Gu Chen dragged his bloody finger across the cold stone floor to finish drawing the runes of the Celestial Unification Art as Gu Ling wept helplessly in the centre of the array since the Spirit-Sealing Dew had completely paralyzed her Frost Veins.

Her robes were ripped open to expose her pale collarbone and the delicate white silk of her undergarments.

But this was nothing compared to the devastation of her innocent heart because the noble hero she had worshipped her entire life was currently looking at her like a piece of raw meat.

"Brother Chen... why did you have to poison me and use force..." Gu Ling said as she struggled to speak through the paralyzing venom.

"If you just told me that you needed my Yin essence to heal your meridians, I would have surrendered my body to you willingly."

"You did not have to poison me. I have always admired you and I actually wanted to feel your warmth and become your woman."

Hearing her, Gu Chen paused with his bloody hand hovering over the array.

All these years Gu Ling has maintained her distance with him. Whenever he tried to get close to her, she would look away, avoid eye contact with him and flinch under his touch.

To think she secretly wanted to become his woman as well?

"Huh!" Gu Chen chuckled, "Your willing submission is exactly what I need, Ling’er."

"Because the Celestial Unification Art requires absolute harmony between Yin and Yang, your reciprocation will only amplify the effects and completely solidify my foundation."

"I will owe you my life and your cultivation."

"The Gu Clan will owe you."

Meanwhile,hidden perfectly outside the heavy wooden door, Gu Fan listened to the entire twisted scene unfold through the King-Tier Phantom Veil Cloak, and he immediately made a thoroughly disgusted face when he heard Gu Ling’s tearful confession.

"Disgusting!" He couldn’t believe this supposedly pure and icy genius actually wanted to spread her legs for her own cousin.

"This generation... They have no shame left at..." Gu Fan shook her head in disappointment, but then he paused midway and smiled sheepishly as he realized that he had been spending a lot of nights with his own dear stepmother.

"But I am different," Gu fan quickly threw the hypocrisy out of the window, "I am the protagonist now. I have the privilege to be hypocritical."

But as he thought about it, Gu Fan paused rubbing his chin as he genuinely thought about something.

’Should I let this happen?’ Gu Fan debated with himself.

Gu Fan had this thought because back in his past life he had spent his days cooped up in a tiny, depressing apartment.

Day in and day out he would spend his days staring at the screen in front of him and write the adventures of Gu Chen.

So now the thrill of having a real competitor and constantly sabotaging him made him feel incredibly alive and made him feel like a true, terrifying villain.

There was no harm in having someone to play with.

"But it is still not the right time," Gu Fan shook his head, thinking that Gu Chen was already at the Peak of the Spirit Realm, so he definitely couldn’t let this happen, at least not right now.

"Pushing the original protagonist into the Origin Realm would make him way too dangerous for me to handle."

Gu Fan slowly pushed the door open, letting it creak loudly into the silent room.

Gu Chen’s head snapped up, and he frowned deeply as his Righteous Heavenly Eyes scanned the doorway, but he looked around and found absolutely no one standing there not able to see through his cloak.

Knowing he couldn’t just fight Gu Chen head-on because he was only a 7th Stage Body Tempering cultivator with the effective strength of a 1st Stage of Spirit realm while the opposite party was at the Peak of the Spirit Realm, Gu Fan pulled out a ’Minor Illusion Array’ talisman and tossed it directly into the centre of the room.

The array flared silently, instantly engulfing both Gu Chen and Gu Ling in a powerful hallucinatory field, and as the illusion took hold, Gu Fan quickly slipped behind Gu Chen while equipping the ’Windchaser Boots’ from the inventory.

He also slid the spiked Earth-Grade Knuckle Buster onto his right hand, which he had received as a system reward for his intense dual cultivation with Su Mei,

As soon as he slipped the Knuckle Buster it glowed fiercely and amplified the raw physical power behind his punches by a massive one hundred times.

With the knuckle equipped, the power behind each of his strikes reached the 5th Stage of the Spirit Realm, which wasn’t enough to kill the Heaven’s favourite protagonist, but it allowed him to hurt Gu Chen slowly and steadily while completely hiding within the Phantom Cloak and the swirling illusions.

Gu Fan darted forward with the immense speed of the Windchaser Boots and delivered a brutal, bone-crunching hook directly into Gu Chen’s ribs, sending the Golden Boy stumbling sideways with a sharp gasp of pain.

"Aggh! Who is there?!" Gu Chen roared frantically, swinging his Spirit Sword blindly into the empty air, but his blade sliced through nothing but illusionary mist because Gu Fan had already moved to his blind spot to deliver another devastating punch straight into his kidneys.

