Chapter 83: Who Taught You All This?
The four of them followed the path. Along the way, many dragon blood flowers had been broken, leaving only a bit of the root…
Although dragon blood flowers were very useful to ordinary cultivators, they were irrelevant to the people who had entered this tomb now. It was unknown who had been idle enough to collect them.
Then again, although dragon blood flowers were relatively common, they did contain a very thin dragon’s blood. If it could be purified, it could be barely useful.
But to truly purify it, the required amount was too large.
The group continued on their way and met many people, but they had no interaction with Mingyan’s group. With nothing to fight for, everyone naturally didn’t resort to violence.
Along the way, Mingyan found that his cultivation was gradually changing. He hadn’t noticed before, but now that he looked back, he had unknowingly reached the peak of the early Qi Sea Realm and was about to break through to the peak of the Qi Sea Realm. This surprised Mingyan. Did a single immortal fruit have such an effect?
After discovering this, Mingyan asked Huang Feiyan about it.
Huang Feiyan shook her head. “Although the immortal fruits we ate are very precious, they are not true immortal medicines. The immortal medicine refers to the tree itself. And the fruits it bears, although eating them can also prolong life, their medicinal power is far inferior to the immortal medicine itself.”
“Is that so? Why do I feel my cultivation is about to break through?” Mingyan was a little hesitant. He could clearly feel that he was on the verge of a breakthrough. Even if it was far from the immortal medicine itself, was it so powerful after eating it?
Huang Feiyan and Yue Qingying looked at each other. In that case, their cultivation had also increased to a certain extent. But it hadn’t been long since they had broken through to the Divine Gate Realm, and the higher the cultivation, the longer the time and accumulation for a breakthrough. So, they hadn’t almost broken through like Mingyan. Was this immortal fruit so powerful?
“That’s not right. This immortal fruit shouldn’t be so powerful,” Huang Feiyan said strangely. “We haven’t even refined it…”
But halfway through her sentence, she suddenly paused. Feng Shiyi was also present at that time. No… to be precise, that should be the Great Empress. The Great Empress was also present. Could it be that she had helped them refine it?
Or, was it not the effect of the fruit, but… Huang Feiyan looked at Mingyan and blinked.
The secrets of the Human King Physique were too many. They hadn’t been fully explored yet. Many things, even Mingyan, a Human King Physique, didn’t know. Could it be… because of what they had done… and after that, his cultivation had broken through?
Thinking of this possibility, Huang Feiyan checked her own body again and found that there was indeed something strange…
The medicinal power of the immortal fruit had been continuously working after being eaten and had not been completely absorbed yet. And the improvement to her cultivation was extremely limited. Although it wasn’t non-existent, it was not much different from having none. So, this large increase in cultivation was almost impossible to have come from the immortal fruit.
Huang Feiyan touched her lower abdomen, her expression strange. There was a strange energy here, but it was almost gone… If she hadn’t paid special attention, it would have been difficult to notice this energy…
Yue Qingying saw Huang Feiyan’s strange movements, narrowed her eyes, and also carefully felt her own abdomen. Then her expression also became subtle. The two women had an answer…
“Feiyan, didn’t you say before? Every immortal medicine has its own effect. What if the fruit of the Panlong Ancient Tree has this effect?” Mingyan didn’t have this suspicion. After all, he had been completely unconscious at that time and didn’t know what had happened. Unlike the two women, who had experienced it firsthand and had even guided it to completion. So they were extremely clear about every detail.
“Speaking of which, Mingyan, that immortal fruit is a bit…” Hearing Mingyan say this, Huang Feiyan wanted to remind him. Before, Great Empress Qingzi had said that the Panlong Ancient Tree was irrigated with the fresh blood of the Dragon Clan, and the Dragon Clan’s blood… was notoriously famous for that. Even this immortal medicine carried that effect. But the words were on the tip of her tongue, and she was immediately stopped by Yue Qingying.
“Are you crazy? If you tell Junior Brother, won’t he be suspicious?” Yue Qingying sent a mental message to Huang Feiyan, gave her a roll of her eyes, then looked at Mingyan and said with a smile, “How do you plan to handle the remaining fruits?”
“Hmm? What did Feiyan want to say just now?” Mingyan heard Huang Feiyan only say half a sentence and didn’t answer Yue Qingying’s question yet, but asked curiously.
“Nothing…” Huang Feiyan coughed a few times. “I just felt that the fact that you have to fall into a coma after eating it… you’d better make it clear before you give it away.”
“Yes, I certainly know that. As for the remaining immortal fruits, I plan to give some to the Huang Family, Feiyan’s mother, second aunt, and little aunt, as well as our master and junior sister, and also Ning Feixuan and the Queen Mother of the West of Yaochi. There’s one more I need to… handle separately,” Mingyan nodded. There were a total of fifteen immortal fruits on the tree, all of which had been picked by Feng Shiyi.
Of course, rather than picking, it was more like they had fallen into Feng Shiyi’s arms on their own.
The four of them had each eaten one, so there were eleven left. Divided according to the method above, there were still three immortal fruits left.
“Junior Sister? Are you referring to Liu Mengli?” Yue Qingying smiled slightly. “When you weren’t here, she often asked Elder Qingyou to bring her to find you.”
