Steam rose from the hot spring.
Ning Xuefei gently lifted her fair legs and walked into the shimmering pool.
Ripples spread across the water.
She sat with grace by the edge.
The rising steam made her black hair fall into the water.
Her curves showed and hid.
Water drops condensed on her alabaster skin.
The naked body of the Number One Beauty of Longyue was right in front of him.
Hu Hong, peeping from the side, had a hard penis in his crotch.
The lust in his eyes was about to burst out.
The hot spring water gently embraced her jade-like body.
The air was filled with a delicate, pleasant fragrance.
The misty vapor swirled around her and made a scene like a fairyland.
Ning Xuefei closed her beautiful eyes a little.
Her hands brought up crystal-clear water and she gently caressed her delicate body, easing her physical and mental fatigue.
Wherever her palms touched, they met fine, tender skin, warm, smooth, and white as jade.
Only her beautiful head, cloud-like hair, delicate, graceful collarbones, and the edges of her firm, full breasts showed above the water, and that alone was incredibly alluring.
She was resting with her mind elsewhere.
Her palm lightly tapped the edge of the hot spring.
A wisp of pale blue, chilling energy subtly condensed between her slender fingers and coiled like icy silk around her fingertips.
The hot spring water, drawn by this energy, swirled a little.
Wisps of cold mist rose from her body and made her look even more ethereal.
But if one looked closer, her brow was slightly furrowed, and an unnatural pallor touched her snow-white cheeks, as if she were suppressing some inner disturbance.
As the chilling energy circulated, her delicate body trembled a little.
A flicker of pain crossed her brows, a sign of unstable internal energy and damaged meridians.
A hint of sorrow and distress sat in her beautiful brows.
Hu Hong watched for a moment and keenly noticed that Ning Xuefei’s palms seemed unusually cold, and her breathing was uneven, a sign that her internal strength was flawed.
He was secretly delighted.
This stunningly beautiful woman was so lonely and aloof, bathing here, and seemed to be suffering from some unexplained inner injury.
Added to her strained marriage with the Emperor, and the fact that mature women who have tasted men are naturally more lustful — if this went on, the more aloof and cold she appeared on the outside, the more bitter and lonely she was inside.
This was a great chance for him.
But his martial arts were relatively weak and his cultivation was not enough.
Seeing the stunningly beautiful, sensual scene, he could not control his feelings.
Under the sway of the hot spring water, Ning Xuefei’s curvaceous body, partly shown and partly hidden, was like the strongest aphrodisiac in the world.
Though he still used his internal energy to hold his breath, his penis was already throbbing beyond bearing.
He could not stand it any longer.
He gently reached into his pants, grasped the sensitive glans of his penis, and began to rub and knead it while he watched this peerless beauty bathe.
The once secluded, tranquil Cloud-Deep Courtyard now became an extremely absurd scene.
The mistress, Ning Xuefei, lay naked in the hot spring pool, lost in thought with her eyes closed, while Hu Hong, only a few meters away, hid behind a rock and stared at her, masturbating by rubbing his genitals.
He felt more and more aroused and moved faster and faster as he masturbated.
The sexy, charming beauty in front of him drove his lust beyond control.
He closed his eyes and fantasized, imagining the beautiful woman moaning softly, her face flushed, her round, slender legs wrapped in stockings around his waist, her hips arching and her buttocks welcoming the erotic spring light of his penis.
The fantasies were so lewd and seductive that his lower body moved so fast he could not control his breathing technique and even breathed heavily a few times.
He realized at once that the situation was dire.
Ning Xuefei, with her unmatched martial arts, clearly heard the sounds around her.
She opened her beautiful eyes at once.
Her pretty face turned frosty.
She shouted sharply, “Who is it!”
She extended her fair hand.
A burst of blue energy shot toward the rocks where Hu Hong was hiding.
He knew something was wrong and tried to run, but a huge current of energy swept into his body and wrapped him completely.
In his shock he could not use his inner strength at all.
In his panic the current swept him away and then slammed him hard onto the marble floor by the hot spring.
At the same time Ning Xuefei leapt out of the water.
Her delicate body sprang up.
She stretched out her hand, and a white bathrobe hanging on the pavilion by the hot spring was drawn into her palm by her inner force.
She spun with an extremely graceful posture.
The white bathrobe wrapped around her lithe, graceful body and completely covered her snow-white, beautiful naked form.
“It’s you!?” Surprise showed on Ning Xuefei’s face when she saw Hu Hong lying on the ground, screaming in pain.
