similar to the Dan medicine she had refined. However, the spiritual energy condensed within this Qigong Dan was much more abundant. Perhaps due to the use of spiritual herbs, she could feel her blood vessels expanding as if absorbing the medicinal properties of the Dan.

  "How is it?" Li Yuqiu asked, paying attention to her expression.

  "A stream of air spread throughout her body, it felt very comfortable." She said honestly.

  Upon hearing this, she finally put her mind at ease: "Mm, that's good. Here's a water-attribute cultivation method, take a look first and ask me again if you don't understand."

  "Yes." She responded, pointing to the book with some curiosity and flipped it open. She saw that it recorded the entry-level cultivation of water attributes. With her exceptional talent, she memorized everything in one glance. However, to apply this cultivation, she still needed to comprehend the underlying principles. After quickly finishing reading, she closed the book and pointed to a part she didn't understand: "Master, what does it mean by 'drawing in air and transforming it into spiritual energy, removing impurities and retaining clarity'?"

  Li Wanqiu glanced at her and walked away with her hands behind her back, saying in a hoarse voice: "All cultivators start as ordinary people. The method of cultivating is to guide the energy into the body. Only those who successfully guide the energy into their bodies can be considered true cultivators. After successfully guiding the energy into the body, it is divided into ten layers. Cultivators must practice day and night to refine the spiritual energy in their bodies, which means to remove impurities and keep the pure. The purity of the spiritual energy in one's body determines whether they can successfully advance to become a foundation-building cultivator in the future. In the world of cultivating immortals, those who cannot enter the foundation-building period are only considered true cultivators. Only those who have entered the foundation-building period can be considered immortal cultivators. The difference in strength between two levels is not just ten times, so if you encounter an opponent stronger than you by one level or more in the future, don't fight them, but think of a way to avoid them."

  "Yes, disciple understands." It turned out to be like this. Could it be that since that time when she vaguely guided the spiritual energy into her body, she had been unable to lift her spiritual energy and also unable to advance further? Although the spiritual energy within her was no less dense than Li Yuanchun's who was in the foundation building stage, she just couldn't accurately control that flow of spiritual energy.

  It seems that although I don't understand her intentions, following her for now can also teach me a lot of things.

  "Then, Master, how long will it take me to learn to condense water pillars in my palms like Lin sister?"

  "After you have guided the air into your body, you can learn to condense water energy. Only after mastering the condensation of spiritual energy and controlling it can you skillfully use the techniques of water energy."

  "Oh, I see." She nodded and responded with a murmur.

  Li Yuqiu turned and left, leaving Tang Xin alone. She walked to the medicine field and took a look at those spiritual medicines. Some of them had just sprouted a small bud, while others were already in bloom. Among these spiritual medicines, one that was unassuming in appearance caught her attention.

  That was a slightly wilted spiritual grass, perhaps no one noticed its existence. Its side grew a lot of wild grass, mixed in the wild grass looked ordinary, but careful look, you can see that there are some small purple dots on the grass, thin and not noticeable if not carefully looked at. After all, it is a spiritual grass, she brought water to pour on it, and removed all the surrounding wild grass, only then smiled with satisfaction.

  It's called a courtyard, but it's actually just a thatched hut, only slightly larger and surrounded by walls. As for where others live, they all live together in one big room, which is different from her living alone in this small room.

  The room was simple, with just a bed and a quilt, a table and several chairs, as well as a large wooden tub for bathing. She reached out to wipe the table, and found a layer of dust, clearly no one had cleaned in a while. So she rolled up her sleeves and tidied up the place. By the time she finished, it was already dark outside, and her stomach was growling with hunger.

  "Sister, I'm here to deliver food, can I come in?"

  A voice came from outside, Tang Xin got up and walked out to take a look. A little girl about eleven or twelve years old, wearing an orange skirt, was standing at the door, curiously sticking her head in to take a peek. When she saw Tang Xin, she was taken aback for a moment, then hastily lowered her head: "Sister... I-I came to deliver lunch."

  "Come in!" She said with a nod, indicating for her to enter, and then turned around and went into the room herself.

  The little girl followed him in with her head down, not daring to look around. When they came inside, she put the food on the table and said: "Sister, please eat, I'll leave first. Later, you can just put the bowls outside in the courtyard, and I'll come collect them."

  "Wait." Tang Xin called out to stop her.

  "Sister, is there anything else you'd like to instruct?" The little girl stopped in her tracks and turned around, looking at the stunning beauty before her, and couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

  She smiled and said: "Sit down, I just arrived, I'm not familiar with this place yet. How about you accompany me to chat?"

