Chapter 1030: Breaking your legs (2/2)

Gu Qishao sat across from him and said out of idleness, “How about we make a bet?”

“What kind of bet?” Gu Beiyue grew interested.

“Bet who comes out first?” Gu Qishao offered. He really had nothing else to do, but he couldn’t go to sleep. “If you lose, speak up for me more in the future. Don’t always stand on Long Feiye’s side!”

Gu Beiyue chuckled and asked, “And if I win?”

“You pick the terms,” Gu Qishao said easily.

“If I win, then you have to watch your mouth,” Gu Beiyue grew serious. “Sooner or later, it’s going to get you in trouble.”

Gu Qishao rolled his eyes at him and grew too lazy to continue the bet. At this moment, the door on the right opened and revealed Han Yunxi emerging first. Both men were pleasantly surprised and hurried to her side.

“Princess, did it go smoothly?”

“Poison lass, how is it?”

Han Yunxi didn’t wear a smile like they expected, but actually looked a little lost. She didn’t reply their questions and glanced towards the shut door next to hers. “Long Feiye hasn’t come out yet, right?”

“Not yet,” Gu Beiyue replied. “Princess, did things not go well?” His anxiety was written all over his eyes, while Gu Qishao’s worry was printed clearly on his face.

“Poison lass, just what happened? Hurry up and say it!”

The couple had maintained dual cultivation every night for three months. For the sake of keeping the chain intact, they had sacrificed much in Medicine Requesting Cave. Things should go smoothly now! Gu Qishao felt it’d be unfair otherwise.

“I can’t control much of the Phoenix energy and I keep feeling there’s something wrong, but…” In the middle of her sentence, Long Feiye suddenly opened the door. Everyone could see his complexion looked off.

“What is it?” Han Yunxi was very uneasy.

“The Lustbite energy couldn’t fuse with the Nirvana Heart Arts’ internal energy,” Long Feiye said with knitted brows. This last step was crucial, but not particularly difficult. He was even looking forward to the end, but never expected to have such a massive problem at the final step. If the two energy types couldn’t merge, then it meant he couldn’t have a big breakthrough for the Lustbite energy’s third rank. In other words, his rise in ranks had failed.

Long Feiye had finished his solo cultivation before it even grew light out, but he’d remained sitting in his rooms for a long time until he heard the commotion outdoors.

“How can this be?” Han Yunxi didn’t get it. “Long Feiye, I can only control 30 percent of the Phoenix energy.”

The sword sect master had said if their dual cultivation succeeded and her internal reserves increased, she could more or less master the Phoenix energy. Even if it wasn’t 70 to 80 percent, it’d at least be 50 to 60. It’d never go as low as 30 percent!

“Princess, would you allow this one to take your pulse?” Gu Beiyue asked.

Han Yunxi immediately raised her hand. After Gu Beiyue finished his examination, Long Feiye stuck out his wrist as well.

“Both of you have normal pulses and ample qi. Fortunately, there hasn’t been major changes to your bodies or the risk of cultivation deviation,” Gu Beiyue declared. He really was a doctor, only feeling reassured after confirming that Han Yunxi and Long Feiye weren’t in danger. As to why their dual cultivation failed by the end, he wasn’t expert enough to guess. He didn’t even know Phoenix energy existed in the first place.

“Strange. If the dual cultivation didn’t succeed, you two wouldn’t have had it so easy last night, right?” Gu Qishao grew curious.

Closed door cultivation like this was either a success or horrendous failure. Nothing like Long Feiye and Han Yunxi’s case had even been seen.

What was going on?

1. For those of you who didn’t get it, it’s a watchdog. LFY has just called GQS his dog.