The inner disciples of Chixiao Peak had their丹药 presumably stolen, which was a major event.
Moreover, the绝品护心丹 worth over ten thousand medium-grade灵石 was not cheap at all. Xiao Yifeng had utilized all his connections and borrowed from everyone he could to buy this丹药. He thought that since he was a丹师, if he could master the technique to refine绝品护心丹, he could easily repay the money.
When asked when the丹药 was lost,
Xiao Yifeng stuttered and could only say that the护心丹 disappeared mysteriously from his storage bag.
Since he returned from the mountain foot, his storage bag had never left his hand. He even opened it to confirm its contents when he entered Bluecloud Sect.
Yet, the丹药 strangely disappeared from his storage bag.
Qingxuan Daoist and the elders, who were ready to fight for Xiao Yifeng’s rights, were speechless upon hearing this. Sect Master Wu Duantian ordered a complete lockdown of the sect, demanding all disciples to present all their belongings for inspection. However, after all the commotion, nothing was found.
“If I find out who stole my丹药, I will make them suffer a thousand deaths!”
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On one side, Xiao Yifeng was making a vow under heaven.
On the other side, Chen Huaian had already administered the绝品护心丹 to Li Qingran.
“Ah-choo!”
“Who is talking about me?” Chen Huaian sneezed three times in a row and quickly focused on the sound coming from his phone.
【Please press the气海穴 with your left hand while channeling energy into it, and slide your finger towards the关元穴】
【Please use the right hand to perform acupuncture according to the开脉针法】
The image on the phone zoomed in, focusing on Li Qingran’s waist and abdomen area.
At this moment, due to the influence of heart demons, Li Qingran was sweating profusely. The sweat soaked through her thin long robe, making the already somewhat translucent clothing even more revealing. As a result, he could clearly see her enticing waistline, the undergarment inside, which looked like a small green skirt covering up to her thigh roots. On it was embroidered what seemed to be a lotus leaf, and on the leaf was an animal resembling a small frog. In the lower-right corner of the undergarment was embroidered “Li Qingran,” written in a wobbly manner.
“Could this be Li Qingran’s handwriting?”
The sensual thoughts in Chen Huaian’s mind vanished instantly upon seeing those crooked characters.
This style of writing felt familiar somehow!
It seemed similar to the handwriting on his talisman and bracelet…
There was no time to compare with the bracelet as Li Qingran’s气海穴 and关元穴 were already glowing with a faint golden light, guiding him to press them.
Chen Huaian pressed with his thumb and index finger, clearly feeling Li Qingran’s body tremble slightly.
“Shouldn’t this hurt?” Chen Huaian wondered silently.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t see Li Qingran’s face and didn’t know that she was lightly biting her lips, with two blushes spreading from her cheeks to her earlobes.
The screen split into two parts.
On the left was the area below the waist and above the legs, and on the right was the area above the waist and below the neck.
A series of acupoints lit up one by one on the right side, and Chen Huaian, without any delay, performed acupuncture in sequence.
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Li Qingran struggled in the dark mud, surrounded by ridicule and insults. Her body felt as if bound by countless invisible spider webs, and every part of her limbs and bones burned with fiery pain, yet she couldn’t move.
Qingxuan Daoist, Lu Changtian, Xiao Yifeng, Yun Zimo, Zhang Hanxiao, Mu Baishuang, and the fellow disciples of Bluecloud Sect… All their faces formed a huge wall of faces spinning around her. Different faces, different voices, but with the same expression carved from the same mold, spitting out the same cold and cruel words from those gaping bloody mouths.
“Li Qingran, do you actually think you can break through to the Foundation Establishment stage? Laughable!”
“Bitch, you deserve to have your cultivation revoked!”
“Get out of Bluecloud Sect, get out of Bluecloud Sect!”
“Sister, someone like you doesn’t deserve to live.”
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The ringing in her ears was like a sharp blade slicing through her brain.
Her chaotic thoughts mixed with the boiling water-like clamor of those stinging words buzzed in her head like flies.
Her soul seemed to be being torn apart, and the idle chatter pierced it like needles, leaving it riddled with holes.
Every inch of her bones felt as if they were being trampled and crushed, along with her dignity and self-worth.
She even began to doubt her own existence.
Straining to reach out to touch something to prove her existence, she encountered only icy emptiness.
Those faces were getting closer.
She could no longer hear the sounds from the gaping mouths, only seeing them open and close, ready to swallow her and tear her into pieces.
“No…”
“Someone… please save me…”
Zing——!
In the darkness, a crisp sword hum sounded.
Like a spring falling into the mud, it washed away all the buzzing noises.
A line of light tore through the darkness, shining through.
“Li Qingran!” Someone was calling her name.
Li Qingran strained to open her eyes.
She saw all the heads surrounding her stop their insults.
They stared wide-eyed in shock as a line horizontally cut through their heads,
Flames erupted from the gradually widening line, burning them until they twisted and disintegrated,
Then, they exploded violently!
“Li Qingran!”
That voice was closer now.
Through the ashes, she could vaguely see a figure.
That person stood behind the smoke, holding a sword, with an indiscernible face,
But his black robes billowed like a scroll, his white hair flowed like a waterfall, and a majestic five-clawed black dragon with gleaming golden eyes danced wildly around him.
“Senior…”
Li Qingran gazed at that person, her eyes filled with longing.
A sense of relief swept away the chaos in her mind.
The darkness seemed to retreat in fear of that person’s authority.
…
Li Qingran opened her eyes; she was still in the small room.
All the horrifying things before were just illusions caused by heart demons.
At this moment, her entire body was almost drenched, and she felt strange sensations in her abdomen and waist.
Looking down, her face turned red all the way to her ears —— two large golden Spiritual Energy hands were pressing on the acupoints of her waist and abdomen, channeling energy with the left hand, using Spiritual Energy as needles for acupuncture with the right hand, and the places where the needles touched sent tingling sensations, making her want to open her mouth and pant.
But she endured and immediately closed her mouth and held her breath.
Senior was helping her channel energy; she couldn’t disturb Senior.
So Li Qingran quietly watched her soft flesh on her abdomen and waist sink and bounce back with the pressure of those two hands. She bit her lower lip and looked down, with the blush on her earlobes spreading to her neck. Her fingers, which were tightly twisting the hem of her clothes, had turned pale from the force. Her feet unconsciously rubbed against the ground, wishing there was a crack to hide in.
“Finished, her realm has been preserved.”
Seeing that Li Qingran was still in the Great Perfection of the Qi Condensation stage, Chen Huaian sighed in relief.
The effect of the绝品护心丹 was to stabilize cultivation.
Even though the backlash from heart demons was severe, the护心丹 alone might not have completely secured her realm. But with the combination of his Chen·Money·Immortal Lord’s 开脉针法 and exclusive massage techniques, dealing with such a minor issue of heart demon backlash was as easy as pie.
“The next step is to find a way to solve the trouble of these heart demons.”
Chen Huaian frowned.
According to the predictions of Tian Ji, Li Qingran needed to return to Bluecloud Sect to sever her karmic ties.
To be honest, if he had a choice, he wouldn’t want Li Qingran to take the risk of returning to Bluecloud Sect.
Unfortunately, the game’s plot design left him no other options.
If Li Qingran went back, she would likely be in danger…
And he was broke again.
Just as Chen Huaian was racking his brains thinking about how to proceed,
Knock knock knock ——!
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door outside the small house,
followed by a detached voice:
“Li Qingran, open the door. I know you’re inside.”
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