The dining hall doors didn't just open; they disintegrated. A wave of blinding, crystalline light surged into the room, smelling of mountain incense and cold, unforgiving ozone. The heavy musk of Han Feng's dominance was pushed back, the shadows retreating as Stepsister Yue stepped through the threshold.
She was a vision of celestial arrogance. Draped in the white-and-silver silk of the Heavenly Academy, her "Pure Light" Qi radiated from her skin like a physical halo. Her silver blade, Heaven's Whisper, was already unsheathed, humming with a frequency that made the mahogany table groan.
She stopped dead. Her gaze swept from Han Feng—standing tall with the bronze glow of the Iron Root—to her mother, Stepmother Lin, who was slumped against the table, her midnight-blue dress in tatters and her eyes glazed with a hollow, shameful devotion.
"Mother?" Yue's voice was a silver bell, trembling with a mix of horror and mounting holy rage. "Han Feng... you... you absolute filth. What have you done?"
Han Feng didn't flinch. He leaned back against the table, his hand resting casually on Lin's trembling shoulder. "I'm just reclaiming the family assets, Yue. Your mother was just... signing the final deed."
"Liar!" Yue screamed. She raised her blade, and the room was flooded with a [Heavenly Saintess Aura]. The light was so intense it began to blister the paint on the walls. "I felt the corruption from the gates. You've used some demonic art to bewitch her! I will purge the filth from your veins and send your soul to the Abyss!"
She lunged. She was a streak of white lightning, her blade aiming for Han Feng's throat.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
Threat Detected: Sacred Virgin Body (Yue).
Cultivation: Foundation Establishment (Peak).
Special Property: Holy Light Qi.
System Advice: Do not dodge. Use [Iron Root] to absorb the impact. Physical contact with her 'Light' will accelerate your Golden Core breakthrough.
Han Feng didn't move. He didn't even raise a hand to defend himself. As the silver blade whistled toward his neck, he simply tightened his internal Qi, his skin turning a deep, burnished bronze.
CLANG.
The sound was like a hammer hitting an anvil. The silver blade struck Han Feng's bare neck, but instead of drawing blood, it sent a shower of sparks flying across the room. Yue's eyes widened in pure shock. Her "Pure Light" Qi, designed to slice through demons like butter, was being sucked into his skin, feeding the dark furnace in his dantian.
"Is that all the 'Academy' taught you, little sister?" Han Feng growled, his voice a low vibration that made the floorboards beneath Yue's boots crack. "All that preaching about heaven, yet you can't even scratch a 'trash' disciple?"
He reached out with a lightning-fast motion, his hand clamping around the edge of her silver blade. The "Holy Light" hissed against his palm, burning his flesh, but he didn't let go. He pulled her forward, forcing her into his personal space, the [Scent of Desire] swirling around her like a physical noose.
"You... how are you touching my blade?" Yue gasped, her holy barrier flickering as his dark aura began to colonize her light. "It's made of Spirit-Jade! It should have disintegrated you!"
"The rules have changed, Yue," Han Feng whispered, his gold-flecked eyes staring into her icy grey ones. "Your 'Pure' light is nothing but a battery for my growth. The more you fight, the stronger I get."
He released the blade and grabbed her by the front of her white silk robes, hoisting her off the floor. Her "Sacred Circle" shattered, the white light in the room dying down to a dull, flickering grey.
"You talk about purging filth," Han Feng said, his voice dropping to a silken, terrifying promise. "But I can see it in your eyes, Yue. You're not angry because I've 'corrupted' this house. You're angry because for the first time in your life, you've met a man your 'Light' can't control."
Yue's breath hitched. For all her training, she had never felt a masculine presence this suffocating. The heat radiating from his [Iron Root] body was melting the frost of her discipline. Beneath her robes, her skin was starting to prickle with a traitorous, biological reaction.
[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]
Sacred Virgin Body: Resonance Established.
Quest: 'Double Harmony' (Lin & Yue) – 50% Complete.
Reward: Divine Stamina (Passive).
"Let me go!" Yue struggled, her hands glowing with white sparks as she tried to blast him back, but Han Feng just tightened his grip, his thumb grazing the soft skin of her throat.
"I'm not letting you go, Yue," Han Feng smiled, a dark, predatory expression that made her heart hammer against her ribs. "I'm taking you to the Ancestral Shrine. I want you to see the real history of the Han family... and then, I'm going to show you exactly what your 'Purity' is worth."