Chapter 967: Secretly prepping something big (1/2)
Overnight, Han Yunxi kept distracting Long Feiye until he ran out of chances to let her drink tea. But in the end he finally knitted his brows and asked, “You don’t like Winterflakes?”
“I’ve eaten too much, so I’m too full to drink,” Han Yunxi had a reasonable excuse.
Long Feiye was about to press for more details when she caught his hand and walked away with a smile. “Long Feiye, if a day comes that tea and I both fall off a cliff at the same time, which one would you save first?”
Long Feiye smiled helplessly. “No need to fall off any cliffs. If you don’t like it, I’ll try swearing off tea starting tomorrow.”
“I’m only joking,” Han Yunxi laughed out loud. The couple had just reached their rooms when Xu Donglin showed up.
“Your Highness, Miss Mingxiang has arrived at Medical City.”
“Mm, we’ll meet up at the Poison Sect forbidden grounds’ Skypit tomorrow,” Long Feiye instructed.
Han Yunxi was surprised. “Why don’t you get Baili Mingxiang to come over here?”
Bai Yanqing had survived a stab wound to the heart, so Heaven knows if his body was as tough as a fortress. Even if Baili Mingxiang lured Bai Yanqing to her side, it was uncertain whether she could kill him with the Raging Flame Lotus!
But Long Feiye only said, “If Bai Yanqing’s undying body is already public news, will he need to kill Baili Mingxiang anymore?”
Han Yunxi now understood. Before, Bai Yanqing’s martial arts was about on par with Long Feiye’s, so he knew Baili Mingxiang could be Long Feiye’s dual cultivation candidate. Thus, he had to kill Baili Mingxiang before Long Feiye’s martial arts improved and increased the gap between them. But now that they had found out about his undying body, Bai Yanqing didn’t near to fear Long Feiye’s martial arts advancing. In any case, he didn’t need to hide the secret of his physique like before if they fought, but use his true powers in a measure of strength. No matter how powerful Long Feiye grew--even to the extent of the Lustbite energy’s third level--wasn’t he just as helpless to kill Bai Yanqing? In other words, Bai Yanqing shouldn’t have any reason to find trouble for Baili Mingxiang anymore!
“Could it be that you suspect the Lustbite energy…” Han Yunxi couldn’t believe it.
“The Lustbite energy is the strongest power in the world that can overcome all obstacles and destroy everything. Perhaps…” Long Feiye only wanted to probe it out. He himself wasn’t certain whether it was the answer. If Bai Yanqing found them and decided to target Baili Mingxiang without reserve just like before, then it would be highly suspicious.
“It’s worth testing out,” Han Yunxi nodded. She hoped that the Poison Sect’s forbidden grounds could give them some answers too. Shutting the door, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi forgot all discussion to do something else equally important. Under Long Feiye’s guidance for the past two months, Han Yunxi had already cultivated to the full ten levels of the Nirvana Heart Arts. Her needle arts were getting better and better as well, and she’d learned quite a bit of qinggong (lightness techniques) too. She was afraid of revealing her skills at Hundred Poisons Sect, so Long Feiye had still carried her around while she refrained from fighting. Now she could control the Nirvana energy, which meant that Long Feiye would start formally dual cultivating with her now.
The reason Han Yunxi cultivated this internal energy technique in the first place was tomatch Long Feiye, who had learned the same. It would be the foundation for their dual cultivation and the intermediary to make this work. The energies of yin and yang supplemented and complemented each other through this technique. Only then could they affect and improve each other. Meanwhile, Long Feiye’s Lustbite energy needed support from both yin and yang energies to improve faster. Thus, in this dual cultivation he took the lead while Han Yunxi acted as support.
Long Feiye used the support of Nirvana Heart Arts and the yinyang energy to move the Lustbite energy within him; Han Yunxi’s internal energy grew vigorous as a result. Once dual cultivation succeeded, she too, would be able to control the Lustbite energy at will, which would making learning any sword skills from Celestial Mountain Sword Sect easy.
“Ready? Once we start, we’ll need to cultivate for two hours everyday for the next three months without interruptions,” Long Feiye reminded her.
Han Yunxi asked, “What do we need to prepare? In any case, I’ll be relying on you for the rest of my life, so I won’t go anywhere.”
Long Feiye wanted to smile, but he only turned aside and coughed a few times. “Then let’s begin.” He choose a rather roomy, warm couch and took away the tea table on its surface. The two of them sat facing their partner and stared into each other’s eyes. Dual cultivation was to cultivate both the heart and body together. Cultivation of the body required the two to combine martial arts, while cultivation of the heart required them to have a tacit understanding from their very souls.
The two of them sat there quietly for an hour until both closed their eyes. Instead, they used their intuition to sense the other’s presence. Abruptly, both of them opened their eyes wide and shared a smile of understanding. As husband and wife, their feelings ran deep, so cultivation of the heart wasn’t very difficult. Long Feiye grabbed for his Profound Frost Sword hanging on the wall and handed it to Han Yunxi, leaving nothing but the scabbard in his hands.
“There’s only one sword, so I’ll have to trouble you with this one until I get Xu Donglin to find you a better one,” Long Feiye said.