He fell heavily.
Before he could even get up, Ning Xuefei’s fair face turned frosty.
A blue light flashed between her fair hands.
She could actually condense true energy into a physical longsword.
In an instant she appeared beside him with that phantom longsword in hand.
He only smelled a beautiful fragrance coming toward him, then a cold sensation.
The blue phantom longsword pointed straight at his neck, which was already slightly cut.
A little bright red blood flowed out.
“Speak!
How did you come to this villa, and why did you come to spy on me while I was bathing?
What are your true intentions!” Consort Ning Xuefei asked coldly.
Hu Hong was shocked by the Empress’s martial arts, so high that she could turn formless true energy into tangible sword energy.
His neck already stung from the sword energy, but he was well-read and quick.
He recovered fast.
He realized that though he was in grave danger, it was also a golden chance to get closer to the Empress.
He immediately bowed and knelt and proclaimed loudly:
“I have often beheld the Holy Empress’s celestial beauty, which is like the first bloom of the sea, or the first shimmer of the moon.
I marvel at how unparalleled she is in all the world, a rare beauty born only once in a thousand years.
She is truly a goddess whose fragrance and beauty are beyond compare.
I am captivated by her, unable to pull myself from my dreams.
I feel ashamed of my own inferiority, heartbroken and distressed, and I weep bitterly.
In a daze I wandered around the Immortal Palace sacred mountain, and by chance I came to this place.”
He knelt on the ground and looked down.
He saw Ning Xuefei’s fair, delicate feet close to his eyes.
Her feet were still covered with glistening water drops.
Her fair skin was adorned with pink toes.
A faint, sweet fragrance drifted from her feet and from the bottom of her bathrobe.
Ning Xuefei’s heart stirred.
Seeing that this man spoke well and had uncommon literary talent, and that he admired her to the extreme — though his words were inevitably too exaggerated and nauseating — she still felt quite pleased.
Although she had occasionally seen this man and knew he was a guest from Hundred Flowers Island, she had not paid much attention to him despite his dashing looks.
But everyone in this Immortal Palace and sacred mountain revered her like a god, and even the Emperor treated her with the utmost respect.
It had been a long time since anyone had praised her so elegantly.
Hu Hong raised his head a little and saw that Ning Xuefei was still looking at him without expression, and had made no further move.
He then raised his head fully, with her true-energy sword still pressed against his neck, and bowed with respect.
“I wandered into these mountains in a daze and saw the rising mist.
I guessed there might be a natural hot spring here, so I wanted to come and cleanse myself.
But when I got closer I found that the Holy Empress herself was here.
I was already in a suspicious place and had no time to leave.
I could only hide behind the rocks for fear of being misunderstood by the Holy Empress.”
Ning Xuefei snorted coldly and said in a flat voice, “So you are saying you accidentally ended up in the middle of these rocks?
This is the second peak of the sacred mountain, with steep slopes.
There is no way you stumbled here by accident.
I think you were deliberately hiding behind it, spying on me, and committing blasphemous acts!”
Hu Hong went on, “My hometown, Hundred Flowers Island, has pavilions and towers designed in the style of the Ming Dynasty.
After I arrived at the Immortal Palace I was drawn by the exquisite white-walled, tiled buildings here.
I often wander at night to admire the beautiful scenery of the Immortal Palace under the bright moon and stars.”
“I am not very talented, but I have mastered the family’s light-body skill, Flower Leap, and can walk and climb in the mountains without much effort.
I came here because I saw the steam rising from the hot spring.
I did not mean to offend you.
Please forgive me, Your Majesty.”
As he spoke he secretly activated his family’s secret technique called Night Heart, which made his senses extremely sharp.
He seemed to vaguely perceive Ning Xuefei’s emotional fluctuations, the chilling aura on her body that she tried her best to suppress but could not completely hide, and the occasional obscurity and instability in the flow of her aura.
Seeing his sincere manner and clear words, with his eyes fixed on her beautiful eyes as he spoke, appearing genuine and not at all pretentious, Ning Xuefei thought for a moment, then withdrew her invisible sword energy and said calmly, “I believe your words today.
If I find out one day that you are a lecherous scoundrel who deliberately offended me, it will not be too late to take your life.”
Hu Hong was overjoyed.
It seemed he had gotten away with it this time.
He looked at the beautiful Empress Ning Xuefei emerging from her bath.
Her plump, rounded body was slightly flushed from the hot spring.
Her still-damp black hair lay over her fair, smooth shoulders.