  “She hesitated for a moment and said, ‘Sister, it’s not that I don’t want to chat with you, but the master has instructed me that after delivering the meal, I must leave and cannot stay here for long.’”

  "Why is that?"

  "I don't know either."

  Her eyes flashed, and she smiled: "Then I'll ask you a few questions, and after you answer, you can go back, okay?"

  The little girl thought for a moment and then nodded: "Okay."

  "What's your name? How long have you been here?"

  "Sister, I'm called Xiao Yan. My home is at the foot of the mountain. Because we're poor, I came to the Green Willows Gate to work as a servant girl."

  "Oh, so from now on, you'll be delivering all my meals?"

  "Uh-huh."

  "Alright! You go back first." As soon as she finished speaking, the little girl hurriedly walked out. She supported her chin with one hand and thought quietly. Opening the meal, there were two vegetarian dishes, one meat dish, and a soup. Her stomach was growling with hunger, so she started eating.

  At night, she sat cross-legged on her bed, trying to adjust her breath and gather her spirit. At this time, Fengfeng's voice came into her mind.

  "Mom, how long will we stay here?"

  "Wait until I'm familiar with and in control of the spiritual energy, then we'll make a decision. For now, just stay inside the space and don't come out, to avoid being discovered."

  "Alright, Mother, that old hag is not a good person, you have to be careful."

  "Uh-huh, I know." She responded with a sound, then used her divine sense to instruct the spiritual snake coiled on her hair: "Xiao Dan, go and scout out the terrain here, remember to be careful, don't let anyone discover you."

  "Yes, master." The small dan originally coiled on her hair moved and darted out, quickly disappearing into the grass thicket.

  She thought to herself, fortunately, Xiao Dan's breath was hidden very well and wasn't discovered by Li Yuqiu. If she had found out that she possessed a sixth-grade Blue Spirit Snake, she would have been on her guard against her once again.

  But what is her purpose? Why was she placed here and not allowed to be approached by others?

  She used to have a spiritual energy but didn't know how to use it, now with Li Yuqiu's guidance, she was like a dam breaking open, easily guiding the spiritual energy into her body and extracting the refined part. She sat cross-legged until midnight, until she felt a strange sensation all over her body and a foul smell came, only then did she suppress her breath, adjust her breathing, open her eyes and take a look, this one glance made her feel somewhat astonished.

  A black, murky liquid oozed out of her body, accompanied by a foul odor that even the bed she sat on was completely covered in. She got up with a look of disgust to clean up, took off her clothes and soaked them in the large wooden tub that had been prepared, washing them over and over again until the smell of the liquid was gone from her body. As soon as she stood up, she felt like her body had become much lighter, and even when she walked, her feet barely touched the ground before bouncing back up, which left her feeling very surprised.

  "What's going on?" she muttered to herself, and at this moment, Fengfeng's words came into her mind.

  "Mother, that is the turbid substance in your body. Only by clearing out the turbid substance can you begin to cultivate. Once the turbid substance in the body is eliminated, the body will also feel much lighter. This is what cultivators call 'eliminating the turbid and preserving the clear'."

  "No wonder my body feels so much better and lighter." She tapped her toes lightly, and with a slight jump, she tried walking a few steps in the room. Indeed, it was different from before, and her eyes sparkled with a smile: "Then I'll try to see if I can condense water energy."

  Although everyone says that the Five Spirits Root is the worst spiritual root for cultivation, she doesn't think so. Others only have one or two attributes, but she has five attributes. The five attributes are interdependent and conflicting, but she believes she can make them interdependent without conflict. If she can control these five attributes well and make them complement each other, then in the future, she will no longer need to fear cultivators who are stronger than her!

  She closed her eyes, her heart moved with intention, and she silently recited a mantra. The five elements within her body opened up, condensing into one of them - water energy. Her spirit guided the water energy to flow through her body, slowly gathering in the center of her palm. She suddenly opened her eyes and was delighted to see a small fountain bubbling up from her palm. The water flowed out of her palm but then returned back inside, not a single drop spilling onto the ground. This sight filled her with wonder.

  It's done! It actually worked out!

  Overjoyed and excited, she pinched off the seal, letting the water energy return to her body. As she watched the water droplets on her palm, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curve up in delight. In high spirits, she couldn't sleep, so she went outside for a look. She came to the medicine field and saw that the spiritual herbs were absorbing the moonlight and earth's spiritual energy under the night sky. Only that one sprout of spiritual grass in the corner still hung its head as if it was about to wither away.

  As she approached, the water that had been poured in the afternoon was now dry again. This made her feel strange, as the soil of other spiritual medicines still retained moisture, but this one dried up the fastest. She took out more water to pour on it, looked at the sky and saw the soft, hazy light of the moon shining down. This reminded her of the happy times when her family was still together, but unfortunately, they were no longer around.