Hearing this, Mingyan scratched his head. He hadn’t seen his junior sister for a while. What was her cultivation now?
Huang Feiyan was a little concerned about the matter of “handling separately.” She thought for a moment and came to her senses. It should be for his sister, right? He still thinks I don’t know… little does he know that his sister has already given me a bracelet. Thinking of this, Huang Feiyan smiled slightly and couldn’t help but glance at Yue Qingying. What do you have to compete with me?
Being glanced at by Huang Feiyan, Yue Qingying was a little baffled. She then asked, “What about the remaining few?”
“I haven’t planned for them yet. Senior Sister, Feiyan, do you have any good arrangements?” Mingyan asked.
Huang Feiyan shook her head and smiled. “If you’re going to give them to my mother and my second and little aunts, then our Huang Family will have gotten four in total. That’s a lot. We can’t ask for more.”
But if he was just planning to give them to these people, then it didn’t matter… Hmm, I need to be careful when he gives one to my second aunt.
Yue Qingying even refused, “Junior Brother can just arrange it himself.”
Mingyan looked at Feng Shiyi, who hadn’t spoken but seemed to have been looking at him with pleading eyes. “What about you? Do you want to eat?”
“Hmm… although it’s very delicious, my intuition tells me it’s better to leave them with you and let you handle them,” Feng Shiyi bit her finger. Although she was a little hesitant, she still quickly said what she thought.
“You really don’t want to eat?” Mingyan found her like this a little funny.
Feng Shiyi shook her head. “You definitely need them more than I do!”
Mingyan opened his mouth, an indescribable feeling in his heart. He looked at Feng Shiyi, was silent for a moment, then smiled and reached out to rub her head. “Then as an exchange, I’ll make you something very delicious later, how about it?”
Seeing his action, Yue Qingying and Huang Feiyan were terrified. Good heavens… They had seen Feng Shiyi show the side of her as the Great Empress, that calm sense of majesty was overwhelming, making one’s heart tense. And watching Mingyan so casually rub Feng Shiyi’s head, the impact of this scene was really a bit too great.
“Yay!” Not only did Feng Shiyi not dodge, she even shouted excitedly, then giggled, as if she was enjoying Mingyan’s head-pat…
“Brother Ming?!” At this time, a familiar voice appeared not far away. Mingyan looked up and saw Jade Peony looking at him with a strange expression.
It had to be strange. If Mingyan didn’t know Feng Shiyi’s identity, it would be fine to rub her head like this. But he already knew her identity from his master, right? And he still dared to pat her head like this? Did he think his life was too long?
“Celestial Yu?” Mingyan was a little surprised. How could he run into Jade Peony here? What kind of fate was this?
After seeing Jade Peony, Yue Qingying and Huang Feiyan both raised their eyebrows. Their relationship with Mingyan was already different from the past. In their eyes, Jade Peony was a potential rival. If she were ordinary-looking, they wouldn’t worry at all. But the problem was, she was too beautiful, so beautiful that it was out of line.
“I didn’t expect to run into you like this, Brother Ming. It seems we are indeed fated,” Jade Peony was alone. She put away the surprise under her veil and walked over with a light laugh. As she strolled over, her legs under her dress crossed, causing the hem of her color-gradient dress to move gently, beautiful and magnificent.
“How have you considered it, Celestial Yu?” Mingyan sent a mental message to Jade Peony and asked.
There was no problem in telling Yue Qingying and Huang Feiyan about the cooperation and scheming, but he couldn’t let Jade Peony know that he had told his senior sister and Feiyan, so he chose to use a mental message for this matter.
“…Please give me some more time, Brother Ming. Also, I still suggest you… don’t be so casual in doing some more intimate things with Feng Shiyi. After all, you know her identity…” Jade Peony kindly reminded.
Mingyan was a little surprised. “It’s just rubbing her head, it’s nothing, right? And Feng Shiyi herself likes to cling to me… Although she is a part of the Great Empress, the Empress wouldn’t get angry over just such a gesture, right?”
“You are of the opposite sex, after all. For contact between the opposite sex, an act like patting the head is already very intimate. It’s true that Feng Shiyi likes to cling to you, but if you take the initiative to do some more intimate things with her… what if the Empress gets angry? The consequences would be unimaginable,” Jade Peony sent a mental message.
Mingyan was surprised. “Is patting the head already considered very intimate?”
“What else? Do you think a woman would casually let a man pat her head?” Jade Peony said patiently. “Between the opposite sex, you can’t be so casual.”
“…I thought kissing, and kissing on the mouth, were the more intimate things…” Mingyan had thought that an act like patting the head was nothing, so he hadn’t thought much about it.
“…Kissing and kissing on the mouth are generally things that only Dao companions and spouses do…” Jade Peony sighed. How could this Mingyan look like he has no common sense? It shouldn’t be like this.
“…Can’t close friends do it?” Mingyan blinked and asked tentatively.
“Of course not. How can friends casually kiss on the mouth… Even senior and junior brothers and sisters in the same sect wouldn’t do that, right? Even for family, an act like kissing on the mouth is a bit too intimate, isn’t it?” Jade Peony looked at Mingyan in surprise. “Who taught you all this?”
