Lin Tian reached out and pawed at the sensation transmitted to him — soft and tender — which sent his thoughts spinning.
“Wait… this texture—it doesn’t feel fake…”

The next instant, a crisp slap rang out.
A hot, stinging pain spread across Lin Tian’s face.

When he lifted his head, he saw Wang Li, her cheeks flushed and eyes brimming with tears, glaring at him as though she’d been defiled.
“I’ll kill you, you shameless pervert!”

Clutching his swollen cheek, Lin Tian ducked back behind Lin Mo and protested,
“Uncle Mo, didn’t you seal her spiritual power? How could she still hit me?”

Lin Mo looked at him as if he were an idiot.
“Nonsense. I only sealed her spiritual power — I didn’t paralyze her body.”

Then he added dryly,
“And I told you to comfort her — is that what you call comforting?”

Lin Tian’s face twisted with grievance.
“Uncle Mo, you told me she was a man! I just wanted to feel what he’d padded his chest with, but it turned out to be real…”

Lin Mo chuckled in amusement.
“You got your fun and you’re still complaining? Besides, can’t a man have a chest?”

Lin Tian rolled his eyes.
“Uncle Mo, how could a man possibly have that thing!”

“Don’t let your shallow assumptions limit your thinking,” Lin Mo said with a faint smile.
“I’ve got plenty of ways to give you a pair if you want. Shall I?”

Lin Tian’s small frame trembled.
“Uncle Mo, no, no, no—don’t pull that trick on me! If I really had those, wouldn’t everyone take me for a pervert?”

On Wang Li, such a thing didn’t look out of place — but on Lin Tian, it would’ve been downright eye-searing.

“If you want to kill me, then kill me,” Wang Li snapped, her reddened eyes blazing with fury. “Stop mocking my gender and using it to humiliate me.”

Her chest heaved with emotion. She didn’t want to be like this either — didn’t she long to live as a normal woman?
Since childhood she had hated being born a man. Over the years she had tried every possible method to completely become female, but none had succeeded.

Lin Mo sighed and said to Lin Tian in a tone half-mocking, half-earnest,
“Silly boy, don’t say your uncle doesn’t look out for you.
He actually can’t bear children, but aside from that, there’s no difference between him and a woman.
Just treat him like a young lady — that’ll do.”

When they had first brought Wang Li back, Lin Mo had already probed her condition with his spiritual sense.
Yang deficient and yin excessive—although her essence remained male, she seemed to have taken many pills to alter her body. Judging from her behavior, her mind was no different from a woman’s.

Seeing this, Lin Tian’s expression eased; he no longer felt so averse.
“So she can’t have children—so what? That’s not the end of the world.”

He stepped forward as if making some grand decision, puffed out his chest, and said, “Miss Wang, about just now—I really didn’t know your situation. I wasn’t mocking your gender.”

Wang Li’s eyes were still red. “Say what you like—it changes nothing. If you’re going to kill me, then do it.”

Lin Mo snorted a laugh. “You really are something, Lin Tian.”
“How could the other side possibly—”

Before he could finish, Wang Li suddenly thrust out both hands and grabbed at Lin Tian. Lin Mo’s eyes went wide.

Lin Tian’s face flushed scarlet at her fierce expression—she was really using force.
In the end he couldn’t take it and yelped, “Ow—ow—ow! Auntie, that hurts! I didn’t use that much strength on you just now—y-you’re about to tear my thing off!”

After venting, Wang Li gave a cold snort and seemed to release him.

Lin Mo eyed Lin Tian’s slightly swollen chest and chuckled. “Didn’t you already end up with a pair yourself? How’s it feel?”

Lin Tian pulled a face. “That sour, tingly feeling—let’s not talk about it.”

Wang Li then turned to Lin Mo. “Enough—why did you capture me and bring me here?”

Lin Mo grinned. “To introduce you to this fool. Would you believe that?”

