Splashing…
In the steaming open-air spiritual spring, the water rippled, and a mist permeated the spring, acting as a veil for the lovely creature with black hair and red eyes in the pool.
Gu Mingxin lounged lazily in the water, pursing her lips like a cat, her eyes narrowed to slits. The usual oppressive killing aura and slightly pale, dreadful complexion were gradually regaining some color under the soothing wood-element spiritual energy.
Soaking in this wood-element spiritual spring in the cold of winter truly made one reluctant to get out. However, after all, constantly soaking in such pure wood-element spiritual spring would eventually cause the skin to become sensitive. Moreover, she was waiting to see the foolish white woman make a fool of herself in front of her. Just like before in the Northern Region, Feng Yu Die had fought her with tears streaming down her face but was unable to fight back and appeared utterly pathetic.
Gu Mingxin couldn’t exactly explain why. In the past, at the Tian Mo Sect, countless disciples had been defeated by her sword, endured humiliation, and then cried, begging for mercy. Take He Ji Ming, for example, who was a realm higher than her but had her hands and feet tendons severed in front of Yu Yan and a group of Tian Mo Sect elders, lying at her feet like a puddle of mud, crying and begging for mercy. Winning against those people had never stirred even a ripple in her heart. But Feng Yu Die was different. Seeing her in a predicament brought her a pleasure that permeated her entire being.
Right now, Gu Mingxin only had to imagine Feng Yu Die with tear-filled eyes, completely flustered by Ye Anping’s actions, and she felt a dizzying sensation throughout her body. The blush on her face, already reddened by the wood-element spiritual spring, deepened, and the corners of her lips couldn’t help but curl into a cat-like smile.
“Hohoho…” What a delightful scene that would be~~
She calculated the time with her fingers; an hour had already passed for Feng Yu Die. Estimating that Feng Yu Die was almost at her limit, Gu Mingxin slowly stood up from the pool, pushed aside the water, and walked to the edge. She shook her head, letting down her coiled black hair, and dripping water, pushed open the wooden door at the entrance of the spiritual spring and stepped onto the corridor.
“Hum~ hum…” Her damp jade-like feet left imprints on the wooden floor. Gu Mingxin, as if dancing alone, skipped and hopped along the corridor, room by room. However, as she rounded a corner ahead, her cheerful steps abruptly halted. She saw that on the window of a pavilion room ahead, two small buttocks, one black and one gold, were hanging side by side.
? Xue E and Xiao Tian, with their upper bodies inside and lower bodies outside, hanging from the window in the middle of the night was quite eerie. Gu Mingxin stared for a while before approaching them. She grabbed the skirts of each little one with one hand and pulled them out of the window. Frightened, Xue E and Xiao Tian froze, their hair standing on end and their faces flushed red, as if they had been caught by their mother reading… ah… adult books late at night.
“Ah?!” “Ah!”
Gu Mingxin looked at the two of them. Seeing that Xiao Tian still had little pearls of tears in the corners of its eyes, she became unhappy, and the upward curve of her lips slowly fell. She glanced at the window and found that the room was sealed with a restriction to prevent prying. Without paying attention to the two little ones, she forcibly sent her spiritual sense into the restriction. Due to the restriction, she couldn’t hear what was happening inside the room, nor could she see very clearly. However, she could vaguely glimpse a pair of jade-white feet, held outwards in an O-shape, suspended in the air, and jade toes that were constantly opening and closing…
“Hum~” It seemed she had underestimated that foolish white woman… But she probably wouldn’t be able to last much longer. Gu Mingxin snorted coldly, thinking she might as well wait a while longer before going in. She turned and continued walking along the corridor, found an open space in the back garden of the pavilion room, summoned her crimson spirit sword, and began to diligently practice her sword art.
After Gu Mingxin walked away, Xiao Tian sniffled and suddenly looked at Xue E with teary eyes: “Blacky!! Woo woo—” “What? Why are you crying so much…?” “Finally… finally, my Yu Die and Anping have finally… Woo woo woo—”
Seeing it like this, Xue E was also helpless. After all, it was a spirit of the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao like itself. How could this golden fool have become so useless? However, it could also guess that this golden fool had probably been trying to set up Bai Hua Zi and Ye Anping all along, but was too foolish to succeed. Crying like this, it could understand.