Her fair oval face held a blush after the bath.
Her high, pink-and-white breasts made her bathrobe bulge forward.
Her breasts rose and fell with her breath.
Her snow-white, delicate skin was so smooth it seemed it could be broken with a touch.
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Seeing that the Empress’s expression had softened a little, though she still kept a cold demeanor, and that her murderous aura had subsided, Hu Hong felt his courage grow.
He gazed at Consort Ning Xuefei’s slightly pale face and at the subtle changes in her aura he had sensed in the hot spring.
A thought struck him, and he decided to take the risk.
If he could use this chance to impress her and gain her favor, that would be an unexpected bonus.
He spoke with care.
“The Holy Empress possesses an ethereal beauty and should not be troubled by worldly affairs.
But if I may be so bold, I noticed that when the Holy Empress was concentrating just now, I seemed to sense that her aura was occasionally obscured, and the cold energy in her palms also seemed unstable.
I wonder if I am simply being blind and overthinking things?”
Ning Xuefei’s beautiful eyes narrowed all at once.
A hint of surprise flashed through them.
She said coldly, “Oh?
I did not expect that the martial arts of Hundred Flowers Island are indeed quite skillful.
You are quite observant.
But my health is none of your business to speculate about.”
Though her face stayed calm, she was secretly alarmed.
How could this person have discovered that she had been secretly suppressing her inner injuries?
Seeing that her reaction was cold but she did not directly deny it, Hu Hong became even more certain and quickly bowed.
“My family has some knowledge of traditional medicine and is somewhat sensitive to changes in aura.
Just now, when the Empress’s true energy was circulating, I inadvertently noticed something unusual, hence my question.
It was purely out of concern and had no other intention.
If I have been presumptuous, I hope the Empress will forgive me.”
Ning Xuefei’s beautiful eyes narrowed a little.
A hint of surprise flashed across them, then quickly returned to their usual indifference.
Her pretty face stayed frosty.
She did not utter a word.
She saw the man before her stand up.
He was eight chi tall, dressed in exquisite white robes, graceful and handsome.
His polite manner toward her was truly that of a charming young man.
She could not help glancing at him a few more times, and their eyes met without meaning to.
This man had sword-like brows and bright eyes, and she felt a slight unease in her heart.
Standing in only a bathrobe next to a young man was extremely improper.
Ning Xuefei blushed a little, ignored him, turned, and used her lightness skill to fly up to the third floor of the adjacent pavilion.
Hu Hong looked up at her stunning figure from below.
As she leapt, her white robe fluttered and made her look like a fairy.
Looking up from under the robe, one could see the hem extending from her plump, rounded peach-shaped buttocks to her snow-white thighs.
Those plump, rounded peach-shaped buttocks were full and high.
Her two fair, slender, rounded legs were held together with elegance, with smooth, silky lines.
Her soft, delicate feet were slender and translucent.
As she flew, the skin of those soft, delicate feet was crystal clear and snow-white, enough to make a man’s mouth water, and it gave off the unique charm of a mature woman.
He swallowed hard, secretly delighted.
Now that the Empress believed him and the crisis was over, and she was not sending him away at once, his desire to seduce and flirt began to stir again.
He had always been quite confident in his looks, and though he was usually in this Immortal Palace he rarely had the chance to meet the Empress.
Now was the perfect opening.
He straightened his clothes and walked toward a side hall, wanting to continue asking her about her inner injuries.
“Young Master Hu, this is my private resting place.
Male guests are not allowed.
I am about to go out.
Please leave on your own.”
He had not taken more than a few steps when he heard Ning Xuefei’s soft, melodious voice coming from the upper floor of the building, as if she were whispering in his ear, but her tone was cold and aloof.
He knew he could not act rashly.
Angering the Empress would be disastrous.
He immediately bowed with respect toward the upper level of the hall and said loudly, “I have offended Your Majesty by mistake today.
I am truly sorry.
I will leave now and will bring generous gifts to apologize in the future.
I hope Your Majesty will forgive me.
If Your Majesty suffers any inner injuries, I am willing to offer my family’s secret treasure to serve you.”
“No.”
Ning Xuefei’s voice came through.
Though it sounded ethereal to Hu Hong, it was like the sound of a fairy.
Hearing the sound of a window opening upstairs, and the sound of clothes billowing in the wind, Hu Hong looked out over the mountain and saw Ning Xuefei’s graceful white figure leaping away.
A few thoughts flashed through his mind.
A slight smile appeared on his lips.
He immediately used his lightness skill to follow after her.