“Uncle Mo, why would I believe that!” Lin Tian blurted, only to shut up at Lin Mo’s look.

Wang Li cast Lin Tian a disdainful glance. “I feel nothing for him. He looks dumb and clumsy—borderline sleazy.”

Lin Tian’s pride took a hit. Maybe he really wasn’t popular with girls…

Lin Mo shook his head. “Mm, that’s not quite right.”

“Never judge someone by appearances,” Lin Mo said calmly.
“You should always wait until you’ve personally dealt with someone before drawing conclusions.”

Hearing Lin Mo speak up for him, Lin Tian was so moved he nearly burst into tears.
“My uncle—he really is my uncle!”

But the next moment, Lin Mo’s follow-up made him almost spit blood.
“Once you’ve gotten to know him, you’ll find out he’s truly stupid—and really sleazy.”

Lin Tian froze. “…This is what you call standing up for me?”

Pfft—Wang Li couldn’t help but laugh at that.
Lin Mo added with a faint smile, “Still, he’s actually a pretty decent guy overall.”

Wang Li’s mood, which had been gloomy, eased slightly. She looked at Lin Mo and asked,
“All right then, tell me—why did you bring me back here?”

Lin Mo’s expression shifted, growing suddenly serious.
“Actually, there really is another reason. First—are you from the Nightclan organization?”

Wang Li nodded. “If you’re hoping to learn about the organization, you’d better give up.”

Lin Mo gave a short laugh. “So you’re the kind who wouldn’t talk even if I killed you?”

“It’s not that I won’t tell you,” Wang Li said quietly. “It’s that I truly don’t know. I wouldn’t even know how to explain it to you.”

Lin Mo frowned, thinking she was stalling.
“You mean to tell me—you don’t even know the situation of your own organization?”

“Believe me or not,” Wang Li replied, “I really don’t know. Killing me won’t do you any good.”

Lin Mo stared at her for a long moment.
His sword-qi-sharpened senses could tell she wasn’t lying.

Finally, he asked, “Then how much do you know?”

Wang Li didn’t hesitate. She told them everything she could remember.
“The Ye-Yi organization—‘Nightclan’—was supposedly founded over a thousand years ago. Within it they run all kinds of enterprises, from legitimate trade, farming, and medicine, to less savory dealings like underground trafficking and assassination…”

“Beyond humans, even in the Upper Realm, Lower Realm, the demon world, and the monster world, there are members of the Ye-Yi.”

“As for their motives—at least on the surface—their ultimate goal always seems to be money.”

Lin Mo hadn’t expected the Ye-Yi to have spread so widely—
and not merely among humans.

Lin Tian blinked and asked curiously,
“Then… can I join your organization?”

Wang Li said, “There aren’t really any requirements to join the organization. Once you’re in, the organization provides what you need and assigns you a suitable task.”

Lin Tian asked, “Don’t they worry about spies or traitors?”

Wang Li replied, “We don’t even know what the organization’s true purpose is. Those of us at the bottom can’t even see the faces of our superiors.”

Lin Mo asked curiously, “You’ve never met your own leader?”

Wang Li shook her head. “Not even close. Forget the leader — I’ve never even seen the Grand Helmsman. And above the helmsmen, there are still the Left and Right Protectors.”

Lin Mo suddenly thought of something chilling. “If even branch masters are already at the Divine Transformation Realm, then what level of cultivation is your leader at?”

Wang Li shook her head again. “I don’t know. But the leaders’ strength shouldn’t be below the Integration Realm.”

It really seemed she couldn’t answer anything — asked three questions, and she shook her head every time.

“Then why did you join the organization?” Lin Mo pressed.

A faint light appeared in Wang Li’s eyes. “For… for them. I was willing to abandon this male body, to transform into a woman.”

“In the organization, every member can use their contribution points to exchange for whatever they desire.”

Inside the Night-Clan, the range of things offered was enormous.
As long as your contribution was high enough, you could redeem heaven-rank cultivation methods, ninth-grade pills — even divine artifacts.