Xue E shook its head slightly and reached out to pat Xiao Tian’s head to comfort it: “What are you crying about? After all, you are from the Heavenly Scroll of the Dao…” However, the moment its hand touched Xiao Tian’s head. Uppercut!! Bang— Xiao Tian’s golden fist landed a surprise punch on its chin.
“Ugh—!!” Xue E was sent flying upwards by the punch, quickly stabilizing itself. It took a deep breath through its nose, widened its eyes, and looked down. However, strangely, although Xiao Tian’s right hand was clenched into a fist, tears and snot were still streaming down its face.
“Golden fool!! Are you sick?!! I even wanted to comfort you, spit!!” Xue E spat and drew its sword, rushing straight down, stomping Xiao Tian to the ground and repeatedly pounding the back of its head. Bang— Bang— Bang… Although Xiao Tian immediately cowered, protecting its head, tears and snot continued to flow from its face: “Wuwuwu… My Yu Die and Anping finally… Wuwuwu— Blacky…” “Bai Hua Zi and Ye Anping are together, why are you hitting me?!!” “I couldn’t help it…”
Xue E froze. Glancing at the corners of its eyes, its sword-wielding right hand instantly sped up: “? You couldn’t help it, right?!” Da da da da da—… … At the same time, inside the pavilion room. The doors and windows were tightly shut, and there were no spiritual lights or candles inside.
*Pop~ Pop~~* In this pitch-dark room, one should not be able to see anything unless using an illuminating spell. Yet, for some reason, Ye Anping could see Feng Yu Die’s face exceptionally clearly. Her white silver hair cascaded to the floor like a waterfall, as if emitting a faint glow, illuminating her and her body, reflecting in her golden water-element pupils.
Feng Yu Die stared at him intently, her pupils trembling slightly. She made no sound, just occasionally let out soft moans or silly giggles, which made Ye Anping feel both helpless and worried. “If you feel uncomfortable…” “Mhm←→←→” Feng Yu Die shook her head. “It’s strange, but I like it. Heh heh— If I had known it would be like this…” “It’s not too late now, there are still thousands of years left…” “Mhm… Heh heh…” Ye Anping’s eyes narrowed slightly, showing a hint of pampering. He deliberately slowed his rhythm, lowered his head, and kissed her again…
Their eyes closed slowly in unison, quietly feeling the hot spiritual energy exhaled by each other’s breath. But after a short while, Ye Anping felt something was wrong. His body felt much heavier than usual. He remembered that during the encirclement by his junior sister and Yunluo on the Immortal Ship, although he also felt tired later on, it was at least after the third day. He felt like he had only held Feng Yu Die into the room for a short time, at most fifteen minutes, yet his body felt as if he had labored for five days, to the point where his breathing was becoming unstable.
“Hoo… Hoo hoo…” Feeling Ye Anping’s increasingly rapid breathing, as if he was tired, her eyebrows spread outwards, and she asked with slight concern, “Anping, are you tired?” To be honest, Ye Anping really felt like he could barely move, but looking at the overflowing concern in her golden spiritual eyes so close to him, he couldn’t say it. Ye Anping forced a smile, gently wiped the sweat from his cheeks, held his breath, and suppressed his breath and voice, smiling, “How could I be? Yu Die, do you look down on me?” Feng Yu Die pursed her lips and replied softly, “Mhm~ But, I heard you…” “It’s just an illusion.” Ye Anping quickly interrupted, but his body was indeed unable to move at all. Suddenly, inspiration struck him, and he said, “Let’s switch?” “Mhm! Okay!!”
