Chapter 24
Chapter 24: It Was Me… I Made the Move
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Inside a simple cottage on a giant lotus leaf.
A girl with a cold expression sat cross-legged, wisps of misty qi swirling around her like a fairy untouched by worldly concerns.
Another cute girl was scratching her head in confusion as she stared at the jade slip in her hands, looking completely bewildered.
“What does this even mean!” Lin Muyu looked left and right but couldn’t make sense of it, so she had to ask Su Wanqing, who was meditating nearby for help.
She was trying to practice the breathing technique Su Wanqing had given her to break through to the Qi Refining stage, but unfortunately, she couldn’t quite understand it.
The writing in this world wasn’t too different from her previous life. Although some traditional characters were hard to recognize, this wasn’t difficult for Lin Muyu, who had been a teacher.
While Lin Muyu recognized all these characters individually, when put together, she couldn’t grasp their meaning at all.
Things like the Taiyin and Shaoyin acupoints, the Ren and Du meridians, the eight extraordinary meridians, she didn’t understand a single bit of it.
Su Wanqing slowly opened her eyes, speaking in a cold and serious tone:
“Calm your mind, close your eyes, meditate. First, feel the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Don’t rush to learn the later parts about drawing qi into the body.”
“Oh, oh.” With Su Wanqing’s explanation, Lin Muyu suddenly understood.
You have to eat one bite at a time, and cultivation must also be taken step by step, you can’t rush it.
She had never studied medicine and didn’t know where those meridians for drawing qi into the body were located, so she couldn’t quite understand.
But actually, learning to draw qi into the body could be learned slowly, there was no need to rush. Her key focus right now was to sense the existence of spiritual energy.
“I’m making the same mistake from my previous life again, wanting to learn everything before practicing,” Lin Muyu murmured to herself.
Learning should go hand in hand with practice, step by step.
Following Su Wanqing’s example, Lin Muyu obediently crossed her legs, placed her hands on her slightly exposed snow-white thighs, and closed her eyes tightly.
“Use your heart to feel the spiritual energy particles around you. Don’t be anxious. Generally, it takes more than a day to sense spiritual energy particles, and those with poor talent may need several days.”
Su Wanqing’s cold voice carried a rare touch of gentleness, like a careful teacher patiently instructing Lin Muyu.
Of course, with her exceptional talent, she had sensed spiritual energy particles in just half a day, making her among the fastest.
Listening to Su Wanqing’s words, Lin Muyu calmed her heart and focused on sensing her surroundings.
At this moment, nothing around made any sound, including Su Wanqing, who began restraining her aura to prevent affecting Lin Muyu.
Before long, Lin Muyu found herself immersed in complete silent darkness. She instinctively opened her eyes, only to find pitch blackness before her.
There was no sound in her ears. This extreme silent darkness made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
“Something’s wrong. Could this not be inside the cottage?” Lin Muyu suddenly realized this might be an unfamiliar place.
“Why did I come here?”
Lin Muyu felt somewhat afraid, her body trembling. After all, even on the darkest nights, there would still be starlight.
But the darkness before her was like a black hole, not a single ray of light could escape to enter Lin Muyu’s eyes.
And within this darkness, there seemed to be some enormous terror that could swallow her at any moment.
Lin Muyu shouted fearfully: “Su Wanqing, are you there?”
But she received no response whatsoever, as if the world had isolated her. This feeling made Lin Muyu very uncomfortable.
Suddenly, the extreme darkness surged toward her like fierce waves, wanting to devour her.
She struggled desperately like a drowning person, but was helpless.
Finally, having exhausted all her strength, she slowly sank into this pitch-black abyss…
“Hey hey, how can you give up so quickly? There are still so many things left undone!”
A familiar yet strange girl’s voice spoke with slight disdain near Lin Muyu’s ear.
It seemed to be reproaching her for giving up so easily.
At this moment, the exhausted Lin Muyu finally regained her composure to think:
“Things to do…”
Suddenly, many light green spherical orbs of light appeared before Lin Muyu’s eyes, emitting weak light as they swarmed toward her like bees.
They obediently circled around her, seemingly cheering and celebrating her arrival.
Even though their light was weak, there were many of these light green spherical orbs, and they quickly dispelled the darkness around Lin Muyu.
Lin Muyu suddenly found herself in an ocean world composed of light green fluorescence.
At this moment, Lin Muyu only felt warmth and peace. She curiously touched the cute little creatures circling around her.
But the moment she made contact with these little ones, they all surged into her body like they had found their home.
In an instant, she was filled to the brim.
“No, don’t, mmm…”
When the first spherical orb entered her body, it felt like warm currents spreading through her body, very comfortable.
But as more and more orbs entered her body, it caused Lin Muyu great pain.
Her body could only contain a limited amount of spiritual energy, but these spiritual energies didn’t care whether she could absorb them or not, they frantically squeezed into her body.
This was the first time she felt the existence of her meridians, because all the faintly glowing light green spheres turned into fluid and squeezed into her meridians, causing waves of swelling pain to assault her.
Finally, they settled in her lower abdomen at the dantian, and her lower abdomen began to swell too.
“Stop quickly, it’s already full, no more can go in… wuu wuu wuu…”
Lin Muyu pitifully pleaded with the orbs. As a cultivation novice, she didn’t know how to stop the spiritual energy’s behavior.
She only felt that her body was already filled and about to burst.
“How pathetic~”
The voice from before rang out again. The previously urgent orbs suddenly calmed down and slowly gathered together to form a human silhouette.
