304 You’re Just Pretending (1/2)

Nie Chang wanted to scold his boyfriend but when he opened his eyes and saw the panicked expression on Su Yan's face and the way he worriedly examined his finger … Ah, never mind. Su Yan had only done this because he was afraid something might happen to him. Scolding him for that would be mean.

Nie Chang finally reached out and pinched Su Yan's cheek. ”You! That was spiritual energy. I finally managed to use it. Nothing bad happened.”

Su Yan looked from Nie Chang's finger to his face and back again. ”Are you sure? It looked like it would catch on fire.” He turned it around and looked from all sides again. There wasn't anything to see though. ”Strange …”

”Let me try again.” Nie Chang closed his eyes and concentrated. Once again a small wisp of spiritual energy flowed out of his dantian, coursed through his spiritual veins and finally reached his finger.

Su Yan's eyes went wide. His boyfriend's fingertip was glowing! He wanted to say something but what if Nie Chang was saying the truth and this was really because of the spiritual energy? Wouldn't Nie Chang get angry then if he disturbed him?

Su Yan pursed his lips and finally gently breathed onto it. The light didn't even waver. Su Yan frowned. So was this really spiritual energy?

Nie Chang also frowned and opened his eyes, the light finally extinguishing. Was his little darling doing this on purpose? Well, at the very least he knew now that he might be able to sense and move his spiritual energy a bit but he definitely hadn't mastered it yet. No, he was a long way from that if just a few words from Su Yan could make that small wisp collapse.

Nie Chang sighed. ”Did you see it now?”

Su Yan nodded. ”It must really be spiritual energy, ah!” Or maybe Nie Chang had accidentally swallowed a battery and was now carrying electricity? He pondered but finally decided that that didn't sound very likely. ”So … What do we do now?”

”Well, originally …” Nie Chang stopped himself before the words could get out. He definitely couldn't say it or this would end in disaster. He could already imagine how Su Yan's eyes would light up as soon as he heard the term 'flying sword' and how he would endlessly pester him until they indeed went out and tried using one. He couldn't risk that! As long as he was unable to control the spiritual energy in his body, he couldn't let Su Yan get even close to a flying sword. What if they managed to get up into the air but then fell down? They certainly couldn't go and ask Elder Yue to heal them again, could they?

Su Yan blinked at him curiously. ”What is it?”

”Well … Originally, we wanted to try out some things to reach a new hidden milestone, didn't we? We just stopped with that because you wanted me to prove that I could really sense spiritual energy.”

Su Yan pursed his lips. ”Now you're blaming me?”