  A few days later

  "Tang Xin, have you made any progress with your Qi training these past few days?" Li Yuqiu asked, her eyes still sizing her up.

  "Master, last night I successfully guided the energy into my body, and a lot of dirty black liquid came out, it took me a long time to wash it clean!" Although she had already succeeded in guiding the energy into her body several days ago, she knew that she couldn't tell the truth, or else wouldn't that arouse her suspicions?

  However, Li Wanqiu's eyes lit up as soon as she heard her words: "Oh? You successfully guided the energy into your body last night? No wonder Master saw that your complexion is different from usual today. Good, very good, starting from today, come to my room every afternoon."

  "Yes." What else did she want to do? She thought to herself, but didn't ask, and instead pointed at the withered spiritual grass, saying: "Master, what kind of spiritual grass is that? Why does it always look so wilted? Are there any books in this mountain that I can read? I'd like to study the survival characteristics of these spiritual medicines. If I'm not familiar with them, I'm afraid I might accidentally kill them."

  Li Wanqiu glanced at the place she pointed to, saw that small grass with an ordinary appearance, and said: "That spiritual grass should be a common species, not the one I planted here. Since it can't survive, let's get rid of it. As for books, if you want to read them, you can go to the library in the mansion, but you can only stay there for an hour each day and cannot linger."

  "It doesn't matter, one hour is just one hour." With her exceptional ability to read and memorize at a glance, she could finish reading many books in an hour. At that time, she would have to see if there were any useful books inside, even if she couldn't take them out, at least she could remember them.

  "I'll go back and prepare some things first, you come over again in the afternoon." Li Yuqiu said, turning around and walking away.

  After she left, Tang Xin transplanted the spiritual grass into the medicine field in her spatial ring. Since she successfully learned to control her spiritual energy after absorbing it into her body, she can now freely enter her spatial ring. And just yesterday, she had already planted the spiritual medicine seeds she bought back.

  After watering the medicine field, she left the yard. This place can be said to be a restricted area, and no one dares to come here normally. Although precious spiritual medicines are grown here, with Li Yuanchun watching from the side, who would dare to steal them at the risk of being killed?

  She left the yard and headed towards the library, intending to ask someone for directions along the way. However, everyone she approached took one look at her and then walked away, leaving her feeling frustrated and wondering what was wrong with these people and why they were so inhumane?

  Fortunately, she had let Xiaodan explore all the paths of this green leaning gate earlier. After asking a few people in a pretentious manner, she walked towards the library. From afar, she saw that there was already a long queue of at least two hundred people waiting, which left her stunned.

  Isn't it? Two hundred people? How long will this take? She stood for a while, listening to those who entered inside registering with a middle-aged woman, and only then did she go in, and heard them calling the middle-aged woman Shifu.

  With a flicker of her eyes, she thought for a moment, then smiled and walked forward to where a middle-aged woman was registering, smiling brightly: "Hello, Master."

  Who would have thought that the middle-aged woman hadn't even spoken yet, when a woman beside her had already opened her mouth. This woman was one of the disciples who entered the top ten. As soon as she saw her, she strode forward, came to her front and pushed her with one hand: "Tang Xin, what are you doing? Do you want to go to the library queue!"

  "Sister, why did you lay hands on me as soon as we met? Aren't you afraid of Master scolding you?" Tang Xin brushed off her skirt and said slowly, looking at her with an air of innocence.

  "Don't think that just because Master favors you, you can be arrogant here! I'm telling you, if you want to enter this library, get in line properly!"

  Tang Xin's face turned pale, and he shrank his shoulders: "Sister, how can you say that Master is biased? If she heard this, wouldn't it hurt her feelings too much? Master treats all of us disciples equally, Sister, you can't say such things about Master just because you don't like me!"

  The disciples around heard this and looked at Tang Xin with curiosity, who is this person? Daring to speak like that to the eldest disciple? Is she tired of living? In the Qing Yi Men, who doesn't know that among the ten great disciples under Master's command, their power is so great that no one dares to provoke them on a daily basis. And yet, this stunningly beautiful girl actually dared to say such words, does she not want to stay in the Qing Yi Men anymore?

  The middle-aged woman who had been registering with her head down all the time, heard this and her eyes flickered slightly, she raised her eyelids to glance at Tang Xin, her eyes seemed to be thinking deeply, after a moment, she continued to lower her eyelids and bowed her head again, registering as if she hadn't seen their quarrel at all.

  "Ah, Tang Xin!"

  "Sister, I'm here, no need to shout so loudly, I don't have a hearing problem."