"Uggh! Come out in front of me," Gu Chen furiously activated his Righteous Heavenly Eyes, and although the golden light flooding his vision allowed him to pierce through the mental interference of the Minor Illusion Array, he still could not pinpoint the exact location of his attacker, "Show yourself, coward!"

Panic firmly took hold as Gu Chen wildly swung his glowing blade in wide, desperate arcs to create a defensive perimeter using his Peak Spirit Realm Qi.

First Chen Long and now Gu Ling. This was already the second time that someone has dropped out of nowhere to ruin his plan.

Gu Fan easily slipped right underneath the erratic swings with the ghostly speed of his Windchaser Boots before driving a brutal, amplified uppercut straight into Gu Chen’s jaw, and the terrifying, multiplied force of the Earth-Grade knuckles slammed heavily against Gu Chen’s jaw.

"Boom!" The agonizing shock of the blow snapped Gu Chen’s head back violently and left a massive, throbbing purple bruise across his skin.

Completely disoriented by the sudden, localized pain, the Golden Boy staggered blindly, allowing Gu Fan to mercilessly follow up with a rapid flurry of heavy strikes, driving a brutal punch directly into the back of Gu Chen’s neck to scramble his senses before viciously kicking the side of his kneecaps to make his legs buckle awkwardly.

And as Gu Chen fell forward, Gu Fan delivered a punishing blow straight down onto his spine, forcing Gu Chen to scream and crash heavily onto the cold stone floor in sheer agony.

For the next few minutes, the lavish room turned into an absolute torture chamber for Gu Chen as Gu Fan mercilessly danced around him, delivering heavy, spirit-crushing blows while completely avoiding any retaliation.

With the Illusion array playing with his vision, Gu Chen was entirely unable to land even a single hit on his invisible attacker, and as the effects of the Earth-Grade knuckles battered his body, he was eventually beaten into a bloody, bruised mess before collapsing heavily onto the cold stone floor, completely unable to lift his sword or defend himself.

Soon the ten-minute active timer of the Knuckle Buster finally ended, prompting Gu Fan to stop his one way assault. Now he wouldn’t be able to use the weapon’s massive amplification for another twelve hours.

Meanwhile, when Gu Fan finally turned his attention towards the "victim" of the attempted sexual assault, the Minor Illusion Array had already made the icy genius completely lost in god knows what kind of erotic illusion, actively stripping herself of her light blue robes and her white silk undergarments so that she was entirely naked on the floor.

She was panting heavily with her eyes rolled back into her head, aggressively fingering her own soaking wet pussy as she writhed helplessly on the velvet carpet, totally oblivious to the brutal beating her precious cousin had just endured.

"Brother Chen! Not so fast! It is my first time."

"Eeegh! Creepy" Gu Fan looked away not able to see the flat-board please herself imagining her dear brother.

"I am sorry to crash your little party, Gu Chen," Gu Fan spoke in a deep, mocking voice, "Last time, I was too busy dealing with that young master Chen that I could not properly pay my respects to you."

"So let me offer you the proper curtsey," Saying so, Gu fan pulled out several glass vials filled with glowing, bright pink powder from the inventory.

Gu Fan roughly grabbed Gu Chen’s bleeding jaw to force his mouth open, brutally pouring one entire vial of the ’Demon-Ape Lust Powder’ straight down his throat.

But one was not enough.

Before Gu Chen could even choke it down, Gu Fan poured another, and then another, and then another until he had ruthlessly poured five whole vials into Gu Chen’s system in practically no time at all.

The massive, unprecedented overdose of the feral aphrodisiac instantly short-circuited Gu Chen’s entire nervous system, causing his body to go completely rigid.

Gu Fan stood up and casually walked over to Gu Chen’s hidden floorboard, easily ripping it open to steal the Celestial Unification Art manual and whatever pathetic spirit stones the Golden Boy had stashed away, tossing them all into his Void Band without a second thought.

He looked back at the paralyzed Gu Chen, whose bloodshot eyes were forced to helplessly watch Gu Ling moan and finger herself raw on the floor just a few feet away, entirely lost in her filthy hallucination.

"Enjoy the party, cousins," Gu Fan mocked, and as soon as he stepped toward the broken window to leave, he stopped.

He gathered a massive surge of Qi into his heavy boot and violently stomped on the structural support of the courtyard balcony, causing a thunderous collapse that smashed the surrounding stone pillars into rubble and created a deafening commotion loud enough to instantly attract the attention of the nearby Clan Guards and the elders.

With a wicked, completely satisfied grin spreading across his face, Gu Fan leaped out of the shattered window and vanished into the crisp morning air, leaving Gu Chen trapped in his own personal, agonizing hell, bleeding on the floor while being completely forced to watch the naked, writhing woman he had failed to conquer.

"Happy Scandal!"