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Originally, Yino just wanted to pretend to be useless to gain some sympathy and benefits from her.
But what Yino hadn’t expected was that since he returned from the secret realm pretending to be useless, Yuyan’s attitude toward him had undergone such a tremendous change—she even believed Yino’s repeated misfortunes were due to her fate affecting him.
This was clearly becoming unhinged.
With countless thoughts swirling, Yino sighed.
“Actually… I can handle this myself in the future…”
“There’s no need for Senior Sister to dirty her hands and compromise herself…”
Yino’s words carried an inexplicable sense of dejection.
He didn’t know how to face Yuyan. The guilt felt as if he was pushing Yuyan closer to insanity.
Honestly, Yino initially thought his lost cultivation had nothing to do with Yuyan.
Yuyan should have continued cultivating as she always had—why bother with Yino?
But unexpectedly, Yuyan cared so much about his cultivation that she was willing to personally help Yino detoxify to speed his recovery.
“No, you can’t just do it yourself.”
Unexpectedly, the white-robed woman suddenly scolded him.
This statement left Yino confused again.
“Huh?”
“The book says a female cultivator’s true energy is required to effectively drive out evil toxins… If you do it yourself, what purpose does it serve beyond releasing lust?” Yuyan’s expression was serious as she stared at Yino, not at all joking.
“Ah… is there really such a claim…”
Yino’s lips twitched. He really wanted to know what kind of erotic technique Jinyue had written.
But oddly enough, Yuyan’s words actually made some sense. Now even Yino wasn’t sure if this manual was Jinyue’s prank or if it was genuinely some Harmony Sect dual cultivation technique.
“Moreover, the human body only produces so much each day.”
“From now on, I will help you detoxify according to the treatment schedule in the manual. If you waste the reserves on your own, won’t that delay your cultivation recovery?”
Yuyan spoke with such conviction that Yino took a sharp breath, suddenly feeling this was legitimate.
“Although it’s strange… it does make sense…”
The young man nodded hesitantly, looking at Yuyan with some disbelief.
He never dreamed that in the cultivation world where people avoided discussing sexuality and held more traditional thinking, he would one day have such a conversation with his senior sister.
“So don’t worry about this.”
“During your recovery time on Ranmo Peak, as long as I don’t have missions, I’ll stay home with you every day. You don’t need to think too much about this—just live normally. Whenever your body develops evil thoughts about me, I’ll help you expel the evil toxins.”
“The book says when the patient develops evil thoughts is the best opportunity for detoxification!”
Yuyan finally wiped her jade hands with the towel and looked into the young man’s eyes with complete seriousness as she instructed him.
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In the Western Region.
While Ruoning and Yuebai had settled into their lives in Jiangnan, on the other side, Liuli had descended to the demon abyss, personally leading her sister into the Full Moon Sect’s main teleportation hall.
Liuli hadn’t returned here for a long time.
This visit had two purposes.
First, the Full Moon Sect recently had a decree from the Grand Archbishop; second, she was bringing her sister Lily to familiarize herself with her daily work routines.
“Well, well~”
“Isn’t this our Western Region’s rising star, the once-in-a-century evil technique genius, Holy Maiden Liuli?”
The moment they entered the main hall, Liuli heard a bell-like, somewhat morbid, taunting laugh from the side.
Liuli tightened her grip on her sister’s hand and looked back impatiently, meeting the gaze of a girl with white hair dyed red in twin tails, wearing red clothes and wrapped in bandages like herself.
However, Liuli didn’t pay much attention.
Because this type of troublemaker was common in evil sects.
Liuli herself was somewhat disturbed mentally, but her personality was the quiet type. Appearance-wise, Liuli also wore bandages with strange vines and carnations, looking no more normal at first glance than the morbidly laughing girl.
“Liuli, I heard a few months ago you lost the innate sword path holy physique at the Mountain Temple.”
“Now, our little genius Holy Maiden came back empty-handed from the Azure Forest? And you were defeated by the same human boy called Yino?”
“Liuli, are you even competent?”
“If you really can’t handle it, just call me big sister and let your senior help you catch Yino, how about that?”
The red-clothed girl narrowed her blood-colored demon eyes with an exaggerated cold smile, her red and white twin tails floating in the breeze.
Liuli clicked her tongue silently, like stepping in dog poop, sighing with disgust: “Can’t you just go away?”
“Oh my~ Angry already?”
The twin-tailed girl covered her mouth, narrowing her demon eyes, her cute face blushing slightly with excitement.
Seeing Liuli ignoring her, the girl curved her lips into a smile and, like an innocent child, dragged her long twin tails while ninja-running after Liuli, then circling around her—
“Liuli~ I love seeing you angry~ I love your cold demeanor but also how you glare at me with disgust~~”
“Mei, save it. You can’t beat him.”
Suddenly, Liuli spoke up.
“Huh?” The girl stopped in her tracks, tilting her head in surprise.
“What, you don’t believe me?”
“Is he that strong?”
“Whether he’s strong or not, I’ll take you to spar with him next time and you’ll see.”
In the end, Liuli gave a deliberately disdainful cold laugh.
Her mind first recalled being demonically corrupted by Yino in the Azure Forest, then visualized Yuebai as the second victim being corrupted by Liuli’s inside-outside collaboration.
Thinking of this, Liuli seemed to find it interesting.
She stopped walking, turned around, and faced the twin-tailed girl who had always liked to oppose her.
“What, scared?”
“Me, scared?”
“No~ something’s not right~ not right~”
The girl named Mei narrowed her cold eyes, biting her lips lightly, supporting her chin with one hand as she suspiciously examined the unexpectedly calm red-dressed Holy Maiden before her.
Both being Holy Maidens of the Full Moon Sect, Mei and Liuli were old acquaintances for many years!
“Liuli, today you didn’t beat me up as usual but instead reasoned with me nicely?”
“Something’s wrong! You must have some scheme~”
The girl analyzed, then gave another cold, enchanting smile.
But Liuli couldn’t be bothered by her, casually waving her hand: “If you’re not going to help me, stop talking trash.”
“From what you’re saying, you really haven’t beaten that Yino?”
“I told you, if you don’t believe me, you can meet him yourself.”
“Hey! Want to make a bet? What if I bring you his head next time?”
“What do you want to bet?”
“Hehe~ If I win, from now on, Liuli, you’ll marry me! You’ll graft your half-ancient tree demon body onto mine, and I’ll give you half my plum branches for grafting! That way we’ll combine into one, MERGED as one body! NEVER to separate for all ETERNITY!”
“Crazy woman…”
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I will publish Mei’s illustration with the next update :3
well if you played a certain game, you already know how she look:2