“Such a familiar figure…” Seeing the orbs calm down, Lin Muyu immediately felt relief and looked somewhat more composed toward the figure before her.
“This is… me?!”
…
At the same time.
“She entered enlightenment so quickly?”
Su Wanqing slowly opened her eyes, looking somewhat surprised at Lin Muyu, whose expression was slightly contorted.
“Really remarkable. No wonder Master wanted to take you as a disciple…” Su Wanqing gazed at Lin Muyu and murmured a few words.
You have to know, with her master’s lazy personality, how could she possibly take disciples casually? She would much rather live freely and alone.
“I wonder what Master is doing now? She’s probably drunk and sleeping somewhere.”
Thousands of miles away, Xinlian wiped the blood from her sword and suddenly sneezed: “Achoo!”
“Could it be that Qing’er is thinking of me?”
Thinking of this, Xinlian immediately smiled, made a fire spell to burn the mountain of corpses before her to ashes.
Then she collected a seven-colored glowing pearl into her storage bag, and her figure disappeared on the spot.
Only ashes scattered across several miles remained…
Su Wanqing tidied up her slightly disheveled clothes, then stood up and walked outside.
“Since there’s nothing more for me to do here, I should deal with this damn poison.”
Su Wanqing had a premonition that the evil poison left by that Peach Fairy was probably still hidden in her body, waiting for the right moment to strike.
“Frost Sword!” Su Wanqing’s red lips parted slightly, and the Frost Sword in its sheath immediately bounced out like a happy little dog, floating beside Su Wanqing’s feet.
Su Wanqing stepped onto the Frost Sword and flew into the air…
Before long, she arrived atop a verdant mountain peak.
“Long time no see, Junior Sister Wanqing~” A delicate and gentle green-haired girl was grinding medicine with a pestle, speaking with a light laugh without looking back.
“Long time no see, Senior Sister Qingyao.”
Su Wanqing obediently sat on a nearby meditation cushion, quietly waiting for Qingyao to finish her work, not rushing her at all.
“Congratulations, Junior Sister Wanqing, on breaking through to the peak of Foundation Establishment. Truly impressive~”
Qingyao continued grinding medicine while praising her, still not showing any intention of turning around.
“Thank you for Senior Sister’s praise.”
Su Wanqing’s expression remained unchanged, still sitting obediently on the cushion.
Then both fell into a long silence.
“Junior Sister Wanqing is still so boring~” Qingyao spoke first with some helplessness.
Hearing this, Su Wanqing actually felt relieved. If there was nothing wrong, she really didn’t want to ask Qingyao for help.
Others might be deceived by Qingyao’s seemingly gentle appearance, but Su Wanqing knew this person was quite scheming, what you’d call a white lotus with a black heart!
She had been teased by her countless times when they were young!
“So tell me, what brings you to see Senior Sister this time?” Qingyao’s tone became serious, no longer planning to tease Su Wanqing.
Because she knew that if Su Wanqing came to find her, it must be something important. After all, ever since Su Wanqing grew up, she had never come to see her again.
She had lost quite a bit of fun because of that. She really wanted to find another interesting person!
She kind of missed the young Su Wanqing, not only cute but could be teased at will.
“Senior Sister… I think… I’ve been poisoned.” Su Wanqing’s face turned slightly red, her voice stammering.
“What poison? Did you take a detoxification pill?” Only then did Qingyao turn around, noticing something strange about Su Wanqing’s appearance.
“Doesn’t look like she’s been poisoned?”
Faced with Qingyao’s questions, Su Wanqing lowered her head shyly and answered:
“I took one, but it had no effect…”
Seeing that Su Wanqing didn’t answer what poison it was, Qingyao became even more puzzled. She put down the pestle in her hands and moved closer to Su Wanqing.
“Lift your head!” Qingyao’s tone was serious, her whole body radiating the authority of a senior sister.
Su Wanqing had no choice but to obediently lift her head, though this only made Qingyao more confused.
She saw that Su Wanqing’s face was pale, but there was also a blush creeping up her cheeks, making her look extremely strange.
“Give me your hand.” Qingyao commanded.
Su Wanqing obediently extended her hand as instructed.
Qingyao gently placed her hand on Su Wanqing’s jade-white wrist, closed her eyes, and channeled a wisp of pale green spiritual energy into Su Wanqing’s body.
Su Wanqing immediately felt like she was being seen through completely, sending chills down her spine.
After a short while.
“What?! Junior Sister Wanqing, you actually…” Qingyao was shocked and was about to shout.
But Su Wanqing quickly covered her mouth with her hand, the blush on her face deepening.
Qingyao frowned tightly, asking with slight killing intent:
“Who did this? Was it that boy surnamed Ye? No way, I’m going to kill him!”
As a senior sister who had watched Su Wanqing grow up, she understood Su Wanqing’s personality.
She could never take the initiative to do such things, she could only have been deceived and forced.
And that Ye boy, she could tell he was the same type of person as her, appearing gentle on the surface but actually quite ruthless.
Su Wanqing quickly explained:
“It wasn’t him…”
“Then who was it? No one can force you!” Qingyao pulled out her life-bound artifact, a medicine gourd, ready to fight at any moment.
“I was the one who initiated it…” Su Wanqing’s words were like the buzzing of mosquitoes, barely audible to Qingyao.
“What did you say?!”
“It was me… I made the move” This time, Su Wanqing’s voice was louder, and her face instantly turned as red as Guan Yu.
Qingyao finally heard clearly and exclaimed in disbelief:
“You made the move?!”