"Something's not right! Sect Master, is this your final radiance before death?"
Mu Hei was suspicious and quickly checked Lu Chen's heart pulse.
"Eh? The demonic poison in the Sect Master's body really is completely gone!"
"His cultivation has also improved significantly! His Dao foundation is stable, not floaty like before."
"What did the Sect Master do last night?"
Not just Mu Hei, the Second Elder and Third Elder were also curious.
"Could it be the Sect Master was in the hall last night with someone...?"
They looked at each other, seeing the same doubt in each other's eyes.
Within a hundred miles of the Purple Nether Sect, it's a desolate wasteland; the only place where female cultivators appear is the Xuanxiao Secret Realm, fifty miles away.
Where did Lu Chen find someone?
"This Sect Master was in the hall last night with a Fairy, detoxifying and healing."
"Order the whole Sect to prepare a wedding feast! In three days, This Sect Master will marry her and make her my Sect Mistress!"
Lu Chen's eyes shone brightly; he had a severe mental cleanliness obsession.
Since he had taken Luo Shuangli, she was his woman, and he had to keep her by his side!
It could also be considered giving Luo Shuangli an account.
"What! Sect Mistress? Sect Master, you didn't mispeak, did you?"
The Elders were shocked, and Mu Hei even jumped up in excitement!
"The Nine Hells Heart Devouring Art is incomparably overbearing. The Sect Master did Dual Cultivation this time and didn't actually kill the person?"
"This shouldn't be possible..."
"What the hell do you know! This Sect Master naturally has my own considerations in how I act."
After announcing the marriage, Lu Chen handed the three Profound Grade High Grade martial arts he just obtained to Grand Elder Mu Hei.
"Mu Hei, take these three Profound Grade High Grade martial arts to the Scripture Pavilion. Notify the Mission Hall to continue sending Disciples out on missions to exchange Spirit Stones for martial arts!"
"Also, our Sect needs to expand recruitment! The male-to-female ratio is severely unbalanced; we need to focus on recruiting female Disciples!"
Hearing this, the Elders finally understood.
"No wonder the Sect Master wants to marry a wife; it turns out he wants to use this as a pretense to recruit female Disciples..."
The outside world knows Lu Chen is ruthless and cold-blooded.
Now that he's released news of getting married, it will undoubtedly change everyone's stereotype of him.
Combined with three Profound Grade High Grade martial arts, this is a fatal temptation for some small forces and Loose Cultivators!
This way, once there are more female Disciples in the Sect...
As long as he doesn't kill people like before and do every evil deed possible, the female Disciples will turn a blind eye, and the matter will pass.
"As expected of the Sect Master, what a great method!"
"Impressive! This move of the Sect Master's is truly brilliant!"
The Elders were smiling; they didn't object to Lu Chen practicing evil arts, but working people to death as cultivation vessels was indeed against the heavens.
Now that he can reflect on himself and realize his mistakes, it's definitely a good thing!
Lu Chen knew as soon as he heard them that they had the wrong idea, but he was too lazy to explain.
In reality, Lu Chen wanted to expand the Sect's recruitment of female disciples; maybe he could receive a daughter of destiny!
Wouldn't that be much easier than going out and finding them one by one?
"By the way, Mu Hei, this is a Rank Nine Spirit Gathering Formation Plate."
"This item is also your responsibility; put all the Spirit Stones the Disciples hand in into it, don't be stingy!"
Lu Chen took the Spirit Gathering Formation Plate from the System space and tossed it to Mu Hei.
"A Spi... Spirit Gathering Array?"
"My god! This item might not even be buyable for a hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones. The Sect Master is..."
Mu Hei's cloudy eyes suddenly burst with sharp light.
Originally, he was worried that Disciples exchanging Spirit Stones for martial arts would delay their own cultivation.
He didn't expect Lu Chen was doing it to activate a Spirit Gathering Array for the entire Sect to enjoy together.
He had misjudged the Sect Master!
"Sect Master... the Old Sect Master's spirit in heaven, knowing you made such a decision today, will surely be proud of you."
"The original body's dead father?"
Lu Chen's heart stirred, and he shook his head with a smile: "Then from now on, This Sect Master will be a good person."
"Sect Master, there's one more thing to report! Recently, people from the Cangming Sect have been appearing in the Xuanxiao Secret Realm from time to time; they seem to be plotting something."
"Cangming Sect?"
Lu Chen was surprised and frowned: "The Xuanxiao Secret Realm is in my Purple Nether Sect's territory! Why does the Cangming Sect dare to target us?"
The Purple Nether Sect rules for a hundred miles around; let alone a Secret Realm, even a grain of sand here belongs to them!
"Did the Sect Master forget? Half a year ago, you lost a bet with the Young Sect Master of the Cangming Sect... that Xuanxiao Secret Realm is now jointly owned by our two Sects."
Mu Hei said cautiously.
Lu Chen slapped his forehead, memory fragments reassembling in his mind, instantly recalling the cause and effect.
That day, the original body ordered a batch of female cultivators from the Young Sect Master of the Cangming Sect, but the latter refused no matter what.
The other party made the original body bet half the ownership of the Xuanxiao Secret Realm; if he won, they would send fifty female cultivators. Otherwise, he had to give up the ownership.
The original body lost without suspense and could only partition half the jurisdiction to the Cangming Sect.
"I see... This Sect Master remembers you told me yesterday that there's been abnormal spiritual energy movement in the Xuanxiao Secret Realm recently. Go down and send more people to keep a close eye on it!"
"If a secret treasure really appears, notify This Sect Master immediately!"
Lu Chen gave a few more instructions to the group and then returned to the main hall.
As soon as he entered the hall, Lu Chen's whole body stiffened.
Looking at the stunningly beautiful girl before him, Lu Chen's heart couldn't help but tremble.
Lu Chen took a deep breath and thought: "What must come will come; there's no escaping it."
He grinned and walked toward Luo Shuangli, "Lier, did you sleep well last night?"
"Last night?"
A hint of icy coldness appeared on Luo Shuangli's pretty face; her beautiful eyes stared at Lu Chen without blinking, trying hard to see a trace of guilt on his face.
However, she was disappointed.
"This bastard took her, and he doesn't have even a hint of guilt?"
"Oops, I said the wrong thing..." Lu Chen scratched his head awkwardly; he was touching a sore spot.
"Lier, I wanted to ask, did you rest well?"
Luo Shuangli's gaze was cold; she glared at Lu Chen fiercely, picked up the broken sword on the ground, and pressed it against his heart.
"lecher, you can say your last words now."
Strangely enough, after last night, Luo Shuangli felt as if she had been completely transformed.
Although her cultivation hadn't fully recovered, her Physique was several Ranks stronger!
Luo Shuangli originally only had the Frost Sword Body; when she activated her Sword Intent, she could condense a wisp of frost Qi to freeze the opponent's Meridians and slow down the flow of spiritual power.
Now, she felt she could freeze Lu Chen into an Ice block with a single thought.
In her Dantian, the spiritual power being generated even carried an extremely cold force!
Compared to before, despite no increase in Realm, Luo Shuangli felt her strength had suddenly surged several times over!
"Wife, could it be you want to murder your own husband?"
Lu Chen grabbed Luo Shuangli's soft, boneless little hand; a flash of panic clearly crossed her face.
She was so startled she quickly pulled back her arm and said hatefully: "Who is your wife! Lu Chen, don't talk nonsense."
"Fine! Luo Shuangli, are you going to seduce me and then abandon me?"