Chapter 865: Until it sees the ligh (1/2)

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Why wouldn’t Han Yunxi be falling apart by now? All these years, she’d believed that she was a martial arts waste. For a while, she was even depressed by the revelation, only to find out she had the highest innate talent in all of Cloud Realm Continent!

She was seriously...seriously floored to the extreme!

Only a guy like Long Feiye could trick me so thoroughly! If it was anyone else, I’d doubt them, but Long Feiye…

Han Yunxi was so furious that her face turned white. She couldn’t even speak straight. “Long Feiye! Long Feiye, you--you you…! Long Feiye, do you know how long I was depressed because I thought I couldn’t learn martial arts?!”

So many times she ended up dragging him down. How much she wished she could fight!

“As punishment, let me give you internal energy. Once your reserves are equal to mine, we can start dual cultivation. I--” As Long Feiye spoke, he took out a secret manual from his cabinet and gave it to Han Yunxi. She opened it up and saw that it was a handwritten martial arts manual. She didn’t read manuals, but the pictures and movements drawn within seem to depict it as a hidden weapons styled fighting art. She carefully flipped through the pages from beginning to end to discover that it really was the case. This book taught one how to circulate the internal energy, coordinate attacks, and use hidden needles and other related weapons.

“I used two years to create this from scratch myself. It should be suitable for your poison needles. Starting tomorrow, I’ll teach you for two hours every night. It only requires good eyesight and mastering the different forms to elevate your internal energy. Then you’ll be able to kill your enemies with a single needle. Once your dual cultivation with me succeeds, your needles will be just as formidable as the Pear Blossom Rain Needles of the Tang Clan.”

Han Yunxi stared at him as she suddenly fell silent. Of course Long Feiye knew how much she wanted to learn martial arts. He thought she’d stop being angry after seeing this tailor-made martial arts manual, but she only grew mute.

A complicated look flitted past his eyes before he intoned, “I won’t lie to you ever again, really. I only have one secret left that I’ll tell you too. Han Yunxi, if I cultivate to the third level of the Lustbite energy, I’ll have no opponents in this world except you. You’d be the only one capable of killing me. The Lustbite energy draws its strength from feelings of love. If you ever raised your sword against me, I’ll lose all of my internal energy.”

Even though they were destined to meet on the battlefield someday, he still revealed this secret.

Han Yunxi, do our 100 steps count as finished now?

If possible, he wouldn’t lie to her at all. Who wanted to do something as tiring as living with a burden of a lie on his shoulders? The hardest thing in the world was keeping a secret all to yourself. No one else knew just how much patience, forbearance, and persistence he had endured for the sake of this woman in the past four years.

“Yunxi, I…”

Han Yunxi muffled him before he could continue. “It’s only the likes of you who can lie to me like this. Long Feiye, I fold! We’ll meet on the battlefield eventually, but there’ll never come a day when we cross swords! Alright?”

Meeting on the battlefield was a matter between East and West Qin, while facing off in combat was their own private affair!

Long Feiye stroked her bangs. “Definitely.”

Once, she had said that lying to her once was like lying to her a hundred times. And yet, even if he did, she couldn’t resent or hate him for it. The handwritten, hand-drawn manual in her hands was the sum of all his good intentions behind lying to her for the past few years. If not for his lies, they wouldn’t have reached this step, nor could she live well and unharmed to this day. When she recalled all the days they traveled together and fought shoulder-to-shoulder, they always seemed carefree and relaxed. If his plans had gone accordingly and her status had remained hidden, then she probably wouldn’t be harboring a guilty conscience and sense of responsibility to West Qin today.

Han Yunxi didn’t blame Long Feiye a bit, but her heart ached...ached over the fact that he’d been shouldering his burdens all alone these years.

“Long Feiye, what are you going to do if you channel your internal energy to me?” she asked seriously.

“I’ll only channel a single level each time. I can recover from that, so don’t worry,” Long Feiye had his proper limits in place.

Han Yunxi exhaled in relief before smiling helplessly. “Bai Yanqing definitely doesn’t know that I’m the person he’s looking for!”

A cold look flitted past Long Feiye’s eyes. “It’s unfortunate that he didn’t show up in person last night. Otherwise...everything could have ended right there!”

“Isn’t it very dangerous for Baili Mingxiang if you keep her by your side?” Han Yunxi asked.

“She’s the best candidate!” Long Feiye had picked Baili Mingxiang very carefully, firstly because she was from the Mermaid Clan, and next because she was female. Although she hadn’t served by his side before, she had long entered the Duke of Qin’s estate as a servant girl. Back then, it’d even caused waves in Tianning’s capital city when the news broke out. Bai Yanqing was so suspicious and prudent that he would have found out as well. If he created the false impression of favoring Baili Mingxiang, then Bai Yanqing would doubt him, but because everything was still ambiguous and unclear, Bai Yanqing would steel his sights on the girl instead.

“She’s a girl of the Mermaid Clan, so it’s her honor to accept such a great undertaking for East Qin,” Long Feiye said coldly.

It had to be said that Han Yunxi was always softhearted when it came to the people by her side. She wasn’t as merciless as Long Feiye since she didn’t have many people to begin with. With a smile, she said, “It took a lot of effort for me to save her life. Now she’s delivering it up for your East Qin instead.”

“She has something capable of countering Bai Yanqing in her hands. As long as he doesn’t use poison, she can keep him in check. As to whether or not she’ll survive, that’s up to fate,” Long Feiye said mildly.

“What kind of thing?” Han Yunxi grew curious. She scooted over, and Long Feiye told her in hushed tones.