So that was it — the gambling house’s point system was modeled after the Night-Clan’s contribution system.

The more Lin Mo thought about it, the more he realized how extraordinary this Night-Clan was.

“It’s a pity,” Wang Li added. “I’m only a hallmaster; the privileges I can redeem are limited. I don’t have access to the higher-tier rewards.”

Hearing that, Lin Mo suddenly said, “If I had a way to make you a true woman, would you be willing to come to my family and serve as a guest cultivator?”

Both Lin Tian and Wang Li brightened immediately.

Lin Tian’s thoughts were simple — if Wang Li joined the Lin family as a guest cultivator, he’d have more time to be around her.

After all, Wang Li was a woman personally chosen by Lin Mo.

I’d never break my three iron rules for chasing girls.

Wang Li asked, “You really have a way?”

Lin Mo smiled. “I do—but not right this moment.”

He had the System; finding a cultivation method or pill to change one’s sex shouldn’t be a problem.

【System】: Items that alter sex exist in the System and can also be obtained via lottery draws.

Wang Li eyed him doubtfully. “Not now? Young master, are you trying to trick me?”

“Think it through,” Lin Mo said. “Do I have any reason to lie to you?”

Wang Li considered it. His strength far surpassed hers—he could kill her at any time. There was no need for deception. And truth be told, she didn’t have anything worth bargaining with…

He can’t actually be interested in me… right?
If anything, it felt like he had designs on her.

“Then how will you prove you can help me?” she asked.

“Come back with me first,” Lin Mo said. “You’ll see.”

He’d already planned it out—he still needed to make a trip to the Demon Realm. Leaving a Divine-Transformation-realm cultivator to mind the gate while he was away wouldn’t hurt.

So Lin Mo brought Wang Li back to the Lin estate.

The Lin family, used to their scion returning with great beauties, took it in stride. In fact, everyone brightened—word spread that he’d brought home another young woman, and they filed out to greet them.

A woman blinked at Lin Mo. “Mo’er, this young lady is…?”

Before Lin Mo could answer, Lin Tian—sensing danger—jumped in:
“Auntie, this one is the bride Uncle Mo found for me—don’t get any ideas!”

Wang Li shot Lin Tian a murderous glare. “Say that again and I’ll rip your mouth off.”

Meanwhile, Lin Mo quickly sent a brief explanation to his mother via secret transmission. Gu Ningxin hadn’t expected the stunning beauty to be male; she wasn’t bothered—besides, the girl wasn’t yet her child’s fiancée, so no harm done. She gave Lin Tian a meaningful smile.

“Xiao Tian, work hard,” she said lightly, and withdrew.

Lin Tian didn’t mind in the least. He and his uncle had already said it: they could help Wang Li fully become female later. That would even resolve the matter of continuing the line. What else was there to think about? Chase her—problem solved!

After Lin Mo told Lin Nantian and the two Lin-family elders about Wang Li, everyone was delighted. A bona fide Divine-Transformation-realm expert visiting the Lin family was a tremendous boon.

Once everything was settled, Lin Mo handed Wang Li the pills he’d obtained from the System.

Wang Li asked, curious, “If I finish these pills, will I completely transform?”

Lin Mo explained, “No. These pills strengthen your Nascent Soul. When the yin and yang within you reach a certain balance, we’ll proceed to the next step.”

“Take one pill every seven days. Start with three months.”

Wang Li wasn’t in a rush. After all these years, what was a little more time?

A month later, Wang Li clearly felt changes in her body: her skin had grown more delicate, and even her figure had become noticeably fuller. She went so far as to entrust control of her spirit-soul to Lin Mo.

When all preparations were done, Lin Mo told Wang Li he would be traveling for a while—then he set off for the Demon Realm. Before leaving, he specifically reminded Lin Tian to spend more time with Wang Li—there might be an unexpected surprise.