Rustling— With a roll, they switched positions. Ye Anping was slightly relieved and quickly took the opportunity to delve his spiritual sense into his body, wanting to see exactly what was wrong and why he felt so tired. However, as soon as he sent his spiritual sense in, he discovered that his meridians were filled with the spring-aspect spiritual energy signifying new life. It was like a blood transfusion, where new blood was injected from the outside to replace all his own blood. The Heavenly Dao spiritual energy accumulated during the Nascent Soul stage was completely replaced by Feng Yu Die’s spring-aspect spiritual energy. This directly led to all the flaws in his Nine Yang Heart Technique, cultivated since childhood, being completely filled and mended by Feng Yu Die’s spring-aspect spiritual energy.
The spring-aspect spiritual energy was the spirit of the Great Dao. And all heart techniques in the world were methods of cultivating the heart passed down from generation to generation by cultivators. Every heart technique had flaws, but the spring-aspect spiritual energy did not. Excess Yang energy was already a flaw in the Nine Yang Heart Technique. Now that this flaw was filled by Feng Yu Die, the saying, “There are only tired bulls, no ploughed-out fields,” could finally be verified in him.
“Hiss—” Ye Anping gasped and quickly tried to expel the spring-aspect spiritual energy from his body. But unfortunately, his spiritual energy was borrowed, and it was not as pure as Feng Yu Die’s. Although they were both at the Nascent Soul stage, in terms of spiritual energy quantity within their sea of consciousness, Feng Yu Die had several times more than him, and moreover, she was a descendant of the Saint Emperor.
Feng Yu Die moved according to the small figures in Xiao Yunluo’s book from memory. But seeing that Ye Anping was clearly uncomfortable, she stopped. “Anping… Are you really okay?” Hearing this, Ye Anping immediately held his breath again, forced a smile, controlled his expression, and said, “I’m fine, relax…” “Okay! Hehe… Mhm~~” “…” Ye Anping dared not speak again and immediately sent as much spiritual sense as possible into his meridians, continuously expelling the incoming spring-aspect spiritual energy.
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After an unknown amount of time, a blood-red light suddenly pierced through the wall of the room. Boom— The wooden door of the pavilion room instantly shattered into fragments and flew outwards. Feng Yu Die flinched in fright and immediately turned her head to look. This action made Ye Anping clench his teeth and uncontrollably raise his hand to cover his forehead. The light of the night pearls above the cave dwelling shone into the room, illuminating the two people on the bed.
Gu Mingxin stood at the entrance, holding a crimson spirit sword, looking at Feng Yu Die and Ye Anping with disbelief. This was the sixth time she had returned to check. Ye Anping and Feng Yu Die might not know it, but a day and a night had actually passed. Gu Mingxin had originally wanted to wait until Feng Yu Die was utterly exhausted by Ye Anping before coming in to see her pathetic state. But after waiting outside for a day and a night without any movement from the room, she couldn’t sit still any longer.
“…Foolish white woman.” Feng Yu Die twisted her eyebrows and quickly hugged Ye Anping protectively. She looked at Gu Mingxin at the door. “Blacky, what do you want?” Gu Mingxin was initially surprised, but seeing Ye Anping’s current exhausted state, her eyebrows twisted. After hesitating for a moment, she withdrew her spirit sword into her soul realm and slowly walked to the bedside, looking up. Seeing this, Feng Yu Die held Ye Anping even tighter, like his junior sister, clinging to his waist. Gu Mingxin looked down for a moment and chuckled, “Ye Anping, when you were so rough with me in Tian Bei City, how come you can’t do it now?”
“…” Ye Anping looked at her speechlessly. Thanks to Agu’s sudden intrusion, he had managed to expel all the spring-aspect spiritual energy from his body. After taking a deep breath, he reached out and grabbed Gu Mingxin’s hand, pulling her up. “Why don’t you try?” Gu Mingxin was startled: “Ah?” Ye Anping: “Yu Die, wait a moment, I’ll teach this tough-mouthed one a lesson first.” Feng Yu Die was stunned for a moment, then nodded her eyebrows, “Oh, okay!!”, her eyes seemingly saying: How dare you disturb her and Anping’s dual cultivation, let’s see how Anping punishes you!
However, Gu Mingxin looked at it with ease, thinking that Ye Anping was so weak just now, she could finally regain an advantage this time. She proactively pounced.
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