  "YOU!" Her face turned red with rage, she shouted: "Today I won't teach you a lesson, you don't know how to respect me as your senior sister!" As soon as her voice fell, a sharp palm wind chopped out, the surrounding disciples retreated one after another, and the middle-aged woman who was registering also frowned and looked up at them.

  "Sister! You can't do this, I'm no match for you, don't hit me! Uncle! Uncle save me!" Tang Xin ran while shouting, her seemingly frantic movements quickly took her to the middle-aged woman's back where she hid.

  A furious woman was about to slap Tang Xin with her palm, but she didn't expect that Tang Xin was hiding behind the middle-aged woman. The palm slapped down, but before it hit anyone, Tang Xin shouted loudly: "Sister! How can you be so rude to my aunt!"

  At the same time, the middle-aged woman frowned and stretched out her hand to grasp hers, lightly but firmly holding onto it, as she gave her a cold glance.

  The woman woke up at this time and hurriedly opened her mouth to beg for mercy: "Master, forgive me, I didn't mean to lay hands on you, I wanted to teach Tang Xin a lesson." But as soon as she finished speaking, a crisp crackling sound rang out.

  "Crack! Ah......"

  The sound of bones cracking accompanied by a blood-curdling scream pierced through, startling the crowd of disciples who swallowed their saliva and looked at the middle-aged woman with eyes full of horror.

  Tang Xin poked his head out from behind, looking at the woman whose wrist was tightly grasped, a flash of dim light flickered across the bottom of his eyes, and he smiled: "Sister, you'd better apologize to Master Shu now! Maybe Master Shu will let it go if you do. Don't be so reckless in the future."

  "Master, master spare my life..." The intense pain distorted her entire face as she begged for mercy.

  "Get out!" The middle-aged woman let go of her hand, and the woman retreated several steps, almost falling over. Enduring the pain, she glared fiercely at Tang Xin before covering her hand and leaving.

  "Thank you, Master." Tang Xin walked out and bowed respectfully to her.

  "Are you Tang Xin?" The middle-aged woman sized her up, her eyes deep in thought, seemingly pondering something.

  "Does Master Shu know me?" She smiled brightly, but in fact her name had probably spread throughout the entire Qing Yi Men from the day she was arranged to be in that courtyard, so it wasn't surprising that she would know.

  She lowered her eyes: "If you want to read a book, go in! The time is one hour."

  "Thank you, Master." She thanked him and walked into the library under the envious gaze of the crowd, but she didn't see that in the moment she turned around, a sigh flashed across the eyes of the middle-aged woman.

  She entered the library and saw that the books were categorized. She walked to the section on herbal medicine, stopped in front of it, pulled out a book from the first row, and began flipping through it page by page at an incredible speed, making it seem like she was just browsing rather than actually reading.

  "Hey? Isn't this that withering Ling grass?"

  The pages in his hand paused, looking at the three words on it, Ye Shang Zhu, Ye Chang Sheng Xi Chi, initially mature for ten years, with purple dots on the leaves, flowering period for thirty years, that is, the purple dots grow into small purple flowers, mature period for one hundred years, that is, the small purple flowers fade away, and small purple fruits come out, because the small fruit is crystal clear like a pearl, so it's called Ye Shang Zhu, the purple fruit is precious, can be used as medicine to refine Dan, is an essential medicine in many top-grade Dan medicines.

  She was lucky to have picked it up, and she really didn't expect that little grass would be so useful. What made her feel even more amazing was that the purple dot would actually form a purple fruit. Her space growth period was one day equivalent to one year, so 100 days was equal to 100 years. So, in just over three months, others would have to wait for over 100 years for a top-grade precious medicine, but with her, it could mature in just three months. Just thinking about it made her feel excited.

  Look down, note that the leaves and seeds must be placed in a cool place, cannot be exposed to scorching sun, water once a day. It turns out that it can't be exposed to scorching sun, but in that medicine field, it's withered, however, whatever is planted in her medicine field is suitable.

  She read a book in the library for an hour and then left. In the afternoon, she came to Li Yuqiu's house: "Master, I'm here."

  "Come in."

  A hoarse voice came from the room, she pushed open the door and saw a large bucket emitting hot smoke inside. Li Yuanchun, with a black veil on her face, was standing beside the bucket adding medicinal herbs to it. She hesitated for a moment, wondering if she wanted her to undress and get in to soak? But wouldn't that mean she would see the golden lotus on her back?

  Jinlian is a clue to her identity, and an unsolved mystery. If she were to expose herself before her strength was sufficient, she would likely invite disaster upon herself!

  What should I do? What about the golden lotus behind?

  Li Wanqiu looked at her and said in a hoarse voice: "Take off your clothes and get into the bucket."